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r - AND F Q R T E D W A R D A D V E R T ISE R VOL. 82 GREENWICH, K. Y„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1924 No. 36 n t Mil MEETS * 1 SilEMEXT K HI ^ .Heavy Calendar for Septem ber Term. I * JUSTICE CRAPSER TO PRESIDE Several Cases of Local Interest Among Those Listed—Negligence Actions Make Up Large Portion of the Calendar. * HONE TOWN FIREMEN CONTEST FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Roughs Retain Title in Water Throw ing Competition—Single Men Win Bal] Game. J ! The September term of supreme court for Washington county will open at Salem next Monday.with; Jus tice John C. Crapser of Massena pre siding. There are -a large number of cases on the calendar. A grand jury will be in attendance, and it is un derstood that numerous cases are to be brought before that body. The calendar in full is as follows. Preferred Calendar Charles Caruso, an infant by Nun- ziato Caruso his guardian, ad litem, vs. John Yule and Jack Yule; negli gence; Leary and Fullerton; 'William Sears. Frank Bessett as administrator of Reginald Bessett, deceased, vs. Rich ard Monty, negligence; Leary and Fullerton; 0. A. Dennis. J ury Calendar Jennie Bottom vs. Nicholas A. Sir- aco, negligence; Chambers and Finn; Leary and Fullerton. Joseph Bottoni vs. Nicholas A.. Sir- aco; negligence; Chambers and Finpp Leary and Fullerton. Patrick Diamond vs. Nicholas A. iraco; negligence; Chambers and Finn; Leary and Fullerton. Wilson Mitchell and Leonard Mack lin as administrators of Emma Mitch ell, deceased, vs. Walter Fraser; con tract; J. B. McCormick; Rogers and Sawyer. Everett S. English as administrator vs. Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany; to recover insurance policy j Herbert VanKirk; Brackett, Todd, Wheat and Wait. 'Gro\er Barrett and Pearl Barrett) vs. Christina Dobbins; contract; L. M. Layden; William Sears. A-th'snasios Pagones vs. Glens Falls IneuCfAce company; to recover on in- surancijfcpoliey; Leary and Fullerton; Chambers and Finn. Ella W. Wyman vs. Qhris Christo- Greenwich’s home talent firemen’s celebration on Monday was a success ful affair. In attendance it did not compare with last year’s Labor day tournament, when several out-of- town fire companies Were present to participate in the hand engine con test. This year there were just the two local companies and tv?o teams of local ball players to entertain the crowd. 'Most of the visitors, how ever, were well satisfied with the ex hibition, and the fire companies say that the affair paid expenses and was generally satisfactory. , The Rough and Ready engine com pany scored a victory over tie Unions ip the hand engine contest, throwing 189 feet 6% inches. The Unions’ record was 175 feet. Neither throw was near the record, but the victory was sufficient reason for the “Roughs” and their adherents to do a lot of cheering. The ball game between married men and single men of the various twilight league teams of the village. The bachelors won by a score of 7 MURDER OF MERTON WELCH REMAINS DEEP MYSTERY Rensselaer County Authorities Can Find Mo Clue to Death of Cam bridge Man at Melrose. The mystery of the death of Mer ton H. Welch of Cambridge, whose body was found in a cistern at an unoccupied farm house near Melrose on August 23, remains as deep as ever, in spite of the efforts of the Rensselaer county authorities to solve it. It was evident that Welch had been murdered and his body hidden in the cistern, where it had evidently been for several -weeks, but every effort to trace his movements during the last days of his life, or to find oat who were the last to see him alive, haa been fruitless. Last week tm- officers were seek ing to locate Lrad Gooding-, who was known to be an associate of Welch’s and who was with him oa a trip to Hoosick Falls with two women late in Jane. He was finally located on a farm ia Vermont. He went to Troy with the officers and has been exam ined by the district attorney. Good ing admits having been with Welch on the trip to Hoosick