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imawl liEim fm a $2.00 PER y e a r in advance VOL. C X V T X O . 4 1 3 m Term Supreme Court Is Promised llanj N't'ffHsence Actions—New Citi- zens fJranted. Papers—MiddlefieM Case First Triedi THE OLD RELI/!)iBLE DEMOCRATIC TF7WIILY NEWSPAPER OE OTSEGO GOUNTV O O O P B R S T O W i ^ , O T S E G O C O t J X T Y , X . T . , W E D X r | ] S B ^ i r , M A Y T , 1 9 2 4 Central New York’s Oldest Resident Celebrate 109 th iirthday — Has Never Bidden On: Steam nr Trolley Gar ided out th lourt' in Central ' mday morn-' Way 4th, si ince oT .the ‘ U. V. «Pop” Car Proves Popular Eight New Stations Adde4 and llahy lYnprovements Contemplated— Other Details^ Home^iiOdge Welconles U.W. Frank .M. Smith Over 300 Aitend Notatle Gather- ing-r^Eastern Star Eadies ^ r y e Banquet—Flag Presented: ny details not I lodge, reserved until the last. If 1 mistake was made, it was in invit the motor bus: F rank’s friends throughoat the ween Utica and' trict without providing a Billy S a,11 1.' • than bi»udi; ty Clare ESTABLISHED IN 1808 ' W H O B E M . 6 0 8 1 Eleanor Avle^ortk Was Drowiied , Fisherman Discovers Body— later Postively Identified by toaster Parents at BitighamtoiU ' The body of Eleanor Aylesworth, i^ r ; ^ ^on the morajug of F ^ ru - •tseg-o County Fair Receives Maximum Bonus Payment^^, Begins May 10th Application Blanks Out This lli||hk— Original Discliarges Not Needed —Full Instructions. Announcement was made Monday by the New York State Bonus com- mission that the actual payment of the $45,000,000 hoiius tvill begin May iOth. On the firrt of the week, 500*000 ap- afy 26th* last, after visiting the offices plication planks were forwarded to of Harry E. Harkness, secretary of Posts of_tlie American legion. V e t-, the-- Binghamton Auitomobile Club, Disabled Vet- was found Thursday of last wveek in organizataons ■he t Susquehanna riyrer a,t a. point Amories. | known as One-Acre “isle, nine miles : should seek the post south of Binghamton, armory most convenient for them | The discovery was made hy A. j . d be assisted in MMng out the' ap-! Fisher of Union, vyho had been fish- ications. No applicatioHj.blank wdll: jng and noticed an object lodged accepted unless it bears a serial j against a small island in mid-.stream. imber and has stamped on it the close inspection revealed wbat ap- name of the post or armory w h ere. peared to be the feet of a human it was filled out. i body. It is not necessary to send original; Fisher went h f s ^ c h of the chief discharge papers to the Bonus com- gf police of the village of Endicott mission; all any veteran need do is ! nearby and with several officers they nrp«5AT»t WtncAlf flf fliA liAnilnUfiftprc: * .I'ji d upon ill tht> tl - I I k 1022, V ■ .iflvycd tl.here, slipped and wonderful 1; of of a barn upon ful operatiori liking and sustained birthday. ilVu rison of Johnstown ap- ' the plaintiff and Judge ' Willis,lis, of Albany and .\liafternoi piipor- \.'Hv graiiti .Anctlo Mast! Wil of for the defendant iturali mistakes wil have been appropriated by the State of the bonus of New Vork to reimburse the societ- Applications ' ies for premiums paid for the promo- any individual ' tion of agriculture and domestic arts, thcr\ ' for tho promotion of odt 'tion ‘ troianno, Italian, o f . -------- ^ -------- Utica Boy Makes j domestic arts, 10 promotion of odoca along ■ agficultaral lines, and for the promo tion of the breeding of cattle, sheep. re is a state a r of the world will not he who residi state armilory liled to or a post of ir veteran oi irious post and made extensive pre- '•'} claim of the vet- World Record Jump iSk'Scfw d 1 to partic ganizations have ma parations to file the eranSi Committees have been ap pointed and certain times set apart when typists and Notaries Public will give free service to all who apply. Several cities have appropriated money for the conduct of special of fices and clerk hire. Rochester will spend §2,500 to assist the Mpnroe County Veterans, In many other cit-\ j Cornell Spmalist For Nutrition Meeting ------- ._lo. The work of Walker sehos of the new scncaaie a t tno.