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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
CITY TREASURER REPORTS.
Finances for July Exhibit Sent to the
City Fathers.

The city treasurer's report for July
shows receipts as follows: Current ex.
pense fund. $l0,S47.SS; water fund, $2,.
O9S 81 Especial improvement fund, 9S7. IA !;
Interest on bonded indebtedness, 81, ,94S,.
Al; sinking fund. 1924. 40 library build.
ing and light fund. $500; f. G. Finch,
telephone franchise deposit, $500; taAes,
$3.50 Al ; licenses. 81 1896 95; fees and fines.
$l,2o0.75; state tax, $4,000; sinking
fund, $l72 80; interest on bonded indebt.
edness, 123.05; water collections. $3, ,532.-
23; collections special Improvement fund,
$3.50 SO; library building and light fund ,
$l335.OO; total, $345lO.3O;
Disbursements: current expense war
rants. $l0,2Sl "a; interest on current ex.
pense warrants. $737 72; water fund war.
rants. $2920.Sl; interest on water fund
warrants. 343.49; state tax. 800; special
improvement fund warrants, 1912 S4 ;
interest on special improvement fund
warrants 80 81; library building land
light fnnd, Sl,40O.
Cash on hand: current expense, 49,.
2O6 %; water fund, $2,269 80; special
improvement fund, 81 .225 lS interest on
bonded Indebtedness, $2,071 so; sinking
fund, $9,29672; library building and
light fund, $155.0O; e. G. Finch, tele-
phone franchise deposit, $500; balance
August l, 1907, $l7 ,SO4 40.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
SCHOOLS WILL RESUME.
Open September ), With Two Weeks
Vacation for Christmas.

The board of education met Monday
night at its office in the postoffice block
The business considered was of routine
nature, consisting of the ordering of sup
plies, allowing bills. and the making of
the necessary arrangements for the COM
pletion of repairs at the different build
lngs preparatory to the opening OF the
schools.
The following calendar for the coming
school year was decided upon:
School opens Tues lay, September 3,
1907.
Close for holiday recess. Friday, Dec
ember, Goth. (Tno weeks vacatlon,)
Reopen Monday, January 6, 1908.
Close Friday, June 10, 1908.
The contract for printing and printers
supplies was awarded to the Bulletin
company.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
Wrestling Match.

At the Grand theater next Tuesday
evening. August 20, will take place what
will really be carnival OF sport.
The Rutschow- Mathes wrestling con-
test for 5000 and all gate receipts to the
winner, together with the fencing con-
test between Prof. Christol and gentle
man from Montesano. and four rounds
ego" between Joe Butler and Will Muir.
ry. ETC.. will make great evening OF Ell.
joyment.
General admission, so cents. Reserv-
ed seats at w. B. Paine's drug store. IS
cents and $l.00. All contests genuine.
97-2t
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
THE CITY COUNCIL
HOLDS A LONG SESSION DISCUSS.
Ing CITY filling PLAN.
Engineer Hunt Who Has Been Hunt.
ing Water, Reports the Result OF
His Hunt, and Charlie Creek Has
Been Decided as the Best Place
from Which to Supply South Side,

