NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 25 Dec 1891, Vol V - No 20 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91dec25.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 25 Dec 1891, Friday, Vol. V - No. 20 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. Fresh oysters at Shamp’s. Best cigars in the city at the Occidental. New goods and low prices at Gillett Bro’s. Fifty thousand brick for sale by C. Varney. Go to the Occidental Lunch Room for a square meal. Bert Smith, of Curtis, Nebraska was in Holyoke, Wednesday. Go to H. Whitham for groceries, boots and shoes. J.R. Saxton made a trip to Holdrege, Nebraska this week. Go to the Golden Eagle for your Christmas goods. Go to the Occidental for a dish of excellent oysters. A.A. Spahr went to Denver last week on a business trip. A car of fine flour just received by Slater & Co. SANTA CLAUSE – Headquarters at The City Drug Store. Fine Plush Goods and lowest prices at The City Drug Store. L.S. Viersen went to McCook this week to spend Holidays. Finest line of stationery in town, at The City Drug Store. Applications for final proof made out at this office free of charge. Rain! Rain!! Rain!!! Don’t fail to attend the rain meeting Saturday. Elegant Dressing Cases; prices way down, at The City Drug Store. The nicest line of candy in the city at the store of Slater & Co. The latest. Those new goods that Gillett Bros. are receiving daily. The largest, freshest and cheapest stock of groceries in Holyoke at C.J. Slater & Co. No use of freezing when you can get a stove so cheap at Gillett Bro’s. We have the finest line of Christmas candy in Holyoke. W.R. Shamp & Co. Harry Elliot returned last week after an absence of several weeks in Nebraska. Nothing but best oak-tanned leather used in harness made at Gillett Bro’s. Crane and Oads, of the Occidental, spare no labor or expense to satisfy their customers. Gillett Bros. guarantee all goods as represented. Their prices are yours. They can save you money. Just received a nice line of Queensware and glassware. Call and see our stock. W.R. Shamp & Co. Did you see that beautiful gold watch at L. Tinkel & Co’s? It is to be given away. George A. Crane went to Des Moines, Iowa this week to spend the Holidays with his sister. J.B. Allen of Denver came down Tuesday to attend the trial of a case before the county court. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Powers took the train last Saturday for a short visit with relatives at Charlton, Iowa. Mrs. McCoy of Omaha is visiting this week with her sister, Mrs. W.C. Robinson of Holyoke. A.J. Brown, of Ashton, Dakota, is visiting with his sister, Mrs. Andrew Jackson of Holyoke. W.R. Dickerson made a trip to Grainfield, Kansas this week. Mr. Dickerson owns a good farm near that place. FOR RENT – A nice four room house in North Holyoke. Free water. L.P. Lewis, Ag’t Mrs. Weir, of Kearney, Nebraska, is visiting with the family of her son, G.B. Weir of Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Cleland came down from Denver Monday to remain a short time. Attorney J.A. Pulliam, of Sterling, was in Holyoke Wednesday looking after legal business in the county court. Miss Jo Tinkel returned home Wednesday from a visit of several months with relatives in Iowa and Nebraska. All aboard for the Golden Eagle Cash Store where with every dollars worth of good purchased we secure a chance to dray that fine wagon. The HERALD wishes its readers a “Merry Christmas.” Gillett Bros. have recently received a car load of barbed wire. Buy your groceries, queens ware and glass ware at Slater & Co’s. and get a chance in their 15 gift enterprise. W.C. Robinson and his little son, Dorsey, took the train last Saturday for a few days visit at his old home in Princeton, Indiana. With every dollar’s worth of goods purchased of L. Tinkel & Co., you secure a chance to draw a ladies elegant gold watch. W.C. Powers will be in his photograph gallery on New Year’s Day and will give a present to all parties having work done on that day. Colonel E.D. Webster of New York came in on the train Monday to look after his ranch interests in the south part of Phillips County. John Oads has sold his interest in the Occidental Lunch Room to his partner, Andrew Crane, who will continue the business at the old stand. Assist. Supt. C.H. Harmon of Holyoke was in the city Thursday trying to rustle grain cars for his line. He didn’t find them. – McCook Tribune A.A. Shafer, living near Holyoke, had seven acres of black oats this season which yielded 52 bushels per acre. His wheat averaged 24 bushels and his barley between 40 and 45. B.M. Taylor now has charge of the American House of Sterling and he sets a first class table and is running the house in good style. Give him a call when you are in Sterling. Judge Pendleton was in Holyoke, Tuesday, on legal business before the county court. He states that he has very recently recovered from a three weeks siege of the grip. The enterprise of some newspapermen in gathering local news is limited to their ability to use their scissors and they even lack energy enough to give credit for the clippings. A.T. Guthrie shipped a car load of broom corn from Holyoke last week. The farmers