NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 28 Mar 1890, Vol. III - No. 30 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1890/90mar28.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 12 Jun 2002 =================================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado William R. Davis, Editor & Publisher 28 Mar 1890, Friday, Vol. III - No. 30 LOCAL LORE Remember that next Monday is the last day for registering for the City election. The farmer’s alliance favors the STATE HERALD with an order for job work this week. A citizens meeting is called for tonight to place in nomination a Mayor and city councilmen. Mr. Alfred Larson and his lady leave for Tacoma, Washington Territory next week to be absent one year. Charles Erickson, August Larson and Christ Westerberg were in the city Saturday, and were welcome callers at this office. B.F. Anderson of Denver is in the city - finishing up the Gordon House trade for Denver property. The STATE HERALD issued a circular descriptive of Phillips County for the Holyoke board of trade this week. This circular is for free distribution, in Pennsylvania by County Commissioner Elder. Mr. A.T. Guthrie of the Holyoke nursery left for Geneva, Nebraska on Monday morning of this week on business connected with his nursery. Mr. Walter Wilson left for Denver on last Monday night and shortly after his arrival there he secured employment at good wages. County Judge Glynn ordered on yesterday the confinement of William Tacke in the Logan County jail twenty days, for refusing to testify in the Williams vs Tipton libel suit. Smithes, the banker from Akron, came in Holyoke on time yesterday - the wager $15 was to drive one horse round trip from Akron to Holyoke and return in 20 hours - the money is Smithes’ sure. The grass grows greener; the flowers send forth sweeter perfumes; the cereals grow more luxuriantly and the girls are brighter and prettier in Phillips County than anywhere else in the great west. Dr. F.H. Deming of Greeley will be in Holyoke for the practice of dentistry the first twelve days in April. Mr. A. Lilyia and his son Oscar left for Page County, Iowa on a visit on yesterday morning. On Friday evening of next week the ladies of the Willing Workers Society of the West Holyoke Church will give a musical entertainment and festival in the building until lately occupied by the City Drug Store. The proceeds of this entertainment go to the West Holyoke Church fund. Mr. E.D. Ellis of Rooks County, Kansas reached Holyoke on yesterday and will hereafter be numbered among the farmers of section twenty in township nine in range forty-five. Mr. Ellis is a practical farmer and we shall expect to hear a good report of his years labors. The libel suit brought by B.F. Williams, Editor of the News, against T.D. Tipton, late Editor of the HERALD, was decided on yesterday in the County Court by a verdict in favor of Mr. T.D. Tipton for one cent. On Monday morning last our fellow citizen, Mr. T.D. Tipton, received a telegram from Silver City, Mills County, Iowa announcing the death of his mother, Mrs. Mary Tipton. Mrs. Tipton was in the eighty........ [Bottom of column two missing] Mr. John Woolman of Fleming, Logan County, received a frightful wound in his right arm above the elbow on Saturday last, from the accidental discharge of a Winchester rifle, which he was removing from the rear of his buggy. Dr. I.W. Waite of this city amputated the arm above the elbow. From Dr. Waite we learn that Mr. Woolman is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. CORRESPONDENCE JOTTINGS FROM 6-44 Natural talent is education was the subject of debate at our last Literary with decision in favor of affirmative. Next Friday evening will be the last of the seasons sessions, which has been well attended, and a source of much pleasure and profit to the neighborhood. Our quarterly meeting services were interesting and were highly appreciated by the large audience present. Rev. Cook will ever be welcomed by this people. Edward Reynolds returned to Nebraska last Friday after leaving some eight or nine hundred dollars in payment of Phillips County stock which will be quite a “lift” in there tax times. As we again see our farmers so hopefully rushing in their spring’s crops, we are reminded of the words of Holy Writ. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” The Alliance movement is gaining ground rapidly, over sixty members being already enrolled at Fairview and the same number at Paoli, and many other points. “Dinna ye hear the Slogan?” We have learned a new eastern method of bread making which we commend to our housewives. A cup of corn meal (white preferred) is stirred into sufficient boiling water to form a thin gruel, cook for a few moments, and add while warm to the bread spunge before mixing hard. The Herald was in error in a recent statement that a County Fair Association has been inaugurated by P.P. Reynolds and other gentlemen, the “lords of creation” seemingly being very slow in setting about their laudable undertaking. But we will (confidentially) tell you of a project some of our ladies have in view to give impetus if possible to the movement. It will be called the “Phillips County Fair Auxiliary of township 6-44.” The officers will consist of a President, Vice President, and Secretary, and two of our best workers will be chosen to work up an interest in the township in each of the following departments usually represented at a county fair viz Dairy products; Domestic fabrics - which shall include carpets, quilts, rugs etc. Needle work; Poultry, Pantry Stores (including canned fruit, Pickles, Vegetables, Plants and flowers). These being