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NEWS IN AND ABOUT THE STATE At its April meeting the board of supervisors confirmed the action of the machinery committee in purchas ing $25,000 worth of highway ma chinery, including two Linn tractors at a cost of $15,050, one Cletrac tractor costing $3,975, one 10-ton Huber roller, costing $4,100; four Dodge pickup trucks and two Dodge coupes costing $1,743.42.—New Ber lin Gazette. Fire starting with an explosion of gasoline injured two men and totally destroyed the interior of the Walton town store house. Water street, last Friday afternoon. The loss was plac ed at $6,000. Two more blasts added to the havoc and endangered the lives of firemen who battled the blaze. Dynamite caps, gasoline, denature^d alcohol and lubricating oil were stor ed in the structure. Modernization and repairs to pri vate property, financed through notes insured by the Federal Housing Ad ministration during 1935, amounted to $50,883 in Schoharie county, ac cording to figures quoted by the office of the State Director of the National Emergency Council for New York. A total of 64 individual loans were granted within the county under the arrangement provided. Thirty poles of the New York Tele phone company were blown down by a “twister” which struck Schoharie county Thursday. Traffic was tied up for about two hours in the vicinity of Richmondville and in Cobleskill the force of the extremely high wind smashed window panes and caused other minor damage. Schoharie has been granted a WPA project to construct a dam in the riv er at the village to create a bathing spot not only for their residents but the many summer guests that are making the county seat their summer headquarters. A concrete base will be built flush with the river bottom and to this will be placed planks to hold back sufficient water to make an excellent bathing beach. The Middleburgh Garage Com pany’s property, located on the Main street corner, opposite the bridge, was sold at public auction April 10th to Wilfred T. Stone of Scotia. The site, when the old White House stood on the corner, sold under foreclosure for $2,200. Mr. Stone paid $7,500 for the fire-swept site which included the storage garage in the rear, an , in dication that real estate vblues in Middleburgh have risen considerably. There were three principal bidders, two of whom were local men. The bidding started at $3,500. The opin ion prevails that a modern gas sta tion will be erected on the site. Residents of Delhi and vicinity will soon have an opportunity to vote on the proposition of whether they wish a centralized school. James Harris of the State Education Department spent several days in Delhi last week sur veying the proposed central district, and in accordance with his recom mendation, Commissioner Frank P. Graves has laid out such a district. This proposed district has an assess ed valuation of around $3,400,000. It includes all 18 of the school dis tricts in the town of Delhi, together with the following nine others in bor dering townships. Five districts in Meredith, adjoining Delhi on the north; three in Hamden, including the village of DeLancey; and the Lake Delaware district in the town of Bovina. The taking of testimony in the murder trial of Alfred E. Volckmann, 20-year-old butcher boy of Green ville, may not start before next week. The greatest difficulty is being exper ienced in selecting a jury. Already more than 500 veniremen have been questioned and all save nine have been excused. The great majority of the excused are farmers wh^o are anxious to begin their spring work. A total of $459.26 was collected for Red Cross flood relief in the Walton district. Of this amount $75 came from the Downsville chapter and $26.76 from Hamden. Stamford firemen and pump engine were called out at 8:30 Wednesday morning for a fire in a chicken brood er house at the Utsayantha farm house, located on the Stamford-Grand Gorge road one and a half miles from Stamford. Four hundred chicks were bilrhed up. Miss Irene Plankenhorn of Sidney, a nurse in the Albany hospital, nar rowly escaped with her life and Miss Helen J. Scully, a nurse in St. Pet er’s hospital in Albany, died of suf focation after arousing Miss Planken horn from sleep during a fire which swept through the house at 578 Mad ison avenue, where the young women had rooms. Charges were filed last week with Governor Lehman at Albany seeking to remove Edward Jackson, sheriff of Montgomery county. Sheriff Jackson has made complete denial, saying that they are “ridiculous.” The sheriff, the charges allege, confiscated items for his own personal use, and convert ed to his own use certain foodstuffs and materials belonging to Mont gomery county. He is also charged with negligence and refusal to per form the duties of his office in ac cordance with the oath h^e took. William C. Comery, founder and president of the Empire Sprinkler Compimy, Inc., died at Rochester Suhdiiy, following a prolonged ill ness. He was 47 years of age. An Albany fire truck returning from a small blaze Sunday waited for the fiVst lady of the land to pass. