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) ©hr Brother ©barrurr Volume 61 DUNDEE, N. Y., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938 Number 23 They Organize School Activities Retired Dundee Station I Fire Destr ° y s Auto mobile Agent Passes Away Fire destroyed the Wilbur Morgan automobile early Wednesday evening of last week on the cross road south of the Harry Leach farm north of Dundee. Morgan was driving west on the road when he became aware of Elmer H. Paddock passed away very unexpectedly Friday evening at his home on Seneca street in this vil lage. He had been out for a short ; a crackling noise in the rear of the walk and died shortly after return ing home. He was born in Middle ville, Michigan, May 2, 1867 and was 71 years of age. Mr.. Paddock came to Dundee with his parents when he was two years old and attended the Dundee Prepara tory School. In December, 1891, he married Mary Frances McLeod, who survives him. At the age of 16 he began work for the Fall Brook Railroad here as a tele graph operator. A few years later he became the local station agent, a position he continued to hold under the New York Central management. car and upon looking around found the back seat in flames. He turned the car around and drove back to a place where he could telephone and notified the Dundee Fire Department. The fire gained headway rapidly and spread through the whole car before the fire truck arrived, after making the run of about three miles in a very few minutes. The car< was insured. CHIPS Many Awards Made at To Open New Lumber , Photo by James Coss Members of the Student Council of the Dundee Central School repre>y sent classes from the Seventh grade to the Senior class. They are, from left to right, standing: Janice Brewer, 8th; Dick Oughterson, Junior; Floyd Randall, 9th; Lucy Upson, Senior; Howard Symonds, Sophomore; Joe Clary, Senior; Betty Stocking, Sophomore; Eugene Lambert, 7th; seated, Les lie Coons, Senior, President; Patty Rapalee, 9th, Secretary; Natalie JVIoon, Junior, Vice-president. A pumpkin weighing seventy-six _ . pounds has been exhibited in the win- In July of 1934, he retired after 50 >w the Meyer Market jn Naples< Many Responsibilities Devolve Upon Central School Student Council The Student Cpuncil at the Dundee Central School is in its second year of existence. During the first year, activities were necessarily limited due to lack of materials and a smaller scope of activities and fulfilling the duties intended for that organization. Their duties in the main consist of arranging and conducting the intra mural and inter-class activities. This is no small task in itself and it is planned to transfer other responsibili ties to this group as time passes. The membership is composed of three representatives from the senior class, two each from the junior, sopho more and freshman classes and one from the eighth and seventh grades. Eight members constitute a quorum at meetings and any representative who misses more than two consecutive meetings is dropped from the council. In voting on questions each member has one vote, the president voting only in case of a tie. The president is chosen by the council from the senior class representatives, and not more than one officer may come from each of the four high school classes. All legislation passed by the council is subjected to the approval of the principal. The constitution of the Council states as their purpose, “ to promote the general welfare of this school ” . years of service. Notices of his death were sent out from the Dundee office with the same instrument with which he learned tel egraphy, and which he had used for fifty years. Surviving are his widow; two sons, Harold of Dundee and Gerald of Rochester; four grandchildren, Ford, Joyce Ann and Gaylord Paddock of Rochester, E. Brace Paddock of Dun dee; and a nephew, Guy Paddock of Rochester. The funeral was held Monday after noon at the home, with the Rev. George McCulloch officating. Inter ment was in Hillside Cemetery. He was a member of , the Presby It was grown by Leon Andrews of ;West Italy. « » * * Auburn Theological Seminary will close its doors because of lack of funds. /A former Lakemont young man has been attending this school several years. * * ♦ * The lake read around the end and west side of Bluff Point has been closed by orders of Town of Jerusa lem highway department cooperating with Paul Garrett whose estate occu pies the greater portion of Bluff Point and whose home is near the end of the Bluff. A new road will take care of traffic which formerly travel ed over the closed portion. The ar- es- tate a private road /near the tenant buildings. — Penn Yan Democrat. terian church, and past Noble Grand charter member of I. O. O. F. lodge, ™ nge ” en r w iil~'give'the'carrett member of Order Railroad Tele