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The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
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NJ. L. Beard and A. L. Reynolds
left for Denver Monday.
Miss Edna Wenger left Monday for
Denver to attend school.
Dave Cole spent Sunday afternoon
{ in Hotchkiss visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. C. Hall took dinner
at the w. l.. Miller home Sunday
A L. Reynolds is shipping another
load of hogs to Denver this week.
Miss Ruth Ferguson returned to
her school work at La Sale. Colorado
last week
Miss Grace Hazlett of Paonia.
teacher at Central school came to
Eckert last week expecting to go on
with her school work
Miss Clara Monlux went to Cedar
edge Sunday to spend the week with
her sister, Mrs. Ted Jones.
reported Tuesday morning. They are
reparted Tuesday morning. They are
Johnnie and Otho Kissenger
Mr.. S. B. Hartman and son return
ed to their home in Hotchkiss Sunday
after spending several days looking
after their cattle.
Miss Halle Wenger left for Wash
ington, D. c.. Monday morning where
she will commence work in the War
Risk department.
The High school and central school
did not open Monday as was expected
on account of the flu being worse.
Five cases have been reported this
week They are Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Kissinger and three children, Kath-
leen, Ruby and Neland- We are glad
to report that the cases are very light
and all are doing enicly
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
INSIGNIA, CURTAINS,
MADE FROM SKIRTS

Blue broadcloth skirts used for or
gnnization Insignia and plaid summer
dresses reconstructed into window cur
tains are after war economies OF the
nine Y. w. c. A. secretaries In Arch
angel, Russia.
These secretaries have just succeed.
ed. In the face of food and cloth short
ages. In opening Y. w. c. A. Hostess
House for American troops stationed
in Archangel. town behind the allied
lines. 1t was necessary to hunt up .
volle summer dress which one Of the
secretaries had discarded for heavy
winter clothes In order to have cur
tnlns at the windows. They live on
regulation army rations.
Archangel is the fourth city In Rus
sia where the Y. w. C. A. has estab-
lished work. Centers were opened
first In Petrograd and Moscow and
then In Samnrn, 900 miles eastward
from Moscow.
Miss Elizabeth Boics, head of Rus
sian work and one Of the few Ameri.
ems who remained In that country
throughout the revolution. is en- route
to Americn by way of England to re-
cruit workers for Russia.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17

the above named plaintiff in tho
County Court of Delta County. State
of Colorado, and answer the COM
plaint therein within twenty days af-
ter the service hereof, if served with
in this County; or, If served out of
this County. or by publication. with
in thirty days after the service here
of, exclusive of the day of service;
or judgment by default will be taken
against you according to the prayer OF
the complaint. And if a copy of the
complaint in the above entitled action
be not served with this summons, or il
the service hereof be made out of this
State, then ten days additional to the
time hereinbefore specified for ap-
pearance and answer will be allowed
before the taking of judgment by de-
fault as aforesaid.
The said action is brought to fore
close a certain mortgage deed exc
cuted and delivered by defendant
Irene Barnes to defendant Carl
Doughty dated December 90, 1910, for
$225. which note was sold and assign
ed to plaintiff and which mortgage
conveyed to secure said debt Lots l
and 2 in Block 2, Fairview subdivi-
sion of the Town of Delta. Colorado,
on which note. interest has been paid
to March 90. 1916, and no longer; and
on which note there is now due the
sum OF S2SS95 with interest at 10 per
per cent annum: $50 attorney fees for
foreclosing said mortgage; to have re
ceiver appointed for the rents, issues
and profits of said premises; for de-
ficiency judgment against defendants,
Irene Barnes, Carl Doughty. B. K
Simpson, Hattie Boyd to bar and fore
close all right. title, interest, lien and
claim of each and all of said defend
ants and for general relief. as will
more fully appear from the complaint
in said action to which reference is
here made, a copy of which is here
to attached.
And you are hereby notified that if
| you fail to appear. and to answer the
said complaint as above required. the
said plaintiff will have your default
entered by the clerk and will apply
to the court for the relief therein de-
manded.
Given under my hand and seal as
attorney for plaintiff at my office az
Delta. Colorado, in said County, this
| 3Oth day of October. A. D. 1918.
| (Seal) MILLARD FAIRLANIB,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First pub. Dec. 81, Is; last Jan II, IL
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
Notice of Foreclosure Sale.

