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A ^ ■ I # Pomfmtl AiiXT\ 'rtj[ir r\Kvr% 'SiT ~~ ‘‘ ^ ^ , ■ . , . -I ■ . S ^ PER YtAR IN ADVANCB , . the OLD RELIABLE pEMOCRAtlC FAMILy NI&WSP a PER OF f EBYABLISHED IN m . YOU o x tv \Kd. 2 t :. ^ ^ - fl: .-.-I...-:,,:-.. ... ^ eOQPERSTO#K, OTSEGO COXJlsyTY, 2^. Y., WED3^ESDAY, EBBBUARY 1,1922 WHOLE ISO. 5W3 refomtation /First Cottipsiny Orgariiz*. iB T O F T S ® P L A iIiB Papularity of the Reforesting' MoVe- ment Shown in Sev;fnty-eigh.t Plantations , , ^ £ i £ j s g f s s a f ^ ”s : moreraent for reforesting idle lands throngdiout the State, More than 1,-; 90«,000 trees already have been fa: nished to applicants in Otsego Com ty from State nurseries toy the C m serration Commission arid a p no growing in 78 plantations, the si5 of the plaintations ranging\ f: January, of this : hex 'of applicant >r than 01 larger than o n the corresponding last'year. ■irhis demand comes from farn reaUs, fish arid game club-S, • v.---- ■ worlcs companies, towns, villages .and forestry .companies which issue stock and use the funds so obtained to re forest idle lands.- The 'first company jf this kind in this State is the Ot- \e e o Forestry Company at Coopers- res tation. The 2 onta also acres for reforestation. -The Bainbridge Fish and Game rhib has 40 acres which'difis reforest- Cotmty ptota- ^AJternocin?^^ Many Important , ^^uestions BroUghit tip in General pisciis- eapally o f general discussioi .. farm pi-actices which have been de-; istraM (by the Bureau to be the ; to fetiffw,,- he New York Mi jDoardi and the pairyni cently agreed to mak_ —- „ fluid milk on the Warren formul^ This formula is based on ayerages. All of those farmers who produce nulk at t than this average ^re; ,ller net profit than those Some New Income . Fax l.aw Facts WMl Assist You In Sending Whetht|ir Or Not You Must Make a Report 111 making nitt-iia incoine tax re turn TEor 1921, the average taxpayer win find \a condderaible saving in com.. licome was !,000 for Uiarried vidual power to control are those which have to do with pisoduction. The Bureau is in a position to give much assistance toward efficiency. Bureau 'meetings held last week were a'fc Maple Grove, Edmestpn, South Edmeston, South New Berlin, Mt. Upton and Rockdale, four of which were held in cooperation with V. A. Fogg, Agent * for Chena County. Mr. Barlow also assisted Foggiwith a meeting at Columbus Centei'.-*’ President S. X. Strivings of the State Federation of Faim Bureaus was the principal speaker at the Go lumbus Center'meeting which ^ in held on January 27th. He stated Returns • i Foil Crew W)1 for the reason that be- cause o f i f the railroads _of_ the ^state St?ite Sheep Orowers’ _ Hold Aitnual Meeting operative cuse ;on Jan. 6-7, was the most ^ue hessM \yet Jhel<X point u f -construe tion work and attendance. There wen Sieiilft^ter’r s S S n ? Jtsego County Sheep Breeders’ iociation, was the delegate from itjgo, represehting fhis County ’ \ lite of the' past .two uhpre- c more. Undex the revenue act of 918 the personal exemptdoh allowed as $2i6o6j Or more. 1918 the per_, _____ ______________ ,, a married person was $2;000i regard less Of the amount o f net income; Th( personal exemption allowed a’nSarriei person applies also to the head of « I suppoi rare re _________ Ik prices are the best in l» yeai-s of age or incapable of self- the Country. The only^factors which vidual p^wer to control are those to $400, , , __ requires that a retui^be filed by every single person whose net income for 1921 was $1,000 or more, fery married person whose net in- >me was |?5,09O or more, and, by every pevson~single or ^ .married— whose gross income was ' $5,000 The requirememt to file a return of gross income of $5,000 or more re gardless of net income is a new pro- vis-ipn. Net income i§ gross income less certain specified deductions for business esxpenses, losses, bad debtS; etc., which are fully explained on -the forms. Returns must be filed by married combined net incoi prefectiifg ‘ me'So S-TInb pouhds^ of wopl. The [ud^ 412*620 total charges period TROLtoTINDEX Accident Occurred FH- daif Afternoou / Passenger Car - Pushing Freight Gar Ahead Prevented Motbrinan Seeing Victim Byton i Naylor of Gilhertsville was : ; instantly killed Friday afternoon ; \ndex crossing, Getman of Oneonta held btion in the office of per pound. The 1921 p( consists of 583,520 pom costs chargeable against to 3% cents per pound. 