NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 6 Feb 1891, Vol IV - No 26 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91feb06.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 6 Feb 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 26 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. Judge Glynn took a trip to Denver this week. The Denver Times offers a nice present to every subscriber, see notice elsewhere. Williams’ last editorial on the many virtues of “Gun Wa” is a fine production. The I.O.O.F. lodge have rented Baker’s Hall and fitted it up for a lodge room. The thermometer registered 18 below zero Monday, the coldest day for three years. W.E. Johnson took the train Wednesday for a business trip to Des Moines, Iowa. Andrew Hendrix and W.M. Slay of Haxtun were in Holyoke, Wednesday, on business. Jud Willard and Will Eaton, two of the B & M boys, have been changed from Holyoke to McCook. Assistant Superintendent Harman was down from Holyoke, Wednesday, on business at headquarters. - McCook Tribune. Conductor Harvey went to Holyoke Monday. We hope that Mr. Harvey will get a good position. - Nebraska Nugget The Baptist society of Holyoke will have preaching services at the G.A.R. hall next Sunday morning and evening. Indian news is scarce since the people refused to heed the blood curdling warning sounded by Williams in the News. Who said that Colorado never has any winter. We have had four weeks of genuine winter with snow on the ground. Chief Dispatcher Forbes, mayor of Holyoke, Colorado, was at headquarters, Sunday, on railroad business. - McCook Tribune Logan County is asking the legislature for seed grain. This looks bad for an “irrigated” county. How is this, Brother Wilson? The young people’s meeting is held at the M.E. church Tuesday evening and the regular weekly prayer meeting on Wednesday evening. Attorney Bennett says he has turned over a new leaf and does not treat any more since his last trip to Nebraska. Ask him to tell his experience. Willis Dickerson and his mother returned this week from North Bend, Nebraska, where they had been called by the last sickness of his grandfather. Smith Worley left Tuesday for Alliance, Nebraska where he has been offered a position under Fred Harris who is Superintendent of construction on that line of the B & M. The revival service at the M.E. church closed Sunday evening. Thirty persons have recently united with the M.E. church and ten with the Baptist. C.H. Harman, Assistant Superintendent of the Cheyenne line of the B & M, represented Phillips County as delegate in the Irrigation Convention at McCook, Nebraska held last week. W.C. Powers presented the HERALD office with a photo of the Indian moccasins, pipe and war club, picked up on the battle field of Wounded Knee. The photos are good and he has a number for sale. Gus Reising, one of the B & M boys, returned last week from a visit to Peoria, Illinois. The boys seemed very much surprised that he did not bring a wife with him. Correspondents of the HERALD will please remember that no personal attack upon citizens of the county will be printed as correspondence, except over the writer’s name and then we reserve the right to comment upon such correspondence as we see fit. Williams’ “Gun Wa” frontispiece, in the News, is very attractive, indeed. He should now secure the companion piece entitled, “Washee Washee” and then he can find ready sale of his paper to be used as wrappers on tea chests. Nature must be very indiscrete. It has created a great many people who are abundantly capable of making a success of everyone’s business but their own - Phillips County News Yes, and occasionally one who is a signal failure in both cases. The Denver Times is out with a liberal proposition to its readers. A beautiful picture, a reproduction of that famous painting, “The Russian Wedding Feast,” will be given to every reader. The picture alone is worth five times the money it will cost to take the paper for the 50 days necessary to receive a picture. Brannon says he will purchase no more of the “snow bird” stock of hogs. It took the proceeds of his last shipment to Omaha to pay freight and hereafter he will not attempt to pose as a good judge of fine hogs as it is a losing business even when acting under the advice of an experience hog tamer like Jim Temple. An old bachelor who recently left Holyoke for the east writes back from Chicago in the following sentimental strain. “Tomorrow night I will be at home in the midst of my friends and Sunday night I will be in the arms of my best girl. Ta, ta.” We always imagined that he was very much attached to the “press.” PRAYING BAND The Young People’s Praying Band held a meeting at the M.E. church Tuesday evening, G.W. Garland acting as leader. The band has now a membership of forty-seven and is in a promising condition. The M.E. church was selected as the place of holding meetings and Tuesday was chosen as regular meeting night. Mr. James Kidd was appointed to act as leader of the next meeting. M. Francis, chairman of the board of county commissioners, went to Denver last Saturday to work for an appropriation to purchase seed grain for the farmers of this county. He returned Wednesday and informs us that the prospect for securing an appropriation is very favorable. He says that a bill for that purpose was to be introduced Thursday and feels confident that the bill will pass. This is certainly very encouraging news for the farmers of the county. With aid in this direction and a good prospect for a crop, the outlook for the coming season looks very bright. Why not hold an irrigation convention somewhere in northeastern Colorado. The people of western Nebraska are holding conventions at different points and thoroughly organizing for effective work in the line of irrigation. This part of Colorado needs irrigation as badly as western Nebraska and is better located for obtaining the needed supply of water and every effort should be made to accomplish some beneficial results in this enterprise at the earliest