100 YEARS AGO,SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1920

THEWEEK INWALTON

What We Are Talking Aboutat the County Hub

NEARLY SIX FEET OFSNOW

Johnston Sells Coal Business-Two Fall on Ice - Appoint

Justice of Peace-Many Deaths.

Parents who have kept theirchildren out of school are asked tosee that they resume their schoolwork at once.

Walter Leubner, the barber, haspurchased the house of CharlesCurrie, William street, known asthe St. John place.

During the month of Januarythe Nestle plant in Walton paid itslocal patrons $30,330 for milk. Theplant payroll was $ 7,378.

Miss Mary Haverly slipped andfell on an icy walk Saturday andsustained a Colles’ fracture of herwrist.Dr.Smith reduced the fracture.

Farmers and others who havecause of complaint againstcommission men should file thesame with H. L. Jones, director ofthe division of foods and markets,19 West Broadway, New York city.

There were 31 deaths and 23births in the town of Waltonduring the months of January andFebruary. The number of deaths isunusually large. In 1919 there wereonly 14 deaths in the town in thesame months.

Lewis, the young son of Mr.and Mrs. William Goodrich ofBeerston, fell on the ice nearthe Beerston school houseWednesday and had a bad gashcut in his forehead by someglass which had fallen from abroken window.

Lyle Brigham has sold his houseon East street to Silas Forsythe,who will move there from FrearHollow. W. E. Henderson hassold a lot on Fancher avenue andanother lot on Holley street toOlney Smith of Dunraven. Bothsales were made through theagency of H. M. Robinson.

Clinton D. Ostrom of Beerstonhas been appointed by the townboard as a justice of the peaceto fill the vacancy caused by thefailure of Herman Henderson,who was elected last fall, to qualify.Mr. Ostrom has had four years’experience on the board and hisappointment will give generalsatisfaction.

Mrs. Norris Howland diedSunday morning, Feb. 29, at herhome at Brier Creek, near Otego,following a short illness withinfluenza and pneumonia. Mrs.Howland, who was 33 years ofage, is survived by her husbandand three children, a daughter,Lucia, a son, William, and byan infant daughter born the daybefore the mother’s death. Mr.Howland is a former residentof Walton.

James Carlton Burrhus ofWalton has received his certificateas an aviation pilot from the AeroClub of America, recognizedby the Federation AeronauticalInternational as the governingauthority for theUnited States.Mr.Burrhus had thirty hours of actualflying practice while a cadet in the

United States aviation service andwas granted the pilot certificatewithout a trial flight.

George N. Cupp, instructor ofagriculture in the Walton highschool,hasbeenelectedasprincipaland teacher of agriculture of theBurnt Hills and Ballston Lakeschool of agriculture and homemaking for next year, beginningSeptember 1. This school is aconsolidation of three districtschools and has a $27,000 schoolbuilding. Eight teachers beside theprincipal are employed. Mr. CuppsucceedsWarren E.Miles, whowasformerly teacher of agriculture inthe Walton high school.

An important business changewas consummated last week whenGeorge T. Johnston sold his coalbusiness to W. H. Douglas ofDelhi, who was formerly in thefeed business in Andes. The saleincludes all equipment and the realestate with the exception of the siteof the old Borden plant. Possessionis given Tuesday, Mar. 9. Mr.Johnston, who has conducted thecoal business the past nineteenyears, retains his ice business. Mr.Douglas has formed a partnershipwith EdwinR.Howland of Waltonand the new firm will be known asTheWaltonElevator company.Mr.Howland has had experience in thecoal business, having formerly beenfor some years in the employ of theW. R. Kilpatrick company.

J. Q. Barlow, local observer forthe weather bureau, states thatthe snow fall for this winter isthe greatest of any year duringthe thirteen in which he haskept records. The snowfall bymonths this winter is as follows:December, 9 inches; January, 22inches; February, 35 inches; total,66 inches. This is the equivalent of6.37 inches of rain. In the severewinter of 1917-1918 the snowfall for the same three monthsamounted to 44 1-2 inches. As wehave had no thaws, this material for6.37 inches of water is now with us.This means that if all the snow nowlying on the Delaware watershedwere melted and spread over atight, level surface the water wouldbe 6.37 inches deep. Two inchesof rain in twenty-four hours givesour streams full banks. It is easyto see what may happen with threetimes that amount seeking release.However, there is little cause foralarm, even if the snow should bestarted with rain. There is no frostin the ground and it is ready totake a large quantity of water andit is possible for this deep how todisappear giving the streams littlemore than full banks.

