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|The Otsego Journal - new SUBSCRIPTION RATES .. One You. $1.50; Bix Months, 160; Threé Mos., 400; Single Copies, Bo.: Tea Cents Extra outside of county \ Payablein Advance. | The Otsego Journal NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, $1.50; Six Months, To Three Mos., «00; Single Tex Coats Extra outside of county Payable in Advance. ' ~ -Gilbertsville; Otsego County, N TC., Februarv 22, 1923 \the regular Rawlingon sort. called \SMILES.\ > National's great sides ache. BILL.\ NOTE-Don't forget 'that every Saturday.\ A. certain world-famauhthentre man once said \Give me the picture and DU attend to the crowds.\ BUSINESS IS MOUNT OPTON MOWIES: SATURDAY, February 1t- HERBERT RAWLINSON, in \DON'T SHOOT \ a quick action, crook aud detective story,-one of BILL,\ and a single reel special of the KRAZY KAT sort SATURDAY, February 24—J L. FROTHINGHAM presents First ° comedy drama-'THE TEN DOLLAR RAISE,\ written by PETER B. KYNE. This is a thriller of the KYNE sort, but itis also a comedy which will make your In addition, the 15th epfMode of \BUFFALO 'and SMITH BROTHERS’ MARKET give away free tickets k. That's why Also Chapter 14 of \BUFFALO. F. 8, ROCKWELL & 00., / p 7 The Busy Store. Electric Vacuum Cleaners. 'We now have the agency for one of the bast makes of Electric Cleaners and would be pleased to give a demonstration of the same in your home at any time. 'These cleaners are guaranteed to do first clase work and to be satisfactory in every way. Sold on easy time payments. F. S. ROCKWELL & CO., Mt. Upton, N. Y.) enegege$a ge Pafete Seve , On Your DOLLAR, The EAGLE Unadilla 00 .... UNADIL ac There Is an EAGLE Your DOLLARS will fight for you if you de- posit thenr'in our Interest Department. er / We Pay 3; cand Compounded ational Bank, Not an OSTRICH. Is a Fighter Interest N. Y. § § $ $ $ $ R A nannrnt AHEY COST THAN EVER BEFORE. THERE ARE NONE BETTER : A. H. WHEELER & SON The Quality Store on the Busy Corner. ANOTHER CUT N THE PRICE OF ~GOODYEAR utomobile Tires: LESS NOW Mt. Upton, N. Y 4 + IN BUSINESS YOU NEED GOooD EYE® ~ ¥Gu are using thein for hours every day, perhaps under electric or artificial light which is none too good for the eyesight. - Therefore it would be well to hate us examine your eyet every Eittle while to see how we-can beip you fetiin your sight or'ifiprove upen it No charge for our examinations. See D. H. DARLING Prafessioaz} Optumetist SDXx, K T. PREST -O- LITE Which.Soap ? All soaps willcleanse, but they will not destroy disease germs, Gerinicidal Soap not only removes grease and dirt from the hands, but it destroys disease germs and perspiration odors. Germicidal Soup is three things in one: a cleanser, zgmnifiqandadeodar Whinebod general soap for toilet and bath purposes. It frees the from the germs of infection, 2s well as the tiny parasites A. H. WHEELER & SON 's. trrom £ v. ~~ Try a Want Ad Ir the Sournal. They bring] UHGERUHR LABOR TO HOLD FIRM Germans in House to House Can- vasy Seek to Defeat, French Aims in Occupied Area, U SOME COAL TRAINS MOVING French Guarante51Penslenu of Ger- Fran Officlals Who Ignore Berlin Orders-Workers Are Against the Hohenzollerns. © Duesseldorf. through- out that Rubr and Rhineland the most active propaganda is going on to en- courage resistance and stimulate the mational spirit Religious as well as politteal organizations are engaged in a house to house canvass among the miners, railroad Workers and- eltizens. Protestant | leagues - and - Catholic brotherhoods are equally sharing in the work with nationalist, monarchist and pan—Germs}: organizations. If the Social Democrats and Social not taking part, It is simply because the organizers of this resis- tance campaign have not tackled them iin exactly the right way and have , too lightly regarded Them as sure sup- porters of the Nationalist cause. . ~ All this propaganda work is di- rected from Munster and: Elberfold, on the morth and south sides of the Ruhr, where former President Fuchs and Dr. Schmidt, the former Burgo- master of Elberfeld, are in command. They are using every means with which to strengthon and support their campaign, but the most common of all their arguments is the simple one that If the people will hang on just one month more M. Poincare will cer- tainly be defeated and the Fronch troops withdrawn from the Ruhr. Alread‘y tu Dusseldorf a shofiage of some foodstuffs, such as suger and mills, which has resulted from the