Notice is hereby given that pursu-
ant to judgment and decree of the
District Court of Delta County. Colo
RADIO, rendered on the fourth day OF
January. 1919. in a cause therein
pending in which Mrs. William Helm
ke is plaintiff and Napoleon Lambert
and Marie E. Lambert are defendants,
| am commanded to sell the property
hereinafter described to pay the
amount of the said judgment. to-wit:
Twenty-Five Hundred Eighty-four Dol
lars and Ninety Cents. and costs and
expenses of sale, | will on the First
day Of February. 1919. at ten o'clock
in the forenoon at the South front
door OF the County Court House. IN
the City of Delta, Delta County. C9to-
RADIO. offer for sale at public auction
and sell to the highest bidder for cash
the following described lands, prem
ises and water rights. to-wit:
The East half Of the Northwest
Quarter of the Southeast Quarter Of
Section Thirty-six. in Township Thir-
teen. South. Range Ninety-five West
of the Sixth Principal Meridian. In
Delta County. Colorado. containing
Twenty acres more or less, together
with Ten Shares of the capital stock
OF the Lake Fork Ditch company and
all ditch and water rights used in the
irrigation Of the said land
NJ. A. DAVIS. Sheriff.
First pub. Jan. 10: last Jan 81. 1919.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
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MESSAGE TOY. w. C. A. FRO
FRANCE.

must express to you IT,
4 very great satisfaction and mo
4 sincere gratitude of the Frenc
4 Government for the service rem
4 dered to the women working in
4 Government factories through
4 the establishment of Y. w. c. A
4 Foyers des Aliiees (clubrooms
4 for munitlonettes).
4 These foyers have been an ex-
4 cellent means for bettering the
\ physical conditions and the mo-
+ rale of our workers. They have
+ been constantly used by the wo-
+ men workers. who have found
r there new elements of dignity
+ and social education.
must thank you for bringing
4 this TO pass, and I hope that
Y. W. C. A. work will not disap-
4 pear with the war. but will be
+ carried on in order to develop
4 tie principles OF social solidar-
4 NY which Ii has inspired.
r (Signed) NJ LOUCHFR.
4 Minister of Arms and NUM-
4 tions Manufacture
+ + 4 + 4 4 + r + r r + + r - + r
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
RUSSIAN PRINCESSES
LEARN TO TRIM HATS
Y. w. G. A. Saves Wife Of General
From Becoming charwoman.


From Becoming char~oman.
When the war work of the Y. w. c.
A. In Russia has all been told one of
the most interesting stories will lie In
the establishment of the first women's
Cooperative Association at Moscow.
There day nfter day princesses work
side by side with peasant girls, wives
of high Russian officials make dresses
or trim hats at long tables with simple,
unlettered women. and the money is
used for self support of these prin-
cesses and notable women rs well as
for the peasant classes.
The need and suffering throughout
all Russia was so great ut the time
the Association was established that
II WIS a problem to find where the
money would help the greatest num-
Der of people. It was thought best to
expend II to help capitalize organIza-
tons for giving work and permanent
opportunities to families and individu-
ais to earn their own living.
The women bring their han,liwork
to the Association for sale or take or
ders to do dressmaking, millinery, etc,
in the rooms OF the society or at home.
Suitable work was found just In time
not long ago to keep the wife OF one of
H'ssim's greatest generals. rror, going
out M chnrwoMnn to earn l.rcad for
her husband. who was III.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
Y. w. c. A. CAFETERIA
IN PORTO RICO

Porto Rico has cafeteria II is the
first one established on the island, and
when 1t was opened In the Y. w. c. A
Hostess House AT Camp Las Casas the
natives crowded around. much amused
at the Innovation. They insisted upon
having American dishes.
The house became very well known
in short time. and group of women
from San Juan volunteered to go out
every week to mend socks and sew on
buttons for the soldiers.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
Notice of Hearing of Petition to Sell
Real Estate.