the lines of greatest interest to womankind, they will be the ones to receive our committee’s work. This organization is intended in no measure to forestall or otherwise influence any Fair Association to be hereafter created by the county at large, but is simply what its name indicates “an auxiliary” to that end, and we invite the ladies of each township to join with us in organizing a like society (or upon a better plan if they see fit) at an early date, and we believe the good results will be apparent at our “harvest home” festival which a kind providence will bountifully bestow upon our Phillips County agriculturists. L.M.R. FIDDLERS PEAK Robbie White is improving slowly. Farmers are busy putting in wheat and barley. George Conkling is now rusticating at hote de Hayt. The Misses Williams and Miss Haun departed for Arapahoe, Nebraska last Friday Nat Lane is a rustler among broncos; he soon took the starch out of Sear’s broncos. Frank Crane returned from Denver last Friday. He will probably remain for a month or more. Frank Hoyt and George Conkling are going to Denver in a few days and from there Conkling goes to San Francisco. Rev. O.P. Kellogg, of Sundance, Wyoming, and representative of that state, was a welcome visitor at the “peak” last week. -- CHUD BEACHVILLE Fine March and the farmers are jubilant. Charles Peter took in Holyoke last Friday and Saturday. Walt Mason and Phil Peter paid a visit to Mr. Nelson’s last Sunday. Peter Hackahl of Holyoke was in this vicinity last Wednesday. There will be a meeting at the Trego School house this Wednesday night to organize a Farmers Alliance. Quite a few of our people took in the entertainment at Holyoke last Friday evening and they say it was “just immense.” F. Sprague and daughters returned home from Hall County, Nebraska where they have been visiting the past two months. Mrs. Sprague is expected in a few days. Quite a number of our young men went on a “chivari” last Monday evening. We are informed they did some “shivering” but failed to find their game. Try again boys and maybe you will be successful next time. The young folks of this vicinity gathered at the residence of Mr. John Nelson’s on last Tuesday evening, they whiled away the happy hours in dancing until the were small houses called them to depart for their several homes. [typed as written!] According to rumors circulated the past few weeks, that our quiet vicinity should have a couple of Weddings in the future. We have been made to realize that rumors may come to be true by the marriage of Mr. Oscar Troutman to Miss Sophie Peter by Rev. Kunkleman of McCook, Nebraska on last Thursday afternoon. It is the wish of their many friends of this vicinity that they may enjoy a happy and prosperous life. From present indications, we will not have to wait many days until we shall be started by another one. -- OLD MISERY WAKEMAN NEWS Mr. Will Eaton was in this vicinity Friday it seems as though there was some attraction at Wakeman for E. The Farmers Alliance is booming in Wakeman. Every farmer is invited to join our body. A.L. Brudette and M. Cunningham are sowing wheat. What uncle Mike can’t do ain’t worth while for any body else to try to do. Page Four HOLYOKE! THE COUNTY SEAT OF PHILLIPS COUNTY Has now a population of over fifteen hundred inhabitants; a system of water works costing $30,000 and a public school building costing $12,000. A town that is growing with unparalleled rapidity in the very center of the Great Frenchman Valley. The richest soil on earth, where the finest climate, purest water and best farming land is found; a place where you can invest your money and realize a large increase of values in the next few months; where real estate is booming at reasonable prices, because there is something behind it to back it up. This wonderfully growing and prosperous little city is situated in the very heart of the richest and most fertile agricultural county in the world. No better location can be found in the state for building up a large and beautiful city. Holyoke holds the key to and is the center of all the north and southwest country. She is a passenger and freight division, with round house, finest depot and eating house on the B. & M., the latter costing $30,000; headquarters of superintendent and train dispatcher of the road; 80 acres of switch yard. The selection of the site is due to the fine taste and correct interpretation of the future promises of places so well understood by the Lincoln Land Company. Holyoke has all the needed advantages of position, its railroad communication with the markets of the world being as good as any on the great B. & M. highway, and it has a country to support it on all sides as fertile as any in the west. The majority of the population is professedly Christian and all religious denominations are well represented. At present the M.E. denomination has a church of tasty design with a seating capacity of at least two hundred, and every morning and evening a good audience of attentive and appreciative hearers, regardless of creed, gather at the call of the church going bell, to worship the giver of all good. Sunday services are also held in school houses and private dwellings, through out the county. Holyoke’s principal wants - are a good flouring mill, a woolen mill, broom factory, creamery, cheese factory and starch factory. The Board of Trade has done and is doing all in its power to build up the commerce of Holyoke and make it more busy as well as more beautiful, and at any moment stand ready and willing to do all in its power to aid and assist by donation one who will come here and set his stakes for the public weal. Manufacturing and mechanical