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A FOLKSEY H O M E T O W N NEW S P A P E R S alamanca ^ I nquire k . J U S T m E A LETTER. FROM H O M E Vol. XXIII SALAMANCA, N. Y. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941. m. 10 . Col. A. E. Krieger Is Called for Duty At Governor’s Island €ol. A. Edward Krieger, Infantry Reserve, Wednesday received effi- cial orders to report on March 15, for active duty with the First Army Headquarters at Governor’s Island. Col. Krieger, who is district at torney of Cattaraugus County, said Wednesday evening he had no state ment to make at this time regarding the district attorney’s office. He said he would ^ “try to figure out what is best for Cattaraugus Coun ty and what is best for me.” In the event of his resignation of the district attorney’s office. Col. Krieger said his successor would be appointed hy the governor. In any event nothing could be done about appointing a successor until Col. Krieger resigns. Col. Krieger’s order to active mil itary duty calls for service from March 15, 1941 to March 14, 1942, or until such time as he might be relieved of duty before the latter date. The fact that he was called last summer for five weeks’ duty at Fort Dix during which he was given leave of absence from the district attorney’s office and the fact that his order may not call, for a full year’s service suggest the possibility that Col. Krieger would not resign as district attorney and would ask for a leave of absence during that During Col. Krieger’s absence last summer, the office was capably in charge of Deputy Sheriff Elmer W. Miller whO’ is assigned as special in vestigator in the district attorney’s office, and Mrs. Frances W. Cham bers, stenographer in the office. However, there was no term of court during that time. The next term of the Grand Jury starts March 24, and it is not known who would act in the place of the district attorney. Col. Krieger is a graduate of Sal amanca high school, class of 1910, and of Cornell University Law school, 1915. He served his year's clerkship in the office of the late Judge George W. Cole, and in 1916 passed the New York State Bar. That year he opened an office for the practice of law over the store new occupied by Harvey & Carey, formerly Krieger’s drug store. January 2, 1930, with Alonzo J. Prey, Col. Krieger formed the legal firm ef Krieger & Prey. He was elected to his first term as district attorney in the fall of 1926 and his fifth term ends December 31 this Col. Krieger’s army life had its beginning, when he took two years’ military training in 1907 and 1908 at the old Chamberlain Military In stitute in Randolph. He took four years of military training while at Cornell and was captain of a cadet corps and was an instructor in the Department of Military Science and Tactics at Cornell. He spent one summer at Port Ethan Allen, Ver mont, and another at Persidio, San Francisco. April 28, 1917 he was commis sioned a first Lieutenant and was called into active duty at the en trance of the United States in the World War. In August 1917 he was promoted to Captain and he receiv ed his majorship in the fall of 1918. He was in command of a Battalion at Camp Gordon, Georgia, when the war ended. He was made Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry Reserve, in 1924, and Col onel in March of last year. For sev eral years he has spent two weeks every summer at camp and last sum mer he spent five weeks as com mander of the CCC camp at Fort ^ ^ Dix and was a leading officer in the First Army Maneuvers at Ogdens- Catholic Charities Directors Are Named \Eight District Priest Directors and thirty-five District Priest Man agers from Buffalo and Western N-ew York were appointed for the 1941 Catholic Charities Appeal and Appeal for Diocesan Needs at meeting Tuesday afternoon at Ap peal Headquarters, Lafayette Build ing, Buffalo. “The District Directors will have responsibility for parish organiza tion in one of the twelve districts in to which the Diocese is divided for Appeal purposes,” it was pointed out by the Rev. Paschal J. Tronolone, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Dun kirk and .member of the Bishop’s Appeal Committee. “Each District is, in turn, divided inte sections and the District Priest Managers will