NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 29 Aug 1890, Vol. IV - No. 3 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1890/90aug29.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 20 Jan 2005 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 29 Aug 1890, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 3 Page One LOCAL LORE It is our purpose to note the arrival and departure of all guests to our city, and request those who have visitors to inform us of the fact. Local news items are always thankfully received. E.S. Dakan spent last Sunday in Curtis, Nebraska. J.F. Kenyon, of McCook, spent Sunday in Holyoke. J.M. Henderson, of Sterling, spent Monday in Holyoke. C.M.C. Woolman was in Julesburg this week on business. The fall term of the city school will open Monday September 15th. Mr. J.J. Yoder is erecting a fine dwelling on his farm west of Holyoke. The board of county commissioners will hold a session tomorrow August 30th. E.F. Highland and family returned Sunday morning from a pleasure trip west. J.L. Wood was a delegate to the independent convention last week from this county. S.A. Dravo, an attorney of Holdrege, Nebraska, spent several days in Holyoke this week. The Alliance county convention is called to meet at Holyoke on Saturday the 6th of September. B.F. Williams went to Denver yesterday on business for the Holyoke Building and Loan Association. Miss Grace Whitham went to Holdrege this week where she will attend school during the fall and winter. A.B. Smith, of Denver, was in Holyoke this week doing some work for the Lincoln Town Site Company. Mr. Herman Boden, of Create, Nebraska, was visiting with his brother, A.H. Boden, in Holyoke this week. J.P. Walker started this week with a team on a trip to Grand River, Colorado, and will be gone several weeks. The farmers are marketing their wheat which this year is a fine quality and should bring the highest market price. George Laming, employed as operator at Red Cloud for the past two years, has been promoted to fill vacancy at Holyoke. - McCook Gazette. Now is your time to subscribe for the STATE HERALD. You can have the HERALD from now till the close of the campaign for 25 cents. Come in and subscribe. Litigants and others having business before the Land Office should call on E.E. Armour, attorney at law and Judge of the County Court, Sterling, Colorado. We are informed that, owing to total failure of crops in western Kansas a large number of the settlers in that part of the state will move to eastern Colorado. There will be an Old Settlers picnic Saturday, September 6th, on section 32-2-46 at the farm residence of C.B. Timberlake. All are invited to be present, and have a general good time. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Rev. Bailey preached a fine sermon to a good sized audience last Sunday night. The weather is now cooler and there is no good reason why the church should not be filled every Sunday. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Remember the concert to be given at the M.E. church Thursday evening September 4th. The ladies who have charge of the concert are sparing no pains to make it highly entertaining to all and they never fail in such undertakings. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Phillips County was recognized in the independent convention by the nomination of Prof. S.G. Duley as candidate for Regent of the University. Mr. Duley stands high in the estimation of a large circle of friends in Phillips County. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* The general health of the people in this community seems to be remarkably good for this season of the year. It was naturally to be expected that the long and unusually heated season would be followed by much sickness but it has not proven so this year. NOTICE There will be a meeting of the people of Phillips County at the Court House in Holyoke on Saturday the 6th of September for the purpose of making arrangements to prospect for artesian water at some point in the county. - COMMITTEE *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* The new organ, purchased for the M.E. church by the ladies, arrived last Saturday and proves very satisfactory. The ladies of the Aid Society deserve the thanks of all who attend the Methodist church for their untiring labors in raising the money to purchase so fine an instrument. The ladies inform us that they are now raising money to purchase other furniture for the church building to correspond with the organ. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Prof. and Mrs. S.G. Duley left Holyoke for Otis, Colorado, this week where they have secured positions in the public schools for the coming school year, Mr. Duley as principal and Mrs. Duley assistant. Professor Duley was quite successful as principal of the Holyoke schools and he and Mrs. Duley leave a large circle of intimate friends here who will be interested in hearing of their success at Otis. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Bro. Williams recently expressed a wish that the commissioners would have the County Treasurer's report printed, stating that some of the people wished to see it. We publish the report in this issue and, if Williams wishes a few copies to supply the readers of the News, he can secure them by calling at this office. Williams, of course, will not print the report till he receives an order from the commissioners to do so, in order that he may be able to draw from the county coffers his pay for doing so, and this order may, and no doubt will be a long, long time coming. