NEWSPAPERS: THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado: 7 Aug 1908, Vol. 22 - No. 2 http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/phillips/newspapers/sthld1908/08aug07.txt Donated by: Vicki Conklin May 27, 2002 =================================================================================== THE STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado J.H. Painter, Editor and Publisher 7 Aug 1908, Friday, Vol. 22 - No. 2 Page One Mrs. F.P. Barr, son Henry, and daughter Lillian, of Clarinda, Iowa, arrived in Holyoke Wednesday for a visit with the family of her brother, the HERALD editor. SCRUGGS - CRISSMAN At the Methodist parsonage in Holyoke, Colorado, on Saturday, August 1st, Rev. G.A. Spence officiating, A.W. Scruggs and Miss May Crissman of Holyoke were married. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Crissman, who are numbered among the early settlers of the county, and has many friends among the people of the town and vicinity. Mrs. Scruggs is one of the enterprising and successful young business men of the town and has conducted a meat market in our town for a few months. The young couple spent Sunday in Sterling returning Monday morning. The HERALD extends best wishes. Work commenced the first of the week on the digging of the trench to lay pipe connections between the water main on Inter Ocean Avenue and the new pumping plant for the town water works. RUSHVILLE NEWS Everyone is getting busy harvesting. Miss Nettie Fite is working for Mrs. Frank Austin. Miss Viola Law from Julesburg has been visiting Miss Vera Reichelt on the ranch. Everybody is sorry to hear of the death of Charley Fiedler Jr. Mrs. Jim Freemeyer has been quite sick of late. Ed Kenney is helping Mr. Hiatt put up hay this summer. Maude Hiatt is working for Mrs. Lounsbury. Mrs. Hulbert Reichelt returned home from Denver this week. Friend Boyer and Iva Hiatt visited at Myrtle Wheatley’s Sunday. Viola Law, Vera Reichelt and Dan Ellis spent last Sunday at Wrights. -- CORN COB BILL C.H. Danner of Shenandoah, Iowa is visiting with the family of Fred Borland of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Turner of Lincoln, Nebraska are visiting with the family of her sister, Mrs. G.W. Garland, of Holyoke. AMITIE The Harvest is great and the weather is most beautiful for gathering it in. Rev. Jenkins preaches at Amitie every fourth Sunday in each month and Rev. Mellinger every first Sunday. A cordial invitation to all. Mr. and Mrs. Al Herenden was down from Sedgwick to spend a few nights on their claim. It is a query to many how some people can live and prosper without performing any labor of any kind, and we have them in our midst. Mr. and Mrs. Behnfeldt spent Sunday with Mrs. Lutze and family. Mrs. Dr. Pugh and son, Frank, expect to start for Indiana soon for an extended visit to Mrs. Pugh’s old home. Lost, somewhere in Phillips County, the Phillips County Fair Association. It has no brand other than the above name. Anyone knowing of its whereabouts will please notify the Herald man. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Harmon of Wray were visiting Mrs. Harmon’s mother Saturday and Sunday. -- CROSS EYED PETE Page Four Mrs. J.B. Lamar left Holyoke Thursday for a visit at Danville, Illinois. A cement walk is being laid in from of the Presbyterian church this week. M. Anderson, a prominent merchant of Haxtun, was in Holyoke Wednesday. Mrs. Dr. F.M. Means and children left Holyoke Monday for a visit in Lincoln, Nebraska. Miss Gladys Thompson left yesterday for a visit at Holdrege and other points in Nebraska. Ed Hethcote returned Tuesday from Grant, Nebraska where he had been building cement walk. Mrs. Blanche Tracy is taking instruction at Lincoln, Nebraska to fit herself for work as a trained nurse. Mr. Delander of the real estate firm of Lohn and Delander of Haxtun, was in Holyoke Thursday. We understand that C.E. Paul has sold his abstract books and real estate business to O. Canaday and Leon Kepler. Misses Ethel Helland, Madge Johnson, Carrie Gassert and Edna McKibben went to Haxtun Saturday and spent Sunday with their schoolmate, Miss Hilder Bentson. S.H. Johnson and W.E. Heginbotham recently made a trade of Phillips County land for a large stock of hardware in Topeka, Kansas and Mr. Johnson will take charge of the business and expects to move his family to that city in the near future. We regret very much to learn that Mr. Johnson and family are to leave our town. S.E. Allen and Bert Edwards of the Haxtun country are in town today. W.R. Dickerson of Curtis, Nebraska came up to Holyoke Monday to look after his real estate interests in this county. W.H. Show returned this morning from Denver where he had been attending a meeting of the assessors of the state. Hon. B.F. Good, of Wahoo, Nebraska, Judge of the fifth judicial district, and his wife, son and daughter who had been visiting the families of W.H. and J.R. Slack of Holyoke, left Thursday for their home. C.H. Moore has been harvesting his 160 acre field of spring wheat just south of town this week. It makes a good showing for the first crop on sod. This time last year the land was covered with buffalo grass and now it shows a good crop of wheat in shock. Fred Jaeger of York County, Nebraska has been in Holyoke this week looking after his land interests in this county. Mr. Jaeger was one of the earliest settlers of the county. He took a claim in 1886 near where Bryant was afterwards located and still owns the land. A number of years ago he left here and took up his residence in Nebraska. E.E.T. Hazen reports the rain fall for July in this county at 2.9 inches. Miss Carrie Gassert went to Denver the first of the week for a visit with the home folks. Page Eight NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, August 3, 1908 Notice is hereby given that Hugh W. Eaton of Holyoke, Colorado who on July 31, 1906 made Hd E No 3498 for s e 1/4 Sec 6 tp N R 46 W, had filed notice of intention to make final five year (soldier) proof to establish claim, to the land above described before W.G. Helland clerk of district at Holyoke, Colorado on the 19 day of September 1908. Claimant names as witnesses Charles Chaney of Holyoke, Colorado William Hendrickson of Holyoke, Colorado James O’Mara of Holyoke, Colorado C.F. Johnson of Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION United States Land Office, Sterling, Colorado, August 3, 1908 Notice is hereby given that Thomas C. Richardson of Holyoke, Colorado who on Nov 18 1905 made Hd E No 2691 for the n e 1/4 sec 27 T 8 n R 46 w has filed notice of intention to make final commutation proof to establish claim to the land above described before clerk district court at Holyoke, Colorado on the 18, day of Sep 1908. Claimant names as witnesses Peter Hendrickson of Holyoke, Colorado Samuel Goddard of Holyoke, Colorado Griffin Guernsey of Holyoke, Colorado Alvin E. Boyd of Holyoke, Colorado NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Sterling, Colorado, Aug 4, 1908 Notice is hereby given that George B. Weir of Holyoke, Colorado who on Nov 9, 1901 made D E No 1643 for the n w 1/4 Sec 17 T 8 N R 44 W has filed notice of intention to make final five year proof to establish claim to the land above described before W.G Helland clerk district court at Holyoke, Colorado on the 15, day of Sep 1908. Claimant names as witness Charles Feidler of Holyoke, Colorado D.M. Pennington of Holyoke, Colorado M.L. 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