NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 11 Apr 1890, Vol. III - No. 32 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1890/90apr11.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 16 Jun 2002 =================================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado William R. Davis, Editor & Publisher 11 Apr 1890, Friday, Vol. III - No. 32 LOCAL LORE FOR SALE - One fine blooded Kentucky jack, on very easy terms. The jack may be seen at the Star Livery Barn. Call on C. Varney, Holyoke, Colorado FOR SALE - One yoke of large oxen well broken, ages five and six years - J.P. ANDERSON, SE 1/4 sec 5 7-47 Let us forget everything now but one thing - Phillips County’s good. The next meeting of the county Farmers Alliance will be held at Holyoke, on Saturday, of next week, the 19th inst. Jerome Lewis bought the bar and fixtures of P.E. Sullivan’s saloon, which were sold under chattel mortgage on Wednesday of this week, for three hundred and fifty dollars. Capt. John R. Brown of the commission firm of Brown & Bennett, No. 1450 market St., Denver, passed through Holyoke on Monday morning last. Our lady readers throughout the county should read the communication from L.M.R. and then organize auxiliary fair societies in each school district. The County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday last, and after the allowance of several claims and correcting of a few tax assessments, adjourned. Commissioner John C. Elder, writes us from Altona, Pennsylvania that numbers of persons are making ready to come west and he feels hopeful of having a good size colony accompany him on his home trip. In order to ingratiate yourself into the affections of an editor, drop in and “chin” the type setters. Their salary is paid for the purpose of entertaining company. Filling galleys is a secondary consideration. The storm of Tuesday last prevented the west bound passenger train going further than Fleming. The train returned to Holyoke in the evening and the passengers were made guests for the night of the B. & M. eating house. Our friend W.F. Slater, is the father of a little girl baby, born on last Sunday afternoon. The HERALD hopes that the young lady may wear through life, a face as radiant with smiles as was her father’s on last Monday morning. The election of officers of the Phillips County Fair Association was postponed until Saturday of next week. As soon as the officers are chosen, steps will be taken to make the fair of 1890 one long to be remembered. It will be a success - a grand success. The festival and musical entertainment given on last Friday evening by the ladies composing the “Earnest Workers Society” of west Holyoke, was well attended by our citizens and everyone appreciated the labors of the ladies to make the entertainment one of enjoyment to all present. The supper was an excellent one and in fact the entire programme for the evening was arranged and carried out, in a manner deserving more than a passing notice. The crowded condition of our columns this week compel us to be brief but we know that we but know that we but echo the sentiments of all present when we pronounce the festival and musical entertainment one of the best yet held in Holyoke. Charles E. Smith late of the Holyoke hotel, left for Denver on Monday morning. Attorney Charles Allen of Sterling was at Holyoke on professional business on yesterday. Messrs Brannon of Holyoke and Garragues of Greeley were in Denver together on last Tuesday. Rev. Mr. Oesch of the German Lutheran Church at Champion called at the HERALD office on yesterday. The west bound passenger train was four hours late on Saturday last, owing to an accident to the engine. The final proof notice of Mr. Henry D. Evans of Yuma County appears for the first time in this issue of the STATE HERALD. Every citizen of Holyoke is proud of the high character of the city’s high school. It takes front rank among the high schools of the State. MARRIED - Guernsey & Holt: At the residence of John Sykes near Paoli, April 6th, 1890 by Rev. H.B. Cook, Otis Guernsey and Miss Ora Holt of Phillips County, Colorado. Rev. Mr. Greer of the Baptist church will fill the pulpit of the Christian Chapel, West Holyoke, on next Sabbath afternoon at 3 P.M. The public is cordially invited to be present. J. Ken Mathews, Postmaster at Champion and also editor of the Chase County Champion, visited with us on last Friday. Mr. Mathews is one of the best of fellows and also one of the most popular men in his county. The postoffice over which he presides is a model of beauty and the officials of the postoffice department report Champion as having the best conducted fourth class postoffice west of the Missouri River. Evidently matters in local political appointments are not coming the way the STATE HERALD would wish in Phillips County. That paper makes a just kick against so much outside interference. It is bad and will result in no good to anyone. What is true in the main in Phillips is true in Sedgwick. The resident republicans in either county can manage their own affairs. - Sedgwick County Sentinel The STATE HERALD only desires that federal appointments in Phillips County under a republican administration be left to republicans in Phillips County to suggest, without the aid of democrats at home, or good republicans, residents of other counties in our State, and we’ll fight it out on this line