FLED FROM FLAMESIN NIGHT CLOTHESFamily of Benjamin KittleBarely Escape with Lives

FIRE CAUGHT FROMCHIMNEY

Prompt Discovery Prevents Fireat Treadwell When Stove PipeIgnited Clothing Left Nearby.

(From Cannonsville cor.)Friday morning Benjamin

Kittle’s house’ on Barbourbrook, near Cannonsville, wasentirely consumed by a fire, whichoriginated from the chimney. Mostof the contents were destroyed.The roof was a mass of flames

when discovered and the familyescaped with very little clothingto the barn. The farm is about amile distant from neighbors andthey were completely chilled,particularly the children, beforeassistance arrived to take them

to the home of his brother, WakoKittle, on Dry Brook.Mr. Kittle purchased the farm,

known as the C. B. McLaughlinplace, last fall.The Reporter’s correspondent at

Treadwell writes: Treadwell camenear having a fire Sunday morning.When returning from the barn

Mrs. L. W. Cooper smelled smokeand hastened to the house toinvestigate. Everything was allright downstairs, but when sheopened the door leading upstairsthe stairway was full of smoke.Hurrying upstairs she found

some clothing which her son, Fred,had left too near the stove pipeablaze and fire starting along thebaseboard. She threw the burningclothing out of the window and randownstairs for water with which sheextinguished the blaze. The rug inthe room was slightly damaged.

REDUCE STRIKERS’SENTENCES

Appellate Division Then AffirmsJudgment as Amended.

The Appellate Division ofthe supreme court in session atAlbany Wednesday handed downa decision in the case of the JuliusKayser companyagainstFitzgeraldand others, in which four laborleaders in Sidney had been held incontempt of court and afterwardssentenced by Justice Kellogg atchambers in Oneonta. As regardsthe alleged leader in the strike,Robert F. Stump, the sentence asimposed’ was allowed to stand; butin the case of the three others thesentences were lightened and asamended were affirmed:The case was an appeal from

an order of Justice Kellogg, madeon Oct. 4, 1919, in which RobertF. Stump, Harry T. Wilpers, OttoBoelke and Anna Chrisman wereheld guilty of criminal contemptof court. A fine of $250 each wasimposed on each of the defendants,and a jail sentence of 30 days eachon Stump and Boelke and of 20days on Wilpers. The judgment asto Stump was unanimously affirmedin all particulars. In the cases ofBoelke andWilpers, the jail sentenceis remitted and the sentence of AnnaChrisman was reduced from $250 to$100; and as modified the sentenceis affirmed.Stump is a leader who claims

New York city as his home andwho is president of the Warpersand Warp Hands of America. Noopinion was handed down.The case was argued at the

January term by Owen C. Becker,Esq., for the Kayser companyand by O’Connor & O’Connor ofHobart for the defendants.

$21,000 ASKED FORVILLAGE EXPENSESAnnual Corporation ElectionWill be Held March 16th

ONLYONETICKET IN FIELD

Six Propositions for Streets,Lights, Fire Department andOther Village Expenses.

Propositions calling for theappropriation of $21,400 willbe submitted to the taxpayersof Walton village at the annual

corporation election, whichwill be held Tuesday, March16, in the courtroom of WaltonHall between the hours of 4and 8 p. m.Officers to be elected are a

president for one year, two trusteesfor terms of two years, a villagetreasurer and a collector for oneyear terms.The nominations of the union

caucusheld lastweekare as follows:For president, A. J. Courtney;for trustees, Henry W. Retz andS. C. St. John; for treasurer, PaulF. Taylor; for collector, Fred F.Dickermon.InMarch, 1919, the sum of $750

was appropriated for the purchaseand installation of ten additionalhydrants. The board found that thisamount would buy and install onlyfive hydrants. The village treasurerholds a certified check for theamount of the first appropriationand an additional appropriationis being asked for to be usedwith this $750 to buy and installfifteen hydrants.There are many places in the

village where for long distancesthere are no hydrants. An exampleof this is Liberty street betweenPlatt and East streets, where thereare at present no hydrants.The propositions which will be

submitted are as follows:Proposition No. 1. Shall the sum

of $10,000 be raised for highwaypurposes?PropositionNo.2.Shall the sumof

$5,000 be raised for general expenses?Proposition No. 3. Shall the sum

of $1,200 be raised for the purposeof oiling the streets in the village ofWalton?Proposition No. 4. Shall the sum

of $2,750 be raised for all nightelectric street lightingProposition No. 5. Shall the sum

of $800 be raised to defray theexpenses of the fire department.PropositionNo. 6. Shall the sum

of $1,650 be raised to buy and in-stall twenty new hydrants in thevillage of Walton.

