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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

A bad winter storm nowadays brings
out many thrilling and interesting rem
iniscences of life in the western prairie
country i'll the pioneer days. With the
snowfall greater and cold more intense
than now. with none of the comforts
and conveniences common to people to-
day-no warm house, no big barns. no
fur overcoats, no overshoes, no rail-
roads and the highways mere trails
across the prairies-the struggle for life
was something almost tragic. The har-
dy settlers were ingenious. however,
and soon learned how to ameIiorate the
annoyance of a winter blockade. The
snow. while putting a paralysis on all
work. was used as a means of prOtec-
ton from the cold, and dugout and
shed were soon warmly packed with
the drifts. fuel and fodder for the stock
and food for the family were stored up
beforehand, and period of Information
followed the oncoming of the deep
snow and the cold weather; in fact.
there was less fretting and complaining
then than now. when a storm even for
one day blocks railway and highway.
Those were great old times.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
.SEWELL NURSERIES,
sEWELL, N. j.
JOHN McCLEARY. Prop.

This is the season when owners of land think
most of pntting out fruit shade and other trees,
and we want them to know how well can
serve them. have been in the nursery busi-
ness about 90 years. l6 years OF that period at
Sewell, and we are quite we know orr
business. One of the speakers at the Farmers
buy their trees of home nurserymen. This we
know is good advice, because if sell diseased
or inferior stock there is immediate redress,
reach.
My trees are all healthy and thoroughly furni-
gated before being shipped, and State Entomo-
logist Jonn B. Smith. after an inspection OF my
Nurseries issued o certificate, pronouneing my
stock free from the San Jose scale.
have all kinds of nursery stock apples,
pears peaches plums, ounces cherries, Sugar
and Norway Naples and Sycamores, California
privit speciality Also all kinds of plants such
as strawberry, raspberry. l have 100000 two
wears old Palmetto asparagus plants.
Your order solicited
1I-4-o4-6m JOHN McCLEARK.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

John F. Truitt, executor of the estate Of Cbas.
G. Davis deceased, by direction ofthe Surrogate
of the Comfy of Gloucester. hereby gives no.
tiee to the creditors of the said Charles @.
Davis, deceased, to bring in their debts, claims
and demands against the estate of the said de-
eedent, under oath or affirmation, within nine
months from this date, or they will be forever
barred of any action therefor against the said
executor. JOHN II. TRUIrT.
Dated January 20, 1898.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

According to the Cornell experiment
station the following varieties Of beans
have given largest yields: Blue Pod
Medium, Marrow Pea, Day Leafless
Medium and Boston Small Pea. Phos-
phoric acid in the form of South Caro-
lima rock is probably more likely to give
profitable results with beans than any
other commercial fertilizer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
NOTICE TO cREDIToRs.

Joseph A. somers and Thomas Breton, ex-
ecutors of the estate of Mary A. Somers, de-
ceasd by direction of the Surrogate of the
county of Gloucester, hereby gives notice to
the creditors of the said Mary A. Somers, de-
ceased, to bring in their debts claims and de-
mands against the estate of the said deeedent
under oath or affirmation within nine months
from this date, or they will be forever barred
of any action therefor against the said Executors.
JOS. A. SOMERS,
THOS. BORTON,
Dated Nov lS I904-ll-24 Executors.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
TRAP NESTS.

A Practical Experience of Their VAL
ne to the Poultry Breeder.
l am using the nests made and used
at the Maine experiment station, Orc
no, Me-, to which am greatly indebted
Cor my success. The first season using
cheese nests l had fifty eight White
Wyandotte pullets At the end of six
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
a Germ Destroyer.

Sunshine is splendid germ destroy
er, but if the barns contain no windows
to let the light in there will be no OPP
portunity for it to do its good work.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
Helm Others.

Help others and bless yourself. Drive
the cloud from the brow of a friend in
distress, and you open the windows for
an effulgence of light upon your own
heart Detroit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

The Troy Pa) Mutual Fire Insur,
ance company carries about $500, o00
insurance for its members.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

Where is the country going to put
all these Russians, Italians. Sardin-
ians. Arabs, Huns and Bulgarians
who constitute now almost the en-
tire type Of immigrants which the
country is receiving? None Of them
takes kindly to the farm or the soil, but
swarm to the cities and tester and
breed in the worst of the tenement sec
tons. living as garbage collectors, ped
dlers. sweat shop workers and tramps.
A hundred times better bar these out
and invite the japanese, or even the
Chinese. when we would at least have
a supply Of reliable indoor and outdoor
help.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
His Experience.