'I'lUrl ty associations pave shipped 1921 pool. These -vyools are graded approximately as follows^l^ blood combiiig 31%—% blood combing 25% and 14 blood combing 28%-—other grades from 1-5%. Boston markets on Jan. 15th quote these grades from ,32-40 cents per pound. The wool market has ?e paying annually $2,000,00' lecessary labor. From 1919 to th^ 2341 men have been kill unnec. — ——- , present time 2341 men have been kill ed in the United States by railroads, hut not a single man hecai lack of help. Several £ \|;: 5 l 5 S S s i - ................................. ? York State. the repeal of i',ioo I act, he said that the cost of trans- ®-?SS I portation may be reduced. One half slooo.the freight traffic of the United States is that of commodities to or from farms, consequently as a class they are vitally interested in a reduction of freight rates. . Mr. Strivings pled for more effici ent cooperation among farmers, and between them aqd local dei doubt the wisdom of your q with the man you deal with loc he said. It is his opinion that •ms 104OA for incomes of $5,000 id 1040 f o r incomes in ex- !;!!! ”1 ii ’ mo \iis 411 'IS ' ’Sr\ 5 . £ h f s ; : ; ,:::; r.5£ u , “willful r< cess ^of $5,00O may be obtained from the offices of crollectors of intemal revenue and branch offices, tax may be paid in full at the time of filing the return, or in four equal in- tallments, due on or before March’ 15, June 15, Septonabor 15, and Decem- Will StudF Farm Cp operation in State American Farnt Bureau Federation will _ use successful Experiences a Organization Research ijucntly, dealers are more inclii luy their cards on the table i deal squarely also. He paid a tribute to the banks of the state for the cooperation which they are giving farmers. During the war many, if not all, who serve farm ers, borrowed of the \Federal Reserve att sevinevin percentrcent andnd loaneded itt att 6 ■nt, that a s pe a loan i a ( leds might be met. Oneonta Votes For Big-ger Parks ;£i: '•«| m m s i - z iff. Jrttal ...... ................... . ........... m33,?00 The importance of' reforesting de nuded lands or ab^donjd farins^js hccofining better ■he derived. ___ The proposal to extend the s $25,000 in .the development of recrea tional facilities and in improvements of Neahwa and Wilber parks was car ried at the special election at Oneonta Thursday by a majority of 61, the vote cast being 407 . for, and 346 against—a close yet decisive vote con sidering the size’ of the vote cast. The proposition authorizing the ex penditure of $5,500 or so much there of as may be necessary for the pui’- chase of a new ambulance was defeat ed by the more decided majority of 207, the vote being 261 for, and 468 against. 10, or of the combined gross ii ! equaled or exceeded $5,000. ’he period for filing returns is from luary 1 to March 15, 1922. _ Heavy lalties are provided for failure or refusal’' to file a return on better quotations on farm supplies will used by ofllciqls of the Ai prices 1 quotatioi arm Bur ig fundai wood, geh York Fan be V Fan by ofllcials of ireau FedCrati merican tablish- lis, together with thi trade has. reluctantly admit, there now is a seSarfeity. of good seem to indicate’ that the wool jrs will find a demand that thei lips, now in the pool. . The manufacturing oSf* i ■blan.kets and suitings, h profitable operatii i trolley ca ork Railwa tear the Ii Coroner an. dnvestigation in the office of Dis trict Attorney' A. A. Pierson' Satur- I day but his decision which will be ; awaited -with interest has not been announced. i.