Although the council held an extend.
ed session last evening. not a great deal
was accomplished, most Of the time be.
ing taken up with discussion of the wa
ter problem and the plan Of filling in the
city with the eiltz from the harbor.
The report of the water superintend-
ent showed expenses of the pumping
station for July to be $4,411 and that So .
0U0,0OO gallons Of water had been
pumped.
The report Of the treasurer as given
elsewhere was referred.
p. J. Perry reported that he had fin
ished his contract on Exchange street
from Marion to StockweIl streets. Re-
ferred to street committee.
Kaufman and Robinson applied for a
renewal of the liquor license at Ais E
Heron street. Granted.
The Vulcan Iron Works demonstrated
against a reduction Of their June account
stating that the city could return them
an equal quantity of pipe as was furniel. =
ed and they would be satisfied.
The clerk was instructed to advertise
for bids for planKing the river side OF the
tressel on the Montesano- Aberdeen road
with three inch plank.
The city attorney was instructed to
prepare an ordinance for the paving of
G street from Heron to Hume street.
D street improvement from Market to
First street, and improvements on Sec.
ond street from Washington to X street
were passed upon and accepted.
The finance committee reported that
they could not come to a understanding
with the experts on auditing books.
Filed.
The city attorney was instructed to
draw up resolutions for the planking of
* and NJ streets and Michigan avenue
from First to Second street.
Hunt reported on the cost of INSTALL
ing pumping station at Fry creek as
follows: Price of water right, about $40
000, this to include ten acres OF land. A
100000 gallon reservoir would cost $40
000 and $4,000 for one mile of pipe and
reservoir site, the site to be 225 feet
above sea level. The site OF the reser-
voir would be a short distance north of
Division street. He also estimated that
about 20 100000 gallons per year could
be pumped from the creek.
He reported that Charlie creek would
supply 100000 gallons per day. After
consideration it was decided to have
Engineer Hunt work on the Charlie
creek proposition, and to look up the
matter OF site on which to erect res
orvor near this present water plant.
J. Lindstrom, in behalf of the dredg-
| ing company, asked that the specitica-
tions for filling the city be changed 40 as
to allow the contractor to receive his
pay as the work advances, also that the
% per cent to be retained from the
amount due, be eliminated. The new
specifications were read and referred to
Mapes, McDougall, Shelley, Ingram and
Crivyea, as a special committee to in
vestigate.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
YOUNG VANDAL
DESTROYS Property in North Aberdeen
Single Mill.

On Monday afternoon, two bows, each
about II wears OF age, and named re-
spectively Odel| Seaborg and A. McGraw,
entered the North Aberdeen Shingle
mill, which Was not in operation at the
time, and wasted about $50 worth Of oil i,
smearing several large belts with it and
daubing things generally.
Chief Schneider arrested the boys,
and young Seaborg, whose mother has
been deserted Ivy her husband, was put
under suspended sentence, with the as
surance on the part OF the court that (
the boy misbehaved again he viii he
sent to the reform school. There WAS no
case against McGraw.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
Don't Grumble

when your joints ache and you suffer
from rheumatism. Buy bottle OF Bal
lard's Snow Liniment aud get instant
relief. a positive cure for Rheumatism,
Burns, Cuts, Contracted Muscles, Sore
Chest, etc. Mr.. L. 7. Bogy. prominent
merchaat at Willow Point, Texas, says
that he tinl Is Ballard's Snow Liniment
the best all around Lniment he ever
used. Sold by all druggists.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
FAKE LUMBER ideas
WRITING ABOUT What IS NOT A
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
Ignorance Dangerous Thing for the
Nan Who Writes In q public Jour.
nal. Cheap Writers not Always
the Cheapest. Weyerhauser does
Not Own all the Timber,

s. G. Hutchins. in Smiths magazine,
gives what he calls facts and figures on
the lumber industry, which. to say the
least, are amazing, but nevertheless, are
not true.
Mr.. Hutchins indnlges in some gsner.
al remarks about the timber supply of
the country before becoming specific, and
his first specific statement is that the re.
naming timber supply OF the country is
2.156 .000, 900, 600 feet. This is about
2OO,0O0,000.o0O more than the highest es-
innate made by anyone who has made a
real study of the situation, and about
100000, ,00O, 900 feet more than the fig
ures OF the census of 1900. He next says
that we are cutting it at the rate of 36,.
900 900, 600 feet annually Chat is about
the correct figure and that the annual
increment of growth is about 80. 900 .000,-
900 feet. A government expert who has
made a scientific study Of the timber
supply, says that ''our present annual
consumption OF wood in all forms is from
three to four times as great as the annu-
al increment of our forests"
He next turns his attention to the
Weyerhauser interests, and the sale OF
the Northern Pacific timber to the men
who are generally known as the Weyer-
hauser syndicate. He says that Mr..
Weyerhauser had been the timber agent
of the Northern Pacific for many years.
That is an absolute falsehood. He SAYS
that the syndicate obtained this land for
six dollars an acre when it was worth
from eight to sixteen times that price.
That is also false. The syndicate paid
the market price. At the time, the
Northern Pacific had never asked more
than seven dollars an acre for its lands,
and timber lands generally in Washing
ton were not selling for more. Then
comes the most astounding feat of the
entire story. TO quote, "The coup OF
1897, followed. as it was, by another
large deal in 1900, put it (the syndicate)
in possession OF billions OF acres of the
finest forest lands"
If the writer OF the story and the pub.
Usher OF the magazine will take their
lead pencils and some blank paper and
make little calculation, they will dis
cover that two billion acres the least we
can allow since the writer used the plura)
will reduce to 3,125.000 square miles.
Their if they will kindly turn to stats-
tics OF the United States they will learn
that the area of all of the states and ter
ritories mot including Alaska, Porto
Rico and the Philippines) is, in round
numbers, 100000 square miles The
latest figures given out by the Forest
Service are that the entire wooded area
of the country is little more than 700,.
100000 acres. Hence we find that these
many acres of the Weyerhauser syndi-
cate, which do not constitute all OF the
timber in the country, amount-in the
eyes and mind OF the author of this adj
mirable article-to three times the en-
tire wooded area Of the United States, or
one hundred thousand square miles more
than the entire area OF the country wood
ed and prairie.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
Eczema.

