The Delta independent., 1911-10-27
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

The exhibition in the bank ant
| Investment company's building wa
closed last Saturday. The reason
stated was that insufficient inter
est was shown to continue it open
The exhibit did a lot of good il
the early fall and many visitors tool
ii in each day. While it would
be a good thing to continue open
it is of course more difficult to
maintain a good exhibit through tn,
winter season than in the fall.
F. o. Hinkson leaves for his
other home, Stuart, Iowa, tomorrow
having cmpleted the packing and
shipping of apples from his ranch
near Cory, known as the old Beez-
ley place. His orchard yielded this
year about $500 boxes of apples
which were shipped to the markets
of several different cities. Mr..
Hinkson gave his picking and pack
ing crew an oyster supper at the
ranch Wednesday night.
Durango is one of those south
western Colorado cities so greatly
damaged by the heavy rainfall and
floods three weeks ago and prac-
tically cut off from the outside
world. 1t has been impossible for
people to go to and from that city
and only within the last few days
has Uncle Sam been able to get his
mail service working. The first
papers received from Durango for
three weeks reached us Sunday.
The east-bound passenger train
+ Tuesday morning ran into a huge
boulder a few miles west of this
city and the cow-catcher clearly evil
denced the force of that collision.
One side of the big fender was shat
tered sufficiently to warrant repair
in the shops. The engineer saw
the big rock in time to check
his speed and thus prevent a SER
ious wreck. A delay of about thirty
minutes was occasioned by the acct
dent
w. o. Stevens departed on Tues
day evening for Redlands, CaIifor-
mia. He has been away from the
big coast state about five months
visiting with relatives and friends
in Missouri month and the other
four months here. He has gained
considerable flesh since his remov-
al to California and he remarked
to the Independent scribe at the
depot just before his departure that
he expected to weigh 24O or $50
pounds on his next visit here.
G. S. Green. one of the well
known ditch, reservoir and railroad
contractors of Colorado with head
quarters in Denver, was in the city
last Tuesday for few hours, be-
ing enroute from Hotchkiss to Glen
wood Springs. He has had a force
of men and teams at work on some
grades for the Rio Grande company
near Hotchkiss. Most of his work,
however, being on repairs at differ
ent points in that section. Some
big work is also in hand on reser-
voirs and bitches near Glenwood
and his trip to that point is to look
after interests there.
The first meeting of the Wom-
ans Club in the current year was
held at the residence TO Mrs. l.
C. Hall, on Monday, October 23rd.
Miss New and Mrs. NJ. r. WEIGH
rendered interesting and inspiring
reports of the sessions of the Colo
RADIO Federation of Woman's CLUBS
held in Denver. The following were
elected to membership: Miss Ans
barry, Miss Williams, Miss Worts,
Miss Nuberger, Mesdames VIII G.
Williams, j. S. Turner, c. h.
Stewart, C. d. Kinsley, l.. MacD.
Burgess, Porter Plumb, A. R. King,
L. A. Hick, w. G. Cook, Millard
Fairlamb, R. l.. Smith, Leonard
Baird, H. K. Porter. The club VIII
meet with Mrs. NJ. r. WEIGH on
Wednesday, November Sth. Toplc
Famous Women Roll call Quo
tations from women writers.