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rAGE FOUR mm SALAMANCA INQUIRER, BALAHANGA, N. Y. FRIDAY, NQV. 52, 1940. UTTLE VALLEY The initiatory degree will be con ferred upon a candidate a t the regular meeting of Ramona Chapter O.E.S. on Tuesday evening, Novem ber 26th at 7:30 P. M. The members of Lydia Brand chapter of Limestone will be guests of the evening. Members of Ramona chapter are urged to be present. The Athena Guild met last Thurs day evening at the home of Mrs. Royal McLouth. An interesting paper entitled “The Lesser Powers” w as given by Mrs. Joseph Hale. Mrs. Aldrich Gorsline gave a review of th e book “Wild Geese Calling”. • The next meeting will be No vember 28th at the home of Miss Lydia Langhans. Mr. and Mrs: Earl Hemenway, ac companied by Mr .and Mrs. Ernest D ankert of Otto and Miss Jennie shannon, East Randolph were among those from this county who attended the National Grange in Syracuse last Thursday. The seventh degree of the Grange was conferred upon them. The Woman’s Division of Chris tian Service held a meeting at the M ethodist church on Monday eve ning. Mrs. Myrtle Lowe was in charge of the program. Hostesses w ere Mrs. W illiam Cryer, Mrs. C. Burbank and Mrs. Wililam Myers. Mrs. Charles W atkins was hostess to the Thompson Avenue Bridge club on last Thursday evening. Mrs. J. M. Ackley had the high score of the evening. Refreshments were ser- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Calkins. Mrs. Erm ina DeLisle, Mrs. Grace Lockwood and Mrs. Marne Keyers w ere recent guests of Mrs. Oscar Swanson. Mrs. P. J. McEvoy and Mrs. Mae Tressier left Saturday for W inter Park, Florida where they will spend Lee Volk of Niagara Falls spent th e week-end w ith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Volk. Miss Mildred Beardsley of East Rochester visited her mother, Mrs. Celia Beardsley over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. George Fleckenstein of Springville visited Mr. and Mrs. T>. G. Bishop Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dankert of Otto and Mrs. John Jarrett and fam ily were in Olean Saturday. Miss Cecil Buskist of Frewsburg w as a guest of Miss Lydia Langhans Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W hite and daughters of Wellsville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Sibley and fam ily Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Luin Merow visited Mr. and Mrs. Lee Williams in Frank- linville Sunday. Philip Smith Jr., of Falconer vis ited Mrs, Ella Hemenway one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Milks and son, W a lter of D unkirk visited his brother. Van Milks Tuesday, several months. . Mrs. Agnes Mosher of Hornell and Mrs. H arland Barnard of Olean w^re guests at the Sorosis Literary Club meeting last week. Mrs. W ard Storum attended a bridge luncheon in Pranklinville last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Marsh, Mrs. Gilbert Marsh, Miss Esther Manning of Ellicottville, Robert W atkins of E a s t Hampton, L. I., and Vernon W a tkins of Boston visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ebert Sunday evening. Mrs. W. H. Casten of Cherry Creek arrived Saturday to spend the win te r with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Ack- Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schultz and fam ily visited her parents, Mr. and M rs. John Lindall in Great Valley, Sunday. Ralph M. Carey will spend Thanksgiving Day and the week-end w ith relatives and friends in Ho boken, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berbrick of Rochester were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Case. Mr. and Mrs. Mark W indsor of N o rth Valley called on Miss Minnie Cook, who is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Griffit^h, last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Fred Buskist visited Mr. and Mrs. John Dasher Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Trimm and daughter, Frances, of Buffalo spent th e week-end with Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Volk. Frances Trimm remained to spend the week here. Miss Katherine Lincoln of Olean visited Mr. and Mrs. W . D. Myers over the week-end. The Rev. and Mrs. Elmer F ran cisco ^ r e in l^ f f a lo last Friday. My. ■L; Lane'of Far-: mersville visited Mr. and IMrs. Lee jr- .-waKw -ysEi-vs* KflJLBUCK Dennison Pennell, who is now working out of Salamanca visited in Springville Sunday. !Mr. and Mrs. Edson Brown and Bernice and Roy Brown, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Brown were Sunday call ers on their parents and grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. 