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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13


In the mntter OF the repairs to Che bridge
(stopo work. efc) ncrOss The Dnemnn
ofeek near Gunnis blacksmith shop I'd
Dingman's Ferry iu Delaware township.
which repairs were done under the direc
tlon and supervision of County COmnis-
sioner Albright with the sanction and np-
prOval oi the other County Commissioned
10 being represented that the job was a
small one and not large enough TO wat
rant tile letting of "a contract. the County
auditors find that the bills Tor the said
repairs amounting TO $3.50 SO are very ex-
cessiVe and That more work WAS done than
was actually necessary, and therefore
recommend that the County Commission
ers In the future let no bridge work of any
description without lrst Submitting the
same for bids ana letting the same TO the
lowest bidder.
The Auditors further recommend that
the County Commissioners exercise due
discretion In the settlement OF the nc
counts with the Assessors for the various
duties performed by them as required by
law. We find that in several townships
the Assessors are charging excessive sums
for the amount OF work performed accord
ing to the assessed valuation.
And now the fifteenth day Of january.
A. d. 1903, we, the undersigned Auditors
Of the County OF Pike and State of Penn
syl ania, do hereby certify and respect
fully report to the COurt OF Common Pleas
Of said county chat we hive examined the
accounts of the Treasurer. County Com
missiOners, Sheriff and Coroner and have
audited, settled and adjusted said accounts
for the year ending january grd, 1903,
according to law and have stated said nc
counts as above set forth and Gnd the
same to be correct according the best Of
our knowledge and belief
All of which is respectful submitted.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13
SheriAs Sale

BY virtue OF writ Of Iievarl Facias IS
sued out Of the Court Of Compton Pleas Of
Pike County, TO me directed l will expos.
to sale by public venduo or outcry at the
Sherihs Office in the borough of Milford on
MONDAY, THE 23rd DAY OF FEE
RUARY, A. D. 1903
at ? o'clock in the afternoon of said day,
the following real estate: All that certain
piece and parcel Of land in the Township
Of ShOhOla, County of Pike and State Of
Pennsylvania, bounded 10y lands OF L. G.
Sweezy George Haas, Sr.. Adam Haas
Charles WeezY, Standard Blue Stohe Co
and others, CONTAINING 178 acres 2O
perches, ex eptng therout two pieces of
land, one containing 8 acres and one 90
acres more or less, with reservation of
right Of way or road through same, and
the same promises particularly described
In deed Charles f. Highly and wife to
DOrothea Ioellner dated Oct IA. 1S98 re
corded in Decd Book 46 page 271.
IMPROVEMENT
About 80 acres of above land cleared
balance woodlands also good barn.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property OF Emile HOellner and Dorothea
IOellner, his wife, Otto IOellner and viii
be sold by me for cash,
GEORGE GREGORY.
sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. Milford, Pa.
January %, 1903.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13
Palmyra

BALANCES DUE FROM COLLECTOR
1901
COUNTY DOG
Palmyra ............ .Sl2 " Sl4 62
The Auditors In 1902 found balance OF
5000 due from the Collector of Porte
township for the year 1901. The Collector
paid S67 in cash to the County Treasurel
and made an additional return Of $l3 80
which balances his account for 1901.
q. FRANK ROWLAND. TREASURER
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13
If You Are a Farmer
And Have One Cent

Buy postal card and send TO the New York
Tribune Farmer, New York City, for a free
specimen copy.
The Tribune Farmer is National Ilustrat-
ed Agricultural Weekly for Farmers and their
families, and stands at the head Of the aRrcul-
ttIral press. The price is 81 per year but II you
like IL you can secure It with your own favorite
local newspaper The PREss at a bargain
Both papers one wear only 81 90.
Send your order aid money to THE Press
Milford, Pa.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13
SherifPS Sale