graphers, and honorary member of N. Y. Central Railroad Veterans As sociation. Anonymous Gift Provides New Site for Boy Scout Camp Grange to Confer Third and Fourth Degrees Friday By Mrs. R. D. Hathaway Crystal Valley Grangers will meet this Friday evening, Nov. 18, when the third and fourth degrees in Pa trons of Husbandry will be conferred. This week will be the last time the work will be put on before State Grange. The Grange Master desires all who are now ready to receive them to be in attendance. All Crystal Valley Grange mem bers are requested to bring sand wiches, as refreshments are being served. We have received very favorable comment on the party put on in the hall by our local American Legion and its Auxiliary. Our sympathy is with our beloved member, Rev. Thomas Carter and Mrs. Carter, and we most sincerely hope for their early recovery. We are glad to learn sister Myrtle Castner is recovering nicely after her recent operation in Memorial Hospi tal in Penn Yan. We are rejoicing with the families of our Grange members, the Deweys, the Smiths and the Holdens over the coming of grandchildren into their families. Homemaking Girls Meet A small group of girls met for the 4-H Homemaking meeting on Friday, November 11 at the home of Mrs. W. Sebring. The girls began sewing after de ciding what garments they wished to make. This took a lot of time be cause there was a long list to choose from. There are several members who had a hard time using their thim bles because some of them confessed that a thimble is a nuisance. Before the next meeting every member should have her sewing box furnished and her garment started or finished if possible. The next meetng will be held Sat urday, November 19. The closing date of the deer hunt ing season in the Adirondacks has been extended from this Tuesday, No vember 15 to November 20 on account of the earlier closing of the woods be cause of dry weather. In Steuben, Cortland and Broome counties the open season is from December 1 to 7, ex cept the intervening Sunday. In these counties deer may be taken only with long bow or with a shotgun loaded only with slug or ball. Mrs. Fanny Ellis, formerly owner MRS. DEWITT MALLOY Mrs. Dewitt Malloy died Sunday, Nov. 13, in the hospital in Penn Yan, following a long illness. Before her marriage she was Miss Jessie Spencer. She was born ini Addison, Nan. 14, 1876, and was 62 years of age. In January, 1902, she was married in Watkins Glen to Dewitt Malloy, and they have lived on a farm in the town of Tyrone ever since. She was a member of the Watkins Glen Presby terian church. Besides her husband, she leaves one son, Walter Malloy of Altay, and three grandchildren. The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at the Altay Baptist church, with the Rev. William Perry of Ham mondsport officiating. Interment was in the Tyrone cemetery. BAPTIST BAZAAR and Cafeteria Supper, December 7. PURINA FEEDS for sale. Beans and Buckwheat wanted. Watson & O ’ Brien, Inc. Dundee Bowling Scores During the Past Week NATIONAL BANK Bentz ....... ........ 174 145 196 515 McKenna . ........ 156 163 171 490 1 Lane ....... ........ 153 196 149 498 Shaw ....... ........ 145 160 151 456 Boeck ;.... ........ 158 180' 162 500 — ___ Totals ........ 786 844 829 2459 MICHAELS STERN McClure .. ........ 176 158 132 466 Vernon ... ........ 147 143 150 440 Blind/ ....... ........ 125 125 180 430 Riche ....... ........ 115 147 126 388 i Whitaker . ....... 160 167 164 4911 ___ . Totals ....... 723 740 752 2215 WAGNER HOTEL Mallory .. ....... 191 185 159 535 Salisbury . ....... 178 195 155 528 Abbott ... ..... 136 113 183 432 Smith .... ....... 152 191 179 522 Tinney ... ....... 154 147 180 J 481 Totals ....... 811 831 856 2498 DUNDEE STATE BANK Depew ... ......... 150 179 163 492 Blind .... ....... 125 125 125 375 Greyback ........ 123 131 125 379 Oughterson .... 100 132 142 374 Moseley .. ......... 163 163 176 502 ___ ___ . 1 Totals ....... 661 731 731 2123 6.00 x 16 Tires, $10, with 18 months guarantee. Dundee Motors. 23-2 21-3 WANTED— Live Poultry. E. A. Beers Boy Scouts of Dundee and other places in the Finger Lakes Council will he deeply interested in the fact that a new Scout Camp has been made an immediate certainty. An anony mous gift of a large sum of money to ° T . „ -i o 4. e of the Knitting Knook in Watkins Finger Lakes Council, Boy Scouts of - . & x , America, will make possible the im mediate purchase and development of a summer camp on Seneca Lake. Announcement of the gift was made at a special meeting of the Board of Directors Tuesday night in Geneva. The directors and other Council officers were guests of Su preme Court Justice Nathan D. Lap- ham, chairman of a special committee which has been seeking funds for the camp project. The Council includes troops in Ontario, Yates and Seneca counties, and