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Evening journal., 1907-07-15

NEW JERSEY & WILMINGTON FERRY CO
STEAMER ULRICA.
FOR PENNSGROVE.
Timetable in effect June 30th, 1907.
WEEKDAYS.
Leave Wilmington, a. m, g. 6.15 p. m
Leave Pennsgrove, 6, 10 a m, p. m.
SATURDAYS.
Leave Wilmington, a. m, 100, noon,
3, Sis, 1870 D. m.
Leave Pennsgrove. 6. 10 a. m. 13O. g.
p. m.
SUNDAYS.
Leaves wilmington. $50 a. m, 1SO Sis
Leave Pennsgrove. s. 1880 a M. s. s
p. m.
Phone 2690. d. & A.
Evening journal., 1907-07-15
YOu Benefit Yourself and Your City BY Buying
Clearance of Summer Furnishings

S'T ready to
it3h S tand
the assaults
Of the hot
The newspaper., 1907-02-15
A Business Change.

Last week we neglected to
mention that A. S. Davis has pur-
chased the J. A. Moore planning
mill and will renovate it into a
modern mill capable of doing all
sorts of machine work and con-
sequently adding to his already
good facilities for contracting
and building Mr.. Davis started
in business year or so ago in a
very small way, but found so
much demand for his work that
he has steadily added to his ia
cilities until now he has pur-
chased the planning mill and is
prepared to take any Job and
rush it to completion Mr.. Moore
left for Grand Junction after sell
ling out and we understand will
remain there. We regret to lose
these good citizens.
The newspaper., 1907-02-15

interest, protects but one party,
the common carrier. Better a
thousand times, says one promi-
nent grower of Paonia, resort to
simple justice in the absence of
law, as today, than endanger the
industry by enacting such legis-
lation on the supposition that
half a loaf is better than no
bread"
Please tell us, Booster, what
object is in view when a man who
is editor of fruit journal, an Of
ficer in an organization of fruit
growers, and who is dependent
upon the prosperity of a fruit
growing community for success
in his business of publishing a
The newspaper., 1907-02-15

over the country have followed
for years; (4) that carlot freight
must be transported At the rate
of not less than sixty miles in
twenty-four hours; and (5) that
for each days delay the carrier
remit one dollar of the freight
charges.
1t is needless to state that re-
quirements of cars for loading
cannot be anticipated by three
days in a fruit shipping season;
and there are days every year
when at least two shippers right
here in Paonia need twenty-five
cars each. The following table of
a possible condition with the rail
road fulfilling all its obligations
under this proposed law demon
strates the utter absurdity of such
provisions. The first column of
figures designates the day in the
progress of peach-shlPping sea
son of seventeen days; the second,
the number of cars of peaches
packed for which cars have been
ordered; the third shows the num-
Der of cars the carrier would have
to furnish; and the figures in the
right hand column represent the
number of cars a shipper would
have on hand packed which await
cars for loading.
The newspaper., 1907-02-15

Having furnished the fifty four
cars required for the first FIVE days.
the railroad is under no obligation
to offer the first twenty-five until
the day after the season closes. In
short, this bill provides that a
shipper of 304 cars in seventeen
days will be furnished, say, fifty
tour cars; in other words he will be
able to move one-sixth of his crop.
1t will be noticed that no car
packed and ready for shipment
after the fifth day could leave the
station before the day after the
close of the season.
The distance from Paonia to
Denver by the standard gauge is
$50 miles. By taking advantage
of the minimum rate of transpor
tation prescribed in this kill. the
railroad is at liberty to occupy
h'hS hat ~ hioNihS Sdi hHiS
distance. The eight cars which
were packed for shipment the
fourth day would therefore not
reach Denver until twenty-five
days later. The time usually re-
quired by the various overland
lines in transporting fruit from
California to Chicago is six da, $;
to New York City, thirty.six hours
longer.
1t has been stated that this bill
may operate satisfactorily on non
perishab'e freight. Your servant
has been connected with shippers
of coal. lumber, and building stone
in the central west, and it is his
firm conviction that were such a
measure to be enacted into law
in their respective states, not one
of these firms would continue in
business. The bill serves but one !
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local paper when such man
collects funds from fruit growers
and expends them, with his meager
influence upon bill SO antago-
nistic to the very interests he
purports to serve?
The Paonia Horticultural So
ciety would like to be enlightened.
The above article was written
at the request of several mem
bers of the local Horticultural So
ciety, and is in no wise to be con-
strued as questioning the integrity
of the members of the Committee
or their motives, nor is it a per
sonal attack upon anyone. on the
individual responsibility of the
writer. The expressions of con-
demnation which have been spar
ingly used voice the sentiment of
all interested parties whom we
have consulted, and the entire ar,
ticle, far from being presented IN
a spirit of malice, simply requests
an explanation of the attitude
taken by those who fostered the
measure.
Yours very truly,
ARTHUR l.. CRAIG, Secretary.
The newspaper., 1907-02-15