Falls, but says ! he has n-ot seen him since that time. I The investigators are inclined to ac- 1 III HIT STATE State Responsible for Schujr- ierville Bridge Repairs. IlflAIIY SIMILAR GASES PENDING Victory for Town Counted, of Great Importance as Affecting Other BIS CM .ATTENDED COUNTY FARMERS’ PUG Annual Gathering at The Oaks Sat urday—Politicians Were on Hand —Two Ball Gaines. Many from this vicinity attended the Washington county farmers’ pic nic held Saturday afternoon at The Oaks, Cossayuna lake. Estimates oi the size of the crowd place it as high as five thousand. A program of ath letic sports and contests was carried Cases.—State May Appeal From, put and music was furnished by the Justice Borst’s Verdict. Granville band. The politicians as ______ ) well as the farmers were out in force, Before Supreme Court Justiee, three of the candidates for the Henry V. Borst yesterday the town ®ePu^lican nomination for sheriff be- of Easton won a decision in its action against Frederick Stuart Greenej commissioner of public works of the state of New York, to compel the state to make repairs to the Hudson River bridge at Schuylerville. It had been the contention of Commissioner Greer.e that the duty of repairing the bridge lay with the towns of Easton and Saratoga, while the town of Easton held that as the bridge was across the river at a point where it is used as a portion of the barge canal the state should make the re pairs. A few years ago a similar suit was tried on the question cf building the approaches to the por ing noted among those present. The principal sporting events of the day were two ball games. In the morning the West Hebron team de feated Fred. Ladd’s Salem A. C. team by a score of 13 to 7, and in the af ternoon the Salem team defeated a Troy team recruited among vaca tioners at the lake by a score of 8 to 5. Other sports included a tug of war, horseshoe pitching and a variety of track events. . _ . . . t , cept Gooding’s story and do not sus> to 5 m an interesting contest. ,. _ , , , . , The Odd Fellows’ band and the j P 3 knowledBG of the mur_ tion of the bridge over the canalized der- j Tiver The towns won this case and Members of Welch’s family No. I engine company drum corps furnished music. Hot dogs, Ice cream . ,n t$he -tate was required to build the , . . , ” ' Cambridge and his former wife, Mrs. * cones and soft drinks were eonsujned _ ■ in abundance, the weather was fine, F\ y t D ^ 1>\' artlon decided yesterday was and apparently everybody had a good' questioned by the Rensselaer I stan,.(1 „ ,me mi>nths ago, the late W. time ____ county authorities, but they are un-; g Ci.trander of Schuylerville repre- Jable to give any information concern-. sent nir the towns of Easton and : hi? DRY AGENTS FROM VERMONT IE THIS COUNTY Big Haul of Wet Goods Made in Northern Towns—Several Placed Under Arrest. THE LAND OF THE fflODMQNS HOLDS MUCH OF INTEREST Miss Alexander Writes of Sight See ing Among Latter Daf Saints __ On to Yellowstone. fourth of July came and went at Evanston, still in Wyoming though, only a few miles from the Utah bor der. It is a smart little “city” with, a heavenly camp in a grove of cot tonwood. Joyce Kilmer never loved a tree any more than we did those after thjee days on the “Red Desert.” A day like the Fourth is much pleas anter in a small town where the na tives come to visit than in a city like Salt Lake City where you are just one of the tourists. Evanston had a regular jubilee in the park next the camp with speeches^ cowboy races, ball game, and a bar becue, a steer roasted whole in a pit. This section is as much Mormon as Salt Lake City but we didn’t know ifc at first. The man next us in tha camp, a road superintendent, said he had two women with him and left one at home, too old to bring, and that Brigham Young got his name by al ways saying “Bring ’em young.” Right there I blundered by telling of two long haired scoundrels claiming to be Mormons who came t'j Cossay una years ago proselj’ting. Mr. Neigh bor went into the air and shouted that they