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ANDTHEONEONTA PRESS $2.00 PEft YEAR . I N ADVANCE THE OLD RELIABLE DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER OF OTSEGO COUNTY esta b l ish e d in 1806 VOIi. c x i v x o . m . COOPERSTOWX, OTSEGO COUIsTy, X. Y., WEDNESDAY, IfERRUABY &, 1922 WHOLE XO. 5914 ‘ To Take Away Right to Elect Town Superintendent to be Appointed If Bill Passes.—A Mighty Good Idea Assembl^an Oharles L. Banks, of rhenango, has just introduced ahother measure in the state legislature; that vull probably not meet the approval Find Old Letters at Hartwick Seminary Says Professor John H. Dudde in the Hartwick Seminary r Monthly tersi „ Room. New fl daily and they portance. On Librarian found ai;go county. Heretofore town supex-intender ee beenn electeded by thee vo\oters , but the h.av bee elect by th v of the; luvvns, but the measure as introduced: .■y assemblyman Banlis provides for, the appointment of town superintend- oiits of highways by town hbards. \'i)ters will probably object to the time honored principle of choosing! their own officers being taken away from them surreptitiously. They wish to name their own officers, and it would seem the pait of wisdom for ■Mr. Banks to “let well enough alone’’ Hiid to continue to allow the voters to : the officers who shall conduct 1 by : read once aiit tee on interna! . Section 1. ibex* 20 th the old archives of Long Search Is Ended Herd’s Grave Is Found “Th^s Five Pighting Flints” Plan Meeting at Canajoharie Memorial Day to Organize « rith the-Jt^ceht discovery 'at Ava, iida_ county, pf the grave^ of as Librarian foun the bid archives of the institution in the bottoixt of two bid tioxnks. The first document he found was the xnanuSciript of Dr. Pbhl- man’.s Memorial Voluine o f 1866. This, seemed to be the latest document in the whole collection o i hundreds of old letters and papers. Some of thbni are dated before 1750. They include let ters written by John\'' Christopher Hartwick', Frederick Muhlenberg, the first Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, William Cooper, the fatlier of the novelist, and Jeremiah Van- Renselaer, Lieut- Governor of New York-and Executor of Hartwick’s will. Dr. Pohlman was evidently the .last one to exaniine them carefully, and even he adinits' that the documents The following is the measure as In- Hartwick. In other words, irodueed by Mr. Banks. It has been here are documents which have not ___ t __ _ been examined bv any one now liv- on Memorial d.ay. perfected for a pi tipn of the pG^terity brothers. Mr. Flint 1as in his efforts tc his efforts to gather fanxily history and has expended' mueh .time and oney in the search. Thomas Flint i to the conimit- __ Lion 1. chapter thix-ty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, en^ ;itled “An act relating to highways, — instituting chapter twenty-five of .he consolidated laws,” is hei’eby am- . ii'Icd by inserting therein,'after sec- ,;.in forty-one-h, a new. section, to be -i , tion forty-one,j-e, to read as fol- ■ ll-c. ,\pp«intmont and term of :1,; of townnupdrintendents in Cben- county. In any town in the of Thenangh, the town supex-- , li icnt of highways, hex-eafter shall the town board. Such constituted after each xeeting next preceding if the term of office of I r - .. i.eu.lining of the term of office of , ',.\vn superintendent,.-^ali meet ,.i iii.ine such appointment. In such in a town in which the town .i cllng is held at the time of a j ; i-;.-. t ion, the term of the supe -u , ..1 highways all begin on the January succeeding such \ such cou: !i,c< And in a town of such coun ts .1, vvhuh the town meeting is held ,0,. I time, such term\^all be ll nuM-ung. ulgf dlV' l-cj term of ov tenure Bf of- (1...W i .-, and duties of any -town : ii.n .