supervise organiza tion in the sections assigned to them.” District Directors in this area are, District 11, Section A, the Rev. John N. Henesey, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Limestone; Section B, the Eov. Benjamin A. J. Crane,^ pastor ef Holy Name of Mary Church, El- Ifeottville* Vincent Fedell Opens Chiropractic Office Vincent M. Fedell announces the opening ef a modern Chiropractic office, fully equipped for thorough and efficient Chiropractic analysis of all cases on Monday, March 10. Dr. Fedell states that Chiroprac tic as now practiced by up-to-date practitioners employs no more force than can be comfortably tolerated on the eyeball. “No other method now in use can as consistently straighten distorted spinal columns without Surgery as the modern concept of Chiropractic known as Basic Technique,” he says. Dr. Fedell is a graduate of the Lincoln Chiropractic College at In dianapolis, Indiana, from which col lege he holds the degrees of Doc tor of Chiropractic and Master of Chiropractic. He also has been awarded certificates for the practice of Logan Basic Technique and x-ray, conferred on him by the Logan Bas ic College of Chiropractic at St. Louis, Missouri. Until recently, Dr. Fedell held a teaching post on the staff of the Logan Basic College faculty. The general public is cordially in vited tO' inspect the offices which are located over the Harvey & Car ey Drug Store at 118 Main street, Salamanca, on Saturday, March 8. Business, Farm Leaders Arrange for ^ Randolph Meeting A jo in t tow n and country m ilk m e e ting betw e e n farm e r s and tow n s people w ill he held in R a n d o lph, T u e sday evening, M a rch 11th, in the C e n tral School. A ban q u e t w ill be served for both m e n and wom e n at seven o’clock in the school cafeteria, and a general m e e ting open to th e public will convene in th e audi torium a t eight o’clock. C h a rles D u m o n t of M alone and Syracuse, one of th e “roving speak ers” of the M e tropolitan B a rgaining Agency, a man of keqn w it and sound u n d e rstanding 'of th e m ilk situation, will p r e s e n t th e point of view of the farm e r , his subject being “W h a t is w rong w ith the New Y o rk Milk Shed.” Roy P o r te r of E lba, leader in th e B a tav ia C h a m b e r of Com m erce. and active in i ts u n u s u a l p r o gram of cooperation betw e e n town, and country, representing th e busi ness m a n ’s point of view, will speak on “W h y th e B u s iness M an C a res” . The sponsoring groups are the Leon Milk P r o d u c e r s ’ Cooperative, C o rt B a rlow , president; th e Steam burg M ilk Producers Cooperative, R a y W o odm ancy, president; the D a irym e n ’s League, C laude A. Shef field, president of the Randolph Lo cal, and A ra L. M ilks, director of D istrict 18; the M en’s Club of the F e d e rated C h u rch of R a n d o lph, W a l te r M o rton, president; and C h a rles N. Abbey, County F a r m B u reau Agent. The boards of directors of the th r e e cooperatives in jo in t m e e ting elected E d w in R. Rice of R a n d o lph, chairm a n of th e com m ittee on a r rangem e n ts , w ith o th e r m e m b e rs as follow s: C o rt B a rlow of Leon, C. N. Abbey of Salam a n c a , and Rev. H a rold W iley F r e e r and C laude A. Sheffield, both of R a n d o lph. The purpose of th e \ b a n q u e t and assem b ly is to p r e s e n t the points of view of both tow n and country, so as to create a m u tu a l understan d in g of th e m ilk situation. Mr. D u m o n t in presenting t h e f a r m e r s ’ point of view w ill explain som e thing of the m e chanics of selling m ilk to New Y o rk City, and will discuss the Federal Milk Order and its significance to both farmer and business man. Mr. Porter will discuss the position of the townspeople in this major industry of western New York. C h a rles N. Abbey, F a r m B u reau A g e n t, points out t h a t one of th e big fau lts w ith th e p r e s e n t situ a tio n is th e lack of understanding. Some business m en, he asserts, fail to ap preciate th e significance of th e price of m ilk, th a t a good price w ill certainly m e a n real spending m o n ey for th e farm e r . On th e o th e r hand, he added, som e farm e r s do n o t un d e rstand th e problem of th e business m a n . T h is jo