The Lamar register., 1922-12-27
LAMAR's FIRST NEW YEAR
Many Important Happenings Durinr
the First New Years Week
in Lamar.

[ history Of Lamar marked the b4Sin.
ming Of many important things which
nave since been big factors in The
eIty's life. New Years Day came on
saturday, and On Monday the Lamar
and office was formally opened Tor
public business. The first location
vas on the second floor Of an old
.rame building on the west side of
North Main street, and when the door,
opened on January 3, 1886, at 500
o'clock the hall was filled and q line
Z reached down the stairway and far
I Town the street. By noon ten home
stcads, dozen preemptionA, thirty
.wo tree claims, five contests and
many notices Of intention to make
final proof had been filed with the
officials. All day long and for days
Lfter the throng kept the land Office
.orce busy. In addition TO this the
crowd on the side line was busy buy
ing and selling Accomplishments for
claims. The city was crowded with
'-isitors hungry for the Land then still
to be had in sight of town
The day also marked the opening
-ot sale of the Holmes e. Parrnenter
edition to Lamar, the first addition
to be put on the market. The rush
lor these lots proved greater than on
Lamars birthday and prices Of lots
began to soar TO unheard Of figures.
twenty-five thousand dollars worth OF
OTIS changed hands the first hour az
Ter the sale began. One man picked
out lot he desired, but thought the
price so high that he put off purchas-
-ng until late in the evening. He then
found the lot had changed hands three
times during the day with a total ad.
vance in price of three hundred dol.
lars. People had become 50 dippy
with the boom by that time that he
cheerfully paid the advance price sev.
eral extra trains came III from diff.
ferent sections bringing investors and
komeseekers.
Work commenced on the bridge
across the Arkansas river north Of La
mar. The Bullen Bridge Co, then as
always, was the successful contractor
and the price was s3oi4. The hishes.
bid was $4,000.
A committee of old soldiers was
appointed to arrange for the organize
ton of a G. A. R. Post in Lamar.
Messrs. A. Deeter, d. E. Cooper, n.
A. Billow and Elk. Saint constituted
the committee.
According to reports coming from
Winterset, Iowa, there was q great
fear at that point that the town would
move en-masse TO Lamar
The Santa Fe railroad brought good
cheer in the form of a reduction Of
passenger rates from cents to cents
per mile in Colorado beginning Janu-
AIRY LIST.
On Christmas Eve at Granada three
SESSIONS brothers quarrelled with two
Feast brothers at dance and shot
both of the latter. Charley Feast was
killed and George left for dead but re-
covered and was for number Of years
prominent in Prowers county's public
life. The Sissons soon moved to Tex
as where in another quarrel-this time
with the notorious Jennings brothers
they were all killed. Only 4 short
time afterwards several of the JeR-
nings picked quarrsl with Temple
Houston, son of the famous first pres
dent Of the Texas Republic, Sam
Houston, and the Jennings were wip-
cd out Such was ever the round OF
wild west life in the early days Of the
history of its settling.
One thing has not changed, how
ever. Kansas was just beginning to
enforce prohibition and the stuff sold
there WINS of such nature that the pa
per tells Of Garden City farmer who
drove thirty miles TO town, filled Up
ON prohibition booze and when he
started home drove into a tree and
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