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Penn Yan, N. Y.,May 26, 1930:

Editor Chronicle-Express: —

How silent are the guns today While merry children round them play. How very little do they know Their uses of the long ago.

Once, arbiters of human fate,They thundered forth a people’s hate. Today, but little more than toys For happy, care-free girls and boys.

Again, as in the days of old,Are raven locks and curls of gold. Now shouts of glee with joy elate, Then strife and tumult, death and

hate.

Oh, can it be that cannon think And with the past the present link? Can they into the future peer And con those days devoid of fear,

When they, at last, have turned to rust, Their gunners all are naught but dust? W ill mankind in that newer day Still fight, or find a better way?

— A. F. It.

G riffin— Bond ] Married at the home of Mrs. Francis S. Adams, daughter of the bride, at Niagara Falls, N. Y, Wednesday, May 21st, Mrs. Addy Bond, wife o f ' the late

' Rev. George Bond, to Rev. Z. F. Grif­fin, of Keuka Park, N. Y. D f. W. B. j Pratt, minister of St. Paul’s M. E. j Church, of Niagara Falls, officiating, j A fter an extended trip, Dr. and Mrs.( Griffin wil be at home at Keuka Park, i

Mrs. Florence Bull Mrs. Florence Bull, aged 63 years,

died at the Soldiers and Sailors Mem orial hospital in Penn Yan on Sunday, May 25th. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Fanny P iper' of Thayer, Missouri, and Miss Vera Leonard of Penn Yan. The fu nera l: was held Tuesday from the Thayer Funeral home at 1 o’clock, Rev. W illiam Hy- don, officiating. Interment in Lake View cemetery.

Mrs. Em m a Lounsberry Mrs. Emma Lounsberry, aged 73

years, died Friday morning at hex- home in Jerusalem. Besides her hus­band, George, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. W illiam Wheeler of Penn Yan; a son, Benjamin Dean of Guyanoga. Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Thayer Funeral home the services were held with Rev. Royal N. Jessup officiating and inter­ment in Lake View cemetery.

i mMrs. John S. Sheppard, well known

in this village, was elected chairman of the New York State Branch of the Women's {Organization for National Prohibition Refoi-m at a meeting of the group’s State advisory council at Hotel Plaza, New York City, on Mon­day, May 26th. Mrs. Sheppard is also a trustee of ihe United Hospital Fuxid, and a director of the New York Tu­berculosis and Health Association and of the W elfare Council of New York City.

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YATES SHOWS SMALL POPULATION GAIN MADE IN PAST TEN YEARS

Now Has 16,934 Residents — Loss in Six Townships Overcome

by Gain in Milo, Benton and Jerusalem — Penn Yan Only

Village to Grow—Total of 1,654 Farms in County—Com­pared with State Census of 1925 Yates Has Lost

During the past decade six Yates , enumerators in Penn Yan; 15 in Dun- i.county townships have lost in popu lation while three have been gaining; three of the four incorporated villages have lost in population while one has gained. The sum total of this ’ shift in residents, however, has resulted in a net gain for the county of nearly two per cent, as compared with a gain on the part of Orleans county of some four per cent and 17 per cent for Genesee.

Italy township lost heavily. Torrey, Starkey and Middlesex showed losses of over 100 residents each, while Pot­ter and Barrington nearly held their own. Milo gained the most, 836 res­idents. Jerusalem and Benton showed about equal gains, 47 and 48, accord­ing to the tempoi-ary census figures re­leased this week by Supervisor of Census Hari-y W. Sullivan of Geneva.Most of the gain in the town of Milo was in the county seat. Penn Yan added 804 residents during the decade while the township, in which the vil­lage is chiefly situated, increased 836. There were 17 farms counted by the

Township or 1920Village Population

Torrey (not including Dresden) 916Potter .......... ; 1,200Milo ............ . 5,817Middlesex ............ 951Jeru sa lem .................................... 2,025Benton ............................ A 1,797Dresden ............................... 295D undee............................................1,143R u sh v ille .............................Penn Yan .............. 4,517Barrington ......................... 822Italy ....................... . 731Starkey ................................... 2,382

dee, four in Rushville and five in Dres- I den.

According to the tentative figures, I Yates county now numbers 16,934 j population, as compared with 16,641 1 shown by the federal census ten years | ago. This is a gain of 293, or less than two per cent. Compared with the state census of five years ago, however, it reveals a loss of 734 resi­dents.

G. K. Kennedy of Italy, census tak-1 er for that town, has brought to light the interesting bit of information to I the effect that in the 1930 survey but two men are still living in the town of Potter, who were engaged in farm­ing when the State census was taken in 1885, and who are still engaged in that pursuit—Chax-les Geer and W il­liam Northrup.

The comparative population figures for the townships in Yates county and the villages are „ given below with the; amount of gain or loss in the past 10 years:

Loss or Gain

112 loss 10 loss

836 gain 1 1 2 ' loss47 gain48 gain 19 loss.60 loss 89 loss

804 gain 32 loss-

221 loss 151 loss

Totals for Yates County .....16,641 1.6,934 293.gain 1,654

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YATES SCHOOLS RECEIVE MORE STATE MONEY

Second A m o u n t of $82,425.55 S ent to

Y a te s T re a s u re r , Increase of

$15,482.92

- M o r r is S. Tremaine, slate comp­troller, has sent a check for $82,425.55

rto H. O. Bennett, treasurer o f Yates county, representing the second and last installm ent o f this fiscal year’s state aid in support o f the common schools o f the county. The first in­stallment, w ith the teachers’ retire­m ent fund deducted, amounting to $64,-

. 807.55, was sent by Comptroller T re­maine in March, making a total of

I $147,233.1,0 as this year’s contribution i from the state for the county’s com­mon schools.

Last year the county received $117,- 360.05 from the state for this purpose.

The total second installment for 1929 twas $66,342.63, thus, representing an Increase for 1930 of $15,482.92.

The total second installment for 1929Union School district»r Penn Yan

is $26,477.74; thus representing an irease for 1930 o f $5,49f.88.'The sum total of the first and sec- u installments of the public school

le y for 1930, after deducting the biters’ retirement fund, is $147,- 110; o f which the Penn Yan School

d istrict share is $57,378.38.The sum total o f the first and sec­

ond installments o f the public school money for 1929, after deducting the teachers’ retirem ent fund, was $117,- 360.05; o f which the Penn Yan Union School district share was $46,996.42; thus representing a gain of $10,381.96 which the Penn Yan Union School dis­trict receives from the state for the year 1930 over 1929; and a gain of

*$29,873.05 for the entire county.The second installment of pubic

school money for 1930, is divided as fo llow s:B a rr in g to n ............................ $Benton 51. .....................

- I t a l y ........................J eru sa lem ..............................M id d le sex .....................

. M ilo (outside Penn Yan dist.)(Potter .................. 1 ..............S ta rk e y .................................. 11,’769.60Torrey .................................... 1,862.87Penn Yan Union School Dist. 31,972.62

4,578.523,523.315,103.15!7,384.97i4,892.78''3,160.178,177.56

$82,425,551

The contributions this fiscal year j for the support of common schools i throughout the state amount to $87,-]451,035.00 as compared with $76,189,- j 742.80 last year, Mr. Tremaine an­nounced.

“ This represents,” he said, “ almost 40% of the state’s expenditures for all purposes, and is paid to the counties j

j m support of their educational bud­gets. I f it were not for this system of state aid, this amount, would have to | be raised by local taxation. It really doesn’t belong in the state’s budget, j

I but this method of distribution saves! | the counties the cost of collection and i is, perhaps, more economical in the j long run.”I “ I hope the counties thus benefited,” i said the comptroller, “ w ill get the I most they can out. of this money to I make education as productive as pos- ! sible. for the development of ouryouth, because education is decidedly

j uppermost in the minds of our peo- i ! pie.”

H a r ry O. B enn ett

| T o the enrolled Republicans o f Yates j county:

In announcing my candidacy for ve- i nomination o f county treasurer in this, the closing year o f my fourth term, I take this opportunity to answer any objection which might be raised on ac-

I count o f the length o f my term of se rv ­ice.

I A perusal o f the situation existing | in various other counties o f the state,| reveals the fact that in so doing 1 am I fo llow ing rather than establishing a precedent; inasmuch as there are 10

I county treasurers in this state who are j now serving five or more term s; with I Hon. Edward D. Stannard of Putnam ’ I county, serving his ninth term ; who in | point o f service, is the veteran county, treasurer in New York state.

I The other counties whose treasurers j have served more 'than four terms, are I now serving as follows

1Broome county treasurer, 8 th term.

I Rockland county treasurer, 8 th term. :;A llegany county treasurer, 7th term .!Cortland county treasurer, 6 th term. :Jefferson county treasurer, 6 th term .:W arren county treasure]1, 6 th term, IW yom ing county treasurer, 6 tli te rm .;Chautauqua county treasurer, 5th

term.Greene county treasurer, 5th term.Thus evidencing the fact that the' j

taxpayers in the above . mentioned j( C o n i in u p f ] nn n a w .fi./Uc-a.nX:.,

counties, recognize the value of ex­perience in the office of colinty treas­urer.

Since the w riter became treasurer,.'a greatly improved, system o f book­keeping has been installed; and the manner in which the office has been conducted, has prompted the commen­dation o f both the State Comptroller’s office and the State H ighway depart­ment; which has given Yates county a high standing in Albany.

On assuming the office o f treasurer, Yates county was only receiving 2 % interest on average daily balances on the general fund, and nothing on the special trust fund; whereupon through my efforts during my first term, I was able to arrange with the banks to pay 3% interest on average daily deposits on both funds; as a result o f which, the extra interest now amounts to over $10,500; which has been added to the treasury of Yates county.

As results rather than campaign promises are what taxpayers prefer during these strenuous times, the above facts w ill doubtless be of inter­est. ^

I believe that my additional, experi­ence has still better fitted me for the duties of this important office for an­other term, should the voters see fit to thus honor me.

I have endeavored to give Yates county a business-like administration of the office of county treasurer, and w ill again appreciate the support of all who are satisfied with the result of my efforts.

HON. EDWIN C. NUTT ANNOUNCED CANDIDACY

May 26, 22w l

1930, Penn Yan, N. Y. H A R R Y O. BENNETT.

District Attorney Spencer F. L in ­coln has purchased the Paul Mollen- dorf residence on East Main Street, form erly the property o f the late Herbert C. Ovenshire. Mr. Lincoln [_ and fam ily w ill move from the Deck-; erman apartments about August.

I New Drug Store Coming Here

j The vacant store of H. Allen Wage- ner- located nex;t to the Elmwood thea­tre entrance on Elm street, Penn Yan, has been rented as of June 1st to a

; ]y[r Meade and his son who w ill open in the very near future a new drug store.

To the Republican vo ters o f Yates j county:

I take this opportunity to express m y appreciation o f the honor extended me

las you r-m em ber o f Assem bly a t A l­bany.

The numerous expressions o f ap­proval o f my work, com ing to me from

j my constituency and their assurance o f support should : I be a candidate,

i prompt me to announce m y candidacy | for the nomination as member.

Should it be m y p riv ilege to again I represent Yates county "'at A lbany, 1 Heel the know ledge gained in my past I experience would m ateria lly aid me in I my officia l duties, and 1 pledge the j same loya lty to m y state and county that I have shown in the past.

22wl ' E D W IN C. N U T T .

W . E. Clarke Chosen to Suc­ceed the Late E. P. Corbit

W . Errington Clarke was named as superintendent o f the second supervis­ory district o f Yates county at a m eet­ing o f the school directors in Po tter Center Saturday afternoon. Mr. C larke

I is principal of the A lfred H igh school i and w ill enter upon his new duties im ­

mediately.Mr. Clarke is m arried and has- three

children. He w ill reside at Brancli- - 1 port. He graduated from A lfred uni­

versity in 1924 and has taught at Boli­var, Belmont, Friendship and W hites- ville . Previous to being principal of

. the A lfred H igh school he served two years as principal of the S incla irv ille high school.

The position pays a salary of $3,600 a year, w ith $500 fo r expenses. More than 20 applications w ere filed for the position. The term of office is for five years and Mr. Clarke w ill fill the | unexpired term of the late E. P. Cor- |

’ bit of Rushville.Some 46 schools, including the

Rushville and Middlesex high schools, | f come under the jurisdiction of the su: perintendent of the second supervis-

■ ory district of Yates county. H is ter- I ritory w ill include the towns of M id­dlesex, Italy, Jerusalem and Potter.

Taughannock Park on Cayuga

Lake To Be Formally Dedi­cated; Chorus of 4,000 Voices

with Band of 400 Pieces

The greatest influx of motor tour­ists ever attracted to the Finger Lakes Region for a single event is expected to wind its way down the lake trails June 19 and 20 toward Taughannock Falls State Park on Lake Cayuga, a Sew miles .north of Ithaca. For on those days the greatest music festi­val of the year in this country w ill be presented by a chorus of 4,000 voices, and a band of 400 pieces, in a natural amphitheatre whose beauty rivals that of the famous Hollywood Bowl.

The festival w ill mark the formal dedication of the great new state park, which boasts a waterfalls 50 feet high­er than Niagara and majectic scenery comparable only-to that of the Rock­ies^

Albert T. Beardslee, oji Penn Yan, I has been appointed District Deputy [ Grand Master for the Ontario, SenecaV and Yates District, for the Free and Acecpted Masons of the State o f New | York.

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Rupert Edwin Foster, Junior in Penn Yan Academy, Dies

The third death within five months | to sadden tile students of Penn Yan Academy occurred Thursday evening, May 22, 1930, when Rupert Edwin Fos­ter, only son of Dr. and Mrs. E. Carl­ton Foster, passed away at the family home, 321 Liberty street, Penn Yan. His death resulted from a serious ill­ness of four weeks which suddenly snatched him from the usual activi­ties of high school life and sent him to the hospital. A fter the consulta­tion of several noted doctors some three weeks ago, all hope for his life was abandoned. During much of this time he was cared for in his own home.

Rupert Foster would have been 17 years of age in October. He was vice- president of the junior class in Penn Yan Academy and active in several of the school’s clubs and in the First Presbyterian church of Penn Yan. His death was the third among this gj'oup of young people, Lorraine Birke'tt be­ing killed in a coasting accident on the Long hill December 21st and Clin-

I ton A. Tylee dying in the hospital following an emergency appendectomy on January 16th.

II F IERO— Franklin Wilmont ' F ie f0,1-aged 82 years, died in this village jon Tuesday, May 20th.

j The nearest surviving relatives arej Mrs. Frank Monnin, of this village, j and Mrs. Walter May, of Okanogan, j Washington. Born in the Town of Milo, the son of John C. and Mary Ann Aspell Fiero, descendants of pio- f neer settlers of that town, he resid­ed here until 1876, when he went to Watkins Glen, where he engaged in the practice of law which calling he

i pursued for 50 years. He came to this village a few years ago, when advanc- } ing years and failing health caused j him to give up active work. The fu­neral was held on Thursday after­noon, May 22d, at 2 o’clock from the I residence of his niece, Mrs. Frank E. Monnin, 115 East Main Street, Rev. J John E. Wootton, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Chuch, officiating. Burial in M ilo cemetery.

Miller - Timmerman The marriage of Miss Grace Tim-I

merman and Ernest Miller, both of I Rochester, took place Wednesday, May/ j 28th, at 4:00 p. ,:m. at the Epiphany j j church, Rochester, in the presence of j j a few near relatives. Miss Timmer- i j man’s entire life had been spent in j I Branchport until four years ago when |j : she went to Rochester. She is a ta l-1! j ented writer of both poetry and prose, I I and has a wide circle of friends. —- ! | Branchport correspondent.

Village Trustees

Minutes of the regular meeting o f the V illage Board of Trustees held in their rooms on June 2nd, 1930, at 7: 30 I p. m. g l l

j Motion made by Ballard and secona- ( ed by Wheeler that the Board appro­priate $25.00 for the compilinPLJQf a set o f books containing H istory of Penn Yan and Yates County and that Mr. Wolcott be thanked fo r his dili-

, gence in preparing his annual report and the records for the past year. Carried.

Edwin C. Nutt, Yates County Assem- II blyman, has announced his candidiacy I; for the nomination on the Republican ticket. Harry O. Bennett, Yates j County Treasurer, has also announced | tfiat he w ill seek again the nomiina- 11 tion for that office. ____ 4 F j 1

TAYLO R—At her home on East Main street, Sunday, June iff 1930, Mrs/ Anna F. Taylor, p ~ -d/ 66 years.She is survived by her husband.

Fred Taylor; a sister, Mrs. Rosjelle Swarthout, of Dundee. The fune :al was held from the home on Wednes­day afternoon, Rev. R. N. Jessup of-|; ficiating. Burial in Dundee cemetery ’

The prttminent Frenchmen answering are ex-Premi6r Poineare ahd Louie Loucheur, who has just resigned the Finance Ministry.

Admiral Sims, who is 67 years old, writes.

“I do not think I can say how long a day a nian of 50 Or over can keep tip work without suffering in health or Shortening his life, because naval offi­cers do not usually do work of a set kind. At times he may have work fotir-

BEAMES— Mrs. Rebec a M. Beanies, 89, died at the S. & S. Hospital on Saturday, May 31st.She was the widow of John Beames.

■The funeral services were held from Corcoran’s Funeral Parlors on Tues­day, June 3 rd, at 2 o’clock p. m. with interment in Lake View cemetery. Rev. Royal N. Jessup officiated. She is survived by several nephews and nieces, the only one in this vicinity being Fred Maxfield, - of Penn Yan.

L. C. Williams, C. W. Kimball and Frank Collin have been appointed by County Judge Gilbert H. Baker to act

l | as a commission to determine the x amount of damage done to the prop­

erty of Herbert Whitney and wfie, lo ­cated on the Penn Yan-Branchport highway and through which property the new State highway . w ill pass. It is reported that the controversy be­tween the Yates County Board of Su­pervisors and the Misses Purdy, on the same matter, has been settled. Interviewed, Miss Ann Purdy stated that she did not know whether the re­port was true, or not.

J. Nelson Jones, of Himrod, has an- nounced his candidacy for the nom­ination for Member of Assembly for Yates County on the Repxublican_tick-

{ et, in opposition to Edwin C. Nutt, .- present incumbent and who seeks the |l nomination for the 6th term. .Mr. i(||

j Jones- is owner of Bell-eview ' Diary h j Farms, at H'imrod. fi-aA - y &—

Sims Thinks 8-Hour Day Enough and Warns of Worry-—Smoot

Believes 14 Hours Safe.

POINCARE URGES VARIETY

Loucheur W orks 10 Hours, E xer­

cises and Retires Early — Sir

Oliver Lodge Favors 8 Hours.

By X. Jl. IB A R R A .Copyright. 1925, by The New York Times Company.

By Wireless 'to Tita Nmv Yobk Times.LONDON, Dec. 17.—Americans of note

are anlong those contributing answers to the question asked by the Evening News, “How many hours daily can a man of fifty work?” The question was sent to Englishmen, Americans and Frenchmen. Included in the list of those answering, published here today, are Admiral Sims and Senator Reed Smoot.

Among the Britons answering are Sir Oliver Lodge, noted scientist and spirit­ist; Viscount Cave, the Lord Chancellor Of Britain; Sir Robert Baden PdWell, here of the Boer W ar and founder of the Boy Scouts; Sir Flinders Petrie, the eminent Egyptologist; Sir Frank Dick- see, President of. the Royal Academy; and Sir E. A. Wallis Budge of the British Museum.

teen Or fifteen hours a day, but seldom for very long' periods. The men who cross bridges and borrow trouble Cannot long stand the strain of long forking hours. In -my opinion more cab be ac­complished during a certain number of; days by working eight hodrs a day than j. by working fifteen. Some men in com- : mand of considerable military organiza- I tions wear out because they insist on j making personal decisions regarding a ! mass of details that shpuld be bandied j by their subordinates. This applies both | to peace and war, but particularly w ar,1

Senator Smoot, aged 64, says r “Since I have been a Senatpr my hours |

Of work have lengthened, and as’long as ]I confined myself to sixteen hours out of | the twenty-four I never suffer. The breaking point only occurred to me on i March 2 of this year. It was brought j about by “ ving on my reserve a little too long. I do not see any reason why I I cannot .safely work at least fourteen I hours out of the twenty-four for years/ to come.

Here is the' answer from. Raymond Poincare, who is 75:

“I think that after fifty a man may without any harm to’ his health work about ten, or twelve hours a day, of ,even, more, if he will but vary his occu­pations, taking his' rest in change of Work. It seems to me that what tires its. most is .-to do nothing.”

Sir Oliver Lodge, who confesses to be­ing 74, says aV/T find eight hours a day enough now.”

V The most concisest answer of all is from M, Loucheur:

“I am 53 years old. I work ten hours a da'y. I go early to bed—at 1,0 o’clock —and I do 'physical exercises.”

Ten hours daily are devoted to work by Lord Inchcape, the famous British shipowner who is 73, and ten and a half hburs by. Sir Flinders Petrie aged 72, who ,adds::

“After 70 the safety rule is - tfi allow a few minutes for .a nap whenever neces­sary.”

Sif ' . WalliS Budgex does - not believe ii anybody can lay down a -general rule on the question because men are so dif­ferent,

SCOTT—At his „„ home on Lincoln avenue, Mionday, .. June 9th, 1930, Bertie A. Scott, aged 57. years, ri H 6 is 'survived by his wife, Alma

E .; six ’ daughters, Mrs. Lee Yonge, Mrs. Arthur Allen, Mrs. Leonard Lam j bert, of Penn Yan; Mrs. Merrill Tom- ion, of Fergusons; Mrs. Lloyd Corwin, of Geneva; Miss Margaret Scott, at home;-..two sons, Lloyd and Kenneth Scott, of Fergusons; two brothers, Joseph Scott, of Fergusons, and Mor­ris Scott, of Canandagiua. The funer­al was held from the home of his son, Lloyd, at Fergusons, Thursday after­noon, Rev. James Sykes, of Hall, as­sisted by Rev. R. N. Jessup, of Petm Yan, officiating. Burial in Voak ceme­tery. Osceola Lodge, I. O. O. F v of Hall, had charge of the services at the grave.

W ARFIELD —Mrs. Mary Ida War­field, 71, died in this vilage on Wed­nesday morning, June 1, 1930.She is survived by one son, Herbert

E. Warfield, of Penn Yan, and two brothers, Frank and Clark Gurnsey, of Branchport. The funeral w ill be held from the home of her son, Her­bert E. Warfield, at 125 Clinton St., this village, on Friday afternoon, at 1 o’clock, Rev. J. Howard Perkins of­ficiating, with burial in Lyons. u

David Carpenter reports seeing, a T V fine buck deer swimming in Lake Keuka, Sunday morning, near Dun- ,p uing’s Landing.

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By M AY DECKER

On December 13th, 1829, 27 Bap-1 tists, many of them members of the 14; Baptist church of Second Milo, met at the home of Artemas Enos in ;Penn Yan. The purpose of this meeting was, according to the records, “ the promo­tion of the Baptist cause in this v il­lage and vicinity, and the enlargement of Zion’s Borders, and the peace and welfare of Jerusalem in general.” At this meeting Elder Samuel Carpenter was chosen minister; Stephen Ray­mond, deacon; Brethren Curtis and Birch to prepare the elements for communion 1 and Brother Earl to ob­tain fuel and lights for the place of worship.

During that winter meetings were held in homes, school houses and oth,

... er suitable and convenient places. One of the matters engaging the attention of the people was the subject of free­masonry. It was decided to adopt the resolutions of the state conference; that is, to ask all church members who were Masons to dissolve their relations with the Masonic order; if they were unwilling to do this, to withdraw from them the hand of fel­lowship. Those who were not and nev­er had been Masons were exhorted to live in peace with their Masonic brethren.

Organized May 26, 1830 I May 26, 1830, a council composed of ; delegates from the churches of Sec- j ond Milo, Benton, Jerusalem, Gorham,1 Pulteney, and First Milo met to as- j sist in constituting a church. Elder ! W illiam ’" W itter of Gorham was chosen ! moderator with R. P. Lamb of Second j Milo as clerk. The church under the name of ‘ ‘The First Baptist Church of

; Penn Yan and Jerusalem” was formed j with the following members, • who ; brought, their letters from the churches -! to which they formerly belonged: Gid- | eon Birch, Anna Birch, Ruth Ann Bird- sail, Adelia Beecher,... ■. Pond Curtis,

- Pamelia Chrtis, Samuel Carpenter,I Rhoda Carpenter, Ann Durham, Arte­mas Enos, Mary Enos, W illiam Free­man, Lucy Freeman, Rebeckah F ir­man, Sarah Nash, Stephen Raymond, Isaac Raymond, Samuel Rayond, Mary Raymond, Experience Raymond, Eliz­

abeth Randall, Hannah Snider, Hull !’Taylor, Sarah Taylor, Mary Talford, Sarah W ey and Charlotte Youmans. Samuel Carpenter was to continue as minister at a salary of $200 and fire- wood.

Elder Carpenter did not remain with the new church very long. He left in April, 1831, and David Hurlburt was called to be the second minister. He

. served the church for about a year I and a half. Most of the church meet-1 ings at this t im e 'w ere held in the | court house in Penn Yan and at the school house near Brother Freeman’s. Nothing of importance seems to have happened during Elder Hurlburt’s stay.

W ag ener Gave PropertyThe church was without a minister

I for nearly eight months with the ex­ception of substitutes, of whom Elder Lamb was most frequently mentioned,

fin August, 1833, the church called El- i der John Hart to be leader at a sal- I ary of $300 a year. During the time I that Elder Hart was minister, funds were raised and a church edifice exe­cuted. It was thought at first to build a frame building 40 by 40 somewhere on .Liberty street. This j action was

rescinded and the church-was located on the present site given by Abraham Wagener. ■ It was 40 by 63, built of brick, and considered large enough to house all who might come. Th'e new

! church was dedicated June 24, 1835,1j Elder Hart preaching the 1\ sermon. It was .also while Elder Hart L

ministered to the church that it || joined the Steuben association . ■

In July, 1837, Ira Bennett became It the" minister. Up to this time the

| church had been slowly but steadily ],I increasing in numbers. The first thing | Elder Bennett recommended was a re- I I vival, and in August, one of the busi- t est. seasons of the year, Elder Jacob Knapp came to hold protracted meet­ings. The result of those meetings j was almost beyond human expecta- tions for they brought about 150 new !■ members into the church, beside rous­ing interest in and benefiting the oth- er churches of the community. It was during Elder Bennett’s term of serv­ice that the church became more v i - , tally 1 interested in missions, holding ' monthly concerts the proceeds o f ; which were used for the missionary ; cause. In March, 1839, another series I of protracted meetings were held, re- I suiting in an increase of 50 members.In April Elder Bennett resigned.

Form Yates AssociationNot until January, 1840, did the !,--

church succeed in finding a suitable minister. At that time they called

; Oreb Montague. During his pastorate j The - church gave its approval to the Satibath School institution and did all

. in its power to aid in its establish--: ment. Twice during Elder Montague’s i ministry were revival meetings held, bringing into the church about 100 ] new members. In 1840 the. name of , the church was changed to “ The First ! Baptist Church of the Village of Penn ; Yan,” the number o f trustees from ] three to six and, in 1841, four deacons | were added, making seven in all. In I

■'1844 the church separated from the Steuben association and, together with other churches from that and the On-1 tario association, formed the Yates (f association.• In April, 1845, Elder Montague re-1

signed and in May of the same year! Samuel Adsit became the leader of the church. He remained two years! and was followed by Howell Smith,! who labored here for three years. El-i der Smith’s successor was H. K. Stirn- ! son. During his stay of one and one-'; half years another series of protract- ] ed meetings was held and about. 50: new members added to the church. | There was also an agitation for a more equal division of the Yates and :

: Steuben associations. He resigned in : December.

Elder Knapp ReturnsThe following March the church |

called Charles Morton at a salary o f ] $700, his pastorate to begin the first! of May, 1853. Soon after his com ing;, the church voted to use unfermented grape juice for communion. In De-i cember, 1854, Elder Jacob Knapp came] to Penn Yan a second time. While ; his efforts were not so well rewarded

.as at his previous meetings, still a! great good was done and some 60 were!

/added to the church.For a time after Elder Morton left, |

the church was without a minister. I n ! June, 1855, S. M. Bainbridge w as; called. Previous to his coming th ere , had been a vote to assess the mem-; bers of the church for the debt and ] to meet current expenses. I t was j found that the value of the property i of the entire constituency was $107,- 0 0 0 .

In October, 1855, an invitation wa.s| extended to the state convention to; meet in Penn Yan in 1856. In Sep-j tember, 1856, we find record of a com-

the convention so we may assume th a t ; the invitation was accepted.

During Elder Bainbridge’s stay we I | find the first mention of the renting of slips, or pews, for the support of!

I the church. In January, 1859, Elder;

I Bainbridge resigned to leave at the - 1 end of his fourth year. ;j!

The next pastor was the-Rev. G. W -| Chandler, who served the church fo**’ three vears. 1 At the association, held in Penn Yan while he was pastor, a total membership of 260 was reported

and a total of $433.87 spent for ben­evolences for the year. It was also during his pastorate that women were first mentioned for something other ■than discipline and membership. A committee of five women was appoint­ed to raise money for a melodeon for | the use of the choir. This was in 1861. j In 1862 Elder Chandler resigned.

The church was without a leader j until December, 1862, when !E. P. Brig-I ham was given a call. He accepted; and Remained with the church nearly five years. During this- pastorate an- j other series of meetings was held re-! suiting in adding about 30 to the mem-, liership of the church.

Church RebuiltN. Juason Clark became the pastor!,

in June1, 1868. During his stay of a little more than a year, plans were! set in motion f-or rebuilding the church | Which had been:outgrown. Mr. Clark] resigned in September, 1869. The! church, however, was rebuilt and ded-] icated May 18, 1871, almost 36 years]

; after the dedication of the first church.] Both the Methodists and Presbyterians! offered their houses of worship to th e ! Baptists, but the Courthouse had a l-! ready been procured. During most of i the time of rebuilding, the church was; without a pastor. In December, 1870,;G. M: Peters was given a call to be-! come pastor. He did not take this position,, however, until his ordination, the 19th of May. During his pastorate the church grew and prospered. He xvas followed in the fall o f 1874 by his brother, T. R. peters.: In the winter o f 1875-76, special meetings were held at which many accepted Christ as their Savior and signified their desire to become members of the church. The next summer Mr. Peters resigned.

February 28, 1877, Elder J. P. Far­mer, formerly of the Methodist Epis­copal church, was ordained a Baptist minister and began serving the Penn Yan church. During his pastorate the church reached a membership of 390. It also lost by death Deacon Stephen

Raymond, who had been closely iden­tified with both the spiritual and finan­cial life of the church.

A. Jessup Heads Choir In August, 1881, David Crosby be­

came the pastor. During his stay we find the young people and their work mentioned for th e ; first time in the records. A choir was formed with Arthur Jessup as leader. The mem­bership reached a new mark .of 433.

In November, 1885, the Rev. D. R. Watson accepted a call to come .to Penn Yan. He stayed two years and xvas followed by E. M. Saunier who, at the time of his call, Avas a student at Colgate. Hq was ordained in July, 1888. During his pastorage of nearly lour years, the church acquired a par­sonage, purchasing a lot on Court street, remoAfing a small "house from it, and putting up the house now there. This was used as a parsonage until 1909 Avhen the property was sold.

noAV owned by Mrs. B. F. Joh’ft- Mr. Saunier resigned in April,

It is son.18 9 2-.

In June, A. J. Walrath accepted the call of the church. The winter fo l­lowing his coming, revival meetings Avere held resulting in some 40 con-

versions. In 1864 another series of meetings were held, this time in union with the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. The Rev. A. J.. Smith wasf. the evangelist, assisted by Mr. Bush,; a gospel singer. These meetings were j well attended and resulted in the sav-jr ing of many souls. Mr. Walrath re-i signed in April, 1897, such resigna-; tion to take effect the last week in June, rounding out a full five years of service. This was not to be, however,;1 as he was taken ill and died the last! o f April, the only minister who has i gone to his reward while yet serving1 the Penn Yan church.

Burn Mortgage In June Eugene Haines, a student in

the Rochester Theological seminary, took up his work here. A t the annual' meeting in April, 1899, nearly two years after Mr. Haines came, the larg­est membership in. the history of the! church was reported. During his pas-. tora,te the church was incorporated according to a law passed in 1896, the corporate name being “ Tile First Bap­tist Church of Penn Yan, N. Y.” Atthe annual meeting April 3, 1902, inthe evening, the church mortgage was burned with appropriate ceremonies and much rejoicing.' Mr. Haines re­signed in November, 1902, to take ef­fect the first of December. While here he had baptised into the membership o f the church some 87 and left it with a membership of 455.

Three months later the Rev. Thom1 as de Gruehy, D. D„ of Scranton, Pa., became the pastor of this church. I He served the church faithfully and, by his forceful preaching taxed, ;at times, the capacity of the church. Each win­ter he gave a series of illustrated j sermons at the evening service, which; drevv good congregations. During his i pastorate a change was made as to! the term of office of the deacons Heretofore they had served for an in­definite time. In 1907 the length of the term of office was made four years. When he resigned in April, 1909, he left the church, after a pas­torate of six years, with a membership of 534, a net gain of 81 members.

Church Gets Parsonage When Deacon George W. Shannon

died' December 4, 1391, it was learned

that he had willed to the church his residence on Liberty street, subject to certain'conditions. . His widow was to have the use of .it while she lived. At her death the church was to receive it for use as a parsonage, upon pay­ment of a certain sum. April 24, 1908, Mrs. Shannon, who had become Mrs. Hurford, passed on. The church ac­cepted the legacy. When Forrest L. Frasier of Corning accepted our call he moved into the new parsonage oc­cupied only a short time by Dr. de Gruchy.

A t Mr. Frasier’s suggestion a Bap­tist brotherhood was formed. The purpose of the organization was three­fold— religious, educational and social. Their main efforts were directed to­ward the raising of the church’s ap­portionment fund of the Northern Bap­tist convention. Mr. Frasier was with us but 21 months. During that time he baptized into the church about 150.

I-fi December, 1911, G. Willard Rock well of Troy came to Penn Yan. While he was with us tabernacle meetings were held in union with the Metho­dist and Presbyterian churches, under the leadership of Mr. Williams and Mr. Butts. They were very well at­tended and,- resulted in a great spirit­ual uplift /in the churches and the town m general. A new Sunday School chapel was built; at a cost of about $9,000. It was dedicated February 17, 1915. That same year the Baraca

1 class and the Baptist brotherhood united under the name of the Baraca brotherhood. In 1917, because of brok­en health,. Mr. Rockwell was given a

three months’" leave of absence. He left for California February 1, 1917. While there he made some gain In health but not Enough to enable him , to return. Because of this he resigned,l: such resignation to take effect the ! 15th of May. During his ministry the*, church attained a .membership of 607,. the largest yet reached.

Rev. W heatley Called In the fall the Rev. William H.

Wh,eatley of Castile w as. given a call to the ■ leadership of the- church. He began his work among us November 1,

] 1917. In the early part of his pastorate j Emma Wilkins served as pastor’s as­sistant. The church list was revised 1 and about, 74 put on the absent list with 507 on the active list. H. Wys® Jones helped, to conduct revival meet­ings. W e also had two sei'ies of spe­cial meetings under the leadership of the Rev. W ill H. Houghton of Norris­town, Pa. These meetings ; were of much benefit to the churfches con­cerned and to the community,

i In .Tune, 1924, Dr. John Cummings,- j a missionary from, Burma, preached in ! fnis church. The people were so im -1, pressed by his work that it was de-J cided to make him our representative on the foreign field, his salary of $1400 to be included in our budget for ben-

'evolences.Baraca Contest

In the .fall of 1925, the Baraca class entered: a. contest with the Baraca class of Conklin Avenue Baptist church of Binghamton. Tliis contest

!: stimulated the whole town and soon I became a community affair. On the last Sunday of the contest, the class obtained the use of/the two theatres. Botlv were crowded with a total at­tendance1 of 1879 men. Penn Yan won!

Such was the interest aroused that the pastors of the churches felt that there must be some effort to make it count for the Kingdom of God. They began a seiies of evangelistic services, calling in Mr. and Mrs. Harley Mosier to help with the music,- For the last three weeks of the campaign the,evan­gelist, Fred Slocum of, Addison, was hired. There was a plentiful harvest. On March 7, 1926 our. pastor gave the right hand of fellowship | to 108 new members. During the contest, the Jun­ior church, conducted by Mrs. Wheat­ley, met in the chapel. This Junior church is still being, held, though some changes have been made., In April, 1926, the New York State Women’s Missionary convention was held in our church. There were about 450 in attendance.

The following September Mr. Wheat­ley was taken ill. He was,; given a leave of absence with salary. Dr. Smith Ford acted as supply until De- \ cember first. • Beginning January 1, j 1927, the RevV Charles Briggs was en- \ gaged to take charge’ ef the work un- ’ til Mr. Wheatley could return to us. j

When" Mr. W heatley came back it ; was decided to hire an asisstant pas- 1 tor for full-time work. Frank Waaser j •began work in that capacity January i 1, 19.28* repia-ining with us until the] following September/when he entered Colgate university. Dwight S.. Goad, a.j student in Hochester seminary, took; his. place and is still with us. In July, i 1929, Mr. Wheatley was taken ill again, and given leave of absence until; March 1, 1930. In September, the Rev. | Royal N. Jessup came to us as full i time substitute pastor. Mr. Wheatley’s ! I'hCalth did not seem to improve as | rapidly as it should and in December j

jheserit to the church h is: resignation j B to ’ take effect January 1, 1930, closing ! | I a pastorage of 12 years and tw o ' j , months, the longest in the history o f I j the church up to this time. He le f t :

; the church with a membership of 834 - and about 70 on the absent list.

Mr. Jessup Is Called The Rev. Royal N. Jessup had been

hired until the first of March. On

February .2nd, the church called him ; to the pastorage and on the first of,

! March he became the 26th pastor of 1 ■] the- First Baptist church of Penn Yan .; Hie is entering into the work most I ;|heartily and endearing himself to the j /members of the1, church.

| Such has been the history of the ; first century of the life of this church, t It has been on the hilltop of glory | and in the valley of humiliation. Cases ! of discipline have been summarily ! dealt with, members having been dis- ! ciplined for immorality, intemperance,| the selling of intoxicants, neglect of ! family, and, in the"-earlier days, for | swearing and attendance at dances, y ? S lavery was condemned. Some of our ■ boys ^fought in the World war. Once the church faped disruption but, thanks to the guiding hand of God, it j has weathered every storm and grown |

, from a membership of 27 to one of I . 846.

The growth for the most part has ! been spasmodic, being, in the past, coincident with the various evangelis-! tic campaigns. There has been, how- i ever, a growing interest in missions, i and in a program of religious educa-1 tion, which w ill tend more and more; to,ward a steady increase in member- r ship and in the furtherance of God’s i kingdom here on earth.

NEW W. T. GRANT STORETO PENN YAN

Cramer Block, Vacated by the Lynch-

Fuller Corp., To Be Rebuilt,

Occupied September 1st

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On Monday of this week Postmaster John B. Cramer of Penn Yan received word from the W. T. Grant Co. of New York city that it w ill rent the store recently .vacated by the Lynch-Fuller corporation on Main street in Penn Yan for 15 years, taking occupancy "the first of September. - Work starts this week on rebuilding/the interior of the store and the construction of a new front to suit the needs of the new tenant.

The Grant Co. has stores in Geneva j and Rochester and several hundred j other units in many cities of the coun­try.

The Gramer block, in which the new i store w ill locate, was built some 50! years ago by C. V. Bush and John H. ■ Down. It then was divided into four! stores, two being located in the sec- i tion now occupied by the J." C. Penney i company and two ip. the vacant store, ] now to be rebuilt and leased. A. J. j Obertin of Penn Yan conducted a vari- j ety store in the southern-most portion; , Wesley McCracken had a confection-} ery store in the .next one; the hallway j where the Miller Art and Gift Shoppe is now located, led to the Sheppard; Opera house and the Penn Yan Demo-! erat Print shop; Mrs. Laura Goldsmith! conducted a millinery store in th e ’ next site and the A. &. P. Tea store! used the northern portion of that partj vacated by the Lynch-Fuller corpora­tion.

A bad fire gutted the opera house ’ and ruined the print shop in' about 1910, arid destroyed /Dean’s photo gallery, which was also located on the second floor. In 1896 Mr. Ober-j tin moved across the street into the j site now occupied by the New York I Central Electric corporation. Seward ; P. Lanning and John B. Cramer start- j ed a dry goods business there - and C. M. McFarren went in the dry goods business, in the part vacated by the i grocery store when it. moved across I the street to the Arcade block. Mr.j Cramer later consolidated with Mr.; McFdrren and finally took over the entire business.

Edwards-AyresThe marriage of Miss Eleanor

Ayres, daughter of Mrs. Minnie L. Ayres of Penn Yan, and Carmen Ed­wards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edwards of Findlay, ©hio, was solem­nized at the bride’s home, 600 Liberty street, Wednesday afternoon, June 11th, at 4 o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Dr. L. S. Boyd, formerly pastor of the Penn Yan Methodist Episcopal church and superintendent of the Geneva district, assisted by Rev. W illiam M. Hydon, present pas­tor of the Penn Yan church. The double ring service was used.

The couple was attended by Miss Marjorie Beard of Foochow, China, maid of honor, Miss Loraine Edwards of.Findlay, Ohio, sister of the groom, as bridesmaid, and Pierce Robson of Cleveland, Ohio, best mam.

. BASSETT EARLY

Helped Found Congregational Church — Gilbert, Loomis, Blair and Several O t h e r

Names Are Familiar

The fam ily names and stories' con­nected with the early history of Rush­ville are of interest to all her sons and daughters, yet how few of the former are now listed among her inhabitants, and how seldom do we find new in­formation concerning any of them.

The names of Mower, Sawyer, Morse, and Reed have gone entirely from this community; the names of Loomis, Blair, Holton, Green, Whitman and Pratt are still heard, although not always descended from the early set­tlers of those names; and the names Gilbert and Bassett are perpetuated only as names of two of Rushville’s streets, yet by families of these names,

; with a few others, were the first homes made in the wilderness.

Among these earliest settlers was •William Bassett,' one of the founders 'o f Rushville Congregational church, and the first school teacher in what is now Potter. Although four of his sons

1 and six of his daughters grew to man­hood and womanhood in this village, the only descendant now residing in

'i this section is Mrs. Frank Becker of Vine Valley; and her brother, Oscar Bassett of Rochester, is the only one

' o f the name near here, i The name of W illiam Bassett is one of those most' often mentioned in the early records of "village history; and the following obituary printed in 1862 on his death has recently been found

•in an old scrapbook: .An Octogenarian Gone

Died at Rushville, February 11, 1862, W illiam Bassett, Esq., in his 90th year.

He was a native of Martha’s Vine- : yard, Mass., and was four years old when independence was declared. His father was an officer in the war of the Revolution in which he made great sacrifices and suffered much. He was in the Battle of Saratoga and the tak-

; ing of Burgoyne. ’fin the winter of 1780 ; which was the coldest ever known in this country, he was engaged in the

! service on an armed vessel, which was overtaken with a snowstorm with such}

] extreme cold that the vessel became wholly unmanageable from the large j accumulations of ice upon her deck's

1 and in her rigging, and though near ■

• the shore "so that her alarm guns were | heard on the land, no help could reach j them, and after suffering beyond the powers of la*nguage to describe for

; some days, 74 of the sufferers froze to I death among whom was the father of the deceased. His body was obtained

I and found a resting place among the graves of the Pilgrims of the Mayflow­er at Plymouth Rock, from whom he was a lineal descendant.

A t the age of 16’ the deceased (W il­liam Bassett) accompanied an uncle to Westmoreland, a few miles west of the city of Utica, through which he passed when there were but two small houses where the city now stands. Here- in the 'wilderness he attended the first religious meeting ever held in thej country, and -which he always remem­bered with interest.

In 1793, then being 21 years old; he ■ left Westmoreland for a settlement;

'near Rushville, then the town of Au-i gusta. Being guided by trails and In-| .dian paths, he missed his way at Sen­eca Falls and reached Palmyra before he discovered his mistake. On reach­ing the place of his destination, he found but one white family in the pres­ent limits of the village, with a good­ly number of Indian wigwams, which were more or less occupied by the natives of the forest.'

A t that early day he selected and purchased a most beautiful tract of (figures blurred) acres of land on which a part of the village of Rush­ville now stands, which he occupied and" with his own hands made into one of the most desirable and valuable farms in the county, which he con­tinued to own and to occupy till his death, a term of over 65 years.. He lived to see a beautiful village With its churches and schools spring up where he had seen only the wild .Indian and the wild animals and the j 1

| poisonous reptiles of the forest. In | bringing about this great change, he j contributed a most important share. | [Here he became the father o f 12 chil-j 'dren, 10 of whom lived to mature age; | one of the latter is now. the worthy j county clerk.

He is still remembered by some of:• the oldest inhabitants as the first |

school teacher to whom they are in­debted for their first rudimental in-1 struction. In all the-enterprises ’ for j

• the development of the county, in bus-: iness, religion and education, he al- j ways took his full share of responsi-l bility and sacrifice. He held many of­fices of trust, both military and civil, in which he made himself very useful, and especially as a peacemaker.

Esquire Bassett made a profession I of religion in early life and united with the Congregational church whose pol­ity he cherished with especial regard to the end of his pilgrimage. He was always earnest, sincere and active in all his religious duties, believing that Christianity could never make com-| promises with sin. He embraced all reforms that promised to improve the condition of men and to make them better. Slavery and intemperance nev­er found favor with him.

W ith a vigorous .constitution, and be­ing temperate and regular in all his habits and thus obeying the laws of his being, he was enabled to reach a good old age, and at last yielded up life as the candle goeth out without a struggle. Having lived the life of the righteous, he died the death of the righteous and has gone to his reward. His memory w ill long be cherished with tender affection by the . bereaved family, by the church, and by a large circle of friends and citizens.— Rush­ville Editor.

To Carve For CornellCharles S. Hall, the wood carver};

of Tyrone, has been commissioned to}; execute the carvings for the new Plant Industry building at • Cornell University, Ithaca. The Tyrone artist is in charge of the designing and wood carving department at Roycroft, East Aurora. He has carved the wood­work of several churches in New York State, the work of St. Matthew’s church, at Moravia, consuming five years of the artist’s time, carvine dis­tinctive designs on red oak, only two inches in width. His work may also be seen in Grace and Trinity Church­

e s , in Elmira.The favorite work of Mr. Hall is a

pictorial carving. Work done by him which is of unusual local interest is the carving of the old Dundee Acad­emy which he attendee^ when a iad. The frame for this carving is the desk at which he sat and studied while at-

| 'fending school. __ jj

j Lake S t re e t ' School Building for Sale.il Lot 65 feet frontage, about 300 feet | deep. Building is of brick, 34 feet] by 26 feet with one-story addition I 7 feet by 14 feet, with good cellar. : Electric lights, water, and two toil-1; ets. Floors in excellent shape; good ;

j furnace. Rooms are 13 feet, 6 inches high. Convertible into a modern 6- room hpme. Make offer in writing

| to Charles G. Hetherington, sec’y, Board of Education, so that action may be taken at the annual meeting j of the School District August 5th M H ■ I I 25wU:j

Boat Co. Releases'Men; Sea-j son’s Production CompletedThe serious nation-wide business de- '}

pression is making itself fe lt in Penn I Yan. Many of the employees of the Penn Yan Boat company’s new plant were released Monday as the large- I scale production was stopped. Over I4,000 boats have been built in the I new factory to fulfill the first con- tract with the Johnson Motor com- I pany of Waukegan and other custom- j ers. Other contracts were not con- | tinued' as the sale of boats and mo­tors throughout the country is said to be materially lessened by the gener­al business depression.

Charles Herrmann, president of the company, in a statement made W ed­nesday, said that the company is cut-11! ting down production in its plant to [ the minimum a few weeks earlier f than expected and is taking the usual inventory, the amount of stock need­ed for the season having been sup­plied,. The building of odd models in the old plant is continuing about as usual, he stated.

Mr. Herrmann is unable to an­nounce when production w ill again be started on a large scale.

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BAKER— Otto H. Baker, 5§, died a t 1 the S. & S. Hospital, on Tuesday! morning, June 24th, 1930.Surviving are his w ife; four sons,

Robert T., Howard C., Melvin T., Ray- niond J., all at home; two daughters, Miss Frances L. and Miss Hilda M., j both at home; two brothers, L. GJ Baker, of Lockport; L. C. Baker, of East Bloomfield; two sisters, Mrs.; Burr Carr, of Elkhart, Kansas; Mrs. J. G. Youngs, Buffalo. The funeral w ill be held on Friday afternoon _ a t 1 2 o’clock from the home at Bluff P o in t,; Rev. Stevens officiating, with bu ria l1 in iPulteney cemetery. )

I

Must Appropriate MoneyAt a special meeting of the Yates pj

County Board of Supervisors held on j Monday evening, resolutions were adopted covering the improvement of the Starkey-Dresden county highway, Part 2. This road is one improved un-; der State and Federal aid and 8.08(7- miles of it is.in Yates county. The es-In­timated cost will be $504,000, of which the Federal fiovernment will? pay $129,750, and New York Statev $174,250. The plans and specifications: have been approved by the Yates 1 ; County Board and all rights of way, B with the exception of two have been t, obtained. The two parcels, the prop­erties of II. H. Simmons and Amelia 1 Hood, w ill be taken by condemnation t proceedings. The right of way will' | cost in the neighborhood of $20,000, j

, not to exceed that sum.A letter has been received by the i<

supervisors dealing with the Old Age Pension Law, which w ill go into ef-

• feet on September 1st. Jay Barnes, Commissioner of Public Welfare, will be responsible for the administration of the old age relief funds. It w ill be

I necessary for the county to take ac- tion . immediately and make lappro-

; priation for this relief, the state to | remburse the county one-half of the- f amount used.

It has been found that 25 put of the ; 41 people in Esperanza w ill be eligi- ! ble for the relief, those 25 being over 1 70 years of age.

VILLAG E ORDINANCEBE IT ORDAINED, That no privy,

vault or other receptacle or place for receiving human excretions shall be kept or maintained on any property within the Village of Penn Yan, which is adjacent to1 or accessible to a public sewer, unless the same shall be of some' approved type of septic tank, or its sanitary equivalent, or unless the same shall be thoroughly emptied anc^ cleansed not less fre­quently than once in each twenty- four hours.

Any person, or persons, firm or corporation owning, leasing or occu­pying any premises whereon a vio­lation of this ordinance is suffered to exist, shall be liable to a penalty of $25.00, for each violation, to be re­covered in a civil action by the V il­lage of Penn Yan, and each twenty- four hours - the condition is suffered to . exist shall constitute a separate violation and in addition thereto, every person violating any of the provisions of the foregoing ordinance is hereby declared to be a disorderly person and such violation thereof is hereby declared to-be disorderly con­duct and the, person, or persons, guilty of such violation may be pro­ceeded against as a disorderly person and may be prosecuted and punished for disorderly conduct according to the laws prescribed by the State of New York.

This ordinance shall take effect August 1st, 1930. ,||

Dated: June 20, 1930.W ILL IA M B. MANLEY,

: 10w2 I I Clerk, I

VILLAGE ORDINANCE Be it ordained, That no food for

human consumption shall be kept, sold, or offered for sale, displayed or transported unless protected from dirt, dust, flies and other contamina­tion ; nor shall any food intended for human consumption be deposited or alowed to remain within a distance of two feet above the surface of any street, sidewalk or other public place

f or the front of any building for exhib­it unless the same shall be contained

; in boxes or other receptacles so as I to be protected from dogs or other animals and their excretions.

Any person or persons, firm or cor­poration, violating any of the provi-

I sions of the foregoing ordinance shall I be liable to a penalty of $15.00,. for ; each violation, to be recovered in a ’ civil action by the Village of Penn Yan, and in addition thereto, every person violating any o f the provi-

| sions of the foregoing ordinance is f hereby declared to be a disorderly f person and such violation thereof is

hereby declared to be disorderly con- | duct and the person or persons guilty

of such violation fiiay be proceeded 3 against as a disorderly person find

may be prosecuted and punished for disorderly conduct according to the laws of the State of New York.

This ordinance shall take effect June 28, 1930.

\; • Dated: June 20, 1930.W IL IAM B. MANLEY,

VILLAGE ORDINANCEBE IT ORDAINED, That no person,

firm or corporation shall in any man­ner obstruct, interfere with or occupy any portion of the public sidewalks ’or highways of the Village of Penn Yan for the purpose of trade, gain or display of merchandise, or for the purpose of advertising any business, article or commodity.

I Any person, firm or corporation : violating any of the provisions of the ] foregoing ordinance shall be liable to- i,a penalty of $15.00, for each viola- j tion to be recovered in a civil action

by the Village of Penn Yan, and in ■:i addition thereto, every person violat- | ing any of the provisions of the fore- I going ordinance is hereby declared to be a disorderly person, and such vio-

I lation thereof is hereby declared to j be disorderly conduct and the per- i son or persons guilty of such viola- 1 tion may be proceeded against as a disorderly person and may be prose­cuted and punished fqr disorderly conduct according to the laws of the State of New York.

This ordinance shall take effect June 28, 1930.

Dated: June 20, 1930.W ILL IA M B. MANLEY,

10w2 Clerk.

CANUTESON— PURD YThe marriage of Miss Bertha Purdy,

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. Seymour Purdy, of Penn Yan, and Richard L. Canuteson, of Whitehall, Wisconsin, took place at four o’clock, Tuesday af­ternoon, at the Purdy homestead on 1 the West Lake Road. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W/ H. Wheat­ley.

The bride graduated from Keuka i College, and since then has taught in the secretarial department of that} school. Mr. Canuteson received both j his Bachelor and Master of Art-s de-1 grees from the University of Wiscon- j sin. For several years he taught in j Milwakee before coming East to sup- j ply for one semester in history and ! education at Keuka College. During the past year he has been pr incipal of I the Liberty Street School and next; year w ill be connected with the new [ Junior High School of Pepn Yan.

HYATT-GORTON The marriage of Miss Marjorie L.U

Gorton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Er-ra ford H. Gorton, of Tierman St^ Roch-[7 ester, and F. Merriman Hyatt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Hyatt, of Keu- ka, took place Tuesday, June 24, 1930, f at 12:30 o’clock at the Dewey Avenue K Presbyterian church, in Rochester, $ Rev. Stanley Gutelius, officiated.

The bride has been employed for p the past year as a stenographer in j the patent department of the Eastman j Kodak factory in Rochester. The j groom is in the law office of John J .! Hyland in Penn Yan.

County Court, Yates County I In the Matter of the acquisition of I

lands for right of way and other [ purposes for the changing and im- [ provement of the highway known ; as Penn Yan-Branchport County. I Highway 1210 , said lands to be ac­quired from Ella E. Purdy, Agnes L. Purdy, M. Anne Purdy, Mary^ €. : Purdy and Ida P. Mills, reputed j owners, and lands to be acquired j from Beulah C. . Whitney, Guile & i Windnagle, Inc., reputed owners, and lands to be acquired from Her­bert E. Whitney, Beulah C. Whit- ! ney, Guile • & Windnagle, Inc., The

- Metropolitan, Inc., John C. Sheeley, Thomas J. Northway, Inc., the George W. Peck company, Penn . Yan & Lake Shore Railway com-1 pany and James H. Pepper.The undersigned, appointed in th e !

above proceeding to inquire into and | determine and award such damages I and compensation to the owners and; persons interested in such lands tak-1 en as they severally shall be entitled to for the same, w ill hold their first i meeting at the office of the Surro-: gate o f the County of Yates in the j. Village of Penn Yan, Yates County,. New York, on the 8th day of July,j 1930, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of 1 that day, for the purpose of inquiring; into, determining and awarding such i damages and compensation to the } owners and all persons interested in : the property taken for the purpose] of a public highway as they severally j appear entitled to for the same. Said property has been heretofore des­cribed in £he petition in the above, entitled matter, w'hich petition was duly filed in the office of the Clerk; of the County of Yates, and maps showing said premises and describ­ing the same to be taken in this pro­ceeding having been heretofore filed in the office of the Clerk of the Conn-: ty of Yates; all persons interested ini any manner in the land to be taken; for the purpose aforesaid are hereby, notified to be present.

0 - 'Dated 18th of June, 1930.

LEW IS C. W ILLIAM S, . CHARLES W. K IM BALL, -I. FR A N K M. COLLIN,

Commissioners. JOHN E. SHERIDAN,

Attorney for Yates County,Penn Yan, N. Y. 25w2.. I

GUERNSEY—Frank Guernsey, of Branchport, died at the S. & S. Hos­pital, in this village, on Sunday, June 29, 1930.

. He is survived by one ^brother. ; Clark W. Guernsey, of Branchport

The funeral was held Tuesday after- r noon at 2:30 o’clock at St. Luke's

Branchport, Rev. J. H. Perkins offv- ciatifig. Burial in Bitely cemetery.

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HISTORY OF MAIN STREET BRIDGE NOW BEING RECONSTRUCTED

The present reconstruction of the Main street bridge over the Lake Keu­ka outlet in Penn Yan bares the old arches wihch were constructed of

I rock from the old canal in 1884. It also freshens the memories of- many old residents regarding the election that was once held in the village to determine the type of structure, the abandoning of the old Crooked Lake canal and the general change and im­provement made in those years at lower Main street.

The first bridge over, the outlet at i this point was probably constructed i in about 1794, a crude affair which j was greatly improved later by anoth­er span. This second bridge, which

I was the immediate predecessor of the 1 present one, was frequently used by ! people now living. There was a j marked decline in the street levels at each approach. A t the north end the

I state erected a crescent-shaped steel I span over the canal and tow path with I one support on the path. From that point further south the local govern­ment erected a wooden bridge across

j the outlet. White pine piles were | driven into the bed of the stream, a . j stone foundation was then placed j ! upon these and the wooden structure ■ i added. Many remember the old sign ■ j which stood at each entrance,' as i shown in one of the accompanying

J pictures, threatening drivers with a j $10 fine if they drove across the span at a speed in excess of 10 miles per

I hour.

A t that time the mill property,| owned by Casner and Sheetz, stood | out in the street much farther than I does the mill now. In 1883 when the ,.| question of repairing the old bridge or j building a new one was being hotly j debated, mill owners made a vigorous ;| thrust against a new bridge by stat-j i ing that the approaches would have J

to be filled in and the level of the street on the span would then be about | even with the second story windows j of the mill.

A fter much debate and an election, | it. was decided to build the new struc- j ture. The town of Milo paid the mill owners $3,500 to move it back from i the street some 30 feet. It was » raised to the new level and recon- . structed. The old edifice now forms ; a small part of the present mill, ‘ex­tending from the north entrance to

the southern portion, facing Main street, which is metal coated’ The An­drews mill, known as the “ W hite j M ill,” which was burned July 19, 1913, ' was also moved" at the same time as the “ Brown Mill.”

Abandon Canal I The old Crooked Lake canal, which ran along W ater and Seneca streets (Seneca street then being known as Canal street), was abandoned in 1873 by the state. Sherman and Lewis ran the canal as a private enterprise for four more years, until 1877— an event

I which robbed Hammondsport, Bianch- : I port and the other thriving villages on j ' I Lake Keuka from a direct water route |

j to the cities or the sea, therefore mak-i, ing Penn Yan a center of local com-

I merce. The branch of the old Fall I Brook railroad, put into use by 1880, j drew more commerce to the county : seat. ‘

Hence, seven years after the canal 1 was abandoned, the old bridge was

i torn down completely, the approaches j j were filled several feet, the mill w a s !' moved east to its present location and 1 the county of Yates built the present j , structure as it has been serving for

, the years since that- time.When the work was in progress, it j

was found that the white" pltae piles1 (Continued on page thirteen)

used for a foundation of the old bridge I were in excellent preservation. Som e! of them were pulled out, only to be | put back in place. These piles still j serve as a sub-water foundation for; the heavy stone arches. They have; been in place for perhaps a century already, and engineers inspecting the j bridge preparatory to the present re-1

themyears.railing

bridge

sound

along a few

construction judged enough for many more

While removing the the east walk of the weeks ago, the contractor tore down the old stone which dated the con­struction of the span as in 1884 with Ira Lunt of Newcastle, Del., as con­tractor and George B. Youngs of Penn Yan as engineer.

The present Chronicle block, locat­ed on the corner of Water, and Main streets, was built in 1889, five years after the bridge was constructed. To make this building possible the drop of many feet to the old canal bed was filled.. As the stone from some of the

locks of the Crooked Lake canal wrere j used in building the arches of the r bridge, so the first locks as the canal; ■. left Lake Keuka outlet were used for a foundation of a part of the Chroni-j cle building and stones from other; locks were used in a part of the sub- j basement wall.

Unearth Old Lock Two years ago the Associated Gas j

and Electric company dug up the first , gate of the lock, located in the sub- j; basement of the Chronicle annex, for­merly the Hasson house, to establish j. the company’s rights pertaining to the ; Keuka lake water level. Workmen j found the sill of the lock and some of the wooden parts still in excellent I preservation. Old timers in Penn Yan j

' state that an old canal boat was also buried in the fill under the Birkett mills storage house' on W ater street. jtiThis lock was the first of a series of

27 through which the canal boats had to«-pass when dropping from Keuka lake down the 267 feet and six miles of artificial water-way to Seneca lake. This recent excavating' revealed the bulkheads of the old approach. A t this j- point the tow-path ran on the outlet side of the canal. The canal entered the outlet near the north bank termin­al of the present New York Central railroad trestle, • west of The Main j street bridge. A small bridge spanned j

The outlet for the towvpath, and just below that was the old state dam, which was built in 1'834 for the sole purpose of preventing the owners of the Wagener dam, 150 feet below, which is the present dam, from letting the later level of the lake and outlet drop so low as to prevent use of the canal.

In the window of the Chronicle-Ex­press office this week is a map of the Casner and Sheetz mill property drawn by Lorimer Ogden, Penn Yan, surveyor when the canal was in oper­ation, showing the location of the mills in the center of what is now the north approach to the bridge and the loca­tion of the canal under the present Chronicle block, the tow-path and the bridge by which the tow-path crossed the outlet. When the present bridge was being built pedestrians used this- tow path span for crossing the out­let.

W o rk on Bridge Progressing ' Under state supervision and- ex­

pense, the reconstruction work on the Main street bridge is slowly progress­ing. The pavement and sand filling above the four arches has been re-

| moved. When the pavement over the span settled and became a serious

I menace to traffic in previous years, | many people stated that the reason I for the settling was the tons of buck- I wheat hulls that had been used as fill in years gone by. The excavating has

I now been completed, but the man op­erating the shovel has failed to report

! finding any of these buckwheat hulls;

When the tops of all four arches I have been sealed with concrete and I water proofing, the under side \vill be I sealed, gravel will be used for fill, a I heavy tamping machine pounding j every six inches of it into place, to I prevent danger of further settling. A new road foundation w ill be built over

j this after the water and electric and telephone wire mains have been re­paired, then the pavement w ill be re­placed. The walk w ill extend further over the bridge than before and pe­destrians w ill be protected by con­crete balustrades, which w ill also hide the steam main, suspended under the east side of the span, and the gas main, under the west side.

Boulevard lights and a new sidewalk approach along the Chronicle, Ander­son and Quenan blocks on -the west side w ill make the structure much rhore attractive and more becoming- a progressive Penn Yan.

Rev. George D. Latim er, Native of Penn Yan, Dies in Maine

The Kev. George Dlminick Latimer of Boston died last Week at Castine, Maine, where he went with Mrs. Lati­mer about ten days ago, apparently in good health. He was born on April 28, 1856, in Penn Yan and was grad­uated from Harvard university in 1889 and from Harvard Divinity school the following year. On February 26, ( 1890, he was ordained in the Union j Congregational church*at Allstion and 1 remained as its minister for three K years. In 1893 he went to the North j Church (Unitarian) in Salem, where 1/ he continued as minister till 1907.

Mrs. H. K. Armstrong returned ; from Naples, Italy, with Mr. and Mrs. 1 Latimer in April on the same boat.

i Alfred Jens ChristenscriAlfred Jens Christensen, aged 40

- years, died 'at his cottage, near Wil* lowhurst, on the West Lake road, Penn Yan, R. D. 5, Thursday evening,

j July 3rd. He is survived by his wife, j Beulah Bacon' Christensen; father, j Jens Christensen, one brother, O. Wal­ter'Christensen; one sister, Mrs. S. P- Christensen, all of Penn Yan.

A prayer service was held at the cottage at 2:15 p. m. and the funeral from the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday afternoon, July 6th, at 3 o’clock, Rev. Lyford S. Boyd of Gene­va, and Rev. William M. Hydon of Penn Yan, officiating. Interment was made in Lake View cemetery.

Mr. Christensen for some years was the senior partner in the Christensen & Ross grocery store on Elm street, Penn Yan.

!m . McEvoy Tells of Land

Bought for $3,000 by Penn

Yan to Move Mill Off from

Present Main Street Bridge

Penn Yan, N. Y., July 15, 1930.

< Editor Chronicle-Express: —Having been interested in the facts

I concerning the bridges over the out- | let of Crooked lake, known as the Lib- I erty Street bridge and also the Main Street bridge, now under repair by the state highway department, a little of its history may be enlightening to the people o f today.

The old bridge over the outlet of Keuka lake, known as the Main Street bridge, whs a very narrow one, and it was considerable lower than at, present, which brought about an ordinance by the then village board, on March 7th’, 1.883, as follows: “ Re­solved: That the grade and surface at the foot of Main street and also Jil- lett street, where the same descends to the outlet of Crooked lake, and also the grade and surface of the bridge to be built across said, outlet, and con-

! necting said streets, be and the same is hereby -fixed and established, as fo llow s: Commencing at and upon the surface of the cross walk leading

j from the Knapp house to M. J. Hen­drick’s Meat Market, where the same connects with the side walk immedi­ately at and in front of the Knapp house, in this village, and running thence southerly across said bridge and to and upon Jillett street in a true line and grade, which shall not, however, exceed eight feet above the present surface of the bridge,, as it now stands at the middle point of said bridge, and notice of this order shall be duly given to the Commissioners of Highway of the Town of Milo.”

On August 7th, 1883, we find the following resolution was passed by the Board of Trustees of the village: “ Resolypd, That the sum of $3,000 be levied on the taxable property of the village of Penn Yan, payable in three equal annual installments from the first day of September, 1883, with in­terest on the whole sum from Septem­ber, 1883, and annually thereafter to be secured by three several promis­sory notes of said village to be ex­pended in the year 1883, for the fol­lowing, v iz .: For widening the street and bridge at the foot of Main street and for moving the mill to a line to correspond with the mill on the south side of the outlet to- Crooked lake: That pursuant to the foregoing reso-i lution a special election of the tax­payers of the village of Penn Yan be held at Cornwell’s Opera house on Main street on Thursday, the 23rd day of August, 1883, to vote upon such

tax.- 'Tne pollsf "of such election will be opened at one o’clock and1 close at four o’clock p. in. of that day,”

W e find that at a meeting of the trustees August 20, of that year, 1883, the following: “At a meeting of the trustees of the Village of Penn Yan, Calvin Russell, W. H. Fox, P. P. Cur­tis and Oliver G. Shearman, came be­fore the Board and stated what they were willing to do in reference to the building of the bridge on Main street, and severally subscribed the following statement: “ In considera-

I tion of -widening of the bridge at the ! foot of Main street to the' extent of 17 1/3 feet, requiring the removal of

. the Brown mill that distance to .the | east from its present west Jine, and ' on a line with the White mill and raising the new bridge to be built to a point of grade heretofore fixed by

the Board of Trustees of this Village, | the owners of these two mills, situate ' at and near said bridge, agree to sell and convey to the Village of Penn Yan, the land to the extent of 17 1/3 feet ifrom the'east side of the bridge,

. as it now stands for the purposes ' aforesaid, and extending north and south across the* outlet, and to exe-

1 cute a proper conveyance therefor to | the village of Penn Yan for street purposes, upon the passage by the tax­payers of the appropriation of $3,000 advertised for a special tax meeting on the 23rd inst.

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Such conveyance was also to pro­vide for the relinquishment and li-

; quidation and to be in satisfaction of all and any claims of damages which

i may be done or claimed to be done to I the owners of said mill or any indi-

!j vidual owners or persons interested li therein, either as against th e. village I of Penn Yan of the town of Milo. ,;! Signed: O. G. Shearman, P. P. Curtis,: W. H. Fox, Calvin Russell. August 23, 1883. At a meeting see page 325, village records.

I The undersigned four of the trus- ; tees of the village of Penn Yan, here- I by certify that a special election and I meeting of the taxpayers-of the vil- I lage of Penn Yan, held at Cornwell’s I Opera house on Main street in said | village on Thursday, the 23rd day of I August, 1883, between the hours of ! one o’clock and four o’clock p. m., of I that day, pursuant to section nine amending the charter; the whole

j number of ballots cast and received j at such special election and meeting ! was 229, of which the whole number : of such ballots cast for special tax,’ was 198, and of which the whole num­ber of such ballots cast against spe­cial tax was 31.

At a special meeting of the trustees held on September 19th, 1883, the president was ordered to execute three promissory notes of $1,000 each to take care of the expense involved in securing the portion of mill prop­erty for the new bridge <fcs ordered by the taxpayers at the special election.

These records was obtained by me from the village records, preliminary

'to the report I made to the superin­tendent of public works, in 1928, which brought about the condemning of the bridge and the taking over by the state the same, and which has resulted in the construction and re­pair o f the structure, for which the people of this community may well fell proud. The trustees of that time took a long look to the future when they purchased this strip of land, to widen the street to tln extent of 17 1 /3 feet which today is a necessity to accommodate the traffic of the present age.

The whole extent of Main street needs the curb to be set back to the original width of the street, as it was previous to the paving of the v il­lage streets.

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stops to take on people in front of the stores or to let them off when ar­riving in the village, for cars cannot pass when parking is done on both

Isides of the street with an additional car taking on or off passengers, which needs a width of five cars at such

| times.The trustees should meet the re­

quirement of the times in this matter, now, and give to the traveling public the street width required, for safety and for the sake of humanity.

M.. McfevOY.

Joseph McDermott, Sr.Friday, July 11th," at the Clifton j[|

Springs sanitarium, occurred the II death of Joseph McDermott, Sr., of I Bluff Point. Mr. McDermott, who was !| over 75 years old, had been in excel-jw lent health until recent months when | he was taken to the saintarium. He M returned home a few weeks ago, but' 1 ■As forced to go back to Clifton kl J rings some four weeks ago.Mr. McDermott, who was a' member j

of the Keuka Odd Fellows lodge in Ijjjj Penn Yan, leaves five sons and three, |h daughters, George of Penn Yan, R. «D. 5, Sydney of Penn Yan, Fred of jl Calexico, California, Thomas of St. | Petersburg, Florida, Joseph, at home, pi: Mrs. M. S. Barrett of Linfield, Pa., i Mrs. D. G. Paddock of Penn Yan and I), Mrs. J. A. Paddock of Rushville; 19.1 grandchildren; one brother and two U sisters, John of Penn Yan, Mrs. Mar- j;| tha Caton of Buffalo and Mrs. Anna U Wheeler of Penn Yan.

Charles M. Geer, Largest Yates Coun­ty Land Owner, Dies

At his home in Italy Valley Friday morning, July 11th, occurred the death of Charles M. Geer, aged 77 years, who is reputed to be the larg­est land owned in Yates county. His holdings of farm lands in Middlesex, Italy, Potter and Jerusalem total

< some 3,800 acres. •Mr. Geer had been ill for some

time and under the care of a Geneva doctor in the Geneva hospital. He re­turned to his home this week and died Friday morning.

He was a native of Italy township, the son, of Mr. and Mrs. George Geer. Oen of his brothers, LeRoy Geer, died in March of this year; another, Her­bert, died four years ago. He leaves one brother, William, who now lives in Italy Holllow; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Clark of Naples, . who sur­vives her husband, the late Joseph Clark; and Mrs. Mary Shay of Naples, who also survives her husband, the late David !3hay. Another sister, Mrs. Nettie (Grant) Kennedy of Canandai­gua ,died a year ago. Three daugh­ters also survive him, Lucy, now Mrs. Roscoe Elwell of Italy, Lottie and Fannie, both at home. His wife, who } survives him, was Laura S. Biehl be-1 fore her marriage.

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Mrs. Kate L. FvieadMrs. Kate L. Mead, ’aged 73 years,

widow of the late George W. Mead, j died at ' the home of her daughter, I

I Mrs. William C, Reed, of the west- j j Seneca lake road, Tuesday afternoon,; July 8th, following a long illness. Be-‘ I sides her daughter, Mrs.' Mead is sur-j: vived by two grandsons, George Sid- i ney Reed and Reynold Melvin Reed; I two great-grandsonscne sister, Miss ! Alice Whitaker, anu three brothers, i Charles and John wbitak.er, Sr., all j of Penn Yan, and Frank of Los An -, geleA Calif.

The funeral was held Friday after- j I noon at 2 o’clock at, t ie home of her 1 daughter, Mrs. Reed, .^vith Rev. G. H. Orvis of Bainbridge ^officiating. Iq- terment was made ih Mt. Pleasant cemetery at Benton Center.

j o / > , _ 5 .Buy a Membership Ticket

The second weekly meeting of .the directors of the Yates County A gri­cultural Society was held on Monday evening, when plans were discussed and definite arrangements made for the sale of the membership tickets.

Having decided to eliminate the sulky horse races from the fair pro-' gram for 1930, the question of base­ball games and an athletic contests, as well as running races for horses was gone into at some length.

It is planned to interest Coach H. S. Dickson, instructor of athletics at Penn Yan Academy, in the athletic program and have the coach take charge of the activities in the line ofsports at the fair.

Owing to the waning interest in horses and racing, it has been decid­ed by the directors to have no class for horses in the premium list. The swine exhibit may also be taken fromthe list, as it is necessary for all ex­hibitors to have a. certificate show­ing that the exhibits in this class have been inoculated against contagious swine diseases. The lack of proper housing facilities for the s ^ k e at the local grounds also make impossible the exhibiting of that stock.

There w ill be the usual midway, space on that amusement thorough­fare having been in great demapd. The ususal free acts of vaudeville w ill be a feature of the fair but no definihte card has as yet been decided upon. 4-H Club work w ill be stressed with premiums for the exhibits made by the boys and girls of the Club.

The sale of membership tickets is underway and it is planned to dispose o f ' a goodly number before the fair opens. A special automobile ticket is given with the membership tickets sold prior to the fair.

The directors w ill meet next Monday evening, July 28th.

Working to CapacityThe Finger Lakes Canning Company

is running to full capacity during'the canning season, with an average of 45 tons of peas per day put into con­tainers and the “ heavy” days showing 65 tons canned, or 300,000 cans ready ■for shipment.

Robert Platman, of Benton, who has a large acreage of contract peas for the Finger Lakes Company, re­ceived $123 per acre for his crop, while W illiam Hansen, of Benton, re­ceived $154 per acre. This is an es­pecially fine record and speaks well fo r Benton soil.

A. J. Obertin, of Penn Yan, recently donated a coat of paint for the Indian figure at Guyanoga. The Indian was given to the Town of Jerusalem by the late C linton. B. Struble, and in 1910 the unveiling of the Indian mon­ument took place with appropriate

| ceremonies, the late Miles A. Davis deliverin'- the speech of the occasion. Tim monument is dedicated to the memory of Gu-ya-no-ga, famous Indian chieftain o f the Seneca nation, and for whom the hamlet of Guyanoga has been "amed. He was a faithful friend of the wthite settles . His wigwam is supposed to have stood on the lands now owned by Frank Botsford, in the Guyanoga Valley. jQ f f

M arriedHATCH-BRIGGS— In Deposit, July 12,

1930, Miss R. Beatrice Briggs of De­posit and Dr. Glenn C. Hatch of Penn Yan.

^Simeon D. Thayer The funeral of Simeon D. Thayer,

aged 81 years, whose death occurred Sunday morning, July 13th, at his home in Benton, on the W idow hill, "was held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. W. A. Henricks officiat­ing, with burial in Lake View ceme- ttery. Surviving are his son, George, of Penn Yan; three grandchildren, Paul of Albany; Ralph of Utica; and Miss Louise Thayer, at home.

A L L E Y —At the Clifton Springs Sani-l] tarium, Thursday, July 17, 1930, ll Mrs. Maude Alley, aged 50 years. ;; Mrs. A lley was a native of Friejid- ■

ship, N. Y., and had been at the san- jp itarium for about five weeks. She is ' survived by her hugband, Frank B. Alley, of Penn Yan; a sister, Mrs. Ina Britton, of Gary, Indiana, and a cous­in, Mrs. William Williamson, of Friendship. The funeral was held at Hornell on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A lley have conducted A lley ’s Inn on the west side of Lake Keuka,’ fo r; several years. k \l

Mrs. Franc .L. Adams

On Saturday, July 5th, in Mason, Mich., occurred the death of Mrs.

1 Franc L. Adams, who lived for some I time in Middlesex and who was the | Avidow of W. J. Adams of Italy, Yates 1 county. For the past seAmral years j Mrs. Adams has enlivened the pages ; of the Chronicle-Express with interest- I ing articles recalling the scenes of her I childhood in this county. She was the correspondent for several Michi­gan neAVspapers and very active in the historical and patriotic societies of her community.

Representative groups from all of these organizations as well as many personal acquaintances and relatives

; attended the funeral services conduct- ; ed by her pastor, Rev. W. H. Sim-' monti of Brighton, Mich.

(Continued on naa-e flvoi

D. C. and R. F. Shay Oil company ! has leased from the village of Penn I Yan a lot about 100 feet square just I south of their gas filling station on |! Elm street. They w ill use this to j make more advantageous’ the ap- fc proach to their filling station from the I south.

James K. McConnell has sold his 1 home on Flat street to E. M. Scherer and son, occupancy to b,e given about the middle of next month,

Lars Peter Nielsen

Lars Peter Nielsen died at Ms home on Elm street, on Tuesday af­ternoon, following an illness of about one week.

He was cashier of Baldwins Bank, holding that position for the past 24 years, having been elected by the directors on December 31, 1906. He had been continuously connected with the bank for the past 42 years, having entered the employ of that institution j as bookkeeper and worked up to the’- responsible cashier’s position by strict j; integrity and close and intelligent apv plication to his daily tasks. P r io r . to his entering the bank, he was engag­ed as a carpenter and worked for the late Mason Baldwin, founder of the Baldwin Bank, at the Baldwin farm in Benton. In 1921 Mr. Nielsen was a candidate for the office of Yates Coun- ty Treasurer.

Lars Peter Nielsen was born in Skiby, Denmark, on June 11, 1864, one of a family of seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Neils Peter Jensen. Coming 1 to this country in March, 1883, he set- j tied on a farm in Jerusalem, and five years later he entered the employ of 1 the Baldwins Bank with which insti-j tution lie has remained since that ) time.

About 30 years ago, he was married ; to Kine Anderson, whose death qe- p curred on January 16, 1926. On Au­gust 11th, 1929, he was married to | Mrs. Sophia Compton, of Bath, who ; survives him. Two sisters, Mrs. Mary Peterson, of Penn Yan, and Mrs. Sine Christensen, of Santa Barbara, Cali­fornia, also survive him. The funeral w ill be held from the home on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. W. A. Henricks officiating, with burial in Lake View cemetery, the local lodge of Masons having charge of the ser­vices at the grave. Mr. Nielsen was also a member of Keuka Lodge, I. 0.O. F.

Democratic Nominees

Name Commission on Dresden-Watkins Glen Road

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W ork on the first section of the new Dresden-Watkins Glen state road may now start since the three com­missioners who w ill determine the valu.e of the parcels being condemned to permit right-of-way took their oath of office the first of this week.

Yates County Judge Gilbert H. Bak­er has announced the commissioners of appraisal in the condemnation pro­ceedings brought by the Board of Su­pervisors against Mrs. Amelia Hood, Harry Simmons and others to secure land needed for right-of-way.

Judge Devoe P. Hodson of W est Lake road, Penn Yan, former Public Service commissioner, is chairman of the commission. The other two mem­bers are John J. O’Brien of pundee, and John H. Robinson of Middlesex. The three men were sworn in and ex­pect to start work at once.

Joseph P. Craugh, of Penn Yan, w ill be the Democratic candidate for , the nomination of. representative in ; Congress Horn the 36th district of New York, it was announced at a din­ner held at the Benham Hotel ,on Wednesday evening. Alexander W. Skinner, of Geneva, attorney, has been selected as a candidate for state : senator. The following are the demo- 1 cratic nominess for county offices:

Member of Assembly, E. E. EArans,; of Branchport.

County Clerk, Francis P. Reilly. County Treasurer, Hans P. Hansen, j : Coroners, Dr. G. E. Stevenson, Dr.!

H. B. Townsend, Dr. Glenn Hatch.District Attorney Spencer F. Lin-1,

coin was endorsed by the Democratic i | party.

Ross Huson and Gilbert H. Baker j , for delegates to the state convention.! Alternate delegates, Oliver W illiams, j

' of' Rushville, and Joseph P. Craugh.Delegates to judicial convention, D e -,

,rvoe P. Hodson and Catherine Cun­ningham Tindell.

M. F. Buckley, Guy S. Coates andj ■ Henry R. Brown are members of th e :

committee to fill vacancies.Edward L. Fay, executive secretary |

of the Monroe county committee, was! -. the principal speaker of the evening,| , with other talks by E. S. Underhill,! < chairman of the Steuben county eom-i

S|mittee, W. J. Hunt, chairman Monroe if County committee, Judge G. H. Baker, j M and Judge Hodson.

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Thursday of this week marks the j 40th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Chester C. Culver of Jerusalem, j Mrs. Culver as a native of the town- j ship and Mr. Culver, having served as I its supervisor for the third year now, j as justice of peace for a quarter of a i century, as game protector for 17 [ years and as a teacher of rural schools in that town, also Potter, Italy and Middlesex for 17 years m Jill, are well known to most "residents' of the coun­ty.

Their wedding ceremony, performed in Rushville by the Congregational minister, a brother-in-law of William Carson, was a very simple affair, but the wedding day was an exciting one. Mr. Culver hitched his spirited horse to the wagon, called for his bride and started for Rushville, when the ani­mal, catching the spirit of celebration, suddenly dashed away, leaving Mr. Culver and his fiancee very uncermon- iously on the ground, and wrecking the carriage in plowing through ' a fence. Unalarmed by any such ill omen, Mr. Culver caught the horse and attached another wagon thereto. This time the ride to the altar Was without mishap. The ceremony was performed in the parsonage of the Congregational church with the late Casey Blodgett, formerly a member of the Penn Yan police force, as one of the attendants.

For the first year the bride and groom made their home on the West hill across from the Garvey school house, then for two years they lived in Potter, about two miles east of Friend on the town-line road. For the 37 years since then they have been living about five miles north from Branchport and six miles west, of Penn Yan on their place which adjoins the old Friend, home. At first they | boasted of nothing but one acre of land and a cozy house. A t eight dif-1 ferent times, however, in- the past years they have acquired small par­cels from neighboring farms and now they have 138 acres, making a farm as conveniently shaped and located as any tiller of the soil could desire.

Mr. Culver was born on the 18th of June, 1865, in Reading Center, the son of W illiam and Lucy Wright Cul­ver. His great grandfather, David, was the first settler in what is now Watkins Glen, and his son, Miner, was the first white child born there. When but a child he came to Branchport to live. This was the former home o f his mother. He was educated in Penn Yan Academy and Starkey seminary.

Mrs. Chester Culver was Myrtie A. Carvey, daughter of Lewis R. and Lucy Carvey of Jerusalem. Their chil­dren are William, who served in the; World war and who married M arjory1 Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Richards of Jerusalem. Anoth­er son, Charles C. Culver, lives at. home. Their elder daughter, Alice, married W illiam B. Anthony and lives two miles north of Dresden. Their younger daughter, Grace, married Harry McConnell, formerly of Penn

IYan and the West Lake road, and lives in Geneva.

To the People of Yates County: —I wish to thank all those who so

willingly supported me on my cam­paign for member of assembly. A l­though we were defeated, in our e f­fort for nomination, I am satisfied that a large number of people are appre­ciative of the principles we inculcate.I earnestly hope this spirit w.ill con­stantly grow among the people of Yates county, tljat they who opposed me may eventually realize the sincer­ity of my intention.

My principles are not selfish, nor does envy or jealousy prevail, but rather a moral sensed of duty to the people, of our county.

39 w l* J. NELSON JONES.

6 2 & c rTile old brake engine, known as the

Wright machine, can now be seen on the Yates ‘ County fair house. It was purchased for fighting fires in Penn Yan from the Rochester makers and was brought here on April 22nd, 1856. For many years it was stored in the North Main street engine house

and wore on that occasion a gray uni­form, with black leather hats, and carried a banner.

The “ Cataract” continued to be used on different occasions for upwards of 20 years, when, having practically out­lived her usefulness, the machine Xvas allowed to go to pieces. The “Nep-

of the Sheldon Hose company, bu t, tune,” whih was generally known -assince the purchase of - their motor truck has been kept in the fair house.It was used effectively by the Excel­sior Fire campany, men operating the brakes on each side of the machine, while a bucket brigade kept the tank filled with water and another man standing atop the mechanism directed the water on the fire from a short hose.

A description of the early fire-fight­ing machines employed by Penn Yan is-g iven below by Waltejt' Wolcott, 1 village historian.

“Cataract” First Machine Penn Yan, when incorporated as a

village in 1833, contained four hotels, j a bank, an academy, the court house; and jail (both in one building), a| Presbyterian and a Methodist church,! several stores | and about 300 dwell-j ings. The residents of that time had; already established, as a sort of pro-; tection against* fire, the use of a large j number of leather buckets, which; were distributed one or two in each; domicile. Whenever a fire occurred,! the householders were expected to seize their buckets and repair to the; scene of the conflagration, and there; form in line and help “ pass the buck1! et.” In additional use was a small; fire engine called the “ Cataract,”;' which, had been brought from Canan-j daigua and purchased by subscription., The “ Cataract” had horizontal^

brakes, (which were operated by eight*;! men at a time), and also contained a| water tank. This was kept full byl-' means of buckets, while one man!: stood on top of the tank and held the;’ nozzle of the machine.

For two years after the incorpora- 1 tion of this village, the idea of having a regular organized fire department occupied to some extent the public attention. A meeting was at length held at the American hotel, at which meeting Thomas H. Locke, who had been appointed chief engineer, called for volunteers for the company to be formed. Each person who joined re­ceived a certificate of membership in “ Fire Engine Company, No. 1,” as the new organization was called; the cer­tificates being signed by Abraham Wagener, as president of the village, and David B. Prosser as village cleric.

The F irst Engine By direction of the trustees, Mr.

Locke went to Rochester, and there purchased a brake and suction engine, called the “ Neptune,” together with a supply of leather hose. The last, Mr. Locke said, he bought on his own re­sponsibility, as no one had though be­fore he left Penn Yan that such a thing would be needed. The 'Nep­tune” was kept in a small wooden building on Elm street, just west of the location of the Shearman house, now the Elmwood theatre, and the “ Cataract” was likewise stored, when not in use, in a shanty on the south side of Head street near where the school house, now the Free Methodist j church, stands. The “ Neptune” wasjfirst used m tne summer of 1836, in the" burning of “ Brimstone Row,” so called, extending from what is now Bordwell’s corner to the Metropolitan building. In 1838, various persons re­siding in the north part of the village formed a second company called the “ Cataract Co., No 2,” and the mem­bers made use of the first engine, the “ Cataract,” whenever on duty. This company took part at a Firemen’s convention held in Geneva in 1840,

the “ goose-neck machine,” was even-’ tually taken to Hammondsport and sold.

Buy W righ t EngineSome time “ in the forties,” a wood­

en building was erected on the north side of Chapel street, in a vacant lot then used as a corporation pound. In this building was first kept the “goose­neck machine,” and also a hook and ladder truck of home manufacture. In October, 1851, a number of our citi­zens assembled in the court house and organized a fire company known as the “ Keuka, No. 1.” Four years later, another company, the “ Excelsior, No. 2,” was formed, and the present en­gine house on the east side of Main street, was erected. A brake engine,, the third in use, and now stored in the fair house, was purchased the same year of Wright & Co., of Roch­ester. The last and best of these old- fashioned fire engines was the “But­ton & Blake machine,” which was purchased at Waterford in 1858. An engine house near the head of Main street, was built in 1868,. and was oc­cupied by the Excelsior, No. 2, with the Wright machine as long as the company continued as an organiza­tion. ,

Certain members of the last named company, who had been detailed to act as horsemen, took the name of the Holmes Hose, in honor of Farley Holmes, then a prominent resident of ! Penn Yan. The Holmes Hose wore j on state occasions a uniform consist- j ing of red blouses, on which appeared ; the name of the company, red caps I and white belts, while the members of the Keuka, No. 1, or more properly, the Keuka Engine company, wore blue blouses, on each - of which was the letter K, white leather belts and black leather caps. The later fire j company occupied, with the “ Button & Blake machine,” at first, a wooden building on Chapel street, and lastly the engine house at the lower end of Main street. The “ Button & Blake machine” "was sold to Prattsburg.

Keuka Company Re-organizedThe Keuka Engine Company, No.

1, was re.-organized in October, 1871, with the following officers: MorrisF. Sheppard, foreman; David G. Gray, first assistant; Richard B. Mahar, second assistant'; Theo. O:- Hamlin, secretory and treasurer. At that time, and for several subsequent years, the hose company was simply a number of men detailed from the Keuka En­gine company. Charles W. Morgan

(Continued on page eleven)was foreman of the hose detail in 1871.

A t the great fire of April 30th, 1872, a Canandaigua fire company kindly came to our assistance, bringing a steam fire engine, named “ Old Bet; sey.” The following August the ar­rangements were completed for the purchase of the Silsby Manufacturing company of Seneca Falls of the steam fire engine which has. since been used in Penn Yan, more recent­ly for pumping out flooded cellars and ditches. It is now stored in the up­town engine house, a curiosity com­pared with the modern pumper and motorized equipment.

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Editor Chronicle-ExpressMany years ago when the channel

was dredged, the mud was dumped at the lower end of the lake, and the re­sult is shallow water for a long dis­tance from the shore. That was an indefensible crime for which future generations must suffer. W e do not know what changes may occur in fu­ture development of water power, nor what dredging may be contemplated, but we do know that any distribution of mud in the lake should not be al­lowed. I f that is permitted, the lower end of the lake would soon become a marsh, and the beauty and desirabil-

the shore would be destroyed time. If dredging is done here- the mud should be conveyed marsh, whatever the cost, and

not deposited in the lake.A t one time an effort wras made to

secure this shore line and adjacent land as a gift in perpetuity to the v il­lage, but private interests prevented.

W e are mentioning these apparent future possibilities so that every lover of our lake may oppose and prevent future exploitations. — H.

ity of for all after, to the

Mrs. John K. TurnerMrs. Mary Augusta Turner, aged 84

Years, died in Canandaigua Health home Saturday morning after a long Illness. The remains were removed to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed­ward A. Fish, Gorham street, Canan­daigua, with whom she had resided since the death of her husband, John K. Turner of Bellona, in 1916.

Mrs. Turner was born near Bellona, Yates county, on September 14, 1846, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Washington Barnes, and had been a lifelong resi­dent of that place until her removal to Canandaigua. She had been a mem­ber of the Bpllona Methodist church for 72 years." Besides the daughter, she leaves three sons, W illiard W. and Howard M. Turner of Bellona, and Clay B. Turner of Wayne; also seven grandchildren and two great-grand­children.

Funeral services were held from the residence of Mrs. Fish Monday at 2:30, Rev. S. G. Houghton, of Canan­daigua Methodist church officiating. Interment was made at Bellona.

Lightfoot-WanlessJohn Ballentine Lightfoot, son of

Mrs. John Robert Lightfoot of Derby, Conn., formerly of Penn Yan and Miss Ruth Wanless, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wanless of Duluth, Minn., were married from the Wanless home on Saturday, September 20th, at 4 o’clock.

Miss Wanless attended Wallnut Hill school and was graduated from Smith college in 1927 and spent two years abroad studying French and music. Mr. Ligth foot attended Worcester Aca­demy, Worcester, Mass., St. John’s school at Manlius and New York un­iversity. He is now,manager of the Seymour Products Co., Seymour, Conn*

Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot will be at home at 61 Maple avenue, Derby, j Conn., after October 10th.

The new indoor golf course in the Sampson Theatre building will,, be ppened to the public Friday niglit of this week. Harry C. Morse, owner of the building, has spent much effort in making the course sporty and the in­terior of the building bright and beau­tiful. He has accomplished both aims.

Penn Yan Community Rest Room Proving Popular

The Penn Yan Community Rest Room is filling distinct need, this fact being shown by the number of users who have registered there in the past three months, a total of 5,184. This: seems to be an especially high figure1 when it is considered that the rest; room in Bath which serves about the! same size community as the Penn Yan rest room, was used by only some12,000 people in all the first 12 months.

Ninth Gas WellThe ninth successful gas w ell has

; been found on the farm of W illiam , Glen, west of Six-Corners, about six miles south' of Dundee. Miost of these wells are in the northeastern part of the town of Tyrone, about three miles north of Altay.

Spencer F. Lincoln, John E. Sheri­dan, John H. Johnson, members of the bar of Yates County, and A 1 Colmey, Leo Colmey and John Col-1 mey, of Penn Yan, sons of Judge John Colmey, of Rochester, attended the testimonial dinner given to Judge Colmey at the Canandaigua Hotel on Wednesday evening. 150 guests, 125 of whom were members of the ba^, were present at the dinner given in honor of Judge Colffiey’s 50 years of active service in the legal profession.

| COVEY— In Hemlock N. Y „ Friday,;October 3, 1930, George Covey, aged43 years.Mr. Covey was a.former resident of!