'George Bro^wn of Steamburg. Mrs. Addie Putnam and sister, Mrs. Alice Berry, visited a day or two in Ellicottville last week. iSix|j|ew pupils have been added to the Kill-buck school enrollment, Margie, Robert and Roland, Rose, Violet and Paul Akley, who have moved here from Bradford, Pa. The 4-H Club B Division, met at the school Thursday after school for a business meeting. Nearly all the seventeen members were there. W hat projects were to be taken up was discussed. The 4-H Club A Division met at the school Friday evening after school to plan for a lesson on sweets to be given at the home of their leader, Mrs. M argaret Rickey, Mon day evening. A surprise gathering was held for Miss Myrtle Sibley at her home last Friday evening. Games' and a luncheon were enjoyed by all pres ent. Miss Sibley will leave soon for Florida for the winter. Mrs. Blanche Hess attended the Thimble society in Salamanca last October Milk Prices Set at $1.92 Here Milk delivered 'during October to the New York City approved milk plants in Cattaraugus County was valued today at $159,502.02 on the basis of the uniform price of $1.92 per hundred pounds announced by N. J. Cladikis, adm inistrator of the New York metropolitan marketing Plants in the county received a to tal of 8,307,397 pounds ^of milk in the course of the month. The quan tity was 6.6 per cent more than the amount delivered in October, 1939. The October uniform price was based upon 401, 470,649 pounds of milk with a total market value of $8,843,643.29. including butter fat and locational premiums of $301,- 680.54. The adm inistrator’s report reveal ed that the quantity of milk sold in the fluid m a rket declined an average of 3.7 per cent daily in October as compared with September. At the same time, the amount of milk in the adm inistrator’s pool advanced slight ly. The combination of an increase amount in the pool and a decz'eased amount sold in the fluid m arket was responsible for the level of the Oct. The uniform price represents the value of milk of 3.5 per cent butter- fat in the zone 201-210 miles from New York City and is subject to ad justm ents for butterfat content and zone differentials. The fluid class prices of $2.45 for Class I and $1.84 for Class II-A upon which the October price was comput ed have been increased for Novem ber to $2.65 and $1.95, respectively. The class II-A price of $1.95 is subject to skim milk adjustment, which, if any, will increase this class Blendinger and family Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bibley were in Buffalo on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Ditcher of Maples visited Mr. and Mrs. Lee Blendinger and family Sunday. Miss Vivian Middleton left Wed nesday morning for Vestal, (N. Y.) where she will visit Mr. and Mrs. William O. Marvin for the holiday week-end. Mr. and Mrs. John Mc Connell accompanied her as far as Elm ira where they are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Max McConnell. Sidney Little of Falconer visited Mrs. J . M. Ackley Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bowen, Miss Emily Bowen and. Otis Lankow of Ellicottville were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Lankow Sunday. Mrs. Luin Merow and Mrs. J. P. Stoll were in Olean Saturday Mrs. Vera Cushner of Salamanca was a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burbank and family. Mr. and Mrs. Paul W imer of Buf falo visited Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Stoll over the week-end. Mrs. Lina Bernhoft returned home Wednesday from Belfast where she spent several days having been call ed there^ by the death of William Manning. Mrs. Francis Frantz of Hornell Visited Mrs. B* A. Whitney one day last week. Plans for Classifying Employees of County Came Before Board Employees of the several depart ments in Cattaraugus county govern ment are being considered this week by the board of supervisors. F irst approach to the problem personnel classification, and uniform salary classes, was made last year when the hoard engaged the Public Administration Service of Boston to make a survey of the county and re port to the board. The sum of $>4300 was made available for the Boston concern, which has completed its survey and has issued a report, now in the hands of supervisors. The problem of personnel takes several forms. One problem is to classify employees in categories that take into account similarities of work and of responsibility. Thus the employee known as Chief Clerk in the health departm ent now would become Sr; account clerk, and would be classified with an employee in the treasurer’s office who does the same type of work, and with all other em ployees in the county who perform similar duties. Another problem is to set a salary scale for each of the 91 job specifica tions which the survey finds in Cat taraugus county. At present prac tical nurses in the health department receive as high as $135 per month, while the survey recommends a scale from $75 to $95 per month for this class of help. Yet a laboratory tech nician receives $72 per month, and the recommended scale starts at $75 and increases in $5 per increments to a top salary of $95. Sub-divisions of the problem are to provide ji,niform vacation periods for all employees, uniform sick leave and a method by which em ployees may air grievances for un fair demotion or discharge. The first new step proposed