- li i.i hex'etofore elected in Thus act shall take effect im- ■ ciiiately. In another part of . the Library we found a first and German edition of the Ilallische Nachrichten presented to the Semifiary by Dr. Wenner about forty years ago. They are over a hundred and fifty years old. Togeth- • with these we found two manu scripts volumes, one, somewhat of a diary. Date 1728 and 17.80. 'W'riter: John Christopher Hartwick when a boy of 14 and'lG-ii.n Germany. There are about five hundred pages in his hand writing Fire Causes $30,000 Loss af^Sidney •oke out at 6:20 Mon- npletely destroyed all 1, except the dtle of Lake George hawk and Che^u-y Valley ed the Frefich.' ' Accordii en-y Valley he died in 1758. League Buys the Unadilla Plant | [fail Buildings of Globe Silo Company Destroyed by Fire Monday Evening Fire which brok day evening compl of the buildings, except the Globe Silo Compan:f, at Sidney, costing a loss consex-vativeffy estimat ed at $30,000. It is understood that insurance will covel about 80'’1 of the The fire started-presumably from a hot box on a planer which had been running at top speed all day and aid- ed by a strong wind soon reduced the Dr. 'William .! group of wooden buildings to a smoul- ei-town, a descendant; deving heap of ashes. Good work on .,f Robert of Albany, the part of the fire department and The descendants of ' • letachinent of Str\ ’ \ Afkville Creamery Plant Is Still Idle Two Plans Possibly May Soon Restore The Dffiaware And.Grc.fene Opera- : .’thg-ffuture X erearmex-y' yTlant- elec- s to ■plans’ wffi^ be h been tireless ainily hist< ish crown 1,000 acres in_ bany from Manmoutlx county. New Jerbey, in 1725 and bega.n trading vyith the Indians *^|ong the Mohawk, aeahng lay^.e y xn fui. The elder Robert Flint was conn sioiiSd by the Bi’itish goveramenl nd leiixtenant and was in c New York firm that purotxased a small creaxnery in that section, was. interested in the plant at one time! and it was generally rumored that. ' hey had bought it, but the report was intrue. Li !^<.n:b iiave ueen soiu aa weu as me concrete Mbeks that were in the yax’d. United States Judge Frank Cooper has issued an ox-der that the plaixt may be sold for $50,000. This includ es evex-ythiiigi except that the purch aser wonld haAie to secure a-deed from S. T. ■'^xipple of Arkville, which can be doneffor about $5,50Q._ There are two propositions, accord ing to the News, that can be woi^ked out by the fal^mers of that section. One is to I'aise .$50,000 and purchase the plant, put unforl T8SeIl$75,00«,OaO Farm Bank Issue Mellon Predicts Ready Absorption t ' I. will offer ' ' teh-twe ©wing to Strength of . —$40' to ' $10,000 Institutions BoiidS- Brown & date to matxxx'ity will yield the invest or approximately 5 ,per cent. In the syndicate offering the bonds are Har ris Forbes; & Co., Brown Bros. & Co., Lee Higgihspn & Co., the National City Co'mpany and the Guaranty w n n e 'etion ^ th th e In^conhection with the new offering, Fax-m Loan bonds ever made, but view of the generally favorable tre of the investment market and -the con tinued strong showing of the Feder- funds will go direct^ to thie farmers of prove the agricultui’a! situation. The banks opcrate^undei^ the Loan Board, a bureau of the reasury Departhxent. The new of- ;ring is being made by the bankers before Sir William Johnson of John- buii mansion, now Johnstown, in 1750, The review took, place at Rensseleax-, ! often enlei'tafned Indian chieftains his home when they were on their ly to Johnson hall. He was^in^he One Hundred Years Ago FROM THE f i l e s OF THE FREEM AN’S JOURNAL • , February 11, 1822 .. In one of out London papers it is stated that'there are now building and ordered to be built, at his Majesty’s dqek yards, 96 ships of .war, one of which is to be called King George the Fourth. One of the frigates (60) guiis is named the President, probably in honor of the United States. Married at Oaksville Sunday evening the 3rd inst by Rev. Daniel Nash, Mr, Asa Smith to Miss Betsey Rose. Died—In Otsego on the 1st