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Rum) ozEoo, H, NO. 1 ny£ <3£MTS—$i.io fes yeas Local, SociaJ and Other Actirities Abont Town Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Smith spent Sunday with their daughter, Miss Bessie Smith in Binghamton. Miss Smith, who has been confined to her bed the past four weeks at the Bing hamton City hospital, suffering with rheumatic fever, is much improved but unahle to sit up yet. Mrs. Minnie Strait of West Oneon- ta and Mr. and Mrs. Garlan Strait and family of Albany were guests of the former’s son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Crandall and family Sunday. Mrs. Mary Center of Hartwick spent the weekend with her sister. Miss Ella Sill, at the home of'Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hinman. Miss Margaret Reeves, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Reeves, who has been receiving treat ment in the Elmira Children's Re construction Home for six weeks, has returned to her home here. Margar et is much improved in health and able to return to school. The village board of trustees has appointed C. D. Wagar water com missioner to have charge of the vil lage water system and care for de tails. Mr. Wagar has employed J, J. Canavan to supervise the work. The young people’s Bible study class of the Baptist church iftet Thursday evening with Mr, and Mrs. Wilburt Haynes and the adult Bible class met with Mr. and Mini. Herman Hamilton. Mrs. Center of Hartwick spent Sun day and part of Monday with her sis ter, Miss Ella Sill. Mrs. C. C. Conner, accompanied by her daughter, Betty Jean, and father, Vincent S. Fuller, were weekend guests of the latter’s son and daugh ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cerald Ful ler, at Schenectady. O te^ Central School Honor Eoll. The Otegp Central school has just announced the honor roll for the five weeks previous to the Easter vaca tion. It appears as follows: Grade 1—High—Meryl Herring. Honor—^Wayne Lawrence, Kenneth Gardner, Myrtle Howe. \ Grade 2—High—^Marjorie Moser, Janet Bush, Patty O'Hara. Honor—^ Charlotte Knowles, Flora Sheldon, Edward Dodson, Teddy Dart, Joy Reeves, Joyce Sloan, Lila Brown, Blaine Houghtaling. Grade 3—High—Ruth Country man, Lela Garvin, Dorothy Harris, Ethel March. Honor—^Phyllis Foote, Shirley Franklin, Harlan Hine, Char les Sheldon, Frederick Williams. Grade 4A—High—Helen Secor, El len Phillips, George Sheldon, June Davis, Eleanor Jubar. Honor—Mar ian Wade, Winfield Sheldon, Audrey Law, Robert Steifel, Betty Jane Max im, Pauline Stilson, Alberta Steenrod, Dorothy Knowles, Dorothy Reeves, Leona Sullivan. Grade 4B—High—Bryan Burtch, Joyce Burnside, Alice Goble, Edna Jones. Honor—Donald Bowes, Betty Conner, Helen Sloan, James Ham mond, Anita Bree, Marjorie Case, James Greeley, James Hamilton, Rob ert Harrington, Alice Drake, Marian Bundy, Grade 5—High—Jean Dieball, Charles Herring, Alma Dodson, Royce Carvin, Evelyn Foote, Ernestine Mar- kel. Honor—Charles Cannon, Elliot Hurlburt, Herman Krause. Grade 6—High—^Aleen Widger, Rowland Redington. Shirley Gras, Edward Moser. Honor-^Isabel Shep pard, Juanita Wade, June Dart, Louis Trask;- Lynn March, Ruth Simonds. Grade 7—Honor—Phyllis Bump,, Esther Knowles, Ruth Jean Reeves. Grade 8—Honor—Everett Fleming, Roselyn Jones, Mary Miller, Joyce Williams. Freshman—High—Albert Georgia, I Elinor Holbrook. Honor—^Dorothy Rate Fare Slash is Accepted hy Railroads Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Young, who Cannon, Harold Lent, Doris Little, have been living in part of the- V. B. Frances Pierce, Esther Reed. Puller house on Follett street, have moved to the Conner farm at Laur ens, where Mr. Young is now work ing. The Otego Community ban^, under leadership of W. W. Martin of Bing hamton, assisted by Julian ^ <Ferris, pre'sented a concert and j|mateur night in the auditorium of tral High school on F r i d a y g » i ^ was well attended and greatly ed. Miss Betty Jean Conner was one of the prize winners in dancip|r cpn- sfeurday, Mr. and Mrs. Reeves entertained their tlieria at the central school Tuesday, May 5 , at 2 p. m. Dr. K. W. Ford will be the physician in charge and will treat both children of school and pre-school age. Mrs. W. D. VanDerwerken, who was taken seriously ill Friday night suffering from heart trouble, was re moved to the Parshall hospital in Oneonta by ambulance. Sophomores — High — Agnes Hag gerty, Gleanadore Wilcox. Honor—• Olive Miller. Doris Place. Joan Shaw. Junior — High — Olive Crandall. Honor—^Adah Briscoe, Virginia Law, Frances Miller. Erwina Tilley. Seniors — Honor — Irene Bouton, Joseph