if it takes all summer, and we’ll be sustained by the resident republicans in Phillips County in so doing. We want no ring rule. Mr. G.R. Ellis, one of the gentlemen appointed by our Board of Trade to visit Grand Island, Nebraska and investigate the sugar beet industry being established in that city, returned to Holyoke on Sunday morning last. Mr. Ellis was highly delighted with his visit and investigation and feels quite hopeful that we may yet succeed in inducing the Messrs. Oxnard to locate one of their plants in our city. The machinery for the Grand Island Beet Sugar Works is now in this country and will be placed in the works and be ready to receive the beet crop of the present season when matured. Some fifty pounds of beet seed will be sent to Mr. Ellis for a test by our farmers and at the proper time a few of the beets raised by each farmer will be sent to Grand Island where they will be analyzed and if the saccharine matter proves satisfactory, another season will find a new industry secured for the farmers of our county. Mr. James Donovan of this city leaves next Tuesday for Great Falls, Montana where he expects to locate. Mr. Donovan came to Holyoke in 1887, when the town first started and has been in active practice of law ever since, and his practice has not been confined to Phillips County alone but he has frequently been heard in Yuma, Logan and Washington Counties, Colorado, and in adjacent counties of Nebraska. About one year ago Mr. Donovan defended Miles Henry in the famous Henry murder trial at Imperial, Nebraska and saved Henry from hanging. In this case he made one of the finest pleas ever heard in western Nebraska. In the famous white cap case in this county, Mr. Donovan was the leading attorney for the defendants, and his speech to the jury was a grand and masterly effort. Mr. Donovan is an able, scholarly and eloquent orator, a well read attorney, and a man of good judgement and legal ability. He leaves behind him a host of warm personal friends who regret his departure, and has the best wishes of the people of Phillips County for his future success. The STATE HERALD favors the judicious advertising of the agricultural resources of Phillips County in every feasible manner but we are free to say that with the statements thus far given to the public regarding the intended workings of the State Development Society, we think it advisable for our County Commissioners to look before they leap into an expenditure of Two hundred dollars of the peoples money for the carrying out of the plans of this society and for the following reasons. 1st. The statement is made publicly that a train of cars is to be run to the several State fairs, free of cost, bearing specimens of the agricultural products of Colorado. If this be true will it cost the Fifty thousand dollars asked for, from the several Counties of the State to fit up this train and secure the necessary printing matter? surely not. 2nd. Our farmers are poor and today are heavily burdened by taxation and may of them by debts contracted in order to supply the wants of their families during the past winter and we believe with these facts before the County Commissioners that they should decline to make the appropriation asked in aid of the State Development society. Let the money be raised by voluntary contribution. From our citizens that is all right, but let the County money go only for legitimate County purposes during these times of financial depression in our County. CORRESPONDENCE BEACHVILLE Rain. Very windy. Join the Farmers Alliance is the cry. Frank Saylor was in Julesburg last Wednesday Allen Peter had the measles last week. John Nelson Jr. will lave for Denver this coming week. The school in District No. 3 is progressing nicely under the charge of Mrs. Oscar Troutman. Charles Peter and Ernert Hageman went to mill at Champion, Nebraska last Wednesday. Mrs, Saylor, of Shelton, Nebraska, mother of Ike and Frank Saylor of this place, arrived here last Friday and will make it her future home. A Farmers Alliance was organized at the Trego school house on Monday March 31st, 1890. George Trego president and C.M. Mowry Secretary. -- OLD MISERY JOTTINGS FROM 6-44 A terrible day, but we still live. Tarpaper will be in lively demand tomorrow. Did we eat our allotted “peck of dirt?” Yes toward it. We’ve a sky light tonight. East half of roof covering gone. P.B. Reynolds’ wind mill succumbed to the elements. The Philadelphia Press truly says “This country knows no monarch but the storm king. A new version - “Come west! and blow up with the country.” No other storm reports as yet from this burg except that neighbor Sholes was seen rescuing two cows from an overturned stack. Were you through house-cleaning ladies? Well, repeat the delectable performance with all the equanimity possible. Maybe we didn’t long today for our old New York home, where the stumps and stones hold down the real estate. Rev. Cook will preach at Fairview on the 13th inst, at 2 P.M. Sabbath school an hour previously. We regret the serious illness of Mrs. Whitney of 7-48, whose many friends hope for her recovery and early return to her accustomed place in social and religious circles. Claim life has had few attractions the past few days for “grandpa” and “grandma” Slater, while Frank’s countenance is a whole encyclopedia of smiles. What a pity there is no vacant land around Holyoke upon which to