Penn Yan. He had beeji ill for the past j few years. He is survived by his wife, j Mrs. Florence Newcomb Covey; aj sister, Mrs. James Evans, of Hem-|

I lock; a brother, Ansel Covey, of Roch-j i -.ester. Mr. Covey was a member of Urbana Lodge, »F. & A. M. of Ham- mondsport. The funeral was held on Monday afternoon fnom the home of Mrs. Anna Newcomb, in Benton, Revj T. J. Hunter, of Benton, officiating! Burial in Benton cemetery.

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS The Board of Trustees o f the Vil-

lage or Penn Yan, New York, w ill re— 'j ceive sealed bids or rhe Proposed Ad-1 dition to Engine House No. 1, accord­ing to the Plans and Specifications! drawn by D. P. Slitor, Architect. |

Plans and Specifications willi fae ; ready for Contractors on October |, 11th, 1930, and may be had from the i undersigned, Clerk of the Board." T

A ll bids must be in by 7:u0 o’clock P. M., on Monday, October 20th, 1930, j and w ill be opened at the Board’s 1 regular meeting at 7:30 P. M., on the; same night. A ll bids must be ad-j dressed to the undersigned Clerk and the envelope marked “ Bid for the Proposed Addition to Engine House No. 1.” , r j

The Board reserves the right to reject any or a ll bids.

W ILL IA M B. M ANLEY, 25w2 Clerk.

t in two weeks, or so the sixth branch of the Unity Stores, Inc., of Roches­

t e r w ill be opened in the block on Main street owned by the Sheridan estate and vacated by the Frank Quackenbush Drug store. This store will sell all kinds of dry goods and furnishings for men, women and chil­dren. Other branches are now locat­ed in Brockport, Albion, Medina, Per­ry and Rochester. Canandaigua, New ­ark and Geneva are soon to have branches the store officials state.

The fixtures for the store arrived Saturday from Newark.

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Announcement made by H. Allen Wagener, president of the Penn Yan Municipal Board, that the rate for the local municipally-owned electrical •service in Penn Yan has been lower­ed one cent per kilowatt for the con­sumers is received with acclaim by the users of the power.

The reduction w ill benefit more than 2,000 consumers, and the small, or average, consumer w ill benefit most.

The new rates cut one cent off the cost per kilowatt. The first 10 kilo­watts w ill be at six cents per kilo­watt and additional current w ill be billed at five cents. The minimum cost of 65 cents per month w ill remain the same.

The demand rate for the large con­sumers was cut one-half, now being 50 cents with the cost of current set at four cents per kilowatt hour.

Owing to the fact that improve­ments were made at the municipal plant during the past year which have made it possible for the village to produce electricity at lower cost the saving is being passed along to .the ■consumers.

This announcement is an important one, for the village of Penn Yan al­ready was furnishing electric service •at the lowest rates of any community ■in the state. This fact is a significant •one for manufacturers, as electric power is a large item in the costs of •manufacture.

20 Miles of Wire, 40Phones, 24 Fire Alarm

Boxes in New SchoolThe electrical work in the new

Penn Yan Junior High School building alone was a tremendous task, per­formed by Chas. E. Carey, electrician of Penn Yan. The structure contains over 20 miles of wire. Some of this wire itself is made up of strands of as many as 63 copper wires. These huge cables were used in the underground conduit to carry current from the transformers, which are buried be- tween the sidewalk and pavement on Liberty street, to the various build­ings. The unsightly poles and wires now on the campus w ill soon be re­moved.

There are 40 telephones on the in­ternal system, one in each room Fourteen silent fire alarm boxes in the building add protection. Ten other fire alarm boxes are connected with the outside village automatic system.

In the office is a master clock which controls 39 other auxiliary clocks, one in each room, setting them automatic­ally each hour. This master clock also controls bells throughout the structure. These are rung automat­ically according to any one of several schedules or may be rung at any time independent of the clock dial.

The special lighting fixtures in the auditorium and entrances alone cost over $1,200 .

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INDIAN LEGENDS OF THEFINGER LAKE COUNTRY

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Interesting Tales of This Region W h ich Have Been

Handed D ow n to Us from the Red M en 'Who For­

merly Occupied This Territory.

(Geneva Daily Times.)Generally, when a person’s mind re - 1

verts back to ,the time when this lake j region o f Central New York was in­habited by the several tribes o f Iro­quois Indians, some deed of their cruelty or ferocity is recalled. But there was a tenderer side to Indian life, which asserted itse lf just as strongly as their lust fo r power and blood. Th is was their ability to cre-

i ate myths, which is the literary mani- | festation o f savage life. -As they ex- | celled their neighboring tribes in the prosecution of their wars and con­flicts, so did they also excell them in their story telling. So prolific were the aborigines o f the Lake Country in the erection of myths that practical­ly every lake,-stream and hill has its j own legend and now as the genera-1 tions pass away many o f these stories. are becoming forgotten. It is, there-; fore, fitting that some o f them should be retold.-

As a result o f the prolificness of the Iroquois in the. production of fa ­ble and romance it is unnecessary for' us to go to the stony hills of Greece, or the marshy fens o f North Ger-; m any to find the locale o f an ancient | m ythology for the lakes and streams ! o f Central New Y ork have been ves t- :: ed w ith a legendary lore which in its 1 poetic charm bears favorable com­parison to the choicest fables of Eu-, rope. The evolution o f the legends ■ was a natural outgrowth o f the. tem -1 peraments and surroundings of the. Iroquois. They w ere only a small j handful of people surrounded by a vast m anifestation o f nature. They I lived a more or less nomadic life,! wandering from one place to another! through a vast prim eval forest. It is in this rudimentary state o f society; that the legend or myth finds a fa-; vorable environment fo r its develop-j ment, fo r the. legend is like the beau-] tifu l and rare orchid, which j grows and attains its greatest perfec-j tion amid the silence o f the wilder-] ness., In this connection it is in-| teresting to note that it was in a so-j cial condition sim ilar to that o f In-1 dian li fe that the m ythology of both j the Greeks and the Germans was produced.

It is little wonder that the imag­inative and superstitious Indian, liv-| ing dn an untutored state, should in­ven t some curious stories in his ef-! fo rt to explain the mysteries of na-! ture which he found around him. I t ; is not improbable in the first instance; that the Indian myths w ere simply ] childish amusement or the idle tale j w ith which to adorn a passing hour. ; But these, stories being taken up by the Iagoos, the story tellers o f Indian life , a fter a long time and constant; repetition, they became accepted as fact among the superstitious Iroquois.It is probably that to these Iagoos! 1 w ho like the early Celtic bards, or French troubadoors, went from o n e ' Sachem’s lod ge to another telling won­derful tales o f mystery and adven­ture, that we are indebted for the pre- servation o f Indian lore. In the long evenings o f midwinter, when the tre es ! in the wilderness cracked with th e 1

biting cold, and the. forest paths w ere clogged w ith snow, then the Iroquois would assemble in their long huts built o f bark and as the warriors, squaws and restless children clustered in a social group around tbfe crackling fire the old story te lle r would r e - : count to attentive ears the deeds o f ancient heroism, legends o f spirits and monsters and w ierd tales o f

|| wiches and vampires.Th e stories which these bards o f j

Indian li fe narrated w ith s all their . crudeness, show the strength and i so lid ity o f the Iroquois character. Th ey j show that back o f all his supersti- | tions there was a strong righ t arm j which desired to conquer by its force | o f strength. Th e w orld pictured in j these stories was peopled th ick w ith j phantoms, w ith monsters and prod i- j gies, shapes o f w ild enorm ity, ye t ; showing a titantic strength o f concep-’ tion and evidencing robustness of who descended from the mountains Am erican tribes. Th ere w ere ston e ,; who descended from the mountains from the north; huge stories o f giants, cased in arm or o f beasts, which tram ­pled down the forests like fields of grass; human heads w ith stream ing! hair and gleam ing eye-ba'iis, w h ich ! shot through the air like meteors, shedding death ‘ and pestilence throughout the land; great serpents, which rose up out o f Lake Ontario and could be driven back to their na-

I tive depths on ly by some m agic spell. It is a little, wonder that w ith this develish brood constantly before their

! mind and in which, they believed to

a m ore or less extent that the Iro- ! quois trem beld in their v illages when, ;j amid the blackening clouds o f a j storm, they heard the deep roar o f ! the thunder amid the forests.

In this mass o f Iroquois tradition j there are a number o f tales w h ich ; are. particu larly associated w ith their: history, or have a special interest! because they are attached to somej place in this locality.STORY OF THE! IROQUOIS GENESIS.

It is natural that the first o f these f tales should deal w ith the m ythical i origin o f the Iroquois. Th is Iroquois j Genesis, like that o f other nations,.1; te lls a w onderfu l ta le o f divine ori-i gin.

Thus runs the ta le :W hen Manitou, the. great spirit,j

raised the country o f the five na tion s; out o f the great w ater he said to his j brothers, “ H bw fine a country is th is! j I w ill make red men the best men to. I en joy i t ! ” H e then took "five handfuls o f red seed, which resem bled flies ’ eggs and strewed the fields near j Onondaga lake. L it t le worms came j out o f the seeds, penetrated the earth, I when the spirits, who had never seen ji the light, entered into and united w ith jj them. Manitou w atered the earth w ith rain and the sun warm ed it. The ! worms w ith the spirits in them grew , | putting forth little legs and arms and Manitou covered them w ith a mantle o f warm purple cloud and nourished o f warm purple cloud and nourished them w ith m ilk from his finger-tips. N in e summers he nursed them,; nine t summers he instructed them how to ij

live . In the m eantim e he made trees, plants and a ll kinds o f liv in g animals, which covered the Iroquois country w ith green forests and an abundance o f game.

A fte r all this had been done Mani­tou called a ll o f the children together and addressed them : “ Y e each sprang from a d ifferent handful o f seed. Y e are brethren; I your father. I made you and nursed you.”' H,e then made, each a present that is curiously sug­gestive o f the characteristics o f the several tribes. T o the bold and va l­iant Mohawks he gave com . Fruits and nuts he gave to the patient Onei- das. , Beans w ere the allotm ent fo r the industrious and active Senecas. The strong, fr iend ly and generous Cayugas w ere presented w ith ground­nuts and fru its o f every kind. To the wise, just and eloquent Onondagas Manitou gave squash, grapes and to­bacco to smoke.

It was by this ta le that the. Iroquois accounted fo r their origin and the va ri­ous tribal characteristics that they had noticed in each other from time immemorial.

T H E O R IG IN OF THE: M OSQUITO .N ot 'long a fter the tim e o f the Iro­

quois creation the m alicious and vo­ciferous insect, the mosquito, put in his appearance. It would appear from the legend, which accounts fo r the debut o f this troublesome litt le crea­ture, that the v ic in ity o f Cayuga and Montezuma was in fested w ith mos­quitos in pre-historic tim e as It is to ­day. A t any rate the events o f the story are supposed to have taken place at Montezum a and. w ill be ap­preciated by any one who has been on a fishing trip down the Seneca R iver.

There were, in the rem ote past, many hundred moons a go ,. two hugh feathered monsters perm itted by Manitou to descend from, the sky and ligh t upon the banks o f the Seneca R iver, near the present route o f the canal at Montezuma. Th eir form was exactly that o f a mosquito and they w ere so la rge that they darkened the sun like a cloud as they flew between it and the earth.

N ow these monsters, w henever an Indian brave attem pted to paddle up or down the river, would stretch their long necks in to the canoes and gobble up the red men as the stork k ing in the fab le did the frogs. Th is destruc­tion o f l i fe was great, and m any a va liant Seneca or Cayuga explorer made a rapid ex it to the “ H appy Hunting Ground” v ia the gastric route.

A t last, however, the Onondaga and Cayuga w arriors m et and gave battle, to the monsters, whom they succeeded in k illing. T o these, sad to relate, a burial was not accorded, and, aS their bodies la y ro ttin g in the sun, myriads o f tin y avengers arose, and have covered the m arshy lands ever since.

Thus as a result o f the Indian ’s sins o f omission, trese detestable peddlers o f m alaria cam e into existence and have been a thorn in man’s flesh ever since.

N ot only did the IrtMjaois employ: im aginative stories to explain natural phenomena but they w ere also used] to embellish events that occurred in their experience. Th is class o f s to r ies ' is illustrated by a fable ' which was created to account fo r the reports that

: reached them o f ships o f the early explorers sailing up the Hudson R iver. An account o f these strange apparitions was doubtlessly b rou gh t. to the Senecas and the other west- j ern tribes by the runners or messen- j gers and as the stories in those days I lost nothing in the te llin g— the same I as in the case today— the sim ple | facts, by being passed from mouth to mouth, became w onderfu lly perverted. One elem ent a fter another was doubt

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. fo rm the story has been g iven a I specia l lo ca l in teres t ’ fo r it is connect­ed w ith the Indian burial ground o f

j Ganundasaga, which was an Indian i v illa g e southwest o f Geneva. Thus j 1 runs the t a le :j

T h ere is an in teres tin g trad ition j associated w ith the burial grounds |

I near Ganundasaga. T h e Senecas had once a strong protector in th e person i o f a grea t giant, in stature lo ft ie r than the h ighest fo rest tre e ; his arms w ere a bow slit from the la rgest h ick -1 o r y ; his arrows, pine trees. U pon his | jou rneys he traversed the plains be­yond the M ississippi, and thence came eastw ard tow ard the sea. W h ile up­on the banks o f the Hudson an im ­m ense b ird cam e up its w aters, and flapp ing its w ings as i f to ge t out, he w alked in and carried it to land. Upon its back w ere m any men, who, filled j w ith terror, signed to be returned to j the r ive r. A s he complied, th ey gave to h im a sword, a musket, pow der and balls, expla ined their use, and then the grea t b ird spread its w ings and sw am away. Return ing to the Senecas at Ganundasaga, the weapons o f des­truction w ere shown and the firearm was d ischarged be fore them. W ith te rro r at the report, and reproaches fo r b rin g in g such weapons am ong them, th ey asked that the arms be taken away, and added that such would be the destruction o f th eir race, that he who brought them w as none other than their enemy. Th e giant, in g r ie f

( phantom, canoe and its spectra l occu- I pant m ay not be seen, but the m ys­terious sound is no fantasy.

at their reproaches, w ithd rew w ith I the strange g ift from the council and ! la y down lo rest in a field. M orn ing I cam e and the g ian t was found dead .: The. earth around was heaped upon) the body w here it lay; and it has been i averred that he who opens this mound j

w ill find there a skeleton o f super-1 natural size.

t h e d o u b t in g w a r r i o r .I In one o f the fo rm er legends th a t!I has been included in this series, is a i | fabulous story o f the orig in o f the j lake “ guns” or “ cannon,” w hich are frequ en tly heard a long the shores o f Seneca and the other lakes. Besides that s tory o f the ice caverns at the bottom o f the lakes and the incarcera­tion o f an old squaw in these caverns there is also another m yth ica l account

; o f the orig in o f the strange reports : som etim es heard along the shore, o f the lake. Th is story has fo r its lo ca l­ity the im m ediate environs o f Geneva.

1 In the early days o f trad itiona l Indian h is tory fishing was the ch ie f occtrpa-!

I tion o f the Indians resid ing about the ■ low er part o f Seneca lake. Th ere I w ere certain days, how ever, that in ]

j th e ir m ythology, w ere considered sa-j cred, and at those tim es it was con sid -: ered a sacrilege to engage in fishing. I Upon one o f the forb idden days a skep tica l young w arrio r took his fish- j

I in g tack le and paddled aw ay in his canoe, to the usual fish ing grounds, j H is friends, standing upon the shore, u rgen tly ca lled upon him to desist,

i but he continued obdurate and was padd ling s low ly fo rw ard when a- migh-

i ty storm arose. I t was terr ib le in its p ow er; and as the cloud lifted the w a rr io r and his canoe w ere seen to disappear beneath the surface, w h ile a h eavy explosion reverbera ted to the ears o f those on the shore. E ver since that day the sp irit o f the doubt­ing w arr io r has been doomed to period -1 ic appearances in h is phantom canoe and ever and again a deep boom ing sound attends his disappearance. U p ­on the calm est summer day, w hen not a ripp le disturbs the surface o f that beautifu l lake there can be h ea rd ’ at irregu la r in terva ls a low deep solem n sound, re-echoing along the w aters and

j dy in g a long the northern shore. Th e

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(Geneva Daily Times.)T H E STORY OF FRO NTENAC ISLA N D .

One o f the pecu liar features o f the: F in ger Lakes o f N ew Y o rk is th e ir scarc ity o f islands. Canandaigua lake has one and so does Cayuga, but w ith these tw o exceptions the lakes of. Central N ew Y o rk a re islandless. { Th is fa c t seem ed to have im p ressed ' the, Indians, fo r in the case o f the one ! in Cayuga lake they fram ed an inter- esting story, accounting fo r its origin . A s you w e ll know this Cayuga lake island is now known by the nam e o f Frontenac, in honor o f th e fam ous French explorer, and is located in a quiet cove just off the shore o f U n ion Springs. A t present it is on ly a fe w rods in d iam eter, n ea rly c ir­cu lar in shape and bears a sm all j clum p o f trees.

A ccord in g to the trad itions o f the I Cayugas there ‘lived on the b a n k s ! o f this bay in the days b e fo re the Iro- j quois con federacy w as form ed, a i m igh ty ch ie f called P in e Cone. N ow j P in e Cone was young and amorous j and by chance fe ll in lo v e w ith a j beautifu l maiden, w ho w as a daughter j o f a Seneca chief. H e tried to w in j the g ir l according to Indian etiquette, hut the, w itch doctors and the old j squaws found the signs unpropitious fo r the union and fo iled the young ch ie f in a ll his attem pts to secure his bride.

Exasperated by finding a ll usual tactics set at naught, he decided to use strategem . I t happened at this particu lar tim e the Senecas and the Cayiigas w ere at war. H e th ere fo re

-decided to take advantage o f this fa ct b y planning a m ock a ttack on the Senecas and then w h ile the en gage­m ent was in progress he w ould cross the lake, secure th e m aiden and escape be fore the deed w as d iscov­ered. The plan was com m unicated to the Seneca maiden, who, h aving the sam e love o f rom ance that some g ir ls o f today possess, fe l l into happy ac­cordance w ith the arrangem ent. W h en the day a rrived fo r ca rry in g out the m ock attack, a hand o f w arriors , w ith th e ir faces painted fo r w ar and w ith eag le feathers stream ing in th e ir hair, filed down to the lake, p laced th e ir hows, quivers and spears in the canoes and pushed off. Th is show o f h o s tility had the desired effect, and w hen they reached the Canoga side th ey w ere at once confronted by the w a r fo rces o f the Senecas.

W h ile the Cayuga w a r p a rty w as crossing the lake, P in e Cone had taken a circuitous course, m et his b rid e a t the appointed place, and de­parted With her during th e tim e that the attention o f the Senecas w as ab­sorbed w ith the battle. Th is plan w ould have w orked to p erfec tion i f it had not been fo r the eag le eyes o f the old squaws. T h ey happened to o- t ie e the canoe w ith a s in g le occur)ant approach the shore and then depart w ith an extra passenger. A t once th ey set up an aw fu l how l o f “ Nawa- daha stolen. N aw adaha s to len F ’

T h e old w arriors at this t im e w ere so hard pressed in the battle th at th ey could not leave the fra y fo r a single young squaw, but a pa rty o f young Senecas, who as ye t had not w on th e ir

spurs, manned one o f the w ar canoes a ill set out in pursuit.

P in e Cone, had a s in ew y arm and so paddled w ith a sturdy stroke, but in the canoe o f the enem y there w e re six paddles, and six paddles are g rea t­er than one. Sp th e young braves gradually gained on him. H e dared not lose tim e by look ing behind, but the rap id splash o f the paddles be-

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strained e v e ry m uscle and took lon g pow erfu l strokes, but s till th ey gained on him . G radually he w as approach­in g the east bank, y e t he rea lized that

i th ey w ould su rely overhau l h im be­fo re he reached the shore.

In this d ire situation he thought of ! the good sp ir it Ha-wen-in-ya, and of- . fe red up a p rayer fo r assistance. Th e j good sp ir it w as m oved and stretched J out his m igh ty arm and scooped up | the earth from the bottom o f the lake,

m ak ing an island on w h ich P in e Cone and h is b ride could a ligh t. T h ey scarce ly had scram bled out o f th e ir canoe b e fo re the young Senecas w ere Upon them . P in e Cone grabbed his spear to defend h im se lf and his p rize and in a short tim e had driven o ff the, youths from across the' lake.

I t is need less to say that th ey liv ed happy eve r a fter, and that P in e Cone w as an adoring husband a fte r such a perilous adven tu re to secure h is bride. LEG END OF TA U G H A N N O C K F A LLS .

W h ile our a tten tion is d irected to ­w ard Cayuga L a k e it is an opportune tim e to consider the in te res tin g fa iry ta le that is associa ted w ith Tau gh an ­nock Falls , w h ich is doubtless one o f the m ost rom an tic and p ictu resque | spots in a ll W jestern N e w Y o rk . A s is w e ll known, Tau ghannock F a lls is lo-1 cated on the L e h ig h V a lle y about; th irty m iles fro m th is c ity and ten, m iles from Ithaca. H p re is a m agn ifi­cent am p ith ea ter a h a lf a m ile long! and a quarter o f a m ile w ide, w ith ! perpendicu lar w a lls o f natu ral m ason­ry ex tend ing to a h e igh t o f 300 fee t. In to this am p ith ea ter fa lls a stream , m ak ing one o f the m ost im press ive w a ter fa lls in the eastern part o f the country. T h is spot w as fa v o r ite ren ­dezvous o f the Indians and w as in ea r ly days the scene o f a fie rce b a ttle b e tw een the D elaw ares and the I r o ­quois in w h ich Tau gh an nock w as k illed and his b o d y hu rled in to the gorge. I t is, the m em ory o f th is that is perpetuated in the nam e o f the spot.

But lon g be fo re th is h is to r ica l b a t­t le occurred th ere took p la ce on th is site, accord ing to th e Ind ian m yth o l­ogy, a m igh ty b a ttle b e tw een tw o pow erfu l sp irits, w ho fou gh t lik e the T ita n s o f G reek m yths, un til t h e y ! scooped out this rem arkab le gorge. F o r the fo llow in g ta le recogn ition is due to E dw ard E llio tt G riffis, o f Ith ­aca:

A ges ago, w hen th e stone-clothed giants liv ed on the, earth, the sp ir it o f the w aters and the sp ir it o f the rocks fe ll in to a d isagreem ent. T h e y had friends am ong the o th er sp irits o f the! sky, and air, the ligh tn in g , th e thun­der, the w ind and th e others th a t ru le the fo rest, the garden, the corn-field, the caves. Th ese tw o sp irits o f w a te r and o f the rocks w ere esp ec ia lly fond o f show ing th e ir pow ers, and w res tled

i o ften w ith each other. The, sp ir it o f ' the w a ter w as considered the gen tler,! and the sp irit o f the rock the rou gh er one, though he w as o ften v e r y la zy . One day the sp irit o f the rock tw it te d the sp ir it o f the w a te r about be in g so

, a c tive and busy, a lw ays tak in g on so ' m any form s and to ilin g so hard.

T h e rock sp irit gre.w boastfu l, de­c la ring that he could do m ore in fo rc e and destruction in one m inu te b y roll-

| in g a grea t mass down the m ountain, le v e lin g the trees and scrap ing th e earth clean ; or, he. could m ake m ore splash or noise by h av in g a c li f f r iv en so as to fa ll in to the lake, o r could accom plish m ore b y a landslide, in a s in g le night, than the sp ir it o f w aters , w ith a ll his ra in and dew , cloud and m oisture, o r even a flood, could ac­com plish in m any hours. W h ile the sp ir it o f the w a ter had to depend on the w in d sp irit to cause th e la k e ’s surface to rise and m ount in to w a ves

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j and foam, or to make much noise or I power in the air, the rock spirit ap­parently without any effort could tum­ble over the gorge, drop over the cliff, make a landslide or even crack open in an earthquake. Thus the rock spirit jeered, even boasted, that he was brave, while the w ater spirit was only a squaw in his eyes.

N ow the water spirit was very gen­tle and not w illing to irritate anyone, i so he kept quiet fo r a long time, but finally, when thus jeered at by th e : spirit o f the rock, said:

“ Well^ I know a place right near ' m y favorite bed on Lake Cayuga,; where I have a little stream serving me. It runs quietly down the slope, from the upper highlands into the j lake. Now, I w ill back th^t little stream and it w ill be m y agent and j I dare you to come in the form o f a ' b ig rock as high as a pine tree and : w ide as twenty houses, set side by side, w e ’ll have a w restling bout be-; fo re all the. stone-clothed spirits, and before the spirits o f the wind, the corn-field and the cavern. There w e’l l , w restle, t ill one o f us is beaten and has to retire.”

“V ery w ell,” said the spirit o f the rocks, “ I ’ll be there..”

So on a certain day, all the spirits gathered round in a circle to watch ’ the contest. A t that time there w a s : in place o f the great hollow hundreds o f fee t w ide and deep, nothing but a forest-clad slope, through which the j stream o f w ater went purling along to the lake.

The conquest began, and the water | sp irit and the rock spirit locked aj’ms and began to w restle. Th ey w ere not to g ive up until one or both was ex­hausted. Even when they "vyere down, they w ere to ro ll over and over, and fight it out in one bout.

So away they began, rock and water, rubbing and grinding, making the earth and brushwood fly. But while. the rock spirit , moved round and fussed, and fumed, the w ater spirit held on tightly and persevered, always getting fresh strength from his supply in the brook. A ll the time the two combatants were getting deeper down into the, earth. In their terrib le struggle they dug out,a great hollow, like two rabbits fight­ing in the snow, until by and by the pit in which they fought was a quar­ter o f a m ile w ide and a half a m ile long. W hen the w restling and rolling was over, the rocks w ere all broken out o f it ; but the spirit o f the. waters

seemed to be no more tired that when he began. F irst g iving thanks to the stream that had helped him as such a fa ith fu l ally, and bidding him to flow fo rever over the m ighty rock wall, the Spirit of the w ater rose in a cloud and passed over the lake, to reflect its shadow in thanksgiving there also. And from that day to this the creek has flowed over the. rocky cliff, w in­n ing praise in song and story as one o f the most picturesque waterfalls in all the lake country.

(T o be continued.)

(Continued from last week.)Another o f the in teresting Indian

legends o f the Lake. Country is con­nected w ith the “ guns” or “ cannon,” which have often been heard in va ri­ous parts o f Seneca lake, but particu­larly in the regioh o f Valois. Scores j o f people in modern tim e have heard these reports along the. lake, which are said to resem ble the firing o f ar­tillery, and have been m ystified as to their cause. The reports have a low boom ing sound like the discharge of a gun under water, and are most fre ­quently heard around 9 o 'clock at night. M any explanations have been offered as to the cause o f these, lake “ guns” as they are popiularly termed. Som e have endeavored to connect them w ith the salt deposits near the head o f the lake., as they most fre ­quently occur in that part o f the lake, but as ye t no explanation which seems to be based on sound scientific rea­soning has been offered.

Th e Indians also heard these m ys­terious bcom ings in the lake and had a fantastic legend in explanation of their occurrence. Besides o ffering an im aginative explanation o f the “ lake guns” this Indian story also attempt-1 ed to account for the fact that the. bodies o f persons drowned in certain I reg ions o f the lake are never regain- j ed. O w ing to the b e lie f in the tradi-1 tion dealing w ith these tw o themes, the Seneca Indians had grea t t e r r o r ; o f the lake on a w indy day or in a squall, fo r they thought that down at the bottom o f the lake there lived an old squaw in a vast icy cave. A ll around her are caves and hollows in the ice, w h ich she keeps ready to store aw ay the bodies that sink down to her.

I t is said that a long tim e ago, when liv in g on earth, she conceived a pas­sion fo r a warrior, but he cared noth­ing fo r her. Once, w hen w alk ing along a steep cliff overlook ing the deepest part o f the lake, she pressed h e r de­sire. H)e seized her in his anger and hurled hex out into the lake, sullen ly w atch ing her struggles until she dis­appeared. Slinking down fa r under the dimpled face o f the lake that sm iled so sw eetly in the sunshine, and far, fa r down below w here fishes can not live , in to the deep watex which is a lw ays just on the point o f freez ing even in summjer, her sp irit lives. Be­ing lone ly and m alignant w ith re ­venge, she keeps a ll who come, to her. She buries them in ice so that they can never rise to the top or their friends reclaim their corpses. H er ch ief ocupation is to hew out new caves in the ice fo r the dead. I t Is the blows o f her hatche.t, which some­tim es dislodge great masses o f the ice down in the caverns that cause the terrib le sounds like a rtille ry which are called the “ lake guns” to this day.

T H E S E N E C A D R A G O N STORY.Allusion has been made to stories

dealing w ith monsters o f w ild enor­m ity. Creatures o f this description seem to have taken a firm hold o f the im agination o f the Iroquois, fo r scores o f their legends deal w ith this class o f m ythical m aterial. T o illus­tra te them selection has been made, o f the story o f the drggon that was supposed to in fest the h ill known as Ge-nun-de-wah, on the east side of Canandaigua lake, now known as Bare H ill. Th is story was a fa vo rite one among the Sene.cas as it was believed

by this tribe that their original home was on this h ill from which they re­ceived the title o f the Great H ill peo­ple. Th e tradition is equally absurb and puerile, but not m ore so than are

! the legends o f the aborigines o f other I peoples which have been classified j among the c iv ilized nations o f the : earth. It at once calls to mind the •'H - : :■ - - 1 “ I

classical fab le o f the hydra o f Lerna or the monster, which according to

| Aelian, was the terror o f India in the time o f A lexander, but it more close­ly resembles the story o f the dragon in “ Beow ulf,” the earliest monument o f English literature, and the oldest epic o f any Germanic people. In, this story w e catch som ething o f the pro­found earnest, g loom and sim ple- minded in tensity o f the Indian life. F or generations this hill was a hal­lowed place fo r their relig ious ser­vices, some o f which were, instituted in commemoration o f the death o f the serpent. A ccord ing to this tradition, Ge-nun-de-wah, the hill, which can read ily be seen from Canandaigua Point, was encircled, when their na­tion was in its infancy, by a huge ser­pent, so vast in his proportions that he was enabled to coil h im self en­tire ly around the hill. The head and ta il o f the m onster united at the gate­w ay o f the path leading to and from the s teep ; and few who attempted either ingress or egress escaped his voracious jaws. Thus environed, the people rem ained a long time, as it were, in a state o f s ie g e ; the serpent rendered their condition alm ost in­supportable not only by his w ar upon their lives, but by reason o f his fetid and poisonous breath. A t length their sufferings, becom ing severe beyond longer endurance, the Indians deter­mined to m ake a sally. A rm in g them­selves, therefore, w ith such weapons as they had at hand, they descended the hill, but in a ttem pting to escape the gate, w ere all siezed and swal­lowed by the serpent, w ith the excep­tion o f tw o children, who by some means overleaped the fearfu l line o f clrcum vallation, and avoided the ter­rib le fa te o f the body o f their infant tribe. H a v in g escaped, these children w ere reserved fo r a ye t h igher des­tiny. T h ey w ere inform ed by an ora­cle, o f Paeans by which they m ight rid the w orld o f the great m onster so in­im ical to th e ir race. Th ey w ere di­rected to form a bow o f a particular kind o f w illow , and an arrow o f the same, the. barb o f which was to be dipped in poison, and shot in a direc­tion that would a llow it to penetrate the skin beneath the scales. The children obeyed this divine injunc­tion and the result was the serpent’s death. N o sooner had the a rrow pen-, etrated the skin than he was thrown into v io len t convulsions. U ncoiling h im self from around the mountain and w rith ing in to the m ost frigh tfu l convulsions in his agony he threw up the heads o f the people h e had de­voured, w hich rolled down the steep into the lake. W ith agon izing throes the serpent h im self ro lled into the lake, sw eeping down the. tim ber in his course. The heads o f the Indians that had been disgorged w ere petri­fied by the transparent water, and are to be seen at the bottom of the lake, in the shape o f la rge round stones to this day. From the two or­phans, thus preserved, and who thus vanquished their terrib le enemy, sprang the new race o f the Senecas.

(To be continued.)

(Continued from last week.)I t has often been said that the In ­

d ian was not susceptible to the fine passion that his l i fe was so made up o f hunting and fighting that he had no tim e fo r love, or courtship. Th e next story is also connected w ith Can­andaigua lake. I t is an in teresting tale o f love to distraction and cour­age to death o f a young Indian beau­ty. I t is nothing less than the m yth that is connected w ith L o v e r ’s Leap, a place o f in terest which is pointed out to every v is ito r to Canandaigua Po in t. The legend is o f a la te r day than that o f the serpent, but, never­theless, descends from rem ote tradi­tion. During the wars o f the Senecas and Algonquins o f the North , a chief o f the la tter was captured and carried |

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fusion. W ith hearts n erved to h igh reso lve , the hapless pa ir aw a ited the a rr iv a l o f th e ir y e llin g pursuers. C on -: spicuous by his ea g le plumes, tow er-! ing. from the scow lin g brow , the; dau gh ter soon described her inexora-l b le s ire leap in g from c ra ig to cra ig ! b e low her. H e paused abruptly w hen his fie ry eye rested on the ob jects o f his pursuit. K n otch in g an arrow on the s tr in g o f h is tr ied and unerring bow he ra ised h is s in ew y arm s but ere the m iss ile w as sent Wjun-nut-nay, j the B eautifu l, in terposed h er fo rm b e tw een h er fa th e r and h is v ic tim . In w ild , appea lin g tones she en trea ted h er s ire to spare the you ng ch iefta in , j assu ing h im that th ey w ou ld leap to ­g e th e r from the p rec ip ice ra th er than be separated. T h e stern o ld m an ,’ d ea f to h er supplication, and disre-; ga rd in g her m enace, ordered his fo l­low ers to s ieze the fu g itiv e . W a rr io r a fte r w a rr io r darted up the rocks,; but on reach ing, the p la tfo rm at the m om ent w hen th ey w e re grasp in g to ! clu tch the you ng brave , the lovers ,! lo cked in fond em brace, flung them-| se lves from the steep rock and per-; 'shed.

le$! in to Genundawah, w hereon a fo rtifi- : S t "cation, consistin g o f a square w ithout fo i castions, and surrounded by pali-

I sp sades, w as situated. T h e captive, le d though you ng in years, was fam ed fo r j Ga h is p row ess in the fo res t con flict and i v il n a tu re had been bountifu l to his per- 1 ru son in those g ifts o f strength and

sym m etry w hich aw aken savage ad­m ira tion . A ft e r a short debate, he w as condem ned to d ie on the fo llo w ­in g day b y the slow tortu re o f im pa le­m ent. "W hile h e was ly in g in the cab in o f death, a lodge devoted to the recep tion o f condem ned prisoners, the dau gh ter o f the Sachem brought him

. food , and, struck w ith his m an ly form and h ero ic bearing reso lved to

: sa veH iim or share his fa te . H e r bold ; en te rp r ise w as fa vo red by the uncer­ta in lig h t o f th e gray dawn, w h ile the so lita ry .sentinel, w ea ry w ith his n igh t w atch , and fo rg e tfu l o f his duty, w as s lu m berin g; stea lin g w ith noiseless j tread to th e side o f the young captive, she cut th e cords w h erew ith his lim bs w ere bound and besought h im to fo l­lo w her. T h e fu g itiv es descended the h ill b y a wooded, path lea d in g to the la k e ; but ere th ey reached the w ater, an a larm -whoop w ild and sh rill w as heard issu ing from th e lips o f the: aw a k in g guard. T h e y ta rr ied not,! though thorny v in es and fa llen timb-i ers obstructed th e ir w ay. A t len gth th ey reached the sm ooth beach, and leap in g in to the canoe, p rev iou sly pro-j v id ed b y the b rave and considerate > dam esl, th ey p lied the paddle v igor- j ously, s tee r in g fo r the. oppos ite shore. I

"Vain w e re th e ir efforts. On the w ind cam e cries o f rage, and the quick j tram p o f savage w arriors, b o u n d in g ! o v e r rock and g len in quick pursuit. T h e A lgon qu in w ith the reck less dar­in g o f a you ng brave, sent back a y e ll o f defiance, and soon a fte r th e sp la s h 1 o f oars w as heard, and a dozen w a r canoes w e re cu ttin g the b illow s in the rear. T h e un fortunate lovers , on landing, took a tra il lea d in g in j

a w estern d irection ove r the h ills. T h e A lgonqu in , w eaken ed by unhealed wounds, fo llow ed his a c tive guide up the. a c c liv ity w ith panting heart and j fla g g in g pace; w h ile "his enem ies w ith the g r im old sachem a t th e ir head, d rew n earer and nearer. A t length , fin d in g fu rth er attem pts at fligh t use­less, she d iverged from the tra il, and conducted her lo ve r to a tab le-crested rock th at p ro jected o v e r a ravine, or gu lf, 150 fe e t in depth, the bo ttom o f [ which w as strew n w ith huge m is­shapen rocks, scattered in rude con -1

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T h e m angled bodies w ere buried in the bo ttom o f the Glen, beneath the shade o f the overhanging rocks, and tw o sm all hollows, resem bling sunken graves, are to this day pointed out to the curious tra ve ler as the buria l p lace o f the lovers .

T H E LEGEND OF H IA W A T H A .N o co llection o f Indian fa ir y ta les !

that cluster about the crescen t o f j lakes in Central N e w Y o rk is com ­p le te w ithout re feren ce to H iaw a th a w ho H en ry W . L o n g fe llo w has m ade a household name w h eree ve r the E n g ­lish language is spoken. T h ere is-, scarce ly a person, young o r old,,, w ho is not acquainted w ith this Ind ian h e ­ro ; hu t it is also probable that on ly ! a fe w o f us know that H iaw a th a w as an Iroquois and that h is m yth ica l re s i­dence w as on Cross Lake, an en la rge­m ent o f the Seneca R iv e r about ten m iles north o f Auburn. A s our ac­quaintance w ith this h e ro has been en tire ly through L o n g fe llo w ’s poem w e Jiave be lieved that h e w as an Al-1 gonquin ch ie f w ith h is res iden ce in the lands o f the D ecotas on the southern shore o f La k e Superior. O f course i t w as en tire ly w ith in the scope o f poetic license fo r M r. L o n g ­fe llo w to tran s fer the lo ca lity o f h is poem from N ew Y o rk S ta te to M ich i­gan, and in so doing to take H iaw a th a along. But it is our duty as m odern Iroquois to do w hat w e can to pre-j se rve am ong the legends o f the la k e country the tradition o f this hero o f our adopted ancestors.

I t w ou ld be out o f p lace at th is t im e j to consider at length the b ib lio -i graphy o f the H iaw ath ian legends, but th e fate, w h ich has attended the nam e j and m em ory o f H iaw ath a is o f su ch ; s ingu lar character that it cannot fa il j to be o f in terest. Though actu a lly a h is to rica l character o f not a v e r y an- c ien t date, possib ly not e a r lie r than t h e . fifteen th century, and o f w h ose | l i fe and deeds m any m em oria ls r e ­main, h e has b een confused w ith tw o Indian d iv in ities, the one an Iroqu o is : and the other A lgonqu in— and h is h is -1 cory has been ob lite ra ted and ob­

scured alm ost beyond recogn ition . T h e h istorica l H iaw ath a w as the i ch ie f o f the Onondagas, w ho su cceed -; e.d in bring ing about the league o r i federa tion o f the five nations. T o these peop le he gave law s and in a l l 1 respects m erited the reputation w h ich trad ition has g iven him. A ft e r t h e ! b reak in g up o f the con federacy much that w as supernatural becam e m in g­led w ith his h istory. One o f th e s e : stories w as to ld to H en ry R o w e Schoolcra ft, the em inent Ind ian au-| th o r ity b y the la te A brah am L e fo r t , j an Onondaga ch ief, w ho w as a gradu-1 ate o f the old G eneva co llege . I t w as i th is ta le that Mr. S ch oo lcra ft in c o r - ! pora ted in to his “ H iaw ath a L egen d s ,” ' w h ich in this fo rm fe ll in to the hands o f M r. L o n g fe llo w and fo rm ed the ba- s sis o f his “ Songs o f H iaw a th a .”

A valuable, e ffo r t tow ard b rin g in g H iaw a th a back to his ow n aga in w as m ade by the peop le o f Syracuse in connection w ith the S tate Fa ir . Dur­ing th e even ings o f fa ir w eek the Syracusans hold w hat th ey ca lled a “ Kanoona K a rn iva l.” Th is en terta in ­m ent is a sort o f northern M ard i Gras, show ing by m eans o f floats and pageants the m yth ica l h is to ry o f H ia ­watha, who in fo rm er days roam ed about the s ite o f th e ir c ity . Th is did much to im press upon the m inds o f the peop le o f Syracuse that H ia ­w atha w as a son o f Ka-N oo-N o, w h ich is the aborig ina l term, fo r the te r r i­to ry com prised w ith in the confines o f the E m p ire State.

W ith this ra ther p rotracted in tro ­duction le t us now proceed to con­s id er the orig ina l s tory on w h ich L o n g fe llo w based his fam ous poem .

H undreds o f years ago, Ta-cun-ya-

wat-ha, the D eity , w ho presides o v e r th e fisheries and stream s, cam e d o w n fro m his d w e llin g p lace in the clouds to v is it the inhab itan ts o f the earth. H e had been deputed by th e g rea t and good s p ir it , . Na-wah-he-u, to v is it the stream s and c lea r the channels from a ll obstructions, to seek out the good th ings o f th e cou n try th rough w h ich he In tended to pass, th a t th ey m igh t be m ore g en e ra lly d issem inated am ong a ll the good p eop le o f th e earth , esp ec ia lly to po in t out to them the m ost ex ce llen t fish in g grounds, and to b estow upon them o th er ac­cep tab le g ifts .

A bou t th is tim e tw o you n g m en o f th e Onondaga nation w e re gaz in g o v e r the lake o f the Thousand Is les , w hen a ven era b le lo o k in g m an seated in a canoe o f pure w h ite appeared be- in a canoe o f pure w h ite appeared

! b e fo re them . I t w as Ta-cum we- wat-ha. H e d isclosed to the hunt­ers the sp ir itu a lity o f h is ch aracter and h is m ission. T h e you n g m en ac­com pan ied him, w h ile he v is ited a ll th e lesser lak es and p laced a ll th ings in ’ p rop er order fo r th e co m fo rt and

i sustenance o f a ll good m en. P leased w ith the success o f h is undertak ing, the sp ir it m an decided to la y aside his d iv in e ch aracter and to m ake h is abode am ong men. H e se lec ted fo r his hom e a beau tifu l spot on the shores o f Cross lake. T h e nam e, H i- a-wat-ha, s ig n ify in g v e ry w ise man, w as g iven h im b y the w h o le p e o p le , ; w ho resorted to him; fo r counsel.

A f t e r som e y ea rs o f peace t h e r e ! cam e troub lesom e tim es and th e j peop le w e re in d an ger from fe r o c io u s j enem ies . A council w as called, and the w ariros ga th ered on the east shore o f Onondaga la k e . T h e council- fire had been k in d led th ree days and H iaw a th a had n ot a rr ived . M essen-; gers w e re sen t fo r h im . H e em b a rk e d ! in his w h ite canoe. H is 12-year-old j daughter accom pan ied him . On th e I approach o f the aged and ven era b le I H iaw a th a a gen era l shout o f jo y re-1 sounded throughout the assem bled j host and e v e ry dem onstration o f re -1 spect w as paid to th is illu striou s sage and counsellor. A s he landed and w as passing up the steep h a n k tow a rd the

council grounds a lou d sound w as heard lik e a rushing, m ig h ty w ind . AH eyes w e re in s tan tly turned upw ard and a dark spot w as d iscovered rap id ­ly descend ing from on h igh am ong the clouds. I t g rew la rg e r and la rg e r as it neared the ea rth and w as de­scen d in g w ith fe a r fu l v e lo c ity in to th e ir v e ry m idst. T e r ro r and a larm se ized e v e ry b reast and e v e r y in d i­v idu a l seemed, anxious fo r h is ow n SEtjfety. ff'he u tm ost con fu s ion p re ­va iled throughout the assem bled m u l­titude and a ll but th e ven e ra b le H ia ­w atha sought sa fe ty by fligh t.

I t w as an im m ense b ird ; w ith a m igh ty sw oop it descended and crushed the beau tifu l g ir t to the earth . H ia w a th a a lone rem a in ed r e ­m oved b y the g rea t ca tastrophe. T h e [ b ird w as lik e w is e k ille d b y the. fa ll, j A ft e r H ia w a th a recove red fro m his earth . H ia w a th a a lone rem a in ed un- sumed and b e fo re it w as concluded the con fed eracy o f th e F iv e N a tion s j w as form ed. P a r t o f h is address w as : as fo llo w s :

“ B roth ers, i f w e un ite in th is as w e are, w e shall b e su b jec t to h is frow n , j w e shall be enslaved , ru ined, perhaps.: ann ih ila ted fo reve r. W e sh a ll perish } and shall b e b lo tted ou t fro m am on g j the nations o f m en. B ro th ers , th ese are the w ords o f H iaw a th a . L e t th em sink in to you r hearts. I h a v e sa id it .”

A ft e r this H ia w a th a passed a w a y ! to the C e lec tia l reg ions , h is g rea t w o rk h a v in g been accom plished .

(T o be continued.)

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Dr. Goler Says Experiment

During Two Years Has

Been Success.

By putting iodine in the city’s water supply, the number of school children having simple goiter has been reduced by nearly 50 per cent., health authori­ties claim. In 1923 there were 3.844 children having simple goiter, while in 1925 there were 2,016. This com­mon type of goiter occurs in localities i where iodine is lacking in the food or water. That it can be prevented j by the administration of iodine, has j been proved and Rochester’s experi­ment adds to that proof, according to Dr. George W. Goler, City Health Officer.

For the .last two years iodine has been added to the city’s water supply over three-week periods at intervals of six months. For the first week 16.6 pounds of sodium iodine are added to the water every day as the water enters Rush reservoir from Hemlock and Cana dice lakes. For the remaining two weeks the iodide is added about every other day, depend­ing upon the amount needed to keep the content, of the water at about twenty pants of iodine in a billion parte of water.

High Areas Lack Iodine.Simple goiter is an enlargement of

the thyroid gland which extends un­derneath the skin at the base of the neck. The body’s chief supply of iodine comes from water and salt, but in high districts iodine seems to be carried by the water to the sea so that little iodine is left in the salt where it is found naturally, or in the Wafer. Thus in high districts, simple goiter is prevalent not only among humans but also animals. Switzer­land has a large amount' of goiter, as well as Montana and other high places. Rochester is situated in one of these elevated plateaus and so the disease is I prevalent in this city, also.

Sometimes as high as 25 per cent, o f the population of a given district! have goiter. In 1923 it was fourtd, that 7 per cent, of Rochester’s school I children had the disease.

Eating salt water fish, such a s ! shrimps or oysters, once a week, would prevent the growth of simple goiter, according to Dr. Goler, with­out this salt is the best way to obtain iodine. But in most salt, in the pro­cess of refining, iodine has been taken out. Due to considerable agitation on this subject in recent years, some sa.lt manufacturers are now manufactur­ing iodized salt and it is for sale in many stores. But since people had I not been educated to buy this salt Dr I Goler decided to add a certain amount of iodine. to the city’s water. supply.

F irst To Make Trial.To prevent goiter it . is necessary

that the water contain at least fiftyJ parts of iodine to a billion parts of I water. The water of 'Rochester con-' tains less than one part to a billion parts of. water. Enough iodine is added to the water so that for a period of three weeks, twice a rear the water contains from ten to thirty parts of iodine to a billion parts of Avater. To the city health authorities it was amazing that such good re suits were shown from the addition of so small amount of iodine. The stat of Texas normally has in its wate- supply 16,000 times as much iodine * there is in that of Rochestei the iodine is added.

ivochester was the first city to make this experiment. Those chiefly interested in this problem have been Professors Marine, of the University of Ohio; Olin, of the University of Michigan, McClendon, of the Univers­ity of Minnesota ; and Dr. Goler. It is largely due to their efforts that salt manufacturers have been induced to add iodine to some of their salt.

Dr. Goler gives much of the credit of the experiment to Mrs. Anber Benedict Willis, formerly chemist of

' the Health Bureau. To her work and analysis i<5 largely due the success of I

Ghe test, he said. For each analysis of the water, ,ten gallons of water had |o be evaporated in order that enough mdine might be left with .which to work by the finest chemical' processes mown Mrs., W illis was graduated trom Vassar college, where she major­ed m chemistry. During the war she was employed • in ithe research labora­tories of the Eastman Kodak Com- pany and went from there to the

.Health Bureau where she worked for •toree years. This spring she resigned from the bureau because of illness.

BOARD TO BUY NEWTURBINE

H. A. Wagener Elected Presi­dent.

as when

H. A llen W agener has been elected president o f the M unicipal B'oard in place of F red H. Lynn, who has held the office fo r tw en ty years. During Mr. L yn n ’s adm inistration the finances o f the office have been bu ilt and the plant placed on a paying basis. Many thousands o f dollars saved w ill now be invested in new m achinery fo r the power plant. A fte r considering several turbines and pumps and listen ing to Mr. L yn n ’s reasons why he. considers the General E lectr ic one o f the best the Board decided to purchase the equipm ent from the W estinghouse Co. Th is new m achinery w ill a llow the M unicipal Board to g ive much m ore pow er than previously.

M r, L yn n presented the fo llow in g/resolution:

W h erea s it has become necessary fo r the M unicipal B oard to purchase a T u r ­bo Generator, that the people can be properly supplied w ith electric cu r­rent, and' w hereas, the B oard has ad ­vertised fo r bids to fu rn ish the said T urbo Generator and have received bids from the fo llo w in g re liab le b id ­ders o f T urbo Generators as fo llow s :

, G enera l E lectric, $21,554.00; W e s t in g ­house, $21,395.00; T e rry Steam Turbine Co., $20,796.00; E llio tt M fg . Co., $20, 800.00;

A n d whereas, there are fou r th ings that the B oard m ust take in consider­ation to determ ine w h at is best to do F irs t— W ork m an sh ip Second— Strength and durab ility T h ird — The efficiency as to the con­

sum ption of fue l F ou rth — The cost of the. equipment.

F irs t : R e ga rd in g the w orkm ansh ip , I believe the B oard w ou ld m ake no m is­take as the bidders are a ll re liab le concerns, and in any event the w o rk ­m anship w ou ld be as good as could be made.

Second: Strength and du rab ility of the Turbine. The G eneral E lectric T u r ­bine w e igh s five tons m ore than the next h ighest Turbine, the E lliott, and nine tons m ore than the W estinghouse Th is alone w ou ld indicate that thd G enera l E lectric Turbo w as the s tro n g ­est, and the least apt to break, ow in g to ligh t construction.

Th ird T h e efficiency o f the turbine is one o f the greatest factors, as it m eans the am ount o f coal consumed. I find on exam ination o f the proposals that the G eneral E lectric has the low est fu e l consumption, w h ich m eans do l­la rs to the v illage .

F ou rth : Cost o f the machine". TheT e rry Com pany price is $758.00 loW er 'ban the G eneral E lectric. HoAvever

'h e w e igh t o f the T erry Turb ine is five Jhs ligh ter than the G eneral E lectric

-,he efficiency is much less. This vans less strength and more coal. In

v iew of the ligh t w eigh t and the effi­ciency the difference in cost is a small matter.

The same conditions compared with the General E lectric exists w ith the E l­lio tt Company, although there is not as much difference as there is w ith the T e rry Turbin.

The Westinghouse Turbine, as far as r ig id ity o f construction is concerned, is nine tons ligh ter than the General E lectric, and the General E lectric has better efficiency, which means less coal fused than would be w ith the W esting­house Turbin. However, the W esting­house price is $159.00 less than the Gen­eral Electric. This is a small factor, tak ing into consideration the difference in the w eigh t o f the two Turbine, and | the better efficiency of the General Electric. Under the above conditions—

Be It Resolved, That we purchase a General E lectric Turbo Generator as per their proposal dated May 4, 1926, and the President and Clerk be direct- en to enter into a contract at once with the General E lectric Company for same.

On motion made by Lynn and sec­onded by W alker that we purchase a General .E lectric Turbine, the fo llow ­ing was the result o f the vo te : W age­ner no, M cN iff no, K e lly no, W alker yes, Lynn yes.

Motion made by W a lker and second­ed by M cN iff that the Board authorize the president and clerk to enter into a contract w ith the W estinghouse E lectric and M anufacturing Company to purchase Turbo Generator as per specified bid o f $21,395.00 FOB fac­tory ; . fre igh t and installation allowed; foundations, draw ings and lis t o f fit­tings to -j?e furnished by the W esting­house E lectric M anufacturing Co.

Th e vo te was as fo llow s : W agener yes, M cN iff yes, W alker yes, K e lly 1 yes, Lynn no.

In Levines ;d Mrs.:Memory o f Mr G e o r g e H e c k

; Mrs. H eck ’s maiden name was Rosa­linda Sheppard, daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. John Sheppard, who at the time o f her birth, Feb. .14, 1847, resided at M iddlesex, N. Y. W h ile she was a. small child the fam ily moved onto a farm near the end o f Bluff Po in t; la t­er they resided fo r several years on the Howland I-Iemple place. Then Mr. Sheppard bought a farm adjoin ing the Silas Van Tuyl place on the eastern slope o f the Bluff, where they pros­pered until he-w as taken away”, N ov, 24, * 1865. The mother, E leanor Shep­pard, was le ft w ith three daughters, the eldest being Rosalinda. The only boy in the fam ily, little George, died w ith membranous croup when a small child. John Sheppard was a devout Christian and his g irls attended with him the religious services held in the Heck school house, nearly two m iles ffom their home. Rosalinda united with M.. E. church at B luff Poin t in the summer o f .18(50 and retained her membership there throughout her life. Rosalinda attended school at the Penn Yan A cadem y and later taught for sev­eral years.

Sr., owned a farm from the Bluff Point eastern slope o f the the D istrict No. 4

school house, which for years bore his fam ily name. H ere his fam ily ot six boys was reared— one g irl dying w h ile i young child. A fte r his return from war service George Heck, Jr., helped Mrs, Sheppard w ork her farm a fter he death o f her husband. W haf could

be more natural than that he should 'all in love with one o f the daughters?In June 5, 1871, he m arried Rosa- inda. A t the -time o f their m arriage he groom owned jo in tly w ith his I irotlier, Aaron Heck, a section o f the i 'arge Ream er farm. The April fob j

George Heck, about four m iles ppstoffice on the Bluff,, adjoining

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; 9 w in g th eir m arriage in January t|eorge bought his b rother ’s share in l|e p lace and they m oved onto their >Wn farm .* L a k e K euka grapes w ere com ing in­

to fam e at that tim e. A sm all g r a p e ; Yagon loaded w ith packed baskets o f j

j trapes sold fo r nearly $ 1 0 0 in those I j lays,

; G eorge and Rosa linda H eck liver!I lye re fo r T h irty years, c lea rin g wood-

dts, in creas ing the acreage o f v in e -1 I .>ard, en larg in g and fu rn ish ing the.

I w e llin g house and bu ild ing a comhi- j ih tion w agon and grape packing

muse.G eorge K eck had grea t fa ith and con-

hjience in all men, a cheerfu l, jo v ia l lijsposition and was a lw ays a grea t fa ­

vourite w ith children! H e had a ve ry keen tense o f ju stice and honesty and was iM e to g iv e an accurate estim ate o f l|e va lu e o f p roperty— for years he ;<erved his d is tric t as assessor. M any

I > i tutsan t trips did his w ife and daugh- 4*r take w ith him when he w as out

; m i the day on assessor’s business-—! tiie especia lly , en joyab le trip w as by I ‘ow b oa t around the end o f the Po in t,I w hen a p icn ic lunch was. taken along, j |Ie w as fond o f out-of-door sports, was

iy e r ready fo r a w alk o f a m ile to the itk e to take a sw im and w as a com-

| ptinion to his only daughter and her I Girlhood friends on m any skating and

ipe-boating and coasting parties,; In the year 1905 the old hom estead

•was sold to P e r l M oore and the B ell m ouse, across from B luff P o in t post- oVffice ' A vas rented for a year. N ex t .dpcy lived a few years in the F ischer

/liVkuse, ad jo in ing John Conk lin ’s p lace; (.fren they bought the W illia m Barrbw hibm estead w here th ey lived until W m orge H eck ’s death o f pneumonia, iy)ec. 29, 1920.

| H e en listed in the Grand A rm y of The Republic on the 10t.li day o f Ma-rch, 1*864, fo r a term o f 3 years, but w as (discharged at A lexandria , V irg in ia , oh klie 8 th day o f June, 1865. H e w a s :a

. fcorporal in Com pany F, comm anded by Captain James G risw old, in 179tli Regim ent, N. Y . Volunteers, com m and­ed by C o lonel W illia m Gregg. H e was in a ctive serv ice at the b low in g up

i o f the m ines at S L Petersburg. H e

; a lw ays took grea t in teres t in the post m eetings o f the G. A . R., was a m em ­ber o f the Sloan Post. H e attended m any o f the state and national con­ventions, re turn ips refreshed from re-

! new ing old acquaintances and gettin g : in touch w ith m odern c ity life .

A fte r his death Rosa linda sold the j litt le home and w en t to Ithaca to liv e

w ith her daughter, Mrs. Cyrus R. Cros- by, spending parts o f the summers

I w ith her sisters and nieces and in j co ttages at La k e Keuka. During the

sum m er o f 1915 she had a rather se vere para ly tic shock, from w h ich she j s low ly and pa rtia lly recovered during the fo llow in g year. She w as never aga in able to take the lon g w alks vh itd i had ever been a joy to her be­fore. H e r eyesigh t and hearing w ere ve ry poor for. m any .years, but w ith proper ligh t and in fa m ilia r surround­ings she could read and get about very com fortab ly . She was nappy and hope­fu l to alm ost the last in sp ite o f the fact that she was v e ry w eak and suf­fe red from Avhat she ca lled d izzy spells fo r seven months, being con­fined to her room fo r ten w eeks be fore the end dame January_15, 1926.

H er B ib le was her grea t source of strength and fa ith and she repeated from m em ory m any chapters and fa ­vo rite verses. She w as ever m ost thoughtfu l o f o th ers ; v e ry re t ir in g in disposition, but., d early loved by a ll who cam e to know her. N ever , w ith ­in the m em ory of her fam ily , did an angry word or unkind cr itic ism escape

her lips, t ie r gentle, trustful d isposi­tion' w ith her firm stand fo r 'h e r ideals o f truth and justice, have a strong in ­fluence fo r peace, and w ill ever be a

j sw eet m em ory to her im m ediate iain-I ily . [ . _ _ J 8 w l-; -

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T H U R S D A Y , A P R IL 3, 1924

Published By

THE PRINT CRAFT SHOPIn co rp ora ted

M asonic T em p le Jacob Street, Penn Yan, N . Y .

E v e ry Th ursday

Tales of New York City and Penn Yan 92

Years AgoT h e fo llo w in g a rtic le w as handed I

to us by M r. Sam Fybush, o f th is v il- I. la ge . T h e artic les w ere pu b lished in

: one o f the loca l papers in th e y e a r ! 1890. T h ey are exac tly as th ey w e re § pub lished at that tim e. T h ey w e re j w ritten ' b y • W a lte r W o lc o t t as r e - ! fa ted to h im by M r. Thom as H. Locke. § T h e first one is o f N e w Y o rk and the j second one o f Penn Yan . M r, L o c k e i m oved fr o m N e w Y o rk C ity to Penn { Yan , and his in teres tin g rem in iscences j are set fo rth :

R E M IN IS C E N C E S O FT H E O L D E N T IM E S j

A s R e la ted by Thom as H. L ock e , Esq. |

In T w o P a rts— P a rt F irs t

I was born in N e w Y o rk C ity , A u -i ;gust 2, 1805. I com m enced lea rn in g ; m y trade, that o f a bookb inder,, at j j th e a ge o f th irteen .

W h en I w as lad N e w Y o rk wasi; sm all and in s ign ifican t en ou gh com-! p a red w ith N e w Y o rk o f the present; day. T h e popu lation d id not exceed ; e ig h ty thousand. H ogs ran at la rg e j in th e streets, and w a llow ed in the gu tters. T h e o ld F ed e ra l H a ll, f r o m !, th e b a lcon y o f w h ich W a sh in g ton | took th e oath o f o ffice , s till s tood on th e co rn er o f Nassau and W a l l ' streets. T h e w h o le u pper p a rt o l M anhattan Is land was a fa rm in g cou n try . C en tra l P a rk was, u n k n ow n .! T w o to fo u r days w ere req u ired t o I go to e ith e r P h ilad e lp h ia ,or B o s to n ., I t cost-.e igh teen cents to send a le t- j t e r to th e la tte r p lace, and tw e lv e ? cen ts to send a le t te r to A lb a n y . 11 m on ey w as sent th e p ostage w as dou- [ b led . T h e sheet o f paper on w h ich a le t te r w as w ritten w as fo ld e d o v e r • and sealed w ith sea lin g w ax , f o r e n - : ve lop es had not com e in to use. F o r l ig h t in g th e ir houses, th e inhab itan ts d epen ded on ta llo w candles, w a x can ­dles, and w h a le oil. A ro u n d e v e ry church enclosure w as a b u r y in g , ground. M en g en e ra lly w o re m occa ­sins w hen they w en t to ch urch in w in te r , and w om en k ep t th e ir fe e t w a rm d u rin g se rv ic e b y m eans o f foa t-stoves , as th ey ca lled them . (T h e fo o t s tove was a box Lined w ith sheet iron , and h a v in g th e top p e r fo ra ted .i I t con ta ined a d ra w e r in w h ich liv e coals w e re placeR. I t also had a handle, lik e that o f a pa il, attached: to it to ca rry it b y .) O ccasionally , w ou ld be seen a d ign ified gen tlem an ’ o f th e o ld school, w ith his h a ir p o w ­d ered and qued, and w ea r in g lace ru ffles , kn ee breeches, and s ilk s tock ­

ings. B u t th e mbSF fa sh ion a b le s ty le j o f dress f o r a beau o f th a t t im e w a s i a high hat, a sw a llo w -ta ile d coat, and I pan ta loon s fa s ten ed b e lo w th e instep. I I w o u ld o fte n see som e gen tlem en t

j r id in g horseback , w ith his w ife , or | perh aps th e g ir l he w as co u rtin g , on g a p illio n beh in d him .

W h en the last w a r w ith G rea t 1 B r ita in ended, I w as n ea r ly ten y e a rs '! o ld . I rem em b er how , in th e fa l l o f [| 1814, th e in h ab itan ts o f N e w Y o rk w e re th row n up in va r iou s p laces I e x c item en t and a la rm in consequ en ce B o f an exp ec ta tion th a t an a ttack w ou ld fc b e m ade upon th e c ity b y a B ritish I; fle e t w h ich w as then b lo ck a d in g th e f i harbor. H e a v y cannon w e re p lan ted E a lon g th e B a tte ry , and in tren ch m en ts ft w e re th row n up in va r iou s p laces E a rou n d N e w Y o rk , a ll classes and | ■conditions, e v en w om en , w o rk in g up- ; on them . 'T w a s then I took m y first lesson in the a rt o f w ar. T h a t is, I ;i w en t o v e r and w o rk ed w ith the rest, || w ith p ick and shove l, and w h ee lb a r- i row , h e lp in g to b u ild a fo r t if ic a t io n at G ow anus Bay, on the L o n g Is lan d I shore, near B rook lyn , then a s trag - g l in g v i l la g e o f abou t f iv e thousand inhabitants. N o a ttack b y th e en em y | w as m ade, h o w ever . A t th a t tim e !v, m an y w e re l iv in g and in th e p r im e o f v l i f e w h o w ere th e re d u r in g th e o c - ! cu pation o f the c ity b y th e B ritish j in th e p rev iou s w a r o f th e R e v o lu - ': tion .

T h e b lockade con tinued , and in th e ! fo l lo w in g January the f r ig a t e P res i- j dent, w h ile t r y in g to g e t to sea fr o m ; N e w York , f e l l in a ll at on ce w i t h ; f iv e B ritish ships, and was, unfor-1 tu n a te ly , cap tu red a ft e r a ru n n in g ;, fig h t o f s ix hours, I r e c o lle c t w e ll ] h e a r in g th e p a rticu la rs , at th e t im e ; th e e v en t happened. G iven b r ie f ly , L th ey a re as fo llo w s : T h e P res id en t,as she le f t N e w Y o rk , w as u n d er; th e com m and o f th at g a lla n t o ffic e r , i ■Commodore S tephen D eca tu r. One ( o f th e m idsh ipm en on b o a rd w as a f -1 te rw a rd know n as H on . O gd en H o ff- [ m an, an em inen t la w y e r . T h e sh ips en cou n tered on th is occasion w e re re s p ec tiv e ly nam ed th e E n dym ion , j Pom one, Tenedos, fr ig a te s , th e M a- r jes tic , (r a z e e ) and th e D espatch , b r ig . M T h e E n dym ion com m enced th e a t­tack , bu t w as red u ced to a w reck .T h e P res id en t was in the m ean tim e a tack ed b y the o th er ships, and D e- f ca tu r, k n o w in g that he cou ld n e ith e r j V ca p tu re them a ll o r escape, and th a t i V fu r th e r res istance w o u ld resu lt on ly j in useless loss o f Life, r e lu c ta n tly sur-14; ren dered , b u t . to the w h o le flee t, as I; he re fu sed to g iv e up his sw o rd to h an yone bu t the com m an der o f th e k squadron .

T h e C lerm ont, F u lto n ’s firs t A m e r i­ca n steam boat, was, w h en I w as qu ite f y ou n g , m ak in g re g u la r tr ip s fr o m ! N e w Yoirk to A lb a n y , and back . T h is : c ra ft , as I rem em ber, lo o k ed so m e - ' w h a t l ik e a la rg e b a rge . T h e p a d d le ;; w h ee ls on each s ide w e re u n covered , ;■ Y and sp lashed w a te r o v e r th e decki|j e v e ry t im e th ey re v o lv e d . I also r e ­m em ber seeing, at a p ie r in the N o r th j R iv e r , the Savannah, w h ich is n o ted ' i as h a v in g been th e firs t steam ship ; - that e v e r crossed the A tla n t ic . This!;* v o y a g e took p la ce in 1819.

I used to m eet on th e stree ts in i E E N e w Y o rk in those days a sm all m a n ,1': w ith busby g ra y ha ir, and ra th e r a l l s o r ro w fu l countenance, bu t w ith v e r y , 8 b r ig h t eyes, so b r ig h t th a t th ey spark - i k led l ik e diam onds. Th is w as th e .1 : c e leb ra ted A a ro n Burr. H e then had It an o f f ic e on Nassau S treet, and w as ' en ga g ed in th e p ra c t ice o f th e law . j : H e w as in th e habit, w h en he w a lk ed , o f k e ep in g his eyes fix ed upon the groun d , &ad o f lo o k in g a w a y w h en - i A ver h e m et anyone.

Other prominent residents o f N ew i York I remember seeing at different lim es . I w ill only mention by name Uhilip Hone, a wealthy rrierchant and banker, and at one time mayor, whose j diary has been lately published; Cad- w allader D. Golden, also, mayor, and Commodore Thomas McDonough, a noble look ing man, “ the hero o f Lake j Champlain.” I have a distinct recol- ( lection o f the ceremonies when th e ! remains o f General R ichard Mont- j gom ery w ere brought from Quebec ■ and in terred in St. Pau l’s church. Tnis i was in 1818.

P iracy on the high seas was quite j common in early years. I remember being on the Battery, about the year j; 1826, and seeing w ith the aid o f a glass, two pirates, named Gibbs and W ansley, hanged on Gibbett Island, i This is now known as E llis ’. Is land ,: but was then called G ibbett Island, as I crim inals w ere fo rm erly executed) there..

I w ill now briefly describe a row ing race which took place in the harbor j in 1823. The Captain o f a Britishj m an-of-w ar then in port, being quite ? a sporting man, o ffered a challenge j o f one thousand dollars to any fou r! oarsmen in the city Lo row a race i •against fou r o f his own' crew. The I challenge was accepted, and four Am erican boatmen entered the con-j Lest. In each boat w ere fou r oarsmen j and the coxswain who steered the boat. The race came o ff in the pres­ence o f thousands o f spectators, and j created quite a sensation. The A m ­erican boat came in ahead as the re­sult o f the race. The w inning boat was a fterw ards repainted and fu r-; nished in fine style, named the “ A m e r - ; ican Star,” and presented to General! L a faye tte when he made his v is it to ; this country the next year.

A t the tim e o f L a fa ye tte ’s v is it I be longed to a N ew York regim ent, then called the eleventh, but a ft e r - ! w ard the celebrated seventh regim ent. The name o f the Colonel' then com ­m anding was Prosper M ontgom ery W elm ore. This regim ent at that I tim e took the name o f N ationa l! Guard, in honor o f La fayette , as he had commanded the National Guard : o f Paris.

W hen General La fayette landed i n ! N ew Y o rk on August 15, 1824, I stood on the Battery w ith the rest o f my j regim ent. H is reception was grand j almost beyond description. He w a s ! escorted from Staten Island by a I w hole fleet o f steamers, barges; a n d ; other craft, ga ily decorated w ith flags ' o f all nations. As he landed at Castle Garden the air was filled w ith the re­ports o f cannon, the r in g ing o f bells, and the shouts o f welcom e uttered by ! thousands o f people. The city itse lf | presented a splendid appearance. Arches bearing the words, “ W elcom e La fa ye tte ,” spanned the principal streets, and innumerable flags w ere

j w av in g on the public buildings. On i this day was a grand parade o f all tlffe m ilita ry in the city, in which

j L a fa ye tte took part, rid ing in an l elegant carriage drawn by six gra> horses w ith postillion riders. During the succeeding three days that he re ­m ained in the city there was a con­stant celebration.

A fte r La faye tte had. finished his tour o f the country, he came again to N ew York , and a rev iew o f the city regim ents was held in his honor. D uring the rev iew he passed on fo o t in fron t o f m y regiment. He was a man <?f medium height, w ell built, and w ith regu lar features. ,He w a lk ­ed a little lame, I suppose from the wound he received in his leg at the battle o f the Brandywine. From ! N ew Y ork at this time he went on! to W ashington, where he em barked Septem ber 8 , 1825, on board the f r i g ­ate B randyw ine (so named in his!

honor) and returned to France. Th is] was his last v is it to Am erica. N inel years after, in the language o f Dan­iel W ebster, “ L a faye tte slept in his I native land,”

16In T w o Parts— Part Second

In the fa ll o f 1832 I rem oved from N ew Y,ork C ity to Penn Yan, which was incorporated as a v illa ge the year fo llow in g .

Th e population o f Penn Yan at that tim e was probably about fifteen hundred. The largest number o f dw ellin g houses was on Main street. O f the others, some w ere w holly and others partly bu ilt upon. Severa l o f the present streets o f our v illa ge w ere not la id out. , A lon g Jacob's brook, but m ostly on the east side, I was a spacious grove , which was | quite a resort fo r picnics and Fourth o f July celebrations. Penn Yan was then, as now, w e ll supplied w ith | drink ing places, in fa c t there w ere I m ore taverns that there w ere church- i es.

Tw o taverns w ere on the north side o f H ead Street. One on the site o f the present hotel, was ow ned by Smith M. Co}e. The other, w h ich in a fte r years was changed in to a m a­chine shop, had been kept by M a jor Asa Cole, but at the tim e I rem oved I to Penn Yan, the land lord ’s name, ; i f I rem em ber r igh tly , was J os iah ; Youngs. The sign, which was pa in t­ed on the east side o f the bu ild ing, read as fo llow s: “ Penn Y an Hotel, S tage House and L iv e ry .” D ow n to ­w ard the fo o t o f Main Street, and about w here the Opera House b lock now stands, was the “ A m erican Ho-

I tel. On *Canal street, and just w est o f j Jacob’s brook, was a public house much frequ en ted by canal boatmen.

I Th is was nicknam ed the “ O w l’s N est.”| The canal was put th rough about a | yea r b e fo re I came to Penn Yan.1 • Th ere w ere on ly tw o churches in the v illa g e when it was incorporated . These w ere the Presbyterian and the j

j Methodist, The site o f the fo rn ie i I P resbyterian church is know n to almost every o,ne. Th e M ethodist church was then on the north side o f Chapel street and about m idw ay be- two streets o f M ain and L ib e rty .

The first court house, (w h ich was I erected when Yates County was set I o ff from Ontario C ou nty ) was a red b rick bu ild ing and was so cqnstruct-

j ed as to be also a ja il. Th e upper story was fitted up as a court room, and the low er story contained severa l

| cells. The ja iler, who was a Mr. Huson. liv ed in the bu ild ing, and A l- fre d Brown, then sheriff, boarded w ith him. Th is ed ifice w h ich was

I r igh t w here the present one now stands, was burned down about tw o years a fte r I had becom e a resident o f Penn Yan.

On the site o f the present res i­dence o f John S. Sheppard, was then a la rge wooden bu ild ing. I t was first bu ilt fo r a tavern by an old ^English sea captain named Holcom b, and ca lled the “ W ash ington House,” but had been changed to a board ing school. I t bore the rather im posing name o f “ Yates County A cadem y and Fem ale Sem inary.” The name o f the then Prin c ipa l was Seym our Gookins. H e is undoubtedly w e ll rem em bered by qu ite a num ber o f m y fe llo w townsmen. I have heard that he was

i a co llege graduate and that a fte r he

l e f t Penn Y an he w ent west an d "w as1 made a Judge in E lkhart, Co., Indiana.I reco llect one circum stance in r e - ! gard to him. N ea r ly opposite to the school bu ild ing and on the o ther s id e 1 o f the street, I had a shop, and! w orked at m y trade o f book b ind ing.! One a fternoon in summer tim e I no­ticed the P rin c ipa l standing just in

fron t o f the school door. A rSScauy ! student leaned ve ry deliberately out , o f an upstairs w indow and poured;; the contents o f a p itcher o f water I j down on the schoolm aster’s head. Mr. v Gookins jum ped as i f he h a d vbeenjv shot, and then rushed into the build-; ing, and I n ever knew what came of, it. _

The first president o f the v illage ! a fter it was incorporated was Abra-1? ham W agener. He then liv ed on the! corner, but back from the street;!, about w here the Knapp House n ow ' stands. H is res iden ce. was known as; the “ Mansion House,” and a fte r hey

| had m oved elsewhere, and it had been? changed into a hotel, it continued to t be called by that name. The flourk m ill on the north side o f the bridgey at the fo o t o f Main street, was then! owned by him. The other m ill, on j the bridge, was ow ned by Jeremiah i: Jillett, (g ran d fa th er o f J. S. Jilfett, | a fterw ards p rop rie to r o f the sam e[ m ill.) The post o ffice was located in | a small one-story wooden building on the -site o f the residence o f George j C. Snow. The postmaster at that I tim e was Ebenezer Brown.

A m ong the m ore prominent! lawyers j then residing, in Penn Yan w ere W il-I liam M. O liver, Cornelius Hasten, | E vert V an B u ren and H enry W e lle s .' W illiam M. O live r was the first coun­ty judge. H is residence, which is genera lly known as the “ O live r M an­sion” is now the p roperty o f W . H. Fox. The Yates County Bank, o f which Judge O live r was president, ( stood on the site o f . a part o f the BushrLown block, and w;as a fte r ­wards used as the Su rrogate ’s office. Cornelius Hasten, also a Judge, then ] resided on Main Street at about w here John T. Andrews, 2d, now lives. E ve r t VanBuren then lived in the house above Head Street, in which A. W . F rank lin until la te ly resided. W h ere H en ry W e lles lived is now the residence o f H an ford Struble.

O f the lead in g physicians o f Penn ! Yan, I w ill just m ention a fe w , by name. Dr. A . F. O liver was a tw in ! brother o f W illia m M. O liver. H is ! residence was just north o f the p re s - ; ent residence o f his son, Dr. W illia m ; O liver, and was a fterw ards occupied ; by John L. Lew is. Dr. Francis P o t-; ter had erected, and at that tim e liv ed ; in, the house on M ain street now | ow ned by M orris F. Sheppard. D r . ; W illia m C ornw ell then resided w here; his son, G eorge R. Cornw ell, n o w ; lives. The bu ild ing used as an office ! by Dr. C ornw ell was a fterw ards; changed into a d w e llin g house, and is now occupied by James D. M o r- ; gan. Dr. H en ry P. Sartw ell, who was j noted as a botanist, then resided about on the corn er o f L ib e r ty and. E lm streets. Th e present resi­dence o f the ow ner o f the Chron­ic le was then ow ned by Dr. U ri Ju dd .;

M orris F. Sheppard, the fa th er o f the late Charles C. Sheppard, then I lived in the stone house on Main street, now the residence o f Jeptha A. Potter. Just east o f Jackson strdet, and by the side o f the brook, j was Mr. Sheppard ’s fu llin g m ill. On the south side o f H ea# ' street, and! west o f Main street, was the store o f I H enry B rad ley. H e then resided on Head street, in the house now owned j by Cyrehius Townsend. N ex t west | o f Mr. B rad ley ’s store was another, j occupied by W illia m Babcock and his | partner, E li Sheldon. Just beyond was the p lace o f business o f E dw ard j J. F ow le and Benjam in T y le r, who j w ere partners. In the upper story o f j the same bu ild ing was prin ted the Yates County W h ig , now the Chron- 1 icle. The other newspaper, the Penn | Yan Dem ocrat, was then published by Abraham H. Bennett. The house! on Main street in which he lived, and |

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I kin s. A ca rr iage shop was then kept I by T im oth y B rigden on Jackson I street, next to Head street, and S. F. Curtis had a chair shop on the corner o f M ain and Clinton streets. A m on g the first who w orked at blacksm ith- in g in Penn Yan w ere W arren Tu ck ­er and G eorge H illib e ida l, Mil.es Ben-

j ham, w ho had been S h eriff o f Yates I county b e fo re I came from N e w Y o rk j then liv e d on Main street, a short dis- j tance south o f w here the E p iscopa l j ! church now stands.' Th e Benham | House was bu ilt by his son, D ew itt

I C; Benham.j A ft e r the old Court House (as above I m en tion ed ) had been burned, the idea o f h a v in g a regu la r o rgan ized fire com pany began to be rega rd ed w ith fa v o r by the citizens. A v illa g e or-

I d inance had been passed, h ow ever,; that e v e ry house should be supplied ! w ith lea th er buckets. T h e house- I holders w e re expected to seize th eir I buckets and go, w h e n e v e r 'th e re was a fire alarm .

A t length , a fte r severa l m eetings ! had been held to consider the m atter, a fire com pany com posed o f vo lu n teer firem en was organ ized in this v illa g e in the fa l l o f 1835. O f this fire com ­pany I was m ade the C h ief. I t was decided also that a new fire en gin e should be bought. T h e v illa g e had a l­ready" a sm all horizon ta l brake en ­gine, ca lled the “ Cataract.” Th is on w h ich the H ead street school house on w h ich he H ead street school house n ow stands. B y d irection o f the trustees I w en t to R ochester, and | th ere purchased o f a M r. S eeley a | fire en gin e fo r the v illa g e . Th is en- 1 gine, w hich, lik e all others o f that j tim e, was w ork ed by brakes, was

ca lled the “ N ep tu n e.” I also pur- chased severa l hundred fe e t o f hose | on m y ow n responsib ility , as no one had th ou gh t b e fo re 1 le it Penn Y an ! that such a th in g w ou ld be needed.

Th e next sum m er a num ber o f i fra m e bu ild ings on the w est side o f ! M ain street, and ex ten d in g fro m w h a t 1 is now W h e e le r ’s co rn er to about j

w h ere the “ M e trop o litan ” now j stands, w ere a ll burned down. Th ese ] bu ild in gs w ere a ll occup ied as stores, and w ere known co lle c t iv e ly as j “ B rim stone R o w .” Th e one on the i co rn er was occupied by E. B. Jones; ! th e n ex t one, w h ich was a boot and j shoe store, by E. H. H u n tin gton ; the ! next one by A m asa Tuell. Th e names j o f th e o th er storekeepers w ho w ere in the row , I have fo rgo tten . A s all w e re w ooden buildings, th ey m ade qu ite a blaze. Th e fire com pany re ­sponded p rom p tly , and by m y d ire c ­tion the new en gin e was brou gh t down to th e '‘ outlet. I held the end o f the hose w h ile severa l o f the o ther firem en m anlied the brakes. I was assisted by Charles W a gen e r, w ho also took a la rg e p iece o f sole lea th ­er from , the stock in trade that had just been taken out o f H u n tin gton ’s store, and held it up as a sh ield fro m the intense heat. Th e Ouher en gin e w as at th.e same tim e brou gh t down fro m H ead street, but the rope by w h ich it w as be in g pu lled a long b e ­cam e unhooked w hen the m achine w as close by the fire. T h e men, fr ig h ten e d at the heat, ran aw ay, le a v in g the “ C ata ract” its e lf in im ­m inent danger. James Pow e ll, h ow ­ever, c raw led fo rw a rd on his hands and knees and fix ed the hook in place, and the o ld en g in e speed ily reached a place o f sa fe ty . A s it was im possib le to save th e bu ild in gs a l­ready burn ing, I d irec ted m y e ffo rts tow a rd p reven tin g those on the op ­posite side o f the street fr o m ta k in g

fire, and by keep in g M organ ’s h a rd ­w are store, some oth#r stores, and the “ A m erican H ote l” constan tly wet, they w ere all saved fro m destruc­tion.

W h y Jacob stret was thus nam ed, th ere is a d ifference o f op in ion. Som e ;say that both street and b rook w ere nam ed a fte r Jacob W a gen er. Judge L ew is used to say that an o ld Ind ian nam ed Jacob, liv ed years ago above H ead street by the side o f the brook, and it was thus ca lled Jacob ’s 'b rook . E lm street, (now U n ivers ity A ven u e ), was probab ly named o r ig in a lly fro m a la rg e elm, which, as I rem em ber, once g rew on the south side o f this street. H ere was once a beau tifu l g rou p o f p ine trees, just above the steam boat' landing, and fro m this, P in e street, (now ca lled K euka s tre e t) p rob ab ly received its o r ig in a l name. Th e then adjacent canal u ndoubted ly caused Seneca street to be firs t nam ed Canal street. F rom w hat I have heard other residents o f Penn Y an say, the changing o f the nam es o f th e above m entioned streets, is not g en e ra lly regarded w ith m uch f a ­vor. M ost o f our citizens h ave been accustom ed fo r years past to speak o f these streets by th e ir fo rm e r names. As th ere has not been, so fa r as I can see, any p a rticu la r im ­p rovem en t as regards the ch ange o f names, it w ou ld have been as w ell, I th ink, to h ave le f t the nam es as th ey w ere.

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The Board of Directors of the Penn Yan Chamber o f Commerce and W a l­ter B. T o w e r have requested that the minutes of the meeting o f Saturday night, February 14th, be published. T h e fo llow ing directors were present at this m eeting: W elles Griff eth, Clar­ence R, Andrews, Wm. J. Tylee, C. H. W hitfield, A. T. Beardslee, C. B. Briggs, JED. C. Gillett, A. ,L. Holling- Worth and W a lter B. Tower.

During the past few days there has been considerable discussion concern­ing the m atter presented in these minutes, under the conditions it seems best to make known any facts that can be obtained in the case.

The officia l minutes, o f the meeting fo llo w :

Minutes of m eeting of Board o f Di­rectors o f the Chamber of Commerce o f Penn Yan for Yates county held at the office o f W a lter B. Tow er on Saturday evening, February 14, 1925.

M eeting called to order by President Tow er. For members present see register.

Motion made and seconded that we make application to State Conserva­tion Commission for fingerling trout to be placed in Lake Keuka during the coming summer. Carried.

Moved and seconded that billso f Prin t Craft Shop .......... $100.90Perry W righ t ................. , . 8.00

Tota l .....................................$108.90be paid. Carried.

Moved and seconded that resigna­tion o f Mr. Paul Garrett as member o f the Board of Directors, be laid on the table, and the President be author­ized to w rite Mr. Garrett asking him to reconsider. Carried.

L e tte r from Aaron Plympton read and referred to the Investment Com­mittee.

Mr. Tow er wjas called away from the meeting at this point and the vice- president was called to preside.

Mr. Clarence R. Andrews reported that on March 5th, 1924, and Mr.C. B. Briggs were appointed by the authority of this Board, a Special Com m ittee to raise funds, from private subscription. These funds to be paid to Mr. Tow er as additional compensa­tion fo r his services as President o f the Chamber of Commerce of Penn Yan for Yates. County fo r the year1924. That about a month ago, one o f the contributors to this fund gave to him a copy of a letter which this contributor caused him to believe the original o f which was received by Mr. W . E. DeMelt, o f Penn Yan.

Mr. Andrews stated that this inci­dent disturbed him very much, as this contributor conveyed the impression that perhaps a,t the time of raising the above mentioned fund, there was some question as to the necessity or desirability of doing so, and also that perhaps the Directors and this com­m ittee had not thoroughly investigated the truth o f Mr. Tow er’s statements at that time that he was offered the sum o f $7500 per year by a, similar special committee from the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce o f Batavia i f he would accept the position of Secre­tary fo r them.

Mr. Andrews stated that he fe lt a moral responsibility to this and the other contributors to investigate the m atter thoroughly. He immediately

| got in touch with some o f the business ; men of Batavia to make an investiga­tion for him as to the actual facts con­cerning the offer made to Mr. Tow er by this committee from the Batavia Chamber o f Commerce.

The results of this, investigation con­sisting o f letters which he had re­ceived from Mr. Raymond W alker, Mr. W a lter Stroh, and Mr. Edson R. Ful­ler, each of Batavia, were submitted.

A fte r considerable discussion, Mr. Briggs stated, that in as much as, it was his opinion that there has been considerable discussion of this matter by members of the Chamber o f Com­merce o f Penn Yan for Yates County, W IT H O U T A F U L L K N O W L E D G E ; OF T H E FACTS, and feeling that per-; haps criticism may be now leveled at this. Board, and its Special Committee, ’ fo r .authorizing and raising this fund which made it possible to retain Mr. Tow er fo r the past year, he moved that the copy o f the letter shown as having been received by Mr. DeM elt 1 from Mr. W ells, o f Batavia, be spread on the minutes of this meeting, and also that the copies, o f the letters re­ceived by Mr. Andrews from some business men of Bata.via and officers o f the Chamber of Commerce, o f Ba­tavia, be also spread on these minutes.

This motion was. duly seconded and unanimously- carried.

COPY.Batavia, N. Y.,

January 8, 1925. |Superintendent W . E. DeMelt,Penn Yan, N ew York.M y dear Mr. DeM elt:

In rep ly to your letter o f inquiry relative to filling the local Chamber o f Commerce Secretaryship, I sought

| information from one o f the Board of D irectors who was a member a t the

! time o f the election o f the new Sec- ! retary and who still is a member of ( the Board.I W hen I asked him i f an offer was made to the Penn Yan .Secretary o f $6000 and later $7500, his answer was no, Mr. T o w er was one o f the ap­plicants under consideration but when he demanded ,$6000 they dropped him out o f consideration. This D irector’s rep ly was that it is all the local Cham­ber can finance" to pay a man $3500, which I believe is the amount paid the present Secretary.

Th e man whom they have has I proven him self very satisfactory. He is a young U niversity of Michigan graduate, especially trained for secre- i tarial work and a man who has been * for some t im e 1 one o f the field secre- ] taries o f the Chamber o f Commerce j o f the United States.

Since this information I am g iving ] you is a fact, there is no reason why I you need to keep this letter confiden- 1 tial.

Yours very truly,C P W : MSM C. P. W E LLS .

(Continued on page, eight.)

I - COPY.Batavia, N. Y.,January 26, 1925. i

■ Mr. E. C. W alker, 1j Batavia, N. Y. j Dear Sir:

Confirming our conversation, the j special committee o f the Chamber of

I Commerce, composed o f Mr. Stroh, Mr.1 Smith and Mr. Minor, asked me as a, Feeler to interview Mr. Tower, of

i Penn Yan, N. Y., and find out whether • or not he woUld consider an offer from i the Batavia Chamber o f Commerce to ; come here for ah annual salary o f $7500. ’

I talked this over with Mr. Tow er and as, ia result got him into contact

, w ith this _ special committee, which , then carried on further transactions.

V ery truly yours,EDSON R. FU LLE R . !

COPY.Batavia, N. Y.,January 26, 1925.

Mr. Clarence R. Andrews,I c|o Andrews Bros. Paper Co., j Penn Yan, N ew York.I Dear A n dy :i Replying to your letter and tele- | phone conversation regarding the mat­ter concerning Mr. Tower, your local Secretary of the Chamber o f Com­merce, I have investigated, here in Ba­tavia and am glad to inform you that

, the fo llow ing are facts in so far as ] they can be obtained, j I am also enclosing a letter from ; the President o f the Chamber of Com- ] imerce outlining the situation.| First, let me make it clear that I : do not know Mr. T ow er and have I never seen him, and, as fa r as I am j concerned, am entirely unbiased in r e -1 gard to the statements, in this letter ; as I have no personal interest in it

i except to do you the courtesy that I ! know you would do me i f I wanted some information in Penn Tan.

As I understand it the Chamber of j ! Commerce appointed a committee of 1 three men, Mr. Henry Minor, Mr. S. ! W . Smith, and W alter Stroh, which I committee was to investigate various [ applicants for the position o f the Sec-J retary o f the Batavia Chamber o f Com-

: merce. Among a good many names j j presented by the other directors an d .; from different sources was the name; j o f Mr. Tower. Mr. Edward Fuller, I who I believe was a form er resident i o f Penn Yan, was asked by this com­m ittee as to Mr. Tow er ’s qualifica-l tions. As a result o f further investig,a-: tion and ascertaining that Mr. Tow er was an especially successful and bril­liant man in his line o f work, Mr. Ful­ler tells me that this committee iau-t thorized him to call on Mr. Tower: and to negotiate fo r his coming to j Batavia at a sum stipulated to be ini'

I the neighborhood o f $7500 a year. F o lT 1 low ing this conversation between Mr. Fuller and Mr. Tow er I believe Mr. : T ow er came to Batavia and went over I the proposition, with the above men- If tioned committee o f three.

Mr. Tow er explained to this com- j m ittee that he could not consider com­ing to Batavia for less than six or • seven thousand a year as he fe lt a ! deep sense of loya lty to the communi- j ty in which he was working. H e told ! them that he was rece iv in g . a great i deal less than this from the Penn Yan ! Chamber o f Commerce but that such : an offer as ha,d been suggested would : have to receive some consideration f from him in order to do justice to him- ,•

; se lf.., ? a ; , > U’Y • <■;:?>The local committee w ere in a quan-j

dary as to what to do as they were t very much impressed with Mr. Tow er . and desired to obtain his, services a t ; his own price. On the other hand this f price was somewhere near twice w h a t ' had been paid in the past and what they deemed it was. possible to pay un­der present existing conditions. Never- ] theless they decided to continue nego- 1 tiations with Mr. Tow er and I believe | there were two or three subsequent j meetings at each o f which the same proposition was, talked over and upon which the committee came to no de­cision. Finally in the general course o f events our present able secretary . wa <3 spf’TiT'Pd

I interviewed Mr. Clyde P. W e lls ,! 1 the Superintendent o f .Schools in Ba­tavia, who sometime past received ,a ;

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le t te r from Mr. jjeM ei^T Superintend­ent o f Penn Y an Schools, requesting M r. W e lls to advise him as to what o ffer the Chamber o f Com m erce made to Mr. T o w e r. I t happens that Mr.D. W . Tom linson, • P residen t o f the Board o f Education, is a lso a D irector o f the Cham ber o f Com m erce and in an o ff hand w ay Mr. W e lls asked Mr. Tom linson i f the Chamber o f Com ­m erce m ade an o ffer or had consider­ed g iv in g Mr. T o w e r as much m oney as. $7500. Mr. Tom linson, a lso in an o ff hand way, said he did not th ink so as this w as tw ice as much as they had paid in the past. A s a m atter o f

i fa c t M r. Tom linson knew noth ing con- c em in g the negotiations o f the special

' com m ittee o f three above m entioned ! and he s im p ly passed o ff the rem ark in ju st the sam e w ay that I m igh t te ll you that it was 60 or 70 m iles from here to Penn Y an i f you m et m e on the s tree t and asked how fa r it was.

I trust that the above in form ation | ! w ill be su ffic ien tly com plete and the r le tte rs w h ich I enclose w ill vouch fo r

i its accuracy as, one o f them comes from the Chairm an o f the Com m ittee o f three, and the other from the man w h o o rig in a lly opened negotiations w ith M r. Tow er.

F ra tern a lly and R o ta r ily vours, E C W : G- BUD.