strike, has begun to worry the peo- ple. , At the house doors the can- vassers of the resistance campaign are being met by the questions as to whether\ the Government canngt do something elso,> There are beginning to be signs of discontent and dissatisfaction with the way in which resistance is being conducted. Even the railroad strike has falled to this extent and the :| French, by herculean labors, managed to ship three trainloads of coal out of the district toward France. These three trainloads are -the first con- signment from 400 cars which have been collected at Wedar, near Duls- burgh, um} are all ready for shipment. This success for the French may be small in size but it is important in that its effect on opinion both in France and here is not small. On their .1de the Germans have not bad any success at all 1~ shipping Goal through the cordon. On the astern side the blockado is complete and somer or later, even the Germans aro beginning to 341111! something drastlc will have to be done to alter the situation, which in a month's time will begin to strangle Germany Just as sho was strangled by the blockade In the war. The workers In the Rubr district are far more opposed to the House of Hohenzollern than they are to the French and if it is the Fronch inten- tlon to foster a Rhineland rapublic, nothing would give them ofther a bet- ter excuse or more chance of success than such a royalist undertaking bound, as it would be, to fall from lack of the munitions and armaments which the Rubr alone can gi Ono of the strongest factors In the Fronch position is that nothing has bceurred which could in any way be twisted to give the occupation of the district an appearance of harshness. An order has been fesued that no tipping cars shall be sont out of the district,_either loaded or empty. This measure has been taken to provent gradual reduction in the number of availdble cars in the district. Ever since the establishment of the coal barrier, the Germans have been try- ing to deplete the district of coal cars by sending out genera! merchagdlse on special tipping cars which aro es- gentlal for the loading of coal .on barges. That manoeavre will now be stopped. Bundayt Sundays are lovely on the farm in the spring and summér, We don't get up till after 7 o'clock, and I get a lel- surely kind of breakfast while Bi goes out to milk and feed. And after breakfast I get the baby and hold her in my farms and we go to the fence to watch and BHI lets the horses out to go to the big pasture for the day. Such a time-they come trooping out of the big barn-aine of them, including old Tom, and th \ careen around the barnyard-heels mir, and manes fiying-and then they are away down the lane, racing like wild horses, p and | neck, with Pansy, the big. yeargld buckskin, always In the lead, and Whitefoot thundering beside ber, while, at the end of the cavalcade comes old Kate ' Inmbering along. 'Three of the orld things sheed sre Kate's colts, but they've no respect for the old lady. \Tom tA me he loved me, but 1 emmmumm GERMANY SPLIT IN TWO BY FRENCH Food Shortage to Follow Imme- diate Stopping _of Exports _, From Occupied Area. GEN., WEYGAND IN: QOMMAND New Blow Deprives Cologne and Cob- lenz of Principal Markets-Immedi- ate Increase of Unempl@yment or Choking of Factories Expected.\ Paris.-France's - economic . sabre cut at Germany is now seep in its full-effect. ' Bubsequent orders issued by the Interallied RHineland Commis- slop in Coblenz and by the military authorities of Essen show it has split Germany virtually in two, with the Rhineland as well as the Ruhr for- \bidden to send any commodities and food as well into unoccupied Ger- \many. This practically reinstates the ro- gime existent between the signing of the armistice and the signing of the Versailles treaty, and will menace un- occupled Germany with as serious a food shortage as then prevailed. All doubt that this measure em braced In its scope not only the Ruhr, but the entire occupled region from the old French frontier and Including the British zone was removed by the Rhineland Commission, which issued a prohibitive edict authorizing the control offices to prevent all such ex- portations. No greater économie jolt ever was given a highly industrialized country than this decree. The blow will fall with crushing force upon Cologne, Coblenz and other citles in the old occupied area in cutting them off from their chief markets in the in- terior of Germany. The British are