NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 12 Dec 1890, Vol IV - No 18 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1890/90dec12.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 2 Aug 2006 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 12 Dec 1890, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 18 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. Fifty thousand brick for sale by C. Varney. J.P. Anderson made final proof on his homestead last week. C.M.C. Woolman made a business trip to York, Nebraska last week. C. Varney was in Denver last week looking after business matters. John Delay shipped two car load of fat cattle from Holyoke last Tuesday. Charlie Johnson has gone to Stromsburg, Nebraska to make a visit with friends. Andrew Cain left for Denver last Saturday to visit for a couple of weeks. Mr. H. Sutherland was quite sick the fore part of the week, but is reported much better. We understand that W.R. Davis is located at Bismarck, North Dakota, engaged in the newspaper business. G.W. Shuler and family returned from Denver last week where they had been spending several weeks. Joe Cleland and wife returned home Wednesday from Grand Island, where they had been on a visit to relatives. Let us have a move at once to secure an appropriation by congress to put down test artesian wells in eastern Colorado. Ed Varney returned to Holyoke the first of the week after an absence of several months at Chicago, Denver and other cities. H.W. Wakeman and G.F. Blakely returned last week from Denver where they had been for a couple of weeks serving on the jury. William, the democratic Sage of the Frenchman valley, is decidedly cranky of late, caused, of course, by the passage of the McKinley bill. The fixtures in the City Drug Store have recently received a new coat of oil which makes much improvement in the appearance of the store. Miss Carrie Kidd was taken quite sick while on a visit at Red Cloud, but had recovered sufficiently to return home with her father and brother last Monday. B.F. Wickersham, road master from Holyoke to Cheyenne was a visitor at McCook. Last Thursday, renewing old acquaintances. - McCOOK TRIBUNE A new time card went into effect on the B & M last Sunday by which both passenger trains are day trains out of Holyoke. The sleeper has been taken off and no trains will be run on Sunday. James Kidd, clerk in the supply department at Holyoke, was a visitor in McCook this week. He is taking a short vacation, most of which time he will put in at Red Cloud. - McCOOK TRIBUNE Ed Wilson returned Monday from Custer City, South Dakota, where he has been for several months working on the Hill’s Democrat of that place. He is well pleased with his location and will return to Custer City after a short stay in Holyoke. John Reiff has been caught in the raffle for jurors again, and he says now that he will hereafter vote the republican ticket, as he is satisfied that the democratic county officials put up a trick on him. The members of the fire company are urging upon the City Council the advisability of purchasing a hook and ladder outfit for the company and have made a proposition to donate fifty dollars to the city to aid in the purchase of the outfit. The fire boys are wide awake to any improvements that can be made in our facilities for fighting fire. We desire to thank Mrs. L.M. Reynolds for favoring the HERALD office with some excellent wedding cake. For some reason, this good old custom of treating the editor to wedding cake seems to be on the decline in the west and we feel highly favored when the office is remembered as in this instance. Jay S. Lawrence took the train last week for Newport, Arkansas, where he expects to make his future home. Mr. Lawrence is much pleased with the business prospects at that place. He will go into the lumber business with Mrs. Lawrence’s father who owns a large saw mill. We are sorry to lose such a man as Mr. Lawrence from Phillips County. Last Friday a meeting was held at the court house and an aid society organized to look after the wants of any families in the county that by reason of the short crops of the past season may need aid during the winter. The general committee consists of Messrs. Timberlake, Hazen, Tipton, Churning and Robinson. A committee from each precinct will be selected in order that the funds raised may be judiciously disposed of. FAIRVIEW Fred Borland has added another hundred sheep to his flock. Sabbath school at 12 o’clock slow time; superintendent, S.S. Worley. H.W. Wakeman has returned from Denver. Mrs. Scott from Nebraska is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Stout. One more little shanty on the claim left vacant. But Whitney Irwin was in need of a housekeeper, so we bid them God speed, in their new relationship, may their pathway be strewn with heavens choicest blessings. Mrs. Will Huffman has been on the sick list for a few days. R.S. Stout is putting up quite a good sized frame barn. The roofs are disappearing from a good many of the vacant houses. What is strange about this disappearance is that the most of them are spirited away by the light of the stars. Can’t account for it unless men choose darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. There has been some sickness among horses in this vicinity, not proving fatal however. Leman Stumbaugh purchased a wind mill from M.N. Worley. Equestriennes seen on Broadway last Sunday evening, Pearl Lee and Mattie Daggy. - GUESS WHO BEACHVILLE How about the debate at the Trego school house last Friday evening? We presume that over production caused the depression of the crowd. How about it, debaters? We agree with the HERALD in echoing its sentiments in regard to irrigation. While it is true that the beet culture can be carried on to a profitable extent, yet we must not forget that we must produce our living also, or else our profits will be consumed in buying that which we need. It has been demonstrated to every fair-minded farmer that the present rainfall will not produce a profitable result. Therefore, farmers do not hesitate to ask congress to help you in this matter; circulate petitions in your immediate localities and send them to our congressmen at once. Time is money and the salvation of our country. Harry Sprague is going to the mountains this week. Oscar Troutman and Charles Peter went to Sterling Monday as witnesses on a contest case. Mary Peter has advertised to prove up on her claim. The young people of this vicinity spent a pleasant evening at F. Sprague’s last Wednesday evening. Isaac Saylor is putting the roof on his new house and will have it completed in a short time. - OLD MISERY Report of Holyoke Schools for the month ending December 5, 1890. First Primary Total enrollment, 45 Present enrollment, 41 Average daily attendance, 36 Number neither absent nor tardy, 20 Miss Lizzie Gordon, Teacher Second Primary Total enrollment, 39 Present enrollment, 39 Average daily attendance, 35 Number neither absent nor tardy, 19 Mrs. M.E. Timberlake, Teacher Grammar Department Total enrollment, 40 Present enrollment, 32 Average daily attendance, 28 Number neither absent nor tardy, 10 S.H. Johnson, Teacher High School Total enrollment, 36 Present enrollment, 31 Average daily attendance, 30 Number neither absent nor tardy, 16 H.W. Barr, Principal NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Sterling, Colorado, December 8, 1890 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the clerk of the district court of Phillips County at Holyoke, Colorado, on January 17, 1891, viz: AUGUST V. EKSTROM, Hd E 8422 for the nw ¼ sec 20 tp 7 n r 47 w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Fred W. Hawks, Haxtun, Colorado Clarence A. Hawks, Haxtun, Colorado Watson Patmon, Haxtun, Colorado Frank O. Peterson, Haxtun, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Sterling, Colorado, December 8, 1890 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of her intention to make final proof in support of her claim, and that said proof will be made before the clerk of the district court of Phillips County at Holyoke, Colorado, on January 17, 1891, viz: Mary M. Peter, D E. 28984 for the lots 7 and 8 and s 1-2 ne ¼ sec 4 tp 8 n r 45 w. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Charles W. Mowry, Holyoke, Colorado John Hageman, Holyoke, Colorado Harry A. Trego, Holyoke, Colorado Israel Crater, Holyoke, Colorado Any person who desires to protest against the allowance of such proof, or who knows any substantial reason, under the law and the regulations of the Interior Department, why such proof should not be allowed, will be given an opportunity at the above mentioned time and place to cross-examine the witnesses of said claimant, and to offer evidence in rebuttal of that submitted by claimant. - H.E. Tedmon, Register ================================================================= 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. 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