The rapidly increasing attention which
this part of Colorado is attracting causes
many inquiries to come to me in regard to
the North Fork Valley and its resources, and
more particularly the Fruit industry for
which noted in all the eastern markets,
for large, luscious and fine Favored,
highly colored peaches, apples, pears, plums,
cherries, apricots, prunes, etc.
To climate and soil conditions must be
attributed the remarkable perfection OF our
Fruits. The altitude at Paonia is 1886. The
valley is completely surrounded on every side
by lofty mountains and thus we arc sheltered
from destructive winds or severe changes of
weather prevalent in other sections of
Colorado.
The days are warm and the nights cool.
There has never been fruit crop failure at
Paonia since the first trees commenced bear
ing twenty years ago The valley adjacent
to Paona is adapted to grain and vegetable
raising and everything is raised by the
medium OF irrigation there is no drouth
on ten acres of orchard a man can make
clear money than the eastern farmer
on eighty acres of land raising stock and
grain. Until orchards come into bearing
which is the third year, vegetables are raised
between the tree rows, which find ready
market in the mountain towns and mining
camps at good prices. thus insuring good
living.
Fruit Growers frequently get from three to
five hundred dollars acre for their fruit
crop, while two hundred dollars an acre is
very ordinary. The demand for North Fork
Valley fruit is increasing every year, eastern
buyers coming here from Philadelphia, Boston,
Chicago and other eastern cities and paying
good prices for our peaches and apples, which
speaks worlds for our fruits, naturally
must come in competition with the Michigan
and New York fruits in the eastern markets.
The surrounding mountain sections TEEN
with miners who the certain consumers
of immense quantities of our products. Con-
venient are hard and soft coal, timber. cedar
posts, building stone etc, to supply all the
wants ofsthe rancher
Delta, the county seat is situated at the
junction of the Gunnison and Uucompahgre
rivers. 1t is also the railroad junction point
OF the North Fork branch connecting Delta
with Hotchkiss, Paonia and Somerset. and
reaching into the fine fruit section ut this
point Paonia, the second town in size and
Importance in the county, is located ON the
North Fork of the Gunnison river thirty five
miles from Delta in the very heart OF the fruit
belt. No townin Western Colorado can show
so healthy a growth. 1t has good conserva-
have developed. We have a $1,000 school
building, two banks, two large packing
houses. an evaporator with n capacity of
twenty tons OF green fruit per day and
canning factory, several stores and scores of
new residences. Besides these there are five
different church organizations the NJ E.,
Christian, Friends, Congregational Union.
CEO CPAHAN
The newspaper., 1907-02-15
Cbe fertile Ia1os Of the Nortb fork bailey,
paonta, Delta Co., COLORADO.