understood to have opposed this de- cision. Even the French do not ap- péar exactly to know where the eco- nomic consequences will load them. Although rumors of a compromise that will change the Ruhr situation in the next twe weeks are floating sround thoy seem based more upon interior developments in Germany than upon any change in the disposi- tion of the French Government, which evidently has the intention of trying to effect the latest measures before showing any conciliation, Either ex- tensive unemployment must immedi- ately cccur in the Ruhr or else those factories will become as choked as the mines are with coal. While some extremists hore would seize and sell for France's beneflt all Ruhr products there is not the slightest likelihood of this being attempted. France is not capable of organizing exploitation on a gigantic searle, which this would mean, and nine out of ten wober minded persons realize that this would lead to such an economic tan- gle that France would be one of the victims of its own policy if It attempt- ed to swamp the world with selzed goods mt bargain prices. General Weygand s to take per- sonal direction of the Rubr front, re- turning soon to Mayence, where he will continue to fommand the Rhine land occupation forces, according to well informed political sources, This explains General Degoutte's brief visit in Paris, It is reported that General Mangin had been considered for the Rubr post, but that the British raised objections. It is understood General Weygand will be accompanied by a mixed Franco-Bolglan economic com- mission, in which the Italians have declared they did not wish to be rep- resented, owing to Franco-Belglan op- position to Italy sending her jobless workers into the Rubr. Meanwhile every train to the Rubt from here carries ome new Install ment of French technicians, with con: tributions to this staggering problem, including 100 French telephone girls unversed in German and supposed to master the intricate Gemmn tele- phone system. The_latest move to obtain the sub mission of railway workers to the French regime, essential if any orders are to be worked out, is to warn them that, as coal is a milltary supply, it will have prior Thus it will de pend upon the Germans whether not the citizens of the Ruhr have ade- quate food. BURIED HIS WILL IN DIARY Well-to-De Frenchman Played Odd Joke on Friends With Whom He Was Displeased, An Ingeniously malicious will led to an ection tried in the French courts ten years ago, Jean Laurent, a well ado bachelor, on dled in 1903, used keep a diary recording with painful minuteness every Incident of his dally routine. At the end of each year his records, were richly «bound, labeled \Histoire de ma Vie,\ and leat in turn to four old friends, none of whom ever glancediat more than a few pages, al though when returning the volume exch professed to Gave read it through and enjoyed It. Eventnally the old maf discovered theif professions to be false, and, piqued at this lack of appreciation, wrote his will on page 647 of the tol time for 1IB0L He divided his whole estate among his four friends; but they remained in ignorance of their good fortune, although they bad ample opportunity of leasing It, so when ard a distaht relation took ca of bis property. Ten years tater the mmmmm-mmw #2 the real beire reosvered aboct than balf the swoult mm 7 Wfihm \The long s¥rt scarts to te comtrs \tat faver aga\s.\ \Yes ard soon It mum—z“ Esafireem’ bo Decanter? “there-1mm mwmm Lawrént dled he was deemed Intestate,| VICINITY NEWS ITEMS Happenings of Interest Cllpned From Newsy Exchanges. Bainbridge is considering the issue of $84,000 in bonds for the construc- tion of a school building. . A big cold storage building, .to cos $150,000 is a possibility at Canastota this apring. Paul Depew, of Wood's Comers, was accidentally shot in the hana while hunting near Chensngo Lake. Michael George, of Solvay, is in good health and able to be about every day, although 105 years of age. . The water board at Homer has de- cided that all services must be méter- ed. /The meters will be installed at actial cost. T Three babies wer in one day recent} name Elizabeth as); tian names. ~ The campus in fronL of Homer Aca- demy has been mad} into a skating rink by rolling down the snow and flching with water. In a afspute over a nickel in a game of cards W. Maukes and Frank Kinne, of Fallsburg, got into a scrap and Maukes paid $10 in court to settle the damages to Kinne. ‘ Anthony