SEEK TITLE TOORCHARD

Evidence in Judd-AlexanderLawsuit Heard by Justice

Kellogg.

The evidence in the case ofCharles Franklin matter, involvingtitle to certain land, was heardby Justice Kellogg Friday andSaturday in Supreme Courtchambers in Oneonta. The suitwas brought to revise a deed. Juddand Alexander both bargained forportions of farm being sold, andthat they met and went over theparcelwhichAlexanderwastohave,approximating 20 acres. Accordingto plaintiff’s witnesses, this parceldid not include the part in dispute,the measurements, according totheir version, excluding that partupon which is an orchard. Afterthe litigants had gone over theland and set stakes, they went toAttorney E. A.Mackey’s office anddrew up a deed, which Judd signed.The description of the propertybeing given therein was so wordedthat it includes the orchard piece inquestion, Judd, however, insistingthat this was not to be includedaccording to the verbal agreementprior to the making of the deed.Alexander since securing thedeed has taken possession of thecontested parcel, but not without aprotest from Judd.Friday was devoted to taking the

evidence for the plaintiff, Judd, andonSaturdayAlexander hadhis innings.Alexander’s statement on the

witness stand was to the effectthat when questioned about hiswillingness to purchase the lotin question, he replied to LeroyEvans that he was willing tobuy it if he could secure the lotwith its depth on the Taylor sidethe same as on the Hodges side,which he was assured he couldhave. His conception of the firstmeasurement made was that it wasincorrect and that it would haveto be made again more accuratelyand that when the deed was madehe suggested that the expressionembracing the same width on bothsides be added. He denied havingstated that he did not expect to

secure the orchard and declaredthat he had offered rather than tohave any trouble with Judd to deedback to him such orchard lands asJudd desired at the same rate peracre as he paid.Attorney E. A. Mackey was

sworn on Saturday for the plaintiff.He testified that he added theexpression included in the deedwhich made one side as wide, asthe other, at the suggestion of Mr.Alexander. He understood at thetime that the line was to follow thehedgerow which would exclude theorchard from the parcel acquiredby Alexander.Mr. Judd is represented by

Seybolt & Seybolt of Oneonta. L.F. Raymond represents Alexanderand associated with him is CharlesR. O’Connor of Hobart.Attorneysweregiven thirtydaysby

JusticeKellogg inwhich to file briefs

DEATH FROMBURNSMrs. Hector Canfield of

Stamford Succumbs to Injuries.

Mrs. Hector G. Canfield ofStamford died Sunday, February29, as a result of an accident afew weeks ago when she sustainedsevere burns. The shock of theaccident was too severe for herweakened system to overcome.The funeral was held Tuesday..

RAILROADS RETURNTO PRIVATECONTROL

Operating Staff of Ontario &Western Remains the Same

NUELLE GENERALMANAGER

Personnel of Present OperatingOrganization —May Continue

Oneonta Union Station.

The railroads passed atmidnight Sunday, Feb. 29, fromthe control of the federal railroadadministration into the hands ofthe private owners.To all appearance the transfer

of control will bring about nochanges of importance in theoperating staff of the Ontario &Western. J. H. Nuelle, who hasacted as federal director of theroad, remains with the company asgeneral manager. President John B.Kerr, the president of the Ontario& Western, has announcedthe executive and operatingorganization of the company asgiven below:NewYork Office: R. D. Rickard,

vice president, secretary andtreasurer; C. L. Andrus, generalcounsel; A. L. Parmelee, assistanttreasurer; J. M. Fleming, assistantsecretary and transfer agent;William F. Mathieson, generalauditor; T. C. Cameron, auditorof revenues and disbursements;William C. Startup, auditor offreight and passenger accounts; J.B. Stewart, traffic manager; G. L.Robinson, general passenger agent;C. B. McManus, general freightagent; Fred Bergheim, generaleastern agent; William Mullock,freight claim agent; C. L.Hoffman,milk and industrial agent; C. A.Draper, purchasing agent; A.Riley, assistant purchasing agent;F. W. Elliott, paymaster.Middletown office, J. H.