were imposters. I hedged and. began asking soothing questions. His i>:tri'>i-s, Pennsylvania. Dutch, were among the first Mormon settlers of Federal officers from Vermont Pro- i Salt Luke City, he was reared in the OOUNTY VETERINARY REPORTS ON WORK IN WHITEHALL movements since late in June.. Saratoga. After Judge Ostrander's I (| ^ Mrs. Mitchell had not seen him in, dear'.. Spencer B. Eddy of the firm ' bo*ze about two years. The brush con -1 of jjrackett and Eddy of Saratoga cem whose product he sold as hibition headquarters invaded the north end of Wa^h.ntrton courfty Fri- made many seizuers and a number of arrests in the towns of Hamp on, Whitehall Spr.\x» was retained by the town of d Granville, canvasser have given the distnct at-1 Ea_.„n to continue the cage. The | „,L , ---- tomey the information that their i ca„. wns arfJU(H] jn Saratoga Springs. The pla<;es ral<i‘'(i lruluded those More Than Two Thousand Cattle jagt dealings with him were in May., 9, Mr. Eddy appearing for. run **>' William J. O'Drien, better Have Been Tested- ■ Argyle Next. Dr. H. D. Laird, county veterinar ian, has reported on the result of his work for the past two months in the town of Whitehall. Dr. Laird began his duties in this county July 1. He was engaged under a resolu- -To Work in i The impression is gaining that ,nwn Easton and Deputy At- k\0*'™ ns “Sargeant.” Alex Zidowsky, Welch may have been fatally beaten, t o ^ y General Edward G. Griffin for. Au£ustus Quitrley. They also arrest- in a fight that occurred not far from t t|„. .tate. Judge Borst announced' ed Geor^ Dolan and Anthony Alto- I hi- decision yesterday morning. It , bell> Harold A- Vincent. John Scag- i is rat yet definitely known whether *ala. and Xn^ l° Palmerno. At the 1 or not the state will appeal from the O’Brien place they found 1 quart gin, the farm where the body was found, ' and that when his assailants found he was dead they put the body in the cistern for concealment. It has been suggeste-d that the offer of a reward for information concerning the crime phersen; negligence; J. B. McCor- , tjon passed last year by the board , prove of some avail. mick; Ainsworth, Sullivan, wheat and Archibald. H. Herman Hitchcock vs. Chris of supervisors to provide for the eventual eradication of bovine tuber- ; ATKINS DENIES REPORT BUS LIKE WILL QUIT t Christophersen; negligence; J . B. Me -1 cu'os*s f rom the dairy herds of r-his, Cormick; Ainsworth, Sullivan, Wheat I county. The plan provides for test-j and Archibald. | ing all the cattle in the county, tak-, ' Oscar P. Munson as guardian, ad ing one township at a time, and I litem of Vio»la £mith, vs. Ernest Al- i cleaninjr out all diseased animals. I len; negligence; Milford D. Whedon; I I J. B. McCormick. | The work was begun in Whitehall j Samuel Yanklowitz by Barney! the first week in Ju*y- and at t,le end | Yanklowitz, his guardian ad litem, 0f August practically all of the cat- vs. the Delaware and Hudson com- I Ue ir, the 'township had been tested, i Paul G C yi i E gc L T e; ma° Bascom;j TV Laird’s report made last week auto bos lines operating ^between George J. Gardner as administrator was as follows: Number of herds of Edna Gardner, deceased, vs. Ham ilton Hollida.y, negligence; Howard L. Montgomery ; Leary and Fullerton. Griffith Humphrey vs. William J. Keefe; contract; C. E. Parker; M. D. Whedon. - Thomas E. Shea vs. Walter Hig gins; negligence; Leary and Fuller ton; Chambers and Finn. 'William A. Tierney vs. Walter Hig. tested, 99; nuhiber of herds infected with tuberculosis, 53; number of cat tle tested, 2,043; number of cattle reacting, 277; per cent of cattle re- acti ng-, 13. The members of the committee 0f decisior. This decision i- unque.-tionably of great importance, not only t > the towns of Easton and Sarutiv* i and the counties of Wa-haiL'ton an.l Sar atoga, which would haw to bear a share of the tfost of it' maintenance, but to every county in thi state through which the barge lanij passes. Commissioner Greene ha^ taken the same (position regarding the main- tonancfr-of all bridges o\er tho barge canal, and if the state'.