For the good of those suffering with
eczema or other such trouble, wish to
say my wife had something Of that kind
and after using the DOCTORS remedies for
some time, concluded to try Chamber
lain's Salve, and it proved to be better
thar anything else she had tried. For
sale by Evans Drug Co. t
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15

Following letters remain uncalled for
in the Aberdeen postoffice for the week
ending Aug. 13, 1907:
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15

The Herald II the most widely read
paper on Gray's Harbor. Wise adves.
tisers know it. o.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
Roots For Farm Animals.

II roots are stored in pit in the
field high, dry place should be cho-
sen. If the ground is clayey the roots
should be placed on top of the ground
II it is grayelly and drainage is good
a shallow pit about five feet wide and
of necessary length may be. shoveled
out The roots should be carefully
placed in a gable shaped pile about
five feet wide and as long as conven-
lent A thin layer Of straw should
then be laid over the pile and this COW
cred with six to eight inches of earth,
Another and thicker layer Of straw
and a final layer of earth will COM
plete the work ventilators should be
placed at intervals of ten or fifteen
feet, which should be closed when
sweating has ceased. The pit should
not be opened on warm days in winter.
A ditch for drainage should be cut
around the pit Roots stored in this
way do not keep as well as when
stored in a good cellar; therefore they
should be fed out as early as possible.
New York Cornell Experiment Sta
ton.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
DOUBLE RACK.

sheep should have them far enough
apart so there will be room for sheep
to come up and eat without crowding.
These strips allow the sheep to come
straight up to the rack and eat, but
prevent one sheep from crowding all
the others out of the rack, which a
stout sheep is sure to do without these
crosspieces. The slanting boards on
the bottom have their lower edges
slanted off so as to fit tightly upon the
bottom board and be well nailed.
These racks may be of any convenient
length, but if no more than eighteen
feet long they will need only three
sets of posts or legs. In these racks
can be fed hay, silage, roots and grain
by being cleaned of soiled or dirty
food, which is very easily done with
a wooden shovel made on purpose or
by stiff broom.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
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WHEY FED Ives.
important Points In Rearing Them In
Good Form.

