The Delta independent., 1916-12-08

comes but once year.
The Montrose Press announces that
Delta is soon to have fine new depot.
built along the lines of architecture
of the splendid d. & r. G. station at
Montrose
Independent understands that a
change is being made whereby the big
hardware firm of Stockham Bros. &
Company will read after the first of
the year, The Stockham Hardware
company
Mrs NJ. G. Estes and Master Gordon
were passengers the first of last week
for their home in Battle Mountain.
Nevada. after an extended visit with
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Cade. of Garnet mesa.
Born. Saturday. December End TO
Mr., and Mrs. c. Z. Blaine, of this city,
a fine baby boy. weight Sla pounds
The young man is to bear his fathers
name and will be known as Charles
Edmond Blaine, Jr. Parents and baby
are reported to be doing fine.
The weather. which had reached al
most summers mildness up to We'd
nesday. suddenly switched to cold in
the evening of that day and a light
snow fell not enough however. to
cover the ground at Delta Yesterday
was clear and sufficiently mild for the
beet haulers to get in a good day.
Christmas night will be the occasion
of the Fireman's Annual Ball in Delta.
heretofore regarded as the top-notch
social feature of the season. II will
ed in cattle and ranch investments
the Delta fire laddies will appreciate
your presence and exert themselves as
on all former occasions to show you
good time.
Delta Lodge No. 1885, b p. o. E
held its lodge of sorrow at its hall. Sun.
day night. There was the usual large
attendance at this most touching cere-
mony which Elk's lodges annually hold
in respect to the memory of departed
brothers. This lodge of sorrow is one
of the most beautiful ceremonies of
any ritualistic order.
The Delta Hardware company is the
first to install one of those winking
electric signs. The new innovation
stands out prominently at the corner
of Third and Main. and the lettering
is the word Hardware" BY special
apparatus the lights burn for a NOM
ent and then fade away, coming back
on again as quickly as they disappear.
occurred recently following an opera
tion for stomach trouble at St Mary's
hospital in Grand Junction, the North
Fork part of the county loses one of
its staunchest citizens. Mr.. Roeber
was one of the best known men in the
county. He had been largely interest |
ed inc attic and ranch investments. |
but of late years, during which his |
health had been gradually failing. his |
business had been entirely left with |
his sons. Deceased was 40 years of |
age when the Death Angel called.
The filmed report of the Illinois
senatorial MISUNDERSTANDING commit
tee. "The Little Girl Next Door was
attacked in Chicago by Alderman
Buck, who was answered by Rev. II. p.
Boynton. pastor of the woodlawn Bap-
tist church, who said in sermon:
There is no blunder of the human
race more monumentally foolish than
the cowardly silence in the matters of
sex 1t is almost entirely due to this
silence and reticence that the foul
creatures known as panderers and
white slavers flourish. II ever so
cial attitude were utterly discredited
1t is this old fashioned false modesty
that even now cries out against such
an expose as that. of the Little Girl
Next Door. The picture is undoubted-
ly the most daring expose of the traf-
fic in girls that has ever been filmed.
At opera house. December 16. Mat
inee In afternoon. Women and girls