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2 J. •••••••••••••••Mfipipiljl MHM| ; w W 0> d- \ iw i'i iw VOLUME 71 12 Pages . POTSDAM, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ni Y, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923 Price 5 cents NUMBER 37 HIGHER OFFERS RECEIVED AFTER AUCTION ON SATURDAY Three Potsdam Men Raise Figures Of Hid Made By VV. G. LafSlaw. Of (iouverneur. Laidlaw Wants Sale To Hold\. Sah? of the Bullard Cream Com- pany to Walter -G, Laidlaw of Gouv- i-rneur for $3,725 at trustees sale on Saturday will probably go before the United States Court for final settlement as the result of action yesterday before Referee George W. Fuller. Sold, subject to the con- firmation of the Court, it developed yesterday that since the sale three offers -for a* greater sum than Laid- law gave, have been re&ived. These offers are: Charles I. Olm* stead, $4,500; H. A. IBullard, $5,000; ' Wlliam V. Thomaris, $4,300. Re- feree Fuller will decide whether or not to confirm the sale to-day. At the hearing in confirmation of the sale held yesterday Frank L. Cuhley and W. G. Fletcher made motions that, an order be granted denying the sale on ground that the Uinee parties, Olmstead, Bullard, and Thomaris, had eaeE made (high- er offers than Laidlaw. Moses G. Hubbard of ,Utica representing Laidlaw made argument in favor of confirmation. Whichever way fRe- feree Fuller decides it is likely that an appeal will be taken. The plant arid equipment of the Bullard Cream Company was bid in for $3,725 by Walter Laidlaw of Gouverneur, at bankruptcy sale Sat- urday. Mr. Laidlaw planned to con- tinue the business as an ice cream plant. The property was sold by R. B. Page; as trustee, pursuant to court order. It was at first offered sep- arately in several parts, such *s equipment, freezers, trucks, build- ing,, etc. Bids .were reserved and the' property offered again as a whole. Laidlaw's bid for the en- tire property exceeded the total of the- other bids and was therefore accepted. There were numerous bidders on the parts of the property but only George G. Lcnney and Mr. Laidlaw bid on the whole property and their bidding was not spirited. The property was appraised at $6,800. The business has been continued since the start of bankruptcy pro- ceedings last summer and is run- ning' at the present time. It has made n little better than expenses, during that period. Mr. Laidlaw is thorouhly famil- iar with the milk business. He was until recently, an outside man for the Dairymen's League. THROWN 50 FEET; UNHURT Watertown Man Has Remarkable Escape Thrown about B0 feet and landing in a snowbank following an accld ent in which the coupe in which he was riding was totally demolished by a speeding freight train, Irwin •L. Grant Watertown salesman em- ployed by the National Biscuit Com pany, is, abou.t his work none the worse for the experience. The accident occurred at the Wadsworth crossing at Groat Bend Mr. Grant was in Ford coupe just crossing the tracks when extra freight, 2130 bound from 'Carthage to Watertown bore down upon him. The crossing is not in any way obscured. According to (Mr. Grant he did not see the train until it was upon Mm. Then seeing that the crash was inevitable he simply closed his eyes and waited. Ho felt himself flying through space and opened Ms eyes to find himself lying on Ma Ride in the bank, PLAN BUS LINE Auto bus service from Water- town to Syracuse, long discussed will probably be instituted this Bum mer. It is understood that the ser vice for which a franchise has al ready been secured, would include besides a number of trips at fre- quent intervals during the day, at least two \express\ busses, These would havo but one stop each way Pulaski. Reservations! for the fast er moving busses would he made at any of the three places, Watertown, Pulaski or Syracuse. ICE JAM NEAR MASSENA Portions Of Mucks And Crpils Is- lands Flooded An ice jam formed at the. head <of the Long Sioux rapids in the 3t. Lawrence last week and the water in the St. Lawrence backed up al- most covering Mack's Island and .Croil's Jsland. A gang of men were put at work with dynamite, blasting the ice, and it is hoped that conditions will be normal in a short time. . The ice is the cause of a loss of a great amount of power to the Aluminum company and is holding up the opening of several more pot| rooms. When the necessary power is available it is rummored that the company will be run to capacity. This is good news for residents of Massena. SITUATION WORST OF THE SEASON IN PGTSB-IM The coal situation in this village this week is the nearest to an ab- solute famine that has yet con- fronted the people of Potsdam. Both the Potpdam Feed and Coal Com- pany, and J. C. Lamar were- practically ouf of anthraciie yes- terday. ' Both firms had a mod- erate quantity of soft coal on hand but is was a matter of a compara- tively few tons, compared to tiie usual supply at this season. Both firms had a little chestnut anthra