Doolittle; Beulah Georgia, Howard Goodnough, Howell Green, Guillaume, Edwin Harris. Holbrook, Lawrence Marlett, Theiiha Metcalf, Louis Redington. Monday the eastern railroads ac cepted \under protest” the Interstate Commerce commission’s order cutting passenger rates to two cents a mile, j which will give the E a s t,the lowest uniform rate of rail transportation coats for this century. The eastern roads' protest, it was made known, is more than a gesture, for it is their intention to seek a judicial opinion on the validity of the commission’s order. The new tariffs will be filed without delay and the reduced rates will become effec tive June 2, next. With adoption of the new tariffs the existing rate structure of 3.6 cents a mile in coaches and four cents in Pullmans effective since 1920 will become railroad history, unless re stored later by court decree. The Pullman surcharge also will | be dropped under the commission's ordei. The new mileage rate in Pull mans will be three cents. Announcement of the roads' in tention to lower the fares pending a contest in the courts followed a ses sion of the Eastern Presidents con ference. It was made in behalf of a \ma_^ jority” of the carriers, but it ex cluded Baltimore & Ohio and its af filiates, Philadelphia & Reading, and Central Railroad of New Jersey. Bal timore & Ohio did not oppose the ordered cut. t In fact, through Daniel Willard, its president, it supported the move for fare reductions from the time thee Interstate Commerce commissioih started its inquiry into the passen-* : ger rate situation about a year ago. The B. & O. group filed the new -set of tariffs with the commission a week ago. Railroads operating in western and southeastern regions, although affected by the commission ord^r, ^ not have to alter thqir years ago they VoluntArf]^ c|it-if^ 1 * * * \ * ^ I atDeMiN|llay4tli Lpreme Court will convene at Del^i next’ «Monday, May 4, with Judge Ely Personius, of Elmira, pre siding. There are 68 cases on the civlj calendar listed for trial, about half of which are negligence actions [ting from automobile accidents. Twcj cases Involving the wet and dry [question will also be presented andjinvolye the towns of Walton and Delhi* hoth^of which went dry last fdJLby substantial margins. Jiimes Gramento, Walton, has sued the Walton . Town board and the State Liquor authority in an effort to invalidate the vote taken in Walton, clal|ning the petition calling for the votl was irregular in that it was not I properly filed and that each of the 4 p«pers,’ was not certified accord- ing'Uo the'.el^ctiou law. dry vote will he con- testipd? in an ^action brought by Del- mar' R. Hall of the Elm Tree res- taui^iH firm, seeking to have the Phila- Urs. Jennie Poole Dies in delphia. Otego friends were grieved to learn Monday that Mrs. Jennie Poole, wife of the late Glenn Poole, a former Otego undertaker and merchant, died that morning at the home of her sis ter, Mrs. Malcolm McClure, in Phila delphia, Pa., where she had gone to pass the winter. Mrs. Poole was a native of Otego, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Fleming) Birdsall, Mrs. Birdsall passing away about a year ago, and 1 ^’ 'most of her life had been spent in this town. She was an accomplished music teacher and instructed in piano and violin music; was a woman held in high esteem by many friends. The body was brought to Otego for burial in the family plot in Evergreen cemetery, a former pastor. Rev. W. H. Alger, now stationed at Plymouth, Pa., conducting the services. The bearers were Julian Ferris, M. S. Carey, Douglas Little, Raymond Red ington, Floyd Webster and Emmet Pickett. Mrs. James O’Haj^ Died at Fox Hos- The death of firs. James O’Hara at the Fox Memorial hospital in One onta Monday morning, cast gloom in this community among numerous friends. Mrs. O’Hara resided west of Otego village on the state highway, and was a woman held in high esteem by all who knew her. Her age was 39 years. Surviving are her husband and eight children, for whom much sympathy is expressed. Funeral services will be held Fri day morning at 7:15 from the family home, followed by a requiem mass at 8 o’clock in Sacred Heart church at I Sidney. Interment will be at Una- dllla. ney held a banquet and auction at the Unadilla House Wednesday even ing. There were forty persons in at tendance who enjoyed the fine ban quet put on by Mr. and Mrs. George Gillin. Harry G. Horton was toast master and introduced the speaker of the evening, R. V. Seaman, principal of the Gilbertsville Central school, who chose for his topic, \The White Plains Issue.” Mr. Seaman's address