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r 1 ^ Ct«na8 «2.00 PER YEAR, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BROOKFIELD, N. ^^pNESDAY SEPT. 30, *1925 VOLUME 49, NUMBER 33 County and State News Paragraphs BECENT HAPPEEINeE TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM ic& of an appeal from the recent of Justice Hill has been filed by County Attorney Lounsbury in beha of the board of .election commis sioners of the county. The board acting on,, adyic^ off counselounsel and in j on adyic^ o c e conformity with their own interpre tation of thp election law refused to place the name of Harry W. Ehle on the Republican primary ballot, hold ing that he did not have the required * rolled order directing that the name be placed on the ticket and it weis done. The appeal will have no bearing on the case further eis the primary is j further eis the pr over, but it will settle the question ) which is correct in e election la visory Dis took third prize at the state fair in Syracuse last week. Superintend* Tyler plans to use the $75 prize money to purchase a stereopticon ma< chine for use in the schools. The new transmission line of the inies from Bndgewater to Richfield Spnngs to Jordanville, transmitting at 44,000 volts, was completed Isist week and is now supplying power to the new crusher plant at Jordanville. Ulti mately, the electricity for lights and power in Richfield Springs will be fed through this new line. A. W. Smith of Hamilton has been named as the Eissistant grand lecturer for the Cortland-Madison Masonic district by Grand Lecturer Horace W. Smith of Port Byron. The Madison County Farm and » Home bureaus won fourth place for the display of each at the state fair. Miss Mary Holler of Virgil, winner of the .spelling championship of Cort- t land county at Cortland fair, failed on /- . one word in the contest at the state ’ fair. Two girls, Miss Irene Gedney of Ravena and Miss Eleimor Baker e tied for i case of Mrs. Bertha Palmer on Mt. Pleasant near Walton, where the house was partly unroofed and thii> teen trees destroyed during a gale which preceded the rain storm Sat urday night the 12th. During a storm Sunday night a pig was killed by lightning while standing in the door of the pig pen. The wind which ac companied the same storm tore loose the canvas with which the hole in the roof left by the previous storm had been covered and the interior of the house was again drenched before the covering was replaced. Delzon D. Harp, the only remaining rower of hops in Oneida, has sold 1925“5 crop foror forty-fiveorty-five crop f f cents per pound. He had about 300 boxes. The crop in that section was light this It is repoi vestigationtion off thehe counticounties irted that the further iu- ga o t c of the ite, following the tubercular tie frauds in Cortland county, ended and that no other frauds ’ found. It was stated some time ago that suspicion weis directed to dealers in Otsego county, but these appar- itly proved grotmdless. The Koons Bros., of the town of Rockland, drained their lake a few years ago and killed as they supposed every vestige of life and then stocked it with trout. Four or five years later a man fished in the lake, caught three trout, three catfish smd three silver eels. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. FinnigEin of Norwich, who have conducted the Eaton Inm at Eaton for several months, have just purchased from the owner, John F. Daniels, the Baker House at MorrisviUe. The hotel, a fifty room house, is to be refinished, refurnished, and redecor ated throughout and will he opened by the liew owners soon. A meeting, of the Republican CouMy Committee of Madison County will be held at Mmmsville Congregational Church, Wednesday, September 30, 12 o’clock M,, for the purpose o f organizing and other busi ness. Free dinner will be served by the ladies of the church at 1 o’clock er 55 arrests for public intox ication, FrEuik Conroy of Cortland has ,l»en sent to the penitentiary for a ^'Joim Wilkinsem, Syracuse inven tor, whose restraint from associa- ig out a “Wilkinson” car, fected a new air-cooled four-cylinder engine\ and is j;woiking on a six- cylinder desifi^. A tense situation has develdped as Chittenango Station between two political factions, one charging the othpr with attempting by trickery to oust Mrs. George Hfidreth as post master because of her politics. It is charged a new examination is sought in violation of Civil Service rules. This is denied by those involved. Tourists visiting Niagara Falls fail to comply with the new