His Friend Money talks, The Pro-
moter-Y Yes. but sometimes it's mighty
hard to get it to listen.--New York
Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

The national grange wants Indian
corn to be the national floral emblem.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
nREDGrNG and BANK BUILDING

Having increased our plant by the purchase
of another dredging machine, we take thls
method Of informing the public OF our prepara-
ton to do dredging, bank repairing or building,
promptly and well. Correspondence solicited.
CHEW BROS.
11.io-Ivr Woodbury. n. j,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

To tell man with cold in his head
that colds always attack the weakest
spot is adding insult to injury.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

Observe Neighbors' night occasional
" in your grange. The visiting grange
furnishes the entertainment.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

There are two men in the west en-
gagged this winter on decidedly novel
work Each is working in the base
ment of his house and has pile of
sand and some barrels of cement. The
one is molding handsome blocks with
which to build nice house next sum
mer, and the other is making draintile
from the same material and in the
same manner with which to reclaim
the wet places on his farm. Why is
not this good scheme?
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

The Wolf river apple seems to have
a mission in the line of giving the in
dividual and the county or state which
produces them credit for raising the
largest and handsomest apples ever
seen, of fooling innumerable suckers
who know nothing about fruit. of pay
ing fine prices for an utterly worthless
fruit. We have all read of the apples
of Sodom which turned to ashes on the
lips, and the Wolf river is lineal de-
scendant Of that breed. This is clear
~ a case where good looks get the
better of goodness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
SHERgFF's SAFE

rected, issued out of the Court OF Chaneery o
the State OF New Jersey, will be exposed at pub
lie sele, on
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
SHERlFF's SALE.

BY virtue of a writ of feri facias to me di-
rected, issued out OF the Court Of Chancery of
the State of New jersey, will be exposed at
public sale,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
Friday, the nth Day Of February, nexi

14IAyf LIE ~ Va 10y VI GHt Go-yy Ass>bs
between the hours of u and 5 o'clock. to-wit, at
. o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
Court House in the City of Woodbury., County
of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey all the
following described Real Estate. that is to say:
All that certain tract parcel of land and
premises hereinafter particularly described. sit.
uate in the Borough OF Paulsboro, in the County
of Gloucester and State of New Jersey,
Beginning in the middle of Monroe Street, a
corner in the line of Darinon's land, thence by
the same north thirteen degrees east, one chain
and Lightweight links to corner to Lot No. 225;
thence north seventy-five degrees and twenty
minutes east, one chain and thirty-seven links
to n corner in the line of Lot No 223; thence
south fourteen degrees and forty minutes east,
one chain and sixty-seyen links to the middle
of Monroe Street aforesaid, thence by the same
south, seventy five degrees and twenty minutes
west, two chains and twenty-five links to the
place of beginning
Containing 3i-I0O of an acre more or less.
Seized as the property of George w. Herrig,
defendant and taken in execution at the suit
of William J. Adamson and Others plaintiffs,
and to be sold by
WILSON 7. JONES,
Dated Jan. 9. 1905 Sheriff.
Watkins & Avis Attys. Prs fees S7.20.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

The farmers living along the lines Of
the trolley roads are finding in them an
unthought of source of convenience in
farm operations in the use of the cleo
trio current taken from the circuit for
the purposes of lighting the farm home
md the furnishing of power for the
operation of farm machinery. The man
who fights the establishment Of troll
ley road through or near his farm is
fighting the best thing which ever came
to him or ever will.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

We passed by the homestead of a
farmer last fall who had moved his
sheds and old barn to get rid Of the
accumulated piles Of manure which
surrounded them, while every acre OF
his farm was pleading mutely for the
fertilizer which he despised Not
fery much can be done for this sort
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

Even II it does take six years longer
and costs Il hundred millions more to do
it, it will pay this country to construct
Il sea- level canal at Panama. This
work is for all time. Il world building
contract, ana the very vastness and
Importance of the work demands that
it should be done in the best way.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02
SHERIFF's SALE.

BY virtue of a writ Of feri facias to nue. di-
rected issued out OF the Gloucester Circuit Court
of the state of New jersey, viii be exposed at
Public Sale on
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-02

The best things are nearly always
produced at 4 profit. the average. things
sometimes are. and the poorest never.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14
Notice of Filing Pinal Account.

In the County Court of the State OF
Oregon, for UmatilIa County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Thomas
Ogle, Deceased.
Notice is hereby give that | have filed
my final account and report as executor
of the last will of Thomas Ogle, deceas-
ed, with the Clerk of the above entitled
County Court, which Court has fixed
upon eleven O'Clock in the forenoon of
April 18th, 1905, as the time, and the
County Court room, in the County
Court House of Umatilla County, Ore
gon, as the place, when and where il
will hear any and all objections that
may be present ted to the said final ac-
count and report and to any matter or
thing done by me, as Executor, since my
appointment, and at that time and place
the Court will finally settle and dispose
of said account and report.
This notice is published pursuant to
an order of the said Court, made on
March 18th, 1905.
Benjamin f. Ogle,
Executor of the Last Will of Thomas
Ogle, Deceased.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

