The Delta independent., 1922-05-05
CRAWFORD
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Miss Laura Lamb is absent from
school this week owing to illness.
Most of the cattlemen are turning
out cattle on the range this week.
Harry Gingrich has been working
on the Hartman flume the past week
The farmers are very busy putting
in crops and garden this fine weather.
DR.. Haley and wife of Paonia were
dinner guests of VIM. Fluke and wife
Sunday.
Walter Head and Earl Seiversstook
load of potatoes each to Paonia
Saturday.
Mrs Martin Collins and son Albert
paid visit to the dentist in Hotch-
kiss Friday.
Tede Taylor of Hotchkiss helped
drive a bunch of cattle Monday for
Charlie Ray.
Monday with Miss Martha Roberts of
Delta as teacher.
Charlie Peterson came in from Pal
isade last week to stay a while with
his brother Howard.
Mrs. Mabel Nulph who taught the
Maher school left Saturday for her
home in Naturita.
Mrs. Claudia Eiberts and baby of
Cebolla are visiting her aunt Mrs.
Rose Sutton and family.
| C H. Allyn turned a bunch OF five
or six hundred steers in the Lee Saw
age pasture Saturday.
| John Finch of Cressett, Arkansas,
friend OF the Leslie Savage family,
came in Sunday for an indefinite visit.
George Busby and family were din
ner guests at the Gordon Piburn home
Sunday. the occasion being Gordon's
birthday.
Mrs. Sanford Collins returned home
Friday from Hotchkiss where she was
called Monday by the death of her
brother.
| The Crawford Oddfellows entertain
ed the Rebekah's at a luncheon last
| Tuesday night, a very pleasant even
ing was spent.
We are glad to report Anna Fettin
ger, who was operated on about two
weeks ago for appendicitis is getting
along real we'll.
The young men and women of the
| Onion Valley community met at the
school grounds Sunday and enjoyed a
basket ball game,
The w. o. w gave another dance
Friday night which was decided sue
cess in every way and royal good
time enjoyed by all.
The Maher school closed Friday.
! In the evening a program taken from
Mother Goose stories was given which
| was splendid and much enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Duetsch motor.
ed to Paonia. Mrs. Duetsch' mother
Mrs Davis and Mrs Alex Hefley OF
Paonia returned with them for a visit
w, H. Tuttle. wife and children
were up from Hotchkiss Sunday look
ing over their ranch at Maher. They
| took dinner at the Charlie Frey home
The Junior Epworth League enjoy.
ed a picnic up on the Clipper ditch
near the Mitchell ranch Sunday The
children were chaperoned by Mrs
Gregg.
| The snow is melting very fast In
the hills and the streams get higher
every day. II hot weather comes on
and high winds prevail the outlook is
| Eoou very WatCi SpI ihS
Leslie Savage and friend Mr.. Finch
matored to Montrose Monday. They
were accompanied as far as Delta by
Mrs. VIM. Kirkpatrick and Will j.
I Wood and little son Jay.
| Mrs. Hattie Rumble returned home
Monday from caring for Mrs. Cooper
who has been very i'll of erysipelas
| l,,,& t. fv,,r ut,
Her sister-in-law Anna Bell Cooper is
helping her now.
| Grandma McKissen came up Sun
day from Hotchkiss where she has
been visiting her daughter Mrs. Tede
Taylor and other relatives. She will
visit with her son Jim and family
here.
large crowd Monday, nearly all the
voters in the district present. Swan
Linman was elected Secretary and
Dyer Elkins. treasurer. The ballot
was as follows: Linman 1903: A. NJ
Axtell 20; Elkins 81; VIM. Den Beste
49,
Earl Mcknight, the twenty year old
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Mcknight
who live on the Cottonwood was op
Grated on last Thursday at the Delta
hospital for a kind of tumor in his
right side. The young man is doing
as we'll as can be expected. His
mother who has been with him re,
turned home Monday.
May and Marsh OF Delta are busy
painting and renovating the residence
OF Frank Drexel. Jr., in Crawford
Mr.. Drexel purchased the place from
Grandma Stoner and we suppose ere
long wedding bells will be ringing