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Sotttb lleto Berlin VOL. XXIII UO. 9. SOUTH NEW BERLIN, CHENANGO CO, N. Y., SATURDAY. MARCH 15, 1919. TEEMS:—81.25 PER YEAR COUNTY AND VICINITY m$ Items of Interest Gleaned From Our . Exchanges. D. Lewis of Oxford had his collar bone broken when he was thrown while alighting from a Lackawanna The junk end fur dealer of Whit ney Point is reported to have lost $L00. owing to a recent slump in the price of furs. C H. Dix has purchased the Joe Williams farm on the Guilford road consistiiig of 60 acres with stock and tools.—Bainbrldge Republican. Cattaragus county 'dairymen are now milking their cows three times a day. It is stated that they get 15 per cent more milk by the new schedule. A Letter From Sgt. Earl Camp. The following letter, together Herbert C. Sweet has been janitor of the Morris High school building for 31 consecutive years. | gome post cards and a picture of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Colt who re- hhnself, is written* to his parents, centy died in Pittsfield, Mass., be- Mr. and Mrs. Jay Camp of this vill- quested $1000 to the Presbyterian age and handed us for publication: church of Gilbertsville. , Nice, France, On Active Service There is every reason to believe that Sidney will be represented on the ball field this year by a team that will be superior to any club that has re.presented that village in past seasons. with the American Expeditionary Force, Feb. 10, 1919. My Dear Mother, I am now in the most beautiful spot in the world. We arrived here Assemblyman Lord has intro- j Friday morning and are at one of the duced in the legislature a bill amend- 'best places that the government ing the civil code by authorizing the affords us, which is fine'. Will in- sarrogate’s court to appoint a trus- close card. We can go out and pick tee when no testamentary trustee is named in a will to execute a trust created therein. Sad Suicide in Sidney. Sidney. March 9 .— Robert Court ney sr , a resident for his whole life ill Sidney and vicinity and a member of an o]d and well-known family* committed suicide Saturday night or Sunday morning at bis room in the house of Mrs. Alta Wood on Grand street. It appears that Mr Courtney went to his room at about 5:30 Sat urdav afternoon and was not after that time seen alive. As he did not arise during the morning, Mrs. Wood went at about 2 :30 this afternoon to call him and found the door locked. Receiving no response to her call she summoned W. R. Dickinson, who oranges right from the trees Yes- broke in the door and found the body terd^y morning an old English Colo- of Courtney on the floor, with head nel took us out for a climb up the wrapped in an old overcoat. A re- * With a membership of 2,012, the Madison County Farm Bui*eau now stands second in . membership in the State and only 48 behind Cayugd county, which' stands first. Two shipments of white crested black polish eggs made Monday by Afton’s veteran .poultryman show the wide-spread fame of Mr. Seely’s poultry business and incidentally of Afton, one shipment being made to Texas and another to Porto Rico. Mr. Seely says there is four times Another real estate transfer took ' the demand for these eggs as last place last week, by which Clinton year— .Enterprise. Grow became the owner of the Virgil ‘ Boyd property, consisting of two acres, located on South Main S t.— A:fton Enterprise. As a result of the slowing clown of -bu.^iness the Ontario & Western has Neck Brokan by Fall. Homer Hav/kins, a middle-aged farmer who resided on a small farm between Afton and Nineveh, either fell or was thrown from his wagon ' Mountain in the rear of our ville as they call the hotel where we live; we do not liveright in Nice, but about a half hour ride out at Beaulieu, a small town outside. 1 tell you it seems good to get away from the , same old routine of work all the time, and the government is paying for my board and room, so it is a i very cheap trip for me. It seems ■ so queer to be in February in a place where the gardens are growing and I fllowers, 1 never saw so many in my life; they have fields of carnations and roses right out doors, no green houses here. Had fresh -peas and string beans yesterday for dinner and they were as nice as you ever volver was clutched in his hand and the body was cold, indicating that be had. been dead for several hours. The fatal wound was from a pistol shot upward through the mouth. No shot had been heard by anyone. Dr. Dav was at once summoned, and after viewing the body permission was given for its removal to the under