|
In and Around
Town
Fort Morgan Times
Friday, May 14, 1886
Page: 4 Section: None
IN AND AROUND TOWN.
Our notary was crowded with business all week.
The advance guard of the mosquito is with us.
G. W. Warner spent Saturday in Denver on business.
The orchestra boys advertise a hope for Thursday evening.
The round up boys have left for their various headquarters.
Billy Morton has doubled the capacity of his dairy by buying another cow.
Hallack & Howard received a car of cedar posts from the east this week.
How sweet a thing it is for farmers and ditch company to dwell together in
unity.
Hovey Altman has purchased a team, and will do plowing, etc. for different
parties.
L. C. Baker spent Wednesday at the county seat looking after road and other
business.
Rev. DeKirkwood, of Colorado Springs, is in town to organize a Presbyterian
church society. He preaches tonight in the schoolhouse.
Citizens can be seen craning their necks these nights in search of the over due
comet. The general opinion is that it has not come yet.
We extend our thanks to the Greeley Board of Trade for an invitation to attend
their first market day, and a press dinner at the Oasis.
M. R. Clark is having his residence re-modeled, enlarged and refurnished in
first class style--no, we guess not, but can't always vouch for a bachelor.
L. W. Kimball has purchased a team of Norman work mares of a Denver firm. The
team is probably the finest in this section, costing $500, and considered cheap.
The R. M. G. has been preparing his ground for planting potatoes. That is to
say, he has lost five suspender buttons and blistered both hands spading a
furrow across the patch.
L. W. Kimball, manager of the Fort Morgan Land and Live Stock co., last week
sold to Walter Glenn and son twenty-one head of native heifers, at $32 per head.
Dr. Crawford has spent six days hunting for brand to put on his herd of cattle.
Since the State refuses to accept a duplicate it is a difficult task to make a
brand, with nearly ten thousand now recorded.
Baker Brothers expect to complete their work on the head of the Platte and
Beaver tomorrow. The work done foots up the thousands of dollars, and the result
has been pronounced a good job by competent judges. That is the kind of work
they always do.
The Fort Morgan Guards has had a gun rack placed in the Armory, modeled after
the most approved pattern, with sliding lock doors, etc. Oh, our boys never care
for expenses and always go in for the best. Frank Mott is the architect of it.
We make the assertion that more daily papers are taken in Fort Morgan than any
other town of the size in the State. Many of our famers and every businessman
receive the Denver dailies. This is simply thrown out as a hint as to the class
of people we have here.
The baseball boys received their new custom-made uniforms last week, and now
make a very pretty appearance in the field. In fact, one of "our girls" said she
wanted to "go right out and kiss that pitcher, only she didn't know whether it
was Ed Brown or Lous Bartlett." It was George Robinson.
A. S. Baker sold to Sinton Brothers, of Colorado springs, the following, out of
his fine herd of thoroughbred Swiss stock: 2-year old bull, "Captain Tell;"
3-weeks old bull calf, "El Paso Prince;" 3-moths old heifer calf, "El Paso
Maid." This is Sinton Brothers' second purchase of stock from this herd.
The laterals in town have been run through with the ditcher, and property owners
are busy setting out trees and irrigating gardens. Water should be kept running
through the laterals at all times, and if no one will act the hog and take all
the water it can be so arranged.
One of the largest pieces of alfalfa in Colorado is on the ranch of the Fort
Morgan Land and Live Stock Company under this canal. One hundred and
seventy-five acres were seeded last year and the acreage will be doubled the
present season. Mr. Kimball expects to have one hundred days of haying every
year, and will employ quite and army of men in cutting and caring for the crop.
|
