NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 24 Apr 1891, Vol IV - No 37 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91apr24.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 24 Apr 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 37 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. Try our cigars. A. Hyatt. Tropical fruits and fresh vegetables. A. Hyatt Applications for final proof made out at this office free of charge. Mrs. N.B. Woodruff returned this week from a visit to Elsie, Nebraska. Best brand fine cut and plug tobacco. A. Hyatt J.A. Blauvelt moved his family from Grant to Holyoke this week. George Conkling and Jerome Lewis made a trip to Wray this week. House for rent; three large rooms; $6.00 per month. W.C. Robinson Elsewhere in this issue appears a communication from W.H. Wakeman. Mrs. Andrew returned the first of the week from a visit with friends in Nebraska. George E. Clark and E.S. Dakan started, last week, on a trip to the Black Hills. Frank Varney was quite sick the first of the week, but is able to be around again. We see stock running at large upon our streets. Why not enforce the town ordinances. Mrs. Crabtree left, Tuesday, for McCook where her husband is working for the B & M. Rev. Clark, of Omaha, will preach at the Baptist Church next Sunday morning and evening. E.W. Dearcup, the popular young jeweler, went to Cheyenne last Tuesday on a business trip. Mr. M. Cunningham reports his son Thomas, rapidly recovering from his serious sickness. Miss Carrie Morris had charge of Dearcup’s jewelry store during his absence from Holyoke this week. W.W. McCollister, an attorney of Akron, was in Holyoke this week trying a case before the county court. We are informed that Gus Scheunemann and Jake Kirth have traded for a grocery store in Denver. This is about the season for wars and rumors of wars - between the gardener and his neighbor’s chickens. R.B. Huckleberry now has a position in the B & M yards at Omaha. Mrs. Huckleberry left Holyoke this week for Omaha. We moved the HERALD Office last Saturday, and can now be found in the building formerly owned by Sullivan Brothers. GROCERIES - The largest, freshest, and best stock in the city, cheaper than ever offered. Purchasers will save money to call at A. Hyatt’s. In behalf of members of the Baptist Church I desire to thank the people of the town for their presence and financial aid in making the festival a success. G.W. Garland Miss Anna Bavard, daughter of C.C. Bevard, came in on the train Tuesday from Springview, Nebraska where she had been visiting for some time. The first frog concert of the season in the vicinity of Holyoke was given Monday evening. It consisted principally of solos with an occasional duet. The County Court has appointed W.D. Kelsey conservator of the estate of Allen Morrison who was recently adjudged insane. Mr. Morrison has property interests in Logan County. Frank Whitham has moved his general stock of goods from Arickaree, where he has been in business for some time, to Holyoke and will occupy one side of his father’s store building. The Frenchman River has been on a boom during the last week and washed out the mill dam at Champion, Nebraska. It will take about ten days to repair the damage so grinding can be done at the mill. The HERALD Office now sports a one hundred dollar oil painting. This is pretty rich for our pocketbook, but, fortunately, the painting was left on the wall by a former occupant of the building. John Miller, of Columbus, Nebraska, was in Holyoke this week looking after his property interests here. He owns the business property on the corner of Inter Ocean and Denver Avenue, formerly owned by L. Tinkel. It is reported that the B & M will, in a few days, put on through passenger trains to Cheyenne. We hope this may prove true as the passenger accommodations on this line have not been good since the through trains were taken off. Rev. Thornton, Presiding Elder of the M.E. Church for this district, preached at the M.E. Church Wednesday and Thursday evenings and will conduct the quarterly meeting services this evening. It is always a treat to hear Elder Thornton and no one should fail to hear him tonight. A.T. Guthrie brought into the HERALD OFFICE, this week, a Russian Poplar tree which was started from a cutting and had made a growth of four feet in the last two years. He has quite a number of these trees for sale. This shows what trees will do with proper care. The festival given at the Baptist Church, Wednesday evening, was well attended and about $40 was taken in. A musical entertainment was given in connection with the festival. A Chinese song was rendered by Cleo Kidd. She appeared in Chinese costume and sang the song in a most taking manner. Holyoke to the front. G.W. Garland and Boden & Weaver have put in a telephone from Garland’s blacksmith shop to Boden & Weaver’s hardware store. The people of this part of the town are now liable to be awakened anytime of night by “hellos” from both ends of the line. A.A. Temple took the train Saturday for Houston, Texas, where he expects to make his future home. Mrs. Temple and children accompanied him as far as Denver and will spend the summer with relatives in Kansas. Gus and his wife will be much missed by their many friends in Holyoke who will wish them success in their new home. Having been credibly informed that A.A. Spahr had gone into the gardening business on a grand scale, we called around to inspect the garden. After searching in vain, in the neighborhood of his residence, for any evidences of this new industry, we were about to give up the search when we very fortunately secured the services of a guide who