NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 10 Apr 1891, Vol IV - No 35 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91apr10.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 10 Apr 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 35 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. B.F. Williams is reported very sick. John Oliver is clerking for Walter Shamp. August Scheunemann is now clerking for George Clark. W.E. Dickerson is now breaking on the passenger train. Mrs. Lee Hubbard took the train for the east Saturday. B.A. Hoskins and M. Francis returned Tuesday from Denver with the state money for seed grain. Two car loads of wheat have been distributed to the farmers this week. Mr. W.E. Dickerson went to Elsie, Nebraska Monday, on a visit to friends. Mrs. George Bruner returned Monday from Littleton, where she spent the winter. Gust Scheunemann went to Denver Saturday where he expects to remain some time. Will Wakeman has taken a position as salesman in George Clark’s general store. Mrs. Woodruff went to Elsie, Nebraska last Saturday to make a short visit with relatives. W.C. Powers spent a few days at Grant, Nebraska this week repairing the water hydrants. Miss Sadie Richards took the east bound train Saturday for her home at Roseland, Nebraska. Those who enjoy fishing should attend the social at Baker’s hall Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shamp took the train for Denver last Tuesday, to be gone several days. Mr. E. Donovan, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, now has charge of the B & M supply house in this place. Sam Williams severed his connection with the B & M and took the train Friday for the northwest. George Brooks returned Friday from North Platte, Nebraska where he had been called by the death of his mother. Miss Sanders of York, Nebraska, who has been visiting her sister Mrs. John Owens of this place, took the train for her home today. The first final proof notice in Phillips County under the new timber culture law was published in the HERALD last week for R. Cooperrider. Frank Brown, after a couple of weeks visit with his mother, Mrs. A.B. West, returned last week to Clarinda, Iowa where he holds the position of assistant train dispatcher on the H & S. It is reported that a test will be made of the new cyclone pump at Lamar, Nebraska in the near future. If this pump will do what is claimed for it, it will prove a great benefit to this western country. Norman Harvey, who for a few weeks had charge of the B & M supply house at this place, is now conductor on the passenger between Holyoke and Holdrege and will make Holdrege his home. The first voting in Nebraska under the Australian ballot system was done last Tuesday and so far as reported the result gave the best of satisfaction. Colorado will have the same system in force at the next general election. It is reported that in the near future the B & M will put on through passenger trains from Nebraska City to Cheyenne. We hope that the report is correct as it will give much better traveling facilities over the Cheyenne line. A necktie and star social will be given by the willing workers of the Christian Sunday School, at Baker’s hall on Wednesday evening, April 15, 1891. Peaches and oysters will be served from eight till ten. Every body cordially invited to attend. The B & M switchmen at Lincoln, Nebraska are out on a strike claiming that some of their number had been discharged without cause and their places filled with new men. A number of the train men have refused to make up their trains and have severed their connection with the road out of sympathy for the switchmen. The new members of the city council took their seats at the regular meeting last evening. The vote on city treasurer was a tie between R.E. Webster and George Clark and the Mayor case the deciding ballot for Webster. C.M.C. Woolman and George Shuler were candidates for city recorder and, the vote being a tie, the Mayor cast his ballot for Woolman. On motion the election of marshall was postponed one week. On motion it was decided to lower the saloon license from $800 to $500. H.R. Painter, ye editor’s father, stopped a few days at Holyoke this week on his way home from southern California, where he had spent the winter. MARRIED - At the residence of J.A. Temple, Holyoke, Colorado, on the evening of April 7th, 1891, N.F. Schwenck to Miss Minna Lange, Rev. W.L. Bailey officiating. There was quite a number of friends and relatives in attendance and a number of nice presents were made. The young couple is well known in Holyoke and vicinity and they have many warm friends here, with whom the HERALD joins in wishing them a prosperous and happy wedded life. They took the train, Wednesday morning, for Salt Lake City, where they will make their