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L The Otsego Journal NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES *| One Year, $1.50; Bix Months, T6o ; -Mhree Mos., 400; Single Copies, So. Tes Cents Extra outside of county Payable in Advance. ida of coun The Otsego Journal NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, $1.50;, Bix. Months, 160 Three Mos., 440; Single Tea Cents Extra outside of county payable in Advance. Gil-bertsvillé; Otsego County, N. Y., February 8.1928. - Vol. XLV II. MOUNT UPTON MOUIES SATURDAY, February{3-CHILDBEN'S NIGHT, with a special- \FELIX THE CAT\ cartoon picture episode of \BUFFALO BILL;\ and, for the feature, one of HOOT GIBSON'8 laughable, rollicking comedies, \THE LOADED DOOR.\ CUhildren'sadmission, 10 cents. f SATURDAY, February 10-BARGAIN NIGHT. will be ANIIA STEWART is \OLD KENTUCKY,\*- that famous thrilling story of the Blue Grass country which, as a stage play, pleased for many years. our HOME TALENT COMEDIES, episode No. 13, showing an old time buffalo hunt. SPECIAL-TIESDAY, February 13-On this date we will show a picture which critics rank as among the greatest of the past five years-RICHARD BARTHELMESS, in \SONNY a picture which will live for years because it's HUMAN. If you see but one pictire a year, SEE THIS ONE. an especially | good The feature Also the second of BUFFALO BILL, $6.75 to $12.00. The Busy Store. Tailor-Made Clothing for Men New Line of Spring and Summer Samples JUST RECEIVED. Men's Suits from $28.50 up. Would be pleased to have you call and look over the line. F. S. ROCKWELL & CO., Trousers M1. Upton, N. Y. On Your DOLLAR, We Pay 3; tan There Is ap EAGLE The EAGLE Your DOLLARS will fight for you if you de- posit them in our Interest Department. i Compounded Semi-Annually. Unadilla National Bank, UNADILLA, N. Y. Not an OSTRICH. Is a Fighter Interest / ape OCI erernramearans wnt ant wet a ANOTHER CUT IN THE PRICE OF GOODYEAR Automobile Tires THEY COST é § | E é fl é LESS NOW THAN EVER REFORE. THERE ARE NONE BETTER A. H. WHEELER & SON The QualityStore on the Busy Corner. Mt. Upton, N. Y. * IN BUSINESS YOU NEED GoOooPD EYES You areusing them for hours every day, perhaps under electric or artificial light which is nome too good for the eyesighi. Therefore it would be well to have us examine your eyes every little while to see how we can help you rétain your sight or improvéupor it No charga for car examinations. | See D. H. DARLING Prefemisesl Ostometint . SOXREY. K. T, PREST - O. LITE Special Prices On Different Meats at SMITH BROTHERS' Market Each saTURDAY. ° Also, with every $2.00 Cash pur- chase we will give one FREE ticket to Mt. Upton Theatre. Armour's SiarHam,. whole, 38¢ Ib Sausage.... 28¢ Ib Hamburg............ ...... 18c Ib Beef HRoast............... 11to I6c Ib Son Sires, any cor - afsIp 'o oast,. ary cut ...... 380 Ib Dalry Butter .................... 580 Ib Creamery Butter ...... .... 52%¢ Ib GrapeFruit.... 3 fer tic Oranges. 500 dz Grapes........._.._..__.....__...... 20¢ Ib Specials on Cagged Goods Three CansPeas for. .. 250 Three Cans Corn for...... « £0 Thréte Caus- Succotash for 45¢c Three Cans War Beans for 25¢ Three Cans Tomatoes for 35¢c Two Cans Pampkin for .._... 35¢ Two Cans Apples for...... 25¢ sHTH EROTHERS, 3s Hk Uptce, X. F. Try a Waut Ad if! tke Journal They bring resBits. CLOSING RING. AROUND RUHR French, to - Reorganize - Public Services, Replace Strikers afd Punish Attempts at Sabotage DUESSELDORF IS CUT OFF Telephone and Telegraph Operators Abandon Central Offices -- Raliroad Strike in British Zone Threatened ' If French Pass Coal Through. Paris. - Outbreaks of violence at Krouznach and other places in the occupled - area were reported hure. Bayonets and bullets wore used in these incidents and, at Duesseldorf, the threat of bayonets was needed to restore order, Shots were fired at sentries at Hat tingen' and Duisburg, and it is said the French authorities are being urged to take more drastle measures In the Ruhr. It is reported the government is ready to consider the Rubr at pros- ent as a Franco-Belglan province and organize and administer it as such. Significant in view of these efents is the return of General Weygand, who has been mentioned as possible Rhine- land high commissioner, and Minister of Public Works Le Trocquer to the Ruhr. , The Germans are now carrying ow a policy of sabotage. Certain railway section men seemed