BY virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias issued
out of the Court of Common Pleas of PIKE
County, to me directed, l will expose to
sale by public veldue or outcry mt the
Sheriff s office in the borough Of Milford IN
MONDAY, THE a8rd DAY OF FEB
RUARY, A. ID. 1903
mt o'clock in the afternoon of said day.
the following real estate: All that GER
tain tract of land in the Township of
Delaware, County of Pike and State of
Pennsylvania, assessed in name of William
Mcpherson. CONTAINING ii7 acres No
u Ann Huff, Sr., adjoining lands OF
Mekin and DOty, situate on Dingman
turnpike same premises convened by
George Dnumann, Jr., and wife to Julius
Bornkau, Deed Book 81 page 4sl.
IMPROVEMENTS
Sbanty and about 10 acres improved; /;
baldnce timber and wood land
Seized and taken in execution as the
property Of Julius Bnrnkau and win be
sold by for cash.
GEORGE GREGORY,
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Milford, Pa.
January %, 1908
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13
rotals.. 80 30 8 l.a87 70 so 8.
rAsH FRoM CoLLECToRs 1oo1
CASH FROM COLLECTORS 1000

COUNTY INDBT STATE DOG
Porter. .,..S7 " S22 33 50 42 81 Is
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13
IMPROVEMENTS

NlUIIT
Sheriff's Office, Milford, Pa.
January %, 1908.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
THE COST OF IRRIGATION WATER
RIGHTS

Some of the Washington dispatches
have called attention to the expected
increase in cost of irrigation of the
western lands which the interior de-
partment designated the other day for
the first construction under the ma
tional irrigation law, pointing out that
this cost is double certain estimates
made during the discussion of the irri-
cation bill, which were placed at IS
an acre. Five dollars would undoubt
eddy be low average to place upon
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
SURVEYING FOR TILE DRAINING.

Tile draining under any circumstan-
ces is expensive and it is an easy
matter to sink the price of an ordinary
farm in draining it. 1t is certainly
natural, and is indeed cOmmendable,
that the owner shall endeavor to cut
down the expense of draining to the
greatest possible extent. Many time,
however, most woeful waste is prac-
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15

ticed when the utmost efforts are be-
ing made to economic. ordinarily
farmers endeavor to avoid the expense
of surveying by laying out the drains
themselves. this often being done by
the use of the old-fashioned spirit
level. When there is considerable
fall this old fashioned method may
be used with impunity, but ordinarily
where drains are most necessary it is
not accurate enough. Where there are
hundred feet it will always pay to Sc
cure the services of an experienced
surveyor. Where many drains are to
be put down the cost will only amount
to a fraction of cent per rod, and this
outlay may make the difference be-
tween success and failure in the work
ing of the drains. There are to be
found in every community men who
take thing contracts who are expert In
the use of the level, but on the other
hand there are those who are not to be
intrusted with this important task,
rot because of any dishonesty on their
part. but rather because of the inabll-
ity to lay out drains accurately. In
many cases cheap levels are employed,
and coupled with this, little careless
ness may render a whole system of
drains practically worthless.
Where the fall is as low as one inch
or thereabout per 100 feet there is
only one system by which thing can be
done accurately, and that is by stalking
out the drain every fifty feet and sur
veying it with reliable level, after
wards computing. the depth at each
stake. When one has gone to this ex-
rense it will always pay to erect cross
uieces at each stake before digging,
over which line should be drawn and
from which accurate measurements
may be taken to the tile. Ii this line
is six feet from the tile at any given
point it should be this same distance
throughout the entire length of the
drain. There are those who erect
cross pieces and yet make no use
whatever of the line, the idea being in
this case to be guided by the eye alone
We have many times tested work OF
this kind with level and have found
the grade to be altogether too irregu-
lar between stakes. The depth would
be as required at the stake, but would
vary, as we have said, between stakes.
The objection to even variation or
one inch is that sediment is apt to col
lect and in time the tile will become
completely filled. AS we have said
before, it will always pay in putting
down drains to employ the services of
q skillful surveyor, and where it is
possible we would advise the owner or
trusty employee to accompany the sur
veyor and investigate, as far as pos
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15

sible, the method employed in its
every detail Not only should this be
done because of the insight which one
will get into the matter, but also be-
cause it will prove check so that no
error will creep into the computations.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15

