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Show chicken raising will probably be a side Issue with Mr. Millers' furniture business. busi-ness. Mr. Wlnterrose was down Monday from Heber to see about having his (arm cultivated. Mrs. Wlnterrose will be down soon to open her millinery parlors. Fred T. Miner of California Is making mak-ing arrangements to have hla farm In the south tract cultivated. Mr. Miner thinks this Is the finest country coun-try he has yet struck and expects to make his borne here as soon as he can complete his arrangements. We understand that our town marshal mar-shal Is after the job of deputy sheriff or road supervisor. We would feel more confidence In Cass' ability as supervisor If there were fewer broken bridges on the roads out from Delta. Prom the way he kept the water In the streets all last summer he ought to make a good Irrigation engineer. He ought to be all right for deputy sheriff, as he Is a good hand with a pair of gum shoes, a dark lantern and a whisper. P. P. Maughan got a bad tumble from the tressel thst Is being built to carry the flume across the reservoir to Geo. Snow's land. A plank tripped him up and he landed on his face on the Ice 12 feet below. His nose wss crushed and lie was badly bruised otherwise, but wss able to resume work on Monday. IN AND AROUND DELTA lie Week's News from the Comimj Metropolis Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Wallace and Douglas Llsonbee and wife went Into Halt Lake Monday night to attend the wedding of G. It. Wallace, which takes places on Wednesday. Bob Whlcker's family la now down with measles. A. S. Workman's family, fam-ily, which has been seriously ill with measles and pneumonia. Is improving. improv-ing. Leo Gardner's motherless twin babies have been taken to Salt Lake where they will find homes with the two sisters of Mrs. Callister, each of whom has a baby. Robert Jenkins and Miss Minnie Adams were married last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lockyard. The knot was tied by James A. Melville. The young people will make their home at the Hotel Delta until their new home Is furnished fur-nished and ready for them. The newly new-ly married pair are well known and their many Irlends extend congratulations. congratula-tions. Owing to the cold winter and lack of snow there has been some doubts s to how fall grain would come out this spring An examination of a number num-ber of fields has removed all doubts as to its safety. While the fluids look brown and dead on top an examination examina-tion shows that the plants are green and thrifty underneath, and hat there will be very little loss. The recent enow has revived It and as soon as the water is turned on It will all come up strong and thrifty. After this winter's win-ter's experience there Is no doubt that the country Is all right for fall grain. ( If any country has finer winter weather than Millard County we have yet to hear of it. There has been from 25 to 28 sunshiny days every month throughout the entire winter. While we have had plenty of cold weather, expeclally at night. It has been a clear and bracing atmosphere that hits not been at all trying. The soli has now dried out so that plowing Is being done In all sections. The first fire on the west side occurred oc-curred last week. David Burnett's Pahvant Valley bungalow caught fire from sparks from the stove pipe. The volunteer fire department under Captain Cap-tain Fredericks did excellent service with a bucket of water and an old blanket and the Are was quickly extinguished ex-tinguished without doing serious damage. dam-age. It was fesred that the rosewood yiano and the mahogany cheffonier would have to be taken out but this was found unnecessary. Gus Neumeyer has finished his new bungalow on the west side and has moved Into It It Is built to accommodate accommo-date a partner and housekeeper of the female gender. Until the housekeeper house-keeper arrives be would like to, en-sag en-sag a cook. A colored lady preferred. pre-ferred. ' Frank Helse Is another west side ettler who has nearly completed a new residence of the Nebraska type. It baa a porch on two aides. Is well ar- ranged and finely finished. Mr. Helse did most of the work but a Nebraska Ne-braska expert put on the finishing touches. The farmers around Delta are giving attractive names to their farms. James A. Melville's new farm be bought from Fred Lyman will be known as the Riverside Rsnch. Prof. Moencb's place will be called Lakeside Farm. Jack Ely's farm on the south tract Is Valley View. Hall Bros.' place Is the Iron Mountain Ranch and the editor's farm on the west side la Normandale Farm. These are all attractive and appropriate names and we hope the owners wilt make the names celebrated cele-brated by the high grade products they market Now let us have some more names. There are plenty left The Delta Friendly Women will meet this week at the chapel, with Mrs. Robinson as hostess. It looks as If N. B. Robinson wss going go-ing Into the chicken railing business on a large scale. He has Just com pleted the construction of a 300-egg Incubator on an Improved plan. It ha a' large water Unk above the egg trays wbkh Is bested by a Ismp. The large amount of water the tank hold enables the beat to be retained for a much longer period than In ordinary Incubators, while there Is Jess fluctuation fluctu-ation la the temperature. He Is also making one for A. Miller, so Uiat |