Notice of Hearing of Petition to Sell
Real Estate.
State of Colorado, County of Delta, IS:
In the County Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Louisa
J. Landers, deceased.
The People of the State of Colo
RADIO. to H. D. Perry. ]. H. Murphy.
J. NJ Perry Minnie Marrish, Milford
J. Perry, Ada johnson LaRogue; Lii
lian Johnson and James Johnson and
persons in interest in said Estate,
Greeting:
You are hereby notified that on
this 23rd day of November, A d.
1918. Harvey d. Perry. Administrator
of said estate, presented to and filed
in this Court his petition for the sale
of certain real estate belonging to
said estate ana situate in the County
of Delta and State of Colorado, more
fully described in said petition, refer
ence to which is hereby made
1st. South Half of Southeast Quar-
ter of Northwest QlArter of South
ship Is. South of Range 95 West of
9th P. NJ.
Lots IL and IL in Block of Nc
Murray's Subdivision of the Town,
now City of Delta, Colorado.
You are further notified to appear
and answer and otherwise plead to
said Petition in writing on or before
the 9th day of January A. D. 1919.
the day set for the hearing thereof
or on or before the day to which such
hearing may be adjourned. or said
Petition will be taken for confessed.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Court at Delta in the County
of Delta and State of Colorado. this
2Srd day of November. A d. 1915
tSEAL) ADAIR ]. HOTCHKISS.
Judge and Acting Clerk of the Couu-
ty Court of Delta County, Colorado.
The hearing IN said estate on said
Petition to Sell Real Estate is hereby
adjourned to Monday. the Gath day Of
February A. d. 1919, at 10 O'Clock
a. m.
(SEAL) ADAIR j. HOTCHKISS.
Clerk OF the County Court
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
A ,ecoud =. ". q. A Hos,e,, uov

A second Y. W. G. A. Hostess House,
for wives and children of soldiers, Is
soon to be opened AT Castner, Oahu,
Hawaiian Island, TO care for the over.
now OF women and children from the
first house. which opened some mouths
ago In answer to Gull from the COM
manding officer Of the camp.
During 10 days In November 2,i5c
visitors were entertained at the house,
INCLUDING women and children, Of the
following natlonnlities; Philipplno, Ha-
waiian, Portuguese. Spanish. Russian,
Porto Rican. kurvan. Japanese md
American,
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
Notice Of Final Settlement.

Estate Of W. E. Obert. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that on the
third day OF February, A. D. 1919. the
undersigned will present to the Coun-
ty Court Of Delta County, Colorado,
her accounts for final settlement Of
administration of said estate when
and where all persons in interest may
appear and object to them. il they SO
desire.
MINNIE f. oBERT. Executrix
First pub Jan. 10: last Jan. 81. 1919
The Delta independent., 1919-01-17
Summons.

State of Colorado. County OF Delta. SIS,
In the County Court.
The Colorado State Bank. corpora.
tion, plaintiff, VS.. Irene Barnes. Carl
Doughty, b, X. Simpson. Hattie Boyd,
Gibson Lumber 4 Mercantile Co. Il
corporation. and Mrs. L. L. Stafford.
defendants.-SUMMO
The People OF the State of Colorado,
to Irene Barnes. Carl Doughty. r. X
Simpson. Hattie Boyd. Gibson Lum.
her & Mercantile Company. n corpora,
tion, and Mrs. L. l.. Stafford, the de.
PENDANTS above named. GREETING:
You are hereby required to appear
In an action brought against you by
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
LATEST NEWS BY WIRE
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

March The
qure all
ports from frontier.
Quinones
for
ma
COPENHAGEN March 3nmPoyed wokmen and communists nun ,. o.
a
go mtoe ene
The
decision to a
Paris
half dozen gee aI % GaL %
of and "a
March strike by hInor wohsis
the
ersaG practical sou'ion VIII
Ponpifcal in honor
yeret today
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
ENEMY SHOULD PAY
24 BILLION POUNDS,
CONFEREES REPORT
France Demands Immediate
Payment of One Billion Pounds
Part in Gold
Ru Associated Press,

