In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Thursday, November 20, 1884
Page: 3

IN AND AROUND TOWN

Where is P. J. C.?

Land hunters are with us again.

Ducks are plenty, and geese are flying high.

Mrs. Flynt's oyster parlors are a success.

F. E. Baker's white elephant is called "Brownsville."

It will take about two weeks to finish harvesting the corn crop.

It is true that J. A. Conyers is to change his state.  Wonders never cease.

Bob. Baugh prophecies a hard winter; Bob. you know, looks from a dark standpoint.

Water in the Platte river raised considerable during the early part of the week.

Mr. Farnsworth has enlarged his hotel office and thus added to the comfort of his guests.

The wood has been ordered to burn the second kiln of brick, which contains about 175,000.

The prairie dog has gone into winter quarters, and man is following suit as lively as possible.

Between five hundred and a thousand acres of alfalfa will be sown under our ditch another season.

G. W. Warner has his barn about completed, which makes his place show up like a young village.

Several parties from Orchard were down on Saturday, witnesses in Mr. Williams' case held here.

L. H. Nelson has put a new floor in his residence and otherwise added to the comfort of the interior.

The Milton Nobles theatrical company played in Greeley to a fair audience on Wednesday evening last.

The snow, the "beautiful snow," made its appearance on Monday last and brought a cold snap with it.

Has the "Corona Midnight Oil" failed to make a flame entirely?  We miss your weekly letter, gentlemen.

Our Orchard correspondent failed to come [on] time this week.  Fruit from that vineyard is welcome at any time.

The snow that fell on Monday, melted away on the day following, giving us the grass again in the sere and yellow leaf.

Water from the ditch has been running into the lakes for a week past, and has quite perceptibly added to the area.

W. F. Callender says fish is the brainiest food known, and that's the reason he has laid in a winter's supply of the same.

Daniel Witter, the land office lawyer, has been in town for some days, as counsel for W. H. Downs in the contest case.

During the contest case of the past week, Mr. Callender practiced shorthand; and it was quite legible - to himself.

Lew. Bartlett, Henry Flynt and Dell Harris are off on the new ditch survey, Mr. Bartlett acting as rodman for the engineers.

w. S. Morton has moved into his new house, and the tented field is a thing of the past with him.  Mr. M. has a cozy little house.

John Harris has traded horses again, this time with F. E. Baker.  Of course each participant made heaps of money by the swap.

Mrs. L. C. Baker is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Dodd, at Edgerton, Minnesota, and reports fine weather in that part of the United States.

Bob Baugh's house is in statu quo.  Want of shingles is the main reason.

The bridge across the Platte above Evans, for which F. E. Baker has the contract, will be finished the coming week, it is expected.

Complaint is made all over the county in regard to the exorbitant taxes this year, and the Greeleyites make the loudest 'wail' of all.

John Torpy denies the statement tht he is a candidate for Postmaster; says that the present encumbent is nearly as good a man as he is, anyhow.

Mrs. E. V. Luce is expected home for the Thanksgiving service that will be held at the residence of F. E. Baker.  Turkey and cranberry sauce,  Yum, yum.

Mr. Kleckner has a fine crop of turkeys, and about Thanksgiving and the holidays they will reach their prime.  We;re ravenously fond of turkey, Mr. K.

"Elder" Dingman and Mr. Callender went out fishing Monday in the irrigating canal, and brought in a bucketful.  The bait they used was an irrigating shovel.

Jim Winbourn and Dick Bingle are fixing up the "Bijou House" for winter quarters, and will put in their time hauling stone for rip-rapping around the flume.

John Torpy says that Democratic successes did not have a tendency during the early part of the week to warm the weather up enough to make corn husking a pleasure.

M. E. Lowe is clerking for F. E. Baker, and will carry on his other business in addition to that.  We were poor and had to work by the month once ourselves, Mr. Lowe.

Joe Farnsworth meets the noon train from Denver and Greeley with a two-seated rig, and thus visitors from either place have a means of conveyance to town from Deuel.

L. W. Kimball is the only representative Fort Morgan has at the Cattle Growers' convention now being held in St. Louis.  Before returning Mr. Kimball will visit his old home near Quincy, Illinois.

A. P. McNitt, E. E. Baker and a force of men are at work on the survey line of the Kiowa & Bijou irrigating ditch - the new scheme - where they will be employed some days definitely locating the line and laying out work for excavating teams to begin on.

Mr. J. H. Johnson and some other gentlemen are to put a herd of blooded stock on to the ranch adjoining Mr. J.'s place the coming season, and a considerable tract of land will be fenced in by the owners.  We believe Herefords and polled Angus is the stock selected.

It is reported that the day train over the Julesburg division of the Union Pacific is to be taken off, and but one train a day each way run.  If this is done it will break up the travel to Greeley in a great measure, and compel us to go to Denver to attend to business that could be much better done at the former point.

John Haff will commence the erection in a short time of his house, which will be erected on one of the five acre lots adjoining town.  As soon as his house is completed he will move his family here at once, tht his children may have the benefit of the school.  Everyone will welcome this addition to our number as Mr. Haff is of the material we are in need of.

Fred. Williams' contest case began last Friday, and was continued through that day, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.  More than fifty witnesses were examined.  Mr. Williams conducted his own case, while the contestant, Mr. Downs, employed the services of Mr. Daniel Witter, of Denver, the well-known attorney, who makes a speciality of cases of this kind.  No one, we think, could conduct Mr. Williams' case better than he himself has done.  The evidence was taken by Mr. Warner, notary public.

J. H. Farnsworth, who is anxious that a school be started at once, has purchased the building partially built by W. F. Levesque, and will have it finished and made comfortable.  A teachr will be secured at once, and a school begun.  As soon as our public hall is completed, the school will be changed to that, and the present school building transferred to other parties who stand ready to purchase it.  This decides the school question in a manner favorable to all, and we are heartily gladd of the decision.

A. F. Spoor, Roadmaster of the Julesburg division, looks as if a train of cars had run over his person, but he avers tht nothing but a plebean team of horses ran away with him and pitched him into the middle of the following week.  He, in company with Mr. Packard, of the Sterline News, and other gentlemen, on Thursday last, were driving around the country when the neckyoke dropped, and the horses took the hint tht something was wrong and lit out in a way that showed considerable speed, dumping the whole congregation out in the road, the driver, Mr. Spoor, receiving all the injuries received by the party, he being badly cut up around the face.  'Tis said that the Sterling News editor sailed through the air like the "man on the flying trapeze, and when he struck mother earth, dug a hole in the ground like a charge of dynamite.