The Holly chieftain., 1900-04-06
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
Local and Personal.

Please shut down the headgate.
Turnips at Whites at 81. 90 per Cwt.
For Diamond NJ flour go to Nc
Pherson's
The hens and the Sunday school are
preparing for Easter.
Ed. Sewell, Of Coolidge, rode his
wheel up to Holly Tuesday.
Mrs. Darnell, of Denver, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. L. NJ. Gee.
c. A. Rice, the Coolidge painter,
is doing some work about town.
+. G. Hoffman is in Baca county
this week looking after his homestead.
Mrs. Brownell, of Denver, visited
her daughter, Mrs. n. f. Vidal, last
week.
Mcpherson sells Diamond NJ flour
at sl.s5 per cwt. Every sack guar
anteed
DIR. c. S. Wilson, the Lamar dentist
will be in Holly the 9th. and 7th. Of
each month.
Arthur Jones returned from Wyom-
ing last Friday and has gone to work
for Frank Crowley.
Lea Brown, the Coolidge liveryman.
was having some work done at Ed.
Tnttle's blacksmith shop on Monday.
T. get your watch. clock or iewelry
repaired in first class shape take it to
Applegate, ut Lamar. All work guar
anteed.
Miss Potts, who has been doing
household work for Mrs. c. L.
McPherson' returned to her home in
Lamar Tuesday.
Road Overseer Ed. Brown went to
Lamar Monday to transact business
with the county commissioners rela-
tive TO the affairs of his Office.
j SEE WHITE for Crystal and
Morning Glory -four. A car just re-
ceiyed. bought for spot cash. Try IT,
Author OF the "Dcadly PARALLEL
The annual Elocutionarv Contest
OF the Coolidge public schools will be
held in the school building 1t Coolidge
on the evening Of AprillI. Admission
25c.
Ben Riley, the pioneer ditch rider,
is again making regular trips down to
this end OF the Buffalo canal, seeing
that everybody gets what water they
want.
1t is reported that forty families
with all their belongings are on. their
way from Ohio to Rocky Ford to en-
gage in growing sugar beets and. gar
dening.
/ We have been very busy this week
printing bylaws for the various lateral
associations and consequently have
not been able to put up as much mat
ter for the paper as usual.
Rain began falling Wednesday noon
and has been coming down at a pretty
lively rate ever since, with no more
prospect for cleariug up than when it
! first began. 1t has been many years
since this countr7 received such a
thorough soaking so early in the spring
and its value to stuckmen and farmers
will be very great.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, one of the owners in
the Great Plains Water company, and
party stopped off lat Holly with their
special car on Wednesday, but owing
to the rainy weather they were pre-
vented from making Il tour Of the
country around the town. They went
to Lamar yesterday morning to make
an inspection of the conpany's reser-
reservoir system
]. w. Bryce and NJ. II. Gill got a
great bargain in horsenesh the ether
day, at least they thought they had.
Three boys came into town from
Wichita county, Kansas, having in
charge three horses and three saddles
all of which they sold to Messrs. Bryce
and Gill for sl5. But as they were
congratulating themselves on their
good bargain Deputy Shoriff Baird ap-
peared on the scene with an order to
arrest and hold the boys. which he
did, and on Wednesday their fathers
came and took them and the horses
home after squaring up their expen-