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Mr. T.D. Tipton informs us that he has quite recently traveled over the greater portion of Phillips County and that there will be a much larger number of bushels of both corn and wheat raised in the county than was raised last year. Phillips County, from all accounts, is in much better condition, so far as a crop is concerned, than some counties east of us in Nebraska. This has been an extraordinary year for drouth all over the country and there is every reason to believe that, had it been even an average year, this county would have had a good crop. This has not been a fair season to test the crop producing qualities of this section of country by, as the farmers who travel east through two or three states looking for a place not affected by the drouth, will find out to their sorrow. BEACHVILLE Fine rain Monday. Oscar Troutman helped Capt. Mason to move a house Monday. Ike Saylor is erecting a large stable on his claim. Mr. Mike Mowry and family entertained some of their friends from the Snowberger neighborhood east of town. Oscar Troutman moved his house and dug a cellar and made many other substantial improvements on his claim the past week. Mrs. T.J. Green is reported on the sick list. Our people are talking politics very loud, and judging from present indications in the political field their wishes shall be gratified. - OLD MISERY *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Picnic: At the residence of Israel Crater under the auspices of Eureka Alliance held Thursday, August 27th. The executive committee had taken time by the forelock and previous to the day of meeting had prepared seats and stand under ample shade afforded by canvas coverings. And listening to the entertaining exercises one almost forgot to long for the shelter of the old familiar forest trees, so comfortable and contented did we feel under shade prepared by hands. Our eastern cousins might exclaim, a picnic on a tree-less plain! But truly "necessity is the mother of invention." Each one present seemed exceedingly pleased with his surroundings and but few murmurings were heard on account of crop failures, showing that the people of the northwest corner have the right ring, and the kind of pluck that is sure to win the race. And the ladies of this section have surely won the laurels by preparing the most sumptuous dinner ever served in Phillips County, and a due appreciation of their efforts was shown at the dinner hour and in the remarks which followed in the afternoon exercises. Upon being called forward C.B. Timberlake expressed himself as "too full for utterance," and Rev. Bailey said "the collation was as dainty and the girls as pretty as he had ever seen in any country." The literary exercises as well as the dinner deserves a word of praise. The program consisted of impromptu addresses, songs and recitations also an excellent address in behalf of the farmer's interests by H.H. Mason. The children deserve particular mention for the excellent rendition of their several parts; also the executive committee for the faithful discharge of duties incumbent upon them. Taken altogether it is a day long to be remembered in the history of Eureka Alliance and all privileged to be present. - M.E. Timberlake Page Four The HERALD don't tell the truth in relation to the kick made by republicans first against the corrupt legislation, of the last session. If the files are consulted at the time and along after the close of the session, the editor's memory may be refreshed. - News. Williams is very careful not to give any democratic editorials to substantiate the assertion. There never has been a time, since the republicans have been in power that the democratic press has not continued to make the general charge of corruption against the party and, of course, this was the case during the last campaign and while the legislature was in session, but it was the republican newspapers that first investigated, exposed and denounced the boodle gang in the last legislature for their corrupt actions. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* The Phillips County News says, "Unless the Alliance and the other elements seeking reform combine with the democrats the G. O. P. boodlers will carry on business at the old stand for the next two years." The News is edited by a man of wide experience, with great political foresight (?), and with such a consistent democratic record, since the day of his "Flop-over," that he may be considered reasonably fair authority on politics among a certain class of democrats, but such wild outbursts as the above are not considered for a moment even by the better class of his readers. He fails to tell his readers of the democratic boodlers, a part of whom took a part in the legislature steal, who are now using every means known to political tricksters to capture the independent vote for the democrats, from the county election up to the state. These are the men who control the democratic party of the state and who would manage public affairs if the democrats, by the aid of the independent vote, should carry the election. But the independent vote of the state is to o sharp to be caught in the democratic trap this time. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Semi-annual Report of County Treasurer Ending June 30, 1890 Receipts Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1889 $3,103.03 Military poll 747.00 County poll 1,288.00 General county fund 9,629.57 General county school 4,194.18 General poor 2,812.33 State funds 3,136.45 City 1,200.21 R.A. Hoskins 30.44 Warrant call No. 3 3,011.25 Warrant call No. 4 922.85 Redemptions 500.16 Interest 809.38 Certificates 2,537.50 Fines 11.00 Special school 6,344.52 Building and bonds 1,256.17 General school 4,741.29 $45,775.33 Disbursements Military poll 730.00 County poll 607.45 General county fund 7,011.37 General county school 4,011.96 General poor 1,746.27 State fund 3,007.87 City 1,155.06 Warrant call No. 3 2,054.21 Warrant call No. 4 679.18 Redemptions 297.27 Interest 4.77 Certificates 2,476.52 Special school 3,703.02 Building bond 322.95 General school 4,387.99 Cash on hand 13,579.44 $45,775.33 B.A. Hoskins, County Treasurer REPUBLICAN PRIMARY The republican primary election of precinct No. 2, Phillips County, Colorado, will be held at Holyoke, Colorado on the 10th day of September, 1890 for the purpose of electing eight delegates to attend the county convention to be held at Holyoke, Colorado, September 13, 1890 and to select two candidates for the office of Justice of the Peace. The polls will be open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. central time. Judges of election, P. Raymond, G.R. Ellis and Gade Weaver. The election to be held under the primary election laws of Colorado. - Oscar Troutman, Chairman Republican Central Committee SUMMONS - L. Tinkel, Plaintiff, vs. F.M. Persinger, Defendant. Action brought to recover the sum of twenty-six hundred dollars. Filed 15 Aug 1890. ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). USGenWeb Archives Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as the source and contributor name remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for publication in any form by any other organization or individual without the express written permission from the author/conributor.