cite, but nothing else. However both have on the road a total of close to ten cars of hard coal of varying sizes. Several cars of anthracite for the Lamr yard have been shipped for roout eigh- teen days. It is expected anytime, now. Last week, the local soft coal cituation was bad, and the St. Law- rence Condensary plants were with in a forty-eights- hour period if closing for lack of coal. The arrival of a car or two relieved the crisis. Local coal dealers agree that the next four weeks is going to see the worst of the coal famine in Pots- dam. With extremely cfld weather, they will be hard put to it to sup ply the community. Fortunately wood is quite plentiful. Large amounts of it have' been coming into town for several weeks. DEL1SLE I STONE TO HARVEST I BEGAN WORK OF FILLING DELISLE ICE HOUSE THIS WEEK Herbert Delisle has formed a partnership with (Henry Stone of tLis village and will fill the Delisle ice house and engage in the retail ice business here next season, it was said today. It had been prev- iously, announced thai 'Mr. Delisle would not be in the ice business next year. The matter was brought up at a recent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and some of the mew 1 bers desired to secure a second ice dealer in tfie local field with the result that negotiations were entered into with a New (England man and Frank Pernice of Norwood, with a view of having them become factors in the local situation The Delisla- Stone proposition, however, will pre- clude any attempt to locate here on the part of outsiders. Work of filling the iDelisle stor- age began this year. S. h, U. •DINNER. Plana for the thirty second an- nual dinner of the New York Alumni Club of St. awrence have been completed The dinner will be held at the Hotel Astor Friday evening, February 9th, at six-thirty o'clock in the evening* William B. Simm '07, la president of the Club and W. B. iScribnw, '15, is secretary. The speakers for the evening will bo professor C. M. Ro- bert of the college faculty Stobert D. Dulles, of the senior class, Charles S. Brewer, '01, who Is chairman of the million dollar campain, and Dr Richard Eddy Sykes. NEW OFFICERS ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENT FOR YEAR BIG PAPER MACHINE. Being Built At Watertown For Ogdensburg Mill. Forty One Men On Various Com- Mittees Which Will Work For Potsdam During The Year Nine- teen Twenty Three At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Potsdam Cham ber of Commerce the following COJI mittees. were appointed: Membership committee: J. C. Lamar, Chairman j R. B. Page, C. R.. VariHoesen, F. C. Wilson, Geo. G. 'Lenney, H. A. Saekett, Percy WiHdns, Frank S. White, W. S. Remington, H. N. Clark, Glenn R. Morse, Allan L. Gurley, Stanley Gotham. Transportation Committee: F. L. CuMey, Chairman; L. D. Dewey, N. E. Usher, R. B. Page, Edwin Safford, R. L. Sisson, Jr. Industrial Extension Committee: R. L. Sisson, Chairman; F. L. Dewey, C. P. Scheller, Ira Kendall, . O. P Benson, H. I. VanNess. * Publicity Committee: R. L. Sis- son, Jr, Chairman; Glenn Morse, L. B. VanDyke, H. A. Castle, Wan. F. Anderson. Committee on Investments: E. H. Byrns, Chairman; Dr. E. V. Deans, C. JR. VanSousen, Fred iR. Woodruff. Committee on Water Supply A. W. Andrews, Chairman; Dr. S. P. Brown, George G. Lenney, L. K. Russell, Theodore \ 'Safford, F. C. Wilson, F. E. Timmerman. i THIEVES TRAVELED BY TRUCK Used The Machines To Carry Their Plunder In ( The largest paper making ma- chine for a Northern New York paper mill and one of the three or foul* largest' in use; in the United States: is being built by the Bagley & Sewall Company: of Watertown for the Algonquin Paper Corpora- tion of Ogdensburg 1 and will cast $334,000. It is 204 inches in width, the size having been increased since the equipment was originally planned. The largest machine ever built by the Bagley & Sewell Company was of a width of i 206 inches.. It Was made for a paper mill concern on the Pacific coast.. The Algonquin machine will be finished, in June. The largest paper making- mach- ines in the local paper belt are lo- cated in the World mill at De- Grasae, which has two of the 100 inch type. The Algonquin company has placed an order with the Gen- eral Electric Company for two addi- tional motors which will permit of the installation of four more grin- ders. The cost of the motors is,\ over $30,000. BENNET SEEKS OFFICE Ofidensburg Advance Editor Desires Appointment ISLAND CUT OFF FROM FIRE PROTECTION FOR SOME HOURS. Wanted by the state- of Wis consin, Joseph Lavine, the ringlead er of a gang that has been operating in several parts of the United States, was captured in Massena Six other men and several trucks are now being held by the authorit- ies. , The gang has been doing awhole sale business in general thieving, it is stated The police of several cities and the authoriteis of sev era! towns have been seeking the capture of the ringleader as well as otiher members of the party. Large amounts of furniture