in t m e e ting, he says, w ill p a r tially solve this. Mr. A bbey also pointed o u t th a t in this jo in t m e e ting th e farm e r has no gold brick he is ti'ym g to sell to the tow n speople. T h e farm e r m e re ly w a n ts to explain th e need for a decent m ilk price, upon w h ich both the farm e r and th e tow n so g r e a tly depend. Because of th e lim ited facilities of th e cafeteria, only a selected num b e r of fai’m e rs and businessm e n from com m u n ities beyond R a n d o lph 'may atten d t h e banquet. Those w h o w ish to do so-m a y m a k e reservations w ith Mr. Abbey before M a rch th e fifth. All m en and wom en of o th e r com m u n ities are invited to atte n d the session in the school auditorium , be ginning a t eig h t o ’clock* T h e re is no charge w h e te\^^ for,-this m e e t- tag- . J Supervisors Name Men to Administer Personnel Program Supervisors appointed L e o n a rd H. Sw an to be th e personnel ofiB'cer for C a ttarau g u s county as th e conclud ing piece of business for th e three- day session ended T h u r s d a y a f t e r noon. Mr. Sw an, w h o is county au d i to r and clerk of th e board, had n o t w ished to accept th e additional re sponsibilities, b u t w a s prevailed upon d u r in g a caucus of R e p u b lican board m e m b e rs to tak e the post, a t least u n til th e personnel and salary plan governing county em p loyees is w o r k ing sm o o thly. Ju s t before, th e board elected O. P. R o w land, tow n of Y o rkshire, G. Locke Robson, tow n of F r a n k linville, and John D o novan, Salam a n c a w a rd, one as th e b o a rd ’s personnel com m ittee. In electing com m ittee m em b e rs, the board follow e d caucus recom m e n d a tions in both instances. O ther w o rk done T h u r s d a y includ ed adoption of th e R o w land resolu tion to su p p o rt th e snow rem o v a l fund w ith $25,000 additional ap p r o p riation. The sum of $15,000 w a s p u t into the r ig h ts of w a y claim s account and th e sum of $1500 w a s voted to com p lete C a rrollton bridge num b e r 24, for w h ich th e original appropriation w a s inadequate. B o a rd C lerk Sw an was em p o w e r ed to advertise for bids covering county requirem e n ts, snow fence, road m a terials, tires and th e like for the highw a y d e p a rtm e n t, gas and oil for th e w e lfare d e p a rtm e n t together w ith coal for all county d e p a rt m ents. The board adopted a resolu tion to have all bids subm itted on a “sliding scale” basis, because of be lief th a t defense orders m ight cause sho rtag e in basic m a terials and th a t m a n u f a c tu r e rs w o u ld not care to subm it fla t bids covering a y e a r ’s requirem e n ts . A resolution by Mr. Robson w as adopted th a t afte r N o v em b er 1, 1941 th e r e shall he no detailed or item ized a u d ito r ’s rep o r t published. Given the privilege of th e floor to explain w o rkm e n ’s com p e n s a tion in surance questions, C. J. O’Shea, state fund representative, told the board th a t supervisors could bring th e ir tow n s under th e group plan m e rely by w r iting a letter to the com p a n y asking for a change to th e group coverage, authorized W e d n e s day by the board. Tow n s m ay come into the group as p r e s e n t policies expire, Mr. O’Shea said. Death Claims Mrs. Ella Austin Mrs. Ella Powers Austin, aged 79 years, widow of 'Ernest T. Austin, Church street, died Wednesday aft ernoon at 5 b ’clock following a short illness. Mrs. Austin was born in Ne>w York City, December 28, 1861, and had been a resident of Salamanca for the past thirty-nine years. iShe is survived by two sons, Ray mond Austin, -Summit street, and John Austin' at home, also by sev eral nieces and nephews. The funeral will be held on Sat urday morning at 8:30 o’clock from the home, 71 Church street, and at 9 o’clock from St. Patrick’s church. B u rial will b e m ade in Salam a n - List of Certified Welfare Investigators The -State Civil Service commis sion has certified to County Welfare Commissio-ner Hazzard E. Robinson the following eligible list for ap pointment as investigators in the department o f public welfare, those on the list having passed an examination. Ann S. Fuhr, Westons Mills; Ethel B. Y/illson, Cattaraugus; I. M. Russow, .Beatrice