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THE FEIEMAN’S JOURNAL AND THE ONEONTA PRESS Piilbli^ea by ' ■ TilK FKBIBBIAN’S jo u r n a l qOM^ (incorporated) ^ P.^nTOtlap^^BaHo^riat^^ BUBlnere Offices, 38-40 pioneer St., Coopers- life-long appointments. Jlost uivn^ ; are so uncertain as to their political: : ^ future th a t they are easily caught by^ i:the .iife-tehute feature of the job, ' Kenyon will secure the place Vioe^-Prosldent; P. & 3 second class mAtter. WHERE NATURE SMILES -Visitors to- Coopfirst 0 WJi_.gfinerally appreciate the unique situation of history, romance, literature aiid nat ural beauty, but of them are gifted vrith the aiU of expression as was the Editor of the National Marine ANOTHER FADING MYTH For “nearly ^hree^ months- t h r Ujiit-,\ ed States, through ital)®ci'al repre sentatives, has been in daily confer ence with the representatives of five (printed by the Cooperstown Press), who came and took a little time to look around. nations th a t make up a m ajority of; the Council of the League of Nations —,^and the United ..States scathed. Like MpnsiCur Jourdain, who discovered to his astonishment that he had spoken prose all of his life without knowing it, Mr. Harding and Hughes have been in constant as- ^ sociation with five of the principal J .0 'members of the League of Nations w ith m L ^ e r suspecting it. W ii^ th e Treaty of Vei-sailles was before the Seriate the chief occupation of the opponents of the covenant was to picture the fate that awaited the United States if it were ever tricked into conference with the selfish, the treacherous and the malevolent Row- that dominated the sinister oft ganization which Woodrow Wilson had so credulously and so traitorously of .since. So it will fee with Kenyon;, after a. .few taOnths -he will have to fall from a .tenth-story window or take the Presidency of a l>ase feall league to get his iiame in the papers,, biit he will .have a life-tirne jofe, Another good man 'gone wirong, hut it gives the .Democrats and Progres sives of Iowa a Chanee to get together; and select his successor. Ainalga- matioji is the only logical thing for these two bodies of’ vo-ters- Seekirig 'the same’ ;end-i-the“defeffit of the'Ye- actionary element now in the RepUb- lican saddle. t of expi le Nation n business recently :me to look around. Tins is what an illustrated article in a recent issue of his magazine bad; to say about Cooperstown: Much as James did for his towi much as it would lack in atmospheri today, Cooperstown would still have background all out of proportion to its size even if one of Judge Cooper’s sons had not turned out to be a genius of literature. Cooperstown has been prodigal in gifts to its country. One fine day in the spring of 1839, while Mr. Cooper was at work in his library sketching the outline of a new novel, two young fellows were seen in a field talking earnestly. Presently one of them--his name was Abner Doubleday—took a stick and made an outline of a large diamond. The other hoy, Abner Graves, was several years younger than Doubleday, .hut he saw Jh e idea, Abner Doubleday hadnnven- ted a new game—bas^all—and it was fii-t I'layed in CocipiT-^town. I won- ilcr if Babc ltuth knows thatr An.M wonder, too, what Abner 'Doubleday would say if he came to life and saw the Bambino, the Sultan of ‘ Swat, Yet after three inonths we have slam the horsehule chan pver the Leeii despoiled and there ha.-, been no conspiracy. Great Britain quarrel- ince! led' with France at Washington, and vedj China quarrelled rvith Japan, arid the' Italians had their own opinion about certain French polfcies, but the Unit- when it %vas fired upon,'ed States was treated with distinguish- i lived to appear bMore a ' ed consideration by evei-ybody arid was ision for the purpose ^ not asked to snirender anything that game,, did,not^offer to sm-render. ally Interesting, where the ambitions of the .American dele- THE UNBUCKLED GALOSHES Unbuckled galoshes seen flopping along the street, it appears, haVe sig nificance. A girl is engaged:, or not '\’\\\nd, according to the use she of her buckles. If her galosh es are unloosed, so are h er affections. The ring, symboLof subjection; Is'~out of date. ‘ The innovation is attributed to the eo-educational colleges. Unromantie persons ascribe the fashion to the! MAPLE VALLEY Ellery EeyhqWs was in W orcester Miss Margaret Braun returned Monday after spending a week a t Ira ■Mrs.