From the Past

Compiled from Delta Newspapers by the Delta County Historical Society

251 Meeker Street, Delta, Colorado, 81416  (970) 874-8721

From the Delta County Independent

September 26, 1913

The wives of Dr. F.W. Grove and Dr. Cleland came together in a sort of head-on collision on Main Street last Saturday evening which caused them more or less confusion for some moments and no little amusement for those who saw the accident.  Each lady wore one of the broad-gauged head pieces and when they turned suddenly to face each other and those two “sky pieces” came together there was just no getting them apart. Hat pins had formed the colliding forces extricated without tearing up the fifty dollars’ worth of millinery.

I’ll just bet those ladies were ‘mortified’ as my lovely maternal Grandmother would have put it…to not only be ‘stuck’ to each other but for it to make the newspaper!

On a side note—I’ve been ‘trimming’ hats myself.  I rather enjoy making fabric flowers

and needed to ‘put them on something’ so I decided to do hats.

I, of course, forgot to take a photo of the first hat I made, but I did remember for the others. (I gave the hat to my soon-to-be daughter-in-law for her birthday-I didn’t even got a photo of her IN the hat. Silly me.)

You’ve seen this one…it also was a gift for a friend going through cancer treatments.

This will be for my oldest daughter for her costume for Halloween.

My youngest daughter goes to lots of sports competitions since the grandchildren play in many things.

The last one I like to wear to soccer games.

I don’t think I’ll keep doing hats, but it was fun for a while.

Your friend,

Linda