Nuelle, general manager: W.C. Heidenthal, engineer ofmaintenance of way; F. X. Soete,valuation engineer; B. P. Flory,superintendent of motive power;W. D. McQueen, superintendent;A. C. Reynolds, superintendent ofcar service; George Marsden, taxand claim agent; George Hankins,traveling auditor; H. J. Cox, chieftariff inspector;W.M. Tiel, generalbaggage and division freight andpassenger agent.Other offices; W. C. Hartigan,

superintendent, Norwich; W. S.Badger, assistant superintendent,Child’s, Pa.; J. E. Powers, divisionfreight and passenger agent, Oneida;J. E. Welsh, division freight andpassenger agent, Scranton, Pa.; B. F.Hanfield, superintendent of floatingequipment,Weehawken, N. J.Under government control the

Ulster & Delaware has used theDelaware & Hudson station in

Oneonta as a union station. It isexpected that this arrangement,which has proved so convenient tothe travelingpublic,willbecontinuedunder the return to private control.

SOLDIER HELD FORROBBERY

Too Much Lemon ExtractCause of Boster’s Undoing.

Corporal M. Boster, thearmy recruiting officer who wasarrested in Sidney last Thursdayon a charge of robbing ClaudCable of Beerston, was held forthe grand jury at a hearing Fridaymorning before Justice JamesPeake. The charge against him isgrand larceny in the first degree.Boster has an excellent army

record, having served in Francewith the6th Infantryand laterwiththe Rainbow Division with thearmy of Occupation in Germany.His troubles in Walton may betraced to lemon extract, which thetestimony at the hearing showedhe and Cable had been imbibingfreely of since the Sunday beforethe alleged robbery.Boster claims that Cable asked

the soldier to go home with himfrom Benton’s lunch wagon. Thathe did so and at West End Cabledemanded to be taken to theRiverside hotel. Boster demurredand states that Cable pulled outhis pocketbook, thrust it into hishands with a demand that he betaken to the hotel. This was about10 o’clock at night and Bostersoon after went to his roomingplace. The next morning herealized the predicament he was inand tried to leave town to go to thearmy camp at Plattsburg. He wasarrested at Sidney.At Friday’s hearing Boster had

no clear recollection of any ofthe occurrences since the previousSunday and appeared to be stillsuffering from the leftover of agood lemon extract jag,Boster is now in the county jail in

Delhi. The grand jurymeets inMay.

KORTRIGHT BARNCOLLAPSES

Roof of Scott Building GivesWay Under Snow.

(North Kortright cor.)A portion of the roof of Mrs.

Eleanor Scott’s barn at NorthKortright collapsed last weekfrom the weight of snow and thebuilding is so spread that it is awreck. Several cattle were housedthere and one heifer was nearlyburied under the snow.However, none were hurt

and kind neighbors assisted inremoving them to the wagonhouse. Fortunately Mrs. Scotthad done the evening chores andreturned to the house, otherwiseshe might have been injured.

URGESMONEY FORROADS

Governor Smith AsksLegislature to Care for

Maintenance.

Governor Smith has issued astatement in which he declaredthat he had been informed thatthe Republican majority in thelegislature had intended to cutin half the appropriation of$15,000,000 recommended byState Highway Commission-er Greene for the repair andmaintenance of good roadsduring the coming year. Thegovernor, quoting an articlewritten by H. Eltinge Breed,who during the administrationof Governor Whitman wasdeputy highway commission-er, pointed out that an expen-diture of only $7,500,000 forthe work would mean that lesswork could be done than in anyyear since 1914. The statementconcluded:“We are beginning to realize

that poor roads are costly to thecommunity, and ourmotor truckusers who pay the money for reg-istration and other fees are goingto demand that if they pay themoney for good roads they mustget what they pay for.”

FRANKLINMANBANKRUPT

Willis W. Stewart Owes $1,650With No Assets.

Willis W. Stewart of the townof Franklin owes $1,650 inunsecured claims and has noassets, according to a petitionfiled in bankruptcy in the FederalCourt in Utica through AttorneyL. F. Raymond. The creditorsinclude Bernard Manzer ofCortland, claiming $31; JohnWigham, judgment for $656;Root & Ingalls, $60; Lewis E.Bennett, $35; and Mrs. MargaretStewart, $90, all of Franklin; W.H. Lines, $47; Paul Jennings, $65and C. E. Morrill, $18, of Otego,and estate of Edwin Blakely ofOneonta, $465.