^’H- Anteinan and three sohf wbre supper guests of Mrs. Uarru Brauri’s bn Tuesday, . . - Martih- a f f l 'f ife a n M . Vernon, took dinner Sunday at Ployd Mr. and Nrs. B, R. Rosehobm s p e n t' Wednesday with Mr-'and Mrs. Chas. Ma-hzer. _ Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Earing and son-.Paul spent Thursday vvith Mr. and Mrs. Ford Clark. In the evening: JVir, and Mrs. Roy Clark and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Pitts and thr< Jhildi Mif Iren were callers. Miss Margaret Braun and McClintock were callers Tu( evening a t Ford Clark’s, ’ Ellery Reynolds w:as in Westford Wednesday. Mrs! ‘An.i Oneonta two mon Piti mths at Angle spent t ccepted. They showed in detail how ifvitable it was that European and ropean tnmedi ;te needed in crosring from dormi-j ^ A l b S f Cummings is ' reported as y to classroom. —But this explana-; very sick. 1 ds obviously:..too utilitarian to bej Geo. Skinner and Geo. Pitts were tolerated. ' in Schenevus on business Friday. screen version of “The Three Musket-1 nopn. eers.’’ But the weight of authority is , Ford Clark that to the colleges belongs the honor oes'’\”. .Asiatic duplicity would immediately -•-ispire against the United States reason—let this rem: ‘ b u S -nm r^th^^^^ Diink: ?” 'exclaimed one of- oUr elder versifiers. “Who can tell what a i in Westford Wed- eolleges belongs the honor hesday -u 11 -rtr i .f the vogue. AS to this remain shrouded ini _____ _ _________ if starving' tiger.s. wp's 'gates failed of achievement it was 3 rica, lai-gely because the conference S S ? e Coopeul and Abner Doiibleday, Cooperstown’s ' claim to_ the reverence of all America; Ssoa 1 S ' S , a f ?»* \ \\ . American game surely will, and vice; necessary agreements nor the iieces- yersa. AjUd as if Cooper’s %yorks 1 sary guarantees could be obtained. S L 'l- ilain enough that if the tes were to enter the Nation.s it could bring _ I about through its leadership a gen- ime Novels, that c a u s e d ,i n t e r n a ti o n a l programme for the - S 'c o l u m n t hiT thefe' liniitation of submarine^ warfare and the abolition of poison gas and for everything else that Mr. Rc awakened idealism desires. erstown is further strengthene the fact that the one-time celel rels, that c ip and dow lumns, had theii me village as th< :ground of Coop- i , itrengthened by I League time cell ’ and do\ S l ’i S t S r . die learned the publishing busi ness in Cooperstown, and during the Civil War, when he operated in New York City,ity, his paper-backedaper-b novels C his p e the favorite litei of the northern sol ‘ ‘ books, bound in everything else th at Mr. Root’s newly’ awakened idealism desires. So much for one Senatorial myth, 5 which was not the only one that has i been disposed of by the conference. - --------- ‘ (Jir Oct. 14, 1919, Henry Cabot •, , “u ! Lodge, in a discussion of the Treaty V iu the Seuatu, an igo and the inter-[att been inspired by William Randolph Hearst. Senator Lodge • discussed lars net, postage extra. Every summer Cooperstown, situat ed as it is on the beautiful lake that called Glimni Cooper called Glimmeiiiijlass, draws thousands of visitors. They come by .motor and train, and distribute then selves along the lake in tiie cottage hotels and camps that dot its shor line. Of these the most pretentious i the great O-^te-sa-ga, whose hospii able doors ai'e open to the public f r o i , mid-June to mid-Septembqr and then Close to be opened tb^ following month as the portals of the fashion able Knox School for Girls. With its happy adaption of the Colonial style of architecture its splendidly kept grounds and its charming location on Otsego Lake, the building is ideally adapted to both its uses. The Village Club on the main .street I of the towm is a community center of _ ^ P .distinction and includes in its membef- of Ambassador. He has been . ship the representative citizens ' of i ference with the same Japanese who Cooperstown without reference to. fi-Uvere ready to swoop down upon the nancial rating. The_ dues a?e moder- United