The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1923-05-25
CRAWFORD

| Miss Elpa Rodstrom will stay with
Mrs. Ralph Macklin this summer.
Charlie Brewer is quite i'll from an
attack of rheumatism.
Frank and Birddie Collins were
Montrose visitors Monday.
The baby daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Dyer Elkins is very ill of intestinal
poison.
VIM. Bellmire and family are NOV
ing this week to their homestead on
Dyer Fork.
Mrs. Tede Hice and children went
visit with relatives.
John Dickerson had the misfortune
to lose his good Jersey COW from
bloat Tuesday morning.
Miss Helen Hopper will remain for
a while with Mrs. H. Y. Duetsch since
the close of her school Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Stewart spent
the week end with Clarence Atkin-
son and family on Fruitland Mesa.
Miss Myrtle Phillips spent last
week visiting her sister and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn. on Crystal Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pace came up
from Delta Monday for a few days
visit with Gordon Piburn and family.
w. L. George and family came up
from Hotchkiss Sunday and spent
the day with the w. R. Foster fam.
/ lily.
1 Ed Pitts and family of Hotchkiss
passed through Crawford Monday.
moving to their homestead on Black
/ Mesa.
Mrs. Sam Porter came up from
Hotchkiss Friday to spend a week or
so with home folks on their ranch in
Onion Valley.
| Guise Wilcoxen and family and his
brother, Jack Wilcoxen OF Hotchkiss
were guests at the E. A. Browne
home Sunday.
Lieut.-Gov. Rockwell and family
motored over to their ranch at Maher
from Paonia Saturday, returning to
Paonia the same day.
Garrett Feekes and son Johnny
came up Monday from Cedaredge to
stay a few days on Mr.. Feekes ranch
in the Clear Fork district
Frank Yarnell, Lee Truijcoli. Alden
Dove and Clayton Reigles left Sun
day for Saguache. Colo, to shear
sheep. They expect to be gone about
a month.
| Leonard Patterson and family NOV
ed Friday to the old Yough place at
Maher to look after the place until
Quint kirkpatrick is able to farm it
again.
| Miss Ida Petmecky left Sunday for
Delta. where she will care for sis
ter's young baby. while it's mother is
recovering from an operation at the
Delta hospital.
The dancers of the community and
other nearby towns enjoyed a dance
at the Missouri Flats school house
Friday night. A large crowd and a
fine time reported.
A picnic dinner given as a surprise
on the pupils and teacher Miss Helen
Hopper, Friday on the school grounds
was the closing event Of very sue
cessful term OF school.
Judge J. c. Bell. H. A. Ireland and
J. r. Brown Of Montrose gave a very
helpful and instructive talk Tuesday
afternoon on the subject OF dairying
A goodly crowd was present.
Miss Anna Shreve. one of our High
School teachers left Friday evening
for her home in Boulder. She will
visit at Colorado Springs. Denver and
other points enroute.
Professor Chas. Jandos and Mrs. J.
G. Campbell have been retained by
the school board for our next term of
school and Miss Zelma Roatcap of
PaOnia will teach on Missouri Flats.
Clair Painter and family and Mrs
Beatrice. Gibson Of Delta spent Sun
day with Jim Mcleod and family
Lyle and Genevieve Mcleod returned
home with them for 3 visit in Delta
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Reigles are
rejoicing over the arrival OF baby
girl, born to them Thursday, May IT,
The little Miss has been named Char
|,lene liberia. Mother and daughter
doing nicely.
Miss s. F. Cornwall returned to her
home in Crawford Friday after an
absence Of two months spent in st.
Louis, where she was called to the
bedside Of her brother, Fred Corn.
wall in his last illness.
Carl Simmons and family and Perry
McMurry and family spent Sunday
with Will Cowley and family at
Spring Gulch. Mrs. Cowley and chill
dren returned home with them for a
few days visit with relatives.
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