by the report is the formation of a Person nel Committee of the board of super visors, consisting of three members. A personnel officer is recommended, who would act as secretary to the coinittee but would have no vote in their deliberations. The committee would recommend changes in rules, hear appeals and grievances, would suggest disciplinary actions and would suggest new classes among personnel or revisions of existing classes. They would approve salary increases, fix rates for over-time and approve regulations on hours of Provided the board this week adopts the report, with or without amendments, it will mark the first attained in any degree. It will give the board close super vision over county employees, and v.dll define a range within which de partm ent heads may hire and fire and may set salaries. Prom the employee’s point of view adoption of the report would pro vide basic hours of work, basic min imum pay with stated salary in creases up to a basic maximum, would provide for promotions when earned and for vacation periods, sick leave and leaves of absence. P a t terned closely on Civil Service, it would protect employees against be ing discharged capriciously or de motion without cause. Department heads will be requir ed to conform to supervisor control of personnel through a device as simple as it is direct. The report says “neither the county treasurer nor any officer shall pay any salary holding position in the county ser vice unless the payroll shall hear certification of the Personnel Officer ’that the person was employed and is performing services in acordance with rules, and that salary is within the rates established for the class to which the position has been al located.” In a number of instances, county employees are receiving salary above the maximum range for the class in which they fall. In the cases the report recommends that the salaries be kept where they are, for those in dividuals, but that they be promoted to a higher position or transferred a better position in another de partment. Vacations would be earned at the rate of one work day for eack month of service, which may not accumu late beyond 12 working days. Sick leave with full pay to the extent of one work day for each month of ser vice may he granted, not to exceed sixty working days. Perm anent employees called for military or naval training shall be granted a leave of absence, with full pay not to exceed ninety days. Sick and vacation leaves would accrue as though the employee were actually working, and they may return to their former positions at the com pletion of servic^ In the report, attention .is called to the trend in New York state to get all' county and municipal em ployees\ u n d e r civil Service. “I t ‘ seems certain th a t counties such as Plan to Give Relief Milk to Adults Now A plan to revive fluid milk sales blighted for nine years by the low purchasing power of New York fam ilies on relief took shape today when 250 ;nilk dealers here were invited to participate in the relief milk pro gram of the Surplus Mar'keting Ad- ministratioin of the United States Department of Agriculture and the New York City Department of Wel fare. The program has been designed to provide a pint of milk a day for the children of relief families and, gaug ed at the current number of relief families, should account for nearly 27,0-00,000 quarts of m ilk in , the next year. Distribution of fluid milk to relief families with children under sixteen years of age will supplement the penny-a-glass milk program which is now -functioning in 128 public and high schools. The letter informed dealers that the SMA would pay them 2.7 cents a quart in addition to the five cent a quart which would be paid by the Welfare Department. “The payment of 2.7 cents a quax-t by the Surplus Marketing Adminis tration,” the letter said, “is, together with the five cents paid by the De partm ent of Welfare, designed to re turn to handlers a margin equivalent to that which they obtained on com mercial sales of milk to retail stores at a wholesale price of eight cents quart during October, 1940, and en able handlers to pay the retail store handling milk under this program a margin of one-half cent per quart. A provision of the m arketing oi’der regulating the dairy industry of New York City which permits dealers to pay dairy farm ers currently a special class price of $2.08 per hundred lbs. for milk sold in relief programs was cited in the letter. The special relief price combined with a cash return of 7.7 cents a quart from the W el fare Department and the SMA will assure dealers a return correspond ing to 8.93 cents a quart before de ducting the payment to retail mer chants. The letter explained that the pro gram, which is expected to become effective about December 15, “is de signed to expand the consumption of fluid milk among relief recipients in New York City who have children under 16 years of age.” Officers Named for Iroquois Farm Loan Cooperative farm mortgage cred it has brought