States, and in association with ate, the equipment m -excellent state I,, , i j 41 , , and condition, and the atihosph«-6 1 them he has helped to reduce the democratic. United Stajtes Navy, to a point at Another monument, which with the, which any superiority Village Club is due to the generosity ] vanishes. He ha of one of Cooperstown’s old families,' . is the Mary Imogehe Bassett Hospital, which is liow being completed lor general use. During the War it was .the location of thc^nly aviation hos pital, and it willyBotm be one of the largest and best; equipped hospit^s in the country. Another dominating feature of this community is the Cooperstown Press, .a printing and publishing establish- —.ment whose sphere of influence is the’ world aiul whose standards are in keeping with the high traditions of the town. From its handsome four- ■ story building on the main street,- '\vith equipment that is second to none in modernity and efficieney, are is- ;otB or more of periodic-’- e from 'The Otsego Farn e \ what he callpcji the “steady, relentless” course of Japan in crushing China. He ipared Japan to Germany and ■ned the Senate that if Japanese try that she would menace most would be the United States.’’ To meet this dire calamity Senator Lodge de clared that there was only one effect-;- ive weapon; for “unless we carefully maintain a very superior navy in the ■ Paciffc the day will come when the United States will take the place of France in another great war to pre serve civilization.” For three months Senator Lodj has been a plenipotentiary of tl United States with the imposing rank PATENT per thinks” or in e any way her doinj Nt'vertheloss, it may be predicted that ilip new symbolism will pass. As Chester Potter is spending a from times ,df antiquity, the young days with old neighbors and relati’ place her main reliance, when sh 6 ^°Pred^ ed to help c£ that Aaron Tannei a few days last w . „ n w,ll. „f conttoe S u ' S l “ h . k S Mrs. Jenks improving. Mr. and Mrs. -Andy Hall and grand son visited at Andy Telfer’s Sunday. Chester Potter is spending a few ys with old neighbors and reli Mr. and Mi'S. Ben-Jenks and ‘ ' S All Is hi Seaifiiiess For ¥our Spriiig Sp^iig Needs More women than ever before are planning to make up iPHch of their Spring wear-and so we have planned to^hp^^^ most desired fabrics, tHmmings and findings earlier than usual. t)Ur piece goods departments now offer a conjpjete assortjment of .all new fabrics in comjplete ranges of colorings and-textures,—-^at prices to make this most timely opportunity for the woman who knows and appreciates the best in quality. New Daress Goods, New Silks, New Organdies^ NiSW Swisses, u' New Ginghams, New Cotton Crepes and New Skirtings. Ellsw o rth & Sill f ! rings nor on buckle.s, but seasoned member, the comehither eye. FAR.MERS AND RAILWAYS. were guests r her me of Edmeston spi w days last week with his daugh ter',, Mrs. Bert Shaul. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bowmakei 3 at Smith Jenk’s Sunday The New York Farm Bureau Fed eration is -giving light to the other farmor.s who think that the way to get service from the railways is to impoverish them. No.farmer starves iris beasts and expects them to draw heavier loads the less they are fed. That is the policy of those who railways to increase their costs and yet to reduce their rates. Hundreds of such laws have been passed in cent years. But the New York rriiers propose the repeal of one of the most flagrant examples, the Full- Crew law. The President of the Farm Bureau Federation says that this single law has increased I'ailway es penses 816,000,000 in this State alone. The farmers think that sum would do| H\ more good if diverted to the reduction Japan which might hava.of rates. _ . . . years the the law, appeal lators. The latter now have per plexities of their own, and soon thi farmers are to have theirs. The tion whether the farmers prefer lower j i-is rates and less service to reasonable! I ItEl-llU.IC.VN C.VICIS tbo Vllltigo of _ _r . .... jv of nomlnat- e vou-a upon a t the uunmil til be lu-M Tuetstlny, March hi in thf Vlllago Hall Satr- FebriKiry IsUi, at 7:80 I'lu- Il« pUliMci M f'juu f(»I |•|^oIIM•sUl\vn for Uu ■ pilrpo: iriK to be voud upor ihari'er oh ciion t«» b<* lu-M ' Mill, will lie lU'Ul in the Vi u'cbHlv. By order- Oommittc' miscellaneous wants ------ ONE CENT A WORD -------- ;/AXCUES, CLOCKS, cleOneU and repatrea. ' C-VI’rinrfeu S-VLIi—Doublo door, s U ib I o ‘J bliiation, riiaclo by York Safe Com] rates and less serv i^ to reasonable . - • ______ rate.