possible date. Let a convention be called and the counties interested in this work be thoroughly organized and all move together and good results are sure to follow. Washington County seems to be having quite a war over the office of county treasurer. Until recently it has been a war of words and law suits, but a few days ago a body of thirty armed men appeared at the court house in Akron and demanded that the acting county treasurer turn over the office to the man who they claimed was entitled to hold the office. This he refused to do but through the intervention of some cool headed citizens, any violence was prevented and the company of men finally retired. A county treasurer’s office in this part of the state is certainly not such a bonanza that the citizens of a county should be ready to spill blood to capture it. Brother Wilson, of the Sterling Advocate, says that the “HERALD objects to the statement that Logan is not a rain belt county.” No, if Logan is ashamed of the name of “rain belt county,” the HERALD has no objection to her saying so. It has not been very long since Logan delighted in being called a “rain belt county” and when an attempt was made, two years ago, to make new counties out of the territory which Logan County is now pleased to term “rain belt pauper counties,” the old county was up in arms and fought the measure with great vim. As Brother Wilson says there may be in the neighborhood of 100,000 acres of land under ditches in Logan County,” but the HERALD will venture the assertion that not once in five years does more than one-third of that number of acres receive water enough from these ditches to be any material benefit to agriculture. It is one thing to be able to boast of having land under ditches and an entirely different thing to be able to boast of obtaining plenty of water from these ditches. The HERALD would rejoice in the good fortune of the people of Logan County, if by some means they could be enabled to irrigate every foot of land in the county, but Brother Wilson’s figures are certainly somewhat misleading. The statement made by the Advocate that “all, and more than the amount of taxes collected from what is now Phillips County was squandered in useless litigation by Holyokers,” is all bosh. There was some useless litigation at Holyoke during that time, but Sterling never took a back seat in this same manner of disposing of a surplus in the county treasury. The HERALD makes no objection to the name of “rain belt” as applied to Phillips County, but it does most emphatically object to the term “paper,” especially when used by a Logan County paper. The following resolutions were adopted by the Board of County Commissioners at a meeting held January 30th: First. - Whereas owing to the drouth and consequent failure of crops in Phillips County last year, many of the people of said county and northeastern Colorado are unable to secure seed to put in a crop this coming season and are unable to procure feed for their horses while doing the work of putting in a crop. And, Whereas there was a meeting of the chairman of county commissioners of the several counties held, at Sterling, Colorado, January 6th, 1891, representing Sedgwick, Yuma, Washington and Logan County, notice of said meeting not being received in time to attend, therefore it is Resolved, That it is the sense of this board to endorse the proceedings of said meeting and the board hereby appoints M. Francis, chairman of said board, Theo Chalberg alternate to attend any meeting that may be hereafter called by P.H. Prindle, Secretary of said meeting, to represent Phillips County.” The proceedings of the meeting of county commissioners at Sterling referred to in the above resolution were published in the HERALD of January 23rd. AMHERST Miss Hattie Chase, of Julesburg, is spending a few days at home with her parents. Born, on January 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Fair, a girl Mr. Kortright’s two children have been very low with scarlet fever. The Amherst Alliance meets every Thursday at 2 o’clock p.m. with a good attendance. Mr. Frank Spink’s children are all sick with the measles. Allan Van Dike received two boxes of good from Beatrice, Nebraska to distribute among the needy here. The committee, L.E. Fair, A. Van Dike, Mrs. Brice and Harry Thorndike, showed no partiality. The citizens of this community tender Mr. Van Dike and the rest of the committee their thanks for the fair and impartial way the goods were distributed. - TOM BEACHVILLE Quite a few sick in this vicinity the past week, but none have proven serious as yet. Frank Burkhalter, Oscar Troutman and lady and Mary Peter were the guests of F. Sprague and family last Thursday. The next meeting of the Eureka Alliance will be held at the Mason school house on Friday evening, February 6, ’91. Business of importance will be brought before the meeting. Let all members attend. John Hageman lost his well by a cave in last week and now he adds one more on the list of water-bearers. Several of our people attended the revival at Holyoke the past week. Pat O’Brien was home from Sterling last Saturday. We understand that our friend James O’Brien has come in possession of a “dog cart” and will now ride in the air. Frank Burkhalter is working in Holyoke this week. Miss Mary Peter is staying with her sister Mrs. O. Troutman. John P. Nelson has returned home from Denver where he has been for some time. - OLD MISERY Page Four NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication February 6, 1891) No. 108 Land office at Sterling, Colorado, February 1, 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 clerk of the district court of Phillips County, Colorado, at Holyoke, Colorado, on March 14th, 1891, viz: HARRY THORNDIKE. Hd E. No. 13333 for the sw ¼ sec 4 tp No 8 n in r No 43 w. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: Marenus G. Brainard, Amherst, Colorado William Murset, Amherst, Colorado Robert Bolier, Amherst, Colorado William A. 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