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Show " " " """ dolls, albums, toilet articles, etc., to please both young and old. He has already al-ready sold considerable, his customers evidently following the oft-repeated advice to do their Christmas shopping early. Although things are not get settled at the Hotel Delta, Landlord Cooper Is doing a rushing business and taking good care of everybody that comes. The tables are filled at every meal" and In the evening the office presents a very busy appearance. There has been such a demand for merchandise the past few weeks owing to the big Influx of people that the merchants have run short on some goods. For a while there was a shortage short-age of potatoes, sugar, butter and eggs, also coal. Eggs and all sorts of fanners produce will find a ready sale at the highest prices In Delta. Wm. Huff, who has done business all over the west, came from California Califor-nia a few weeks ago to look things over. They looked good to him and he bought H10 acres southeast of Delta. This week he began hauling lumber for his buildings and will begin at once to Improve his land with the Intention of putting it all In crops next spring. Jno Dennam and J. J. Willets, from Salt Hake have also bought lands In the same section and will have Improved Im-proved farms next summer. A. B. Ward Is rushing his new liverj stable up at a rapid rate and will soon be ready for business. He will go north In a day or two to bring down his horses and rigs. E. J. Ed nay and N. H. Folsom are the latest new-comers to Delta. They drove all the way from (Ireen River, t'tah, with their families and outfits. They were eleven days on the trip. Their farms are southeast of town. County Clerk Nephl Anderson of Fillmore was over this week to see about the threshing on his farm east of Delta. He also went over the lands In West Delta with a view of locating several families from Fillmore. W. E. How man bought from Mc-Cloln Mc-Cloln & Co. this week 40 acres, a mile north of Delta, and a city lot near the depot. Mr. Bowman Is in the merchandising and lumber business in Monpa, and expects to close out there and go Into business In Delta In the spring. Arthur Humphries Is doing a rushing business In his lumber yard, and teams are driving out every day with loads o lumber. j:ii.MiiLioPs north from DiM ' on the midnight train. This Is a great Improvement Another Improvement ; will be making Delta a money order office, which may be done the first ol the year. Have you noticed Geo. Day's windows? win-dows? He has some attractive lettering letter-ing on both sides and behind the windows win-dows are some Christmas goods that are also attractive. There is also a nurse girl In the window that bows an Invitation for everyone to enter. She is quite a novelty. Stewart Eccles & Son want to get out of the dry goods business and devote de-vote themselves exclusively to confectionery confec-tionery and bakery goods. They are therefore making a special sale and offering everything In this line at cost lor cash The sale begins next Saturday Satur-day and continues through the month. Besides low prices every cash purchase pur-chase on one dollars worth of goods gets a chance for a $10.00 set of silverware. silver-ware. Jacob He Bree has Just threshed his crop and got 31.1.1 bushels of grain from 100 acres. This is pretty good for a first crop. People on the west side don't spend all their time working, but enjoy them selves In social Intercourse as well. Mr. and Mrs. "Denver" Smith entertained enter-tained the Watts and Albro Xamllies at their ThanksgtvingJInncr. and Mrs. Herman Munster had Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman to help eat their big Thanks giving turkey. Jerome Tracy had J. J. Clark's family over 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. The Water I'sers Association held their annual election last Saturday night and about 3.1 members were i present. The officers are A. Watts, president; Frank Foot , Secretary treasurer; Jas. Connelly, Jerome Tracy. M. A. Abbott and J. Thompson, executive committee. There are about fiO members at present and more are coming In all the time. The assocla tlon want to get In every water user In this section so they can act as one ' man when action Is necessary. They want a big attendance at their next meeting the first Saturday In January, as matters of Importance are to be taken up. IN AND AROUND DELTA The Week's News from the Coming Metropolis The carpenters have nearly finished up their work on the lower floor of the Hotel Delta. The new furniture of the hotel Is arriving and is