^^i^g suniniary score cards and home Pd in frmmmnr school com]iebtio-n. in general were opposed to the nutrition work by Miss ignized because of n gas for short-lme passenger | gj-nia B. Hollen of Cornell and plans local meet w a s ' service. Ho said liis plan of increas- | discussed for next year’s pro- mg passenger tram schedules and ex-, ^,.3^ fg,, otsego county. Every corn- tending the service to Ibclitiold, had nmnity Intoreatcd in nutrition is ex- mot with a good deal of opposition.; to send ...................... ®‘‘-:meetinff. You - , nutrition work ,. e the venture a success, cgmniimity dent of New Berlin, Mr. y,ig project for 'sts coincide wnth thosejjg ..goj. „,,,,y,-tun isition, §3,71 , . uciation, §1,832.23; Cortland ^ e V , . ! 3 ^ r - lunuu syucu ui inumciimi iral so- to veteran organizations c Indus- assisting the applicants. kiyniihd .\des against John Bri: lira. I rc.uh of contract. Orikr i-t.-es announced as ready f.'i tri.,1 Acr*' as follows: .Ifi.i.b- M. Coates against the First I'l.tif! Presbyterian Congregation of Oneoii'A. u» recover damages for vrinvfiil eviction; /Jacob Epstein aeai'!‘i Fred N. Ban|Wie, r ------- Ti.ur-biv, Helen Epsteim legligence, an infant ° v ! r ’ orsii „t k ' sports of .l cultuj-'I Welch, I the town of Union, \ and summoned Coroner I former laminatior post mortem exi direction of the possibility, howc co^p^ete investigatic made by the authorities since of the mysterious Features connected tvith the girl’s disappear ance have not been cleared up by the finding of the body. tMiss Aylesworth, who ivais the niece of Mrs. Bruce L=. Beals oi-f Five- Mile Point, spent several monOis here w yea ICTStOW partment. _ Mrs, reports of .l cuiium cards and home ^^2^°'*' of the fact that the local meet sanctioned by the N. A. A. F. StkmfordTo Have jfS “ n‘'f.?rfu,'SX-‘‘.nd SoS;! Fire Alarm System; ■\.\b’’ b llT^iav; D ^ S d . a S 'a n - { Harrington-Seabery Kre A la^ '. c i.ir.ici. Thursday; Elmer ! Telegraph company of Moline, 11 Campbell Refining i ha.s contracted to7 furnish and insti , f :..b eoutrivit, Thursday; El-J a fire alarm system for Stamford vil-, ill; A. if and acainst Arthur B, Lamp-* ki av-S S K S S S 3 ■is'jS.a ; Aisrv.;:fi f —fi: leryF irc A la m o l^oiw ’s rntercsts^coincide tk»se, |g „pj,g,-tunjty to come prepared localities thmu^hout the stato^ad^Uiei c d to u r n b h and i n s t a l l ‘''’'^''Y^Biugni i iatbfac^tory^irogranffhk^^ annou nutrition is ex- entatives to this Fair associat 1 Union ___ty, ^0,000.59; Rich Agricultuml society, §l,ff skill Agricultural socnelya §S,854.91. State Trolley Men Reject Reduction By virtual' golleymen of Rochester, Syracuovi j \'‘a S l i f sbe . midiW: b.r». York State Railways, for a renewal j » -»r of the c o h tract^piring May 1st, with Q ^ y . S m i t h V e t O C S a wage reduction of two cents anj , * 1 hour, making the new scale 4 9 , 51 and 1 H j S t o r i C a l B i l l 53 cents an hour, and the ma.xii scale to be reached after a year’s Counties Will Receive $r6,8<l0,000 County trea.su rers on July 1st will coive §16,000,000 for distribution to ditics throughout the staU There were 1,625 votes cast in three cities and after the tabulation at the Rochester headquarters it was Icclared that ten men voted in favor \ accepting the wage reduction irty-four voted in favor of separate arbitration proceedings in the thi cities, and the otherr — ---- *■ extremely anxious to do everything ii his power to boost the towns along i lino. \Futm-e growth and prog-; LU iiiiin,.