and household goods were found in the trucks. During? the past fall and summer, it is stated that the outfit had been goig from one place to another, picking up whatever goods they considered of value, carrying them to the next city for disposal. No reason is advanced as to why the gqang located in iMassena for a while, but it is believed that the heavy snow interfered with their activities and they were .forced to remain. SURVIVES HURTS TWO MONTHS Philadelphia Veteran Was Thrown Against Saw Harley Pierce, World War vet- eran aged about 26 years, son of iMr. and (Mrs. Dette Pierce of the Evans iMills road, seriously injured Thanksgiving Day on his father's farm when a pile of logs fell, throwing him against a revolving buzz saw, died last week after weeks of suffering. About three weeks ago he com- plained of a severe pain in his back and Dr. 'M. iM. Ryan of Phil- adelphia was called. Upon examina tion, conditions were, found which indicated that the logs that felt on his back throwing him on the saw, had also caused serious 'injury <!o his back and spine. This injury had not manifested itself in any way up to that time. OLD HOTEL BURNS Fire practically destroyed the old Baker Hotel at iSaranac 'Lake last week. This was one of the oldest, and most famous landmarks of the village. The Hotel was built in 1862 by Colonel Molite Baker *t Keewville in company with ensign Miller, who afterwards became hip son-inlaw. Among the early visit ors at the hotel were Governor 6«y mow, Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun, whose brother's widow .Colonel Baker married, was a frequent visitor to the hotel, ' SE ET AFTER AIL CONDITION OF THE WEATHER SINCE SATURDAY IN- DICATES IT. According to the tradition of cen- turies, the ground hog came out of his hole Friday morning, saw his shadow and immediately hastened back to the warm inside cupboards of Ms burrow, there to abide until St. Patrick's Day in the moning. (Rain fell during the night but it cleared about sunrise and the morning was one of the most rad- iantly clear tJrat-.Nerth Country residents have enjoyed in months. There was even a sort of smell of spring in the air. But according to the ground hog prophets it's all camouflage on na- ture's part. More and more of winter is coming, six long weeks of it. 'Six Weeks more winter—maybe The ground hog is a long ways from being always right and <ie may have made a wrong guess this year, and even at tne worst winter is half gone. Be that as it may, however, it is a fact that since last Saturday, this section ..has experienced the coldest snap of the winter thus far. Dropping swiftly Saturday after- noon and evening, the mercury reg- istered from 25 to 30 below here Sunday morning, a drop of fifty de- grees or better in twenty-four hours. Lower records were reported from vilages up the Backet. Surround- ing towns reported as low as 35 •below zero. At the farm of Will Shipman, which is the coldest spot anywhere in northern New York in the winter time, it was 36 below. The mercury crept above the zero mark Sunday, but dropped again Sunday night and Monday night, thermometers in the village re- gistered about as low as they did Sunday with proportions lower readings elsewhere. Entire Village Feels Effect Of Break In Big Main Friday Af- ternoon. Contractor Offers To Pay For Damage. CHARGES FALSE ARREST Watertown. Man Sues Chateaugay Hotel Proprietors George iMoller of Watertown has started action against four Chat eaugay Franklin County men for $5,000 charging false arrest. The action is against Abe and Geneva Reynolds and Harry and Cordelia Ooety. An additional $5,000 is sought for malicious prosecution. The defendants are hotel propriet ors i at Chateaugay. The plaintiff who resides with 'Ms family at ' Watertown charges that last October he was arrested there on a eharge of (having jump ed a board bill at Chateaugay; that he was .locked up in the City Hall and tHen taken to Chateaugay, marched through the streets before his friends and was later discharged by the magistrate DIES PREPARING MEAL. Mrs. Elizabeth Beyer Resaanachip 85, died while preparing breakfast Thursday, at her home in Castor- land. She had been in poor health for about a year with heart trouble. Her husband, who was operating the separator, turned to speak to her and found her lying on the floor dead. The dropping of a stone in the course of bridge op- critions in the east channel of the Racket river about 2:30 Friday afternoon caused a- bad break in the water mains crossing the river at that point and for a time placed this village without fire protection of any kind. The valuable proper- ty on Fall Island was, without fire protection from Friday until Sun>- ilay, no water being available on the island during that period. Two divers from Ogdensburg got the break repaired Sunday. This is the second break which has occurred incidental to; bridge construction in a few month;;. The first occurred on the west channel and is said to have been caused