future home. The B & M RR filed another mortgage on the F V & W RR for record with the county clerk this week. It amounts to $10,000 a mile. Our readers will please draw their own conclusions. - Imperial Republican This may mean that the Frenchman Valley and Wyoming line of grade is to have the iron laid in the near future or it may mean, that, owing to the short crop and the consequent high price of grain, the B & M is mortgaging that bank of earth to buy a supply of feed for the famous company mule. We refrain from expressing our opinion on this matter for fear it should unnecessarily excite false hopes and lead to undue excitement. At the citizen’s caucus held Monday evening for the nomination of a ticket for city officer, J.F. Forbes was nominated for mayor and Dr. L.W. Waite, G.W. Garland and C.B. Timberlake for trustees. The election passed off very quietly, but there was considerable work done by the friends of the candidates. Whitney Irwin was brought out as a candidate for trustee on the people’s ticket. For mayor, J.F. Forbes received 105 votes and for trustees, Dr. I.W. Waite received 75 votes, G.W. Garland 77, C.B. Timberlake 74 and Whitney Irwin 36. The officers elected are all good businessmen and will look after the interests of the city in a careful manner. The Sedgwick County Sentinel seems very hopeful about the ultimate success of the irrigation ditches in which Julesburg is interested. Surveyors are at work on a new survey for the Belmont and Froid canal and it is thought that a survey can be made on which a canal can be constructed with much less money than would be required on the old survey. The survey for the canal to be taken out of the South Platte has been completed and it now looks very much as though Julesburg and the surrounding country were to have something more substantial in the line of irrigation than mere paper companies. The HERALD hopes that their untiring efforts may be crowned with abundant success in this enterprise. TREASURER’S REPORT Town of Holyoke, Colorado, For the Year Ending April 2nd 1891. Receipts: Cash on hand April 4, 1890, $474.70 Cash received to date, 1891, $4458.23 Total, $4932.93 Disbursements: Paid warrants on general fund, 1891, $1457.00 Paid warrants on fire and water, $1747.04 Paid warrants on streets and alleys, $38.77 Balance on hand, $1690.12 Total, $4932.93 April 2, balance cash on hand, $1690.12 In Funds as Follows: Cash in general fund $1275.93 Cash in fire and water $252.96 Cash in street and alley $161.23 Total, $1690.12 and $1690.12 R.E. Webster, Treasurer Examined, April 2nd 1891 and found correct. - C.B. Timberlake & I.W. Waite, Auditing Committee SCHOOL REPORT Report of the Holyoke schools for the month ending April 3, 1891. First Primary Total enrollment, 51 Present enrollment, 44 Average daily attendance, 34 Number neither absent nor tardy, 2 Miss Lizzie Gordon, Teacher Second Primary Total enrollment, 46 Present enrollment, 43 Average daily attendance, 33 Number neither absent nor tardy, 12 Mrs. M.E. Timberlake, Teacher Grammar Department Total enrollment, 39 Present enrollment, 23 Average daily attendance, 20 Number neither absent nor tardy, 2 S.H. Johnson, Teacher High School Total enrollment, 44 Present enrollment, 28 Average daily attendance, 25 Number neither absent nor tardy, 15 H.W. Barr, Principal Jake Kirth, who has been working for L. Tinkel for the last two years, left for Denver Friday, and will work on a ranch near Denver. FAIRVIEW Mrs. Ira Worley is on the sick list. Mr. Auten and son are going to farm for Will Wakeman. They will soon move on his claim. DIED - On Easter Sunday, the mother of Mrs. Kidder. This aged lady has suffered much from rheumatism this winter. The funeral exercise was conducted by Rev. Auten. A great many are turning their stock loose, to gain their own subsistence, on account of scarcity of feed. School has been postponed; it will commence the 15th. - GUESS WHO AMHERST Mr. and Mrs. Seher returned home from South Park, Colorado where they have been working the past winter. William Kortright went to Julesburg Saturday for hay and grain. Henry Seip received a telegram from North Hampton, Pennsylvania, last Wednesday, stating his father was dead. He started for there Thursday evening. There is some fault found about the way the commissioners are distributing the wheat. Some folks would find fault if they had the world. R. Taylor received a large stock of goods last week and is now doing a flourishing business. Spencer Cloyd received news from his old home in Iowa that his father was dead. Mr. Cloyd started for Iowa on Thursday to attend the funeral. The Amherst nimrod was out last Sunday; it was geese this time. P.W. Warnock and Clyde Brainard have purchased R. Cooperrider’s well rig. They are putting down a well now for the former and