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. The Otsego Journal iw, umsusscmrnou’nms Que Year, 81.50; Six Months, 150 Three Mos., 400; BingloZCopies, 80 Tfl Cents Extra outside of county Payhble in Advance, cg The Otsego NEW SUBSCRIPT One Year, $1.50; 8i Three Mos., 400; B.. Tea Corts Extra ouside of county payable in Advance. V ol. XLVIIE as Or THE MOUNTED,\ one is better than thelaverage. MOUNT OPTON MOUIES i 0m” endeavor isto choose the' best from the hundreds C good pictures made every year. our theatre aways, in the face of strong opposition from larger theatres, is proof of our success, SATURDAY, MAY 12-The first of ZANE GREYS new series of master plctures \GOLDEN DREAMS.\ American engineer, and his adventures in wildest Mexico, will thrill {1 1 as you have rarely been thrilled before, HE WONDER DOG,\ in \THE RADIO HOUND.\ SATURDAY MAY 19-WILLIAM S. HART in \O'MAELEY HART pictures are always A two-reel comedy wil THR AFTON POUR-PIECE ORCHESTRA WILL F URNISH MUSIC FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. Coming SOOM- \Hunting Big Game in Africa,\ \The Old Homestead,\ \Oliver Twist,\\ \When Romance Rides,\ The popularity which The story of an intrepid In addition, \BROWNIE d; but this also be shown. The Busy Store. Kenyon Cord Tires, Tubes, Automobile Sundries and Supplies, Gasolene, Oils, Greases, Etc. New Home Sewing Machines, 1900 Electric Washers, Electric Vacuum Cleaners, Sold on Easy Time Payments. F. S. ROCKWELL & CO,, Mt. Upton, N. Y. QMWWWWQWWMWWQ There Is an EAGLE On Your DOLLAR, Not an OsTRICH. The EAGLE Is Your DOLLARS will fight for you if you de- posit them in our Interest Department, we ray 31% Interest Compounded Semi-Annually. Unadilla National Bank, , UNADILLA, N. Y. a Fighter dpesrecnca2GrIer® eR SCREEN DOORS and WINDOWS 2 feet, 87 x 24 38 x 15 Also Hinges, . Screen Door Sizes 8 x 7 2 feet, 10 inches x 6 feet, 10 inchos. 8 inches x 6 feet, Screen Window, Sizes 33 x prings and Catches NOW IS THE TIME TO STOP THE FLIES. Butternut Valley Hardware Co. Gilbertsvillie, N. Y. 8 inches. 83 x 18 38 x 12 IN BUSINESS YOU NEED GoOooD EYES You are using them for hours every day, perhaps under electric or artificial light which is none too good for the eyesighi. Therefore it would be well to have us exanfine your eyes every little while to see how we can help you retain your sight or improve upon it. No charge for our examinations. See D. H. DARLING - Professicaal Optometrist] SDRET, K. T. Do not let those buildings go without paint any longer. A fresh stock of Paint, O5, Cement, Wall Plaster, 'Brustes, Lime, Sewer Pipe, Roofing, Skin- gles, etc., on band. . ROTOMOBILE LIVERY Enclosed Cars Touring Cars Ton Truck Express trips to Sidney asd Gilberts ville every day except Sunday. F. & EUCKWELL & CO., Sm NL Upton, N, F. [Local aud Long Distance Teleptones. PREST . O- LITE ome at ~* L W. ”Most Important Work Gllbertsvflle. Otsego County, N 3. .,. May 1'7 19283. DRY LAW KILLED Repealing Mullan-Gage Act. of the Legislature Most important of the measures passed by the Legislature are the following: - Constitutional amendment to con- solidate the 187 Btate departments into 20 and providing that only the Governor, Licutenant-Governor, are to be elected. Constitutional amendment giving cities complete home rule over their local affairs, which goes to the people for approval at the next election, ._ Providing for a $60,000,000 bond issue for improvements and addi- tlons to the State hospitals for the insane. Repeal of the Mullan-Gago State liquor enforcement law. Dollar gas for New York city. Ku Klux bill requiring all secret and fraternal organizations to file their lists of membership with the Secretary of State. Memorializing Congress to liber- alize the Volstead act to perinit light wines and beer. 'Repeil of the Lusk law, Providing $45,000,000 for a bonus for world war veterans. Extending the emergency rent and tax exemption lows. Albany.-The legislative session ended at eight minutes past 2 o'clock Baturday mornning with hundreds of bills going to defeat in the partisan conflict between the Senate and the Assembly and , with appropriations close to $158,000,000 for the taxpayers to face. The outstanding accomplish- ment of the session was to give the State the biggest budgot in Its his tory. Although most of the bills for which the Senators and Assemblymen have fought for four months are in the waste bagket, the wind-up of the ses- slon was celebrated with all the old time horseplay and antics. Two of the measures rescued out of the reprisal warfare on the last day were: ' The dollar gas for New York City, which passed the Assembly by a vote of 120 to 3 and now goss to the Gov- ernor. The Republicans voted for