vast benefits to far mers of this section over the past two decades, declared William H. Adams, senior atfo'fne'y for the Springfield (Mass.) land bank, the anual stockholders’ meeting of the Iroquois National farm loan as sociation at the Town Hall, Ellicott ville on November 14. A large group of the association’s members turned out for the meeting, which-started at 10:30 in the morn ing. Following reports by John W. Ellis of Ellicottville, the associa tion’s secretary, on activities of the past year, Mr. Adams was the prin cipal speaker. John Wallace of Machias,the group’s president, pre sided. Dinner was served at 12:30 to the stockholders and their guests. The Iroquois association was form ed in 1933 as a mfit of the coopera tive farm mortgage system to serve Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, had 211 mortgage loans on its books on September 30, the close of the fiscal year, representing $393,000. Practically all the loans have been reduced to the original amount. In addition to these first-mortgage loans, the association has had part in making commissioner loans, mostly oi; second mortgages, to farmers, in this locality, since the summer of 1933. Directors of the Iroquois associa tion elected by the stockholders present at the meeting are Charles Underwood of Cubak^officers reelec ted were: John Wollan, President; Anthony Covert, Vice President; John W. Ellis, Secretary-treasurer. Cattaraugus will have to develop an acceptable program (of Civil Ser vice) of their ow* or have one ap plied through Albany”, the report with adoption of three addltioinal rules, lends itself to the adoption of a civil service program in the county, the survey declares. Salary ranges recommended in the report were the outgrowth of infor mation form questionnaires which the PAS people send to business con cerns in the county, and to county departments in twenty counties of the state. The questionnaires obtained data as to -salaries paid in similar situa tions, hours of work and the ^ s te m of merit used In allowing prpmo- tionfii^: J . , t . New;np]^Iic^g|g for: positions in couniy ser?ice would he given heBtS, Services to be Held^ Friday for H. E, Higgs^ Little Valley Barber Hudson B. Higgs, for thirty-one years a county seat business man, died late Tuesday afternoon in Sal amanca City Hospital, a ^ victim of heart trouble. He was 57 years old. He was admitted to the hospital Monday afternoon for a short per iod of treatm ent, his family be lieved. Tuesday his condition be came critical suddenly and he diet!' at 5:20 o’clock, hardly more than an hour after members of his fam ily had left the bedside hopeful for his recovery. County seat business places will be closed Friday afternoon during funeral services for Mr. Higgs. The Rev. C. W. Baldwin, minister of the Methodist church, will conduct the service from the Middleton Funeral Home in Rock City street. Burial is to be made in Rural Cemetery, fol lowing services at two o’clock. Members of the Masonic order and the Odd Fellow lodge will escort the coffin to the cemetery. Selected members of each organization will act as bearers, Mrs. Higgs said Tues day night. A barber by trade, Mr. Higgs came to Little Valley in 1909 when he rented a furnished shop on the south side of Main street. Later he moved to the north side of the street, taking over a billiard parlor in the bank building. He added barber shop and operated the busi ness there until he bought a build ing in Park Place in 1924, He re-modeled the building, con ducted his barber shop in the front of the building, and had a billiard room in the rear. The upstairs rooms have been used for living quarters by Mr. Higgs and family. Three yeai’s a;go Mr, Higgs suf fered his first heart attack and was a patient in WCA hospital in James town for several weeks. He returned borne, but his conditioif appeared to remain unchanged. He was horn in Stockton,, Chau tauqua county, but lived here the' past thirty-one years. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Katherine Schlecht Higgs, a son, Alfred who operates a barber shop in Westfield, and a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Larson of Akron, O. There are two grandchildren, Arlene Higgs, Westfield, and Donald Larson, Akron. Mr. Higg’s aged father, George Higgs, lives w ith the family in Park Place. Mr. Higgs leaves two brothers, Charles A., an attorney in Bay City, Gowanda. Alfred Higgs and family arrived from Westfield late Tuesday, and all other members of the immediate family are expected Wednesday. The late Mr. Higgs was a mem ber of Arion Lodge, F. & A. M. and of the Little Valley lodge I.O.O.F. He was a member of the Methodist church here. First Church of Christ, Scientist ' (Sunday services a t the First Church of 'Christ, Scientist, at 11 o’clock. Sunday school at 9:45. Wed nesday evening testimonial meeting a t 7 :45. All are welcome to attend church services and to visit the reading room which is open Tuesday and Friday afternoons from 2 to 4 o’ clock. The reading room also main tains a free lending library consist ing of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy’s works. “Soul and Body” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon. The Golden Text is: “O -bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: which holdeth our soul in life, and suffer- eth not. our feet to -be moved” (Psalms 66; 8. 