Show DELTA DOTS through lack of space we worn unable to get this news la in last week issue pete johnson of 0 oasis was arrested monday night on a charge of stealing 40 bushels of alfalfa saed from claronce clarence webster a farmer a few miles west of delta after tho the johnson confessed to the theft ho was placed in tho the delta jail to await a preliminary hearing the seed was stolen sunday night and sold bold to a local seed buyer early monday morning tile the munner manner in which he ha sold the seed and his conduct thereafter led to his suspicion and arrest charles charlea thompson contractor tor for the installation ot of millard county drainage district no 4 and the delta sewer system who has just completed both jobs gave a banquet tuesday ay evening at the dank bank hotel complimentary to the supervisors ot of the drainage district and the members ot of the town board th the 0 banquot banquet followed tho the satisfactory settle bottle mont ment between the district the town and tho the contractor ot of over three years continuous work which has been attended with harmony and good feeling throughout at a special meat meeting of the town board mon monday day night the bo bearil arl adopted a resolution thank ing mr air thompson for the excellent service he had rendered and set out that ho he had in every way complied compiled most satisfactorily with his contract at the banquet members of the drain ago age board spoke in the it highest terms ot of the menner in which mr air thomp son ion had acted during the three years he spent installing we drainage just at this time delta la Is having the mumps whether delta caught it from oasis deseret De soret hinckley or lynn 13 not certain but a dflia ept domic derale of this amusing disease Is mak ling ing itself felt in somo of the down 3 town districts and ono notable feature Is that not only tho the little conets oral eral people who prided themselves that they wore were beyond tho the ago age limit but tho the grownups grown ups jire taking it soy bov are now reposing in their couches as a result of tho the epidemic joseph black father of sh sheriff liff frank II 11 black of oasis died gohd donly at his homo home last friday ho had not been ill und it la is supposed that death was waa due to heart failure mr air black wits was ono of HIM most highly respected nd ad esteemed citizens in this section of the county the christmas goods are c coming it in and ana the appear appearance alce of the delta stores indicate that tho the holiday shop plug ping season boason is at hand the farmers in tills section of the county are pros berous pei ous this tall fall the price of alfalfa seed enabling them to havo an uelus unusual amount of spending money so tile tho merchants aro are looking forward to a big hnieday trade delta has been in hard luck tor for two years and many of its people had become some what discouraged but the big seed crop has relieved roll ovod the tenso tense situation wid and it la is now beginning to look like tho the flush times of 1919 when the people hardly know knew what to do with their money bill bassett who farms a few miles west of town kept a record this year of his farm products product a and he reports that ho he netted an acre on his bis 40 aero acre alfalfa farm after paying for all the labor supervision taxes s assessments sess ments and interest on the invest I 1 ment meat also that ho he made 1917 on hla his beets and ami we aro are not telling this for the benefit of tho the collector of income tax |