the bill to embarrass the Governor on the theory that the messure is conflsca- tory and unconstitutional. The Ku Klux Kian bill was passed by a vote of 76 to 50. This measure is designed to drive the hooded knights out of the State by compelling all secrot organizations to file lists of membership with the Secretary of State. Repeals State Dry Law A legislative sensation came when both houses of the State Legislature joined in repealing the Mullan-Gage prohibition enforcement law, This puts the prohibition situation up to Governor Smith, before whom it will probably be given a hearing at which one of the strongest fights ever known in Albany will be waged by the wet and dry opponents. The bill which went through as a repealer was not the Dunnigan bill, which had heretofore been passed by the Senate, but It was the ropealer which had been introduced in the Assembly by Democratic Assembly- man Louls Cuviliier of New York. No Surprise In Defeat Earlior in the day the Dunnigan re- pealor came up before the Assembly tor action and it was no surprise when it was defeated. Word then went out broadcast that the affort to repeal the New York State dry law had fallen and that the Stato was bound to remain under the enforce: ment rule for at least another year. Therefore It came as a great sur- prise when the sleeping Cuvillier bill was dragged out before the Assembly. The Dunnigan bill had been killed by a vote of 75 to TL. It was necessary to have 76 vote to pass It. When the Cuviliier bill was put to a vote it was found that the necessary 76 votes had been found and It was voted through. It was Immediately rushed over to the Senate, and at about 11 o'clock Friday night it went through the Dem- ocratic Senate by a vote of 28 to 22. This means that the moment Gov- ernor Smith attaches his name to the measure It will become a law, and the Mullan-Gage Act which has caused so much dissension will be wiped off the statute books. This means that the State of New York will no longer undertake the task of enforcing the Federal prohibt tlon act. It means that State officers will not conduct raids. It means that it will no longer be the duty of police officials to put po- Hicmen in restaurants and other sim tar places to prevent the sale of Hquor. Governor Smith would not antick pate his decision on the Mullan-Gage rapealer. It was expected, however, that he would approve It The Gov- srnor was in the Senate corcidor when the Senate vote was anounced. If the Governor approves the meas sre will release New York state from iny obligation to help Federal author} Hes in prohibition enforcement. Thir teen thousand indictments pending un- fer the Mullan-Gage act will be auto. matically quashed and Federal agents alone will be left to earry out enforce nest Exciting Scene Not in years has any measure stirred the Senate as approaching de- bate and vote on the Mufian Gage repealer did. Sergeanteat arms scurried about the corridors un der orders from Senator Walker, Dem- acratis foor leader, to corral a wet majority. The doots of the upper house were locked amd dccrtemders were instructed to permit mome to leave. Waker thea took a commending po- and adéressed the president pro tem. c! the Sezate reg—23:1: that the your ecsty tack for a fel 45, 'by the Assemtly, be caled up fer de M. Y Buta. & The deme wants was pesse$ Assembly Rushes Through Cuvillier Bill p, Comptroller and Attorney-General || by the Assembly. 'The lower house put through this bill for the second time to make clear the record for the ubHicans and to place the responst- bility for the deadlock over city tran- sit on the Democrats. The vote was 78 to 69. The bill was then sent to the senate which paid no attention to it. The failure to accomplish anything helpful to New York in the transit situation is ascribed generally to the Hylan-Hearst combination, Both sides here wer rady to compromise, but the Democrats became frightened at the Hearst-Hylen threats and the result !s that nothing has been done. Ullman Home Rule Wins The Ullman home rule constitution al amendment under which cities re- celve complete power over measures that affect their own government, passed both houses and goes to the people for approval at the general election next November. The Ferris constitutional amend« ment which caused the brak in the senate Friday passd the assembly at the final session and also goes to the people for approval at the next elec- tion. 