- cor:_-ntion were upheld by the courts it would Atkins, proprietor of the mean, a large burden on the i.iwis in canal counties. It is stated that there are about seventeen bridges over the barge canal in Washington co>.nty for which the state has refused to ac cept further responsibility. While it is true that these cases are not ident ical with the Schuylerville bridge Intends to Continue Service Between Near-by Towns—To Resume Fort Edward Trips. Greenwich, Salem Cambridge and Fort Edward, states that unfounded reports have been circulated to the effect that he will discontinue opera tion on October first on account of the new law requiring the carrying of li ability Insurance. While it is true that ease, it is believed that the same ...» | the new law will add to the cost o! remsral principles will apply to them the county agricultural council under operatio^ h(j faas nQ intontiorl of ^v. and that Judge Borst’s decision far ing up the business in this vicinity. n'shes a most valuable precedent Since about the middle of August ^roni the standpoint of the towns. At a meeting of the Washington .ounty board of supervisors at Hud son Falls a few weeks ago this raat- whose direction the work is carried gins; negligence; Leary and Fuller- . on are Wynter Burdick -and Paul Ives Fipii- , i of Easton and Theodore Reynolds of Thomas A, Curran vs. Walter Hig- „fK._1 the run to Fort Edward has been dis- fyrn^ * np^lior^ncG* Lcflrv 2 nd FuIIgi*- CsttI© couusuintJu fitter gms, negligence, L«eary ana iuuer . [continued on account of construction ton; Chambers and Finn.' these tests are appraised by repre-; . n Dora Millington vs. John L. Morris- ' sentatives of the state department of, work on roat* ^tween Cossayun sey and Thomas A. Curran; negli- i farws and markets and paid for by,and South Argyle, which has necessi- STpwinn? F,nn: James, the state. A certain amount has been |18^ a and difficult detour. It Mc^nulips. u_ fn_ (. l :. is stated, however, that this road will Ella Wedder vs. John L. Morrissey I appiojniated by the state for this - . and Thomas A. Curran; negligence; I work and apportioned among the,be °Pened about e d e f Chambers and Finn; James McPhil- C0U31ties in proportion to the number I week’ alld regular trlps Tn51 be re' ™ T„v,r, Vni/j of dairy cattle they have. The money j sumed- Antonio Caruso vs. John Yule and I j. i ■ n . Mr Atkins is doing considerable Jack Yule; negligence; Leary and 1S payable m quarterly installments, Mr- mK1 a s Fullerton; William Sears. j and it is understood that the work Lee Millington vs. John L. Morris -1 done in Whitehall during the past sey and Thomas A Curran; I>egli- j ^ ths h revealed enough dis- gence; Chambers and Finn James I . -— ..... ■ eased cattle to exhaust this county s McPhillips. Walter S. Higgins vs. John L. Mor- .rissey and Thomas A. Curran^ negli- fgence; Chambers and Finri; James I McPhillips. F Kenneth E. Akin, an infant, by En sign S. Akin, his guardian ad litem, vs. Willis L. Thorpe and Rupert Thorpe; negligence; Ainsworth, Sulli van, Wheat and Archibald; Leary and Fullerto'n. Ensign S. Akin vs. Willis L, Thorpe and Rupert Thorpe; negligence; Ains worth, Sullivan, Wheat and Archi bald; Leary and Fullerton. Bert DeKalb vs. Frank LaTour; negligence; J. B. McCormick; L. M. ^ Layden. General Accident Fire and Life As surance corporation vs. Walter S. Hig gins; negligence; Janie's McPhillips; Chambers and Finn. Charles E. Schermerhorn and Cul ver S. Brown vs. Thomas Dunn; con tract; J. B. McCormick; Rogers ana Sawyer. m Charles H. Case vs. Walter A. Wood; assault; Henry F. Toohey; Herbert VanKirk. Michael J . Brock vs. Walter Keys; negligence; J. B. McCoSiniejk; Janies Gibson? ^ Page 6) business conveying picnic parties dur ing the season. Tomorrow he expects to run an excursion to the Rutland l fair. ter was brought up and” the super visors decided that a legal fight should be made to compel that state to accept responsibility for repair ing these bridges. At that time the