break wild bronchos, instead of its main avenue, with imminent danger to life and limb. Chicago is already in a broil over the selection of her World’s Fair Directors, which must be a sweet morsel of news to Gotham and St. Louis. Not knowing what else to do today, we reread the reports of the late southern calamities and tried to glean comfort from the thought that a straight wind is less to be dreaded than a twisted one. Certain gentlemen of our acquaintance are making merry over the intelligence that comes from the late election in Kansas. A lady suffragist having been nominated upon al local school board, the anti-suffragists nominated a colored lady, and elected her too. Oh! Perversity, they name is man. Our township fair auxiliary was perfected last week, by the election of the following officers and committees. President Mrs. James Mackie Vice President Mrs. H. Zoll Secretary Mrs L.M. Reynolds Committee on domestic fabrics Mrs. Mackie and Mrs. William Kipling Committee on needlework Misses Edna Mackie and Anna Reynolds Committee on dairy products Mrs. H. Daggy and Mrs. T. Hibbs Committee on pantry stores Mrs. C. Slater and Mrs. L.M. Reynolds Committee on poultry Mrs. H. Zoll and Ira Worley Committee on vegetables, flowers and plants Mrs. William Johnson and Mrs. Cramer Having taken the initiatory step, our society earnestly requests the ladies of each township to at once fall into line, hold frequent meetings during the season to compare notes and report progress, and in every possible way enthuse our people to work for the best interests of our next fair, which will be our best advertisement of our resources to the strangers within our gates, and afterward at the Nebraska State Fair, where our exhibit has already been promised a choice of location by ex-Governor Furnas. -- E. M. R. THE PHILLIPS COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION The Phillips County Teachers Association met April 6th, 1890. The meeting was called to order by the President, C.B. Timberlake. J.M. Beggs was elected Secretary pro-tem. The following exercises were then observed. Mr. S.G. Duley conducted a discussion on Geography, in which nearly all the teachers present participated. After which Mr. M.P. Woodell conducted a class exercise in Arithmetic, which was made quite practical by illustrations on the black board. The meeting then adjourned to meet at 1:30. The first in order in the afternoon was the election of officers for a Phillips County Teachers organization, which resulted in the following: Supt. C.B. Timberlake President; J.M. Beggs Secretary; Martha Daggy assistant Secretary. A motion was then made for the Secretary to act as Treasurer - carried. An executive committee of five was then elected, Mr. S.G. Duley from Holyoke, Mr. S.H. Johnson from the south part of the county, Mr. Charles Peter from the north, Mr. A.C. Snowberger from the east and Mr. M.P. Woodell from the west. A motion was carried that the executive committee prepare a program one month previous to the monthly meeting of the association. Miss Easton then conducted an animated discussion on Grammar. This was followed by an exercise in Botany by Mrs. Close, in which the teachers manifested much interest. After which Mrs. C.B. Timberlake conducted a spirited discussion on U.S. History. The time being so limited, Mr. Close’s exercise on the sciences was postponed until next meeting. -- J.M. Beggs, Secretary A TERRIFIC STORM On Tuesday morning last, at about 3 o’clock the citizens of Holyoke were aroused from their slumber by the shaking of their houses and the keen whistle of the wild raging wind which visited our city, doing serious damage to property. The storm continued until evening, making travel almost an impossibility not only on account of the wind, but the great danger of being struck by flying boards or pebbles. The brick engine house of the Holyoke Elevator Company was entirely demolished and the engine badly damaged by the falling walls. The tin roof on P.E. Sullivan’s saloon building was dashed to the ground. The Central Drug Store lost a portion of its glass front and many articles in stock were damaged. Hose Reel No. 2 house was badly damaged. Aaron Woodson’s chimney was blown down, causing a temporary suspension of business at his popular dining hall. The wind mill at the Holyoke House, also the one on Inter Ocean Avenue is so badly damaged as to require taking down. The Hoskin’s building next to the STATE HERALD office lost its awning and a portion of its glass front. The glass front of the Temple building was nearly all destroyed. The lumber yards surrendered their fences to the infuriated storm. The roof was taken from Patman’s school building near town. The wind mill at West Holyoke brick yard was destroyed and a like fate befell the one at Henry Kruger’s place, in the same locality. The farmers report much damage done to small grain throughout the County. An estimate of the lost is yet unknown but of one fact we are sure, no lives were lost and for this we should all feel grateful. 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No. 12721, for the S W qr. of sec 13 town 5 north, in range 46 west of 6 p.m. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: John W. Packard, Holyoke Sherman Hollenbeck, Holyoke Joseph H. Shockley, Eckley Henry W. Hearbaugh, Eckley J.A. McBeth, Register. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.