by blasting. Two mains lead onto the island, one from Water street and the other from 'a main which sup- plies the west side of the village from the Swan street route over the river. It was a, branch of this main which was broken a few months ago. Fortunately, the main lead on this main from a point near the Unity Paper Mills to Swan street was not broken, else, the entir? west side would have been without water following, Friday's break. Water department employees • say that no notice was given them of the accident by the bridge workers. Trouble, of course was immediately noticed at 'the Raymont street puroiting station. When the break occurred the pumps raced and roar- ed at a dangerous rate, and only by the quickest sort of work was a bad smash averted. Pressure dropped immediately and soon no water was available at all in many sections of the village. Water department employees and Supt. of Street Isaac Longale sought in haste to find the seat of the trouble and got the water shot off on the broken main. The electric pump was started, and steam got- ten up in the boilers at the water, house under forced draught, and within an hour pressure was re- stored. Members of the municipal board immediately took action to secure divers to repair the main. It is said that the village water system has been considerably hampered at various times in the past few months by operations of the bridge contractors employees. According to reports to the village trustees, gates in the dams here have been opened and the level of the ponds lowered to such an extent that pressure at the pumping station dropped to a dangerous degree. This would not be such, a serious •act were, the water employees. noti- fied in time to permit them to get up steam for the steam pumps. This takes time, however, and caught, unawares, by the opened gates, the village has been left sev- eral times without proper fire pro- tection. At a recent meeting of the board of trustees, the matter was dis- cussed and village employees were ordered to close the gates and fas- ten them. According to a village official yesterday, the fastenings were torn out by some one. The gates were opened, when he saw them, he declared. A representative of the contrac- tors called on a member of the municipal board Friday and offered to pay for the damage resulting from Friday's break. Two divers from Ogdensburg worked in a temperature of twenty below all day Sunday to repair the break. There was about four feet of water at the point where the break occurred. The intense cold turned the divers suits into solid masses of ice. The , air line lead- ing to one man froze, and he nar- rowly, escaped choking, but helpers remedied the trouble. The divers found the rock upon the pipe, and got it out of the way. A new section was put in and caulked and water was gotten through the mains late. Sunday afternoon. TO BUILD NEW' GREENHOUSE John Lawrence, Ogdensburg florist ,Will, as soon as weather permits erect one of the most modern green houses in the country Colbert A. Bennett, a member of the staff of the Ogdensburg Ad- vance, and former resident; of Gouverneur, has cast his. hat into the political ring and wants the appointment to the State Prison Commission. Mr. Benett is said to have the indorsement of the St Lawrence County committee and other Democratic men of this sec- tion. . ' , •Mr. Bennett is a stalwart sup- porter of Democracy and keeps •his paper well filled with apt and timely comment on political mat- ters in jitate, nation and particul- arly St. \Lawrence county, He should be a\ strong, contender for the office andjhis many friends hope he may be successful. CONFERENCE ON THE NEAR\ EAST END IN COMPLETE • FAILURE Turks Decline To Accept Clauses Concerning Future Economic Re, gime In Turkey And Demands For Treatment Of Foreigners. WILL CURB SMUGGLING THE NORTHERN BORDER. To curb the smuggling of much merchandise into the United States from Canada by organized bands who have taken their cue from the rum runners, the customs service of the treasury department has estab- lished a special agency division No. 9, in northern New York, including, Clinton, Franklin, 'St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis and Essex counties. The headquarters of the new agency will bs at Ogdensburg in charge of Edward Norwood, Five men will be assigned to the dis- trict to suppress, if passible, along that part of the international bor- der the entry of increasing amounts of smuggled goods. Bands both along the Canadian border and the gulf coast now,' run jewels, laces and other compact and extremely valuable goods into the country in quantities which taken in the aggregate are considerable. The counties comprising the new special agency district in New York state formerly were included within the jurisdiction of the special agency in New York city. An investigation of conditions, however, made the establishment of the new district advisable in order that close and more effective