- UV.I.1V.C BUK*;cj)viuiia jut v. «. ........ ™-. . JllCCUO..,., . .‘•aU.sfactory program that will m e e t according to announcement made by ccei the needs of the home makers of Ot- Thomas H. Lynch, director of the wei sego countv. state income tax bureab. in ! state income tax --------- Conections for fhe fiscal year he- ling July 1, 1923, iioxv* total §26,- ster, 464 tica. Roch- _ raeuse _ - _ - - ester voted unanimously against fhe wage proposition. served: against ; G. iiness as a fimn nanre Formaou- fo cont Tne following wei Delphine M. Mum liam N. Murray, div Tupper against Ma_ recovery for work, lab( Earl L. Gage, Charles E. Scott E. Gage, doing busi co-partnership under the _ , of Gage Brothers against Lewis J, Siller, to recover damages for breach of contract; George T. Brockway, as executory etc., against Augusta L. Robinson et al., mortgage foredosure. A Tramher of actions were announc ed as stipulated jfor trial before Jus tice Rellogg at Oneonta: John E. Parish against John Jones, recovery for goods sold and delivered; Fred M. Baker against Lewis Me Ma- «on, goods sold and delivered; Mary Janies Me Dougal against Ella M. Rriggs and Arthur .Seybolt as exe cutors of the estate of Ezra Me Dou gal, deceased, recovery for services; John L. Thompson, Sons and Com pany against James M. IMckson, do me business under the firm name of it is said can j miles. There will be three • sdgm ? boxes and the master box will be in= I stalled at the telephone office. Am alarm of fire emn he sent froiri Gmrgr 'A^'Nold^ can ^^ea:^ about Making Oneida Lake Safe For Boats .go has been divided into tea lire Lstricts, eacdi to have its whistle coll. Hobart Young Man Instantly Killed|l lethnaan, a well kiioi of Hobart, was ----------. electrocuted while at work at Goan’ creamery at Stamford Monday after noon at about 1 o’clock. Mr, Seth 1 o’clock. Mr, Seth- man was working witfi a gaiig o f men under the direction of Hoyt Stevens, manager of the plant, in taldhg down the smoke stack at the creamery when he. come into contact with a feed wire of the’ Tri-County Light and Power company. He im- tnediately dropped to the ground, and Dr, Campbell of Stamford, who was called, foiled feini desd at his ^^ivaly, arid stated ,'^at he had died instaritly. Mr. Sethman is survlyed by his parents, Mr^ arid Mrs. William Seth- man, of Hobart, by his wife, abd by a three-year-old daughter, Marjorie. State and County Will Build Bridges Governor Sriiith has signed the bHl . . - ------ ;t James M mg business under the Dick.soh Bros., recov sold and delivered. The folloiving cases were anno w a.s settled, discontinued or in process of settlement; Nellie Me Hugh against George A. ^bblc, adjustment pf account; Mike ocriedict against the Delaware & Railroad Co. the coriipany will be compelle: the new service and retur custom of Eoixed trait slow schedule, with free tions for landing friegl -tioiis- litr. ^ome.asSeited_tKe issue was squarely up to the patrons of the Mach interest is shown hy people in towns along the road in. the new schedLule. Public sentiment seerns to be behind H. A. Brome, and inhabi tants of the valley, from Bmdgewater NTew Berlin an Just why, no one in a IB to know, hut at any iiith witnessed an nnu itnber of such convparii m g . Among other coi ■ ’ 1 in busin \ ' over $24^o1),000 wiU ever, and under the amended law the state will retain only a third, or §8,- 000,000, sending the balance to locali- * --- ’ -isly the fundi was divided 000,000, sen ties. Previi equally. !W Berlin are congrat fives on the fact that passenger •the road is entering upon idem phase. SKopperS in Utica, who do not wish to spend the entire day in the cit;!