In and Around Town

Fort Morgan Times
Friday, May 07, 1886
Page: 4 Section: None

IN AND AROUND TOWN.

Whoop! don't half express it.

Small grains are coming up finely.

Corn planting has commenced

The irrigator is getting in his work on alfalfa.

Ed. Baker spent Sunday with his fmaily in Greeley.

M. E. Lowe--Denver--quick trip--no washout--go again next week--business?--yes.

Jim Torrens and Sam McCreery were down from Greeley the first of the week, assessing.

Mott & Marshall are putting up a mess box for the DT outfit that will be the boss of the range.

The town has been full of strangers all week, and eating houses are doing a rushing business.

Nelson & Kinkle have taken charge of the livery stable and intend to stock it up in good shape.

Jim Winbourn will rid the upper end of the ditch again this season, and E. C. Luce the lower section.

Mrs. M. E. Lowe was elected school director at the election on Monday by an almost unanimous vote.

Fred Gadge has returned from Kentucky, and is spending a few days in fixing up his claim on the flat.

A. S. Baker shipped his pile driver engine to Denver on Monday for sale, having no further use for it.

Mr. Lovell, an old experienced farmer and stock grower from Iowa, says Mr. Baker has as faine a lot of hogs as he has ever seen.

C. W. McArness will ride and H. G. Pyott will cook for the Trowel outfit, and N. A. Baldwin will ride for the DT, this season.

Hon. J. W. McCreery, of Greeley, and Gen. Julius White, of Connecticut, wree in town Tuesday and Wednesday on ditch business.

Every farmer under the ditch is well pleased with the settlement of ditch troubles and are entering into farm work with renewed energy.

Ed. Baker now wears a hard boiled hat on our streets, as if he was the owner of the Platte & Beaver canal instead of a common scraper holder on it.

Ed. Brown and Jim Courtney went up to Denver Monday, and spent two days and three nights looking at the town but came home without buying it.

Col. G. F. Whitehead, representing the Rock Mountain News, was in town Wednesday in the interests of his paper. He says we have a fine country.

Mrs. Armstrong and Mrs. DuBeck, of Westminster, British Columbia, arrived in town Sunday evening on a visit to the Farnsworth and Anderson families.

J. H. Farnsworth and family have removed to the ranch southeast of town into the new resident just completed. The family will be greatly missed in our society.

The concert given by Miss Kennedy, in the schoolhouse on Wednesday evening, deserved better attendance than it received. The singing was enjoyed by all present.

Postmaster Clatworthy has received notice that Fort Morgan will be made a money order office on July 1st, that being as soon as the necessary red tape can be gone through.

M. I. Tuttle has concluded, not to go over the range to Delta; thinks this country good enough for him and will make it his home. He will engage in the fruit and nursery business.

Our compositors are on a strike; want 800 ems to count for 1000, and the entire press room gang has gone out on demand for eight hours work and ten hours pay. The world is getting lazier and more grasping every day.

Mrs. A. M. Crawford left on Monday for a visit with friends in Pacific Junction, Iowa. The Doctor is now resulting his own chuck--stewed loco, 'cactus on jack rabbit a la sage hen, and Platte squab.

In four days farmers here have contracted to pay $60,000 for water to be used in growing their crops, for all time; yet, only forty miles from us hundreds of tenderfeet are led to believe that irrigation is unnecessary or even injurious to crops. Who are the fools?

A party of three families arrived with stock and household goods from Fort Lupton on Sunday, and have taken temporary quarters in the Harris place. The gentlemen were here some months ago on a tour of inspection of the Platte valley from Lupton to Sterling. they will locate here.

In the settlement of the canal troubles Geo. H. West has taken an efficient and active part. The fence now belongs to the canal company, and let us see if we cannot keep the stock off of the growing grain.

Now and then the newspaperman finds an item of general interest which is just as well out of the paper as in. Wrongdoers should generally be censured by the press, but the rule has the exceptions, so if you fail to find sensational items in this issue, imagine yourself the culprit and over look the omission.

Every citizen of this country will be pleased to know that the recent ditch settlement assures us Mr. A. S. Baker as a permanent resident and that he will now make the improvements he has long has in view, to the benefit of Fort Morgan and himself. Had Mr. Baker's energy and means been wanting two years ago this flat would not now be covered with the improvements on it, and a renewal of his enterprises bodes well for Fort Morgan.

T. C. Kirtwood, D. D., will be in town about May 14th to organize a Presbyterian church society, and prepare for the building of a church house in town. All interested in this matter are requested to meet the gentleman, and church members having letters are invited to hand them in at the meeting that the church may be started with a good membership. A neat edifice will be erected this summer and Fort Morgan people no longer compleled to deny themselves of church privileges.