Stokes, V. M, Geer, Ellieottville;' Edna B. Hew itt, E. T. Reidler^ Thomas D. Moore, J. M. Davidson, Marjorie A. K^elly, Glean; Alfred C. Montin, Allegany; Ray H. Shannon, Perrysburg; Louise Krieger, William J. Luddy, A. F. Fredrickson, Adeline Velie, John R. Kammire, Doris Evans, Salamanca; Richard J. Morris, Eurica E. Heidel, Franklinville; Helen M. Whiting, Delevan; Hazel E. Cameron, Little Valley. Randolph Church Plans Banquet Under the chairmanship of the Rev. Chai-les 0 ’Donnell> the parish ioners of St. Patrick’s Church of Randolph are making preparations for a banquet to be held March 17. During the week the men ef th© parish have redecorated the parish hall, which will be in readiness for the banqu'etj A , travelog,^ “^‘Through Erin’s Isle” will be ^veii by eUe who has Visit ed. Ireland.- There 'Ydll also bq-a pro- ^ a i h of ItisK music. \ ; Testimonial Dinner For Col. Krieger -Col. A. Edward Krieger, who will leave March 15 for active duty with the First Army Headquarters at Governor’s Island, will be honored at a t^timonial dinner which will be sponsored by John D. Hughes Post, 535, American Legion. There will be a meeting of the Legion committee and the Draftee Entertainment committee composed of members from all civic organiza tions this evening at 7 ;30 in the Board of Trade Rooms, 127 Main street, to make plans for- the testi monial to Colonel Krieger. Final Ski Meet Held At Ellieottville The final ski tournament of the season of the Niagara Frontier Ski Council was held Sunday on Greer Slope, Ellieottville. Paul Massey of Cleveland, Ohio, and a member, of the Interstate Ski Club, carried off honors of the day, winning the Flint & Kent Challenge Trophy and the Hotel Lincoln Chal lenge Trophy for the downhill race and the slalom. Craig Burt, Jr., of Buffalo, and Peter Sawyer of Massa chusetts were the holders of the cups. Burt sustained a spill in the downhill that put him out of the running and Sawyer was unable to be at the meet. Mrs. Lisa Nagel of the Red Jack et Club of Buffalo won the ladies’ slalom and Mrs. C. Warren Gam mons of Buffalo and the Murray Hill Club won the downhill. In junior competition, Dana Fitzpatrick of Ellieottville, won a cup and the El- licottville Post plaque for the best combined time in downhill and sla- Ellicottville Couple Wed Sixty Years Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Connors of Ellieottville celebrated their six tieth weJding anniversary Sunday. A dinner was held at the Hotel Lin coln for thirty relatives. A silvei tea and informal reception follow ed at the family home, where Mr. and Mrs. Cbniiors received the con gratulations *of friends and neigh bors. They were\ presented with many gifts, flowers jand messages. Both are life-long residents of El- licottville. They have five children, who were all present at the dinner: Miss Mae Connors and Mrs. M. J., Ward of Salamanca, Mrs. Charles Brennan of Ellieottville and Wil liam and Michael F. Connors of Rochester. CCC Truck Hits Car Of A. C. Rowland A_ CCC truck being towed by an other truck last Friday night side- swiped the automobile -of A. C. Row land in Highland avenue. Mr. Rowland, who was returning from Franklinville, where he offi ciated as District Grand Lecturer at the Cattaraugus district O.E.S. meet ing, was uninjured. Mrs. G, H. Parkhill and Mrs. Julian K. Smith, who were riding in the car, suffered a wrenched shoulder and bruised knee, respec tively. Mrs. Parkbill was confined to her home in Kent boulevard the first -of the week but was taken to the City Hospital Wednesday for x-rays. Although suffering from the injury and a cold, she is reported as resting comfertably at the hospital. The Rowland machine was badly damaged. H. H. Rohde Addresses Kiwanis Club Herman H. Rohde, foreman of the Union Tanning Company, gave a talk on leather at the meeting of the Kiwanis Club in the Hotel Dudley Tuesday noon. At the next meeting, the tabula tion of results in the three-month attendance contest between the red team captained by Ralph Ward and the blue team led by John C. Harri son will be announced. The losers will put on a dinner fo-r the winners. Common Council Holds Meetinif At the meeting of the common council Monday evening, the $25,000 claim against the city of Salaman4 ea and the State of New York of