^hiay now at tend to their puTchases and get back home in reasoriahle timb' People go ing on longer journeys will appreciate the new service, for the reason it will enable them to make good eotmeetions in Utica. Due to the_ antiquated schedule in force up to this time, this j has been almost impossible. •As the new ‘'pop-car” so nicknamed; by the small iboys along the ronte, chugs up the valley a new: chapter opens in the history of transportation in the section. The Uriadilla Valley is. a. small railf oadj-operating over a line coiiiparison s four'Months this yeai 7,500 cotiapanies were incorporated through Secretary of State Hamilton’s office, as against a total of 6,992 com panies during the same length o f time last year. Last month’s total aiiiounted to 1,817 companies. 15,OCO Seedling's At Schenevus C- M. Bulson and Son have fitiished planting 15,000 pine and spruce seed lings on a ten-acre plot of their farm at“~Schenevus.-—Our Schenevus Re- etc., a I recover < gainst H ^ s o n ^ le Delawa;re e; Angello Lat wainst Ernest Luderi .arid Stewart k^pson, recovery of damages. A few cases Were announced over the term as follows: Juusa Bates against Almira Sta ton and Ella Pierce, recovery for pt “ ■ League Milk For May 1 Cent Lorer State, 65 per cent, cent This measure on January 1, 1926. linadilla Ice Plant the gence. _ riegligrince; Mildred Me Gonigal iinst ‘William A. Hood, negligence; 'sie A. Marshall against. X Meyer 'vne, et al., negligehce; Hlraih W. u<kn against the Erie Railroad arid: Delaware ■& Hudson Co., negli- Edward Fagan worked in a n ice i-.-... ConiL, for a year and a half, cepted a position vvith the Steam s Aitificial Ice company at Unadiila. The Artificial Ice coinpany is unJoad-^ LC6 J r l a l l X The .producers’ May price for Glass; To O p e n S o o ii;i«^ '^ FH®y fiSin the offices of the Dai^A en's League’ Co-operative assdeia- The reduction was anrioaiiced ■orti $2.33 to^ §1.86 per bund pounds, this being the base price at the 201-21O mile milk freight zone naiik testing three per cent but ting three per c Siffiaeriba for Iha J o m ial LUDLAM VERDICT IS UNANIMOUSLY AFF The appellate division of the Sti- pereme Court, fourth department, has just handed down a decision unanlniously affirimiftg dowrii a decii...... • the verdict idered sonde mpnths ago irt the suit brought hy Dorr S. Ludlam of Oneonta,, agairiSt the Pennsyl vania Railroad coinpany of ?15,- 009 for the death of his ’^ e , Editli Scott Ludlam, secretary to Justice Kellogg, who was killed iii a crossing accident while touring through the .Finger Lake region last year. The ease Was tried at Canadai- later in the year and the jui Med Ludlam the siim meni'iort- Thp railroad corijpariy; tool al and the unariime riry appeal and the unariimous affirm ance of the verdict will probahly result in the verdict being paid. 1 respfeseht- by the law the verdict being pa Mr, Ludland has been respri ed since the accident fitpi of Miller, (Matters of Syracuse, of which* Wordsworth B. Mattersori formerly of Norwich is the senior iriembeL Gov. Alfred E. Smith has vetoed the assembly bill providing for a state historical advisory commission for the recording and preservation of the history of New York State, n»d pro viding for the creation of an endow ment fund and making are api>ropria- tion for the purposes o f the iieL In disapproving