important Points In Rearing Them In
Good Form.
Some persons claim that good calves
cannot be reared on whey. Others
have said that the best cows that they
ever saw in the dairy include a mum
Der that were reared during calfhood
essentially on a diet of whey. The
truth probably lies between these two
extremes, remarks Professor Thomas
Shaw in considering the matter, as
follows, in American Agriculturist.
Calves can be reared in better form
If they are not given much whey until
they are five or six weeks old. Before
feeding whey the calves should be
started on new milk during the first
week or two. No supplemental food
will take the place of new milk at
such time. 1t would seem to be an
absolute necessity In order to start
the work of digestion Alright. If it is
not started right, Ill doing is likely to
follow, even though the management
subsequently should be judicious. Then
a change is made from new to skim
milk, taking one to two weeks to make
the change from all new milk to all
skim milk.
AS soon as the change Is begun to
skim milk then oilmeal or f1axseed or
linseed Cruel may be fed as the calves
may be able to take 1t. This is put
into the milk until they eat meal free
| ly. AS soon as they do this it is put
Into the meal that is fed dry. With
this added to the mixture it may be
composed of the following: Ground
corn three parts, ground oats three,
wheat bran one, oilcake one. For a
time the calves may be allowed to take
all of this that they will eat.
Changing to Whey.
When the change is made to whey
the calves viii be five or six weeks
old, as intimated. Should they be
| younger three to four weeks should
be occupied in making the change from
all skim milk to all whey. If they are
| five weeks old, the change may be
made in one or two weeks, but it
should not be sudden. The quantity
of whey to feed will be little more
| than for calves of the same age on
skim milk-that is, 1t will be fourteen
to eighteen pounds per day for calves
at six weeks, increasing at the rate Of
one to two pounds week for the next
few weeks. It should not be given to
the extent of unduly distending the
paunch, as has been sometimes done.
Animals of that class are sometimes
rendered hideous because of the large
amount of paunch they carry as re-
suit of the excessive feeding of whey.
The character of the whey-that is,
the condition in which it reaches the
calyes-is important. When brought
from the whey tank at the factory it
is frequently In bad condition because
of careless management.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
ALFALFA SEED.
Great Care Should Be Taken In Max
ing Proper Tests.

Great Care Should Be Taken In Max
ing Proper Tests.
In an address before Kansas alfal-
ia club #. D. Coburn said: can sure
" render the members of your club
and alfalfa growers in general no bet
ter service in one brief communication
than to urge upon them with emphasis
the utmost caution and painstaking in
securing and sowing none but the high
est quality Of seed. This quality means
not only seed demonstrated as 90 or
more per cent germinable. but free
from the authorizations and impurities
likely to be found present, most fire.
quently from carelessness or shiftless-
ness, but often from design and some
times from BOTH Alfalfa seed is ex-
pensive at best, and doubly or trebly
so if it will not grow or carries with
it trash and quantities OF other seeds
which stock a field, farm or neigh
borhood with weed pests that interfere
with or crowd out the alfalfa, displace
expected profit with positive loss and
provoke bitterness Of thought and
speech.
lot Germinable.
Among samples of alfalfa seed offer
ed for sale Professor Roberts of the
Kansas experiment station found one
with more than SO per cent of impuri-
ties and thirty-four different kinds of
foreign seeds, and these constituted
31.5 per cent of the whole. In this lot
were also 3.S per cent of trash and dirt,
and So per cent of the seeds true to
name were incapable of termination.
Another sample was 1913 per cent i'm
purities and 53.3 of the remainder val
ueless. Twenty-s six lots tested by Pro-
fessor Roberts contained an average
Of AL per cent of impurities, including
eight different kinds Of foreign seeds
amounting to As per cent, trash and
dirt per cent, and 35.8 per cent Of
what was really alfalfa seed was not
germinable.
A Year Is Lost.
OF course, as matter of fact, where
bad seed is sown the actual result is a
weak, poor stand of alfalfa and a
dense growth of weeds. The land has
to be plowed up and reseeded, the use
of the land for a year is lost. and it
has become foul with weeds, many of
which will be newly introduced and
noxious in character,
These findings pointedly suggest that
it is safe to buy seed of only thor
oughly reputable dealer or grower
whose name and guarantee stand for
something. Get samples early and test
them. Learn positively that it is al
falfa seed and not something else and
that it will grow. If more than 10 per
cent fails to grow don't buy it, for
something is wrong. Choice seed, the
only kind worth sowing, always com
mands a good price and is worth it,
Kansas Farmer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
The Dainty Eater.

The dainty eater is not the COW the
dairynan wants for business, because
his profits come not from the feed that
remains in NOW and bin. but from
that which is consumed, says D. W.
Lighter in National Stockman and
Farmer. During the winter, when they
do little or no work, we feed our horses
light ration that we call mainte-
nance ration, but in the spring we add
to the maintenance ration lot Of corn
and oats to be transformed into pulling
power to move plows, harroWs, etc.
The food consumed besides the mainte-
nance ration is what gives US results.
have no use for a COW that cannot
utilize three or four times the mainte-
nance ration.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28

