The Greeley tribune., 1907-02-28
BUSY HABIT
LITTLE VILLAGEOF LUCERNE
HAS 1T SURE
An Important Shipping Point for
Produce in the Greeley Dis
trict-Busy Mer-
chant

A visit to Lucerne by one of the
Tribune force found that point o
busy section, almost too much SO
for the purposes of the reporter, who
was anxious to CLEAN the trend Of
trade and the facts of Lucerne's life
generally, commercial and social.
The merchant Of Lucerne, George
E. Duvall, should be made of rubber
if the calls in his line continue as
incessant as during the time of the
correspondents stay. Mrs. Duvall
aids materially in the store but it
certainly keeps them both busy
answering the numerous calls for
goods in the general mercantile line.
S. G. Bollinger is the blacksmith
of the village and is kept busy horse
shoeing, preparing machinery for the
summers campaign, and helping the
bridge builders and other agents OF
Improvement in carrying on their
work.
Four warehouses handle the prod
ucts of the soil, one of which, the
Alex. Fl. Johnston firm, runs grain
elevator and mill, grinding corn and
other feeds which seem in active de-
mand by the stockmen of this sec
tion. This firm Is made up OF Alex.
Fl. Johnston and son. They handle
coal and feed of all kinds, potatoes,
etc., owning ware house as we'll as
an elevator. Potatoes are shipped
to Texas, California and other
points.
Mr.. Biggar is manager for Potato
Growers Commission company, and
potatoes were being loaded into cars
for shipment as we'll as unloaded
from the wagons. Activity seemed
the rule of this firm as elsewhere.
C. c. Baker is in charge of the
third ware house. and is handling an
immense amount of produce.
l. Williams is the manager of the
fourth ware house, and 1t seemed
strong proof Of the resources OF the
Lucerne neighborhood, which nature
seems to have lowered bountifully,
that four produce dealers-saytng
nothing of the Boyle firm which
through A. Bartholomew as repre-
sentative and by means of dug outs
fitted for loading cars-can be kept
hard at work through the marketing
season.
Another busy man up there Is
Chas. Nicoll, weigh master for the
Great Western Sugar factory, who
has handled "a, 600 tons of beets this
season and is weighing back some
three thousand tons of the same beets
which through lack of proper care In
SLIDING have beer, left in shape unfit
for factory purposes. Some of the
beets are in pretty good condition
but as whole they are unfit for any
thing but feeding and the company
is selling them as rapidly as possible
for 81 per ton. The loss represented
by the piles standing out there by
the dump Wednesday would repre-
SeuU lO ouih' INV
rancher came distance of sixteen
miles Tuesday to get load of four
tons, four dollars worth, and was to
come back for more later. The COM
pany is anxious to get the refuse of
the ground as it is part of the tract
VIM. Stanley desires to put into
wheat.
The Eaton factory shut down Mon
day for the season. Charles Jenne-
way and Henry Southmann had the
contract for handling the beets in
silo and have been living in Lucerne
during the seasons work. The lat
ter named farmer has rented forty
acres Of the David Kelly beet land,
paying 81, 600 for the years rental.
Mr.. Crisp is the station agent
temporarily during the enforced fur
lough of the regular agent, A. w.
Davis, who has been seriously sick
with some form of brain fever.
Three cars of stock went out We'd
nesday, the regular day the U. p.
has for making up stock trains. A
Mr.. Weisman, cattle buyer, shipped
q car of cattle to Denver and George
r. Adams, rancher, sent two car
loads of sheep to Omaha. The We'd
nesday of the week before this stock
special took seven cars of stock from