being put In place as fast as room can bo made for It. Mr. Cooper expects to give a tar-key tar-key dinner next Sunday as a house warming. George Day has been laid up with the grip and rheumatism for some time, and was too ill to be out of bed for a week. He crawled out Tuesday, however, to tell the editor that he was Just getting In n big stock of dry goods mid Christmas goods, and that his new-line new-line of rubbers and women's shoes couldn't be beat for price and quality anywhere. Will H. Dennlson has about finished plastering the basement of the amusement amuse-ment hall and Is making a line Job of It. There is one large assembly hall and four smaller rooms In the basement, and their completion will ndd greatly to the usefulness of the building. The extension basement for the steam heating plant Is finished and this much needed Improvement Is expected every day. John Jimpson and I). A. Bunker of Salt Lake City , among tho first land buyers in West Delta, were in town last week. They own 240 acres In section sec-tion 4 which were all cleared three years ago. They were among the unfortunates un-fortunates who lost out the first two years, but they have never lost faith In the country. Their" faith has been Justified this year when from the part of their land that was cropped In grnln they threshed 19.1.1 bushels of wheat. 8.10 bushels of oats and 100 bushels of rye. Another harvest will put them to the good and their experience is that of doens of other farmers on the west aide. 8. W. Eccles has completed his new bake oven and Is now turning out all sorts of bakery products. We also note that he has Just got In a fresh stock .of groceries Btid Is prepared pre-pared for cold and muddy weather with a big stock of overshoes and rubbers. rub-bers. The DeltltTr5Atlc"niib-tr'ififrTft Ing a new play which they expect to present to the public within the next two weeks. Watch the Chronicle for fuller particulars. A. C. Korenson & Co. expect to get Into their new and more commodious quarters this week where they will be able to make a better display of their goods and wait on their customers with greater convenience. In the meantime ask about those celebrated Rouss Brol shoes Just received direct from their factory 1n New York. Also those thick, wnrm, Utah made blankets; Just the thing for these cold nights. A. C. Browen, father of John T. Browen, who used to be a resident of I kit a, was In town last week. Mr. Browen Is an old timer of Utah, and built one or tho first adobe houses In Salt Lake. T. C. Gronnlng, our new blacksmith, ha been kept so busy since .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 Bays he hardly stops long enough to eat bis meals, he's a week behind on t.is work. Mr. Gronnlng Is not only an all 'round blacksmith, but Is an experienced machinist as well, and can fix up boilers, engines and any kind of machinery. Although he Just came from Oregon he Is an old Millard County boy. having been raised in Selplo and his parents still live there. As will be seen from a notice elsewhere else-where Miss Octavla Murphy Intends to start a dancing class In a short time. It Is a class for young beginners, begin-ners, and Miss Murphy starts In by physical exercises, which develop graceful movement and strength of the limbs, which are the first requirements require-ments for graceful dancing. Miss Murphy Mur-phy is w U qualified for the work, as she took lessons In this department In the Sacred Heart Academy for two years. 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. Contracts for the enlargement of the main canal are being signed up and probably by the time this Issue reaches our readers 2no teams and 150 men will be at work. There are 30 contractors so far and preference Is given men owning land on the Delta tract, and the size of the contract is In proportion to their hodllngs a very fair arrangement. The prices paid Is from 10 to M cents per yard, and those of the cnotractors we have talked with consider tho price a very fair one. Unless the weather continues very cold or some unexpected difficulties nrNe good wnges will be made, accord ing to Engineer Martin the contracts run till Ma;ch 1. This will provide much needed ork for many men. put money In circulation and enable many men to niaVe payment on their land who otherw'se would be unable to do so. The Arcade Furnishing House has rot In same more new good this week. Among them Is a number of the celebrated cele-brated White washers, one of the best washers on the market. R. J. Ijiw has Just got In his first Installment of holiday rxl " showing a fine assortment of toys, |