NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 27 Mar 1891, Vol IV - No 33 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1891/91mar27.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin 9 May 2007 ====================================================================== STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. PAINTER Editor & Publisher 27 Mar 1891, Friday, Vol. IV - No. 33 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. John Eaton and wife took the train last Monday for Iowa. Mrs. Carrie O’Shea visited a few days at Grant, Nebraska this week. Good corn fodder for sale, cheap, by F. Martin, on n e ¼ sec 14, 8-44. NOTICE - I will take cattle to herd the coming season.- A.L. Burdette L.S. Viersen came up from McCook Saturday and remained over Sunday. Ed Dickerson has been given a position of brakeman on the B & M again. A letter from C.W. Kinnan states that he is reading law at Indianapolis, Indiana. Preparations are being made for an Easter service at the M.E. Church next Sunday. J.H. Chilcott, S.C. Yeager and G.A. Crane will read the HERALD from this time on. A.M. Woodford came in from the west Monday and stopped of a few days in Holyoke. Miss Lena Zoll took the train last Wednesday for Denver, where she will spend the summer. Miss Lillie Dickerson took the train Monday, for Curtis, Nebraska, and will visit several weeks with friends. The heaviest snow of the season fell this week and from all accounts it was a general snow throughout the west. Gade Weaver returned to Holyoke Monday, after a two week’s absence at Denver and other points on business. A team was stuck in the mud on the streets of Holyoke, one day last week. Who says that it never gets muddy in eastern Colorado. The M.E. Sunday School has purchased a new supply of singing books and a marked improvement is already noticed in the singing. Another big snow this week and if this county does not have a big crop this year it certainly will not be for the lack of plenty of snow during the winter. Michael Cunningham returned, Monday, from Grand Island, where he had been for a couple of weeks taking care of a sick son. His son returned with him and, though much improved in health, is still very weak. Our Holyoke postmaster goes about the duties of the office with as long a countenance as we would expect to see had he lost his last friend. He evidently does not enjoy keeping bachelors hall while Mrs. Brannon is visiting. The B & M boys had another siege of bucking snow this week. The train from the east that should have reached Holyoke Wednesday was twenty four hours late. The boys have had a chance to make good use of the snow plows this winter, sure. Williams seems to think that we were concealing the truth because we did not give, in the last week’s issue, a detailed account of his famous libel suit. If he is so very anxious to have the case published, he might set out Gun Wa’s ad one week and devote that space to a history of the case. It having been reported that Dr. F. M. Smith would be a candidate before the next republican convention for county treasurer, he authorizes the HERALD to say that he is not a candidate, will not be a candidate and has never had any intention of being a candidate before the people for any office at the coming election, next fall. We are glad to learn that the statements in Williams’ letter, which we printed last week, were considerably exaggerated. Since reading that letter, our sleep has been greatly disturbed by dreams of seeing the democratic “Sage of the Frenchman” walking about the snow covered streets of Holyoke attired in a “thin pair of pants.” It is quite a relief to learn that his wardrobe is not limited to a “thin pair of pants.” NOTICE - Holyoke, Colorado, March 21st, 1891. According to the new constitution, the 2nd quarterly meeting of the county alliance will be held on April 4th, 1891, at 1 o’clock, central time. It is necessary to have full delegations at this meeting. Come all, whether delegates or not, as the question of the day will be discussed. - Charles R. Peter, Sec’y Co. F.A. DIED - Saturday evening, March 21, Nellie, the little daughter of Professor S.H. Johnson. Little Nellie was taken with a severe attack of the lung fever and was sick but a short time till death claimed her. She was the only child and none can truly sympathize with the parents, except those who have passed through similar afflictions. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Bailey, at the M.E. church, Sunday afternoon and the little body was laid away in the cemetery to await the morning of the resurrection. The social at the home of A.B. West last evening was well attended notwithstanding the bad condition of the streets and every one had a jolly, good time. A Sunday School convention will be held at the M.E. church, May 1st, 2nd and 3rd. A program has been prepared and will be published in time to give every one due notice of the proceedings of the convention. J.F. McClung, of Cheyenne, was on the streets of Holyoke this week, shaking hands with his many friends. We are informed that he has severed his connection with the B & M and will soon take a position with U P R R. J.F. has a host of friends at Holyoke who wish him success wherever he may locate. Judge Glynn writes from Denver that the application for a mandamus to compel the state treasurer to pay the warrant for the appropriation of the seed bill would be heard in the District Court Monday night and if the application is refused it will go at once to the Supreme Court for a final decision at the earliest possible date. The editor of the Phillips County News claims to be a newspaper man from away back and still he makes the humiliating confession this week that he did not know, when his last week’s issue came out, that silver had been a legal tender for the last ten years. An old newspaper man should be better posted than that. However, the act restoring silver was passed soon after Williams flopped over to the democrats and since that time his memory has not been very good when he wishes to make statements for campaign capital. DIED - At the home of his sister, Mrs. John Kidd, March 26th, N.B. Thomas. He was taken sick with lung trouble on Tuesday and passed away Thursday morning. He was born January 31st 1856, in Washington County, Virginia, and for the last eighteen years has been a great sufferer from poor health. He made a profession of religion and united with the Baptist church at Mendota, Iowa, in December 1890 and since that time has lived an exemplary christian life. His death was