C O PY .Batavia , N . Y .,

I January 27, 1925.' M r. C larence Andrew s, j P enn Yan, N. Y .I D ear M r. A n d rew s :I A m atter has just been brought to I m y a tten tion about which I th ink you should have the correct in form ation. :

! L a s t sp rin g the position o f S ecre-! ta ry o f the B atav ia Cham ber o f Com-1 m erce w as vacan t and the Board o f D irec tors appointed a Com m ittee o f

; th ree D irectors, o f w hich I was Chair-r man, to secure applications and r e p o r t , th e ir recom m endation fo r a Secretary ,

i A m on g the suggestions w e rece ived from various sources w as the nam e

' o f W a lte r B. Tow er, o f Penn Yan. As ; Mr. Edson R. Fu ller, one o f our D i- ; rectors, is in tim ate ly acquainted w ith |

i M r. T ow er, I asked him to ge t in touch j 'w ith M r. 'T ow er and advise him that l w e desired an in te rv iew regard ing the Secretarysh ip at som e m utually agree- j ab le date. Mr. F u lle r im m ed ia te ly ( telephoned to Mr. T o w e r and in the j course o f th e telephone con versa tion ! s ta ted that w e w ere considering the

; expenditure o f $6000.00 as a s a la ry :; fo r the S ecretary . A s it happened at ju st that tim e, the Cham ber had com ­p leted arrangem ents to h ave Con-j gressm an Dan Reed speak a t one of! its dinners, M r. F u lle r in v ited Mr.j T o w e r to com e to B a tav ia as his.i

: guest. Mr. T o w e r accepted and the! com m ittee w as ab le to secure the in-| te rv ie w v e ry conven ien tly . T h e posiJ

1 ition w hich the C om m ittee had taken in the m atter o f the se lection o f a Sec­re ta ry w as th at w e w ere v e ry desirous o f secu ring the v e ry best that th e ; Cham ber could afford, rea liz in g that i t w as a rea l m an’s job to put th e ] C ham ber back w here all Batavians.] w ould hold it in the h ighest esteem .

D uring a conversation w ith Mr. 'T ow er im m ed ia te ly a fte r the dinner,I person a lly sta ted to him that I w ould ra th er have him as Secretary than an y o ther applican t w ith whom w e had been in touch and that I, as a m em ber o f the Com m ittee, would en -. deavor to secure loca l cooperation so that w e could o ffer a sa lary as h ig h ! las $7509.00 to secure his services. T h e d inner w as a huge success and

1 m any th ings seem ed possib le and prac­tical.

j D uring the in te rv iew w ith Mr. T o w ­er, the C om m ittee outlined B atav ia ’s p roposition v e ry cabefu lly and asked Mr. T o w e r i f he could consider any

| proposition . M r. T o w e r ’s answ er w asI such that w e rea lized to a v e ry m u ch 1 g rea te r d egree than at any tim e be­fo re that he w as the man w e wanted. 'L o ya lty to friends and the com m unity in w hich he w as liv in g and an ob liga­tion to com plete w ork started, pre-,

, ven ted consideration o f an outside of- | fer. Th is was his answ er in a fe w w ords and he w ould not consent to

' g iv e any defin ite answ er w ithou t much j carefu l thought. A fte r seve ra l days,I I rece ived a phone m essage from him.! s ta tin g that no financial o ffe r w ouldinduce him to m ake a change and he asked m e to discontinue a ll fu rther

, thought o f him as a secretaria l pos- ! s ib ility.

Mr. T o w er should be h igh ly com- • mended fo r the position he took dur­ing our negotiations. E veryon e w ith whom he came in contact w as v e ry much impressed w ith his quiet, p leas­in g personality and apparent in teg r i­ty and strength o f character.

W e can very readily see how the sal- ! a ry proposition could be construed as a demand, but it is w ithout hesitation that w e make the statem ent that at no tim e was it regarded by the Com­m ittee as a demand or even a request. M r. T ow er ’s attitude tow ard the w hole proposition could b e summed up som eth ing lik e the fo llow in g : L iv ­in g in Penn Y an w ith $3000.00 is as good as liv in g in B atavia w ith $6000.00; and an y man w ho takes this stand is a m igh ty valuable asset to his community.

Th e in form ation g iven Mr. W ells, by one o f our D irectors is the same in­form ation which I, as Chairman o f the Com m ittee, gave to the D irec to rs ; nam ely, that, because o f our financial condition, we fina lly w ere com pelled to elim inate all applications demand­in g over $4000.00 and probably in the progress o f the D irec tors ’ m eeting at w h ich the report w as given , I m ention­ed Mr. T ow er ’s name as being one o f those who could not be considered be­cause the amount in vo lved exceeded our recommendation.

T h e in form ation as outlined is abso­lute truth and is the only in form ation w hich should be g iven any considera­tion. I t is offered w ith the sincere hope that it w ill p reven t any misun­derstanding in your community.

V ery tru ly yours,W A L T E R W . STR O H , President,

B atavia Chamber o f Commerce,W e corroborate the statem ents jas

outlined in the above letter.ED SO N R. F U L L E R .

M em bers o f Com m ittee:H E N R Y H. M IN O R ,S. W . S M IT H .

M oved and duly seconded that it is the sense o f this m eeting that the ne­gotiations above m entioned w ere tan­tam ount to an o ffer o f $7500.00 per yea r to Mr. T o w e r to accept the posi­tion as Secretary fo r the B atavia Cham ber o f Com m erce, and that this Board o f D irectors confirms the action o f th eir special com m ittee in so lic it­in g funds.. Carried.

M r. W e lles G riffith stated, that as this is probably the last m eeting o f this Board be fore the annual m eeting, w e should take this opportunity to ca ll a ttention to the loya l and unsel­fish labor and attention w h ich Mr. T o w e r has g iven to the w ork o f this. Cham ber o f Com m erce fo r the past th ree years. H e stated that, aside from the usual countless ob ligations which fa ll upon the shoulders o f the P res iden t o f our organization, Mr. T o w e r has. found tim e and en ergy to rep resen t us on the E xecu tive Board o f the F in ger /Lakes Association , was the gu id ing sp irit in our F resh A ir Children activ ities over a long period, w as the first to assume responsib ility fo r a B oy Scout Troop, nam ely the Cham ber o f Com m erce Troop. H estated that he had utm ost confidence in M r. T o w e r ’s in tegrity , lo ya lty to public in terests and effic ien cy as our E xecu tive.

I t was m oved, seconded, and un­anim ously carried that the rem arks o f Mr. G riffith expressed the fee lin gs o f this Board, and that sam e be spread on the minutes o f this m eeting.

On m otion duly m ade and seconded, adjournm ent was taken.

C H A R L E S g g W H IT F IE L D , Secretary .

i T h e annual m eeting o f the Board o f Education w as held M onday eve­ning. Trustees Barden, Craugh, H y ­land, H atch, Johnson, T y le e , T h a y e r and Z im m erm an w ere present.

Th ose sections o f the m inutes o f that m eeting which re la te to this m at­ter read as fo llo w s :

I “ Mr. T o w e r appeared be fo re the Board and presented a docum ent fo r consideration o f the Board. A m otion and second w ere w ithdraw n a fte r dis­cussion. On m otion o f T ru stee T y le e , seconded by T ru stee Hatch, reso lved that com m unication presen ted by Mr. T o w e r be rece ived and held o ve r fo r action until the next m eetin g and Mr.

T o w e r be advised o f the action o f thd Board.

“ T ru stee T y le e m oved that John H. Johnson be ree lected presiden t o f the i Board. H e was unanim ously reelected.

“ T ru stee Craugh m oved that th e ' e lection o f the rem a in ing o fficers of! the Board be postponed until the M arch m eeting .”

A t Mr. T o w e r ’s request the docu-' ment, above re fe rred to, is printed.It fo llow s in fu ll, excep tin g the copies i o f the four le tters w h ich a lso appear i in the m inutes o f th e m eetin g o f the L Board o f D irectors o f the Chamber o f Com m erce. F o r th e sake o f brevi-1 ty, these le tters are re fe rred to in paren thetica l statem ents.

Penn Yan , N . Y ., F eb ru ary 1, 1925. |!

T o the H onorab le Board o f Trustees, | Penn Y an U nion School D is tr ic t No. 1, | Penn Yan, N. Y .G en tlem en :

D uring the past ten years, it has been m y p leasure and p r iv ile g e to use m y efforts, in w h a t I have considered a serv ice to the com m unity o f w h ich | I am a part.

F o r m any years I gave o f m y tim e, ! energy, finances— the best that w as j w ith in m e— in an unselfish determ ina­tion to m ake Penn Y an and Y a t e s ! County a b e tte r p lace to l iv e in, and ; to develop w h a teve r o f resources w e hold. v j

I I have sacrificed m y health, m y !I pleasures, m y bank account in these ,I e fforts to build up Penn Y a n and Ya tes County.

I I have d riven m y ow n car at m y own expense, thousands o f m iles over

| Y a tes County and ad jo in ing counties in the in teres t o f L ib e r ty Loans, Red Cross, Y . M. C. A., N ea r E ast R e l ie f , : the Tubercu losis H ea lth C om m ittee ,: F resh A ir Ch ildren and B oy Scouts.

I have represen ted Y a tes County fo r five years on th e F in ger La k es Asso­cia tion and have attended e v e ry m eet­in g o f that Association , co ver in g e igh t counties, in order to do so, and g en -: e ra lly at m y own expense, lea v in g m y ow n business. I have spen t w eeks and months o f tim e to g e t B lu ff Po in t nam ed as one o f our S tate Parks. I j have organ ized, or assisted in o rga n iz - ; ing, Chambers, o f Com m erce in Dun- i dee, W ayne, Dresden, M idd lesex a n d j Naples, a ll o f which are do ing good serv ice in th e ir respective comm uni­ties. I have, w ith assistance, b ro u g h t ! the Cham ber o f C om m erce o f Penn | Y an fo r Ya,tes County up from th irty- nine m em bers to fou r hundred mem- i

/ bers. • -I have m et w ith splendid coopera-!

tion, also w ith ind ifference, and o ften j w ith pos itive and de libera te op pos l-: tion, w h ich in some oases has com e i from those w hom w e m ight expect to ( be helpers and not destroyers in our

. com m unity life .In February, 1924, I rece ived from

the P residen t o f the Cham ber o f Com- j m erce o f Batavia , N. Y., a vo lu n ta ry ; o ffer o f $7500 per year, to com e to i Ba,tavia ,as, S ecretary and M anager o f i the B atav ia Cham ber o f Com m erce, j Th is w as a v e ry tem pting and flatter-1 in g o ffer, since I had been g iv in g the sam e serv ice to Penn Y an and Y a tes County fo r some tim e w ithout any pay [ w h a teve r and furn ish ing them, m ost o f the time, w ith an office, heat, ligh t, telephone and stenographer at m y own expense, and at a cost to m e o f $1500 per year.

H ow ever, I had much unfinished w ork in Penn Yan , I had m any loya l.1 friends here o f years standing, Penn j Y an was m y “ H om e T o w n ” and I ‘ could not b ring m yse lf to a po in t w h ere I w ished to leave “L i t t le Y a te s ” even fat a sa la ry o f $7500 per year.

A fte r n ea rly a m onth ’s considera­tion, I re jec ted the o ffer o f $7,500 p er year, which w as made to m e to go to ’ Batavia. I w as then asked by the P res id en t o f the B atavia Cham ber o f 1 Com m erce (M r. W a lte r S tro h ) i f any sum would tem pt me to com e to Ba­tavia, to w h ich I rep lied N O , that I had decided to rem ain in Y a tes Coun­ty, and I asked him to p lease drop m e as a possib ility fo r th e ir S ecre ta ry ­ship.

It appears that, ea rly in January, 1925, fo r som e reason, p robab ly b es t ! known to h im self, Mr. w . e . D eM elt, a Public O fficer, Superin tendent o f ; Schools o f ircnn Yan, w ro te a le t te r I

to Mr. Clyde P. Wells, Superintendent! o f Schools o f Batavia, N. Y., request- j ing Mr. W ells to advise him as to w h a t; offer the Chamber of Commerce of Batavia made to W alter B. Tower, o f : Penn Yan, to become Its Secretary.

I& answer to Mr. DeMelt's letter o f .

inquiry, it appears that he received the fo llow ing reply from the Superin­tendent o f Schools a,t Batavia, N. Y.

(H ere is inserted the letter appear­ing first in the minutes of the Board o f D irectors’ meeting.)

This letter states that I was one o f the applicants for the position o f Sec­retary o f the Chamber of Commerce o f Batavia.

I was. never an applicant fo r that position.

I was asked, urged and appealed to, as fo llow ing letters w ill show, to go to Batavia, but I never applied for this job, and never gave them any en­couragement that I would come. This letter says that when I demanded $6000 they dropped me, and I ask you to fo llow closely, the facts here pre­sented.

Now, i f Mr. DeM elt personally fe lt that he wanted such information, then o f course, there was no reason why he should not have made the inquiry.But just why the Superintendent of Schools o f Penn Yan should officially? seek such information does not yet | appear. Furthermore, having receiv- ed such information, it would seem that if-h e was disposed in a fair or E courteous or dignified or Christianlike | manner such as we have a right to expect from one who is the living and daily example before the lives of the \

, young men, women land children o f 1 our County, then, in my humble

! opinion, he would have brought that j letter d irectly to me and he would'j have said— W alter what explanation; have you to offer? Did he do this? j NO. On the contrary, without a n y ! reference to me or my welfare, or the w elfare of this community, this letter was copied on a typewriter and many copies of it w ere placed in the hands o f unsuspecting persons, some of them my own near neighbors, persons who pose as my friends, some of-them per­sons w ell known through Yates Coun­ty, and, to my mind, a, vicious attempt was started not only to wreck and

j ruin me personally, but to tear down and ruin the organization which I had

! sweat my life ’s blood to build up, namely ’The Chamber of Commerce of

i Penn Yan fo r Yates County, and to j discredit me in the eyes of the public -in this, my home County.I Fortunately, very fortunately, one ; o f the copies of this letter was shown j to one of our fairminded, loyal men, Mr. Clarence R. Andrews, a man who desires, to see justice done to every man, be he friend or foe.

Mr. Andrews began an investigation at Batavia to ascertain from those in ]: authority what w ere the real facts in [ the case. In answer to his inquiries, | Mr. Andrews received the following communications, copies of which I sub-1 mit to you as my evidence.

(H ere appears, the letter of January | 26, 1925, to Clarence R. Andrews, the I third letter in the minutes of the D i- ! rectors’ meeting, followed by the sec- : ond letter, w ritten on January 26th to $E. C. W alker, and finally the fourth L letter in the minutes, written on Janu-; ary 27th to Clarence Andrews.)

Now , Gentlemen of the Board o f ! ■Education o f Penn Yan, I have sub­mitted the facts in this case which I ; believe constitute one of the most un- 5 dignified, unjust, unwarranted, d is-: graceful and vicious attacks, not only ! against m yself but against the organi-! zation of which I am the chosen Presi­dent. I fee l justified in doing so, n o t ! from the standpoint of its being an attack upon me personally, but he- * cause I feel the manner in which this 1

: attack has been made discloses, a j mental attitude and a type of char- I acter o f , which I question the desir- 1 ability in one to whom we entrust the .school children o f this community.! I submit them in the name o f jus­tice, fa ir play, and honesty and leave ,them for your just consideration and action.

Respectfully,| W A L T E R B. TOWER.

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Fred H. Lynn has asked that the complaint and answer, presented in the hearing of the Municipal Board controversy last Friday night, before •the V illage Trustees, be published.To Fred H. Lynn:

You w ill please take notice, that charges have been preferred -against you as a member of the Municipal Board of the V illage o f Penn Yan by H. A. Wagener, E. J. Walker, Jr., F. M. M cNiff -and Charles A. Kelly, asking that you be removed from office by the I Board o f Trustees, a copy of said charges are hereto annexed and se rv -; ed upon you, -and also a. copy of the j resolution of the Board of Trustees based thereon, passed at a regular meeting o f said Board held on the 1st day of November, 1926, and

You w ill further take notice, that you are required to answer said charges before said Board of Trustees at a meeting of said Board to 1b© held on the 1 2 th day o f November, 1926, in the Trustees’ Rooms, in Maiden Lane, in said village of Penn Yan at 7 o ’clock P. M., and, that a hearing w ill then be had upon said charges.

November 3rd, 1926.W illiam B. Mlan-ley,

Clerk of the Board of Trustees. To the Board o f Trustees o f the V il­

lage o f Penn Yan:The undersigned residents and tax- |i

payers of the village, of Penn Yan, New | York, and members of the Municipal Board o f said village, do hereby re-1 quest the Board of Trustees of said v illage to remove Fred; H. Lynn from office as a member of the Municipal Board of said village pursuant to sec­tion 60 of the V illage Law, and do hereby charge that the said Fred H. Lynn has been and is guilty of mis­conduct in office as a member of said Board, lows:

First:- i consists i said Fred H.

sented himself tend meetings of said Board as fo l­lows :A special meeting thereof held June

1 st, 1.91.(4A regular meeting thereof held June

loth, 1926 A regular meeting thereof held Aug.

5 th, 1-926A regular meeting thereof held Sept.

1st, 1926A regular meeting thereof held Oct.

7 th, 1926A special meeting thereof held Oct.

among other things, as fo l-

That the said Municipal Board o-f five members, and that the

Lynn has w ilfu lly ab- from and failed to at-

• 27th, 1926 ' IThat the said F fed H. Lynn had due I

and timely notice o f the tim e of place of said special meetings.

Second: That the said Fred H. Lynn hag for a long time prior hereto been engaged in captious, an-d groundless criticisms of -said Board and its mem­bers fo r the purpose o-f bringing said Board and its members into disrepute among the citizens of said village, ana hampering and retarding the work- o said Board and its member's,- and in publishing in the public press criti­cisms of ’said Board- and its members, and in giving out false and mislead­ing information in regard to the ac­tions of said Board and its members in an effort to discredit said Board and its policies, and to bring said

| Board and its members into disrepute and to cause the public to believe that said Board was engaged in a line of conduct and carrying out a policy con­trary to the best interests of said v il­lage and the taxpayers thereof.

Th ird: That the said Fred H. Lynn, while acting as President o f such

Board, by various means and devices received compensation for alleged ser­vices rendered by him as a member of said Board and the president thereof, contrary to law.

Fourth: That the said Fred H. Lynn' while president of* said Board and ? member thereof voted fo r and secured

j the audit of bill® against said village j and the funds of said Board, unlaw­fully.

I F ifth : That the conduct of the said Fred H. Lynn as a member of said

! Municipal Board! has been and is con j • trary to the best interests of the tax- ! I payers o f said village, and ha® tended j ! to retard and hamper the '.lawful ac­

tivities of said Board in carrying out] j t!re.xpollc:es of said Board to the bes.; interest® o f the taxpayers of said vil- j j Iage of Penn Yan.| Dated at Penn Yan, N. Y., November 1st, 1926.

H. A. W agenerE. J. W alker, Jr.

. F. M. M cN iff C ’ A. K e lly

Resolution made by; M ollendorf and seconded by Vann:

Resolved that the petition present­ed to the Board of Trustes by H. A. Wagener, E. J. W alker, Jr., F. M. Mc­N iff and Chas. Kelly, containing in it charges against Fred H. Lynn asking tha't he be removed as a member of the Municipal Board be filed and hear­ing on said charges held before the Board of Trustees on November 12th, 1926, in the. Trustees Room, Maiden Lane, at 7:00 P. M., and that a copy of said charges and said resolution be served upon aforesaid Fred H. Lynn, and giving notice of hearing, also that copies o f the resolution be served up­on the petitioners.

Carried by the affirmative vote of all.

To the President and Trustees o f the jV illage o-f Penn Yan, N. Y.

'Gentlemen: 1 1

I herewith enclose my answer to j. the charges preferred against me by j H. A. Wagener, E. J. W alker, F. M. McNiff and Charles A. K elly , fo r your consideration.

I emphatically deny a ll the charges i se-t forth in their complaint, and be- j lieve I have made it plain in each answer.

i I f you desire any further informa- j tion, I w ill be pleased to meet your | Board or a committee from your j Board.

Y outs> truly, i F irst: Since A p ril 4, 1922, when Mr,! Wagener was appointed a member or L I the Municipal Bqard, to and including |1 the July, 1926, aegular meeting, there | j we re 71. me etin|sm eld.

F. H. Lynn -attended 6 8 , was absent 3 j] H. A. Wagener attended 47, was absent

2*F. M. McNiff attended 61, was absent j.

mThere? have been 5*5 meetings since

Mr. Walker came on the Board; he i attended 45, was absent 10.

Since Mr. K e lly was appointed, there have been 46 meetings, and he attend- j ed 42, w-as absent 4.

I believe that I am not making a false statement when I ®ay that out of I the 25 years that I have been a mem­ber of the Board, I have not been ab­sent .from more than 15 meetings. This includes all meetings to date.

Second: This charge doe® not speci­fy anything that has been done con­trary to law, as the law does not pro­vide any penalty fo r a man expressing

his op in ion on -all subjects, unless it be o f a libe lou s character.

A s to the fa lse and m islead ing in fo r­m ation I am charged w ith g iv in g out, a ll I can say is, it is not fa lse amd can be proven by the reco rd s ; and until it is proven that I have given fa lse state- j ments, I shall consider it a libelous insinuation.

T h ird : A fte r serv ing about 13 years j as a m em ber o f the M unicipal Board, during "which, time the se wers and j ligh ts w ere installed, and acting as President, I had the grea ter part o f I the execu tive w ork to do, I began to I

I fee l that I should be re lieved from 1 some o f the work, and -about A p r il 1 ,:

| 1914, Mr, D exter, S ecretary o f the | Board, at m y request, ca lled an in for- | m al m eeting a t his office. I there sta t- " ed m y fe e lin g s to the Board, -and re ­

quested that one o f the other m embers ? he the Presidency, and I w ould as-1

wist them as much as m y time would w arrant, as I fe lt the same energy p u t ; on som eth ing else w ould benefit me more.

No ©fie w anted to act as President, so they d e c id e d t h a t Mr. M cN iff, M r. D exter and M r. C ram er ca ll upon the Board o f Trustees and confer w ith them as to w hat was 'best to do in the m atter, which resulted in the fo l lo w ­ing reso lu tion being passed by the Board o f Trustees on A p r il 20, 1914:

M oved and carried, tliait the fo l lo w ­ing reso lu tion be adopted:

R eso lved , that the M un ic ipa l Board ’ be hereby au thorized to expend from

the funds under its con tro l, such sum o f m oney as m ay be necessary, not exceed ing $300.00 a year, in paym ent o f com pensation to such 'person as it m ay designate to attend to its co rres­pondence and prepare its officia l r e ­ports, and to exercise genera l .super­vision over its business.

M em bers o f the Board o f Trustees a t ! th is tim e w e r e :

E rnest R. B ordw ell, P rest.C. H . Eerenibaugh Jamas C. G-oodsipeea John H. M osher T im oth y Oo.steiloE. G. HopkinsH. A llen W agen er

I have ibeen in form ed by M r. F eren - baugh that Mr. W agen er m ade the me-, tion fo r this resolution , and he h im self seconded it; and said he w as w illin g to stand by it.

A t a m eetin g o f the M unicipal Board held M ay 8 , 1924, m em bers be­ing presen t:

I Messrs. F. M. M cN iff R. A. ScofieldF. H. Lynn L. E. D exter John B. Cram er

I the fo 1 low in g resolu tion was pasesd : W hereas, Th e Board o f Trustees, at

! a m eeting held A p r il 20, 1914, passed the fo llo w in g resolution (th is reso lu ­tion is the one just given above)

R eso lved , Th at F. H. L yn n 'be desig­nated to act in accordance w ith the above resolu tion , and that he receive fo r his services three hundred do llars per year, tw o-th irds to be paid from the ligh t fund, and one-th ird from the w ater fund.

I w ish to ball your attention to the fact that two o f the above parties'— H.A. W agener and F. M. M cN iff— signed the request fo r m y rem oval.

Fou rth : Th e same conditions ex is t as in charge No. 2— th ere is no speci­fic charge stated— th ere fo re I am un­able to defend m yself.

One b ill comes to m y m ind, that is : Nau. Rusk & Sw earingen , Pu b lic A c ­countants, am ounting to $667.62, w h ich was declared un law fu l by the S tate C om ptro ller in a le tter o f Ju ly 14, 1925, and another le tte r received Feb ru ary

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24, 1926, stated that there had been change in the opinion o f the D epart­ment. - , -f'G

W hen the vote was taken on this proposition, no one volted against so i f one is liable, each and every m em ber o f the M unicipal Board is lia ­ble.

F ifth : In the January, 1926, m eeting, the question of a new turbine was brought up, and I su ggested that wc h ire a competent engineer to go ov. . the m atter and make an estim ate o f the expense, .and that a proposition be submitted to the taxpayers at the an­nual election in 1925. W e w ould then have ample time to make a con tract and insta ll theJLurbine by A ugu st 1,1925.

F o r some reason, there was no dis- : position on the part of the o ther m em ­bers o f the Board to subm it a proposi­tion or advertise fo r b ids; they seem ­ed to fe e l that they had the authority]; to go into the open m ark et and buy a turb'ine, the same as you w ould a pound o f sugar.

I adm it that I resisted th is attem pt, and m atters wen't on until about D e­cember, when the Board passed a reso­lu tion to buy a turbine. A s P residen t o f the Board I refused to s ign the con­tract, and a m otion was m ade to au­thorize any other m em ber o f the Board to sign it. I notified them that I should commence an action stopping the paym ent of the funds, which at that tim e was illega l. E v iden tly they must have ca lled on Mr. Hus on, the V illa ge A ttorney, and he notified them,

j that it 'would be necessary to adver­tise fo r bids.

D uring the last Leg is lature, amend­ments w ere made to the General V i l­lage Law , g iv in g perm ission, i f the v illa g e had sufficient funds on hand in that departm ent, to make im prove­ments and extensions. Th is la w be­came effective A p ril 30, 1926, when it was signed by the Governor. Prev iou s to this tim e the law lim ited the am ount o f expenditure w ithout a vo te o f the taxpayers. So I consider I was righ t on the stand I took .at first.

A s instructed by Mr. Huson, about M ay 1, 1926, the Board advertised for bids, and the turbine was bought, and j as I understand it, is about ready fo r; operation.

D uring m y 25 years ’ experience ?r the Board, i f anything was wanted, it j was voted by the people, and th ey nev-l er turned anything down. I have fe lt that the people should have a vo ice iv I the expenditure o f la rge sums o f mb-; ney which belong to them, and not. to the M u n ic ipa l Board. « w f j

THE PEOPLE’S COLUMN

M U N IC IP A L B O AR D W ater, L igh t and Sewers

Penn Yian, N. Y . Oct. 26, 1926. Penn Y an Dem ocrat,

Penn Yan, N. Y .G en tlem en :

In your issue o f October 22nd, you publish an item headed “ W a te r R ates In creased ” over the signature o f F red H. Lynn. I t seems too bad to* publish this, as |t cannot help but be d isqu iet­ing to the tax payers. I t is u n fortu ­nate that 'Mr. Lynn is not better in ­form ed, so he m ight g iv e you m ore re liab le in form ation .

T h e M unicipal B oard have decided to co llect w ater rents qu arte rly in ­stead o f sem i-annually. T h e rates w ill not in any w ay be in creased ; but w ill be corrected and m ade in te ll i­gent, w hereas the rates prom u lgated by Mr. Lynn a llow ed la rg e consum ers to use 106,000 ga llons fo r $1 2 .0 0 , and charged the sm all consum er using 70,-

000 ga llons, $12.60. T h is is on ly one instance in the cong lom erated sche­dule w h ich has been in fo rc e fo r many years.

The presen t Board has reduced the w ater rates w ith in a short tim e, and ufidoubtedil'y th ere w ill! b e (anothier ve ry maJterial reduction soon, notw ith­standing w ater rates in Penn Yan are? less than one-ha lf as m uch as many f surrounding V illages. T h e fact o f qu a rte rly co llec tion s w ill not in an\

..way effect the w ater charges.M r. Lynn also states a new 12 inch

w ater m ain w ill be in sta lled from the station to connect Court street. This, how ever, w ill not be a 1 2 inch main, but a 10 inch main, as advised by com­petent authority. H e states the cost o f thisxmaln w ill not be less than $30,- 000, and probab ly mdre. A s a m atter o f fact, the expense w ill be much less than $30,000. H e aso advocates the paym ent fo r this w ork and construc­tion by the taxpayers. W H Y m ortgage; every home in Penn Y an by issuing bond's as has been done in the past, when w e have am ple funds in the w a­ter departm ent to do th is w ork.

F o r m any years the taxpayers have been ob liged to m ake y e a r ly paym ents to m ain ta in the E le c tr ic (L ight and W a te r P lan t,, but now i t is on a sound business foundation,and,instead

i o f tax in g the people, the M unicipal Board lia s been able, in the last two years, to pay V ill'qge indebtedness, w hich was en tire ly fo re ign to the Mu­nicipal! P lan t, h e lp in g to m ake taxes less.

Instead, as he .suggested, to tax the wom an w ho takes in washings, the M unicipal B oard does not intend to cause anybody expense fo r this new w ater main. '

Mr. L yn n state's th e re 'is less than $2 0 ,0 0 0 on hand in the w a te r depart­ment, as a m atter o f fact, there is about $30,000 on band, much m ore than w ill be needed fo r this construc­tion . I t is, and a lw ays has been, the po licy o f the presen t M un ic ipa l Board., to save every possib le do lla r fo r the taxpayer, fu rn ish them e le c tr ic ligh t and w ater at the low es t possib le rate, a t the. same tim e, sa fe -gu ard ing the peop le and taxpayers aga inst claims _ fo r damages, and other unnecessary expenses, and in order to g iv e the V illa g e o f Penn Y an a double w ater supply, w hicb, when ins tailed, w ill p ractica lly m ean abso lu te fire p ro ­tection and Water supply fo r domes­tic use at a ll times.

W ith in the last tw o y ea rs the V i l­lage has been w ithout w ater fo r fireJ p rotection or dom estic use fo r m any j homes on tw o d iffe ren t occasions. Th e people w ant the new w ater main. W h y should they not have it?

P E N N Y A N M U N IC IP A L BOARD.

Penn Yan Dem ocrat,Penn Yan , N. Y .G entlem en:

On severa l recen t occasions you have published item s concern ing m at­ters perta in ing to the M unicipal Board and apparen tly upon in fo rm a­tion fu rn ished by M r. F red H . Lynn,

| who is ev iden tly in tend ing to pose asj a w atch-dog for the taxpayers at the expense o f and w ith a v ie w to ern-i harassing other m em bers o f th is ;

| B oa rd ; and fea r in g that some tax- I payers m ay regard these a rtic les ser- ! ious'ly unless refu ted and the truth

told o f th eir gross inaccuracies* th e ! fo llo w in g statem ent is o ffered to set the public r igh t about these m islead­in g utterances.

I t should be c lea r ly 'brought to the atten tion o f the taxpayers that the m em bers o f the M u n ic ipa l Board are not seek ing advertis in g or com m enda­tion fo r the splendid financia l show-

ing that their statement presents, but,; on the other hand, they are not seek­ing censure for their actions in con­nection with the conduct o f the a f­fairs of the Board, which are carried on in the best interests of the tax-:

j payers.In the first place, it should.be clear- '

ly understood by the public that Mr. Lynn has opposed every constructive proposition for the betterment o f i

: conditions, both physical and finan- ■ cial, o f the Municipal Board for the past four years, at whiich time he : ceased to control’ the members of the Board or dictate policy o f manage­ment.,

Up to that time, from figures avail­able to anyone from the minutes or other books of record, the financial | condition o f the Board was deplorable,, and the plant might be regarded as a I horrib le failure in the matter oif efh-1 ciency, and this statement is made without egotism or fear of contradic-1 tion.

It should be of interest to the tax­payers to know that until three yea rs ' ago they bad been called upon to pay j $63,738.96 in order to continue, the • .plant in existence., this amount being assessed to the v illage taxpayers, in the budget from time to time every year from 1905 until four years ago | to meet annual losses constantly oc- curriing.

These figures given above do not I include an expense incurred through j the loss o f a life on the Yates County I Fair Grounds, .which cost the taxpay-.

ers about $5800, and which couild have been avoided if the necessary precau-1 tion for insurance against such a con -; tingency had been taken by the Board-, neither do these figures include a very large depreciation ‘fo r absolescence o f : machinery, which would approximate I $25,000, or something Like $6000 raised' by taxation, in whole or in part,- in November, 1913.

As a matter of fact, the Municipal plant would practically have become insolvent every year had it been, con-; ducted as a private corporation and its losses not made up by the taxpayers.

It is a w ell known fact that Mr. I L ynn fo r years was the only man on' the Board who stubbornly opposed the installation of electric and water meters, which failure of installation has cost the 'taxpayers the 'loss of, many thousands o f dollars.

The change to metered serv ice . speaks for itself, and since this instal­lation, particu larly in the water de-; partment, this division has been put on. a paying basis, enabling the Board to reduce, the minimum rate to water] consumers approximately 50 per cent, and has enabled the present Board to accumulate over $60,000 in cash, which is on hand today for better­ments.

In addition to this, there have been serious leaks in electrical transmis­sion lines which have been discover­ed and remedied for the benefit o f the taxpayers on recommendation of the, Superintendent.

In this connection, it m ight be well to call attention/to the action of the present Board in employing a trained , Superintendent, who has introduced I in telligent business methods and lias remedied many defects in "operation o f both W ater and E lectrical -Divis­ions, which has further saved the tax­payers thousands of dollars.

A t the fim e the present Board in­sisted upon -a change of policy as now employed, the plant was in an ill- 1 kept, badly run-down condltioh and a disgrace to the v illa ge ; while today its entire aspect has been changed | and the Board invites inspection by

the public o f the plant and leaves i t . to them" to determine for themselves I whether the statements made herein are correct.t In a recent issue o f your paper Mr. j Lynn furnished copy of resolution o f-i fered by him at a regular meeting re­lative to the purchase o f a new turbo­generator, and it might be well for the public to know, that the Board j have had this under consideration for [ more "than a year and have consulted | many competent engineer's and Have duly considered a ll the good and bad points o f the various types of equip­ment o ffered ; and. on the recommen­dation o f their Superintendent, who had had a wide experience not only in the purchase, but in the active use o f j the types offered, purchased a W est- 1

inghouse equipment, for many super­ior mechanical reasons, and, in doing so, have acted in the best interest of the taxpayers.

The Board, if. they fe lt it necessary, could produce an overwhelm ing num­ber of letters -from competent engin -, eers __ to substantiate their decision, I and it m ight be of interest for the tax- jj

I payers to knorw at this time that a 1 j saving of about $1500 for engineer’s

services, which are deemed unneees- j sary in the purchase of the present equipment, has been saved for the/

! taxpayers, remembering the experi­ence that the Board had in the em - 1 ployment o f iMr. Sweet, when the j

: present equipment at the plant was/: j installed, o f having the manufacturers!: refuse to set their equipment on the ] foundations designed by him.

It might also be oif interest to the f taxpayers to know that had it not been for the fact that Mr. Lynn and Mr. Sweet, o f Utica, Mr. Lynn ’s con-! suiting engineer, influenced a former :

• Board in the purchase o f a small! tq r - ; -bo-generator, rather than a 500 K. W. machine, it would not be necessary at the present, time to buy another tur­bine.

A ll the statements and figures giv­en herein -can be verified, and the fi­nancial condition of the plant at the i

. present time speaks for itself, the ] Plant having been put on a profitable

basis, notwithstanding the fact that water rents have been m aterilly re­duced recently and electric rates re­duced several times in the past year to a point where- both are probably low er than that enjoyed by any other municipality o f equal size in the State

! o f New York.The present Board have been able

to accumulate a surplus o f something ■over $60,000, most of which at present reposes in the sinking fund, drawing interest for the benefit o f the tax­payers, making it unnecessary to ask for a vote of the people to bond t lr V illage for making the improvements now in contemplation.

In addition to this, your Municipal Board has been o f m aterial assist­ance t o . the V illage Board of Trus­tees, in paying Bonds that heretofore have always been raised by assess- mefit "on tbe taxpayers and have paid all "outstanding bonds for years ahead amounting to thousands o f dollars Without calling upon the taxpayers for one cent, these having been paid from the revenues earned by the plant and the plant is entirely out o f debt.

The taxpayers may have noticed in the recently published proceedmgs of the .Municipal Board that on nearly all votes taken on important, matters, four member® have voted for the proposition and one against, Mr. Lynn opposing the other four members and in doing so, trying to justify himself

: by reference to laws that are obsolete and incidentally causing the taxpay-

| ers unnecessary expense for leea1 !! opinions confirming what the other !I members o f the Board already knew.| The members o f the Board that now .,

influence its policies are large tax- / payers and, as a matter of fact, joint- /. ly the largest taxpayers in the v il­lage, and it is a reasonable premise | to suppose that they would be foolish • to make any unnecessary expense to !/ the village in which they would larger ; ly have to contribute in the matter of j taxes, as the taxes paid by the mem- !' bers o f the Board, either directly or f indifectly,represent almost 16 per cent : o f the tax budget of the village, and ! that they are working for the taxpay- fi er®, without compensation and with I very little thanks, goes without say- I. ing; but they all feel that they have |

I a conscientious, sworn duty to per- | form.

The V illage Trustees have from i r time to time appointed members to ■

the' Municipal Board from capable citizen®, but .many of these found that | business wa^ conducted in such a dig- i- agreealble manner that they resigned f in disgust, rather than continue in a I minority, or welcomed the. expiration i of their term o f office, as they were f

j sensitive to public opinion, which con-1 i sidered the organization a one-man | Board. ' i - ' , 2 " V’/'7- ;///

The affairs of the Municipal Board have been carried on in an arbitrary manner, and the taxpayers have not i been informed through publication o f j any transactions going on w ithin the j Board until long after the business | had been consummated, except in the ] matter o f publication o f annual re- r port, which is compulsory.

There has been no election o f Pres- j ident of the. Municipal Board for the .:; past two years, as no member would | j accept' the office other than Mr. Lynn,

it became apparent that some member I must be elected, and as there was no ’ on?, who would vote for Mr. Lynn, j lots were drawn, and it was agreed ! that the one drawing the unlucky number should fill the office without protest.

During the past four years the Board have insisted upon efficiency and econ^ _ om y in management and have a ttem pt­ed to insist upon courtesy in dea lin g with the public.

W e ll known authorities have said that the Penn Yan Municipal Hoard is now one o f the most successful in New York State; , and your Board feel that i f it continues to be. run in the sam e:

economical and business-like manner , and with a spirit o f friendly coopera-1 tion ,th e people of Penn Yan w ill not j only enjoy low electric and water

I rates, but the plant w ill be capable of having sufficient money to divert to other purposes and in this way reduce taxation in the village to a minimum.

M U N IC IP A L BOARD.

/

Saturday brings the 75th birthday ann iversary o f one o f M iddlesex va l­le y ’s respected citizens, a pioneer in the grow in g o f red kidney beans in that section o f the county, a fa rm er ever since he was a boy and a de- scendant o f the comm ander o f the M ayflow er — Fred J. Beckett.

On his 160-acre farm , located about half-way betw een Rushville and M id­dlesex on the new concrete road, Mr. Beckett fo r nearly 25 years has been very successful in raising beans. M ore recen tly he has added sheep to the m oney-m aking efforts o f his place, wheat, oats and barley being the oth­er ch ie f crops.

Mr. B eckett’s grea t grandfather, M ichael Pearce, together w ith Capt. P e re ly H ow e, John P. A llen and Jabez French surveyed the “ Po tter fa rm ,” the tract one m ile square which he

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secured trom the Indians. In remun­eration fo r their work they w ere g iv ­en a choice o f land. M ichael Pearce then bought 400 more acres from A rn ­old Po tter, this com prising the farm which he handed down to his son, Job, who died in 1870, leavin g a daughter, M ary, m other of Mr. Beckett. Th e j P earce fam ily are descendants o f Cap- j tain W illia m Pearce who came to this I country in 1629 as comm ander o f the j M ayflow er. Mr. B eckett’s fa ther was i G eorge Beckett, who came here from j Yarm outh, England, when about 18 years old. M r. B eckett was their first, child, born O ctober 11, 1855, in a cooper shop near M arshall, M ichigan. W hen he was about tw o years old,-his m other and fa ther m oved back on the old hom estead in M idd lesex va lley.

H is property consists o f 160 acres, there being some 125 when he and his w ife firs t took it over, to which was added, some 28 years ago, 35 acres, purchased from the H ixon fam ily. Mrs! B eckett was Em m a Van Epps, daugh-

1 ter o f Seth and M ary Van Epps, w.ho lived in and around Rushville. Mr. and Mrs. B eckett w ere m arried De­cem ber 5, 1884. W a lte r B eckett is their on ly child.

Mr. and Mrs. F red J. B eckett liv e in one o f the oldest houses in M idd le­sex va lley , a building in w hich trans­p ired m any and varied im portant even ts o f life in that section o f Yates county some 120 years ago. It at one tim e served as the court house, church, post o ffice and half-way house, it being located at a convenient point on the old stage route over the plank road from Geneva to Naples. It was th erefore, popular as an inn, w here trave lers could secure rest and food fo r them selves and horses.

Beciause o f its central location on the route it also housed the post o f­fice fo r w hat is now known as M iddle­sex V a lley . Th e old sign, used to designate it, until recently was dis­p layed on the Parish place betw een M idd lesex and Naples.

Both Mr. B eckett’s grandfather and great-grandfather, Job and M ichael Pearce, w ere justices of peace fo r M idd lesex as w e ll as postm asters and held hearings in the rooms of his

' presen t home. Undoubtedly, how ever, th e ir lega l duties w ere not ve ry exact­ing fo r th eir nearest neighbors w ere the G ilberts, th ree m iles north, whose house on the outskirts o f Rushville is now occupied by Mr. H icks and is known as the Abraham M ather’s place, the Chester Adam s fam ily near M iddlesex, and Captain P e rry on the east.

In this same building the M ethodist congregation , served by a circuit, r i­

der, met until the cnurcn wvcto .Ia was quite an event m those days , when the quarterly m eetings w e r e ; held. Some 20 people from m ile s ! around would drive in, bring provisions and blankets and camp on the floors over night Thoy treated, the preach- * er better, however. A-t any tim e o f ; day or night he could make use o f the i “ A postle ’s room” reserved fo r him. Th is square room in the southeast corner of the Beckett home is s till inuse. /i-:-?. ,

Though the house was repaired and changed some 46 years ago most of the rooms, flooring and doors and much: o f the plaster on the w alls and ce iling are the same. A t that tithe they dug a cellar under the fron t room and found that the tim bers used in

■■ m aking the house are much b igger than those used nowadays in con­structing a large barn.

Discovered C h im n ey S m o k e H ouse [ Th ey then tore down the immense

brick and stone chimney which was huge enough to provide three fire­places on the second floor, and on the first .floor three m ore fireplaces., a lage baking oven in the kitchen and a smoke house. Th is smoke house allow ed room for an average- person to stand erect. A t some early date it [ was papered over and no one liv in g knew o f its existence until they start­ed to 1! make the repairs. W hen dis­m a n t lin g the chimney the w orkm en rem arked as they looked down from above, through the flue into the big base ,‘'that it looked like a small c ity o f brick. It contained nearly enough brick*! to erect a small house, and som e1,are now in use in the cellar w all o f the;home. There is probably not a mason in that state today who could duplicate that huge chimney. The room it once occupied now provides the spacious front hall and entrance.

W hen it was being torn down in 1884 the workm en found in it a copy o f the “ Geneva M essenger” dated

.1808. • It is supposed that this paper was placed in the brick w ork at the

. tim e the house was constructed. I f this assumption is true, the building is now over 120 years old.

Bean Business in Penn Y a n W hen I first began grow ing beans,

Mr. Beckett recalls, we got b ig yields. F or three years in succession on the flat in the va lley I harvested 30 bush­els to* the acre. Then, o f course, w e planted and pulled by hand. I w e ll rem em ber in the early days there was no m arket here so I carted everyth ing to Penn Yan. I would sell to Mr. Fenner on Jacob street, fa ther o f W i l ­liam D, Fenner, late o f Penn Y an and Charlek Fenner of W ashington, D. C.I sold most o f m y produce, how ever, to M. C. Stark, the m en ’s cloth ing dealer on Elm street. O ver his store he em ployed] bean pickers. H e would hoist the bags up to the second story w ith a rope .in fro n t o f h is ]p la ce o f business. ] '! :/: Speaking ' of changes, I have seen several. W hen fa ther had a neighbor come to our farm and drive his new m ow ing machine, tw o men w ere kept busy sharpening the 25 litt le blades, each one of which was a separate kn ife fastened w ith a screw to the main shaft. And now, a few years later, farm ers wouldn’t think o f us­ing such a time-taking device.

H e lp ed Build R a i lro a d Bed A t one time we had only the old

stage route here as a means o f com ­m unication and transportation. Then they began putting through the N ap les branch o f the roalroad, which recen tly discontinued its passenger service. I helped them for severa l days w ith a team when they first started the road bed. Th ey picked their w ay through the Christie cut, just north o f m y farm , choosing the w in ter tim e w ith

> ■ frost in the ground fo r the work. It was several years a fte r this before they first used the road bed. And, finally, some 40 years ago, when the

first engine came through the va lley , 1 m any youngsters ran in te rro r when 1 the old “ w ild-cat” ’ w h istle blew.

New Junior High

On Tuesday, October 14th, the new jun ior high school was opened fo r regu lar sessions. The bu ild ing is the last word in modern school arch itec­ture and is the la rgest h igh school of; any v illa g e under 1 0 ,0 0 0 population in New Y o rk State.

Am ong the departm ents offered for the education of the boys and g ir ls o f this vic in ity, are k indergarten , home economics, draw ing, music, manual arts, com m ercial subjects, w ith var- ious branches in a ll departments. Th ere is a spacious auditorium fo r the presentation of dram atics, student and com m unity entertainm ents to be given there. The board o f educaipn has voted to perm it the pu b lic to use; the auditorium and gymnasium , the rooms serving, to a certa in extent, as a comm unity hall. The auditorium w ill seat 900 fo r dram atics and 1500 fo f indoor athletics. P lans fo r the leas­ing o f the rooms w ill be com p leted 1 by the board. Another im portan t fea ­ture is the ca feteria w here students can purchase a nutritious lunch fo r a nom inal cost.

Th ere is a boys’ ca rpen try shop and an auto m echanics shop. Locker rooms and show er bath in the gym ­nasium and numbers o f other mod­ern conveniences which make the new jun ior h igh school bu ild ing one of the outstanding achievem ents fo r Penn Yan.

The seventh, eighth and ninth grades, the last named fo rm erly the first y'ear in the high school w ill com ­pose the student body o f the new ju n ­ior high school, and w ill number about 350 students. The fifth and sixth grades from H utton and Chest­nut street schools w ill be moved to ,the L ib e r ty street school building. The over-crow ded condition o f the senior high school, which has been a source o f irr ita tion fo r the past sev­era l years, w ill now be relieved .

A few salient points o f the new school bu ild ing a re :

It contains the la rgest fo ld in g par­tition in the w orld , 60 feet long and 29 ifeet, 11 inches high, w hich is 3 inches h igher than any h itherto made. It divides the gym nasium floor,

j M ore than 5 tons o f w indow sash weights.

A pprox im ately m ore than 1 ,100 ium lockers.

A m odel home.- M ore than 375 steel used in the

800 lockers ; w ith additional gymnas-

/ ? d 6

c L & lc v & d d jU L C v j& r*

tons o f structural construction.

20 m iles o f electric w ir in g traverses the building.

Some 14,000 bags o f cem ent w ere used in the construction.

r 400,000 pounds o f w a ll p laster, j 2,000,000 bricks, includ ing L500-

0 00 common w all bricks* and 150,000 , g lazed bricks.

Rad io and telephone connections in each class room.

A m oving picture p ro jection booth.I A ca feteria which seats 300 and an

auditorium which w ill seat 90% and ]l can be converted into a spacious hall I seating 1500 fo r indoor a th letic con­tests. ,

I The facu lty o f the schools is one o f the best in the state and w ith the new educational fa c ilit ies and equip­ment, Penn lean today has one o f the best, i f not the best, system s o f edu-

*< cation o f any v illa g e in N ew York i State.

F ra n k W . H y a t tA veteran vineyardist of Keuka,

Frank W . Hyatt, aged 66 years, passed away in Barrington some time Satur­day, October 18th. During the. past year he had not been w ell and |had been undergoing treatment much of the time Jin the Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan. About a month ago he was taken to the Lake Keuka Rest home on the east side of Lake Keuka. He was considered to be improving and seemed quite well when he retired Friday night. Satur-

• day morning he was found dead in bed, heart failure being given as the cause.

Mr. H yatt was born in. W aterloo in 1864, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hyatt. He received his early educa­tion there and then registered in the Rochester Businss Institute. On June 4th, 1894, he m arried Jessie MacCoy, daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. W illiam MacCoy of Keuka, liv in g near that place since that time at Sunset Vine­yard.

He leaves his w idow; two sons, J. Germain and F. Merriman, both of Penn Yan, and a sister, Lotta J. H y­att of Rochester. P ^ va te funeral services w ere held in the Corcoran Funeral' parlors, Penn Yan, Monday, w ith Rev. W a lter A. Henricks officiat­ing and burial in the Lake V iew cem­etery.

John M. CarpenterJohn M. Carpenter, aged 74 years,

died at his home on the corner of W a­ter and L iberty streets, Friday night, October 17th. Mr. Carpenter was one o f the first men to operate the Keuka Steam er when it was purchased for fighting Penn Yan fires. He was one o f the four men to run the steam pump­er. A t first he was an assistant en­gineer and then later, up until some seven years ago, he served as the chief engineer.' For some 15 years he was engineer in the Penn Yan Municipal plant, leaving this work in 1915.

On M ay 26th, 1877, in Branchport he married M argaret W illoughby, Rev. H enry L. Dennis, then rector o f St. ] .Luke’s Episcopal church in that v il­lage, officiating at the ceremony. Two years ago they celebrated their gold­en wedding anniversary.

Mr. Carpenter leaves his widow; two sons, David of Penn Yan and Har­ry o f Corning; two sisters, Mrs. Harry W illoughby and Mrs. David Carey,1 both o f Penn Yan. The funeral serv­ices w ere held from the home at 2:00 o ’clock Monday afternoon with Rev. J. Howard Perkins officiating. Burial was made in the Lake V iew cemetery.

To Dedicate School

John Shannon

John Shannon, 93, who was the old­est pensioner on the E lm ira Division j o f the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at j the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. J-1 Beauchamp, Johnson Avenue, Penn Yan, on Thursday, October 30th.

Mr. Shannon was one of the oldest g men in Penn Yan and possibly the j oldest communicant of St. M ichael’s j Church, at the time o f his death. W ith the exception of old age, Mr. Shannon was in excellent health, up . until his last illness and had never j required the services of a physician j until that time.

Mr. Shannon was an old railroad man and retired on a pension 16 years j ago. He had served the Pennsyl-1 vania Railroad as a section hand for 44 years and as a crossing watchman fo r about 15 years. He was born in Ireland, coming to this country at the age of 25 years, obtaining em ploy­ment at Stanley, N. Y., as a member of the railroad crew.

About 25 years ago, he lost one of his legs, and was transferred from section work to the position o f cross­ing watchman at the Shepherd Street; crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Penn Yan. where he served faith­fu lly until his retirem ent in 1914. He enjoyed relating the early days o f railroading when hand cars were used to transport men to and from work, and when many times the crews barley succeeded in geting the hand cars off the tracks in time to let the train pass. He remembered the change from the narrow guage. tracks and sm all locomotives to the standard guage and large engines.

Mr. Shannon is survived by three sons, W illiam and Joseph, of W at­kins Glen; George, of Penn Yan; three daughters, Mrs. A. J. Beau­champ, of Penn Yan; Mrs. Hugh Mur­phy, of A loquin; Mrs. 0. W. Sumner, of Rochester. The funeral was held on Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock from the residence of A. J. Beau­champ, and at 9 o’clock from St. M ichael’s church, with burial in St. M ichael’s cemetery.

, .... ^schoolon Monday evening,

Dr. George N. W iley, of Albany, as­sistant commissioner iof education, w ill be principal speaker at the dedi cation of the new junior high - * ■ in this v illa ge Novem ber 10th.

Arthur L. Bailey, president of the board of education and Carl C. Ade, p f Rochester, architect, w ill also’ make brie f addresses. The public w ill have an opportunity to inspect the new structure fo llow ing the program.

On Tuesday evening, November u ’ the Penn Yan Chamber of Commerce w ill hold its regular meeting in the cafeteria of the new building, the din­ner to be served by the .teachers and students of the homemaking depart­ment. Members iof the faculty w ill make brie f talks and a program of music has been arranged.

No Advance in Water Rates

It has been stated without author­ity that the water rates in the v illage of Penn Yan would be advanced be­cause the electric rates were recent­ly reduced.

The Municipal Board’s policy is to reduce both water and electric rates as fast as sound business judgment w ill permit, and conservative econo­my w ith the people’s w elfare always in mind w ill nrevail.

Inspection o f your plant, which is second to none in the United States of its size is earnestly invited.

M U N IC IPA L BOARD,H. A. W agener,

President.

A A V '& t f r

A r / < r *

Yates county earned the right Tues­day to be called the driest county in the state, when it upset the old Re­publican landslide and gave a major­ity for the( ,Juaw Preservation candi­

date, Robert P. Carrol.Governor Roosevelt polled one of;

the largest majorities in the history of New York State, w inning the elec­tion for Governor by over 750,000 ma-

Governor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, a militant dry, was re-elected Govern-Wk, , or over a wet candidate.

The Republicans w ill learn by and X f l X 0

by that when the women o f the state of New York set out to defeat a w et y candidate they usually w in out. /L<£j22rvt This is the second time that the Wadsworth element f the Republican | j

party has gone down to defeat at the |§jj hands of the dry forces of the state.Wadsworth element of the Republican

The proposition for the bond issue was carried in Yates county by a ma­

jority of 458. AThe fo llow ing is the vote in Yates

county as compiled:

Henry C. Drakeley, *of 113 Benham street, cast his 70th Democratic vote on Tuesday last and walked to the polls to do so. E. H. Hopkins, 83, cast his 62nd vote on Thursday, also.

W ATSON— Miss Phoebe J. Watson, o f jr Benton, died in Penn Yan on I; Thursday, October 23rd. ?! ||Until a few months ago, Miss .Wat- 1

son was a resident of Benton, where | she had been clerk, o f the Benton {[? Baptist Church for 32 years. There j| are no near relatives surviving. Miss a Watson was born in Benton 85 years j]

ago and Sad always lived in that * town until she-came to Penn Yan r ® cently. The funeral was held on Sat-, clay afternoon at 3 o’clock Trom the i Benton Baptist Church, Rev. Thomas! J. Hunter, of Benton, officiating, with | burial in Benton cemetery.

Mrs. L il l ian F. Damoth Sunday morning in the Soldiers and

Sailors Memorial hospital, Penn Yan, occurred the death of Mrs. L illian F. Damoth, w ife o f Nelson A. Damoth, of Main street, Penn Yan. No other near relatives survive.

Funeral services were held from the home, 332 Main street, at two o ’clock Tuesday afternoon w ith Rev. "WalterA. Henricks, m inister of the F irst Presbyterian church of Penn Yan, of­ficiating and w ith burial in the Lake V iew cemetbry.

Parm ele Johnson, clerk of session o f the P'enn, Yan Presbyterian church, Rev. Frank M. W eston and Rev. A lexander Thompson, of Geneva, and Rev. David Roberts, of W aterloo, are defendants in a $15,000 libel suit brought by Rev. E lbert T. Boynden, latqd statements detrimental to his who alleges that the (four men circu- reputation. Rev. Boyden has been un­frocked by the Rochester Presbytery and le ft without standing in the church. The libel action is listed for tria l in Livingston county next week. The minister supplied the Penn Yan pulpit last summer during tfie sick leave of Rev. W. A. Henricks.

Mrs. Narcisco A lvarez , R etired Ac­tress, F o rm e r ly of Penn Y an, Dies In the Hotel Aberdeen, Kansas City,

Mo., Thursday, Novem ber 6 th, oc­curred the death of Mrs. N ellie Lyons Healy A lvarez, who lived on lower Main street in Penn Yan until a few years ago. Funeral services were held at 9 o’cloek Monday morning from St. Patrick ’s Catholic church.

Until eight years ago Mrs. A lvarez had been on the stage most of her life.. A t different times she played in support, of Maude Adams, Rose Ep- ping, Edna Courtney and Fanny Dav­enport. H er first part was a child’s part in “ Uncle Tom ’s Cabin.” For several years she headed her own stock company. Mrs. A lvarez was born in Detroit, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Healy. She leaves her husband, Narcisco Alvarez.

.X

John V e te ra n ,W h i t a k e r , C iv i l W a r D ied S a tu rd a y

John W hitalcer, aged 89 years, of Penn Yan, .last m em ber o f the W il- ' liam H. Lon g Post, G. A. R., died Sat- |- urday, N ovem ber 8 th, in the Sold iers 1 and Sailors M em orial hospital. Mr. W h ita k er en listed in Co. H., 58th reg i­ment, N ationa l Guard of the S tate o f j N e w Y ork , from the tow n o f Benton j in August, 1864, and was transferred to E lm ira to act . as prison guard and to M conduct draft'ed men. and substitutes || to the fron t, t ie m ustered out from j: E lm ira D ecem ber 3, 1864.

Mr. W h itaker wds a descendant o f 1 Stephen W h itaker, who was the first i se tt le )1 in the loca lity o f lo t No. 20 in the tow n o f To rrey , Yates county. H e cam e to the Genesee country from j N ew Jersey, and was. one o f the ch ief j founders o f the F irst' P resbyterian f church and society in the town oi Benton.

John W h ita k er w as one o f the or- i I ig ina l organ izers o f the Com m ercial ' Iron W ork s company, a foundry on Com m ercia l avenue, Penn l?an, With. | w h ich he was connected fo r 50 years, having served as Secretary and treas­urer, also as president o f the com ­pany. H e w as the oldest m em ber of the Penn Y an club and up until the tim e o f his death was a ctive ly in ter­ested in the a ffa irs o f the local G. A. R. veterans.

H e is su rvived by three sons, C lar­ence o f B ridgeport, Conn.; John and G eorge o f Penn Yan ; three daughters, Mrs. James C onrw ell o f Rochester

i M rs. Bernard K ie rs t and M iss Ruth W h itak er o f Penn Y an : T w o m others,

Los Angeles, Calif., and Penn Yan and one sister,

W h itaker, also o f Penn

Frank o f Charles of M iss A lic e Yan.

Th e fu nera l was held M onday a f­ternoon a t 2 o ’c lock from -liis la te hom e on Lake stree t w ith the' Rev. W , A . H en ricks o ffic ia tin g. ' Buria l in La k e V iew cem etery.

Card o f ThanksI w ish to express m y appreciation

o f the tru st and loya l support which m y friends throughout the county showed in m y recen t cam paign and election .

A s a rule it is unwise to take notice o f cam paign propaganda but ow ing to the nature and sources o f the state­m ent which, was broadcast throughout the county in the closing days o f the. cam paign that • I had deserted the stand I had previously taken in sup­port o f the 18th amendment, I w ish to say the statem ent was made w ithout m y know ledge or consent, ami wras absolutely w ithout foundation.

I p ledge m y constituency to use m y influence to ..help make the 18th am endm ent m ore e ffective in our state.

Furtherm ore, I am anxious to w ork w ith m y people in planning leg is la ­tion in the in te res t o f b e tter and m ore e ffic ien t county and state g o v ­ernm ent.

4 6 w l, E D W IN m N U T T .

Work on Dresden - HimrodState Road Progressing

Rapid progress has been m ade so I fa r by the contractor in preparing the jj road bed for the new concrete high- i way that is to connect - D resden and j| G abrie l’s com ers, a long the w est i f shore o f Seneca , lake. W o rk th is |j w eek w ill practically com plete the in- || stallation of all cu lverts a long the |] first half o f the route, from H im rod |

! to Dresden. The big fill o f some 40 |j | fe e t and the grading near H im rod are f nearly done; masons M onday s ta rted ]

j pouring the arch bridge be low Him- I j rod. Four/excavators are busy level- ! lin g the right, o f w ay, and a new

j steam shovel appeared on the job th is } week.

Th e viaduct across the Lake K euka ; , outlet near Dresden is served by a j special switch on the Penn Yan i branch o f the N ew Y o rk Central ra il­road. Tw o of the ha lf dozen piers are severa l feet above the ground, v ir i le the concrete w ork on the oth­ers is s till below the ground leve l.

N O TIC EThe Municipal Board announces the

fo llow in g E lectrict L igh t R ates e f­fective December 1, 1930:App licab le to use o f service fo r :

L igh tin g Character Serv ice :

Continuous. W e do not guarantee uninterrupted supply o f e lectric service which m ight be caused by unavoidable breakdow n or storm trouble.A ltern ating current vo lts, single phase.

R a te:K ilo w a tt hours used per month F o r the first 10 k. w.F or a ll over 10 k. w.Minimum Charge:

S ixty-five cents per m onth per m e­ter installed, except fo r cottages outside the V illa ge lim its the m in i­mum charge w ill be $5.00 per sea­son— May first to Septem ber first.

Term s of Payment':I f bills fo r energy consumed w ith ­in the V illa ge are not paid w ith in 10 days from the date o f b illin g a

60 cycles, 1 1 0

R ate per K ilo w a tt H rs.

6 cents 5 cents

o f 1 0 % w ill be added, the m inimum charge.

ex-

up-

W a l t e r A. L i t t le A t the Sold iers and Sailors M em or­

ia l hospital in Penn Y an Sunday night, N ovem ber 2nd, occurred the death o f W a lte r A. L it t le o f Dresden, aged 52 years. H e leaves no near rela tives. Funeral services w ere held Tuesday a fternoon at 3 o ’clock from the Th ayer Funeral home w ith burial in the Dres­den cem etery. Rev. J. R. Carpenter, pastor o f the Dresden M ethodist church officiated.

penalty cept oil

T e rm :Service is discontinued at once on request of the custom er.

A lsoApplicab le to Use o f Serv ice fo r :

L igh tin g (Optional, w ith Serv ice Classification No. 1)

Character of S erv ice :A ltern ating Current, 60 Cycles, 110 volts, single phase.

R a te Tw o-Charge Demand Charge

$.50 per k ilow att o f connected load or fraction th ereo f

plus E nergy Charge$.04 per k ilow a tt hour per month.

I Minimum Charge $1.00 per month.

; Determ ination o f Dem and:■ Th e demand w ill be determ ined at

the option of the M unicipa lity , eith ­er by m easuring instrum ents or an $ inspection of the prem ises. .

I Term s o f Paym ent: j I f bills fo r energy consumed w ith - |j

in the V illa ge a re not paid w ith in j/ 10 days from date o f b illin g a Ren-jr a lty o f 1 0 % w ill be added, excep t i to the minimum charge.

Term :Service is discontinued at once up-! on request of the custom er. 30w2/

Mrs. Fred M artin , "M rs. L e ig h M ar­tin, M iss Ruby M artin on Saturday attended a shower and card party at the home 'of Mrs. H a rry M cConnell o f G eneva in honor o f M iss V irg in ia Adam s whose m arriage to S. A / J. M cM ath o f Penn Y an occurs in the near future.

PAL

H ig h J e ru s a le m T a x e s T h r e a te n e d

G iven as Reason fo r Proposed

R e lo c a t io n

and become lief.

A s a result o f the excessive assess­ment made by the assessors in the town o f Jerusalem on the property owned and operated by the v illa ge of Penn Yan, through the Municipal board, fo r the production o f e lectrica l energy and wra ter serv ice fo r the v i l ­lage o f Penn Yan, the added assess­m ent m akes the p lant a burden, in the opin ion o f the board members.

The M unicipal board Has appointed a special com m ittee to con fer w ith arch itects and have plans drawn for the erection o f a m odern plant on the v illa ge property near the m arsh and rem oval o f a il boilers, turbines, piimps and other equ ipm ent from the plant in Jerusalem and the abandonm ent of this plant, as it fe e ls that the d iffer­ence in taxes would shortly liquidate the cost o f a newr plant.

“ Th is w ill consolidate the interests o f the M unicipal board anil put the plant in a location on v illa g e property w here it w ill serve the best interests and, fu rtherm ore, e ffe c t a saving in fuel transportation and other things, a ll o f which are having due consider­ation by the Board.

“ Th e Board has filed a p rotes t w ith the Jerusalem assessors, and unless the assessm ent is reduced to a reason­able amount, the Board w ill com­mence operations on the new plant at an early date.

Old age re lie f w ill cost Yates county j

approx im ately $1 2 ,0 0 0 annually, ac- j ording to the rep ort o f Commission- j er o f Public W e lfa re Jay D f Barnes’ I. report to the Ya tes County Board o f : Supervisors.

Com m issioner Barnes reported 163 j applications fo r old age relief^ under ; the new law, w ith 20 rejected, 44 ac- ; cepted and 22 w ithdraw n fo r various j reasons. The 44 w hich w.ere accepted j. are costing an average o f about $21.50 ; a month or approx im ately $5 per week. H e estim ates that 90 people w ill be receiv in g old age re lie f in j Yates on Jan. 1 at an estim ated cost j o f about $24,000 .o-f which the State I pays half .leav ing the county’s share ; aproxim ately $12,0000. In a number o f ; these cases, the towns have been pay- i ing the cost o f the re lie f, acording to the o ffic ia l’s report. . '

S ixty per cent, o f the men and wo- i men over 70 w ho are rece iv in g aid, have never received re lie f before* M any o f these w ould probab ly be-

( come county charges and be cared fo r at the county home anyway, he believes. \ No m ore applications are expected this year, although addi­tiona l applications w ill probably be received a fter January. 1st as

| more people reach the age o f 70 years e lig ib le to apply for re-

Yates County.

By Hon. George R. CornwellHistory attempts to record the past for

the instructions of future ages.-—Tacitus.Th is article, or compnauon, mure

particularly designed to trace the political history o f the county o f Yat­es, w ill, however, be better appreciated by a statement of some o f the leading facts connected with its early settle­ment and growth.

The county as it now exists was for­m erly and until the year 1790 a part of the land o f the Senecas. It belonged^ to the Indian paradise o f the Genesee country. As it now lies between the; great thoroughfares of eastern and western! travel o f the great State of New York, so it did then between the eastern and western trails of the Iro­quois. W e are hot aware that any Indi­an. villages of great importance exist- j ed w ithin the bounds o f our county. T h e ir most important towns were on the great central trail which connected their long house from east to west. Rich and inviting as this region must have been, and bountiful in the pro­ducts o f the chase and the spontan­eous fruits o f the forest, it does not seem to have been a focal point for tribal gatherings or the seat o f au­thority and power. The Senecas, how- j ever, traced their supernatural origin j to Bare H ill, in the present town o f ] Middlesex, near Canandaigua lake, and authentic tradition seems to prove that the great Indian chief Red Jacket was born and reared within the j bounds o f the present county limits. {

I t was on the 9th day of September, 1779, that a detachment of r ifle men under the command of General Sul- j livan, by order o f General Washington, was sent up from Kanedasago, after-1 wards Geneva, New York, on the west j side: o f Seneca Lake to Kashong Creek, where they destroyed a large Indian village and laid waste the country for m iles in extent. The wigwams and all means o f subsistence of the Indians w ere completely annihilated. This j vengeful incursion, which broke the; spirit and destroyed the political fa­bric o f the Iroquois, is the only record-! ed vestige of war that ever occured on j the soil o f Yates county. It was con­nected with the perishing throes of I the great confederacy of Red Men, I which had dominated, with imperial sway from the St. Lawrence to th e : ■Gulf o f Mexico. It was preliminary to a new invasion of powerful arts, of cunning industries, o f another system o f social and political laws, of new re­ligious conceptions.

The war o f the Revolution closed in 1783. Immediately on the consum­mation o f peace, the colonies settled

their disputed boundaries and "rivalI claims to the interrior wilderness. W hile these events were in progress, movements for settling the country w ere awakening in various quarters. Most important to the region now com­prising Yates county was that of Jemima W ilkinson, called the “ Univer­sal Friend.’’ This remarkable person had for fourteen years preached in; Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Penn-; syLvania. She had a numerous body j o f adherents, including families of j character and influence, with consid­erable possessions.

In the month of; August, 1788,. the I first settlement was made, consisting f o f twenty-five males, besides women , and children. They first erected their I cabins on the old Indian trail, leading! from Kashong”'to Kanedasago1, after-S wmrds Geneva, in what is now the town of Torrey. They sowed the first I field o f wheat in the county, and it is I said, passed the follow ing winter in | the depths o f the wilderness, i with no communications with the!outside world and no neighbors

~ave hostile fndians and me deni­zens of the forest. They were, in truth, the pioneer party of the pioneers. They were the boldest of the bold. W hile the country was still tremulous with fear o f Indian hostilities, they ventured directly upon this ' hoice territory before they could have been aware that the red man’s title had been eliminated. They were first to confront as acthal settlers on their I beautifukground both the Indian and the still w ilder inhabitants of the forest.

Among the more prominent .early settlers, including those before named, were James Parker, Ezekiel Sher­man, David Wagener, Elijah Spencer and L ev i Benton, men o f character and means, who had much to do in shaping the future destinies of this county.

The spring o f 1789 brought larjie accessions to the new settlement. In 1790 the little colony was glad­dened by the arrival o f the “ Friend,” who was much pleased with the loca­tion. The same year a national cen­sus . was taken. The Friend settle-

1 ment numbered 260 persons, and in I the meantime other settlements had ! sprung up which gave 388 as the pop­ulation o f the entire region west o f Seneca Lake. The “ Friend” was lo­cated in comparative comfort in the midst o f her flock, having been pro­vided by them with a suitable resi­dence and a place o f worship. In the spring o f 1794, a fter a residenceor iour years m m e original settle-

| ment, the “ Friend”1 removed her household to her new abode in the

! va le o f the “ Brook Kedron,” ,in the ’ present town o f Jerusalem ,*-1 Yates county, on a tract o f land comprising

| about 1,400 acres, retaining about 300 ! acres in the original settlement. The “ Friend” gradually improved her sur-

! roundings- in the deep forests o f her 1 new abode, Jerusalem, by the co­operation and helpful aid o f her so­ciety. Th e influence o f this remark

1 able woman continued unabated with a large body o f her fo llowers through­out her life and after her death, which occurred on July 1, 1819. The concen­sus o f public opinion then, which has held good through the succeeding years, is that the “ Friend’s” labors conducted to the general w elfare and building up and settlement o f this goodly territory.

The census of 1820 shows that the r'egion w est o f Seneca Lake now in­cluded w ithin the bounds of the county o f Yates contained a population of 12,500. A t that time all o f the towns were fu lly organized a s . sub-divisions of old Ontario and Steuben, except ]; the town o f Torrey, which was form- [ ed from Benton and M ilo in 1851. I t ] is worthy o f note that the town o f Torrey was the first settled and the last entered. It may be proper to state a t this point: in the narrative

] that in 1820 the town o f Benton had 1 a population o f 3,357 and the town of M ilo 2,602. In these two towns the

I first settlements were made, j The then small v illage o f Penn Yan : was located mid-way between the towns o f Benton and Milo, w ith a population at this period o f 1,250.

, Penn Yan, located near the center o f j what was afterwards known as Yates ' county, on the outlet at the foot, o f Lake Ketika, naturally became the focal point from which other portions o f the county were settled. As early as 1810 men o f character and influ­ence from other portions o f the State had settled at Penn Yan, and it nat­urally became the seat o f , influence and power. Upon the erection o f the county, in 1823, Penn Yan was selected as the shire town, and as a conse­quence public, buildings w ere located there. Nature had provided a splen­did site upon which civilized man

might, build up a thriving, prosper­ous village. That consummation has been reached; in fact was attained nearly three-quarters o f a century ago. But each succeeding year has witnessed some material improve­ment, some development o f new re­sources, until by slow stages it has grown to contain a population of near­ly 5,000 souls, and is provided with all the enterprises, industries and com-t mercial advantages that can be found in any interior v illage of the Empire State. 1

| Among the pioneers o f this region j and founders of Penn Yan was David Wagener, a fo llow er o f the “ Friend,” and Abraham Wagener, his son, who deserve special mention as among the first who started the- village of Penn Yan on the high road to .suc­cess. Abraham W agener was the first postmaster and held the office for fourteen years. He was justice o f the peace for twenty years and the first president of the village after its incorporation in 1833. It may be of interest to state that the naming of Penn Yan came about as follows: Large numbers o f Pennsylvanians and Yankees from Rhode Island and Connecticut settled - here and r dis­pute arose concerning the name of the village. It was finally greed that the matter should be comprised by

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combining the first syllables o f Penn­sylvania and Yankee.

The second place of importance!and population in the county is the! village o f Dundee. Starkey, which

j is the southernmost town in the!| county of Yates, in which the v illa g e■ of Dundee is located, was ntmed af-

1 ter its first supervisor, John Starkey,I who was among the * early settlers.; The village of Dundee is up-to-date I and thriving. Its present population is about 1,500. It has been and is the home o f many prominent and re-

Isponsible men; among them assem- ! blymen, senators, members of Con- ! gress, lawyers o f distinction, business1 men of marked influence and politi­cians known and honored through­out the length and breadth of the State, detailed description of a por­tion of whom w ill be given in this

, article. t| On the. 27th day o f January, 1789,j Ontario county wafe created out o f a part o f Montgomery, and was named from the lake which in part formed its northern boundary. A t that time!

ja il that is now Yates county was a; pari, o f Ontario, but seven years') lat£r, on March 18, 1796, Steuben; was erected, and w ithin it was a por-l tion of the territory which is now in-

| eluded in Yates, being the townships : o f Starkey and Barrington and a j part of Jerusalem. No further mater­ial change affecting this immediate locality was made until the year 1823, when Yates county was erected from Ontario. The towns o f Starkey and Barrington and a. part o f Jerusalem were taken from Steuben and added to the new formation in 1824. This new county was named in honor of Joseph C. Yates, then Governor of _ the State of New York.

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It w ill be o f interest to note that at this early period this region o f the State was known far and wide aa being the home o f men of excel- lent charctqr and ability. The w ari w ith Great Britain in 1812-15 had| brought many o f its more prom inent, citizens to the front. Among the re­sidents o f this portion of Ontario w h o ; represented her in the State Leg is la­ture were Samuel Lawrence, in 1809, and also in 1816; Dr. Joshua Lee, in 1814; E lijah Spencer, in 1819; Dr. W illiam Cornwell, in 1820 and 1821, and Aaron Remer. in 1822. Aaron

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Remer, who represented Ontario county in the Legislature in 1822, was the first to represent, the newly- erected county of Yates. W illiam M. ) Oliver, at this time a resident of Penn Yan, was appointed by Governor Yat­es as the first judge of the Yates Common Pleas and held office from 1823 to 1828. James Robinson was the first sheriff; Abram H. Bennett, the first county clerk; James Taylor, the first district attorney; and Abra­ham P. Vosburgh, the first surrogate. The first Court held in Yates county, was in June, 1823. John Sutton, of Tompkins county, George H. Foster, of Herkimer, and Joseph B. Walton, of Otsego, were • the commissioners who located the county seat.

The civil government of the county i of Yates, having been established by 1 statutory law, opened new fields of political preferment, in which shei with becoming modesty asserted her j claims. Yates has always been known as strongly partisan in her political, convictions. She was safely Demo- j cratic for more than thirty years i succeeding the organization of the j county, and has been one! of the re­liable counties in the Republican column since its organization in 1856. i In the realm of politics her promi­nent and deserving citizens have for-| ged to the front on many important 1 occasions. |

The village newspapers have beenj most valuable assets of the county of I Yates. In the year 1818, five years before the county’s autonomy was as­sured, the first journal was establish­ed. Abram H. Bennett the first county clerk of Yates county, was! its proprietor. The venture was call­ed The Penn Yan Herald. The name of the paper was changed to The Penn Yan Democrat in 1820, and this title it has since retained. Through-1 out its entire career the Democrat j has supported the political party 1 whose name it bears. It has an hon- i orable record for consistency and devotion to principle. Harry C, j Earles, the present proprietor and editor, is a man of ability and the paper has largely grown under his management.

The Yates Republican was estab­lished by E. J. Fowle in 1824 and continued for ten years, when the name of, the paper was changed to The Enquirer, which continued for two years.

In 1837 The Democratic W h ig was established and was published by William Ohild, N. D. Suydam and j Rodney L, Adams until 1852, when it was sold to Cleveland and Look. I Four years later Stafford C, Cleve-1 land assumed entire control Of all the printers who have graced Yates' county with their presence he was

; easily the chief. Of stalwart and in­telligent appearance, Mr. Cleveland combined great strength of mind with j an independent character, and soon won the respect and confidence of the people. Upon his accession the name of his newspaper was changed and became The Yates County Chron­icle, which title it still retains. ■ JohnD. Wolcott, afterwards district at­torney of Yates county, was, for sev­eral years connected with Mr. Cleve­land in the publication of the Chron-j icle. Stafford c. Cleveland was one1 of the founders of the Republican party. His paper took high rank among the Republican papers of the State. He was a writer of acknowl­edged ability and power. Mr. Cleve­land, notwithstanding his duties as editor, found time to prepare and publish a history of Yates county, which has been a very valuable asset of the county, and to which the writ­er of this article is greatly indebted,

as well as to iacts ana portions of the text embracing the early history of the county. The Chronicle is now published by Ayres & W ilson and is recognized as one of the leading weekly papers of W estern N ew York.

Its prosperous business extends throughout every portion of the state, and demonstrates most clearly its superior management and control.

The Penn Yan Express, founded by Geo. D. A. Bridgman in 1865, passed under the control of the present pub­lisher, Reuben A. Scofield, in 1872. In Ms hands it has been successful. In politics it has been continuously Re­publican. Mr. Scofield is a veteran of the Civil W ar and has held office of county treasurer two full terms with great acceptance. _ ,

Editor Scofield is an acknowledged exceptionally able writer, and fear­less in his advocacy of the principles of his party.

The Dundee Observer, published at Dundee, was established in 1878 by Eugene Vreeland, and was published by him until last Year, 1911. Until 1882 it was neutral in politics, but since that time has advocated Repub­lican principles. In the hands of Mr. Vreeland the Observer has exerted a wide influence in political affa irs.. j Mr. Vreeland is Serving his fourth . term as postmaster at Dundee. The Observer is at present published by | J. R. McCormick.

Amid the multitude of the names i of those who have made the history I of the county of Yates this limited space will serve to bring but a small ’ number to the notice of the public. Those who are commemorated as having assisted in the permanent up- | lift of this community are possibly I not more deserving than hundreds ofr others, but w ill suffice to illustrate! the development and the growth of the county.

W llilam M. Oliver, although not] one of the early pioneers, came to Penn Yan at an early date. H e was then a young man, but by his prudent and conservative counsels very soon ; became one of the leading citizens | of this section. For many years he I shaped the politics o f this county and was one of the state leaders of : his party. Upon the organization of 1 th|e county he was appointed firs t ' judge of the old Court of Common Pleas, which office he held until 1828. He was again appointed in 1838 and/ held office until 1841. H e was State senator four years, 1836-40, and dur­ing the time was elected president of the Senate, thereby becoming Lieutenant Gdvernor of the State. H e was elected to Congress in 1840 and served one term. Judge Oliver , was a man of strict integrity and I

ranked high among the officials ot the state.

Henry W ells came to Penn Yan in 1829, where he resided until his death in 1868. He always stood in the front rank of his profession and had a large and lucrative practice. H is first office was that of district attor­ney of the county. H e was elected \ justice of the Supreme Court in ,1847, - he having acted before that date b y ! appointment as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. H e w as justice of the Supreme Court at the'tim e of his i death. As an able and conscientious judge none stood higher or was more highly esteemed.

Delazon Sunderlin, an able and dis- !"?Mshed jurist of this county, com- nxgLi.-: ... , law in Penn

menced the practice^ , gay jYan in 1846. H e w as district a tto r-, ney 1851-54. H is son, M artin J. Sun-!’ derlin* was also an able lawyer and^ gained great success in his chosen profession. H e removed from Penn',

Yan to W atkins/ Schuyler county, ana i served many years as judge and sur­rogate of that county.

Daniel M orris was born at Fayette, ; Seneca county, January 4, 1811, but] removed while quite young to Yates j county. H e worked upon a farm inj his boyhood, and his early opportuni-! ties w ere limited. H aving obtained

! an education through his own exer-j I tions, he taught school for a few] j years, and then engaged in the prac-.i tice of law at Rushville, where he

j built up an excellent reputation as a! lawyer. In 1847 he w as elected dis-j trict attorney of Yates county andl served for four years. H e was elect-!

led M em ber of Assem bly from Yatesi ’ county in 1858, and held the office for |- one term,, being chairm an of the ju- j diciary committee. In 1860 he re-1 moved to Penn Yan. In 1862 he was i

! elected upon the Republican ticket \; to the 38th Congress and was re-1 j elected the fo llow ing term, being dur-1 ’ ing both terms a member of the j judiciary committee. H e ably sup-f ported while in Congress the recon­struction measures of his party, and \ opened the debate in the House upon f

I the adoption o f the 13th Amendment, j!I maintaining that the abolition o f : slavery w as a necessary preliminary j to the reconstruction of the Union. | In 1867 he resumed the practice of j law at Penn Yan, and died there April I 22, 1889.

Justice S. G lover took up his resi­dence in Penn Yan in 1830, where he

, practiced his profession until he re -! moved to Sagaw an in 1865. Mr. Glov­er had a good legal mind and was! classed as am ong the first lawyers of j

j the county. H e w as form erly a pro-1 jnounced W hig, but affiliated with thqi j Republican party from its organiza- ! tion. H e w as recognized as a man! of character and ability. j

I Abram V. H arpending came to } j Penn Y an in 1840 and studied law in | the office of Evert V an Buren, a dis­

tingu ished barrister residing in P en n i Yan at that period. Mr. Harpending ; was a brilliant man and stood at the j head of his profession. H e was dis­

t r ic t attorney o f the county, 1853-56; j | M em ber of Assem bly, 1857; State I I senator, 1870-71, at the time of his death. H is untimely death, coming j to him as it did while holding and exercising the functions of an honor­able office, created a deep sensation 1 at his home and cast a gloom and j sadness over the entire community. >|!

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Y ates County.

B y Hon. G eorge R . Cornwell

(Continued from last week.) "William S. B riggs was born in the;

tow n of Milo, Yates county, October :30, 1820. H e w as admitted to. the practice of law in 1856. H is w ho le ; course w as m arked by honesty an d ; uprightness. H e held many offices of honor and trust, to the satisfaction1, of his fellow citizens. Judge Briggs w as a politician of the first rank, w a s ! suave and gentlemanly in his deport-; ment. The fact that he held the; office of judge and surrogate of the ; county for twenty-four years, and; always w ith acceptance, distinguishes; him as a man of no common mould.! Judge B riggs w as one of the founders o f the Republican party in Yates county and a firm and conscientious supporter of Republican principles.

H anford Struble w as born in the tow n of Milo, Yates county, May 14, 1842. Upon completion of his ed­ucation Judge Struble, as he was af­terw ards fam iliarly known to his host of friends, w as employed for a time as principal o f the Dundee High School. In 1862 he enlisted as a soldier in the Civil W ar, Company

B, 148th Regim ent, N ew Y ork Vol-1 unteers. H e was chosen first lieuten­ant o f his company and was a fter­wards promoted to major. In Febru­ary, 1865, M ajor Struble was on duty! b e fo re Richmond and entered the . c ity w ith President L incoln on the third day o f A pril fo llow ing. A fter the close o f the w ar M ajor Struble cam e to Penn Yan and commenced; -the practice o f law. M ajor Struble ’ w as elected district attorney o f Yates county in the fa ll o f 1869, and held the office fo r six years. H e repre­sented the county in the State L eg is­lature in 1871-2. H e was elected ! •county judge and surrogate in the! ta ll o f 1883 and held the office for the 12 years fo llow ing. Judge Struble was a staunch Republican and , was a lways ready and w illin g to do ■ iMs fu ll share in support o f the nom­inees o f the party. H e was a* man of splendid address, and the fam e o f his,; ora tory reached fa r beyond the con-1 .fines o f his county. As a law yer h e ; ranked high and his judicial opinions w ere considerate o f the rights of contending parties.

M orris Brown, a distinguished and a b le lawyer, came to Penn Yan from Ham m ondsport in the year 1850. H e j w as a man o f fine presence, of broad cu lture and dignified manner. In 1843. he represented Steuben county in the Leg is la tu re o f this State. H e held the office o f reg ister in bank­

ruptcy fo r severa l years a fter com­ing to Penn Yan,

Benjam in L. H oyt was born in L itch field , Conn., June 22, 1819, and cam e to Penn Yan in the, year 1840. H e was adm itted to the practice of law in 1841 and continued the prac­tice o f his profession until the close j

I o f his long and useful life, which ; occurred in 1910. Mr. H oyt was one ! o f the founders o f the Republican party and distinguished h im self in many w ays as a patriot and a man o f

i ab ility and power. Mr. H oyt held many offices o f honor and trust and was re liab le to the last degree. One o f his sons, B rigad ier General Ralph W . H oyt, graduate o f W est Point, is a man o f rare attainm ent and is now- on duty w ith the United States A rm y in Texas. Charles S. Hoyt, another son, has been prominent in the poli­tics o f Yates county and the State fo r tw enty years and more. For the last sixteen years he has been in the

i em ploy o f the Governm ent at Wash-! j ington, D. C., as disbursing officer of ] the House o f Representatives, a posi­tion o f great responsibility and trust,

j Mr. H oy t has maintained his business interests at Dundee, Yates county, and is regarded as among the fo re­most and reliab le business men of this region.

Dr. W illiam Cornwell came to Penn Yan from D elaw are county as early as 1809. H e was a son o f W illiam Cornwell, Sr., a Revolutionary patri­ot, who also settled in Yates county

:a t an ea r ly date. Dr. Cornwell had | much to do in the early settlement: and grow th o f Penn Yan and was a physician o f m erit and distinction. A fte r the w ar w ith Great Britain, in 1812, in which he served as surgeon’s mate, he returned to Penn Yan and was adm itted to the bar and prac­ticed the profession o f law for many j years w ith marked success. H e rep -: resented Ontario county In the State ‘ L eg is la tu re o f 1821, and had great influence in the organization o f the county o f Yates. Mr. Cornwell was a grea t adm irer o f General Jackson and was a strong supporter o f his -policies as President. H is death oc­curred in 1859. H is son, Postmaster

■ Cornwell, has been a staunch Repub­lican since the organization o f tfle party in 1856.

John D. W olcott was born in the1 town o f Starkey, Yates county. H e ’ read law w ith Evert Van Buren in Penn Yan, and upon his admission to the bar commenced the practice o-f the law. H e was elected to the office o f d istrict attorney o f Yates county in 1862 and held the office w ith marked acceptance two full terms. H e was afterwards associated for several years I w ith Stafford & Cleveland as assistant editor and part proprietor o f the Yates County Chronicle. Mr. W o lco tt was a staunch Republican, an advocate o f superior ab ility and developed a broad and accurate know ledge o f the law. H e may fa ir ly he ranked as among the reliable, straightforward, notable law yers o f Yates county.

Other members o f the Yates coun-j ty bar long since gone to their re- j ward, who during their lives w ere an honor to their profession, w ere: Roderick N. Morrison, James T a y ­lor, James L. Seeley, L ew is J. W il­kins, Benedict W . . Franklin, James V. Vanalen, David B. Prosser, John L. Lew is, A ndrew O liver, Samuel H , W ells , H en ry M. Stewart, H iland G. W olcott, H en ry A. W isner, Charles S. Baker, W illiam D. Dwelle, James Spicer, John H. Butler and Darius A. Ogden.

John T . Knox was born February 26, 1844. ' H e was graduated at Ham-

i ilton College in 1867 and came to Penn Yan in 1869. H e was principal o f the Penn Yan H igh School in 1869- in 18.69-70 and was admitted to (

’ practice law in 1872. Mr. K n ox ‘: has - a lw ays been a staunch i ! Republican and among the leaders o f; the party In the county. g H e held I

| the office o f d istrict attorney o f;| Yates county nine years; judge and i surrogate, 12 yea rs ; v illa ge clerk, 1 2 S years, and has made good in every instance. F ew men stand higher in the estim ation o f the people than Judge John T. Knox.

Calvin J. Huson is known as among the leaders o f his profession in W est­ern New- York . H e Is a law yer o f ability, fo rce and power. H e was elected as a Dem ocrat to represent the strong Republican burgh o f Yates

I county in 1890... During the session o f 1891 he held the im portant office o f Assem bly journal clerk. H e was appointed deputy com ptro ller in 1892 and held the office during the fu ll term. Mr. Huson. has been a leader o f his party in Ya tes county fo r many years. H e devotes much o f his tim e and attention to agricu lture and is recognized as an authority in agri­cultural matters- throughout the State.

Thom as Carm ody was born in the town o f M ilo, Ya tes county, October 9, 1859. He, was educated in the Penn Yan School and Cornell U n iver­sity. H e is known and recognized throughout the State as a man o f ab ility and a platform orator o f the first class. A s a lawyer, he takes a high place among the leading law yers o f the-state. H e was appointed d istrict attorney o f Yates County by G over­nor H ill and executed the office w ith m arked fide lity and ability. Mr. Car­m ody was elected to the office o f at­torney general o f the S tate at the general election o f 1910 and assumed the office January 1, 1911/

Presen t m embers o f the Yates m ention are: G ilbert H . Baker,Ya tes county judge and surrogate; Spencer F. L incoln , present d istrict a ttorney; M ichael A. Leary, W illiam T. M orris, Abraham Gridley, John H. j Johnson, John T. Andrews, W illia m H. Fiero, H en ry V. L . Jones, H en ry H a j- pending, G eorge S. Sheppard, Charles | W . K im ball, J. Frank Douglass, H enry! J .-Sad ler, C linton B. Struble, Silas j K inne, H a tley K . Arm strong and Har-I ry B. Harpending.

G eorge P. Lord, son o f Benjamin M. and E lizabeth F lem ing Lord, wasi oorn m Barrington, Yates county/on

j ' u y 1831, and was rea red 1 on the! VJ

obtained in the common schools, un-1 der the guidance o f his father, who was a teacher. H e was prepared for cpllege at L im a Seminary and grad­uated from H obart in the classical course in 1856. A fte r leaving college,Mr. Lord spent three years in the I W est as a teacher. Returning in 1859, | he m arired Miss E liza Bunce and settled on a farm. In the fa ll o f 1860 I he was nominated by the Republican party and elected to the office of school commissioner, holding the o f- 1 fice for six years and declin ing a re-| election. Mr. Lo rd ’s la rge acquain­tance, his ready tact and clear in -; sight made him a political factor to- be counseled w ith in all the conven­tion^ o f his party in county, district and State. In 1871, and again in 1872, Mr. Lord served in the State \ Assem bly. In the latter year, while I acting as chairman o f the committee j on public education, he secured an | appropriation o f $125,000 for acad-j em ies and the h igher departments of I union schools, in the face o f strong opposition. In 1880, 1881, 1.882 and ! 1883 Mr. Lord represented the old 28th Senate district. In the session o f 1 8 8 1 he presented the name of E lb ridge G. Lapham for United States Senator, in place of Roscoe Conklin resigned, and fo r six weeks was the only senator vo ting for Mr. Lapham, who was finally chosen.

Mr. Lord was a member of the tax commission which form ulated the corporation tax laws of the State. In 1896 Mr. Lord was appointed a State c iv il serv ice comm issioner and served during the terms o f Governors M or­ton and Black. As a c iv il service com m issioner Mr. Lord strenuously j advocated the importance o f g iv ing! a high mark to prove fitness, butj was over-ruled by Governor Roose-1 velt, who favored a strict educational j test. A s a delegate in the Republican state convention o f 1910, Mr. Lord | acted w ith the “ Old Guard’’ or “ Stal-, warts.” H e was a vice-president o f I the convention. Senator Lord, as fam iliarly known in Yates county and throughout the en tire State, is a man o f strict in tegrity , unflinching coW age, courtly and agreeable in manners, loya l to his friends, a re­cognized leader in politics fo r a period o f m ore than fifty years, and a

j business man o f rare judgm ent and experience. S ince 80 years o f age sits upon h im , lightly, and that he may liv e fo r many years to en joy his | well-earned laurels is the sincere and I earnest w ish o f his m any friends. I Senator Lord is one o f the rem ark -;

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Yates County.

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able men who seems never to grow old, retaining his influence as of old in the councils of his party.

John S. Sheppard is a grandson of Morris F. Sheppard, who was very prominent among the pioneers of Yates county, and the eldest son of Charles C. Sheppard, who for many years until his death was an influ­ential figure in the affair of this community. John S. Sheppard was born in the village of Penn Yan in the year 1840 and except for a few years has continuously resided here. «As.a business man Mr. Sheppard has always taken high rank and in poli­tics is influential. He was a member

©f the Board of Education of the vil­lage of Penn Yan from 1876 to 1906 and for several years its president j H e has been a member of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan since 1870 and during the greater portion of the time their president. He represent­ed the Senate district comprising the counties of Steuben and Yates one term, 1896-1899. He was a director of the Genesee Trust Company, of Rochester. He is a man of large af­fairs, strong personality and great business ability.

