The Delta independent., 1910-07-15

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citation, who has been acting as city
editor of the Denver Post for some
time past, returned to his post" in
Delta, Saturday.
The restaurant conducted by Miss
Bertha Stevens and George r. Par
kins in the basement of the new
Lincoln building, closed its doors
Tuesday morning. the business hav-
ing been found Improbable.
Mrs. Gertrude Brockman, formerl!
a stenographer at Delta but who has
spent the past three years in Den
yer, is filling Miss Elliott's place
at Stephan & Obert's, during the
latter's two weeks vacation.
j. E. Shue and A. w. Carr will
leave next week for a trip up the
river among the trout. They will
stay about a week or ten days and
camp at different places along the
canon.
DR.. Edward II. Aicher, since
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Agricultural college at Fort Collins
and locating at Delta, is starting
out well in his profession. His office
is at Hammond & Harrington's liv-
cry stable.
Roy l.. Smith and brother. Clyde,
who is visiting here on his vaca-
ton. went up to the lakes on Grand
mesa for few days with the trout
Saturday. They returned Monday
evening and report a pleasant trip
and a good mess of fish.
Rev. Mr.. Gardiner, a missionary
from India, will give a lecture under
the auspices of the Epworth League,
at the Presbyterian church at 500
p. m, Friday evening, July 18th.
Admission free. Silver offering.
The public is cordially invited.
w. H. Garvin was left in Cimma-
ron Wednesday by waiting a little
too long to get on the car after din
ner. He was returning from a fishing
trip and had plenty of tackle. other
wise it would have been a hard
place to loaf. He got home yesterday.
1t is a well known fact among
farmers and fruit growers that
blackberries improve the physical
nature of the soil through their
root action. When they are re-
moved from the apple orchard the
soil ic loft in idaaI condition for tho
outer feeding roots of the apple
trees.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Cook of La
Junta. arrived in Delta last week to
make this their home Mr. Cook
has as yet not invested. but pro-
poses to as soon as he has looked
around and seen a little more of
the country. Mr.. Cook. like all other
good citizens. added his name to
The Independents long list.
Adjourned meeting of the I'm
compahgre Water Users Association
will be held at Olathe. Colorado,
clock p. m. 1t is very important for
those having votes to attend the
meeting. as several bitches are ask
ing to be voted upon in order to be-
come unified with the project.
Frank r. Stearns of the job de-
partment and A. NJ. Anderson, editor
of The Independent. spent two days
fishing at Sapinero the first of this
week, making an eight mile trip up
Elk Creek on horseback. While not
entirely depicting the streams. they
came home with nice baskets of
trout and boast of having a time.
DR.. F. w. Grove will go to Den
yer next week to attend the meeting
of the National Dental Association.
This meeting promises to be the
largest in the history of the asso-
and will be attended by the
most progressive members of the
profession from all parts of the
United States. The DR.. will be away
about ten days.
ID. w. Stone, editor and owner
of the Trinidad daily News-Chronicle
is spending some time in Delta look
ing after his investments. MIR. Stone
is newspaper man of wide inhu-
ence over the southern part of the
state. from political and all other
stand points and has become a very
factor in huge irriga-
ton project near Delta.
One of Delta's greatest needs at
the present time is a city park.
Many of our people have no shade
trees about their homes. and there
is no place where they may go for n
few hours rest and recreation in