willing to work, but signals have been put out of com- mission and part of the trackage has been torn up, thus paralyzing trafic as effectively as would a strike. It is declared in some quarters the only remedy is expulsion of the Ger- man railway workers and substitution of Frenchmen on the entire Rubr sys- tem. It is reported the French are ready to do this if necessary. Now that France has decided to cut the Reich off from Rubr coal since France cannot get any herself, she is watching England with much the same feelings the Alles watched America at the beginning of the war, Britain's positon Is similar, In that she must decide whether or not to provide Germany with fuel, food and other materials, thus stiffening Ber- resistance. It is understood tho railway strikes on the left bank of the Rhine have as their objeot the separation of the French troops in the Ruhr from their base of supplies. It is to counter all this opposition that the French talk of taking over the Rubr as one of their own provinces. Their proced- ure in that case would bo mbout as follows: They will bring in their own postal workers and about 150,000 miners- Poles, Czechs, Alsatians, Belgians, Italians and French-to the govern- ment mines they intend to work, They will expel German leaders of disorder and the rest of the workers will be asked: \Are you going to work or not?\ Those who answer \not\ will be dismissed and sent out of the Rubr en masee. The others will be pro- tectedand in case of strikes in other mines the French and Belgians will still be able to get coal, rs the out put of the state mines would go only to those allies. The French have made known that they have called thirty-seven rail road experts into the Rubr, but Fronclr correspondents agree that in the event of a general railroad strike this number would only be sufficient to man the military and coal trains. It is also conceded that the ming production Is falling off, in some cases 38 per cent, though hopes are expressed that when the new regime is instituted In the Rubr, the French with everything in their bands can bring back normal production. Even the mail service has now been halted, while the French ro- ports agree that Germany !s attempt- ing to withdraw all possible railroad equipment from the Rubr, trains be- Ing hauled by several engines in or- der to get the latter out of the terri- tory. This has been countered by orders from the French that only one engine per train is to leave the occo- pied rone. R Estimating Him. \Say listen, Daph!\ fluttered Fiyp- pie Flapp, addressing the ticket seller of the Orlental Grotto movie palace. \What d'ye think of the hero in 'The Trail of the Serpent'?\ \Pretty fair killer, but a darn poor kisser,\ repiled Daphne of the dim- ples-EKensas City Star. BALANCED BUDGET - I8 WITHIN REACH President Earnestly Urges Fur- ther Economics to Wipe Out Deficit of $92,000,000. ASKS CONGRESS FOR AID Says Inslstence Upon Expense Cutting is to Give People of U. S. the Ben- efit-Income of $3,4481,000,959, ° Drive for Back Taxes Helped. Washington. -~ Representatives of the Government's \business brganiza- tion\ assembled for consideration of the budget problems were told in a message from President Harding that for the\Hirst timg since the fiscal year 1916 the nation's Income and outgo probably would balance at the ond of the current fiscal year on June 80. The President's message, delivered by Vice-President Coolidge, announced that instead of a deffelt of $698,000, 000 estimated at the beginning of the fiscal year, the economy drive had ten days ago forced a reduction to $92,000,000. Mr. Harding urged a continuation of efffforts at curtailing expenditures and eliminating waste, declaring that by such continued at- tention would be balanced budget be realized on Juno 80. Supplementing the President's plea, Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget, called on all Government workers to subordinate local, depart- mental or sectional requirements to the greater good of the whole people, admonishing the officials that \U. S.\ means the United States and not \Us.