In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
October 16, 1884
Page: 3

IN AND AROUND TOWN

The thresher has laid by for the season.

See the advertisement of the man that was found dead.

Potato digging and corn husking is the order of the day now.

Mr. Devenport raked in the orders for nursery stock while here.

Potatoes are being contracted for in Greeley at 65 cents per hundred.

M. R. Clerk bought one of A. S. Baker's thoroughbred Swiss bull calves last week.

D. B. Wilson is hunting about Sterling and terrorizing the natives of the vicinity.

R. L. Cooper, while working on the fence, just our of town the other day shot and killed a coyote.

The corn husked shows ears of good length, well filled, and more than an average yield is expected.

Mrs. L. M.(?) Baker leaves next week for a six weeks' visit to relatives in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and neighboring towns.

The door know of the Greeley Tribune office was adorned with crepe the morning after the Ohio election.

Since G. S. Owens commenced to labor in the potato field, he finds that the most sensitive portion of his person is his back.

The cheerful countenance of W. C. Packard of the Sterling News, was seen on the streets of Greeley on Wednesday.

The gentle zephyrs now and then blows where it listeth, and at the same time listeth your hat along pretty lively.

Since Lew Bartlett became a property owner, a common pitchfork in his hands has become a synonym of advanced civilization.

Now that the boys have got through with their threshing machine job, their eyes look liess like burnt holes in a blanket.

Agent Lawton bagged 14 snipe Monday night. He says any one of them could stand that-footed and drink off from the top of a water tank.

T. J. Smith came up from Brush the other day, showing his rosy cheeks and brawny hands. He reports blacksmithing at Brush a good occupation.

Conrad Schaeffer, of Barnes, Schaeffer & Co., was in town on Friday last. This firm expect to feed a large bunch of their range steers for the spring market.

J. H. Farnsworth and Henry Flynt have their windmill and pump in positio, and now the hand-over-hand movement of the old rope system is at a discount.

The luscious cranberry, from the marshes of G. R. Baker, in Wisconsin, has made its appearance in our town. The demand for sugar has increased.

It is the first finger of Joe. Farnsworth's right hand instead of the left that he lost. Whichever one it was, Joe. could'ill [sic] spare it. The wound is healing rapidly.

Four cottages are to be built by Eastern capitalists for rent. These parties have extensive interests here, and are but forwarding their own interests, as well as our own.

If anyone thinks good wagon and carriage repairing cannot be done here, they should examine some of John Haff's work. John was a carriagemaker before he got the mining fever and came west, and his earlier practice art shows itself.

Knit Underwear and Flannels at Mrs. Flynt's.

These cold mornings make the prairie dogs hunt their holes and debate among themselves the question as to whether their summer's stores will last through their winter feed.

Ask "Shorty" about the Bijou races that came off last Sunday. Its rather hard on a man when he makes up his mouth to eat juicy duck, to have to come down to plain, dry jack rabbit.

Mr. Thos. Devenport, of Greeley, representing Mr. Gipson's nursery of that place, was in town for some days, and took some large orders for stock for the spring planting. This is as it should be.

Billy Morton's house (the one with the concave roof) is approaching completion, at least on the outside. Soon, like the Arab, he will fold his tent and steal silently into better quarters.

The Board of Registration, composed of G. W. Warner, L. W. Kimball and S. G. Graham, met on Tuesday last. As officials, their dignity was overpowering. The board meets again on the last Tuesday before election.

Mr. A. S. Baker had the pleasure of meeting Horatio Patterson, Esq., of Providence, R. I., who is an old friend of Mr. Burroughs' and son, Harry, who were among the original colonists of Greeley.

J. F. Gunn, who is traveling for Harvey & Parker, wholesale cigar dealers in Denver, stops over every few weeks and makes some additional improvements on his claim near the Bijou. He is a genial gentleman, and we all welcome him here.

William Downs will contest Fred Williams' claim to the land which he has lately proved-up on. Fred is gathering a formidable array of witnesses to prove his prior right and lawful performance of duties in detail necessary to a continuous residence upon the same.

The burning of the kiln of brick was finished on Tuesday night, and they are of a fine cherry red color. This kiln contains between 90,000 and a 100,000. Another is being put up that will have it in double that number, every one of which will be used here this fall and the coming winter.

John Torpy, when walking around among the boys, keeps his weather eye open to detect, if possible, who it was that last Sunday night kindly unharnessed his team for him while making calls in the city. John will drop on to the perpetrator someday all spread out, and closing up on him like a jack-knife.

Messrs. Hill and Crandall have made up their minds to purchase land in this vicinity. We are glad to see this class of settlers coming here, and from their ability and knowledge of farming we judge that they will not only make it profitable to themselves, but prove a benefit to others from their residence among us.

Mrs. Flynt has laid in a stock of ladies dress and furnishing goods of every description, and we would advice our lady friends to make not of this fact. The masculine mind is not supposed to take in all this in detail, and the bachelor part of "we" especially, but to the gentler gender, this may be "tidings of great joy."

The melodious toot of the band horn is heard in the land. The average dog, as he heard the sound, sticks his tail between his legs and one can't see anything but a streak of dust as he makes a bee-line for the sandhills and one hears a melancholy howl at every other jump of the animal. As the instrument and men become more acquainted with one another, the wailings seem less hideous. Still, distance lends enchantment.

Isaac Newman found on the Platte river bottom below the horse camp, some time ago, and old Spencer carbine of the earliest pattern made. The stock of black walnut is about half rotted away, but is complete otherwise. Our friend Farley bought the relic of Indian warfare, and now keeps it wrapped up in oil cloth, and has made a will and set aside a sum of filthy lucre for its preservation and have it handed down to admiring youngsters from generation to generation.

At a meeting of the directors of the Citizen's Building Association it was decided to close up contracts at once for the building of our public hall. The excavation for the walls is being dug, and the brick and sand will be hauled by the subscribers to the stock. John Haff is superintendent of construction, and of itself this is evidence enough that the work will be satisfactorily carried through. So far as is possible, each subscriber will be permitted to work out his stock, and in this way we shall be able to place in our midst a substantial building without a great outlay of money.

Buttons, Trimmings, Hosiery and Gloves at Mrs. Flynt's.