In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Thursday, October 02, 1884
Page: 3

IN AND AROUND TOWN

Mrs. Flynt's emporium draws.

J. E. Garrigues was in town last week.

W. F. Levesque went to Brush last week.

J. A. Conyer's house is nearing completion.

Mr. Killebrew's flock of sheep need ostracizing.

Mrs. Martin Green and child are slowly recovering.

Everybody is busy putting up graneries, stables, etc.

When in Brush, S. K. Cheadles store is a good place to trade.

The Renner family are at present located at the Bijou House.

One kiln of brick is ready to burn as soon as the wood gets here.

The first frost of the season made its appearance on Monday night.

Mr. J. H. Farnsworth has put up 25 tons of millet for winter feed.

Mr. B. Thompson left for Benkleman, Nebraska, last Wednesday night.

Mr. E. A. boyle offers a reward in another column for stray cattle. See his ad.

The hens nowadays seem to have no idea that eggs are scarce and the price high.

Commissioner Arthur Hotchkiss on his recent visit here wrote up considerable insurance.

For the past week A. S. Baker has put in his time between this point, Greeley and Denver.

It is said that Marshall coal will be delivered at Deuel for $6 per ton. S'pose we get some.

J. T. Devin will have nearly a hundred bushels of beans. Speak in time and get the pure quill.

J. T. Devin thinks he has the fines gelding pig, but it has been proved that he's "way off."

W. S. Morton has commenced work on his house, and it will be rushed through to completion.

Agent Callender took a few days vacation last week, but has returned to his last and best love.

E. D. Farley continues to read the papers, and predicts an overwhelming vote for his candidate.

Now is the proper season to husk your pumpkins; if you don't soon, Jack Frost will get the first bite.

Frank Anderson and Jas. Groves are running the well digging outfit. They're a good pair to draw to.

E. Regan and Horace Pyott have been putting up hay for Tracy, and think of taking some ditch work to do.

Mrs. Gaume, of Weldon Valley, cut 150 tons of alfalfa on his ranch this year, from about forty acres of ground.

Henry Flynt's barn has just been shingled, and he now has good accommodations for the weary quadruped.

M. Kleckner has done a fine brood of Poland China and Berkshire pigs. Parties desiring to purchase should see him.

G. S. Owen will break up 75 acres on his farm this year and next, and put the majority into crops of different kinds.

Lute Johnson, late J. P., has resigned his position as band-cutter on the threshing maching, and will engage in plain, prosaid labor hereafter.

Carpenters are at work putting shingles on building that were finished up, all but that one item for want of material.

J. H. Farnsworth and James Burk are delegates to the Republican county convention, to be held in Greeley next Saturday.

Regular fall weather seems to be coming down on us at last. Until Monday night we had not had frost enough to kill tomato vines.

L. W. Kimball, the boated bondholder, spent the last week in Greeley. Mrs. Kimball is also stopping in that burg for the time being.

J. L. Brush shipped a train load of beef cattle on both Friday and Saturday of last week; one from Brush and the other from Benkleman, Neb.

Frank Dingman has a Job's comforter on his jaw the size of a water bucket, and that is the reason that smile of his is so serene and peaceful.

Never let on "baldy," the weather is getting cooler, so you can keep your hat on. The flies are also becoming less familiar with your upper deck.

John Torpy succeeds in supplying the demand for water at the brick yard. This is a dry country now, but we'll have it thoroughly soaked some day.

As the life of the house fly waxeth shorter, his bite has the more sting, and every time he puts his bill down nowadays, makes Rom, or Romee, howl.

W. A. Marvin has selected a lot upon which he intends to put up a business house. That's right! come one, come all, and the devil take the hindmost.

At the social dance at Deuel last Saturday night Fort Morgan was well represented, John Haff not excepted. Everybody came home saying they had a good time.

For a week past Carlton King and Chas. Bennett have been "baching," and if the grim angel overtakes them soon, it may be laid to a disease called a fatty inside.

As a counter-jumper E. E. Baker is a success. Perhaps a bad front draws trade, a box of sardines smells like a tier of roses after having passed through his hands.

Jas. Litch came into town on Sunday afternoon at a 2:40 gait, loaded down with hawk scalps. At the present rate, Jim will be a millionaire inside of six months.

W. C. Sanford's mustache has again succumbed to the razor, which makes the thirteenth time since early spring. It's strange, but everyone recognizes Will at a glance yet.

J. L. Brush reports that not a gingle case of Texas fever has been found in his herds. It is to be hoped that the present cool weather will bring about a cure to all infected herds.

More lumber has arrived at Frank Baker's yard, from Chicago. If one wishes to build, this is the most economical material to buy, for even the rough lumber is surfaced on one side and edge.

"Elder" Dingman has returned, and is at work on the flume. Frank says he is about to leave us again, this time for good. There is a good deal of the "elder" to lose in one mass, and he'd better stay.