\ Gerenal Lord reported < that the final estimate of expenditures for the current fiscal year, surveyed January 16, was $3,574,664,132, while the fore- cast of recelpts on the same day was $8,481,904,959. This leaves, he point- ed out, a deficit of slightly more than $92,000,000, and he expressed the be- lief than with five months of the fis- cal year ahead in which to cut away less than one-fifth of the amount eliminated in the excoss expenditures in the first seven mouths of the twolvemonth period, the deficit could be eliminated. He declared, how- ever, in this commection, that \the tireless; unremitting efforts of the President to accomplish the result must have the support of every pub- He servant\ His speech carried evidence in sup- port of statements In the President's mossago that results were only now becoming apparent. He reviewed the work o fthe various agencies subordi- mate to the Budget Bureau, showing how thousands of dollars were cut from estimates here and there, and millions In some Instances were lopped off of the original figures by those Intent on making the mation pay as It goes. The Administration's economy pro- gram alone has not been entirely re- spongibles for the showing which now seems to warrant definite statements of a balanced budget this year, the General said. He pointed to increas- ing collections of revenue under the drive for back taxes by Commissioner Blair of the Bureau of Internal Reve: nue and greater custom receipts from dutles levied in the new tariffff act. More highly specialized handling of all the Government's revenue sources, he added, have also brought in funds. Declaring It was 'very significant and encouraging\ that Congress had lent its co-operation in keeping down expences, Mr. Harding sald he de sired to point out that budget figures as sent to the Senate and House em- body simply \the Administration poll- cles which the President has decided to recommend.\ It is nelther expect- ed nor degired, he said, that \Con- gress relinquish any of Its preroga- tives regarding public funds-prerog- atives so widely given to the people's representatives.\ \What now confronts . us,\ the President's message continued, \is the overcoming of this estimated deficlt of $92,000,000 and, if possible, the closing of this fiscal year with a balance on the right side of the ledger. I must look to you, therefore, for continuing efforts to control your expenditures during the remainder of this fiscal year, for in this way you can ald materially, I know that I can rely upon you.\ Snake Trap Effective, Seaford, Del.-Missing many efg% James Willy, a farmer, placed a porcelain door knob in a nest. He found later a large snake had awal- lowed It and was caught crawling through a hole, 'The door knob stopped the reptile, * MICKIE SAYS- HEL, FOLXS, uissEeNT LEY OUR CommErqat a $14,000 Tube of Radium Found in Woman's Body Chicago.~-A4 tubs of radium valued sat $14,000 is back In the hands of the surgeon who owns it, and Mra. Martha Spohn, a patient in whose body the radium was \lost\ was reported recovering, following an opera- tion te recover the missing metal In the previous operations the tobe of radizn was Inserted In the Incision. When Mra. Spohn was placed om the operating table for removal of the tube, It had dlssppeared. Another ip- cision revealed that the radizm had burned through tissues to another part of her body. VICINITY NEWS ITEMS \Happenings of Interest Clipped From \_ Newsy Exchanges. An Auburn hen fancier is bragging about @ three and one-fourth once egg. The annual Syracuse automobile show will open at Syracuse February 26th. _The Victory Grocery Chain will open a store at Cincinnatus with Ray Bald- win as manager. - Oneida bas 50 radio stations. A new central fire station to cost $125,000 will be built in Ithaca. Old 999, famous New York Central locomotive, will not Be scrapped. It is to be kept at Utica. After being closed for over two years fires have been started in the acid factory at Rock Rift. Mrs. Max Silverton, of Syracuse, is the second victim of sleeping sickness to die in that city within a year. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie B. Tilletson, of Cazenovia, celebrated the 57th an- niversary of their marriage in Jan- vary. A class of 20 business and profes- sional men of Oneida: signed the roll and have started their training to re duce weight. - Emory Brown, of North East Sher- burne, recently shot an unusually large red fox. It is reported to have weighed over fourteen pounds. Because of its deficit for the last year, the D. & H. railway company is getting ready to reduce running ex- penses by cutting down its working force, O. A. Weatherly & Co. whose pine mpple cheese factory at Milford, the largest of its kind in the United States, which burned October 29, have decided to rebuild the plant. - Rutger B. Warder, of Ilion, who was to have been electrocuted in Sing Sing prision Jan. 18, for the murder of Henry Werner, was given life im- prisonment, by Gov. Alfred Smith. Three young men of Owegn, drove their auto alongside a loaded col rar and swiped off 2,400 pounds of coal. They were arrested and fined $10 each and made to pay $6 each for the coal taken. 