George Lawson of this place is the president. Justice Lapham said that the donor had requested that his name be with held in connection with the gift but he indicated that he hoped later to persuade him to permit the name to be used. An option on the purchase of a 147-acre site on the east shore of Seneca Lake, south of Willard, ex pired Tuesday night but the directors were able to . exercise the option for the purchase of the land. The price was set at $3,000. Funds are avail able to start development work im mediately. The new site is considered ideal. There is an excellent beach and the tract is heavily wooded, with many attractive glens and spaces for troop camps, athletic fields and the like. Good water is available. The site is easily reached, on good highways. According to present plans several buildings will be constructe'd and tents will be used to shelter the boys. Maps have been drawn and the ten tative layout approved. The plans call for accommodations next summer for 75 boys per week, plus leadership. Glen, has invented a streamlined clothes drier to be known as the Mofan Drier. It has been patented and is being manufactured in Odessa. Have your car made ready for the cold weather: grease, oil, anti-freeze, etc. We call for and deliver free of charge. Dundee Motors. 23-2 Dressed Ducks, Geese and Fowls. Mrs. Guy Kaufman, Himrod. Order early. 23-1-p We note where a conscience stricken patron recently forwarded fifty cents to the Reading railroad with a note that fifty years ago he had beaten the railroad company out of a fare. Here is the nub of a great idea. If all those who have beaten the railroads in the past fifty years will proceed to contribute to the conscience fund, the present stringency being experienced by the railroads will be considerably relieved. — Exchange. * * * * Even the staid old cut-and-dried election routine has its sensational side. Clerks in Middlesex were obliged Tuesday to count the ballot of a man whose death notice appeared in the papers of the same day. El- nathan Meade, 93, native of the little farming settlement, died in Battle Creek, Michigan, Monday night and one of the last acts of his career on Monday was to mail his absentee bal lot to his “ hometown ” voting place. The ballot of the man who had pass ed on thus was among the absentees counted in Tuesday ’ s election. A Civil War veteran, he also was known as the “ man with a hole through his head, ” due to the fact that in the Bat tle of the Wilderness he was the vic tim of a minnie ball which passed through his head, entering near the left eye, emerging in front of his right eye. — Penn Yan Democrat. * * * » A movement is under way local ly sponsored by the Wayland credit j bureau, for arranging for street light- , ing and decorations for the holiday season. The idea is being received very favorably and it is planned to hold a dinner meeting next Monday night to discuss details and plans. Business men will be notified later re garding time and place of the meet ing. — Wayland Register. Several good buys in Used Carsand I Trucks. Dundee Motors. 23-2 9x12 Linoluem rugs only $3.98 now I at CORCORAN ’ S, PENN YAN | CHICKEN DINNER at the Himrod Parsonage Friday Evening, Nov. 18, at 5:30 50 cents, 35 cents Come and Enjoy a Good Dinner 4-H Achievement Day | More than 300 4-H Club boys and ! girls, leaiders, and parents attended • the annual 4-H Club Achievement Day ■ held in the Junior High School at Penn Yan on Saturday, November 12. j The speaker, Mrs. Veda Warner, a j local 4-H leader in Ontario, a member j 4-H Executive Committee in Ontario j County, and also Camp Mother at j Western New York 4-H Camp since ! its beginning two years ago, spoke : about the opportunities in 4-H Club (work for rural boys and girls; and J urged them to try for better 4-H Club work. The trip to the National Club Con gress at Chicago was awarded to Virginia Kelsey of Seneca Club. This trip is sponsored by the Yates County Bankers Association. Movies, skits, and reports of trips, singing and other awards were also part of the program. Awards for project championships went to Twila Titus, Milo Merry Makers Club of Second Milo for food's; Pauline Way and, Happy Go. Lucky Club of Voak for clothing; Natilee Moon, Lakemont Loyal Lassies for room improvement; Howard Hendrick, Dundee Club, poul try; Milton Christensen, Seneca Club of Penn Yan, swine; Ralph Spencer, Beartown Club at Lakemont, potatoes; Mervin Swing, Norsemen Club of Ben ton, forestry; Laura Howell, Dundee Club, dairy; George Ardrey, Dundee Club, sheep; Rudolph Elwell, Middle sex Valley Ramblers Club, garden. Tioga Awards went to Howard Hen drick, Dundee, and Ralph Shamplin of Yatesville for the best cockerel and pullet respectively at the Penn Yan Fair. Kraft-Pheonix Cheese Com pany awarded medals to winning County