was much enjoyed and proved most instructive and enlightening. After the banquet an auction was held, At torney William Phelps of Sidney be ing the auctioneer. Among those present were: C^fiarles Root, presi dent of the association, of Sidney; S. A. Seddon, of the Chenango as sociation, of Norwich; J. B. Jackson, president of the Otsego association, of Oneonta; Bert O’Connell and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Burgess of Binghamton. Road Signs to be Removed. Monday the Assembly voted to em power the state to remove all ad vertising signs adjacent to highways that are regarded as hazardous to traffic. The measure, supported by Col. Frederick Stuart Greene, superin tendent of public works, specifies, but is not limited to, signs erected in a series and intended to carry the driver’s attention from one to another; rotating signs and bill boards with intermittent lights oi displaying the words \stop” or \dan ger” as part of an advertisement. The hill now goes to the Senate for its approval. on an \experimental” basis. Sidney Board Sets May 12, for Election of Dam Issue Expected Sidney Bridge Con- \» ^tart this Summer. For some time it has been expect ed that the contract for the river bridge crosslhg the Susquehanna .riv er at Sidney would be advertised tor May letting, and now the Binghamton office of the State Highway Depart ment announces that the advertise ment will doubtless be in the next issue of the.papers designated to car ry such announcements. In fact, the Binghamton office expects the con tract letting will be held on May 19. May Improye Route No. 7, Pecldiam Underpass to A strip of concrete to replace the badly-worn macadam on Route 7 be- i tween Sidney and Bainbridge will be constructed this year if necessary money can be provided, according to F. W. Donovan, State engineer at tached to the district highway office at Binghamton. The project will include the reloca- .. V , , tion of a-Yiaduct on the Porter farm; dry vote o« several dangerous curves between the Albert Bgli farm and the Unadilla river bridge; a via duct over the N. Y. O. & W. railroad at the Egll property; and construc tion of an underpass beneath the tracks of the same railroad, near the Jack Peckham farm on the Sidney- East Guilford highway. The contract for the new Susque hanna river bridge at Sidney will be advertised soon. Bids will b.e receiv- Ban^t Gathered $80 in Unadilla Hoidip Bernard Rose Held Bp and Lam Bandit Took >$80 |iom Tydol Qa& Station Cask seai; aside on the grounds that the elecLiob was irregular. The ballots w # e ‘^ p roperly printed. The town of Andes included instead of the t o ^ p f Delhi. Ike^iquestion as to the validity of the‘ Delhi vote was taken before Judjge j.Ajidrew J. McNaught soon afti^ |ihc election, who ruled he did nets .the power to decide the ca^. t.hie opinion handed down by 'J^jBe McNaught, he intimated of people h^d^ ? * * * ' ^ K i ‘“ **‘* ™ ‘*' Governor’s Plan Defeated. The Republican majority in Work Progressing on Otsdawa Road. Reconstruction work on the Otsda- \wjt road, north of the village of Otego, is progressing nicely with some twen ty men employed on the project. The I new bridge at the point familiarly I known as the \watering trough,” is I •well under way. At that point the I highway is to be straightened to elim- 1 inate t-wo abrupt and vei-y dangerous I curves and the course of the creek I bed is also to be changed, which will I also eliminate two bridges over the I stream. A half mile of new road is I to be constructed as a result of the I changes, which will make the high- state Legislature at Albany definite ly killed the Lehman social security program in the Assembly Wednesday. The measure was designed to line up the Empire state with 28 other states receiving benefits from the Federal Security Law. The final vote resulted 73 to 71 to keep it locked In commit tee, after three Republican members joined with Democratic ranks to swing passage of the measure. The social security plan it is said would cost $4,000,000, and amount to 75 millions yearly within a decade. At the budget hearing Monday night in Sidney village, the board designated May 12 as a special elec tion date for a referendum to deter mine whether a bond issue should be floated to finance the cost of the new dam and reservoir at Collar brook. Date for the referendum was scheduled following filing of an en gineer’s report that estimated con struction costs on the Collar brook site would approximate $38,000. A resolution was passed ordering preparation of plans and specifica tions for construction of the dam and reservoir as a WPA project subject to approval'of the Water Power and Control Commission of the state. It stipulated that .