NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 6 Mar 1891, Vol IV - No 30 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91mar06.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 6 Mar 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 30 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. John Oliver is now clerking for W.R. Shamp. J.B. Cummings returned Thursday from a trip to Denver. Albert Gilroy will be a reader of the HERALD from this date. Mrs. Norman Harvey and daughter came up from Holdrege Saturday. Rev. Bailey delivered an excellent sermon Sunday evening to a large audience. Rev. Kneeland, of Sterling, will preach at the Baptist church Saturday and Sunday. FOR SALE - Two good milch cows and a calf. Inquire of H.J. Johnson or at this office. Mrs. George Weir is visiting at Kearney, Nebraska and George goes about town with a long face. Mrs. Brannon was quite sick the fore part of the week but she is able for duty in the postoffice again. C.M.C. Woolman returned Friday from York, Nebraska, where he had been called by the sickness of relatives. A.H. Rogers, of Denver, stopped in Holyoke over Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. W.C. Powers, of this place, on his way east. Michael Cunningham received word that one of his sons was very sick at Grand Island, Nebraska and he expected to take the train today to go to his son. CARD OF THANKS To all the friends who so kindly assisted me during the last sickness of my companion, I desire to express my sincere thanks. - Thomas J. Place The Sterling Advocate says: “May the angels have mercy on the afflicted ‘grip’ people of Sterling.” Holyoke has escaped the “grip” so far, but it is too soon yet to brag. It always touches the editor of the Phillips County News in a tender spot when reference is made to his sudden flop to the democratic ranks and he invariably turns his mud gun loose in a tirade of abuse upon the old party he formerly trained with. This is perfectly natural. When a man becomes soured upon a party, because he imagines that he has not received his just deserts at the hands of the party, and goes to the opposing party in the hope of personal gain, it is to be expected that he will keep up a continual kicking against the old party. In such cases, however, the people always make a liberal allowance for the high degree of exaggeration in the statements of the “party-flopper-chronic-kicker” and that accounts for the fact that Williams’ desperate tirades of abuse against the republican party disgust more voters than they convince. Albert Gilroy informs us that he will, this season, be able to show his neighbors what kind of a crop can be raised on Phillips County land with plenty of water. He has a well on elevated ground and has permitted his wind mill to run all winter and the water pumped has run out over several acres of land thoroughly wetting it down before the cold weather set in and there is now a sheet of ice formed over a large portion of this land. This will put the land in the condition for cultivation and Mr. Gilroy will be sure of a good crop of anything that he may plant upon this land the coming season. He says he will be able to water nine acres with this well. By following Mr. Gilroy’s plan, there is no reason why every farmer who has a well and wind mill should not at least have a fine vegetable garden every year, regardless of the season, and, where the well is as favorably located as this one, be able to raise a good crop of grain on a few acres. AMHERST Dance at Kortright’s Thursday night. A small blizzard struck our town at five o’clock Monday night, but was of short duration. A. Fair and family were out in the storm. We are afraid if the storm had lasted all night there would have been much suffering among stock. Mrs. John Fisher attended the teacher’s examination at Holyoke, the 27th and 28th. Leonard Bro’s sheep got away from them about 11 o’clock last Friday during the snow storm; they found them two hours later about four miles south. Quite a number went from here to the dance at Ed Walker’s last week. Ray said he had his best girl engaged to go, but when master Ray went for his horse it walked out of the barn and trotted away in the darkness. Ask Ray how he went to the last dance. We learn that Mrs. Frank Spink is sick with typhoid fever. Peter Gilgen, Ben’s father, is on the sick list with kidney trouble - TOM FAIRFIELD We are glad that Homesteader has awakened; it won’t do for all the correspondents to sleep at once. Conda Ice has returned from his eastern visit. Will Huffman and family have again moved to their homestead. Some miscreant has taken advantage of John Brummer’s absence and has used his door and windows for a target. M.N. Worley will improve the looks of Four Corners, this week, by creating his air motor. Our Sunday school meets at half past ten solar time. An election of officers was held lately to fill the vacancies of Ira and S.S. Worley. Mrs. Zoll was elected superintendent, Mrs. Mackie assistant, Miss L. Borland treasurer, E.E. Worley chorister and Mamie Whitney secretary. I think that $10,000 appropriation would soon be granted if it was generally known of the scarcity of