\ iNaylor was oii his way to Coo; town: after a.-lo^d o f milk cans fo dairymen’s League and as ,he \was but of the road, tbouj' ■ ■ ' edd out foir e out fo anoither car or vehicle, to •pass. The road and trolley_ track run parallel for some little distance and the caj' which struck and killed him was a j* milk car being pushed J of the trolley. He was out of definitely known hpW he came t< on the track unless to signal the mo- torman, who cOuld n o tje seen behipd the milk car. The car tossed the unfortuni late max _____________________, -,_--.kihg his neck, fracturing his left arm and in flicting pumerous lacerations upon his left shoulder. Death was ins eous. The body was remov< nearby farm house, where vie-wed by Dr. Atwell. It is a singular coincidence that . been mother was killed on the same trol A profitable operation and some 61,- ley line several years ago, leaving 750 pounds of wool have been used Byron, a lad of seven or eight. His up in this way. Owing to the pres- body was removed to Brown’s Under ent market outlook, however, the taking Parlors at Cooperstown on per- directors of the State Association de- mit of the coroner and Saturday ta- cided the manufacture 'of our wools ken to the home of his uncle, AFred will not be extended beyond the point w . Naylor, near Mt. Vision, where of working up into suitings the small • the funeral - - balance of the wool now at the mill. noon at 1:3( It .was decided that steps should ^ a . M., oi be taken to dispose of the remaining, the services v wool in the 1920 and 1921 pools he- mother at Mt. Vision ( fore the next clip ciraes in and the non was twenty-eight years old. >cee6s distributed to ttie members since a young lad, most of his Itf for the wool • • . - One Hundred Years Ago PEOM” THE FILES G# THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL ..... ^ A ---- _ t f rbm ing streams . ...................... e money . bark iil such an ehter- elevatibn of the lake Above the canal is about 500 feet suinmdt level locks might he made each way; there b^- in abundance to feed t h e ^ of precaution—thisl interesting novel ented in the annals of American liter- . ------- -- .4 already called for. We learn with much pleasure that the author is nbvsf^|engaged in writiiig’a novel to be called “The Pioneers, or the Sourle? of the Susquehanna.” He has lected a most Interesting porti*^ of our western country for his cidents as we kpow by a residence of years in its neighborhooidi nticipate great delight iii clamberijjg With our .author thA ‘'66'='4, Ar o*l5rfino* in J q ; nnnr lectato,! and we anticipate great delight iii clambering With our author rugged mountains of Otsego or gliding in * , canoe upon the sur face of the silver lake whence flows the Susquehanna. Stone's - Spectato,r. ' ' \ Died at Plainfield on the 29 ult. Polly Lloyd ] James Lloyd And daughter of Mr. lj)_aniel Coon.. I 18 wife of Mr. 1 of Cooperstovm.' When the British Captured Holy Land The Interesting Story of The Las I , Crusade” Told by Major Vivian istantan-, • _ 'ed tft a' it Was 'On Gilbert ip Knox School ^One of the most interesting lec tures yet given before the Knox School Association of Liberal Arts was that of Major Vivian Gilbert Saturdi “The Junior Extension Board Meet Work Outlined for Remainder of Year —Finances Cared for by Commit tee. Bankers to Support Work ‘ ___ jf Major Vivian Gilb on rday evening, whose subject was s Romance of the Last-Crusade.” >r Gilbert is an actor, and when istribut s settlements, f One important change *was made in the constitution of the State Associa tionloox havitigitig too doo withith thehe paymentayment hav t d w t p of membership dues; thfS to the ef fect that the State_ Assotiiation, when _______ State Atssui.