and Adventists. We also have two good
telephone systems, electric lights and the
town has good water system. The water
being piped from mountain spring at a cost
of $4,000.
A visit to this valley in the midst of the
fruit season is all that is needed to convince
the most skeptical. In round numbers
something over S5OO,OOO.OO paid to the
fruit growers here the past season.
STOCK RAISING.
The raising of stock. cattle and horses has
always been a profitable industry in the
mountains surrounding the valley, with the
innumerable parks and grassy slopes which
furnish unlimited range that is free to all
corners.
Alfalfa hay, species of clover, thrives in
this valley, and can be cut three or four
times in a season, yielding from four and
one half to six tons per acre. and for dairying
and stock growing qualities it is unequalled.
An equitable climate. The sudden and un-
expected changes which visit the Northern
and Middle states are unknown here. 1t is
truly "A land of perpetual sunshine. The
climate is simply grand.
The farm and orchard lands of Delta county
are irrit ated by fine water system. bitches
and canals run for miles along the mountain
sides at "A sufficient elevation to cover all the
tllabe land under them.
Vegetable gardening is very profitable here,
onions potatoes, sugar beets celery and
tomatoes yielding big returns and finding
ready market in ear load lots. Strawberries
very profitable
New land is being cleared up and settled
rapidly within few miles of Paona and
thousands of acres will he set to peach and
apple orchards the coming spring. Land
with good water rights and partly improved.
with young trees on, can be bought for from
SO to 800 per acre. Unimproved land from
S35 to $50 depending on the location.
Improved land with bearing orchards from
$500 to $500 and up. Who will dare say that
the prices of land high around Paonia
that annually produce from three to five
hundred dollars per acre?
Surely the normal income of this land when
planted to trees will pay the original invest
ment sooner than most enterprises in which
men will engage.
The North Fork Valley has this advantage
to offer other fruit sections: 1t has
never yet had fruit crop failure from fosrts
or drouth. Do you wonder that such rich
productive land brings good prices?
To the homeseeker who desires to raise all
kinds of fruits, large and small. the finest
vegetables and three four cuttings of
alfalfa. etc, we cordially invite attention to
the North Fork Valley at Paonia. At this
place YOU will find special advantages from
Fruit Growing to Stock Raising, and find
yourself surrounded 10y an energetic intelli-
gent and cultured class of people.
For further particulars regarding this
section, address,
al Estate Agent,
The newspaper., 1907-02-15
THE DEMURRAGE BILL.
EDITOR PAoNIA BOOSTER,
Paonia, Colorado,

tore the Paonia horticultural 30
ciety, January 2lst, Mr.. A. l..
Roberts devoted some time to
discussing the attitude of our To-
cal publications toward the de-
plorably inefficient service rem
dered by the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad in the movement
OF the last fruit crop from Paonia
and tributary stations. Although
some fifteen persons are con
nected with the three Paonia pa
pers and the Colorado Fruit
Grower, not a representative of
the press was in attendance upon
either session of the meeting
Later, when the secretary of the
Society was approached by two
editors for items OF interest in
connection with the meeting.
they declined to grant any pub
licity to Mr. Roberts article. one
stating very frankly that in view
of tavors granted by the railroad
it would not be good policy to
permit any criticism in his
columns The third editor pub
lishcd extracts from the paper by
Mr.. Roberts. but scrupulously
avoided reference to transporta-
ton matters.
Now comes the Paonia Booster
with the accent on the Booster" }
issue of February Sth. with much
space of its first page devoted to
the so.callcd Reciprocal De-
murrage" bill, and an article from
the Montrose Enterprise which
reads strangely like a letter from
the Committee to that paper.
commencing the policy adopted
by "the committee sent in to Den
yer by the Western Slope Horti-
cultural Society" with the en-
oouraging but deceptive caption
"Must Provide Cars Let US
consider briefly this eminently
equitable proposition embodied
in the reciprocal demurrage bill.
As cxpounded by local authori-
ties, this measure is so framed
that it may be passed separately
or in conjunction with any of the
bills now under consideration by
the Legislature. In either event
it would work untold injury to
the fruit industry of the entire
state. The bill is weakly and in.
adequately written, being gen
orally lacking in definitions and
specification. This, however, is
least important; granting it may
be revised and hawlessly rewrit-
ten, OF what import are its pro-
visions to the members of the
Western Slope Horticultural So
ciety, whose alleged representa-
tive is toiling so indefatigably to
secure its enactment into law2
1t provides; Q) that common
carriers furnish empty cars for
loading within three days after
written requisition is filed by ship
pers. or within ten days if twenty
five or more cars are desired; (2)
that for each days delay on each
car the carrier shall forfeit the
exorbitant sum of one dollar to
the shipper; (3) that party re
ceiving any commodity in car
lots must empty the car within
two days or be assessed one dol
lar per day for each days delay,
practice which the railroads all
The newspaper., 1907-02-15
Loans Wanted.

A few good loans wanted on
ran ches, improved town property
ditch stock or collateral notes.
c. c. HAWKINS
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
Alfalfa Mills Kept Busy.