The Russian Japanese war has
taught the militant world some val
able lessons as to the Importance of
learning the art of hand-to hand gren-
ade fighting. With improved fire
arms it was naturally supposed that
rushes and the daring bayonet charges
were things Of the past, but alasl they
are with the fighting phalanxes still.
The hand grenade is to play an inn
portant part in the drama Of war.
This will make General Wheeler's la
comic description of war still more
graphic and applicable.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14
ATHENA, APRIL .... IA, 1905

George Brown, back in old Iowa, is
SO jubilant over the advent of spring
that he bursts out in blossom thusly:
This is the bud-and- bloom-sweet-p per
fume time of the year. The robins
have returned, the village kids are
playing ball, spring poets are telling
their tale of woe carpet beaters are
making the dust fly, hunters are max
ing ducks fly, caterpillars are making
the butterfly and soon you will see the
house fly. The hills are taking on a
look of viridity, the trees are donning
their spring suits, the sun has crossed
the equator and croquet players are
hard at wor-ick.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

on other peoples ground and paying
a small royalty to the .owners, but 1
have seen many ground sluices. being
worked by two, three or four natives,
they taking out as much as ten pounds
of gold in cleanup, which they do
about every month. The "batea"
wooden gold-pan is their principal
implement, naturally and the crow bar
plays a most prominent part in their
work. The labor there is cheap, it
is customary in that section of coun-
try that the men are fed by the COM
pany. The average mans wages do
not exceed flood and ALL 80 cents a
day. They are fairly skilled and at
times abundant, though I've heard the
plan discussed by several companies
there of importing labor from nearby
islands, but it has never yet come to
that. However should many foreign
companies invade that country, natur-
ally, then the labor would become
scarce and we would be compelled
to look to other islands for the supply.
There are no unions and strikes are un-
known, the only Interruptions to work
being due to ''fiestas" (holidays. J
Rains do not interfere.
Deposits along the river Nechi, which
is in the department (state) of Anti
quia, there are placers now being
worked with monitors, and the gravel
has never been known to pay less
than 40 cents per cubic yard. l, my
self, have operated on the same river,
and which deposits have always ave-
ragged 65 cents per cubic yard.
The river Nechie is about 800 miles
south of the seaports Cartagena and
Barranquilla. 1t is a navigable stream
for stern-wheel steamers, emptying
into the Cauca, itself tributary of
the mighty Magdelena.
The properties are covered with au-
riferous deposits of a thickness which
runs from 8 to 25 feet, and are found
reaching to 35 feet. The top layer
consists of red cement, under which is
a black streak of river sand. The
balance down to bedrock consists of a
gray gravel and loose gold. Timber
of all kinds is more than plentiful,
particularly cedar and mahogany.
The town of Zaragoza, at which
place all steamers from Barranquilla
terminate, has population Of about
5000, was founded in 1880 and has
been more or less important mining
town ever since. Up to within few
years, however, the many gold de-
posits have only been worked by prim-
tive methods, but now that aggressive
foreign capital is coming in, startling
results may soon be expected. Those
familiar with the California deposits
say that the Antioquia placers, in
general character of the gravel and
gold, are representatives of the great
California bonanzas of fifty years ago,
but promise more phenomenal results.
The title is held in fee simple by
deed from owner in whose family the
property has been held for years.
Taxes are nominal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14
Notice of Final Account.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned has filed his final ac-
count as administrator of the estate of
John McRae, deceased, in the County
Court of Umatilla County, State of Ore
gon, and the Judge of said Court has
fixed Saturday, the 29th day of April,
1905, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at
the County Court Room in the County
Court House in Pendleton, Oregon, as
the time and place for hearing said ac-
court, and persons interested in said
estate are hereby notified to appear at
said time and place and file their object
ions, if any, to said account on or before
said time. Dated this Oath day March,
1905. Angus M. Gillis,
Administrator of the Estate of John
McRae, Deceased.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14
PUBLIo RIGHT ro KNOW.