'There is no labor shortage near the state school at Morrisville. Nearly the entire male population of the school are earning the whole or a part of the money necessary to defray school expenses. Despite his blindness, George M. Calvert, of Syracuse, drew and typed the bill which has been introduced in the legislature, appropristing $10,000 for the aid of blind veterans of the World War. According to reports recently com- piled, Troop D, state poilce, made 2,352 arrests during the past year and out of that number secured 2,123 con- victions and collected fines amounting to $35,448.42. G. T. Powell, representing a Long Island co-operative buying association, was at Cortland recently in regard to the purchase of certified seed potatoes. He bought 3,000 bushels, three or four carloads, for which he paid a price that will net the growers from $1.35 to $1.40 f. o. b. In going through the vault in his store, which was formerly used by Smith and Company, private bankers, H. L. Brasee, of Cooperstown dis- covered in a hox containing many old documents. Some of the documents dated back to 1790 and were signed by William Cooper, the father of James renimore Cooper. Farm bureau field tests in Otsego county covering a period of four years have shown that the application of lime produced an increase of 2.85 tons of hay per acte; that the hay grown with lime contained 18 per cent of weeds, and that grown without lime contained 27 per cent of weeds. In order to make repairs on a pipe: less furnace, a Marathon man removed the large register over the furnace. The lady of the house saw a cobweb on the ceiling and in sweeping it down walked into the opening. She was thoroughly warmed before she was rescued. At a meeting of the commit- tea on education of the New York State Sunday school association held at Binghamton recently, it was decided to launch a campaign to-raise alout $2,500 for erecting a house to recom- modate the classes which will meet at Sidney Grove. Joel J. Bizty, a prominent attorney of Norwich, was stricken with an at- tack of neuralgia of the heart while st work at his desk in his office on Mon- day afternoon of last week and expired before any medical aid could be se- cured. Coroner Earl W. Wilcox, of Norwich pronounced death due to neuralgia of the heart. We besieve the village of Worcester has the distinction of being the only place of over 1,000 inbabitents that does not boast of at least one purely fraternal order. At one time an Or- der of Red Men flourished there, but) that, like the good Indian has passed to the great beyoud. - We have two in- surance erders-the Maccabees and the Woodmen, one cooperative order, the Grange.-Worcester Times. One evenieg Inst week Ralph W. Smith, the electrician at Walton, lin In cns given gt stattss WOO, at Davenport, Is., a dis- tance of 2,500 miles from Waiten The told be heard so Estinetly tit Mr Seithut choo sent a the to the station A stort time aver white esl] as Es tite Mr. Soth fved the it from the af Ein telecram wih the siter being Eled In Waltes FRANKLIN GROCER BANKRUPT Olin Beers Has Linbilities of $4,777. and Ancts of $3,500, Olin Beers, a grocer of Franklin, bas filed a petition in bankruptey in Federal court with liabilities of $4,777 and assets of $3,500, including real es- tate, $800; secounts, $880; and other items. The petition was filed through attorney E. A. Mackey. . John Taggart is secured for $800, and Clark J. Beers for $610, both hold- \img chattel mortgages; Leroy Evans, secured by land contract for $700; and National-Cash register,$260, all of Mer- rickville. ° Among 50 upsecured creditors are W. H. Yager & Co., $11; R. B. Cuse, $7; Jameson-Boyee Co., $35; M. W. Goodell, $6; Joseph P. Maxwell, $9, all of Binghamton; Rosenfold & Son, of Walton, $3; Frank Lamonica, off Oneonta, $53; Ora Shaw, $61; [Ira L. Bradley, $69; Roy Colburn, $42; John- son Bros., $75; and Mre. Eliza Ruther