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The Delta independent., 1915-10-01
COUNTY MMIssIoNERS' PRO-
cEEDINGS, SEPTEMBER MEET.

The following tax rebates were al
lowed: ]. NJ. Davenport, amounting
to S52.72 on account of double as
sessment, the Colorado State Bank,
amounting to s24.S5 and George Ste
phan for $3.50 on account of erron-
eous tax sales.
1t was ordered that concrete abut-
ments be put in for the Trickle Bridge
on Surface Creek according to plans
prepared by the County Surveyor. 1t
was further ordered that specifica-
tions be asked for by the Chairman
and that the same be submitted at
the next regular meeting.
Fred Hammond, C. c. Hawkins and
Phil Eisenkramer were appointed to
view the following roads, petitions to
lay out and establish the same having
been presented:
Cross Road to Crawford, petition
by c. C. Hawkins F. NJ. Hammond.
]. d. Hawkins, ct al, Townships IA
and Is South, Range 80 west 9th p NJ.
Crawford Missouri Flats, petition by
w. ]. Reid, E. A. Browne. d. w. Nc
Intyre ct al, Sections 30, 81 and 80,
T. Is S. 81 w. 9th P. NJ.
Wakefield-Pa Paonia, petition by Merle
A Miller. Mathews & Baker. Wilson
Spohr ct al, T. IA S. r. 81 and 92
w. 9th p. NJ
Minnesota Creek Road, petition by
uanry Zool, Aaron CIouph I. q Fisk
ct al, Sections /. 2. 3, 4, and 8, T. IA
S. R. 81 w. 9Th p. NJ.
German Mesa Cemetery Road, Pc
tition by ]. w. Humphrey, Guy Rob-
inson, Wilson Spohr ct al, T. IA S. r.
81 and 92 W. 9th P. NJ.
The following tax rebate petitions
were allowed subject to the action of
the State Tax Commission
Elsie w. Fender, s3O.19; S. II. Cur
tbs estate. 1923; l.. S. Cook, s21.3O.
The tax rebate petitions of Nelson
DeWoody amounting to $13.33 and A..
R. Moller for ss.6s were not granted.
The following bills were allowed:
ORDINARY FUND
H. A Richardson, Horticul-
tural pector...............-...-....$ 1890
ii. X. Gibbs, cash advanced. 65.l1
Adah Price. Supt. of Schools,
salary ............-...............-.... 700
Chas. l.. Keller, Assessors sal 10000
Oliver b. Cook. Surveyors
salary 1886
Earl Wilson cash advanced. 20.00
J. w. Jeffers, Dept. Assessors
salary 1900
Margaret Mathews, Assessors
extra help -......................---.... 20.OO
]. M. Cochran, Assessors ex-
ira help ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $3.50
II. S. Wood Dept. Assessors
salary .......... .................. 640O
w. II. Bowden, Janitor's sal. 5000
Paonia Garage, Auto storage 1926
]. p. Norris, labor and mater
lals ......-..-.......-...........-.. bS5
James Greenwood, repairs to
lawn ower.................-...---.. 400
Mountain States r. & r. Co.
telephone rent ..................... 300
DIR. w. S. Cleland. registering
vital statistics .............. 325
Stearns Bros. Co.. supplies .. 1850
w. A. Davis. prisoners laund. 100
Hammond & Harrington, rent
OF horse ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
Gallup's Garage, auto repairs
and supplies .........-..-....-....... 1910
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01
OUR POLICY

Our policy is to give all we can in
return for what we receive-not to get
all we can for what we give. Sue
cess in. business depends on such a
policy. Delta Steam Laundry.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01