st. Clair McKelway, the editor of
the Brooklyn Eagle, has given sec
ond lecture to the students of Yale
university. In it Mr.. McKelway at
tackled the pleas that are made for pri-
vacy on the part of public officers and
the alleged need of secrecy in govern
ment affairs, Of which we sometimes
hear. He said:
"A newspaper is man in disguise.
The newspaper man, like any other
man, is frequently mistaken. But the
newspapers mistakes are presented in
types and go from hand to hand; the
mistakes of the other man are given in
recipients of them. Has man incur
red the general displeasure of the COM
munity? If he has, that is fact, and
the cause is fact. He blames the
paper that tells the fact and proves the
cause. Has some particular journal
bravely offended a sensitive citizen?
That journal may be not representa-
tive one at all. But it is made the
measuring rod for the whole press by
the sensitive citizen. Does an editor
refuse to take man at his own esti-
mate of himself? That man regards
that editor as well nigh a public
enemy. A difference of opinion is no
proof of moral obliquity, but there
are many readers who refuse to admit
that when the difference is presented
by the comparison of the newspapers
opinion of them with their opinion of
themselves.
This goes straight to what has been
called the action of the press as an in
vader of the right of privacy. The
privacy of citizenship is rarely invad-
cd unless citizenship or citizens run up
against government in the courts.
"Till wrong abandons secrecy jour
nalism will invade privacy. 1t is not
nice work, but it is better than plum
der. 1t is better than the stealing of
elections. 1t is better than the betray-
al of trusts. 1t morally exceeds what
it brings to light. 1t is as much bet
ter than what it exposes as the con
stable is better than the criminal whom
he captures. Newspapers which flash
on the secrecy of wrong, on the pri-
vacy of public offenses, the clear
white light of publicity are better
than the wrongs and the rascals they
reveal. Such journalism should not
be ondemned except by the malefac-
tors on whom it turns the light.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14
SOUTH AMERICAN MINES.
Mining World. J


Except to a few adventurous spirits,
the enormously rich quartz and placer
gold fields of Colombia, particularly
in the department of Antioquia, are
comparatively unknown. Heretofore
capital and prospectors have been de-
TERED in their search for gold there
by the fallacious, though popular
stories of fever and disease-strick
districts (of which some few undoubt-
edly exist) and more, however, by the
past frequent occurrences of revolution
and unstable government. These diff
culties once removed from the minds
of searchers after gold, there will be a
rush to Colombia, such as South AT
RIGA, Australia, California or Alaska
has never known. But, with the cleo
tion of Gen. Rafael Reyes to the presi-
dency, man of wealth, education, and
with such advisers as he will surround
himself with, in my opinion another
revolution is as remote possibility
as in the United States.
Colombia is undoubtedly about the
richest country in precious metals in
the world. Its wide fields have been
scratched by the Indians for centuries,
further worked by the Spanish invad-
ers, and they, expert miners as they
were, even with their crude methods,
looked to it as the Dorado, and even
with the barest of scratching "a bare
ness which must be seen to be appre-
ciated) Colombia was, up to 1895, the
third gold producing country in the
world. In 1895-96 short revolution
occurred, and in 1898 another-prob-
ably the most disastrous in the history
of the country and the production
fell off, and it has only been since
1902 that serious attention has again
beer. n.called to Colombia, but it is con
fidently expected that 1905 to 1905
will again see Colombia back in the
old place, and, if searchers for gold
are wise she may be the first of the
gold-producing countries of the world.
Ground sluicing is carried on exten
sively by the natives, who either own
the ground themselves, or are working
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

Fred Merrill is candidate-self an
nounced--for mayor of Portland. You
will not be mayor this year, Fred.
Nor next year. Nor any year. The
Willamette win be frozen over on the
4th of July and there will be skating
in the neither regions before you are
elected mayor of Portland. The above
is the conclusion arrived at by the
Irrigon Irrigator man.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

Rockefeller will see to it that the
University of Chicago has an endow-
ment of 10000 Why doesn't he
shake his shekels into Columbia col
lege at Milton, where they are much
needed and where they would do a
great deal more good. Let the poor be
the first concern of the vulgarly ultra
rich
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

With the construction of the new
water system and the proposed grad
ing and rocking of Fifth street, this
spring and summer, Athena will be
in the front rank in the matter of
municipal improvements. Private en-
terprise will no doubt keep pace with
city improvements, also.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

1t is thought the greatest naval bat
tie ever fought will take place before
May first between the japanese and
the Russian nayies. If by chance the
Japs should lose it would probably be
the means of prolonging the war for
long time. Should the Japs win the
struggle will practically be over.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

Athena, the town that in the past
has taken the lead in amateur base ball
is this year without a team of proper
class to compete with the teams of 9TH
or towns in Eastern Oregon and Wash
ington. It is too late to think of get
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

The kind newspaper woman who
tells her readers chow lady can look
right smart on $500" doesn't do much
to help the woman who has only $40
for limit.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

II taken this month keeps you well all
summer. 1t makes the little ones eat,
sleep and grow. "A spring tonic for the
whole family. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea. S5c, Tea or Tablets. Palace
drug store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

A scarcity in small silver coins is
predicted, congress having failed to
provide for the necessary bullion.
You may have to fall back on your
children's ten cent savings bank.
Ours hasn't any.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

''The ball tosser who is thought to be
a wonder" is prominent in all the
papers over the country now. AS a
rule he won't be nearly SO conspicuous
two months later on.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-04-14

Bloch, the military expert, was
wrong in thinking that war "was i'm
possible" but recent events have made
it plain to most persons that it ought
to be impossible.