The Delta independent., 1916-11-10

NJ. R. Welch has moved his law Of
fices to the rooms recently vacated by
DR.. Wheelock.
H. X. Corell arrived from California
Wednesday evening, on business
visit to Delta.
George Park, of ParkDavis. was
here yesterday from the Hotchkiss end
of the firms business.
Politics must be bit out of joint
when little contraption like Hether-
ington can beat a real man like VIII
Dale
Wilson's majority in Colorado is
estimated at $4,000. Gunter, it is esti-
mated, has carried the state by
10000.
Mrs. Wiitse left Saturday morning
! for Kansas in response to telegram
telling of the serious illness of her
sister
Dr. Hubbard. of Grand Junction. has.
according to the newspapers of that
city, a $4,000 breech of promise suit
on his hands.
Augustus Schlapp, J. J. Travis, Judge
/ Stewart and T B. Geer attended the
/ joint debate between John Stivers
and VIM. Weiser of Montrose just be-
fore election.
Five Routt county citizens were
fined an aggregate of about $500 last
week for killing deer. After being
arrested they confessed to shooting
/ the forbidden game.
The funeral of young Theodore Wild
ney was held from the Methodist
church last Friday afternoon, a large
concourse of sorrowing friends and
schoolmates attending in a body and
following the beir to the cemetery.
independent office has been hunch-
ed-up with tax list copy this week in
a manner to make it again little late
getting to its readers, but it won't
happen again for at least four years.
J. E Clark. wife and boy returned
Friday from Ouray, where they had
been with Mr. Clarks father, who was
and is taking hot baths for rheuma-
tism The elder Mr.. Clark is improv-
ing in health.
The coming to a city as small as
Delta with the Birth of Nation.
which will be here at the Opera house
November Goth. has created consider
able astonishment, as the photo play
has been confined heretofore to the
larger cities.
II will be several days before any
thing like complete election returns
can be had. Yesterday evening hund-
reds of precincts in some of the boubt-
reds of precincts in some of the doubt
full states had not been heard from, so
no correct summary could be made of
results.
The car shortage is still complained
of. with the statement given ont that
it is likely to become more serious,
as the movement of the corn crop has
begun. More cars are also required to
haul coal. with the setting in of win
ter. However the potato and apple
shipping will soon be over with. and
that will help some.
Dr. Bull and family. Sidney Bull
and Miss Carolyn Dewberry of Grand
Junction. Harry and Ed. Bull and fam
lilies, Mr. and Mrs. Atwood of Cedar
edge, visited at the home of Prof and
Mrs. Homberger in this city, Sunday.
Independent understands that Mr. Sid
ney Bull and Miss Dewberry are TO
wed the coming week.
In the east. where crops are short,
and prices high they voted against
Wilson. In the west. where crops are
good and prices high, they voted for
him. Here IT seems to be largely a
case of $3.50 onions and $40 spuds
Politics, as Percival Coombe would re
mark: is heterogeneous whole"
Referring to the fact. probably, that
the Republicans are in the hole.
Independent worked for the election
of its party candidates the best it
could We have not had the pleasure
of making the acquaintance of Mr..
Rule, one of the commissioners elect
ed Mr. Harshman. we have known
for some years. He is both a good
and capable man for the position of
county commissioner Friends and
acQuaintances of Mr.. Rule say as much
for him.
C. ID. Allen & Son have been making
notable improvements in their jewelrv
store equipment. Handsome ouartered
oak wall show cases adorn the sides
of the room. while glass doors add
the finishing touch of elegance to the