-the expense was not to exceed>$38,000, the sum to be bor rowed by the village with issuance of $ 1,000 bonds bearing a 6 per cent interest ithte. Shouldc..the- bonding method of fin ancing be approved, the trustees sale, the bonds would be issued to the low est bidders with expectation that they would be retired in 20 years. The 1936-37 budget adopted by the board estimates that $ 32 , 8 58,- 32 will be raised during the year by taxation. Adopting a 1936-37 budget total ing $58,081.08, the Sidney Village Board of Trustees scheduled expendi tures totaling about $800 less than that of last year’s budget although the tax rate of $15.75 per $1,000 will remain the same. tied, in Otsego county W a.hy.iaie office of the ^ National of this total $&22,027,095 had been disbui'sed at the end of February. For the nation as a whole, the compara tive sum authorized was $5,147,065,- 066, of which $3,948,169,488 was disbursed in the stated period. These figures, however, are not in clusive of loans made by the Recon struction Finance Corporation to rail roads, or to Federal Land Banks, for agricultural credit uses. Nor are sums allocated to the various states for relief purposes under the Emerg ency Act of 1932 included in the fore going statement. Shortly after 1 o’clock Saturday morning a well dressed man entered the Tydol gas station near the under pass crossing on Main street in Una dilla village, and asked for a package of cigarettes. As Bernard Rose, the proprietor of the station, wko was on. duty at that time, turned to.get the cigarettes he felt the pressure of a gun against his back and heard the command to \Stick ’em up and keei^ ’em up.” Warning Rose to keep his back turned face to the wall and hands in the air for two minutes the bandit rifled the cash drawer and escaped with the contents, $80 in cash. Rose faced the wall until the man was gone and he then hastened to the home of Herman Bard nearby and called Sidney barracks. A detail of troopers were soon on the scene but failed to find any tract of the thief. The station is located near the rail road tfacks and a slow freight was- passin^ when the robbery occurred, jRose told the troopers and he was un-r «.ble to observe whether the man jumped the train or had a car in waiting. Rose described the bandit as being man about 5 feet 10 inches in height,, about 35 years old, wearing a light grey overcoat and barehead ed; , Teii?'- Henry Jluller;i43, of an^e county, N. Y., was arr >fore Justice ojf the Peace Mi 'Uff at Unadilla, violation section I202A., paragraph 11, of the penal I^w (petit larceny law). fi l!ests Headed hy Bothainr. New .York statd bufiiness edir- c a W contest for. district was held ,a.t, th f Oneonta- High, sqhcmf Satujrdi|y with',|lqxbury gaining first ^places in ^ ^ n ^ r c i a i arithmetic, shorthand I, ij^j^rp^wriUng. Oneonta was next inf^rie with four second places and ope >:prst; place. ^ ^ t h e lndivi|u^l entries, E&le HaJJtlof i?^xbury \Whs '.awarded first i^calln-ei^me^ Doria did not have funds in ban'k fo m'ee? same.” The defendant gave his occupation as farmer and cattle buyer. He said that he was born at Hlckville. Justice-Toplifl sentenced Muller to pay a fine of $10.00. The defendant was released upon the payment of the fine. Muller was arrested by Troop ers H, Knapp and Batters. way much better and more safe to travel. The contract for this piece of highway improvement will amount to nearly $50,000. Application Btenks How Available Albany, April 29. — Application blanks for the renewal of operators’ and chauffeurs’ licenses will be avail able Friday at the offices of the Bu reau of Motor Vehicles. Charles A. Harnett, Gommisi^oner of Motor Ve hicles, has made an important pro vision on the back of the new li cense blanks for an individual rec ord of any court convicitons to be entered by the court or clerk of the court. Spaces are provided for the date of any offense against the Ve hicle and T*raffic Law, the nature of the offense, the disposition of the case and the name of the court and its location. On June 1 all drivers mus+ be pro vided with licenses for the year fol lowing. Bill Would Tax State Lands The Senate has passed the bill of Assemblyman William H. MacKenzie of Belmont, Allegany county, pro viding for taxing state lands ac quired for reforestation purposes in Allegany, Delaware, Franklin, Jef ferson and Madison counties. The bill now goes back to the As- Downsville Site of New Dam. A few years hence, fish may swim in the 100 feet of water which will