Mrs. AngeJine Nephew, whose hus band, Robert Nephew, -died in the city, jail February 16, was unani mously rejected. The case comes up' before the term of the grand jury commencing March 24. The council voted to transfer city compensation - insuiance from the state Insurance fundj gro-up 42, to the special-insui^^e group of Cat taraugus county, v: G. Hubert Krieger Is j^romoted to Captain In U. S. Armjr Recent orders issued by the War Department announce the promotion of George Hubert Krieger of this city from the rank of 1st Lieutenant to Captain in the U. S. Army, with date of rank February 25. • Captain Krieger is on duty at the Reception Center at Fort Niagara with the 1213th Service Unit. Draf tees from the induction center at Buffalo go to Fort Niagara where they are given further examinations, classified and given preliminary training before being sent to theii; permanent stations.^ Captain Krieger, who is the son of Mrs. John C. Krieger, Broad street, was called into active service last October and was stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., before proceeding to Fort Niagara in December. He was formerly attached to the 392nd Infantry of the U. S. Ai*my Reserve A graduate of Salamai.’^a high school and 'Oornell University in Arts, and in Law, 1936, Captain Krieger was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1936. He receiv ed his commission as 2nd Lieuten ant in the U. S. Army Reserve 'Corps on graduation from Cornell in 1933 and some years ago was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. He has been active in the U. S. Army Reserve Corps since his graduation. Captain Krieger practiced law in New York City and White Plains with the firms of Bleakley, Platt & Walker, and later with 'Grant & Wafer, with whom he was associat ed when called to active duty. His brother. Col. A. Edward Krie ger received a call to duty this week with the First Army Headquarters at Governor’s Island, effective March 15. Col. Krieger is also district at torney of Cattaraugus County. Lieutenant A. Edward Krieger, Jr., son of Col. Krieger and nephew of Captain Krieger, is now on duty with the U. S. Army Air Corps as a pilot in a pursuit squadron a t Manila, Philippine Islands. George S. Palmer ^ Passes Away George S. Palmer, aged 72 years died at his home in Adams street Tuesday morning following an ill ness of the past three years. Mr. Palmer was born in Scio on May 4, 1868, where he lived for many years. He came to Salamanca 47 years ago. He was a member of the Men’s Club of the First 'Con gregational church. “^He was for several years a salesman of men’s wear and worked for the City of Salamanca, the Hunt Furniture Com pany, the 'First Congregational church and the American Express Company. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Clara Richardson Palmer; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Eddy of Newcastle, Pa.; one brother, Frank Palmer of Scio and four grandchildren. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the Hunt Funeral Parlors. The Rev. Roland M. Wendell and Rev. Mr. Palmer, a nephew, of New Market, N. J., officiated. Interment was in the family plot in Scio cemetery. Clinton Buehlman to Emcee Amateurs Clinton Buehlman, popular Buf falo radio announcer, will be the master of ceremonies at an amateur contest to be 'field in tfie fiigfi sefiool auditorium Monday, March 17, at 8 o’clock. The Parent Teachers Association is spo-nsoring the contest which is for high school students and adults for the benefit of the student aid. First prize is seven dollars, sec ond five dollars, third three dollars and fourth one dollar. Applicants should apply to Principal Thomas C. Moore for entrance in the con test. I People are urged to buy their tickets early and be sure of a sear. Tickets were sold out long in ad vance when Mr. Buehlman was here last fall. Principal Thomas 'C. Moore is in charge of the ticket sale, Ethel Holmes Munsey To Read Book Here The Freshman class of Salaman ca high school will bring Mrs. Ethel Holmes Munsey of Buffalo, widely known interpretive reader, to Sala manca March 14. The entertainment •will be held in the high school audi torium. Mrs. Munsey has ^ven p^form- ances :es in Jamestownj Glean, Gowan- Hamburg, Niagara .Falls, Lbck- CluK of