9). Among the citations which com prise the Lesson-Sermon is the fol lowing from the Bible: ‘‘I heseeeh you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac ceptable unto • ‘God, which is your reasonable' service. . . . For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in -Christ, and every one mem bers one -of another” (Romans 12: 1, 4, 5). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following selections from the textbook of Christian Science, “Sci ence and Health -with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy; “The divine Mind maintains all iden tities, from a 'blade of grass to a star, as distinct and eternal. The questions arqj W h at are God’s iden tities? W hat is iSoul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? . . . The identity, or idea, of all reality continues forever; ibut Spirit, or the' divine. Principle of all, is not in. Spirit’s formations .Soul is synony mous w ith Spirit, 'God, the creative,: governing, infinite I^n c ip le nut-, side of finite form, which forms only reflect. , , . Man is idea, tiie of Love; he is n o t phykiqne” (pp. 70, n , 475^. V . L Study of Tables Occupied Supervisors Equalization and the' problem of classification and salary for per sonnel in the '^several county de partm ents presented knotty hours for Cattaraugus ^ounty . supervisors Tbursdhy in the second meeting of their long annual session. All of the morning session and much of the\ afternoon was '^pent discussing proposed changes in equalization, resulting from an ap praisal of county realty values made by Ellswortb, Barrows and Pollard of Buffalo. Charles J. Pollard of the-Buffalo firm commented on the proposed new table of equalization, which raised the 71-point county average in 1939 to 80-points for 1940. W ith Olean city apparently to re ceive an increase of five points, and Salamanca eight points, rural supervisors wanted to know how many points the towns would have to receive to maintain a tax parity with the cities on the basis of the 1939 table. Mr. Pollai’d and later Mr. Barrows were unable to state., but said they would have the inform a tion when the board meets at its next session on Monday. Opinion freely expressed by rural supervisors was that the average town would have to gain three four points to each one gained by the cities to “break even’’. Commenting on the trend through out the county to assess residential and farm property at a higher rate than steam railroads and other util ities, Mr. Pollard said, “Farm s are being assessed more than lOff per cent of their actual value pretty much through the county. Actually in the town of Farmersville, farms are assessed more than 120-per cent of value, and about as high as any place in New York state”. Last year’s full value of realty iu the county was more than 95- million dollars, Mr. Pollard recalled, and on the basis of the appraisal made by his firm, the present full value is 85-million dollars. High farm and residential as sessments by local township asses sors requires that Farmersville have equalization rate of 124-points, and Lyndon 119-points, Mr. Pollard said. Five other towns would have points over lOD,^ with Olean city at 75-points and Salahianca' City at 73- points. ^ , Proper equalization' will have great benefits to and city when It comes to receiving the State franchise tax and the school aid money, Mr.4 jRollard i^aid. He estimated that the county would benefit by $70,000 this year. Urging that utility and steam rail road property be given higher as sessments immediately, Mr^ Pollard said, “You probably can’t put it all on this year without litigation law suit, hut you can probably bring their assessments in line with residential and farm property in two years” . In the^afternoon session, resuming the examination of equalization, E. \Ward Lewis, town of Portville, ask ed, “How do we rural fellows stand. How much load - - ?” You're on the right scent”, re plied Mr. Barrows of the Buffalo firm. “Small property owners are taking it right on the chin. \What you want to now, Mr. Lewis, is ‘who is getting stuck’ ”. “I know we’re getting stuck”, Mr. Lewis answered. “I ju s t want to know how bad”. Mf. Barrows promised to have in formation comparing the rural and^ city tax loads on Monday, \Olean will pay in the end”, de clared H. D. Converse, Olean ward \I think you rural fellows are licked by Olean a little bit”, Mr. Barrows said. Mr, Lewis moved that the pro posed changes in equalization be re ferred to the equalization committee, of which M. V. Finch is chairman. Mr. Finch’s committee will meet within a few days to consider ■ the changes. A communication from