In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Thursday, November 27, 1884
Page: 3

IN AND AROUND TOWN

Thanksgiving Day.  Fill up, if possible; if impossible, do the best you can.

Farm work for the season is on the wind up.

J. A. Conyers is sporting around Long____ again.

The weather now resembles May more than that of November.

John Haff will plant his five-acre lot to small fruits in the spring.

Good weather for ducks and geese, but not many being killed just now.

Mr. Tuttle contemplates building a business block here, before early spring.

J. F. Fezer, of Greeley, has received a car load or less of Christmas novelties.

The Pawnee ditch owners are putting in a low-water head-gate in their canal.

The building to be used for school purposes is rapidly approaching completion.

Fred Bunger, our Democratic friend from the east ward was in town yesterday.

We acknowledge a pleasure call from Editor Holmes, of the Lariat.  Call again brother.

A flock of some thousands of sheep passed through town on Friday going westward.

John Senier, of Greeley, was "jugged" on Tuesday night, at tht place, for general cussedness.

A contest has been tiled on the timber and homestead claims of John C. clements, west of the Bijou.

F. E. Baker spent Monday in Greeley, attending to business tht came before the County Commissioners.

We have received on our exchange table a copy of the Brush Lariat, the first of the season.  Thanks.

In spite of the dry weather a considerable amount of plowing is being done on the claims west of town.

The boys lately engaged on the survey of the Kiowa and Bijou ditch, came home for the Thanksgiving festivities.

E. J. Warner, of Denver, was in town on Saturday last attending to business relative to his large land interests here.

The cheerful countenance of Charles Glassy is with us again after an absence of some weeks in the vicinity of Fort Collins.

A half carload of lime has arrived, and now work on the different unfinished builings will progress more satisfactorily.

J. R. Houghton secured the contract for the bridge across the Big Beaver, northeast of Brush.  His bid was $4.95 per foot.

Mr. Steuben was a recent visitor in our town.  He is direct from Pennsylvania, and is looking up a place to engage in business.

Jim Litch passed through town the other day with his trotter, dog, gun and complete hunting outfit.  Something will suffer when he gets to it.

E. E. Clark, of Greeley, has been having an attack of rheumatic fever, and by way of support, carries a cane of about the weight of a policeman's club.

R. C. Norman and Charles Spencer have closed up their contract on the More & Tracy ditch, and are now ready for more of the same class of work.

The section house at Ensign has been newly plastered throughout and made comfortable for the winter.  Mr. Anderson has also had the house on his farm gone over in the interior with a mixture of lime, sand, water and elbow grease.

J. H. Farnsworth lost a valuable cow on Friday night by a turnip getting fast between her mouth and digester.  Veterinary work by Dr. Dingman was of no avail.

J. H. Jones, of Wild Cat, was in town Monday securing carpenters to build barns and corrals for his sheep ranch on that creek.  W. S. Morton is doing the work.

John Haff is having fifty acres plowed, which will be under the proposed canal.  Numerous parties are having smaller amounts broken, and intend to put in crops in the spring.

Mrs. Callender went to Denver one day last week.  Since the election has passed over and Cleveland is elected, she hopes and prays each day tht a civil war will not be instituted.

John Harris has a number of friends here from Boulder, who are looking up land in this vicinity.  They seem to be wide awake men, and will undoubtedly find something to suit them.

Friday the last batch of poll tax workers were busy hauling stones and rip-rapping the north approach to the Deuel bridge.  This will effectually prevent a washout in the summer rise of the river.

Miss Rose Hutchinson, of Denver, has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Callender for the past few days, returning home on the Monday evening train, pronouncing Fort Morgan and vicinity hard to beat.

W. F. Levesque, while doing work on the road of Friday received a kick on the shin-bone by one of Jim Devin's mules, that made him see stars and dance round singing the latest Canadian French song.

The day train over the Julesburg division goes off after December 1.  We predict this as an unwise move, as no one can with any convenience take the night train and make connections with points in the west end of the county.

The Weld County Wool Growers will hold their next meeting in the town hall in Greeley, Saturday, November 29, at 2 o'clock p.m.  It is to be hoped that every wool grower in the county will be present that good may come of the meeting.

G. R. Baker stepped off the train at Deuel bright and early Saturday morning.  He then walked from there to Fort Morgan and surprised his children and grandchildren by making his appearance at the breakfast table.  He has been looking after his cranberry interests in Wisconsin, and been absent from home several months.

On Sunday, while L. H. Nelson and Frank Anderson were working about the former's claim, they ran across an antelope that had been wounded in the leg the day before by some hunter.  They mounted horses and took after the animal, and after a two-mile run, got close enough to shoot it with a hammer.  The implement of death was loaded to the muzzle.

L. W. Hamilton, formerly baggage agent at Greeley, has bought out James Beetham's express business at that place.  Mr. Hamilton is a courteous gentleman, and we predict for him a large business.  We think, however, he made a grave mistake in making a Benedict of himself until he had started in business.  Unmarried men draw in this particular business like a porous plaster.

Many claims are taken in the vicinity of Roggen and Hudson on the B. & M. railway, with a view to the extension of the English Company's Canal.  At Roggen station there is some very fine land, and a large amount of hay has been cut there the past season.  This hay will be needed to feed the stock in that vicinity the coming winter, unless we have less severe weather this winter than usual.

In passing on the train from Corona here, no less than 25 men with teams were seen at work on their claims, plowing, building and otherwise improving their land.  Should judge from appearances, that there is twice the land now broken under the proposed canal, than there was under the Fort Morgan Canal up to this spring.  This is encouraging to parties wishing to build the canal, and the most sanguine hopes of the projectors of the canal as well as the settlers, we hope will be realized at a period not far distant.

A lamp exploded in the Tribune office at Greeley last Tuesday night, just before going to press, and in somewhat less time that a decade after the blow-up, the room presented a lively scene.  Ralph Meeker, having come safely through the Russia-Turkish campaign, labored under the belief that he was fireproof, and rushed into danger recklessly.  The fire steamed up those pet pants of his that were cut out with a circular saw in order to make them fit the natural wave of his leg, and lately imported from Peet & Co., of New York.  It seemed for a few moments as if he, like a prophet of old, would go up in a flame, minus the chariot.  The flames were finally subdued after Lieut. McVety had spread himself out like a wet blanket, and the Times man made Rome howl on account of the scorching received in the fire.

The following is a partial programme [sic] of the entertainment to be held this evening at the Farnsworth House --

1. Anthem.

2. "The Magician's Lesson" ..... Messrs. John Haff and J. H. Farnsworth, supported by Willie Killebrew, Harry Haff, Willie Fisk and Georgie Baker.

3. Song ..... Courtney Family

4. Reading ..... Ada Killebrew

5. Song - "Widow Malone" ..... Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Baker, accompaniment by W. F. Callender

6. Illustrated Biddy Maloney on the Chinese Question ..... Mrs. Flynt, Miss Lizzie Farnsworth and John Farnsworth

7. Quartette - "Come Where the Lillies Bloom>" ..... Mr. and Mrs. Callender and Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Baker

8. Song ..... G. W. Warner and Joe Fisk

This is but an incomplete programme [sic], as a full one had not been fully decided on as we go to press.  At intervals during the entertainment music will be furnished by the Fort Morgan Brass Band, and a jolly time is predicted.