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Show 40 YEARS AGO ... From the Files .... DELTA In one week Knight & Marshall have put up Ward's livery stable nnd it is now ready or occupancy. It took them just thirty-eight days from the time the first nail was driven in the Hotel Delta until the Coopers were serving their first meal there. They are certainly hustlers. hus-tlers. They are now putting up a frame building on their lot next to A. C. Sorenson's, but we have ' been unable to learn what it is to be used for. Delta ward is having special services in the meeting house on Christmas forenoon. They desire to extend a special invitation to (he people of west Delta to come over and join them on this occasion. occas-ion. They will not only give them an enjoyable entertainment, they will Kive a Christmas dinner to all who have no relatives or friends with whom they expect to stop. No one is to be a stranger on this occasion, so everyone come. Rev. Geo. W. Martin of Manti and C. H. Hamilton, of Gunnison, two Presbyterian ministers, were in town last week looking into the religious situation here. A bank, financed by eastern capital, and a lumber yard by Colorado people, are two new en-tornrises en-tornrises that will probably be in operation in Detla at an early day. Our mail service south is certainly certain-ly bum. It is carried north to Salt Lake on the midnight train to be carried back the next day. The Chronicle, which is put into the Delta office Thursday morning, reaches Hinckley, five miles away, Saturday at noon. We surely will be glad when the depot is finished and a south-bound day train stops here. NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS The editor learns that the ten cars of alfalfa seed, valued at $50,000, have been shipped from Oasis this season, and there will probably be that much more when the last threshing is over. Henry Huff and sons are the largest single sin-gle shippers. Their output amounted amount-ed to 48,000 pounds. From 19 acres of land Henry Huff threshed 328 bushels of seed - about 17 bushels per acre. The most surprising yield we have heard of is that of James Ide, who tells us he threshed 110 bushels from four acres - - 21 y bushels per acre - - 138 bushels from an adjoining eight acres.Men to whom this story is told say they are from Missouri - - they would like tn have the field measured and see the thresher's record. ' Seed is bringing from' 10 to 12 . cents a pound - - the latter figure ' being paid by Dan Black, buyer for Blackman & Griffin Co. of Ogden. Og-den. This is for first-class seed. Milton Moody has also been a buyer. The stork kept Dr. Broaddus quite busy Sunday night, as before midnight he had left a ten-pound girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Skeem, of Oasis, and before morning another red-headed little boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Terry, of Hinckley. DEATH OF ROA KELLY ERICKSON A shadow of gloom was cast over Deseret last week when it was learned that Roa Kelly, wife of Hiram Erickson, was dead at, Provo. She was taken down sud- denly on Monday, Nov. 27, with , pleura-pneumonia, former attacks of which had left her susceptible to the disease She passed aw- j ay at 7:30 Dec. 5. Her body was prepared for burial and brought down to Deseret on Thursday and the funeral took place from the meeting house Friday afternoon. The church was crowded with the sorrowing relatives and friends of the deceased, and the casket was banked with flowers, a mute tribute tri-bute from the many who loved her. The deceased would have been 30 years old the 3rd of next January, and was a bride of only a few weeks, having been married to Hiram Hi-ram Erickson on the 15th of last October. |