Demonstration Teams in Dairy Club work. The Yates Coun ty boys to receive this award were, Donald Emorv of Middlesex and Leon Stiles of the Sen-U-Ka Club at Milo Center. , The Softball Championship was played off in the morning between the team winning in the southern section and the one in the northern section of the county. The two teams were Potter Benton Club and the Dundee Club. The score was Potter Benton 3, Dundee 7. To the winner goes the county cup for Softball championship. E. Freer Finnigan, secretary-treas urer of the Yates County Bankers As sociation and vice president of the Citizens Bank of Penn Yan presented the award of the Chicago trip to Vir ginia Kelsey in behalf of the Associ ation. He then presented some special awards made by the Citizens Bank at the Yates County Fair. After this he presented achievement pins to 265 boys and girls. These pins are given to club members in New York state by the New York State Bankers Association. Egg Contest Report Home Egg Laying Test reports from Leon Stiles and Howard Hen drick received at the 4-H Club Office for October show that Leon ’ s flock of 70 pullets laid 1380 eggs, an average of 19.7 eggs per bird. Howard ’ s flock of 100' White Leghorns laid 1461 eggs, an average of 14.6 eggs per bird in the month. These are fairly good averages, being between 50% and65%. These flocks have not bqen laying long, so this is, indeed, a record for so early in the season. The Woman ’ s Study Club The next meeting of the Woman ’ s Study Club will be held next Tuesday afternoon, November 22, at the home of Mrs. Webster. The following pro gram is being prepared: Roll Call —A Well Known Painting. Paper — Mission Schools and Hospitals .. ................................. Mrs. Grimes Reading — Pre-emption Road ...... ..................................... Mrs. Pierce O. E. S. BAKE SALE Saturday, Nov. 19, at 10:00 a. Swarthout ’ s Store Business in Dundee Dundee is to have a new lumber business December 1st. W. F. Ma- creery of Watkins Glen has leased the New York Central Railroad freight house and will put in a line of lumber, doors, windows, building materials, and the like. He expects to be ready for business December 1st. He has also leased the building across Harpending avenue which formerly was used by the Sworts Pro duce Company as an office, and will fit it up for office use. Mr. Macreery has been considering the opening of a branch business here some time, and thinks the time has come for such expansion. The local manager has not yet been appointed. The announcement of their opening appears on page seven this week. Dundee Pastor, Wife Hurt When Car Skids Rev. Thomas W. Carter, pastor of the Dundee and Barrington Baptist churches, and Mrs. Carter, were both severely injured Sunday afternoon when their automobile skidded on the wet pavement near the Fish Hatchery in the town of Bath, and struck a tree and a roadside stand. They were on their way to> Bath, where they were to attend the funeral of Mrs. Charles Dean, a friend and former parishoner. I Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter were taken to the Bath Hospital, where they still are patients. , Mr. Carter suffered injuries about the head, eye and arm, and Mrs. Car ter ’ s injuries are about her chest, i Both/ were badly bruised. [ It is stated by witnesses of the ac cident that Mr. Carter was driving about 30 to 35 miles per hour, and that when his car skidded on the wet road he was unable to regain control. Several other cars have recently bumped into, the same tree. This piece of road is especially slippery when wet. 40th Anniversary Party at Lester Clark Home I Mr. and Mrs. Lester K. Clark were pleasantly surprised at their home on the pre-emption road south of the vil lage last Wednesday evening, the oc casion being their 40th wedding an niversary. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richtmeyer and daughter Charlena, Mr. Lynn Marshall and Mrs. Lewis Peck of Watkins Glen, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Richtmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Richtmeyer and children of Reading Center, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Sproul and Miss Olive Meade of Pine Grove. The evening was spent playing games after which delicious refresh ments were served. State Official Arrested Radio news broadcasts Wednesday announced that Charles A. Harnett, commissioner of motor vehicles in this state, had been arrested by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey on charges of bribery and extortion. The charges claimed that sums of money totaling $67,000 had been in volved in certain transactions between the Commissioner and certain trans portation and taxicab companies. m. Regular Powertown Batteries, $5 up. Dundee Motors. 23-2 [_ Here ’ s Where We Get Thrown for a Loss ! 1 (