What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
Sorted by date Results 26 - 50 of 241
13 years ago May 31, 1939 Highland Center News - The farmers were very surprised when it rained all day Friday. The wheat looks some better. Bill Krueger, who has been attending college at Fort Collins, came to his home at Haxtun this week for a visit. The Haxtun Harvest offers great money-saving bargains on this newspaper, and America's finest magazines. Three dollars for one year of this newspaper and four magazines: This editor's picks, McCall's, Better Homes & Gardens, Country Home and...
13 years ago May 24, 1939 Fairfield News - Friends in this community were surprised to learn of the marriage last week of Miss Alice Hadeen to Roy Turvey of Paoli. Philorado News - The million-dollar rain we have been looking for so long hasn't arrived, but we are still hoping. Pictured: An observation balloon Poland is using in the constant vigil on her western frontier. 70 years ago May 26, 1954 Hospital news: Vernal Robert and Leanette Price, children of Mr. and Mrs. Vern Price Jr.,...
13 Years Ago May 17, 1939 Graduation exercises this week brought the end of this school year at Haxtun and 35 seniors in the high school received diplomas. Alberta Kassing gave the valedictorian address and Geraldine Dee, salutatorian, also spoke. Seniors: Gerald Anstead, Phyllis Anderson, Byron Bailey, Irma Banks, Jeane Beckmann, Jean Berkey, Nelda Corder, Mary Clark, Reinder DeBuhr, Geraldine Dee, William Drummond, Gwendolyn Erickson, William Gayle, Clair Groover, Alice Hadeen, Georgia Hess,...
13 Years Ago May 10, 1939 Teale J. Orndorff, rural mail carrier at Haxtun, passed away at his home here on Sunday evening from a heart attack. He would have been 40 years old May 11. New teachers were engaged recently in the Haxtun schools. Instructors hired in the grade school are Miss Gladys Skold, fourth grade, who has been teaching at Fairfield, and Miss Darle Pearson of Greeley, sixth. Miss Frances L. Cooper has been engaged as instructor in English and mathematics in the high school. She...
13 Years Ago May 3, 1939 Saturday has been set for the opening of a new store in Haxtun to be known as the Bauer Cash Grocery. The store is located in the Fairmont Creamery Company building and will be operated by Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Bauer, formerly of Maywood, Neb. Mr. Bauer recently became manager of the Fairmont station here. Musicians in the Haxtun High School band will receive a trip to the national band contest in Colorado Springs next week as a reward for their showing in the state...
13 years ago April 26, 1939 Vocational agriculture students from Haxtun High School received an average ranking at the state judging contest held last week. Robert Reynolds won significant honors for himself and his school. He was awarded the State Farmer Degree. Dan Ramsay entered in judging poultry and eggs. Lester Seger and Rex Mooney took part in grain judging and crop identification, as well as potato judging. The livestock judging team was composed of Dean Schachterle, Laurie Ramsay and...
13 Years Ago April 19, 1939 Thousands of farmers and others who own horses in Colorado and nearby states will have their animals vaccinated during the next several weeks to protect them against sleeping sickness. Paoli News - J.A. Miles returned Thursday from Arkansas, where he purchased a farm and expects to move within the next week. Dailey News - Mrs. May Bamford and Opal spent the weekend at the home of Mrs. Bamford's son, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bamford and children. If a man spoke to his wife...
13 Years Ago April 12, 1939 April old-age benefit payments will average about 99 cents more than the March payments. The average payment will be $40.03. However, a $12 deficiency will be deducted because of lack of state funds, making the average payment $28.03. Pensioners who originally are scheduled to receive checks of $12 or less will not receive a check this month. Relatives and friends went to the home of Mrs. Emily Eckman last Sunday to help celebrate her 83rd birthday anniversary. Those...