taking rooms of Carr & Hare. Coroner Wood of Delhi, who was notified, will arrive in Sidney Mon day morning and will hold an inquest. Mr. Courtney was about 50 years of age and was formerly an' employe of the Sidney Novelty works and of other manufacturing establishments in town and vicinity. He had worked ate The people here live like they j for about a year in Ilion, but re do in New York ; Breakfast at noon, turned to Sidney aiiout t ‘.vo months dinner at night and lunch at mid- ; ago. Since that time he had had no laid off forty trainmen living at Mid- ^ pi-jday coon, and broke his neck, dietown, many of them on runs to thea few minutes after he was rennsylvania coal fields. Llrven ]yj^„ the roadside, conductors and twelve engin^'ers liave (>ngagerl in drawing ice also been demoted, it is stated. from Afton Lake, and had just start- night, so we can sleep unliLnoon. if | regular employment, and it is be- Lester Doughei-ty of OneeiitM v\hf> od along the State road toward the we want to. The Y. M. C. A. is a j iev e d t h a t despondency on this ac- ple.aded guilty to taking'a ' letter ^ of ice about noon great thing here; aside from your * count wa^ the cause of the rash act. from the mails containing a check i-opfl iViP io a o s JU-.C cinefifi ciuu tne jiisl nnuvvi- y o u r s e i i e v e r y vjiintm . Ji> oujii-j tives .so far ss is known. His wife has been dead for'■ many years,— Oneonta Star. DAIRYMEN’S LEAGUE NEWS. Delegates from Every League Branch to Gather at Utica, March 22nd. Utica will again be the Mecca of dairymen on March 22nd. On this date delegates from every on^ of the tnousand branches of the Dairymen’s League will gather from over a thousan'i farm communities to launcR the campaign for general co-oi era- tive ownership the country end of the milk business. All league hranches will hold meetings immediately to elect 'the best man available as a delegate to the Utica meeting. This delegate will attend the meeting and will bring back to every local community where there is a League branch organized, the full details and plan of campaign of the League’s co-operative project. Meetings will then be held in every community to place the plan before every dairyman. It is expected to complete the whole campaign before April 1st. The chief object of the general meeting at Utica and the local meet ings to follow, is to get in the quick- est-way possible, correct information and understanding to every dairyman of the League’s co-operative plan. The enterprise is so large in extent and so important in its nature, that it is absolutely essential that every dairyman have a correct understand ing of just what is proposed. After he fully understands the plan, it is, of course, up to him and his com- thfst anything was wrong was when was seen ap- r.roaching on a run with no driver. Friday. Thue wore tv.o or three for'b'iraD o n «hich''h'rfo^ name-of the payee, «as gi-en a se- the other teanistera had vere lecture by Judge Ray, who . urged him to let this experience be a Havvkins team lesson to him. The court then im- ^ posed a fine of $100 apoii Ocucher- •ins was fonnd lying by the roamside in a dying' condition, Drs. Dodge On Tues'iay when Homer Padgett; and Hayes were called and it was cut down a hemlock tree it lodged found tnut his neck whs bnikt-n. It in an ironwood sapding. In or-der to is not known whether Hawkins fell release the hemlock Mr. Padgett from the wagon a.s a result of the struck the ironw'ood a blow vvith his horses becomiiig frightened or ^ Jor.nson, who has been em- axe. The ironwood sprang up and , whether be h a h e a r t failure and fell ployed at the Independent Lroducers its butt slashed his face from the over, the horses starting on a run | jaw bone to the eye. It took several afterwards. No one saw him fall. ■ li’ from Oneida lake, had a stitches to close the wound.— Oxford' ______ _ ________ i Jiarrow escape from being burned to Review-Tin>e». Highways From Tractor imorning In some manner his coat caught in the fly Work on the new building of the - Beech-Nut Packing Company, at | Senator Davenport and Assembly- Canajoharie to cost over $225,000, ;man Booth introduced in their re room you could live in it and enjoy 1 He is survived by one son, Robert y'OurseJf every minute. It is built | Courtney j r . , but by no other rela- ouc on the water, as you will see by the post card, and in there you can find everything: reading room, writ ing room, bowling alley, eating roo.m, canteen and a very large theatre that is going about all the time. Am feel ing fine ami hope you are the same. With