shown in the cut for side rack or to
stand so that the back side of 1t will
form an alley fence, or it may stand Out
in the pen so sheep can go all around
it. 1t can be made double, as is also pic
tured. In either case the posts should
be thirty inches high. The fiat part of
each side of bottom should be ten
inches wide. The slanting pieces of
double rack should each be ten inches
and put together as shown. In the sin
gle rack the slanting board should be
fourteen inches.
The bottom strip on both racks
should be eight and the top strip four
inches wide respectively. This will
make the uprights between sheep four
teen inches In the clear, and they
should lap on both the bottom and
top strip far enough to be nailed firm
~ with clinch nails. These uprights
should be three inches wide and plan
ed SO as to be smooth, and the distance
apart will depend upon the size Of
sheep. Lambs will do well with them
one foot from the centers, but larger
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
Celery Stored In Cellars.

Where celery is stored In cellars the
temperature should be kept low and
plenty of ventilation maintained. The
warmth and dampness of the ordinary
cellar have a tendency to cause the
celery to decay, but these conditions
can frequently be overcome. Celery
will readily absorb any odor that may
be present In the atmosphere Of the
storage place. and care should be TAX
en- to provide sanitary conditions, The
plants should have most of their roots
attached, and bed of moist sand in
which to set them should be provided.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28

Cement Blocks For Poultry Houses.
My experience with cement blocks
has proved to my mind that they are
unfit for use in poultry houses. The
poultrymen wish to avoid as far as
possible all dampness. and what few
cement blocks have used on my build
ings have been more or less porous.
They would absorb moisture, and in
wet weather to degree which would
allow it to go through the block, even
though the blocks had considerable
hollow space for circulation. 1t is pos
sible that If the blocks were made with
very large proportion of cement and
little sand this might to certain
degree be overcome. But would
under no circumstances use them for
poultry houses or advise others to do
sos. S. in Rural New Yorker.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
DAIRY TALK OF TODAY.

There is no question but dairying
can be made profitable on very high
priced land, but to reach maximum
profits every detail OF the industry
must be carefully observed. This ac-
tive, puIsating, living piece of mechan-
ism-the modern cows the emanci-
pator of poverty and the harbinger Of
peace, prosperity and civilization, thus
henceforth let us give the place of
honor to this gem Of the farm.-J.
Withcombe.
Testing the Young Cow.
On a famous Vermont dairy farm
every young COW Is tested for butter
fat with her first calf. If she does not
then show her two pounds Of butter
a day or give indications Of doing it
with her second calf, she is discarded.
But with the second calf this rule is
rigidly inforced.
The Farmer and the Factory.
In the successful cheese factory and
creamery the farmers must act as as
sistants to the makers. Farmers, as a
rule, do not recognize the fact that
they are assisting in the manufacture
Of butter or cheese, as the case may
be, and that the part they perform is
very potent factor in obtaining a
prime article as product-W. ]. Ell
lott.
Value Of Special Pains.
believe that If every man in Mime
sofa would given special attention to
the selection of his cows and would
take special pains to keep the cows
comfortable and feed them the nutrl-
ment that they need for milk produc-
ton In less than two years we could
add 100 pounds of butter fat per cow.
That is a pretty broad statement. We
are getting about 135 pounds Of but
ter fat year, but believe IL the farm
ers paid special attention to the care
Of their cows we could raise that to
235 pounds on the average with the
cows that they have.T @. Hacker.
A Certain Profit Producer.
1t has been said that good dairy
COW, hand separator and a well bred
brood sow, with a bunch of squealing,
healthy pigs, make a combination that
will write dollar signs on the farm.
Such d combination judiciously man
aged, while 1t Is not get rich quick
scheme, IS d certain profit producer.
Country qentleme
4 ~
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28

the following year sow my cucumber
seeds in these prepared places. use
different kinds of the large varieties,
several of which are shown in the ac-
companying illustration. To keep off
cucumber beetles use a small frame
covered with thin cloth. This Of course
can only be utilized while the plants
are small.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28
Apple PAIRING Machines.

PAIRING machines are made for OPP
Grating either by hand or power. The
more recent patterns have two or even
three forks for holding the apples
while they are being pared. The at
tendant puts an apple on one Of the
forks while one on another fork IS be-
Ing peeled 81. r Gould.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-28

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that It is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. 1.-THE child urin-
ates too often IL fne