inst Mrs. Sally Wood, age 72 years. Game Was Heavy In Otsego County Marked Increases Shown in Returns Made by Hunters to the Conser vation Commission State-Wide Automo bile Operators License To Curb Recklessness and Incom petency..to Save Iliiman Life , and Prosperity A seven year battle by the New York State Automobile Association to .secure the reguhitiun of automobile onservation commission show a operators and thus save huinan life marked inci’e^e of the figures for and property from destx’uctxon by the preceding season on nearly all | reckless and incompetent motor vai'ieties .of Iprds and cjuadnipeds. vehicle operators, which reached the These figui’cs ate taken from x-etums • ■ ■ • . - . made by hunters on the stubs of the 1020 hunting licenses which were for warded to the commission during liS iiil'iU M i the insurance. ! 410, All of the twelve banks-now are • on a dividend-paying basis, and evei-y ' bank shows a surplus earned fi’om its •tion of the importance of supplying the information and because space is now provided on the' face of the li cense stub fox' making the reports. The fact that, the number of huntSrs was larger in 1919 also helps to ac count for the increased take of game. ipeds. Vehicle operators, which reached the ‘turns shocking total of human lives of 1,- 98|.-during 1921 and thousands of per.-ioii.s injuied to say nothing of the hundreds uf thousands of dollars of property damage, wa.s generally con ceded as being won in Albany, when Senator LowmaiiL Chairman of the Senate Internal Affairs Committee, aiud also Chaiiman of the Special Leg islative C'omniittee to investigate au- iittee to investigate au- •unditio'ns, introduced anoth- vide automobile Drive at; Pastor From Church| ' profits. I “The -R .-;. Country Pulpit.—Calls Country against which the banks had made .................s than ^$15,0'''' for more thi There Unsafe. Orkskany on Auggst 6, 1777. TheL-uunu-y ertown, a descendant of Robert, ^on Wright <ff [Houghton Semins .rs in ^the Nortl. ig and the part l _ of the Sidney det ._ . I Troopers saved the office building I a small amount of outlying lumbi irynien .Acquire Nestle Milk Plantl - ----------— at Unadilla, Paying E d l t O r T i p p l c ’ S ^ J 25th Anniversary Announcement has been made at. e headquarters of tlje.. IkiiryTncn’s are- scattered States, althouj .■ague at Utica that\ the negotis ! xvhich have been for some tin: the headquax’tei League at Utic tions xvhich havi pending for the tie Plant at Un have been consuffimated and the plant acquired by the League, the purchase price being $150,000. This sale will do much to settle lilk oontroversy in that section. lat the sen for some time •chase of the Nes- ‘ ’ the Leagu« md the plani the milk oontrover.sy ... ------------- Some timif kjnee it was announced that the DairSfmen’s League had pur chased a-tract of land near the lower railroad crossing in that village and wuuld erect a large and modern milk chased the plant and isisued his fix’st edition of the paper. During all this period we have never mis.scd publish ing an edition each week. This is a longer period^of time than any other editor has published the paper. If our memory serves us correctly it is twice as long as any other publishei has conducted the paper. It was our intention to go con.siderably into de eding the his- The sale of the Nestle plant, xvill obviate the necessity of erecting a new building there and the announce ment will ba heralded as a triumph for the League and be welco.med by dairymen there. Where Letters May Be Sent for *2 Cents A revised 1 letters m ^ ;ir moral 'su xneX'cial support duix’ing these long years of our newspaper experience in publishing the only simon p dependent paper in this part Empire State.