13 Years Ago April 5, 1939 Work was started this week on the new super-service station that will be built by the Haxtun Cooperative Oil Co. The new building will be located opposite the Shirley Hotel, on lots purchased some time ago by the company. 70 Years Ago April 7, 1954 Hospital news: Roger Hill, small son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Hill, was a medical patient Thursday. He returned home Friday. Kenneth Melburg and Dean Davis were uninjured in a one-car automobile accident shortly after midnight...
13 Years Ago March 29, 1939 The sale of the Corner Drug Store at Haxtun to L.W. Griffith of Blue Hill, Neb., was announced this week by J.W. Meakins. Paoli News - Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brahmstadt wear callers at the Toney Hagen home Sunday evening. Good Hope News - Quite a number of families from this neighborhood were Haxtun shoppers last Saturday night. 70 Years Ago March 31, 1954 Glenn Skold and four other young men, students at North Park College in Chicago, helped rescue a five-year-old lad...
13 Years Ago March 22, 1939 Proposing that school districts in the west end of Phillips County withdraw from the county high school system and form a union high school at Haxtun, local sponsors of the plan began enlisting support this week. At present, the Haxtun and Holyoke high schools are controlled by a high school committee of four members. Three of the board members live in the Holyoke territory, while the west end of the county has only one representative. 70 Years Ago March 24, 1954...
13 Years Ago March 15, 1939 Pictured are Haxtun Bulldogs, runners-up in the State Class B basketball tournament in Denver last week. After winning three games, the team was defeated by Alamosa in the finals. Players: Arden Sack, Laurie Ramsay, Harold Ruch, Quintin Bullock, Bill Drummond, Coach C.M. Bertagnolli, Byron Bailey, Everett McConnell, Junior Meakins, Stuart Exstrom and Harold Delander. A raid by the sheriffs office resulted in the confiscation of 10 slot machines, one pinball machine, a...
13 Years Ago March 8, 1939 After giving Haxtun its first district championship here Saturday night, the high school basketball team left this week to enter the state Class B tournament in Denver. The Bulldogs will play their first game against Cortez, runner-up from the second district in southwestern Colorado. Bill Drummond paced the Bulldogs throughout the tournament, averaging 10 points per game. The combination of Meakins and Sack turned in another good performance on the court. Ruch again p...
13 Years Ago March 1, 1939 At a beautiful and impressive candlelight ceremony was solemnized at six-thirty o'clock on Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Anderson when their daughter, Miss Violet, was given in marriage to Mr. Bern Trego, son of A.A. Trego. The ceremony was witnessed by the immediate families. The marriage vows were read by Rev. William Pepper of the Methodist Church at Holyoke. Mrs. James R. Birrell entertained at a four o'clock tea Sunday afternoon, honoring...
13 Years Ago Feb. 22, 1939 Miss Margie Nell of Haxtun and Max Fulsher of Holyoke announced to their friends this week that they were married on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Kimball, Neb. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nell. She was reared at Haxtun and received her education in the schools here. Mr. Fulsher is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fulsher of Holyoke. He is a graduate of Stanford University in California. Ralph Gale was elected chief of the Haxtun Volunteer Fire Department last...
13 Years Ago Feb. 15, 1939 After an illness of several years, Mrs. Henry Hofmeister passed away Feb. 9, at 86 years, six months and 21 days. There is a difference in dollars. There is the "tramp" dollar, the dollar that is spent away from home. Then there is the home dollar, with its home circulation, home benefits, home profits. The home dollar continues to multiply itself at home, for her community interests are mutual. Not so with the "tramp" dollar. Once spent, it is gone forever. 70 Years...
13 Years Ago Feb. 8, 1939 Miss Gladys Spanjer, and Glenn C. Haynes, Haxtun young people, were married last Friday at the home of Rev. E.F. Weaver, pastor of the Brethren Church. The marriage took place at 4:30 o'clock. They were accompanied by Miss Erma Banks, Miss Della Riley, Leo Butte and Clair Spanjer. Dailey News - Mrs. A.A. Fuesz, Miss Golda Ebbert and Miss Kathryn Deboise made a business trip to Sterling Thursday afternoon. 70 years ago Feb. 10, 1954 Fleming News - Members initiated into...
