The Delta independent., 1910-12-09
Merl Loomis departed on Wednes-
dav for his homa in Pennsylvania

we're outgoing passengers Wednes-
day for Wellington, Illinois.
Mrs. NJ. NJ Edwards and daugh-
ters. Bess, Irene and Nellie. of
Paonia, departed Tuesday for Los
Angeles, California, where they go to
spend the winter.
The new Lincoln school building
is now entirely under roof and
and makes a splendid appearance.
The building would be a credit to
any city in the state.
The Catholic Ladies' Aid will
give a bazaar in Smith & Reilly's
meat market, Saturday, December
10, and on Tuesday, December 10,
dance in Odd Fellows hall. You
are cordially invited. Tickets 81.
Refreshments.
o. A. Isham left Sunday for Den
yer, where, after transacting busi-
ness for his firm, he will go on to
Minneapolis. Minnesota, after his
family expecting to return with
them to Delta in about four weeks.
The foot ball team and girls bas-
ket ball teams from the Paonia
high school, passed through here last
sunday on their return from Fruita.
where they were successful in cap
turing both games from the Fruita
high school.
The new year is approaching. A
good time to get your name on The
Independents subscription list, ii
it is not already on. The paper will
be better than ever for 1911, and
will be in a better position to serve
your interests.
The Independent is read by nearly
everybody in Delta county and sew
eral hundred away from here. If
YOU wish to acquaint these people
with your business or have a want
you wish made known, these col
umns open the way.
Since the Peers are leaving their
Jobs in the English parliment by the
adjustment of the House 70 Lords,
the American market may be more
than ever flooded with heiress seek
ers. Some of those old boys ought
to come pretty cheap.
Hon. George Stephan, Mayor B.
p. Smith, Merchant John E. Hillman
and Attorney Millard Fairlamb
were Grand Junction visitors last
Saturday. AS Grand Junction is a
dry town, we don't know what
business they were on.
Miss Jett Condit, who has been
one of the principals in the Cripple
Creek schools this year. came home
this week for a vacation, the schools
of that district having all been or
dered closed because of the pre-
valence of scarlet fever.
Joseph Pugh. aged 10. who last
week shot and killed his seventeen
year-old wife near Glenwood Springs.
ended his own life Wednesday by
jumping into the Grand river, while
closely pursued by a sheriff's posse.
Pugh was an Austrian coal miner.
Mrs. Charles West and daughter
went down to Delta yesterday morn
ing where they will visit for a few
days and then come back to Mont
rose for a stay of a month or more.
and then. with Charley, will go to
California to spend the winter.-Tel-
luride Examiner.
Any Independent reader having a
short resource sketch applying to
Delta county and suitable for our
Christmas number. which will be
issued next Friday is requested to
send same in at once. Those arriv-
ing as late as the middle of next
week cannot be handled.
The annual meeting of the Delta
County Business Mems Association
will be held in the court house on
December 12th, at 7:30 p. m, for
the purpose of electing officers and
transacting such other business as
may come before the meeting.
When Delta dad had whipped
his little boy last week and the
small gentleman was crying Justify,
the father happened to think about
getting off that stale assertion :"It
hurts me worse than 1t does you
my son." And the little fellow whim
pered: ''Yes pop. that's the rea-
son I cry, because l know it hurts
you worse than 1t does me-
One of the most enjoyable social
functions which occurred in Delta
last week was given by Mrs. l. NJ.
Conklin, at her home on Palmer