surveillance may bu achieved. The new special agency will commence the work March 1. The European statesman, 'have failed to restore peace in the near east, and the conference called for this purpo.se definitely collapsed af ter desperate efforts to save it. Practically the whole diplomatic world ran after Ismet Pasha, h.ead of the Turkish delgation, trying .o induce him to sign the treaty, but 'Mustapha Kemal's favorite general with gentle^ smile, was immovable He said, \No\ to all—Americans, British, French and Italians. The conference failed because the Turks refused to accept the clauses concerning the future economic re gime in Turkey, and to some extent, because they would not accept the allied formula dealing witty juridical \guarantees for forei(Aiers, which were to replace the existing extra territorial provisiions. 3NI FRENCH'S CONDITION BETTER dai. TRAVELING MAN MAROONED IN NORWOOD WRITES LETTER. The following very pertinent re- marks on the train service between Ogdensjur,; ind M.ihu «•• the Rut land Railroad are contained in a letter to an Ogdensburg paper by a' traveling salesman wiiiling away the weary hours at Norwood: Norwood, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1923 iEditor 'Republican-Journal: • As a traveling salesman repre- senting a western wholesale house, located in Chicago, and working ter- ritory through this section of the country as the western part toward Cleveland and Chicago. I am faced with the fact and brought about to realize that you have the most ab- ominable-and destestable railroad train service on the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain division of the Rut- land railroad, experienced in all my traveling between CWcago and Bos- ton. Why cannot this condition be remedied? We are on the upgrade. Business is improving, prosperity again is with us, if we are to be- lieve reports of banking authorities, statisticians and others. Such be- ing facts, why can't we have in Northern New York a resumption of normal pre-war passenger ser- vice pn. the Rutland railroad, west of the city of ,Malone \Star of the North.\ The existing condition works in- convenience and: hardship upon the traveler! Only a week »*» I was informed at Syracuse I could ar- rive at Norwood in the evening and go to Burligton, Vt., the following morning at 7 o'clock over the Rut- land. When arriving at Norwood, imagine my bitter disappointment, (Continued On Pago 7, Col. 3,) Railroad Men 'Resume Work In Ruhr French Cut Off Coal. The calling\off of the railroad strike by the German authorities and obedience by the railwaymen to a request of 1 the authorities that they ' resume work on all lines where they would not come in con- tact with armed French soldiers were the outstanding developments in the events of the week that was regarded by observers as having brought, forth a great improvement in the French position hi the Ruhr and the Rhineland. A majority of the railroad work- ers in both regions adopted the sug- gestion of the authorities that they resume their jobs. Complete stop- page af all exports of coal and coke into the interior of Germany together with the extension of sim- ilar restrictions on shipments of benzol, tar and all other mine by products were other developments considred of advantage to the French. French troops hava inv?.ded Bjd- en, Offenburg and Appenweier, near Strassbnrg, were occupied by the military early Sunday morning, af tor a secret march. France thus obta.ns control of the most important railroad junctions and controls coal supplies of Baden, Bavaria, Switzerland and Italy an! secures a coke supply for Lorraiio blast furnaces, where the fires have been drawn and which the German * hoped to keep without coal as .one of their trumps in the passive resistance gme. ' . TO ISSUE MILEAGE BOOKS. Railroads 'have been ordered by the interstate commerce commis- sion to resume the practice of sell- ing interchangeable ' milage • books good for twenty-five hnndred miles travel at twenty per cent reduction from regular passenger rates. The sale of these books to begin March 15th, the' commission decided. • • • « <*>'* ' •—' • SISSON RESIGNS Herbert S. Sisson, of Erie state superintendent of highways has handed his resignation to 'Governor Smith. The governor is expected to name Colonel Frederick Stuart •Greene, former highway commis- sioner, to succeed Sisson. Sisson'? term would have expired in April • * » \ , . ,- FIND ALE IN CAR Customs m'en at (Rouses, Point discovered , 150. barrels of ale'stored in a refrigerator car on a Dela- ware & Hudson Siding in that vill- age. The ear was consigned to New York firms and was supposed to contain a sMpment of fish. There were several boxes of fish covering the ale. CROSS LAKE ON ICE Fred Martell, driver of the stage which plies the lake between Platts bur« and -Grand Isle made the first trip acrbss the ice on Lake Oham- iplain last week, to Cumberland •Head Audi the stage route across the point of land to Grand Isle Vt. • ' M
