NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 13 Feb 1891, Vol IV - No 27 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91feb13.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 13 Feb 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 27 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. Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day. A.T. Guthrie, the popular auctioneer, now lives in Holyoke. L. Tinkel returned Friday from a trip to Montrose and Denver. C.M. Dille is home from Denver where he had been for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Castetter returned last Friday from their visit at Denver. Jo O’Shea came up from Wallace Saturday and remained in Holyoke a few days. A.M. Axelson, of Bertrand, Nebraska, stopped off a day in Holyoke last week on a trip to Sterling. Sam Killen, one of the popular B & M boys, came home Saturday from Miniturn where he had been on a visit. Some of the boarders at the American Hotel did not show up for their meals last Sunday. They preferred baching to facing the blizzard. The Holyoke Fire Company received their new ladders this week and here-after the boys will not be compelled to hunt a ladder when one is needed at a fire. On Monday evening, February 23d, a basket and bean supper will be given under the auspices of the G.A.R. Post, at their Hall in Holyoke. All are invited. - Committee Our contemporary says mercury registered 18 below zero, on the 2nd inst. We could only make it 8 below. Off again friend. - News Williams evidently did not get up that day till dinner time. G.W. Shuler and Oswald Hertzig brought the first train down from Sterling Tuesday night after the road was opened. It consisted of a hand car. They had been blockaded at Sterling on their way home from Denver. This section of Colorado was treated to a regular eastern blizzard last Sunday. That is what comes of permitting a St. Louis weather tinker to map out the weather program for Colorado. We should patronize home talent. Williams says he received a consignment of goods for the destitute and turned it over to the committee. We have been requested to tender him a vote of thanks for the impartial manner in which he distributed a portion of the consignment. Prof. T.J. Close, of Holyoke, has accepted the position as principal of the Sterling schools, Prof. Bybee resigned. Mr. Close comes to us highly recommended, and under his management the schools are bound to advance. - Sterling Advocate Otis Castetter came very near losing himself in the storm Sunday. He started to go home from the Court House, about two blocks directly south, and, when he discovered his whereabouts, found that he was two blocks west of his house near the open prairie. Rev. Turnbull, the Baptist State Missionary for Colorado, arrived in Holyoke Saturday and would have held religious services at the G.A.R. Hall, Sunday, had it not been for the severe storm. Rev. Turnbull preached Monday and Tuesday evenings to a good audience. NOTICE. All members of the Holyoke Fire Company are hereby notified to be present at the regular meeting of the company Monday night, February 16th. At that meeting, the list of members will be revised in accordance with the by laws and it will be necessary for all to be present to show cause for their absence from regular meetings. By order of Company. A supper will be given tomorrow evening under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society. The gentlemen will draw for their partners and then pay for their supper according to the weight of their partners. “Light weights” will be in demand. The fact that the supper is under the management of the Aid Society is a guarantee that a jolly, good time will be had. NOTICE. To the sub-alliance’s. - You are requested to send a full delegation to the next meeting of the county alliance to be held February 21, 1891, at 1 o’clock, p.m. Business of importance to be transacted. - E.E.T. Hazen, President. Charles R. Peter, Secretary Judge Glynn returned, yesterday, from Denver and reports that the Senate committee has reported favorably on a bill providing for an appropriation of $25,000 to aid the farmers in eastern Colorado. He was before the committee and worked for a favorable report on the bill. While this is a small appropriation compared with what Nebraska is doing, yet it will aid the farmers very materially and every effort possible should be made to insure the passage of the bill. At a mass meeting held at Holyoke, February 12th, the following resolutions were adopted: Be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting, that the legislature take prompt action on the Senate bill now pending for the relief of Eastern Colorado farmers, and that said bill be amended, so that each needy farmer may receive twenty dollars worth of seed grain. And be it further Resolved, That we urge the passage of House bill No. 234 relating to the beet sugar industry. The meeting named C.E. McPherson, Judge Glynn, and J.H. Painter with Whitney Irwin, Fred Churning and J.A. Temple, alternates, as a committee to go to Denver in the interest of the passage of the above named bills. It seems if the B & M railway would employ a live agent, one who can influence men, and have him stationed at Cheyenne that much more freight and passenger traffic could be secured for the road than it has ever been able to get. - News When the News insinuates