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Show 40 YEARS AGO . . , From the Files.... DELTA The carpenters have nearly finished fin-ished up their work on the lower floor of the Hoteil Delta. The new furniture of the hotel is arriving arriv-ing and is being put in place as fast as room can be made for it. Mr. Cooper expects to give a turkey tur-key dinner next Sunday as a house warming. John Jimpson and D. A. Bunker of Salt Lake City, among the first land buyers in West Delta, were in town last week. They own 240 acres in section 4 which were all cleared three years ago. They were among the unfortunates who lost out the first two years, but they have never lost faith in the country. coun-try. Their 'faith has been justified this year when from the part of their land that was cropped in grain they threshed 1955 bushels of wheat, 850 bushels of. oats, and 100 bushels of rye. Another harvest har-vest will put them to the good and their experience is that of doz ens of other farmers on the west side. S. W. Eccles has Cuhipleted his new bake oven and is now turning turn-ing out all sorts of bakery products. pro-ducts. T. C. Gronning, our new blacksmith, black-smith, has been kept so busy since he located himself on the lot he purchased from Dr. Dryden that he has not had time to finish his shop. He evidently fills a long felt want and though his wife says he hardly stops long enough to eat his meals, he's a week behind be-hind on his work. Mr. Gronning is not only an all round blacksmith, black-smith, but is an experienced machinist mach-inist as well, and can fix up boilers, boil-ers, engines and any kind of machinery. mach-inery. Although he just came 'from Oregon he is an old Millard County boy, having been raised in Scipio and his parents still live there. Job Riding, who has been over in Sevier County for the past month, came over for a couple of days last week with some land buyers. E. J. Ednay and N. H. Folsom are the latest new-comers to Delta. They drove all the way from Green River, Utah, with their families fam-ilies and outfits. They were eleven days on the trip. Their farms are southeast of town . People on the west side don't spent all of their time working, but enjoy themselves in social intercourse in-tercourse as well. Mr. and Mrs. Denver Smith entertained the Watts and Albro families at their Thanksgiving dinner, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Munster had Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman Clarks' family over ov-er for a similar occasion. There was also another very' enjoyable party at J. J. Clark's a short time ago, about 40 people were present and music and dancing made the time pass very quickly and pleasantly. pleas-antly. HINCKLEY Chas. Burkey and Joseph W. Blake have been busy the past week or two getting signatures to a petition to the county commissioners commis-sioners for a new county road. It is to extend straight north of Hinckley Hin-ckley for a distance of thirteen miles making the timber and wood east of the hot springs easily accessible ac-cessible to the people of Hinckley and the west side. It is also asked that a road be extended from this new road along the telephone line to the Delta bridge. This will be a short cut to Hinckley for the people of west Delta. A right of w.ay has been promised by the far-' mers and the Delta company for sufficient land for the proposed road. Two small bridges will be needed on the north road one on the east. AFHAHAM The editor took a trip over to Abraham this week and found everybody ev-erybody feeling cheerful.There was a fair hay crop this season and the 'biggest alfalfa seed crop that was ever raised around Abraham There was twice as much raised this year as last and the heaviest yield per acre ever known. N. Bliss is nearly through threshing and will have about 1200 bushels of seed. O. M. Fullmer had about 650 bushels of grain and will have a good crop o'l seed. The social event of the season was the farewell reception to John Fullmer, held in the meeting house on November 16th. Mr. Fullmer, a young man with an excellent standing in the community, goes on a mission to Australia. The reception re-ception was attended by nearly everyone in the settlement, and the occasion was enlived with songs, recitations and speeches. Re freshments were served and the event closed with a dance. A donation don-ation of $54 was raised which shows that the people of Abraham are a generous lot. An interesting sporting event pulled off in Abraham was the snipe hunt upon which J. Van Ev-era Ev-era Jr. was taken by a number of the hoys. He, was taken out several miles in the desert one night and left to watch the sack while the boys rounded .up the snipe. After waiting several hours he returned, to camp where the boys told him the snipes were running that night. It was a valuable experience for the young man from Michigan. W. S. Taylor has just moved into in-to the large brick house he recently recent-ly purchased from Mr. Seaman. Chas. Hogan, who has been occupying oc-cupying the house, has moved on to his farm northwest of town. |