industries are especially desired, and there are no better chances in the whole northwest for a permanent investment than Holyoke. GROWTH OF COLORADO The growth of Colorado during the past fourteen years has been both rapid and substantial. It may be safely said, however, that if the truth had been fully known of the many superior advantages awaiting the settler in Colorado, thousands of people now struggling for a scant existence in Dakota, Oklahoma an other localities, which have held out many glowing but imaginary inducements to settlers, would now be happily located upon the rich and as yet undeveloped farm lands of Colorado. The growth of Colorado has not been spasmodic, there has been no crusades of emigration like those that have given Dakota and Oklahoma a restless and unstable population of speculation. The development of this beautiful State has been steady and sure, based upon actual results obtained from the experience of thousands of farmers, merchants, miners, mechanics and professional men who have found homes, happiness and prosperity as a reward for their earnest toil within the borders of this rising young State. PHILLIPS COUNTY: A RICH AGRICULTURAL COUNTRY: WHERE FINE FARMS AND HOMES AWAIT THE INDUSTRIOUS FARMER. Phillips County, Colorado lies in the northeastern part of the State. Joining the Nebraska State line, about 200 miles from Denver, 130 miles from Cheyenne, Wyoming, and 165 miles from Holdrege, Nebraska, the County is 21 miles in width, and 33 miles in length. Every square foot of land within its boundaries being tillable. The great Burlington and Missouri Railway runs clear through the County, on the way from Holdrege and Lincoln, Nebraska, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the extensive coal fields lying north, making close connections to Denver and other Colorado points, giving Phillips County the full benefit of the famous mountain markets. The County lies entirely in the great Frenchman Valley. The soil is a rich, black vegetable loam from three to ten feet in depth, inexhaustible. The productions of Phillips County are as varied as her soil is rich and fertile. Corn, wheat, oats, rye, broom corn, sorghum, potatoes, and in fact every plant grown within the climatic zone of Nebraska grows to an enormous size and produces large yields. Fields of corn from 50 to 100 acres are not uncommon. Estimated yield of sod corn, 40 bushels, millet 2 to 5 tons; potatoes, 100 to 300 bushels; all other products in proportion. The grasses are as much at home here, perhaps, as anywhere in the world. It is a natural grass country. The native prairie grass undisturbed by cultivation, furnishes the most nutritious hay ever fed to cattle. Colorado is the land of sunshine, and there are more cloudless days out of the 365 comprising the year than in any other part of the United States. For months at a time the days are clear and beautiful. During the greater part of the summer and autumn the prevailing winds are from the Southeast and are so cool as if coming from the sea. The climate is purely Coloradoan - mild and healthful. There are no swamps or wet lands hence no miasmas. The air is dry and bracing, winters not long, and severely cold days are rare. Spring opens early and the heat of summer is cooled by breezes which never subside into a dead calm. Here is found all of those elements which go to make a health restoring climate, as the elevation is sufficient to avoid the malarial vapors so common to the lower altitude of the Middle and Eastern states, and yet not high enough to tax the lungs beyond their capacity although to those desiring it, a very high altitude may be reached. As a fruit growing country but little can yet be said. Wherever fruit trees have been set out and been properly cared for, they have grown rapidly. Melons and such like fruits yield in abundance and grow to an enormous size. The shipping facilities of Phillips County are very good at present and will soon be unequaled. The grade for a branch road from Holyoke to Culbertson, Nebraska is already built, and the rails will soon be laid. A railroad survey lying southwest from Holyoke to Akron has been made and the road will place us at the door of the mountain markets which are unexcelled. Good claims can be bought cheap. It is in this county like it is in all newly settled western counties, a few are dissatisfied and want to sell out their holding Homesteads, tree claims and preemption relinquishments can be bought of the original entrymen at from $150 to $500 per 160 acres. The price is governed by the improvements and the distance from the railroad. The purchaser of a relinquishment enters into the possession of and carries out the requirements of terms at from $300 to $1200 quarter section, according to location and state of improvements. Good land can be secured at the above prices where only a payment of from $100 to $500 need be made in cash and the balance can be in payments running from 3 to 5 years. Haxtun is a thriving little village in the northwest corner of the county on the B. & M. Road. The finest crops in the county were grown in that neighborhood last year. The Bureau of Immigration of Phillips County, many of whom are Farmers, have made arrangements with the B. & M. Railroad to run excursions as follows: The Chicago, Burlington and Quiney Railroad will run excursions to Phillips County at one fare for round trip. These excursions will be run on the following dates: On April 22nd, May 20th, September 9th and 23rd and October 14th. Be sure that your ticket reads, to Holyoke via Omaha or Kansas City over the C.B. & Q. and B. & M. R.R. 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