NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 17 Apr 1891, Vol IV - No 36 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91apr17.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 17 Apr 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 36 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. Go to C. Varney for hay. Fifty thousand brick for sale by C. Varney. Applications for final proof made out at this office free of charge. W.C. Robinson took a trip to Akron the first of the week. Ed Wilson left on the train Tuesday morning for a trip west. Advertise in the HERALD if you expect to do a rushing business. J.W. Scott, postmaster at Sterling, was in Holyoke Wednesday. G.W. Huffman Sr. and wife started for Illinois on the Tuesday train. P.B. Reynolds will move this week into Dr. Blair’s house on south hill. W.H. Robison and Chester Heartt will read the HERALD from this issue. Charley Blauvelt has secured the position of messenger boy for the telegraph company. Today is Arbor Day and will be observed by our city schools with interesting exercises. S.W. Beggs put water fixtures in his business house on Inter Ocean Avenue this week. District Court was in session at Akron this week, it being Judge Allen’s first term of court. Patrick Walsh was up from McCook this week looking after his business interests in Holyoke. That nice shower of rain Wednesday evening will start the grass and wheat in fine shape. H.J. Johnson returned to Holyoke Tuesday from a trip to Plattsmouth, Nebraska and other points. The season for the “prairie schooner” is again at hand and they are now seen coming from the east. There will be a term of District Court in Phillips County, convening the second Tuesday in May. William H. Robison and John Tscheimer made final proof on their homestead filings last Monday. Michael Walsh came up from McCook Tuesday and will take charge of his brother’s saloon in Holyoke. The Colorado weather and crop bulletin shows that the crop season is very backward all over the state. FOR SALE - One mule, one two horse wagon. Cheap and on good time. - C.J. Slater Henry Kruger, Robert Kruger, M. T. Tomlinson and Newel Porter took the train Tuesday morning for Denver. Mrs. M. Cunningham arrived in Holyoke, Tuesday, having been called here by the sickness of her son Thomas. W.C. Powers, the plumber, has been kept pretty busy this week, putting in water fixtures for different parties. Brace Reynolds left last Friday for Lexington, Nebraska where he will spend the summer with his brother Edward. Subscribe for the STATE HERALD and you will be better satisfied with life in Phillips County than you have ever been. George Conkling has sold his livery stable stock to Harry Clayton who will continue the business at the old stand. B.F. Wickersham, the handsome and clever roadmaster of Holyoke, was at headquarters Tuesday. - McCook Tribune Miss Emma Tipton returned home last week from Glenwood, Iowa where she had been attending school during the winter. E.E. Brannon has been troubled with another attack of the rheumatism and for several days has been walking with a crutch. The HERALD correspondents seem to have been too busy, this week, putting in their crops, to favor us with any communications. The farmers have had reasonably good weather for sowing wheat during the last week and the wheat is about all in the ground. If you wish directions as to the shortest and best wagon road between Holyoke and Sterling, ask W.C. Robinson to tell his experience in traveling over this route. Commissioner M. Francis went to Wallace, Nebraska, Tuesday to purchase a car load of seed potatoes for the farmers. LATER - Mr. Francis returned from Wallace, Thursday with a car load of potatoes which are being distributed to the farmers. B.F. Williams has been very sick for some time, but we are glad to learn that he is much better and gradually improving. The city election at Sterling resulted in the election of an anti- saloon council and Sterling will have no saloons for the coming year. Robert White received something over $1,000 back pension a few days ago. We are always glad to hear of the old soldiers receiving pensions. The campaign for county offices is commencing early this year. It is a cold day though when Phillips County can not get up a lively campaign. Sheriff J.A. Temple left Monday morning for Pueblo, having in his charge Allen Morrison whom he was taking to the Insane Asylum at that place. W.C. Robinson informs us that there will be no change made in the District Clerkship by Judge Allen, but he will continue to hold that office under Judge Allen. Frank Moore has fenced in a garden about 4x6 and he has already come to the conclusion that he will be under the necessity of renting a part of it or hiring help to cultivate it. Miss Mary Dakan went to Yuma last Saturday and remained over Sunday visiting relatives. Her mother and sister Carrie who have spent the winter at Yuma returned with her. Beware of loaning your spade to Dr. Waite. He is making garden and it is reported that he uses his spade so vigorously that he has already taken the temper out of one spade. John Rooney has disposed of his interest in the saloon business in Holyoke and took the train Wednesday morning for Boise City, Idaho, which he expects to make his future home. If you should incidentally say anything about “old seed wheat” in the presence of Mike Francis, you should make sure that you are in perfect readiness to retreat in good order on short notice. By mistake we omitted to state, last week that the city council, at the meeting last week, appointed E.E. Brannon police magistrate and G.W. Garland chief of the Holyoke Fire Company. M. Cunningham, last Saturday took his sick son, Thomas, from the American House, where he had been for some time, out to his home on the farm. The young man seems to be slowly improving in health. Allen Morrison was tried before the County Court, Monday, for insanity and adjudged insane. He resided in Logan County, but had wandered into Phillips County and stopped at the house of George Huffman who brought him to Holyoke. L.A. Robison, of Youngstown, Ohio, traveling passenger agent for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R.R., called at the office last Monday. Mr. Robison owns property in Holyoke and has strong faith in the future growth and prosperity of the town. A.B. West was, last week, called to Hastings, Iowa by the sad news of his aged mother’s death. His mother was nearly 90 years old and died from old age. The remains were laid away to rest at Shenandoah, Iowa. Mr. West has the sympathy of many friends in his bereavement. The Holyoke Lodge of I O O F has leased the upper story of the A.T. Smith building and has fitted it up for Lodge rooms. They have papered, painted and carpeted the main room in a very tasty manner and now have one of the neatest and most comfortable Lodge rooms in this part of the state. A.A. Temple came in Monday from Houston, Texas where he has been for some time working at the real estate business as an agent for the Interior Land and Immigration Company of Denver. He reports times good and business lively in that part of the country and says there are fine openings for northern enterprise and industry to accumulate wealth. He will return to Houston in a few days and will remain there during the summer. The star and necktie social, given by the willing workers of the Christian church, Wednesday evening, was quite a success, notwithstanding the fact that the evening proved very disagreeable. The mysterious fish pond and the selling of neckties afforded much amusement and every one seemed to have a good time. LATER - The star and necktie social was repeated again last evening with good success. E.D. Webster Jr. came in yesterday from New York where he had been for some time. W.W. Follett, of Denver, was in Holyoke yesterday. He is connected with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is making artesian and underflow investigations. Page Four NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication April 17, 1891) No 159 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 13, 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 county court of Phillips County, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on June 8, 1891, viz: FRANK J. EMERSON. Hd entry No 7178 for the ne ¼ sec 18 tp 7 n range 43 w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: Martin Wolf, Holyoke, Colorado Otto Schroeder, Holyoke, Colorado Charles G. Campbell, Holyoke, Colorado John W. Martin, Holyoke, Colorado ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). 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