Delta Independent, advert'ng 21.90
Horace d. Plumb, Deputy Wa
ter Com. salary 1925
H. L. James, Deputy Water
Com. salary .,.....,.-....-......,.. 1853
V. NJ. Gipe. Deputy Water
Com. salary ..--..............--..--.... 3.75
Gus Martel. Deputy Water
Com. salary ............................ $3.50
Leslie Hart. Deputy Water
Com. salary .--.--.......-...---..-.--.. 2O.00
Chris Jaques, Deputy Water
Com. salary ...........--.........- 21.25
W. o. Hersum, Water Commits
sioner's salary .....--.-.---.----.-.... 1850
c. M. Ryan, Deputy Water
Com. salary. 1915
l.. E. Curtis, Deputy Water
Com. salary .-.-----.......---.---.--..- 1915
Woodcroft Hospital. care of
public charges..........--...... 5000
Gibson Lumber & Mere. Co.
lumber lZ.Oo
Out West Printing and Sta
tionery Co., supplies ........-. 11461
First National Bank, Cedar
edge, dep. water com. sal
ary, assigned ..........--....-.. 1924
]. w. Jeffers, dep. water com.
salary, assigned .............. 1850
Delta National Bank, Water
Com. salary, assigned - S1.25
Surv. Asst. serv. ass d. 32.0O
H. A. Richardson, Hort. sal
ary, assigned .................. 5000
R. w. Curtis. County Com.
salary 1870
w. A. Davis, board of pris-
oners .................. ................... 5000
w. A. Davis, Jailor's salary 1850
Elizabeth Sanderson, conduct
ing examination .....-..........-.-. 1900
j. T. Beatty, Court Bailiff. 3.75
H. W. Hazlett, Med. Services 5000
Burgin & Burgin. medical
services .....................-............ 1900
C. E. Blaine, Guardn ad litem 1000
Percival f. Coombe, Justice
Peace fees .......-.....-.-----.--..-...- 800
f. C. Cain, Jurors fees. Dist.
Court $40
Philip Kehl, Jurors fees. Dist.
Court ll.oO
|. ]. Trip, Jurors fees Co.
Court zbo
l.. G. Anderson, Jurors fees
County Court -..........--.....---..... 2.65
II. d. Perry, Jurors fees
County Court ........................ 5.15
f. A. Paist, Jurors fees, Co.
Court olo
w. f. Taylor, Jurors fees. Co.
Court BIB
George Wilson, Jurors fees
Co. Court ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2.65
w II. Smith, Jurors fees Co.
Court ..............-.-....-..---.-- Bib
H. NJ. Tyler, Jurors fees Co.
Court ...............................- BIB
]. n. Baldwin Jurors fees Co.
Court ...-........-........-.-....-... 5.l5
M. V. Lomax. Jurors fees Co.
Court ..................-..-...--.---.. Bib
Delta National Bank, Jurors
fees Co. Court, assigned. 5.15
John Davis, Jurors fees Co.
Court BIB
c. B. Elliott Jurors fees Co.
Court BIS
]. w. Eddings, Jurors fees
Co. Court ................................ 2.65
c. II. Allen. Jurors fees Co.
Court ....................-....-...... 2.65
+. II. Sanderson, Witness fees
District Court ........................ 7.75
Henry o. Peterson. Witness
fees Dist. Court .................. 7.75
w. A. Davis. Witness fees
County Court ........................ 4.3O
]. w. Jeffers, Witness fees
Co. Court. assigned ........... 4.3O
T. T.. Wood, Witness fees
Co. Court ................................ 1926
h. II. Porter, Witness fees
Co. Court ............................... 9.25
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01


POOR FUND.
ID. NJ. Oliver. II. X. fare. Salida
to Delta ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 6.75
II. X. Gibbs, cash advanced. 1915
+. X. Goettelman. labor ......... 2.75
Grace Cummings. Transports
tation advanced .................. 1915
Patterson and Co., supplies. 735
Turner and Huntley, supplies 1000
DIR. Lee Bast. asst. health Of
ficer. salary .......................... 500
Cedaredge Mere. Co., supplies 5.95
Gale and Clack. supplies ...... 11.05
The Delta Hardware Co, sup.
plies ....,.,............................... 1.25
Osborne lliamson Drug Co.,
supplies .................................. $3.50
|. NJ. Conklin and Son supplies 1900
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01
BUSINESS LOCALS

For sanitary plumbing go to Gets
& Gets.
Peaches for canning at Elberta
Heights. Coop. Phone 2s-F If
Insuring with Stepuan e Upert.
DR.. B. o. Windle, dentist, Delta.
Rooms 12, 13 and IA. Hillman block.
Pigs for Sale. Herbert Dale. Garnet
mesa. Colo. Phone. Delta 1872 34tf
DR.. B. o. Windle. dentist, Delta.
Rooms IL. 13 and IA. Hillman block.
street. 1stf
wanted-Two school boys to board,
at 412 Dodge street. Terms very
reasonable.
FOR SALE-Three-hole Perfection
oil stove in good condition. Enquire
zoos Meeker.
For first class chauffer call A.
Frost. Jr.. Coop phone 43-A. Rates
$3.50 per day.
FOR RENT CHEAP-Seven room
house at 1886 Grand. Apply to Mrs.
Cory NJ. Turner at 332 Grand. If
Your blankets will smell fresh and
sweet, and feel soft and fluffy II we
wash them. Delta Steam Laundry.
FOR SALE-Piano. household goods
surveyor transit, Ford auto and four.
year-old black horse. Call at 532 Col
umbia street.
Pure old vinegar and new cider de-
livered anywhere in Delta for 25 and
20 cents per gallon. Coop. Phone
TIA. j. G. Neff 81
Registered Duroc Jersey male pigs
for sale. Best blood lines, farrowed
in April and May. Prices right. V.
A. Phillips, Cedaredge.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01