81 ASSOCtuteQ fTcSS.
PARIS, March 3.-The peace con-
ference committee on reparation has
estimated that twenty-four billion
pounds is the amount which the en-
emy countries ought to pay the allies
and associated powers, says a Havas
agency statement today. France, adds
the statement, demands immediate
payment by the enemy of one billion
pounds, part in gold, part in mater
ials and part in foreign securities,
recommending that the remainder of
the amount be payable in a period of
from twenty-five to thirty-five years.
The question of the left bank of
the Rhine will figure in the prelimi-
nary peace treaty according to the
Paris edition of the London Daily
Mail. In certain questions it adds
there is serious consideration of the
formation of an independent German
republic on the left bank of the
Rhine. The Allies, it said, would
continue to hold the present bridge
heads along .,, t, e'e ~ "til Germany
sueps hurusta anG Gla..ddlesse .see bl5a oay9sAr-
Drost. Edpa gssee on reparaion, tnt
and IiIliesys Germany will have TO pay
Messrs.@n sum beosre the end OF 1917
Larson Lar ~enty to thirty years The AL
powers will decide on measures
. supply Germany with raw niateri-
ais and the manner in which COM
mercial relations will be resumed.
All these questions the Daily Mail
continues, will be settled at one ses-
sion of the supreme council after the
return of President Wilson.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
BIZ Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, March 3:-Senator
Vardaman, of Mississippi, chairman
OF the senate manufacturing commit
tee, today inserted in the CongresSion-
al Record n statement of the commit
tees investigation of the anthracite
coal situation, charging that produe-
ton of anthracite coal in the United
States Is controlled by eight large
transportation companies which
through an almost complete mono
poly were able to fix prices and deter
mine the rate Of production.
Chairman Vardaman explained
that the committee was unable TO
present it's report at this time as not
all of the testimony taken in hearings
in Washington and the Pennsylvania
coal fields had been printed. He
added. however, that he had gather
ed together certain facts" which he
trusted would be OF help 20 the next
congress in dealing with the anthra-
city coal question.
Shortage of anthracite during the
war and the existing high prices for
the commodity, he said, were due al
most entirely TO monopolistie control.
Transportation corporations control
ling production I'm the Pennsylvania
fields-the only source of marketable
anthracite in North America-were
named in Senator Vardaman's state
ment as follows:
The Reading (the holding COM
pany Of Philadelphia and Reading
coal and Iron Company and the Jer-
sey Central which in turn own all OF
the stock OF the Lehigh and Wilkes
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
instructions to Voters of Wood
bridge Township As to Com
mission Government

The election to decide whether COM
mission form of government shall sue
ceed the present system in Wood
bridge township will be held on
March IL. Instructions to those who
will vote for or against this measure
have been issued by Township Clerk
Andrew Keyes. they being as follows:
Votes may be cast between the
hours of A. NJ. and z p. M. All
citizens, twenty-one years Of age, or
over. who have resided one year in
this state. five months in Middlesex
county and now reside in the town.
ship of Woodbridge may vote under
the conditions prescribed hereafter.
All who registered for the general
election of 1918 and voted at that
election and who have not changed
their place of residence may vote
without further action. All of those
who registered for the general cleo
ton in November, 1918. and did not
vote, and did not change their ad-
dress since they registered, may vote
without further action. All those who
registered for the general election in
1918 and since moved, whether they
voted or not in 1918, will have to
register in the polling place where
they now reside. All those who did
not register and who may not have
been entitled in 1918 to vote by rea-
son of age or residence and who are
now so entitled under the general
election act, can register in their re-
spective polling places on March 4
between the hours of 3 and 8 p. NJ.
All discharged soldiers and sailors
who were not registered for the gen.
eraI election in 1918 will have to
register. All discharged soldiers and
sailors who sent their ballots by mail
at the general election in 1918, who
were not registered, must register. All
soldiers and sailors now In service
and not in Woodbridge township on
election day, March II, will have TO
send their ballots 10 the secretary OF
state who will forward them to the
proper destination. All resident SOL
diers and sailors who are unable 10
register on March 4 are entitled to
vote on March II.
ANDREW KEYES.
Township Clerk.
22s6-2-25-S-i-s
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
Senator Today Shows How
Transportation Companies
Have Grip On Situation

Barre Company. the Lehigh Valley.
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, the Delaware and Hudson. the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany (Which owns and controls the
Lehigh and New England), the Erie,
and the New York, Ontario and
Western.
Although controlling seventy-two
per cent of the actual production OF
anthracite the statement asserted the
eight companies had made II impossi-
BILE for Independent operators TO com
pete with them on any fair basis.
The large corporations were
charged by Senator Nardaman with
maintaining the sale price Of coal
through publication OF circular
prices" These prices, the statement
said, were put out by the Reading
Company and were the law of the
business"
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
sherman Opposes League.