that the B & M agent at Cheyenne is not a live agent and an influential man, the editor of that sheet is badly off as usual. There is not another agent on the B & M line more popular, influential, efficient and more of a rustler than J.H. McClung, agent at Cheyenne. Mr. McClung was for some time agent at Holyoke and the people of the town know this to be true. When Williams desires to set himself up as counselor for the B & M, he should be careful to select a question about which he knows something. Old “Sin Bad” of the News says we are “sneaking” because we poked fun at him for inserting a “Gun Wa” ad on the local page of the News while we carry an ad for the same company on the third page of the HERALD. Yes, there was such an ad on the third page of the HERALD, but old “Sin Bad” knows that that page is printed in Denver and that we have no control over the advertisements inserted there-in and receive no compensation for the same. Notwithstanding the fact of the same ad being on the inside of the paper, we were offered the same sum of money to print it on the local page that old “Sin Bad” receives for doing so, but we refused to insert it. We are as ready to accept paying ads as any newspaper man, but we are not quite so hard pushed yet as to accept as questionable an ad as this one. If any one is “sneaking,” old “Sin Bad” should feel somewhat in that frame of mind for accepting such an ad. The HERALD has repeatedly urged the Farmers Alliance of this county to give public expression to their wish for legislation to encourage the beet sugar industry in the state but, so far, it seems no steps have been taken to do so. The agitation of this question in the eastern part of the state has resulted in the introducing of a bill in the Senate and one in the House providing for a bounty on sugar. We have received a letter from Representative Tucker asking that this county give all the aid possible, in the way of public meetings, petitions and personal letters, to secure the passage of this bill. Certainly no class of citizens are more interested in the passage of this bill than the farmers and an expression from them in the shape of resolutions or petitions will have more weight with the legislature than from any other source. The members of the alliance should act on this matter at once as there is no time to lose and much at stake. SCHOOL REPORT Report of the Holyoke schools for the month ending February 5, 1891. *+*+* First Primary *+*+* Total enrollment - 50 Present enrollment - 41 Average daily attendance - 26 Number neither absent nor tardy - 6 Miss Lizzie Gordon, Teacher *+*+* Second Primary *+*+* Total enrollment - 42 Present enrollment - 40 Average daily attendance - 31 Number neither absent nor tardy - 7 Mrs. M.E. Timberlake, Teacher *+*+* Grammar Department *+*+* Total enrollment - 39 Present enrollment - 26 Average daily attendance - 21 Number neither absent nor tardy - 5 S.H. Johnson, Teacher *+*+* High School *+*+* Total enrollment - 44 Present enrollment - 36 Average daily attendance - 30 Number neither absent nor tardy - 8 H.W. Barr, Principal BEACHVILLE School in district 44 is out for a week’s vacation, and will be resumed Monday for a three month’s term. Our friend, Burkhalter, looks dejected since his return from Holyoke. We presume his best girl has gone back on him. Miss Georgia Mason was visiting at F. Sprague’s last Friday. Capt. Mason was down in the Fairview neighborhood last Wednesday. H.C. Heller expects to start on a prospecting tour over the range in a week or ten days. We are glad to see Frank Saylor around again after his sick spell. - OLD MISERY FRENCHMAN VALLEY I guess your correspondent from this vicinity has been asleep as I have not seen any items of late. Zero weather, with plenty of snow, just the thing to insure us a good crop for another year, but, as it is natural for men to think more of the present than the future, we wish the snow would go as we have no feed, and the McKinley bill has got the tariff so high on corn that we can’t buy. Thanks to those generous coal men of Denver, but the 500 lbs. of coal has disappeared with the blizzard. I think there must be some angels in Denver the way they are working for us poor homesteaders. We tender a vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Ware for their efforts in soliciting aid for the needy and showing the benevolent people of Denver our true condition that met with such a prompt response. If our legislature will help us with some seed grain we will give the rain belt another trial. W.M. Moore captured another reptile twenty-five feet long last week. How is that for January. Chris Westenberg is seriously sick. One of our neighbors has gone east for a rib. Tune up your cow bells boys. - HOMESTEADER WAYSIDE GLEANINGS No church services last Sabbath, but it was “snow matter.” Wonder if brother Williams still thinks Colorado never had a blizzard. “You never miss the water till the well runs dry.” Nor know the worth of railroads till your freight and mail are snow-bound on the desolate prairie. An eleven months old child of Mr. Rife, living fifteen miles south in the sand hills, died last Sabbath of diphtheria. The whirligig of time makes all things even. Twas the west side fellows who had to shovel snow this time. It was an electric storm withal. Many diverted themselves through the lonely hours with experiments with the subtile