Ferris P. Hurd deserves particular mention among the notable and dis­tinguished citizens of the county. He was born in the town of Reading, Schuyler county, September 13, 1823, and came to this county in 1846 or 1847. For some time after moving to the town of Jerusalem he was en­gaged in the lumber business. His residence was west of Branchport and his farm was known far and wide as one of the best in the county of Yates. He was a man of unusual pleasing address, and his in­fluence was sure to be found upon the right side of every question, pub­lic or private. Mr. Hurd was a staunch Republican and many times represented his town in the county legislature. He also served several years as clerk of the board of super­visors. His advice was sought in all matters affecting the nublic welfare, his great executive ability and integ­rity of character making him a lead­er in the community. He died Au­gust 26, 1890. ,

Among other prominent names who deserve special notice is that of Joseph F. Crosby, of the town of Barrington, who for more than thirty years was one of its leading charact­ers. Mr. Crosby came from R evo lt tionary stock. He was deservedly prominent politically. He was super­visor of his town for several terms. H e held the office of sheriff of Yates county one term and county clerk two terms. His was an active, brave spirit, always and forever helpful of j others. In his later years he was af- 1

fectionatelly known the county over« as “Uncle Joe.” J

Lewis B. Graham, a prominent figure in Yates county politics for many years, for most of his life was a resident of the town of Italy. He was a veteran of the Civil W ar, was clerk of the county two terms and held many other offices of honor and trust to the entire satisfaction of the public.

Dewitt Clinton Gage also was a resident of the town of Italy for many years. He owned at one time a farm of 400 acres in that town and was a man of probity and honor Two of his sons was born in Italy and arose to eminence. One of them was elected Governor of the State of California and is today high in the councils of the Republican party of that State. DeWitt C. Gage removed from Italy to Saginaw, Mich., was postmaster of Saginaw three terms and was afterward elected and served as justice of the Supreme Court. He was succeeded as postmaster by his son, Grover Gage. There is an old adage that “the town of Italy is a good place to emigrate from,” and surely a large number of her sons have arrived at eminence in other portions of the country.

BANKS.

The present Banking Institutions of Penn Yan are a credit to the vil­lage and county, and recognized as among the soundest and most ably constructed of their class in the state.

The Honorable Mason L. Baldwin, president of Baldwin’s Bank (most highly esteemed) is still at the head of the institution, a marvel of busi­ness activity, and greatly interested in whatever concerns the business interests and prosperity of the village anl county.

John H. Johnson, president Citizens Bank, conducts that institution with marked fidility and trust, and is counted as among the reliable and safe guardians of the public.

The Banks at Dundee are also in a prosperous condition and reflect great credit upon their managers. It is safe to state the banking facilities of the county were never in better hands, nor in safer condition.

In closing this brief history it may be proper to add that Yates county is proud of its advance in all that pertains to intellectual and moral growth, to good citizenship and hap­py and convenient surroundings. The period from Cleveland to Hughes is marked by rapid strides in all that pertains to general improvement.

Evolution, heredity and environ­ment to history have become house­hold words, and their application to history has influenced every one who has had to trace the development of a people, the growth of an institu­tion or the establishment of a cause.

Memory is that precious capacity of the mind which gives us the large inheritance of the past that is one of the chief glories of civilized man. W ith all its limitations and errors, it is an attribute of God-like power and beneficence. It rebuilds the past and repeoples it with vital and am­bitious ,, forces. It makes each suc­ceeding generation the inheritor of the intellectual wealth, the moral progress and the material improve­ment of its predecessors. Memory ties the past to the future and preser­ves the continuity of historial suc­cession.

History is the cumulative memory,! of ages and the storehouse of human wisdom and experience. It gives a unitary life to the race, ranking the individual as but a leaf oh the great tree of humanity, of which the trunk and spreading branches are repre­sented by the past and vresent of the entire evolution.

CO UNTY OFFICERS.

COUNTY JUDGES.Hanford S tru b le ..........................1|883John T. K n o x . . , . . > ....... . . . . . . .1896Gilbert B a k e r . . . ...........................1909

D ISTR ICT A TTO R N E Y S .Andrew C. Harwi ck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 8 3Charles S. Baker ........... ,1886Thomas Carmody...........................1891John T. Knox . . . .........1892Abraham Gridley ^............1895 I

| Charles W . K in ba ll. ----- . .1898: Abraham Gridley......................... .1901i Spencer F. Lincoln..................... ,.1907

C O U N TY CLERKS.I Edward Kendall .............. • • • • 1883j Joseph F. Crosby............. ..1889William S. Cornwell ....... . • .1892George S. Goodrich....................... 1895John E. W atk ins....................... . . .1898Henry T. Reed. 1......................• • > .1901Edwin M. Potter • • • 1910

SH ERIFFS.CharlesS peelman ...........Michael A. Pearce.’. . ...............Perry W . Daines ...........W illiam T. Beaum ont. .......John W . Smith, 2 n d . . . . .........J. Robert M ille r ............ .Edmund Crosby............. .Elias F. Pu lver ........ . . .Delmar J. K napp ......... .....John F. Thompson. .............. ;

COUNTY TR EASU RE RS.Daniel F. Randolf .........

| David G. G ray .................. ..I J. Henry Smith.................i Charles Hunter ....... ..J. Monrqe L ow n .........Reuben A. Scofield. .Frank M. McNi f f . , ............. . . . .

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E E. CHURCH TO OBSERVE CENTENNIAL.Celebration to Be Held in Ma rch;—Present Church Build­

ing Started in 1896.

T H E P R E S E N T E D IF IC E .

The Penn Yan Methodist E p iscopa l' church, which w ill celebrates its cen- tennnial in March, 1924, is one of the largest and best charges in Geneva district. I t had its beginning when i n ; 1792 Ezra Cole, a grandfather of Frank j Cole, o f Benton, came to these parts soon a fter the first white settler and form ed a few o f his fo llow ers into a relig ious society,' holding meetings in the barn o f L ev i Benton. The fo llow in g year Mr. Cole attended a conference in Philadelphia- and requested a preacher be sent here.

In 1793 the Seneca circuit was fo rm ­ed and the fo llow in g year saw the for- 1 mation o f the first Methodist class of the, county. Quarterly meetings w ere held in a log house near where the Shaw farm is now located. The f ir s t , m inisters to v is it these parts w ere Revs. Colbert and Cook who came in 1793. They w ere fo llow ed b y ' such pioneers as A lw ard W aite, T h orn ton ' F lem m ing, John Lackey,, Joseph W a it- i by, Ann ing Owen, Ham ilton Jefferson, Johnson Dunham, Johnas Stokes, R ich ­ard Lyon, Johnathan Bateman and Samuel Castner.

The first Methodist house of worship was built in 1826 on Chapel street, near where the Hopkins house now stands and is described as a building 33x60 feet w ith the pulpit in the east end o f the building and a ga llery in the other side fo r the choir, while side ga lle r ies w ere extended between. The w alls w ere plastered and w jiite wash­ed and the w indows w ere the small glass affairs. There w ere no blinds, no carpet on the rough floor, no cush­ions in the pews and the pulpit was o f the high type in which the m inister was hidden from the view of his con­gregation when he was seated. The building was heated w ith wood stoves

and lighted w ith a chandelier o f sperm oil lamps. The pews w ere straight- backed w ith doors and w ere stained a dark red. A red drapery covered the fron t and sides o f the pulpit, which was reached by clim bing a flight o f stairs that protruded from each side. A peculiar feature was that the men w ere seated on one side of the church and the women on the other.

The first incorporation papers w ere taken by George Sherman, A rch Strowbridge, Abraham Prosser, Sam­uel Law rence and Samuel Henderson, as trustees and w ere signed by Coun­ty Judge W illiam O liver. They w ere plttced on file in the County C lerk ’s office. To attend church in those days took m ore than re lig ion and required considerable courage. Residents of M ilo used to come along the tra il! p rinc ipa lly inhabited by Indians, w ild ! animals and s nakes and carried to r­ches, which w ere lighted at night to drive away the w ild animals.

The first Methodist prayer meeting! w as held in 1823 in the home o f John Durham where the Benham H otel is now located. The m eetings w ere con­tinued until 1826 when they w ere held in the church building. The incorpora­tion papers ca ll the first society of the Methodist Episcopal church o f Penni Yan. A ll went w ell w ith the church in its early beginning and in 1834 under the pastorate - o f Rev. Robert Parker I an addition was purchased, to the lo t , , fo r $200. Th ings w ere not destined to run smooth a ll the way how ever and in 1842 the slavery question came near ’ being the cause o f a bad separation. In one instance a negro, who had been invited to speak had his congregation driven from the church by the other faction o f the slavery question.

Some 21 o f the few members le ft the society and form ed what was k nown as the W esleyan society holding m eet­ings in H oy t ’s tavern which stood where the O liver house now stands. Some returned a fter the slavery ex­citem ent had subdued, w h ile others

drifted to other denominations. In T> 1843 the early h istory o f the church was lost in a fire which destroyed the V clothing store o f M organ and Stark, lo­cated where the Seeley Clothing store , is now.

In 1848 when Rev. A lpha W righ t h was pastor, ..the parsonage was pur- ' chased fo r the sum of $1500. The ! church building was also repaired and and a pipe organ installed. A new cer- I tificate _ o f incorporation was made, / probably because o f the loss o f the records by firev These articles w ere i dated January ?, 1849, and w ere sign- j ed by 42 names o f male members of the church. In 1856-57 Rev. Nathan ! Fellow s became pastor and it was \! voted to purchase the Congregational church property fo r $3000. The financ- 'j ing o f this project was a hard problem

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because o f the scarcity o f money at that time and it was helped along by Lew is B. Graham, who declared that he would as soon g ive up his re lig ­ion as the new "church project. The church had 225 members at that time. In 1858, under the pastorate o f John C. Noble the church building was im­proved and enlarged, and in 1866 the parsonage was repaired and enlarged at a cost o f $1600. In 1896, under the pastorate, o f Rev. J. F. Beebe, it was

i voted to erect tffie present edifice on ! the site o f the Congregational church,1 and to use the court house for ser-j vices until the church was completed.

— On August 23, 1896, a fa rew ell I service to the old church was held and on September 1st o f the same i year a contract was made w ith Jacob : A llin gton fo r the demolition o f the o ld ! building and erection o f a new one.! The corner stone o f the present j church was laid on July 29 o f the next j year, w ith appropriate services. The; corner stone contains a bible, church hymnal, copies o f church, papers and: v illage papers, lists o f members of church, officers, teachers and schol­ars in the Sunday School, members of Y. P. S. C. E., and church officers and names o f church officials in the year o f 1843 to 1896, photograph of th e ! church and Sunday School room and one set of proof coins fo r 1896 along w ith an Am erican flag.

The principal g ifts to the new edifice were cushions and draperies by Mrs. Lorim er O gden ; auditorium carpets, |

-communion set o f lov ing cups for L o v e ! Feast and bible fo r Sunday School room by H enry C. U nderw ood; pulpit chairs by Mr. and Mrs. E li Lew is ; the| pulpit by Mrs .Mattie W. House’s Sun­day School class; pulpit bible and

. hymn book by Ralph and Bessie Rus­sell'; tilin g in vestibule by Mrs. W . : Delos H o llow e ll; communion table by! Mrs. H. J. M onell; to ilet room by M rs .' J. L. Ogden; desk and safe, fo r pas­to r ’s room, by Dr. W. W . Sm ith; fram ­ed portrait o f pastor and fam ily. Rev.

V A. N. Damon. M em orial w indows w ere 1 'donated by H en ry C. Underwood, for nis mother; Prof. Landon, fo r his par­ents;, Mrs. Susan Gage, fo r Mr. and Mrs. F isher W . H ew son; also by Sun­day School classes o f D. C. Ayres, Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Beebe, Mrs. M at­tie House, Mrs. J. D Rogers,, Mr. GeO. Cornwell gave a w indow fo r Rev. E. J. Hermans. The ladies guild, a so­ciety form ed to help build and fu r­nish the new church, gave in the | neighborhood o f $6000.

j ju st. when the Sunday School was organized is not known and accord -1 ing to some o f the oldest m em bers1 there was one going qs early as 1835.

1 r ' W ^'C I t was re-organ ized in 1876. This Pennit Yan A u x ilia ry o f the W om an’s Fore ign

M issionary Society was organized by lg Mrs. W illiam Butler, a returned m is- ?r s ionary from India in 1870, and in

1883, during the pastorate o f Rev. JE. M. M ills, the W om an’s Hom e M ission-

V a ry Society was born a sister to the F ore ign Society.

c; , On January 17, 1888, th irty-oneLf members o f the church signed the (- charter membership cards fo r a young02 peop le ’s spciety. I t is now ca lled the a] ■ Epw orth League.ii | . Since 1824 the church has had fo rty ie i pastors as fo llows. Rev. A bner Case

r'I - 1824-26; Rev. John B. A lverson 1826- ie- L- 28; Rev. Abner Chase 1829; Rev. M an­

ley Tookerl830; Rev. Chester V. A d- f gate 1831-32; Rev. W illiam , H oag 1833;

Rev. Robert T. Pa rker i834 ; Rev. i Thom as J. Champion 1835; Rev. Seth

it | M attison 1836; Rev. Thom as J. Cham-q: - pion 1837; Rev. A llan Steele 1838;

■ Rev. Freeborn, G. H ibbard 1839; Rev.I Wrilliam P. Davis 1840; Rev. F. G H ib-

a j bard 1841-42; Rev. C linton W . Sears .j 1843; Rev. Isiah McMahon 1844-45;

a Rev. W illiam H. Goodwin, 1846-47;w Rev. Apha W righ t 1848-49; Rev. Israe l

| a I H. K e llo g 1850-51; Rev. D. D. Buck jI 1 v *.■ ....- ; Ie 1852-53; Rev. Thom as Tousey 1854-

55; Rev. Nathan F e llow s 1856-57; Rev. ! ■ d '/ i John C. Noble 1858-59; Rev. Sanford j

VanBenSchotten 1860-61; Rev. Charles j s - W esley Bennett 1862-63; Rev. D. D.;n Buck 1864-65; Rev. Thom as TouseyI f C|, .1866-68; Rev. James La tim er 1869; jI ; Rev. W. R. Benham 1870-71; R ev. M.I ■ S. Lee t 1873; Rev. J. P. Farm er 1874- j i

76; Rev. K . P. Jervis 1876-77; Rev. A. j N., Damon 1878-80; Rev. E. M. M ills /

1 1881-84; R ev J .H. .M cCarty 1884-86; j IR ev J. V. Benham 1887-89; Rev. L . F. j I

/c Congdon 1890; Rev. A rthur Copeland | JI i 1891-93; Rev. J. F. Beebe 1894-97; ,! j

iv Rev. F. T. K een ey 1898; Rev. H. E. j ;F rohock 1899-1900; R ev WT. H Giles, I 1901. Since Rev. G iles pastorate, R ev. I ' D ew itt H ooker has served a number j

H'jj o f years; Rev. H. I. Andrew s, s ix Iy ea rs ; Rev. L. S. Boyd, six years and j at the present tim e W a lte r S. W e igh t

; I is the pastor.

The church has a m em bership o f . about 500 and raided nearly $55001

’ fo r benevolences, during the past year.- $ Th.e com m ittee in charge o f th e 'cen - ;

tennial celebration is D. C. A yres. L . | I ii ? ’ £ latm an» R °y E - W heeler, Mrs. Guv ! ']- ^ rs- F rank H. Cole, and |

I rr Mrs. C. N. Bacon.

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SECOND CHURCH HOME.

FIRST M. E. CHURCH.

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To Help Farmers Samuel P. Burrill

In an effort to relieve the situation o f the rural dwellers because of the, continued drought, the Penn Yanj Municipal Board on Monday opened! em ergency water stations at six points in the village, where fire plugs w ill be opened and farm ers may. carry away; a ll the water that they desire.

H. A llen W agener, chairman of the i hoard, anounced that it was brought to the attention o f the local board that farm ers w ere trave ling several m iles to Keuka Lake and. other ad­jacent bdies o f water to transport enough w ater to supply their liv in g needs and to water their stock. The auxiliary w ater stations have been opened at North Main Street, East Main Street, Clinton Street, at the base o f W idow H ill Lake Street and Elm Street.

The stations w ill be open as long as the w ater shortage cntinues.

Annual Meeting of Fair Asso.

Do the People Want a Fair Or Not, Is the Question

The fo llow in g letter is to be mailed to a ll members o f the Yates County A gricu ltu ra l Society and to others whom the Society thinks w ill be in­terested.

Th e Society urges that everyone in terested in the continuance of the Fa ir be present at the meeting.

! Dear Friend :The annual m eeting of the Yates

i County A gricu ltu ra l Society w ill be held W ednesday, December 3, 1930. in Grange H a ll, Penn Yan, N. Y. at 2 p. m. and we urge you to be present.

F or severa l years the officers and directors o f the Society have tried to do their best in arranging fo r and

1 conducting the annual Fair.T h e ir efforts have not been re­

warded w ith much co-operation from the general public and the Society in some years has lost money.

The question of continuing as a.1 Society must be settled.

I f the Yates County A gricu ltu ra l Society is a w orthy and worthwhile

: institution some effort should be made 1 to put the Society on a better financial I basis, and some encouragem ent should !

j be shoVn the officers and directors : by the people of Yates County.

The present board o f officers and 1 | directors wouid g lad ly welcome any suggestions that w ould help. They are a lready to step aside and let a new.set handle the affairs o f the society.

The society pays out between I $5000 and $6000 in premiums each year, a good share of which is award­ed to residents in Yates County, i t also furnishes em ployment for sev- era l people fo r a time each year.

The grounds are used by different organizations and . the Penn Yan Academ y for baseball games, football

: games and other sports. Some of these events are conducted free from any charge by the society. To others only a sm all fee, about enough to cover the actual expenses' o f the event is charged.

I f you are interested in the con­tinuation o f the fa ir, w ill you come t0 the m eeting and assist in making plans fo r the ensuing year?

I f no interest is shown there is little prospect for the continuance ofthe Fair.

E. C. N U TT , President,p. H. H O LLO W E LL , Vice-Pres.H G. COMSTOCK, TreasurerG.‘ H. SPENCER, Secretary. ’

W ord was received in this v illa ge |i on Tuesday o f the death, in a Buffalo ,

j hospital, o f Samuel Potter Burrill, 64, j, a prom inent newspaper man, and a ;

I member o f the staff o f the Buffalo j i Courier-News.

Mr. B urrill was born in Penn Yan, j and had fo llow ed newspaper, w ork j

;5 fo r the duration of his life. A t one ! | time he was owner and editor o f the |

Yates County /Chronicle, leaving Penn j | Yan more than 30 years ago. He had \ held responsible positions w ith many ; leading newspapers throughout the | country. In March, 1930, he moved : from Cleveland to Buffalo, where h e ; took up his Work w ith the Buffalo : publication. He had suffered from i l l : health during the summer, and about j two weeks ago was rem oyed to the hospital.

He is survived by his w ife, Mrs.; Edna B urrill, o f Buffa lo; a sister, Miss Lou ise B urrill, o f Pehn Yan.

i Funeral services, w ill be hefd on j Saturday m orning at 10 o ’clock from.;) the Corcoran funeral parlors, East | Main Street, Rev. John E. W ootton, o f ;; St. M ark ’s Episcopal Church, officiat- ! ing. Burial w ill b..e. made in Lake V iew | cemetery.1 i

, W IT .L E T T — Mrs. M abel Frances W il- | let, 50, died at the S. & S. Hospital, • ■

Sunday, Nov. 23d, 1930. %She is survived | by her husband, .

| Charles W ille tt, o f M ilo ; her father,F. E. H oyt: four sisters, Mrs. George Yarne ll, Mrs. Kenneth W orden, M is s 1! Lu c ille and Miss O live H oyt, a ll o f i Penn Yan, and tw o brothers, Renja- j min and Fred, o f M ilo. T h e funera l ' was held on W ednesday afternoon at j2 o’clock from the home o f her , brother, Fred, at M ilo, Rev. E. W . I Chapin, of Second M ilo, o ffic ia tin g, I w ith buria l in Lake V iew .

W A D E — A t his home on East Main | street, Monday, Novem ber 24, 1930, j G eorge C. W ade, aged 78 years.H e leaves no near re la tives . The !

funera l w ill be held "on F r id a y a fter- jj noon at 2:30 o ’clock, from the home, |: Rev. W . A. H en ricks offic iating, w ith i burial" in W ayne cem etery. j )

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Appropriated $1?000

In response to the request of Dis— S tric t A tto rn ey Spencer F. L inco ln that the Yates County Board o f Supervi­sors make an appropriation to secujre evidence against certain places in Yates' County which have becom e no­torious w ith in the past few months as speakeasies where bad liquor is being dispensed, that body on Monday m orning granted an appropriation of $ 10 0 0 to be used by the county o ffi- j cial in his efforts to prosecute the; proprietors o f the places, as nui-1 sapces. • • . . . . ;

The vote o f the supervisors on t h e ! appropriation was as fo llow s : F or— Nichols, Culver, Potter, Guile, B ates,' Ide, Cole; A ga in st— Huson, Norris, i

The board a lso appropriated the; sum of $6100 to be used fo r the Farm ; and Hom e Bureau w ork in Y a te s! County, divided as fo llow s : Farm Bu-j relau, $3250; Hom e Bureau $2850.

On Tuesday the board made a tonrj o f the county inspecting the town andj county highways..

LEJWlR.—A t tier home in East Elm street, Sunday night, Novem ber 30, 1930, Mrs. Georgianna Lew is, aged 78 years.She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Or­

son Brundage, o f Hammondsport, &nd a brother, M erton Owen, o f Penn Yan. The funera l was held from the home on W ednesday afternoon. Rev. R N. Jessup and Rev. E. W . Chapin officiating. Burial in Lake V iew ceme­tery.

M rs. Ja n e t A. K ie r s tMrs. Janet A. K ierst, aged 39 years,

died at the Soldiers/and Sailors M em ­orial hospital in Penn Y a n ,' Saturday night, N ovem ber 29th, ' just three weeks a fter the death o f her father, John W hitaker. She is survived by her- husband, Bernard K ie rs t; three children, Kenneth, R ichard and Doro­thy; three brothers, C larence o f B ridgeport, Conn., John W h itaker and George W hitaker, bo th .o f Penn Y an ;; and two sisters, M iss Ruth W h itaker o f Penn Yan and Mrs. James Corn- w ell o f .Rochester.

The funeral services w ere held from the late residence on Lake street on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o ’clock, Rev. W illiam M. H ydon o ffi­ciating; in term ent in Lake V iew cem ­etery.

M iss M a r y E s lc o u r t S o th a m , P enn Y a n | M usic T e a c h e r , Dies

A t her home,.. 201 Clinton street, Penn Yan, Tuesday evening, DecenT I tier 2nd, 5:30 o ’clock, occurred the death o f M iss M ary Eslcourt Sotham, who has been confined to her home I by illness since last February. vM iss Sotham’s parents came to this country j from England, settling in Long Island, j For many years the deceased has been prom inently known here as a music I teacher. F o r some tim e she p layed ! .the orgah in the F i r g t . M ethodist church in Penn Yan and .la ter,a t St.! M ark ’s Episcopal church., UnRl h er! recent sickness -she a s s is t^ Rev. J. I Howard Perkins by playing tat .the St. i Lu ke ’s church in Branchport.

She leaves a sister, M iss Kate M. Sotham; a niece, Mrs. E arl G. M cCar-1 ty o f , Stv Clair, M ich.; and five neph-! ews, Thom as F. and H arold C.'iSotham of Kansas Ctiy, Mo.; W illiam , John and: F rederick F illin e o f Chicago, 111.

F tw era l services w ill; be held, in thq ;,St. M ark ’s Episcopal , church Friday afternoon at 2:30 o ’clock with. Rev. J. H ow ard Perkin's and Rev, John E. W ootton officiating. " Buria l w ill be made in the Lake V iew cem etery.

Penn Yan Municipal Board Cuts Water Rates

A 15 per cent reduction in Penn Yan w ater rates goes into e ffect im ­m ediately, the Penn Yan Muncipal board announced last week. Consum-i ers w ill thus rece ive the benefit o f the j reduction in bills fo r the final quar­ter of 1930 which w ill be sent out Jan­uary list.

The tiase rate was cut from '35 to 30 cents per thousand gallons w ith a running scale o f discounts according to the amount o f w ater used.

The new w ater rate fo llow s shortly a fter the decrease in e lectric r a t e s : which went into effect on Decem ber 1

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YATES FAIR WILL BE CONTINUED

Many Attend Meeting Called to

Decide Future of Events —

Women Elected to N e w

Board ;

A t the -first m eetin g o f the n ew d i­rec to rs o f the Y a tes County A g r icu l­tural society, held in Penn Y an M on­day, Charles W a tk in s and I-I. M erton Sm ith, both o f Penn Yan, w ere nam ed m em bers o f the board in p lace o f Mrs. S tan ley Voorhees o f P o tte r and Ben­jam in G ardener o f T o rre y , w ho de-

' c lin ed to act. A t th is m eetih g D avid M ille r w as e lected v ice-p residen t o f the soc ie ty but- the o ther o ffice rs w ere not nam ed .

F o r the first tim e in the 90 yea rs o f the h istory o f the Y a tes County A g ­ricu ltu ra l society w om en w ere nam ed on the board o f d irectors as som e 50

- peop le gathered in Penn Y an last ‘ w eek W ednesday a ftern oon to turn op,- : tim is tic , vote- fo r continuance o f the ■■ Y a tes County fa ir and e lec t an en tire ­

ly -.new set o f leaders. T h e new di- | rectors , who m et M onday a ftern oon to \ e le c t o fficers, a re : B en jam in Garden- i er o f T o rrey , H a rry M. Pu tnam o f ! M ilo , O liv e r W illia m s o f M idd lesex, H. G. F itzw a te r o f Jerusalem , E dgar S. P a yn e o f Benton, Mrs. L e e M oore- liouse o f B arrington , M rs. Sheldon Be- den o f M ilo , Mrs. S tan ley V oorh ees o f

•P o tte r and Joseph F. B u llock o f Penn f Yan.

F. S. H o llo w e ll w as chairm an o f the nom inating com m ittee and w as assist- j

led by D avid M ille r, L ew is C. W illia m s , J John B ishop and Joseph F. Bullock. !

T h e fianancia l cond ition w as fu lly j

ou tlin ed by H erb e r t G. Com stock, ; treasurer, o f Penn Yan . H e rep orted i that the fa ir a ssoc ia tion ’s to ta l in- I debtedness w as $17,956.96. T h is in ­cludes a ll accounts that he had rec- | ords of. B ills ou tstanding am ount to $1,795.81.

R ece ip ts fo r tne y ea r end ing No- j vem b er 30 w ere $14,069.96 aga inst dis- I bursem ents to date o f $13,789.86, which leaves a balance o f $280.10 w ith m any b ills to -be paid. G ate rece ip ts j th is y ea r w ith a reduced adm ission I

! am ounted to on ly $904, he rep o r te d .'T reasu rer Com stock presen ted fig- I

' ures which showed that in the past I | ten years a grand to ta l o f $178,262.87 I | had been d istributed by the fa ir asso- j j ciation. O f this am ount $55,970.88 was |I in prem ium s, w h ile $121,837.99 w as fo r i other d isbursem ents connected w ith j i the running o f the fa ir. M ore than j ha lf o f this m oney stayed in Y a tes I county, he declared.

Foster A. W h itbcck In D etro it, M id i., W ednesday, N o ­

vem ber 19th, occurred the death o f F os te r A. W h itbeck , w ho liv e d on Sheppard street, Penn Yan, until some dozen,.years ago w hen he m oved to the “ autom obile c ity ” to w ork in the Ford plant. Mr. W h itb eck , w ho was some 60 yea rs old and a n a tive o f Jerusalem township, leaves a w ife . Charles Conklin o f E lm s tree t is a cousin. Buria l was m ade in D etro it.

M asons from the 18 locilodges in Y ates , O ntario and Seneca counties w ill as­sem ble at the M asonic tem p le on East E lm street, Penn Yan, F r id a y even in g to ce lebrate the sesqui-centennial an­n iversa ry o f the found ing ,o f the Grand Lodge, F ree and A ccep ted Ma^ sons, o f the S tate o f N e w Y ork , said to be the oldest and strongest o f a il grand lodges in the country. A ll M a ­sonic districts o f the sta te and m ost o f the lodges are by som e means ob­se rv in g the 150th an n iversa ry even t during the year, but the M ilo lodge in Penn Yan is honored as the host fo r the local tri-county d is tr ic t in w e lcom ­ing three grand lodge o ffic ia ls.

Dr. Charles H. Johnson o f A lbany, sta te grand m aster, is head o f the state, department o f socia l w e l­fa re and a m em ber, o f G overnor F rank lin D. R o o s e v e lt ’s cabinet. Judge S. Nelson S a w yer o f P a lm yra is a past grand m aster. H en ry C. M. each am of Seneca F a lls is the grand lectu rer, and Rev. R. D. V an W agen en o f Interlaken is the assis tan t grand lecturer. The four m en honor the an­n iversa ry celebration w ith th e ir a t­tendance tom orrow and p a rtic ip a te in the program, the first th ree d e liv e r in g addresses.

Th e pfogram w ill s ta rt in the local tem ple at about 7:30 o ’c lock F r id a y even in g w ith the processiona l and ad-

I van cem ents o f colors, conducted by i j Grand Marshak Charles R. Vannem an.

| j j F re w Hopkins is co lo r bearer, P e te r i j Thom pson and R a lph Goundry, co lo r j J guards and Frank B rainard, bugler.

I F o llow in g the in voca tion by assistan t i j :'grand lecturer, T. W a rn e r W in dn agle ,

m ayor o f Penn Yran, w ill g iv e an ad- | dress o f welcome. Solos by E lton D.; K e tch o f Penn Y an and ,T. N e lson

i i Jones o f H im rod w ill in tersp erse the addresses by the th ree grand lod ge

j i o fficers. A dinner w ill he se rved by ! - A m ity chapter, O rder o f E astern Star,

!/ ■ at 6:30 o ’clock, be fo re the program , j P reparations are being m ade fo r 300. j

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E d w a r d A. P re n t is s , L a s t G. A . R 1 V e te ra n a t P u l te n e y , D ies

E dw ard A ngelo P ren tiss , son o f the la te Hannah A gu sta and Josiah W .

/Prentiss, Avas born in . Pu lten ey , F e b ­r u a r y 1 , 1841, and passed aw a y at his home on Tuesday m orn ing, D ecem ber

','2, 1930. In his ea r ly l i fe he Avas m ar­ried to Frances V irg in ia P a rk e r avIio (died in 1890. F o r ’ m any y ea rs Mr. .P ren tiss and his brother, C. C. Pren-

Os'tiss, operated a saw m ill and basket - fa c to iy on the co rn er o f M a in and

/N orth Lake streets. T h e p rop erty is ' noAV oAvned by Mrs. M a rga re t W ilbu r. H e Avas also a c t iv e ly en gaged as a v in eyard ist until the past fe w years.

: Mr. Pren tiss was a m qm ber o f the ,161st Regim ent, N . Y . S ta te In fan try , and was the last knoAvn m em ber re-

.. m ain ing o f the H. \C. L yo n post whici? had at one tim e 70 nam es in the post roster. H e was also a m em ber o f the Pu lteney P resby terian church and an honorary m em ber o f th e board of

| f trustees. i;H e is su rvived . by one daughter,

Mrs. J. A. C orye ll; fou r sons, W . A. Pren tiss, G. D. P ren tiss, L . C. and E. M. P ren tiss o f P u lten ey ; one brother, C. C. P ren tiss o f N o rth C ohocton ; one sister, Mrs. M yron B erth o lf o f Man- tou. M ich ; one' nepheAv, W> P. H ess o f L yon s ; tw p "granddaughters, Mrs. H aro ld Putnam o f P ra ttsb u rg and M iss V irg in ia P ren tiss, Pu lten ey . A :p rayer was g iven at the hom e at 1:30 • Thursday and tfie s e rv ice w as held at the P resb y ter ia n church at 2

1 o ’clock, R ev. A . B. Sco fie ld o ffic ia tin g. ; T h e S. o f V. A u x ilia ry a ttended the

se rv ice in a body. In term en t w as •made in Glen V ie w cem etery. Taps

'$Avere sounded at the g rave by R a lph E vere tts o f P ra ttsbu rg . — P u lten ey Corres.

M rs . A d e t b e r t W h e e l e r , P e n n Y a n G o ld S t a r M o t h e r , D ie s

, A bou t 8 o ’c lock Satu rday night;, D e­cem ber 6 tli, a t her hdffie, "fOT BrbWn

/S treet in Penn Yan , occu rrea the death o f M rs. A d e lb e r t W h ee le r , aged

j 58 years, m oth er o f C harles W h e e le r : who w as k illed w h ile in action during the W o r ld W a r. M rs. W h e e le r lea ves h er husband;, a sister, Mrs. W illia m Durham o f Second M ilo , and a n iece and nephew . She Avas a m em ­ber o f the Penn Yan B ap tis t church. R ev . R o ya l N. Jessup, pastor o f her church, assisted by R ev . E. W . Chapin o f the Second M ilo B ap tis t church, o f­fic ia ted at the fu nera l se rv ice s which w ere held from the hom e at . 10:30 o ’clock T u esd ay m orn ing. B uria l w as m ade in the L a k e V ie w cem eterv .

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PENN YAN M UNICIPAL 1 BOARD PLAYS S A N T A !

T o S e n d E l e c t r i c i t y U s e rs R e c e ip te d

B il l f o r C h r i s t m a s ; E n g i n e e r

S u g g e s ts S a v in g s

T h e Penn Yran M u n ic ipa l board is | p la y in g Santa Claus th is year. Re- 1 ce ip ted b ills Avith a C hristm as greet- 1 in g en closed w ill be sen t to a ll m eter I holders w ho use m un ic ipa lly -m ade ’ | e le c tr ica l cu rren t fo r th e period c o v - j i ered by the m eter read in gs b e tw ee n ] ^ the 20th o f N o ve m b e r and the 20th o f j 1 D ecem ber.

R a th er am u sing is the w a y in w h ich ] Ii th is apprec ia ted g i f t cam e to be made. I Som e o f the board m em bers thought y it w ou ld be an e x c e lle n t th in g to do fo r the custom ers, th is y ea r especia lly , i so the board w ro te to the* P u b lic Serv- j ice com m ission a t A lb a n y to see . i f i t j w ere perm issab le . A n ew spaper re-1 p o rte r lea rn ed o f th e unusual request I and spread it o v e r th e pages o f the d a ily press, b e fo re the P en n Y a n men rec e ived any rep ly . W ith th e news j thorou gh ly b roadcas t th e m em bers o f the. board cou ld h a rd ly do anyth ing | but v o t e u nan im ously to m ake the g ift , | Avliich th ey did th is AveCk.

S ta id B o s to n S t i r r e dM iss P o lly R . B in gh am o f P en n Yan, [

w ho is n ow in th e em p loy o f th e Na- j t ion a l G ran ite com m ission , 31 S ta te I s tree t, Boston, M ass., th is w eek sent the C h ron ic le-E xpress th e fo llo w in g j ed ito ria l from F r id a y ’s B oston P o s t:

A G e n e ro u s P r e s e n tN o ta b le am ong C hristm as presen ts i

o f the y ea r is th e g i f t o f fr e e e le c tr ic cu rren t fo r th e . Avhole m onth o f D e­cem ber to the 1770 consu m er’s o f a I m un icipa l p ow er p lan t in P en n Yan,N. Yr.

T h is w ill not se tt le th e old prob lem o f th e re la t iv e m er its o f th e public,| and the p r iva te d eve lop m en t o f pow er 1 plants. 3 N o sta tis tics a re fu rn ish ed to m ake it possib le to d ec id e w h eth er the P en n Y~an plant" is an unusual ex­cep tion or a sh in ing exam p le o f w hat the r igh t m an agem en t m ay do. But g iv in g aAvay e le c tr ic cu rren t fo r a m onth is in its e lf enough o f a n ove l­ty to m ake th is C hristm as presen t one w orth y o f m ore than there inclusion in tile news columns.

E n g i n e e r H e r eA consu ltin g en g in ee r lias been ip

P en n 1 an during th e past w eek go in g o v e r w ith the m un ic ipa l board m em ­bers the plans fo r m ov in g the pum ping

i an(* gen era tin g p lan t in to the v illa g e . M an y econom ies can be secured by such a step, states I-I. A lle n W agen er, the president. S u bstitu tin g a Avater

: to w e i fo r the p resen t r e s e iv o ir and I ^u ttipg down the w a te r pressure in the

v illa g e are am ong the su ggestion s for sa v in g money.

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G A R R E TT M E M O R IA L CHAPEL|

Standing out from the rugged side o f winter-clad Bluff Point is the new I cliapel erected by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ga; rett in m em ory of tlieir only son, j Charles W . Garrett, who died in Tu c-; son, Arizona, January 3 8 th o f this ’ year. On all sides are the steep, heav-j ily-wooded, eastern slopes of th e : prom ontory and some 700 fee t b e low : tri-branched Keuka spreads her I waves.

I The structure stands oil. a shelf of; I rock just under the hill ton, about oni la line between the famous old Wag-1 ener house and the Garrett home on j the lake short hundreds o f feet below.j About a m ile o f new roadway was chis-

I eled from the bluff side by a steam j shovel to g ive workm en and worship- j pers access to the chapel. A ll but; the in terior has now been completed,; and by July next year, according to j

I present plans, it w ill be ready to ac-i comm odate some 60 people at serv-j ices and to receive in its crypt the]

| body o f the beloved son.

I F rom across the East bran-cli o f | Lake Keuka the chapel is especially | prom inent w ith the trees defoliated, i It is built o f a gray Nesham iny stone,I quarried in Nesham iny, Pa., w ith a { ligh t Castone trim . From the lake j side o f the slope the structure rises ! over 60 feet to the floor of the tower, i which w ill eventually house the bell.■ F ly in g buttresses extend over the te r - ; j r a c e . on the lake and north sides, af- j j ford ing an im pressive sweep o f Keu- 1

I ka ’s beauty and a glim pse of the home I j cn the shore below.

Th e chapel proper, which w ill be I | furnished to seat at least 50, meas- i ures some 26 by 27 feet, with the al,- j ter at the southern end. The lo b b y !| and vestry are on the same floor at j /the north end. A n organ w ill be in-j !! stalled and one o f the rooms below | w ill be used fo r housing the motor atari j equipment. In the crypt beneath js [

: room fo r ten bodies. W hen warm j ; weather perm its, the in terior of th e :: building w ill be finished, stained-glass j w indows inserted and some three acres i I o f the woodland made into an appro-; ■I priate park setting. E ith er a- fen ce j

I w ill be built about this area or a care-1

, I taker ’s home erected nearby.The chapel has been built fo r per-

I manency. S teel and concrete form a j | sound structure above a solid rbek j I foundation; Brass is used throughout in the plumbing. E ither e lectric ity or

1 hot a ir w ill be used for heating. A; i heavy slate roo f insures p rotec tion .

" j against the weather.The new road, breaks east from the

J Bluff Po in t ridge h ighw ay just north' j o f the hill-top W agen er home, drop­

ping down the side and then skirting j a long and down to the chapel. A h u ge. underground reservo ir lies under the

I road, storing several thousand gallons of spring w ater fo r se in the chapel.-

| During the cons! ction, however, a- j special pipe line extended from the shore up the hill and the con crete '

I m ixers w ere fed by a pump at w a te r . ‘/level. - • • i

George S. GoodSfell George S. Goodsell, aged 74 ^years,

died at his home just outside of Penn Yan on the Long h ill in the town or Jerusalem Friday morning, December 12tli. H e is survived by his w ife and two sisters, Mrs. Ira Price and Mrs. Sarah Fenner, both o f Penn Yan.

The funeral services w ere held from the late residence Monday afternoon at 2:00 o ’clock, Rev. Roya l N. Jessup, •pastor o f the Penn Yan Baptist church, officiating. Interm ent in jLake V iew cem etery.

D E B O LT— A t his home on North avenue, Sunday afternoon, Decem­b er 21, 1930, George A. DeBolt, aged 70 years.Mr. D eBolt was, in a ll probability,

one of the best known men in Penn Yan, as. he had conducted a truck gar­den in Penn Yan fo r close to half a century, and his garden supplies were noted fo r th eir high grade quality. He is survived by his w ife and two son, Fred, o f Geneva, and C larence o f Penn Yan. The funeral was held on W ednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home, Rev. R. N. Jessup' pastor o f the first Baptist church, (of­ficiating. Buria l in Lake V iew ceme­tery.

TWO PENN YAN COAL FIRMS CONSOLIDATE

John D. M o ore Y a r d and Jackson]

S u p p ly C o m pan ies A nn o un ce

Business C hang e

On January 1st the John D. Moore Coal Co., Inc., and the Jackson Coal | and Supply Co., both o f Penn Yan, w ill be consolidated, continuing business under the name o f the form er, eventu-

. a lly in one location, though at present retain ing both yards, accord ing to an­nouncement made the first o f this

Ii week. Edw in B. Gelder w ill remain . president o f the company and Guy E. Jackson w ill be the secretary and treasurer. The com pany w ill continue

j to handle its present line o f anthracite i and bituminous coal as w ell as mason | and builder supplies.

M ilo Lodge, No. 108, F . & A. M., elected the fo llow in g officers at their m eeting last F riday even in g :M aster .................. W illiam H. DuvallSenior W arden .... M aurice W . McCann Junior W arden .... Kenneth A lexanderTreasurer P e te r Pu lverSecretary ................ E verett P. W righ tTrustees, 3 years, Edward H. Hopkins

The fo llow in g clipping from the Los Angeles Evening H era ld of De­paper w ith a la rge scare line:

Welcome Christmas Gift Does municipal ownership o f pub­

lic u tilities w ork? Just glance at Penn Yan N Y. That pecu liarly n^tned v illage operates its own electric pow ­er plant and has 1770 customers. It gives good service and it makes a profit. As a pleasant surprise fo r consumers, it sent each one a receip t­ed b ill fo r electric current fo r the month o f Decem ber— a welcom e Christmas gift.

P rivate ly -ow ned ligh t and power companies frequently assert thatm unicipal ownership is wastefu l,costly and im practical. When any pri­vately-ow ned company makes aChristmas g ift o f a month’s free cur­rent it w ill be time enough to take such assertion seriously.

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Monday night at the E lm Tea room' in Penn Yan Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cros­by celebrated the 50th anniversary, of their wedding. Gowned in the wine- colored silk dress which she wore a half century ago at the cerem ony in the old Fin ton lak es id e : home in Bar­rington, Mrs. Crosby and Mr. Crosby again enacted the cerem ony, Mrs. W endell P. Shattuck and daughter, Barba1 a, playing the w edding march from W agner’s “ Lohengrin ” on the piano and violin.

During the dinner the instruments played the popular songs o f earlier days and friends on th,e outside sere­naded them. A song, w ritten especia lly for the event by Mi\ and M rs/G eorge Crosby, proved entertain ing when sung by all present.

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Master Farmer

’ On Februray 12th. F red iS. Hollo- w ell, o f Penn Yan, w ill attend the New j

Y o rk State M aster Farm er Banquet at Ithaca where he w ill receive his m aster farm er medal recently award­ed to him by Am erican Agricu lturist, a leading fa rm paper.

B efore becom ing a fa rm er in 1919, Mr. H o llow e ll had taught school fo r a number o f years. W e have no doubt that he was an excellen t teacher, yet, judging from the success i)ie has at­tained, w e fe e l that he made a w ise choice when he bought his present farm of 136 acres. On the farm he grow s wheat, peas, beans and pota­toes as cash crops and he has a pure bred herd o f A yrsh ire cows.

One gets an impression from visit­ing the Hollowell farm that the en­tire family is sold on farming. The young folks, John, Jeannette and Lee, who have been active in 4-H Club work, and Mrs. Hollowell, also seems thoroughly contented on a farm.

Mr. Hollowell has been master and lecturer of his grange, a local leader -of 4-H work, a teacher and superin­tendent of his Sunday School, a trus­tee of his local school, president of his farm bureau and master and lecturer i of his grange. .

Even this list, which is rather lengthy, does not mention all the ser­vice Mr. Hollowell has rendered. He has been a member iof the County Committee of Bovine Tuberculosis; Eradication, an officer in the local Dairymen’s League and served as a director of a local co-operative mar­keting organization.

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Historical Society

Th e Yates County H istorica l So­c ie ty is accum ulating an in teresting co llec tion o f re lics in the room , in Penn Yan Public L ib ra ry which the trustees have placed at their d ispos­al.

A m on g the most valuable a rtic les in th e ir co llection is a WindsiOT c h a ir : fo rm e r ly used by Jem im a W ilk inson . A s i l v e r , plate, g iv ing the ch ie f facts o f her life .was placed on the chair by the donor, Mrs. E va H am lin , o f N ew Y o rk City. ; ' __

A nother a rtic le o f g rea t loca l in ­teres t is a la rge o il p o rtra it o f A b ra ­ham W agener, w ho was one o f the founders o f Penn Yan. It h a n g ^ jn a beautifu l m ahogany fram e.

Various prob lem s a lw ays arise in ga therin g a h is to rica l co llection . Mrs. H. K . A rm strong has presented the Soc iety w ith tw o leather fire buckets m arked w ith the in itia ls o f M. F. Sheppard and C. C. Sheppard. Can any residen t of Penn Yan, who is acquaint­ed w ith the h istory o f the fire cpm- panies g ive the date at which such fire figh ting apparatus was in actual use in the bucket brigade?

Mrs. C arrie Sc.udder, o f N orth Main Street, has g iven the Society an oil painting which is at present a m ys­tery. I t is the portra it o f a rather in ­te llec tu a l appearing man, w earin g w hat seems to be a doctor ’s red hood. The picture was founti under the eaves o f "a lean-to roo f Xin her res i­dence, a long w ith a tra ve l map o f the United States, prin ted in 1840. I t is hoped that som e one m ay be able to id en tify the man whose likeness has been preserved in this unusual way.W hen the co llection is a lit t le la rg e r

the public w ill be inv ited to inspect it. Due notice w ill be g iven in the lo ­cal papers. M ean w h ile those w ho have a rtic les o f loca l h is to rica l va lue which they w ill be w illin g either to g ive or to loan the Soc iety are asked to no­t i fy R ev. J. H. Perk ins, 129 C linton Street, Penn Yan , or H. D. W in ters K euka Park . T h e room is ligh t and cheerfu l, h aving been re-decorated last summer. A l l a rtic les are kept secu rely locked and the lib ra ry bu ild ­ing is p ra c tica lly fire-proof. Such a co llection w ill be o f perm anent v a L to the county

A lis t o f a rtic les donated w ill be published later.

William T .Beaumont

Oldest Member of Lodge Dies

Masonic

W illiam T. Beaumont, 94, died at his East Main street home on W e d ­nesday morning, January 7, 1930, about 10 o ’clock, a fte r illness occas­ioned by advanced years. Since the death of his son, Thom as Beaumont; a few years ago, he has been cared fo r by his daughter-in -law , Mrs.. A g ­nes Beaumont. He is su rv ived by one grandson, Charles T . Beaum ont, and a great-granddaughter, Barbara Beau­mont, both of Penn Yan. The fu nera l j services w ill be held from the homo j ■on Friday, a fternoon at 3 o ’clock, 1 R ev. W alter A. H en ricks, pastor o f j the Presbyterian church, o ffic ia tin g , j assisted by M ilo Lodge, . No. 108, F. & ’ A . M., of which lodge Mr. Beaum ont was the oldest m em ber. Internment w as made in the fa m ily p lo t in L a k e I V iew cemetery, . :. .. ’ ____ ..J

Walter W. Ludlow

Word whs received in this v il la g e H the death; o f W a lte r W Lu d low ,

74, a farmer ch ie f c le rk o f the T re a s ­ury Department at W ash ington ,

! j ) C and a native of Penn Yan. Death Ii occurred at W ash ington fo llo w in g a I long period of il l health. Mr. Lu d low | re tired from the treasury departm ent | last June. He was active in the M a- | sonic fratern ity in W ash ington . H e is j su rivived by his w ife , Mrs. M ai y i Lu d low ; a son Jerom e; a daughter,' Mrs. Phoebe Carter, and th ree brcth -

I ers, Frank, of W ash ington , D. C; and I H a rry M. a m F red D. Lu d low , o f j Penn Yan. Funeral serv ices w e re he ld i ’ Tuesday from the fu nera l p a r lo r o f j1

Thos. S. Sergeon, w ith in term en t i n ; G lenwood cemetery. A lth ou gh he had! been in fa iling health, it is b e lie v e d ; his death was hastened w hen lie w as j pa rtly overcome by sm oke tw o weeks

j ago from a fire in one o f the G eorge I W ashington U n ivers ity bu ild ings,

* next door to his home. H e w as found _ then in his apartm ent and helped to | the street by a policem an.

New Hammondsport-KeukaState Road Assured

L O C K E — B A IL E Y A t the home o f Mr. and Mrs. A rth u r

L. B ailey, on South Avenue, on Sat­urday m orning, Decernber 17, 1930, at 11:30 o ’clock, took place th e m arria ge o f th eir daughter, A lic e P. B a iley , to W illia m S. Locke, son o f Mrs. E d gar Locke, o f D enver Colo. The cerem ony w as perform ed in. the presence o f the ; fam ilies and close friends by R ev. J - , H . Perk ins, o f Penn Yam

F o llo w in g a w edd ing trip , M r and Mrs. L ock e w ill be at home at H a rt­fo rd , Conn. Th e groom is a graduate o f P rin ceton and o f H a rva rd L a w school.'

Dr.. Bernard S. S trait has purchased the Dr; C. B. Scudder p ro p e rty at 325 M ain street.

>r in commission, the con tracts are •eady to be let and actual construction should start early in the spring. Noth- ng but prolonged bad w ea th er can le la y the work now.

Th e Steuben county B oard o f Su­pervisors. in session at Bath, adopted a resolution last w eek au th oriz in g con­struction o f the new state road a long the east side o f L a k e K eu k a from the N orth Urbana road near H am m onds- port to Keuka, there connectin g w ith the im proved road lead in g in to P en n Yan. The ^total d istance o f th is new construction is 8.8 m iles , and the es ti­m ate therefor is $548,000 o f w h ich the state pays $333,500 and the fed era l governm ent, $214,500.

Th e route is as approved by the S tate H ighw ays departm en t fo llo w in g the present lakes ide road fo r a d is­tance northward from H am m ondsport, then preced ing up from the lake a distance approx im ately h a lf w a y be­tw een the lakes ide road, and the road at the top o f the h ill. T h e m a tte r o f construction o f th is road has been un-

, der consideration fo r seve ra l years, j and was delayed ow ing to con flic tion I o f opinion as the road to be fo llow ed .

Supervisor E. J. V anG orden has re ­ce ived add itiona l n otification from A l-

i bany that, the plans fo r the h igh w ay o ffic ia lly have been fu lly approved . P re lim in ary maps and su rveys h av in g been com pleted , r igh ts o f w a y secured

B e g in n in g th is \A/e e k th e Chronicle-1 E x p r e s s is p u b l is h in g th e d ia r y kept| by N a r c is s a W h i t m a n on th e famous t r ip w h ic h she m a d e w i t h h e r husband, D r. M a r c u s W h i t m a n , to O reg o n in 1836. T h e m a n u s c r ip t is n o w n ear ly a c e n t u r y o ld , a n d p a r t s o f i t fo r years j h a v e been n e a r ly o b l i t e r a t e d by fad ­ing a n d w e a r . T h r o u g h th e c o u r te s y of d e s c e n d a n ts o f th e W h i t m a n fa m i ly , h o w e v e r , a r e p r i n t o f th is in te r e s t in g s to ry as to ld by th e f i r s t W h i te w o m a n to cross th e R o c k y m o u n ta in s w i l l be p u b l is h e d f r o m w e e k to w e e k in th is p ap er .

B ecause o f th e a s s o c ia t io n o f N a r ­c issa P r e n t is s W h i t m a n in P r a t t s b u r g a n d v ic in i t y , r e c e n t ly c o m m e m o r a t e d in th e n a m in g o f th e n e w s ta te road f r o m P r a t t s b u r g to N a p le s a f t e r th is w o m a n of h is to ry , a n d th e a s s o c ia t io n s u r r o u n d in g D r . M a r c u s W h i t m a n a t his b i r t h p la c e in R u s h v i l le , th e s to ry j c o n ta in e d in th is d i a r y s h o u ld be of s p e c ia l in te r e s t to a l l p e rs o n s o f Y a te s ; c o u n ty an d v ic in i t y . I t is a s to r y of t h e i r e v e n t fu l h o n e y m o o n , w / i t t e n in th e la n g u a g e o f n e a r l y a c e n t u r y ago.

T h e f i rs t in s ta l lm e n t * p r in te d b e lo w , is a le t te r s e n t by M r s . W h i t m a n a f t e r t h e i r a r r i v a l in th e O r e g o n t e r r i t o r y to h e r h u s b a n d 's h a l f b r o t h e r a n d h a l f s is t e r : -

T h e annual m eetin g o f th e Sold fers ji and S a ilo rs ’ H osp ita l w as held in > the room s o f the tru stees in M aiden j Lan e on F r id a y a fternoon , January ; 9th. Th e rep orts o f th | s e v e f a l j f e l fic ia ls w ere g iven and the w ork o f the hosp ita l rev iew ed fo r the year past.

Th e past year, 1930, w as the busi-1 est yea r w h ich the So ld iers and S a ilo rs ’ M em oria l H osp ita l o f Yates | County has had, w ith 10,853 patien : | days, an in crease o f 385 over last I year, accord ing to the rep ort o f Mrs. j A lic e M. H ayes, R . N., superintend- jenU I - - ^ 8 8

C h arles T . A n d rew s w as elected j v ice-p res id en t to succeed W illia m N. Pa tteson a fte r M r. Patteson , who has held the position fo r ten years. clin ed the nom ination . T h e board of| d irectors extended the re t ir in g v ice- p residen t a vo te o f thanks in appre-l c ia tion o f his se rv ices to the. hospital, i W illia m N,. W ise , o f Penn Yan^ was nam ed presiden t fo r his 15th year, | h aving held that position and donated the g rea te r part o f his tim e to the | w ork o f the hosp ita l since it was i started.

| Christie B. B r igg s w as re-e lected treasu rer as w as G eo rge S. Sheppard

j as secretary , M r. Sheppard hawing filled that pos ition s in ce the qrgani- aztion o f the h osp ita l association ir 1916. S evera l d irec to rs re-elected unan im ously a re : C harles T. A n ­drews, A rth u r L . B a iley , M. Francis Corcoran, T im o th y C pste llo , J oh n 'H . Johnson, W illia m M. Patteson , and

|.Geo rge ,S. Sheppard. ' •

G eorge S. Sheppard,' P enn Yan at­torney, u nderw en t a d ifficu lt opera­tion fo r rem ova l o f g o itre in Ithaca on Sunday, Dr. T in k e r operating.

Th e insurance firm o f Beuam ont & W ’iltis ' has d isso lved partnersh ip , Charles Beaum ont continu ing the business

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Penn Yan Man Honored

Joseph P. Craugh, of Penn Yan le ft fo r New York City Sunday, where he w ill rem ain three weeks prior t assuming his duties as referee in the division o f W orkm en ’s Compensatjor o f the State Departm ent o f Labor.

The Penn Yan man was appointed from the A lbany district, the an- njou'ncement having been (made; by Miss. Frances Perkins, industrial j commissioner.

‘Joe” is a native o f this village, 37i years o f age, a graduate o f Penn |

I Yan Academ y, and H oly Cross Col-1 lege. He served in the W orld W ar and, prior to his enlistment, was dean o f Routt College, at Jackson­ville , Illin o is .. He is head of the Mho Ribbon and Carbon Corporation in Penn Yan, and has been active ly con­nected w ith Yates County po litic | fo r the past several years. Last No-j vem ber he was a candidate fo r rep ­resentative in Congress from the 36th| Congressional D istrict, on the Demo-! cratic ticket. H is ab ility as a publicj speaker has gained for him w ide dis­tinction. H e is chairman o f the Demo-; cratic County Committee.

Chester C. Culver, 6 6 , prominen' Yates County resident, djed on Tues­day night, about 11:40 o ’clock, at the Soldiers and Sailors H osp ita l,.. where he had been fo r about three week> fo llow in g an operation.

Chester C. Culver was serving his th ird year as supervisor o f the toiyr

| o f Jerusalem, and was one of the best j known members of that board. For J .more than 17 years he had served the I state as game protector, prior to tak­

ing o ffice as a supervisor and wej,. entitled to a state pension.

He had also served for more than i a quarter o f a century as a justice i o f the peace. Scores o f Yates county ■ residents rem em ber him as their schoolteacher. F or m ore than 17 year:

. he taught rural schools in the townr of Jerusalem, Potter, Ita ly and Mid-

l d lesex. H e was also known for hi'. I know ledge of law and quick w it an* had tried severa l cases in Yate, county courts.

W H A L E N —A t his home on North avenue, Thursday morning, Janu­ary 29, 1931, John M. W halen, agec78 years. • _H e is su rvived by his w ife ; t in e

son, Dr. I. T_ W halen, o f Penn Y an ' Dr. C larence J., o f Utica, and A rtliu i W . W halen, of Pittsburg, Pa .; also a sister, Miss A lic e W halen, o f Belfast^ N. Y . The funeral w ill be held or Saturday m orning at 8:30 c/cjoc; from the home, and at 9 : 0 0 o cl pel from St. M ichael’s church, w ith bur­ia l in St. M ichael’s cem etery . ^

r ENOS— unaries O. Enos, 54, died at his hom e in East E lm Street, on Saturday m orning, January 24th. H e is survived by his w ife, Grace

Enos; his mother, Mrs. Emma Enos, o f Jeru sa lem ; a brother, H arry, o f Jerusalem. The funera l was held on M onday afternoon at 4 o’ clock from the Th ayer funeral home, Rev. W . M. H ydon officiating. Burial in Lake V iew cem etery.

W R 1G H T— Philetus S. W right, "80, died at his home at 134 Ham ilton St., on Saturday, January 24th.H e is survived by his w ife ; two

sons, E verett P., o f Penn Yan ; Perry, of Bath; tw o daughters, Mrs. Foyd K ay lor, o f B arrin g ton ; Mrs. E. D. Smith, o f Pittsburg, Pa. The funer: was held from the home on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o ’clock, Rev. W_ M. Hydon officiating. Buria l in Benton: •cemetery.

R U D M A N — A t" the home" of her niece Mrs. W illia m W ortm an, Mi H enry street, Tuesday, January 27, 19-31 Mrs. H attie Rudman, aged 76 years The funera l w ill be held from the

Rudman home, on Saturday afternpor at 2 o ’clock, Rev. R. N. Jessup offic iat­ing. Buria l in Lake V iew cemetery.

I The funeral services w ill h e . held1 on F r id a y ' afternoon at 2 o’clock, at I the Friend Methodist Episcopal! Church, Rev. J. L . Carter, o f Friend J assisted by Rev. Thomas M iller, .frfl Trum ansburg, xpfficiating. -Commit-1 ment was made in the 'receiving I vault in Lake View; cemetery, Pezinr Yan, M ilo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. ~M.,[': conducting the services at the ceme-|' tery.

the Penn Yan Seminary, and nearly a score

C H E S T E R C. C U LV E R M r. and Mrs. Culver celebrated th.r

4'@th ann iversary o f their wedding or Sept. 25th o f last year. Th eir w ed­ding cerem ony was perform ed ir R u sh v ille by the C o n g rega t i cin a ’ -iOjihi4tler, • a brother-in -law of W il­liam Carson, w ith the la te Casey B lodgett, fo rm erly sheriff, as one o f the attendants.

Mr. Culver was born June 18, 1865 in R ead ing Center, Schuyler County the son o f W illiam and Lu cy W righ Culver. H is great .grandfather, David was the first settler in what is now W atkins Glen, and his son, M iner was the first w h ite child born there

"When a child, lie came to Branch port, the form er home o f his mother! H e was educated in Academ y and Starkey then taught school fo r o f years.

A fte r his m arriage, he lived" on W est H ill, across from the Carvey schoolhous-e. The next two years, Mr and Mrs. Culver lived in Potter, about two m iles east • oif Friend, on the tow n ,line road. For the past 37 years since they have been liv in g about five m iles north of Branchpprt, and six m iles w est of Penn Yan. The Culver farm adjoins the old F riend home.

A t eight d ifferent times in past years, Mr. Culver acquired sm all par- j eels o f land from neighboring farm s j until he had a 138-acre farm as con-! ven ien tly shaped and located as an y ! t ille r of the soil could desire.

Besides V h-is w ife, he leaves t w ' l sons, W illia m and 'Charles, o f Jeru-i salem ; tw o daughters, Mrs. W illiam |B. Anthony, o f To rrey , andL. Mrs.I H a rry McConnell, o f Geneva; a sis-F ter, M rs .. A lic e Swarthout, of T o rrey j; and four grandchildren.

H e i i r y C. D rakeley, o f 113 Benham street, Penn Yan, died on Tuesday night, at the age o f 92 years, He wlas a veteran o f the C ivil W a r; a Penn sylvan ia railroad veteran and a re­tired Postoffice employee.

Few men have had such an event­ful life, traveling west as a young man in a pra irie schooner, he bought land from the Indians, lived ten years in Kansas,, eight o f which w ere as bad as the drought exper­ienced by the middle w est last year

Mr. D rakeley was born a t Lora ine Ohio, October 13, 1838, and when ? small boy moved, w ith his parents to 'Cottage Grove, W is., where h? grew to manhood on a farm purchas- j ed by his father in 1843.

H e enlisted at the beginning of th r | C ivil W ar in the 1st W isconsin cav-1 airy, but because he was an expert j penman he was appointed sec.rp+- t’.- j to -the Adjutant General at Camr j Randall and served in that capacity I until the end o f the war.

About 1875, in company w ith his fam ily, including his father, he m i­

grated west to Kansas in a prairie schooner and purchased a section 0 * undeveloped land and proceeded tc.j .make a home fo r h im self and those dependent upon him. Many tryinr experiences in Kansas w ere relate*"1 ; by Mr. D rakeley. Tw o ot the ten , years he lived in Kansas they had bi,r | crops. H is b ig y ie ld of wheat hr j hauled to m arket fo r 20 cents a bush­el and much o f the corn crop was used fo r fuel.

Selling out in 1888 w ith his fam ily he moved back to W isconsin and i-r 1897 came to Penn Yan where he en i tered the service of the Pennsylvan- { ia R a ilroad as w ar eh o u s e-m an am’ la ter as cashier. Tw en ty years go hr I was pensioned by the railroad and j ■then entered the employ o f the Post O ffice department.

Mr, D rakeley was a man of unusua1 character, re t ir in g disposition and ? rea l friend to all who knew him. He enjoyed his entire life and insisted o- those around him "being equally hap py. This is probably the reason he lived so long. H is father, Charle4 Drakeley, w ho had a s im ilar dispo­sition, died at the age o f 97, as a re ­su lt of an accident.

Mr. D rakeley leaves one son, Eu- ,gene F., o f Penn Y a n ; also a grand daughter, Dorothy, at home, and r

; grandson, Carl, o f Sidney, Austra lia The - funera l w ill he held from the

I home at 2:30 o’clock, F riday after-.: noon, Rev. W . A . Henricks officjat- ' ing. In term ent in Lake V iew ceme- . t eyy .

LO CKW O O D — Mrs. "E l iz a S. L ock ­wood, 89, died at her home in South Avenue, on Tuesday, Febru ary 3d. Surviving are one brother, H en ry

Shearman, o f C leveland, Ohio,, one n iece and severa l nephews. The funeral w ill be .held on F riday a fter-

' noon from, h er la te residence at 113 : South Avenue, Rev. W . CM. Bydpn ' officiating. Buria l in Lake V iew .

Y O U N G — (>VE NSH1RE Mrs. H arrie t T . Ovenshire, of Penn

Yan, and W illiam C. Young, o f P itts ­burgh, Pa., w ere m arried in P itts ­burgh, on January 30, 19.31, the w ed­ding taking place at the home o f Mr. and Mrs. f . V. Sprague, 1217 Federal street, at 7:30 o’clock in the evening. Rev. D. J. A lv in Orr peform ed the ceremony. The couple left; on an ex­tended trip to F lorida, a fter which they w ill reside at 2333 Osgood street, Pittsburgh.

Company Re-organizedI 111 |

A t a special m eeting of the Keuka £ Lake Ice Company held on Tuesday. | Febru ary 3 rd, the fo llow ing d irector- | w ere elected: F lorence F. Monnin, !F rank E. Monnin, Arthur L. Railr-E. J. W alker, Jr., and F. F. Schmidt, j o f Geneva. jj

F o llow in g the meeting o f the stock- > lipldiirs, the diinedtors e lected o ffi- ; cers as fo llow s:

Presiden t .............. F rank E. MonrriV ice-President, Frank lyn F. Schmidt : Sec.-Treasurer .... F lorence F. Monnin J

Frank E. Monnin, w ho has had con- > tro llin g interest fo r the past severa l |i m-onths, w ill succeed W illia m J. T y - 1 lee as president of the company. M r j| Ty lee, who has m anaged the company I fo r the past 11 years, is ob liged to j take a complete rest ow ing to o ' f. health. The company deals in c o a l, ; ice and attendant side-lines, and as f the new president is a lready identified !

I w ith the F iero & Monnin Coal Com- j pany he is fam ilia r w ith the busi- ness.

The Keuka Lake Ice Company is the : j local harvester and distributor of [ Keuka Lake ice. j

j Mr. Monnin states that no changes f I w ill be made in the regu lar routine j j o f the business, the w ork to be c a r - ; j ried on as form erly.

L A R E —Tuesd car D. Lare, Mrs. L a re w e

Jerusalem, and

A t her borne ay, February 3,

Starkey, Mrs. Os -

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I I 68 years, s born in the town e l j her maiden name was |

Miss Katnrine Stoddard. She is sur­v ived by her husband; two sons, Chas. La re , of P ittsburg, P a .; and AJbei t Lare , o f S ta rk ey ; one daughter, Mrs. ChEirles Champlin, of Syracuse; two brothers1, Pen j abiin S^toddaid, or

j Branchport, and P. K. Stoddard, m • M iddlesex; one granddaughter, Mrs.I; Kenneth M cClinchie, o f Syracuse,; and .icne niece, Mrs. H a rry Bell, o f j Branchport. The funera l w ill be held j at the fam ily home Friday afternoon tat 2:00 o ’clock, with Rev. H. E. E r- 1 w ay officiating. In term ent w ill be

in H ills id e cem etery, Dundee.

S W A R T H O U T — Charles 'Swarthout, 72, died at his home n M iddlesex on Friday, February 6 .Death was caused by an acute heart

attack. He was a w e ll known resident o f M iddlesex and Yates County, hav- j ing served, as director of the Yates County Farm Bureau, a§> a justice; o f the peace, and a member o f the M iddlesex Town Board. H e. is surv iv- ed by bis w ife ; a son, W a lte r J., o f V ine V a lley ; two daughters, Mrs. H aze l K lungle, Penn Y a n ; anfi. Mrs.

I M arie Bolles, of Gorham. a sister, j Mrs. Emma Swarthout, o f Maine, j N. Y .; and two ha lf sisters, Mrs. Jane |Loree, o f Penn Yan ; and Mrs. Fe lic ia I F leet, of Tyrone. The funeral ser- I v ices w ere held on Sunday afternoon i at 2 o ’clock.

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Ralph H. Excell is changing the I rooms over the Excell Boot shop into P an apartment for his w ife and him self, j

A t his home on Johnson avenue m Penn Yan W ednesday morning, Janu­ary 2 1st, occurred the death o f W il­liam H. Dewey, aged 74 years, a re­tired warehouse man on the E lm ira division of the Pennsylvan ia .railroad.

The deceased leaves his w-ife, nee M ary R. New love, whom lie m arried in Penn Yan on October 12, 1878, R ev. J. P. Farmer perform ing the ceremony.

For many years Mr. D ew ey was &j police officer in Penn Yran and also al deputy sheriff fo r Yates county. He is a charter m em ber o f the Sheldon Hose company, his name being the third on the charter, and a m em ber o f the First Baptist church o f Penn Yan for 41 years. H e entered the services o f the Pennsylvania railroad as a sta­tion laborer at Penn Yan October 4, 1892, and was made warehouseman on Novem ber 1st o f that same year, serv­ing 25 years as a special o fficer and1.4 years in the fre igh t house. On M ay 1st of 1927, a w eek a fter he celebrated his 70th birthday, he was honored w ith retirement on a pension.;

H e lias two children, a son and a daughter. The. son, A lb e rt N., worked for the; Pennsylvania railroad company as clerk for 22 years, then le ft thej service and is now a successful under­taker in Dundee w ith an in terest in the local business o f ‘ Edward T/ W a t­kins. The daughter is the w ife o f F loyd F. Semans, who is now w ith the N ew York.Centra l lines and form erly, with the Elm ira d iv ision o f the Penn­sylvania railroad. Four grandchildren and one. great grandchild also survive.

The funeral services w ill be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday from the res i­dence, 107 Johnson avenue,. Rev. R o y ­al N. Jessup, pastor o f the Baptist church, officiating. Buria l w ill be made in the. Lake V iew cem etery.

George Shattuck Retires as President of Dundee Bank

George S. Shattuck, who has been president of the Dundee N ationa l bank since 1898, asked to be retired from active duty at the annual m eeting o f the directors of the bank w hich was held last week Tuesday; Mr. Shattuck 1 lias beefi connected w ith the bank since .its organization in April, 1880. F or 16 years, he served as cashier and since then has been president. Mr. Shattuck is past 80 y ea rs .

P ierre L. H arpending was elected] president to succeed Mr. Shattuck. The! other officers a re : V ice-pres iden t!Charles S. H oyt; chairm an o f the! Board of Directors, G. S. Shattuck; as-! sistanU cashier, C larence M. Clark. A ,5% dividend was declared. The .d irect­ors are G. S. Shattuck, P. L. Harpend* ing, C. S. Hoyt, C. R. B rew er and NinaB. Earnest. —- Dundee correspondent.

F ra n k A . W a g e n e r A t the Soldiers and Sailors M e m o r-;

ia l hospital in P e n n Y an M onday ait-; ernoon, February 16th, occurred t j death of Frank A. W agen er, a g e d -90 vears. The funeral, w h ich was- s tr ic t­ly private, was held at the chapel m the cemetery, . 1 1 1 0 0 a. m. J W e dues- day w ith Rev. John E. W oo tton offic i-j

; ating and burial in the Lake V i e w cem-1 \ etery. I l l

W i l l i a m D. F o x D ies W hiter on T r ip in G eo rg ia

Exactly a year and one day the death of his sister, Miss Elizabeth! Fox at her home on Main street, Penn Yan, occurred the death of William Douglas Fox, aged 55 years, of Penn Yan, in a hospital at Brunswick, Ga, Death came at 11:00 o’clock Friday night, F eb ru ary 13th, as a result of pneumonia fo llow in g a cold which he contracted w h ile driving to Florida. E a rlie r last w eek his condition was considered much im proved and it was thought, that he would be discharged from the hospital, but la ter his con­dition rap id ly g rew critical.

Mr. Fox, fo r years a paper manufac­turer, has been w e ll known in this community. H e was a m em ber of St. M ark ’s Episcopal church; of Milo lodge, number 108, F. and A. M.; Penn Yan chapter, number 100, R. ant} A. M .; Jerusalem commandry, number 17, K n igh ts Tem plar.

H e was born in Penn Yan on Janu­ary 9, 1876, the son o f W . Harry Fox and Frances Cornwell Fox. A fte r a t­tend ing Penn Yan Academ y he stud­ied in a B altim ore business school and in 1900 entered his fa th er ’s firm, W . H. Fox & Sons, which operated the Keuka paper m ill on the Lake Keuka outlet. H e m arried Lucy M. H a ll o f E lm ira in 1912. H e was the - senior partner ill the paper m ill w ith his brother, JohnC. Fox, when he retired five years ago from active in teres t in the business. H is brother has continued to operate the business which is now owned by the N ew Y o rk Central E lec tr ic corpor­ation. The paper m ill established by his fa ther in 1865 is s flll continued under the name o f W . H. Fox & Sons.

H e leaves his w ife and brother, John, both o f whom w ere at his bed­side when death cam e; also a rriece, D orothy A. Fox, and a nephew, H ar­ry D. Fox.

The funeral serv ices w ere held from the beautifu l co lon ia l sty le home op­posite the post o ffice in Penn Van at 2:30 o ’clock Tuesday a fternoon with Rev. John E. W oo tton and Rev. J H ow ard Perk ins o ffic ia tin g and burial in the Lake V iew cem etery. The Jeru­salem Com m andry was in charge o f the serv ice at the cem etery.

E. J. W a lker, Jr., H en ry M. Short, Ross Huson, John J. M cE lligo tt, H enry M erton Sm ith and Dennis P ie rce w ere bearers at the funeral.

M e r r i l l A . B eachFo low in g an illness o f severa l jrears,

M errill A. Beach, aged 54 years,! passed aw ay about 4:00 o ’clock Sun­day a fternoon at his hom e on Benham stree t, Penn Y an .

Mr. Beach w as born in Steuben county and came to Penn Yan as a | young man. W h ile liv in g here, he was j vvell known as a business man. A t one ime he conducted a m eat m arket on j Sast E lm stree t in the location now j used by H opkins and Christensen.j. vater he gave up this business and j oegan se llin g F ord ears from that lo-j cation. W hen th is business out-grewj the size o f the store, h e took over the | U n iversa l b lock, then known as the. Central house, rebu ild ing it to accom-

. modate fam ilies, o ffices and stores. In: this building he continued his Ford j agency until lie f in a lly 1 sold the busi-! ness to Dr. E . M. Scherer. For a short it tim e he owned the old H an ford prop-| erty on the W es t Lake road at Indian! P ines. Since then, ftir tw o or three| years, he has been em ployed by the: N ew Y o rk Central E lec tr ic corpora -1 tion at the sub-station on the Lake] K euka outlet.

Another business ven ture p rom oted 1 by Mr. Beach w as the erection o f the ro llin g palace at the rear o f the busi-

plin avenue. This was used as a roller skating rink and for basketball games, the local team making a name for it­self because of its very successful sea­son in 1916. The building was later used by the Penn Yan Boat company and was finally destroyed by fire.

He leaves his widow, Anna Newby Beach; a daughter, Arlene; a brother, Bradley of .Liberty street; two sisters, Mrs. Edgar Lampson and Miss Bertha Beach, both of Cornwell street. Fun­eral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock

, with Rev. W illiam M. Hydon, pastor of I the Penn Yan Methodist church, offici­ating, and burial in the Lake V iew cemetery.

Grace Bordwell A t the Elizabeth hospital in Coving­

ton, Ky., on Monday of last week, Feb­ruary 16th, occurred the death o f Grace Bordwell, only daughter of the late Dr. R. R. C. Bordwell, and a sister o f the late Ernest R. Bordwell o f Penn Yarn

A lbert Boyd Dies Following Few Days’ Illness of Pneumonia

Albert Boyd, aged 75, passed away Friday morning, February 6 th, after a few days’ illness with pneumonia. Mr. Boyd had been a life-long resident of this community and for many years was a prominent farmer and vineyard- ist. For the past 10 years he had been in poor health.

He leaves his wife, two sons, W il­liam Boyd of Dundee and David Boyd of Penn Yan; four daughters, Mrs. Mabel Johnson of Penn Yan, Mrs. H el­en W right of Brooklyn, Mrs. Mary Cook of Branchport and Mrs. Florence Turner o f Dundee; and 10 grandchil­dren. One granddaughter, Miss Mar­tha Cook, died suddenly in Brooklyn three weeks ago of pneumonia.

Mr. Boyd was a member of St. Luke’s church where the funeral was held on Sunday at 2:00 p.m., Rev. J.

Burial was .at

Edwin L. Evans, Form er Yates County Resident, Dies a t Bath

Edwin L. Evans, 67, died Thursday, February 19, 1931, at his home in Bath, following a long illness. He was born at Culpeper Court House, Va., and when 12 years old with his parents re­moved to - Dundee, where he passed his early manhood. . He then re­moved to Penn Yan, where' heserved as representative of Roches­ter, Buffalo and Syracuse newspapers. For a time he was engaged in business in Watkins Glen and since about 1900 had lived in Bath. About nine years ago with John Brownley he organized the insurance firm of Evans & Brown­ley.

Politically, he was a Republican, and several years ago was candidate in the primary election for the con­gressional nomination in the 37th New York district. He held membership in Bath Lodge of Elks and" was an at­tendant of the Presbyterian church.

He was married in early life to Min­nie Andrews of Watkins Glen, by whom he is survived, with a son Pierre, a member o f the legal firm of Stanchfield, Lovell, Collin & Sayles of Elmira. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Mary Curran of Dundee, and three nephews.

Btees Nominated ection at CancuL

of protest from the en who atended the reus in the Masonic Thursday evening.

eeler were nominated a the Citizen’s' ticket

’Both Mrs. John S. Sheppard, state chairman of the Wom en’s Organiza­tion ff°r National Prohibition Reform and Dr. W alter Willcox, of Cornell 'Unive>x*sRy» h* speaking last evening at the first open meeting of the Cayuga County branch of the organization, stressed one fact which they feel must be brought home to the voters of the United States. That is that the United States if* *n a state of virtual warfare with the underworld.

A kudge cd the Supreme Court pointed out to Mrs. Sheppard last week p Windnagle, and that, because of prohibition, every city and every town held an element be- p- Vann> Hiram Bal yond the5 control of the government. Doctor Willcox asserted in this connec-tion thf** never before in the history of humanity has the underworld been r election before the as financially powerful as it is at present. He urged that it must be attack- village on Tuesday, ed, not by force, but by the repeal of the .18th Amendment, the source ofits enormous revenue. jndolpn presided as

Mrs- Sheppard’s appeal was addressed primarily to the women present" ,c r^ / e mmiedin Osborn £ Hall last evening. She spoke of her many years of welfare work 3 teller. The present which s.b * abandoned last year when she realized that all her efforts to im- were nominated from prove conditions were being nullified by prohibition. She spoke of the help-Jeir nomination carried lessness of the mothers of the country in the face of the temptations which meet their children; and she urged that those mothers act in a body in order! that their political influence may be directed toward repeal.

'— J-"11-jmra'S'sodr&'c*-*-\A afertruam."His genial face and helpful advice j

i w ill be missed from the county meet- .. ings he so faithfully attended.

The board of directors attended bis j ' funeral Sunday afternoon. The Farm j

Bureau extend to Mrs. Swarthout and j fam ily their sincere sympathy at this < trying time.

H. S. FU LLLAG AR.

s request for a secre:

Dennis Pierce and H. _ were chosen - as mem­

bers of a committee to fill vacancies. A bunch of grapes w ill be used as the Citizen’s party emblem.

Mrs. Elizabeth P orter Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, aged 81

Announcement is made of the mar­riage, at Wellsboro, Pa., on Tuesday January 20, 1931, o f Merton Owen, of j jg Penn Yan, and Mrs. Sarah Smith, al- j ■ so of this village, Rev. Samuel M il­ler Sheriff, perform ing the cere-1mony at the Baptist parsonage. Glen L. Owen, and Mr. and Mrs. J. A Nichols, o f Penn Yan, were pres.ent at the ceremony. I

I -11 S B — t — . 1

years, died Saturday afternoon, March j 7 i.li, in Benton. She leaves two sons, 1

1 Eugene of Penn Yan and Marvin of j Buffalo; one sister, Miss W ealthy I Shaw of Benton, with whom she made j her home. The services were held 1 from the Thayer Funeral home in j Penn Yan with Rev. W illiam M. Hydon ociciating and-with burial in the Lake V iew cemetery, Penn Yan.

Mrs. Porter was a life-long resident of Yates county, having been born on the old Shaw farm.

m .

William J. Tylee Succumbs to Short Illness I

William J. Tylee, aged 48, prominent citizen and business man of this com­munity, died at his home at 328 Main Street, on Tuesdjay. moaning, about 1:30 o’clock, fo llow ing a brief illness. Death was due to a heart attack.

Word of the death pf Mr. Tylee came as a shock to his many friexids j and business associates, as, notwith­standing the, fact that it was known he had not been feeling wel.l, it.was! not thought that his illness was ser­ious. • * '

Mr. and Mrs. Tylee and sons had planned to leave for California about a month ago, but the trip was delayed owing to the illness of .lyir. Tylee.

W illiam J. Tylee was born in Corn-) ing, September 15, 1882, jjhe son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Tylee. He located at Worcester, Mass., coming from thatf city to Penn Yan in 1901, when he became identified with the Taylor

|| Chemical Co. and Yates Electric Light & Power Company, one of the first electric companies in Penn .Yan. He served as president of the latter or­ganization until its purchase by the New York Central Electric Corp.

In 1897, the Penn Yan & Lake Shore Railway, an 8-mile trolley line con­necting the villages of Penn Yan and Branchport, was established, and Mr. Tylee was associated, with that com-

I pany, being in charge until the dis­solution of- the company and the abandonment of the road thlree years j

|! ago. He also was president and man- >ager of the Lake Keuka Ice Com- 'pany until the first of. the present year, when, because of in health, he , sold his holdings to Frank Monnin, of this .village.

Mr. Tylee was a mefixber of the j Bo-ard of Education of the Penn Yan | Public Schools, becoming a member of the school board in January, 1924, and at the time of his death he was beginning the first year of his thirdterm as a member of that body. Rewas a member of Milo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. M. He had been af member of the Lakeside Country Club since its organization; of Penn Yan Rotary Club, a former member of the Chamber o f Commerce, and was an active member of the Lake Keuka Yacht . Club, having participated in practically all races of the club, and at the time of his death was captain of the sailing fleet of that club.

In 1912, he was married to Ernes­tine Allngton, of Elmira. Four sonsV] were born to: Mr. and Mrs. Tylee, 1 three of whom are living, one son, | Clinton, the second eldest, having died p about one year ago.

In 1925, Mr. Tylee purchased the $ handsome residence of the late R. A. I Scofield, at 328 Main St., where his ^ deatiptoe our r e •’

Surviving are his wife, and three-1 sons,. W illiam J., Jr., George R., and

j Robert, all at home, and two sisters, {Mrs. Otis Wilson, and Mrs. Louis'j Vierick, of New Bedford, Mass. The

I funeral services were held on Thurs- f day afternoon at 3 o’clock frOm .the )!

| home, Rev. C. R. Allington, of Utica, and Rev. W. A. Henricks. of Penn Yan, I

j officiating. Milo Lodge, No. 108, F. & [|| A. M., Penn Yan, were in charge of I I the services at th engrave in Lake View "I cemetery.

. T h e y ea r 1930 has brought sorrow into m any hom es as D eath has taken its to ll in Y a tes county and vic in ity. F o llo w in g is a ch ronolog ica l lis t o f the deaths as recorded in the Chron­ic le-Express during the past 52 w eeks: H A R R IS — In Branchport, January S',

1930, M rs. Leonard H arris, aged 63 years. ' ,

M O R L E Y — In Rock Stream , January ' f l , 1930, Mrs. Ed ith M orley,. aged 52

yea fs .W A Y A N D — In Bellona, January 14,

1930, Susie S. W a y and, aged S3 years.

L Y N N — In Penn Yan , January U1930,, F red H. Lynn , aged 72. years.

T Y L E E — In Sold iers and Sa ilors M em ­oria l hospital, Penn Yan , January 16, 1930, C ly iton A llin g ton T y le e , aged 15 years.

P O T T E R — A t Geneva, January 17, 1930, C. F rank P o tte r , o f Dundee, aged 71 years.

G A R R E T T — In Tucson, A rizona , Jan­uary 18, 1930, Charles G arrett, aged 26. years. ■ *

P A L L E S E N — In Penn Yan 18, 1930, Mrs. Anna M arie aged 75 years.

B E S T — In Po tter, January Mrs. Beulah Best, aged 43

January ’,Fallesen.i

18, 1930,| years.

S H E D R IC K — In Benton, January 20,/b

January aged 62

1930, Mrs. Eugene Shedrick, aged years.

W A L S H — In Buffalo, January 20, 1930, M rs. La v in a W a lsh , aged 81 years, o f Penn Yan.

M O R S E — In Dundee, January 20, 1930, Mrs. F rank M orse.

P E L C H E R — - I n M idd lesex ,23, 1930, N e lson Pe lch er, years.

M U R T A G H — In So ld iers and ,Sa ilors M em oria l hospita l, January 23, 1930, Mrs. E lizabeth K e l ly M urtagli, aged 47 years.

W A G G O N E R — In Penn Yan , January 25,. 19,30/ Mrs. /Carolina Chjristina W^aggdper, aged ; 91 years, fo rm erly o f Keuka.

P O R T E R S —In Dundee, January *25, 1930, Joseph P o rter .

B E L L IS — In S o ld iers and Sa ilors M e­m oria l hosp ita l, Penn Yan , January 26, 1930, L e ro y J. B eilis , aged 69 years, o f B arrington .

A U S T IN — In Penn Yan , January 27, 1930, G eorge W . Austin , aged 57 years.

W A R N E R — In M ilo , January 29, 1930, Mrs; A n g ie W arn er, aged 77 years.

S T A N T O N — In - Dundee, January 30, 1930, Mrs. M ary Stanton, aged 83 years. : ■' I

V A N V L A K E — In T o rrey , January 30, 1930, Mrs. Jane S. V an Vlal|e, aged, 79 years. \ I ; ,

C H A S E — In .Benton, January 31, 1830, ,4 A b h d tt M. Chase, aged 90.years. P Q N B -—In Penn Yan , F eb ru ary .4, •<'1930, A sh ley Pond, aged 73 y ea fs - , ,.j B O W N E — In Sold iers and Sa ilors Me-|

m oria l hospital, P en n Yan,. F eb ru a ry l i ;5v 1930, James F. Bow ne, o f Penn

lYan , aged 76 years.W IS E — In Penn Yan , Fehruar)| 5; 1930,. M iss Sophie F. W ise , o f Pepin; Yap ,

'Calged 62 years.M A N L E Y — In Penn Yan, F eb ru ary W

TSf30, Mrs. M ary V. M anley, ' Penn ^rYan, aged 67 years.B R A D L E Y — In Penn Yan, F eb ru ary 5,

1930, Mrs. B eatrice Bradi|y,> • o f , P en n Yan, aged 22 years.C L^R J^— In " Penn" Y F e b r J ^ y r Y ’ : 0, I ; M r s ; ■ m arida .M c In ty re * Clark,I | h i Penn Yah, aged 74-ffears. ||! S L A Y T O N — In Sold iers and j a i l o r s

M em oria l hospital, Penn YaaL Feb-i ruary 7, 1930, Mrs. J en n ie f p r o w p Slayton,- o f Pu lteney, aged 70isyears|

L A R S E N -—In -Befiton, Feb ru ary 7J 1930, Mrs. Em m a M arie L a rsen o Benton, aged 40 years.

G R A V E S — In Jerusalem , Febru ary 1930, W arner W . years.

10,K IS S A N E — In Stanley, Eehr1930, John Kissane, aged 79 years. ;

B E N N E T T — In Sold iers and Sa ilors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan , F eb ­ruary 11, 1930, C lay Bennett, aged 56 years, o f Bluff Point.

F O X — In Penn Yan, Febru ary 12, .1930, M iss E lizabeth Fox, aged 58 years'.

T R A V E R — In Jerusalem, Febru ary 12, 1930, R obert T raver, 'aged 60 [yea rs

H O U C K - A lonzo

T R A V IS - m oria l a ry 16,

1930,-In W ayne, Febru ary Houck, a g e d ; SO y e a ii :-In Sold iers and Sailors Me- Hospital, Penn Yan, J Febru- 1930, Mrs. Grant P. T rav is ,

aged 58 years.- W A T E R S — A t Crysta l Springs,! F eb ru ­

ary 17, 193$, Mrs. Jennie W aters',. aged 61 years.

C O N K L IN — In Penn Yan, Febru ary '17, 1930, Mrs. Frank Conklin o f Penn Yan, aged 74 years.

DE P E W — In Penn Yan, Feb ru ary 19, 1930, Julian P. De Pew , o f Penh Yan, aged 62 years, . ■ ' .

T E T O R — A t Dundee, Febru ary 20, 1930, Miss Phoebe T e to r, aged 81 years.

C A R R O L L — In Penn Yan , February/;24, 1930, Mbs. E llen Carroll.

M A C D O W E LLr—In Barrington , Febru-j a ry 24, 1930, M artin M acD ow ell, Sr.,! aged 77 years,

M IL E S — In Jerusalem, F eb ru ary 25,1 1930, Robert M iles o f M iddlesex,! aged 77 years.

T IL L E Y — In Torrey, M arch 3, 1930, J.{ B. T i l le y o f T o rrey .

F E N N E R — In Penn Yan , M arch 4, 1930, W illiam B. Fenner, aged . 56;

■years. |G R A D Y — In Penn Yan , M arch 1930,;

Edw ard Grady, aged 72- veafs> I I G E E R — In Italy, M arch 5, 1930.1 T e ro y 1 G. Geer, aged 71 years, o f Ita ly Hol-j! low . ■ |||, I . j :JO H N S O N -L- In Sold iers a n d | ia il6 rsj

M em oria l hospital, P enn Van* March. 11, 1930, Fred Johnson o f Penh Yan, aged 60 years, ||/ /

R O B IN S O N In Sold iers and Sailors;M em oria l hospital, P enn Yan, M arch 1

,1 1 , 1930/; M ercelius G. R obinson o f j • M ilo , aged eight years.B E A R D — In Chicago, 111., M arch 15, V

1930, Mrs. A lberta Beard o f H im rod, I aged 29 years.

K E E C H — In Penn Yan, Mar. 15, 1930, j Sewa/d. W. K eech o f Ham m onds- J port, aged 68 years.

A L M Y — In Dundee. M arch .17, 1930, James Alm y, 90 years old.

CARTER—day,.Bhrrington, M arch 17, 1930, Mrs. E liza Carter, -aged 50 years. /’.. /, ■ ' 1/

L Y N N — In Jerusalem, M arch 17, 1930,1 Mrs. Fanny J. Lynn, aged 81 years. \

A N D R E W S — In B ellona,' M arch 18, 1930, Emma Andrew s, aged 88 years.

CREVELL1NG-— in Sold iers and Sa il­ors M em orial hospital, Penn . Yan, E arl L eR o y C reyelling, aged e igh t years, o f Jerusalem. .

H U R D — A t H im rod, M arch ! 18, 1930, Mrs. Carrie Hurd, aged 61 years.

,T O R R E N C E — In Sold iers and Sailors M em oria l hospital, Penn Yan, March20, 1930, Burr Torrence, aged 46 years, o f Jerusalem.

B O R D W E L L — In Sold iers and Sailors M em oria l hospital, Penn Yan, M arch21, 1930, Thom as B ordw ell, aged 82 years.

, B R O W N 1—A t Ita ly H ill, M arch 21, 1930, James Brown, aged 73 years.

; V A N W IN K L E — In Penn Yan , M arch 23, 1930, Mrs. Sarah G. V an W in k le ,

In ' F e n n T a n , “A p r il 5th, 1930, Mrs. M a ry S locum , aged 76 yegrs.

K E T C H A M — In Benton, A p r il 11, 1930, Edw in J. K etcham , aged 40 years,

G L E A S O N — In Steuben county, A p r il 14, 1930, H iram F ran k lin Gleason, aged 77 years.

M Q M B E R G — in So ld iers and Sailors M em oria l hospital, P enn Yan , A p r il 18, 1930, Mrs. C aroline M om berg, pf Po tter, aged 61 years.

W A T K IN S — In Penn Yan , A p r il 19, 1930, Mrs. Em m a L . W atk in s, aged 74 years.

B R O W N — N ea r Lakem on t, A p r il 21, 1930, Mrs. Sarah Browrn, aged 87 years.

S Q U IR E S — In W illa rd S tate hospital, Seneca, county, A pril. 22„ 1930, W i l - ; liam H. Squires o f Penn Yan, aged j 56 years.

F E E — In Jerusalem , A p r il 23, 1930, M ichael Fee , o f Penn Yah , aged about 76 years.

L a M O R E A U X — In Penn Yan , A p r il 23, 1930, M iss F lo ren ce LaM oreau xJaged 55 years.

Yan , A p r il 26, 1930, o f Penn Yan , aged

MC K IE — In Penn D avid J. M cK ie 75 years.

B R O C K W A Y — In Penn Yan , A p r il ;26, 1930, M rs. R aym ond B rdckw ay o f Penn Yan , aged 38 years.

A U S T IN — In Sold iers and Sailors M e­m oria l hospital, P en n Yan , A p r il 27, 1930, Mrs. M artha Austin , aged 81 years, o f Pu lteney.

P A L L O T T A — In Sold iers and Sa ilors M em oria l hospita l, A p r il 28, . 1930, A nuzziata Pa llo tta , aged fou r years o f Penn Yan.

A R T L E Y — In Sold iers and Sailors M em oria l hospital, P enn Yan , A p r il 29, 1930, Mrs. Sarah A rtley .

B A K E R — In . Benton, A p r il 30, 1930;W illiam E d w in Baker, aged 78 years.

N O R T H R U P -In1930, G eorge E.

P o tte r , ■ A p r il \ N orth rup, aged

30,84.

In Penn Yan , M ayJ. M cC arrick , aged 41

; years. ' • .- ■ |j OU G E T ER S O N — I u B illsoboro , M ay 1,

1930, Mrs. H e len Oughtersbn, aged 81 years.

I M cC A R R IC F 1930, Mrs.;

! years.j B E N N IT T — A t G rove Springs

1930, Mrs. A bram Bennitt.S M IT H — Iii Dundee, M a y 3.

M iss M a ry E lizabeth Sm ith,70 years.

| F IT C H ^ In R u sh ville . M ay 3, . 1930, Ivlrs., A lic e S. F itch , aged 83 years.

S T E V E N S — In Gorham, M a y 3, 1930,

M ay

1930,aged

Burton S tevens, aged 51

aged 83 years.

G raves, aged

S P E N C E R — In Penn Yan, M arch 31, j, .1930, Mrs. Charles Spenper, aged 65 years.

L O N G — In W illa rd S tate H osp ita l, A p r il 2, 1930, Mrs. Stephen E. Lon g o f Penn Yan, aged 59 years.