Registered Duroc Jersey male pigs
for sale. Best blood lines, farrowed
i'm April and May. Prices right V.
A. Phillips, Cedaredge.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01

Pure old vinegar and new cider de-
livered anywhere in Delta for 25 and
20 cents per gallon. Coop. Phone
TIA. ]. G. Neff. 81
The Delta independent., 1915-10-01

FOR SALE-Piano. household goods
surveyor transit. Ford auto and four
year-old black horse. Call at 532 Col
umbia street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
DANIELS AGAIN
at the bids sub.
u mitted to the Navy Department

DISAPPOINTED at the bids sub
~ mitted to the Navy Department
for the construction of the two
battleships authorized by the last
Congress, Secretary Daniels is reported
to have suggested a startling innova-
ton in the contractural relation which
the steel companies should bear to the
Federal Government. He believes that
the steel companies ought to have
made allowance for the contracts
which they knew as long ago as last
Spring were to be offered in the Fall.
In other words, that the steel com
panies should turn down business
actually in hand so as to be open for
prospective contracts from the United
States.
Due to the fact that steel products
are bringing far higher prices than a
year ago, on account of the huge de-
mand from the warning powers, and
also on account of the increase of
wages through the stimulation of the
steel industries, the bids recently OPEN
ed were higher than anticipated. For
a year the Administration has been
taking credit to itself for the boom
in the steel industry, and the increase
of wages, which, as everyone knows,
was occasloned by war orders. Now
that this inflated condition Of busi-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
LLOYD GEORGE AND THE UNION

From the Los Angeles Times
If David Lloyd Georges statement be-
fore the British Parliament is his ca
pacity of Minister of Munitions 1T is a
sorry spectacle he has. held up for the
world to see-a proud empire shackled
and begging for mercy! Not from a
foreign foe, not from the gods of tribu-
lation. but from the labor union agita-
tors within her gates is Britain plead
ing for deliverance.
There have been traitors and to spare
in the history of the world. but never
before has a great empire been bound
and gagged by the organized conspir-
acy of treachery by her own sons as has
Great Britain. While the bravest and
best of her sons have fought and died
in bitter combat against the greatest
odds soldier has ever been called upon
to face, labor -unionism has bargained
for hours and pence-bartered away
thousands upon thousands of lives of
young manhood that the union work.
ingman might enjoy an additional
for the hours he worked, that certain
petty unionist restrictions might be
enforced-eXploiting the tragedy of
their country i'm it's greatest crisis with
unbelievable seltishneSs and brutality.
When Lloyd George denounced the
aGitator with all the emotional rhetoric
at his command telling the nation how
trade -unionism conceded 5000 men
tions, when 100000 were needed IL
Britain's sons were to have a fighting
chance for their lives, and assuring the
country that he Is revealing but half
the hindrances, deliberately conjured by
the unionist officials, he raises the
gorge of every fair man. AS Minister
of Munitions he has come to know the
unionist codes at first hand, to see ex-
actly where the utter selfish creed of
the few may wreck the fortunes, sap
the very life blood of the nation in its
ious things in recalling them to some
sense of their responsibility.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
ENGLAND'S ANSWER

'ENGLAND's answer to Germany's
Il peace feeler" is the announce
ment that she proposes to raise
new armies to throw against the Teu-
tonic allies. This was only to be ex-
pected To accept peace now would
be for the Allies to admit defeat. Ger
man arms have been in a large meas
ure victorious. German soil remains
uninvaded. The Allies have been pre-
eminently successful on the seas and
Germany has lost her colonies and her
commerce. That is the status OF the
war to-day. But there are other and
more important phases of 1t that must
be considered in the light of the Allies
refusal to consider an end of hostilities.
The Allies have just begun to fight.
Daily the numerical strength of the
English. the French and the Russians
increases. Daily the numerical strength
of Germany goes backward. The flower
of the German army at the outset of
the war is no more. The raw recruits
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
SCIENCE BEGINS AT HOME
Light and Heat
BY Frederic J. Haskin