Salamanca hrongfit Mrs. Munsey here a few years ago. American Legion Met Wednesday John D. Hughes Post, 535, Amer ican Legion, held a regular meeting in the Legion rooms Wednesday evening. Commander Milo E. Ban- ton called attention to a series of Articles appearing in the American Legion magazine pertaining to the preamble to the constitution of the American Legion. F. A. Lowe>- chairman o f mobiliza tion, reported that the Legion, emer gency committee is heihg complet ed and will be ready for any local emergency at a moment’s no tice. Herbert T. Lenz, first vice commander, announced the closing date of the 1941 membership drive was March 31. The annual county oratorical con test of the American Legion will be held in Salamanca sometime the latter part of this month or the first of April. Superintendent George A. Place is in charge of arrangements in cooperation with Ben C. Kysor, county Americanism officer. There is still time for World War veterans to register for national emergency with the Legion. He .also announced that State Commander Edward Wosseier of New York City will make his official visit to this county in Glean April 18. Work Starts on Two Buildings on LV Post Office Site D e m o lition w o rk started W e d n e s day on the two buildings a t th e n o r th side of th e lot upon w h ich th e tre a s ury d e p a rtm e n t is to erect an $80,- 000 federal post oflSLce. The buildings, one the old Glympic T h e a tre, and the^ o ther a form e r GLP feed store, are being razed by P r a n k C. Prenz, M aples, w ho Has received a contract under the A n a c o n d a F o u n d a tion and Construction Corporation, general contractor. V ictor deSam e lson, p r e s ident of the New Y o rk firm of contractors, arrived in L ittle T a lley t h is w e e k to stay here for several months until the building is w e ll under way. H e said T h u rsday m o rning th a t forem e n w ill be b r o u g h t onto the job in two o r th ree weeks, and th a t local labor w ill be em ployed. The general contractors w;ill do th e i r own excavating, sta r ti n g as soon as w e a ther perm its and th e ground thaw s enough to tak e fill w ithout late r settling. Mr. deSam e lson said his com pany w o u ld do its own con crete w o rk, and th a t a shortage of brick layers in th is area m ight com pel them to do t h a t w o rk also, using skilled m en from eastern cities. Sub-contractor P. C. P.renz has a crew of four m en w ith axes, saw s and o ther tools tearin g dow n the two obsolete buildings, w h ich w e re con dem n e d for public use some years ago. No tim e lim it h a s been placed for his w o rk, his in s tr u c tio n s being to get th e lo t cleared as soon as possible. P r e s id e n t V ictor deSam e lson said T h u rsday m o rning th a t the follow ing have received sub-contracts from his company: P lum b ing — Jam e s tow n P lum b ing and H e a ting Co., J a m e s tow n , H e a ting— L. H. B u lger, Buffalo. R e inforcem e n t steel for con crete— B e thlehem Steel Company. Structural Steel, roof beams - Central Steel Go., Buffalo. M iscelihiieotis iron, bronze and aluminum—Usona Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo. V a u lt door, H e rring, H a ll — M ar- via Safe Co., H a m ilton O. Steel windows—Seeost Steel Pro ducts, Chicago. Hollow metal, frames and door ways— Atlantic Metal Products Co., Long Island City, New York. Insect screens and w e a ther strip ping— C h a m b e rlin M etal W e a ther Strip Co., Buffalo. Builders hardware — Lockwood Hardware Mfg. Co„ Fitchburg, Mass. 4-H Training School Here Tomorrow A 4-H Officers Training school will be held tomorrow in Salaman- high school beginning at 10 o’ clock. Judge' O. E. Black will be tbe speaker at the joint session and class instruction will follow 10:45. Superintendent George A. Place •null instruct the presidents and vice presidents. Chautauqua Gounty Club Agent Kenneth Coombs will 'be in charge of the class for secretaries, and Rodney Lightfoot, acting Erie County agent, the treasurers. Homer E. Smith of the Inquirer staff will be in charge of the class of news re porters. Edward John, director of the high school hand, will instruct song and cheer leaders ahd Miss Esther McCabe wHl give pointers to the loqal leaders in directing plays. ^ A recreational period