S M IT H — In Penn Yan, A p r il 3, 1930,1 Mrs. M ary Smith, aged 76 years.

In Penn Yan, A p r il 4, Sarah W a lra tli, aged 86

W A L R A T H - 1930, Mrs. yearg.

L ew is years.

M cE V O Y — Sold iers and Sa ilors M e­m oria l hospital, M ay 7, 1930., Mrs. Julia Phalen M cE voy , aged 70 years.

| S P ftA G U E — In Benton, M a y , 7, 1930, Mrs. Celesta Sprague, aged 90 years.

! W A U G H —-In Dundee, M ay 8 , 1930, F loyd W augh, aged 44 years,

A B E L — In Jerusalem , M ay 9, 1930, W illia m A bel, aged 80 years.

R E N S L O W — In B arrington , M a y 9, 1930,. W illia m R enslow , aged 90 years.

J E N S E N — In Penn Yan, M ay 9, 1930, M iss Anna W . Jensen, aged "26 years;

A X T E L L — In Penn Yan , M ay 10, 1930, Mrs, R ose A. A x te ll, aged 62 years.

H A R T L E Y — In Penn Yan , M ay 11, 1930, R ichard H artley , aged :26 years.

C A R P E N T E R — In Penn Yan , M ay 1 2 , 1930,; M rs. L o ren Z. Carpenter, aged 48 years.

S M IT H — N ea r H a ll, M ay 12, 1930, Charlotte Lou ise Sm ith, aged five years.

C O N W A Y — In Dresden, M ay 13, ;F red J. Conway, aged 48 years.

R O B E S O N — A t R ochester, M ay 1930, H erb ert Robeson , a^ed years, fo rm erly o f Gorham.

H A V E N S — A t Benton Center, M ay 17, 1930, E m m ett H aven s, aged 80 years.

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20, 1930, 65 years.21, 1930, 79 years,

Bull o f Penn

M ay 27, 1930, 46 years.

29, j 81

Stream, M ay H ew itt, aged

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M W in T E H BAD— A t Penn Yan, M ay IS, j 1930, Mrs. C. E. W hitehead o f Sec- | ond Milo, aged 67 years. LED G ERW O O D — A t Gorham, M ay 19,

V 1930, George H. Ledgerwood, aged 1 1: 78 years.

D A V IS— A t Hall, M ay 19, 1930, James / I Davis, aged 62 years.

F IE R O — A t Watkins* Glen,Frank W . Fiero.

; .T U R N E R — A t Bellona, May I Law rence E. Turner, aged ; B R A Y T O N — A t Bath, May

Mrs. Fanny Brayton, aged fo rm erly o f Potter.

iN E IL S E N — A t Geneva, M ay 21," 1930, Marius N eilsen o f Benton, aged 61

•‘I • ye'ars.H U S H — A t Canandaigua, M ay 22, 1930,

Mrs. Thomas A. Hush o f Hall, aged ' 72 years.

j F O S TE R — In Penn Yan, M ay 22, 1930, Rupert Edwin Foster, aged 16 years.

! L O U N S B E R R Y — A t Jerusalem, May23, 1930, Mrs. Emma Lounsberry,, aged 73 years. *

B U L L — In Soldiers and Sailors Mem-j oria l hospital, Penn Yan, M ay 25,1

j 1.930, Mrs. F lorence | - Yan, aged 63 years.B A IL E Y — In Dundee,

John W. Bailey, aged B A L D W IN — A t Lakemont, M ay

1930, Mrs. H enry Baldwin, aged years.

H E W IT T — In Rock 1930, Pa lm er O.

• years.I BEAM S — In Soldiers and Sailors Me-j

m orial hospital, Penn Yan, M ay '31, j1.930, Mrs. Rebecca M. Beams, aged;

, 8.9 years.(Continued on page six )

S C O T T — In Dundee, May 31, '1930, M atthew C. Scott, aged 89 years.

M cCAlG— A t Ferguson ’s Corners, May 31, 1930, Robert McCaig, aged 53 years. •

B E N N E T T — In Dundee, LeM oyne J.Bennett/ aged S3, years.

T A Y L O R — In Penn Yan, June 1, 1930, Mrs. Anna F. Taylor, aged 66 yers.

COOK— A t Second Milo, June 1, 1930, Miss. E lizabeth Cook, aged 81 years.

V O R H E E S — In Rushville, June 2, 193° E lzer B. Voorhees, aged 86 years.

B R E N N A N —*■ In Penn Yan, June 6 , 1930, Charles J. Brennan, aged 68! years.

M A C D O W E L L — In Dundee, June 7, 1930, Frank M acDowell, aged 77 years.

S N Y D E R — In Penn Yan, June 9, 1930, W illiam H. Snyder, aged 5$ years.

SC O TT — In Penn Yan, June 10, 1930, Bertie A. Scott, aged 57 years.

M A N N IN G — In Dundee, June 10, 1930, Mrs. R ay Manning, aged 51 years.

W A R F IE L D — In Penn Yan, June 31, 1930, Mrs. M ary Ida W arfield.

M IL L E R — In Barrington, June 12, 1930, Fred M iller, aged 70 years.

F E N T O N — In Ita ly H ill, June 14, 1930, L eR oy Calvin Fenton, aged 6 years.

S P E N C E R — In Milo, June 14, 1930,' James B. Spencer, aged 72 years.

S U T F IN — In Dundee, June 15, 1930, Mrs. Delos Sutfin, aged 72 years.

S H N E ID — In Penn Yan, June 17, 1930, j M rs Jennie Shneid, aged 33 years.i

B U T L E R — N ear H imrod, June 17, 1930, Luther Butler, aged 85 years.i

W IL S O N — In Penn 1930, Mrs. Ema S a e ton, aged 44 years.

B A K E R — In SoldiersM em orial hospital, Penn Yan, June,24, 1930, Otto Arthur Baker o f Jeru­salem, aged 59 years.

CASS— In Soldiers and Sailors Mem­oria l hospital, Penn Yan, June 26,! 1930, W ayne Arlington Cass, aged six years.

T E M P L E — In Starkey, June 26, 1930, Cyrus Tem ple, aged 62 years.

F L IN N — In Ontario County home/ June 28, 1930, Peter F linn o f Rush­v ille , aged 73 years.

Yan, June 19, W ilson o f Ben-

and Sailors;

__ 51xtiNSjux "— m Soldiers and Sailors; M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, June, 28, 1930, Frank Gurnsey o f Branch-! Port. , .

SPOOR— A t Gorham, June 30, 1930, * infant' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Spoor, aged three weeks.

W A T L IN G —-In Benton, July 1, 1930, Charles W atling, aged 74 years.

H O S T R A N D E R — In Penn Yan, July 1; ■; 1930, John W esley Hostrander, aged seven years.

D E N C E — In Milo, July 2, 1930, A lbert I Dence, aged 77 years.

C O N W A Y —In Penn Yan, July 2, 1930, t Mrs. Jennie Conway, aged 68 years, ;

COOK — In Syracuse, July 2, 1930, i Mrs. M argaret Codlc o f .Benton. •

M E R R IL L — In Jerusalem, July 2, 1930, H arriet M errill, aged 84 years.

C H R IS T E N S E N — In Jerusalem, July3, 1930, Alfred Jens Christensen1 of j Penn Yan, aged 40 years.

W Y M A N — In Soldiers and Sailors j M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, July /4, 1930, Mrs. M ary W ym an of Pot- / ter, aged 77 years.

COONS — In Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, July!5, 1930, Mrs. Howard Coons of Tor-! rey, aged 35 years.

LE R C H — In Penn Yan, July 5, 1930,1 Miss Jennie E lizabeth Lerch, agedl 59 years.

S W A R T W O O D — In M em orial hospi-: tail, Canandaigua, July 5, 1930, Mrs.; F loyd Swartwood o f Gorham, aged 34 years.

K E T C H A M — In Gorham, July 7, 1930, Miss E lnora Smith Ketcham, aged 59 years.

A Y R E S — In Penn Yan, July 8 , 19.30, j John G. Ayres, aged 74 years.

G O O D SELL — In Potter, July 8 , 1930, Jacob Goodsell, aged 75 years.

G EER— In Italy, July 11, 1930, Clias. ta M. Geer, aged 77 years.

M cD E R M O TT-4 ln C lifton Springs, Ju­ly 11, 1930, Joseph McDermott, S r .,; Of Jerusalem, aged 75 years.

L IT T E E L — In Dundee, July 12, 1930, Edward L ittee l, aged 72 years.

T H A Y E R — Simeon D. Thayer, aged | 81 years, in Benton, July 13, 1939,

A L L E Y — In C lifton Springs, July 16, j 1930, Mrs. Frank B. A lley o f Keuka Park, aged 50 years.:

YO N G E — In Soldiers and Sa ilors '1 M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, July 23, 1930, Miss M ildred Yonge, aged 31 years, of Ogden street, Penn Yan.

G IL L E T T E — A t Bluff Point, July 23, 1930, Fred G illette, aged 69 years. ,

W A D E — In Penn Yan, July 25, 1930, Mrs. Ida J. W ade, aged 76 years.

N IE L S E N — In Penn Yan, July 29, 1930, Lars P. N ielsen, aged 6.6 years/

W A L L E N B E C K — A t Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital, August 1, 1930, Mrs. Lew is W allenbeck, aged 39 years.

G IL B E R T — In Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, Au-; gust 3, 1930, Francis G ilbert, aged 48 years, o f Torrey.

W O O D R U F F — In Bath Soldiers hospi­tal, August 4, 1930, Theodore D. W oodruff, aged 82 years, o f Penn Yan, ; . . . « . . .

G LE A SO N — N ear Keuka, August 5,> 1930, Mrs. A lbert Gleason, aged 50 years. |

P U R D Y — A t Brahchport, August 5, 1330, Fred P. Purdy/ aged 56 years.

W E B B IE — In Torrey, August 6 , 1930, W illiam Charles W ebbie, aged 61 years, o f Penn Y an /<V '

G RE EN — A t W eston, August 7, 1930,1 Miss Edna Green, ^ged 14 years.

R O B B IN S— Mrs. Emma Jane R obbins,; aged 69" years, in Bellona, August 8 , 1930.

H U D SO N — A t Dundee, August 8 , 1930, j Mrs. A de ll S. Hudson, aged 80 years. I

D E C K E R — In Benton; August 12, 1930, Ezra Decker, aged 70 years.

ROSS — A t Dijndee, /August 13, 1.930,;Mrs. M ary A, Ross.

V A U G H N — In Fenir Yan, August 14, 1930, Katherine Louise Vaughn, aged six years.

A L B E R T S O N — In Middletown, August 16, W illiam^ C. Albertspn o f

D EAN — In Erie county, August 1 M 1930 Mrs. Bernard K en t DeanPenn Yan.

E V E R E T T — A t Geneva, August 26, 1930, Miss L o ttie E verett, o f Dun­dee/aged 27 years;

GAGE— In town o f Gorham, August 26, 1930, Mrs. Lorenzo D. Gage, aged 58

SO RENSEN — In Benton, August 27, 1930, Mrs. Maren Sorensen, aged 81

ORR In Tyrone, August 28, 1930, I fa D. Orr, aged 75 years.

STORM S — In Dundee, August 28, 1930, . Charles M. Storms, aged 62 years.

O’K E E F E — In T en n Yan, September® 3, 1930, Mrs. E lizabeth M ary jO ’K eefe, aged 67 years.

V O A K —In Benton, Septem ber 6 , 1930, | Horace Greeley Voalc, aged 76 years.!

S E E LE Y —: In Penn Yan, Septem ber!9, 1930, Mrs. Johanna C. Seeley, aged; 8,2 . years,

S M IT H — In Penn Yan, September 10,t 1930, Mrs. Plibebe Ann Smith, aged 85 years.

B ISH O P — In Dresden, Septem ber 12, 1930, Buy M. Bishop, aged 47 years.

POST, — In Himrod, September 12, 1930, Miss Helen Post, aged 80 years.

V A N H Q U T E N — In Dresden, Septem ­ber 15, 1930, Simon J. Van Houten, aged 92 years.

CO M STO CK - f- In Bellona, September 15, 3930, Mrs, I. W . Comstock, aged 78 years. /

W E STC fO TT — In Dresden, Septem­ber 16, 1930, Miss Cyntha W estcott, aged 86 years.

M cG U IRE — In Seneca county, Sep­tem ber 17, 1930, Mrs. M ary McGuire, aged 36 years.

E L L IS — In Ontario county, Septem ­ber, 20, 1930, M rs/Sab ina M. Ellis, aged 56 years. '/

T U R N E R — In Canandaigua, Septem­ber 20, 1930, Mrs. John K, Turner, form erly o f Bellona, aged 84 years.

S W A R T W O O D — A t W aterloo, Sep­tem ber 26, 1930, Mrs. Carrie A. Swartwood, form erly o f Starkey,; aged 49 years.

H O R TO N — A t Tyrone, September 26, 1930, Mrs. L e it ie M. Horton, aged;67 years.

G LE A SO N .v— A t Grove Springs, Sep­tem ber 29, 1930, Mrs. Dallas Glea/ son, aged 64 years.

M IL L E R —: In Penn Yan, September; 30, 1930, Mrs. M ary A. M iller, aged 75 years.

BABCO CK — A t Bath, October 6 , 1930, Mrs. Lem an Babcock, aged about 50 years.

D ISB RO W — A t Pulteney, October 7, 1930, C lifford Disbrow, . aged 33 years. 1 I •'

B A R N A R D — A t'Pu lten ey , October 8 , 1930, Mrs/ F. G. Bafndrd, aged 65‘ years.

B A L L ;— A t Soiith Pulteney, October 9, 1930, M rs/W illiam Ball, aged 53 yea rs ..

H U N T — In Milo, October 12, 1930,, Raymond F. Hunt, aged tw o years. '

C A R P E N T E R -— In Penn Yan, Octo­ber 17, 3 930, John M. Carpenter/

. aged 74 years.H Y A T T -— In Barrington, October 18,;

1930, Frank W . H yatr o f Keuka1,] aged 166 -years-.''' : ■ ./"-•-v

W A S S O N — In Penn Yan, October 24, 1930/ Miss Phebe J. W atson, aged!85 "years, of Benton.

O W E NS — In Soldiers and Sailors] M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, Octo- her' '26, 1930, Mrs., Jennie Owens, aged 62 years.

G R A Y — In Soldiers and Sailors M em ­orial hospital, Penn Yan, October 27, 1930, Mrs. M ary A. Gray, aged 65 years, o f Geneva.

FR E N C H — In Italy, October 28, 1930, Addison M. French, aged 70 years.

H AM JLTO N — In Penn Yan, October 29, 1930, Mrs. Henrietta C. H am il­ton, aged 81 years.

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« H O R T 4— in Penn Yan, August 1930, Mrs. M ary P. Short.

T^ VIS if? In Milo,- August 18, 19 feilas 0 : Travis , aged 79 years.

—" T fi ^ r ie bounty, August 18, 1930, Bernard Kent Dean; aged 55 years, o f Penn Yan.

S H A N N O N — in 'P en n Yan, October; 30, 1930, John Shannon, aged about} 94 years.

M O R R IS — In Soldiers and Sailors; M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, N o -1 vernber 1, 1930, Charles M orris, aged 64 years o f Hamm ondsport.

W H IT E — In Branchport, N ovem ber 1,1930, Vernon Foster W h ite , aged: 17 months, son o f Mr. and Mrs. W al-j te r W hite.

C A R V E Y — In Jerusalem, N ovem ber 1, 1930, Judson P. Carvey, aged 75 years.

T R A V IS — IB M ilo, N ovem ber 2 , 1930, Mrs. Cynthia A u rilla Travis , aged 69 years.

L IT T L E — In Sold iers and Sailors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, No- yem ber 2, 1930, W a lte r A. L ittle , aged 52 years.

S E ID E L — In Potter, N ovem ber 3, 1930, Mrs. Lucretia G. Seidel, aged 67. years.

W A T S O N — In Jerusalem, N ovem ber 6 , 1930, H enry Packard W atson, aged

I 17 years.i W H IT A K E R — In Sold iers and Sail­

ors M em orial hospital, N ovem ber 8 , 1930, John W hitaker, aged 89 years.

D A M O T H — In Sold iers and Sailors I M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, No- j vernber 9, 1930, Mrs. Nelson A . Da- j moth, o f Penn Yan.

S T R O N G — In Torrey, N ovem ber 1 1 ,: 1930, Mrs. H errie tta C. Strong, aged 77 years.........

D R A ftE — In Sold iers and Sa ilo rs ! M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, No- ; vernber 13, 1930, Mrs. T ill ie Drake, aged 79 years.

A N D R E W S -— In Dundee, N ovem ber i 17, 1930, Charles* T. Andrews, aged 8 8 years. -

S H A N N O N — In Dundee, N ovem b er ’ 20, 1930, Mrs. Cassie Shannon, aged! 74 years.

T U R K -— In Penn Yan, N ovem ber 23, 1930, Mrs. Grace A. Turk, o f Penn Yan , aged 63 years.

W IL L E T T — In Sold iers and Sailors M em oria l hospital, N ovem ber 23,’

W ille t t o f M ilo,

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1930, Mrs. Charles aged 50 years.

W A D E — In Penn Yan, N ovem ber G eorge C. W ade, aged 78 years.

M O R G A N — A t Dundee, N ovem ber 28, 1930, .M rs. Clara M organ, aged 84 years,

K IE R S T — In Sold iers and Sailors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan , N o ­vem ber 29, 1930, Mrs. Janet W . K ierst, aged 39 years.

C A R R — In Hall, Ontario county, N o ­vem ber 29, 1930, Mrs. C arrie Carr., aged 60 years.

A N A B L E — A t W est Ita ly , N ovem ­ber 29, 1930, A lb ert Anable, aged

■ 80 years. - • --■< -•••••• •- - ■ - S ---• ■.•'B U T L E R — In Dundee, N ovem ber 29,

1930, George Butler, aged 75 years.

ivi d I I ivuB R A D F O R D - B R U N D A G E — In Penn

j Yan, March 14, 1931,, M iss B ea triceE. Brundage, only daughter o f Mrs. L ew is J. Brundage o f Burns terrace, Penn Yan, and Kenneth S. B rad ford

I o f Central Square.

M cC A R R IC K - - " in Sold iers and S a il­ors Memorial hospital, Penn Yan , : M arch 15, 1931, A delb ert A. M cCar- rick, aged 53 years.

Two Large Barns Burned

Old Potter House Saved from Flames From Flying Sparks

The large barns on the fa rm of Fenton W'ager, about four m iles w est o f this v illage on the Po tter road w ere com pletely destroyed by fire o f un­known origin on Saturday even ing, about 8:30 o’clock, en ta iling a loss o f $2 0 ,0 0 0 , w ith $6 ,000 insurance.

The fire, which was discovered by a Rochester [m otoris t- who was passing, had gained considerable headway, and

jthe Rochester man w ent to the ■Wager house and then rushed to the horse barn and released the horses. James Wager, 12, son of the ow ner o f the farm, went into the barn and ran out the tractor and truck. The Roches­ter man also saved a car belonging to Mrs. Ada Bardeen, who was at the W agar home, w ith tw o sm all W a ger

; children, while the parents, w ith the : two hired men, w ere in Penn Yan,

Mr. and Mrs. W a ger w ere on their ;■ w ay home and saw the b laze in the sky and stopped at the L ee garage to telephone to Penn Yan, and the fire department quickly responded,, but w ere unable to save the sheep and j

! grain barn. There w ere 20 ewes pen- j ned up in the sheep barn, fo r lambing; | and these and some lambs could not be saved. Several times the roo f o,"

; the dwelling, which is connected w ith ' i the history of Yates C om ity and is ! known a;s the “ Po tter P la ce ,” was on|,

; lire from flying sparks, but the fire! department succeeded in saving aB

[T h e re were about 100 sheep in the| barn and all., but a score w ere!

•■saved. A large number o f farm, tools,; about 800 bushels o f barley, bean a n d !

- clover seed and severa l tons o f hay, f -■ which had been baled but a fe w days !previous were destroyed.

Mr. W ager is secretary-troasurer o f ! the New York State- Sheep Growers*

- Association and his flock o f sheep was considered one o f the best in this

■ section.The blaze illum inated th e sky f o r ;

m iles around, being seen as fa r as ■ the White Springs Farm in Geneva, - and it was estim ated that there w ere , m ore than 400 cars at the scene.

State Troopers Guyle and Todd w ere- investigating the fire on the supposi­tion that it was o f incend iary o r ig in .;

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Temporary Budget

Street ligh tin g ..........................$,6000.00Sew er m ain tenan ce ........ ....... 500.00Sew er disposal p lan t (repa irs ,

e tc ) ...... 1 0 0 0 .0 0Board o f H ea lth Fund ............ 1000.00F ire com panies ....... .800.00F ire Dept. Fund ................... 2400,00P o lice fu nd .................... ........... 7420.00Contingent Fund ................... 6000.00H igh w ay fund ..................... 8m)0j0.0H igh w ay note and interest.... 2750'!.00O iling stree ts ....... ....h........ 1500,00Gasoline road ro lle r note and

in terest ................... 1050.00Red Jacket P a rk Fund ........... 500.00F ire A la rm Fund ............ ........... 200.00Benham S tree t pav in g bonds

and in teres t .................. 1652.79Burns T e rra ce pavin g bonds-

and in teres t ................... 1351,35Chapel S treet pav in g bonds

and in terest ............... 1489.4$Court S treet pavin g bonds and

in terest ........................ I'O^ijlflfViIn teres t K euka S treet curb ing

notes 115,00.Lake S treet pav in g bonds and

in teres t ...»....... , ............... 2050.30L ib e r ty S treet No. 1 and 2 pav- •

ing bonds in teres t ..............2397.96L ib e r ty S tre e t No. 3 paving;

bonds and in teres t ..... 4487,39M ain S treet pav in g bonds and

in terest ............ 2;688:96E n gin e House No. 1 Im p ro ve ­

m ent Fund .......... 1150,00W a gen er S treet p av in g bonds

and in teres t .......... !.. 333/99

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$62,570.02The tem p ora ry budget as shown at

$62,570.02 is $2383.46 h igh e r than the amoun tra ised by taxation in 1930 of $60,186.56. D u rin g the- y ea r th e v i l ­lage put in a perm anent s tree t on K euka S treet fo r w h ich no bonds w ere issued except for. the curb which has been, assessed "to th e property, owners. I t is the presen t B oard ’s in ­tention to keep the tax rate as lo w as possible, and, w ith th is end in v iew , they have decided not to . m ake^any perm anent im provem ents to any streets, during the y ea r 193X. Th is j year m arks the last paym ent on the M ain S treet pav in g and on the gaso- | lin e ro lle r . Th e approx im ate tax rate on the budget w ill be $12.65 decim al ! as aga inst $12.45 decim al in 1930. !

W M . B. M A N LE Y ^C lerk , I

Dr. Wi l l i am E. DeMel t

Dr. W illia m E. D eM elt, fo r m aiiy years principal o f Penn \ an A cadem y and, later, superintendent o f the Penn Y an Pub lic schools, lias been em ­p loyed as a teacher in the education departm ent o f Southern co llege in Lakeland, F lorida, a M ethod ist in sti­tution, beau tifu lly situated on a lake.

A t presen t Dr. D eM elt is teach ing h istory and E nglish in the sen ior h igh school at St. P e tersbu rg . H e w ill r e ­turn to his hom e on Keulce. lake, at K eu ka Pa rk w ith his fa m ily fo r the summer, go in g south in the fa ll to take up his new w ork.

JEMIMA WILKINSON, “ THEUNIVERSAL FRIEND.” LEAD­

ING CHARACTER IN HISTORYA C hapter from T u rn e r’s H istory of th e Phelps and

G orham Purchase, w ith Interesting A dditions

By W a lte r W o lco tt.

Chapter V of that rare work, “A i History of the Phelps and Gorham; Purchase,” by O. Turner, is devoted j to an elaborate account of Jemima j Wilkinson or “The Universal Friend.” This chapter will be now re-produced I in its entirety in the columns of the [ Chronicle. To the statements by Mr. Turner, I have added many facts which are not given by him, not doubting that what is presented by both writers can not fail to interest the reader, relating as it does to an extraordinary personage, who, as Mr. Cleveland says, “made the soil of Yates county the seat of her remark­able influence and power.” W .

Mr. Turner commences his chapter as follows: “This eccentric founder of a religious sect and her followers, having been the pioneer of the entire Genesee country, preceding even the Indian treaties for acquiring land ti­tles, (and having constituted in early days *a prominent feature in all this region, some account of them, it may well be supposed, will be looked for in a ^vork of this character.

“Jemima Wilkinson, or as she was called by her followers— ‘The Friend,’ or ‘The Universal Friend,’ was a daughter of Jeremiah Wilkinson, of Cumberland, Bhode Island, She was one of a family of twelve children. The father was a respectable ordi­nary New England farmer. When Je­mima was in her twentieth year, the entire family, except her, had a se­vere attack of fever; and after their recovery, she was attacked, and her sickness was severe and protracted, at times her life being despaired of. In the extremity of her illness, her friends had assembled around her bed side to witness her death, when, as she affirmed, it was revealed to her that she must ‘raise her dead body.’ She arose from her bed, and kneeling by its side, made a fervent prayer, called for her clothing and announced that her carnal existence had ended; henceforward she was but divine and spiritual; invested with the gift of prophecy. (This is briefly her own account of her sudden transforma­tion as related to an informant of the author, who knew her well before and

after her advent to this region.) She [ soon commenced traveling and exhort­ing, and with a considerable degree f of success; followers multiplied, some of them good New England farmers. They soon furnished all her wants, and would accompany her sometimes to the number of twenty on her mis­sions. She traveled through New England, Eastern New York and : spent several years in the neighbor-' hood of Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, accompanied by most of her followers; and she had prose­lytes wherever she went. Her au­thority over them was absolute. Upon'< one occasion at New Milford, in Con­necticut, she proclaimed a fast, for thirty days on bread and water. Most ef them strictly obeyed; some of them

becoming almost what Calvin Edson was in later years. After remaining ; in New England and Pennsylvania about twenty years, she came t o ; Western New York. She was then; near forty years of age. The author has a copy of the New Haven Gazette

j and Connecticut Magazine of date,: j March, 1787, that has a letter in it j j from a Philadelphia correspondent i written at the time ‘The Friend’ and ; her followers were in Philadelphia on j

: their way to this region. Her per-! ; sonal appearance is thus described ‘She is about the middle size of wom­an, not genteel in her person, rather

. awkward in Her carriage; her com- : plexion good, her eyes remarkably

black and brilliant, her hair black and waving with beautiful ringlets upon her neck and shoulders; her features are regular, and the whole of her face thought by many to be perfectly beautiful. As she is not to be sup­posed of either sex, so this neutrality is manifest in her personal appear­ance. She wears no cap, letting her hair hang down as has been de­scribed. She wears her neckcloth like a man; her chemise is buttoned around the neck and wrists. Her out­side garment is a robe, under which it is said she wears an expensive dress, the fashion of which is made to cor­respond neither with that of a man nor woman. Her understanding is not deficient, except touching her re­ligious fanaticism. She is very illiter­ate, yet her memory is very great, art-; ful in discovering many circumstances

I which fall out among her disciples. On all occasions she requires the most extraordinary attentions that can be

j bestowed upon her; one or more of I her disciples usually attend upon her and perform the most menial service.

i Her pronounciation is after the pe-i ! culiar dialect of the most illiterate o f1 i the country people of New England.I Her preaching has very little connec­tion, and is very lengthy; at times cold and'" languid, but occasionally

/lively, zealous and animated.’“Enlarging upon the account she

first- gave of her rising from a" bed of sickness—head in the flesh— she as­sumed that there was once such a per­son as Jemima Wilkinson, but that 'she died and went to Heaven,’ after which the Divine Spirit reanimated that same body, and it arose from the dead; now this divine inhabitant is Christ Jesus our Lord, the friend to all mankind, and gives his name to the body to which he is united, and therefore body and spirit conjointly is the ‘Universal Friend.’ She. "as­sumed to have two ‘witnesses’ corres­ponding in all respects to those prophesied in Rev., Chapter XI, frotii 3 to 13th verse. These were James Barker and Sarah Richards.

H E R A N C E S T R Y .Jemima Wilkinson was a direct de­

scendant of Lawrance Wilkinson, who was a native, of Durham, Eng­land, and was a lieutenant in the

Royalist Army under the unfortunate i I King Charles the. First. Lawrance j came, to America in 1645, and joined ! the colony then known as “Rhode Is- j land and the Providence Plantations,”! which had been established by Roger ; Williams. Lawrance begot six chil­dren, of whom the third was named John; John begot six children, of

, whom the youngest was named Jere- 1 miah; Jeremiah begot twelve, chil- ] dren, of whom the eighth was named Jemima. (The above facts are taken from “The Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America,” by the Rev. Is-

I rael Wilkinson, A. M.) W .H E R PA R E N T S .

The following sketch, taken from Hudson’s “Life of Jemima W ilkin­son,” will not be considered a very flattering account of the father of the “Friend.” He says:-—“Her father, Jeremiah Wilkinson, was a farmer by occupation, and possessed a small es­tate in Cumberland, the cultivation of which occupied his attention and af-

i forded a comfortable support for his } family. He was a man of strong mind, and rather stubborn disposi­tion! Not having enjoyed the _ bene­fits of an education, he, as is too often the case, seta light value upon

mental improvement and made a I merit of despising the politer accom-! pliphments. He usually attended the! Friends’ Meeting, being more attached j to their society than to any other re­ligious sect. - yet -was never acknowl­edged by them as a regular member jj of their community. In 'early life he I married a young woman of the name I of Amy Whipple, by whom he had I twelve children, six sons and s ix ! daughters. Jemima, their eighth child, was born in the year 1751 and to her exclusively is the family in­debted for the celebrity of its name. Her mother was an amiable, intelli­gent woman, an exemplary housewife, and an affectionate mother, and to the care and instruction of her children was her whole life, devoted. She was a memiber of the Society of Friends, for many years, and highly esteemed for benevolence and piety and the uniform tenor of her useful life. She died soon after the birth of her youngest child, leaving the care and education of her children to their father, whose ideas on this subject extended but little if any beyond in­structing them in those branches of labor and domestic economy to which he had himself been accustomed, and by which his family had been sup­ported. The loss of his wife was to him a, very severe affliction from the effects of which he never fully recov-1 ered. He remained' single and j towards the close of his life became!

melancholy; spent the greater part of his tim e'in solitude, and died at the advanced age of about seventy years.”

The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson in the book first above mentioned, takes some exception to these statements by Mr. Hudson. First, he says, “Mr. Wilkinson encouraged mental im­provement in his family and his chil­dren were kept as steadily at school j as anybody’s. Second, Mr. Wilkinson Was a birthright member of the Qua - 1

ker Society, attended their meeting j from principle, and died in their { faith. -Third, Jemima was horn ‘Nov.! 29, the fifth day of the week, 1752,’ I and hot 1751 as stated by Mr. Hudson.: Fourth, the family is not indebted exclusively to Jemima for the celeb-[j rity of its name, as there were other I; members of this: same family that j were somewhat noted.” This will be observed in the account which fol- j lows: ' ____; W . 1

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H E R B R O T H E R S 'A N D SISTER S. 'IThese were: W illiam , bom in 1739,

who was a man of some note; Jere­miah, born in 1741, who was distin-1 guished as an inventor, arid is said I to have been the "first one | m the world to cut nails from cold iron. S i­mon, born in 1743, who was distin­guished as a surveyor and for his

knowledge of astronomy; Benjamin, bom in 1745, who evidently did not remain a Quaker, as he was a lieu­tenant in the Revolution and one of the committee of safety in 1776; P a ­tience and Amy, who were twins, born in 1747. (Patience married Thomas Hazard Potter and was the grandmother of Dr. Hazard A. Pot­ter and Jeptha A. Potter.) Mercy, born in 1750. (She married W illiam Aldrich, who died at Schenectady, N. Y., when moving into the Genesee country from Cumberland, R. I. She was a m em ber of the Friend’s Soci­ety and came to what is now Yates county. She lived to be eighty years of age.) Stephen, born in 1755, who was also a m em ber of the Friend ’s

j Society and lived iit Jerusalem ; Jep- i tha, born in 1757, who was a minute man of Boston in the Revolution and who died in Jersey City in 1803. (H is w idow came to Yates county, as it

I now is, two years later. H is daugh­ter was the • w ife of Melchoir W a g e ­ner.) Elizabeth, born in 1760. Sh% m arried Samuel H artw ell and lived in Jerusalem. Deborah, born in 1764. She also came to this section of- coun­try The Rev. Mr. Wjilkinson says of her: “Deborah m arried for her first husband, Benajah Botsford, and ac­cording to H udson ’s account, had quite a time getting m arried in con­sequence of the opposition of Jemima. Deborah belonged to the F riend ’s So­ciety and the Shaker practice of celi­bacy w as endeavored to be carried into effect in her case, but in vain. H e died, aged thirty-nine, and she m arried E lijah * M alin fo r a second husband. H e died, aged eighty-seven.

; She was noted for her skill and in- i genuity in all kinds of needlework,• and was an exemplary woman. She ; died at the advanced age of eighty- < seven.” , W>

D A V ID HUDSON.David Hudson is said to have been

a lawyer of some eminence, and who was also one of the-canal commission­ers of this state. He resided in Ge­neva. In 1821, (two years after the decease of the “Friend” ) a volume with the following title page was published:

“History of Jemima Wilkinson, a Preacheress of the Eighteenth Cen­tury, containing an Authentic Narra-

I tive of her L ife and Character, and j of the Rise, Progress and Conclusion of H er Ministry. ‘W herefore, by their

I fruits ye shall know them/ Matt. VII.- 20. By David Hudson, Geneva, On: tario County, N. Y . Printed by S. P. Hull, 1821.”

Th is is one of the rarest of all W estern N ew York books. In 1844 R. L. Underhill & Co., a publishing firm then in Bath, brought, out a sec­ond edition of the same biography, without any change in the text or in­troduction. On the title page of this edition the word '“H istory”1 is changed to “Memoir,” the name of the author is omitted and there is in­serted as a frontispiece a horribly executed portrait of the preacheress under which is her name misspelled. George S. Conover, the noted his­torian and writer of Indian lore, once said, in writing to a friend: “H ud­son’s ‘Jemjma W ilk inson ’ is alto­gether too bitter. It w as written in the height of the excitement against her, and I do not think it is altogether to be relied on. S. C. C leveland’s account in his ‘H istory of Yates

County,’ is much softened and to my mind more trustworthy.”' Mr. Cleve­land told me personally that it was Mr. Hudson’s book to which he re ­fers as follows in his history written in 1869. A fter first referring to the writings of the Duke. Liancourt, he says, “Another book, written two or three years after her death was too evidently the work of embittered mal­ice and uncharitable bigotry to be anywise fair or truthful in its state­ments. It contains so many wanton, unfounded calumnies, and averm ents clearly false as to be utterly un­worthy of the least historical credit.” Nine years previous to the date the above, reference was written when announcing in the Yates County Chronicle the de&W ; of David Hudson, (which occurred in Geneva, in Janu­ary, 1860), this same gifted editor penned the follow ing w ords: “M any years ago he wrote a biography of Jemima Wilkinson, a w ork which we are persuaded fell fa r short of doing justice to her character. It is time a better one was written.” There was a report which went around some­time after Mr. Hudson ’s decease, that during the. latter part of his life he became very much reduced i n . cir­cumstances and w as even dependent on charity for his .support. On one occa­sion, so the report ran, he asked for food at the house of E lijah Malin, whose wife w as the youngest sister of the “Friend.” To an inquiry m ade by Mrs. M alin as to w hy he wrote such a book, Mr. Hudson tearfu lly an ­swered/that it was out of revenge, by reason o f the. “Friend” break ing up a love match he had w ith a g irl he hoped to marry. But I consider this whole report as not be ing very w ell authenticated. As Mr. Hudson w as seventy-seven years of age at the time of his decease, he must have beenborn in 1782.

(To be continued.)

Jemima W ilkinson, “The Friend.”

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A chapter from Turner’s History of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, with in­teresting additions by W alter W-olcott.

(Continued from last week.)H E R TR ANCE.

The remarkable trance of Jemima Wilkinson which took place in the autumn of 1776 is thus described by Mr. Cleveland in the biographical sketch which appears in his H istory of Yates County: A fter mentioning her serious illness in the summer of that year, which a physician had pro­nounced mental, and beyond his skill to counteract, he says: “In the au­tumn her illness seemed to increase, and she was not only confined to her bed, but required nightly watchers. The solicitude of her friends was greatly excited, but her physician in­sisted that her disorder w as the re ­sult of no bodily debility, but rather the outgrowth of a m orbid im agina­tion, and the gloomy tendencies of solitude. H er attendants w ere start­led by her repeated stories of sights and scenes not obvious to their sen-j ses. She described heavenly land­scapes, beautiful visions, an ge lic ! form s and seemed to rejoice in the| society of a brighter world. These re­m arkable visions w ere m inutely por­trayed by the invalid girl and solemn­ly stated as real and vital to her; senses. N o contradiction or reproof had the slightest effect to diminish her assurance of their actual exist- j ence.

“Finally, late in October, she fell into a deep trance, or alm ost lifeless state, during which she scarcely breathed, and her pulses alm ost sub­sided. For about thirty-six hours or m ore she rem ained in this state, mo­tionless and apparently hovering on the boundaries o f life. She w a /

watched with intense anxiety by herTS friends, but no perceptible change oc-fl curred till about midnight of the sec-® ond day, when she raised up as iff ! awaking from a profound refreshing^* sleep. H er attendants were more ||£ than ever surprised by the sudden B change in her state and demeanor, fi She called for her clothing with a ® mien of authority which admitted of no refusal, and would no longer bell treated as an invalid. She dressed p herself and went about as if fully re- B stored, though still pale and reduced pj in flesh. She insisted that Jemima F Wilkinson had passed to the angel |(: world and that her body was re-ani- mated by a spirit whose mission was Ii to deliver the oracles of God to iriafl-1/ kind.

“As might be supposed these dec-E larations were received with surprise f and concern by her relatives and; friends. To them her conduct was ex-/] ceedingly strange and unaccountable, i and they could not believe she would/, persevere in claimis which seemed s o b untenable and absurd. Let it be re-| marked here, that this girl of eigh-i teen (sic) not only did maintain her| claims then and there in the face, oft all expostulation and argument, but I steadily and with unshaken firmness to the hour of her departure from the world at the age 'of sixty-one.” W l

H O W SH E B E G A N H E R M ISSION.Mr. Cleveland continues as fol­

lows: “H er solitary life and weary vigils were passed and a new career was about to open before this re­markable woman. On the Sunday succeeding her trance, she went to the place of public worship. After morning service she repaired to a tree near by, and in its shade deliv­ered a discourse of considerable length to the crowd, who assembled about her. Though late in autumn, the weather was fine, and there was a large attendance of people, who were greatly impressed by such an address from the lips of a young wo­man who thus broke upon them like a meteor from the sky. H er dis-

i course consisted largely of moral maxims and scriptural quotations, and she evinced a familiarity with sacred topics which astonished the oldest experts in theological lore.’Mr. Hudson says: “H er feeble voice her graceful gestures, her pale face her persuasive language, the mild ex pression of her fine eyes, together with the marvelous story of her sick­ness, vision and strange recovery, produced a lasting impression upon her hearers. Some w ere vexe.d at her arrogance and boldness, others in­timidated by her set manner of speech— the inflexibility of her coun­tenance, and the glances of her keen black eye, while the greater part be­lieved her to be laboring under men­tal aberation occasioned by debility and sickness.” “A fter this,” says Mr. Cleveland, in his H istory, “her pub­lic addresses w ere frequent, and she, soon received invitations from far and near, m any of which she ac­cepted. She rapidly becam e famous as a preacher of rem arkable power, and the fruits of her labors were ap­parent in a la rge num ber of disciples who w ere converted by her appeals. She visited various places in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachu­setts; and at N e w M ilford, in Con­necticut and South K ingston, in Rhode Island, m eeting houses w ere erected by her converts fo r her own worship.”

Jt w as about this period that James Parker and also W illiam Potter be ­came her converts or, followers. Both were men of influence and high stand-;; ing in society and both became, some i years afterward, her bitter opponents, j In a “H istory o f the Narragansett j Church,” (quoted by the Rev. M r, j W ilk in son ) occurs the fo llow ing w ords: “A t K ingston, R. I., in 1780,Judge Potter becam e an enthusiastic

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"and devoted fo llo w e r 's ! the cele­brated Jemima Wilkinson. For a more comfortable accommodation o f her­se lf and her adherents he built a large addition to his already spacious mansion, containing fourteen rooms and bedrooms, with suitable fire Diaces. H er influence controlled his household, servants, and the income o f his great estates. She made it her headquarters for about six years. Judge Potter was her principal agent in procuring lands in the State of N ew York .” Another devoted adher­ent, at this time, was Sarah Pichardo, whom she made manager of her a f­fairs.

“ In establishing her sect,” says the Bov. Mr. W ilkinson, “ she adopted chiefly the practice and doctrines of the Quakers. The Shaker practice of

celibacy w;as subsequently promul­gated. It was her custom to have [ several of her followers attend h e r ; in her journeys through the country and a scribe would keep a daily rec-1 ord of events. One of these diaries written by a Mr. Hathaway, is still in existence (1866) in the historical j society at Penn Yan, N. Y. It de­scribes her travels from New Milford, 1 Conn., through the state, into N e w ; York an<| Pennsylvania. It is very well written, exhibiting the features of a diary of an itinerant revivalist of the present day.” (The writer of the diary, according to Mr. Cleveland, was Thomas Hathaway, Sr.)

The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson also says j that her manner of speaking in her ; public addresses was peculiarly im- : pressive and quotes from the History 'o f the Narraganset church as fol­lows: “She would rise up and stand perfectly still for a minute or more, and then proceed with a slow and dis­tinct enunciation. She spoke with great ease and with increased flu­ency, her voice clear and harmoni­ous, her manner persuasive and em­phatic. Her dress rich but plain, and in a style entirely her own; a broad brimmed white beaver hat, with a low crown, and the sides when she rode turned down and tied under the chin, a full light drab cloak or man­tle, with a unique under dress and cravat round the neck, with square ends that fell to her waist forward. On horseback her appearance was im­posing. In her religious peregrina­tions Judge Potter usually rode be­side. Jemima, and then her followers, two by two on horseback, constitut­ing a solemn' and imposing proces­sion.” • .. W . 'T H E F R IE N D A T P H IL A D E L P H IA .

In the suminer of 1782, she went to Philadelphia, attended by a few fol­lowers. “She attracted,” says the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, “considerable atten­tion, and it is said while there, she was drawn through the streets by men after they had detached the horses from the carriage.” (The rev­erend writer does not add that she. ex­perienced the same emotions as Ba- Fayette experienced when a similar honor was shown him by the Pari­sians or that she ever said, as he- is reported to, have said, that “the only thing that dimmed my appreciation, of this mark of affection on the part of my fellow-men was the fact that I was never able to find out what be­came of the horses.”) “Early in her, apostleship,” says Mr. Cleveland, “she had dropped the name of Jemi­ma Wilkinson, and adopted Public Universal Friend. By this title she was ever called by her dis­ciples, who always spoke to her and of her as “Friend” or “The Friend,” and never used pronouns to designate their mistress.” He also says that at Philadelphia, “she was cordially received by the Quakers and others. I A church was procured for her use, and she preached for some time to I

large™ auxfiences. She .then removed to Worcester, in the county of Montgom­ery, about twenty miles from Phila­delphia, where she received an en­thusiastic welcome and met with much success. It was here that David W agener and other important addi­tions were made to her society.” W .

D A V ID W A G E N E R .David Wagener, of whom a bio-

graphical sketch appears in the /■’Chronicle of March 22, was at that

■time residing in Worcester, having, as he says in his Family Record, re­moved from Norrington, “ye third day of April, 1781.” (This Family Rec­ord was, in 1852, in the possession of his son, Abraharri Wagener.) The following additional memoranda, in

'the handwriting of David Wagener (and which is given verbatim) thus tells of the different Visits of the Friend to his place:

“1782 October ye 19. Came ye New England Friends to my house first, the same evening a meeting; next

• ;< morning on ye: first day of the week had great and powerful meeting to the convincing and establishing of many souls—ithe same at my house again next day or second day, again at Bethel, meeting rather more pow­erful than the day before, at the same meeting house, that day afternoon they took their leave from us and I and my father conducted them to Chris Funk that evening, lodged there that night, next day I went with them to JBethlehem.

“The Publick Friend’s Names (the Universal Friend) or by - name Chimi- ma Wilkenson, Thomas Hathaway, Alice Hasard, W illiam Potter, Arnold Potter, Sarah Brown, W illiam Fur- niss, all of New England, and Jehue Eldridge, public friend from Philadel­phia. The God of all grace preserve, their soul and body in perfect health.”

“1784, August 28, came to my house the Universal Friend, Sarah Brown, Arnold Potter, Abraham Dayton and Elizabeth Holmes from New England. Castle Dean and Jeremia Tabor.”

“1787 ye 1 day of ye 12 mo. came the Friend the third time to my: house. D. W .”

Several years ago, in the course of a conversation on pioneer matters, Hon. John L. Lewis (at one time County Judge), said to me: “David W agener was not a follower of the1 Universal Friend. He thought her a very good woman, and aided her financially, in many ways, but he never claimed to be a member of her society.” Judge Lewis added that h e1 was so informed by Abraham W a g -; ener, the son of David W agenej;.; (Hon. John L. Lewis was one of the ; organizers of the Yates County His­torical Society in 1860, and was particularly well versed in pioneer history. H e was born in 1813 and died in 1889. His funeral was the I largest ever held in Penn Yan.)

The intervals between the dates above given by David W agener were partly spent by the Friend in her na­tive state of Rhode Island, where she twice returned, and from which state she took her final leave in 1787. When

I she was established at her place of i settlement in our present county. David W agener disposed of his prop­erty, and, as Mr. Hudson says: “fol­lowed Jemima to the land of prom-

; ise.”' The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson says:: “Mr. Hudson indulges in some very severe reflections upon the ruin of Mr. Wagener, Judge Potter and some other wealthy men by Jemima. It is very singular that they should both j

follow her to Jerusalem where they became not only the first men of the county in influence, but also in wealth and respectability.” . - W .

A S E T T L E M E N T P L A N N E D .“It was at this time,” (1786) says

the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, “that Jemima contemplated the project of removing to the West or to Canada, where lands were cheap, and where her society would have a better opportunity to establish themselves in business. She immediately cast about to collect funds for the purchase of wild and unoccupied lands. In this enterprise she exhibited superior talent and mental forecast, and being assisted by some of her principal followers, an enthusiasm was created by her earn­est appeals. She. had read and heard of the beautiful country lying amid the lakes in the central and western part of the State of New York, and her vivid imagination did not fail to picture it as the ‘New Jerusalem,’ flowing with milk and honey. She soon, by her fervid eloquence, in­spired a large number of her society in Rhode Island with her spirit, and nothing was talked about but the promised land, where they could en­joy their peculiar religion without molestation.” Further on he says: “Her whole energies were, bent for several months in the preparation. She labored with the utmost assiduity, and in all business meetings she did not fail to paint in glowing colors the beauties of the ‘New - Jerusalem,’ the Land of Proiiiise, where an asy­lum would be opened for the oppressed and where they could worship God under their own vine and fig tree and no one to molest or make them afraid.??

“But the reader will be principally] interested in the advent of this sing-; ular personage and her followers, to the Genesee country; previous to 1786: they were living in detached locali-! ties. In that year they met in Con-| necticut, and resolved on finding some j .‘fertile, unsettled region, far from j towns and cities, where the ‘Univer­sal Friend’ and her followers might j live undisturbed in peace and plenty, j in the enjoyment of their peculiar re-; ligion.’ They delegated three of their j number, Abraham Dayton, Richard! Smith and Thomas Hathaway to look] for such a location. They went to; Philadelphia and traversed the inter­ior of Pennsylvania. Passing through; the valley of Wyoming, they came] across a backwoodsman by the name of Spalding, who furnished them with a glimpse of the region around Sen­eca Lake, and" gave them directions how to find it. Following his direc­tions, they' went up the river, and failing upon the tract of Sullivan’s army, reached the .foot of Seneca Lake, and from thence proceeded to Cashong creek, where they found two French traders (DeBartzch and Poudre) , who told them that they had traveled through Canada and the Western territory and had seen no­where ^o fine a country as the one" they were in. A few days explora­tion satisfied the land lookers and they returned by the route they came to inform the Friend of the result of their travels.

It seems that an attempt at explora­tion had been made before the one Mr. Turner above mentions. Mr. Cleveland s a y s “As early as 1786 Ezekiel Sherman, one of the Society, made a visit of exploration to the Lake Country, spent some time at Kanadesaga with two Indian traders, the only white men there, gathered what information he could of the country and returned. H is journey to the country was by way of the Susquehanna valley to Newtown, and he, was five days working his way in the deep snow from Newtown to

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Kanadesaga, sleeping at night on cedar boughs laid on the snow.; On his return he reported that the hostile attitude of the Indians would make it useless to venture on making a set­tlement in the Genesee Country. Not­withstanding this, a meeting of the principal members of the Society was held in the same year at New Milford, in Connecticut, and a committee was appointed to make further explora­tion. This committee, consisting of Thomas Hathaway, Richard Smith and Abraham Dayton, set out in pur­suance of the appointment in 1787,” ' etc. (Cleveland’s History of Yates County, Vol. 1, Page 42.) W .

“On June, 1787, (sic), twenty-five | of the Friends, among whom were Abel Botsford, Peleg and John Briggs and Isaac Nichols, with their families, met at Schenectady and embarked on board of batteaux for the promised land. At Geneva they found but a solitary log hut, and that not finished, ‘inhabited by one Jennings.’ They

; went up the east side of the Lake to j ‘Apple Town,’ where they remained several days, searching for a mill

; site.“The noise of the falling water of

the. outlet of Crooked Lake attracted them to the west shore of Seneca Lake. Passing up the outlet they came to the falls, and exploring the neighborhood, fixed upon it as their location. They began their settle­ment in Yates county, about one mile south of the present village of Dres­den. It was August when they arrived. They prepared ground and sowed a field of wheat in common, and the next season, 1789, several small fields of wheat were sown. (This corrects the very common impression, that the first wheat was harvested at Canan­daigua and Victor in the fall of 1790.

j The wheat sown by the Friends must have been harvested in 1789.)

T H E N E W J E R U S A L E M — T H E P IO N E E R S .

j In the Yates County Chronicle of | July 29, 1869, is a communication I from which I take the following quo­tations. It was written by one Oli-

j ver Prentiss who was at that period I a frequent contributor to this paper. He. was a Shaker, and judging from the style of his contributions must have been a somewhat eccentric in­dividual. He was born in Canada in

• 1798, and died at Mount Lebanon, N. ] Y., in 1885. His mother was Alice | Parker, a daughter of the eminent | pioneer first below mentioned. He j

says:“James Parker, a devoted follower, j

was sent to the far W est to select a ;: location for the Ne.w Jerusalem. A i township was purchased, in fee, and :' called Jerusalem, in what is now

Yates county, New York, a little west of Penn Yan.

i “The advance division moved on by water to New York— to Albany— overland to Schenectady— thence in a flat boat up the Mohawk— drawn by oxen around Little Falls. At Utica were three log houses. A ll beyond were Indians. This must have been about 1788. I speak of this here that the youngsters may see what changes have come over us since we old people

, remember. By Mohawk, Wlood Creek, I Seneca River, Cayuga Lake, Seneca Outlet and Seneca Lake, the colony reached the Promised Land, by a voy­age of a little over three months. On Seneca Lake they had a heavy blow, a rough sea and a perilous voyage. The mariners sang continually, ‘Show

j pity, Lord ; O Lord, forgive; Let a re- j penting rebel live.’ They disembarked j on the west shore of Seneca Ljake, I about twenty miles south of what is now Geneva.

| “But how does the writer know all the minutiae of this expedition? He was not there. True; but his mamma was, and she told him all ‘ about it. And this individual never forgets anything his mamma told him.

“The Friend and the remainder of the Friend's people followed on, as time and circumstances would per­mit, and by industry and economy became a strong people.” W .

(To be continued.)

J e m im a W i lk in s o n , “T h e U n iv e r s a l F r ie n d .”

A chapter from Turner’s H istory of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, with in ­teresting additions by W a lte r W olcott.

(Continued from last w eek.)“The Friend did not join her colony

until the spring of 1789 (sic). She then came with a reinforcement, a somewhat formidable retinue. Bene­dict Robinson, the most considerable property holder among her followers, gave her 1,0(M) acres of land, upon which she resided. Her business would seem to have been conducted by her female witness, Sarah Rich­ards, who did not arrive in the set­tlement. until June, 1789. Some cor­respondence of hers and memoran­dums have been preserved:

“ ‘Jerusalem, 1st of 6th Mo., 1791.“ T arrived with Rachel Malin, E li­

jah Malin, E. Mehitable Smith, Maria, and most of the Friend’s family, and the goods which the Friend sent E li­jah to assist in bringing on. W e all arrived on the west side of Seneca Lake and reached the Friend’s house, which the Universal Friend got built for our reception, and with great joy, met the, Friend once more in time, and all in walking health, and as well as usual.

“ ‘Sarah Richards/“ ‘In the year ’91 settled with . Eli­

jah Malin, being in trust for the Uni­versal Friend. At this time reckoned: and settled with him for building the:H Passed receipt z4tn of the 6th Month, 1791.

' - “ ‘Sarah Richards/

“ ‘Reckoned and settled with Rich­ard Hathaway for goods which the carpenters took up at his store for building the Friend's house in Jeru­salem. Settled, I say, this 3d of the 7th Month, 1791.

“ ‘Sarah Richards/“ ‘About the 26th of the 7th Month,

1791, I and Rachel Malin were taken sick, about the time of wheat har­vest, and were not able to go out of the house until the ground was cov­ered with snow, but entirely confined to our chamber, which finished up the year 1'791.

“ ‘Sarah Richards/ “Sarah Richards died in 1794 or ’5,

and was succeeded by Rachel Malin. The father of the Friend never be­came her convert, but her brother,

| Stephen and sisters, Mercy, Betsey (?) and Deborah, followed her in her advent to this region.

“The meetings of this singular sect were conducted very much after the manner of the legitimate Society of Friends. 1 The congregation would sit in silence until some one would rise up and speak. While the Friend lived she would generally lead in .the public speaking, and after her, Rachel, Malin. In addition to this, and the t usual observance of a period, of si-1 lence, with each family, upon sitting down to their meals, ‘sittings’ in each i family, upon Sunday evenings was j common. The, family would observe: perfect silence for an hour or more, and then rise and shake hands. ‘I re­member,’ says Mr. Buckley, ‘when 1j was a boy, many such sittings at my | grandfather’s and I always rejoiced j

when they commenced shaking hands1

to end the tiresome stillness/“It has already been observed that:

the French Duke, Liancourt, visited the Friend’s settlement in 1795; he I became much interested in the new j sect— made the acquaintance of the Friend— was a guest with his travel­ing companions, at her house, and at- 1

tended her meetings. For one so j generally liberal and candid, he writes | of all he saw there in a vein of cen-, sure and in some respects, unde-: served. She and her followers were | then at variance with their neighbors,;; and the Duke too readily listened to i

. gossip that implicated the private j character of this founder of a sect!

and added them to" his (justifiable,! perhaps) denunciations of religiousp

' imposture.“Her real character was a mixed \

one. Her first incentives were the imaginations of a mind highly suscep i tibie of religious enthusiasm and j strongly tinctured with the super­natural and spiritual, which, in our own day, has found advocates and has been systematized into a creed., The physical energies prostrated by dis­ease, the dreaming mind went out, and following its inclinations, wand­ered in celestial spheres, and in a ‘rapt vision’ created an image, some­thing to be, or to personate. Disease abating, conscience returning, this im­age had made an impression upon the mind not to be readily effaced. She became an enthusiast; after events made her an imposter. A ll founders of sects, upon new revelations have not had even so much in the way of induction to mitigate their frauds. A sect that has arisen in our own day, now counting its tens of thousands— the founders of a state, have nothing to show as their basis but a bold' and clumsy cheat, a designed and pre­meditated fraud. It had not even dis­tempered religious enthusiasm, no sick man’s or sick woman’s fancy to create a primitive, semblance of sin­cerity or integrity of purpose. The, trance or dream of Jemima Wilkin- son, honestly promulgated at first, | while the image of its creation ab- p sorbed all her thoughts, and threw i around, her a spell that reason could p i not dissipate, attracted the attention of the superstitious and credulous,

and perhaps the designing: The ,mo- jtives of worldly ambition, power, dis- j tinction; the desire to rule, pame / upon her when the paroxism of dis- | ease in body and mind had subsided, k j

; and made, her what history must say gj she was, an imposter and false pre- E tender.

] “And yet there were many evi-S : dences that motives of benevolence, || a kindly spirit, a wish to promote 1

■1 the temporal welfare of her follow- L ers was mixed up with her imposi- M tions. Her character was a com- | j j

pound. If she, was conscious herself j|, of imposition, as we must suppose shefe was, her perseverance was most ex- traordinary. Never through her long , ,

; career did she for one moment yield |; the pretensions she. made upon rising u from her sick bed and going out upon' • her mission. W ith gravity and dig-|

v. nity of demeanor she would confront [/ / j cavillers and • disbelievers and parry h

their assaults upon her motives and| pretensions; always awing them to a|/ surrender of their doubts and disbe-| lief. Always self-possessed, no evi-p

i dence could ever be obtained of any/I misgivings with her touching her® ] spiritual claims. Upon one occasion,|j

James Wadsworth called to see her.fe At the close of the interview she I said, ‘Thou art a lawyer, thou hast plead for others; hast thou ever plead ; for thyself to the Lord?’ Mr. Wads-| worth made a courteous reply, when I: requesting all present to kneel with,.; her, she prayed fervently, after which;

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si®!!!*

she rose, shook hands w ith Mr. W ads­worth and retired to her apartment, i

“ The reader must make some allow­ances fo r the strong prejudices of the French Duke, who upon the whole made but poor returns fo r the hospitality he acknowledges. He says: ‘She is constantly engaged in personating the part she has assumed; she' descanted in a sanctimonious, mystic tone on death, and on the hap­piness o f having been an instrument to others in the way of their salva­tion. She gave us a rhapsody of prophesies to read, ascribed to Dr. Love, who was beheaded in Crom­w ell’s time. H er hvoocrisy may be

I traced in all her discourses, actions j and conduct, and even in the very

manner in which she manages her , countenance.*

W E D N E S D A Y , A U G U S T 9, 1916

J e m im a W ilk in s o n , “T h e Universal F r ie n d .”

A chapter from Turner’s History of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, with in­teresting additions by W alter Wolcott.

(Continued from last week.) A R R IV A L O F T H E F R IE N D A T h e r '

P L A C E OF S E T T LE M E N T .“ In March, 1790,” says Mr. Cleve-:

land, “ the Friend le ft W orcester, in Pennsylvania, fo r the Genesee coun­try, accompanied by a number of her followers, and greatly rejoiced the! new settlem ent by her arrival among them early in the spring, the journey occupying but two weeks.” The Re.v. Mr. W ilk inson gives an earlier date as the*tim e o f her arrival. H e says: “ In April, 1789, she bid farew ell tb W orcester in Pennsylvania, and started fo r the w ilderness or the ‘Lake Country,’ as she sometimes called it, in the State o f New York .”I consider this reverend w riter as be­ing mistaken as, to the date, fo r Mr. Cleveland was designed onthe part o f the Friend to come in 1789, and the journey was under­taken, but owing to a casualty which occurred about fifty miles from W or­cester, she returned, and postponed her coming to the new seat of her influence and labor till the fo llow ing year.” This “ casualty” I mentioned in the Chronicle o f March 29th last. Accord ing to the Rev. Mr. W ilkinson, “ H er retinue (when she again started ) consisted o f her firmest fo l­lowers and their fam ilies, and their route lay first to W ilkes-Barre, thence by boat to New tow n (now called E l­m ira ), along the east branch o f the Susquehanna and Chemung Rivers. From New tow n they proceeded to a point ever since called the ‘Friends’ Landing,’ about one m ile south of the v illa ge o f Dresden on Seneca lake.” David H. Buell, an old-time resident, and h im self a son o f . one o f the earliest pioneers, and who therefore could not ve ry w ell be mistaken as to the year o f her arrival, w rote as fo llow s to the Penn Yan Democrat, of January 24, 1855: “ In 1790 Jemima W ilk inson arrived in company w ith a la rge delegation (rid ing the entire distance on horseback), and joined the Friends’ settlem ent at what is now called C ity H ill, in the south part of Torrey, making now a settlement of eigh ty fam ilies or about two hundred and fifty souls.” Mr. Buell further says in the same communication: “ James Parker, the ‘Prophet’ and financial adviser o f Jemima W ilk in ­son, was delegated and sent on in 1788 to examine and negotiate with the Phelps and Gorham company for a portion o f the tract they had pur­chased the year previous.” W .

“ The first land purchase was made o f the state, upon the ‘Gore,’ pre­vious to the running o f the new P re ­

emption' line. I t was a tract o f 14,- 000 acres, situated in the east part o f the present town o f Milo, and southeast part (s ic ) o f Starkey. W il­liam Potter and Thomas Hathaway were delegated to make the purchase. They applied to Governor George Clinton, for a grant o f land, which was refused, o f course, hut he assured them that i f they would attend the

' public sale in Albany, they would be able to obtain land at a satisfactory price. They attended the sale and bought the tract above named for a lit t le less than 2 s. per acre. Bene­dict Robinson and Thomas Hathaway soon a fter bought o f Phelps and Gor­ham, the town o f J eru sa lem ,fo r Is, |

l>fd?/pev aoniIn a foot-note on page 156 o f Mr.

Turner’s H istory is the fo llow ing ad­ditional reference to this sale: “ Itwas a rule at that early period with" Messrs. Phelps & Gorham in selling a picked township to require the pur­chaser to draw fo r another tbwnship at the same price. Robinson and Hathaway, a fter purchasing Jerusa­lem , drew what is now the town of Geneseo. The Friend objected to her . people trading and buying property at a distafice, and fearing her dis-i pleasure they prevailed upon Mr. Phelps to release them from the bar-, gain, which he was 'q u ite w illin g to

do, as he had ascertained the value of the township.”

“ The first grist m ill in W estern N ew Y ork was built by three o f the soc ie ty : Richard Smith, James P a rk -; er, and Abraham Dayton. Thd site was the one now occupied (1852) by the ‘Em pire M ills,’ tw o and one-half m iles from Penn Yan. I t was built

j in the summer and fa ll o f 1789, and flour was made in it in that year, j H ere also was opened the first pub­lic house by David W agener. A son ! o f his, Abraham W agener, o f Penn I Yan, now 76 years , o f age, w ell r e - ; members seeing the French D uke,; Liancourt, a t his fa ther’s inn. T h e ' first fram ed house iir the Genesee country was built by Enoch and E li­jah Malin, as a residence fo r the ‘Friend.” Th e house is still standing, | and is occupied by Chas. J. Town- send (1852.) It is a m ile north (s ic ) o f Dresden, and half a m ile east 61 S. B. Buckley’s. Th e first school in the Genesee country was opened by Rachel Malin, in a log room attached to the house. In 1789, a log m eeting i house was built in which the Friend

r preached, and m et w ith her fo llo w -! ers. Th is house stood a few rods | south o f the residence o f S. B. Buck­ley. But this is anticipating pioneer events that belong in another connec-J

■I tion.Mr. Turner, in his H istory, quotes “

in a foot note on page 156, the fo llow ­ing reference in the T rave ls o f the Duke Liancourt to the public house then kept by David W agener: “ ‘The Inn,’ says the Duke in his Travels, ‘which contained but two rooms, we found already fu ll; some person who

! intended to buy land near the Great Sodus, and Captain W illiam son ’s agent, who was to sell it to them, had taken possession before our arrival. A fte r an Am erican supper consisting o f coffee and boiled ham w e all lay down to rest in the same room. There w ere only two beds fo r ten persons, in consequence these two beds w ere occupied by four o f us, and the others

' lay down in their clothes upon the straw.’ ”

“ M ajor Benajah M allory, w ell -'known in all the region during the

w ar o f 1812, is y e t liv in g in Lock- port, N iagara county. H e is spoken of

J in a preceding note as having m ar­ried the daughter o f Abraham Dayton.

% Th is fam ily connection (o r then an- / ticipated one) brought him to the # Friend ’s settlem ent a t an early per- ", iod a fter it was founded. H e was the

first merchant there; and in fact opened the first store in the Genesee country, other than those connected w ith the Indian trade. I From him the author has obtained many remi- ■ niscences,' some o f which are appli­cable to the subject at hand. H e ! gives the names o f principal heads of families who w ere fo llow ers of the Friend and located in the settlement during the earliest .year: Abraham :Dayton, W illiam Potter (fa ther o f Ar- ; nold Po tter), Asahel Stone, John Sup- y plee, Richard Smith, David W agener, || James Parker, Samuel Lawrence, Ben- •' jamin Brown, Elnathan and Jonathan ‘ ? Botsford, Jesse Brown, Jesse Holmes, ’% Joshua Brown, Barnabas Brown, Na- ^ thaniel Ingraham, Ele^zer Ingraham, David Culver, David Fish, Beloved | ; Luther, John Gibbs, Jacob W agener, W illiam Sanford, John Barnes, E lijah Brown, Silas Hunt, Castle, Dean, John I Dean, Benedict Robinson, Thomas \ Hathaway. Besides these w ere un- j married men, and men and women who had been separated in adhering : to the Friend. The fo llowers w ere j mostly respectable men of small prop- > erty, some o f them had enough to be I called rich in those days. Those who j had considerable property, gave her I a part, or were, at least liberal in • supplying her wants. ' Man and w ife V w ere not separated; but they w ere | forbidden to multiply. A few per- | sons transgressed, but obtaified ab- j solution by confessing and promising j not to disobey again. I t was general- | ly a w ell regulated community, its t members m ostly lived in harmony— j: were tem perate and industrious. They I had tw o days rest in the we,ek, Satur- j. day and Sunday.

“ A t their meetings the Friend j would generally speak, take a text, i preach and exhort, and g ive liberty I to others to speak. The Friend ap­peared much devoted to the interests of her followers, and especially atten- - tive to them in sickness. M ajor Mai- ” lory insists that the old story o f her promising to ‘w alk on the water,’ is wholly false. , I - ' - 5-1111

“ W hen Col. P ickering .held his treaty w ith the Indians at N ew Town point, nearly five hundred Senecas en- [ camped at Friend ’s Landing on Sen-j eca Lake. Th ey w ere accompanied by Red Jacket, Cornplanter and Goodj Peter (the Indian preacher), the Rev.j Mr. K irkland, H oratio Jones, and Jas-j per Parrish. Good Peter wanted an- in terview w ith the ‘Universal Friend.’ ; She appointed a m eeting w ith the In-L dians and preached to them, Good ; Peter fo llow ed her, and the Friend; wanted his discourse interpreted, jGood Peter objected, saying, ‘i f she is Christ, she knows what I said.’ ; This was the m eeting upon the hank; of Seneca Lake that ghve rise to the j report alluded to.

T H E F R IE N D A N D T H E IN D IA N S . | Mr. Cleveland’s version o f th is]

. meeting, together w ith other interest- j ing facts, as given in his history, w ill; now he reproduced. H e says: “ Th e!Friend succeeded in making a fa vo r-!

; able impression on the natives, who ; always treated her w ith great re­spect, and none of her fo llow ers ever had reason to complain o f their ag-

; gressions. In the summer o f 1791, when Col. Pickering, on behalf o f the United- States government, held a treaty at Newtown, about five hun­dred Senecas,, on their w ay thither,;

: encamped ahr^Norris’ Landing. Red ; Jacket, Corn Planter, Good Peter, an [Indian preacher; Rev. Mr. Kirkland, the Indian missionary; Horatio Jones and Jasper Parrish, the celebrated Indian interpreters, were in the com-

i pany. The occasion was improved ! for an interchaUge o f civilities. The [ Friend • preached, and the Indians I listened to her interpreted words with j attention and respect. She did not | biaim to be Christ nor his substitute

but rather his messenger, and the J story afterwards reported that Good Peter turned away in disgust, because she had not the supernatural power to understand the address he made after hers in the Indian dialect, was a wanton fabrication. The Indianswere cordial and sincerely friendly, as all their subsequent conduct to­ward the Friend and her society most clearly proved. It is true they were always treated with hospitality and generosity at her abode. They were never turned away hungry, and they never made unreasonable requests. Singly, and in larger delegations, they often called at the Friend’s house

I and were always treated with the, j same unvarying kindness and re- .spect. They did not fail when hunt­ing in the vicinity to keep the Friend’s larder well supplied with

■ venison, and they never missed a suit- • able reward for their thoughtful at­tention. W hen the great treaty was

■ held in Canandaigua, in 1794, which 1 ended all the Indian troubles inW est- ! ern New York, the Friend attended | and preached to a large concourse of j the. Indians and pioneers, from thetext, ‘Have we not one Father? Hath not one God created us all?’

“The Indians were greatly pleased with this discourse, and pronounced the frien d ‘Squaw Shinnewawna-gis- taw-ge,’ ‘a great woman preacher.’

| Nor did they forget ever after to manifest their respect for the per-

i sonage whose benevolence toward them was so earnest in both word and deed, thus proving that the native .heart was prompt and true in its re.-

-I sponse to just and generous treat­ment.”1 Col. W illiam L. Stone in his life of Red Jacket given a description of this great treaty” at Canandaigua, the ccount of which takes up an entire hapter of that work. He mentions re presence of the Friend at the reaty but not in a very respectful

]way, as the following extracts will show :

“On the next day, (October 21, 1794) the celebrated Jemima W ilk in ­son, who with her followers, resided upon the western margin of the Sen­eca Lake, being at Canandaigua, with several of her disciples, was invited by Col. Pickering to dine with him at

j the house of Thomas Morris. The in- j vitation was accepted by Jemima, and ; she was treated with great attention I by the Colonel, glad of the opportu- ' nity to gratify his curiosity respecting j this remarkable woman, whom he had never seen before. The seat of honor

j was appropriated to her and she par­ticipated freely in the conversation.

“At an early hour of the afternoon the commissioner was summoned to the council, to which place he repair­ed with his friend,— Jemima and her retinue following in the train, and taking seats with the commissioner and interpreter in the center of the circle. * * * *

(T o be continued.)

W E D N E S D A Y , A U G U ST 16, 1916

Jemima W ilkinson, “The Universal Friend.”

A chapter from Turner’ s H istory o f the ' Phelps and Gorham Purchase, w ith in - ! teresting additions by W a lte r W olcott.

(Continued from last w eek .)“In the course of the sitting Col-,

onel Pickering formally introduced j the Quaker deputation, who had been appointed at their request and with the approbation of the President. The ! deputies thereupon presented the ad-! dress from the Friends to the Indians, j which was read, and interpreted by; Jasper Parrish, and received with live-! ly approbation by the Indians. The! reading of the address having been completed Jemima and her disciples dropped upon their knees, and the mistress of the order uttered some­thing in the form of a prayer. The lady superior afterward desired liber- j ty to address the assembly, which be-j ing granted, she proceeded to utter a-i rhapsody, consisting of disjointed, texts of scripture, mingled with con- fused and unmeaning sentences of her | own, forming together a medley w ith -; out coherence, relevancy . or point, j * * * *

“The council was reopened on the 1 23d. When about to proceed to busi- j ness, a request was made by three In­dian women to be admitted to deliver their sentiments. The request w a s ; granted, and the women, were intro­duced by Red Jacket, wRo appears ever to have been a favorite with In­dian ladies. Addressing himself to the sachems and warriors, he asked their favor in behalf of the women, and also that of the commissioner, crav -; ing that they might be heard, especial­ly as on the. preceding day a lady of the pale faces had been allowed the same indulgence. The assent of the council having been given, Red Jacket was designated as the orator through ' whom they desired to speak. The su b -, stance of his communication in their j behalf was, that they felt a deep in-1 terest in the affairs of their people, j

and having heard the opinions of their ! sachems, they fully concurred in ; them, that the white people had been j the cause of all the Indians’ dis- El tresses; the. white people, they said, had pressed and squeezed them to­gether, until it gave them great pain j at their hearts, and they thought the j white people ought to give back all the lands they had taken from them, i: One of the white women, (Jemima, i meaning), had yesterday told the In-1 dians to repent, and they in turn now j called on the white people to repent,— ■! they having as much need of repent- j\ ance as the Indians. They therefore I i hoped the pale faces would repent ! | and wrong the Indians no more.

“The commissioner thanked them for their speech, observing that it was j far from his nature to think meanly! of women, and he should always be k happy to hear from them when they j : had anything to say. But in regard to the conduct of the white woman, on I the preceding day, which they had .1 cited as a precedent, he remarked ,] that she had forced herself into the f| council, and had spoken without his approbation.’”

At the bottom of the page on which this last paragraph appears Col. Stone I presents, in the form of a foot-note, ] something which he evidently in - ! tended as a brief biographical sketch ; of the Friend. Col. Stone seems to j

have taken for his authority some un- ; trustworthy or malicious guides, i when contemporaries of unblemished ! oharacter were yet living from whom I the truth could have been obtained. | Therein is mentioned the alleged re- i mark of an Indian as to her failure to | understand him. The Indian, instead 1

of Good Peter, is here stated to have KijJ been Joseph Brant, the renowned !] chieftain, of whom Col. Stone had (|j also written a biography. The foot-1| note is as fo llow s:

“Jemima Wilkinson was extensive-(fl ly known by reputation as a religious imposter, in the western part of New j 5 York, thirty or forty years ago. She M was born in Rhode Island in 1753,

and was educated a Quaker. She]')| was artful, bold and zealous. About | 1773, on recovering from a fit of sick- & ness, during which she had fallen into a syncope, so that she was apparently k; dead, she announced that she had || been raised from the dead, and had m received a divine commision as a re- | ligious teacher. Having made a few \ proselytes, she removed with them f into the western part of New York, ” and settled between the Seneca and Crooked Lakes at , a distance of about B eighteen miles from Geneva, calling r ; her village, N ew Jerusalem. In con- . sequence of the weakness and credul­ity of her followers, she was enabled to live in very elegant style, having : ■ half a dozen beautiful damsels in at­tendance upon her person. g>he in­culcated poverty, but was careful to | be the owner of lands purchased in | the name of her companion, Rachel p Miller (sic.) W hen she preached, p she stood in the door of her bed chamber, wearing a waistcoat, a M stock, and a white silk cravat. She j died in 1819. Joseph Brant once very adroitly discomfited her— As„ she pro-1! fessed to be Christ in his second ap- j|!> pearing, Brant tested her by speak­ing in different Indian languages, L none of which she understood. He j then disclosed her imposture, simply h by declaring that Jesus Christ must | of course understand all languages,— m one as well as another.”1

,lp. a foot-note, in the work above [ mentioned (L ife of Brant, Vol. 2, page L,‘ 496) is an account of the meeting of I 5 the Friend with the famous Mohawk || chief and partisan leader. Col. Stone || says: “As an illustration of his shrewdness and sagacity, the follow- m ing anecdote of Brant has been com- || municated to the author by Professor I Griscom: W hen Jemima W ilk inson ;)! (who professed to be, in her own per- j|H son, the Saviour of the world in His 11 second appearance, on earth), was re­siding on her domain in W estern N ew f|| York, surrounded by her deluded and |;| subservient followers, she could not 1 fail to attract the: notice of Colonel !; Brant; while the ‘celebrity of the chieftain must, in turn, have forcibly ]ffj commended itself to her attention.':! This led, of course, to a mutual de- 1 sire to see each other, -and Brant at length presented himself at her man­sion, and requested an interview. After some formality he was ad>fe mitted, and she addressed to him a ; few worfas in the way of welcome; salutation. H e replied to her b y ‘d ; , : formal speech in his own language, ,at { ; the conclusion of which she informed j him that she did not understand the | language in which he spoke. He then j addressed her in another Indian dia­lect, to which in like manner she ob-.| jected. A fter a pause he commenced a .! speech in a third, and still different, M American language, when she inter- I ; rupted him by the expression of dis- i-; satisfaction at his persisting to speak S to . her in terms which she could not understand. H e arose with dignity, |||L and with a significant motion of The [. ‘|aa hand, said*: ‘Mjadam, you are not thev-|J person you pretend to be. Jesus |f| Christ can understand one language as well as another,’ - and abruptly t l took his leave.”

Though there is no reason to doubt ill that Brant and the Friend may have m at one time met, yet it is strange that i i

this circumstance has not been m ore j genera lly reported. Brant was (in his w ay ) as eminent as the Duke | Liancourt, whose v is it has "been wdde- ly re ferred to. Col. Stone te lls in his y

, biography o f Brant, that a fte r th e. Revolution, this rem arkable per­sonage made two tours through the ; State o f N ew Y o rk ; one in 1792 and the other in 1797. It was therefore I either in 1792 or in 1797 that this in- r teresting in terv iew (perhaps) took place. H e r “ mansion," in which j- they met, certa in ly was not the I; F rien d ’s house now standing in Jeru- f* salem, as that was not erected u n til. a fter Brant’s decease. I t was either j the one in T o rrey which was taken down w ith in recent years, or the first house she occupied in Jerusalem which was destroyed by fire some years a fte r her life time. (John Gris- com, L. L . D., was probably the pro­fessor o f that name who communi­cated to Col. Stone the anecdote above, related. H e was not a Yates County product, but a native o f N ew Jersey, who fo r th irteen years was principal o f the F rien ds ’ monthly m eeting school at Burlington in that state. I am som ewhat puzzled as to w here this P ro fessor Griscom ob­tained his in form ation in regard tq the v is it B rant is said to have made to the F riend .) ■ ■ ‘ V\

(To be continued.)

Jemima Wilkinson, “The Universal Friend.1”

A chapter from Turner’s H istory of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, with in- j teresting additions by W a lte r Wolcott.

(Continued from last week.)T H E W A L K -O N -T H E -W A T E R STORY.

In B arber and H o w e ’s N ew York H is torica l Collections, published in 1841, is the fo llow in g rem arkable re­la tion g iv in g the version m ost gener­a lly reported o f the F r ien d ’s alleged attem pt to w a lk on the w ater. I t is printed as a quotation, but the name o f the w rite r is not stated.

“ Jem im a Wlilkinson, or the ‘U n iver­sal F riend ,’ was bora in Cumberland, Rhode Island, about the. y ea r 1753. She was educated am ong the Friends. Ij R ecoverin g from an apparent sus- ! pension o f life which she experienced I w hen about 23 years o f age during a j: fit o f sickness, she gave out that she had been raised from the dead, and cla im ed to be invested w ith divine I attributes and authority to instruct j m ankind in relig ion . I t is also said she pretended to fo re te ll future events, to d iscern the secrets o f the ; heart, and to have the pow er o f heal- j in g diseases; and i f any person who I m ade application to her w as ; not healed, she attribu ted it to a want of ; faith. She asserted that those who ( refused to b e lieve these 'exa lted j things concern ing her w ill be. in the state o f the unbeliev ing Jews, who re jec ted the counsel o f God against them selves; and she told her hearers that that w as the eleventh hour^ and the last call o f m ercy that should be granted to them, fo r she heard an in­quiry in heaven, saying, ‘W ho w ill go and preach to a dying w orld? ’ and she said she answered, ‘H ere am I, send m e ; ’ and that she le ft the realm s o f ligh t and glory, and the com pany o f the heaven ly hosts, who a re continually praising and worship­p ing God, in order to descend upon earth and pass through m any suffer­ings and tria ls fo r the happiness o f mankind. She professed to be able to w ork m iracles, and offered to dem onstrate it by w a lk ing on the w ater in im itation o f our Saviour; accord ingly a fram e was constructed fo r the purpose on the banks o f the Seneca lake, at R ep e lyea ’s fe rry , ten

( m iles south o f Dresden. A t the ap­pointed time, having, approached w ith ­in a fe w hundred yards o f the lake shore, she aligh ted from an elegant

carriage. the~road being strew ed by her fo llow ers - w ith w h ite handker­chiefs. She w alked to the platform , and having announced her intention o f w alk ing across the lake on the water, she stepped ankle deep into the c lear elem ent; w hen suddenly pausing, she addressed the multitude, inquiring w hether or. not they had fa ith that she could pass over, fo r i f otherw ise, she could not and on re ­ce iv in g an a ffirm ative answer returned to her carriage, declaring as they believed in her pow er it was unnec­essary to d isplay it. She died in 1819.”

W|hy did not she, lik e a sensible person, m ake that inqu iry be fore ge t­tin g her fee.t w et? Such is the story,) as m ost com m only given , o f what | probably never occurred. M r. C leve-! land says in his h istory, “ I t can be said w ith the utm ost assurance of truth that the F riend never pretended to be able to w alk on, the w ater, and there fore could never have a p p o in ted : a tim e and place to do it.” Th e Rev. j Mr. W ilk in son in his “ M em oirs o f the W ilk in son F a m ily ” (from w hich I have severa l tim es quoted) m akes I som e allusion to one o f her actions s im ilar to the one re la ted in the pre­vious paragraph, but g ives the tim e as at the com m encem ent o f her m in­istry, b e fo re ewer she cam e to this section o f country, and the p lace as j the bank o f Taunton r ive r, in M assa­chusetts. H e says, “ On one o f her circu its she preached in Taunton, some say N ew Bed ford , Mass., and during the course oft her rem arks som eone in the crow d requested her to show a sign o f her d iv in ity , a ffirm in g : that Christ perform ed m iracles such I as hea ling the sick, ra is in g the dead, j w a lk in g on the w ater. B e in g pressed | w ith this m atter, she rep lied , ‘YoU j w ho seek a sign, m eet m e here on the banks o f th e Taunton r iv e r ’ at such a I day and hour. A cco rd in g ly on the) day and hour appointed the r iv e r j bank w as thronged w ith thousands o f j people who had co llected from all i quarters to see the m iracle, fo r notice had beeh g iven out that Jem im a w a s ! to w a lk upon the w ater. P resen tly ! her ca rriage d rove up— she a ligh ted I and w alked into the m idst o f the I crowd, w ho opened to give, her way. | She ascended an elevation , and w ith I a firm vo ice enquired o f the multi-1 tude, ‘W h a t is it ye seek? ’ T h ey responded, ‘A sign o f you r d iv in ity .’ She paused a m om ent and then took the fo llo w in g text, ‘A n e v il and adulterous generation seeketh a fte r a sign ; but no sign shall be g iven unto it.’ H e r discourse w as textual, por­tray in g in no enviab le colors the character o f those w ho seek a fte r a sign. T h e second part w as exceed­in g ly brie f, be ing m ere ly th e last clause o f her tex t— ‘but no sign shall be g iven unto i t ’— ‘and then w alked to her ca rr iage and drove away. From this orig inated a ll the base fab rica ­tions o f her w a lk in g on the w a ter in N e w England.”

I t w as reported at a m eeting o f the Y a tes County H is to r ica l Soc iety that the F r ien d ’s sister, Deborah (bora 1764, d ied 185!l), w as once questioned as to the tru th o f th is “ s tory o ft re ­peated .” D eborah said in rep ly that the truth was this. T h e F rien d on one occasion crossed L a k e K euka from B lu ff P o in t to the other side in a la rge row boat, in w h ich there w ere other passengers besides herself, Deborah be ing am ong the number. A woman, not o f her society, said to th e Friend , w hen she w as about to em ­bark, “ Som e o f your fo llow ers think that you are the Saviour w ho has com e the second tim e. I f you are the Saviour, you can w a lk on the w ater, can you not?,’1’ T o w h ich the F rien d answered, “ Yea , but w hen I do I w ill -jvant a good boat under m e.” W .

T H E F R IE N D ’S O AR R IAG E .The Ya tes County Fair, held in

Penn Yan in 1876, is m em orable fo r a fine display o f re lics o f th e days o f the first settlem ents. Am ong the p io ­neer relics then exh ib ited w ere the Friend ’s hat, her side-saddle, some pieces o f her furniture, and also her carriage. I t was rem arked at the tim e to Hon. W illia m T . Rem er, who owned this venerab le veh icle, that he was too m odest in his choice

of a place o f exhibit, that he should have had the F rien d ’s carriage, on exhibition at the Centennial Exposi­tion then being held at Ph iladelph ia.The Rev. Mr. W ilk in son m akes the fo llow ing in teresting reference to th is conveyance. H e says: “ I t w as the F riend ’s custom to preach regu larly every w eek till near her death, and she som etim es trave led abroad fo r that purpose. . Th e carriage is s till in existence, and is now (1866) owned by ex-Sheriff Rem er, near Penn Yan.I t is a quaint look ing veh icle , in good running order— hung upon thorough- braces— and easy to ride in. O rig in ­a lly the tires w ere in pieces spiked on. The letters ‘U. F .’ w ith a cross are on the back o f th e carriage thus U. + F. These, sym bols g rea tly o f­fended the ignorant people, and . con­stitu te no doubt, th e head and fron t o f her blasphemy. A ll her goods and utensils w ere m arked w ith ‘U. F .,’ and she was a lw ays called— and is to this day, by the people in her v ic in ity , the ‘U n iversa l F riend .’ And w e ll she m erited the name. It m atters not who the su fferer m ight ’be— her ready hand adm inistered re lie f as w e ll to foe as friend. Th e sick fa r and near found in’ her a ready v is ito r and sym ­pathizer. Hudson ridicules this tra it o f her character, and can see no m o­tive in it a ll but selfishness and im ­posture.”

Mr. Hudson adds, as a Sort o f an

appendix to his ‘H is tory o f Jemima W ilk in son ” six articles. N o t one- o f them is ve ry fla ttering to its subject.The fourth article , he says: “ is from a series o f ‘O rig in a l L e tters from the) in terior o f the S tate o f N ew York ,’ and made its appearance in the ‘Bal­ance and State Journal’ o f March 1811.” T h e w r ite r o f these “ O riginal L e tte rs ” was either prejudiced or m a­licious, or was m isin form ed by some one who was. H e thus re fers to the F riend and her carriage.: “ A t a coach m aker’s in Canandaigua, I saw a coach fin ish ing fo r Jemima, the U n i­versa l Friend, as she calls herself, which one o f her avant-couriers or fo llow ers-a ftar was w aiting to trans­port to Crooked Lake, the seat o f her Abom inations. ; On each side panel was a star and on the rea r o f the car­riage a cross o f s ix or e igh t inches, surmounted by a star, w ith the le t­ters U. F. on each side o f the cross.I saw this w om an m any yea rs since; she was then young and handsome, she is neither now. She pretended, and ye t pretends, to be m ore than m ortal. Jem im a W ilk inson , she says, was dead and buried ; (s ic ) and to her fo llow ers she w hispers that she arose from the dead, the Saviour o f the w orld ! I t w as a doubtful point, some fe w months past, w h eth er she would not be ind icted fo r blasphem y, but the Grand Jury not h aving suffi­cient proof, dism issed the b ill. F ind­ing that she m ade fe w proselytes in the la rg e cities, she re tired in to this part o f the country, and w ith h er own, and the. funds o f h er fo llow ers , pur­chased o f the S tate about 1800 acres o f land, to which she gave the nam e o f Jerusalem. She is ignorant, but artful, speaks sentitiously, interlauds her discourse, aptly and inaptly, w ith scripture, and is seen on ly a t statec periods by the w orld , as she term s ji a ll except her fo llow ers .”

Mr. Cleveland in his account of the Friend, mentions her carriage as fol­lows: “In the later years of her life when disease, impaired her energies, she ceased riding on horseback, and the running gear of a carriage she had in Pennsylvania, which had been laid away for many years while roads were bad,was taken to Canandaigua and fitted up with a comfortable body. In this she rode during the years of her decline.” (The year in which this carriage was fitted up was doubtless the year 1811, which is above mentioned.)

From a History of Yates County, published in 1$92, I take the follow­ing extract: “In traveling to and from her home and the old place the Friend would sometimes ride a horse, | but as years advanced she betook j herself to a three-seated vehicle, of almost ancient construction, as thej most convenient and easy means of j making the journey. In this carriage, j it is said on reliable authority, the Friend traveled from her home near Philadelphia, to the new Jerusalem in 1791 (sic.) During the earlier years of her residence here the carriage could not well be used, as the roads were, then in a primitive state and almost impassable to such a cum­brous vehicle as was this. For this reason it was put aside for some years and the Friend made her jour-1 neys on horseback. She became, too, an expert rider and once eluded her j persecutors who sought to arrest her, i by skillful and rapid riding. But dur-i ing the later years of her labors, be- ' ing somewhat broken by overwork' and suffering from a dropsical afflic-j tion, the Friend had recourse, to her; carriage to convey her about among; the branches of the society. And thej

("U9A9S eSad uo panupuoo) I

old carriage itself, having withstood i the ravages of time, is still in ex­istence, and is kept as nearly as pos-i sible in its original appearance. It j is now (1892) the property of W il- f liam T. Remer, of Benton. To de-; scribe it understandingly to the read-! er would be a difficult task, but it is ! as it was when built except that the;

Jemima Wilkinson, “The Universal Friend.”

A chapter from Turner’s H istory of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, w ith in­teresting additions by W alter W olcott.

wheels have been reduced in size. On 1 its back and sides are still seen the i

1 Friend’s initials ‘U. F.’ in plain script, and also her coat of arms, j

1 The vehicle is entered by means of j I one door, and that on what farmers t call the ‘nigh’ side. The carriage is;

; now more than 100 years old and is I apparently as strong as when built, j

Frequently is the old carryall seen on the streets of Penn Yan and the town of Benton, but on none but pub­lic days and for occasional use at fu-

; nerals.” (Hon. 'William T. Remer died in 1899, but the “old carryall” still remains in the possession of the.

j Remer family.) W .I (To be continued.)

(Continued from last week.)“The Friend's community at first

flourishing and successful, began to decline in early years. The seclusion and separation from the world, con­templated by its founders, was not realized. They had selected too fine a region to make a monopoly of it. The tide of emigration reached them and before they had got fairly under way, they Were surrounded b> neigh­bors who had little faith in the Friend or sympathy with her followers. The relations of neighborhood, town and county soon clashed, militia musters came, and the followers refused the. service; fines were imposed and their property sold. The Friend was a long time harrassed with indictments for blasphemy, but never convicted. While she could keep most of her older followers in the harness, the younger ones, reminded of the re­straints imposed upon them, by con­trasting their privileges with their disbelieving neighbors, would unhar­ness themselevs, one after another, fol­lowing the early example of Benedict Robinson. Two of that early class of Methodist circuit preachers, (Revs. James Smith and John Broadhead) that were so indefatiguable in thread­ing the wood’s roads of this western forest; as were their Jesuit predeces­sors a century before them, found the retreat, and getting a foothold in a log schooyl house, gradually drew jaway many of the young people to ; their meetings. Many of the sons and ;daughters of the followers abjoured the faith.

“Jemima Wilkinson died in 1819, or i departed, went away, as the implicit believers in her divine character

: would have it. Rachel Malin, her suc- ' cessor in spiritual as well as worldly affairs, died about three years since. She kept up the meetings previous to her death. James Brown and George Clark, who married heirs of Rachel Malin, own the property that she inherited from the Friend. The peculiar sect may be said to be ex­tinct, not more than three or four are living who even hold lightly to the original faith. Even the immediate successors of Jemima and Rachel, the inheritors of the property, and those who should be conservators of their memories if not of their faith, are forgetful of their teachings. The old homestead, the very sanctuary of the Universal Friend, once with all things

appertaining to it,"so chastened by her rigid .discipline, is even desecrated. DUring the present winter the sounds of music and dancing have come from within its once consecrated arid venerated walls.”T H E FR IEN D ’S F IN A L RESID ENCE.

Mr. Turner, in concluding his chap­ter, refers to what he calls “the old homestead.” He undoubtedly meant the residence occupied by the Friend at the time of her decease. He ex­presses in somewhat mild terms

; what was heard there at the time he wrote the chapter, for in the early

, fifties passers-by had an opportunity to hear many a sound of revelry by

, night. This house, remarkable for its old associations, attracts each season several visitors often from a

, corisiderable distance. It is now over a century old, having been com­pleted in 1814. The architect and builder was Thomas Clark, who was from Philadelphia, and whose wife was a sister of Rachel and Margaret Malin. Mr. Cleveland says: “Thehouse he erected for the Friend is a structure of historic interest. It

was her abode but little more than five years, and driring a considerable portion of that time she was a de­clining suffering invalid. Many in­teresting meetings of the society were held there, and some of the most touching in their history. There the Friend died; and there died Rachel and Margaret Malin; also several other devoted members of the society. There the hapless se­quel of the Friend’s will had its melancholy development. There the society, deprived of its head, lost its steadiness and unity of purpose, and came to its end. Most mournful of all, the needy Friends had not the life-long home secured to them, which by right, and by the terms of the Friend’s will, w as their due. The place with its sadly interesting mem­ories, w ill always have associations to challenge the regard of the, thoughtful. It was well chosen for a pleasant home. The west arm of Lake Keuka lies in view, and the sur­rounding country forms a beautiful landscape in all directions. Located

on lo F ' twenty-three 'o f Guehisey’s survey it was eligible as a central \ situation on the Friend’s domain. [

; Could she have perpetuated her vigor | and equity of judgment in those who f. followed her in the control of affairs, I- it might have long remained a home of interest and happiness for the £, household of the Friend’s faith. It h 1 remains simply a historic land-mark, | which will probably last much longer |; in the memory of the. people than the|- strong framework will resist the | ravages of time.” W .

