The Greeley tribune., 1905-05-25

Dropping into the town Of Evans
for few hours l found that every
one wanted to talk about water
works and all seem proud of it Met
Il. Wills who has charge OF the irri-
CATION ditch owned by the town OF
Evans. 1t is seven miles long ana
supplies the water for all the gard
ems and lawns OF the town. Next
l called at new blacksmith shop
and found W. A. Jack, an expert
enced and careful mechanic in
charge as sole proprietor, He
worked for Mr.. Vanderlip for long
time but recently bought him out
and is now doing good business on
his own account in a brand new
shop. Next l met j. X. Ross,
reader of the Tribune who was busy
at his trade and seemed to have all
he could do. Taking a stroll along
the town park to get a drink OF the
city water, l met a pleasant old
gentleman with G. A. r. button
on his coat who seemed to be leis-
urely taking ride about town. l
soon found it was the postmaster,
p. II. Herriott. Speaking of the
Tribune he said there is no paper
coming to his office that the people
seem more anxious for than the
Tribune. There is big bunch of
them that come to my office, he
says, and the subscribers seem to
know about the time they are to ar
rive and they are all taken out
mighty quick. Mr.. Herriott has
had the Evans postof1ice for seven
years, is very careful and with the
help OF his wife the patrons abso-
lutely have no fault to find with his
administration of their postal
affairs. He served his Uncle Sam
during the war to save the union as
member of Company II, ll5, Iii
nois. and did his duty faithfully and
we'll. He expects to have every
member of his company who comes
to Denver during the reunion to
visit him at his home. He was
mustered out of service as first
sergeant and has the records of the
company as kept by himself while
in the service. Among other Evans
people whom met were the lumber
dealers, j. H. Behrens and sons,
who read the Tribune: W. F. Smith;
W. X. Lewis, young bachelor
farmer from near Platteville who is
farming on big scale, keeping six
hired men and housekeeper: Geo.
Fl. Young, a general merchant and
deputy marshal Ibid not meet him
in his official capacity. He says he
takes all the Greeley papers by turns
and that he occupied the place of
high private in Co. A, 95th Ohio
during the war. J. C. Hudson, of
the firm of Hudson Brothers, the
furniture dealers, has been ranching
/ until the last few months. Also c.
V. Mallonee the harness man. Nor
rison & Son, merchants, Knight the
druggist and L. Z. Nanderlip the
machinist, all read the Tribune.
Mr.. Vanderlip was busy putting in
pipes for the water works and of
course the work will be done right.
Homer Sims. who is running a Gu
cumber ranch in the suburbs. of
Evans is also reader of the Tri-
bune.
F. B. Stapleton has l2O acre
ranch on the Delta which he is de-
voting mostly to potatoes and onions
and beets this season.
Dan Carlson and C. j. Peterson
the writer found busy on ranch of
good land on the Platte valley.
Their crops looked promising and
they were putting in the time with
becoming industry notwithstand-
ing it was busy day for the festive
gnats.
J. A. Lofgren and Thos. Moss
are giving their attention to a large
part of the Dresser ranch and say
they read the Tribune every week.
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Eric Anderson has charge of 100
acres of the English ranch south of
the Normal and is farming with
good success. He formerly lived in
Kansas but is now better pleased
with raising beets and potatoes and
finds it profitable.
Gust johnson thinks he would
rather farm here than anywhere else
though he sustained quite loss by
the hail last year. He has charge of
good so of the English ranch and
will have a lusty crop of beets,
spuds, alfalfa and potatoes.
Richard Armstrong has good
farm of 1S0 acres with good improve
ments. located a mile south of the