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Show LOCAL M Mrs. Marr D. Simons returned to Salt Lake Monday morning. Mrs. W. L. Laekyard went to Salt Lake last Saturday for a short visit wnth friends. E. D. Hashimoto was down from Sa.t Lake the last of last week looking after his farming interests. R. J. Law and daughter Orena left Sunday morning for Beaver for a short visit with his brother who is reported quite sick. Velma Curtis, who has been clerking in W. R. Walker's store at Sutherland, returned to her home at Aurora last Tuesday. Tues-day. Mrs. J. S- Tucker and son Delbert, left Wednesday for Cottage Grove, Oregon, where they will make their future home. Engineer Wheelon, who has charge of the Delta Land & Wa ter Co. drainage work, left Saturday Sat-urday night for his home at Garland. Gar-land. Word comes from Salt Lake that Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Purdy, formerly of the Hub Cafe here, are the proud posessors of a line baby boy. Stephen A. Bunker of Gun-lock, Gun-lock, was here last week to attend at-tend the funeral of his mother. In our article of the death of Mrs. Bunker in last week's paper we omitted his name as ome of the sons. W. E- Bunker and wife accompanied accom-panied Mr. Bunker's brothers, Stephen A. and James, back to Washington county where they will spend the next ten days visiting in that county. They left last Saturday. F. G. Wells, who purchased the Snowcrest farm, informs us that he has changed the name of the place back to the one it formerly bore, that of "Island Farm." This seems more appropriate ap-propriate to the farm, considering consider-ing its location. S. W. Eccles is showing a considerable con-siderable amount of enterprise in keeping his big gas street light in front of his store aglow during the dark evenings. It adds much to the attractiveness of the store, and besides being a great convenience to pedestrians is a dandy good ad for the store. F. A. Johnson, who lived on the North Tract for the past several years, has sold his interests inter-ests on the Delta project and left Monday evening for Cali. He sold an eighty some time ago to Schiller Bros, and recently traded his remaining land to Jas. Kinne, of Pomona, Cali., for property there and will make his home there in the future. G. C. Calvert, our new barber has gone to Salt Lake to bring the family down to live. Mr. Calvert's family will occupy the Riding place by the bakery. Mr. Calvert also has a homestead near the Haw-bush and is doing some improvement on it this year and getting the ground ready for about forty acres of winter wheat. Marion Kilpack, who is back from Sterling, is taking care of the shop during his absence. -FOR SALE:-Carbon Copying-Paper Copying-Paper at the Chronicle olfice. mlStf HOGS -I will pay highest market price for. hogs that are ready for market, weighing from 165 to 225 pounds. Phone or see me before selling what you have. Leuthaeuser' and Lyman. See Willis Lyman, Delta, Ut. tf. A. C. Sorenson is in Holden I this week sizing up his new heir, j Milton Moody purchased a ' Studehaker car while in Salt Lake last week. Beginning June 3, the Delta StatP Bank will close Saturdnvs at twelve noon sharp. m25-S The Salt Lake Route is advertising adver-tising an excursion to Ppyscn tomorrow and Saturday on account ac-count of the opening of the Strawberry Valley Irrigation project. Postmaster Faust left the first of the week ,for Salt Lake where he spent a few davs visiting and from there left for the mountains moun-tains where be will rusticate for a few weeks. Just received a nice line of Small Household Articles. Such as Quart Measures, Gem Pans, Curtain Rods, Colanders, Milk Skimers, Bread and Paring Knives, Cake Turners, Egg Whips and many articles to numerous num-erous to mention. At the Delta Furniture store. m25-jl The- Utah Real Estate Co. closed a deal with V. V. Calvert for the sale of his 160 farm this side of Sutherland to John Bau-razanis Bau-razanis and Catas Athans, two Greeks from Salt Lake. Mr. Calvert has a fine place well improved im-proved and the sale price was $16000. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gesford of Ogden were down last week looking over the country and closed a deal with the Melville Real Estate Co. before returning for the s of h of swi of Sec. 36, Twp. 16, range 7, near Abraham. They will erect them a house on the land and take up residence in the near future. The Princess Theatre will be closed for one week after tonight to-night on account of Manager Gardner going to Salt Lake to renew re-new his contract for the Paramount Para-mount pictures. Mr. Gardner is well pleased with the increased increas-ed patronage of the theatre under un-der the new arrangements and will continue it indefinitely. While there is a variance of the pictures, even of the Paramount Production, it is impossible to get all the best. The rule is that a much higher grade of pictures is being produced under the Paramount Par-amount contract. Messrs Stubbins and Ryan of the Alpha Farms Co., unloaded their second Caterpillar engine this spring in the local yards last Friday and took 1t out to their big ranch near Abraham. The boys have several hundred acres of new land that they are getting get-ting ready for fall grain and besides be-sides are doing considerable plowing for other people. They now have two of the latest type Caterpillar tractors, the last received re-ceived being of the 75 h. p. type, and they are turning over a lot of land. If you need any land plowed you should interview them. J. P. prunt was called to Salt Lake the last of the week to consult con-sult eastern parties who are interested in-terested in the-new sugar factory. fac-tory. He returned Tuesday and is out again for more contracts. Mr. Sprunt says that Complete arrangements have been made for the early commencement of work on the plant and that he needs only 800 acres more signed up to assure the success of the enterprise. Owing to the fact that every one signing up for a much less acreage than last summer, sum-mer, this amount will be hard to secure and it is to be hoped that the additional 800 acras can soon be obtained by those who have already signed adding a few more acres to their contracts and enough new ones signing up to make up the balance. The following communication arrived too late for last week's issue of the Chronicle. Mrs-Thure Mrs-Thure Chronholm- entertained very pleasantly one evening in honor of Miss Margaret Thompson, Thomp-son, who has just returned from California. Whist was played during the evening and after the play delicious refreshments of punch and cake were j-ervjd by the hostess, assisted by her mother, Mrs. Christensen. Those present were Misses Margaret Thompson, Ethel Iverson. Myrtle Anderson, Leona Seama and Messrs Alvin Iverson, Charlie Iverson, Oscar Anderson, Earl Seams, Earl Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Chronholm and Mrs. Chris tensen. O. L. Lake of Aaraham was in town Tuesday. Mr. Lake is now occupying his own farm and is also doing a little real estate business. He recently closed out the Hammel estate of Gladstone, Glad-stone, Mich., holdings near Abraham to local parties, He disposed of 470 acres of the land |