Schuylerville bridge case was ready for trial and as that was a county line bridge it was decided _ that the county would carry that case to its conclusion. Judge Erskine C. Rogers of Hudson Falls, Wyman S. Bascom of Fort Edward and Mr. Eddy were Dot quarterly ta .t.li™ * , which, \ r.fta.d- to ,ct for the cuaty in the Justint Torris, a negro -whose home J proceedings. amounts to some $14,000. This does not necessarily mean that the wcrk will be delayed, however, as a le- test of the herds already tested is necessary and this will occupy some time. It is expected that this work Will be completed in Whitehall in the next few weeks, and that in October Dr. Laird will begin operations in the town of Argyle, the second one to be cleaned up under the county plan. Injured by Bakery Truck. John Walsh, who formerly conduct ed a store on lower Main street, this village, was seriously injured Satur day morning, when he was hit by the Glass bakery truck while waiting for a trolley car at Middle Falls. Dr. M. A. Rogers was called and after attending the man had him removed to the McClellan hospital, Cambridge. It is said that his condition, is atill serittusf. i ' Hr is at Rockaway Beach, was arrested ! in Saratoga Springs Frdiay after he had shot Mrs. Florence Green also colored. Four shots from a re volver hit the woman, but it was stated at the Saratoga hospital that she nnay recover. Jealousy is said to have been the cause of the shoot ing. Must Stand Trial in Canada. United States Commissioner Pat- tison at Plattsburgh yesterday ruled that the Canadian-.goveTm.cnt has jur. isdictioa in the case of Francis and Charles Aiken of Whitehall, charged with the murder of Georgre Benton, a Canadian farmer who lived near the border adjoining Perry's Mills, who was shot down in a field near his home May 7. The Ailtexi boys con fessed that Francis had done tha shooting. They claimed that he stumbled and the gun was discharged accidentally. Since the death of Ben ton they have-been in jail at Platts- burgh, fighting extradition/ It is understood that other actions of a similar nature will shortly be commenced applying to other bridges m this county, one of which is the Argyle street bridge in the village and town of Fort Edward. This bridge, as well as the one at Schny- Iervitle, is in urgent need of repairs, and the state has refused to make them. Rural Mail Carriers Elect. The annual meeting of the Wash ington County Rural Letter Carriers association was held Monday in the Masonic club rooms here. There was an attendance of -twelve carriers out of a membership of twenty-eight. El mer Tyrell of North Creek, Warren county, who is a member of the asso ciation in this county, was elected president; John McDougall, Argyle, vice president; L. J. Phelps of Fort Edward, secretary, and W. D. Lauder of Port Edward delegate to the state contention. M f 240 bottles of Canadian ale, I jug of wine and 14 quarts of Canadian wine. At Alex Zidowsky’s found 8 bottle® of Canadian ale, 4 gallons of whiskey, 4 bottles of Canadian wine, 10 cases of Canadian nle, 19 cases of Fort Edward beer so-called. At Gus Quigley’s they found 38 cases of Fort Edward beer so-called. At the Klondike, run by \Sargt.\ O’Brien, 464 bottles of Canadian ale, one gallon alcohol, 1 pint James Pepper whiskey. 12 cases of so-called P’ort Edward beer, 9H bottlps nf wine and M* bottle of whiskey. While the officers were 'parching the Klondike, Natale More no drove up in his; Hudson coach and upon examination of his car the of ficers found 120 quart bottles of Canadian ale*and 6 gallons of alco hol. Upon being arraigned before Commissioner L. M. Layden, William J. O’Brien, Harold A. Vincent, John Scaggala, George Dolan, Anthony Altobell, Alex Zidowsky, Augustus Quigley and John J. Kelly were held bail which they furnished. Angelo Palmerno could not furnish bail and was locked up in the county jail. Natale Moreno was held in $2,000 bail as this was his second offense, as on the 24th day of Janu ary last, Moreno was arraigned be fore Commissioner Layden, who held