The Delta independent., 1912-08-02
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

and is now sole; uwner of that cred
table manufacturing plant in this
city. Mr.. Crabill will rmeain as
manager.
Mack McCullom was placed under
arrest at Paonia Monday night on
instructions contained in a tele-
gram from Monticello, Utah, charg-
ing embezzle ment. McCullom is be-
ing held in the county Jail await
ing the efforts to obtain extradition
papers.
w. A. Davis, for several years en-
gagged in mercantile pursuits in this
city and well known to the people
in gnereal, is now associated with
E. S. Corbin in the business of
Surface Creek Realty company, hav-
ing entered upon his new duties
last Monday morning.
J.L. t. ylor, fruit agent of Denver
who has this year established fruit
loading stations in several fruit
growing sections of the Western
Slope of Colorado, was in the city
on business Monday, departing for
his home that evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy L. Smith and
son, Glen, arrived here Sunday on
delayed No. and spent the night at
the home of Mrs. d. w. Aupperle.
They returned yesterday to their
home in Delta after hvaing spent
a vacation in Salt Lake City
Grand Junction News.
Rogers mesa, extending down six
miles from Hotchkiss, is one of the
prettiest, most thickly settled and
best improved sections of Delta coun-
ty. On this great mesa are many
beautiful homes and much visible
wealth. Its scenic beauty delights
the eye of every passer by.
Prof J. Edward Cook of Wichita.
Kansas, who has made a study of
permanent cures for those persons
who have become slaves to the to-
bocco habit and gained a victory
for his study, is here looking over
the orchards of Delta and vicinity,
and has concluded to introduce his
remedies.
Bids are advertised for at anoth-
or place in this issue of the In
dependent for the construction of
a road from a point east of Curri-
can't creek, to the top of Black
mesa. by the commissioners of Gun
nison county. Read the advertise
ment under the head of Notice to
Contractors.'
Missionary meeting Sunday even
ing, August A, at Dodge and Second
streets. Thadeus Neff. having re-
turned from his missionary work in
India, will give description of
life experiences and customs of the
people of that land, illustrating the
same with native costumes and
relics. All are cordially invited.
At St. Lukes church on Sunday,
August 4, all the regular services
will be held, and communion at s
will be a memorial to the late Ar
thur T.. Shock. A new alter cross
and baptismal shell, a gift OF the
in the church and the sermon will
be appropriate to the occasion.
The Mulkey Section Mattress com
pany, located in the Lincoln build
ing, is doing fine work and lots of
it in the mattress business. They
clean and make over mattresses in
the new way, and, judging from
the amount of material hauled in,
it must be recognized as avery good
and satisfactory way. See them for
your work in this line.
Members OF. the Christian Sunday
school are urged to be on time Sun
day morning, as contest has been
arranged with the Paonia Sunday
school. Rev. w. II. Williams, the
first missionary sent to Jamaca by
the Christian Woman's Board of Mis-
sions. will preach at / a. m. Union
service in the evening addressedb
Rev. Maynard of the NJ. E. church.
County Commissioners George c.
Wilson and A. l.. Roberts, accom-
panied by the formers wife, de-
parted for Denver last Saturday
evening. Messrs. Wilson and Rob
erts go there at this time to con-
fer with the state highway commits
sion regarding the road and bridge
condition in Delta county, which
Is the most serious 1t has ever been.
Emmett Meyer. who has had
clerkship in the Emry store in this
city for some months past, has ac-
cepted a position with the Emry
store in Paonia and departed for