ford, $116; all of Franklin. Thinks There Should be a Poll Tax. Albany, Jan. 24-That every person who makes a living in or from the state of New York should help pay the expenses of the slate government, is the contention of the Tax Council of Associated Industries; that's why As: sociated Industries will urge upon the legislature the levying of a poll tax of at least $5 on every natural person be- tween the ages of 21 and 65 years of age who does not pay some other state tax or taxes in excess of $5. As an additional argument for the poll tax, Associated Industries declares that it will make for better citizenship be- cause it will give every mature man and woman a personal interest inthe government. Associated Industries believes the present sources of the revenue will produce all the fmoneys necessary for the state government, even if there should be a material increase over the budget requirements of last year, and the suggested poll tax is to be added to the sources of revenue only if ad- ditional moneys are needed. The suggested tax on persons who now pay no state taxes will, in a measure, offset the loss of revenue which would result if the Legislature adopts Gov. Smith's suggestion to in- crease to $5,000 the exemption in the personal income statute. The Highway Law. Chapter 25 of The Consolidated Lews, as amended, acts of Legislature, 1922; Article -331 ''When towns are not liable for damages.-No town shall be liable for any damages resulting to persons or property by the reason of the breaking of any bridge, sluice, or culvert, by transportation on the same of any traction engine, or of any vehicle or load, together weighing eight tons or over; but any owner therenf or other person engaged in transporting or directing the same shall be liable for all damages result- ing therefrom.\ Where There is Real Winter. In case anyone finds fault with the present winter weather in this part of the country he may be able to find some satisfaction in the following: Homer Bull, of this village recently received a letter from his brother, Norris. who resides at Wellington, Maine, in which Norris stated that enow wes four feet deep at that place when the letter was written, and that theremometers had registered from 38 to 40 degrees below zero this winter. He also stated that on Thanksgiving Day snow was two feet in depth at Wellington. -Downsville News. The Yonkers police are still trying to learn the identity of a boy who threw a snowball that tied up all street cars in Yonkers for twelve minutes on Tuesday of last week. While the door of the poor house was open in Buena Vista avenue, the boy flung his pellet. It struck the dynamo and caused a short ciremit. There was a blinding flash and it was twelve mivntes, after the electricians shut of the power, before it could be turned on again. Colgate University is arranging for a winter carnival to be held February 8th 9th, and 10th, The arrangements ate in charge of the university's out- fog club. An elaborate program is being worked up. Her Old Habit. Mediam-\I hear the knocking of your late wife.\ Patron-\That so1 Who's she knocking now?\ Up to Date. \What have you ready to serve, Oscar?\ \Hashed vitamines and cal ories a la. mode.\~-Judge 117 *f cef dil Rub-\What Is that saxophone player's nome?\ Dub-\Jones; but «bat's not what we call him\ + The Little Dipper. Tom (st bathing beach) - What caused that splash? 'Joe-Oh, a mere slip of a girl 5d dOBB YOUR GAIN *~ rhe We have just purchased a line of SAMPLE DRESSES At a price that enables us to make our ENTIRE STOCK OF WOOL DRESSES At One-Fourth Off the Price They are BARGAINS. Call and See Them. A few COATS and SUITS AT HALF PRICE Fhe balance of our FURS at Special Closing-Out Prices. \* F. H. SMITH STORE SIDNEY, N. Y. as Now Is the Time You Neg! the Most to KEEP YOUR HORSES IN CONDITION We Are Selling Our Stock at O% Reduction Butternut Valley Rardware Co. GILBERTSVILLE, N. Y. AT THE DRUG STORE Every Housewife Should See to It T her mediine eabinet contains a supply of gauze, absorbent - cotton, - adhesive plaster, witch hazel and other household emergency articles. A good bot wafer bottle, too, sbcald be on band. Beiter look uxer your sick room sup- ply and emergeney outfit and then come hare for what is lacking. That will insure getting the best there is at the lowest price. | Alo Groceries, Paints, Oils, Etc. H. M. TICE 2s (Geez f is $ g