are going from there up into 10-43 to put down a well. The boys have the best rig in this county and we wish them success. - TOM ORDINANCE NO. 28 An ordinance providing for the location of one additional fire hydrant and two public water troughs in the town of Holyoke, Colorado, granting a franchise and providing for the payment of rental of the same. The same repealing ordinance No. 27, as passed July 10 1890. Be It Ordained, By the Board of Trustees of the Town of Holyoke, Colorado. Sec. 1 - That the Lincoln Land Company be and is hereby authorized to locate additional hydrants and water troughs granting to them the franchise provided for by original ordinance No. 23, of the Town of Holyoke, Colorado, as follows, to-wit: One (1) additional hydrant for fire purposes at the southeast (se) corner of Block No. forty-four (44) on west side of Phelan avenue at its junction with north side of Kellogg street. Also one (1) public watering trough located on the west side of Baxter avenue at its junction with north side of Denver avenue and also one (1) public watering trough on the east side of Campbell avenue at its junction with north side of Denver avenue. Sec. 2 - In consideration of premises as set forth in Sec. No. 5, of ordinance No. 23, the Town of Holyoke hereby agrees to pay the Lincoln Land Company an annual rental of $60.00 per annum for each public watering trough so located by the Town Board. Sec 3 - This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, approved and publication according to law. Passed this, 2nd day of April, A.D. 1891. Signed and approved this 8th day of April A.D. 1891. - J.F. Forbes, Mayor, C.M.C. Woolman, Recorder Page Four Wakeman, Colorado, April 6th, 1891 I was reared in an Atlantic state. At an early day I started in the direction the star of empire is said to travel and have resided in many states and several communities, until some four years ago, I brought up as a homesteader on the Colorado prairie, midway between what are now known as Fairview and Wakeman and can be numbered among the first settlers of this corner of creation. My opportunities for knowing and learning the general character of the few, who were then here and who have since settled here, have been at least, equal to those of any other person. I think that I may safely say that buying, selling, trading, exchanging work etc., has brought me into more general intercourse with my neighbors than others have had, and truth compels me to say that a more sober, temperate, industrious, economical and neighborly community it has never fallen to my lot to live in. There is not a saloon lounger, a store box whittler or idler among them. All are believers in, and advocate deep plowing, early sowing and planting and thorough cultivation, and all practice upon their theory as far as their ability will permit. Of course, men with but one small team (of two horses) can not plow as deep, as can one who can hitch four heavy horses to his plow; nor could one with four horses plow as deep last spring with as much ease as he can this spring with two horses of the same weight. Neither can a man with but a single team and lone handed and unable to hire help, take care of his stock and get a crop planted as early as one who is able to run several teams and employ help, if he has not enough of his own. As soon as spring opens every man in the settlement begins farm work, working early and late, doing all they and their teams can bear and some a little more than prudence would dictate. Ground has been plowed from six to fourteen inches deep. Good crops have been raised on the former and poor ones on the latter and the reverse, according to the season, local rains, etc. Three years ago all had good crops. Two years ago there was but little raised, yet there were those who cultivated in small grain with one horse and who gave corn a harrowing when about ten inches high and no other cultivation, who had as large a yield per acre of all grains as many who did more thorough work. Last year was almost an entire failure, many of the causes of which were recently given by Mr. Hazen to the Denver News. Local rains helped some crops out, while others that had the advantage of deep plowing, thorough and careful cultivation, but failing to get rain at the proper time, proved a failure. Wheat equally well put in ranged from less than one to over ten bushels per acre. Some of my neighbors who sowed their wheat about the same time I did, some before, some after and on just as good land, all equally well put in, all being covered with the same disk, (and cut with the same reaper) with greatly varied results, ranging from less than one to six bushels per acre, owing to amount of damage done by wind storm and lack of rain, while I was fortunate enough to have a yield of a little