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, driving her own roadster, reached a street intersection simultaneously with the fire apparatus. The driver recognized her, gave her the right of way, and firemen aboard the truck raised their hats. Mrs. Roosevelt waved in recog nition of the'courtesy. Dick Alpaugh of Cherry Valley re cently won the annual dairy judging contest conducted by Cobleskill State school. He is a son of Delos A. Al paugh. Thirteen years of age, the boy is a junior member of Roseboom Grange, a freshman in vocational ag riculture in Cherry Valley Central school, and a member of the Future Farm.ers of America. Police Hunt Grave Robber at Delanson Daymen’s League Meetiug Held Friday at Laurens FANCY NS. S. NO. 1 A ^ NEW POTATOES Z X C ALP PECK (7Vo Pounds). . . \ V / W HALF PECK ( 7 1 / 2 Pounds). . . DTO FANCY CREAMERY TUB BUTTER, 1 price, 1 quality, the best! 2 fts. § 5 C SUGAR, Granulated ......... 101bs.48C LARGE-TENDEIU-MEATY PRUNES, 40-50 to the pound ....... lb. 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BARTLETT PEARS 2 big cans 3 5 c BEL MONTE ASP^GUSTIPS 2 big square cans 4 5 c A. P. Food Stores Delanson.—Police of five states are searching for the ghoul who, in the gray, overcast hours of dawn Thurs day, April 16, mutilated and robbed the body of Mrs. Millie Schworm and then fired the modest brink receiving vault of Grove cemetery on the vil lage outskirts. Mrs. Schworm, who died of pneu monia at the age of 62, was to be buried Sunday from the vault where her body was placed Feb. 28. Stranger Seen Nearby. A mysterious, well-dressed strang er, seen on the highways and in fields near the cemetery Wednesday night and early Thursday, is the sub ject of the police search. He is des cribed as between 30 and 35 years old, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 135 to 140 pounds, and attired in a gray cap, gray topcoat, blue trousers and size 7 or 8 shoes. Sheriff Thomas Walsh of Schenec tady county holds a warrant for his arrest on a charge of breaking and entering the vault and violating a dead body. Fire Beveals Crime. Discovery of the crime was made by Ralph Roach and Benjamin King of Quaker street. They notified the superintendent of the cemetery, Char les E. Hoag, a cousin of the late James E. Sheldon, whose body was also in the vault. Mr. Hoag sound ed the Delanson fire siren. When firemen reached the cemetery they were unable to enter the vault because of the heavy smoke. They chopped a hole through the roof and poured a stream of water into the in terior for nearly half an hour before they were able to go inside. The lock on the door had been hacked off with a metal saw. On the floor was the badly chaired casket that h^ld Mrs. Schworm’a body./||feilt was described by authorities “a very bad attempt at dissection”' of the hady had been made. A wedding ring worn by Mrs. Schworm was re ported to be missing. County officials began an immedi ate investigation. Numerous persons were questioned and then warned not to discuss the case with anyone ex cept authorities engaged in the case officially. Metal Casket Damaged. Because fire damaged the metal casket containing the body of the late Walter B. Carpenter, 72, also in the vault awaiting buiral, that too, was taken to the undertaking rooms. Clnes Concealed. What clues the authorities found they quickly concealed. In a gulley not far from the damaged vault, foot prints in the moist earch attracted their attention and careful measure ments were made. In seeking to learn a motive for the crime, members of the family and other residents of the village were questioned. At the request of the Schenectady authorities, Corp. James W. Russell of Troop G, State Police fingerprint and photograph expert, assisted in the investigation. Authorities on the case favored the view that a maniac, possibly a necro phile, was responsible for the act. Although every resource was draft ed to break the case, little headway apparently had been made. Study Similar Crimes. Figuring in the case was a review of records to ascertain facts concern ing other crimes of a similar nature in this vicinity during the past few y€ars. One possible suspect was said to have been eliminated. Mrs. Schworm died in Delanson, where she had lived for the last 40 years. She had been married for 43 years. Detective Sergeant Elmer Nuskey of Philadelphia who came to Schenec tady early Sunday night returned to his home city after spending Monday at Delanson investigating the scene and circumstances of the offense. Nuskey told Sheriff Walsh he did not believe that was enough similarity between the Delanson mutilation and the robbery committed March 14 at Laurel Hill cemetery in Philadelphia in which the body of Dr. Elwood R. Kirby was exhumed and robbed of Its clothing and fields. He returned to Philadelphia Monday afternoon. Uncle Ab says that the more learn ing a man has the less trouble he is likely to have. By H. H. Lyon. The April meeting of the Otsego County Dairymen’s League was held in Laurens Friday in a full day meet ing beginning soon after 10 o’clock. The ladies of the home department held their meeting for the morning in the M. E. church while the men met in the school auditorium. Din ner was served in the church dining room after which the men returned to the auditorium for their pictures. The morning session of the men con sisted of affairs of business. Men tion was made of state milk control but no real criticism was expressed. Some plans were discussed relative to the coming meetings for selecting delegates and something relative to the state annual meeting to be held in Syracuse in June. Also questions relative to speaking contests in which certain high schools in Otsego and Delaware counties will participate. Another feature of the morning was a discussion relative to certain funds that the county