The Delta independent., 1910-08-26

| -AA"' n. "A. meyer eADeCLS 10 leave
soon on a visit East
j.. f. Hyson returned Tuesday
from short trip to Salt Lake City.
Miss Mae O'Connor of Salt Lake
City. is visiting her parents in Delta
this week
Mrs. Russell Hauser left Wednes-
day for visit with friends in
Hotchkiss.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Downing left
"Wednesday to visit friends in Grand
Junction.
Court Stenographer Ross Rey-
noids has spent the week in Delta
on official work
Mrs. NJ. R. Welch and children
coast tomirrow.
X. c. Hutchinson was up from his
ranch home down the Gunnison near
Roubideaux. Wednesday.
Miss Mae Emmons returned from
I'enver Tuesday, where she has
been spending her vacation.
c. Meyer. brother of A. A.
Meyer, and his wife, are expected
TO arrive from Kansas City today.
Plenty of money to loan at reas-
onable rates on good farm lands
within 80 per cent valuation. Welch
& Merrill
Mrs. Clyde Stewart returned this
week from a two month s visit with
friends on the Pacific coast
Floyd Guyer returned from Gunni-
son last Saturday. where he had
been spending his vacation.
U. H. Boone has bought 90 acres
of beet land under the North Delta
Canal from F. J. Graham, consider
alton $4,000. The sale was made by
Welch & Merrill
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Fox returned
saturday from a months vacation
and Mr.. Fox is back in his position
as manager of the Ramsay Dry
Goods store. The time was delight
fully 81 ent in Kansas, Iowa and
other POINTS
Lee Miller, of the Stockham force.
received painful injuries to the two
first fingers of his right hand. last
Saturday evening. while unloading
the steel for the new Fairlamb bull
ding. The bruises were only ser
ious enough TO keep him from work
a couple of days.
Miss Belle Elliott, stenographer
at Stephan & Obert's. planted some
cotton seed in the small enclosed
yard back of the Office building. The
plants grew and thrived and are
now nicely in bloom. SO the result
of Miss Elliot's efforts to become a
Southern planter. is proving to be
II genuine curiosity.
w. F. Hogeboom is here from
Nebraska, visiting his nephew. B.
Luce, of this city. Mr. Hoge-
boom. the Luce people. Joe Gallup,
Mrs. Dana and half a dozen others of
Delta were once neighbors at the
growing-up place of The Indepen-
dent editor. Farm Ridge. in La
Sare' county. Illinois.
r. w. Curtis and Mr.. Dillon of
Cedaredge. came in Tuesday evening
from a couple of days fishing on the
Gunnison at Sapinero. We know
they had fish, for Mr.. Curtis pre-
sented the editor of this paper with
trout for breakfast. and they We're
fine. MIR. Dillon is associated with
MIR. Curtis in the big High Line
bilNu enter PRISE.
DR.. F. H. and Mrs. Henry. who
have been here visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
G. p. Meyer. left yesterday for a
visit with relatives and friends in
Missouri. From there they will go
TO Indiana for visit. then start on
the return trip to Cairo. Egypt. at
which place the doctor is practicing
his profession. While in Delta. DIR.
Henry purchased an interest in the
Meyer ranch.
new era of business is expect
ed to open with September. 1t is
the commencement of the fall sea-
son. Fruit will commence going into
market in greater bulk and many of
the filed crops will have been har-
vested. Sugar beets and late pota-
toes remain, as well as much of the
melon and vegetable crops. The far
mers and orchardists will gradually
be handling larger amounts of money
In return for what they are selling.
In The Independent office the
summer has been no duller than any
other part of the year. The subscrip-
tion list of the paper has grown much
faster than ever before and all bus
mess of the paper has been up to
the average of other seasons. This
ought to be, and is satisfactory. Next
week the paper will begin its third
year under the present management
and will give n little history OF what
has been accomplished during those
three years.
r. ID. Delaney. aged about 81 and
who for some time has been employ
ed on government works. commit
ted suicide. at Olathe Sunday by