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Show vast amount of business being done thru the local station of the Salt Lake Route and this is evidence evi-dence of progression of which the "Greater" Delta Country is now enjoying a large amountand which it will continue to do as the time has come when we will go ahead at a very rapid rate, and we expect to have to soon Chronicle the installation of an additional force at the station and elsewhere. Robert Martin of Orange, Cali., came in the first of the week with a car of household goods. F. W. Aller went to Roy Thursday of last week where he purchased a car of mixed fruit for distribution on the tract. Miss. Noami Crosby, a graduate grad-uate of the L. D. S. Hospital, of Salt Lake is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. M. Steele, Sr. Mrs. Hattie Balm and Mrs. Murry Balm of Beaver came Monday to visit their sister, Mrs. Zina Gray. Peaches and cream must be plentiful in this vicinity now as the Farmers' Union and Jenkins Bros, received a car each the last of last week and Aller & Co. got in a car Wednesday. John Law of Orange, Cali., arrived ar-rived in Delta the first of the week with a car of household goods and stock and will take up his residence on a piece of land two miles northwest of Sugarviile Sugar-viile which he recently 'acquired of the Delta Land & Water Co. J. H. Edwards, who has a farm near W odrow and who lives at Gunnison but whose boys are running the farm here came over the first of the week to attend at-tend to business matters. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters and they -t came in the Edwards car. Walter Roberts and Wm. Jackson, Jack-son, of Monroe, Sevier, county, who recently purchased land on the Midland tract are expected here today to take up their residences resi-dences on their land. They are driving thru and are accompanied by another party whose name we are unable to learn and who expects ex-pects to purchase land. , There was considerable good done in the way of cleaning things up in Delta on Labor Day, and those in charge of the arrangements ar-rangements are deserving of much credit. Yet if they had been lent more support a great deal more good could have been dene. There is yet a good deal the property owner could do with a little exertion on his part, that would make the town look more inviting and enhance the values of their holdings if indulged in and followed up. Mrs. Frank Beckwith and daughters Athena and Florence and son Frank left last Tuesday i moring for Salt Lake where they . will remain for the winter and the children attend school. Paps Beckwith will open batchlei quarters for the winter but we , will venture to say that he didn'1 go into winter quarters in the . real sence of the word. We I would like to show him the towr once now btt that's out of the question now. ) Owing to the fact that some , legal proceedings were taker against the disposal by the courts of Colorado of the sugar factory in the San Luis valley, the pur chasers of the plant who were tc be here last week to investigate ; the location here, with the ides r of moving the factory, have beei delayed until the matter is set 1 tied. It is thot, however, thai these people will arrive here t within the coming week. 1 Two cars of emigrant goods 1 and stock came in the last of las' week from Santa Ana, Cali., th , property of the Finch family whe , have purchased land near Sugar ville where they will take u , their residence. These people - have purchased a considerable : amount of land all in the same ; vicinity and expect to build i home on it for themselves. Thej ? are well equipped for their worl and we extend to them, as to al . others, a hearty welcome. Ir p the family are the mother . daughter and three sons, John , Alfred and Raymond. : The Salt Lake Route has pu: on another operator at the De!t i station whose name is F. E, 1 Stalei. This step was made tc t relieve the present force of i - part of the large amount of busi ness which is being transactec at the local station. There is e !ocal Miss Margaret Simons went to Salt Lake Monday night to attend at-tend School. Pearl and Vernon Tozer left Monday night for Mt. Pleasant to attend school. Miss Elsie Jacob returned from Salt Lake the last of the week, where she has been visiting. Miss Mae Hoyt and Ruth Arnold Arn-old left Monday night for Mt. Pleasant to attend school. Mr. and Mrs, M. M. Steel, Sr., returned home last week from an extended visit to Panguitch. Mrs. Ernest Pierce is assisting at the Chronicle office during the absence of Miss Sylvia Turner. Reverend Hamilton has returned return-ed from his trip to Suthern Utah where he was doing evangelistic work. Miss Mae Huntsman is back at the Delta Confectioners during Mrs. Harry Aller's visit to Oregon. Ore-gon. Mr. and Mrs. George Dobson have returned from Arizona where they have been visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bishop were down from Murry this week visiting relatives and proing up on their Cary-actland. Mrs. C. A. McClain went to Salt Lake Monday morning to ' put her two daughters. Eloise and Geneive in school. Miss Rena Hatch returned to her home in Springville, Ut, Monday night after spending the past two months in this vicinity. Mrs. Lorenzo Turner and daughter, Sylvia left last Tuesday for St. George where they will attend the Fruit Festival and visit relitaves for the next ten days. On account of the recent heavy rains in Southern Utah and California Cali-fornia all north bound trains on the Salt Lake Route were late the last of last week and the first of this. Work on the Globe Elevator is being prosecuted and the excavations exca-vations are ready for the cement foundations. The location is about one hundred yards east of the main road to the North Tract where it crosses the branch line. Mrs. C. W. Winebrenner, who was operated on at the L. D. S. hospital in Salt Lake two weeks ago, is convalescing slowly. At last reports, she was expecting to be allowed to sit up for the first time the last of this week. Messrs. W. T. Spurgeon and T. H. Holt of Pomona, Cali., and N. A. Anderson of Ontaric, Cali., were here the fore part of the week looking over the country with a view to locating. They have returned home and if they can make satisfactory arrangements arrange-ments they will return. One of the largest and finest exhibits of minerals ever assembled as-sembled in the West will grace the Mineral Building at this Year's Utah State Fair, to be held 10 full days in Salt Lake City, opening Monday, September Septem-ber 27th, and closing Wednesday, Wednes-day, October 6th. Miss Dorothy, the daughter of Mrs. J. W. Robbins, has arrived in Delta, from Galveston, Texas, where she has been attending school. She reports that she left Galveston just in time to escape the floods, getting away only two days before the causeway cause-way went out. She will attend the public school here this winter. win-ter. There have arrived in Delta the past week some twenty-five teams and men to handle them from Milford. They came as employees of the Delta Land & water Co., and will level, plow and seed land on the North Tract recently purchased from the company by parties whe have not yet taken up their residence. resi-dence. An item we overlooked last week was the arrival on the project pro-ject of A. D. Ackerman and sor A. Ackerman from Fairburry, Neb. A. D. is a brother of oui fellow citizen A. Ackermen anc is a leading jeweler of Nebraska. He has a fine piece of land or the North Tract and came out tc look after it and visit for a while, He is much in love with his possessions pos-sessions and the country generally. gener-ally. When Louis Disbrow, champion circular dirt track driver of the world, kicks open the throttle oi his wonderful record holding Simplex Zip at the State Fail this fall, the thousands who wil throng the grand stand will be given more thrills than thej have ever experienced before ir this short a space of time in al their lives. Mrs. Susan Meeks, of Cheno, Cali., sister of N. S. Bishop, came Friday for a visit with relatives in Millard county, Mrs. Meeks was born in Fill I more and left there fifty-sis years ago when she was bu1 J three years old. This is hei first visit to her birth place sinct j then. j Ed L. Phillips was up from his j farm near Hinckley the first oi I the week making arrangement: for moving to Delta where- he will open up a harness shop. He had not fully decided on a build ing when we talked with hin but expected to soon. He wil occupy the Jacobs residence wes' of Ray Bishop's home and ex pects to move in the last of this week or the first of next. |