1
the government is to construct in the
West will cost at the rate of 50 an
acre of SIS or 500 an acre, is matter
which need in nowise interfere with
the prosecution of the irrigation con-
structions under the national irriga-
ton law passed by congress last sum-
mer. In every case the cost of put
ting water upon the land is to be
borne by the settler, and the farmer
who lives upon the land and will
use the water The government will
be repaid for every dollar expended.
The question then is simply whether
land with water upon it will be taken
by settlers at ten dollars or fifteen
dollars an acre or any other sum which
it may cost to reclaim it. When it is
realized that irrigated farms and or
chards in the West are worth from
four to one hundred times fifteen dol
lars an acre, and that the crudest ir
rigation farms produce annually more
than SIS an acre, it is not believed
that there will be any dearth of appli-
cants ready and eager to go upon the
land which the government reclaims
Under the irrigation act payment can
be made on exceedingly easy terms
ten equal annual installments.
The cost of putting water on West.
ern land may range all the way from
four to fifty dollars an acre. Some Of
the simpler propositions require only
the digging of a big ditch in order to
secure water for thousands of acres
others necessitate the building of i'm
mense masonry dams and the con
struction of very expensive canals and
headworks 1t is probable that event
ually the waters of some of the great
rivers of the northwestern states
the Columbia and the Snake-may be
taken out at very large cost per
acre. vet fruit lands in the Yakima
valley of Washington today are bring
ing in an annual revenue of as high
as 5000 an acre. Of course it would
not pay to spend $50 an acre in re-
or feeding purposes.
This question of the cost of irriga-
ton opens up the subject of the area
which it is possible to reclaim in the
arid West photographer Newell, of
the Geological Survey stated this mat
ter concisely the other day. He said:
"The reclaimable area of the arid
region must remain an indefinite
quantity for many years to come. No
man can say definitely how many
acres are capable of ultimate reclama-
tion To illustrate, suppose large
spring is situated in such location
so far from arabic land-that it would
cost hundred dollars an acre to lead
| it onto that land-itself 100 miles re-
moved from any railroad or other
improvement; the water would never
be utilized for irrigation. Suppose on
the other land that railroad should
be projected through the desert and
a fourishing town be started on this
land, then it would pay to spend the
hundred dollars an acre for the i'm
provement.
Projects which are not today feast
BILE because of their expense, may in
ten years, as the country settles up,
become very profitable ones.'
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
HOLLY CHICK FEED PLEASES.
402 22nd Ave. North,

Seattle, Wash, April Fl, 1908.
Lilly, Bogardus & Co.,
Seattle, Wash.
Gentlemen: This is the third order
| send you for Holly Chick Feed. |
find it an excellent food for little chicks
and it beats johnney-cake out of sight.
Have had no losses like l had last
year when | used other foods. Yours
truly, JOHN F. HENRY.
Palouse, Wash, April 3, 1908.
Lilly, Bogardus & Co.,
Seattle, Wash.
Gentlemen: Send me 100 pounds
more Holly Chick Feed. The last l
got from you is just fine. 1t satisfied
me better than the first Yours truly,
VIM TORREY.
Christopher, Wash, May A. 1908.
Lilly, Bogardus & Co.,
Seattle, Wash.
Gentlemen: | have found the Chick
Feed to be the very thing for little
chicks. They like it better than any
thing l can feed them. Yours truly,
J. T. BROADWATER
Auburn, Wash, April 20, 1903.
Lilly, Bogardus & Co.,
Seattle, Wash.
Gentlemen: l am very well pleased
with the Holly Chick Feed. | have
raised two broods on it, now, feeding
practically nothing else, and they are
doing fine and promise to make good
birds. I can thoroughly recommend
it as a cheap and at the same time a
good and economical food in place of
the soft foods so much used. Yours
truly, G. BIGGS.
Fremont, Wash, April 20, 1903.
Lilly Bogardus & Co.,
Seattle, Wash.
Gentlemen: In regard to the Holly
Chick Feed, have never used it's equal
for little chicks. J. L. FOSTER.
1t is very rare that hens get too fat
to lay.
Sunshine imparts life and vigor to
a flock of chickens.
ARE YOU GOING EAST
This summer? The Northern Pacific has
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
RESOURCES OF
ENTIAT VALLEY.