H E R O TH E R RESID ENCES. ■When the Friend arrived at her R

place of settlement, a frame house,, which her society intended for h er;, occupancy, was not entirely com-!; pleted. For nearly a year she lived [; i in a log cabin, before taking up her l residence in her gambrel-roofed |

l frame house, which domicile is be-1 lieved to be the first frame house erected (by white people) in Yates county. The house stood until re­cently, but is now (sad to say) com­pletely demolished. The Rev. Mr. j

I Wilkinson, who visited it in 1866, gives the following description of it

;as it was at that time. He says: “It has a parlor and two bedrooms on the first floor, the whole building being but twenty-four feet long by 1 eighteen wide. Upstairs there are I two large rooms. Originally it had a | large brick chimney with half a > dozen fire places. A t the time of my y visit one of Jemima’s old arm chairs i was standing outdoors with flower j" pots in it. Its location is one mile \ south of Dresden and one and one.- |

! half miles directly west of the j Friends’ Landing on Seneca lake, j: The scenery in this vicinity is pictur-1] esque and beautiful. The house is surrounded by two ancient orchards, • the one at the west consisting of i sweet apples, and the other to the .! east of sour apples, set out by the j| Friend. It. appears she did not be- (

j lieve in mixirig up trees any more I than she did the sexes.”

In 1794 the Friend changed her location near Seneica lake i to one I further west. Benedict Robinson and f

I Thomas Hathaway purchased for her ]

of Phelps and Gorham about fou r-u teen hundred acres of land lying in the town of Jerusalem, paying for the same Is. 3d. per acre. Mr. Hudson says: “This tract was extremelywell chosen, being in a healthful and pleasant situation, the lands having generally an • eastern and southern aspect, finely wooded with the sugar maple, occasionally interspersed with the majestic oak and lofty pine, and the soil of the first quality for agri­culture.” The first house of the Friend in Jerusalem was a log struc­ture, to > which a frame part was

afterward added. It stood in the val­ley a short distance southeast of the present residence of James K. Mc­Connell, and was burned down some

. years a fte r the decease of the Friend. This house she occupied until 1814. In the first edition of Spafford’s [ Gazetteer, of the State of New York, j published’in 1813, appears the follow­ing under the heading of “Jerusalem:” • “This Town is now the principal resi- ‘ dence of the Universal Friends, or the ! followers of Jemima Wilkinson, who ' now lives here. They removed to j this Town from Benton, where they1 first settled, about 1790 (sic) and now; consist of about 50 or 60 persons, as j some correspondents say, and others, of 50 to 60 families. These people are distinguished for their frugality, honesty, sobriety and industry, but; their numbers are on the decline. ’ They live very much retired from the bustle around them, devoted solely to themselves. Jemima continues to: speak in meetings occasionally, but1 sensibly feels the approaches of age.” i

W .(To be continued.)

Jemima Wilkinson, "The Universal Friend.”

A chapter from Turner’s H istory of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, with in­teresting additions by W a lte r Wolcott.

(Continued from last w eek.)

T H E F R IE N D ’S V A U L T .In the garden at the Friend’s place j

stands the Friend’s vault, or as it is called in Mr. Cleveland’s History,! “the Mausoleum of the Friend.” It has not for many years been used as' a place of sepulture. The writer of these notes was informed by the late Joseph Purdy (who died in 1913) that John Purdy, his grandfather, erected this vault, and that William Wright was the attending mason. That the vault was erected previous to 1840 appears from the fact that it is pictured in a small illustration of the1 Friend’s final residence in Barber & Howe’s N. Y. Historical Collections, published in 1841. The Friend died July 1, 1819. Her remains, at the time of her decease, were put in an | apartment in the cellar, but were afterwards taken out and deposited in ' this vault. The place of their final j disposition is, at the present time, un-; certain. The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson says: [I “For many years her body remained in a tomb just east of the house, but it was subsequently removed to the' grave yard in the vicinity.” M r.: Cleveland says: “The burial wasfinally made on a hillock where Rachel1 and Margaret Malin were afterwards: laid by her side, but no headstone or monument marks the grave.” (Mar­garet Malin died in 1844, and Rachel in 1848. They were for a long time the Friend’s personal attendants, and by her will, dated February 25, 1818, she left them her estate.) In the; History of Yates County, published in 1892, is the following statement in regard to the Friend’s place: “For;the locality, even to the present gen-| eration of people, there has been ever; shown a feeling of respect, for the [ final house of the Friend is the onlyi. substantial monument ever erected to ; her memory. Indeed, for a time it 11 covered her remains, her body having' been deposited in a strong vault built in the cellar and securely - walled in. After some years it was re-1 < moved to a more suitable place of j burial and laid beside, the graves of those who had been followers of the Friend. But the necessities of later , generations of occupants of the soil j required these lands for agricultural i uses, and the body was disinterred !j and removed for permanent burial to the cemetery at Penn Yan.” • W . jj

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T H E L A S T S U R V IV IN G MEMBERS.In 1869, when Cleveland’s History

of Yates County was written, three members of the original Society of Public Universal Friends were still living. These were Mrs. Experience Barnes, Miss Rachel Ingraham and Henry Barnes. Mrs. Barnes was the wife of Elizur Barnes, who moved from Connecticut into this section of

; country in 1791. She died at the age of ninety-one in August 1873. Rachel

; Ingraham, (who was a second cousin I of Mrs. Barnes) died the previous January, also at the age of ninety-

| one. Mr”. Cleveland, writing in 1869, says of her: “Rachel Ingraham, whostill lives a single woman at the age of eighty-eighf; is a daughter of Elea- zer Ingraham. She has led a blame­less and pious life and was a mem­ber of the Friend’s family for several years with her father. Henry Barnes, who, with her, are the only survivors o f the Friend’s Society, relates that he and Rachel, almost unassisted, in the spring of 1816, made over 1,500 . .cunds o f sugar in the Friend’s sugar camp.”

Henry Barnes was a younger \brother of Elizur Barnes above men­tioned. Mr. Cleveland, in his history,

3s the fo llow in g reference to Hen-• T>-' m e s : “ H e was born and reared

I in the m idst o f the F riend 's Society,I and has been true to his early edu­cation. For sixty-eight years he has ’ad a religious life in conformity to the doctrine and precepts of the Friend, with whom he was a favorite from a child. He was a member of ,the Friend’s household for many years, and regarded that place as his home, until counsels not congenial to his views obtained an influence there..” Henry Barnes was by occupation a farmer and a cooper, and afterward a school teacher. He. taught success­fully a number of terms in various ^schools in the different towns of Yates I county. He died in Benton June 7,

1874, aged eighty-five ye^rs. UT H E L A S T L IV IN G W IT N E S S E S .The following individuals have come

to the notice of the writer of these notes, as having been the last ones who had personally seen the Friend. ,Mrs. Huldah Davis, Mrs. Eliza Her­mans, Jeptha A. Potter and Samuel

..Wfheeler.! Mrs. Huldah Davis was the daughter of Mrs. Experience

i Barnes mentioned above, as be- ! ing one of the members of the Friend’s Society. Mrs. Da­vis was the wife of Jesse Davis and mother of the late William C. Davis. Some interesting recollections of the Universal Friend, as related to the writer by Mrs. Davis, appeared j in the Yates County Chronicle of De­cember 24, 1890. Mrs. Davis died in Jerusalem, August 8, 1900 in the nine­ty-third year of her age.

Mrs. Eliza Hermans was the daugh-; ter of Armstrong Hart, one of the first pioneers of Yates County, and was born in what is now the town of Tor­rey in 1805. Mrs. Hermans attended ; the Friend’s meetings on several oc-f er. sions and was also present at the Friend’s Place on the. Sunday following ; the Friend’s decease. Mr. Hudson mentions the presence on that occa- j:

of being taken to the Friend’s' meet-1 ing and of hearing the Friend preach, i He was born in 1813, and died in 1907.1

sion of several Quakers, and of one of them making a discourse while standing in the yard. Mrs. Hermans; well remembered the circumstance,! and said that there were two Quaker-! esses among them, named respective-; ly Sarah Talcott and Phebe Field J, .The latter, she thought, was the onej who spoke at that time. Mrs. Her-j mans died in Potter, August 12, 1900.j;

Jeptha A. Potter, was a prominent; and much respected citizen. He w as : related to the Friend, his grandmother; being Patience Wilkinson, an older i sister, who was the wife of Thomas ■ Hazard Potter. Mr. Potter told me ; that he remembered when very young;

S A M U E L W iH iEELER, the Last Person Wjho H ad Seen the Friend.

Samuel Wheeler was an old resi­dent of the town of Jerusalem. He died in that town in 1909 at the ad­vanced age of ninety-seven. He also told me that when “a mere lad,” as he said, he saw the Friend often ride I by in her carriage and that once I

l while he was standing with a numbej* j of other boys of different ages, she alighted from her conveyance and f gave them some advice as to their t

[ conduct. This advice was probably | I much needed. Mr. Wheeler was un- f doubtedly the last person in Yates [ County who ever saw the Friend.

,Wi.C O N C L U D IN G OBSERVATIONS.

Mr. Turner in the chapter of h i s i work devoted to the Friend, speaks, j as will be observed, somewhat slight-;

i ingly of her mission and also of her [ 1 pretensions. In one. place, | however, j he gives in a foot-note evidences of her kindness of heart. He says, in re­spect to her journey from Worcester in Pennsylvania to the New Jerusa­lem in 1790: “William Hencher, the

, pioneer at the mouth of the Genesee i River, then lived at Newtown Point,I and helped her on with his teams through the woods to Catharinestown.i'

„ His surviving son, who .accompanied!I the expedition well remembers ‘the?| Friend,* her singular dress, and sin-!| gularity as it seemed to him. of ai j woman controlling and directing men I in all things appertaining to the jour-1 ney. It seemed to him a ‘one woman power.’ If the form of expression may be changed with the sex; yet he;

i gratefully remembers her kindness j and hospitality, when his father’s]

I family came through the wilderness,,I and stopped at, her residence on their way to the Genesee River.”

j . Mr. Cleveland says: ‘‘She has beer j treated as an impostor. A conscious impostor she could not have been, for sincerity, earnestness, probity and un-! deviating consistency, were fhe con-1 spicuous elements of her character | Her ministry of forty-three years was i an unvarying assertion of the same ; claims, without a lapse single act! or expression that could l e construed; into a indication that she was actu-'l ated by purposes of chicanery. * * * * j i The very name she. assumed— Public

I

U n iversa l F r ien d —-indicated a sen ti­m en t o f broad and generous philan- • th rop y w o rth y in th is too se lfish j w orld , o f the m ost profound respect.” i

T h e R ev . M r. W ilk in so n says: “ A s j to th e m irac les w h ich it is p retended i .she p erfo rm ed it is not a l i t t le sur-j p r is in g th at she stou tly den ied them j in h e r l i fe tim e. E ven H udson him - i" ,self says, she used the fo llo w in g lan- j gu age, ‘ T h e servan ts o f the d e v il h ave : accused m e o f a ll m anner o f w ick ed ­ness. But th e ir e v il designs w i l l ; fa l l upon th e ir ow n heads. T h e y h ave , accused m e o f a ttem p tin g to w a lk

.upon th e w ater, and a lso o f ob ta in in g p resen ts and donations from m y peo­p le by say in g the L o rd hath need o f th is th ing, w h ich th ings a re fa ls e .’ j ‘W ith g rea t earnestness she. d e n ie d ! the tru th o f these assertions/ says i Hudson. A singu lar im postu re t h a t !”

In a h is to ry o f th e N a rra ga n se tt church, quoted by th e R e v . M r. W i l ­kinson, appears the fo llo w in g w o rd s : “ W h a te v e r ob loqu y m ay ju s t ly res t ' .on Jem im a as an im postor, c la im ing, th e g i f t o f p rop h ecy and the p o w er o f p e r fo rm in g m irac les o r h o w ev e r cul-i pab le she m ay h a ve been in a ttem pt- i in g to ex e rc is e super-human au thority , I or im posing h er p retensions on a 1

,w ea k and credu lous peop le, th ere is j no ju st cause fo r im pu tation on h er j m o ra l character. Justice dem ands the | separation o f the tw o and those w h o i h ave been cool and d iscr im in a tin g .enough to do so, h ave fr e e ly a ckn ow ­led ged that the gross aspersions upon j h er m ora l pu rity , a re w h o lly ground- i less. H u dson ’s h is to ry o f Jem im a I published a ft e r h er death a t G en eva j in 1821 in th is resp ec t is a m ere r e p e - jj t it io n o f sta le fa b r ica tion s .” T h e R ev . | M r. W ilk in son adds: “ T h e above is j

but a con firm ation o f th e tes tim on y j born e by the. m ost resp ec tab le peop le I in th e v ic in ity o f h e r la st res id en ce .” ;

M y add itions to M r. T u rn e r ’s ac- j count o f th e F rien d , w ill now be con- j e luded b y th e fo llo w in g quota tion ■ fro m C leve la n d ’s H is to ry o f Y a te s j

.C ou n ty : “ T h e F r ie n d ’s S oc ie ty b e - ; lon gs to th e past. T h a t it cou ld not p e rp etu a te i t s e lf m ust h ave been evi- ! den t to its fou n d er lon g b e fo re h er j ow n decease. P e rh ap s it w as no p a r t ; o f h e r fin^ l purpose that it should. I t ; w as an in te res tin g socia l and re lig iou s j exp er im en t that can be stud ied w ith p ro fit b y th ose w ho w ill read a righ t th e structu re o f hum an ch a ra c ter and an tic ip a te its deve lopm en ts in th e fu- j tu re .” W .

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ANNUAL MEETING OF HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Erection of Historical Monuments

Urged— Treasurer and Secre­

tary Make Reports.

Treasurer Richmond S. Beeman re­ported at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Ontario County His­torical Society, held at the museum yesterday afternoon, that receipts, from membership dues the past year had amounted to $387; income from in­vested funds, $367.13; gifts, $255; re­ceipts from lectures, $7.80;, ballot box, $4.75; in addition to which he had received $1500 from bequests. The disbursements had included $311.50 for painting and fence for hedge; $374 for salaries; $62 for in­surance; $90.20' for printing, sta­tionery and postage; interest on bor­rowed money, $55.50; light, $48.80; incidentals, $12.04; $100 had beenpaid on bank note; a bond costing $1,001.96 had been purchased for the endowment fund; and a balance of $516.90 remained in the treasury, with bills for repairs to the heating plant' and for new book case still to be paid.

Officers Reelected.-Officers were elected as follows:

President, Charles F. Milliken; vice- president, Miss Antoinette P. Grang­er; recording secretary, Miss MaryD. Jewett; corresponding secretary, Miss Ada E llis ; treasurer, Richmond S. Beeman; additional members of the Council, Henry W . Hamlin, John Handrahan, Fred D. Cribb and Mrs. J. L. Burnett; councillor emeritus, M iss Elizabeth C. Phelps.

Advisory Councillors were elected as fo llows: Bristol, Mrs. Frank O.Case; Canadice, C. A. Gibbs; Canan­daigua, George B. Hickox; East Bloomfield, Mrs. E. O. Hollister; Farmington, A. H. Stevenson; Ge­neva City, Arthur P. Rose; Geneva Town, Dr. John Parm enter; Gorham, Lew is C. Lincoln; Hopewell, George M. Benham; Manchester, Dr. John H. Pratt; Naples, Miss Cinda Watkins; Phelps, Earle S. W arner; Richmond, F. B. A llen ; Seneca, Mrs. Bruce P. Jones; South Bristol, Mrs. E . M. Morse; Victor, Wm. B. Osborne; West Bioomfield, A lfred D. Gates.

The Secretary’s Report.Miss Jewett, the Secretary, made

this report:Today we are holding the 25th an­

nual meeting of the Ontario County Historical Society. W e have existed now for a quarter of a century and in that time have endeavored to-serve thq community by preserving and ex­hibiting any things which are of his­torical interest and value.

The past year has been a quiet one, yet there are a number of things to report. T

Again we have presented several interesting lectures. Dr. E rl A. Bates of Cornell spoke on “The Meeting of the Red and W hite American in 1794”. Rev. George E. Finlay gave a talk on “The Philippines,” and Dr. W illiam Brady of Buffalo lectured on a health topic.• T1 rough the generosity of Hon. Clark W illiam s two prizes were offer­ed to Academy students for the best historical sketches of the Phelps and Gorham prize contest. A consider­able amount of interest w as aroused

and a™ n u m b e r of essays were sub­mitted. The prize winners were Robert Morrey and Fynette Fisk.

As far as the building is concerned, the trimmings have been given a coat of paint and changes have been made in the heating system by which the third floor is at last comfortable. Plans for a new book case, the money for which was ' contributed by a number of friends, have been ac­cepted and it w ill soon be construct­ed. In it will be placed the more valuable of our many books.

Mr. Alvin H. Dewey, assisted by Dr. Arthur C. Parker, has completed the arranging and cataloging of the Indian relics and the Society is grateful to them for the time and thought they have so freely given.

Again this year the American H is­tory classes from the Academy, num­bering about one hundred pupils, have visited the museum and shown much interest in the collection of relics of early American days.

Among the gifts, w e gratefully acknowledge that of five hundred dol­lars left to us by Hon. Frank H. j Hamlin. In Mr. Ham lin’s death the Society lost one of its most interested and loyal members.

From Hon. Clark W illiam s we re-1 ceived a valuable early American j document A number of other things, j among them some very good speci-1 mens of early American glass and; china have been added to our col­lection.

W e have been gratified by the large I number of visitors from all over the, country who come to the building and | enjoy and manifest interest in its | contents, and so again we feel justi­fied in asking for the support of the ! community in our work.

M ARY D. JEW ETT, Secretary. Marking Sites of Historic Interest.

President Milliken, in speaking of i

the Society's plans fo r the future, I said:

"A t the 1928 sessibn, the Legisla­ture of this State made provision for the celebration of the sesqui-eenten- nial of the American Revolution, and under this authority Commissioner of j Education Frank P. Graves and S tate! Historian A. C. Flick are arranging j for observance of events in different! parts of the state having reference to the struggle by which our Independ- j ence was achieved. These events | may be those directly related to the j war, like 4;he march of Sullivan’s army through this region, or those of local importance in showing the W - igins and development o f the local­

ity; and the state also is seeking to mark the birthplaces and homes of men who had prominent part in early history, as well as the build­ings and sites of historic interest, all of which is to be - done with a view to preserving memory that is already fading of patriots and events that made the community what it is.

“The Legislative provision for these historical markers is not lim­ited- to the erection of those to com­memorate Revolutionary events, but is available under fhe terms of the law “for markers to designate sites that are of historic significance in the colonial, Revolutionary or state formative period,” all with the hope, as the State Historian expresses it,(1) to carry the meaning of the an­niversary observances into regions where the contact with Revolutionary events is less direct and powerful;(2) to impress upon our own citi­zens the rich and varied historical heritage which is ours; (3) to in­culcate in them a deeper interest in our past and a greater desire to pre­

serve it; and (4) to permit the thousands of tourists from othtr states to enjoy our /treasures.

“A good beginning has been mad| in the erection of monuments to mark places of historic interest in and about Canandaigua. In the city are the boulder monuments erected by the late Dr. Dwight R. Burrell, a charter member of this society— one on the public square in commemora­tion of the council held here in 1794 between representatives, of the Unite a States and the Five Nations of In -1

j dians, at which time rusty places in ; the chain of friendship between thv I contracting powers were satisfac torily brightened, and the other at the

, crest of Asylum H ill on Bristol street! j to mark the route of Sullivan’s army j, I in its devastating march through the j Seneca country in 1779.

“On Squaw Island is the monu­ment which the late Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson caused to be erected to mark it as the traditional place of refuge to which the Indian warriors hiirried their women folk and bhil- dren on the approach of that army, and in the swimming school at the lake-side is another, erected through the munificence of the same friend of the Historical Society, to mark the final resting place of the bones of sixteen red-men who after some un-' recorded foray were first interred or; a nearby knoll with their faces ti,/li­ed toward the sacred hill, Genur -

! dewa.“Through the enterprise of another

; friend of the Historical Society, and lone of its founders, the late Father ; James T. Dougherty, stone crosses Ii erected at the roadside on Boughton I H ill in Victor and near the crossing of the historic Ganargua on the East Bloomfield road, mark the sites of the Jesuit missions among the Indi­ans, “St. James” at Ganagaro and!

j “St. Michaels” at Gandougarae, while | largely through the inspiration Of the| same good priest there stands a sim­ilar memorial near Aurora in Cayuga county which m arks the site of an­other one of the missions at which heroic soldiers of the cross- labored

| among the natives. jj “At Victor village is a boulder I monument which none who drive the ; much traveled road to Rochester can I fail to note. It marks the trail fol- | lowed by Denonville in his march from Irondequoit in 1687 to destroy the Indian village on Boughton Hill.

At the cemetery at Naples there is a boulder monument to the memory of the famous Indian patriarch,! “Canesque,” and at Geneva there is a tablet at the historic Lafayette tree.

“There is also a wooden marker on the Buckelew farm in Bristol that tells the passerby that he is on thej trail pursued by Sullivan and his! Continentals in 1779, and at other! points on the road are signs erected- at the instance of the Supervisors’! committee, of which our townsman,; Dr. A. L. Beahan, is chairman, that! tell that this is the Sullivan Trail.! Other signs along the main traveled roads in the County, erected by this i same committee and by an enterpris-j ing tire m anufacturing company, re­

mind travelers that they are on his­toric ground, but unfortunately these are of perishable materials, and, alas,

j some of them are grossly inaccurate in their inscriptions.

“ In this connection might properly be mentioned other more lasting monuments, not located in Ontario county, but in contiguous territory, like the Sullivan boulder monument at Kendaia, the Skoyase and Lafay ­ette monuments at Waterloo, the Logan monument at Auburn, the Red

j Jacket monument a t Canoga, “a fit f a t I o,ur w est the handsom e statue o f M ary Jemison, “ the w hite wom an o f

Genesee,” in Letch w orth Park .Ontario county and neighbor-

! sections o f the Genesee country ! h a v e , not been a ltogether n eg ligen t o f the duty o f m ark ing the buria l places o f the h istoric dead or o f erecting monuments to p reserve the m em ory o f events that brought the reg ion into v ita l contact w ith Colon ia l and E v o lu t io n a r y h istory. But much re­m ains to be done and it w ould seem that the challenge recen tly extended ky the State should be accepted by ijiis society and by o ther s im ilar or­gan izations in the Genesee country and the F in g e r Lakes R egion . Th ere a re many.^sites here in Canandaigua that m igh t p rop er ly be m arked by the a ffix in g o f bronze tab lets to buildings or, on boulder monuments. Am ong them m ay be m entioned:

f‘S ite o f the Ph elps and Gorham land, office, established 1789, the first o ffice to be established in A m erica fo r the sa le o f land to settlers.

“ H om e o f G eneral Is ra e l Chapin, governm ent Ind ian agen t who en g i­neered the P ick e r in g Council held h ere in 1794. J

“ H om e o f Jasper Parrish , govern ­m ent Ind ian in terp re te r in early negotia tions w ith the Indians.

. “P io n ee r cem etery, last resting pl^cvy, o f O live r Phelps, head o f the Ph e lp s and Gorham syndicate, Caleb W a lk er, the firs t w h ite m an to d ie in Canandaigua, and others prom inent in the found ing o f th e settlem ent.

“ B irth p lace at R u sh v ille o f M arcus W h itm an , th e hero ic p ion eer m is­sionary to Oregon.

“ S ite o f the B lossom H o te l where L a fa y e tte w as en terta ined in 1824.

“ H om e o f G ideon G ranger, P o s t­m aster G eneral under Presidents Jefferson and M adison, and o f his son, F ran c is G ran ger, leader o f th e S ilv e r G rays and Postm aster G enera l in P res id en t W illia m H en ry H a rr ison 's cabinet.

“ H om e o f M yron H. C lark, G ov­ern o r o f the State, 1855-56.

“ T h ese a re on ly a fe w o f m any sites in Canandaigua and surrounding tow ns that ought to be m arked by d ign ified and la s tin g m em oria ls. N ow that the S tate is ready to help in the cost the du ty should no lon ge r be delayed. L o c a l in teres t and pride, I: b e lieve, could be depended on to p ro ­v id e the m oney, not a la rg e amount, that w ou ld be necessary.”

EARLY HISTORY. S

S enera l S u l l iv a n R a v a g e d T h e F in g e r L a k e R eg ion . C a n a n d a ig u a W a s ! B u rn e d . T h e E x p e d i t io n w a s Order-1

ed by G e n e ra l W a s h in g to n as a W a r ) M e a s u re — O p en ed th e W a y fo r S e t - 1 t l e m e n t b y th e W h i te s .

One hundred and fo r ty years ago, in Septem ber and October, 1779, the te rr ito ry com prised in w hat is now O ntario and ne ighboring counties.! the F in g e r L a k e region , was vis ited by the Su llivan exped ition . or “ raid,” as, it has som etim es ‘ been described, and its h is tory was connected up w ith that o f the n ew ly form ed Republic.

I t w as in ea r ly 1779 that General W ash ington , d riven to drastic meas­ures by the b loody fo rays by which the red a llies o f the English army! had terrorized the M ohaw k and Sus­quehanna va lleys, decided upon measures to p reven t a recurrence ofi such events and at the same tim e la y , w aste the country from which the" Indians sa llied w ith tom ahaw k and. sca lp ifig kn ife fo r attacks upon the

patrio t settlem ents and to w h ich th e y , retrea ted fo r sa fe ty a fter each fo ray , j a reg ion also which had furnished] considerab le supplies *, fo r the suste-j nance o f B ritish troops.

T h e cam paign w as entered upon,] w ith a ruthless purpose, fo llow in g a yea r during which the colonists hadj su ffered discouraging reverses, ana! h ow ever our sym pathies m ay go o u t] to the savages against whom it w as directed, w e must recogn ize it as a i necessary, and, as it proved, an e ffec 1 t iv e w ar measure. I t broke once fo r 1 a ll the pow er o f the tribes which h a d ; a llied them selves w ith the B ritish cause and determ ined the course and) hastened the end o f the strugg le on j

w hich the colon ies had em barked, r M oreover, it opened to w h ite settle? I m ent and Christian c iv iliza tion a j

reg ion pecu liarly rich in natural re-1 sources, but to w hich fo r 400 years j

that w onderfu l creation o f s a v a g e : sta tecra ft, the Iroquois, con fed era cy ,; had barred a lien entrance. A ro u n d : it to the north and w est had swept.1; the tide o f w h ite occupation, w h ile j its vast fo rests and fe r t ile va lley s j

had rem ained shut to E nglish and French a like. A lthough a fe w de | voted Jesuits and here and there an adventurous trader had penetrated its fastnesses, n e ither the w h ite m an’s cross nor the w h ite m an’s go ld had m ade lasting im pression upon t h e ; red m en nor opened a w ay fo r perma-t nent occupation o f the land.

Th e fe w thousand Indians w ho thus I

mfo llow ed a m arch o f destruction and ruin p ractica lly unapposed, the Indians s low ly retrea ting, lea v in g their v illages or “ castles to be burned, th e ir fields destroyed and th e ir orchards cut down, w h ile th ey hung upon the sk irts o f the advancing a rm y and confined their efforts at re ta lia tion to skirm ishes and ambuscades. N o o ther rea l ba ttle was

held jea lous possession o f the favored ) reg ion n ever exceed ing 4,000 fig h t in g ! men, had successfu lly defended the | land against appropriation , and had I extended th e ir rule throughout the j

, eastern part o f the continent, exact-1 ing tribute from dusky • peoples that

| fo r ages had inhabited, but n ever real- ) ly possessed, the broad domain. T h e I; C on federacy m ay have been a “ Leagu e j! o f P eace ,” as the S tate D irec tor o f I

j Science, Dr. John M. Clarke, has said, I i as it a ffected the six N ations them- I

selves, but it w as a pow er as tru.ly‘ i I m ilita ris tic and autocratic in its s w a y :! as that w ith w hich c iv iliza tion hasJI

I just been engaged in a li fe and d e a th .| struggle. Th e break ing o f that pow er j and the ending o f that sw ay had to be !|

j accom plished i f the colonies w ere to •' be m ade independent and the fu ture j!;

j o f dem ocracy in A m erica m ade secure. I T o that task General W a sh in g ton ,1

! actin g under au thority con ferred by jj I Congress, set General John Su llivan, | a so ld ier o f experience and unques-§

j tioned courage. I t was ea rly in M ay, | ] 1779, that G eneral Su llivan reached j-1

j Easton, Pa., to assume comm and a n d )

set the w heels o f the proposed expe- j’i d ition in motion, but the d ila toriness U o f som e o f the troops, the threatened |j] d isa ffection o f others, and the fa ilu re i o f the com m issary departm ent to pro- [ f cide necessary supplies delayed the h! start until the m iddle o f June. Then I the lit t le a rm y on ly proceeded as fa r ] ' as W yom in g , and it was not until the S

j last day o f July, a fte r fu rth er vexatious |] ! delay, that it again broke cam p and resum ed its fo rw ard march. G ener-!]]

| al C lin ton and his comm and from the [;1 eastern part o f the S tate jo in ed the ! exped ition at T io ga Po in t la te in Au- j gust and fin a lly on the 26th o f that /• m onth the arm y, then about 5,000 %

! strong, en tered the enem y’s country I and began its appointed work, j O n Sunday, August 29, a t N ew tow n , the advancing column m et the Indian w arriors under th e ir g rea t M ohaw k leader, Joseph Brandt, supported by

j a fo rce o f T o ry rangers. B randt’s I arm y, w h ich w as estim ated a t 1,800, j m ade a stubborn stand, but out-num- I bered and opposed by troops w h ich j w ere w e ll equipped fo r the tim e and w ere supported by a rtille ry , it w as

kforced to give, w ay and flee in d iso r­der. Th is v ic to ry opened the Gene- \ e country to the invaders and there

fough t in the course o f the expedition.;Catherinestown " w as destroyed ouj-

the 3rd o f Septem ber; K en da ia on th e i 5th; Kanadasaga, the cap ita l o f th e1] Senecas, suffered the sam e fa te on the 7 th .. Th ree days la te r Canandai­gua was ra va ged ; then H oneoye; then Koneghas. On the 12th, a de- \ tachm ent o f fourteen, under L ieu ten-' ant Boyd, was cut o ff and killed. I In the va lle y o f the Genesee the In-1 dians seem ed to ra lly fo r another con-1 test. But when it cam e to the pinch; they retired, and General Su llivan m et] no one to res ist his progress. On thei) 16th o f 'September, he recrossed thef Genesee r iv e r on his return. Th e w ork ) o f destruction was continued am ong the Cayugas and Onondagas. On the 30th o f Septem ber, the exped ition re ­assem bled at F o r t Su llivaij, and on the 15th o f October, i t w as back in its quarters at Easton. Its to ta l loss had been on ly about fo r ty m en killed.

E igh teen Indian v illa ges had been annihilated, and 150,000 bushels o f corn and im m ense quantities o f other provisions w ere destroyed. Th e tribes w ere stripped o f th e ir homes, and fo r the purposes o f the revolution , the Six N ations ceased to be organ ized a llies! o f the B ritish crown. “ T h ey w ere re-j duced to w andering p illagers,” as one) w rite r has said, “ to revengefu l, un-l com prom ising w arriors, w ho struck! w here and when they could, and sought] to w reak vengeance on a ll settlements,): w h ile th ey no longer had homes to be] assailed.” But their pow er as a men-| ace to the patrio t cause was complete-!; ly broken.

Th e thoroughness w ith which Gen-i] era l Su llivan did his work, m et w ith) the fu ll approval o f W ashington. To ! the P residen t o f Congress, he w ro te : I “ I congratu late Congress on General Su llivan ’s having com pleted so ef-l f ectu a lly the destruction o f the w h ole j o f the towns and settlem ents o f th e >; hostile Indians in so short a tim e, and w ith so inconsiderable a loss o f m en.” j W ash in gton also in form ed LaFayette , (O ctob er 20,) “ General Su llivan has] com pleted the en tire destruction o f the country o f the S ix N ations; d riven a ll the inhabitants, men, w om en and ch ildren out o f i t ; ” and he re jo ices that thus the tribes have had “ proo fs that G reat B rita in cannot p rotec t them, and it is in our pow er to chas­tise them .” General W ash in gton o f­fic ia lly “ congratulates the arm y on the com plete and fu ll success o f M a jo r General Su llivan and the troops under his command, aga inst the (Senecas and other tribes of. the S ix Nations, as a just and necessary punishment fo r their wanton depredations, th eir un­paralle led and innum erable cruelties, and th e ir deafness to a ll en treaties.”

Congress, in a fo rm a l resolution pass- | ed October 14, 1779, declared, “ that j the thanks o f Congress be g iven to j H is Excellency, General W ash ington , I

: f o r d irecting and to M a jo r G eneral ' Sullivan and the o fficers and so ld iers j i under his command, fo r e ffectua lly ex- J ecuting an im portant exped ition | against such o f the Indian nations as, 1 encouraged by the o fficers o f his Brit- I annic m ajesty, had perfid iously w aged j an unprovoked and cruel w ar against these U n ited States, la id w aste th e ir defenseless towns, and w ith savage gruelty slaughtered the inhabitants ' thereof.”

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M an y o f the o ffic e rs and m en o f Su l­l iv a n ’s a rm y fo llo w e d th e good o ld fash ion ed custom o f keep in g a d a ily jou rnal, and th ese records co lle c ted | and prin ted som e yea rs ago te ll a s to ry o f adven tu re that is m ost in ter- j es tin g and en ligh ten ing . P r iv a t io n s and hardsh ips did not dull the z es t o f th ese C ontinen ta ls nor b lind th e ir 1 ey es to the beau ty and fe r t i l i t y o f j th e coun try th ey traversed . M an y o f,j th em took back reso lves to retu rn I a ft e r th e w a r w as o v e r and m ak e ! n ew hom es fo r th em se lves in th is , ea rth ly paradise. M an y ca rried o u t }

| th is purpose, and when, ten y ea rs la te r , I th e d ispute as to the ow nersh ip b e - ; tw een the S tates o f M assachusetts

j and N e w Y o rk had been se ttled and I Ph elps and Gorham , and, la te r in suc- ; cession, R ob ert M o rr is and the Lon d on : A ssoc ia tes , opened the lands to settle- ! m ent, these ve te ran s fo llo w e d a g a in : th e 'Su llivan tra il and found a lon g its ; course d w e llin g p laces w h ere to th is day th e ir descendants continue. |

T h e fa c t is th at th e m en o f Su lli- I va n ’s a rm y ca rry in g to th e ir fa m ilie s - and fr ien ds graph ic accounts n o t on ly 5 o f the deta ils o f the exped ition , but . a lso o f th e va s t fo rests , abundant -

J gam e, and fe r t i le soil, y ie ld in g r ich - I retu rns o f fru its and gra ins and vege - , ! tab les even under the rude t illa g e o f th e Indians, constitu ted a fo rc e o f pub-

I l ic it y agen ts w h ich b rou gh t the G ene -J see country to th e a tten tion o f inves- j tors and se ttle rs and m ade its subse­quent rap id se ttlem en t the w on der o f the tim e. W ith in th ir ty y ea rs a fte r th e op en in g o f the coun try to se ttlem en t! b y Ph elps and Gorham , its popu lation ! had g row n con s id erab ly o v e r 250,000.!

j To -day it is fu lly a m illion and a h a lf. | S u lliva n ’s C on tinen ta ls p e r fo rm ed a

| se rv ic e o f in estim ab le va lu e to th e } gove rn m en t in w h ose cause he fou gh t, j

j to the reg ion w h ich th ey m ade a v a il- j ! ab le fo r se ttlem en t, and to its thou- j sands o f p eace fu l and prosperous Communities: w h ich as honored and ! u sefu l c it izen s th ey had a part in j fou n d in g and deve lop in g .~ -C . F . M . in C anandaigua T im es , / lie : « l

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Road Program Presented

A t a spec ia l m eetin g o f the Yates ! County B oard o f S u perv isors held on: W ednesday, the road p rog ra m fo r Y a tes county, fo r 1931, w as p resen t­ed by County S u perin tenden t o f H ig h ­w ays M atthew M cE voy , pnd the lis t ■cf five p ro jec ts w as vo ted fo r by the board. T h e p rog ra m o f road im p ro ve ­m ent ca lls fo r the expen d itu re o f $118,306.43.

The- fiv e p ro jec ts a re :L eg g s C o rn ers -B e llon a road, 2.3

‘m iles, at an estim ated co s t o f $30,- 163.63.

M ilo C en ter-Leach C orners, 2.9 m iles, o f w h ich 8-10 is in M ilo and 2.1 in T o rre y , at an es tim ated cost o f $30,991.74.

H im rod -L a k e road, 8-10 m iles in M ilo , at an estim ated cost o f $12,826.- 8 6 .

H im rod -Lakem on t, 1 m il© ip Mil®, and 2% m iles in S tarkey , at an e s ­tim ated cost o f $33,539.20.

B lu ff P o in t-K eu k a C o lle g e -M S ls Corners, 7-10 m iles in Jerusa lem , at an estim ated cost o f $10,795.00.:

Th e K eu k a C o lleg e -B lu ff P o in t road is sla ted fo r com p le tion by Ju ly 15th and w ill g iv e -K euka C o lle g e an im ­p roved road co n n ec tin g w ith th e con ­cre te h igh w ay fro m P en n Y a n to B ranchport.

I l l i S ® Observes 5 0 th

AnniversaryMr. and Mrs. L. C. Williams

Married March 27, 1881

On F riday, M arch 27_th, Mr-= and M rs. L ew is C. W illia m s , o f M idd lesex , w ill ce lebrate the 50th a n n ive rsa ry o f" tn e ir m arriage, w hich took p la ce on M arch 27th, 1881, at M idd lesex , R ev . E. T . M a llory , pastor o f the B ap tis t Church o f that p lace, p e r fo rm in g the cerem ony. Th e w itnesses w e re the pastor and his w ife .

Mr. W illiam s was the son o f O liv e r S. and M arian B. W illia m s , e a r ly s e t­t le rs in the M idd lesex V a lle y , gnd Mrs. W illia m s ’ paren ts w e re W ill ia m

land Cordelia Foster, a lso res iden ts , o f that section.| Im m ed ia te ly fo llo w in g th e ir m ar- ! r iage , Mr. and M rs. W illia m s s ta rted ! m ak ing their hom e and ca r in g fo r 1 th e ir farm w ork and la id the founda- i tions o f one o f the m ost p rosperous ! fa rm s in that section . “ M a rr ia g e in■ those days was a seriou s business and was not en tered in to w ith the J

! sp ir it o f carelessness th at ch aracter- j izes so m any m arria ges today,” stat- ! ed Mr. W illiam s. “ A you n g fe l lo w had respect fo r his hom e and his w ife

: and started in to. m ake a liv in g r igh t t o ff.”j “ I have tra ve led th e sea o f .m a t r i- 1 m ony 50 years, w ith the sam e partn er,. and in these days o f the o ld ‘ba ld-

heads’ gettin g d ivorces and m a rry in g flappers, it seems that a fe l lo w w ho

■j sticks w ith the sam e pa rtn er fo r 50■ yea rs out to be p resen ted w ith a lea th er m edal or put qn G overno R o o seve lt ’s o ld age pension lis t or som eth ing s im ilar. In Ipok in g back 50 years, w e are conv inced that get-

- t in g m arried is a good th ing . W e b e­lie v e in early m arr ia ges and then se ttin g up the; A m erica n hor.-;e— the b u lw ark o f the good o ld U. S. A .

I “ I know o f res iden ts p f M idd lesex I w ho cou ldn ’t get tru sted to a head o f I cabbage until they m a rr ied som e good | business woman and am assed a good property . I think old bach e lo rs shou ld be taxed ,” the hardy son o f the M id-

! d lesex V a lle y ea rn es tly stated.| F o r 43 years, M r. and Mrs., W illia m s have lived on th e ir p resen t fa rm o f m ore than 200 acres w h ere . a ll the

j farm crops and sheep and o th er ca ttle j a re raised. N o tw ith s tan d in g the. fa c t that “ L . C .” has becom e one o f the

|i lead in g fa rm ers o f M id d lesex V a lle y , :'|he has found tim e to s e rv e as post­al m aster of his tow n fo r tw o term s dur- ! in g the p residency o f G rove r C le v e ­land. H e has been a correspon den t fo r daily and w eek ly n ew spapers fo r , 35 years and has been a su perin tend ­ent o f th e M. E. Sunday Schoo l and! th e teacher o f th e “ K in g ’s B usiness” ' c lass ,,a Sunday Sch oo l class o f yojj,ng men, fo r m any years. H e se rved as L ec tu re r o f Ya tes C ou nty Pom ona} G range fo r e igh t years, and is a ch ar­te r m em ber o f R u sh v ille G ran ge and w as its first M aster and a lso has serv-j •ed as L ec tu re r o f that G range. Mr.j W illia m s also served as su p e rv is o r1 from the tow n o f M id d lesex on the Y a tes County B oard o f Su perv isors .

H e engaged in store k eep in g fo r tw o years w ith A . A . A dam s, but s to re-k eep in g did not appea l to th is en ergetic fa rm er, and he retu rned to his fa rm in g in terests .

M r. W illia m s is an a rden t D em o­cra t but a llied w ith the “ d ry ” fa c t io n

that party . H is sta tis tics concern - the consum ption o f a lcoh o l today

as com pared to ‘ the w et reg im e con­tains m any sa lien t and convincing •points, and his v iew s on a ll m atters o f im p ortan ce a re w id e ly sought and read.

M r. and Mrs. W illia m s have one, son, O live r S. W illia m s , a successfu l you ng M id d lesex fa rm er ; tw o daugh­ters, Mrs. M arion C. Jo lley , o f ^Vhite P la in s , N. Y ., and M iss M arion W il­liam s, a t hom e.

Th e D em ocrat extends congratu la -1tions and hopes that its colum ns n r - jbe p r iv ile g ed to ca rry new s o f many |m ore w edd in g an n iversa ries o f th er:“ Sage o f the M idd lesex V a lle y ” and(:his h e lp -m ate and pa rtn er o f 501years . ;; #1|h

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rac to ry Re-Opened

T h e Y a tes Lu m b er Com pany, rnan-j: u factu rers o f baskets, re-opened its! fa c to ry on M onday, M arqh 16th, after!: the usual m id -w in te r shut-doxVn. Thei; fa c to ry is one o f th e steady em ploy-, in g . concerns o f the v illa g e , "and em -1 ploys, about seven ty m en w hen the} business is at its height.

Th e Y a tes Lu m b er C om pany started m ak in g baskets in 1909, and the first y e a r ’s output w as 1,600,000 baskets.

, T h e output o f the p lan t has grown,} h ow ever, un til the p rodu ct o f the fa c­to ry num bers m an y d iffe ren t s izes o f

! baskets and the annual output am ounts to s e ve ra l m illions.

A m o n g the fin ished product a re tub | bushel baskets, th ree sizes o f hgjn- ' pers, th ree s izes o f grape baskets, [fo u r s izes o f t ills , th ree sizes o f peach | baskets and th ree sizes o f diamond } m ark et baskets. A s a by-product 'b.f j the plant, the firm disposes o f severa l cords o f fine fire w ood each yea r in /the shape o f “ co re s ” w h ich a re sold /either sp lit fo r stove use or unsplit.

T h e ou tput o f the P en n Y an plant is sh ipped as fa r w est as M ich igan and Ohio, w ith occas ion a lly an order sen t fa r th e r tow a rd the coast, w h ile the sou thern sh ipp in g is as fa r south as V irg in ia . A l l the con ta iners m ade a re used fo r fru it and vegetab les. T h e baskets tra v e l a lo n g the eastern p o rtion o f the U n ited States, th rough ­out the N ew E n g la n d States and into Canada.

o f the associa tion a r c : R ex fo rd P o tte r ; v ice- W ill ia m H . S tou tenburg;

A rn o ld P o tte r ; treasurer, P ie rce . W arehou ses > e lo-

j cated at se ve ra l poin ts, Canandaigua I a iiq N ap les be in g tw o o f the supply--, j in g points. R e x fo rd P o tte r is in j ch arge o f the sa les fo rc e and spends j m uch tim e on the road fo r the sales r departm ent.

O fficers P res id en t, presiden t, secretary/ D ennis C.

Resolution Adopted

A t the ad jou rned m eetin g o f the! B oard o f E du cation he ld on M arch ! 23, 1931, the fo llo w in g , reso lu tion wps unan im ously adopted : ' • ^

W H E R E A S , A lm ig h ty God in H is in fin ite w isdom has ca lled to h is e te r ­nal rew a rd our b e lo ved fe llow -c itizen ,

, W ill ia m J. T y le e , a m em ber o f the- | B oard o f E du ca tion o f the P en n Yan j U n ion Sch oo l D is tr ic t ; now , bp„ it— j R E S O L V E D , th at w e, m em bers of I the B oard o f E ducation do hereby' express to the fa m ily o f th e deceased

| our h e a r t fe lt s o rro w at the passing j o f one w ho fo r m an y yea rs g a ve loya l and unstin ted s e rv ice in the in terests

: o f our pu b lic sch oo ls ; and be it fu r th e r -^ ; , , rW gk

I R E S O L V E D , that a copy o f this reso lu tion be recorded upon the m in-

' utes o f the B oard o f E du ca tion and , that a copy be published in th e loca l I p ress.”

The Passing of the Steamer “Penn Yan”

A t one.tim e the pride o f Lake Keuka I and the reg ion hereabouts, its fam e | reach ing, to a ll parts o f the country, i the steam er Penn Yan, has gone the 1 w ay o f all good ships and the last re­m ain ing parts have been consigned to a junk pile at Ham m ondsport, at the head o f the lake.

Th e Penn Yan, when first built, was known as the M ary B elle , and was the finest steam er on La k e Keuka, and was known far and w ide, as the gem o f the lakes reg ion .

Bu ilt in 1891, and put into serv ice on La k e Keuka in 1892, this steam er w as caoable o f ca rry in g 600 passen­gers, f # d plied the lake w aters each day, w ith excursions and m oon light rides featured each w eek .

Th e Lake K eu ka N a v iga t ion com ­pany signed the contract w ith the U n ­ion D ry Dock Co., o f Buffalo, fo r the bu ild ing o f the steam er, w h ich was

150 fe e t in length , 25-feet beam , steel hull, tw in screws,, double bo ilers, two trip le-expansion engines o f the 700 h. p. and steam steering gear. T h e speed was 20 m iles per hour. Th e cost o f this steam er w hich helped to m ake the h istory o f La k e K euka and added to the rom ance o f the; legen da ry back­ground, was m ore than $40,000, includ­ing upholstery and furnish ings. It was considered one o f the finest on any inland body o f w a ter in N ew Y ork state. Th e m ateria l and w orkm anship , used in the boat w ere accord ing to the specifications requ ired by the U n ited S tates govern m en t in its con­tracts fo r first class nava l vessels.

H er firs t capta in w as H a rry C. M orse, now- m anager o f the E lm w ood theatre, w ho served as sk ipper o f the steam er fo r four years, lea v in g here to go to M ontana.

About a quarter cen tury ago, the

steam er underw ent a change and the then ultra-modern: gas engines w ere in sta lled as the means o f locom otion , and the name was . changed to the Penn Yan. The gas, engines mever functioned properly and caused much v ib ra tion to the fram e’ o f the boat and the w ork and fam e o f the steam er rap­id ly passed into the discard. She was tied up to the dock at Ham m ondsport w h ere the elem ents rapidly caused the once m ajestic queen o f the Lake K eu ­ka w aves to succumb to ignom iny and decadence.

A few- w eeks ago it was found that her hull had started to-rot and the de­m olish ing o f the boat was begun. The brass and iron w-hich had added to her rega l appearance,.40 years ago, was junked and the hulk o f the old steam ­er is being carried aw ay to save her from sinking in the sm all harbor at Ham m ondsport.

FORM ER A S SE M B LYM A N

SUICIDE, LE A V E S $100,000

L e o n id a s W e s t

j W est, D en ver hotel m an ana m i m e r j Yates county assem blym an w ho com ­

m itted su icide M arch 20, it was re vea led F riday, when his. w ill was pre sented fo r probate in county court.

Persona l p roperty consisted ch iefly o f a con tract With the -Norton-Lasier

j company, Chicago, listed as “ possib ly o f no va lu e,” accord ing to the D enver

I Post......

Leon idas W est was 75 years old. H e cam e to D en ver in .1907 and built the W es t hotel, and la te r the H otel W.est-Court. Pains in his head caused b y . a lin ger in g illness, it is believed, caused him to shoot h im se lf through the heart. ■;

L iv e d in D un d eeL. D. W est, a fo rm er prom inent c it i­

zen o f Dundee and Yates county, died in Denver, Colorado, F riday, M arch 20. H e was about 75 years o f age.

Mr. W est, when he lived here, op­erated a clo th ing store on the corner! where the Roberts d o thing store is- now situated. H e liv ed in t h e ' Otisi house on M ain street, and also in the Sayre house on the sam e street.

H e represen ted Y a tes county in the N ew Y o rk S tate A ssem b ly fo r four terms, and during that tim e he w as a consistent advocate o f good roads; so much so that he has been term ed the fa th er o f the good roads m ovem ent in N ew Y ork state.

He is su rvived by his w idow and tw o daughters, Mrs. R a lph H oy t and Mrs. M ay W es t Owen o f Denver. — . Dundee O bserver. : •

F ire , o r ig in a tin g in the basement of the tw o -fa m ily apartm ent house at 136 M ain Street, owned by Charles Guile, did approx im ately $1,000 dam­age on Sunday a fternoon about 4:30 o ’clock. Dam age -resulting from w ater and sm oke w ill in a ll probability necessitate the re-decorating o-f th en tire in terio r of the house. The Guile fam ily occupy the south apa rt­m ent w h ile the north side is occu-

| pied by W illia m C. McCu.aig and fam - j ily . P rom p t and effic ien t action by | the fire departm ent saved the houseI from ex tensive damage.

,Vnn.

John N . M cCarrick Dropped D ead or Main S t r e e t M o n d a y

John N. M cC arrick r aged 59 years, o f 227 East E lm street, Penn Yan, dropped dead w hile w a lk in g in front; o f the residence o f 1. L. Y ette r on M ain street, shortly b e fo re 9 o ’clock M onday m orning, A p ril 13th. Mr. M cC arrick had been su ffering w ith heart trouble since Fa ll. M o n d a y : m orn ing at the tim e o f his sudden i death he was: return ing some tools I that lie had borrow ed from Mrs. A. E. Church of M ain street. H is brother, D elbert MoGarrick, died || Penn Yan about four w eeks ago. ■

H e leaves his w ife Mrs-. Sara li P a ge M cCarrick, and son, Charles A . M c­Carrick, also o f Penn Yan.

,/£tnntinned on page six )D.

Real estate valued at. $109,000 'forms o "hulk o f tl-m o f Leon idas D.

James W. Corcoran

T h e death o f Jam es W . C orcoran , 58, occu rred at h is hom e at 220 L a w -

1 ren ce street, about 1 lo’c lock on Th u rs- | day m orn ing, A p r i l 2, 1931, fo l lo w in g an illn ess o f s e ve ra l w eeks. In Sep-

i tem b er last, he w as ob liged to le a v e (j h is w o rk w ith the C orcoran F u rn itu re C om pan y and since that t im e his ; con d ition has s tead ily g ro w n w orse,

j T h e fa m ly m oved last w eek fro m 102 , E a s t M ain s tree t to the hom e in L a w - y ren ce street.

Jam es W . C orcoran w as born in j P en n Y an on Janu ary 23, 1873, and ; had spent his l i fe in th is v il la g e . I t I

I is sa id o f “ J im ” that h e p rob a b ly w as j| a cqu a in ted w ith m ore res id en ts in j i Y a tes cou n ty than any o th er business

1 m an in P en n Yan . H is d isposition !!, w as gen ia l, and h is ch e e ry g r e e t ing j w ill, be m issed by m any.

H e w as v ic e -p re s id en t o f th e C or- ? co ra n F u rn itu re C om pany, h a v in g

j been assoc ia ted w ith th at com p an y y i fo r the past 25 yea rs . A t th e t im e o f ; h is death he w as su p e r in ten d en t o f I the d ep a rtm en t o f d ra ft h orses o f th e j N ew Y o rk S ta te F a ir A sso c ia tion , and j each y ea r w as in a tten d an ce a t th e!

(F a i r a t S yracu se. H e re c e iv e d h is a p -j i p o in tm en t w h en the la te H on . C a lv in ! i J. H u son w as C om m iss ion er o f A g r i - j I cu ltu re , and had h e ld th e p o s it ion | i s in ce th at tim e. H e w as a m em b er n o f the P en n Y a n C o u n c i l K n ig h ts o f - Colum bus.

j H e is s u rv iv e d by h is w ife , Sa rah T . i I C o rco ra n ; one d au gh ter, M rs. J o h n ! ] C la ry , o f I th a c a ; tw o sons, F r e d e r ic k [ | and Pau l, o f P e n n Y a n ; th ree bpoth- ;j | ers, M. F ra n c is and W il l ia m E., o f !■ P en n Yan , and Joseph B. C o rco ra n , j o f B u ffa lo . T h e fu n e ra l s e rv ic e s w i l l : be he ld a t St. M ic h a e l ’ s Church at j y : 30 o ’c lo ck o n S a tu rd a y m orn in g . [ O w in g to th e fa c t th a t S a tu rd a y is j H o ly S a tu rday , th e m ass o f req u iem w ill be om itted , to be sa id a t a la te r |

rdate. In te rm e n t in St. M ic h a e l ’s c e m e ­te ry .

E rn e s t B. R e e d o f E a s t M a in s tr e e t fj r w as re -a p p o in ted v i l la g e t re a s u re r and

j c o l le c t o r a t a s a la ry o f $1,100. A n o th e r m o tio n sa n c tion ed th e a p p o in tm en t o f i Jay W . F it z w a te r o f L ib e r ty s tr e e t as |

i c h ie f o f p o lic e to s e r v e fo r a n o th e r I; y e a r a t th e w i l l o f th e b oard a t a sal-h

j a ry o f $125 p e r m onth .

C h i e f o f P o l ic e F i t z w a t e r

Other motions approved the fo llo w -, l i ng appointments: James W . Hoodie, j patrolman, at $120 a month; Michael 1 Moses, patrolman, at the same salary ; [I Charles H. M acKay, patrolman, at the J I same amount; Arthur E. Jessup, as-1

sessor, $250 a year; Jay D. Rice, street commissioner, $35 a week; John J.

(viand, will age attorney; Charles A.- - : I

K e lly , a m em ber o f the m un icipa l board fo r five y ea rs ; O liv e r E. K e tch - um, m em ber o f the board o f c em ete ry com m issioners fo r th ree y e a rs : W i l ­liam B. M anley, v il la g e c le rk , $65,£hg$£r year. Th e dates o f th e regu la r lfibet-

I ings o f the boai'd w ill be con tinued through the com ing y e a r on the firs t

la n d third M onday n igh ts a t 7:30 o ’dlock.

A d m ir a l F r a n k H . S c h o f ie ld

A d m ira l F ra n k H . S ch o fie ld w as designated by S e c re ta ry A d a m s to be the n ex t com m an der-in -ch ie f o f th e j U n ited S tates N a v y . T h e p ro m o tio n j o f the 62-year-old n a va l o f f ic e r to r e ­l ie v e A d m ira l Jehu. V . C hase in S ep ­tem b er upon the la t t e r ’ s c o m p le t io n o f one y ea r in th a t p o s t w a s one o f

I s e ve ra l changes in th e h igh com m and announced by the n a vy s e c re ta ry .

A d m ira l S ch ofie ld , n ow com m a n d in g P { th e b a ttle fo rc e w h ich is s tea m in g up j j the P a c if ic coast to w a rd C a lifo rn ia j

po rts , w as born in J e ru sa lem a,nd n ow j ca lls P en n Y a n h is hom e.

W h e n re lie v e d A d m ir a l C h ase w i l l j resu m e his p la ce on th e n a v y g e n e r a l !

I board and r e v e r t to ‘ h is p e rm a n e n t | ran k o f rea r-ad m ira l. — D e m o c ra t and

C h ron ic le .

A d m ira l S ch o fie ld w as 62 in J a n u a ry I and re t ire s fro m a c t iv e n a v a l s e r v ic e | in som e 16 m onths. H e p lan s to h a v e I a th ree-m on ths fu r lo u gh b e g in n in g in i June and a fte r jo in in g h is w i f e a t 1

I W a sh in g to n , D. C., to v is i t h is re la - H I t iv e s and fr ie n d s in P e n n Y a n and vi-1 I c in ity .L - .. .. ... ...__ _

SEA G E R — At his home on Liberty | street, Sunday, A p ril 5, 1931,. W i l - 1 liani T. Seager, aged 47 years. ( |H e is survived by his w ife ; two f

sons, Ralph and Donald, on)e daugh- ! ter, Margaret, at home; five brothers, j Fred, of England; George, of South : Barre, V t .; Bert E., of Sumimitt, N. | Y . ; Sidney, of Milo, and James,, of Penn Yan ; one sister, Annie Fitch, of , England. The funeral, which w as p ri­vate, was held from the home bn Tuesday afternoon, Rev. R. N. Jes­sup anfi Rev. W . H. W heatley officiat- ing. Burial in Lake V iew cemetery. M O O RE— A t S. & S. H ospital, Sun- \

Found dead in Home 7 Wednesday morning neighbors!

found Selwyn Keddle, aged 70 years, owner of several houses in Penn Yan, dead in his home at Seneca Mills, a short distance east of Penn Yan along the Keuka lake outlet. Mr. Keddle had returned but a few days before from spending the winter in Zephyr Hills, Florida, and had been busy working about his home. H e apparent­ly died while preparing his supper Tuesday evening. Mrs* Ribble, who lives in the other half of the- house, discovered the tragedy the next morn-

, ing. ■: y. v,. .H is nearest surviving relatives are

cousins, K. W . Durfee of Benton and W illiam Plaisted of .Milo. The funer­al services will be held from the Thay-

' er Funeral home in Penn Yan at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon with Rev. Royal N. Jessup officiating and with burial in the Benton cemetery.

ANNOUNCE P EN N YAN FA C U LT Y FOR 1931-32

S e v e r a l N e w E m p lo y e e s W i l l A p p e a r

N e x t Y e a r o n $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 P a y r o l l

o f B ig “ I n d u s t r y ”

The Penn Yan public schools have ( sometimes been facetiously called one | of Penn Y an ’s chief industries. The B some 50 employees who have been j hired to work in the “knowledge fac- j tory” for another year were am j- nouncod this week as below>. The to- j tal amount of the pay roll for this ii past year w ill be over $100,000, far ex- | ceeding that of most of Penn Yan’s I other industries,

Charles G. Hetherington, superin- > tendent.

Penn Yan Academ y faculty: G. W . Champney, principal; J. L. Challis, | Donald Powell, Donald Grant, Lucille ! Bigelow, M arie Clark, B arbara Cole, j Elsie Hilghes, Velm a Remer. Barbara j Stowe, Plilda Streeter and M ary Reil- ;If................ i "v.yl

Junior H igh school faculty: R. L . : Canuteson, principal; W a rd Aldrich, ; Edwin J. Turner, M ay E. Decker, i Eleanor Hyland, M aude E. R. Phalen, j Ruth Ham ilton and Helen Snyder.

Liberty Street faculty: Caroline Un- j derwood, Inez Semans, H elen S. Alex- L ander, C lara B. M iller, Louise M. Hem enway, H arriet L. Northway, Le ­ona La M oreaux, C lara Clemens and Edna Jaynes,

i ) Hutton Street school teachers: Jen- ! nie C. Snowden, principal; Florence ! W . W h ee ler and Ruth F. Dutton.

Chestnut Street school; Anna V. I O ’Connor, principal; H elen C. Goun- ; dry and E lsie E. Mum by.

Special teachers are: Lester R. Bas- y com, H enry L. Dickson, Law rence P. i Draper, Carl W . Stoneberg, Ralph W .

! Vaughn, E llen Bailey, E lizabeth Fraz- 1 .er, Genevieve H akes, Beatrice B . j Hatch, Beatrice M. Horton, M argaret McCallion, O lga R. Patteson and Mari-

; etta B. Taylor.Toria R. M ille r w ill serve. i*s secre­

tary to the superintendent and Dr.E. C. Foster is m edical inspector. Other em ployees, including the jan i­tor, are nam ed at a later date.

»- . — .

John V. S ta r k

T h e new ly-elected president o f the Penn Yan Chamber o f Com m erce, John V. S tark o f H am ilton street, Penn Yan, was fo r three years a m em ber o f the board o f d irectors o f the Cortland Cham ber o f Com m erce w h ile he was engaged in the clo th in g business in that city. H e is. now secreta ry and

i treasurer o f the M. C. S tark C lothing Co., Inc., w ith his o ffice in the Penn Y"an store. Th e com pany also has stores in Trum ansburg and Pulteney.

Mr. Stark, the son o f Mrs. M. C.I S tark o f Stark avenue, w as graduated I from Penn Y an A cadem y in 1902. A ft ­er tak ing post graduate w ork here, he en tered H arvard un ivers ity , and was graduated from the C iv il Engineering

I co llege at Cam bridge, Mass., in 1907,I F o r some nine years lie w orked in the | en g in eerin g departm ent o f the N ew | Y o rk offices o f the N ew Y o rk Central ! R a ilroad company, assisting in the grade crossing e lim ination and rail-

1 w ay e lectr ifica tion w ork o f the lines.I W h ile liv in g in the m etropolis in 1910 ! he m arried M iss B elle M arshall.

W hen he gave up his pro fes­s io n to come to Penn Yan, he was a ! m em ber o f the A m erican S oc ie ty of C iv il engineers. A fte r spending a few months here he w ent to Cortland to

j en ter the m en ’s clo th ing business in the M. C. S tark C loth ing Co., Inc.,

| w h ich at that tim e had a store there. D uring the nine years he was in that c ity he w as a ctive in c iv ic as w e ll as churqh en terprises. In addition to serv in g as a Cham ber o f Com m erce di­rector, he headed one o f the Golden R u le sales prom oted by the reta il bus­iness o f Cortland. H e came to Penn Y an in July, 1927.

A t Edgeh ill, Pa., some tim e T h u rs - ' day night, A p r il 16th, occurred the leatli o f the pastor o f the Carm el

-Presbyterian church., and form er m in­ster o f the F irs t P resbyterian church n Penn Yan, R ev. N ev in D. Bartholo­mew. A fte r se rv in g ve ry successfui- f in the loca l pastorate fo r eigh t ears, he spent five years in Buffalo s secreta ry in the headquarters o f he N ew Era m ovem ent o f his denom- ration. For the past seven years he as served in the pulpit of. the church ,t E dgeh ill, a suburb o f Ph iladelph ia.

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M r. Bartholom ew had taken 70 new I m em bers into his church on E 'aster j Sunday and the next day was fo rced i to bed. H is illness continued, tiea th r resulting from m eningitis.

F u n e ra l, services w-ill be held ini E d geh ill .Thursday a fternoon a t -2..: SO; o ’clock, v H e leaves his w ife ; a daugh-j ter, H arrie t, aged e igh t years, a sis-: ter and liis. fa ther. - Th e Penn Yan; j P resby ter ian church next . Sunday':, m orn ing w ill hold a m em oria l service!

ihonoring its la te pastor. E ld er Chas.b K im ball, who served a ll during M iv B artholom ew ’s m in istry, W ill o ffic ia te ; at th is service, w hich w ill be in con-1 nection w ith the comm union service. |

It is an in teres tin g co incidence that I :the last th ree m in isters o f the lo ca l! P re s b y te r ia n , church, Mr. Jlartholo- mew, Mr. Imbibe- and Mr. H enricks, have a ll been graduates o f the Auburn > Th eo log ica l sem inary and that a ll a t j one' tim e have served , be fore com ing to Penn Yan, as assistant pastors o f the F irs t Shurch in Auburn.

H e was. pastor o f the Ehrst Presby- i te fia n church o f Penn Y an from M ay I I 18th, 1911, to January 16, 1919. Fol- j low in g graduation from co llege and

j six years o f Y. M. C. A. w ork in O il | C ity, Pa., he en tered Auburn semin- | ary. H e first cam e to the church as I an assistant w h ile a student at Au- ; burn sem inary and was ordained to

the m in istry and in sta lled ,as the pas- tor in M ay o f 1911. T h e . eigh t years

I o f his m in istry vie re m arked by I growth- a long m any lines. Pa lm er

nail was com pleted and has been in use as the center fo r the socia l a c t iv i­ties ; o f the. church since .1912. In 19.17 the auditorium was im proved by th ;aying o f a hardwood floor. Th e present pulpit was installed.

.. A s an organ izer his w ork was ex­ceptional. Th e m en ’s class flourished under his leadership and the w om en ’s societies reached a h igh tide o f ac­tiv ity .

The m em bership of the churcli was increased, 333 names being added to [/ tliej roll. O f these 237 w ere by con- k fession and 106 on certificate. T h e E gifts to benevolences p ractica lly 1 doubled during his pastorate and the 1 church still fee ls the inspiration o f 1 his leadership.

During the war Mr. B artholom ew 1 was released fo r five months serv ice [A in the Y. M. C. A. at Camp L ee and} he returned to ask fo r the dissolu tion ! o f the pastoral relations in order that!|: he m ight enter the N ew E ra move-; m ent as a district secretary in which.!! position he continued until about seven', years ago when he was' ca lled to theR Presbyterian church o f E dgeh ill, Pa.,!,'; where his natural g ifts ' and devoted spirit, brought him an outstanding success in one o f the la rge churcjhes1 o f the denomination. ■

Mr. Bartholom ew le ft in Penn Yati not only a record o f ach ievem ent, but./ a m em ory o f a sa in tly personality a n d V his death brings sorrow to the hearts ' o f ’all who knew him and cam e under the spell o f his Christian eharacteij and influence.

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Prof. H. D. Winters Refutes “ Saving Oregon” Legend

Keuka Park, N. Y.. A p r il 18) 1931

E d itor Chronicle-Express: —Th e im portance Eof the press as . a

fa ctor in the education o f the A m eri­can people is now genera lly recog­nized. W ith this /recognition there comes the obligation, to provide m ater­ial that is, as fa r as possible, reliab le. Up-to-date, m odern journalism ap­pears to be glad to face this ob liga­tion.

An exam ple o f the old typ e .n ew s ­paper a rtic le at its w orst was found in the quotation from the Cincinnati T im es-Star o f 50 years ago, printed in the Chronicle-Express, A p ril 16, 1931. It would be d ifficu lt to group together a g rea te r co llection o f mis-statements in a ha lf column o f space than the Tim es-Star succeeded in doing. It w ould requ ire too long a letter to point ou t'a ll the errors found thereih. A few have been selected because they are o f such a nature that they can be noted briefly.

1. As to the com ing o f “ the band o f British , im m igrants,” Rev. M yron Eells w rote in 1881 to three survivors o f this band, asking them to state the year of th e ir ' ‘MjtTival. Th ey all r| i plied that it was" 1841. W hitm an cas­ually m entioned their a rr iva l in a le t­ter dated N ovem ber 11, 1841, and ex ­pressed no qpneern, and no particu lar in terest in the m atter.

2. It was a yea r la ter that lie start-j ed in, such haste fo r the East. It, was not d irectly a fte r he had learned o f the a rriva l o f the B ritish im m igrants but a fter lie had received a le tte r from the M issionary Board in Boston, ordering him to close his m ission at W aiilatpu , w here hq. had spent six I years of devoted toil, and to take over | Spalding’s m ission on the C learw ater} in Idaho. " Spald ing and Gray, another o f 'th e m issionary group, w ere ordered it to return home.

3. W ebster did not be lieve that “ the. country was w orth less.” In the nego­tiations o f 1842 he refused to accept the Columbia river as the boundary, which was the maximum offer, of Great Britain , although that would have g iven us all o f the N orthw est that we possess today except w est­ern W ashington, an area o f about 45,000 square miles. W ebster proposed the line o f the 49th parallel and would | not y ie ld ' " A ■ W K M (1

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4. T h e idea that W eb s te r look ed to n S ir G eorge S im pson o f the H u dson ’s Bay company, as th e source o f his in- ! fo rm ation about O regon is too fantas- ;; t ic fo r discussion. T h ere w as a g rea t , va r ie ty o f in fo rm ation about O regon in the govern m en t files a t W ash in g- , ton. W eb s te r w as a m an who, both ; by nature and by p ro fessiona l tra in- | ing, acted, not on hearsay, but a fte r j,

' ca re fu l study o f a problem .5. A perusal o f the o ffic ia l records <

o f the O regon nego tia tions, o f W e b ­s te r ’s o ffic ia l correspondence,' and even o f his p riva te le tte rs to E v e re tt , , our M in ister at London, do not re v ea l .

. the s ligh test ; re fe ren ce to “ conces- i sions in rela tion to the N ew fou n d lan d fisheries.’’ The idea that O regon w as j to be bartered aw ay fo r a cod fishery

I is pure myth. •6. N o treaty re fe rr in g to the O regon

boundary, had been “ approved by the j• S en ate” (o r even n ego tia ted ) w h en ’ I ‘ W h itm an a rr ived in the East. On the j

con trary the Senate by pass ing the [ L inn b ill fo r occupation o f O regon , a • m onth before W h itm a n ’s a rr iva l, had , showed that it w as ready to m ain ta in < our cla im s in O regon even a t the r isk j o f a w ar w ith G reat B rita in .

7. S ince there w as no such trea ty , ii ■ e ith er approved by the Senate, or in |;process o f n ego tia tion , P res id en t Ty-

H e r did not m ake the a greem en t w ith W h itm an ind icated by the w ords “ i f 1 you take them across, the trea ty shall | not be ra tified .”

It is a g rea t m is fo rtu n e that th e ' story o f M arcus W h itm a n has been 1 loaded down w ith m is-statem ents such : as have been in d ica ted above. T h e re ! is danger that posterity , in r e je c t in g ! the spurious jj e lem en ts in the story , i w ill be; inc lined to . o v e r lo ok the pure j gold . T h e pure g o ld is there, and j should be p reserved .

T h e C hron ic le-E xpress is to be con­gratu la ted fo r b r in g in g so m uch source m ateria l to .its readers.

H E R B E R T D. W IN T E R S .

6 ‘Mystery Hole” and Unusual­

ly H i g h Percentage of Suc-

1 c e s s f u l W e l l s Command |

Interest

: A little over a y ea r ago, m uch in-, i(.rest wars m an ifes ted in th is v ic in ity ;; when the firs t gas w e ll w as struck on

Hausc H ill, ju st w est o f Dundee. T h is I in terest has not d ied as from m onth

to month new w e lls p roducing from 2 ,0 0 0 , 0 0 0 to 10,000,000 cubic fe e t d a ily have been drilled in by the variou s

I gas arid o il com panies n ow loca ted jj ; here.

T h e first w e ll in th is fie ld w as l| struck on the Em m ett P u lv e r fa rm in k F eb ru a ry . 1930. Th is w e ll w as d r illed by the B elm on t Q uadrangle D r ill in g /

1 corporation o f B rad ford , Pa., w ho h ave d r illed 17 w ells w ith on ly one d ry ho le w h ich was recen tly struck on th e } Clark" P r ic e farm . Gas w as struck in j; all o f these w e lls from a depth o f t 2,000 to 2,200 fee t. T h is fie ld is lo- cated in the n orth ern part o f the j tow n o f T yron e w ith in a strip o f land about Lo m iles in w idth . S e ve ra l w e lls h ave been d rilled in th is sam e terr i- to ry by o iher com pan ies but on ly one | producing w ell w as brou gh t in. T h is j was d rilled by .John C arp en ter & Com- I pany o f Pennsylvan ia , M r. C arp en ter being a fo rm er D undee res iden t. C lias. I

j F. G ob le w iio does the d r illin g fo r the j B elm ont com pany m ain ta ihs his h ead ­

quarters H ii Dundee ana tne a rm ers a ll board and liv e in the v illa g e .

.F i r s t W e l l a t C r y s t a l S p r in g s In Novem ber the firs t w e ll n ear

C rysta l S p rin gs w as d r illed in on the { la rm o f Ansel F a u c e t t 'a t a dep th o f . about 1,900 fe e t by the T y ro n e Gas | com pany. A few w eeks la te r th is sam e ; com pany struck gas on the Jam es I C rosby farm near W a yn e . T h is w e l l ’ rece ived a great am ount o f pu b lic ity : due to the fa c t the flo w o f gas w as; g rea te r than any that had p re v io u s ly '

! been drilled. Th ese w e lls w ere, found j to produce w hat is term ed as “ s w e e t”

gas d iffe rin g from th a t found in t l i e ! H ause H ill fie ld w h ich con ta ins stil-i

l.phu r d ioxide and requ ires p u r ify in g i b e fo re being used fo r co m m erc ia l pur- I poses. This fie ld is lo ca ted about th ree m iles northw est o f the H au se H il l

I field.Th e g rea tes t p roducing w e ll in th is I

section was d r illed in a fe w w eek s j ago on the fo rm er BiggJow- p la ce a t j the edge o f the v il la g e -o f W a yn e . T h is ! w ell produces 10,000,000*c u b ic fe e t per/ day. Th is was d r illed by the John C arpenter com pany fo r th e L a m o k a Pow er company. It is u nderstood th a t e igh t com panies h ave d r ill in g equip- i m ent in W ayn e and s e ve ra l success- : ful w ells have been d r ille d th e re a t a depth o f less than 2,000 fe e t. Som e o f the com panies n ow d r ill in g in th at v ic in ity arc the O risk an y D r illin g 1

■ corporation, the D eG o lie r D r illin g company, the C randall P rod u c in g com ­pany, the B elm ont Q u adran g le D r il l­ing corporation, th e C unningham G as. I

• and O il company, the L a m o k a P o w e r j com pany and the C rescen t O il and Gas j com pany. M any o f th ese com pan ies have w ells sta rted w h ich th ey ex p ec t to b ring in in a fe w days. T w en ty - f fou r good producing w.ells h a ve b e en 1 d rilled and capped.

D r i l le d W e l l in T e n D a y s Both the stra igh t and p yram id der- |

ricks are found in these fie lds. T h e / w ell on the C lay T u rn er fa rm o f W a yn e was-' put dow n in ten days ■ w hich is the reco rd in th is te r r ito ry . / W h en the gas is struck, d r ill in g oper- i a lien s cea.se, the bo ile rs a re m oved ' and the w e ll is cased! I t is th en I d r illed in and capped.

One w e ll d rilled and capped n ear A l la y is called the “ m ys te ry w e ll.” I t j is .not known w hat w as d is co vered but j ev id en tly som eth ing u n expected as no i announcem ent o f s tr ik in g gas w as j m ade and the w e ll w as not aban- I doned as a dry hole.

I t is reported that a y ie ld in g w e ll I w as struck on Cobbles. H il l n ea r i B rad ford , N ew Y o rk , la st T h u rsd a y J w h ich proves th is fie ld ^ex ten d s m an y j

m iles , to the south. T h is w e ll w as | d r illed by E n gle & C om pany and is , said to have a flow o f 4,000,000 cubic ; fe e t. It is y e t to be p ro v en i f th is j fie ld is a continuation o f the H au se H il l fie ld or i f it is a sepa ra te fie ld . [ O ther com panies a re p lan n in g to s ta rt j d r illin g in the v e r y n ea r fu ture.

T h e m a jo rity o f fa rm s to th e w es t j o f the v illa g e a re leased and m an y j o f the com panies a re s t ill leas in g . / F arm ers who h ave produ c in g w e lls on; j . th e ir farm s are r e c e iv in g su bstan tia l |4 checks every m onth. | T h e ou tput fro m j th is fie ld is in the n e igh borh ood o f / 5,000,000 cubic fe e t d a ily w,hich is be- | ing d istributed to D undee, O lean , W a t- j kins Glen, B in gh am ton and m an y o th -1 j er p laces. A su rvey is b e in g m ade fo r I / a p ip e line from W a y n e to P en h Y a n I / !and R ochester. R ich and C om pany o f B rad ford , Pa., w ho h a ve th e con tra c t ]• fo r the new p ipe lin e , a re ex p ec ted to ; m ake th e ir h eadqu arters in D undee in j th e n ea r fu ture. a >' ••/

F i l t e r i n g P l a n t E r e c t e d S evera l m onths ago th e C o lu m b ia i

Gas com pany bu ilt a f ilte r in g p la n t | on the L o s e y fa rm in the H au se H i l l i fie ld w h ere the gas from th e w e lls in I th at v ic in ity is pu rified b e fo re b e in g turned in to the m ain p ip e line .

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A 1 'm in ia tu re d r i l l in g r ig in the w in -i; :! dow o f the R o b e r ts s to re is r e c e iv in g [,/ lo ts o f a tten tion . I t is run by e lectr ic i- 1/ ty and show.s ju s t h ow th e d r ill in g is jj done.

T h e L a m o k a P o w e r com pan y exp ec t ; Jo p ip e th e gas fro m th e ir w e lls to ; •the g e n e ra t in g p la n t a t K eu k a w h e r e . | it w ill he used to g e n e ra te p ow er fo r h p rod u c in g e le c t r ic ity . N e w m ach in ery j’i has been o rd e red fo r th e p lan t fo r th is ; pu rpose due to th e la ck i o f w a te r j w h ich w as o r ig in a lly used; T h e re- ii p o rt th a t th e L a m o k a P o w e r com pany 1 w e re s e llin g th e ir in te re s t tin the gas 1/ fie ld to th e A sso c ia te d Gris &. E lec- ; tr ie co rp o ra t io n has been den ied .

T h e O r isk an y D r illin g co rp ora tion f- h ave m ovod th e ir d r ill in g e q u ip m e n t j. to the John F a u ce tt fa rm ij i th e tow n f o f B a rr in g ton , Y a te s cou n ty . Pros- / pects o f fin d in g gas a t th is loca tion a re sa id to be v e r y good . Th is ,,is the / firs t w e ll to be d r ille d in Y ates , eotin- ty in th is n e w . fie ld and ij; is hoped th at it w ill be a p rod u c in g w e ll.

G a s M e n B a n q u e t O ve r SO m en fro m N e w Y o rk and />

P e n n s y lv a n ia g a th e re d a tt t h e H o t e l D undee F r id a y e v e n in g fo r one o f the :1 first, m ee tin g s o f its k ind to ; be ...held in th is v il la g e . T h o se p resen t includ- / ed o ffic e rs o f th e va r io u s ' g a s ,,fcom-.

I pan ies lo ca ted in D undee and v ic in ity , p d r ille rs , g eo lo g is ts , le a s e rs , ’ fie ld m en, fr bankers, r e p re s e n ta t iv e s o f sa les or- {/

j g a n iza tio n s and o th ers in te re s te d in I i the lo ca l gas fie ld . T h e g a th e r in g w as !! spon sored b y L e V a lle y , M c L e o d and h | K in k a id , Inc., o f E lm ira , on e o f the t ; lea d in g gas d r i l l in g su pp ly com pan ies |I o f th a t c ity .

A t (1:30 the p a r ty p a rtook o f an ex- < c c llen t tu rk ey and trou t d in n er w ith , j

i-, a ll the tr im m in gs w h ich had been. 1 I e la b o ra te ly p lanned and p rep a red by; |

; R a y I ia r t z e l l , m a n a ge r o f th e H o te l ; j Dundee, and h is s ta ff o f em p loyees .

L a n d O w n e r s P r o f i t A f t e r th e d in n er, le a d in g m en in the

1 gas in d u s try sp oke . on th e various*|, phases o f th e lo ca l fie ld . O ne aston- |.. ish in g fa c t r e v e a le d w as th at o ver ; j / $100,000 had beqn pa id t o land o w n ers -1

in th is v ic in ity in ren ta ls and r o y a l - l ■ ties a lon e in th e 14 m on th s th is (leve l- j • opn ien t has been in p rog ress ; I t was'-iI

j '1 es tim a ted th a t r iio re than a q u a rte r o f j a . m illio n w ou ld be exp en d ed d u r in g -;: th e su m m er months... ...Thg.,..q[iaaiy'.s?tilr. •. j va n tages o f the D u ndee fie ld o ver,o th -../ ers in th is sec t ion w e re .pointed out// by th ose fa m ilia r w ith The develop-.I m en ts and w e re en th u s ia s t ica lly re*

c e iv e d by th ose in te re s te d lo ca lly . .A T h e fa c t th a t n ine ou t o f e v e r y ' Id

j Uvells d r ille d h a ve b een producing;/. w e lls y ie ld in g . from 2,000,000 to 10,:./ 000,000 cu b ic fe e t d a ily has p roved A the D u ndee fie ld . N e w .c o m p a n ie s a re :| ra p id ly lo c a t in g in th is , v ic in ity and'

10 w e lls a re b e in g d r ille d a t th e pres-: ;j/_ en t t im e .w D undee w as rep re sen ted a t th e ban- B Quet by th e fo l lo w in g : A . F . W r ig h t ,

M u rray W r ig h t , P ie r r e L . H a rp en d in g/ L e w is R . H a n m er, R o y R . R oberts/ M e rv in H . T a y lo r , H o w a rd F lo ry , John J. O ’K a in , W il l ia m G len , L . B. E a rn es t-, E rn es t Sprou l, L y n n S. C arp en ter, John S u lliva n , G eo rg e W . S e yb o lt and C. J. W a ts o n . — D u n d ee correspori-

I d en t.

On Sunday night, April 26th, occurred the death of Mrs. Jessie

I Shaw at her home, 116 Chapel street, j Penn Yan. She leaver two daughters, |

I Miss Dora K. Arnold of Penn Yan andj | Mrs. L. D. Goodnough of Seattle,! j W ash . Flineral services were held / ! from the home at 3 o’clock Wcdnes- , | day afternoon with Rev. Royal N. Jes-1 sup officiating and with burial in the | Lake V iew cemetery.

SIGNS BILL GIBING ST H E UNO TO PENN TON

Small Tract Along Lake Keuka and

Outlet Will Be Deeded for

Bathing Beach

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A special dispatch from Albany states that among the last-minute bills signed Saturday afternoon by Gover­nor Itoos.eyell, on the eve of his de­parture for his Hyde Park home, was one of Assemblyman Edwin C. Nutt’s, t authorizing the conveyance by the; state of certain lands to the village of Penn Yan, said lands bordering part; of Keuka lake and its outlet in the : town of Milo. They are to be given over for perpetual use as a free and public bathing beach.

The old canal and the original Lake Keuka outlet were some distance west of the present stream. The land which it flowed over and the intervening strip, occupied by the hermit, Howland Snyder, belonged to the state of NeW York. The bill gives title of this land' to Penn Yan tor use as a bathing 1 beach, possibly in connection with de-j velopment of the marsh as a park. Some 430 feet of lake front near the lighthouse and some 350 feet of outlet frontage are estimated to be included in this tract.

James Dudley Holmes iJames Djidley Holmes, aged 76, died ]

at St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester, on Thursday morning, May 7, 1931, after several months’ illness. Mr. Holmes was the last of the Holmes family

I whose name is interwoven with the 1 history of Yates county, and especial- I ly with the days of early navigation | of Lake Keuka. Captain Farley n Holmes, of the Lake Keuka Steam $| | Navigation Company of the early 70’s, || ■| was a cousin and also a brothe»-in-'

law of the deceased.The steamer “Holmes” was named

for Captain Farley Holmes, who at one time owned and occupied the

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LOCAL TALENT ONCE PLAYED EAST LYNNE

street, now the E. Short and

F if ty Y ears ' Ago \ ) ‘ 1E lnathan M ead of Italy has secured

i through Congressm an Lapham "a// r Clerkship in the pension office kt' ‘ || W a k h in ^ tb n ; .. ■'.[ • \ 1: 1 •' '■ • I]I 1 Our yodhg ftiend, Peter ’A.' H en - r I drick, Esq.,', has entered ihto ' the silkgn \

tt toils of matrimony.: '; 1 Mrs.. Josephm ^ Stew art; principal (o£ !1 th e 'M a ih eh L a h e ‘S ch d o l} htt's’ retu rned- i i t o ; h e r w o r k a f t e r an a b sen ce o f sew- !I e r a l clays c a u s e d by1 'S ickness. "Curing | i h e r a b se n ce th e s c h o o l w h s w e l l con- • d u c ted "by h e r z ea l o ils C d s iB tan t , M is s K i t t y W y c o f f , a ss ip ;t e d ,ub y ; M is s A lic e ; H o tc h k in .

H o n . M a s o n L . B a ld w in has; con d u ct­ed fo r s e v e ra l y e a r s a. v e r y su ccess fu l p r iv a t e b a n k in g h ou se in th is v illa g e .}. H e h a s fin a lly r e s o lv e d to o rg a n iz e ! h is e s ta b lis h m e n t as a s ta te . bank .; T h e d ir e c to rs a r e : M a so n L. B a ld w in / S ila s K in n e , John T . • .A n d rew s , 2nd,\

- and W m . H . F o x . ■ 11 W . B ro . J. H e n ry S m ith o f M ilo V J lo d g e , N o . 108, a t P e n n Y an , h as e x - 1 1 ten d ed a c o rd ia l in v ita t io n to s e v e r a l '} le a d in g b re th re n in R o c h e s te r to par- V i t ic ip a te in th e c e le b ra t io n o f th e 35th

a n n iv e rsa ry o f th a t lo d g e M a y 6th. i

M . W . John L . L e w is w i l l recou n t its 1 h is to ry . M ilo lo d g e h as had th e h on or \ o f g iv in g to th e fr a te rn ity m an y dis- ! t in gu ish ed b rth ren , am on g th em D ari- i us A . O gden , Ghas. Q. Judd, John N.1 M acom b , Jr., Ghas, S. E astm an , W m .

A . M c ln t ire , E ra n k lin E . S m ith and W , W . Quackenbush.. — : R o ch e s te r D em ocra t and C hron ic le ,

dwelling at 303 Main residence of Sidney family.

Dudley Holmes was born in Dun­dee, N. Y., November 24, 1855. For |

j many years lie was employed on the.I steamers on Lake Keukn, and until: the past few years, he, with his wife.j operated inns on Lake Keuka, Holmes.'

" Inn, on the west lake road, now known as Schivs Inn, being the last one to he run by the couple. Mrs. Holmes is now seriously ill in the Soldiers and Sailors’ Hospital in this i village.

The funeral of Mr. Holmes will bel I held on Saturday morning at 8:30

o’clock from the Corcoran funera1 parlors at 192 East Main street, and at 9 o’clock from St. Michael’s Church. I liter ment will be made in

1 St. Michael’s cemetery.§ Surviving are his wife, Mary "W. I Holmes, and one niece in the West.

Mrs. F a n n ie L. A n s ley , F o rm e rly of Y a te s , D ies in C a lifo rn ia

O n Friday , A p r il 24th, in Santa'; ^ Cruz, Californ ia, occurred the death of! §' M rs . Fann ie L . Ansley, w ho movedj y/est from Penn Y an some 40 years: ago. She w as a native of Y ates coun-j ty, liv ing w ith her mother, M rs. E liz : aheth Roy, in Torrey, ther- la ter with

i Mrs. M atilda K inne ron Clinton street Penn Yan .

' She leaves her husband, Langdoi Ansley; two daughters, M arion ancj Florence, the latter now being m arried ,} Mrs. K u rtz ; two sons, Banks and Har-*. old; a sister, M iss Anna Roy of Chapel street, Penn Yan. She w as a little more than 75 years of age at the time of her death. Interment w as in the Santa Cruz crematory.

J o h n D . T r a c y D ie s in C a l i f o r n i a F o l lo w in g H o ld - U p

A fo rm e r P e n n Y a n res iden t, JohnB . T ra c y , d ied a t h is hom e, L a gu n a B each , C a lifo rn ia , on A p r il 2.9th.

A bou t 25 y ea rs ago he le f t P en n anV fo r th e w es te rn state. W h ile w o rk in g | in a L o s A n ge les h o te l a y ea r ago th is 1 m onth, he w as held up by th ree arm ed |

L! band its w ho robbed the cash reg is te r . | > I A fte r th ey le f t b e reported the a ffa ir |

\ to th e p o lice and the ow ner o f the ho- li '• 1 te l and posted h is books. Im m ed ia te ly I

\ he su ffered a stroke from w h ich he , I n eve r recovered .

A R e lea ves h is w ife , C arrie Spring 1 T r a c y , fo rm erly o f R o ch es te r ; a broth ­

er and sister, B ert G. T ra cy o f A l­bany and M rs. W illia m R. W ortm an o f ,P enn Yan .

M r s . M a r y H o l m e s D ie s S i x D a y s A f t e r H e r H u s b a n d

E x a c t ly s ix days a ft e r h e r h u sb a n d ^ d ea th , M rs. M a ry H o lm es , a ged 69 y ea rs , passed a w a y in th e S o ld ie rs j and S a ilo rs M e m o r ia l h osp ita l. Jam es I D u d ley H o lm es , d ied in th e S t. M a r y ’s 1 h osp ita l o f R o c h e s te r la s t w e e k Thurs-

i day m orn in g . T h is w e e k T u esd ay ,I M a y 12th, b rou gh t th e d ea th o f h is } w id o w in P e n n Y a n , w h e re she had

been a h osp ita l p a t ien t fo r som e -time.I F u n era l s e rv ic e s fo r M rs . H o lm es

w ill b e h e ld fro m St. M ic h a e l ’ s church a t 9 o ’c lock , fo l lo w in g a sh ort s e rv ice a t th e C orcoran F u n era l h om e a t 8:30 a .m. B u r ia l w i l l b e m ade in St. M ich ­a e l’s c em etery .

She le a v e s th ree s is ters, M rs. K a te | T om p k in s o f D undee, M rs. L . C. B ird 1 o f E lm ira and M rs. Ju lia W o o d o f El- [ m ir a ; a b ro th er, L a w ren ce P . W h a len

o f W ilk es -B a rre , Pa .

Find Old Program of Notable Benefit

Entertainment Given Here

56 Years Ago

Many people enjoyed the sound pic­ture of East Lynn at the Elmwood the­atre in Penn Yan. Exactly 56 years ago to the month, this famous melo­drama was played on the stage in Penn Yan by local talent in a benefit performance for “our respected towns­man, Sidney Roff,” whom many of the older residents will remember.. <

jl While ransacking the attic of a Penn L Yan home last week a program of this (1 theatrical entertainment came to light, j

Many will remember the persons who took part as announced:Lady Isabel, Madam V in e ........

M rs. M atie G a rd n e r C apronA rch iba ld Corli$h . . C la rence M . P ag eR ich ard H a re ............ C a lv in H usonSir F ran c is Lev ison . . . . E d son P otter L o rd M ount Severn .. F ran k R. D u rryL ittle W i l l ie .......... M iss E v a T ay lo rM r. D ill ............................... E. D onahueB a rb a ra H a re . . M iss Lou E. W a g e n e r M iss C arn ey . . . M iss L illian B. P a rk s

(M r s . ' ‘M o rgan )iJ o y c e .................. M iss A nna L. Briggs,W i ls o n . . . . . . . . M iss N e llie A . W est!Justice H a r e .............. John A. Norm an:

A t the close of the fifth act there! w as a tableau and after E ast Lynne j the fo llow ing cast gave a one-act com -: edy, “Last of the P ig ta ils ,”

ir N oah Searchington .............• . . . . . . ! ................ C larence M. Page j

Mr. Sw ellington . . . . . . Edson Potter IBuddies Ed. Donahue jLady S e a rc h in g to n ......................... |

. . . . . . M rs. Matie Gardner CapronTabitha F idget .. M rs. M ary A. Sloan |J a n e ..................... M iss N e llie A. W estSusan ........... M iss Lou E. W agener

I H H B f a :Descendant of O liv e r Phelps of

Phelps-Gorham Purchase M iss E lizabeth Phelps, aged 94

years, died Saturday. She w as the next to the oldest resident in Canan­daigua,, and a great granddaughter of Oliver Phelps, who in 1788 assisted Nathaniel Gorham in what later be­came known as the Phelps and Gor­ham Purchase, involving sale of 2,- 600,000 acres of land by the state of Massachusetts to Phelps and Gorham. This land now comprises a large por­tion of western N ew York.

M O R E — A her home, 23 Faraday Street, on W ednesday, M ay 13, 1931, E lla M., w ife o l W illiam E. More. Besides her husband she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Charles Benham, Jr.. . - —Funeral services at the conven­ience o f the fam ily . E B uria l in Ldndley, N . Y . %

" ■ ------------- "r —-•<--- -wohas been rece ived in th is v i l - tlie death', at P o n tia c , M ich., 18th, o f F red G ris tock , a fo r - .

o f th is county. S u rv iv - j tw o d a u gh te rs ;

W o rd lage o f /op M aym er res iden t o f this in g a re his w ife andone sister, JXlrs. E lla K ip p , o f PennJ Y a n ; and a brother, Thom as J.fl G ristock , a lso o f Penn Yan . Deceaseds was - at one tim e a fa rm e r in Bentonf and la te r conducted a coa l business under the firm name o f A ndrew s & G ristock , and la ter as F ie ro & Gris­tock, until he le ft Penn Y an fo r Ham- m ondsport,: la ter rem ov in g to the W est,: w h ere he engaged in the real estate business. H e le ft Penn Yan about 28 years ago.

J a m e s E . S p r a g u eJam es E. Sprague d ied sudden ly at

h is hom e, 32-7 L ib e r ty street, • Penn Yan , on Tu esday a ftern oon , M ay 26th .! H e r w as born in th e tow n o f Benton on the P o tte r road, O ctob er 3rd, 1859. E igh teen y ea rs ago lie m oved to Penn Y an and has l iv e d : h e re e v e r since. H e w as a fa ith fu l m em ber o f the Baptist church and lias been the sexton fo r th e past 16. years.* H e is su rv ived by one son, H ow a rd O. Sprague, and a granddau gh ter, Iren e L ou ise Sprague.