on a whole dinner, soft coal is just
about ten times as economical Such
an estimate, of course, does not consid-
er the factor of convenience. To Sc
cure this latter in a high degree, some
people are even cooking with electric
ity, which is about twenty times as ex-
pensive as gas.
The gas flames can be rendered
more economical and effective by a
little understanding of its personal
peculiaritieS. What you burn is really
not gas, but an air-gas mixture, and
the amount of air should be carefully
regulated by means of the little dam
per at the base of the burner. If you
have too much air, or not enough the
gas is only partially burned, con-
dition which is both wasteful and dan
ISerous to health, because the partly
burned gases are poisonous. For this
reason, a flue over gas stove to carry
away the invisible products of COM
bustion is a good thing, but careful
regulation of the air supply will pre-
vent the forming of the harmful va
pors, and give you a hundred cents
worth of heat for every dollar on the
bill. A gas flame consists of two parts,
a central blue-green portion, sur
rounded by yellow flame. You will
know that your air-supply is right
when the blue-green portion is half
the height of the flame.
Actual cooking is only a small part
of the household heating problem.
The furnace eats several times as
much coal as the range, and it is worth
a little study to keep much of that
coal from flying up the chimney to
heat the circumambient atmosphere.
Furnace coal is cheaper in the
smaller Sizes, and many furnaces
work better on small coal, so that to
feed your furnace with coal too large
for it is a double waste. The furnace
fiues and heating surfaces should be
kept several times cleaner than ma
jority of them are. Whether the sys-
tenn works by hot water. or steam, or
air, it must heat it's conducting mate
rial in some sort of reservoir. To let
that reservoir get plastered with SCOT
is taking considerable pains to insulate
1t effectively. The principle is the
same as though you put an asbestos
mat between your coffee pot and the
stove.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
THE "GRIP"
" |

wv man who called 1t grip" He
knew whereof he spoke. Grip
is the word. When it lays hold on
you just quietly succumb. seek Sc
cluded nook and ask to be left alone.
In the quiet of your chamber even
tually the malady will let loose, some
what like a bulldog from the seat Of
a tramp's trousers after somebody
has shot the dog. And you'll have just
about as much immediate relief and
be just about as comfortable as the
aforesaid tramp. Likewise you will
feel just about as kindly toward
dog
We have been told forty-seven diff
ferent ways Of avoiding the grip
and none of 'em work We are in
receipt of 156 cures for grip and
any one of them is just as good and
no better than the receipts for avoid
ing the disease. Some of them are
worse than the malady-no, we take
that back, not worse, merely as bad
Take Rocky Mountain sage, for in
stance, Rocky Mountain sage was
recommended by an erstwhile western
friend who sent us q bunch-we use
the word erstwhile advisedly. If you
have a spite at yourself we recon-
mend that you contract grip" or
drink Rocky Mountain sage, but don't
Il Ia
enough.
Some folks think they have grip"
when they have only a bad cold.
Grip" differs from cold greatly. When
you get the grip" you look back
fondly to the days when you had only
"a bad cold and say, "some day when
am feeling particularly fine and
have nothing more than a bad cough,
a stuffed up nose and sore throat,
I'll do thus and So
Grip" we are told, originated in
France, where it is known as La
Grippe. We knew it couldn't have
come from Germany. 1t is too demo-
cratic for that. 1t tackles the high
and mighty and the lame and the
halt with equal unconcern and it
doesl + care a hoot where it scatters
its aches and pains. The back of the
street sweeper and the chest of the
banker all look alike to Old Man
Grip"
Just at present grip" is at once
our most popular and most hated in
stitution. Physicians dote on it and
calmly consider next years vacations
in the light of it's daily statistics of
victims. Victims themselves hIser-
nately groan over it and "cuss" it. If
you have had it you don't need any
proof of the foregoing. If you haven't
had it there is something coming to
you and you don't need to pray for q
light attack, either. There amt no
sich thing"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30