love, Earl. Floyd Johnson Has Narrow Escape. has already begun by the contractors. ; spective houses of the State Legis- The lai;ger of the new buildings will be used for the manufacture of ginger ale, a new product of the Beech-Nut Company, which is already being turned out in large quantities to meet the increasing demand for soft drinks. George McDonald met with a pain ful and serious accident Monday. He was helping in the washing, carrying a large pan of hot water from the stove to another room when his foot slipped on the door sill and he fell backward, the hot water scalding his arms, and also his body in places. Fortunately his face was not burned bat it will be some time before he will be able to use his arms.—Afton Enterprise. Several of the Schoharie county hop growers have decided to go back to the broom corn industry that was so flourishing in that section years ago. Several fields, devoted to h3ps for the last twenty-five years, will this latore at Albany two bills amending the.penal law by making it a misde meanor to drive on an improved state, county or town highway a tractor or other machinery having upon its wheels sharp cleats or flanges without placing shoes or other appliances thereon to prevent the cutting of the road bed. Amending the highway law by pro viding the state highway commission er and the local authorities may repair and maintain a highway cross ing of a railroad track and charge the expense to the railroad company if after ten days notice in writing the company neglects or refuses to repair sainie. CHENANGO LAKE Chenango Lake, March 12. — Wil liam Bowers was ia South New Ber lin Saturday \i3f last week. manner his coat wheel or other part of the gasoline engine with which power was furn ished for hoisting the ice into the building: this in some manner broke the gasoline feed pipe which then threw a stream of gasoline onto Johnson’s back; this was in turn set on fire by the exhaust from the en gine. By some lively work on the part of his fellow workmen bis coat was finally stripped off and the fire extinguished, but not until it had burned the coat and his pants con siderable. The fact that the coat was a sheep skin one unquestionably asved him from being badly burned, as it was the only burns he received was on one of his bands. A lucky go for Floyd, Motor Car Accident Near RR. Station. The motor car, known as the *' go- devil,” which has been running up the New Berlin Branch of the O. & W. for some time, was ditched at the the north end of the yard at this station about 9 o’clock Monday morn- .. X J • r> , J r, Ti ing and two of the occupants were Mrs Ldwin Brooks and Mrs. Her- f ., ■ i . , „ , • c- i-T. -VI o quite .seriously injured. The cause bert Brooks were m South New Ber- ,, ., . ., . ot the accident was the working lose • of one ^\)f the broom.s—there being year be put under cultivation for brooip corn. The crop is regarded hv 1 lin last Saturday. those who are going to try the ^ Grace ’ two, one on each side of the cm— ment, as the nex ^ es a vCi ae .oy. ^ spent Sund»y with Mr. and , which are used to sweep the rails ;i wutrre cruncj v;m; 1 he crop is no la^ ! Mrs. ivlenzo Brookei'. this broom dropped at the switch I The other night when Ma Runs the Auto, Before we take-an auto ride Pa says to Ma. “ My dear. No'w just reinem'ber I don’t need .-suggestions from the rear; yv>u will just sit back there and hold in check your fright, I will take you where you want to go and get you back all right. Remember that my hearing’s good and also I’m not blind. And I can drive this car without suggestions from behind.” Ma promised to be quiet, then off we ji^'^ayly start, — Bat soon she notices ahead a peddler and his cart. ‘‘You’d better toot your horn.” says she, “ to let him know we’re near. He might turn out,” and Pa replies, ‘ ‘Ju.st shriek at hijn, my dear” — And then he adds, ‘ -Some day some guy will make a lot of dough By putting horns on .tonneau seats Tor women folks to blow. A little farther on Ma cries. He sig naled for a turn.” And Pa says, “ Did he?” in a tone that’s hot enough to burn. ‘‘Oh, there’s a boy on roller skates, cries Ma, now do go slow, I ’m sure he doesn’t see our car,” and Pa says “ I dunno; I think don’t need glasses yet, but really it might be That I din blind and cannot see what’s right in front of m e.” Tf Pa should speed the car a bit, some rigs to hurry past, Ma whispers, “ Do be careful now. 3 'our’e running much too fast, ’ ’ An' all the time she’s pointing out the dangers of the street, And keeps. Pa posted on the roads where trolley cars he’ll meet. we got home' Pa .sighed and said, “ My dear. h o ? r^ r t h e Alfred Kroutis end son Kifivin ' \here the rails come together in BOoh - • ' a H e rt ' . p p iL v s vield= big. they claim also, ! were in Norwich Wednesday of last a manner as to throw the car with i I » snre we ve all enioyed the drive i T f o y at present b L m com i; i week. | j , ■ coramanding fifteen cents, a very high 1 iv ^ j o r i- e U was ie South New | I Berlin Tuesday. i dale and some sdrveyor.