organization has, with the suggestion and final vote that they invest five hundred dollars in forthcoming League certificates. These prove a safe investment even in these difficult times and give a nice interest rate. It was also voted that the county league aid the speaking contest thus giving them a share in the future farmer movement. After dinner the ladies assembled outside the church for their pictures. In the meantime the men took pos session inside, listened to a nice bit of music by the school orchestra of young men, followed by a real farm ing talk by the farm bureau manager who discussed the farm of 1935 and 1936. The acreage of this ideal farm is 161 each year. Sheets passed out were headed, “tentative, not for pub lication,” but the chart failed to con tain that wording and we may quote a few figures. Silage acreage remains the same both years at 15. It is a soil conservation program. Cabbage is' cut from five acres to four, pota toes from ten to seven; oats remain at 15 while alfalfa increases from six to ten acres. Other hay remains at 40 acres, qrchards at 15. Woods re main at 15 and pasture at 50. By this time the ladies had returned to the church and Mr. Talbot called on M. A. B. Eldred of Laurens to present the local welcome. As seems Usual in Otsego county meetings, the chur^, was packed full. Solos headed the list, a young lady recited, more solos, followed by dialogue. These were by Mill Gro ver, the recitation by Miss Sickles and the dialogue by Mr. Buckley and Miss Angel. Miss Laura Elmwood of the New York office had addressed the ladies in the morning and came on the program again .now. She ad vised that this department has done more to maintain the cooperative or ganization than is sometimes appre ciated. This thought was also ad vanced,^, adding that the children of cooperators are imbibing a spirit of cooperation that will have a telling effect in the years ahead, and a well informed membership is the most loy al. Mr. Talbot, the county director, launched into one of his characteris tic face to face talks. It was not por litical, it was industrial and econo mic. League folks he holds, are the only ones that have had an op portunity and do understand the pressent real situation at all, and even they need to keep in the meet ings or they will lose in direct con tact with our economic situation. At some of the hearings that have been held the ignorance of the milk mar keting situation has been amazing. This was particularly apparent from some delegates from Northern New York. This is a political year and we must discriminate as to what is said. Turning to milk prices, Mr. Talbot said that he is 75 miles from the Pennsylvania line and 230 miles from New York city, but interstate ship ments of milk affect his milk price and generally depress that price by around 90 cents a hundred pounds in spite of all the state board can do. Remember that the Dairymen’s Lea gue is the only organization that has any real influence on the price of milk, and that it is handicapped by the indifference of some producers. Don’t forget that milk has got into politics or rather that politics has get into milk and that it is hard to unmix them. The League gets but small chance to do its good work in stabilization. The speaker drew a few lines on the board to show sea sonal changes in production, high in June and low in November, and the very slight change in summer con sumption makes slight difference. It was a very interesting meeting at tended by nearly 200 men and wo men. No Cause of Actiou. A verdict of no cause of action was returned by a jury in supreme court at Norwich Tuesday night at 9 o’clock in the $2,500 damages ac tion brought by Harold Genung against the Norwich board of educa tion. Genung, through his father as guardian, sought to recover for the loss of a thumb which he sawed off in the school’s manual training de partment while engaged in building scenery for a school play. No Deaths in Hobart This Year. No deaths have occurred in this village since 1935.—Hobart Cor. Deposit Courier Increases Stock. Tlie stockholders of the Deposit Courier Co. have elected as directors: C. H. Minor, W. C. Stow, C. H. Stow, J. B. Stow, and Alice C. Minor. Of ficers were elected by the directors as follows: C H. Stow, president; J. B. Stow, vice-president; A. M. Pear sall, treasurer; J. M. Carr, secretary; Miss Edna Wigley, assistant secre tary; and J. M. Carr, assistant treas urer. An increase in capital stock of the corporation by 2,000 shares, 1,000 each of A and B, was author ized, and the expenditure of approxi mately $27,500 for modern machin ery and equipment was voted. Man is a funny animal. He saves wild life for hunters to kill and babies for cannon fodder. R A L P H J. SCH AEFFER (Successor to H. D. Hanford & Go.) I N S V J R K N C E VICTOR RADIOS S20 V R.C.A. TUBES B r lon’s Store G. L F. FEEDS AND FLOUR Baled Hay and Straw Custinn Grinding and Mbdng D.&H.CoaI D. £. FISK &; SON PHONE 32-J M IL L W O O D Temporary Reduced Prices on Mill Wood to $3.50 a Load of 3 V 2 to 4 Cords Delivered wifhm a radius^of 5 miles from Unadilla. Also Sawdust 3c a Bnshd J. W. VAN con & SON LUMBER CO. UNADULA, N. Y. PHONE 41 A r r o w h e a d S t o r e =BOYNTON & S O N = Groceries and Meats Assortment of Fresh Vegetables Cranberries ISOITBID^ WE DELIVER Living Room Suites A complete new stock is now ready for your inspection—The latest in designs and shades. 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