(Associdted Press Correspondence.)
WASHINGTON. March 3-The con-
stitution of the league of nations as
presented at the peace conference was
pictured TO the senate today by Sen
ator sherman of Illinois, Republican,
as n ''Pandora's box full of evil"
which would empty upon the AM
erican people the aggregated calami-
ties OF the world"
Senator sherman sharply criticized
President Wilson asking who author
lied him" to rear above the republic
any autocratic power" He added that
the authority was not DO be found in
the constitution of the United States
nor was it implied from underlined oral
powers and gave IL as his opinion that
the president had been acting either
''as a usurper or a dictator"
'Shall we not ask with the drama
tists," the senator said, Now in
the name of all the gods at once upon
what does this Caesar feed that he has
grown so create
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
ECGERT OUT Of
CUSTOMS HOUSE;
REGAN IN PLACE
No Explanation Given as to
Change --Regan Refuses Any
Information

Deputy Collector of Customs George
w. Eggert is out of his office in the
customs house and James Regan of
New York has been assigned here to
take his place, temporarily. Mr.. Eg-
CERT left the office on Thursday last.
No explanation has been forthcom-
ing as to the change. Mr.. Regan
when seen this morning. refused TO
volunteer any information, referring
all questions to Special Deputy Col
lector- Stewart of New York. Mr..
Regan's only answer was to the erect
that he was here temporarily to take
Mr.. Eggert's place and could say
nothing more.
Mr.. Stewart when called on the
wire today, said that the collector
could not answer any questions about
the matter at the present time.
To each question that was aksed
him he replied with the same answer,
"the collector can't discuss that now"
When asked if Mr.. Eggert had re-
signed, he said the same as he did
when asked IL it was true that Mr..
Eggert had been forced out under
charges. He replied with the same
answer when asked how long Mr..
Regan would be in Office here.
1t iS common rumor about the city
that Mr.. Eggert is out under charges
of 'irregularity in Office" II Is said
on good authority that he has been
given eight days in which to answer
these charges. He could not be found
this morning to deny or affirm this
rumor.
There has been no specific offense
mentioned in connection with the ru-
NOR except that Mr.. Eggert had been
engaged in a ship chandlery business.
Mr.. Eggert through a lengthy conver-
his desk in the collectors Office this
morning. He said that he only know
Mr.. Eggert through a legnthy conver-
sation he had with him last Thurs
day and that he wants TO make as
many friends as possible while here.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-03
WILL PAY 4,179
CLAIMS SOON,
MORE LATER
Supplemental Report From
Board for Additional Claims is
Included in Bill

WASHINGTON, March 3-The
Scully bill appropriating S114,Sl3.5S
to pay 4,179 claims for damage ac-
casioned by the explosion at Morgan
on October 4, which passed the House
of Representatives on Friday, was re-
ported to the senate Saturday after
noon.
A supplemental report from the
ordnance claims board, which reached
Washington late Friday afternoon.
making provision for the payment or
additional $50 claims amounting to
$137,292.91, was included in the Soul
!, ly bill in the senate by Senator Mar
! tin. chairman of the appropriations
committee at the urgent request OF
, Congressman SculIy. This will enable
the claims board, who now have the
authority to pay claims amounting to
81, ,120, ,317.15.
Will Issue Vouchers March IS
The first of the three measures de-
signed to pay damage claims received
the signature of President Wilson on
February 25, according to information
given out by the ordnance claims board
which has its offices in this city. The
board now has the money with which
to pay these claims. A special vouch-
ler to be passed by congress Will De
necessary to pay the claims. These
vouchers, 1t is believed, will be sent
out to claimants on or about March
15 in the order in which claims were
made. They will be returned to the
board and after suitable investigation
by the board. checks are to be sent to
the claimants.
No word has reached this city yet
as to the signing of any measure that
will allow of payment of further
claims. The board has about COM
pleted its appraisal of property
claims. the force has been cut in half
and is changing its personnel to meet
new conditions.
Further appropriations will be
brought before the next congress TO
pay claims which could not be or
were not filed in time for the first
measure.
To Consider Death Claims
A board to determine amounts due
on claims for personal injury and
death in connection with the explo-
sions and resulting fires at the Il. A.
Gillespie plant at Morgan, consisting
of Colonel c. II. Tenney. ordnance
department; II. NJ. North, a member
of the ordnance claims board, and
Major w. X. Peasley. ordnance de-
par-tment, has been appointed under
date of February 20 Ito consider. as
certain and determine the amount
due on all claims for personal injury
and death of parties not employees OF
the United States occasioned by the
explosion and resulting fires october
4. s and at the plant of the Y. A.
Gillespie Company at Morgan, N. j.,
and to report the amounts SO ascer-
tained and determined TO be due the
claimants"
First Lieutenant Lewis Lively has
been assigned TO the local office as
disbursing officer. starting his duties
today.