DEPOSIT HIGHWAYPLANS

Completed By Engineer Smithand Taken to Albany.

The plans for the Deposit-Rock Rift federal aid highwaywere taken to Albany Monday byDivision Engineer Howard Smithof Binghamton.The plans have to be forward-

ed to Washington, D. C., for ap-proval by the federal government.This usually requires about twomonths. Highway contracts haveto be advertised three weeks be-fore being let.

FarmWages, Past andProspective.

According to reports justreceived from 350 New Yorkstate farmers, wages during 1920are expected to average about 14per cent higher than they were in1919. This increase will be aboutthe same as the average rise infarm wages each years since 1915.The reports of the monthly

cash wages of experienced farmhelp hired by the month during1919 and the probable wages ofthe same class of labor this yearaveraged as follows:Men provided with board

$45.50 in 1919; $52.25 in 1920.Men not boarded but provided

with a house and some farmproducts, $60.25 in 1919; $68.50in 1920.In general wages are higher

near New York city and in themore productive counties butcomplaints of scarcity of laborcome from all parts of the state.In 1915 the average wage of menhired by the year with board was$25.40.

Senate Favors SmithMeasures.

Opinion prevails at the Capitolthat the Senate will again pass thebill granting women in industrya 48 hour week as well as a mini-mum wage bill favored by Gover-nor Smith and that the fate of thebills will rest with the Assembly asit did last year.According to Senator Lowman,

there are now 32 members readyto vote for the bills, whereas but26 votes are needed. The billspassed by only the required num-ber last year.In view of this condition, the

women’s joint legislative confer-ence, which is backing the billshas begun its attack on the As-sembly to muster the necessary 76votes to pass the bills there.Last year Speaker Sweet was

successful in keeping the bills incommittee, and preventing a voteon the floor on either of the billsas well as preventing a vote on amotion to bring them from com-mittee.

Strikers Seek Another Mill.

It is reported that the PageCorporation of Brooklyn,which has mills in that city andat Lancaster, Pa., will open asilk mill in Sidney as soon asa building can be secured. Thelocation of the new company, ifit materializes, has been securedby the striking employees of the

Kayser mill in Sidney. About 300of the strikers are still out andhave remained in Sidney.

No Settlement ofSidney Strike.

An effort on the part of GeneralManager Calhoun of the KayserCo. and Patrick Downing of thestate board of mediation to settletheSidneysilkmill strikewasmadeat a meeting Monday evening,Feb. 23, in Sidney. The companyagreed to recognize the right oftheir employees to organize andthe right of collective bargaining,while maintaining the principle ofthe open shop. They also agreedto take back the strikers as fastas positions opened for them, butwould not discharge any of thepresent employees to make roomfor the strikers in their old places.The union, however, voted againstthe settlement and the strike goeson. The company announcedthat this is the last offer they willmake and as far as the company isconcerned the strike is consideredclosed.

PROHIBITIONENFORCEMENT

Anti-Saloon Measure DoesNot Provide for Excise

Department.

Rev. L. P. Tucker of the AntiSaloon League spoke Sundayin the Methodist and Baptistchurches in Walton in regardto the prohibition enforcementmeasures before the statelegislature.There are now two prohibition

enforcement measures beforethe legislature, the anti-saloonleague bill, sponsored by SenatorThompson and AssemblymanJohn W. Slacer of Erie. Thismeasure is the same practicallyas the Volstead act enacted bycongress. The 18th amendmentgives the federal and stategovernments concurrent powersof enforcement and the Slacerbill would permit violations to beprosecuted in the state court aswell as in the federal. Enforcementwould be in the hands of thedistrict attorney, sheriff and localofficers.The other measure, introduced

by Assemblyman Bert P. Gage,Republican of Wyoming, pro-vides for the enforcement of theprohibition law through the ex-cise department. The anti-saloonleague officials purposely drawtheir measure so that the meansof enforcement should be leftopen on the theory that GovernorSmith might veto any enforce-ment measure that provided forthe retention of the state excisedepartment.The Gage bill, naturally, has

the backing of State ExciseCommissioner Herbert S.Sisson, whose department wouldcontinue to function should itbe passed.The anti-saloon league is

assailing the Gage bill from allsides, charging that its passageby the legislature instead of theThompson Slacer measure willdo nothing but delay prohibitionenforcement in the state foranother year, basing theircontentions on the ground thatGov. Smith will assuredly veto theGage bill.

