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Show ros who?? V--" V . ' ' - i v -..w ) .;V - k : This smiling youngster is an old-er old-er and early Deltan either way " look at it. For this picture is "mewhat past 40 years old, and ',y Pictured here was Johnnie Delta 0t ln the eSrly dayS f n?ejame here first t0 visit his cam parents. and the visit be-Prlonged be-Prlonged into a permanent iaence. Goings on in the new , n were too interesting to leave two StUt:k around- Aside from years in the northwest on an anrt.?'Ssion' and some triPs here Delta he has stayed "ght witn vevn hSS geg'ed at the first sur-can sur-can , ' 6nned at the first settlers schnni ,about the first house, 1st who 1 e' first Postoffice and Dpi.. , ted the trees around the e'ta school lots. Dict!!. ls his baby sister in the " tUre Wlt him. That is his dress she is wearing too. He still nas that baby dress and also .that dressy model he wears himse f. When he was this little fellow folks always patted him on the head and commented to his doting dot-ing parents that he was quite an improvement on the old stock. He beamed, but has been boomerang-ed boomerang-ed for as his progeny of three came along folks did the same thing to him. They would pat the chUdren's crowns and say "sure an improvement on the old stock eh That grin is still there and he still hasShis hair and teeth, which is more than some of his school mates can say. He isn't always guf Sw?ng but he laughs frequently, for he finds many things amusing "HeaTacrive fellow in a num-., num-., : doings You know him well. But " you a- not quite sure who this is, turn to page . |