him for the Federal court where Judge Cooper fined him §550. The hearing of O’Brien, Vincent, John Scaggala will be held September 8. Kelley and Augustus Quigley, Sep tember 10, Alex Zidowsky, Septem ber 11, George Dolan and Anthony Altobell, September 8. At John J. -Kelley’s place, the^of- ficers found 2 ounces of alcohol and 42 cases of beer. These hearings will all be held before Commissioner Lay den. The search warrants were all is sued from the office of Commissioner Layden. Auto trucks were used to bring in the liquor and beer, the of ficers finding three trips necessary to bring the stuff in. The liquor and beer ;was locked up in the Whitehall jail. The officers said a funny thing which occurred during the raid was that John J. Kelley, who owns a place in Hartford that was raided called up “Sargt\ O’Brien to tell him that ] the federal officers were in that vi cinity and to be on the lookout and one of the officers who was in O’Brien’s place answered the phone and took the message. Kelley was a very much surprised man when the Officers swooped down on him and plat Jhim-under arrest. , v ’- l>• chuu-h and was proud of it. He knew his religion and like all the rest of of I them liked to talk about it. In the morning a Mr. Haguley, the man who gnve t\t> park, to the city, ami a half-brw.l Indian, one of his range riders, rode tn. They were a new type and we were pleased when they circled up to the dfor Jn.k was in town for the d::y a:.d had dressed the part, sombrero, fur ch.ips, and a six-shooter. He was a bit s-ornful because we were afraid to do more than just ride hi« fine pony around the camp, but when he f.>und we were from New York his nir changed for they ' *’1’ sI,ent S3.000 on a trip to N York rit> last winter and fri! that he quite belonged. He -aid, \I dressed up dif ferent from this to go. Got a new sombrero, new high boots, a checked shirt and a navy blue <!uit. and the boys told me I looked great, but when I got there I felt queer without a horse under me.\ / A taxi driver took him to one or the big hotels where hp explained “I got two rooms and a wash tuh. The fellars kept callin’ them sweetie till I says, ‘I’m alone on this trip and don't want no women folks.’ ” Ha nearly starved to death before he found his way to the “grub stake.” \Gee he said, “those boys in the lit tle Mack coats used me great though. They put me at a table alone first but pretty soon along comes a woman with a lot of jewelry and funny look in' clothes, not much of 'em. Sha stops and says, ‘May I share your ta ble?’ I just gave her one look and says ‘You bet.’ ” Mr. B. was another Mormon, and was so eager to tell about it that he came back with his wife in the af ternoon and talked till I am sure he thought he had made a convert. But more of Mormonism later. My first impression though was that these men. knew an astonishing lot of facts about their church history and'their creed. I doubt if there are six laymen in Greenwich who could talk that long on the whys and wherefores of their belief, Catholic or Protestant. Salt Lake City, July 5.—One Latter Day Saint said the road from Evans ton to Salt Lake City, only about sev enty miles, was as good as pavement. They surely know more about their religion than about their roads for three-quarters of the whole distance was cussed. And listen to this hor ror—the first puncture since leaving Greenwich, a rear tire too. We sent up a mighty wail that grew into a regular howl when the Blue Book in sisted that it was ten miles to a gar age. .But fools’ luck was with us again, a woman appeared from .ft _ tumble-down barn and said she had a husband. I felt that three would have been desirable just then, but this one proved to be an automobile man who had broken his ear and was glad to subtract our contribution from his own bill. Immediately after tliis came, a wicked sandy climb witfi some nasty narrow turns and then, the Salt Lake valley was before us, 2,000 feet be- (Continued ^ Page1 2) - i t ■ .'Jig m i '4 ? -M ■nfi . s = .y;\t :M\ W-j n - ^ • —fcji •: Vf.' 7