of the Allies are becoming trained sol
diers and bid fair to blossom into a
crushing force against the thinning
German and Austrian ranks. The Ger
man infantry has not been the in
vincible force its creators believed it to
be. To be sure. it is still fighting on
French soil. but farther from the
French capital than it was three weeks
after the war began. 1t holds Galicia
and Warsaw, too, but in both the
French and the Russian drives 1t failed
to reach its obiective-Paris and the
destruction of the Russian army as a
fighting machine. All hope of taking
Paris is forsaken, and the armies of
the Car are gathering to the colors in
ever-increasing numbers. better armed
and equipped than ever before. France
and England are piling up mountains
of munitions behind their lines in
Flanders and daily the difference be-
tween the ammunition and artillery
output of the Allies and Germany ap-
proaches equality.
Germany started out to be an invad-
ing force. In France and in Russia
she is now entrenched and waging
largely a defensive warfare. When an
defensive army becomes a defensive
army. then it has failed of it's purpose
So, while German arms have had splen-
did success in winning battles. not one
decisive action has been recorded in
favor of Germany Germany has failed
utterly to do the things she set out to
do and the result of the war is as
plainly in sight as though already at
hand.
So one may readily understand the
willingness of the Kaiser to consider
peace while his armies are in Russia
and Serbia and France and while Ger
man arms on the surface appear to be
in the ascendant. On the other hand.
the attitude of the Allies in declining
to consider peace at this time may be
better understood by consideration
of the fact that they have been up to
this time waging largely a war of
preparation. Kitchener at the out
start estimated three years and possibly
longer as the time required by the
Allies to bring Germany to her knees.
The end is not yet in sight, but there
are indications that a break in German
ability to maintain the terrific strain
may come earlier than that, possibly
some time next summer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
HOW PRESIDENT WILSON RIDS
HIMSELF OF UNWELCOME VISI-
TORS.

In the January American Magazine
is an unusually interesting article by
James Hay. Jr., on the working habits
of the President of the United States.
In 1t he gives the following description
of how Wilson rids himself of unwel-
come visitors:
when Mr.. Wilson first came to
Washington, senators and members of
the House of Representatives tried to
follow their old system of taking up as
much of a Presidents time as possible
They were astonished to find that the
thing could not be done. Unless the
matters on which they called and for
which they had made appointments
were of unusual Importance, each con-
ference was expected to last anywhere
from three to five minutes. At the end
of the allotted time, Mr.. Tumulty would
walk into the Presidents private office,
and the President would rise to his feet
and say:
Nov you may be sure that this will
be looked into
There was no way of refusing to ac-
cept that polite dismissal. After each
one had departed Mr.. Wilson, who is
himself an expert stenographer-so ex-
pert that a page from his note book is
as clear and clean-cut as piece of en-
graving-would make n shorthand note
of the callers business. At the end of
each day he would go through the note
book and give directions or dictate let
ters. dlsmissing the days work These
rules he follows to-day"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-30
POTENTIAL TOWN HALLS

y
r United States was pictured as
a potential town hall at yester-
days session in Washington of the
American Civic Association at which
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
President Wilson, presided.
Miss Wilson described the social
center movement as a plan to make
each school building now idle egh-
teen hours or more each day, the
meeting and voting places of citi-
zens of its district, associated in one
nonpartisan, noneXclusive organi-
Zation to deliberate questions on
which they vote and to promote in
piness of the neighborhood and
city or town. So far so good but
Miss Wilson erred previously when
she pronounced against the idea ito
make the schools social centers for
public amusement or to throw them
open free to whatever public organi-
zation might for the moment interest
the board of education"
There is nothing new in the idea
of the schools as potential town
halls" and social centers. 1t has been
endorsed by school authorities here
and elsewhere. There has been much
discussion of the subject. School
officials have nodded their heads
wisely and pronounced the plan most
excellent, but in all but few
localities it has gone no farther.
Right here in Harrisburg we have
schoolhouses that have cost the
voters of the district hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and to what
end? Simply that they be used on
nm average of about six hours a day
for not more than nine months out
of the year, all told. This is Door
business. What manufactures, for
Instance, would spend like sums on a
plant for similar service2 The tax
payer is entitled to dividends on his
money expended in school facilities,
and in this case these dividends
should take the form OF increased
service.
There is nothing needed In Har-
risburs so much as amusement of a
wholesome nature for those who can
not afford the forms of entertainment
which ample means permit others to
purchase. The schoolhouse is the
logical center of the community. It's
educational and uplifting influence
should extend to all classes and all
ages. Sooner or later it will come
into its own in this respect. but one
wonders how long it is going to re-
quire for school officials to go about
putting into practice this social CEN
ter idea which all admit to be good
but in which so few display an inter-
est sufficient to prompt them to put
1t into practice.
Miss Wilson has the high brow"
viewpoint of most "up-lifters" whose
knowledge of the rank and file OF
society is confined to limited observa-
tions and much theory. People who
need the schoolhouse most as a So
cial center don't want merely to dis
cuss politics-local or otherwise.
What they want and need most is a
social rendezvous There should be
rooms in every school building for
the gathering of the clans. The
schoolhouse social center in short
club.