Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Phillips County
November 26, 1894
The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne Indiana
FORGOT HE WAS MARRIED
Hallucination of a Drunkard Responsible for a Distressing Escapade.
Denver, Nov. 26-Walter E. Hall, stenographer in Judge Glenn's
court, after taking the Keeley cure, relapsed into his former bibulous habits
and his friends have noticed that of late his mind seemed to be affected. One of
his hallucinations is that he is a single man, although he has a wife and child
living at Holyoke, Colo. He became engaged to Miss Mattie L. Miller in this city
and the marriage was to have taken place last night. Judge Glynn got wind of the
affair and arrived at the house of Mrs. Miller just as Rev. Dr. Kerr B. Tupper
was about to pronounce the words that would have made Hall a bigamist. The
ceremony was stopped and Hall was arrested. He is a son of W.P. Hall, a
prominent attorney of Holdredge, Neb., and is a college graduate.
August 14, 1903
Ottumwa Daily Courier, Ottumwa Iowa
E.N. McPhearin of Holyoke, Colo., is in the city today. Mr. McPhearin is a former resident of Wapello county, having been born in Eddyville.
February 19, 1908
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Allen Musgrave and wife returned home from Holyoke, Colo., Friday, where they purchased a farm and will move there in a short time.
December 16, 1908
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
W.H. Slack of Holyoke, Colo., who has been visiting his parents near Harvard, spent Sunday with G.W. Patterson and Ira Shriver.
September 15, 1909
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Edgar Bone and family left the first of the week for Holyoke, Colo., where they will make their future home.
January 18, 1911
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Mrs. Edgar Bone departed Monday for her home at Holyoke, Colo., after a three weeks' visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Musgrave, and others.
March 6, 1911
Lincoln Evening News, Lincoln Nebraska
FROM OVER THE STATE
Tecumseh Chieftain:
E.D. Moyer of Holyoke, Colo., who has been spending the winter at University
Place, where his daughters attended school, and James M. Moyer of Yuma, Colo.,
arrived in Tecumseh, Tuesday, for a short visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
D.L. Moyer, and other relatives.
September 13, 1911
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Mrs. Lydia Sederburg and two children of Holyoke, Colo., visited last week with Mrs. J.V. Evans.
August 11, 1912
The Daily Review, Decatur Illinois
WANTED $10,000
One near sale was pulled off last week when J. Benyon of
Memphis, Tenn, offered O.H. Sholes of Holyoke, Colo. $5,000 for the bay mare
Anna Axme which won the three year old pace. Sholes refused the offer, as he
asked $10,000 for the mare.
June 3, 1914
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Miss Madge Griffith of Holyoke, Colo., arrived Thursday for a visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.. J.V. Evans, and uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Evans. Miss Griffith was met at Van Wert by her uncle.
June 24, 1914
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Miss Madge Griffith, who visited a month with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Evans, left Friday for Holyoke, Colo. She was accompanied home by her grandmother, Mrs. Mary McClurg, of Udell who came Wednesday to visit at the Evans home.
August 2, 1915
Lincoln Daily News, Lincoln Nebraska
W.A. Olmstead and daughter, Rena of Holyoke, Colo., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Reddick of Bethany.
December 27, 1916
The Humeston New Era, Humeston Iowa
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Slack of Holyoke, Colo., visited Friday and Saturday at the home of her brother, Ira Shriver.
Ben Trumper and wife from Holyoke, Colo., are spending holidays with relatives in Millerton and Corydon.
January 29, 1917
Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne Indiana
VAN WERT NEWS
Harry Funkhouse has returned to his home in Holyoke, Colo., after being the
guest of Mrs. O.C. Kennedy.
March 3, 1924
Iowa City Press Citizen, Iowa City Iowa
Attorney Claude D. Walrodis is here from Holyoke, Colo., to undergo aural treatment, and to include an operation therein. He is an alumnus of the colleges of liberal arts and law, classes of 1895 and 1905, respectively.
October 9, 1931
The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
MAN STANDS APPARENTLY LIFELESS LIKE
A SCARECROW
Found In Corn Field In Colorado He Is Identified by Brother From Kansas.
Denver, Oct. 9-The "scare crow man," who stands rigid and
mute in a room at the Colorado Psychopathic hospital with his arms outstretched,
was identified Thursday as Charles Mays, of Beardsley, Kansas. A brother Wesley
Mays, who had seen a newspaper picture of the patient, made the identification.
Mays was found in a corn field near Holyoke, Colo., last
Sunday, posed as a scarecrow and has not relaxed his statue-like rigidity. He
gave no indication of recognizing his brother Thursday.
Wesley Mays said Charles left home last June and since that
time his family had not heard from him. Physicians said it appeared to be a case
of amnesia and aphasia.
October 9, 1931
Lima News, Lima Ohio
SCARECROW MAN STILL PUZZLING DENVER
DOCTORS
Denver, Oct. 9-The mystery of Denver's "scarecrow man" was
partially solved today. Physicians declare, however, that the malady which
affects the man who stands with arms outstretched, making no motion and staring
straight ahead, in a Denver hospital is as much a puzzle today as it was a week
ago when a passing motorist first noticed the strange figure standing in a field
near Holyoke, Colo.
Wesley Mays, Beardsley, Kan., farmer, identified him as his
brother, Charles Mays.
"Hello, Charley," Wesley said.
The "scarecrow man" made no move and uttered no sound.
Physicians believe him to be suffering from amnesia and
aphasia. Such a condition, they say, could be caused by a great fright.
Wesley Mays said his brother left the family's farm in Kansas
last June to visit a sister who lives near Ovid, Colo.
A traveling salesman first saw the man standing in a field
near Holyoke, Friday morning. Passing the same field three hours later he again
saw the motionless figure, apparently in the same spot. He notified local
authorities, who brought the man, now identified as Charles Mays, to the
Colorado psychopathic hospital here.
October 10, 1931
Lima News, Lima Ohio
SCARECROW MAN NO LONGER MUTE
Denver, Colo., Oct. 10-The "scarecrow man" is no longer mute.
Charles Mays, of Beardsley, Kas., yesterday gave voice to
speech for the first time since he was brought to the Colorado Psychopathic
hospital here from a cornfield near Holyoke, Colo., where he was found with his
body rigid and arms extended last Sunday.
Altho Mays talked incoherently, physicians believe that
within a short time he may be able to intelligently answer questions asked him.
Mays was identified Thursday by his brother, Wesley Mays, of Beardsley.
After hours of observation, physiatrists have diagnosed the
"scarecrow" man's case as schizophrenia, or a split-mid. He lives, they said, in
a world of half fantasy and half reality. Persons suffering from this mental
disorder are unable, they said, to associate the reality of life with the
unreal.
October 13, 1931
Chronicle Telegram, Elyria Ohio
"Scarecrow Man" Has "Split Mind"
The Scarecrow Man, identified as Charles Mays, who was found
standing rigid, arms outstretched, in a cornfield, near Holyoke, Colo., and
taken to the Denver psychopathic hospital, has been found to be suffering from
schizophrenia, commonly known as "split" mind. Doctors say he believed he was
being crucified when he stood in the cornfield. Mays was identified by a
brother, of Beardsley, Kas. Mays didn't recognize his brother.
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