The Holly chieftain., 1919-01-16
County Seat News
Oeinas throughout eeosvers and
s oses ceuntiss eippea from Lamar exchanges

! nOunce that the ban ON dancing
will be lifted Jan. 20. effective both
( In city and county.
! In Saturdays official casualty list
: Is included the name Of Frank b.
! Clark, wounded slightly. though
previously reported missing.
1 Misses Florence Sayler and Myrta
Miller went down to Ration last Fri
day to be present at the funeral OF
Mrs. Scott King, who was formerly
Miss Marie Buckley of Lamar.
/, David Lee McClung of Pocatell0,
brother. exCOmmissiOner Joe s. Me
Chung. He was on his way to his
old home in Ohio.
Misses Eyre Martin. Halle Coats.
Lielia Hughes and Helen Mitchell
have returned to Stephens college
ut Columbia. Mo-. after spending
the holidays with home folks
! Miss Grace Sperry. who resides Is
miles south of Lamar, was operated
on at the Lamar General hospital
last Friday for appendicitis. She il
reported to be recovering very nice
ly.
Commissioners Fred William, Sam
IIigbee and A. p. Knuckey were in
Lamar this week attending the clos
ing session of the old board. The
new board will be organized next
week.
Oscar F. Downing. woh has been
doing the hermit act at his ranch
on Butte creek since the snow
storm, drove to Lamar by sledge
Tuesday to get supplies and fill up
on peace news.
The Truax Hardware & Furniture
Co, who recently bought out the
stock of G. j. Hale, are largely in
icreasing the stock in all lines. They
expect to make the store one of
the most up-tOdate and largest in
the valley.
County Clerk l.. NJ. Markham re-
turned last Friday from q visit to
the state capital, where he went to
attend the meeting of the state
| highway commission and others In
terested in the new good roads pro-
gram for the coming year.
James Fortune, son of Mrs. L. HI.
/ Manville, and his wife, are visiting
!. friends in Lamar this week. Jim
/ had been employed until recently
in a powder factory at Erie. Pa, but
/ missed the sunshine so much that
he quit his Job and returned to the
state where sunshine abOunds.
| Mrs. Jennie Golladay, residing in
Cottage addition, has Just received
q genuine German helmet captured
!, by her nephew, Carl Lenhart, on the
| French field of battle. Mr.. Lenhart
/ formerly resided in Lamar; the hel.
met was on display at the Apple
gate store today and attracted
much attention.
/! Ed PiersOn, the concrete cOntrac-
/ tor, has been spending the past few
days here with his family on South
Fourth street: he has been in Two
Buttes the most Of the winter work
| ing on the Two Buttes bank, which
will cost about 5000 when com
/ pleted and which Is splendid ad.
dition to the towns business cen.
| ter.
Lieut.. John R. White returned
this week from Camp Humphrey,
| Va, where he earned commission
in the engineering corps Lieut.
White was disappointed in not be-
Ing able to see active service, but
the training received will be valu.
able to him in civilian life. Mrs
White is now visiting relatives at
La Junta. y
| The Lamar teachers gave show
er to Miss Olive Pittman at High
school Friday night, in recognition
OF her faithful services as secretary
1 in the snperintendent's office for
the past several years; Miss Pitt
man will be united in marriage to
Mr.. Elmer Owens in the very near
future. Her place as secretary will
/ be assumed by Mrs. Fannie Stewart,
for number of years Holly resi-
dent. =,