13 Years Ago Feb. 1, 1939 The Legion Hall will be opened Saturday evening this week for roller skating. John Oxford of Brush will bring his equipment here and expects to operate the rink every Saturday night in the future. Time: 8 to 10:30 o'clock. Admission: 25 cents. Paoli News - Glenn Brundige and Monroe Bell went to Denver last Saturday where they expected to attend the stock show. Fairfield School, primary room: The pupils in our room on the honor roll for the third six weeks were Leonard...
13 Years Ago Jan. 25, 1939 One of the largest crowds to attend a funeral at Haxtun paid last respects Tuesday to Ray Price, local auctioneer, and resident of the community for over 20 years. A cold Mr. Price had contracted developed into pneumonia, which baffled all efforts to save his life. He was 55 years, seven months and 23 days old. Miss Maude Evans of Holyoke was fatally injured Monday night in a Denver hotel when a bullet that was accidentally discharged from a revolver crashed through...
13 Years Ago Jan. 18, 1939 "Spring Fever," a farce dealing with college students, was presented last Thursday evening by the junior class. Cast: Irla Pierce, Stuart Exstrom, John Bentson, Robert Reynolds, Merle Monk, Phyllis Knutsen, Maxine Collins, Earl Critchlow, Irene Ahnstedt, Elaine Silvey, Leslie Chryst, Curtis Starkebaum, directed by Miss Marjorie Anderson. Miss Nema Hagemeier, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Hagemeier of south of Haxtun, and David S. Johnson of Sterling were...
13 Years Ago Jan. 11, 1939 A successful rabbit hunt was held in the area north of Haxtun Tuesday, with an estimated 300 to 350 hunters taking part. In the final checkup, 990 jackrabbits were turned in by hunters. A head-on auto collision in Arizona Sunday afternoon caused serious injury to Delbert Hire, former Haxtun young man now living in Denver. Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Hire received word that their son was hospitalized at Flagstaff, Ariz. His wife is ill in a Denver hospital following a major...
13 Years Ago Jan. 4, 1939 Boys and young men who have an inclination or ambition toward the art of fisticuffs, will have the opportunity to demonstrate their talent at a smoker to be held at Haxtun Tuesday, Jan. 24. The amateur boxing card is being arranged by the high school athletic department. From 40-50 rounds of boxing will be arranged. Mrs. Amanda E. Frese, a resident of the Crook community for 25 years, passed away in Sterling Saturday morning. She had been ill only a few days. Bryant New...
13 Years Ago Dec. 28, 1938 A novel dance attraction is scheduled for this weekend in Haxtun when a sunrise dance will be held Sunday night beginning at 12 midnight. The dance will feature the music of Chuck Kellow and his Wonder Band of Greeley. It is being arranged by the town basketball club to help purchase new uniforms for the team. Miss Esther M. Trusty of Merino became the bride of Lloyd Atkins of Haxtun last Saturday, Dec. 24. The wedding took place at the Methodist parsonage at Hillrose...
13 Years Ago Dec. 21, 1938 At a dinner party given Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Birrell, an announcement was made of the marriage of Miss Esther Ewing and James R. Birrell. The wedding took place on Friday, May 20, at Raton, N.M., but the announcement was not made until this week. Dailey News - The Dailey basketball team went to Sunol, Neb., Tuesday evening. The first team was defeated by Sunol's Mustangs, but the second team was victorious. A large crowd of spectators...
13 Years Ago Dec. 7, 1938 A beautiful home wedding occurred Thanksgiving Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Fetzer when Miss Clara Fetzer became the bride of Fred Schuman of Loveland. Seven brothers and three sisters were present to attend the wedding. The ceremony was performed at 12 o'clock by the Rev. L.D. Cayton of Dailey. In an announcement received here this week, relatives and friends of Lawrence Brooks learned of his marriage to Miss Maxine Smith. The wedding took place on...