T h e fu n era l s e rv ic e w i l l be he ld from his la te hom e on L ib e r ty street on F r id a y a fte rn oon at 2:00 o^clock. B uria l w ill be a t L a k e V ie w cem etery.

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I U riah 0. C liffo rd , l e t m ore than 30 ffears connected w ith thp c ircu la tion :|f the R och ester T im es U n ion and

he fo rm er E ven in g T im es, died on Thursday, M ay 14th, at his hom e in ■Main St., East, R ochester,, aged 59. He was born a t M ays M ills , Y a tes

i County and w en t to R och ester to be­gin his serv ice in th e T im es o ffice . H e was a m em ber o f D resden L od ge o f M asons, and Dam ascus T em p le , Shrine, o f R ochester. H e is su rv ived by his w ife , o f R o ch es ter ; one b ro th ­er, John P. C liffo rd , o f D resden ; a daughter, M rs. O live Bauer, R och es­te r ; sister, M rs. Bessie Snyder, T a ­coma, W a sh .; and by seve ra l neph­ew s and nieces. Fu n era l w as held on M onday a fternoon , M av 18th, V a l­le y Lodge , F. & A . M., o f R och ester, in charge. He a lso was a m em ber o f F ro n t ie r Lodge, I. 0 . 0. F .

SIR EDWARD C L A R EI DIES AT AGE OF 90

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j “ Grand Old Man” of English Bar Wrote Own Obituary of

“ Busy, Happy Life.”

FIGURED IN FAMOUS TRIALS

Counsel in Baccarat Case, W herein

Edward V II Was Witness— Earned

$952,500 a Year for 17 Years.

Special Cable to T h e N ew Y ork T im e s .

L O N D O N , April 26.—Sir Edw ard I Clarke, “ grand old m an” of the \\

British Bar, died today at the age of 90, leaving a rem arkable three-col­umn obituary written by himself, which The London Times will pub­lish tomorrow.

So objectively is g ir E d w ard ’s self portrayed that no one not knowiO-S the facts could suspect the author­ship. In a note which accompanied

explained

Photo by Elliott & Fry.

SIR E D W A R D CLARK E .

M on day n igh t, June 1st, a t the' ibsi- dence in D resden v illa g e , occurred tlie^ death o f L le w e lly n A . L eg g , aged 84 yea rs . A t 10; 00 o ’c lock Thursday m orn in g o f th is w eek fu nera l services w e re held from the hom e w ith Rev. J. R. C arpen ter, pastor o f the Dresden M e th od is t church, o ffic ia tin g , and with bu ria l in th e L a k e V ie w cem etery , at P en n Y a n .

M r. L e g g w as born on Ju ly 22, 1847, one o f e igh t ch ild ren o f M oses Adam L e g g and C hristin a F ran c isco L e g g of L e g g ’s C orners, T o rre y . On February 20th, 1882, he m arried one- o f the dau gh ters o f M r. and Mrs. H en ry Geld- er, w ho liv ed * south o f D resden along S en eca lake. F o r o ve r 65 years both o f them liv e d and W orked on farms and in 1912 th ey m oved in to Dresden w h ere th ey h ave since m ade their h o m e . I ■ I ; 111. |

M r s . H e le n A . D e c k e r m a n A t h er hom e, on E a s t . isiairi street.,

P en n Y an , M on day n ight, Juhc 1st, occu rred th e death o f M is : H e len A. D eckerm an , aged 76 years ! She leaves tw o sons, V ran k and_ both athprrieV T h e fu n era l Servings- \vill be held ' T h u rsd a y ; a ftern oon at 2 o ’clock fro m the hom e, w ith R ev. W illia m M. H ydon , pastor o f t h e 'F ir s t M ethodist church o f P en n Yan , o ffic ia tin g and w ith bu ria l in th e L a k e V ie w ceme- te ty .

—B l f e p

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 16,

WOMEN SEEKING PROHIBITION REFORM.

Times Wide World Photo.

T h e Advisory Committee of tf,e New York State Division of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform meeting at the lotel Plaza. Photo shows, left to right, Mrs. Edward K. McCagg, ^ re t^ ry of the New York division; Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, secretary of the national organization, Mrs. John b. biteppara, chairman of the New York State division; Mrs. Roland Harnm an and Mrs. William femple Emmet.

< k = iYes, W e Have Gas

f I I I I *W ith th e open ing o f the 41st gas

; w e ll in W a yn e on Thursday, w ith m any acres o f land a lready leased in

I ! Y a tes county fo r d r illin g operations. \ ; the gas and o il developm ent has taken ‘ | Ya tes county and this section by the ; ears, figu ra tive ly speaking.' I Joseph Sanderson, o f M ilo , has a ' | w e ll sta rted on his farm, and is now ; j down severa l hundred feet. T w o sm al1 ! ! pockets o f gas have beep found, but : | the w e ll is s t ill some distance from j the stand strata w h ich means pay gas. J. Nelson Jones and e th er Him

; 1 rod land-ow ners have leased lanrl f] and throughout M idd lesex gas w ^ 1 j operators have a lread y started busi­ness o f leas in g land.

W ednesday a rep resen ta tive o f a C a lifo rn ia synd ica te came from Los-. A n ge les to do business w ith land ow n ­ers in this v ic in ity w hose land lies in the gas vein , w hich now is payine- ex ce llen t profits to those whose w ells have come through. T h e Californ ia man has begn a gas and o il o p e r a t e fo r the past 42 years and is enthus­iastic to begin w ork at once.

Th e la rgest gas w e ll in the W ayne fie ld is on the O lezew eisk i farm , said to have a flew o f 12,500.000 cubic feet. On M em oria l D ay a w e ll was “ b low n ” in the W ayn e field, and the flow said to be 11,000,000 cubic feet as the w e ll was capped on Saturday a fte r ­noon.

Dundee has w ells d rilled in the pay sand, and Yates County seems to be slated fo r a p lace “ on the m ap” i f the

Indictment Dismissed

A t 2 o ’clock on F riday afternoon before Yates County J-udge G ilbert H. Baker, the indictm ent returned by the M ay Grand Jury charging M ilton L. Rapalee, (sheriff o f Yates County, w ith “ w ilfu l neglect o f duty” was dis­missed by the Court. The hearing was granted to Sheriff Rapalee, upon

i DR. IRA C. IDE, DUNDEE,ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY !

To the E n ro lled Republicans o f 1 Yates County:R ea liz in g that it w ould be im poss-

ib le to m eet person a lly each and ev-k: ery one o f the Republican vo ters o f | this county b e fo re p rim ary day. 11 take this opportun ity to announce my|j candidacy fo r m em ber o f assem bly|from this d istrict. 8 } his request, through his a ttorney.

H a v in g resided in a ru ra l -Qp^mu-1 j Nye, o f W atk ins Glen, andn ity a ll m y life and served as super-1 i fo llow in g the inspection o f the m in- v iso r o f m y township fo r n ea rly six|i u es the grand jury, the Court years and as chairm an o f the countyb ^ as requested to set aside the in ­board o f supervisors fo r n early tw o } dictment.

Judge B aker stated that, w h ile the facts showed gross neglect o f duty on the part o f the public offic ia l, yet I the charges scarcely showed crim i- Ii nal negligence, and considering those facts, the Court did not deem it fit to have a lengthy and expensive tria l, as the reasonable doubt was strong.

years, I am confident that I am suffi-| c ien tly conversant w ith the needs o f } the to wn and county governm ents, to I p ro tect the in terest o f our ru ra l sec-1 tions from un favorab le state leg is la - tion.

I trust that I m ay m erit your su.p-1 port, and should I rece ive it, I p rom -I ise that same application to the dutiesb o f that o ffice as I have fa ith fu lly at-1 tem pted to .give- other offices th a tf have been the w ill o f the confiding^ public to in trust to me.

IR A C. ID E ,7 w l ■'A/-' Dundee, N. Y ,1

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Keuka college doubtless had its fn- ception when a committee of five in­cluding Rev. George H. Ball, Rev. J.H. Durkee and three others whose names I do not now recall, visited Lake Keuka to consider a location. They were guests of the Crooked Lake Navigation Co. (of which I was pres­ident) and as our large steamer, the “Holmes,” was making railroad con­nections at both ends of the lake and could not be taken from her regular trips, a small steamer was chartered for the day. This was a great Advan­tage as it was not bound by any schedule, could make any stops de­sired, and could make a landing any­where.

Going up the lake was uneventful, as no desirable locations were seen, and the committee enjoyed the beau­ties of the lake as well as a liberal supply of grapes, for which that re­gion was famous. After a substantial

j dinner at the Gibson house at Gib­son’s landing, the return trip to Penn Yan was begun. As no other location

. was found comparable to where the college is now, a decision in its favor was unanimous with the committee. This farm that was selected was known as an unproductive one. by rea-

| son of the nature of the soil, clay be­ing its prominent characteristic. That feature afterward was a distinct ben­efit to the college, as from a large de- 1

i , posit of clay the bricks used in the main building were made.

During the trip for the selection of '•: a location for the college, nothing es- - caped the careful scrutiny and consid-,! eration of Dr. Ball, whose name is am -1

1 perishably eonnected with this college, j To the faithful, loyal service of th e : committee, both at the time of the se- !

Y lection of a location, and afterwards,! V; and especially that of Dr. Ball, the >

permanent success of the college is ) largely due. The Crooked Lake Navi- j

d gation Co. co-operated unceasingly, Fw lth those having the building and

grounds in their charge, and as soon,' j as a dock was built, Keuka college was : i made a regular landing for all boats. J That made not less than ten steam-:;

; boats of our company available every day, except Sunday to all parts of the;

-lake, and the fare for passengers was only ten cents to any landing.

jFirst Building Erected

When the main college building w<as . completed, we were in the diy goods

'business in Penn Yan and took the I dVj contract for furnishing the window i shades. W e personally measured the

: windows, there were 300 of them, and Mrs. Hamlin and our daughter, Eva S.

' Hamlin, now of New York city, made ■the shades — there were no misfits.: There was no profit in the transaction but we regarded it as a friendly ges­ture to those who had been1 especially: active in behalf of the college.

Raising the large amount of money I for so large and important an under-'

. taking was attended witli The usual I difficulties and discouragements. Weg ! : recall a successful meeting in the pub- I • lie hall in Penn Yan to secure pledges, j i j The attendance was large and interest- j

ed workers moved about soliciting!; pledges which were announped from |

ithe platform, There Were good.friends [there, and pledges were given when- | lever heeded so that there was no wait- \. |ing, and the result was satisfactory. ‘ H

W ith the unceasing and tireless ef- iforts of Dr. foall, the large financial ! fgifts of Ball brothers, glass manufac- I gturers at Muncie, Indiana, and the loy- I, tal co-operation of the business men of ■Penn Yan, the initial difficulties were ivercome.

j At this writing the financial struc- ture of the College is secure and its 1 future assured. Under the very effi­c ien t management of President A. H.. Norton, it ranks high as an educational | institution, and is a lasting benefit to

IS this community.Boats Carried Many Grapes

1 There were some fine vineyards along the lake at that time, one at Crosby’s landing, and some on neigh-

I boring farms near the college: .It was p not unusual for shipments, of a thou- I sand baskets of table grapes, of ten $ pounds each, to be sent from the eol-

1 lege dock. They were carried by the I Crooked Lake Navigation company at l lS i ly three cents per hundred pounds.11. V ineyards were being set out all

around the lake, the acreage soon run -! jjiy ning into many thousands. The after- j •

j noon boat for Penn Yan often took j down over 5,000 ten-pound baskets.!

These were loaded into cars at the; dock for all points by W illiam N. Wise, who became known as the “Grape:,; King,” and who shipped as many asp; 28 cars of table grapes in one day.

Since that time there have been r e - [x markable and unusual changes. No!:; Steamboats have been running for years and vineyards which were for-p merly profitable have been abandoned.! s Buyers now go directly to the vine-1 yards and take the grapes by auto trucks to Syracuse and other cities. No grapes are now sent over the lake and docks from which large shipments were formerly made are now useless. t The large steamboats were scrapped[ long ago, and the only boats now onf the lake are privately owned -and

• some of them are very speedy.At one place high above the landing

i known at Fine cottage on Bluff Point, is a very steep place, dubbed at one [ time by a facetious neighbor, “Horse Heaven” — It was. so steep a horse I

i fell and broke his neck!Famous Wine Cellars

. The wine cellars on Lake Keuka, | and at Pleasant Valley, about two! miles above Hammondsport, added: greatly to the fame of the lake. One| was just above Gibson’s landing, and one of the largest, the Urbana Wine Co., was about six miles below Ham ­mondsport. The cellars of the Pleas­ant Valley Wine ..company and thosej of the Urbana W ine company were off large size, and both companies made'; champagne, brandy and all kinds of: wine equal to the finest imported; brands. The Urbana company had a large amount of outgoing freight with daily shipments of barrels of wine and cases of champagne. There were also large incoming shipments, frequently 100 barrels at a time.

There was great competition be­tween the two lines of boats to get that business, but our steamboats were making eight landings a day at the Urbana dock and giving unexcelled service. As we wanted their ship­ments regardless of cost, we gave John W. Davis, superintendent, carte blanche to make his own rates. When his check was received there were no

■ 8 * 1 and if was for full freight; rates! The low rate of fare, only ten! cents to any landing, undoubtedly ad- j vCrtised the lake more than any other j ; one thing.. The previous rate hadi; been 75c with an unreliable and incon-| venient schedule for the boat. Onp the boats of the Crooked Lake Navi-f gation company a family of five could,1 go from either end of the lake to des-j tination, spend the day there and re­turn at night, for only one dollar. Many people who had lived in sight of the lake [ for years but had never ridden over it, took advantage of the opportunity, and many came from a| distance. Our company built a sec4 ond large steamboat of a capacity of 850 passengers, and named it for the]

■under o„f the Jlno The Wm . L. H al­

sey. On our two large boats) Tnoreu than 9I0,000: paying passengers w erePcarried each season. L w as treasurer |pw i of our line, all monies passed through my hands and the record is Correct. H

Bluff Point Improved Bluff Point, its top 700 feet above

the lake, has been greatly improved by the owner, Paul Garrett. On tills property was one of the best and larg­est vineyards on the lake but later on it became unprofitable. Mr. Garrett has built a memorial chapel on the east side of the bluff, a most beauti­ful and artistic building located sev­eral hundred, feet above th'e lake. He has also greatly' improved the whole bluff, which illustrates the important changes occurring all around the lake.

Many things have contributed to the fame of Lake Keuka, besides the ten cent fare on the steamboats, the large, wine cellars and the immense ship­ments of grapes — methods of fish-:.ing, for illustration.

Old-time fishermen used a heavy \ oiled line and single spoon hook* trolling at a moderate pace, .but when Seth Green came to the lake-and dem­onstrated how to cattih fish all other methods became obsolete. A ll fishing

j was in the day-time. Getting up at, j 3:00 o’clock in the morning and troll- | ing for trout with handk so numb with- [ cold that holding the line was very I difficult we thought was fun. One'! m orning” after trolling as far as the college, and back within a mile of Penn Yan, we met Richard Danes who had started out about 7:00 o’clock and had a trout with rowing only a mile.W e had rowed eight or ten miles without a bite. Richard, called “Dick” by his friends, was not only a. skillful fisherman, but also an expert shoe-!

malter. In those days we wore boots, no one but him could make them to suit, and they were always right.

(To be continued)

(Continued from last week)

One evening Several hardy fisher- tnen were at Pine cottage on Bluff Point swapping yarns, and dared Rich-j1 ard Danes, one of their number/ to goj out and troll for trout. About 11:001 o’clock, not to be dared, j he went out and very soon caught a fish. That was the beginning of fishing at night which soon became universal. Thirty or 40 boats at a time fishing between Keuka, Bluff Point and Gibson’s land­ing was not unusual, each boat having A light.

i The deep water off Bluff Point has always been favorite fishing ground.In early times when trout were caught.,, a trip to Penn Yan was necessary as at the point there was no ice nor any way to keep the fish fresh. Cold water for drinking was obtained by sinking

;sa jug to the lake bottom and letting it remain awhile.

Many a . trout has been caught in i 'the vicinity of the college, and just h below in Brandy bay. That name was | given to the bay many years ago, i probably from some personal experi-| ehce. W e havfe often trolled as farm as Hickory poiilt, about a mile ajbove the college, and return before break- fast. W'e do not remember of ever catching a trout on those excursions!

Catching Suckers by HandAn interesting experience was catch­

ing suckers with the hand. W ith rub-| ber boots and a lantern we walked | carefully up stream in the Sucker'I brook at Penn Yan. The fish w ere ! seen lying at the edge of the brook in| water about ten inches deep. By gent-1 ly putting down a hand and grabbing j the sucker just back of the gills, fish 1 Weighing two of three pounds were | thrown out on the ground. They were j not considered good for eating but were cut up and used for trout fish­ing- The method used was cutting

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strips about an inch and a quarterw ide and five inches long and putting a strip on a hook so that in tro llin g it would tw irl. That was a particular operation, and was not ve ry success­ful. A sim ilar m ethod was used in

• s till fishing fo r trout from a boat an­chored in deep water, but catches w ere few . Suckers w ere often kept a live in boxes w ith w ire sides, until wanted. M innows w ere often kept in the same w ay and tow ed up the lake behind a row boat, the m innows being used fo r perch -and bass fishing.

Catch ing bull frogs was an exper i- ’ ence we' w ou ld not w ant to repeat. W e used an ordinary fishpole and line w ith a bare hook and sm all piece, o f red flannel tied just above the hook.

Th e line was dropped carefu lly in fi ont o f the frog, he would jump fo r

j the red flannel, and ge t firm lyTiooked , i and then our troubles began. F irst w e k illed the frog, cut out the hook and then cut o ff and skinned the hind

! Th e wTiole operation was so dis-. taste fu l that a fte r securing three or four frogs w e w en t home. W e have n ever eaten fro g s ’ legs, although, when :< p rop erly prepared, nothing is fin er in appearance, but the rem em ­brance o f those green skins prevented even tasting the legs. It ;is related that a gen tlem an in a restaurant, who w anted frogs legs, asked the w aitress, w ho cam e lim p ing to w a it on him, i f she had frogs legs. “ No, I haven ’t,” -she snapped at him, “ i t ’s rheum atism m akes m e w alk that w ay .”

F is h in g fo r B u llh e a d s Th ose w ho have caught bullheads

know how "it fee ls to be stabbed w ith th e ir horns. Th e fish usually sw al­low the hook and it is a d ifficu lt oper­ation to re lease it and the fisherm an a lw ays suffers the penalty. A n y who

in the n ight can o f the experience, h a lf w ay up the

have caught them te ll v e ry fe e lin g ly T h e “ Mud H o le ,” channel from the boat landing in Penn Y an and separated from the channel by the tow path, was a fa vo r ite place to fish fo r them . The. m eat is quite red, ra ther bloody, and some do not lik e it. A s bullheads have no scales, some peop le re je c t them fo r that rea­son. T h ere are m any other kinds o f fish that are fa r. b e tter eating.

T ro llin g fo r p ickere l w ith a ligh t lin e about 150 fe e t long was a lways in terestin g. W h en hauling in a fish, sm all ones a lw ays com e to th e . sur­face, but la rge r ones stay down. F or eating, they are am ong the best, but have m any sm all needle-like bones. Catch ing one w e igh in g about three pounds is fine sport. A lthough w e caught a b lack bass occasionally, w e have n ever fished fo r them. F o r eat­ing, th ey do not com pare w ith other fish.

H a r r y M o rs e , F is h e r m a nT h e gen ia l and popular w ell-known

ow n er o f the E lm w ood theatre in Penn Yan , in ad verten tly extended the fam e o f L a k e K eu ka a ll over the United States. H a rry C. M orse, then a lad, was fish ing w ith his m other at Brandy bay, each one having a line out, and as he w as lean ing ove r the side o f the boat, a la rg e trout cam e up w ith a rush and b it him on the nose. H arry jerk ed back and the fish landed in the boat and his m other k illed it w ith an oar. N a tu ra lly this rem arkab le occur­rence w as rid icu led by every one not acquainted w ith H a rry and his mother.

W e saw h im w ith the scarred nose/i saw the eight-pound trout, and h ist m other, the sam e day in P en n Yan. I K n ow in g them w ell, w e can vouch f fo r the tru th fu lness o f the story.

In this connection w e reca ll an am using inciden t. A pa rty o f five or I six c itizens o f Penn Y an w ere on a I w estern trip , and one o f th e ir num-1 her did a ll the ta lk in g in the h o te l! lobbies. Th e others decided to g e t !

even w u tlTL im Yum henrst opportunity. Soon a fterw ards th is ta lker was ex­patiating as usual to occupants o f the hotel lobby, and to ld the story of H a r­ry ’s catch ing the trout. Th is w as re ­ceived by the occupants o f the lobby w ith shouts o f d iscom fited the towards his companions and appealed to them to v e r i fy his statem ent. One and a ll o f them , as solem n as ow ls, declared they had n ever heard o f it 1

W i n t e r F is h in gW h en ever the ice becam e h eavy

jenough, fish ing was practiced by both professiona l fisherm en and amateurs. Sm all hpuses on w ooden runners w ere used, w ith a stove, by professiona ls who set out as m any as ten or 20 linese. A w illo w branch, or whip, was frozen in at its base, lean ing ove r the hole in the ice w ith the line fastened to it. M innow s w ere used fo r ba it and good catches o f p ickere l and perch w ere common. W h en a fish bit, the hook the w illo w branch- m oved

i up and down, and the fisherm an hauled in his fish. Am ateurs having no shelter could not m anage as m any

1 lines but o ften mq.de sa tis factory > catches.

A t tim es the ice fro ze th ick and heavy enough fo r team s to d r ive on

;! it as fa r as B lu ff Po in t. T h e deep -] w ater there w ould on ly fre eze w hen jj there w as a lon g period o f co ld weath- I er, and it w as seldom safe to drive a jj team on the ice. L ook in g backw ard 1 fo r m any years w e reca ll on ly one

w in ter w hen a! team could be driven I on the ice from H am m ondsport to

Penn Yan:A constant danger not v is ib le on the

surface o f the ice, w as its being w eakened on the under side by w arm springs. A va luab le team o f horses w as lost from that cause just above O goyago, the ice appearing to be per­fe c t ly safe. T h at is a constant dan­ger to skaters and some heart-rending drow n ings have occurred.

W i n t e r S p o r tsTh e m arsh at Penn Y an w as a fa vo r­

ite p lace fo r skating, as the ice w as p e r fec tly sa fe ow ing to the shallow w ater. U usually the skaters had a la rg e fire, and a log to sit on fo r rest. S ta rtin g from the boat houses, go ing

German Bullock, Dies, Aged N ative of# Y a tes County

Thursday night, M ay 28th, at tliehhome o f his daughter, Mrs. F loydq

derision, w h ich g r e a t l y I o f Second M ilo , occurred the|, ta lker, w ho turned i a t h o f German Bullock, a native andu

'Tire-long resident o f Ya tes county, a t man who has seen the developm ent of|

|the grape industry a long Lake Keuka | A n d the w axing and w aning o f b o a t ;, tra ffic. A t one tim e he started a ' (basket factory in Penn Yan. ..

Mr. Bullock, was buried Sunday 'a fternoon in the M ount H ope cem e­tery at Rochester, fo llow in g services

Lcqnducted by Rev. E. W . Chapin o f | -Second M ilo and held at the home o f ■his daughter, w ith whom he had made this home fo r much o f the tim e during -the past few years. TIu-Teaves tw o ! other daughters, Mrs. G eorge D. Lam- j bert o f Rochester and Mrs. Pau l B irr 1 o f Rochester.

The deceased ‘o ften to ld his fr ien ds jhe lived a “ charm ed” life , since he escaped tw ice by narrow m argins from drow ning in Lake K eu ka only

[to be nearly crem ated when his home,■ along the East Lake road, burned i over h is head.

B orn in B a r r in g to n 1 Gorman Bullock was born in Bar- !j jirington, Septem ber 10, 1849, on w hat I! 'w as then the Sam uel M ille r place; n o w ! | owned by Dr. John M ille r o f C om ing, j | His. parents, Cklvjn and Lucinda Sim p-j i son Bullock, came to W arsaw , Bar-|

j rington, from Columbia county, and | m oved about considerab ly from one f

I farm to another w ith their la rge fam ­ily o f five g irls and four boys, o f which German, the youngest,’ was the last su rvivor. F o i a tim e he, lived

I w ith his parents on w hat is. now the H om er M err itt place in Chubb H ollow , attending S tarkey sem inary in 1869" 70 and then teach ing school

On January 6, 1874, he m arried Delia B. W righ t/daU gh ter o f Dr. Sam­uel H. W r igh t o f Jerusalem . In 1880 Mrs. Bullock purchased- the Am asa Tuell estate on the corner o f Lake and Main streets in Penn Yan . Mr. Bul­lock erected a cem ent building there and began m ak ing grape baskets. In 1882 the “ Corkscrew ra ilrqad ” com­pany purchased the canal rights and claim ed up to- the “ blue lin e ” which

past the Sucker brook w as d ifficu lt placed his bu ild ing tw o fe e t w ith in w ithou t ge ttin g into the mud. S om e-th e ir property. Th is stopped business tim es in v e ry cold w eather, w e could which proved a losts. In 1884 his w ife ge t on the ice from the shore oppo- sold this property and bought the B. F. site the cem etery. F reem an farm of 46 acres, three m iles

Skating was the popular amusem ent north of . W arsaw . M rs. Bullock died fo r both lad ies and gentlem en, a n d _ 2 9 , 1916. the la tte r had the pleasure o f putting on and tak ing off , the skates fo r the ladies, and assisting them in various

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w ays. F o r teach ing beginners tw o m en w ould hold a long stick betw een them , the lady hold ing on fo r dear

life , but i t ' w as th e easiest w ay fo r teach ing.

One o f the w in te r sports "was ice boating, a lw ays, a ttended w ith some danger on aeco-junt o f th in ice and cracks. A boa t under good speed w ould jump an o rd in a ry crack safely, and there Xvere a lw ays enough th rills to s a t is fy the m.ost daring sailor.

In c los ing th ese rem in iscences ' o f m any years ago, w e congratu late th e peop le o f Y a tes county and particu lar­ly those o f Penn. Yan , fo r the m any inheren t advan tages o f K eu k a college.

W ith an unsurpassed location , finan­cia l requ irem en ts secure, the m anage­m ent o f P res id en t A.. H . N orton , a I sk illed and experienced educator, the ou tlook fo r the future, is .m o s t favor-l able.

W e hope our readers have found, som eth ing o f in teres t and some enter-f ta inm ent in these a rtic les , and w e bic|| them a ll an a ffectionate adieu.

T H E O D O R E H A M L IN . IJune, 1931. ,

Th ey had th fee daughters. Th e old-1 est, Eva, born A p r il 10, 1878, m arried ! Paul B in 1 o f R ochester and now lives in that c ity ; M ary Joanna, born I Febru ary 9, 1883; m arried G eorge D. Lam bert and also lives in R o ch es te r - | F iorina, born A p ril 8, 2889, m arried F loyd E. F le tch e r who conducts the Second M ilo g rocery store. H is three brothers w e r e : Reuben, who lived ‘sev­en m iles from Penn Yan on the Bath road and died in 1889; H enry, who died some 22 years ago, and was fa th ­er o f A lfred Bullock of PeUn Yan, Charles of G eneva and Emma o f Roch­ester, and H erm an, fa th er o f Edgar o f Isle o f P ines, H om er o f W a te r lo o and Joseph o f Penn Yan, W illia m

G IG L IE L L O — A t his home ion Seneca Street, Monday, June 8th, Carm ine G ig lie llo , aged 82 years.Surviving are his w ife, M ariarosa

G igliqllo, of I ta ly ; two sons, Felice, of Penn Yan, and Giovanni, o f Ita ly ; and two daughters, Rosaria and An-

j|gelmaria, both o f Italy. Th e funeral [ w ill be held from the home, o f his son, I Felice, at 179 Seneca S treet on Sat- gurday m orn ing at 8:30 o ’clock and 1 at 9 o ’clock from St. M ichael’s church. I Buria l in St. M ichael’s cem etery.

M r. and M rs. Joseph P e r r y w ere in R och es ter on M onday a ttend ing the fu n e ra l o f M rs. - P e r r y ’s aunt, Mrs. E liza b e th G affn ey, w hose death oc­cu rred in th at c ity on Thursday. Mrs. ' G a ffn ey w as a n a tive o f Penn Yan, . be ing the dau gh ter e f the la te Mr. ; and M rs. A n d rew E a r ley . S u rviv in g j

! a re h er husband, M ich ae l ■ G a ffney ; | th ree sons, B ernard , o f Canujen, N. | J.; R ev . P a u l G affney, o f In d u s try ; ; and D r. Jam es G affn ey, o f R ochester; one daugh ter, M iss F ran ces Gaffney at h o m e ; and one sister, Miss, K a th ­e r in e E a r ley , o f R ochester. The fun­era l w as h e ld on M onday mornvm fr o m St. B r id g e t ’s Church, w ith bur­ia l in St. B r id g e t ’s cem etery . I

T w o c le r k s in th e P e n n Y a n o ff ices o f th e E lm i r a d iv is io n , P e n n s y l v a n i a r a i l r o a d , a re p ic tu r e d a b o v e . C h a r le s W . R e e d of S ta r k a v e n u e , s e a te d on t h e le f t , has been e m p lo y e d by th e r a i l r o a d s in ce O c to b e r 1, 1 910 ; E v e r e t t P . W r i g h t of E a s t M a in s t r e e t has been in th e ra i l ro a d s e rv ic e s in c e A u g u s t 16, 1909. ' -

T h e tw o m e n n o w f o r m th e R e e d a n d W r i g h t in s u ra n c e p a r t n e r s h ip , r e a d ­ing an d w r i t i n n p o l ic ie s as a s id e l in e . *

M o r e t h a n ’ th is — R eed a n d W r i g h t a r e t w in s — 1 e., t h e y w e r e b o rn on th e s a m e day, a y e a r a p a r t . M r . W r i g h t a p p e a re d fo r th e f i r s t t i m e in t h e h o m e o f M r . a n d M r s . P b i le t u s S. W r i g h t of B enton on N o v e m b e r 3 rd , 1888, e le c t io n day . H e has n e v e r b een m u c h o f a hand to m e d d le in p o l i t ic s , h o w ­e v e r , tw o y e a rs o f s e rv ic e as t h e c le r k o f th e v i l la g e of P e n n Y a n b e in g his so le e n d e a v o r a lo n g th is l in e . M r . R e e d a r r iv e d on N o v e m b e r 3 r d , 1889, in P e n n Y a n , a t th e h o m e of M r . a n d M r s . C h a r le s Reed.

I W ill ia m D. F ox , o f P en n Yan , w ho ' d ied in B runsw ick , Ga., on F eb ru a ry 13th, le f t a net esta te o f $777,865.10,

, a cco rd in g to the tra n s fe r tax rep o rtI tied in the Y a tes County. S u rro ga te ’ s j C ourt W ednesday. T h e to ta l ta x on

the estate am ounts to $22,377.32,

W O R 'iavlAN— A t his hom e hear Keuka) on F r id a y , June 12th, Am os P. W ortm an ; aged 80 years.S u rv iv in g a re a son, H en ry W ort­

man, o f K e u k a ; a daughter, Mrs,. L i l ­lian Sa lsbury, o f P en n Y a n ; a broth­er, L a v e rn e W ortm an , o f A ltay . The fu n era l w as he ld on M onday a fter­noon at 2 o ’c lo ck fro m the home,R ev. F. C. V an E tten , o f C rosby Baptist 'Church, o ffic ia tin g . B u ria l in Tyrone cem etery .

C R O U C H — A t the S o ld ie rs and Sail­o rs ’ H osp ita l, Sunday, June 14th, James H . Crouch, aged 80 years.. S u rv iv in g a re th ree daughters, Mrs.

C laude M cCann, o f Penn Y a n ; Mrs. E d w ard C astn er, o f C rosby; Mrs. Ida L a w ren ce , o f R o c h e s e r ; one son, W illia m , o f G uyanoga. T h e funeral w as he ld on W edn esday a fternoon at 1 o ’c lo ck fr o m the T h a yer funeral hom e, R ev . W . M. H ydon officiating. B u ria l w as m ade in B ite ly cemetery, B ranchport.

G R IS T O C K — A t the S. and S.. Hospi- I tal, Sunday night, June 14, 1931, j Thom as J. Gristock, aged 77 years.I Mr. Gris cock was born in Benton, Yates County, the son of Thomas and Sarah H a rfo rd Gristock, who came to this ’sect.on from En^and. During his early lire he was engaged in farm ing. About 5u years ago lie went to Uvid, Mich., w here he lived w ith his -.jstep- aauguter,- Mrs. W. J. Martin, "until about the year 1907, when he return­ed to P t n.i Yan, tak in g up his_ res i­dence in L .berty street. He served as street com m issioner o f the village, but fo r the la. t few years, he has re t ir ­ed from a c z i.e life . He was a m em ­ber o f the :h esbytetdan Church. H e is survived iy his w ife , Mrs. lone G ristock, o f i :n.i Y an ; a son, Bert, o f San Fontana, C. lifo rn ia ; a sister, M rs E lla K ipp, o f hiis v illa ge , who. is the last su rv iv ing m em ber o f the im m ediate G ristock hom ily ; and his step-daughter, M rs W . J. ..Jziriixi, Ovid, Mich. The fu nera l was

‘ from the home on W ednesday a fte r- noon, Rev. W. A . H enricks, assisted

• by Rev. W . M. Hydon, o ffic ia ting. B uria l in Lake V iew cem etery,G R A Y A t „th p uV/iYie'1" ' o f Edw in X

Chapin, in S tark Avenue, on M on­day m orning, June 15, 1931, W illia mW . Gray, aged 72 years.Mr. G ray was born in Ya tes coun­

ty and spent m ost o f his l i fe here. H e was in C orn ing in the em ploy of the ra ilroad. F o r years he was i£_the o ffice o f the A m erican R a ilw a y E x ­press here, and la te r as bookkeeper in the o ffice o f the H o llo w e ll & W ise H ard w are Co. F o r the past few years, how ever, ow in g to i l l health , he did not engage in active pursuits. H e is su rv ived by a nephew, D avid Gray, -oi P o r t Chester, - N. Y . T h e fu nera l was held from the home o f Mr. G ra y s o n W ednesday a fternoon , R ev. W . M. H y ­don offic ia tin g, w ith buria l in Lake V iew cem etery. K euka Lodge, No. 149,I. 0. 0. F., had charge o f the ser­v ices at the grave.

To Re-enter Coal Business

R em sen M. K inne, w ho was in the re ta il coal business in Penn Yan for 36 years, p r io r to s e llin g his Benham S tree t ya rd to I. Seym our Purdy som e few years ago, w ill again re ­sum e the ow nersh ip and operation o f the Benham S tree t yard about July 15th, having purchased the business from Guy Jackson, w ho has conduct­ed it fo r the past th ree years.'

M r. K in n e w ill m ove his ins-urann- business from 213 M ain stree t to the Benham S treet o ffice, apd w ill con­tinu e w ith that lin e o f business in ad­d ition to a lin e o f coal, wood, masA” supp lies. In the rea l estate deal, G.uy Jackson purchased the d w e llin g at 327, M ain street. M r. Jackson . is now connected w ith the John D. M oore oa l Com pany, Sheppar.d St.

M rs. Ruth W irth- o f R u sh v ille ,. fo r­m er ly o f Penn Yan , w ho fo r thp past 12 yea rs has been em ployed by Gar­re tt and com pany in the. N ew Y o rk city , St. Lou is and Penn Y an offices, has res igned . H er p lace in the Vine- yard ists, Inc., p lant in Penn Yan is be­ing taken by M errim an H ya tt who has been in the 4 a w o ffice of. John J. H y ­land fo r the past fe w years.

Th e gam e o f shuffleboard is com ­p a ra tive ly new to this section, but it - ' has been a featu re -of F lo r id a resor.i and a sh ipboard pastime. F inger Lak ers and others have en joyed the i gam e during the w in ter months in the t Southern resorts.

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SHATTUCK— G eorge S. Shattuck, 84, d ied at his hom e in D undee on Thursday, June 18th.M r. Shattuck w as the o ld est bank­

er in Y a tes County, having s ta rted his bank ing ca reer in 1876 in the p r iva te bank ing house o f Lou is J. W ilk in s . W hen the N ation a l Bank w as o rg a n iz ­ed in 1880 he becam e a c lerk , in 1882 its cash ier and in 1898 its presiden t, an o ffic e he held 32 years. In add i­tion M r. Shattuck was a m em ber o f the B ap tis t Church 52 years,, 50 years a Sunday School teacher, 48 years treasu rer and 51 years a dea­con. H e was v il la g e treasu rer fo r m any years until last M arch. S u rv iv ­ing are one son, W en d e ll, o f Pe.nn Yan , and a brother, H a rry , o f Dundee. F A L L O N — A t her hom e in Chapel

S treet on M onday m orn ing, June 22nd, M iss E lla F a llon , aged 67.., M iss F a llo n m ade her hom e w ith

her tw o cousins, M isses M a rga re t and M ary W eod, at 210 Chapel S treet. H er death occu rred v e ry suddenly. S evera l other cousins su rv ive her. Th e fu n era l was held on Wednes_day m orn in g at 8:30 o ’c lock from the res idence at 210 Chapel S treet ar.d at 9 o ’c lo ck fro th St. M ich a e l’s Church. B u ria l in St. M ich a e l’s cemetex y. M iss F a llo n w as a teacher in the N ew P a ltz N orm a l School fo r seve ra l years end fo r 20 y e a r s . she w as su perv isor o f th r 17 schools in N ew B ritton , Conn.

I

H en ry B enn ett L e a ry / fo r m any j years a p ra c tic in g a tto rn ey in N ew

^ Y o rk , died at his hom e in N ew Y p rk i c ity , N. Y ., o f pneum onia. H e w as ;< 54 years old, h av in g been born at

Penn Y an on N ovem ber 19, 1876. H e ;1 w as educated at P h illip s Andover,

w h ere he w as graduated in 1899.Soon a fte r his graduation he b e­

gan the p ra c tice o f law in N ew Y o rk .H e tra ve led m uch in Europe, w h ere

the in teres ts o f m any o f his c lien ts lay. F o r the last fe w yea rs his office^ had been at 176 B roadw ay , N ew Y o rk .

H e w as the son o f th e la te M ichael L ea ry , p rom inen t a tto rn ey o f Penn-Y a m . I 1 I -' ■

H e w as a m em ber o f the U n ive rs ity’ C lub, the W illia m s Club and th e A n -J tom ob ile C lub o f A m erica . S u rv iv in g

.-i a re his w ife , the fo rm er M arion C.B a gg ; a daughter, M rs, /G od freyTw atchm an , and a s is te r, M iss Ju liaL ea ry . S erv ices w e re held on M ondaym orn in g in th is v i l la g e and in ter-

I m ent m ade in the fa m ily p lo t inI L a k e V iew cem etery .

- M l

Excell Park

E x ce ll Pa rk , loca ted on the E xce l farm at the end o f L a k e s tree t L seaming in p op u la r ity da ily , ow in g to I the fa c t that the gam es o f s h u ffle - i board and a rch ery have been in s ta ll-1 ed, in addition to the sporty m in i a- Ij tu re g o l f course, quoits and o ther 1 am usem ents w h ich have been p laced I in the b ig orchard o f the E xce ll fa rm I

N ea rby is the E x ce ll tou ris t camp, I I w ith neat cem ent fire p laces fo r those I I who codk ou t-o f-doors and other es- I sen tia ls to the tra v e lin g cam per. I t is located across the h igh w ay from R ed Jacket Pa rk , the m un icipal p ic-g nic and bath ing park. R ed Jacket, beJ| fo re its purchase by the v illa g e , w a operated by the E x ce lls—-G eorge and , his som R a lph — as one of the pop- J u lar tou ris t camps in this section o f j! the state or country. H ow ever, w h e | it was acqu ired by the V il la g e o f Pen Yan, a ll cam pers w ere barred from j p itch ing th e ir nom adic hom es in this I park, and, as a result, the E x ce ll or- | chard w as m ade in to a fine cam p fo r -J tourists.

John H. Johnson Passed Awa Sunday

John H. Johnson, prom inent citize• o f this section and president o f %I C itizens Bank o f Penn Yan, .died i jth e Sold iers and Sa ilors H osp ita l:!this v illa g e on Sunday m orning abou 3 o ’c lock , fo llo w in g an illness o f si|

i weeks. -2. &Penn Y an has lost one o f its lead

ing, citizens and outstanding bugjnes . men. Mr. Johnson w as born in Can j andaigua on A ugu st 2, 1853, and re4* ce ived his education at H obart Col-j lege , Geneva, and la te r read ing lg,w| w ith Sm ith and H am lin , in his native

'v illa g e . In 1882, he established him- j s e lf in genera l p ractice in Penn Yani I Mr. Johnson was one o f the ox.-l j gan izers o f the C itizens Bank of Pena j Yan , a state bank, chartered April14, 1899, w ith a cap ita l stock o f $50,-

I 000. Its grow th has been notable, th e I o r ig in a l d irectorate included: John T. Andrew s, John H. Johnson, Bprim er J, Ogden, John A . U nderw ood, FrankH. H am lin , H en ry M. Parm ale, a.ni

i H ow ard L . W oodru ff. John H. John soy; served as president since, the time oj| i the o rgan iza tion o f the bank.

Th e earlies t location was in the hf® Y a tes County N ationa l Bank build-

p j ing. In 1900 the quarters o f the bank / w ere changed to w hat at one time 'J w as the F irs t N ationa l Bank, and this , bu ild ing was en larged and remodel-

/ e d and m odern ized equipm ent install . ed in 1911. No sm all cred it fo r the I

g row th o f the banking business of the|. . C itizens Bank has been 'due to the

|§g continuous e fforts o f Mr. Johnson;E w h o has g iven a ll o f his time, train

H p in g and experience to the taskF o r m any years he served as a

■’ m em ber o f the Penn Yan Board of Ed- B1',. % /u cation , during the m ajor part of the

||time acting as president o f that body, i/lFor a tim e he served th % v illa ge of ;|Penn Y an as a m em ber o f the board

o f trustees. In 1915 he was a dele-:1 gate to the New Y o rk S tate Cbnstii tu tiona l Convention. H e was a. men)" her o f the F irs t Presbyterian GhurcS

% o f Penn Yan, and president o f the board o f trustees o f that church for 33

: years, during which tim e he was pr.es H j iden t o f the board fo r severa l years.)

J On M ay 29th, 1889, Mr. I Johnson i m arried Lau ra L. Parm ale, q f Can j andaigua.

Mr. Johnson was active during tfiefi§! W o r ld W ar, serving^ as treasurer o the Penn Yan Chapter o f the AmeriJt™ can R ed -Cross. H e was a m em ber o i f !

j the W a r Chest Associa tion o f Yates™1 County and was a m em ber o f the i com m ittee fo r the sale iof L ib e r ty !! Loan Bonds in Yates County. H e also|$ j w as a m em ber o f the board o f d irect-/ ors o f the Sold iers and Sa ilors M era-^ oria l H osp ita l Association , when thej association was incorporated in 1917, and, at one tim e, was treasurer of the asociation.

John- H. Johnson was a m em ber ofl the Yates County Bar Association , and the C itizens Bank, which institution is the resu lt o f his untiring labors, astute judgm ent and keen business sense, is a m em ber o f the/ American Bankers* Associa tion and Of the NeflT Y o rk State Bankers’ Association ,

S u rviv in g are his - son, Parma!® Johnson, o f Penn Yan; a daughter,

/ M rs . E lizabeth Page, Linco ln , Mass.!|| a brother, William Johns,on. of Peptt m Yan, and a sister, Miss Anna John-i E so, also of Penn Yan.

m The funeral was held on Wednes- m day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from fy the home at 326 Main Street, Rev. W.| A. Henricks officiating. Burial in Lak

View cemetery.

R e c e n t V i e w S h o w in g M a in E n t r a n c e , F ly in g B u t t re s s o v e r T e r r a c e , th e T o w e r an d B e l f r y

A t th ree o ’c lock Sunday a fternoon w il l occur the ded ication serv ices fo r th e C harles W illia m s G arre tt M em ori­a l Chapel, "T h e L it t le C liapel on the M ou n t,” w h ich stands out fr o m -th e w ooded side o f ru gged B lu ff P o in t, 700 fe e t ab ove the blue w aves o f beau tifu l L a k e K euka . A t th is .tim e M r. and M rs. P au l G a rre tt w ill g iv e to the W e s te rn N e w Y o rk d iocese o f the E p is ­copa l church the shrine, in the cryp t o f w h ich now- res t the bod ies o f four o f th e ir sons, th ree o f w h o m died in fan cy , th e fou rth be in g the young m an a fte r w hom the chapel is nam ed.

A t 11 o ’ c lock Sunday m orn in g there w ill be a m em oria l ce leb ra tion o f the H o ly Com m union w ith the R ig h t R e v ­eren d D av id L in co ln F err is , D. D., o f R och es ter , b ishop o f the d iocese, as ce leb ran t. T h is is in tended fo r the im m ed ia te fa m ily and fr ien ds only. T h e pu b lic s e rv ic e o f consecra tion and th a n k sg iv in g is a t 3 p. m.. w ith the serm on by B ishop F err is . Th ou gh the ch apel has a sea tin g cap a c ity o f less than 100, am p lifie rs w ill ca rry to those w h o m ay care to res t about the grounds the m usic and the m essages b rou gh t to the con grega tion inside. A t th is s e rv ic e P au l G a rre tt and h is w ife , M rs. E v e ly n E dw ards G arrett, w ill g iv e a deed fo r the chapel and the th ree acres % f w ooded grounds im m e­d ia te ly su rounding it to the E p iscopa l | church.

F o llo w in g th is b r ie f s e rv ice the and con grega tion w ill ;b ishop, c le rgy

p roceed to th e c ryp t fo r a conclud ing service". T h e -music o f the E p iscopa l

's e rv ic e s used w ill be sung by a double qu arte t fro m S t. M a rk ’s church in P en n Y a n and con s is tin g o f M rs. John J. M c E llig o t t and M iss Anna^Bush, so­pranos; M rs. N . W in to n P a lm er and M rs. C ou rtney- E a rle , a ltos ; W a rn e r Bush and John Z im m erm an* tenors ; H a r le y D o o lit t le and P e r c y A . G r if­fiths, bassos.

A m o n g the m em bers o f the c le rgy w ho w ill a ss is t in the consecration | s e rv ic e w ill be R ev . Jam es D. Gibson, re c to r o f the T r in ity E p iscopa l church j in C ov in gton , K y ., w ho w as M r. Gar-1 r e t t ’s , p as to r in the south f o r j m any j y ea rs ; R ev . John E. W oo tton , rec to r o f j St. M a rk ’s E p iscopa l church in P e n n 1

Y an : R ev. J. H ow ard Perk in s , rec to r | o f St. L u k e ’s church in B ranchport; I and R ev . G. P. S om m erv ille , rec to r o f the H am m ondsport church.

T h e shrine at n igh t is m arked by a flash ing beacon ligh t on the top o f the ! b e lfry , w h ile in the day tim e it stands out from its surrounding o f trees on the east bank o f the b lu ff a fe w hun­dred fe e t below the fam ous W a gen e r j house, w h ich surmounts the top o f the j bluff, and w hich is now ow ned by M r.

in ! G arrett. Th e chapel m ay be reached i by fo llow in g the old h igh w ay to the | school house or d ire c tly by using a j

I n ew lane cut through the woods.T h e bu ild ing is not la rge , the chap-

el hav in g a seating capacity o f b u t !| 60, but it is ex trem e ly w e ll built. T h e i | lake side stands h igh above the founda-1 ■ tion, a fa c t which the v is ito r does not | fu lly rea lize until he has w alked un-

der the fly ing buttresses w h ich ex ten d ] i to the east and looked dow n upon the I steep ly-slop ing b lu ff side from w hich j has been ch iseled the rock y sh e lf on | w h ich the structure stands.

A g ra y stone, quarried in Pennsyl- ! van ia , trim m ed w ith stone o f a ligh te r j-hue, covers the strong fram e o f stee l and concrete bu ilt to w ithstand m any

I years. P ip in g throughout is o f braSuS.| In fact, every th in g has been done to j m ake , the shrine "outlast .4 lie .w ear".o f j ages.! T h e beauty o f the stained w indow 's and the in ter io r trim , the a rt is try so apparent in the design o f the ex te r io r tr im are a de ligh t to those w iio en joy beauty in buildings. A n instrum ent fu rn ishes music not on ly fo r those w ith in the chapel but also, through am plifiers, to those w ithout. D uring the sum m er season, concerts w ill be p layed in the chapel from 3 to. 7 p. m. j fo r the benefit o f the hundreds "who v is it B lu ff Po in t to en joy its natural beauty.

T h e chapel is o f .Saxon s ty le in a r­ch itecture, rather than Gothic, and in som e respects rem inds one o f the “ W e e K ir k ” in G lendale, C alif. O f spec ia l in teres t to the m an y peop le w ho h a ve a lread y v is ited it are the wundows.

M r. G arre tt experienced g rea t d iffi­cu lty in_.securing noted artists, w ho

.would in corpora te his ideas . in the beau ty o f co lored glass. F red e r ick ! W ils o n o f L o s A n ge les , Calif., how-1 ever, wras fin a lly em p loyed fo r th e j w ork . T h e w indow s in b o th . the bur- j ia l cham ber and the en tire chapel a re11 the product o f h is a rtis try . ; I

T h e p ictu res in g lass p o rtray the j brook o f w h ich T en n yson .s in gs :

j “ A nd m en m ay com e*and m en m ay go, i But I go on fo re v e r . ’*! A n o th er p ictu res S ir Galahad, in the quest o f the H o ly G rail, the borders o f this window^ dep ic tin g ou tstand ing , even ts denoting the 'p rogress o f .Chris- ' tian c iv iliza tio n : the S tar o f B eth le ­hem, the N orm an conquest, the B i l l1 o f R igh ts , the M agna Carta, the p rin t­in g press, the L ib e r ty b e ll and the Curtiss fly in g m achine, bu ilt and firs t flow n w ith in s igh t o f the ch ap el

- A th ird w in d ow dep icts Eugene F ie ld ’s poem , “ W yn k en and B lynken and N od .” A n o th e r revea ls A bou Ben Ahdem . Lon g fe lL ow ’s C h ild ren ’s H our fo rm s the su b ject fo r another and T en n yson ’s im m orta l “ C ro ss in g -o f sthe B a r” s t ill another. A n o th er .poet’s j w indow rem ains to be created* based j; on E u gene F ie ld ’s poem , “ L it t le Boy.j B lue,” w h ich has a p e cu lia r : s ig n if i- ; cance fo r the fam ily . ^H T h e w in dow s fo r th e chapel proper, iv w h ich are now in the' process o f con-1 struction , a ll rep resen t fa m ilia r scenesp in C h rist’s l i fe — “ serm ons in glaSs.” '

In em phasizin g the esthetic,, praeti- i cal conven iences h ave not been • over- I looked. A te lephone system connects j writh the G arre tt hom e on the lake- j shore som e 700 fe e t below . T h e m usic; j p layed in the chapel m ay a lso bel heard at the hom e. B u rg la r a larm s guard the p rop erty , and. e le c tr ic fu r­naces W ill m oderate e x trem e ly co ld [ tem peratures. A huge under-ground j re s e rvo ir stores seve ra l thousand gal- ! Ions o f spring wra te r fo r the chapel..i T h e e le c tr ic cu rren t is brought under , the east branch o f the lake fro m 'K e u - I ka in a spec ia l cable.

T h e c liape l w ill be m ain ta ined b y an i en dow m ent fund p rov id ed by the | bu ilders and m ay be used fo r any. k ind o f serV ice in the fu ture. Led tu res and j serm ons m ay be g iv en there , p rov id in g , th ey a re on subjects not con trovers ia l;

I THE LATE JOHN H. JOHNSON I In look ing over the papers w h ich re fer to the death o f Mr. Johnson, I : see the account o f the activities, o f a • public nature in which he was -engag-; ed but I see no re feren ce to the fa c t! o f his connection w ith Keuka College, i

j F rom its ve ry beginning, Mr. John­son was in terested in Keuka College. H e had the eye o f a prophet to see | what its possib ilities m ight be. N ot only to m ake it possible fo r boys and g irls o f lim ited means tp g e/ a co>*1 ege^education ' but he la w also tn e social and financial asset to Penn Yan and surrounding country.

I became acquainted w ith him lon g ' be fore the establishm ent o f the C iti­zens Bank. H e was am ong th e ea rlie r trustees o f Keuka C o lleg e and in this capacity I cam e to know h im ve ry w ell. H e was not on ly a trustee but fo r years was on the execu tive com ­m ittee and w as fo r a t im e acting treasurer o f the co llege. I cam e to know his hum ane nature and his k in d ly sym pathy fo r those in need and in trouble. W e re it not to speak o f th ings w h ich he h im se lf w ou ld not consider w orth m en tion in g I could speak o f personal fa vo rs and acts o f kindness. And, a fte r a ll, is not this the rea l test o f a m an? .

I t is not how shrew d a man m ay be in a business transaction o r how

m oney he m ay bje w o rth but a heart has the man? re la tion s to his fe llo w

muchw hatW h atman?

kind o f a re his

Z. F. GRIFFIN, Keuka Park

July 3, 1931

Board of Educationt,

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the- regu la r, m eetin g o f the Board^of Education held at the Junior. H igh School on M onday even ing, J u ly1

. l ’ f t P fo llo w in g men w ere reappo in t­ed as jan ito rs o f the Penn Y an Pub-

. lie School fo r the com ing y ea r : Chief V Jan ito r, W illiam . C rane; assistants v F ra n k Conklin , W ilson Cham bers, L e s ­

lie L o ree , H ow ard T y le r , A da lbert ■ j Snyder, and Sam uel A rm stron g ,

j Th e o fficers o f the B oard o f Edu- j . cation w ere au thorized to prepare

and publish the prop er notices a u -1 th o r iz in g the annual school m ee tin r j o f the d is tr ic t on Tuesday, A ugu st 4 !

; , 1931, at 2:00 p. m.\ T ru stee B aker and the C lerk o f the I B oard w ere appointed a com m ittee t- J find out the status o f unpaid school £? taxes and to recom m end a rem edy fo. f; co lle c t in g unpaid taxes.

Th e B oard adopted the fo llo w in g 1; reso lu tion on the death o f the fo rm e1- f, P res id en t o f the Bq^rd, John H J Johnson.

W hereas, w e have learned w ith sor- § row and re g re t o f thg death on Jirn 28, 1931, o f John H. Johnson, w ho fo j th ir ty yea rs served th is d is tr ic t as z i m em ber o f th is Board, a la rg e por M tion o f w h ich tim e he served as ^President. T o express the apprecia- / tion o f the peop le o f th e Penn Y*1 L , U n ion School D is tr ic t fo r the fa ith - I fu l, in te llig en t and constru ctive se: v ic es so rendered , be it

R eso lved , T h at w e p lace on the rec/: $ ords o f the D is tr ic t this estim ation r I the g rea t va lu e o f the services s ; | rendered by John H. Johnson, an--' ^ that w e extend to his fa m ily our dee f ;

sym pa th y fo r the bereavem ent tip su ffe r and to the com m unity he chose M fo r his hom e and his labors, our sym pathy fo r the loss Of a construct­iv e leader in th e ir business, c iv ic and m ora l a c t iv it ie s ; and it is fu rth er

o lved , that the C lerk be instru.ct- spread these reso lu tions upon

o f the sejm ol d is tric t and a copy th ereo f to K j

R es ed to the record to transmit

A hail storm , sw eep ing th rough the' Guyanqga V a lle y and dam aging crop;; and p rop erty to the g j t e n t o f severa l hundreds o f thousands o f d o lla r s ,. ac­com panied a heavy-, dow npour o f ra in on W ednesday a ftern oon , Ju ly 8th, about 4:30 o ’c lock . -

Th e rou te o f the d estru ctive storm started northeast o f th e v il la g e o i B ranchport, and at the M e lv in D avis fa rm , about one m ile northeast o f j the v il la g e it struck w ith in ten s ity j and then sw ep t up through, the v a l- j

ley in a path about tw o m iles w ide ; and five m ile long, le v e lin g g ra in I fields, d estroy in g berry , bean, potato and corn crops and w ip in g from the j

fa rm er ’s fie lds h is sustenance fo r h im se lf and his stock fo r the com in g j w in ter. Corn, w heat and o th er gra in s w ere to ta lly destroyed in som e fields and p a rtia lly in others.

A t the S idney White- fa rm , 14 acres ! o f v in eyard as weM as bean and po ta ­to crops w ere dam aged beyond rep a r­ation. Th e v in eya rd w as estim ated to y ie ld about 60 tons o f grap es a.nd is a to ta l loss.

j O ther G uyanoga fa rm s w h ich w ere 1 hard h it w ere those o f W a tk in s D a v ­is, w ho w ill be ob liged to p lan t som e crops fo r w in te r fe ed fo r his

j sheep and other stock, as h is fie ld : j w ere leve led . H e rb e r t W ixom , W a lte r 1 W h ite , F red Conklin , F ra n k Ingra.m, H a rry S isson, A rth u r Sisson, L eo

j j H oban -and m any others today are- look in g at a vast acreage o f a lm ostI barren ground, w h ere y es te rd ay ex-i jj cep tion a lly fin e crops w ere g row in g.! ' Both sides o f the G uyanoga Valley|

j w ere sw ept, and th e storm sp lit and]- -swept up over portion s o f W es t H ill. the fa rm s o f Jerom e W indnaglp , W il- ; liam W a lla ce , A lb e r t D ixon , F red A rm s tro n g and others being p a r tia lly

I devastated.

j Continu ing fa r th e r northeast, the i stornL_struck +1:ua farrn o f Rm ihen Sut­ton w h ere the- stones la y on the ground *12 inches th ick , ‘ and w h ere fields o f pota toes w ere l it e r a l ly sw ep t fr im sight, th e g reen tops be ing whipped- and cut into- shreds, so that it w as d ifficu lt to recogn ize them as potato v ines.potato vines. G rap e v in eyard s in the path o f the s to rm w e re in ju red bad­ly. A n y sm a ll g ra ces w h ich w ere le ft on th e v in es w erp a ll h it by. the ha ilstones and bear deep brow n scars, w h ere th e stones c lipped them .

Th u rsd ay m orn ing, 16 hours a fte r the storm struck , L e o H oban w ho owns the G eo rge T in d a ll fa rm -o-n the old County H ou se Road, b rou gh t a la rg e foot-tub, filled , w ith hail, in to the D em ocrat o ffice . T h e hq.il had been exposed to the sun fou r hours but s t ill rem ained in chunks -of so lid ice, w e igh in g about 20 pounds and in substance resem b lin g b locks o f concrete , so so lid ly the ha il becom e lodg.ed. Th e anche o f ha il had p iled up ip. p laces from 1 % to 2 fe e t deep.

“ 'M uch dam age is as yet u nreport-1 ed, and a check-up on the losses has ft not been made, but estim ates in | dam age range from ha lf a m illion | dollars.?,to a m illion .

Samuel I. Thayer

each.so lid

hadava l-some

T o m ost o f the g row ers , the dam- !j age m eans the loss' o f a y ea r ’s labor, !| not counting the see^, fe r t i l iz e r and 1 o th er expense in c iden t tp .the p lan t- I in g and ra is in g o f a fa rm crop, and in I the section w h ere the dam age w a - I g rea test, few ca rr ied ha il insurance 1

! as i t w as though t to be out o f the I i “ h a il b e lt.”

la rg e as la rg e as roo fs o f

fa m ily o f the decedent.

Th e la rg e stones, som e as |j h ick o ry nuts and others as j walnuts, to re th rough the xuvxo u ! the hen-house and ga rage at the S u t- .

! i ton farm . A portion o f the pea v in ery , j I located betw een Ita ly , and B ranch- ' jj port, was t o r n down and the crop o f ' garden peas in sam e fields dam aged

Samuel I. Th ayer, 75, 'p rom in en t! residen t o f Yates C ou nty and in terest-1 ed in po litics in this comtnunity f"> j the past severa l years, passed aw ay I at his home in Dundee on W ed n gs -I dav m orn ing, Ju ly 8, 1931.

H e was born in the town o f B ar-1 | r in gton on N ovem ber 7, 1855, the son|| I o f Sam uel and A nn Thayer: H e re-l/<

sided in the tow n o f B arr in g ton most|| o f his l i fe tim e, engaged in fa rm in g .^ F o r the past five years, f he has liv-fl^ ed in Dundee, hav in g sqld his farm.j||

M r. Th ayer was c le rk o f the Y e te s !! County Board o f Supervisors in 1901, | and a m em ber o f the board fo r s ix t i years, rep resen tin g the tow n o f Bar-ij®

I r in g ton from 1905 to 1911. H e was anjf|! I arden t Dem ocrat.I H e leaves his w ife , G eorg ia Th ayer , T h e fu nera l w ill be held on SaturdayraS a ftern oon at tw o o ’c lock frqm them hom e in Dundee, R ev. G eorge McCul-j;,| loch, pastor o f the Presbyt.pnp-. I/| Church, o ffic ia tin g , w ith buria l in (I Dundee cem etery. K euka Lodge, I. 0,1!O. F., o f Penn Yan, w ill have ch?.rg' I I ;of the com m itta l services.

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M E A D — A t her hom e in H a ll, N. Y., 8 Sunday even ing, Ju ly 5th, Mrs. M ar- I g a re t T a y lo r Rappl-eye Mead. jj:She was the w ife o f W illia m ' ,C. 1

|.!Mead, postm aster at H q ll, a-nd had i ||been a res iden t o f H a ll fo r the past | 40 years. Th e couple w ere to cele- g§

bra te th e ir 50th w edd ing ann iversary I in N ovem ber. Besides her husband, JOT

|f she is su rvived by tw o daughters, Mrs. l| A . F red e r ick B iggers and Miss E ls i j iS l

Mead, o f H a ll; tw o sisters, Mrs. H.J. M cK in n ey , o f M idd letow n, and Mrs. E

•|C. F. WThitaker, o f Penn Yap. The y j ||funeral services w e re ' held at th

.home Tuesday a fternoon at 2:30, w ith , burial in Bellona. Mrs. Mead was a

/ m em b er o f the P resbyterian Church J and o f Gu-ya-no-ga Chapter, Daugh- ‘d ters o f th e A m erican Revo lu tion .

^ B IR K E T T — On ' Saturday, Ju ly 4th, | C laude - H. B irkett, aged 56. 1

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Th e fu n era l was held from the | fa m ily hom e at 331 M ain Street, on jj M onday a fternoon , R ev. W-alter A . | H en ricks, pastor o f the F irs t P resh y- | terian Church o ffic ia tin g. B uria l in La k e V iew cem etery. S u rv iv in g are his w ife , Mrs. Pau lin e H. B irk e tt; tw o sons, C laude H en ry , Jr.,. and East- I j m an B irkett, at hom e; tw o sisters, j - Mrs, G eprge Smith, o f Dresden, and j- Mrs. C larence Ferenbaugh, , o f Penn j| Y an ; a brother, W illia m B irkett, o f Dresden. .The fu nera l was private.

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T o th e E n ro lled R epu b lican V oters ' ■of Y a tes County:H a v in g been u rged

a ll o v e r th e county cand ida te fo r M em ber h ave acceded to th e ir sh a ll be a cand ida te

I w an t to thank p o r te r o f la s t y ea r

by m y fr ien d s ] to a ga in be a; o f A ssem b ly , J

requ est a n d 1 fo r th at o ffice , i

e v e ry lo ya l sup-I and u rge e v e ry

one to ga th er to ge th er hjls friends, to the cause o f con stru c tive leg is la tion .

Y ou a ll kn ow I stand fo r fa rm r e ­l ie f and by fa rm r e l ie f I m ean equ a l­iza tion o f ta xa tion . R em em ber m y p o lic y on the p e tro leu m tax last year.? I s t i l l stand by it.

W e need a la rg e r , b e tter and m ore com p le te o rgan iza tio n in th is coun­ty, an o rga n iza tio n that w i l l g e t to ­g e th e r in a b lu e m oon and exchange ideas on county a ffa irs . Or, do you j w an t to be con stan tly ca lled to ge th ­er by the m as te r ’s tru m pet on p r i­m a ry and e lec tion days.

I f th e p eop le s t i l l a re in teres ted in one-m an p o lit ic s and one-m an g o ve rn ­m ent, then n om inate one o f th e oth- j ers on the t ick e t and count m e out. I But, i f yo-u a re not sa tis fied w ith th e 1 p resen t status, then o ve r th ro w th e ; dom in ation o f o th ers u nearth a l i t ­t le sp ir it o f s e lf-con tro l, th e sam e as hundreds d id la s t yea r, and support m y can d idacy fo r con stru ctive le g is ­la tion , fo r the P e o p le and by th e Peop le .

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Theodore G. Ross

T h eod ore G. Ross, aged 87, died at h is hom e at 116 B enham S treet on

' F r iday , Ju ly 10th.M r. R oss w as one o f Y a tes Coun-

tys w e ll kn ow n and respected citizens. H e had been a c tive up un til a few hours o f his death, a ttend ing to sev ­e ra l business deta ils un Friday.. A bou t one y ea r ago he su ffered a se r­ious illn ess and, a lthough he had been a c tive since his reco ve ry , his da ily rou tin e w as som ew h at_s lackened . H e had been id en tified w ith pu b lic » l i fe in th is com m u n ity fo r m any years..

Th eod ore G. R oss w as born in the T o w n o f T o rre y , N ovem ber 22, 1844. th e son -of John W in g and M a ry S tark Ross. H e spent his ea r ly boyhood on

; the hom e fa rm in T o rre y , and, fo r • s e v e ra l years he w as c le rk o f the

B enham H o te l and a lso conducted th e Shearm an H ouse, a fam ous hos­te lr y o f Penn Y a n in fo rm er days. H e a lso conducted the Fa ir 'ch ild H ouse in H am m ondsport, du rin g w h ich tim e he. m et m any fam ous peop le and m ade

| lo n g and la s tin g fr iendsh ips .

T h e ab ove is a v ie w t a k e n f r o m th e old M a n s io n hciuse o v e r lo o k in g th e C ro o k e d L a k e o u t le t and c a n a l d u r in g th e e x t r e m e ly h ig h w a t e r w h ic h f low ed o v e r th e d am in th e S p r in g o f 1870. " B i l l ” H i t t l e 's bus, th e m i l ls , th e old b r id g e , a ll m e n t io n e d in th e a r t ic le b e lo w , a r e c le a r ly s h o w n . A ls o note in th e im m e d ia te fo r e g r o u n d th e la w n b e tw e e n th e h o te l f r o m w h ic h th e p ic tu re w a s ta k e n and th e s id e w a lk c o m in g in to M a in s t r e e t f r o m W a g e n e r an d W a t e r ( th e n C a n a ! ) s t re e ts , th is space n o w b e in g o c c u p ie d b y th e a d d i t io n to th e K n a p p house. In th e e x t r e m e r ig h t of th e p ic tu r e m a y be seen th e t o w path b r id g e o v e r th e o u t le t . T h e c a n g l is ju s t b eyo n d th e ro ad in th e a b ove p ic ­tu r e , th e cana l bed n o w b e ing o c cup ied by th e C h r o n ic le , A n d e rs o n and Q u e n a n b locks on lo w e r M a in s t r e e t .

E d ito r Chron ic le-Express: —Abou t 100 years ago , the hotel,

; know n as the M ansion house, w as on I the corner w here the K napp house is

now . It was the on ly hote l in Penn i Y an and w here our e ldest b roth er w as : born. Th e southern part o f the Man- ! si on house was back from M ain s tree t

about 7.5 fe e t and surrounded w ith a ; p icket fence. M any traged ies have oc­

curred in this im m ed ia te v ic in ity , a lso som e elsew here, w hich v-e w ill m en­tion. A t a pole ra is in g inside q f the enclosure, Mr. R obbins had his leg broken. H e was the fa th er o f L o ren Robbins who m arried a daugh ter o f

‘ Plon. Darius A. Ogden, w ho about that j tim e was U. S. consul a t Honolu lu .

A t a Fourth o f Ju ly ce leb ra tion , a | cannon that was be ing fired on Canal ’ street, opposite the M ansion house, blew, off an arm o f Shube K n iffin . F rom the old w ooden b ridge crossing the outlet, there w ere steps lead in g down to the tow path, south side o f the canal. N o t fa r from the M ain s tree t bridge, a man said to have been in tox ­icated, fe ll in to the ou tle t and w as drowned. W e saw h im ju st a fte r he w as taken out, and it w as .a gruesom e sight. The fo re go in g even ts occurred about 75 years ago.

A t a la ter date w hen “ B il l” H it t le ’s team ran aw ay down M ain s tree t from the post office at M aiden lane, a young lady passanger tried to jum p out o f the hack as they turned the corner. T h e hack upset," k illin g her instan tly.

j D u rin g the days o f the C iv il W a r,’ at th e age o f 20, Mr. Ross o rgan ized his ow n com pany and, as captain,

/ en tra ined fo r E lm ira , exp ecting to I s e e servce at the fron t, but, .before ; that could take place, th e w ar ended, y H e served as c le rk o f the Ya tes ij County Board o f S u perv isors fo r sev- | era l years, and had been tax assessor! ; fo r about 25 years.

S u rv iv in g are his w ife ; tw o d a u gh f | ters, Mrs. M a rga re t D u rrv , at h om e;!I M iss Sabra Ross, o f P h ilad e lph ia , Pa. I p o n e son, F red Ross, o f Penn Yan , an®

j one sister, Mrs. C a lv in Huson, o|I I T o rrey .I T h e funera l w as held on H o n d a ! X a fternoon at 3 o jc lock fro m the hom e; j R ev. John E. W ootton , o f St. M a r k j | E p iscopa l, Church, th is v il la g e , and jj R ev . J. IT. P erk in s , o f St. L u k e ’s, I B ranchport, officiating. B u ria l in L a k eI . V iew cenfetery.

[ T h e store o f “ Van, the Furn itu re j M an ,” w as next to the M ansion house on the north. H is advertisem en ts w ere do le fu l and ga ve -the im pression he w as on his la st legs ph ys ica lly , finan­c ia lly and o therw ise . I t appeared as an e ffo r t to obta in trade from sym pa­thy. H ow ever , he paid his ju st ob li­gations and dea lt fa ir ly w ith his cus­tom ers. H is son, “ B ony,” acquired consid erab le n o to r ie ty from being en­gaged in an u nw orth y schem e, but w e have no persona l k n ow ledge o f it.

T h e B row n m ill, firs t one on the le ft and ju st east o f the canal and tow path, w as ow ned and operated by Cast- n er and Sheetz. T h e W h ite m ill far-; t lie r east, w as ow ned and operated by Jerem iah J ille tt. A fte rw a rd s , "owing to financia l losses, he w as fo rced to re­t ire from business. R a th er than being dependent on others, he sought w ork in the v in eya rd s at B lu ff P o in t at 50c a day. W h ile at w o rk on a dock being bu ilt at. H e a r t ’s Content, he m et a tra g ic death. Th rou gh an erro r in d r iv in g a lon g p ile w h ere a shorter one should have been used, it was n ecessa ry to cut another one. W h ile cu ttin g down the tre e and w hen it was p a rtly cut through, it p lit up, fe ll over on h im and crushed out his life . . H6 w as our teach er ,in the P resby terian Sunday school, w as a devou t and sin­cere C hristian and w e kn ew he /iad gone to e tern a l rest.

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NICHOLS— At Geneva, on Thursday, July 1th, Fred Briggs Nichiols, aged

$59 years. /|Death, which was sudden, was the-1

result of a heart attack, suffered : while Mr. Nichols was seated in a j barber chair in the shlop of P. H. Ban- j well. Mr. Nichols was born in Milo, N. Y., and was employed in one of the local banks for some time, then going J to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where | lie spent several years.. For the past]! eight years he was steward of the j Elks Club at Geneva, K Y. The body j of Mr. Nichiols lay in state in the Elks’ Home in Geneva from Saturday noon j until the funeral services on Sunday j afternoon at 2 o’clock in charge of Geneva Lodge, B. P. O. E., fo llow ing! which the funeral cortege proceeded! to this village where Milo Lodge, No.jj 108, F. & A. M., of which the Geneva man was a member, had, charge of the | services at the grave. He is s.GSyoir ( services at the grave in Lake ' View cemetery. Surviving are his father, I Andrew Nichols, and one brother,' Jesse,Nichols, both of Milo.

A t a m eeting o f the board o f d i­r e c to r s o f The C itizens Bank o f Penn ! Yan held on F riday a fternoon , H a rry

4M. Putnam was elected president o f the bank to succeed the late John H.

■Johnson, w ho was president o f the institution since its organ iza tion in

$1899. Mr. Putnam erffered the em p loy j fo f the bank Ju ly 1st, 1909, as a c le rk f ' and some years la ter was prom oted j

I to the o ffice o f assistant cashier. j

When John A. U nderw ood died in j

1925 H a rry was appointed to succeed| : him as cashier. D uring Mr. Johnson ’s |

last illness the active m anagem ent o f : the bank devolved upon him and his ! able m anagem ent o f the a ffa irs o f t h e !, institution and his thorough kn ow l- i | ledge and fa m ilia r ity w ith its problem s] j made him the log ica l successor, to th e/ ■j presidency.

Other o ffice rs elected w ere :Cashier, Pa rm e le Johnson; a ss is t-p

ant cashier, Frances H. L y n n ; te lle r | Leonard J. Sherm an ; chairm an o f th e® board o f d irectors, C larence R. A n -11 drews. G eorge W . H am lin , o f Canan- j A daigua, was elected to fill the u n e x - ll pired term o f Mr. Johnson on thei; board o f d irectors, and C larence R ./

: Andrew s to succeed H en ry M. P a rn ie - ' J 1 le, o f East B loom field, res igned .

Parm ele Johnson, son o f the late^f: president, becam e associated w ith th e p bank in the w in ter o_f 1914 . and has]; served continuously excep t fo r a

seven-m onths period o f m ilita ry s e r -1/ vice in 1918 and 1919. H e has se rved ]

as assistant cash ier fo r severa l y ea rs §| and since the death o f Mr. U nderw ood ] has been secreta ry o f the board o f di- 1 rectors.

M iss L yn n ’s associa tion w ith the j bank dates from the fa ll o f 1912 a n d ! ; : Mr. Sherm an ’s from the sum m er o. • % 1924. Jjffl

Mr. A ndrew s, new chairm an, hasfe| been associated w ith various lo c a l/ !

en terprises and fo r seve ra l yea rs h e/ ' has served on the board o f d ir e c to r s !!

o f B aldw ins Bank, Penn Y a n ’s other

banking institution .

Mr. H am lin is presiden t o f the Can­

andaigua N ation a l Bank and Tru st Com pany and the F. F. Thom pson M em orial H osp ita l o f Canandaigua, treasurer o f the O ntario Orphan A s y ­lum, located in the same c ity ; a lso

the Papec M ach ine Co., o f Sh ortsv ille .

and the F. B. Pease Co., o f R ochester,

m anufacturers o f app le-hand ling m a­ch inery. Besides being a d irec to r in

the Canandaigua bank, he is a mem- i

ber o f the board o f the State bank a Shortsv ille , and the H am lin N ationc I

Bank at H olcom b.

H ow ard L . W ood ru ff, o f Dundee, is v ice-p residen t o f the C itizens Bank: j and has been a m em ber o f the boar:

o f d irectors since the bank was o r ­gan ized in 1899. S ince the death o f L o r im er J. Ogden, the o r ig in a l vice- president, Mr. W ood ru ff has served in

that capacity. M iss M abel V. T a ll- madge and C hristie B. B r igg s a re a lso m em bers of the board.

The following testimonial was adopted by the board of directors on the death of the late president of the bank, John H. Johnson, and a copy

spread upon theI o f the sam e o rdered m in u tes :

J W h e n th e s tream o f l i fe flow s sm oo th ly a lon g and each day bring,- its b less ings and person a l con tacts it is d ifficu lt to b e lie v e that such sa tis ­fy in g cond itions cannot con tin u e fo r - I ever. H e n c e . i t is that the sunderin.r

o f the ties o f fr ien d sh ip and o f bu si­ness associa tion s w h ich have extende< over a period o f m ore than th irty

years occasions a sh ock to ou r d eep ­est natures and a sense o f loss that transcends exp ress ion in w ords.

Such a shock has com e to us in

the loss o f our p res iden t, John H. Jolinson, w h ich occu rred on the 28th

day o f June, fo l lo w in g an illn e ss o j on ly a fe w w eeks. M r. Johnson hac served con tin u ou sly in th is o ffic e I since tlie o rgan iza tion o f the bank in I 1899, and con tinued his a c t iv e duties | until i l l h ea lth fo rc ed h im t o seek a

m uch-needed rest. T h e w e lfa r e o f the

bank and its a b ility to be o f s e r v ic . tot the com m u n ity w e re e v e r a t the fo re fro n t o f h is d e s ir e s ;, T o th is end he labored con stan tly , d is re g a rd in g the w arn in gs o f h is ph ys ic ians an. th e im p ortu n ities o f his associa tes, a

lie w ished to g iv e to the in s titu tion b; had founded “ th e la st fu ll m easu re o f d evo tion .”

M r. Johnson w as fa r m ore than the p residen t o f this p a rticu a r in s titu -

| tion , he eve r g a ve c h e e r fu lly o f hist j best to advance the w e lfa r e o f the com m unity. H igh p ra ise m ust be ac-l corded to h im fo r th is s e rv ic e in a| public cap a c ity as he g a ve fr e e ly top various en terp rises , o f h is tim e and I ab ility . H e served lon g term s in edu­ca tiona l and re lig io u s boards ; and|'

i du rin g the w a r g la d ly did his u tm os j to p rom ote the sa le o f L ib e r ty Bond: [' and to re lie v e su ffe r in g by a id in g ir < the w o rk o f the R ed Cross.

“ B y natu re and in c lin a t ion a lo v e r ; o f peace he b e lieved the cause o f the i A ll ie d N ation s to be a r igh teou s one and n ever sym path ized w ith the p o lic ; j o f n eu tra lity or ‘peace w ith ou t v ic ­tory. ’ A t the conclu sion o f h o s tili- j ties* he gave en th u siastic su pport tc j the idea o f the e rec tion o f a hoapit;; as m em oria l to sons o f Y a tes coun­ty who, fou gh t fo r tb/""-* ^-'untry, R e ­lie v in g that, an in s titu tion fo r the r e ­lie f o f hum an su ffe r in g cou ld best keep in la s tin g rem em b ran ce th ( ideas fo r w h ich th ey sa cr ificed sc m uch : fo r s e ve ra l y ea rs he se rved as a* m em ber iof th e board.

“ H is l i fe w as an exam ple , and his m em ory w ill e v e r be an in sp ira tion tc those associa ted w ith him . T o bin:

j ca m e p eop le from a ll w a lk s o f l i t seek in g aid and counsel, and each re ­ce ived the sam e ca re fu l, cou rteou s a t­ten tion — none w e re tu rned ay^ay un­heard. H is ready sym pathy, keen un­derstand ing, and in fin ite tac t w en fo ; h im and th e bank a host o f fr ien d who fe e l in his pass ing a deep and persona l loss. In the liv e s o f .those who kn ew h im in the in t im a cy o f da ily con tact th ere is le f t a p la ce tha* w ill lon g rem a in u n filled , y e t the re­co lle c tion o f h is s te r lin g q u a lit ie s w ill e v e r be a sou rce o f com fo rt. In d e lib ly w r itten on the tab les o f ou r m em or ies a re his m an y acts o f k indness, hi lo y a lty and unselfishness w h ich w : cause h im a lw a ys ‘to be rem em b ered w ith the ju st.’

“Probably the greatest qualities of Mr. Johnson’s life were shown only to his most intimate associates and

‘ they could not but realize* that her:: was a really great character, one wh not only haxl the truest and highes

r ideals but lived up to them and whet fairness and broadmindedness lasted to the very end of his life.”

H a r r y M . P u t n a m

a n a tiv e o f S ta rk ey , Y a te s county, thelti& g n ew p re s id en t o f th e C itizen s Bank o f P en n Y a n , su cceed in g th e la te John H . { ^ Johnson, p res id en t fo r th e 32 yea rs E since the bank w as o rgan ized , has been|S|| in the e m p lo y m e n t . o f th e in s titu tion ||l| since Ju ly 1st, 1909. A f t e r s e rv in g fo r Jj|| som e tim e as a ss is ta n t cash ier, he was appo in ted ca sh ie r upon the death o f th e la te John A . U n derw ood , in 1925. m l

M r. Pu tn am is th e son o f D enn is H. 1 ,'ij and E s te lla .M . P u tn am o f S ta rk ey . He | a tten d ed S ta rk ey S em in a ry fro m 1902 §§to 1906. F o r s o m e ' fou r m on ths he

; w o rk ed in the fr e ig h t office? o f the P e n n s y lv a n ia ra ilroa d at S ta rk ey , then

: s tu d ied fo r f iv e m onths in the R och es­te r B usiness In stitu te , re tu rn in g hom e in 1908 and en te r in g the C itizen s bank th e fo l lo w in g y e a r .

H e is a t p resen t s e c re ta ry and treas- ™ u re r o f th e L a k es id e C ou n try club, trea su re r o f the board o f education ofjjfflj th e P en n Y a n P u b lic schoo ls and treas- IP " u re r o f the E llsw o rth H o se company, m H e has s e rved the R o ta ry * club as afejj d ire c to r and the M ason ic club as pres* If] id en t-

Mrs. Helen C. Thayer, Form er Yates Resident, Diea in New York

Mrs. Helen C. Thayer, aged 89 years widow of James K. Thayer, who for many years lived on the east side of Lake Keuka near W illow Grove, died Wednesday night, July 22nd, in New York city, at the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles Saunders, 276" Riverside drive, where she bad been making her home during the past several years .

She was an aunt iby marriage, to Archie M. Thayer of East Elm street, Penn Yan. Mr. and Mrs. Thayer and son left by automobile Monday for N ew York city, arriving there W ed­nesday morning, the day her death occurred. Frank B. F. Raymond of Penn Yan, R. D., is a nephew.

Funeral services were held from the Thayer home in Penn Yan Sunday aft­ernoon at 3:00 o’clock with Rev. W il-p liana M. Hydon, pastor of the First | Methodist church of Penn Yan, officiat-* ing, and with burial in the Lake View ], cemetery.

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Penn Yan , N. Y .Ju ly 10, 1931

E d ito r C hron ic le-E xpress: —T h e M ansion house, m en tioned in a

fo rm e r a rtic le , w as rep laced by the Knapp- house. One o f the ea r ly hotels w as the A m erican , w h ere the C orn w ell b lo ck is now . I t w as the rendezvous o f bands and variou s processions, and w h en the bands p layed in the lobby th e n o ise w as enough to ra ise the roof. L iq u id re fresh m en ts w e re a va ilab le in

; any qu an tity the th irs ty had the t m oney to pay fo r. T h e h o te l burned one n igh t w hen the firem en w ere up i the lake on an excursion . V o lu n teer h e lpers apparen tly ca rried out the | fea th e r beds and th rew look in g glass- j es out o f the w indow . A m id the con-S fu sion a couch w as th row n from an upper w indow, h ittin g A . C. G ille tt on ! th e head. H e w as unconscious w hen p icked up and /blood w as tr ick lin g dow n his face . W e found out after- j w ards th at he w as not seriou sly in- j ju red .

T h e p resen t B enham house w as built, a fte r the A m erica n h o te l w as burned.j A b ou t th at tim e M rs. P a g e had a j b oa rd in g house w h ere the E lm w ood i th ea ter, ow ned by our fe l lo w towns- m an, H a rry . C. M orse/ is n o w .. T h e ! P a g e bu ild ing, n ex t w es t o f B o rd w e ll’s ! D ru g s tore and w es t o f the a lley , w as rep laced by the Shearm an house, the bar be in g the p r in c ip a l ob je c t and the room s fo r guests w e re o f l it t le im ­p o rta n ce and in num ber on ly w hat the la w requ ired fo r hotels .

/ T h e .h is to ry o f som e o f the regu la r patrons o f th a t bar is tra g ic . W h en

the E lm w ood .-theater rep laced th is resort, it ; w as a g rea t benefit to Penn Yan . W e are to ld that liquor can now be had in any num ber o f jo in ts, b u t 'w e b e liev e c los ing o f oVer 45 open saloons is a grea t gain .

T h e Benham house w as the nucleus o f n ea rly a ll public ga th erin gs and_ es­p ec ia lly during the C iv il w ar. D rink ­ing was comm on and drunken m en w e re o ften seen on the streets. L icen ses to se ll in tox ica tin g drink w e re eas ily ob- j tained. A t one tim e, strange as it m ay appear, no licenses w e re issued in the tow n o f M ilo . A l l th e en trances o f the hotels in Penn Y a n w ere boarded up, no guests w ere cared fo r, and it w as severa l m onths, and a fte r licenses W ere aga in obtained, b e fo re th ey opened. I t w as an a ttem pt to em bar­rass, the business men. o f P en n Y an /who fo r once had succeeded in tem perance re form . F o r , a short .tim e th ere w as no p lace fo r tra ve le rs to be en terta in ed and hack d rivers in th e ir zea l to se rve the h o te l ow ners annoyed the tem per­ance business m en by d r iv in g back and fo rth and ask ing en terta in m en t for. th e ir passengers.

T h a t situation w as soon rem ed ied and the v illa g e w en t a long sa tis fa c to r i­ly , w ithou t the hotels. -T h ere ’ w as a h o te l in Benton, ju st across H ead street, now N o rth avenue, ow ned by Dudd V a rr, w ho had licen se to se ll liquor. I t w as w ith in th e v il la g e and v e ry ob jection ab le to the tem perance people. Th is led to an a rt ic le by an a c t ive business m an in w h ich .h e ca lled the tow n “ m urderous B enton .”

(Continued on page- thirteen)

D u rin g th is in te rv a l th e drug stores did a th r iv in g business s e llin g p re ­scrip tions issued by w e t doctors, and liqu or dea lers in B en ton becam e rich,

T h e day w il l com e w h en a ll la w w ill be respected , and not such parts asj the in d iv idu a l m ay p re fe r ; T h e t im e 1, is approach in g w h en the 18th am end­m en t w ill be en fo rced as near 100 per cen t as m ost o f our law s. '

T H E O D O R E O. H A M L IN .P . S.

In the la s t a rt ic le the p ic tu re showed a ca rr ia g e o f “ B il l” H it t le ’ s, hut it is not the one in w h ich a young la d y w as k illed . T h a t hack w as a w ooden box­lik e a ffa ir w ith tw o seats, one fa c in g th e fro n t and th e o th er ’ fa c in g the rea r w ith en tran ce doors b e tw een on the sides. T h e ca rr ia ge in the illu s­tra tion is o f a m uch la te r v in tage .

T . O. H .

H A R R IS — A t the So ld iers and Sail-" ors H osp ita l, Saturday, Ju ly 18, 1931, Leon ard H arris , aged 76 years. H e was a life - lo n g res iden t o f

B ranchport, and a m em ber o f th e M. E. Church at that p lace. H e leaves one daughter, Ru th H a rr is A rm s tron g ' tw o grandsons;- one brother, W illia m H arris , o f B lu ff P o in t; and a h a lf- brother, E dw in H arr is , o f R och es ter ;

i also two- nieces, M rs. - Qrba Burtch ; and Mrs-. Iren e G riffith . Th e fu n era l | was held from the hom e o f M rs. Gru | Burtch on M onday a fternoon , R ev . W: C. B. T u rn er o ffic ia tin g . B u ria l in B ranchport cem etery.

On Tuesday, August 4th, a t 2:00 o ’c lock , in Penn Y an A cad em y ’ba llo t­ing w ill beg in fo r three new trustees to take the places o f Judge G ilbert H. Baker, Mrs. A rth u r Burns and Mrs. W a lte r G. H a llstead , w hose term s ex­p ire the firs t o f January, 1932. Th e po lls fo r vo tin g w ill be open until 7:00 o ’clock.

School B u d g et, 1931-32T h e ' fo llo w in g budget has been

recom m ended by the Board o f Educa­tion and w ill be presen ted by the Board at the annual m eetin g o f the schoo l d is tr ic t on Tuesday, A ugu st 4, 1931, at 2:00 p. m.

G enera l con tro l . . .......... $ 8,000.00In stru ctiona l se rv ice .......... 93,000.00O peration ............................... 13,000.00M ain tenance .......... 2,000.00A u x ilia ry agencies .............. 9,000.00F ix ed charges ; ............ 6,000.00D eb t s e r v i c e ...................... 33,000.00C ap ita l o u t la y ................ 5,000.00

$169,000.00D efic it ............ 289.06

T o ta l ____ . . . . . . . _____ $169,289,06

E s t im a t e d R e c e ip tsS ta te aid ............ . . . . . . . . . . $ 88,000.00"T u ition .......................................... 1,000.00Bank tax ...................... 500.00A u d itoriu m ren ta l . . . . . . . . 500.00Ta xes .......................... 79,289.06

T o ta l ................ . . . . .$169,289.06

M UNICIPAL BOARD W IL L RECEIPT J U L Y B ILLS

P e n n Y a n - o w n e d P l a n t G iv e s A w a y

E le c t r ic S e r v ic e o f M o n t h f o r

S e c o n d T i m e

A t the regu la r m ee tin g o f the m un i­cipal board Th u rsd ay even in g the m em bers vo ted to g iv e the Ju ly e le c ­tr ic s e rv ic e w ith ou t ch arge to the us­ers o l P en n Yan-m ade e le c tr ic ity . T h is is the second tim e th is y ea r that the Penn Y a n p lan t has rece ip ted the b ills o f its custom ers.

T h e firs t o f th is y e a r the D ecem ber b ills '' w e re sent to a ll consum ers, r e ­ce ip ted as a C hristm as g ift . T h is am ounted to a con tribu tion o f som e $6,500. S ince th at tim e the earn ings o f th e lo ca l p lan t and the l lg n t de­partm en t h ave con tinued to m ount and now. fo r the second tim e th e cu rren t used in a m onth is b e in g g iv e n to the custom ers. Ju ly b ills w ill p rob ab ly a gg rega te about $5,000. T h e y w ill be rece ip ted w hen p resen ted at th e o ffice .

N o o th e l business w as concluded at this m eetin g , though the id ea o f m an­u factu rin g a rt ific ia l ic e in a m uncipa l p lan t w as discussed.

M em bers o f the board a re : H . A l ­len W a gen e r , p res id en t; E. J. W a lk e r , Jr., I-I. M erton Sm ith , F red W h ita k e r and C harles A . K e lly , v ice-p residen t.

m iPenn Yan, N. Y . \

m i July 23, 1931 |E d ito r C hron icle-Express: —

W e have been requested to reca ll | some o f the w ell-known characters o f Ii

I -many years ago and one o f them was “ M y Shutts.” H e had a ve ry sharp j tongue and his criticism s o f prom inent |i citizens, m ostly true, furnished m ore j or less amusement. “ M y ” was al- !| w ays som ewhat exh iliara ted but could I nav iga te co rrectly .

N a te N o r c u t t Th e man who "was considered gu ilty |

o f anyth ing g o in g t on that was w ron g I was N a te N orcott. W e do q o t reca ll that anyth ing was proved against him ! except in one instance fo r w hich he | paid the penalty. One n igh t “ Brig- J dens C arriage R ep os ito ry ” burned a n d ! was a to ta l loss, but there was noth- j ing to show that N a te had anyth ing to do w ith it. Th is bu ild ing was w here the one now occupied by Charles | Sprague and others, on the south side| o f E ast E lm stree t is now.

D an E l l is A n associa te o f N a te ’s w as Dan El- j

lis, a w agon m aker, h av in g b lack e y e s ! and ha ir and unusually lon g arms, , and not o f p leas ing appearance. H e | lived w ith his m other, a good w o m a n 1 and w orth y o f a good son, on H e a d ; street, now N orth avenue. W e do not | reca ll that Dan w as eve r engaged in any w ron g doing, unless it was in as­socia tion w ith N ate. T h e la tte r ped­dled fish, as w e ll as cabbages and ba-1 nanas, and w hen Dr. O liv e r ’s house, on the northw est corn er o f M ain and Chapel streets, w as robbed, the intrud- f er le ft a kn ife s tick ing in the w indow 1 casing to hold th e sash up w hen he I escaped. W h en our astute but exh il­ia ra ted sh eriff said the kn ife sm elled p o f fish, N a te ’s chances seem ed p re tty j slim , and espec ia lly w hen the officers announced he w ould soon have t l ie i gu ilty pa rty in ja il. As. usual, a ll! that resu lted w as ta lk and no one was| e v e r a rrested or punished.

T o m H a r r is o n Tom H arrison was a well-kno|vn j

ch aracter who liv ed at the en trance o f j the Channel on the south side. H e sold fish and kept “ M innoes fo r S a il” ] to am ateur fisherm en. A s re la ted to us by our gen ia l and esteem ed friend, C a lv in Russell, T om once contracted with, a party in N e w York , to d e live r s ix or m ore dozen fr o g s ’ legs at a tim e, as w anted . T h e loud double bass croak in g o f the frogs in the. n ear­by m arsh caused T om to th ink they

| wene num berless. A t som e fu ture [1 tim e w e m ay r e fe r to that con tract •' and te ll the resu lt, but cannot do so |1 in the in im itab le w a y o f M r. R u ssell, |

W illia m H ittle W illia m H itt le , know n as “ B ill,” !

