The Delta independent., 1915-11-12
LOCAL HAPPENINGS 4
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sale December II.
Miss Sadie Miles arrived in the city
from Oregon Sunday morning and is
to beome a permanent resident.
Ed. Hanson shipped twenty-one cars
OF fine cattle from Austin to the Kan
sas City markets on Tuesday.
Because of crowded space the con
clusion of Independents story. Thou
sandth Woman has been left over
for next weeks issue.
Mrs. R. ]. Huff came in from Paonia
last week to join her husband who
was already located here. They are
to beome permanent residents of this
city.
The young peoples mission society
will meet at Mrs. S. Moore's, 2nd and
Meeker, Tuesday evening, November
10th, at 7.30 p. m. Mrs. Wiltse will be
the leader.
The Paonia and Olathe football
teams came together on Olathe
grounds last Saturday afternoon when
the former was defeated by a score
Of 81 to :.
Harry Mccall. in the train service
of the Rio Grande in this district for
over year past and located in Delta,
has returned with his family to his
former home in Salida.
Mrs. ]. A. Davidson, sister of Starr
Nelson and Miss Cora Nelson, niece
were here from Salida all of last week,
the former departing for her home
Sunday morning. Miss Nelson is to
make a more extended stay.
Albert stephens OF Mancos. Colo
rado. and Miss Florence Smyser, of
Telluride. were united in marriage by
Judge S. L. Fairlamb at O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon and the happy
couple departed for their future home
in Mancos on Wednesday.
II. E. Perkins arrived home Sunday
morning from a few days business
trip to Utah and Idaho points. At
Roberts. Idaho, he purchased car
load of fine bucks which will be ship
ped to his sheep range in this district
]. F. Murphy of Denver, has taken
the place of Z. B. Cantren as messen-
ger on the North Fork passenger run
during the latter's ABSENCE in Glen
wood Springs, where he viii visit his
parents and other relatives some two
or three weeks.
Alfred Strong who was in the en-
ploy of the Mountain States Telephone
company in this city for some weeks
/ and also engaged in several of the
Delta county orchards during harvest,
departed for his home in Denver the
. latter part of last week where he has
accepted a position with the oxford
hotel
Steve Bailey and daughter Helen,
came in last Friday evening from
" nittier. California, where they have
resided for several years and may de-
eide to again become permanent resi-
dents of this city They were accom-
panied by Mrs. Charles Bowden who is
also daughter of Mr.. Bailey and had
gone to the coast state prior to Mrs.
Bailey's death.
/ Joe Carlstrom, the garage man at
Paonia, who had taken three auto
loads of high school football players to
Olathe last Saturday morning was
held up in Delta that night with his
crowd on account of the rain and bad
roads. One auto started ont on the
drive from here to Paonia but gave
up in despair after getting to Redlands
and came back to Delta. The three
cars made another start at about 10
o'clock Sunday morning.
j. f. Morehead. president of the
Western Colorado Odd Fellows asso-
citation, Mrs. Carrie Steele. vice presi-
dent of the same association and past
president of the Rebekah assembly.
and several other members of these
organizations, came in from Grand
Junction last Sunday morning to be
in attendance upon meeting of the
executive committee which was max
I ing preparations for the next session
of the association to be held in Grand
Junction.
Several of the local autoists were
caught in the rain storm last Sunday
evening and had more or less trouble
! One OF the Delta auto drivers had a
party of jack rabbit hunters out all
that day and when nearing home in
the rain that evening something went
wrong with the machine and they did
not get home until small hours of
the morning Frank Beard and party
of friends from Eckert made a drive
4 to Ouray and at Montrose on the re-
turn trip the machine got out of fix
and the party hired another for the
trip home and left their car in the
Montrose shop for repairs.
l.. A. Ensley came in from Read,
Wednesday and after planking down
two bucks for Independent next year.
related that he had been paid the neat
little sum of $4,000 for the onions la
ken from one acre of ground. These
he sold early, only getting sl.00 hun
dred but he had the sacks and twine
furnished. People Mt distance will
read these reports of getting $4,000 or
more from six or seven acres in Il
single field crop with some suspicion,
but they are as absolutely true as
for the middle states farmer to har-
vest $50 in corn or wheat. II merely
shows what our land is capable of
with good crop and a good market.
Onions have been gold mine this
year. as they have several other years,
but last year the crop was failure be-
cause there was no market. Still. Mr..