conducted us to the much talked of garden. We had passed the garden several times in the search, but, as it is only 2x6 feet, we had labored under the impression that it was only a private cemetery lot. Call on Spahr for early vegetables. The contract has been let for the work on the Red Lion and Julesburg canal and work has commenced. A Kearney syndicate will furnish the money for the construction of the canal and W.H. Elliott, an experienced engineer, will have charge of the work. The water will be secured from the underflow of the Platte River and by a system of reservoirs. This canal, if successful, means a boom for Julesburg and the citizens of that town and the surrounding country are certainly deserving of this good fortune, for they have shown considerable zeal in prosecuting this enterprise. AMHERST Miss Florence Arnup has gone to Buda, Illinois, for a short visit. Ray Taylor is sick with LaGrippe. W.H. Robison is clerking for Ray Taylor this week. Spencer Cloid returned home from Iowa last Tuesday. Charles B. Timberlake was visiting the school in district 48 last week. Will Mursett has gone to Buda, Illinois, where he expects to work this season. Mr. L.A. Robison, of Youngstown, Ohio, spent a few days last week with his brother Haz. Harry Thorndike lost a valuable cow last Friday. She was bitten by a rattlesnake. School started in district 48 last Monday week, with Will Kartright as teacher. Better look out, Will, some of the big boys may prove too much for you. Harry Thorndike shipped his stock and household goods to Buda, Illinois the first of the week. He intends to go in the butcher shop with his father. L. VanZele, of Strang, Nebraska, is on his claim again. He has his land all put to wheat. Clyde Brainard and P.W. Warnock moved a vacant building from here to the center of school district 48 last week, to be used as a school house. - TOM FAIRVIEW Plenty of rain the last two or three days. The farmers are about through sowing grain. A few have commenced plowing for corn. Wasn’t those seed potatoes fine? Uriah Worley of Dorchester, Nebraska is here tending his tree claim. Nelson Morgan has returned from California and thinks he likes farming in Colorado best. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Irwin were out, a few days, rusticating on Mrs. I’s farm. Mrs. Pollock, of Holyoke, is visiting in this neighborhood. T. Lydiatt purchased a mule of J.C. Slater. M. Roll has moved on P.B. Reynolds claim. W. Crowner was in this vicinity last week looking for his runaway ponies. No Sabbath School last Sunday on account of the rain. School is progressing finely with Miss L. Borland as teacher. Did you plant a tree on Arbor Day? Now is a good time to plant cottonwoods. Nothing adds more to the beauty of our homes than trees, so be vigilant while there is plenty of moisture. Ad Shafer took a trip through the sand hills on Monday. A.L. Burdette is listing corn, April 21st. Who can beat him? - GUESS WHO ***** A large part of the fourth column is missing - cut out of the newspaper. ***** Page Four EDITORIAL Last Friday was a gala day for the pupils of our city school. The occasion was Arbor Day, and although our school grounds had not been suitably prepared for tree planting, our schools celebrated the day in a very interesting manner. The school was divided into two departments and two programs were carried out. A large number of patrons and visitors were in attendance showing their interest in the school and their appreciation of the efforts made for the observance of the day. The programs were each very interesting and intended to inspire one and all with a love for flowers. The rooms were each supplied with many flowers most tastefully arranged, adding not only to the beauty, but to the inspiration as well. Not least among the pleasant features of the day was the selection by ballot of a state flower. Pupils with preference for a certain flower sought to win votes for their favorite and a vigorous canvass was made. The result showed quite a diversity of tastes, the Golden Rod, however, distancing all competitors. The exercises passed off very pleasantly. Our school yard should be put into condition for planting trees so that Arbor Day may hereafter be observed in the letter as well as the spirit. Wakeman, Colorado, April 16th 1891 EDITOR STATE HERALD, I was interested in the reading of a communication in your paper of April 10th from the pen of R.S. Stout. I suppose the letter of mine you copied from the New York “Witness is the cause that produced this one, from my friend and neighbor Mr. Stout. The first part of his letter is devoted to an extended eulogy of his and my neighbors. I heartily endorse what he says in regard to their being good citizens, kind neighbors etc. I never in writing or otherwise intimated any sentiment to the contrary. My statement in reference to whisky drinking and lounging at stores, Mr. Stout knows, if he read my letter, took in the whole county. So it seems to me he is wasting his powder. Never put on a coat unless it fits you, brother Stout. But when he makes the assertion that every man in these parts is a thorough farmer, knowing his business and practicing what he knows - when he makes the statement that there is no difference in crops here in Colorado, whether you plow deep and cultivate well, or whether he does the work in a slipshod manner, then I must say I can not agree with him. I think it makes a great difference. Mr. Stout got ten bushels of wheat per acre, and says it was mere luck. No, I don’t think so. He plowed that same ground the year before with two good teams on one plow and I think he told me he got his plow down about one foot. Now in my