"Big Crow," chief of the Winnebagoes in this vicinity, has been in town drawing rations for the coming winter. He predicts a very mild winter to follow the warm summer we have been having. So might it be.

At the primary on Saturday, J. H. Farnsworth was nominated for Justice of the Peace, Marshall Watosn Constable, and J. S. courtney road Overseer. If all qualify, they will make good and useful officials.

Six and one-half feet of G. S. Owen's person has been visible here for the last few days. He is stopping at the Farnsworth House filling a long felt want. C. Heilman, better known as Julie, is staying with him.

Dr. Sackett, from Boulder, came down Monday by way of Deuel to visit his cousin Wallace Sackett. He expresses himself as well pleased with the country, and has an eye to business in connection with his visit.

Jim. Brown, Sam Monk and other hunters were in town last week and this, with antelope. They shipped quite a cargo of hides from here, so we have good evidence of their success in that noble following.

Boys should be somewhat careful betting on the coming election. We know of several parties now who are liable to lose their virgin vote. They evidently are of the opinion that there is no small loss without some great gain.

The first windmill ordered by A. J. Wiley arrived on Monday night. This one will be placed at L. W. Kimball's for the use of his stock.

Two hundred pounds of G. W. Warner left for Denver on the Monday morning early train. His arrival at this port was not prophecied at last accounts.

One of our latest subscribers *from the vicinity of the Court House in Greeley) tells us to send him a paer, and as soon as the finances from his office will permit, will remit. We have always supposed, John, that you had a rather fat thing.

The cattle guard on the railroad track west of town is in bad shape, and cattle pass over it with impunity and play havoc withour corn fields. A day's labor on the part of the railroad company would secure us against cattle depredations.

Borther McFie, of the Evans Journal, is this evening to be joined in happy bands of hemlock.

M. E. Lowe says that while out hunting recently he made a pin cushion out of himself, but failed to state whether he stuffed his person with bran or sawdust. It is presumed, however, that, as he is always at war with any one who opposes Blaine, he filled himself with the dust of the arena.

Billy Wiggins was down from Corona last Sunday enjoying himself among old friends, and making many new ones. Mr. wiggins is one of the young men who "take" with Morganites, and will get a hearty welcome from all on his next visit. Come again.

Elder Dingman was in town several days last week. Although a very upright man, his lofty appearance is now somewhat lowered by a gross protuberance on the southwest quarter of his face. It is of the Job species, and the elder says he wouldn't take five dollars for it.

Hog cholera is prevailing in Maryland and Virginia, and the farmers in the Potomac valley have been filling the river with dead hogs. The inhabitants of the national capital, who have to drink Potomac water when they drink any), are beginning to be exercised about the matter.

Anyone wishing wells bored, will be well satisfied with work done by Mr. Farnsworth, and the short order in which it is done. When you can get a well bored in twenty-four hours it hardly pays to go without one. He is ably assisted in this line of work by Frank Anderson and James Grove.

Agent Ramsay, of LaSalle, is making arrangements for a grand hunt, to commence about the 15th inst., and to continue for three weeks. The party will go to the mountains in the vicinity of Medicine Bow river. We believe Mr. Ramsay is already making contracts to furnish the surrounding country with venison.

E. D. Farley is the foster father of a squash that weighs 132 pounds. Mr. Farley nursed this production at leisure hours, and the infant thus nourished has grown to mammoth proportions, and is the pride of his old age. It has been sent to the Denver Exposition as a sample of what a male man can do it he lays himself out.

Tyler Haskell brought a few hundred pounds of potatoes into town by way of a sample of what was raised on his farm in the narrows. The tubers of the Early Rose variety, were the largest we ever saw, and he asserts that he only brought the small ones to market. Furthermore, he says that he has potatoes that are as long as his foot, and as large round, but we believe this to be impossible.

Carlton King was the lucky hunter on Sunday last, brining in his antelope in good shape. His success so fired the adventurous spirit of M. E. Lowe that in the afternoon of the same day he rubbed all the buttons off from his front in a vain endeavor to crawl up on one of these animals. When he fired he claims that he bit one, from the fact that the animal ran as fast again after than before the shot.

A noble trio left for Denver last Saturday afternoon by way of Deuel. The party was composed of J. H. Farnsworth, J. E. Fisk and W. H. clatworthy, and they combined the elements of the great, good and handsome, in the order named. It was understood that our J. P. was sent down as a chaperone for the other two giddy youths, and to act as a asort of wet blanket. It is hoped that the mission, whatever it was, turned out for the good of all three.

Billy Morton is said to have had a dream the other night -- but it was not all a dream. He dreamed there was a brass band organized here and he was the drummer boy. It is also said that the cause of this dream was over-indulgence from the good things of Mrs. Morton's larder. Howbeit, he pounded the imaginary drum during a part of the night, but when he awoke he found that his hands had been directed against his own person, and toward that sensitive organ, the stomach, it being in a miserable instead of a musical plight. He has now thoroughly recovered himself.