cover the site of the present village of bownsville with the building of a storage reservoir at Shlnhopple, below the village, dwarfing the Ashokan re servoir in Ulster county. The New York city board of esti mate has appropriated $ 20 , 000,000 for the construction of the dam. The engineers of the city board of Water Supply favor a site at the East Branch valley dam at Shinhopple about six miles down the liver floih Downsville instead of the tentative site approximately a mile above the village. The residents of Downsville ifiay go peacefully on their way for at least six years before it will be necessary to worry about the rebuilding of the village on some higher site. This lapse of time before the \wiping out” of this village will be due to the allo cated money being used on the early stages of construction at Neverslnk and Rondout with dams and tunnels to provide a supply of about 300 mil lion gallons of water a day to rein force the present Catskill-Croton sys tem now supplying New York city. H ^ h est Court W ill Hear GaidSner Jnsurance Case. The Court of Appeals, the state’s Committee Working for Milk Plant. I concurrence in an amend- .............................. .... -------------- The prospects for a local milk plant Senate, which add- judicial tribunal, has granted in Unadilla are looking far better Madison to^t e or- Northwestern Mutual Life Insur- than a year ago. Since the meeting held in the Community house several weeks ago, there has been one man contacted that is very much in favor of coming to this locality and operat ing a plant. At the present time he has three receiving stations and plants which he has very successfully conducted for a number of years. The committee appointed at the last meet ing have been working on the pro position and it is expected that some definite information can be given in the very near future. iginal list of four counties. It is ex- company leave to appeal from pected that the Assembly will con- ^ recent decision of the Appellate DI- cur immediately in the amendment, j^j.g ^ and send the hill to the governor for Franklin, Delaware coun final approval. | could collect two insurance, poll- I ~ i cies of $ 1,000 each on the life of her Notloe of Sckool lilootiiiff. husband. The annual meeting of the inhabit- insurance company claims that the attempt of Mrs. Gardner to col- will be held in the school house in _ 4 . Otego on May 5th, at 7:30 p.m., to lect on these policies should not he vote on the budget, and to elect one upheld, because of insufficient facts trustee for five years. ; and proof, and because her claim is A invalid under the statute of limita- 4w Clerk of Board. In bookkeeping ] of Oxford, first; Nancy Pink of Coop- erstown, second; and Phillip F i n l ^ of Oneonta, third. In bookkeeping II, Helen Moore of Oxford, first; Vivian Patton of One onta, second; and Claribel Arkart of Oneonta, third. Commercial law, James Spencer, first, and Ivan Gassier, second, both of Oneonta. Shorthand I, Elizabeth Kosoc of Oneonta, first; Evelyn Sanford of Roxbury, second; Annette Woodward of Roxbury, third. Shorthand II, Claudine Thomas of Greene, first; Mary Czermawski of VanHornesville, second; and Joseph Starbird of Oneonta, third. Typewriting, Minnie Brachin of Greene, first; Evelyn Sanford of Rox bury, second; Annette Woodward of Roxbury, third. The team entries ranked as follows, commercial arithmetic: Roxbury, first; Oneonta, second; and Van Hornesville, third. Bookkeeping I, Oxford first and Oneonta second. Bookkeeping II, Ox ford first and Oneonta second. Short hand I, Roxbury first and Oneonta second. Shorthand II, Oneonta first. Typewriting, Roxbury first and Wor cester second. Van Hornsville, Ox ford, Worcester and Chenango Forks school also participated in the con- Howes-Faxrell, Inc., New Delawaxe County Firm. A new Delaware county corpora tion was launched at Sidney on Mon day of last week. The contracting 'firm of Howes-Farrell, Inc., plans to go into the business of building roads and doing general contracting. J. P. Howes of Sidney Center is president. Other members of the firm are Je rome J. Farrell of Walton, E. J. Kel- 1am of Hancock, Wm. Mattox of Cali fornia and L. W. Russell of Ohio. Dated April 9, 1936. , tions. Pari-Mntuel Bill Reopened Democratize Senate l«eader John J. Dunnigan renewed in the Legislature at Albany Monday his fight for pari- mutual betting at New York race tracks, hailing the system as a means of raising \upwards of $ 10 , 000,000 annually” in state revenue. But, as last year, the movement met vigorous opposition that left the fate of the proposal in doubt.