—Schenevus Mi tulations to Editor Tipple and ishes him at least another the editorial chair of the longratul sincerely wi; 25 year:s in Monil Passeng’er Boats On Barge Canal 'a^l‘ of Robei f these fi ,tes, although me near Chen-y Valley, neai Rome or near Boonville. Conxelius Flint, when his 'e' men over the United of them .Albany, as he is called. Ensign Flint, grandfather of the Schenectady attorney was a son o f , Cornelius. He took up a thousand acres ngar Boon ville and there it was that finally his grave wa.s found. His recortf at the battle of, Sacket’s harbor is unusual. He had thi-ee sons, Jacob, John John- sou and Charles Nox'throp Flint. Pet- before they saw er Flint of Schenectady is a son of the Henry’ all the t latter. He had five daughters two of I away from tl whom became the wives of Dorus Hiev would have Lewis.of Cherry 'Valley. Descendants of Cornelius Flint Tloughton.^^ ters at £he vention in Syracuse ■ . .............................. uthodist- Wesleyan Methodist- con vention in S that life was alto gether too strenuous for him near the Canadian border. “On my charge, which included two churches, I was required to cover 40 miles a we ‘ ' ;rips had to he made in the night. I only got held up once, and I am con vinced that was done by die rum- against \vhi< loans totaling les . ................... . ..... ......... more than $41 , tot-vunKwi iauuiva xxullu - e?ii sri£!s er state-wide automobile opei-atoi-s license bill embodying the suggestions of the automobile association. This bill was drafted after a con- during the last three or fo.ur th Senator Lowman, meipbers otal of 1 T'^4 510 ani- Other officials of the New York For lUiy a total of 1,724,510 a; als was reported by 261,634 hui There was a vei-y large increase in take of cottontail rabbits. Hunt- from 44 counties reported an in- and are exempt from Fedeial, State, municipal and local taxes. “Interest on the new is abb May 1 and Nov. 1 at i runnel's themselvc “They had threatened to get me, be cause of some of my sermons which they didn’t like. One ni.gh*, on iny way home from prayer meeting, eight T V S ; . ! i S f Bank, while principal is payable at the bank of issue. The bonds ai-e issued in cou- , pon and registered form, interchange- decrease ise^ for ill amends the present la' quiring license for every t a motor vehicle whether The ■rator o f ' .vhether owner or not; every operator mu.-.t lie at' least 18 year.- of age; license to be issued by the Ta.x Commission and to be in force until suspended or revoked. The fee L to. be $1.00 (One dollar). Any magistrate in titles of the first, second and third class, or police Desciendants of tively engaged in fom ing a socii and in family researcb are: Isi Flint of New Berlin, Gillette Flirt F duras,’ Canada, Caiial Zone,_ Colrnn-'to be pro- bia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Ke-1 to the plans which public, Butch West Indies, Ecuador,; foy operation of the boat o:\ England, Guam, Ilawaii, Hondura|d waterway soon after the openini iieland, Jamaica, Mexico, Newfound-j the canal, in the spring. -■ hind, New Zealand, Nicarauga, Ian-; Superintendent is m receipt of u ama, Peru, Philippines, Porto Kica,; letter from the men* interested stating . .S'alvaclor, Saihoa,! Shanghai, China; that arr.angemeiits have alreadSt been .Scotland, Virgin Islands (both Brit-' ^de for the vessel, but the supeffin- Hsb and United States), Wales. tc-ndent states that -it is not desired —— ---- — ^ ^ I to make any Seek Retrial For J Nineveh Murderer: Warren Formula. To Class One Milk Action which has for some'time been desired by many dairymen and over which there lias beeii consider able discussion for’ sevefal years was taken at the xbcent meeting of the Di rectors of the Dairymen’s League Co operative Association in New York when the New York Milk Conference Board agreed to the. use of .the War ren Formula as the basis for fixing the nrice of fluid or class one itiilk. By means of this forniula, t milk in class one will be sold at cost of pro- ductioii plus a- fair px'ofit. In other words the formula