over ten bushels per acre. I cannot and do not attribute my yield in excess of my neighbors to superior farming, because there are no poor farmers in the neighborhood. They understand their business, work well and hard, stick close to business from seed time to harvest, use less forty rod whisky than any community I ever was in, depend on their own exertions, and not on God, except for blessings upon their efforts, and depend upon the government for nothing, but ask of it only just and not class legislation. It was not poor farming that compelled us in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Dakota and Iowa to ask for aid during the past winter, nor was it any more their fault, than it was the fault of the sufferers from the Chicago fire, or the Johnstown water or the Charleston earthquake or thousands of others who have called for and received aid. Yet those who escaped the fires and floods, the Charleston quakes and Memphis fevers might have asserted the victims were to blame. In conclusion I will say no better neighbors and no better farmers with the same means can be found in Colorado than surround us, and none can be more thankful to the people of Denver and Holyoke who came so timely and promptly to our aid in our need. Those who gave, the committees who solicited and distributed are all entitled to and have our thanks and gratitude. Although the portion to each was small it saved a vast amount of suffering. And, although the amount of seed to each is small, it comes as a priceless boon and brings hope to many a despondent heart. All in this corner unite in the sentiment of gratitude to all who have by word or deed interested themselves in our behalf. - R.S. Stout NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First Publication April 3, 1891) No 149 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 31, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on May 12, 1891, viz: DANIEL LARKIN. H E 7274 for the s e ¼ sec 11 tp No 7 n in r No 44 w of 6 p.m. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: Louis N. McCullough, Holyoke, Colorado George Norris, Holyoke, Colorado Rufus Cooperrider, Holyoke, Colorado Martin Summers, Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First Publication April 3, 1891) No 150 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 31, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on May 12, 1891, viz: LOUIS N. McCULLOUGH. H E 12110 for the sw ¼ sec 1 tp No 7 n in r No 44 w of 6 p.m. He names the following witness to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: Daniel Larkin, Holyoke, Colorado John C. White, Holyoke, Colorado Rufus Cooperrider, Holyoke, Colorado John Baker, Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First Publication April 3, 1891) No 151 (Timber Culture Proof Act March 3, 1891) Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 31, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado on May 12th, 1891, viz: RUFUS COOPERRIDER. On T C Entry No 2438 for the ne ¼ sec 35 tp No 8n in r No 44 w of 6 p.m. He names as witnesses: Louis N. McCullough, Holyoke, Colorado Daniel Larkin, Holyoke, Colorado Sarah Furrey, Holyoke, Colorado Allen B. Van Dyke, Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First Publication April 3, 1891) No 148 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 31, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on May 12, 1891, viz: RUFUS COOPERRIDER. H E 6917 for the se ¼ sec 35 tp No 8 n in r No 44 w of 6 p.m. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of, said land, viz: Louis N. McCullough, Holyoke, Colorado Daniel Larkin, Holyoke, Colorado Sarah Furrey, Holyoke, Colorado Allen B. Van Dyke, Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First Publication April 10, 1891) No 157 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 9, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on May 20, 1891, viz: EDWARD FRANKLIN. H E 6946 for the lots 1, 2 and 3 sec 2 tp No 8 n in r No 43 w of 6 p.m. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of, said land, viz: Arthur Masten, Amherst, Colorado Frank P. Spink, Amherst, Colorado William Robison, Amherst, Colorado Herman Jurgens, Amherst, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication April 10, 1891) No 158 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 9, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on May 20th, 1891, viz: ARTHUR MASTEN. H E 7264 for the lots 7, 8, 9 and 10 sec 2 tp Ne 8 n in r No 43 w of 6 p.m. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: Edward Franklin, Amherst, Colorado Jacob R. Gilmore, Amherst, Colorado Frank P. Spink, Amherst, Colorado William Robison, Amherst, Colorado ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). 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