OQo Ol Iu6 uOSJ I'LL pOl IohI,
though least advertised, portions
of Chelan county is the Entiat
valley, says the Chelan Leader,
so named from the stream
which takes it's rise far back in the
Cascades in the great glaciers from
which also flow two other good sized
streams, the Agnes and Railroad
creeks. The valley itself is about
so or so miles long, extending south
east and northwest, opening into the
Columbia from the west about 20 miles
north of Wenatchee. 1t is narrow but
wonderfully fertile, and is settled up
on both banks of the river for at least
25 miles.
Resources.
The resources of the valley are
fruit, vegetables, cereals, stock rails
ing, lumber, mining, etc. Many car
loads of fruit are shipped out to Seat
tie and other points every year, and
the area of orchard culture is being
extended each year with surprising
rapidity. AS giving some idea of the
DIOuuCtlNCnCOo VI IL ulCO, ChC "litOi
was informed by Mr.. Henry Saunders
that he obtained 500 boxes of apples
from IS and 10 year old trees last
year, and one Ben Davis tree pro-
duced 80 boxes. This gentleman
shipped 365 boxes of winter apples to
Seattle this spring. His brother, Mr..
Frank M. Saunders, had car load Of
fine apples from about 80 trees, getting
100 boxes from Bellflower trees.
Alfalfa is the principal feed raised
and depended on for stock and under
irrigation conditions gives crops which
are almost incredible to all but eye
witnesses. Illustrating again, Mr.. F.
NJ. Sanders has ~ acres that last
year produced IL tons of hay and Mr..
Frank e. Knapp got 81 big loads, or
20 tons from 2& acres, but figures that
a safe average is about tons per
acre.
Irrigation.
This fertile valley we'll illustrates
the value of systematic irrigation. In
fact, such are the conditions that it
is practically useless to try to raise
crops without water. The Entiat riv-
er, the principal supply, is rapid from
it's source until it reaches the Colum-
bia affording enough fall to make it
easily untitled, and on both sides of
the valley, sometimes many feet up
the mountain sides, are seen the water
bitches and fumes, carrying limpid
streams of pure cold water all over
the farms, making it possible to pro-
uuce almost everything known to a
semitropical climate. The elevation
at the mouth of the river is about 700
feet.
Climate.
The climatic conditions are as near
Perfect as possible. While the days
get warm in summer, the nights are
cool and there are no extremes of heat
or cold the year around. Healthful
ness abounds and home in the Eneiat
valley is as near ideal as one could
imagine attainable anywhere.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
ARE YOU GOING EAST

This summer? The Northern Pacific has
arranged for special excursions during
June, July and August at greatly reduced
rates Call ON or write to l. A. Nadeau,
GenI Agent, Seattle, for all particulars.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15

1t is very rare that hens get too fat
to lay.
Sunshine imparts life and vigor to
a flock of chickens.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-09-18

THEN you INTENDED To ACCEPT MEY'
biting anywhere just then. The boats
were all scattering. and time was again
hanging heavy on her hands.
II think you ought TO change the
name of this boat" she finally eX-
claimed.
Il have always wanted to- he STAN
mered eagerly. for the name of that
boat was thing that he fondly hoped
might yet lead 10 a successful proposal.
But Leona went on as if she were not
perfectly aware of the fact that the
name of the boat was an anagram of
her own name.
you ought TO change It to the 81
lence or something of that sort. Still
don't know nut the name you have
used is all right. / remember a stanza
from The Ancient Mariner that l feel
like quoting:
"Alone. alone. ALL all alone,
Alone on n wide. wide sea.
That's just the way I feel when
am sailing with you"
"And II" he stammered. feel like
the next two lines OF that stanza."
"Why. what are theyT
And never a saint took pity on
My soul In agony"
"You don't look much like man that
needed pity" she said and then added,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-09-18

