The Greeley tribune., 1905-04-06
AT THELAKE
A FEW THINGS NEW AND
OLD THERE.
Pleasant Little Village OF High.
landlake That Would Make
a Very Nice Summer
Resort.

If you wanted to go to Highland
lake from Greeley you would get up
awhile after midnight and eat dish
of grape nuts that your wife had set
out on the table for you the night
before. Then you would take the
3 30 G. g. S. morning train from
Denver anu at Highland station the
conductor would pull the bell cord
and put you out on the bare prairie,
and after the train had gone you
would look off to the east and think
the conductor had made mistake
and dumped you off into Western
Kansas. You would see road lead
in away of up long hill, and If you
were o fat man and had big
camera and bicycle and a large
bunch of papers you would tie
the overcoat to the bicycle and sling
the camera over your shoulder and
lead the wheel up the hill After
you had walked about thousand
miles all the way up the hill and had
made up your mind that you were
sure on Kansas prairie, you would
come to the t. p of the hill, and look
ing down into the valley you'd know
you were in Colorado after all. You
would see the two nice little lakes,
with cottonwood trees around them
and over across the water little
church and = school house, and some
stores and houses, and some pretty
farms all around, and you would
know you were near Highlandlake.
Then you would climb on your wheel
and coast right down into town.
The first place you would stop at
would be at Nj. S. Adams & Co. s
store, and you'd invest in some oran-
yes and bananas and wish it was
noon. You'd find Mr.. and Mrs
Adams pretty nice sociable people
who have been running store there
for three years, selling all kinds of
general merchandise and building up
nice trade. Then right across the
street you'd see Clint Smith who
runs a blacksmith and barber shop.
Shoes horses in one building and
shaves humans in the next one. Does
pretty good job in either place.
Mr.. Adams owns the buildings, and
would give somebody a bargain and
show him where he could make some
money If he was blacksmith and
wanted location.
Then you would so around the
corner to Richey's store and the post
office and get acquainted there.
Theirs is the Oldest store at the
lakes but the country has settled up
so rapidly in the past few years that
both stores enjoy nice trade.
Looking south on Main street you
could not help but notice the pretty
elm trees all in blossom, with the
church and school house at the curve
where the road winds around the lake
toward Mrs. Oviatt's home, and you'd
unstrap your camera right then and
there and take a picture of the street,
with the ditch down the center
where they are laying gas mains,
and you'd ask all about this gas
scheme and the folks would tell you
that the church, which is Congrega-
tional in denomination, has invested
Ia, lat nl nf
lighting plant which will furnish
light to the church and to as many
of the houses close by whose owners
want to pay for its use, and If the
plant is success and the town
grows it may only be little while
until profits on the gas may pay the
preachers salary.
After you had taken the picture
you would walk down the street
past Hemmingsen's new meat market
and past Deacon Mead's pretty home
on the edge of the lake, with the fine
evergreens in the yard, and you'd
note II. S. True's nice new house and
barn, and walk down past the par
sonage to the bend in the road to get
shot at the lake itself. And
YOU would meet Frank Parmalee on
the way and he'd tell you Of the big
fish in the lake and OF the 3O-pound
carp they caught there last fall. and
of the fine bass it contains and you'd
sort Of wish you could spend couple
of weeks around there next summer,