very sudden and was a severe shock to his sister and her family who have the sympathy of their many warm friends in Holyoke. The funeral services were held at the Baptist church this forenoon, Rev. Bailey preaching the funeral sermon. Wonder what Williams thinks about the Gun Wa add by this time? The Gun Wa outfit at Denver were all arrested last week, charged with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. We have had repeated offers of local advertising for the Gun Wa company and have always refused it, as we considered the company a fraud and do not wish to knowingly advertise a fraud. The exposure of the fraudulent character of branch offices of this so-called medical company in other cities should have been sufficient to have lead to an investigation of the office at Denver some time ago. Grand Island, Nebraska, March 20, 1891 - I was called from my home in Colorado, about two weeks ago, by telegram to the bed side of my son, who was lying at the St. Francis Hospital suffering from pleura pneumonia of the right side. My son, Thomas, entered the hospital about eight weeks ago, from the B & M RR. He was put on treatment for said trouble and, two weeks after entering the hospital, he seemed to be much improved in health but about this time he contracted by some means a fresh cold which turned the tide of his convalescence to a deeper seated stage of the trouble. He seemed to go steadily down in health until the 6th day of March when, by a skillful operation performed by the hospital physician, Dr. J.D. Jackson, there was drawn from the pleural cavity almost four pints of pus. Since that time up to the present, there has been 14 pints of pus taken from the right pleural cavity and I am very happy to state that my son has made wonderful improvement in the last ten days, under the skillful operations of Dr. Jackson and the kind care of the sisters of St. Francis Hospital. The good treatment and kind care will never be forgotten, by yours, M. Cunningham FAIRVIEW Conda Ice has again returned to Nebraska. There must be some attraction. Ive Baird is home from Denver. Seen on Broadway the past week, Whit Irwin, Brace Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Dille, Mr. Cullis and Miss Daggy. A few of the homesteaders are sowing wheat. For the want of seed, the harvest will be light as most every one has none. We have some literary talent in our neighborhood judging from the merit of E.E.T. Hazen’s letter to the Denver News, and H.W. Wakeman’s letter to the New York Witness, which savors more of truth than poetry, in both cases. I hope we will be favored with an occasional sermon now, as the Rev. Auten has come to live among us. - GUESS WHO BEACHVILLE Spring. H.H. Mason was down to Champion, Nebraska last week. Charles Peter has been engaged to teach the school in district No. 71 the coming term. Frank Burkhalter has been remodeling his sod house the past week. George Trego has traded for another horse and intends running an extra team this season. This is enterprise. Once more, our friend, Oscar Troutman, comes fourth with his annual warning, that is, he advises all good farmers to plant their potatoes in the moon, since last year, those who did not lost their potatoes by the great wind storm. John Hageman was down to Julesburg last Thursday. Oscar Troutman and C.R. Peter were over near Amherst last Monday. - OLD MISERY ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION State of Colorado, Executive Department In compliance with the law, passed by the Seventh General Assembly, and approved March 22, A.D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, I, John L. Routt, Governor of the state of Colorado, hereby designate and proclaim Friday, the seventeenth day of April, A.D. 1891, to be observed as Arbor Day. I earnestly recommend that the people keep this day, in conformity with the general custom, by the planting of trees and shrubbery of all classes, adapted to our soil and climate, and in the adornment of public and private grounds, streets and highways, and by such other demonstrations as are appropriate to the general character of the occasion. The importance of promoting forest growth and tree culture, and their preservation, should awaken the sincere interest of every resident of the state; and it is hoped that the officers and pupils of our schools will take an especial and active part in the exercises of the day. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Colorado to be affixed, this thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. - By the Governor: John L. Routt. E.J. Eaton, Secretary of State In accordance with the above proclamation of the Governor of the State of Colorado, I trust the teachers of Phillips County will appropriately observe the day. If grounds have not been prepared for the reception of trees, let appropriate literary exercises be held in all the school houses of the county. A manual of exercises for the day has been prepared by our state superintendent, a copy of which I desire to be in the hands of each teacher in the county. Should you not receive a copy, I ask you to come to my office and procure one in ample time. As per manual you will notice that a vote is to be taken on that day to select a state flower. Let this be announced soon, that all may be prepared to express their preference. - Charles B. Timberlake, County Superintendent Page Four SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a writ of execution issued out of the District Court of Phillips County, State of Colorado, to me as sheriff, directed in favor of E.E. Brannon and against B.F. Anderson, whereby, I am commanded to make the sum of sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents ($67.60) with interest from January 6th, A.D. 1891, and costs, fifty- three dollars and forty-three cents ($53.40) and cost of this sale, I have levied upon and taken in execution, all the right, title and interest of the said defendant, B.F. Anderson, in and to the following described real estate to-wit: Lot No. (5) five, in block No. (7) seven, in the town Holyoke, Phillips County, Colorado. Which I shall offer for sale at public auction on the 18th day of April, A.D. 1891, at 10 o’clock, a.m. at the front door of the court house in the town of Holyoke, and the County of Phillips, State of Colorado, to the highest bidder for cash. - JAMES TEMPLE, Sheriff ================================================================= All files are contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net/). 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