WELL, SEE THAT YOU CATCH SOMETHING!
priateness about the name Of his boat,
the Alone. lie never could convince
them that "Alone" should be pro-
nounced as word of three syllables,
and if he did convince any of them
they Immediately began to hum a fool
ish parody of yankee Doodle which
ran:
Yankee Doodle came 10 town
All alone, alOney.
After Leona had delivered her ulti-
matum there was nothing TO DO but
wait until her mother came out of the
house. AS a matter Of course she was
invited, but was wise enough 10 de-
cline.
III chaperon you from the veranda,'
she said land the only stipulation |
make is that you do not get off the top
of the ocean. Then as the little boat
was swinging away from the dock she
called after them, Il wish you would
bring me home a nice, fresh bluefsh.'
Anything to oblige," Leona called
back
well, see that you catch something"
replied the mother, and laughed.
Marvin Rollins was too busy with
ropes and pulleys and the many little
attentions a boat requires before she
will be entirely obcdient to notice this
little byplay of dialogue, and while he
was moving about the boat he was
handing cushions to Leona so that she
could make herself entirely comforta-
BILE for the little cruise that he pro-
posed. At last he had everything trim,
and they scudded out toward the open
sea where a fleet of boats was trolling
for bluefish. Leona amused herself for
awhile in watching how rapidly they
huddled together and then scattered.
She inquired the cause of these maneu-
vers
when one OF the boats strikes a
school of fish all the other fellows rush
in to get their share, and when they
lose the school they scatter till some
one else strikes one, and then they come
together again.
At this point Leona's attention was
attracted by something else.
''Oh. Marvin" she exclaimed enthu-
siastically. Look at that wide streak
of oil we are crossing. Does that mean
that oil is coming out Of the bottom OF
the sea; that there is Il Texas gusher
under the Great South bayF
He looked at her curiously to make
sure that she was not polling fun at
him, but Leona was a good actress and
looked entirely innocent.
"Gusher nothing! That's simply a
cumming streak"
And what may cumming streak
be?"
why. when amateurs 60 after blue
18Th they do not use a squid like profess
SIGNALS. They chum for them"
"Well?"
They chop mp mummies and throw
them overheard so that they will float
down with the tide and make an oily
streak that the bluefish will follow up
until they strike the baited hooks"
How horrible. But always thought
that mummies were preserved in. spices
and such things, and not in OIL"
"Oh. pshaw" said Rollins testify. "I
am not speaking Of that kind OF num-
mics. The mummies they have dowr.
here are little fat fish that they catch
with nets to use for cumming"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-09-18
...The...
"Compleat"
Anglers
Ill go if mamma will let me-"
BY PETER ARTHVR
Copyright, 1902. by Peter Macarthur
Leona Jarvis stood on the lit
tie dock in front Of their sum-

tie dock In 'front.' or their sum-
mer cottage and looked down
teasingly at the young man who was
holding his little catboat against the
planks with one hand while he sat on
the gunwale and let the sail hang
loosely. He frowned and certainly
blushed. though it was hard to see this
under the coat Of tan he had acquired
while cruising about the bay. During
the past couple Of months he had had a
great deal of thinking to do, and moth
ing is so conducive TO concentrated and
exhaustive thought rs sailing about in
Il trim and docile boat without regard
to time And as most Of his cruising
was done alone people seemed to think
that there was misanthropic appro-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-09-18
PERE MARQUETTE
lime Table in Effect July y, 1903.

Leave Paw Paw for Hartford, South
Haven and intermediate points, 7:l0 a.
m. and 100 p m; freight at $3.50 p. m.
Leave Paw Paw for Lawton at $3.50
1:45 p. IN.
Connecting with Pere Marquette main
line trains at Hartford and NJ. G.. at Law
ton.
E. {. SHOOK w. :. M0tlltR,
AgV sW Paw Gen. Pass Asf. Detroit.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-09-18
A Bad Breath

A bad breath means a bad
stomach, a bad digestion, a
bad liver. Ayers Pills are
liver pills. They cure con-
stipation, biliousneSs, dys-
pepsia, sick headache.
2sc. All druggists.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-10-29
GLENDORADO.

Miss Emma Uran has left for Ron
neby where she will remain for some
time.
Rev. Langseth drove to Palmer Sat-
urday where he was to oficiate at a
confirmation.
Ole Abrahamson and Ole Gilbretson
and others have left for the lumber
camps of Mile Laos lake.
Sam Johnson is again building a
large barn on the foundation of the
old one which burned last summer.
Albin Wallin returned from Prince.
ton last week where he has been STAY.
ing with friends for the last two weeks.
Miss Mollie Graft of Blue Hill has
returned from Minneapolis where she
has been month visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Gilbertson, and other relatives,
A few of our jolly young people at.
tended a surprise party given Olga
Samulson last Sunday afternoon.
her schoolmates presented her with a
nne present to remind her of her
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-10-29
Spencer Brook Butter,

In the award in the butter contest
at the tenth annual meeting of the
Minnesota Butter and Cheese Makers
association at St. James, John Sollie,
New Sweden, captured the gold medal
for the best butter at 9715. George H.
Wentworth of Owatonna came second
at 974 and G.. J. Cole of Rockford
third at 81.
A. W. Parkin won the gold medal
in the cheese contest by a score of 9515
Oscar Bloomquist of the Spencer
Brook creamery sent butter to the con.
test that scored SO per cent which was
as good as honorable mention. .
MIR. Blomquist is a young butter max
er but he is showing much progress
and advancement on the part of max.
ing good butter. The creamery at the
Brook finds ready market for all it's
butter at good prices.