th e ' Erie county highway ^ d epartm ent said they were ready to undertake build ing jointly with Cattaraugus county a. county line bridge near Yorkshire. They estimated the cost at $60,000. Chairman B. J. Dorsey referred the letter to the committees on finance and highways. G. Locke Robson, town of Frank- linville, tossed a minor bombshell Into afternoon proceedings when he offered a resolution reciting that the county had engaged the public Ad ministration Survey service to make a study of/personnel in the county, and that the board should have a re port on the survey before consider ing th& adoption of a budget. H is point, whichL found support w ith Clifford P; Rowland, town of Ashford, and others, w as th a t the survey may ask. for salaiy.^hanges. Assemblyman-EIeet Will Speak Before LV Brotherhood Leo P. Noonan, assemblyman-elect. will give an address before the Men’s Brotherhood, Little Valley at their meeting next Tuesday evening in the parlors of the Methodist chur<ai. Mr. Noonan, who is principal of the high school at Farmersville, said would speak on legislative problems affecting Cattaraugus county inter ests. Mr. Noonan was elected member of assembly early tMs month, when he defeated the Democratic candi date, Bernard P. Gill of Olean. Mr, Noonan had previously won the Re- pu'blican nomination from William B. Kingsbury, who stood for reeleq- tion. The speaker is active In American Legion affairs of the county, and is also prominent in school-niasters’ organizations. The program Tuesday evening will be preceeded by a 6:30 o’clock dinner, for which about seventy are expected. Election of officers for 1941 is \ o be a part of the business program for the November meeting, and Brotherhood president George Straight has appointed D. J. Bush- nell, Floyd J. Davis and Albert An drew to act as a nominating com m ittee to report Tuesday night. The committee on attendance for the November meeting consists of D. J. Bushnell, Lynn Wood, Chester Ehman, Noel Pearson, George Straight, James Wilcox, the Rev. C. W, Baldwin, George W aller and Peter Vimmerstedt. Leon Man Honored On Retirement From Creamery Position LEON— Tribute to a nose , seemed to be the dominant note of speeches and letters which were part of the retirem ent party program - Friday night in honor of Rollin J. Kelley, 67, who recently completed twenty three years in the service of the Leon c-reamery. Letters from high officials of the General Ice Cream Co., of which the Leon Creamery is h part, and testi monial rem arks by fellow employees, dwelt in awe and adm iration for the nose which Mr. Kelly brought to his job as milk receiving inspector at the creamery. A native of Leon and a • sotr of the late Clint Kelley, one of the last Civil W a r veterans in Leon, Rollin Kelley drove star route mail for three years and was town superin tendent of highways for two terms 1813 to 1917. Now nearly seventy, he is in hearty health and enjoys hunting behind dogs that “work the way they ought to”, as he told the forty men gathered for the surprise testimonial supper. Bert J. Dorsey, superintendent of the creamery, presided at the ban quet. He eulogized Mr. Kelley as a loyal citizen, liked by officers and employees of the company. Com menting on Mr.. Nelley’s uncanny olfactory sense, he said, “ Our com pany has all sorts of chemical tests to make sure of the quality and purity of milk we accept from farm ers. But Mr. Kelley’s nose has done more to make our product outstand ing than all the chemicals, and made him the greatest receiving platform man I ever heard of. Charles P. Crawford Dies in New Jersey ‘Charles P. Crawford, of Upper, Montclair, N. J., native of W est Sal- „ amanca and for many years general auditor ^of the E rie Railroad vath offices in New York Gity, died Mon day at the age of 80 years. He was the son of Mr. aaid Mrs. ■William P. Crawford, pioneer resi dents of this section,, and began work for the Erie Railroad early in life, serving for a time as ticket agent here. He was a -brother of the late 'Mrs, Alice Champlin, and an uncle of- Miss Laura K. Ghamplin, high school teacher here who died recently. .Besides his w ife he leaves two daughters and two grandchildren. IFuneral service w ere held a t th'e home. Upper Montclalre, Wednesday, Mr. Rowland w anted to know, “How can we prepare a budget un til we know the salary scales”. W hen F. Earl W estover, York shire, . and Paul A. Setter, New Al bion, gave explanations th a t a spec ial committee had knowledge of the Survey report, and th a t th is special committee would pass on salary changes, other board members oh- jja.cted that such changes should come before the entire hoard. Mr, Westover^ asserted, “The changes are really negligible and won’t affect our budget to am ount to anything.” Chairman D o r s ^ ruled the. Rob son resolution o u t of order. Sn it* present form, an4 referred R to the and that the board shoald'pass on ^ countif’ attorney ahd the fpeeial com- ‘them before adopting a Budget. mlttee on pearonnel.