«u,iuii, wu instxTicted by the County Associatu shall deduct the dues of a membi from the sale of his product. It was thought that such a plan might facili- the collection of tate and simplify >rk and or- ly in which agriculture Bureau Ft nounced recently. Convinced that team ganization is the only farmers can hope to pli on a more stable aijd prosperous basis, official^ltf. the national feder ation will use the experiences of co operative associations throughout the country to find out how best to carry on their work with the greatest bene fit to members. Practices of state organizations, the Co-6{ierative Grange League Feder ation Exchange, the Maple Producers’ Co-operative Association,' the New York State Canning Crops Growers’ Co-operative Association and others will be gathered together and sent to the national federation. It is believed •’ • ke valuable m fl,tro0 Treasury Savings Certificates Postoffice Department Reports New Issue of Government Securities In Great Demand Postthaster Catley announces that he has been advised by the Post Of fice Department that the demand for the $1,000 denomination of the New Issue of Treasury Savings Certifi cates, has so far exceeded the ex pectations o f the Treasury Depart ment that the original orjer placed with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is practically exhausted. '.The succes’s which has attended the sale of the New Issue and the grati fication felt by the Departments in Washington is expressed by Third Assistant Postmaster Glover in the following term iince a young lad, me____ ____ has been spent in Gilhertsville and t held the esteem and friendship of ei the community and a inore id lilfeable chap would be hard to find. He saw seivice in the World War and on hjs retuA entered into a partnership with Linn \F. Bish op in the -trucking business, which they conducted under the name of B. & N. Trucking Co. For the past two years he has made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. Ho leaves a father, Lewis Naylor, of Morris, and a mar ried sister, Jessie, who now Ihri Albany. The high he was Cooperstown Dairymen Eleceted Officers The annual meeting rstown Dairymen’s Les of the Coop 'biiportunity to Honor irymen’s League Co-op< iaffoii was held Ijere Sati ors were ele c-rl: George M. More,. F. A. McEwan,, Williahi'''Arnlstrong, Clyde Bleffcoe and Howard Clark:. Jessie :Shepherd; Silas Kniskei-n and Roy Reinsendorf were elected audi- At\ a meeting of the directors the •tunity TO a Great American ire^^ 'IHoward If You Have a Cold Arfierican whereby r reby Tubli aged and tofTiohi , erfeate a me ie service will be en- spicuoiisly recogniz- '^^h^Fo^\' i Awa recog jrvice.'. sed in this lieve in , , , , principles that VVoodrow Wi s6 conspicuously chanlpioned, wish to perpetuate the mfii r l' S ii lieve in ^ h o U /S e r t f and%mpcrati( - • ' ■’ t Woodrow Wilsoij ha? in this state. With standard nrethods of organiz ing and operating co-operative asso ciations established from actual ex periences, officers of the national anc state farm bureau federations are con vinced the woi'k of securing better marketing methods vvill be speeded up and the value of organization to •farmers increased^ ^ 'eaty. Case Against Buff Is Dismissed _jllowmg terms: , “The unprecedented)yiemand for the New Issue of Treasury Savings Cer tificates has been due to the traciiveness of the^ invest: Treasury and the Postmaster Gen eral appreciate the interest pf the postmasters in making the Govern- anleorti’s unifi'ed savings program success.” Postmas der Geneiral at the <capture o 5 of Jevusalei qualified to tell his stoly of Ihis^last now lives_iu .