The Delta independent., 1912-04-12

Inc Misses Writ and NeWberger,
who reside at the corner of Sixth
and Howad steets, departed the first
Of the week for Denver and Neb.
raska points on a two-weeks' visit.
The annual county Sunday school
! cgnvention will convene at the
Presbyterian church CT this city on
Tuesday April 10th, and close the
following evening
Emma R. Anderson has just sold
20 acre tract of unimproved land
near Cedaredge to Roy A. Downs,
| cashier of the bank of Cedaredge.
MIR, Downs will proceed at once to
improve the property.
The A. NJ. z. literary club was
pleasantly entertained by Mrs. H.
Freyburg last Wednesday afternoon
A paper on Quebec was read by
Mrs. Roy Bowen, followed by current
events by the club. Delightful re-
treshments were served by the host
ess.
J. F. Hutchison, the cattle and
market man of Salida, arrived in
the city Wedne sday and proceeded
to his cattle camp that evening. Mr.
| Hutchinson stated that in the suit
| brought by him against Tom Mos
FOR payment of two steers, was de-
cided in his favor, Mostyn paying
/ for the cattle and court costs.
The Montrose Daily Western EN-
Pire, established about two years
/ ago by Postmaster Harrington and
several other leading citizens of that
city, was purchased last Saturday
/ by c. A. Adams of the Daily Press,
and there will be but one daily pa
per in Montrose in the future. The
final issue of the Empire came out
Sunday morning.
All reports agree that the amount
OF snow stored in the mountains is
unusually large. Along the tracks
Of range railroads Cnly the tops OF
/ the coaches can be seen above the
/ level snow while many gulches are
filled to a depth of 100 to 1O5feet.
This will bring an abundant water
supply for all needs through the
summer
NJ. NJ. Culvey, a professional trap
per living in Ouray, caught mag
nificent silver fox the other day in
a trap at the head of the Avalanche
gulch and brought the animal into
Ouray. The fox is a very rare spe-
cies and its hide is worth ovre $500.
1t measured 4S inches from tip to
tip, and the tail is almost as big
as the body.-Montrose Press.
y. E. Clack, former city treas
urer of Delta and well known in
business and social circles here,
came in from Billings. Montana last
Sunday. Mrs. Clack preceded him
few days and they are contem-
plating a permanent residence >in
Delta again. MIR. Clack was in poor
health when he left here for the
West but is now much improved.
1t is well enough for the people
to know that the Independent Of
fers them splendid advertising
medium. With thousand subscrib-
ers in the county it has in conse-
lotted to each subscriber. Adver-
Al average of five readers being al
quence several thousand readers.
tisers in the Independent get pub
licity results which cannot be had in
any other way.
The members of the A. NJ. q.
club and their husbands were de
lightfully entertained at the farm
home of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ p. Weeks
on California mesa Tuesday evening.
Interesting igames at which Mrs.
Russell Hauser was thrice winner of
beautiful prizes, and music, were
features of the evening. Beautiful
hand painted place cards and appro-
pirate decorations made attractive
he tables at which delightful re-
freshments were seved.
Herman Darling who returned
from spending the winter on the
Pacific coast a couple of weeks ago.
is now busy with plans to resume
his saw mill work on the basin
slope at the head of DryCreek, and
lie anticipates heavy cutting of
lumber this summer. The snow is
disappearing slowly as yet in that
section and it will be several weeks
before Mr.. Darling can get his
mills in operation.
Subscriptions to the Independent
since last report as follows: indie