«. Burlison What can easil.v be classed among! Alfred Brooks and son Edwin were : h®d some hones broken in his left the near miracles happened a few } New Berlin Tuesday on business, , weeks ago to Levering T’endell. a . Edwin Brooks is drawini? reins over a new hoi’se. Norwicb Fri- • nephew of C, D. Pendell of Afton. Pendell 'is in the navy, and at the time of the accident was at the wheel. A high sea was rolling', the waves surging mountains high, while the wind fairly shdelT^. While bolding the wheel, a huge wave ■washed over the decks, causing him to lose his hold upon the spokes, and washed him overboard, breaking one of his legs and injuring him about the bead. ^ Then happened what would not happen again in a million times the next wave washing young Pendell back on board ship nate that it did, as no rescue could have been made, no sm a ll boat being able to live in a. rough sea. Ivon Morrell was in day of last weekl Mrs. Helen Morrell was in Nor- * wich Monday. | 1 Mrs. Edwin Brooks was in Nor- j wich Wednesday. j hand and the toes on one foot badly injured; one of the surveyors re ceived quite a severe scalp wound. The others were practically unin jured. Carl Swanson and daughter, Mrs. ^ James Sbillabeer, motored here from Binghamton, one day this week, to get Mrs, Carl Swanson, who has been v'isiting Mr. and Mrs. C. Burke the past three weeks. ' Mrs. Swanson has been earing for her father who is critically ill. Changes of Advertisements. The F. H.- Smith Store. The National Bank of New Berlin, Government Loan Organization. G. F. Parcelle & Co. Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. Dakin Opera House. New York led the states of the Union-based on the number of men sent into- the United States service. From tfaip state 867,864 men left to New Lisbon Woman Falls Down Stairs. New Lisbon. March 10.— Mrs. William Lull of New Lisbon had a vet'y narrow escape from serious, if not fatal, injury Friday afternoon while engaged in settling her new home. She went into a back pantry to place some things on a shelf and it being dark,she did not notice that a trap door leading to the cellar was open and she fell to the cellar bot tom, striking on her head. . She managed to get up stairs and call for i help. Dr. Bishop came immediately ’ and could find no bones broken, but I the lady was badly bruised about her head and back. go to war. Spring will put in its appearance next week—but the weather may be wintry.. South New Berlin Furnishes a Bed at Norwich Hospital. When it became known a few days ago that South New Berlin bad been requested to furnish a bed in one of the wards of 'the new Norwich Hos pital. everybody was anxious to con tribute to that end. The entire amount, $100, was quickly secured Bnd the additional sum of $25 was. also contributed to maintain the bed for one year.' Mrs. E. W. Hovey who is a meniher of the,Roard of Lady Managers was active in collect ing the funds. ■ I he list of contribu tors follows; Mrs. Sarah Scott $5.00. Mr. and Mrs S. A. Ives $5.00, Mrs. Barsh Baeg $1,00, Will Coy $2.00. Arda Wild $5.00, George Coss $5 00. Fred Coss $3,00, Mrs.Beckiey $1,00, Otto Smeader $5.00, Frank Isham $1.00, Mrs William Darrocb $1.00, Frank Whitbeck $1.00, E. W. Hovey $5.00, Asa Robinson $5.00, Arthun Bigelow *$5.00. J.P. McGuire $5.00, Merton Camp $5.00, F. VanValken- burg $3,00, Rev. L. E. ^Wheeler $5.00, Koscoe Wightman $1.00, Frank Dixon $1.00. Mrs. M. John son $1.00, Mr^. A.J. Hill $1.00, Mrs. Jared Bailey $1 00, Mrs. Charles Barker $1.00, Floyd Dexter $1,00, dMillard Austin $1.00, Mrs... A. Ellis $3.00, Edwin Gage $1.00, Ervin Gage $1,00, Dr. E. N. Mor gan $5.00, T. B. Parker $5.00, Earl Simons $2 00, Wayne Bel den $1.00. L. E. Dixson $5.00, Ray H.\ Camp $2.00, H H, Goodnow $1.00 H, L Ling'ee $1.00, Scott L Brown- raunity as to what he wishes to do in officers since the trouble with the i 'OO-N ' f * ' dealers in January, it is .,n assured ^ ./'J?* fact that practically every League member will endorse the proposed : f ™ ” mitodi,, h„.h BaKg-$1.00. Cnarles Famung $1 00, Morris Wightman $1.00, Mrs.