'The amendment permits the construction of transmission lines through the forest preserves for the carrying of hydro-electric power, 'The fow bills passed ar a small part of the administration program. Vir: tually everything of a constructive measure has beon besten. It has been a great year for the lobbyists. Tak» ing advantage of the slender majork tles In the two houses and the bitter partisan conflict between them they have been able to kill off everything opposed by the Interests they repre- sont. May Call Special Session Hundreds of bills aimed at special interests have expired in committees. The 201 members of the Legislatur, with their big staffs of clerks and as- sistants, have been in session for more than seventeen weeks at a cost of more than $1,000,000 to the State. All they have done could easily have been Aecomplished in a week, The Governor may call a special session of the Legislature in the early autumn and again demand action on his program. If the session were. in September, It would bring the Issues close to the elections and moke lively campaign material in the fight for control of the Assembly. Practically all of the administration bills have been beaten. The only one surviving is the short ballot and con- solidation of departments, 'The wel fare, labor, cofmpensation and recon- struction measures offered by the Governor were rejected in the As- sembly. So were all the Housing Committee's bills. 'The Governor in a special message asked for passage of the bill meeting an appropriation made by the Federal Government to the State Department of Health to promote the welfare and hyglene of maternity and infancy. The State last year refused to accept the Federal ald, amounting to $800, 000, but at the Governor's request the bill was passed Friday night by a vote of 26 to 22. In his message the Governor wrote: \The sole question before the Sen- ate seems to be whether or not the State of New York will take advantage of the money allotted to It under the provisions of the Federal statute, It does not necessarily mean that we subscribe to the principle that the Federal Government should make ap propriations for matters of this kind. I do not believe that the Federal Gov- ernment should in any way subsidize the States for any activity that wholly belongs to the State Itself | That ar- gument might with equal force be used against the apportionment of State money for the construction of post roads. The bill passed both houses. Controller Craig's \birch bark char- ter\ for New York was lost in the Assembly Rules Committee by a voto of 5 to 5. The Jesse bill authorizing the recon- struction of old dwellings in New York into three family apartments without complying | with | certain | tenement house laws was passed. The compromise trade and com- werce bureau bill to be established in | the Attorney General's office dled in committee and the bill to make the Adjutant General's term of office for life was lost. The Senate concurred 'with the As sembly in the passage of the McGin:- ales bill levying a direct State tax of $30,000,000 on a basis of two mills on sach dollar of taxation on real estate. ' s Bible Thoughts for the Week Sunday. RULER OVER -Thine, 0 Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the vic- tory, and the majesty; for all that thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head abow® all.-I Chronicles 29:11. Monday. ABOUT THROWING STONES- Master, this woman was taken In adultery. | Moses commanded us that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? . .+. He said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stoue at her.-John 8:55, T. Tuesday. GODS WORD STANDL-The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever,.-Isalah 40:8 Wednesday. THE KINGDOM WITHIN. -The kingdom of God cometh rot with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo kere! or, lo there! for, bebofd, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17 20, 21. mmm—ahemm angels charge over thee, to keep mummm—Pmmn Friday. TEACH MR-Tesch me to do ty wil; for thou art my God; thy sptfit Is good; lead me the tand of LG 40. \Sitarixy. TRUST HS AWAYS-C- tit thy way unto the Lord; trost mum,m&mmm t5 pess~-Puates 87 is In the heaven and In the earth is > } £ f E | | {upon them.\* VICINITY NEWS ITEMS Happenings of Interest Clipped From Newsy Exchanges. * The business men of New Berlin circulate a \'dead beat\ list among themselves. New Berlin has a nightwatchman. A part of his duties are to handle traffic and see that cars are parked right. R, W. Murdock, oldest of Oneonta shoe merchants, has decided to close out his business after 28 years in that city. Archie D. Hinkley, of Haleottville, was killed near his home recently by a blast of dynamite used to blow out stumps. Ozias Adee, of Arena, is suffering with a broken collar bone, the result of falling while attempting to climb over a fence. The Walton town board at a meeting recently vated to post the bridges on the town