-, and more sei-vice is in the way^poR s.vi.E -.\prii hutchoj white L<-Bhonf of presentation to all shippers. The! country has been gi'oi . h i ; ' ? \ ; ; . T \ : lly i railways have been reducing their roll-1 -yy,vNTKn—i-..siun„ as .-loru in store, he iiig stock. For five successive years, ” .xurtin .''•ir ph.mi. coop.r.stown. n more lines of railway have been aban-1 ' doned than built. In 1920 and 1921; o a v e fo r sa l e Antiques of different for “ \\\ t range ly -with a circulation in excess, of half/ a million, to our own magazine The ■’ National Marine. Truly Coopersto-wri has influenced . the world—the. world of tfes-imagin- ation, the home worldj and the world , of ships and commerce. It has an honorable and dignified past, but it: lives very much in the present. It is ' a lovely and a lovable to-wn. Yo,u don’t like to leave it, once you are there.. And when you go to the raih* ^Toad station to b'uy your ticket, Goo.p-. Wdrsto-wn sees to it that your last im pression intensifies your disinclination to leave. For the little buildihg'from • which the train departs is the choi cest bit oif staUon architecture in the ■whole United States; a cobfelestone structure in Dutch Colonial style, Wtih ■ a waiting room fitted with fnahogany furniture of the time, and with paint- dngs on the wall that depict the scenes best known to the readers of Feriimoire Cooper.- Portraits of the Coopers, Abner Boufeleday, inventor of baseball, and Erastiis Beadle, pur- .. Veyor of dime novels, are there. irra^othftr greStt •iization. And Japan, in the course of the negotiations, has formally re deemed the Shantung pledge that her rep’i'esentatjve.s in Pari.s made to Pre.sident' Wilson when the Treaty of Versailles was signed. All of which provbs the infinite fiii tance that separates Tweedledum froi Tweedledee when Tweedledum is per sonally conducted by four “citizens of the United States,” three of whoni vanishes. H( the “steady, r( Japan and its resemblance Pacific as forgotten all about ■elentless” coui'se of the mileage built was less than any other year. During the pern 1918-21 the average of locomotives j u o t e l fo r built increased 13B, but the total w a s l ^ 878 locomotives below the lowest sinii- j lar ^ v e r a g e back to 1902. Over | tweSy-orie years the average of loco motives ordered was 3,2 average fog the last four years 1,384. I Details are distracting. Suffice ^ j / vnted ' _ Tn been a decline; W\ buyinB, Republican ticket, —New York World. DESTROYING THE FARM BLOG The President seems to have taken leaf from the back certain Congressman who' used to represent a Missouri District ip years gone-by. Whenever any man becafiie annoying, >*^h Ms opposition toi the Cdrigfdss- ^ n , this member got the fellow-a' job—a job good enough to put him -out of the fight. He didn’t believe in re warding his friends so much as in pensioning his enemies. Presiderit Harding has so maneUve'red' as to se cure. the consent of Senator Kenyon , to take a United'States Judgeshiaout ; in Iowa—-which removes one of^the leaders offthe Farria'Bloc in t h e ^ n - It will 'be -interesting to watch the irielting a-way of that same Farm Bloc under the seductive influence of Suitings Robes All Virgin Wool Fabrics Glimmerglen Farms, Inc. COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. COTTON is a conductor of cold. SHODDY is a conductor of disease. Insure your health by using nothing but ALL VIRGIN WOOL FABRICS Cheapest and Best Bed Blankets Horse Blankets AMUSEMENTS Thursday and F r i d a y Februar, and 10th, Nonna Talmadge in “ Daugh ter of 'Two Woi'lds.” Black Jerry Ma lone, cold, mercenary, b itter and with out scruple; that’s Nortna Talmadge in ‘.‘Daughter of Two Worlds.