postal regulations that require a two-cent stamp on each postal card mailed. As many as 500 post cards are mailed in Niagara Falls dsuly with one-cent stamps. !. J. VanAuken of Adams was de clared the champion horseshoe pitcher of the state at the State Fair ^ ter he played off a tie with George dunnsville. Both had won games and lost five befoie 'playing off the tie. The Congregational and Baptist Churches of the village of MorrisviUe ited and hereafter will jthe United Church MorrisviF “ enrolled er he played ilpot of Munnsville. • ■ )st i village o have consolidated and hi be known as the Unite* MorrisviUe. The members wiU enrolled as members of the united church, and each church will continue [changedchained inn itsts relationshipelationship to the nomination to wlhich un i i r r it belongs, re work as member of the porting its work as i united church. Members hereafte ioining wU be aUowed to fihoose t ihurch they to become enroUed A doe which dressed 111 pounds was struck and almost instantly killed Saturday night by an automobile driven by E. F. Lead of Cooperstown Junction near the Osterhout farm west of ColUers. The doe jmnped into the path of the automobile and the machine struck it, breaking her The crack rough riding team from Troop C, dtate .poUce, TiVith head quarters at Sidney, won the rough riding trophy at the Syracuse State Fsiir for the third time. PROFITS FROM APPLES gures Show That Sloney Can be Made in Apple. Growing . Careful records kept for a period of 20 yearar on the cost of every orchard operation smd on the income from the ssiles of the fruit from a typical 10-acre Baldwin apple orchard in western New York shows that apple gro\ving Ims paid Em attractive profit, at least, in this orclmrd, says Or. U. P. Hedrick, horticulturist at the State Experiment Station at Gen- eva, who supervised the taking o f the records. The average yearly net profit on a barrel of apples for the 20-year per iod was $1.51, and the average Einnual profit per acre for the 20 years §120.- 71. Estimating that the orchard is worth §500 per sicre, the average an- ual net dividend has been 56.3 per These and many other interesting the costs and profits in ures on the costs at •wing apples in western New York are presented in a buUctin by Dr. Hedwick which may be Imd free of charge upon request to the station by anyone interested in the study. Dr. Hedwick has mad* ie a special study of the cost of production m an h he believes to be typ- lany fruit plantiugs in the I he believes that the figures that he has secured may be duplic by fruit growers in generaL LOCAL aiEN START REFORESTATION PROJECT ! initial planting of the Isirgest reforestation undertaken in Madison County was started this past week by four local men on the old Herman’ Palmer farm about six miles west of and President of the Broc Board of Education; John W. Chai ton. Principal of the Brookfield Hit School; Wm. L. Norman, Manager of the Madiso '' ~ ~ the Madison County Farm Bureau; d Charles J. P e c k h ^ of New York 30,000 young seedlings, of which 20,000 were red pine Eind 10,000 white spruce, were planted this past week under the supervision of JWm. 'R. Adams of the State Forestry College at Syracuse Univereity, with the help local men and the Brookfield Troop Boy Scouts, Plans are being made by Mr. Charlton, who will have direct charge of all planting, to complete the plant ing next spring, when it is expected to cover most of the cleared area on the farm. MOVING PICTU] PICTURES GIVEN BY aiASONlC COUNCIL On Thursday evening, Oct, 8, a moving picture entertsinnient will be given in the Masonic lodge rooms by the Oneida District Msisonic Coun- ciL Members of Western Star Lodge, F. and A. M., are invited to bring their familied and friends, and Kis met Chapter, O. E. S., is invited- Wonid Abolish the* Peterboro Hhme On), Count,.SuppoBed brpIuppEP in State, and the Most E x p e n s e Madison county has manV difilcit I solve, and ap efiSrie* pervisore to handle the^ of the TubercoR problems to Board of Sup* The splendid work of the TubercJ sis committee is to their credit; t that of the Farm and Home Bureis^ and the Child Welfare Boa^. For several years the Petei^boiiyt Home, has been an anxiety to theiH. There seemed to be no other way to dispose of dependent children, who could not be kept with their mother's under the Child Welfare allowance, except to place them in the Home. From thirty-five to fifty chil*iren a year have been thus cared for firr over 40 years. Everyone knows the history of the founding of the Home in 1872 by