- Mary Townsend $1.00. Mrs. plan and get unitedly back of it to ' carry it out. Plan Demanded by Dairymen Hundreds of letters at the League ' office from all parts of the territoi’y ; show that the dairymen are united in : i-ealizing and demanding that the j League take a forward step looking! toward earing for the surplus, the ! elimination of the constant trouble' We^t Hill, March 11.-—Silas and friction with the dealers with j A therton has returned to his home at frequent danger of iriilk strikes, and i Syracuse. Mr.^. Elmer Sicbler was in Mt. I Adelia Pike $1.00. Jay Camp $1.00, Jay Wightman $1.00# Miss Eva •Gage 50c. Mrs. R. Gage 25c, Mrs, j George Caulkins $1,00. WE ST HILL. toward putting the dairy industry -on a more profitable and safe basis. Since the ending of the strike and before, the League officers have been | working almost constantly to meet I this demand from members with a practical workable plan. It has been necessary in so large an undertaking to be extremely careful to get a plan that was fundamentally right. This has taken time, but the details are now nearly complete, and the project to be placed beJfore the dairymen at Utica represents the best that League talent can do. On March 21st, the day preceding the Utica meeting, there will be a meeting of the League directors and county presidents when the plan will be explained and put before the directors for changes and approval. Probably the largest and most en thusiastic meeting of farmers' ever held in the East was held at Utica while the strike was in progress in January. From that* meeting there went forth to all parts of League territory a feeling of renewed strength and co-operation which has never been equalled among farmers. It was said all through the territory afterwards that the “ Utica spirit” was everywhere. This spirit still continues and will be very evident again at Utica on March 22nd, when over a thousand men throughout the six States where the League is organ Upton Wednesday, Clf'de Scribner, of New Berlin, worked several day.s last week for Lynn U tter. Miss Eva Gage visited relatives on'the Hill over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gage were at Ery Camp’s . a couple of days last week. Raymond Sergent is absent from school, owing to illness. N. L. Shaver who has been in Norwich nearly all of last i^eek, returned home Monday morning. He reports Mrs. Shaver as slightly im proved, which is very gratifying to her friends. Mr. and Mrs. Philo Hunt ieaye to day, Tuesday, for Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where Mrs. Hunt will take, the famous baths at that place. That the treatment may be beneficial is I hoped for. Mrs. F. N. Babcock is in Bingham- r- ton, owing to 4he illness of hen daughter Ellen, who has pneumonia, Katherine Tryon entert^ned at her home Wednesday evening, March 5th, her schoolmates and several friends in, honor -of her 12th birthday. The event was very pleasantly planned as surprise and she was the recipient. ized will gather again to get behind i pretty gifts, A delightful a movement for constructive progress ; chicken dinner was served and with in the dairy business. The Dairymen’s League, Inc, E. R. Eastman, Editor. games and other atnuse-ments the j time came all too quiek.ly to bid- i their young hostess good night hoping, i that she might have many more • birthdays as happy. BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS. Rev. L. E. Wheeler, Pastor. The Mission Circle will meet with ; Mrs. L. E, Wheeler Friday afternoon of this week at 2:30. Chapter O, and families met for a social -time with Mr. and xMrs. E. Simons on Wednesday evening. Chapter C. had a meeting for work and tea in the church parlors Thurs day afternoon. Sunday services as follows; Morning 'worship and sermon at 11 o’clock. Study hour begins ^^t the close of morning service. The C. E. Society will hold its regular meeting in the lecture room at 6 :30, Subject, Envy and Covet ousness. Miss Agnes Daniels' will be the leader, ■ Evening ^rvice at 7;30. Fortnightly Club Program, April 4 . — . f -Hostess— Mrs. Morgan Book Review.— My Boine on the Field of Mercy, Mfs,' Morgan Reading, Selected. Mrs. SiigOns Five minute talk on Current Events, - ' Miss Beckley Roll Call — A Practical Economy, Card of 'Tliawks. \ I feel very grateful to my kind neighbors, and friends-who' remem bered me with flowers and cards *of sympathy during my stay at the Hospital at Norwich. Walter Gristman* Read the change' of adv. 'o f The F, H. Smith Store, Sidney, Their Spring Stock of Rugs and Furnish ings is at its best,-=-adve 2 ;tiseineiit