tho bill Gov_ Smith L Llirou tniend i [a Lake, con most dangerous lakes to navigate in j the entire barge canal system, is to be made safe. Maj. William M. Ach- son, superintendent of the middle di- ision, gave orders Tuesday of last reek to start work on the Sylvan leach seeffion. - Extensive alternations on the beach ^ reakwater, which has been a death trap during storms and the graVe of i barge, will b e completed dm e snnuB lydratilic the Legislature we passec botSi houses a propo.sal to anie; Constitution of the State redUed „ various boards and ageiicaes to twenty distinct department of Rovern- ment. There is no doubt riiiatever in my mind of the ultimate passage of that amendment to the CoiisstiUtion. .When that happens this coiiianission >red one o f the would have to go out of huslmess or h.SS’K £ sS,”™ “Wittiout discussing the m»rits of le bin or what it seeks to do, if Severe Sentence In Schoharie County -A —by . away sand'/to pei at the opening dredge iS cle irmit passing of opiening of the seaso •TheThe souiffiouiffi breakwaterreakwater h b week. ‘ s b is tc removed and a swinging Irasin will be dredged, permitting boats to re- court Tuesday night of — - ---------- second degree, to not less than two more than four years a t hard lal in Dannemora prison. Atwood SI ^ fe't, a Middleburgh man, must serve p^gg 120 days at the Albany penitentiry ppgj. for driving a motor car while intoxi- pigg, eated. The jury returned a 1 : Snowdon Bam And Contents Destroyed the bin or what it seeks to do, if brought about it sfiould he done throughhrough thehe Departnvent of Educa- t t tion.” For the abi disapproved. reasons the bill is Mohawk Man Drowns In Erie Canal * The reinains 0 fifty-eight years, day afternoon in. t the lock a t the foot o f Otsego street, Mohawk. Mr. Gates, who was a cat-penter, had been niissing for the latst five weeks. He resided with his laephew, Emmett Jacobson of Charch street, the night of the day he against Shufelt Friday afternoo Judge Heekrnan immediately lunced the sentent rerdM , Remington Company Has Cood Year The annual report of the_ condition of the Remirirtrin Typewriter Com pany of Hiori shows that the corpo: tion has no outstanding hank loj and working assets of \~- with a current indebtedm -'92,73754. The year to ed sales, both i I, the re” ^... the Flu' used, and the a agement of t company- Court Will Decide Cable Will Case 5 of $1,- Thursday of last week on the groui •ked by that the questions to he decided a and matters, of law not of fact. The es- , tate was estimated at §40,000 and ■ under the will the bulk of it was left , tp six Walton churches. Judge Mc- ' 'aught will take the evidence and mder a decision a t a later date. To Nominate Governor Smith i Included i he New Y( _ _ of inennbers of “ State comirtittee for ' Alfred E. ' United iiriination pf Govs. ^ iresident of the Smith fox _ States at the Coming tioriai cottvention as a: day by Franklin D. Roosevelt are the names o f the following from Otsego iounty: W illiam 'T, Hyde, Glermorite All about found in “ the state Norwich Yoters For Sipiday Movies vote-s were votesotes eveer novies. cast, one of the largest v ev cast at either a special or general election. In many r e je c t s it tiValed the days when Norwich votei on li re than 200 persoiis werC w aiting ... ...le when the hour for closing the polls arrived - All who were inside the polling plac^ were albwed to Potatoes Bring 75c At SehCii'evus Potatoes are being deliveared to Bcheneyus buyers for seventy cents per bushel arid truckmen front Albany and Schenectady are paying severity- live cents.—-Our Schetievris Baporter. '■lliNllNI^ :!■»' 'iM IMUMI'