opinion that was where the luck comes in. It is true that crops may be destroyed by hail if the land is farmed ever so well. No man can help a failure of that kind. I am desirous to raise the standard of farming in this county and hope no one will take offense if plain language is used. Mr. Stout says his opportunities for observation have been most excellent; says there is no poor farming in this neighborhood. I disagree again. I am willing to acknowledge that I have done some that was very poor. Did not have any luck. If brother Stout will look more carefully, I think he would see some that he would call poor. Why, I can show him fields in this neighborhood that were disked into small grain last year on ground that has been broken several years and had gone back to a kind of tough grass. Of course there was no crop raised. The last year’s failure, the man, I suppose, thinks was his luck, and now, brother Stout, he is disking the same field again hoping to have better luck. I think that his luck will be like Simple Simon who tried to milk Deacon Jones’ geese - he didn’t get much milk. I know there are men who would like to farm better, but their pony teams cannot do the work. A pony plow team is a perfect nuisance. We ought all of us to get rid of them as soon as possible, and get horses weighing at least twelve hundred pounds. Then some of us have made the mistake of getting too much work on our hands - working tree claims when we should have been in our corn. I don’t think that any of us come up to the recommend Mr. Stout has given us in his letter. There were fields of corn here last year planted with from four to ten grains in a hill, otherwise the work was fairly well done, but the yield failed to produce anything but fodder. Does friend Stout call that good farming? Will he say it was bad luck? Every body that knows anything about raising corn in this country knows that when more than three gains are put in a hill it will damage the crop. Fodder is very scarce this past year and yet I know of fields where it was cut last fall and laid along in little piles, and passed the winter under the snow in the mud, and came out this spring worthless; yet the owner was compelled to scratch it up and feed it to his team or let them go without. Was that a little in the line of slipshod business, or was it unlucky? I could show you fields that last year and the year previous were listed in corn. The lister rooted along on top of the ground or rather four or five inches deep. When the corn came up a row of weeds filled the space which the shallow listing failed to cover, and then, failing to get good, deep cultivation afterwards, but depending on a scraping with a harrow, of course the crop failed, and the family necessities required help from the kind and benevolent people. I am bold to say that if that field had been cultivated as a business like an intelligent farmer should do his work, there would have been corn sufficient to feed team and family through to another harvest. I can not think a man can put in wheat on stubble ground with a disk and but once over at that, and call it bad luck, or lay it to drouth if he fails to get a crop. It would be almost a miracle if he succeeded. No, I say again, “when farmers begin to think deeper, plow deeper and do their business and farming in as intelligent and thorough manner as business men do other callings are compelled to do, then and not before will they begin to prosper.” - H.W. Wakeman NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication April 24, 1891) No 163 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 18, 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 Register or Receiver at Sterling, Colorado, on June 6, 1891, viz: THOMAS E. DYE, Hd entry No 11046 for the s ½ sw sec 28 tp 8n range 47 w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: David W. Scott, Haxtun, Colorado John J. Keef, Haxtun, Colorado Washington M. Slay, Haxtun, Colorado George Bloom, Haxtun, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication April 24, 1891) No. 164 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 20, 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 29th, 1891 viz: ALLEN B. VAN DYKE, H E 7126 for the lots 3 and 4 and e ½ of sw ¼ sec 7 tp No 8 n in range No 43 w of 6 p.m. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Lorence E. Fair, Amherst, Colorado Charles Oldfield, Amherst, Colorado Chester Heartt, Amherst, Colorado Rufus Cooperrider, Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication April 24, 1891) No. 165 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 20, 1891 NOTICE is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final commutation proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register or Receiver at Sterling, Colorado on May 30, 1891 viz: JAMES A. LAMPING, Hd Entry No 14872 for the nw ¼ sec 29 tp 9 n range 46 w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz: John Malone, Haxtun, Colorado David R. Stevens, Haxtun, Colorado George Bloom, Haxtun, Colorado Jerry Sullivan, Haxtun, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication April 24, 1891) No. 167 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, April 20, 1891 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, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on May 30, 1891, viz: ANNA B. IRWIN, formerly Anna B. Reynolds, Hd E No 8245 for the lots 3 and 4 and s ½ nw ¼ sec 2 tp No 6 n in range No 44 w. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of, said land, viz: Joseph H. Baird, Holyoke, Colorado Fredrick S. Borland, Holyoke, Colorado Elmer E. 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