Viadante, convicted in Onondaga county of the stabbing of his wife to death in the town of Manliue, was' sentenced to die in the electric chair on March 18th. -_ The village board of Marathon, has purchased an additional safe for the storuge of village reca ds to comply with the law requiring that public records shall have fireproof protection. Forty-eight cows, every one that she awned, perished in the fire that de- stroyed the barns of Mrs. Elizabeth Livermore, a widow at Pecksport, two miles from Bamilton, The loss will reach $20,000. William Harndorn, of Virgil, aged 23, attempted suicide the other day by slashing his thrort. A gash several inches long was sewed up and he is expected to recover. A \love\ affair is mentioned. born in Walton and each bear the art of their Chris- A Marcellus man disregarded a cau- tion sign near a school house, speeded his car past the school, struck and in: jured a small girl, and paid $425 in settlement. A jail sentence should have been added. Mrs. Mildred Smail, of Greene, brushed against the wall of her home recently, and a needle which someone bai stuck into the \wali was forced into her arm. It was necessary to go to a hospital to have it removed. Henry Ford's new power plant factory at Green Island will open abgut March 1st, employing from 1,200 to 1,500 men. Special parts for euto mobiles will be manufactured in the plant to supply the Eastern trade in this line. The late George H. Pomeroy, of Franklin, carried over $10,000 life in- surance. Mrs. Pomeroy bas been paid $5,000 of this amount, Mrs. Earl West- cott $2,885, and Miss: Gertrude Pome» roy will receive $3,000 ms soof as a guardian is appointed. World War veterans bave learned with interest that an amendment to the New York state constitution will be submitted to the votera next fall, authorizing a state bond issue of $43,000,000-to pay a bonus to New York stat terans. More than 900 farmers of Broome county have already joined the Broome County Farm Bureau\as a result of the membership drive which is not yet completed. This is nearly 100 more members than were signed up last year. Foreign matter in an oyster, es- pecially when jewelers valued it at $150 is not always objectionable, re- cording to Wm. H. Warner, of Albany, who had the unplessiint experience of biting \something hard\\ while dis- oysters in the most approved manner. Jewelers assert that the pearl is an exceptionally fixe one. _ A car containing approximately 150 barrels of what is alleged to be beer with an illegal alcoholic content, was seized by federal agents in the 0. & W. yards st Utica last Monday night. The warrant for the seizure was issued on information and belief and if the seized liquor proves to be illegal the case is likely to be made a test case on that issue. 'The car was consigned from Donmore, Pa., to the Utica Cerial Beverage dampnny, a company which is unknown in Utica. More than $2,271,000 in advance of 1921 was collected last year in auto- mobile license fees, Bert, Lord, of Af- ton, director of the motor vehicle bureau, Bak.@pnounced. The-total in- creasein the number of automobiles istered is nearly 200,000, Mr. Lord sai A total of 1,003,825 automobiles registered resulted in the colleition of $12786,864 37, Mr. Lord reported. In there were 819,223 cara, owners of which paid $10,464,608.97 for regis- tration and ~licenses. The recaipts this year will ba more than $16,000,000 it is estimated. After 13 Tears \ R J. Hoag, of Livingston Maror, writes to the Conservation Commission that thirteen years ago be planted a few thoceand pine end spruce trees. His peighbora sard be woold never live to see them grow up, but they ager uge twenty feet in beightwom ard as Mmksxmeki be waste to get ssemk aim at m As GEM 4t aim the dostomary stories 234 pxisted, bet Earl mama. ma’flfib’fsfif‘ t Gite Relic theveeos® The porker te Kike lart wesk, weleked Too vals Ties, ® - suas od Frias hamer b _ THEY LIKE PRESENT PLAN - Country Folks Don't Admire the Features of a Contmunity Unit System. Assemblyman 1. R. Long, of Dela- ware county, writes: ''The local papers are jusq now printing the proposed legislation re- commended for rural schools by the cdiamittee of twenty-one. . It. is evi dently propaganda \intended to create/ a favorable-sentiment for their plans, But a few explanations may enlighten the rural people as to just what their plans are. \In the first place this committee, which is made up of Farm Bureau, Dairymen's League, Grange, Home Bureau