Gerrit Smith’s gift of the Petprboro Academy buildings, aided hy the en dowment fund of $18,000.00 given by Mr. William Evans and subsequently added to by other small gifts. Peter boro was then as likely to becoipe the thriving center of things as any other town in Madison County. The build ings-were fairly new. .U cost about $1.50 a week per child to give what was then regarded as the best care children could Super.'isors appi a yearly siun to meet all expenses over that met by the small endow ment. Since that time the * of maintenance has gradual] the deterioration of fhe cost of food and wages, and the increasing piobl* of transportation, gU supplies, includ ing coal, ’ ■ ■ ' Peterbo: laUy risen with the deterioration o f t build ings, the advance in cost of food a wages, and the increasing pr rtation, gU supplies, inch having to be hauled to over the country roEid. Against the cost of $1.50 a week i>er dhil^ in 1872, the County has b ^ .^ut children as they come up for 2—Two or three good boEirding- feomes thoroughly investigated and licensed, centrally located, and under while they I We have already our Child Expert' pi Miss Mildred Arnold, assistant to Superintendent of the Poor, who has fteme to Madison County from* State ^harities Aid Association, and is pricing under the newly organized ^ I d r e n ’s Committee. She is being ibanced partly by money from the Laura Spelraan Rockefeller fund and Ijartly from money raised by the Sfiidisqn County League of Women Veters, She has already begtm work dh the thirty-eight children in the ®oiae. Her office is in the Coimty fSiKirfc House and she soon will he #4e to reach all parts of the . question of giving .up the ieterboro Orphanage for a few 4irily accessible and smaller boai'd- s as “cleEuing-housclcEuing-houses” >rting process, will Jbg homes which will be licensed “ dur- i|[g the sorting process, will probably Ibr discussion ,when the St^^ermoix meet in November. There is la'question about the econ omy of the matter, and the children thwmrivea will be far better served, in the o ^ io n of those who have d senti- meiEi^ reahtsmg the effort of the fooiiiers to help forward the happi ness of Kttlp «hil*iren, will-suffer a real wrench in seeing it pass. But as ia aH advance the new is built upon the faundation of the old, i we oto.fpke up t dren with the s« happiness, hut with a c methffl^of carrying on. ORDER OF SERVICES FOR THE . COMING tiVEEK* M. E. CHURCH A. A. Sturgeon, Pastor Sunday, Rally Day— The Sunday Schools of Brookfield and North Brookfield will unite in put ting on a special Rally Day program. The pmgi'am, whiph will consist, of lecitations, dialogues and songs, will be given at Brookfield at 11 A. M. The pastor will give a short address to tue children. The Juniors will dramatize the' story of “David and Goliath.” The children have cheer fully given up of their play hour to practice in oi-der that they may do their best. Let us encourage them rood attendance. A picnic lunch e served at the parsonage, which cars will be provided to convey all who wish to go to North Brookfield, where the same program w ll be given at 2:30 P. M. Junior league, 6:S0 P, M. Union Service s.. P. M., in. the Baptist Church. S. O. B. CHURCH Wm. M, Simpson, Pastor The informal gatherings at the .,-arsonage Saturday evenings are grov.ing in popularity. I f you do not know about the Treasure Hunt, see. Ruth Brown, Dorothy Wordet not to be compared to The pastor met an enthusiastic group of young people at the Bap tist Church in North Brookfield last Sunday evening. Prayer meeting at 7:30 P. M., Fri day. Topic, the Church and the L Fall Colormg (OwtiiW.w.Kr.1 than pays the cjst plies. In other less a week, per chil* The Peterboro Home is county-supported orphans of hauling sup- orphanages in the is $5.00 or the only county-supported orphanage in the state, and leads Edl others in cost of operation. Dui-ing the past year it nearly $16,000.00. of cost has been steadily rising, public opinion has been gradually changing as to the value of institutional care for chil dren. World-wide study of children’s needs hsis led to new plsins. Today, the family home, even i f far from an ideal one, is regarded as & more nor mal situation for a child than the best stitution. Several large cities have ifinitely abandoned their orphan-*- jes for other systems of child care. The Trustees of the Home have given a great deal of time and thought to the matter, and upon ad- State Board of Charities Add Enough While Silo is Being illed to Slake Firm Compact Slass xcluding Air. ’ silage com is frosted before the grower h as time to get i t in the silo, water should be added to help i t keep. This is the advice o f the state college of agriculture a t IthacEi, •which. reEd- izes that there are always some fields owners have time to fill silo. Frosted com soon drira in tl it This \v ill mean Board of contmue enlarged istees, with an efficient Ittee, a trained super- least weekly visits by Trustees, with an efficient finance conunil intendent, at member of the Board the id, a close ssupervision gen- >ne knows the difficulty Peterboro even in the aroimd, and a close ssupervision erally. Everyone knows the of getting the Board the year close ss , >ne knows the diffi' summer time and members of the 11 have to \ -------- ’— or hire transpoi The newer and better way to han dle the problem is not to stack np children in institutions but to keep a steady flow out into more normal Abnormal children Idren should foster homes, and others open for adoption placed in well vestigated boar*iing homes where they can live Ein ordinary home life. For all this work two important to state care, adoptable i be placed in things are needed: 1 —A trainined child expert to sort WATER HELPS KEEP FROSTED ENSILAGE the silo it to pack tightly enough to kpp out the air. The presence of air in silage is what makes it mold, r helps make it pos- com tight. • to be added. Is,on how dry com Tias become, but speaking gw-erally enough should be to make a firm compact m: ensilage. Where possible, a hose may be and when cut and put h is difficult to pack tighti and adding water sible to pack the c ’The amount of water to be says the college, depends.on h< the com 1ias become, but possible, a hose maj directed into the throat of the g box, and ti dent method akes a v »d of getting in the nec- ry water. osted com is never as nutritioiis as com cut before Chnreh and Society Notices and News MODERN YOUTH Although young people seem to be no wome than old ones used to be, i think the same, both 'Jane and John, should now -and then be sat upon. • Says young Bill Jones, “I have a car and speedier they seldom are. On this smooth roa^, ^ ■B^l meet a cop, I _ie, to take his liame and oth dope. Yea, every time 1 loose, I hope he sees the calaboose, that gents on foot the road may plod and not be called to. meet their God. K Susan Jones Ilas_ joined a crowa to whom all license .seems allowed Jommunity. \S Sabbath morning worship 1 6’clock ■with *«ermoa on the J “Why Join the Churth?” Sahhatii ^ o o l a t noon. ”We ___ new quarter this week. In the ■aded department it is al.so the he- l a t noon, \W begin _____ _____ this week. graded department it is al.«_ - . ginning o f tiie year.' Mbttoi Rreaent; Qtt Time; Bible in hand; Lessim Studied. ] Jpnior C. It. »fc I F. It. a t the- <ihurch. ------ J 1 - Intermediate C. a t 3 P. M. at the pEirsonage. \ ’ FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Theodore D Conklin, Pastor Calendar lor this weel Thursday, 8:00 P. M., vice in the session rooms church. The Ippic concerns the fexilty of our souls to Jesus. Come and get the spiritual strength you need for the week. Ten earnest Christians vvill create the atmosphere. 'Will 1:30 P. M., Convenant s of L, Prayer ser- rooms of the you be on Saturday, meeting in the session rooms of the church. The coming evangelistic campaign will be considered. Sunday, October 4th, Morning wor ship at nleven. A sermon on the last night of lib- rty for Jesus. “IN THE SAblE TIGHT.” The ordinance of the x>rd’s Supper. The Sunday School at twelve. The vening Service at eight. Address: How to Hold a Crdss.” The pastor will speak at both ser- ^ Evangelism will be stressed dnr- tig the Autiunn.. During the week of November first special services will be held in the church. P i t o t s from all parts of the Association field will be with us, bringing mes sages of inspiration and zeal. It is possible that our notices will not tell the complete story of the vork hen Sunday and h » Christian week. Get What’s New 3 expensive in injured, hut il to grow, and many dairymen are solutely dependent on what they can put into their silos in the fall. Every effort should be made, says the col lege, to keep it as well as possible. Drs. Neil and Sandridge of the Honolou hospital announce marked success in the treatment of leprosy by the use o f radium, palatable 1 British army engineers have de- hefore i t , vised a new single-seated fighting le built of metal, iless telephones for the use of gers have been installed in the irg-Berlin railroad in Ger- A SUCCESSFUL