feed. There are plenty of persons that have no feed at all, except the prairie grass and that for the greater part of the time is covered with snow. Teams are so weak now that the outlook for putting in crops, even if seed is furnished, is not the most flattering. People are without butter now, for no other reason, than scarcity of feed, fresh cows hardly being able to sustain their calves. It is very humiliating, to say the least, to ask for aid, but most of us have been placed in such a position, after a season of toll and labor, for naught, that it is absolutely necessary that we have help to live and I hope and believe that all that have received such help, feel thankful and believe that it is God’s special providence. - GUESS WHO WAYSIDE GLEANINGS Spring is March - ing on. Wild geese were seen last week. Colds and sore throats are prevalent. Augustus Temple, who is sojourning in Texas, reports wheat as being two feet high. Easter comes March 29th this year which, according to an old German tradition, insures us an early spring. Another tradition is that the first three days of a season rule the weather of the following three months. If this be true, we may look for a pleasant March and May and a wet April. A resolution, recommending a bounty of two cents a pound on beet sugar manufactured in Colorado, was unanimously adopted by the last Phillips County alliance, and a memorial to that effect authorized to be for warded to the legislature The thanks of our agriculturists are due the gentlemen who labored so zealously for the passage of the seed grain bill at Denver, but, as lunatics and women have no right of suffrage in Colorado, we presume none of them will expect our vote “when the swallows homeward fly.” We recently had the pleasure of looking in upon the various departments of our public school and were extremely gratified with what we saw and heard. Both teachers and scholars seemed mutually interested in the routine work of the day and we could but wonder how many parents and guardians have even by one visit shown their interest in our school, when such a visit may be an inspiration to all concerned by a sense of appreciation of what is being accomplished. Nothing is easier than criticism and nothing more unjust, when “distance lends” dissatisfaction “to the view.” The reporters of our local press strangely failed to make mention of the beautifully decorated hall upon the occasion of the late soldier’s entertainment. Flags to the right of us and flags to the left of us produced an inspiring effect, together with excellent portraits of Lincoln, Grant and Logan, the gift to the post, of comrade C.E. McPherson; while all praise is due those who by recitation, speech and song, contributed so greatly to the success of the gathering, which with the bountiful repast, some thirty old veterans will long remember with sincere gratitude. - L. M. R. Page Four Proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners at a meeting held March 2nd, 1891: On motion, P.J. Dempster was appointed county attorney for the ensuing year: The following claims were allowed: John Morris Printing Co. $16.00 Perry Moore juror $5.30 Sedgwick County, costs in case of the People vs Helland $161.80 Colhier & Cleveland stationery $12.00 P.J. Dempster county attorney $24.00 Robert White janitor $10.00 C.E. McPherson clerk $104.20 James Temple sheriff $65.00 I. Smith and Son Co. coal $19.20 M.D. Copp commissioner $8.90 C.B. Timberlake county superintendent $21.00 B.A. Hoskins county treasurer $411.05 Theo Chalberg commissioner $9.50 M. Francis commissioner $5.50 Judge Glynn was authorized to purchase three copies of the Colorado statutes. C.E. McPherson and Judge Glynn were appointed to take applications for seed grain. BEACHVILLE Charles Peter was in Holyoke a few days last week. F. Sprague purchased a cart of B.F. Williams of Holyoke. Our friend, Oscar Troutman, was presented with a handsome birthday present, last Sunday, in the shape of a bouncing boy. Oscar walks the air since the arrival. Dr. Emma Chapman, of Holyoke, was in this vicinity last Sunday. We think our friend, Jimmie O’Brien, was intruding upon the summer last Sunday. He was togged out in his summer clothes including a straw hat. His appearance made us seem exceedingly cool. Joe and Nathan Fisher left for Polk County, Nebraska, where they will farm the coming season. Mrs. N. Fisher remains on the claim. The HERALD made a mistake in saying that Harry Trego and wife had returned home from a visit to Illinois. It should have read, Elmer Trego and wife. Harry Trego is a bachelor and has been here all winter. OLD MISERY NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (First publication March 6, 1891) No. 128 Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, March 2, 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 April 13th, 1891 viz: WILLIAM H. ROBISON. Hd, E No 6940, for the se ¼ sec 32 tp No 9 n in range 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 Lorence E. Fair, Amherst, Colorado Pat Killmain, Amherst, Colorado Chester Heartt, Amherst, Colorado ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). 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