„.x esteem in which he was held was justified: by the num ber who journeyed to Mt. Vision on Monday for his funeral and by the many^beautiful flpral tributes, SURROGATE’S COURT for Week. c m s ending Junuary f l l f l i s S Ksfntp of Kirzn.Lnfh niakMy. lath of thh City ofs Onconm. Frorpoilinj? for Admlnls- Ksstnth of ThoninB H. Diinlap. lato of ynadllla, Proci*eillnjr for Admlnistratihii. i{i*arRt» Prhntich and Willis fCIch praisers enurtd. UrdiT to publisl to rrpilitors ont<*rr»L Estnth of H arry R. Powhll. lato of tho City of Onooma. Procoedins: for' compul sory .T( counting. Citation Ibvsutd rulurnable ild -r^t^rr-c onhv, an Infant. Petition to uro . from prln- med to ior, hav -il life with ior, havng fought his way land of his bdttalion. Un| > Allenby he , if Beofsheba, tl and the was present ;he tak- lituh ;ory of .this last d greatest' crusade in the Holy .rilL In the telling of it, he com- inds into action those impoi mands into action ' inforcements a pleasini tant re- sonality on ■ the 6th and to receive report < committee which met with the con mittee from the Bankers’ Associatio: of ;rqm the Bankers’ Association, Report of treasurer showed a baL ance on hand of $7.66. Bills Ainpaiid for 1922 amounting to about four hundred dollars, but that there were sufficient outstanding funds not paid to more than meet ,aame. ------- The report of the special commit tee \yas received as follows: As aor- ranged, the committee met in ■the Di rectors’ Room of the First National ik, Cooperstown, with Mr. Georg ervals o iblished a water sysl 'er been, known in the Holy Land. After the ■ Jerusa’ !f“ieaxni army *estal %vhich h a d ------ ,— history of the Holy L ----- ----- British occupation of Jerusalem, the British Army offtcersf^ieaxned of-un old Arab prophesy which proclaimed that the'’' Christians., from the west would occupy the Holy land when the waters*of the Nile,flowed into Pales tine. This was one of the_ many inter esting anecdotes of Blajbr Gilbert’s excellent address. He also said that excellent when theAral ____ . acuation'^was dccompISht^ beto^^^ The feeling of this committee was • British Army was avvare of it, the' that the money put into Junior IIx- keys of the city being turned over b y , tension Work by a bank was not a the Mayor to a private soldier con- donation by that bank but an invest- LTan? f e f 'U iS c»«\.y the actual ,ev- . help. airman of t ‘ of the County ______ , 5h. Your committee pre sented the work being accomplished in the county by the Junior Extension Board. They outlined plans that sev eral counties in New York State wero follbwing in supporting financially s’ and Girls’ Club Work, and gave from Mr. locui ct/uji jr ‘ cers* Asso _____ ___ views as expressed by several baok- ers in the state as well as here in Ot sego County. The parties as men- tioixedAvere-most-favorahly impressieib— with the Junior Extension work as b e ing canned on and gave their consent to recommending to the banks of the county that they help support tic work of Bays’ and Girls’ Clubs. Tkey agreed further to work out a plan omd submit same to each bank in the county and ask their cooperation amd - _ - ______ hat most of t!hc , remainder of funds were in sight ‘ through the action by the report as j given it was moved and unanimously Herkimer’s. Pour , . \ _ Murder Trials, g*®'.; W _____ Boards of Education, funds from Fair Nearly S4(.00„ Slaughter Cases Last Year—^Tiiis I county fair exhibits, etc., were dis- Year Piwnises to Be Heavy j cussed before adjournment. Louis Buff, proprietor o.f the Aub rey Hotel in Mohawk, which place was raided last June by state troopers x x a v ; c a . v . „ . M T r v T h i s R e m e d y violation of the llquor law; The case - of Urtz was disposed of when he paid. a fine of $100. Last week, on the motion of District Attorney Ward, that part of the indietnient which re lated to Buff was dismissed. It was e.stablished that Buflf was n o t ■ m charge of the place at the time of the raid. S f f lot .1 hotJsmonade while you aje taking it, stay in the hot bath half an hour. This will put you in a good perspir ation. 