is a method of ar riving at the cost. 6f production of milk based on veiT careful surve”\ ■ ■ a conducted in the va ions of the country. Lent Begins Mar. 1 And Ends Apr. 16 iny annou«|cepient of the I rTaxties of the men connected with I the entei’prise a t this time. ‘ It is stated howevex’ that the inter- sts concerned are of the highest -\ppcal Entered for New Trial forjWpe; _ _ _ |WillApp.8tatMany . f off l^neome Tax Auditors District Masonic Convention Febi 9th. p^SflxJoI^orto^SSmncy.,' New appoihtce.s- aiie given a six- weeks course of training in the tech-i nicalitie.s • of the incoi^'p tax law and are paid full salary during such xn- iction. ...................... Civil Seiwicp Board at the post office bt gffgfeemhoxfse in any city. ''' ‘P A S(ih3crlbe for The JournaL that hav< bus dairj By giving ‘C gas it would talcBj I got away from them. 1 don’t suppose they would have done more than scare me, if they had been successful in holding me up. “The revenue men and stnte police also hold you up. One night two of the state police, in citizens clothes signalled for one of our citizens to stop and he^didn’t. They bored his rear tires full of holes. 'When they found out who he was they told him it was safer to stop wheix they gave the si.gnal. “ ‘Who are you?’ he asked. “ ‘State police,’ was theix’ reply. “ ‘Well, where is your uniform or New York Fourth In Value of Crops Although hay, the principal crop of ly hi )f la fjirmei's of this State fai during 1921 than those in most otiier parts of the country. According John B. Shepard of the U. S. Burei of Markets and Cx-op Estimate prices of New York jlroducts ha not dropped as rapidly badge ? “ ‘We are not wearing fche'nl today.’ ^ “ ‘Then, let me tell you something,’ Ife responded. ‘The next time you stop ine, put them on, or I’ll do a lit tle boring of holes. I am ' going to e.arry a Colt hereafter, and’ take no chances.’ “And so“the merry war goes on. I alway| carried a rifle in the ear with me, aiid drove in the ditch.’’’ EveryihingJFree At Farmers’ Week Public Is Iriv.i^_^ Attend All Sei sions and to'^^Take Fart in Discus sions—Entertainment and In struction - ' p : The lectures, deinonffibation^, eoi ferences and other features of\Farm- ej:s’ Week at Goxuiell are free and open for the benefit of every farmer and fai-m woman in New York State. The onl^“exce;^tion to this isjfhe stu- eaclx case the higher prlcei ing here caused this State to leac the value o f the.crop. The State ; also first in, the pi-oduction of oni and cabbage, second to Wisconsir the value o f dairy products, second I Washington in apples and to Penr' vahia in buckwheat. The State also third in beans and pears and fourth in peaches. The remarkable showing of New York farms this season is best real ized by comparing with some of the productive ..^.sections of the M[iddle West, Thus the 8,000,000 acres of crops in this State were worth^more than the 20,000,000 acres in Iowa, al- ' the latter total included 10,- xrn and the crop the first Sunday afpr the full moon an or -next after March 2fi and there fore cannot come earlier Ahan March. 22 or later than April 25.' If the Ml nioon falls oh. a Sunday then Easter is the next Sunday. Lent begins^ Wed nesday, 40 days previous to Easter, counting Sundays. ^ t o l y 5,off^ Bunting Licenses ■\During\ the year 1921‘hunting licei , es were issued in Otsi the number of 4,61! follows among the !:meston 186, Exeter 132, Hartwxfk 187, Laurens 103, Maryland 145, Middle- field 53, Milford 190, Morris 188, New Lisbon 69, Ohebnta town 84, Oneonta ■),, Gounty( Glerk 62. 