-’ This' picture is an adaptation from the novel by LeRoy Scott. This same date “Winners of The West,” a great pieturization of the famous expedi tion of Capt. John ■€. Fremont and Pathe Review. Saturday, February 11, “Bunty Pulls The .Strings.” Here is a nip of rare old Scotch that’ll warm the cockles of your heart! “Bunty Pulls th e , Strings,” is the first Scotch feature- size comedy that has ever been put upon the screen. Saturday comedy and Pathe- News. Monday and Tuesday, Febi-uary 13 id 14th, -'WilliaTri S“-Hart in “Sand” say that there has It is as sure as anything hum^n thi : of tratec n e ; ^ buyinB. to 50 room hotbl, all fur- also in freight and passenger cars, j thing hum^m th at, D'\ .lati-omctoriiy. Box 73 . the world has not yet reachednnt maximum. When next the farmt the ijmterehange of traihc between; States of the interior arid nations of f 4I,„ ----- its^r on‘ti,l%ffo'ri\oo^TTo^ be their credits by debits from in- rops to the keels they will be in ^ V l T losition to compare their fow don to compare rates with their ™ in- A'<“ ” ablity to get their ci*ops to market.— 1 ptookins-: Phono 3 sn. offlop hours 2-9 p New' York Times. ’’•••• - ' .' —— ' p O R ■SAL'R—SPVPral cablnots. TOnqnlre i __ _ ____ ^ Thp Froeman’s .lournal. 3S-10 Plonorr S H I P P I N G B O A R D stmot. loif E X 'r R A V A G A N C E 'T’.'XRM to REXT nr work on Shai-P.s. .stork • —■ nnt'! furniplip^l. C’. nook's Discussing the extravagance of t h e ' '^2^ * Shipping Boat ’ niarltime mer advei tive Thomas W. Harrison of Vu’ginia 1 cSfaatore‘'’’ann Tro*od?i^^^ (Detn.)wrea4 into the record a ■Iist'of.[f''‘““' brooks, suin. salaries, which 1 1 by that gi-eat' iployees and present salaries, which j p o R s AL e - suminarized are as M low s: LtrerT\'’ .^rawd clroular. 'h r r ry cabinet. 'Enquire inn's Journal, 38-40 Ploni United States Sbippifig Board ai Emergency bine'd-—Nun Present Salary; . ,$35,000 E ' Fleet Corporation Com-m ii\ .nd,l - imber of Einployees and _ I help in kitchen and :r parilai, carr of two rhlltlrpn, for’ • more. Inquire of The 'Frprin.an’s li.OOO I pdR RENT— ■Plat at 8 ii.noo * floor. - -Possnasion 5,500 f’arnphPlL The namei arid nriture of ment of each are contained in the Con- gressional Record of January 21. : S : amploy- he C( y^/\NTED-A, I trolley llnr. Uftll t)tnco of iro tlinfi in ni rfiot, lowfr Arfhiir' IStf to rciil. Inquiro time are a newlyweds time trying to keep up pace at a jazzy summer i yquthyj n uproarious with the hot resort. O A K S V IliE Mr. and Mrs; M. D. Monroe of this place entertairied Mr. and Mi-s. Mat- teson TruaX and daughters, Ruth and Millie, of, .Fly Creek Sunday ^ast. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Proctor and fam ily were visited Saturday and .Sun day by their daughter. Miss Jennie of Ilion. She also attended the rsk ball here ‘' ay night from all off at 'Gay’s Hall he SUSLYt _______ WCTe many and varied prizes were given the best and most grotesque. There were over 81 numbers sold. The proprietor vrishps to thank all who came and helped to makp the evening a success. We wish to congratulate Mr. and Mrs, Edd Lenebecker who are the grandparents of a nice little girl named Dorothy Elizabeth, born to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Winslo.w Frankfort a shoi’t tirne ago. Frank Bouton of Glimmerglen tended the dance here last week. The auction sale at H. G. Robert’s was well attended Saturday. , Passenger Seliedule Effective November IS, 1921 Prosperity We are anxious to see this city and surrounding community prosper. We are anxious to see each indi vidual in it prosper. Building' up a good bank balance wisely investing that money means future prosperity for you and this community.'’^ You are cordially limited to con sult us in regard to Ihe safety of any investment without the slight- ^ est obligation. Our 1922 Christm as Banking Club is still open aqd we i everyone to join and receive a check for Christmas use. Safe Deposit Boxes for,/Rent ^2,50 per year and upwards. We have all T rust Com outer of your w j ^ . Ask for booklet on Banking by Mail. Jompahy powers.— Make this bank the Exe- ■■ OF c o d p e r & t q w n , n . y . Capital $150,000.00 OFFICERS Charles Ti Brewer, Presiderit Fred I Cashier Lyni jand . T rust OfRcer, Harry H. Wilisey, Asst. Gashier Chas T. Brower * Edw. 8. Brookhar DIRECTORS Fred L. Quaif H. L. Brazeo Wm. t ; Hyde Resources $2,975,000 Owen Q. Clark, Teller &. F. Murdock, J r G. Milton Augut if
