The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-07-28
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

several weeks with typhoid fever,
is reported SO low TO-DAY that little
hope is held out for his recovery.
The independent editor enjoyed
an automobile ride across Califor
MIA mesa, Wednesday morning with
geo. S. Conklin and Ross, in the
new Hudson car. Mr.. Conklin was
out looking at potato fields and
trranglng Tor carload shipments.
The grain and alfalfa looked fine at
all points along the twenty-mile
trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Naylor and
family left Sunday for Wichita
Falls, Texas, where they will re-
side in the future. Mr. Naylor was
manager of the Fischer Clarkson
lumber yard until that concern sold
have made many friends in Delta
during their stay here, and their
departure is deeply regretted.
With the Grand mesa fisheries
owned by Delta county and the
lakes nicely stocked, there would be
regular summer city up there. The
stocking of the lakes would be an
easy matter, for enough spawn can
De taken not only to keep the lakes
fully stocked, but to pay for their
care Delta county should buy this
fishing and keep it for it's own peo-
pie.
Mrs. Lydia Marble, state presi-
| dent of the Rebekah Assembly ar
rived Saturday evening from Den
yer and has since been the guest
of Mrs. Irvine Hunter. Mrs. Marble
accompanied by Mrs. Hunter, visit
ed the Rebekah lodge at Cedaredge
Monday night, the Hotchkiss and
Paonia lodges Tuesday and Wednes-
day night, and will visit the local
chapter tonight
DR.. Mecklejohn, wife and two
children, of Winter Quarters, Utah,
who were visiting in Delta and
Hotchkiss for four days, left yes
terday for the East, where the
Doctor will take a postgraduate
course. DIR. Mecklejohn formerly
lived here but has been at Winter
Quarters for four years in hospital
work. He has sixty acres of orch
ard at Hotchkiss.
The opening recital of the new
pipe organ of the First Methodist
church will be given next Tuesday
evening 10y DR.. John H. Cover of
Denver, an organist of information
al reputation. This will be an ex-
traordinary treat to all lovers of
music. Admission SO cents. Chill
dren under IL years rs cents. The
doors will open at 1880 and the
program will begin at p. IN.
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protective measures have been
adopted to keep clean and pure
the water at the head of the pipe
line and that the lakes and pools
where the supply is gathered have
been thoroughly cleaned. Our
Doughspoon mountain water is the
best in the country and when given
to our consumers straight, they
don't object to paying for it in
advance.
In addition to the $1156 to be
given in premiums by the Fair As
ISOLATION this year, the merchants
of Delta are Offering some most mag
nificent gifts as special premiums.
The special premiums can be found
on pages SO to 81, of the premium
book. The Delta County Fair will
have the most elaborate exhibits
this year, ever shown in the county.
If you have not received premium
book, write or call on the Secretary,
G. T. White, for one.
There are many thousand acres
of land within radius of ten miles
of Delta that could have been in cul-
tivation this year that are not. Some
| 81 hi "a
$300-an-acre potato crop, or would
have produdced fine grain. This
looks like a waste of both oppor-
tunity and resource. We have seen
land which has been allowed to
lay idle which would have paid for
itself twice over, had it been cult
waited in potatoes this year.
The great difference in roads in
Delta and Montrose counties, al
ways subject of comment, is par
ticularly noticeable along the Cal
ifornia mesa boundary. The smooth
roads of this county come to so
sudden a stop after you go by the
county line monument, that one
could tell with his eyes shut when
the line is passed. Some of the
Montrose road beds were plowed a
year ago but no drag was put on
and they remain rough in dry sea-
sons and almost impossible when
wet.
Joseph Shumaker brought to the
Independent office from his Black
Canon ranch last Saturday the fol-
lowing samples of his products:
Apples so heavy the branches had
to 'De propped to prevent their
weight breaking the branches. a
big waterm elon, loaded branches of
several varieties of plums, ripe