will follow at 12 o’clock. Over 500 Schools Already Enrolled In Spelling Bee Along with tens of thousands of girls and boys in 22 states of, the Union and the District of Colum bia, school pupils of Western New York are beginning to prepare for the various stages O'f competition in the 1941 National Spelling Bee. This contest is., being coiiducted throughout the eight counties of Western New York by the Buffalo Evening News and is sponsored in Salamanca by the Inquirer. Close to 500 schools enrolled in the contest during the first week, the principals and teachers sending in enrollment cards as soon as they received them. Erie county, not in cluding Buffalo, had the most en rollments 'with 100 schools. Buffalo was second with 78 enrollments, while Chautauqua was next with 59 schools, Cattaraugus with 55, Niag ara -with 34, Wyoming with 33, Gen esee with 32, Orleans with 26 and Allegany with 18. .Schools will .he given until Fri day, April 4, to enroll. Gn or ‘before Friday, April 11, town and super visory district semi-finals 'will be held in Chautauqua and 'Genesee counties, and county finals will 'he staged on Friday, April 25. With the exception of Allegany county, where the match is held in the morn ing, all contests will begin at 7:30 o’clock in the evening. Places for the matches will be announced later. A week’s trip to Washington, dur ing which the girl or 'boy takes part in the national final and is sure to win $40 in cash and might win as high as $500; a 19 volume set of the latest edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, and the latest edition of Webster’s New International 'Dic tionary are the first three prizes of fered the best spellers of Western New York. . Each county champion in this area will receive a gold medal, while the second best speller in each coun ty will get a silver medal. The cham pion speller of each school w ll be awarded the latest edition of Web ster’s 'Collegiate dictionary, while the runner-up will receive a certi ficate of merit. During the past week the follow ing schools in Cattaraugus county have been enrolled by the principal or teacher whose name is listed: Farmersville7, Mrs. Kenneth G* Brown; Franklinville 10, Austin A. Ross; Franklinville 11, Vianna Mar tin; Machias 9, Gphelia B. Russell; Yorkshire 4, Rudolph Miller; Hum phrey 1, Willetta M. Hughes. Humphrey 3, Raymond Hughes; PortviUe 2, Dorothy V. Graham; Carrollton 2A, Lillian Payne; Car rollton 5^ Eleanor Hogan; Great Valley 2 ,'Jessie Folts; Great \Yalley 6, Mary Crowley. ' Salamanca 1, Myrtle Holdridge; Salamanca 2 . (Buektooth), Lois Smith; Dayton 5, Ella P. Dalrymple; Little Valley 2 (Elkdale), Paul F. Johnson; Little Valley 6, Laura Hunter. Mansfield 4, Grace S. Dawson; North Otto 2, Hilda Klein;' Otto 6, Laura Mackenson; Perrysburg' 1, Helen Mleczko; Coldspring 3 (Steamburg), Harry J.. Murray; Conewango 1, -David Alexander'; Randolph 4, Roger A. Moore. Allegany High, James A. John son; Cattaraugus High, Helen j. Briggs; Dayton Union, Richard D. Wing; Delevan High, John E. Gal- more; East Otto Union, Mrs. Em erson Laing; Framersville High, Wil liam C. Roblee. Hinsdale Central, Kenneth * E. Gibbin; Limestone High, >George S. Foti; Little Vialley High, A r t t o Memmott; -Otto Union, James € . Y o u n g ; R a n d o lph C e n tral, Milt<m B. H o r a k ; South D a y ton H igh, Jam e s M. Farmer. Ten Broeek Academy, T^njdin- ville, J. Leland Anderson; Prospect Avenuo, Salamanca, A-nnio M. Bry an ; Ward 1, Salamanca, Mrs. Ray mond Newton; Maple Street, Sala manca, Charles R. Elliott; Olean Public schools No. 2, 4, 5, 7, and 10, Donald M. Keagle; Transfiguration, Glean, Sister M. Amabilia. Kraeuier Trio Here in Concert Tonight ^ The Kraeuter Trip, string en semble, will be in ^lam a n ca this evening for the second concert of the Salamanca Cooperative Con certs Association. The program will be given in the First Baptist church at 8 o’clock. Members of the group are Karl Kraeuter, violinist, and his sister, Phillis Kraeuter, ’cellist, wHo rem ^ sent the eleventh generation of mus icians of their name, and Willard MacGregor, who is the pianist. Each of the artists has established himself ih the music world as a mus ician of note and since forming th e . Kraeuter Trio, they have won sim ilar success as a group.