HUSBAND 'The wife of a Western Congress nanan iss sensitiveensitive on thee subjectbject o: m i s on th su t her deficient orthography, and her de- mmids for information as to correct spelling sometimes place her peace- lovmg husband\ in a delicEite position. _ ___ rmali of the Uni^ lililan declares that the human Vain emife radio waves which may be heard by receiving apparatus under favorable con*litions. Some automobiles carry equipment covered hy as many as 700 different patents. tJsihg a 35-horsepower electric day, as she was writiiig a let- motor and one operator, a new de- her desk, she glanced up to ask:. vice can unload a 50-ton car of coal “Henry, do you spfell ‘graphic’ with 1in one‘F or te^Q?” | “My* dear,” was the diplomatic ! reply, “if you’re going to use any, ing i you might as well use two.” rest. 70 seconds. __ __ ______ . The American Sunday is becoi reply, “if you’re going to use any, ing well established as a day of a Rude Rural Riiyntes ■ seems i stsirts to hell around with t st every nighi ope her dad lays down the law keeps her home to help her maw. ill of history, I wis, youth never saw a time like this, for Jim and Jack with Clare and Kitty and dll the gang are sitting pretty. But there be who call for plea some thei without a thought of mete or m* sure, and if we let them drain the cup, in latter years they’re all fed up. The aim of life, all said xmd done, is^ not to crowd three lives in one. Kids cannot take, and should not try. bothote up andnd dowi all hills b up a down on high. They sometimes need, to dodge mis takes, the lower gears and even brakes.—^Bob Adams. Timothy McHngo Answers Klansman Brookfield, N. Y., Sept. 28,1925. •- Louis H. Starr, Norwich, N. Y. Dear Sir: . . , I hat* teid yt>ar letter to me in tee Courier. I still maintain that *J1 statements in my letter to the E^tor of tire Courier are true and are amply proved by tee utterance of accredited .^pokesmen o f your order as reported in the public press. In regard to your queries I ■will say that 1 did not engage or help pay U m doctem and nutues tea t attended dyefote and ; At m birth o f the infant 18th Amend m ent Neither do I take, the dfild to bed with m e now or spend most cf joay ^working bohrs giving it an ' airing in a perambulator or other- I consider a t a very trouhle- cluld and I have fears together with its little sister, telstead Act, it will cause its parents :md caretakers much unneces sary trouble surd expense and that that „ the Volstead tremens. m not a bootlegger or a home :r. I do make cider, however, and wait as patiently as I can until it has aged enough to produce ideas and not be an insult if offered to a My opposition to the Klan is not because of its attitude toward the .men^ent, but for the rea- 18th Amendment, but for the rea- ner letter as Ian’s utterar utterances (and veiled ^insinuations contained in your open letter te me. lie debate, I will ! though I am not following a voca- stated in my former letter a; emplified by the Klan’s utterances and even by your utterances ( In regar-d to your dhallenge to mblic debate, I w ill say that al- i opportenity 1 advocate, I will though I am not following a voca tion tbat,-Eiside from line fences, etc., furnishes much opportenity to keep * 1 form as an advocate, I w ill never- is ire or inclination to argue about. in form as an advocate, I will never theless accommodate you if such is your wish. Romatrism, by white I presitme you desire to sneer- refer to Catholicism, I have n am rurable to see where a purely ision woirld s every man States has a perfect right, that right safeguarded by th tution, to belong to any church— Catholic, Protestant i and that any man or set of men who oppose this right are not good or desirable citizens of the United States of America. If you ,desire to argue against Americanism I will argue for it; or if you desire to defend, explain or up hold the outspoken principles of the i Klux Klan, its meeting places, ithods, masks and mode ’of procedure a s a useful and law-abiding organization, I will most emphati cally toke the negative, at any time, in any public hall that may be ob tained or offered in ............. tained or offered i the village of Brookfield. And I can safely assure you that yon or any who come with you will, be in no danger of being maimed, mauled or manhandled, pro vided they behave like ladies and gentlemen. I am ,, Very triily y SERIOUfe “Your wife is looking well!” “Yes. Just fancy. 'When I took her to the sanatorium' she was so b£id that I wouldn’t risk buying a i tetum tidret!”