highways at a maximum of ten tons capacity, Nearly 100 negroes arrived in King- ston last week from Virginia, They will be employed in the brickyards along the river in that vicinity. At the special town meeting in Pit- cher there was a unanimous vote in favor of bonding to raise money for new bridges on the new state road. Of the class of 1923 at the Oneonta No:mal, 134 members have secured positions for the next school year at salaries ranging from $1,000 to $1,600. John Weiss\ meat market at Middle: town, was burned recently. Weiss said that in the excitement some person took $58 in bills from his cash drawer. Prin. H. M. Schwartz, of the Ition schools and the entire membership of the board of education have resigned me a result of the defeat by the tax payers of the proposed building pro- gram. H. E. Gilbert, division represen- tative of the Norwich office of the Dairymen's League for the past two years, bas resigned to take up work with the department of Farms and Markets at Albany. The other day one of the men grad- ing Randall Park in Cortlan', turned up some earth with his spade and a full quart of pre-Volstead liquor was brought to light. Many are now vol- unteering as graders. The edict has been announced that marriage of any student enrolled in Syracuse university henceforth will be accepted as withdrawal from the uni- versity. Marriage will automatically cancel a student's enrollment. Ose hundred dollars has been given by the Otsego branch of the American Red Cross to the Otsego County Chil- dren's Farm, which was organized re- cently in Cooperstown by fifteen prom- inent women of Cooperstown. Herbert Bernard, chairman of the Clean Up week committee, at Schene- vus, offered 25 cents per hundred for tin cans collected during the week and brought in Saturday. Ten thousand cans were collected aud paid for. Irvin L. Tyler, principal of the High school at DeLancey, has been engaged for a similar position with the Otego High school for the coming year. George Crandall, an employe of the Unadilla Silo company, lost ail but two smaller fingers on bis left hand by allowing his hand to come in contact with a circular saw which he was oper- ating at the silo plant. The thumb and first two fingers were entirely sawed off. Rafting is not entirely a thing of the past. Lewis Rely and men of Han cock ran two log rafts from Fish's Eddy to Hancock recently and when a freshet comes they intend to take them on down the river to tide water. It is reportec that Cummings bro- thers, of Denver, Col., have secured option on five large adjoining Cuyler farms covering more than 2,000 meres of land and valued at $125,000 for use as a horse breeding center for the east. Bradford Post, G. A. R., of Sidney, has voted to disband after an active existence of fifty years. The Post. was organized in 1872. For years it had a large membership, but with the pass- ing years it decreased until it had twelve members. Arthur W. Still, D. L. & W. ticket agent at Syracuse, pleaded guilty in police court in that city to a charge of distributing ''stock lottery\\ tickets and paid a fine of $500. He said he had made $15 a week since last fall on his sale of tickets. Engineer Emnest Harcourt and Fire- man Medric Martin, both of Bingham ton, were severely braised ana burned when the boiler of locomotive number 1,000, which they were operating, blew up near Tonnel early Saturday morn- ing. The locomotive was pushing a freight train up the beavy grade south of the tunnel. The recident caused no derailment or serious damage to the road bed. R. F. D. Patross Must Have Rames. No longer will the patrons of raral route mail service be known by nam» ber. The postofiice department has fessed a roling that they most be krown by name. \Attention is called,\ the snnosnrement states, \to the fast that the nurhbers assigned to roral mall boxes are not to appest It emphasizes the nec- essity of having the name of the bead of the family served hy themail box ! painted in plain letters on the box. Frirs Get State Aid. Anathema! egricsltural eodie- which wi receive a stare $50,000 ford paid oct by the state each year to a34 are: Orecrte, $3,508; Comperstount, $4,000; Mortis, $3,053; Deeware Cocaty, De- fififi‘ wite HHT: After BEGINNING OF MORMONISM How Joo Smith ''Cast Out Devils and Walked . on the Water,\ Dr Beardsley, once residing at Cov» entry, Chenango county, stated that the Mormon Bible was written in an old log house on the site where the D. & H. station now'stands at Nineveh Junction, N. Y. It was written be- hind cloted doors and after Smith got it to suit his taste, be went up the valley to a place called Nurse Hollow and dug~three holes in the ground, then he crossed the Susquehanna