Alfalfa meal. though only very
short time on the market. has already
become an appreciated feeding stuff
according to the Breeders Gazette
Chicago. which says: Its chief handi-
cap has been its relative cost. but de-
spite that il has attained such wide
use that every alfalfa mill in She coun-
try has been pushed to itk utmost ca
pacity for some time. This in meas
IRE accounts for the phenomenal de
mand which has existed for months
for we'll cured pea green third and
fourth cutting hay of this sort. Pre-
dlctlon among the best Informed men
In the hay trade is that the demand
for good alfalfa hay is inst starting
and that the product of he thousands
of acres Of new sdeding laid down each
successive year will attain ready
sale. The main trouble. 1t is alleged, Is
that so far no machine has yet been
invented for the sole purpose of grind
Ing alfalfa However. inventive genius
Is at work on the problem. aud ii is to
be presumed TINT before very long an
alfalfa mill will be perfected that will
materially lessen the cost of grinding
1t Is predicted that when this happens
milling alfalfa will be one of the lar
gest Industries and equal to the flour
milling business now.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

Sunday theatricals had ii rough time
OF it ut one period of Englnnd's his
tory. On Sunday, Sept - 1881, Shake
spenre's Midsummer Nights Dream"
was privately performed IN the bishop
of Lincon's house in London The Pur-
itans had the affair inquired into and
there is a suspicion of humor in the
punishment awarded to the performer
of Bottom. he weaver-"We do order
that Mr. Wilson, as he was a special
plotter and contriver of this business
and did in such a british manner act
the same with an ass head. shall upon
Tuesday next from 6 o'clock in the
morning till & o'clock at night sit In
the porters lodge at my lord bishops
house with his feet in the stocks and
attired with an ass head and bottle
of hay before him and this subscription
ON his breast:
GOOD people, | have PLAYED the beast
And brought III things TO pass.
l was man, but thus have made
Myself a silly ass
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
A Cats BOARDING House.

A woman who had engaged board
for two cats at an animal boarding
house stopped at the desk on her way
out and said "Oh, by the way, forgot
something. What do You give your
cats for Sunday dinner The regu-
lar fare" said the proprietor. Il would
Ike you 10 make an exception in the
case Of my cats" said The woman.
They have been used t. special dishes
at home on Sunday. and | am sure
they would miss them very much. |
nm willing 10 pay extra for the care
and expense" THAT" grumbled the
animal man after acceding to her re
quest. is one Of the peculiar phases of
this business. Half the people patron
izing a place of this kind insist upon
our providing a few choice tidbits for
the Sunday dinner of their pets. 1t is
bound TO ruin their digestion, but
whenever there is clause in the con-
tract to that effect special Sunday and
holiday fare prevails Philadelphia
Record
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
Bells and Money.

A thousand men can 20 to work at
/ O'Clock in the morning without the
Snging of bell and Why is it that
BW people cannot assemble In n
church without previous ding-dong-
Ing lasting half an hour?-Detroit Free
Press
Why. man. It's because they 20 out
at I O'Clock to get money. Put a
twenty dollar gold piece in each pew
every Sunday and You may sell your
bell for old metal-Lonisville Courier
Journal
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
TIE ALEXANDER AND HUBBARDsoN

TIE ALEXANDER AND HUBBARDSoN.
October but may be kept in good ordi-
nary storage till Christmas and in cold
storage tin midWinter. 1t is an eXcep-
tionaly large red streaked apple of
good to better quality, useful for both
market aud house use. The fruit hangs
fairly well. considering its size, and is
generally satisfactory. The lower ap-
pie shown in the cut Is Hubbardson.
later than Twenty Ounce and of even
finer quality 1t is distinctly dessert
variety, in special favor during late
November. December and early Janu-
airy. Very prolific, SNOWY and uniform,
1t has become leading sort in western
New York and we'll deserves it's popu
larity both ut home and in foreign
markets.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
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FlELRaNp CRRDEN
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INTERESTING APPLES.
Varieties of Large Size Forming a Sue
cession

Varieties Of Large Size Forming a Sue.
cession.
The interesting trio of western New
York apples here mentioned form a
succession both in season and in quail
ity. The two varieties shown are de
seribed 10y American Agrieulturist as
being noted for their large size In the
basket Mt the top is Alexander which
ripens through most Of September and
October. 1t Is q remarkably SNOWY red
streaked variety of poor TO medium
quality, with the further faults Of
rotting. cracking and dropping. An
other large red apple also described Is
Twenty Ounce. which ripenS during
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
From City to Country.