fluid. Neighbor Temple, as a heavy weight and Whitney Irwin, as a light weight, spent a good part of Monday in removing the fine snow that had sifted under their roofs. Anent heavy weights, the more ladies of this class who attend the church festival next Saturday evening, the larger the receipts for the church treasury. Postmaster Brannon said after the storm: “The Lord doeth all things well.” It must be true that Emmett was once a good Sunday school boy. The young daughter of the late J.O. Spaulding has found a good home with Commissioner Francis, and the son with J.H. Daggy, where he is the only boy in the house. “Why didn’t you get on the Millington jury for a winter’s job?” Said Sheriff Temple to Otis Castetter upon the return of the latter from Denver last Friday. We second the HERALD’S motion that an early convention of citizens of eastern Colorado be called to take steps toward interesting Congress in our behalf in the matter of irrigation. Let us not lag behind our sister states whose needs in this direction are no more urgent than our own. Who will set the ball rolling? Another basket supper, with baked beans and hardtack accompaniment, will be given by Holyoke Post, on Monday evening, February 23d. May it prove a success like unto the first, thanks to the generous hearted citizens of our town and vicinity. Upon that occasion the “boys in blue” who were present represented the following states: Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York and a more jolly crowd never kept step to the music of fife and drum. - L. M. R. Page Four The following letter, written by our fellow townsman, was published in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS: To The Rocky Mountain News Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado, February 2. The interest that your paper has taken in the needy sufferers of Eastern Colorado is highly appreciated and may “God bless you” and Denver’s noble contributors. Mothers and children will remember you morning and evening and look back to this time of your noble and generous charity with their heartfelt thanks. There is another want that has or is preying upon the minds of the farming class in these parts: What are we going to do for seed and feed the coming spring, with neither money nor credit to get the same? I am aware that the general opinion of Denver and the western part of the state is that there is no use in trying to make this arid region an agricultural success. The farmers here, after making two total failures, still believe in final success. Many of these farmers are from Nebraska and have lived through the same trials, and they have seen as good success there as any state of this union, and even Western Iowa was not any better at first. Cultivation has pushed West, and rains have followed, and they believe it will come here. Jud Brush (as he is familiarly called) visited Captain Mason’s farm and garden, northwest of Holyoke, two years ago last summer. He saw the wheat, oats and corn raised without irrigation, and was amazed at their wonderful growth. I was superintendent of farm products of Whiteside County, Illinois fair, for three years, and I never saw a finer showing of farm products there than we had in Holyoke two years ago last fall. The outlook here for the coming season is better than it has been for four years past and farmers are anxious to try one more season. The question is, will Colorado help these farmers as Nebraska is doing, or shall they abandon what they have done to develop this beautiful country for want of means to prove their faith? Congress will build levees and government buildings, and improve water courses that are dry in portions of the year for navigation of steamboats, but farmers must apply to their states to supply their needs, and the state of Colorado is yet to prove what she will do for the development of her farm lands. I am aware that prejudice is against us, but if this state will give us the money to buy or furnish us with wheat, oats, barley, corn, potatoes, etc. and feed for teams, I will guarantee that the work will be done in good farmer like manner and if proves as we believe it will we can supply your needs with butter, beef, pork, corn and all this great state with farm products. Shall we have the help needed, or shall this most beautiful part of this great state be depopulated? Will the legislature please answer? - P.B. Reynolds FAIRVIEW Sabbath school hereafter at half past ten, sun time. S.L. Worley has gone to Alliance. Dr. Smith was in this vicinity last Thursday. A.C. Cauble’s child is sick. Mr. Zoll and family had a very pleasant visit with Mr. Mackie’s folks on Thursday. Seen on Broadway the past week: Ad Shaffer and Will Chapman. Wasn’t that a fierce gale from the northwest on Saturday? Did you ever see a worse blizzard than we had on Sunday? Most of our soddies were not equal to the task of keeping the howling blizzard out, as the snow penetrated through every crevice. Most of us put in our Sunday shoveling snow. - GUESS WHO NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication February 14, 1891) No. 113 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, February 10, 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 March 21, 1891, viz: WILLIAM MURSET. Hd E. No. 12332 for the lots 5, 6, 11 and 12 sec 4 tp No 8 n in range No 43 w. 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