The Greeley tribune., 1905-06-15
Watsabaugh's Wanderings

avenue with immense shade trees OBJ
either side making it very COY
place to live.
]. Gladstone was born in England
but does not claim to be related 10
the once famous Wm. Gladstou5
Mrs. Gladstone was daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. LAGRANGE who were
members OF the Union Colony and
their pretty home is part of what
was the Lagrange ranch. They have
their place rented TO j. w. McGill
and spend their summers in the
mountains.
d. H. Nauman is hustling the
farm work on place in the La
Grange settlement. Mrs. Norman
is the daughter of j. P. Nauman 50
she did not have to change her
name. The farm belongs to her
father and he owns another one near
to this one. Mr.. and Mrs. Nauman
are young people and both natives Of
Virginia.
b. S. LaGrange located the farm
where the fam lily now lives in ls70,
as member of the colony. The
road for a half mile each way from
the house is lined with giant shade
trees, the result of work Mr.. La
Grange did when this was all tree
less prairie. He died in 1894 leaving
a wife, now s3 years old and strong
and active for one of her years, two
daughters, Mrs. Gladstone who lives
near and Mrs. Writers who is with
the mother, her husband having died
some years ago, and son, W. II.
LAGRANGE. who is still at home and
runs the farm for his mother.
d. W. Carr is a very energetic
young farmer and keeps himself busy
with running two farms and doing
his own blacksmithing. He is an
expert mechanic and followed that
line Of work exclusively until the
last two years. He has as fine a
field of fall wheat as one may see
anywhere, a bunch shown the writer
measuring sixteen inches the first of
May and is grown above irrigation.
Mr.. aud Mrs. L. L. Carpenter re-
Gently from Ohio, are employed on
Mr.. Devotie's ranch and keep house
for him. Mrs. Carpenters mother,
Mrs. Dunlap, is with her and her
son, who is with J. B. Snyder this
summer, expects to buy farm.
o. A. Collins is young farmer
who came from Georgia two years
ago. He has charge of a 160 acre
ranch belonging to Mr.. Eaton. His
crop will consist of beets, wheat and
potatoes. Mrs. Collins mother,
Mrs. Nix, is with them and takes
the Tribune.
I p. Peterson,a a native of Sweden, is
occupying school section which he
rents from Mr.. Eaton. He is not
inclined to complain but has had his
share of bad luck. He tried ranch
ing in eastern Colorado and dlied out
and since locating here he has been
hailed out and then the low prices
of ''s9uds'' last year was discourag-
ing. but he is not a gutter so is 60
ing to do his best to make lot of
money this year.
Ed Mercer is a well-to-do farmer
and having been born in England he
belongs to the class who are Ameri-
cans from choice. His occupation
in the old country was that of book
keeper. He has we'll improved
eighty acre farm where he lives and
100 acres couple of miles west
which is rented.
A. W. Atkinson has a nice crop of
beets and is raising some grain. He
takes quite an interest in good horses
and is secretary of the Pleasant VAL
ley horse company.
James Mccullough has lived on
his present good farm nineteen years
and has done quite we'll. His wife
and their three children, Walter,
Edith and Sarah, all came here with
him from his old home at Lancast-
shire, England.
Mrs. S. P. Mulford is doing quite
we'll in managing the farm, with
the help of her children and with a
good season from now on will do
we'll.
T. II. Robinson is farming the
Jasper Riggs place of eighty acres
and while potatoes were so very low
he says he really can't kick on the
way the world has used him for the
past several years. Among the i'm
provements nice lot of cherry trees
were noticed and the 'wanderer''
wonders why lot of the shade trees
might not Just as well have been
fruit trees, with possibly a few other