The Delta independent., 1912-01-05

Colorado Springs. Both are looking
well and say they were much ben
Gifted by the few weeks vacation
and rest.
G. w. Bruce and family arrived
home Monday evening from Kansas
City. where Mrs. Bruce and daugh-
ter had made an extended visit with
the formers parents. Mrs. Bruce
underwent a delicate surgical opera
ton while away.
Mrs. VIM. Foster was the guest
OF her daughter, Mrs. Beryl Gut
ridge, last Tuesday, and the two
ladies went to Olathe Wednesday,
where Mrs. Foster will visit about
two weeks. Mrs. Gutridge came
home that evening.
The local Elk's lodge is contem-
plating a big time at one of it's reg
ular meetings in the near future,
when class of twenty-five new
members is to be shown the mys-
teries of the order Initiation will
De followed by a banquet.
The fifth annual banquet of Del
I'd SHdIltT No. 20, "a WIZ ~
given at Odd Fellows hall on We'd
nesday evening, January 18th, and
this event is looked forward to with
keen interest and pleasure by those
who expect to be present.
l.. j. Hines, a Colorado represen-
.i.tive of the Sherwin- Williams Co.,
with headquarters in Denver, ar
md
to Hotchkiss Tuesday with Harry
Richards, local representative of the
company, for insecticide materials.
l.. A. Hinton and family ate Xmas
dinner with Bert Crawford and fam
lily Monday. 1t was the wedding an
niversary of both and they have for
several years made it a custom to
spend Christmas together.-Hotch
kiss Times.
DIT. j. E. Wheelock and family
ate turkey with Mr.. and Mrs. F. B.
Thomas at Cory on New Years day,
and the doctor feels that if one is
to do each day of the year what he
does on the first day. he'll have no
kick to make at anybody or any
thing.
Recent letters from District At
torney Logan, who with his wife is
rusticating on the Pacific coast,
stated that he is having a mild at
tack of rheumatism, but expected
soon to be a'ole to prance around
on the beach with the youngest of
them.
Taylor b. Geer departed for Den
yer Tuesday morning and is now en-
gagged in looking after the Colorado
interests of The company manufacture
ing the triplex automobile tire. He
VIII devote NEST, ii not all of his
cine to that work. He and J. j..
Travis are stockholders in the com
pany.
X. T. Sechrist and wife were here
over Sunday, the guests of Charles
Keller, being enroute to their home
on Rogers mesa from Montrose, in
which city they spent the holidays
with relatives and friends. Mr.. Sc
christ is principal of the Rogers
mesa school.
Nothing doing" was the word
of the marriage license clerk at the
coure house this week which goes to
show that the girls have not as yet
accepted the opportunities afforded
them every fourth year. This is the
first week for some time past when
the license book remained unopened.
Mrs. Irvine Hunter. one of the
grand Officers of the Rebekahs. was
an outgoing passenger for Grand
junction Monday evening. She
Joined a large delegation of Re
oekahs in that city the following
morning on an excursion to De
Beque, where special lodge work was
conducted in the evening.
Mrs. Mary Mathers. mother of
VIII and Harry. and Miss Eta Jor-
dan, an employee of the First Nation
al bank in this city for some time
past, departed on Wednesday eve
ming for Berkeley California, where
they VIII spend the rest of the win
ter months and Miss Jordan may re
main on the coast permanently.
a first class studio of music and
elocution is to be opened in rooms
2l'-lS Delta National bank building,
to be known as the Bridges Conserv-
atory of Music and Elocution. Mrs
Myrtle NJ. Bridges. who will have
charge of the studio. has studied
under some of the best masters in
both vocal and instrumental music,
and also of elocution and is there
fore thoroughly competent in her
competition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hecken-
ger. newlyweds. who have been Wis
iting friends in Delta and the North