The Delta independent., 1910-06-03

For Sale.Foour' lots, = rcorner'~6th
and Howard streets. Harry l..
Faulkner, 351 Main street.
Henry Goemann will go to Denver
next week to meet his sister who is
on her way over from Germany.
C. D. Allen & Son, of Cherryvale.
Kansas. have purchased the jewelry
store of F. C. Helt, and have taken
possession
his mother and two sisters here to
visit them next week. They will
probably remain some time.
H. NJ. Laws is back in Delta after
an absence of several months at
tending college in the east He ex-
poets to take the Episcopal churh
at Hotchkiss in his charge this sum-
mer.
If you are indebted to David De-
ter, please call and settle on or be-
ore June 11th, 1910, as / will quit
the feed bushes at 339 Dodge street.
about that time, owing to other
busines.
Travis & Castle report the fol-
120 acres near Eckert, to A. H. Lord
of Kansas City, and r. E. Mehaffey
of Delta, $4,000. The George Will
son ranch at Eckert, % acres to
l. S. Phippeny, consideration $4,000.
If you don't think the Indepen-
dents list is growing. gaze upon the
lunch of names published in this
isue. all paid up. and 80 percent of
them new ones. And this, we hope,
Is only starter. 1t will all help
to make the Independent a better
and stronger county paper.
The Independent will continue to
send out quite number of extra
copies during the prize subscription
contest, which will close July 4th.
Together with the rapid gain of sub
scribers, the paper is of increased
value to advertisers. A word to the
wise should in this case be suffi-
cient.
A Delta printer was eating his
dinner at a restaurant the other
day, when he discovered a bright
object in his soup. Holding it up,
he asked a waiter what he called
that. why" said the waiter,
that's a needle" Must be a ty-
biographical error" said the printer.
1t should be a noodle"
Miss Mae Emmons, after a very
successful season, leaves the first
of the week on her vacation. She
will visit friends out in the country
for a short time. after which she
will go East to buy her fall stock
OF millinery. Miss Emmons reports
that the business for the spring sea-
son was much beyond her expecta-
ton.
The story is being circulated that
| have sold my undertaking business.
wish to state that it has not been
sold and is not for sale. Mr.. A. l..
Watt has taken Mr.. Geer's place as
licensed embalmer and funeral di-
rector. For night calls. phone Mr..
Watts residence, Zanninnetti fats,
Coop. asa. Colorado phone Bridge
1875. H. X. Correll's residence. Sec
ond and Main streets. Coop. phone
44F. Colorado phone black 2S3
II. X. Correll. Furniture, Rugs, Car
pets.
The Denver-Delta Fruit Land Co,
In the city over the Meyer Mercan-
tile Company's store in the Gale
building. This company is composed
of Denver. Fort Morgan and Kansas
City parties. Robert w. Shaefer OF
Fort Morgan, is president of the
company, Edward Taylor of Denver
Is secretary. while C. w. Cunning
ham is secretary and manager of
the Delta office. The company was
organized for the purpose of plot
ting and planting orchards. develop
ing water rights and doing a gen
eral real estate business.
June brides are thicker than
June bugs. Delta has had an epi-
demic of weddings this week, almost
more plentiful than the measles
We're last week. There seems to be
something in the air at Delta which |
makes young couples (and sometimes
old people) want to act foolish. They
come here from all over to get
married. Whether il is that our
ministers and justices can. accord
ing to public belief, tie the k not
quicker or more smoothly. or more
tightly. something brings the con
templative b. and 6. here to wed.
They come from Montrose. Grand I
Junction. Paonia, Cedaredge. Hotch-
kis, Olathe, Austin-from every
where. And all are welcome. Ii
may be well enough to say, there are
still lot of very pretty girls right /
here I'm nalfa