FROM CITY TO country.
In the north Atlantic states and In
less degree in other groups there has
been some back pressure upon the land
from the cities, and in this reversion of
the tide of population from country to
city the old farm lands have not been
lost to agriculture, although in so far
as they have become the diversion of
wealthy men they may have become
improbable. In some regions the old
abandoned farms are becoming the
country homes of city families and are
Passing back into some sort of cult
yation and production.-G. X. Holmes.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

FOR Catarrh, let me sen YOU free Just to
prove merit. Trial size Bos Of DR.. Shops
Catauh Remedy. 1t IS snow white
creamy. healing antseptlc lain that gives
instant relief to Catarrh II the nose and
throat. Make the free test and see, Ad-
dress Dr. shoop, Racine Wis. Large jars
50 cents sold by G. X. togg.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
Notice To Our Customers

We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles is not affected
by the national Pure Food and Drug Law
as 1t contains no opiates or other harm
full drugs, and WE recommend it as q
safe remedy for children and adults.
r. w. Buchanan and q r. Fogg
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
Protective Hoo TROUGH

An illustration of n convenient hog
trough, credited to Prairie Farmer is
described as follows: When not in use
the frame above the trough is hooked
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

Ar you tired, tagged out, nervous
-lreplers, feel meanP rell's'eI's Rocky
N,uniain Tei strengthens the neryes.
ANS digestion, brings refreshing sleep.
81 cents lea and Tablet.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
For Early Tomatoes.

For very early tomatoes we must
first of all have very early strong
plants of desirable early varieties, of
which we now have several that can be
relied on, such as Earliana. Maule's
Earliest and June Pink.-T. Greiner In
Farm and Fireslde.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

The man who realizes the cowardice OF
people tan al"a}s pu1 u great ufi
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

Whipping little man does your repu
tation as fighter no good.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

VII some men pu quarter in the
coltc i'm basket IT gives III, m a feeling OF
be real sporty
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

The man woo is really IN love pays very
ii'l- attention to The ability oi his sseel-
heart as a bread maker.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
RICHARD YEo, Norridgewock
ti3 River Road.
Bankrupt's Petition for Discharge.

In the matter OF George E. NORTH
Bankrupt, IN ban kruptcy.
To the Hon. Clarence Hale. Judge of the Dis
trict Court Of the United States for the District
of Maine.
George f. Morrill, OF Skowhegan, in the
Vi ,ea anu ,enrses y, ,hs, ~ On s sha
10Th day of January. last past he was duly
adjudged bankrupt under the Acts OF Congress
relating to bankruptcy; that he has duly sur.
rendered all his property and rights of property,
and has fully complied with all the requirements
of said Acts and of the orders of Court touching
oils bankruptcy.
Wherefore he prays, that he may be decreed
by the Court to have a full discharge from all
debts provable against his estate under said
bankruptcy Acts except such debts as are OK
cepted by law from such discharge.
Date1 this 4th day of March, A. ID
1907
George +. Morrill,, Bankrupt
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14
ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON

DISTRICT OF MAINE, IS.
On this 9th day OF March A. D., 1917 OF
reading the foregoing petition, 1t is
Ordered by the Court, That a hearing be had
upon the same on the 18th day of March, A.
D. 1867, before said Court at Portland in said
District. at 10 O'Clock In the forenoon; and that
notice thereof he published in The Somerset
Reporter, = newspaper printed In said District,
and that all known creditors and other persons
in interest. may appear at the said time and
prayer of said petitioner should not be granted.
And IL Ia further ordered by the Court, That
the Clerk shall send by mail to all known cred
dressed to them at their places of residence
stated.
Witness the Honorable Clarence Hale Judge
Of the said Court. and the seal thereof. at Port
and in said District, on the 9th day OF
March. A. ID. 1907.
H.. = JAMES +. HEWEY Clerk.
A true copy of petition and order thereon
a9 Attest: JAMES r. HEWEY, Clerk.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-14

up, but when swill is to be poured into
the trough 1t is unlocked and fastened
with the chain. The plan Is said to be
very effective.