missed it this season that they did not raise more broom corn as it is a good price and was a paying crop. The latest discovered cure for consumption is dog meat. The price of bologna will be sure to go up at once and the dog catcher’s office will, no doubt, soon be one of the best paying positions. REDUCED FARE FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Round tickets will be sold December 24 and January 1st to stations not over 200 miles distant at one and one- third fare for the round trip. Final limit, January 4th. - A.B. West, Agt J.C. Cattern, of Grant, killed one antelope and wounded two more out of a herd of eleven in the hills near Julesburg last week. He is supplying the market at the hub with antelope steak. – Venango Independent Jake Bilmore has been having a serious tussle with rheumatism for a couple months past. Dr. Smith, of Holyoke, has been treating him and he is now much improved. – Venango Independent. Conductor Enright moved his household goods in Holdrege this week and will make that his home. The many friends of the family in Holyoke will be sorry to hear of this change. DIED - At Holyoke, Colorado, December 21, 1891, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prof. H.W. Barr. The little one was born December 19 and on the 21 was taken sick and lived but a few hours. The parents have the sympathy of their many friends in Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Witherbee left Holyoke Monday for Denver where they will make their future home. The HERALD wishes them success in their new home. Mrs. Kuner, Mrs. Witherbee’s mother, who had been visiting with them in Holyoke, returned with them to her home in Denver. Knox Atkin shipped his household goods, this week, to Loveland, wehre he will make his future home. He and his brother Robert will start an apiary and, with the experience they have had in this business, they will without doubt make a success. The HERALD speaks for the box of honey. In and around Sterling the farmers are well fixed, while over in Phillips County, it is reported some are badly off. - Logan County Advocate John, you had better go slow in slandering the farmers of Phillips County for the farmers of Phillips County are in good circumstances and, if those little ditches from the Platte frog pond should fail to furnish water next season, your county may want to ask aid from the Phillips County farmers. Patronize your home merchants. Those having business before the Land Office should consult Judge Armour of Sterling. He is thoroughly familiar with the land laws, profoundly accurate, reliable and successful. The charges are reasonable. George Clark of the Golden Eagle Cash Store comes to the front with a new and liberal offer to his patrons. He has purchased a new Moline wagon which he will give to the one holding the lucky ticket. With every dollars worth of goods purchased at his store, for cash, he will give a ticket, which will entitle the holder to one chance at the drawing of the wagon. Secure your tickets for the wagon and avoid the rush. A call has been issued for a mass meeting of the citizens of Phillips County to be held at Holyoke, Saturday, December 26, for the purpose of raising money to pay for a test of artificially produced rain. A proposition has been made by parties to give test rains during the spring and summer and it is desired to make arrangements at once to take advantage of this proposition. The proposition provides that unless the parties produce a successful rain fall there will be nothing to pay. Every citizen in the county should be enough interested in this matter to attend this meeting and lend a helping hand. Let every citizen who is interested in the prosperity of the county attend the meeting. A.B. Montgomery, representing the Inter State Artificial Rain Producing Company of Goodland, Kansas, was in Holyoke last week. The gentleman made some very fair propositions regarding producing rain during the coming season and we are satisfied that arrangements will be made with the company to give this section of country several test rains during the season. Mr. Montgomery is very confident that they can produce the necessary rain for agricultural purposes. He states that their experiment at Temple, Texas, some time ago, was a grand success and that they succeeded in breaking a drouth of several months duration and produced a rain of three inches. This company should be given a chance to thoroughly tell their ability to produce rain for if they can do what they claim to be able to do, it will be worth millions of dollars to eastern Colorado alone. The newspapers of Denver seem disposed to make sport of this company but, as long as a test of these claims does not cost Denver or the western part of the state anything, they need not be interested parties in this. The ability to break a drouth by artificial means is worth millions to the state ================================================================= 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. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for publication in any form by any other organization or individual without the express written permission from the author/contributor.