River and went up a small creek that emp- ties in the Susquehanna, near where Frank Decker now lives, and dug three more holes in the ground, claiming he was digging for the Mormon Bible, but just which hole he claimed he dug it out of has never been found out. Among other things that Joe Smith, as he was called, claimed he could do was to walk on the water as Christ did. The way he did that was to place saw horses in the river so that he could place planks from one to the other; they would be under the water and out of sight. Some boys caught on to the trick and went and pulled the planks apart, so that when he stepped on one that did not rest on a saw horse, he went in up to his neck. He didn't walk on the water after that. He claimed, too, that he could cast out devile. 'The way he did that was to have a black cat.concealed under his cloak and when he said, ''Depart, ye evil spirit!\ he let the cat go. The Eat was naturally scared and tan as fast as it could so that all one could ste-was a black streak. His miracles, as he called them, were rlways done in the darkness of night. Joe Smith was married by a man named Chem- berlain in the house now: us: far a dining hall on the Afton fair nds. These statements were confisaieé by an old man named Peck, whose pewonts went away from here with the Mor- mons as far as Cortland, N. Y., where they made their first stop, when he was a small boy. By the time they reached Cortland these people had had all the Mormonism they wanted and came back, Dr. Beardsley said that be had documents and affidavits from old residents setting forth the facts as he stated them. If these facts could be brought to light they would make interesting reading. At that time Afton was called Jeri- cho, so I assume that Joe Smith thought he was in the Holy Land.- Afton: correspondent of Binghamton Sun. OFF TO SEE THE WORLD Ardor of Youthful Brother and Sister Dampened After Night in Field in Pouring Rain. Katherine Callaban, 14, and Carl Callahan, 13, childrenof Samuel Calla- han, a D. & H. employee, who resides on the state road between West One- onta And West Laurens, started out to see the world last Friday morning. Equipped with a horse and buggy laden with cooking utensils, blankets and other necessities, the children bad embarked on a tour of this and other countries but their journey ended no farther away than Guilford, where state police found them, cold wet and thoroughly disillusioned after a night spent in a field in a drenching storm. When be failed to find the children upon his return from work; the father notified the state troopers and meeting them at the Oneonta police station went in Search of the boy and girl. At about 9:30 Saturday morning the miss- ing twain was located near Guilford. They had gone to that village to visit an aunt, Mrs. Floyd Crane, who, un- beknown to them, had moved to John- son City. Having no other place to lay their heads they had spent Wriday night in a field. Miss Bessie Trout, agent for the Society for Prevention of Crasity to Children, was notified and the children were placed in het care until such tim» as provision can be moade for them. The father and mother are separated. -Oneonta Star. Will Improve Dirt Roads. One of Otsego county's newest and most enterprising industries is the York Modern Corporation of Unadilla. This company is engaged in tha feanu- facture of the York Power Stone asd Rat Scraper, which is the lates® amd one of the most economically opi@atéd machines on the market, for thP sg~ keep of dirt roads. The machine may be operated either by horse or tractor power. | It fills the ruts, smooths the roads and rakes out the stones, all in one operation. MICKIE says- We have twenty-three Tail- ored Suits left, ALL Snappy, New Models and Exceptional Values at their present prices. Our custom is to close out the entire stock each season. Note Your Saving $ 8.50 SUITS FOR $ 6.49 10.00 7.50 15.00 11.25 18.00 15.00 22.50 16.75 25.00 18.75 30.00 & $35 24.15 37.50 & $39 29.75 55.00 42.50 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 If you can use a Suit, take advantage of this CLEAN.UP ALE. \* F. H. SMITH STORE SIDNEY, N. Y. Bobpbe poae by pe peee orbo be bean ononoe bain an ETEN IC CRON Our Line of Men's and Boys' Work Shoes Is Complete You can't find a better WORK SHOE than the WEYENBERG \Comflex\-for the money. Price - _ - $4.80 Wwe have the Dress Shoes tor Men, Women, Boys, Misses and Children,. Come in amd Look Our Line Over. A. H. WHEELER & SON Mt. Upton, N. Y. The Quallty Store on the Buay Corter. AT THE DRUG STORE Paint Paint Paint VARNISH of All Kinds Fiat Tone Wall Finish, Varnish Staips, Epamels, Etc. Also Free Sample {of Lake Spar Varnish. -_ Ask for #k