195 _ tudents and the 3 for the bei efit of student ! of agriculture. ai-e shown every no'on and evening. Even on the. night of the studeflt play, other entertainment Aiid lecture features ax’e provided for -those Who! may Hot wish to: see the KeiUnis. Ill addition to the educational feat ures there are orchestra concerts and a furn%be lortioh to a ‘e t i t . ■.ta'te college at IthdCa. blit there : fgood reason for using other grain than wheat, to make that, bread. more foo( in proportion to cost than any other •ate college at IthaCa. btjt th( supposed to ^bo neMy extennmatt_. an aggregate increase of 8,288, while 1.5 counties x'eported decreases total ing 2,316, making a net increase of Pheasants showed an increa.se of nearly 30 percent, which furnishes a pretty good indication that through the ■operation of the state’s three game farms these birds are now well established.. Fifty-one cou; ted increases .aggregatix fsi in the take pf xnuski-al decrease reported was iski-ats. Forty-thi fecting chauft’euvs. Early in the session a bill w U’Oiduced, drawn to meet the i crimination against the New York City operators and other equalities met with general opposition not only in New York City but up-state also, 'he present bill was drafted to over- onxe opposition pnd^with an adminis- of •ome opposition and with .ration leader behind it, seems ceiffain passage. .Mr. Hagar, in the assembly, it_ is pected will introduce a ,companion bill next Monday Lowman expects i>.f his « ties Were^inereas|s^^eported, the net l H qh and others interest^ in b'nnt ,y^400,000^duxnng the * 'I® about ir and safer operation itreets our streets and laust nevery effort 3sed with the increase of 183; I'accoons, 439, a de crease of 864 red foxes, 439, an in crease ,1 i ; y H ’, l | i i : ; llH“ crease of 194; jack rab’nits, 1-58, an jg designed to identi of 15J; snowshoa rabbits, increase of 37; si-ey foxi irease 87 an -incx-eas'e of increase The bill is designed to identify every man or woman a t the wheel ror iu\ reckless and incon snipe, 24, an incre-''- ^ - marten, 17, a decri 8, an iixci II? S ir ‘fil t th’afx those of the ;ldle lYest,' the recently issued re port on the wages of fax'im\ laborers is of parbiculax- interest. In this State in 1920 the average fai-m hand received his board and a little over $54 in cash.- In 1921 the average was .$40 . per month and board, In the north-central group of States, west of the .Mississippi-River, farm wages in 1920 were about $5 higher that they were in New York State but m 1921 they averaged $5 below thp average of wages here. During 1 p i the wages of farhx' wOrkei’.^i hired by the mpnta with board averaged higher un New T’ork than anywhere else in the couix- tx-y except in parts of New England, North Dakota and the far Western States. Except during the harvest Ison Wages by the day with board re hiffher here than in anyi other England farm wages were \very nearly the same as were iJ J l f but highrt they were i were below than in 191' xecial bargain in coffee. Frank kifts,-—Adv, ________ . golden a . _______ inci-ease of 1; bobcats, 1, ' , Farmers W ^k Com . ■ * ■ — I fereiice, Ithaca, N. Y. Warder Is Granted . . ^ —Hon ■ Retrial by Court wm be^heW durhg Farmers’ Week-\ 'on Wednesday, Thursday aM Fxuday; Supreme Court Justice Alverson Sets when the findin; lupreme Court Justice Alverson bets when February 25th In Watertown ; School as Date .and Place Supx’eme Cburt Justice Claude Alverson of Watertoi new trial is Febimary is 'Watertown. Ill the motipi •sday and I Sux-vey will be very care ly presented and opportunity given for discussion. This is a very ira- it Conference. On Thursday' - in the Home Economics ', Room 245, the survey \yill presented by members of the tee. This meeting is arrang ed that the women tnay discuss the Survey ipore intimately and we hope r BvirioTiPP they will show their apprecia- What the *■ - be which IS expected to pre sSiH s lfSsSi! f ^ Federation c ome Burepuj e matter is said to have 3 into by the defense a,pd prose- tt will send the names of all irgu- those desiring to attend, as soon as been possible, so that final' arrangements rose- can be made. Lot us bai ingemoi ,h be made. Lot us have a .good ri sentation from Otsego Cpuilty’.