and othe? organizations. in- cluding the State- Education Depart- ment, did not make the rural school survey, which is the foundation'of the report of the committee, but emplojed a force of college men and \women to de the work and make the recommen- dations. It is trua that :two or three of the committes were active in the survey and in the making of the re- port, but most of the work was done by the aforesaid college people. I have heard a member of this com- mittee talk glibly about \the larger unit of taxation,'\' and give no real idea of what is meant by that for- mula. Now I am going to explain it. ''You notice that they always say be effected unless the people vote it. That sounds well, but let us look at the facts. The idea is to have ju lat- get unit of taxation, which they call the \'community unit.\ These \com- munity units' are to be arranged by a committee appointed by the board of supervisors. clude rural high schools where pos- unit would manage all school affairs, levy taxes, etc. It is provided that the rural school districts shall have as many members of the board as the village has. * \'Now\ the rural district can still keep its name as a separate district, but so far as managing its school affairs is conerned, it is swept into the community unit and has ceased to con- trol its own affairs.. And unless the rural members of the bourd of educa tion are very enterprising, they are not likely to go to town to attend\ every meeting. Tha theory is that the stronger districts will thus help bear the burdens of the weaker ones, as they did under thewwgshw system. \I think you can readily see that the real purpose of the plan is to work consolidation under the guise of the larger unit of taxation. But I may say frankly that the taxes would he levelled up instead of levelled down.' --- NEW BERLIN-EDMESTON ROAD Early Start Promised on Federal Highway- Bids Readvertised, To make certain that actual work will- be done on the New Berlin Ed. meston federal aid highway this year, Colonel Frederick S. Greene, state commisgioner of, highways, has re jected all proposals received at the letting of November 21, 1922, and will readvertise for bids at once. This is an assurance that work | on this highway will CBtart as econ as weather conditions in the spring will permit. Bids for the construction of this highway, which is to be of reinforced concrete, 7.20 miles long were re- ceived on November 21, 1922. The lowest bid submitted was more than $17,000 below that of the second bidder but as the contractor is inexperienced and has falled to file a surety bond it was considered advisable to reject the bid and readvertise. Regular Old Timer. § The auction of the pergonal property of the iate 0. H. Van Benschoten, at Margaretville, - last - Wednesday at- tracted the largest crowd at a sale in many years and was a proverbial old time vendue, minus the ciJer and dougbnuts. _ Cld crockery of our grandmother's | day - brought | fancy prices and a ''whatoot,\'\ which at one time was a stock ornament of every best room and served as a display re- for birds' eggs, freak shaped stones, broken china an' the baby's first tooth, was sold to a man who didn't kaow the name of his new possession. . Potatoes sold as hich as $1.40 'n bu-hel and cows for as little as $11. The hone farm was sold to W. R. Sanford for $7,600, and the woodlot of 22 seres, which does not adjoin the farm, went to E. B. Birdsall for $425, -Downsville News. eon ___ MICKIE SAYS- J sure! vou ym Git Auoug . wrmout suescuomge t is NEwsParert A FELLER ini that no consolidation of Uistricts is to | They are expected to in-| » sible\ The board of education of this &C FIRST syOWING oF : New SprmgGoods -- IN THE— READY - TO - WEAR DEPARTMENT -- AT -- SMITH'S New Sport Skirts «-We are _showing a splendid assortment of SNAPPY NEW SKIRTS made of Ratine,ECamel's Hair, Boucle and jasperette Prices from $5.00 to $15.00 New Line of Wool Sweaters $1.98 to $3.75 t Silk Sweaters Fromi$35 00 to $10.00 New Silk Dresses New Wool Dresses and New Coats [Call and see them.- \e F. H. SMITH STORE SIDNEY, N. Y. NEW YORK PATTERN, Cheaper Now Than They Will 'be a Month Later. Butternut Valley-Harman Co. GILBERTSYVILLE, N. Y. Every Housewife Should See to It ~ THAT her medicine cabinet contains a supply of gauze, nbdorbent ~cotton, - adhesive plyndesag‘meymtstafiMma-ebm for flat is acking. That will Jreure getting the best there is at tha lowest price. Also Groceries, Faiths, Oils, Ete.