'then sponge off, get bet\ the° sheets and^the next day you get up feeling well S S Otego Objects to 1 to perpeta Atxleriea’s great Kwery dollar leader. <crited_ will^ be [fcten. r will receive a cer-j f ' r of the Woodrow'lj S n o i t o o t a l S S . * c .«,r.lserving of a formal notice uppn the; liScate as a Fou i Award. Idrij iu.iu. romination, and they are not sub ject to depreciation nor^market fluctu ation. If redemption,, if'made before maturity accumulated interest is paid at the rate of 3 1/2 per cent per an num compounded semi-annually. DM Foolers or Dairy men’s League W ti State Orange to Meet-Feb. 7 sy Grange will be 7 in Bingr- ■■n n and a committ ton Grange is m?^ihg el irations for the eutertain- delegates. More than imto and of Binghafnti rate prepai ieji.t of thi mittee ^ 4 memhi ) expect so folk^ W^’t |lip,” it announced.— 2 Daifymen's Lea| an Infant. Gtinotlian’s Inventory and Ac- liming victory in a recent decision inded down by Justice Gheiiey of Syracuse vacating the irijunc|doh re cently granted against the Dairyman’s League, Inc,, And' the Dairymen’s League Co-opera^ve Association. The question ihvolvedv was the right of the Dairymen’s League Officials to pay. trials facing IIiTk?inor roimly tWs R i c h f i e l d S p r i n g s W i l l f 1 ifcAhS if iS'i'uL fuTLrt! HavftBaseball TearffA I budget for the year ivill be drawm on ; > L I heavily again. Last year approxi- Devotees of National Sport OrganLze'* ■ mately $40,000 was spent by the, _pjan Big Season for Fans— 1SS «^!M!:5%SSS?SS i - the Salvatore Polizzi cases, and the i Richfield Springs is to feave base-'* county tax went iip from $9.38 to | ball during the coming season. ‘ A] $12.15 per $1,000 of assessed valua-' meeting pf several intererted in llie i Ddii Rose Travels. OnSnowshoes - _____ ,mlt for the eight men 1 or Don W, Rose of Otse'go cotiintyj put on hi's anowshi i,u has Iph Getman, noW( - serving _ out ; sentence for grand Jarceny in Ar kansas. Getman, who is to answer a dxarge olf having mm’dered his: wife in a Little Falls room- oiise in 1916, is to be djs- ;d by the western autharities and'will be' returned to Herkimer in June. Interest in this case runs high^ ^toughbut the county and the trial is sure to attract heavy attention. , . In addition to the Getman trial, ■the case of Rutger Warder may -— file attention of the inty :Supl'exne Court a new trial has be«n body. The case would already have been disposed 6f had i t not been for . cei'tain' technicalities' in the filing . of briefs. In the meantime Warder , 'is gt- Sing DMg un^der i^. stay of ex ecution pending the. ■verdict of .iDourt of Appeals. _ _______ ‘Did that patent medicine you ught •cure yoUr • atrnt^” “Mercy, ! On reading the bobMet that Was wx'apped arount the bottle, she got' former member tworimore. diseases;'” — Boston Tranl i Giants, has signed .to.m script.' . . anta baseball team the D, Cary, H. C. Broekway, I, Df. H. \V. Frink, George- iohn McNamara, and Ray. assistant. Reckham, John McNamara, anc Sbaul. John McGrath will be ager and Howard M\ Curtis ass manager of the' association. ,The other olRaeirs- of the. organize tion effected will be as.follows: Her bert E. Schboley, jpresident; George Schneider, vice preSiejent; Herman ’C. House, secretary, ,and V. J. Daly, treasurer. It ii^.n 0 i.^the pui*pose -of _ _ _ the association ffco break into tiie A motion for a new trial has bee league but ^rathe.r to organize a home xnade to the Court of Appeals and teafn -which may be supplemented with the arguing of the motion is to be outside'talent as the season progres- outside'talent as the season progres- • ses. It is also plahned to give a bemfei fit entertainment later oh tg raise funds for the building of spectators seating space.- ' • Bridwell to Manage Orieoiita Team A. H, Bridwell, bettef kiiowii to it Was the baseball fraternity as “Al” and a le go t' former member of 4,the: • New Yofl; Tram I Giants, has signed .to.manage the Orae- ' ig seasQu. ... (