Judge Arnold a Candidate.

Otsego Republicans will beinterested in the announcementmade at Albany recently byLynn J. Arnold, formerly activein Otsego county politics anda former surrogate of Otsegocounty, that he will be a candidatefor delegate to the Republicannational convention from the34th district in June next and alsothat he will be a candidate formember of the Republican Statecommittee from Otsego county

Visits Sick on Snow Shoes.

Because of the high snow banksand the many serious cases ofsickness at Summit Dr. Raeburn

Wharton of Richmondville hasbeen calling on the sick onesthere, making his calls on snowshoes. Dr. Yates of Cherry Valleyhas also found this the onlymeanshe can reach his patients in the hilldistricts.

COMMUNITYMEETING PLANNEDLivestock Specialist Will Assistat Farm Bureau Gatherings.

Prof. C. A., Boutelle of the de-partment of animal husbandryat Cornell university has been se-cured for a series of meetings tobe held Mar. 8-12. Prof. Boutellehas made several trips to Dela-ware county and is well liked bythe farmers and dairymen whohave had the privilege of hearinghim. These meetings will all haveseparate sessions for men andwomen and will be conducted asregular farm bureau meetings.The ones to be held atMasonville,Deposit and Harpersfield will be-gin at 11 a. m. and dinner will beserved. The schedule of meetingshas been made as follows:Hamden, Monday, Mar. 8, 1:45

p. m.; Masonville, Tuesday, Mar.9, 11 a. m.; Deposit, Wednesday,Mar. 10, 11 a. m.; Delhi, Thurs-day, Mar. 11, 1 p. m.; Bloom-ville, Thursday, Mar. 11, 8 p. m.;Harpersfield, Friday, Mar. 12, 11a. m. Everyone is invited to attendsome of these meetings.

NEWYORKPRODUCEMARKETWholesale Prices Prevailing inCity During Week Ending

Feb. 28.

Apples: New York stateBaldwins, A grade, 2 1-4 and 2 1-2inches, $5 to $9.50 per barrel; Bgrade, 2 1-4 and 2 1-2 inches, $5to $7; unclassified, 2 1-4 and 2 1-2inches, $4 to $6.Cabbage: New York state, old

crop, White Danish seed, $75 to$90 per ton in bulk,Onions: Yellow globe, No. 1,

$5.75 to $6.50; red globe No. 1,$5.50 to $6; No. 2, both colors,

$3.25 to $3.50 per 100 lb. sack.Potatoes: Market strong and

prices 50 to 75 cents per bbl.higher than last week, In bulk,per bbl. of 180 lbs. or 3 bushels,New York state round white, No.1, $8 to $8.75; Long Island, GreenMountain, No. 1, $9.50 - to $9.75;ordinary, $7.50 to $8.50 per bbl.Hay: No. 1. $54 to $55: No.

2. $51 to $53; No. 3, $50 to $52.Prices of hay very high owing toscarcity in New York throughembargoes by railroad company,shortage of cars and generaltransportation difficulties.Butter: Prices declined 2 1-2

cents. Creamery, extra to highscore, 65 to 66 cents; state dairy,fine to fancy, 60 to 62 cents; goodto prime, 56 to 59 cents.Eggs (market of Mar. 1): New

York state hennery whites, fineto fancy, 58 to 62 cents; browns,fancy, 60 to 61 cents; gatheredbrowns and mixed colors, 57 to 60cents.Live Stock: Bulls, heavy, 7 to

8 cents; cows, fat, 7 1-2 to 9 1-2cents;medium, 6 to 7 cents; calves,best, 19 to 25 cents; medium, 17 to19 cents; hogs, prime, 15 1-2 cents;roughs. 12 1-2 cents; pigs, 15 cents;sheep, prime, 10 to 12 cents.Live Poultry: Prime fowls, 40

cents lb.; chickens, fancy, 35 cents;roosters, 22 cents.

Farmers Meet atMargaretville.

(Margaretville correspondent)A special meeting of the Dela-

ware & Greene creamery compa-ny, operating near Arkville, washeld at the Margaretville operahouse Saturday. The meeting wascalled for 11 o’clock and lastedduring the entire day. Various in-terests of the dairymen were dis-cussed. The day was a big one forthe creamery company, as it hasbeen reported that some 300 farm-ers from all over the surroundingcountry enjoyed a sleigh ride totown on that day and the villageresembled an old time electionday when the entire town used toturn out and come to Margaret-ville to cast their votes.