The Holly chieftain., 1919-01-09

Bingham's reputation as . humor-
list and fun-maker. Hear him at
the High School auditorium Sat
urday. Jan. 18th.
Lawrence Carter is the new yard
man at the English Lumber Co.'S
yard. as successor to the late Floyd
"a some weeks ago.
w. E. Wallace, auditor for the D..
A. N. & p. Co.. came down from
Lamar Monday night to look after
company matters here and was the
guest of his uncle. John Duncan.
Mayor L. NJ. Appel left Tuesday
for st. Louis. Chicago and New York
city on his annual trip to buy goods
for his spring and summer trade.
He expects to be absent two or three
weeks.
Mrs. Newton B. Wright and lit
tie son, Newton Junior. who have
been guests ut the Presbyterian
manse for the last three weeks, leave
this evening for their new home In
Kansas City.
Albert Morich Of the Morich Fur
.nfture Co., went to Denver last FRI
day to take the examination before
the Colorado State Embalming
board, which convened for examina-
tions Tuesday.
"A flea and q fly were discussing
the Flu" and wondering each OF
them what they would do. Said the
flea, let us fly, said the fly, let us
flee; so they flew through the flaw
IN the flue.-Ex.
Miss Ruth Demaray returned to
Fort Collins last Sunday to re-
sumo her duties as teacher of mu.
sic at the conservatory, after having
spent the holidays with her parents
and friends here.
Chas. Sanders, district manager of
the Union Central Life Insurance
Co., with headquarters at Las An.
imas, was in Holly the first Of the
week looking after the cOmpany's
interests In this vicinity.
The infant daguhter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Glover, residing six miles
northeast. of town, died last Sat
urday and was buried Sunday aft
ernOOn at the Holly cemetery, aft.
er a brief service at the home.
+. Z. Steemer received Christ
mas greeting card a few days ago
from his son, Sergeant Morris r.
Steemer, now with the American
forces in France Morris was sta
toned at Clermont, France, when
he wrote
Lieut.. L. w. Linville, recently
mustered out of the army service,
and who has since been visiting
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
p. Linville, went to Denver last Fri
day, where he plans to finish his
law course
|, Miss Irene Plank, sstenographer
at the H.-B. garage. was back at
her desk Tuesday morning after q
three weeks siege of the FLU" The
rest of the Plank family are pretty
well over the attack except Mrs.
Plank, who is still quite sick.
Mrs. T. G. Demaray, who had
been spending the past six weeks
with friends and relatives at Terril
and other Iowa points, returned
home Sunday morning, accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Anna Gill, who
will spend the winter here with her
daughter.
Mesdames Chas. Overdorf and @.
III. Lewis of La Junta, returned
home last Thursday after having
spent the holidays with their par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Linville.
Mrs. g. w. Williams of Denver,
another daughter, who was also
home for the holidays, has returned
to her home.
Tom Burke, formerly an employe
of the A. v. Land Co, of Station, Mo,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs.
John Cawson, arrived here last Fri.
day for brief visit. but had to re.
turn home the following day on &C.
count of the death of Mrs. CawsOn's
husband, who passed away at Sta,
ton, Saturday morning from heart
failure.
G. H. Olson's farm sale last Thurs.
day, was q great success despite the
bad weather conditions. While the
attendance was not as large as 1t
otherwise would have been. the bid.
ding was keen and the gross sales
we're above what Mr.. Olson had an.
ticipated. Hence he is well pleased.
Mr.. Olson expects to leave for Kan
sas City as soon as the roads are
opened up enough so that he can
drive his car.
c. A. Jewett has been playing a
hard game the past 10 days-he has
been having the "flu" without 60
ing to bed. You know q man is
never really clicked" till he admits
it himself, and c. A. has not laid
down" yet on this "flu" contest
therefore, he is still "it." Mrs. Jew
ett and their niece, Miss Elizabeth
Grenn, have been quite i'll from the
endemic though the latter has