- had the on ly pub lic hack in town. H e [< w as ob lig in g and a lw ays apo log ized I

: j w hen he fo rg o t to ca ll fo r a passenger H A fo r a train . In that even t, a ll the luck- f■ less t ra v e le r had to do w as to try

;|.again the n ex t day .r F o r som e years, 1; “ B il l” had a pa ir o f t ire less huckskin f;|■ horses and th ey w ere as w e ll know n I;/ as h im self. T h e h igh spot o f his serv-1. j ice w as w hen he had ca lls fo r a tra in i i f io m tw o o r th ree sections o f the vil-

lage. T h a t took va lu ab le tim e and || w hen “ B il l” and the buckskins dashed j f ;

-| on a w ild run across the tra ck ju st in i t | fron t o f the tra in ready to pu ll out h is jV! I passengers w ere in a. sta te o f nervous [

4 co llapse. N o one w a s b e tte r k n o w n , j I and w e can te s t ify from experien ce to :j his ob lig in g d ispos ition and wonder- j ei fu l s tam ina o f the buckskins, nam ed.! J j from th e ir co lor. In those ea r ly tim es w : the cobb lestone pavem en t ex tended to f i! a po in t ju st above the B enham house, (y ’’‘ B eyond w as deep mud in w e t w ea th er ; and a v e ry rough road in co ld w ea th er, 4

j and the sam e conditions p reva iled on I a ll o th er streets . Th ose a re in sharp. ' con trast w ith e v e ry possib le im prove-!' m ent w e n ow have.

Lew is s. AyersAbout 7E> years ago L e w i s S. Ayer^

was postm aster, and he also had ah extensive fire insurance business. T h e f " postoffice was on the corner of Main

I street and M aiden lane w here the Cor-|I coran block stands. I t w as a one-;'| story bu ild ing w ith a sort of stoop ini.| fron t and the boxes and d e liv e ry w in -i I dow wrere just inside. On the north,

side a passagew ay led to the room in I the rear end o f the bu ild ing. M r.;I A ye rs was not to leran t to the young | and none o f the boys and g ir ls lik ed ; to go to the,.post o ffice. Fafiher once •:

: sent us fo r the^ m ail but M r. Ayers w ou ld not d e liv e t it, but w e were sent | back w ith a w ritten order and then I

I obtained it.. Mr. A ye rs was larn-p from \ I a broken leg, and perhaps that af&ected I I his disposition. A fte r his death, his j daughter, H elen , ca rried on the insur- r ance business v e ry su ccessfu lly fo r ; some years. She was an in te llig en t and carefu l business w om an, was w ell liked, and had a la rg e c irc le of! friends w ho m ourned her tra g ic death.];

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JAM ES OSBORNE ELECTED I CHAMBER SECRETARY

P a r m e le Johnson

son o f the la te president o f .the C iti­zens- Bank o f Penn Yan, has been pro m oted To- cashier, H e is a lso -s ec re ­tary o f the board o f d irectors.

Mr. Johnson was graduated from Penn Yan A cadem y in the class o f 1912. I l l health fo rced him to leave W illia m s co llege * a fte r a lit t le m ore than tw o y ea rs ’ w ork. In D ecem ber, 1914, he en tered the bank, and iiasjj w orked there continuously since that tim e, excep tin g severa l months o f m il­ita ry serv ice in 1918 and 1919, m ost

■ o f which t in * he spent in the head­quarters detachm ent at ' Camp , Sheri­dan, A labam a.

On June 21st, 1917, he m arried M a­bel MacGirmes, w hose hom e w as near Ottom an, Lan caster county, Va. Th ey have tw o daughters.

Mr. Johnson has been active in com- fe m un ity organ izations: A t presen t heris secreta ry o f the Y a tes County Gen-1.1, ea log ica l and H is to r ica l soc ie ty and is| e ld er arid clerk o f the session in then F irs t P resb y ter ian church o f Penn| Yan. F o r over ten years he s e r v e d ! as superintendent o f the Church p school. H e has also been treasurer o f the Y a tes Coupty Sunday school as­sociation and o f the Johnson-Costello post, A m eric an L e g io n .

R es ig nat ion of E . C. G i l le t t Accepted

w ith R e g re ts ; D ire c to rs Oppose

S a le of O t isco L a k e

A t a special m eeting o f the directors o f the Penn Yan Chamber o f Com­m erce held in the Knapp hotel Tues­day morning, James Osborne was chos-gf en secretary and treasurer o f the or­ganization to succeed E. C. G illett who had been forced to resign because;' o f ill h ea lth .

Mr. G ille tt has . been v e ry active- in the Chamber o f Com m erce w ork fo i many years and especia lly so during the past four years when he served as both secretary and treasurer on ajp part-time arrangem ent. H e was spend-fi ing much o f his tim e th is spring in|J corimiunity activ ities, , paramount F among them being the elim ination of I the dangerous W id ow h ill, when he | was suddenly stricken ill. S ince that time he has been s low ly recovering {

i but unable to carry on the w ork of i his office. H is resignation was ac- ! cepted w ith reg re t and a resolution of ’ appreciation o f his untiring efforts and keen in terest and w ith a hope fo r his

;continued recove ry .M r. Osborne, who represents two

| Rochester newspapers in Ya tes coun- l ty, has m ade specia l arrangem ent by | which he can g iv e a part o f his' tim e| I to the details o f this o ffice .

A t this m eetin g the Chamber offi-| i cials also passed a resolution in oppo- i si tion to sale o f the sta te ’s rights on

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In the splendor" o f the red and gold robes o f his high church office har­m onizing w ith the magnificent decorations o f the new ly remodeled and redecorated church edifice o f St. M ichael’s parish | in this | village, R igh t Reverend John Francis O’Hern. bishop o f the Rochester diocese, blessed the building and th e new dec­orations and im provem ents at a sol­emn high mass on Sunday mo n r tv in the presence ' o f m ore than 800 people.

Crowded to the doors and w ith the; a isles and vestibu le massed w ith those who had trave lled m any m iles to participate, and’ w itness the im pressive cerem onies, the l it t le church which has y ielded to the m agic touch o f a m aster hand in architecture and art, and which is now one o f the most at­tra c tive sm all churches in W ester N ew York , was the scene 'of the re­dedication services at 10:30 o ’clock. D ign itaries o f the church w ere pres­ent as w e ll as many lay guests and members o f the sisterhood.

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Driving into the yard of his home at Friend, about 1 o’clock on Monday morning, Roy Champlin noticed an unusually bright light in the family kitchen. Hastily investigating he found the kitchen in flames and the

i body of his - aged father, Fremont H. Champlin lying on the smouder-. ing floor, burned and charred beyond i recognition. The floor and walls of I the farm kitchen were burning and Champlin extinguished the flarvm= "T 'hoof'll'ir o ii m YYI f\T> Ail D f. TVT. F . HnstsllO

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M rS. C e le s t ia F . G a r r a t t Mrs. C elestia F. G arratt, w ho entered

in to rest a t h er hom e in Ita ly on Thursday m orning, July 9, 1931, was the daughter o f W illia m H. and E liza ­beth G ille tt Fox. She was born in Ita ly V a lle y D ecem ber 26, 1852, the youngest o f th ree ch ildren, R osa lie M. and O sbert W . F ox having- preceded her to the eterna l hom e.' In 1880 she was united in m arriage

to '/the la te E dw ard Charles Garratt, Wlio passed aw ay O ctober 24, 1928.

! - M rs. G arra tt possessed a s terlin g Character, liv ing, a. life o f industry and in tegrity . H e r strong fa ith in God sustained her during the seve ra l try-

“ing years o f her decline. T h e cher­ished m em ory o f her splendid, brave spirit, w ill rem ain ^ e v e r an in sp ira ­tion and a b less ing .“ W e cannot say, w e w ill not say T h a t she is dead she is ju st a w a y !” '

Th ose w ho su rv iv e are h er daugh­ter, M iss In ez E. G arra tt o f I ta ly 0 and Mrs. D an iel W it t o f E lm ira .

T h e fu nera l s e rv ice , conducted at her la te hom e on Sunday a ftern oon Tuly 12th, at 1:00 o ’c lock , w as la rg e ly a ttended , so m any fr ien ds o f M rs. Gar­ra tt com in g from a d is tance to pay her a la st tr ib u te o f honor. R ev . C. L. E ve la n d o f the B ap tis t church o f­fic iated . T h e bearers w e re : F . F . B r ig lin o f Ita ly , John R . S ch ae ffe r o f Co- 'locton , G eo rge E. L in co ln o f R oches ter, A . F . R obson o f 'P e n n Yan , Charles \. G a rra tt and E a r l D. P a lm er o f Can andaigua. B u ria l w as m ade in Sand H ill c e m e te ry n ear G en eva .

‘Sunset and ev en in g star,A n d one c le a r ca ll fo r m e !

Xnd m ay th ere be no m oan in g o f the bar

W h e n I put out to sea.But such a t id e as m o v in g seem s

asleep ,T o o fu ll fo r sound and foam ,

W h en th a t w h ich d rew fro m out the bou n d less deep

T u rn s a ga in htim e. !

T w ilig h t and e v en in g be ll,A n d a fte r th at th e d a rk !

In d m a y th ere be no sadness o f fa r e ­w e ll,

W h e n I em bark .For thou gh fro m out our bourne oi

T im e and P la ce ,T h e flo od m ay b ea r m e fa r,

r. h op e to m ee t m y P i lo t fa ce to fa ce W h e n I h a ve crossed th e b a r.”

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N IB B L E — A t h e r h om e in C lin ton S tree t, Sunday, A u g u s t 2nd, M r s . ; A d a D. D ibb le .She w as the w id o w o f A . J. D ibb le , I

) f the D ib b le sp oke fa c to r y w h ich w as m e o f th e le a d in g in d u s tr ies in th is ' iom m u n ity s e v e ra l y ea rs ago . T h e 1 'unera l w as h e ld on T u es d a y a fte rn o o n j i t 2:30 o 'c lo c k fr o m th e h om e. R e v . I W. .A . H e n r ic k s o f f ic ia t in g . B u r ia l in j bake V ie w c e m ete ry . She is su rv iv d by i i n iece , M rs. Jam es D o y le , o f N un da, j N. Y. ‘ IB E A C H — A t th e S o ld ie rs and S a ilo r s ’

H o s p ita l, S a tu rd a y , A u g u s t 1st, B ra d le y H . B each , a ged 57. jT h e fu n e ra l w a s h e ld fr o m ■*" e h om e

it 413 L ib e r ty S tr e e t T u es d a y a f t e r ­noon at 2 o ’ c lo ck , R e v . W . M. H y d o n D ffic ia ting . B u r ia l w as in R u s h v ille cem etery . S u v iv in g a r e on e d au gh ter, Miss G e ra ld in e B each , a t h o m e ; tw o sis ters. M rs . G. E . L a m p so n and M iss B ertha B each , o f th is v i l la g e .Cjrrt r r A T * '

Gas Companies Consolidate

Belmont C. to Take Output of Cunningham Co.

A fte r m any w eeks o f ; negotia tions and conferences, announcem ent has been made by F ran k P. B rew ster, president o f the B e lm on t Q uadrangle D r illin g Corporation, the la rges t com -

I pany in the W ayne-D u ndee gas fie ld,I that his com pany had signed con tract w ith the Cunningham N atu ra l Gas Corporation to take the en tire gas output o f th seven w e lls ow ned by Cunningham. Th is is the b igges t new s to break in the W ayn e fie ld in some­tim e and assures in creased d r ill in g

j activ ities throughout the en tire sec- tion.

Mr. B rew ster in m ak in g th is an­nouncem ent is rep orted to h ave saicl,

I “ Th is contract betw een the B e lm on t Quadrangle D r ill in g C o rp o ra tion and

j the Cunningham N atu ra l Gas C orpor- | ation unquestionably unites th e tw o I la rgest operators in the W a yn e fie ld ,! Both com panies ow n leases o v e r a I la rg e area and in o ther s tru ctu res w h ich aye be lieved even m ore p ro ­ductive than the W a yn e area. F u tu re operations w ill be conducted coop e ra ­t iv e ly and :on a fr ie n d ly basis.”

Announcem ent o f the con tra c t f o l ­low s c lo se ly on p lans g iven out for- th e la y in g o f a p ip e lin e fro m th e W ayne gas fie ld to Ham.mondspoi.rl, Bath and up the C ohocton V a lle y t& to D an sv ille under a con tra c t b e tw een the B elm ont Q u adrangle P r i l l in g C or­pora tion and the Iro q u o is Gas Com ­pany o f B u ffa lo , w h ich su pp lies th e c ity o f B u ffa lo w ith gas. F ran ch ises to supply tow ns a lon g the lin e h ave been secured and the la v in g o f the p ipe line w ill be th e n ex t m ove. P re s ­ent plans ca ll fo r th e com p le tion o f the lin e by January 1, 1932. T h e I r o - quois Gas C om pany is rep o rted to have guaran teed to the C unn ingham N atu ra l Gas C orp ora tion th at the B e l­m ont Q u adran g le C om pany w i l l fu lf i l l a ll th e p rov is ion s o f its con tract.

M ean w h ile , one o f the C unn ingham w e lls , D en cen berg No. 1, w i l l be h ook ­ed up w ith the p resen t B e lm on t p ipe lin e lead in g fro m the W a y n e fie ld to the D undee p u r ify in g p la n t w h e re it taps the lin e to H o rse liea d s and B in g ­ham ton . W o rk w i l l b eg in at once on th e con n ec tin g lin e and w ith in a fe w days, gas fro m th is w e l l w i l l be put in to th e line.

B oth com pan ies ow n co n s id erab le a c rea ge in o th er s tru c tu res w h ic li w i l l be d eve loped c o o p e ra t iv e ly . T o r - rey , F ra lic h and S im m ons, co n su lt in g g eo lo g is ts fo r both com p an ies , a re m a k in g loca tion s at th e p re sen t t im e

j in fa v o ra b le s tru c tu re and d r i l l in g | op e ra t io n s w ill soon be s ta rted . L e s s than ten per cent, o f th e a c rea g e has been d eve loped to date.

T h e C unn ingham C om p an y ow n s seven w e lls n ow shut in h a y in g a d a ily ca p a c ity o f a p p ro x im a te ly 19,- 000,000 cubic fe e t and is th e secon d la rg e s t op era to r in th e fie ld . T h e B e l­m on t Q u ad ra n g le D r i l l in g C o rp o ra tio n is th e la rg e s t com p an y and p io n ee re d in th e fie ld . B e lm on t has a to ta l o f 27 o f the 64 gas w e lls b ro u gh t in in th e W a yn e-D u n d ee fie ld to date, in c lu d in g 19 s'our gas w e lls in th e T y r o n e -A lt a y section .

John T . C unn ingham , o f B ath , is p re s id en t o f the C u n n in gh am C om p a n y w h ich w as re c en t ly re o rg a n iz e d . O th er o ffic e rs and d ire c to rs a re Jam.es M . F ra s e r , o f B rad fo rd , P a .; F r e d e r ic kD. G a llu , o f B ra d fo rd , Pa..; W ils o n R J C am p b e ll, p res id en t o f th e F a rm e r s & M ech a n ics T ru s t C om p an y ,o f B a th ; F ra n k W . C au lk in s, o f B ra d fo rd , and R o b e r t E. C ole, o f th e la w firm . o f|

A lfr e d L . W e lch , 30, o f D resden; w h i h in stan tly k illed about 11 o ’clock on ; Tu esday m orn ing w hen a runaway

horse w h ich he had caught, jerked | aw ay from h im and kicked him over | the heart. W e lch gasped just once and > 3 fe l l dead.

W e lch w as w ork in g fo r R ichard L a r­i ’ za le re and W en d e ll M ittow er, shocking | gra in , w hen severa l horses belonging

to a n e ighbor, A rd en Sorensen,, broke I th rough a fen ce and in to a w heat field | in w h ich W e lch w as w ork ing . T h e ani- 1 m als. w e re cornered and Welph H grabbed one horse, know n to be o f a jj v ic iou s nature, around the neck. He PI w as unable to hold th e horse as there

w as no b r id le or harness on" the an i­m al, and as it je rk ed aw ay from the

m a n , it k icked its h ipd feet, ptrilV- W e lch ove r the heart, and k illin g him in stan tly . D r. G eo rge E. W e lk er , of. D resden , w as ca lled and issued a cer-

,j t ific a te o f acc id en ta l death.W e lch is su rv ived by h is m o th e r

IM fs-; L a u ra Jones, o f R ochester, and a ^ s is te r , M rs. James W atk ins, o f C lift ;■ Sprin gs. F u n era l serv ices w ere h 1 from the T h a yer fu n era l hom e on .Thursday at 3:30 o ’ clock. B uria l in

' L a k e V ie w cem etery .

To Open Law Office

H o m er C. P e lto n , o f this v illa g e , has fo rm ed a p a rtn ersh ip w ith Joseph J. D oy le , o f R och es ter , fo r the p ra c ­tice o f la w in P en n Y a n and Seneca- F a lls , and h ave leased o ffices in both p laces. T h e you n g a tto rn eys purchased the ex ten s iv e la w lib ra ry o f th e la te D an ie l W . M oran , o f Seneca F a lls . M r. P e lto n is a g rad u a te o f P en n Y a n A cad em y , 1922, and a g rad u a te o f the la w schoo l o f th e U n iv e rs ity o f M ich-, igan , 1928. H e has been p ra c t ic in g la w w ith a R o ch es te r firm o f a ttorneys,

M r. D o y le is a n a tiv e o f Ph e lp s , an£ a g rad u a te o f S t. F ra n c is de Sa les h igh school, G en eva , 1923, r e c e iv in g h is d eg re e a t th e A lb a n y la w school in 1928. H e has been en gaged in the p rac-

jftice o f la w w ith h is u ncle , Joseph P- j D oy le , in R o ch es ter .1 T h e n ew firm o f a tto rn eys w i l l h ave j o ffic e s in both P en n Y a n and SenecaF a lls . B B H B H

S M r. P e lto n w i l l h ave ch arge o f the P en n Y a n o ffic e o f th e la w firm , w ith o ffic e s o v e r th e D eck erm a n S to re in has been g iv en o t th e assessors and in -

T H E F E E QUEJSTTED W A T“W hat did I see by the untrodden

way?”I saw a flower that blossomed for a

day.I saw a tree that from an acorn grew,A spray that wore its shining gems of

dew.

I saw a great arm ada passing byThe ships that sail the ocean of the

sky.I saw a feathered mother carry foodTo quench the hunger of her nestling

brood. >

I saw a stream, that sang a song to me| A saga of its final home the sea.! I saw the ardent sunshine over all.And nature’s quick response unto the

ca ll.. , ,

I saw abounding life spring every­where

Upon the earth, within the sea and air.And yet there came no answer to my

cry,That oft repeated, ever present, WHY?

A. F . R ,

3MH3 —'

The History cf Keuka College

Rev. Z. F. Griffin Writes History of Institution from StartTo Present Time

.raff S - J .

OLD K E U K A C O LLE G E

P re fa ceSome of m y friends and the friends |

I o f the co llege have suggested that I - | w rite, fo r the benefit of those w lio [ 1 are to come after, a h istory o f the college. I t is safe to say that no per-1 son now liv in g has had as long or m ore personal know ledge o f it thani I have had. I have had a- close sec-p ond hand know ledge from the very !

; beginn ing and a fo r m any years.

I was elected board o f trustees a m em ber o f the August 11, 1896.

personal know ledge

a member- ,o-f the I August 23, 1895, and I executive 'committee i W ith the excep tion ;

j o f five years spent in India I h a v e !I been thus o ffic ia lly connected w ith ! the co llege until ■ the present ; time, j | In addition to this, from January, j 11897, to January, 1903, I was secretary ! and treasurer, and fo r a tim e vice-1 president. I m ere ly m ention these j facts to show that I have a fa ir ly defi- \ nite know ledge o f things o f which I I am to w rite.

No h is tory springs m ushroom -like j jfrom the ground over night. Th ere are j •causes ly in g back of a ll h is torica l events. In order to understand the f

h is to ry of Keuka C o llege w e m ust go back in the re lig iou s h istory o f this [ country fo r one hundred and eigh ty I

am not go ing to discuss I.j at any length but as b rie f Ii!

be, show the connection be- [ j ; tween the th eo logy o f that day and! ; i Keuka College.

T w o hundred years ago nearly a l l ! the re lig iou s denom inations o f New if England be lieved the doctrine of John l: Calvin and that was that God o rd a in - ! ed every th in g which came to pass. I The term s used w ere “ Foreord ina- E tion ” and “ P redestin ation ,” Those are [ big words and ra re ly pow used. W ith reference to a man s relig ious life- i t ' sim ply m eant that man was not free || to chose his course and could do !| noth ing to a lte r his course. Man was [:1 pow erless to help him self.

In the year 1749 in the v illa g e o f i N ew Castle, N. H., a baby boy was j| born and they named him Benjanr'n | Randall. H is people w ere C ongrega- r tionalists, and when he became a man j

years. L theology as maj

he united w ith that church. After-1: w ard he jo ined the Baptist church I and- became a Baptist m inister. But f the thought th a t God ordained that a man should be lost and that man | could do nothing to help h im self was 42 ve ry repugnant to him so he began to preaoh a free ' sa lvation fo r all who would accept it. The old regu ­la r Baptist denom ination ca lled him a “ F reew iller,'” and th ey cast him out I o f th e Baptist fold, both him and a ll his fo llow ers . And th a t was the origin I of t h e F r e e w i l l Baptists. A fte rw a rd ; they changed the nanie to “ F ree Bap - 1 tists,” fo r they believed in open com- | munion in d istinction to “ close com- f; muni on” as practiced by the la rge r I body. I t was the “ F ree B aptists” who I founded Keuka College.

In connection w ith this it is a ls o f necessary to expla in that these Free!; Baptist churches in the State o f Newp Y o rk and Pennsylvan ia form ed them-;; selves in to an association and th is ! was known as' ‘ ‘The Central Ass:ocia-| tion .” And now" we have, the back-| ground fo r our h is to rica l sketch forjj, the “ Central A ssoc ia tion '’ w ill be fre-| quently re fe rred to.

A t a m eeting o f the C entral As-so^ elation in the v illa g e o f Apalach in , N. Y., in 1882, which m eeting 1“ a t­tended, the qu&stion o f establish ing a co lleg e and assem bly w as brought up and discussed but on ly in a ten ta­tive way. Y ea r -after year it was dis­cussed and each year brought the sub­jec t m ore n early to a conclusion. In the state o f N ew Y o rk there w as another re lig iou s denom ination ve ry s im ila r to the F ree Baptists in b e lie f and prac­tice and they w ere know n as the “ Christian D enom ination .” T h e ir state convention was called, “ New Y o rk State Christian A ssocia tion .” Th is body had a school ait Eddy town (n ow S ta rk e y ). I t was suggested by some o f our leaders and especia lly Dr. Geo. H. B all, that possib ly these tw o bodies m ight unite and thus be­come a much stronger body; F o r this purpose a m eeting o f the tw o bodies was ca lled at W h itestow n , N. • Y.,

obtained an as soon as

site was decided were under .way

A pril 6th, 1886. A t this place there had once been a prosperous Semin­ary under the control o f the Free Baptists, but it had finally com e. into the hands o f the Presbyterian^, and the state about that time having w ith- | drawn all state aid from that class jP§ of schools, they w ere obliged to close, "p H ere was a fine campus w ith four '||| good substantial brick buildings and i all ly ing idle. Representative men ‘E o f both denominations fo r two days T| considered the question o f uniting ||f and securing 'this plant. But no door 1A seemed to open. But now that the ;| n uestion of union was launched they did not wish to abandon that idea and even though the school project could not be carried out they saw no reason why the question of union should not still be considered. To this end another m eeting was called for Phoenix^ N. Y., Sej5t. 21st. Here again for two days the delegates from both bodies fu lly discussed the ques­tion and progress was made. The next, meeting was called fo r Buffalo, June 11th, 1887. It was a la rge and re^i t;r"entative m eeting and the basis, fo r union was laid down and fu lly ac­cepted and the two denominations w ere theoretica lly united. The Ex­ecutive committees of the tw o denom­inations. met in Batavia June 21st, and at this m eeting-the question o f enlarging- Starkey sem inary was in­troduced by Prof. Hammond and Mr. Brown, of Starkey. Concerning the sem inary there Vwas not unanimity but so fa r as union was concerned

. everyth ing seemed , harmonious. It : does not appear on the surface biv as one reads between the lines it ap-

| pears that Starkey sem inary was the I rock upon which the hopes of the | union was shattered. A t one o f these ! m eetings at . Eddytown, Prof. Ham ­mond and Rev. J. C. Tro jan resigned

| as members of the committee which - o ractica lly ended the • efforts for a , )n ion o f the tw o denominations. I f the dream fo r a co llege and assem­bly w ere to be realized it was noW up to the F ree Baptists alone t i launch the enterprise, Judge Struble* of Penn Yan, was a trustee of Starkey, sem inary and he was present at the m eetings at which the question was discussed. W hen he saw that a d ivi­sion had come he suggested that a comm ittee be appointed to look over the,.sites on Lake cKeuka. Rev. C. Er Brockway, who was also a member of the Central Association board, was. also at that time an agent of the Am erican Bible Society. In his tra v ­els throughout the County he had ob­served the very spot where the co l­lege now stands and pointed it out. Mr. Brockway, as a member o f the board, had attended the various jo in t m eetings at Eddytown and was a member o f what was called the “ M anaging Com m ittee” appointed at one o f these jo in t meetings;

Th is “ M anaging Com m ittee” had just returned from looking over the Ketchum farm as they, met; the E x ­ecutive com m ittee o f the Central A s ­sociation, in Penn Yan, in the . o ffice of Judge Struble, A p r il 18th, 1888. The fo llow in g men represented the Central Association : G. H. Ball, J. H. Durkee, F. 0. D ickey, and C. E. Bro-ckway. The “ M anaging Com m it­tee” o f the co llege and Assem bly w ere the fo llow in g gentlem en: 0. C. W hitney, G. H. Ball, J. H. Struble,J. H. Durkie and L. W . Raymond. A t j [this m eeting the spot where the col- j lege now stands was designated as I Ih e p lace w here the building should \ be erected. Dr. Ball had option on the farm and possible a fte r the upon preparations

m

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} to r pushing the w ork o f bu ild ing as j fa st as possib le. The fa rm w as sur- I veyed in to lots by the la te Mr. W righ t. R. M. Barrus, R ev. W m . T a y ­lo r and R ev. C. E. B rock w ay w ere put in to the field to se ll lots. Norm an

. Hunt, o f B ranchport, and R ev. J. H, D urkee w ere busy in secu ring the C itizens subscription o f $5,000 from the people. The sum m er o f 1888 saw g rea t a c t iv ity on th e Pa rk . N o t on ly w ere the w a lls o f the co lleg e bu ild ing go in g up but a num ber o f p riva te

(P le a s e turn to P a g e 8)

dw e llin gs as w ell.I t was during th is y ea r that a rt i­

cles o f in corpora tion w e re taken out and K eu k a C o llege becam e an in co r­pora ted body, g iv in g it a le g a l stand­in g fo r do in g business. I t w ou ld be o f no gen era l in teres t to te ll o f the ups and downs, the tr ia ls and tr i-

' umphs o f that sum m er. T h e grape v crop was v e ry poor so the co llec tion

o f the c itizen s ’ su bscrip tion w as hard to co lle c t and slow . G rea t cred it is due R ev . W m . T a y lo r fo r h is en ergy and sk ill in s e llin g lots. On m ore than one occasion his en ergy and a b ility seem ed to a v e r t a cris is . G reat c red it is due R ev . J. M. L a n gw orth y , L . W . R aym ond and Dr. Geo. R . H o lt fo r th e ir generous he lp and w ise council. Th us the sum m er passed and the w a lls w e re com pleted . But even b e fo re the bu ild in g cou ld be fu lly occupied , R ev . C. E. and M rs. B ro ck w a y had opened the school as a b eg in n in g in th e house know n as th e “ S tan ley H ou se” and now ow ned

_and occu p ied h y M rs. O sw ald, and M iss G u ile, a s is te r o f ou r p resen t tru stee , C. E. Guile, w as condu cting an o v e r flo w school in th e southeast co rn er o f the bu ild ing, the on ly room com p leted .

T h e tru stees o f the C en tra l A sso ­c ia tion he ld a m ee tin g in the B enton St. F re e B a p tis t church, in E lm ira ,

s A p r i l 23, 1890, and h e re vo ted that the c o lle g e and In s titu te shou ld be

| opened at the b eg in n in g o f the school | y ea r and th a t S. W . M auck be chosen I as p r in c ip a l and C. E. B ro ck w a y be o n e o f the teach ers . A l it t le la te r M iss E lla B a ll w as added to the p ion ­ee r fa cu lty .

A u g u s t 30, 1890, K e u k a C o lleg e w as fo rm a lly opened and ded icated w ith a p p ro p r ia te cerem on ies , P ro f. H ouse and P ro f . W m . M iln e g iv in g the ad ­dresses. T h e schoo l opened w ith a m ost en co u ra g in g a ttendance. A t th is tim e an a p p lica t ion w as m ade to th e R eg en ts o f the S ta te o f N ew Y o rk fo r a ch arte r , bo th fo r the col-.' le g e and In s titu te . T h e the c o lle g e and In s t itu te g ra n ted but because o f en d ow m en t on ly a p ro v is io n a l ch a rt­er w as g ra n ted the co lleg e . T h is ch a rte r w as g iv e n D ec. 10, 1890 and g a v e the tru s tees fiv e y ea rs to ra ise $100,000.00 and i f a t th e ex p ira t io n o f five y ea rs the am ount w as secu red , th en the ch a rte r sh ou ld be perm anen t.

5 ( T o be con tin u ed )

ch arte r fo r w as rea d ily in su ffic ien t

History of Keuka College(C on tin u ed . fr o m la s t w e e k )

A t a m ee tin g o f the C en tra l A s s o ­c ia tion held a t K e u k a C o lle g e A u gu st 8, .1801, it w as vo ted th at the p ro p ­e r ty n ow h e ld by th e C en tra l A s s o ­c ia tion at K e u k a P a rk be m ade o v e r to a B oa rd o f T ru s te e s o f K e u k a C o l­le g e to be e le c te d a t an e a r ly date. A m ee tin g w as c a lle d fo r A u gu s t 13, 1892 an d in pu rsu an ce y e s o 1 u tip n p ro ceed ed B o a rd o f tw e n ty - fo u r fo l lo w in g p erson s first B oa rd o f T ru s tees^Ban g w o i’ th y , R i y in

w ith , th e above to e le c t a

tru s tees . T h e co n s titu ted the

John M. ,on L o rd , M rs.

K a te Burge, J. H. Durkee, Mrs. Sarah Parker, Schuyler A ld rich , T . A. Stevens .and C larence V incent. These held office fo r one year. The fo llo w ­ing to hold o ffice fo r tw o years: Delos H o llow e ll, W m . Beane, Ghas. F. F irm an, Wm. W a rn er M ille r, Mrs. Hannah M erritt, H en ry S. Brown, Phinneas Ford and A lpheus Gates. F o r three years the fo llo w in g : Geo. H. Ball, Robt. E. Nesbitt, Mrs. Julia Roberts, Rev. D. H en ry Pa lm er, ; John H. Low n, Ghas. W . Bruce, Ghas. I W ood and H. H. Goff. A t th is m e e t - ; in g term inated the1 con tro l o f K euka C ollege by the C en tra l A ssocia tion and was vested in the fo r e g o in g ; Board o f Trustees. Th e lega l trans­fe r o f the p roperty did not take p lace ui?til A p r il 11, 1893. A t this m eeting the election o f Dr. Geo. H . B a ll as! president o f the co llege w h ich had previou sly been done by the Central Association , was ra tified by th e fu ll { Board o f Trustees.

Up to this tim e Our Journal had! been the organ o f both the co llege ! and the C en tra l A ssocia tion . A s i t j could not h ave tw o m asters it was decided th a t it should be the organ ! -of the co llege.

I have been records o f the

unable to find any estab lishm ent o f the

firs t sum m er assem bly but on page 25 o f the m inutes o f the C en tra l A s ­sociation dated A u gu st 31, 1893, I find a financial sta tem en t o f “ the last Summer A ssem b ly ” and a net p ro fit o f $563.91 reported w h ich estab lishes the fa c t o f an assem bly in 1892. A nd m oreover it must -have been w e ll a t­tended to have y ie ld ed such a p ro fit fo r the best m usica l and lit e ra ry ta l­ent which the cou n try a ffo rded was secured fo r these assem bles— such men as Joseph Cook, R u sse ll Con- w ell, Col. Bain, G en era l H ow ard , A . C. Dixon, and m any others, and such women as Susan B. A n th ony, Dr. A n n a Shaw, F an n ie C rosby and m any other w om en o f note.

•Our g rea t days as G. A . R. day, P ioneer day and Tem peran ce day w ere indeed g rea t days, o ften fro m th ree thousand to fo u r thousand peo-

, p ie being presen t. In those days the steam ers H a lsey , H olm es, C ricket, and M ary B e ll p lied up and dow n the lake and b rou gh t thousands o f pas­sen gers to the c o lle g e docks.

Up to these days no c o lle g e classes had been fo rm ed but the in s titu te w as j w e l l " attended. U n fo rtu n a te ly the | p rin c ipa ls did not rem a in lon g at a tim e. Mr. M auck rem a ined but one year. Dr. M illspau gh fo llo w e d and w as a m ost su ccessfu l teach er but he soon le ft to en ter upon the p ra c t ic e j o f m ed icine in N ew Y o rk city. W m . j B eane fo llo w e d but his h ea lth s o o n ! Sailed. But it w ou ld fie o f no gen e ra l in te res t to speak o f a ll the d iffe ren t 2nen w ho have filled that position . ' M any o f them w ere w o r th y and cap­ab le men and m any le ft the post fo r b e tte r positions. M r. F ra n k Carney, fo r on e becam e a g eo lo g is t o f N a tion ­a l repute and E d w a rd Hayes^ a noted author on S oc io logy . /

A lo n g in the y ea rs 1893 and ’ 94 aj m ost u n fortu n ate c ircu m stan ce arose!

in the a ffa irs o f the co lleg e . C. C. W h itn e y had been the g en e ra l m an­ager. I t w as thou gh t by som e th at p rop er and M r. John K lin e , o f Dundee, in g fo r th e -funds handled. M r. W h itn ey , on the o ther hand, c la im ed th at a la rg e sum o f m on ey w as due him . T o se ttle th ey -had to re so r t to the courts and M r. W h itn e y obta ined a ju d gm en t fo r $7,000.00' w h ich w as fo r th at p a rticu la r tim e, a v e r y hard b lo w to the co llege .

June 25, 1895 Dr. B a ll res ign ed his o f f ic e as p r in c ip a l o f the in s titu te so th a t h e m igh t g iv e his u n d iv ided tim e to the b u ild in g up o,f th e c o lle g e

iehce in schools o f that grade, was se- a man o-f w id e and successfu l exper- o f Ithaca ; M iss E m ily Valentine, cured to have fu ll con tro l and' r e ­sponsib ility fo r the conduct of the’ institute.

Mr. K lin e had a con tract fo r five years and during those years con­ducted a m ost successfu l school. In the m eantim e in stitu te students w ere gettin g ready fo r co llege. Th e first freshm an class en tered in 1896.

I t consisted- o f but three m em bers: N e llie Heck, now Mrs. Cyrus Crosby, o f Ith aca ; M iss E m ely Valentine, (deceased ) and E ls ie Crosby, now Mrs. T . J. H o llis , o f H orn e ll. Th e firs t tw o graduated in 1900 and M iss C rosby the yea r fo llow in g . These m ay be ca lled pioneers and pioneers a lw ays becom e h is to rica l characters.

A m ong the ea r lie r graduates m ay be m entioned the names o f Lou is Farrin gton , Charles D ow dell, F ran k ie G riffin (n ow Mrs. M erson ), E va A m ­bler, E ve len a A yres , _ D. C. Barrus, I Maude Barrus (n ow Mrs. Robt. S tev­en s ), Fan ny B ell, B oyd B latch ley, C arl Church ill, O ry Dem cott, Chas. F inn, L le w e lly n Gere, D ora G odale | (n ow M rs. W m . Judd), R u by H a ll, B lanche H aw ks, W m . Judd, Gurnsey Hubbard, E d ith Pa lm er, P e te r Pu lver, M ilton R ector, F rances Rose, E liza ­beth R ose (n ow Mrs. Z im m erm an ), John Z im m erm an, R ob ert Stevens, G ertrude T a y lo r , B ad rig Guevchenian, In ez W ild e r and John H ee lis . Then there are others o f w hom I have lost sight. A m o n g these graduates D. C. B arrus w as fo r years p r in c ip a l o f the

I in stitu te and C arl Church ill, dean o f the co llege . W m . Judd w as a lso a teacher, then treasu rer and has fo r years been a tru stee o f the co llege.

.,F ran k ie G r iffin M erson w as not on ly a teacher in the o ld co lleg e but one a lso under the p resen t m anagem ent. M iss F an n ie R ose a lso .taught L a tin in the institu te. I m ention these p a rticu la r ly because th ey w ere not on ly am on g the ea r lie r students but because th ey have m ore o r less kept in touch w ith the school up to the p resen t tim e. T h ere are

. others w hose nam es have ’m e and w ith w hom I have ■'Nearly a ll have filled p laces in this busy, push ing w orld .

I t had been the aim o f K eu k a C ol­lege a lm ost from the v e ry firs t that

: S'0-me other ? re lig iou s body should ! un ite w ith it in m ain ta in ing the school. T h e c o lle g e cam e in to being ! in an e ffo r t o f th is kind. H av in g .fa iled to com e to sa tis fa c to ry term s I w ith the C hristian A ssoc ia tion we sought the open door o ffered by the C on grega tion a lis ts o f th is state. Th e

| steps lead in g up to th is union e ffo rt w e r e as fo llo w s : A sp ec ia l com m it-;tee o f w h ich D r. E. W . Packard , on beh a lf o f the C on grega tion a lis ts , was chairm an , opened correspondence w ith the E x ecu tive com m ittee o f K eu k a C o llege , lo ok in g to an “ A l l i ­an ce” w ith K eu k a C o lleg e in in creas­ing the en dow m ent and en la rg in g and condu cting the school. Th e state C onven tion o f the C on grega tion a l churches m et in Canandaigua, M ay 19-21, 1896. T o th is conven tion the c o lle g e sen t as its rep resen ta tives : Dr. Geo. H . B a ll, T . A . S tevens, W m . Beane, and M rs. A n n e tte M yers. A lso a fu ll board o f th e x tru stees o f th e j c o lle g e w ds ca lled to m eet at the j sam e tim e and p lace. Th e C on grega ­tion a lis ts appo in ted a “ P rov is ion a l C om m ittee” con s is tin g o f R ev . W . H. Hobbs, S. E. E astm an , E. W . Packard and J. W . B a ilie . T h e tru stees o f the c o lle g e appo in ted a lik e num ber con­s is tin g o f G. H . B a ll, W m . Beane, Mrs. A n n e tte M yers and J. W . Lan gw orth y . T h e s ta te con ven tion app roved o f the a llia n ce and the “ P ro v is io n a l* eom-

scores o f gone from lost touch, im portan t

ffitttee named Rev. N. W . Calhoun, o f j the C ongregational denomination, as I president o f the co llege. Th is oc-1 curred June 3rd, 1896, but the action I o f the com m ittee was not -ratified un- ; til the fu ll m eeting o f the board, ? August 11. A t this m eeting Dr. Ball

j resigned and Mr. Calhoun was duly ; I elected president.

About this tim e the question of the tro lley , from Penn Yan to Branchport. was agitated and the co llege was asked to subscribe $8,000.00 towards

; the en terprise as being our share in . secu ring the road. And th is the col­

lege did.I t w ould a lso be in order to men­

tion the m eetings o f the Christian A l­liance under A. B. Simpson. F o r some

i tim e yea r a fte r year these devout people came here fo r th e ir annual m eeting. T h ey som etim es conducted their m eetings in the Assem bly grounds and som etim es in the Chapel. L a rg e num bers attended and a good deal o f m oney was contributed to ca rry on their m ission w ork in d if­fe ren t parts o f the w orld .

(T o be continued)

It would not be a com plete h istory ’ o f the co llege if I did not speak o f the I; devoted serv ice o f the Rev. J. M. L a n g - ; w orthy as a trustee and also o f the .services o f Mrs. A nnette M yers, now : Mrs. H o lt o f H ilton , also o f Hon. John H. Johnsoh o f Penn Yan, who fo r years v was a trustee, a m em ber o f the execu- I t ive com m ittee and at one tim e treas­urer o f the college.. I m ay also men-

j tion the nam e o f T. A. S tevens and / V H en ry Sill, Sr., 'as being prom inently V

connected as trustees. Mr. S ill was j; fo r a tim e .also treasurer o f the c o l - I lege. R ev. G eorge R. H olt, now Dr. H o lt of H ilton , rendered e ffic ien t serv- | ice on the board o f trustees. C. W . j K im b a ll o f Penn Yan, is among the old- ! er mem bers, having ben elected in j 1902, and still holds the office. H e has i;

I ofteii/ 'rendered va luab le serv ice in his V capacity as a law yer.

In volum e I. page 163, of. the min-jh ' ut.es o f K euka co llege I find that at I a m eeting held at th e home o f Phineas It

1 Ford o f Rochester, February 8th, 1897, IMr."‘Calhoun and a ll the trustees elect-j| l ed by the C ongregationalists handed jj I in ' their resignations, and this but six j : months a fte r the election o f Mr. Cal- I' houn. . -The rea l cause o f w hat seemed | a ll the tim e a crushing blow, m ay nev- I I er be known. T h at was a never-to-be |

;| fo rgotten m eeting fo r those o f us who i| j fe lt-th e ; burden o f the co llege resting |I on us. T h e rem ainder of: the trustees |! proceeded to fill the vacancy caused by j th e-res ignation o f Mr. Calhoun. John jj ■ K lin e was elected to fill the vacancy | i until: the. annual m eeting. Dr. Ball was made: chairm an o f the board o f trus- (- tees. T h e broken thread's w ere gath-

| ered togeth er as w e ll as possib le and:| the w o rk continued. i A ugu st 24, 1897, an agreem en t was, en tered in to betw een John K lin e and

j the co llege w h ereb y a num ber o f h is ! institu te teachers should teach co llege j classes. B y this arrangem ent F rank Carney and Mr. K line, h im se lf w ere added to the facu lty. In this, w ay Mr. Carney rea lly , becam e the firs t dean.

A regu lar, m eetin g o f the board o f trustees w as Called fo r N ovem b er 16, 1897, at w h ich tim e the o ffice o f presi­dent was decla red vacant, and Dr. B all was again e lected to the office. It was h; under his p rotes t and w ith th e distinct understanding that the trustees would ! be on the w atch fo r a younger man. f-yj

Collect Pledge for Trolley A t this tim e p re lim in ary steps w ere j

taken to co llect w hat was known as | the “ B ranchport subscription.” A t the f. tim e o f the com m encem ent of, the co l­lege the people o f Branchport and the m surounding country had subscribed j $30,000 to the co llege on the condition j

that the co llege m ight He instrumental*| in bring ing a ra ilw ay to Branchport. | The road w a s built, and w e proceeded I to co llect the subscription. I t was a | ve ry difficu lt task and it t e l l on me to s co llect it.

T o te ll o f the hardships in try ing jj to co llect this old subscription would I be o f no genera l in terest, but it was * at last la rge ly collected and the col- r lege was able to pay its p ledge to the j tro lley line. >•;

On June 17, 1898, P ro f. E. C. H ayes S was elected dehn, the first man to g ive f* his en tire tim e to that work. A t a j" m eeting o f th$ board held August 12, 1898, Mrs. G riffin was elected to the S| office o f ed itor o f “ Our Journal,” w h ich f position she filled acceptably fo r a j; number o f years, v T

On M arch 16,1899, R. M. Barrus, B. A., o f H illsda le co llege, was chosen as teacher o f science, the .first m an to fill j that position in the college. About , this tim e M iM G agp o f Benton w illed j to the co llege M s b ea u tifu lfa rm , but j a techn ica lity , in tile, w ill th rew the college* o u t,o f th is valuable inheritance w orth at least $15,000, w e having com­prom ised for $2J50. A t this tim e also the contract w ith John K lin e having expired, the institu te reverted to its fo rm er m anagem ent. A lso, Dr. A. C. D ixon o f B rook lyn appeared- on the horizon. Though n o t d irectly connect­ed w ith the co l^ g e , Ihe' f i l le d ja la rge place in - the l i f n o f the assem bly and exerted a grea t influence fo r three or four years. ,

In a lea fle t issued June 1st, 1901, w e 'find the names o f the co llege facu lty g iv in g their en tire, tim e to co llege

|work: G eorge H. Ball, H. B. La rrib ee , F rank Carne„y, R. M. Barrus, F. W . M il­ler, N . H. Jackson, E lla J. Ball, L o ra Marsh, E ls ie Space and Julia Ball.

A t a special n ldeting o f the trustees M arch -31st,:H904', ;Dr. B a ll be ing now past 84 years o f age, asked to be re­lie v ed o f the burdens o f . the o ffice of,.

; .p resident and that John Chester Ball o f N ew ark be. e lec ted ;in his place: Th is was done 'an d Rev. -John Chester Ball w as .duly: insta lled as president

. w h ile Dr. B a ll was e lected president :: em eritus.

D egrees w ere gran ted to the gradu- : ate-s o f the colldge jo in tly by the R e ; gents o f the S tate o f N ew Y o rk and by the trustees. • w V

W e also note, that a s . fa r back as 1904 A lb e r t Crosby and A. M. T a y lo r , both o f whom are still liv in g on the Park , w ere a ctive £ as trustees.

John Chester Ball Resigned On D ecem ber 6th, 1906, John Ches­

ter Ball, in w hom had been centered i such h igh hopes, tendered his res ign a ­

tion. A b o u t 'th is t im e W a lte r B. T o w ­er was e lected a m em ber .of the board

o f trustees and la ter becam e ch a irm an ' o f the board. A t this m eetin g Dr. Bali whs again elected president.

W e see in the records an account | o f a specia l m eeting o f the execu tive com m ittee M arch 1st, 1907, a re ference to ‘The la te Dr. B a ll.” Thus w e see j that the shoulders which have borne I a la rge share o f the burdens since 1888 w ill bear them no more.

Dr. Ball died February 20th, 1907, at the age o f 87 years. H e w as a grea t : preacher as w e ll as a g rea t execu tive. ; Th e w orld is r icher because o f his life .

June 18th, 1907, Dr. Z, A . Space w as : e lected president. H e took upon him- j se lf a trem endous burden. Dr. B all j had an independent incom e. Dr. Space { must have a liv in g sa lary provided, j

Th e co llege had no funds to pay the i sa la ry o f the president. F o r the firs t j yea r a num ber o f the friends o f the co llege provided the salary. W ith com- m endable zea l and prudence he began | to m ake provisions fo r the fu ture con- | duct o f the co llege. To assist, h im he se lected three o f the best execu tives p

the coflege had produceu, as he told the i w riter/and these w e r e : W illia m Juud k Carl Churchill apd N elson Jackson. ||

The day fo llow ing, June 18th, at a m eeting o f the execu tive com m ittee 11 Hadlay Larrabee resigned as princi- f » pa l of the institute and dean of the col- | lege and Nelson Jackson was appoint- 88 ed dean and, Carl Churchill principal. | The financial affairs w ere w e ll con- | ducted and expenses cut to the low- | est point, and yet the incom e was in­sufficient to m eet these.

A t the beginning o f the year 1908 1 Ball brother's o f Muncie> ind -rw iio had p been such generous contributors fo r |B years, notified the co llege authorities ||

. that at the exp iration o f the present ‘ v: year their donations would cease. A k

j meeting, o f the trustees was ca lled fo r || I February 4th, 1908, to consider the sit- ;> nation. A resolution o f gratitude w as .i| passed concerning the generous help y o f the Ball brothers fo r past contribu* tions, and also a resolution to close || th§ school unless some open door fo should be found to continue it .t

V e ry soon a fter the open doofi|| seemed to have been, found, and || negotiations w ere entered into w ith 'E the D isciples o f Christ fo r . an j alliance w ith the F ree Baptists in the conduct o f the school. Th eD isciples had a convention in the®;

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HISTO RY OF KEUKA COLLEGE |

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c ity o f «Buffalo, August 4th, and Dr. I Space, attended this and laid before j. th e ' convention the ten tative proposi­tion, which was unanimously accepted, j In b r ie f the proposition was that the'l D isciples w ere to ra ise $100,060 to off- ; set the plant and present resources j and Were to have equal vo ice in the conduct o f the school and to at once j name the: president. V ery soon after this m eeting a fu ll board Was called: and Joseph Serena and L ow e ll C. Mc-

j , Pherson w ere elected trustees. Mr< M cPherson W as also e lected vieeypres- ident.

March 18th, 1909, A rth u r Braden of I the D iscip le church was elected on the*

facu lty to teach sacred literature.Arthur Braden President

A t the annual m eeting held in June o f that year A rthur Braden Was elect; cd , presidenti Dr. Space, W ice-presH dent; W a lte r B. Tow er, president oi the board o f trustees, and L6we.ll M c­Pherson, fie ld secretary.

Mr. Braden found the burdens too & heavy fo r his none-too-strong should­

ers and July 27th o f the same year o f­fered his resignation , which was ac­cepted w ith grea t regret. M i. Braden was a scholar and a Christian gen tle­man o f the h ighest type. H e command­ed the respect and love o f a ll who knew him.,. A ga in w e seem ed to be upon the

rocks. A m eeting o f the board o f trus­teesw ask C a lled fo r Septem ber 4th to consider the situation. : A t ; th is meet-

| in g F rank C. Ball, a trustee from Mun­cie, Ind., was present.. It was an a ll:

,, day m eeting and a painful session. W e I; saw no way to finance the school w ith ­

out the assistance of the Ball broth- ■ T ers. A ccord ing ly th e 'boa rd voted to

not reopen the school and adjourned.. Mr. Ball w en t back to Muncie w ith the

understanding that the school w as not ii to reopen.:. TTh e day fo llow ing an extra session

o f the board was called, and w e voted :? to reconsider and to rescind the mo

tion to not reopen the school. Some ' o f us fe lt that w e should still hold on J i Mr. Serena Was sent to Muncie tc ! u again in terv iew the Ball brothers. The fc • fo llow in g day we received a telegram 1 t that.these gentlem en would contribute j

$3,000 per year fo r three years i f the* college could procure a lik e amount in pledges, and that they w ould m ake it $5,000, i f w e could secure a like amount. W e vo ted to continue the school and secure this amount o f mon-

v ey. Septem ber 6th, 1910, Joseph Ser­ena was elected president at a salary

; of $1,800 per year. During these try ­ing years W illia m Judd had been the secreta ry and treasurer.

Wm. T. M o r r is B ecom es P re s id e n tA t a m eeting o f the board June 13th.

1911, Charles D ow dell was elected re- • cord ing secretary, w h ile Mr. Judd con

tinued as treasurer. A t this m eeting W illia m T. M orris o f Penn Y an was elected a m em ber o f the board and a f­terwards becam e president. E. R. T a y ­lo r of Penn Yan, W en d e ll Bush ol

, N ew Y ork c ity and W atson Hurlbut of Keuka Park w ere also at this time active m em bers. June 27th. a special m eeting was ca lled to consider the res- ighatjoq,bF*M r. Judd as treasurer and* Charles D ow dell was elected to fill th e vacancy. R ev. C. S. Em erson ol

' M idd lesex was also elected a m em ber of the board. A t the m idw in ter meet-, ing of the Board, F eb ru ary 13th, 1913,

| w e see fo r the first tim e the name ofC. E. Guile and T im o th y C ostello as trustees. Both o f these gen tlem en are s t ill a ctive m em bers.| A m ee tiq g o f the execu tive com m it­

tee w as ca lled fo r M arch 25, 1914, at w h ich tim e a fu ll corps o f teachers w as engaged fo r the com ing year and con tracts signed.. In July -1915, James Pepper and H en ­

ry; B rown, both o f Jerusalem , w ere ,1 e lected trustees fo r th ree years. A t

this sam e m eetin g the fo llow in g offi- cors w ere e lected : P residen t, Joseph S eren a ; vice-president, Z. A . Space; sccretary-treasurer, Charles- A . D ow ­dell.

On the 13th o f Septem ber o f the sam e yea r at a special m eeting Mr. S erena tendered his res ignation to take e ffe c t O ctober 1st. F o r exactly fiv e years he had macfe a b rave figh t to save the co llege, but his peop le e ither

: did not have the means or did not have the desire to ra ise the endow ­ment. A s w e again seem ed to be upon the rocks, it w as vo ted that w e discon­tinue co llege classes fo r the present, fo r w ithou t the aid o f the B a ll B roth ­ers w e saw no w ay o f adequate financ­ing. But a deputation had once been successfu l, so w e reso lved to try again.

M r. Serena, M iss E lla B a ll and Z.■ F. G riffin w ere appointed such a de le­

gation . M iss Ball w as unable to go but- the o ther m em bers w en t and w a it­ed on these gentlem en. ’ . T h ey w ere

. k in d ly rece ived and g iven a patient, hearing, but Mr. B all did not th ink it

. a w ise use o f m oney to lon ger continue his con tribu tions ’

Mr. S eren a ’s res ign ation was to take e ffe c t O ctober 1st, so a m eeting o f the com m ittee w as ca lled fo r Septem ber

■ 20th in the o ffice o f W illia m T. M o r­ris. Mr. M orris w as chosen chairm an o f the board o f trustees. A t this m eet­in g C. E. Guile w as e lected a m em ber o f the execu tive com m ittee to fill the vacancy caused by the res ign ation o fE. R. Tay lo r.

P re s b y te r ia n s C o n s id e re d C o l leg eIn speaking o f M r. T a y lo r , th ere is

a bit o f in te res tin g h is to ry w h ich does not appear on any records o f the co l­le g e but w ithou t w h ich no h istory o f the co llege w ou ld be com plete. Th e in c iden t is th is: W h en M r. T a y lo r learned that M r. Serena had actua lly res ign ed and that th ere w as no pros­pect of' the co lleg e continuing, he cam e to see Dr. Space and m e and asked, w ould the trustees be w illin g to le t the P resb y te r ia n denom ination lake the school i f th ey w ere w illin g lo a ttem pt it? W e to ld h im that so fa r as w e person a lly w ere concerned

or so far as w e as trustees w ere con­cerned, there would be no objections. If the present constituency could not carry on the work, w e w ould be m ore than glad to see some other denom ina­tion take it over. Mr. T a y lo r la id the m atter before the Synod w h ic h 'jy as favorab le. The Synod la id it be fore the Educational board, and Dr. M c­K enzie , ;the secretary o f the board, cam e from N ew Y o rk and looked over the property and was w e ll pleased. H e preached in the Presbyterian church in Penn Yan and told the m em bers o f that chutph o f the opportun ity they ! had. A few days la ter Dr. F rench came, and- a public m eetin g was held in the Pb&sbyterian church in Penn I tYan at which time. Dr. F rench told o f |

the w ork o f the P resby ter ian denom in­ation in the field o f education, and Z. F. G riffin told o f the efforts o f the F ree Baptists at Keuka Park in the founding o f the co llege. Th e files of the Yates County Chronicle and also o f the Penn Yan D em ocrat g iv e a fu ll account o f the e fforts o f the P resb y ­terian Educational board to enthuse the people of Penn Yan w ith the pos­sib ilities o f Keuka co llege. Quite a correspondence wras carried on be­tween Dr. M cK en zie and the o fficers but the e ffo rt fina lly fa iled .B aptis ts and F re e B a p t is ts O v e r tu r e s

But at the ve ry tim e when these ne­gotiations vTere in progress, efforts w ere being put fo rth fo r the reunion of Baptists and F ree Baptists a fte r a separation of over 100 years'.

Obstacles in the w ay o f reun iting were fast being rem oved. T h e m ove -1 ment had begun in M aine and was fast,! spreading west; A t" a m eeting • of. th e executive com m ittee held in the office., of Wm. T. M orris, Penn Yan , O ctober 18th, 1915, Dr. Z. A . Space and 1 w ere appointed on a ctimihitt.ee to go to Brooklyn to attend a m eeting o f the Baptist state convention w hich w as soon to meet. W e w ere k in d ly re­ceived and perm itted to speak and to lay before the cenven tion the op­portunities of K eu ka co llege. A s a result a com m ittee w as appointed to j look the field o ve r and report to the convention the fo llo w in g year, T h e i com m ittee consisted o f the fo llo w in g j persons: Dr. F. O. Belden, E. P. Far-j num, C. S. Savage, C larence A . Bar- i hour, J. F. V ickert, Z. A . Space and Z. j. F. Griffin. The chairm an, Dr. Belden, j sailed the first m eetin g at iteuka-j Park. Dr. G ranger, p residen t o f the \ sonvention and Dr. F rank Pade lfo rd , | general secretary o f the Educational I board, w ere present by inv ita tion , be- fide the mem bers o f the com m ittee. I j was made secretary o f the. com m ittee so, o f course, had much to do wfith the } correspondence.

A fte r a fu ll discussion the com m it­tee adjourned to m eet in R och ester at j m early date. C onsiderable co rres -1 pondence was carried on wfith Dr. Pa- 1 el ford and also wfith Dr. E rnest Bur- l.on, the la te president o f Chicago un- f vers ity , who was also p residen t o f j ;he Educational board. Th e fina l m eet­ing o f the com m ittee w as held in con­nection w ith the state conven tion at Jamestown, O ctober 25, 1916. H ere l ie com m ittee rendered its final re ­port recom m ending to the state con­vention the adoption o f the college^ fiiis report having been endorsed by the denom inational board (see page 32 o f the N ew Y o rk B aptist annual fo r 1917). A t the close o f the conven tion the board o f m anagers was called* in session, to m ore fu lly consider the problem. A rep resen ta tive m eeting was called fo r N ovem b er 16th to sit at Keuka co llege.

In order to shew the rep resen ta tive character o f this m eeting, h erew ith are the names o f those presen t (t it le s o m itte d ): F. O. Belden, G eorge D. C ogsw ell, F. B. Pa lm er, PI. F. R em in g ­

ton, A. B. Sears, N. S. Stew-art, W . PI. ]| Jameson, R. C. T ifft , T . J. W h itaker* (I D. B. M acQueen, C. S„ Pend leton , 'ZFF A. Space, C. M. S treeter, W . A. G ran g-1

p e r , T. H. Sprague, A. W . Bourne, H. 1 f: ^ s e -J o n e s ,- Z. .F.^Griffin, G.£w. ,-RocMp. | w ell and W illia m T. M orris. A t this F ; m eeting F , O. Belden, Z. A. Space and I

D. B, M acQueen w e r e appo in ted : a l

I com m ittee in beha lf o f the convention to be on the lookout fo r a su itable man

d to put in to the fie ld to secure the en- dowm ent. A fe w days la te r the execu-

y f iv e m em bers o f the co llege board y met, N ovem b er 21st, and added in be- f ha lf o f the co llege the nam es o f W il- J

11 am Judd and Z. E- G riffin to the com- I m il tee, Th is jo in t com m ittee ,got in \

] touch w ith Dr. M yron W . Haynes, and |■ a m eeting w as arranged in connection | m w ith the m eeting o f the N orth ern Bap-| F tipt convention fin the c ity o f Cleve-1

land, Ohio, th e 'fo llow fin g M ay. W e m et 1 < Dr. H aynes, term s w ere agreed uponj;

and he cam e to K eu ka P a rk to beg in .1 . the task o f ra is in g not $250,000 as at

f firs t ta lked of, but tw ice the amount. D r iv e fo r Funds in Y a tes

A banquet w as held a t , A l le y ’s Inn D ecem ber 28, '1916, a t w h ich tim e Dr. H aynes set b e fo re us his plan fo r ra is­ing m oney, to beg in w ith $50,000 in Y a tes county. T o th is end Dr. H aynes did fa ith fu l and successfu l w ork, but he did not reach his goal, about $^7,000 be in g rece ived from the effort.. F eb ru ary 10, 1917, an adjourned an­

nual m eetin g o f the board o f trustees was ca lled and Judge H a rv ey R em in g­ton was e lected a m em ber o f the board, also W . C. Jam eson o f N iaga ra 1 Fa lls , Mrs. W m . M on tgom ery o f Roch-| ester and A . F la g R obson o f Penn Yan . 'f A ll o f these are still m em bers. ;

A t the annual m eetin g held June, I 1917, Mrs. G ertrude M artin o f Ith a c a l was e lected a tru stee and the follow-1 in g Ju ly R ob ert Strausenbe.rg w as | e lected a m em ber o f the board. H is j un tim ely death le f t a g rea t vacancy. June 20th, 1918, R ev. W . H . W h ea tley o f Penn Y an w as e lected a m em ber o f j

.the board to fil l the vacan cy caused by the res ign a tion o f R ev . G. W . l R ockw ell. ■ ^ , f i . ;Dr. A. H. N orton E lected Presiden t

A t the m id-w in ter m eeting, January | 28th, 1919, Dr. A. PI. N orton w as elect- ,j ed .president" to assume o ffice the fol- | lowfing June. H e rb e rt L o n g w e ll was

;] e lected a m em ber o f the board o f trus- 1 tees.] A t the annual m eetin g in June a far- ],reach ing reso lu tion v/as passed relat- jfing to our "cam paign. T h e N orth ern | Baptist conven tion . had launched a \ plan fo r ra is in g in the' denom ination

$100,000,000 fo r a ll m iss ionary and ed- ;’ ucational purposes. T h e m ovem ent | w as known as the N ew W o r ld moVe- 1, ment. Ii: i t . succeeded, the co lleges j.| w ere to share in the benefits accord- |jring to a de fin ite plan. T o help reach \ | th is goa l the conven tion w anted us to ? w ith d raw our specific cam paign and | I g iv e them a fre e hand. W e could do no

| less, though it w as a. v e ry unfortu­nate m ove, fo r Dr. H ayn es was suc­ceed ing and w ou ld have reached our goa l w ithout- doubt. Pfiie N e w W orld m ovem en t did not reach its goal and the. co lleges w ere not helped as expect­e d , ; O f course w e did not g iv e up in despair.

On the 21st day o f Septem ber, 1921, K euka co lleg e opened its session as a co llege fo r w om en w ith a freshmar. class o f 36 m em bers, but the fo rm al open ing o f the c o lle g e occurred Oc­tober 7th, w ith an e labora te and im ­pressive program . P res id en t Rush R eeves o f R och es ter university- and a rep resen ta tive o f the R egen ts .from

••Albany gave the addresses. Judge R em ington o f R och ester presented the keys to Dr. N orton , w ho responded w ith a tim e ly rep ly.

During the years 1920 and 1921 Ball m em orial hall was: rem odeled at an

f expense o f about $75,000.A t the semi-annual m eeting o f the

- board o f trustees held January 27th, 1921, Judge H arvey Rem ington was

■ e lected vice-president to fill the vao- ancy caused by .the death o f Dr. Z. A.

; Space' and Dr. John W est o f E lm ira j was elected a m em ber o f the execu- I tive, also to fill the vacancy caused by the death o f Dr. Space. Dr. Space, who had g iven so much o f tim e and energy fo r the; building up o f Keuka college, has finished his earth ly career and others; are elected to carry on his

1 work. At. a subsequent, m eeting suit- * able resolutions concern ing his life l w ere passed and spread upon the m in­ifies. A t the same m eeting Dr. Charles Buell o f Buffalo was elected a trustee and is s t ill a trustee:, A t the annual m eeting held June 5th, 1922, Judge H arvey Rem ington was elected chairm an o f the board, which o ffice he still fills. Th is Was to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna­tion o f W illia m T. M orris: -. ,

W o m a n 's C lub A c t iv eI N o h istory o f the co llege would be com plete w ithout some reference to the W om an ’s Club. Som e idea o f the a c tiv ity o f this, club m ay be seen when it is known that over 300 m embers be­longed and the annual dues w ere one dollar, w h ile various grades o f m em ­bership w ere as high as $250. The wom en m et the challenge o f Mrs. W en ­dell Bush o f N ew Y o rk fo r a donation o f $1,000.00, i f the club w ould raise an equal amount, by go in g over the top by considerab ly over double the amount. W h ile Mrs. Bush gave them

I tw o years to com plete the subscrip­tion, it was secured w ith in about three

j months. Th is club was purely fo r the purpose o f cu ltiva ting friendship on

| the part o f w om en and o f gettin g these additional contributions.

In passing w e m ay also note that the co llege has, each y ea r since its open ing as a co llege fo r women, been used by various conventions, m ain ly for young people. These have, called

| a tten tion to the beauty o f the situation and the advantages offered . These

I have had th e ir influence in helping to j fill the co llege each yea r to its capa­city.

A m ong the m ateria l additions which Dr. N orton has secured fo r the co llege

I is the erection o f the R ichardson hall j as a dorm itory and the H egem an hall I as the adm in istrative building.| T o te ll in deta il the steps taken by Dr. N orton in securing from Mr. R ich ­ardson o f W e lls v ille the magnificent; sum o f $100,000.00 fo r the building o f a dorm itory would not be o f general

I in terest. H is acquaintance was culti- ; va ted and his in teres t secured by fre- : quent v is its, and at last the g ift was I secured. I t w ill be a lasting monu­ment, m ore to be prized than a shaft o f gran ite.

S e c u re H e g e m a n H a l lTh e story of. H egem an hall is m ore

d ram atic; the. scenes w ere acted in qu icker succession. Mrs., N orton was a m em ber o f the Baptist W om an ’s

j F o re ign soc ie ty and was in N ew Y ork I a ttend ing a business m eeting o f this ) board. T h e t e ; w ere o ther prom inent ! w om en o f N ew York , also m em bers o f j th is b o a rd .. Am ong these was Mrs.I Cornelius W oe lfk in . Mr. W oe lfk in I was pastor o f Park avenue B aptist church arid in close touch w ith some

I o| the executors o f Mr. H egem an ’s j , (Continued on p age fourteen )

H I S T O R Y O F K E U K A C O L L E G E

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estate. Mr. W oe lfk in was asked to name some needy educational institu ­tions in the Baptist denom ination. H e named Brown u n ivers ity o f P ro v i­dence, R.' I., and Keuka co llege ; but both Dr. Pad e lf Or d o f the Baptist Edu­cational society and Dr. B aker w ere m ore in terested in Keuka and they added they- influence in her favor. Th is turhed the scale in fa vo r or Keuka, or, at least, judgm ent was sus­pended until such a tim e as these

% executors could have an in terv iew w ith Dr. Norton. H e was sent fo r and pre­sented his claims in siich a frank arid

A convincing w ay that ve ry sooti secufi- : lies to the amount o f $200,000.00 w ere

turned over to the trustees to be used in the erection o f the John R ogers

; lie g em a n hall.On M arch 26, 1924, ground was

broken fo r the erection Of the Richard- fi; son hall. Dr. Norton, Judge Rernihg- ■; ton, chairm an o f the board, Rev. W . H. W h ea tley and Rev. Z: F. G riffin co.il- tribuied in an o ffic ia l w ay to the occa­sion. The students form ed in a liv in g

; outline a long the land designated fo r . the foundation. T w o days la ter the | ground was broken and. by Christmas : the dorm itory w as occupied. ,

I f w e take .firings ch ronologica lly ,. the next even t .was the securing o f a | perm anent charter from the Regents.

Th is was April 4th, 1924. On the 31st f o f M ay o f the same yea r ground was

broken fo r the H egem an hall and on the, 30th day o f O ctober t h e , corner­stone was la id w ith a m ost iimpressive

; cerem ony. After Dr. N orton had,m ade ;; some im portan t announcements. Dr. C larence Barbour, now presiden t o f

; B row n u n ivers ity o f Prov idence, R. I:,: o ffered prayer. Judge Reriiington of. R ochester m ade a fe w appropriate rem arks and H en ry Bruer, vice-presi-1 dent o f M etropolitan L i fe Insurance company, gave the address. In a place provided in the cornerstone a copper

* book was pla ’ced in w h ich appropriate documents w ere deposited and a tro w e l sealed them in. Th e wOmen w ho took part .in this cerem ony w ere Mrs. M arguerite Strong o f Rochester, a trustee, M iss E lla Ball, M rs: N orton and Dean Ly le . A ft e r the lay in g o f the corner stone the audience repaired to the chapel to listen to the address | o f Dr. F rank P ade lfo rd o f Boston, if

.■ Mass.N e w B u i ld in g s D e d ic a te d

On the 2nd day o f June tile dedi-.j ca tory serv ice was held fo r the tw o new 'buildings. Th e fo llow in g is an J outline o f the program : Judge R em -I m ington presided; g reetings from sis- | te r co lleges ’■ by Dr. Anti'ce H arris , I dean o f E lm ira co llege ; g reetin gs from k the executors o f the John R ogers jl H egem an estate by ex-senator W illia m |j; J. Tu lley , so lic ito r o f the M etropolitan jj L i fe Insurance com pany; address by i Dr. G'eo. H. B aker o f N ew Y ork , assist- K

I ant secre ta ry o f the Board o f Ednca-ji tion o f the N orth ern B aptist conven- \

! tion. In the dedication o f the bu ild ing j| .the fo llow in g w om en took an active 11 part: Mrs. Cornelius W oe lfk in , Mrs. 1

.Gertrude M artin , Mrs. . Augustus i Strong, M iss E lla Ball, Dean M arie L y e l, Mrs. Orriri Judd and Mrs. A . H. 1 Norton. Th e p la y e r o f ded ication and ji bened iction w ere g iven by Dr. R. E. Farrier.

Th e • next im portan t even t in the || I h istory, in a m ateria l w ay, w as the j « erection o f a com plete w a ter system , I F o r some th ree or ftiur years Dr: N o r -11 ; ton had had this system in m ind and H had been w ork in g tow ards this end I I w ith F rank Ball. " Mr. Ball, in beh a lf p o f the B all brothers, contributed the 111 m agn ificen t .sum o f $50,000.00 fo r this • purpose and an adequate supply of|fi. w a ter is thus m ade ava ilab le ftir the

K. entire park, 'th is was completed in i'| 1928,

In conclusioti, I have tried in a b rie f *I but com prehensive w ay to g ive a his- ;| tory o f the co llege through its entire ij life o f 42 years, from 1888 to 1930.' It | has had its struggles and Its triumphs^| its w arm friends and a few who w ere ] j not so friendly. I t has had a great it d. h istory and has produced some fine' F \ men arid women, those who w ill com -1 ; pare fa vo rab ly w ith graduates o f any | 4 co llege Of the land. I t is a .great asset i % t o the v illa ge o f Penn Yan and the | - surrounding country. Mo.re people ? ,■ should be in terested in it. M any people t ! should rem em ber the co llege in thpir fiw ills , i f they cannot help be fore th eir

iSdeath. A n y sum, h o w e v e r ; small, w ill ’* f-h e lp sw ell the pbririanent -fund. In .this ' } w ay each, can help to establish in ou r ‘v I;'m idst soiriething which w ill be a last-i>

Trig blessing to the world.| S Z. P. G R IF F IN . : J

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By thi latter part of next month H.j; „ Alien Wagener of Penn Yan, presidents of the municipal board,; will launch his j

■""beautiful new . private yacht, the larg- j . est boat to float • bn Pake Keuka this I

lyear. Tha draft'is now nearing "com-1 :plbtion on the ways of Mr. Wagener’s l

'private ship-'building yai-flj located oni ' ;the beach in front of hie cottagfe" onl >thV west -side ' of Lake Keuka about | ; three miles sooth of'Penn Yan.

Por strength of keel and sturdiness 1 ofvfranle;- .Charley Jf\ Ernst, designer j

I; and builder, went to. the woods on Mr.I | Wagener’s Jerusalem fart}, the- old!

tshorri place at the top of Merritt] Ifhiii. For beauty in planking, debk and! ica^hin finish he: Sent to .the Philippines foa? paahogany. JTor skill in const ruc- ; tion he is using Iqbal labor entirely. ’i-N^ariys a. year’s time will be, required |be£ore the boat is completely'-finished.

Charles F. Ernst

Mr. Ernst'Started the work the fifstd of November, last year, and. has been} assisted sjucV'tfllli by Angie EM6|jSi Sen. Sinpe March, Cftfis Petersen andf Godfrey Kubli liaVe been 011 the job, helping build the cratt and -milling pieces in the little shop which has transformed a boathouse next, to the shed covpung the era It. , A savr, sand er£ drill andvmortiditig- them in this .work. Tlie^ WalkhrvBini company and the Pehn Yan Boat com-k pany have also had a'-part in mil-dingi some of the Lai get pieces. ■ Rogerl StVumr and Hubert Waters arc now! engaged by Mr, VViagener.. in finishingl and staining the woodwork.

Hewed Keel by HandThe keel for this., 5'0-tuot ciafi wasf

made from a white oak felled in the ( Jerusalem woods. It measures "abdut four by ten inches at the prow and; in­creases to some four by 24 inches at

i; the stein. This was hewn, and planed down by hand—-the work, of Mi\ Ernst.• The frame or skeleton of the craft is built of white oak and spruce/'cut from the woods on the sidohills of Lake Keuka. The boat is^very unusual in that the builder has placed in" her two |

; spruce thiee-by-nmc keelsons, running the entire- length Of the frame and greatly to her strength. He has also placed extra braces in the* hull

j so that the craft will be much more rigid than other boats of her size and wfeight. She will weigh between 25 and 30 tons and require three feet of water for floating.

In beam, slio measures 13 feet. From the keel to the dock, is nine feet; and41...... ,---j 4.. <■— qH ri'~

^-irmnrkhei1' ro'TOp1 inches Two six cylinder engjnes wilSj

drive the ; craft, through two three/] I |)lade propellers, at a speed ranging! | between 22 and 25 land miles an hour, | :.'i which i-s very fast for a boat of herg I weight and type*//

Uses Philippine Mahogany 1 i The planking of the sides, the deckjl

I and the superstructure and, interiof .of 1 | the craft We finished in Philippine ina-fl I hog&ny. Careful s'eleotion has ‘ bephll j made* of this Wood so that the match of I the., grain is beautiful. This same at- I tfelg.tiv;e ma-te.ria 1 is used on pactions | which m ,m e $26,00.0 yachts aqgf ma&§.I of wail boai'd. . Similarly, the very best; .'of modern"fixtures are being ‘ used f throughout. All the planking is held'[ in place by copper rivets, and these :: are hidden from weather and .view by \ wooden pltigs.

The two engines and%faJLlrmaneuver­ing of th'^pxaff will be/controlled from | the pilot house, directly over!

the engine room. Cushioned seat s and hanging^ 'Will" make her ‘ comfortable, and attractive. Here will le".served the mehil' when the boat 11st on a cruise,. Back frqin the pilot house will extend an awning, »bver the top of the cabin and oyer the cockpit, in the rear to the stern of the'boat. ‘‘The cockpit meas-j ures seven by; ten fee'tAllojwing ample! room for easy chairs with protection; from seas by the th ^e -feet from the. floor to tile, ‘deck. MJbdpn the/cockpit' is- hatch room for chairs and otherl equipment.

Comforts of HomePassengers will ^m /forward, .and

down into thfer/staterooihfrom the cock-j pit at the sterh.; On -the, portside will! be a;beautiful built-in dkhsaer, also on mahogany, with mirror. A pullmanl

rt.ype berth on this side and two' fold! ing bunks with- coil springs on th®

I starboard side/wilkprPvide ample an<l Leo nil or table accommodations for th®| passengers.^ A clofh®s|>yess’i and toiihffl I hhe..’accommodated on -the!/ starboard i side. Two 39-gallon tahks in thesteriM j i-Milfbf the craft Will supply fresh wa| lifer under/pressure.

Fore ward, is ike .engine room ■vyitl |li$p pilof house over head!- The galley 3 is under, ttip, ^dpek, still further fore I'War^/; In a, hye:by ten-foot space th< [.Cppkfomst “do his stuff.” Probably ai elept^Ic stove and Frigidaire will helj

1 him, while a skylight will provide light l and ventilation. The. drew will bunk I in quarters six; fee.t and six inches ibnigj |towards the boW of the. boat. UnderS the bunks will bp. itwc^|(||^gaiilpn tariksl supplying water for drinking and cook!

l-imgv/Four port holes on each side w-illl I admit light and air, >also water, if noti teept closed in rough weather. A smallS hatch, will permit the crew to reach thd] deck above. Lavatory facilities for’ the crew and a small chain locker, occupy the remainder of the, space in tli^huil at the prow.

Four Hundred HorsepowerThe' “works” are housed in the 12

by 12-fopt space under thp pilot house.T wo ,10 0-gallon gas tanl^s on the side will feed' the; two 2;06‘S 6rsepower, six- cylinder, dohble-ignition engines, driv- iug/twin propeliors through shafts and universal Joints. , The exhausts are cooled by -water, which also muff leg the noise. These run through the hiili of the craft and out through the stern, whereas many boats exhaust through the sidesv The motors generate their pwn electrical current. :

A separate.gas engine will drive the, generator which charges a battery for supplying the draft with light, fresh water under pressure and bilge water for fire protection. An automatic bilige pump will keep leakage at the mini­mum.,.; ' ■ ' ' ■ ' ■ . ■■ ; p.m-./

All metal trimming will be of monb-l inetal or nickql silver. A tender w illl be carried between the rails ,pyer., theL

;boat will alao| be built of mahogany by Mr. Erhst.l

By spelling his oWn name back-| wards, ikr. Wagener derived the name! for his former boat, Renegaw, which| ! Mr. Ernst helped build and which Was! ‘sold in Florida. The new yacht, siinbl Bar to' the other one, but 20-feet-^short-i hr, will probably be christened Rene-| gaW II when she cleaves the waters of Lake Keuka fo? tthS first;'time next month, pishes, aiid silverware/ bear­ing this name and used on Mr; Wagen- er’s former yacht, will compose part of: her beautiful equipment.

Experienced BuilderThe Skilled designer and:: builder,

Mr. Ernst, is a native of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, and, fojlowing the calling of his fatiheT,' has been building or asr sis ting in the ‘ construction of boats

I since he" was a lad. He helped build ] the- Sweetheart II, which is pictured 1 herewSih. Mr. Wagener purchased this I cratii,/already built;1 and' has been us- j ing her this year on Lake Keuka. Last I month he'sold her-to Charles D. Jones*| of Tonawanda; son of R. T. Jones, own- i er of R. T. Jones Lumber company of I TonaWanfia and the Lake Keuka Lum- ; bei|kompany of PeUn Yan.

Mr. -Ernst also assisted in the cpn- |s^$^|^9n of Renegaw, which Mr, Wag-i ener built at Nova; Sdti-t|^’ some six!

; years a g ^ Bfef^rp that Mr. Ernst wasi i employed by Geoirge Lawley and Son,] ;near Bbston, Mass., said to be the best] shipbuilders in the country. For the]

: past six years he has, been; employed by Mr. Wagener in building or as a

Fmember of the ycrew bf his- private I yacht..' ; ",/ 1 .. . ■ ;;

Rog<ert Strum of; Brown street, Penn j Yan, came here from Nova Scotia, to : manage the Sweetheart II. HS/is now Serving as boss painter on Renegaw II.

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and Odd Fellows — ‘Natives

of Milo

On M onday o f this w eek Mr. and Mrs. M arvin L. Spooner o f M ilo Were at home to their .many friends who

/called to help them m ark the 50th an­n iv e rs a ry o f their wedding. Mr. and Mrs. A lb ert A nsley, Mrs. Lu cy A rm ­strong /and Frank Swarthout w ere im ong the ca llers the first o f this w eek •vho a lso w ere am ong the som e 200 in attendance at the nuptials on W ednes­day, August 10th, 188.1.

W hen Mr. and Mrs. Spooner got I m arried, they started som ething! Th ey j form ed one couple o f a crowd "of some six couples that a lways en joyed doing; things together. Th ey w ere the first.; to be m arried. B efore a ha lf year had' passed, in fact by January 5th, next.j a ll the other couples had becom e p er­m an en tly “ h itched,” m aking, on theL average, a w edd ing a month in this)/ group. F rank Swarthout w as 'th e last; o f the young m en to succumb to the m atrim onia l influence generated by L in a Hunt and M arvin Spooner.

Mr. and Mrs. Spooner are ’ natives j and nearly life -long residents o f M ilo. H e has served K euka lodge in Penn Yan as noble, grand and he was the second m aster o f the Penn Yan! Grange. H e was a trustee o f the dis-; tried , school fo r years and one o f the trustees o f the M ilo Center M ethodist} Ep iscopal church. Mrs. Spooner tau gh t; a Sunday school class in that church i fo r some 40 years, and has served her com m unity as a correspondent fo r the Y a tes County Chronicle and thei Chronicle-Express fo r 27 years.

S ev e n G e n e ra t io n s on F a rmTh e Hunt farm south o f M ilo Center,

in the hom e o f which the w edding took place, has harbored seven gen­erations. In about 1780, Adam Hunt came there from Rhode Island to c lear the land. Mr. and Mrs. Spooner now liohi the orig ina l deed, g iven to this fo llo w e r o f Jem im a W ilk inson . In the Spooner home, am ong the m any in teres tin g re lics and aptiquesj is the chair in w hich tlie U n iversa l F riend a lw ays sat and from which she a lways

; preached w hen she cam e to the Spoofi- j er home to hold services. Th is chair w a s . then the property o f his grand­m other; Mrs. Johnson A., N ichols.

T h e bride, a h a lf century ago M on­day, w as Li.n.a TiunL mm o f the four daughters o f Mr. and Mrs.. Adam Hunt. She was born on January 10th, 1859. A fte r a y ea r o f study at Cazenovia Sem inary she en tered M aplew ood In ­stitu te a t P itts fie ld , Mass. F or e igh t years fo llow in g , her m arriage, they m ade th e ir hom e in Canaseraga, w h ere Mr, Spooner taught in the high school. Mrs. Spooner w as a sk illed o il pa.mt-

^er, and taught this art a long w ith her practise o f the cu linary art.

T a u g h t in K e u k a C o l le g eMr. Spooner, - the on ly ch ild o f Mr.

!an d Mrs. Lehnard T. Spooner, was born in the house w h ich is now his

; res idence on D ecem ber 2nd. 77 years ago. A fte r a ttend ing school in Penn Y an he w en t to Syracuse u n ivers ity from w hich he was graduated. H e then spent a year at hom e before go­ing to R u sh ville to teach ill the high school three years and then to Canas­eraga fo r nine years. H e was one o f the first teachers in K euka college.

serving there fo r " f f ir e e years. ‘Tfpon the death o f his father, he returned home to take care o f the farm , which he has w orked since. Th is farm ' is iust w est o f the Hunt place. Mrs. Spooner’s home, w here the w edding was perform ed by Rev. A. N. Damon, then pastor o f the F irs t M ethodist church o f Penn Yan.

Mr. a.nd Mrs. Spooner have had but ,• two children, both born on August 4 th ., two years apart. The elder is Leon | H u n t . Spooner, who resides on the j Hunt farm, his tw o children m aking t.hfe seventh generation on the place, j The younger is Mrs. Charles A rn o ld o f ; LeR oy , who has three ch ildren. M rs.f Glenn W h ee le r o f East M ain street,! Penn Yan, is the only one o f Mrs. Spooners’ three sisters now liv ing. Mrs. W illis H. M illia rd o f Dundee died on June 22nd, 1920, and Mrs. Johnj F iero o f Penn Y an passed aw ay on

I August 11th, 1921.

DRILLERS GET TWO GOOD W ELLS , THREE DUSTERS

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I ta ly H i l l W e l l D o w n 1400 F e e t ;

P lan to P ip e T h r o u g h P enn Y a n

N ew strikes in the Dundee-W ayne gas field have been few er during the past two weeks. Only tw o new wells- w ere reported last w eek and three dus­ters. The Cunningham Gas and O il Corporation brought in ;a good w e ll on property belonging to Rev. James Gor­don in the v illa g e o f W ayne one day last w eek. Th e daily flow was report­ed at 3,500,000 cubic feet. Th e w e ll on the Best farm which was put down by the, Belm ont Quadrangle D rillin g Corporation was a 1,000,000 foo t w ell.

T lip three “ dusters” w ere located on the Schm oker farm , B row n and Bab­cock property and W illia m Sw arts farm . Sa lt w a ter was d iscovered at tw o o f these locations w ith in a short distance o f severa l good w ells.

Th e th ird dry hole was located in the Tow n o f Barrington, Ya tes coun-

! ty, on the farm o f W illia m Swarts.

Th is was the first . adventure in th e] W ayn e fie ld fo r the W illiam sport Gas I Com pany o f W illiam sport, Pa. Abou t; 1690 fe e t o f casing xvas put in the w e ll w ith a ll expectations o f a good flow o f gas. W hen the O riskany sand fa iled to produce the desired product as it has in the other producing w ells , it w as expected that d rillin g operations w ould continue to the M edina sand in hopes that gas m igh t be found. #

The. d rille rs in the em ploy o f JohnF. Carpenter w ere successfu l in reco v ­ering th e ir los t tools in the G eorge B liss w e ll a fte r severa l days’ fishing. Th is is expected to be a good w ell, lo ­cated in the heart p f the field. I t is a R ese rve O il Corporation location. A n ­other w e ll expected in in a few days is located on the H en ry M attoon r>ron­e r ty w rich is being d rilled by E. D. Crandall and Son.

Th e T r i-S ta te Gas and O il C orpor­ation have, tw o locations at. the ,p res­ent tim e, one on the G eorge E rnest property, E rw in Stone! cpntrgctor/an (j the o th er on the G ottfried W yss farm , th is w e ll is being d rilled in connec­tion w ith the B ige low Gas Company.

Since the com pletion o f the B est and Schm oker w ells, the Belmont: C o rp o r ­a tion have on ly one other r ig w ork ing and that is located oil the - H oover property. A ll other rigs are id le!

O perators in the W ayn e g a s , fie ld are w atch in g the progress in the S e c ­to r fie ld w here in teres t is gradually increasing. Severa l com panies have recen tly located in that te rr ito ry and

are anxiously w aiting u ie dutcSome 6f1 their in itia l endeavors, i

A depth o f 1400 fee t is reported in the w ell being drilled on Ita ly H ill. /

T o Sell O u tp u t ; The Cunningham Gas 'and Oil com­

pany has completed a contract to sell the output o f their w ells in the W ayne ] field to fl ie Belmont Quadrangle D rill-1 ing corporation. The daily flow o f thei seven w ells owned by the Cunning-! ham company is estimated at 20.000,-[ 000 cubic feet. They are located on; property belonging to Sarah Eveland, Clyde Dencenberg. Edson Houclr, A ar­on Carlson, Rev. James Gordon, Frank Gleason and John Swarthout. W ith the negotiating o f this contract, th ei* Belm ont corporation now own m o rep than one-half the w ells in,,the Dundee-1| W ayne field or a to ta l o f 37 w ith a |f daily output of 135,000,000 cubic fe e t . ; Some tim e ago, they negotiated a con- j tract w ith the Crescent Producing,.

B company to buy their w ells in the gW iayne field. The gas from these w ells

has already, been turned into the main pipe line. W ork w ill begin "at once oh lay in g the pipe to connect these new­ly acquired w ells with'! the line, which runs from the W ayne field to the Hause H ill field and on to Hqrseheads w here it connects w ith the main pipe line .

Another contract has been negotiah ed during the past few days w hereby the B igelow Gas company and the Tri- State Ohs and O il corporation o f E l- ! m ira agree to furnish the gas from their w ells in the W ayne field to the Lycom ing Natural Gas company, a sub­sid iary o f the Standard O il Corpora­tion o f - N ew Jersey .; This contract calls fo r the output o f all w ells in the field owned by these two companies and o f all w ells that m ay be drilled by them in the future. The tota l out­put o f these w ells is estimated at 84,- 000,000 cubic feet.

Th e Lycom ing company agrees to use the; gas w ith in 90 days. A pipe line from the W ayne field to Penn Yan , Geneva,; W aterloo, Auburn, Syracuse and A lbany w ill be started in the very near future.

Some tim e ago the B igelow Gas com­pany and the Tri-S tate Gas and O il Corporation bought the leases of the W ittm er-Acm e’ group, taking over all their properties. Th is has g iven thqifi a much la rger area. The Tri-S tate

! also took one-third intertest in the L a ­moka Pow er company and agreed to furnish them gas fo r the manufacture o f electricity . — ; Dundee corres.

Ralph D. Fitzwater

W ord was received in this v illa ge on Wednesday, August 12th, o f the death of Ralph D. F itzw ater, native o f Penn Yan, and who conducted an art studio in Manhattan, death occu rring at his handsome new home at South Norw alk, Connecticut. Death was due to a heart attack.

Mr. F itzw a ter was born in Penn Yan and was educated in the public schools, graduating from Penn Y a n Academ y. A fte r studying art fo r sev­era l years, he entered the em ploy o f the E llio tt A d vertis in g A gency , in Rochester. M oving to New York; he became art d irector iof the F rank Sea­man A d vertis in g Agency, hold ing that position fo r severa l years. A t the time o f his death he was ow ner o f the F itz ­w ater Studios, at 295 Madisoji A v e ­nue, Manhattan.

H e is su rvived by his w ife , Mrs Ph y llis Biss e ll F itzw ater; a daughter. Mrs. Pau l Johnston; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F itzw ater, oif Penn Yan ; a sister, Miss Fanny Fern F itz ­water, associate fashion editor 'p f the

, N ew Y o rk Herald-Trbune, and a j brother, John M. F itzw ater, o f Chatta- nooga, Tenn. The funeral was held on

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John A. Grace John A. Grace, a w ell known farm­

er, of Starkey, died, in the Geneva hos­pital, Monday, August 10th. H e had been taken there for an operation fo r appendicitis,-tout the poison had so in­fected lhs system that he was unable1 to recover.

Mi*. Grace was born near- Keuka, January 18., 1865, and was 66 years of. age. In early life he married Miss Jen­nie Green of W eston and they lived an: a farm about two miles south of Dun­dee many years Mrs. Grace died in 1906. and later Mr. Grace married Miss; Maud Waugh of Starkey. Mr. Grace1 was a member of the Dundee Baptist church.

A few years ago he sold his farm, and then later he. built a home near Cook’s Corners on the Dundee-Watkins Glen state road.

l ie is survived by three sons and one daughter, Harold Grace of Tyrone, Leslie Grace of the town o f Reading, Mrs. Leona Robinson of Elm ira and F loyd Grace of Canandaigua; . three brothers, W illiam Grace of Penn Yan, O liver Grace of Auburn, and Orrin Grace of Painted Post; two sisters, Mrs. Martha Baker of Lockport and Miss Ida Grace o f Penn Yan, and sev­en grandchildren.

The funeral was held in the Baptist church Thursday afternoon at 2:00 ■o’clock, with Rev. T. W . Carter officiat­ing. Interment was made in H illside cemetery. — Dundee Observer.

Receives Copy of Rook

m A f ew local residents are the recip­ients of a copy of “ An Interpretation

I ° f th-e L ife and Poetry of Coates K in ­ney, ’ presented by Mrs. Lawrence

t Shields, of Xenia, Ohio, a daughter of -Coates Kinney, .native of Yates coan- ty, who has written many poems and

• prose articles. The book is what its title states, an inLernrefation of the

; poet’s life and poetry. Published by f t he Ohio State Archeological and H is­to r ic a l Society o f Columbus, Ohio, it makes many references to the early

. life of Coates in Yates an.d his love of Lake Keuka and its surroundings.

|Coates Kinney, born in Jerusalem, at -Kinney’s Corners, gained an enviable reputation fo r his poetry, among which 'was “ Rain on the R oof." There are several relatives of the poet -in this village, among whom are Guy Coats, Mrs. Charles F itzwater, Eugene Shep-j ard and the Cornwell" fam ily.

W illiam Northrup W illiam Northrup' died Wednesday

night, August 12, after a long illness, -aged 81 years. H is w ife, Emma H ill, dlecl January 5, 19.29. He is survived by one daughter,’Mrs. Smith M cLoud; one son, A lfred ; one granddaughter, Mrs. Henry McLoud; several great grandchildren, and several brothers and sisters. H is funeral was heid Sat­urday afternoon w ith burial in Ita ly H ill cemetery. — Ita ly H ill oorres.

W ith a parade of 500 cars, packed! with smiling, happy children, tlie Sun-| shine Special of the Penn Yan Ex-| change Club started for the afternoons of fun and entertainment at Red Jack-1 et Park on Wednesday afternoon. Th ei parade was headed by the fire trucks!1 with sirens blowing, a group of boys! and girls riding on ponies, followed! by truckloads of children, and p r iva te i cars loaded to the “ gunwhales" w ith ! Yates County youngsters out for a I good time. The boys’ band furnished | the music for the procession which | was the longest and largest ever w it- L nessed in the county seat, taking one- | half hour to pass the Four Corners F

More than 1,200 children were pres- | ent at the park, and 300 adults brought j the number to 1,500. That the first | Sunshine Special fo r the Exchange Club was a success is proven by the ; numbers, which were far in excess of 1 the estimated numbers, who came to I enjoy the ice cream cones, hot dogs. | pop, pop corn, pony rides, lake trms. L miniature golf, swimming and other j*1

- contests all of which wer„e supervised | ! by adults.| One hundred pounds of hot dogs, 40 ||

gallons of ice cream, two large salt 1 barrels filled with pop co.rn and many | gallons of pop went down the throats 1 of the county children who w ere bent !v on having the time of their lives for Ly one day at least. Twenty-five gallons | of ice cream disappeared like magic | in the first hour when dry litt le ] throats made drier by shouting and ;

j running, hungrily gobbled the cream.! One lad was heard to remark, “ Gee, j ,i who is this Exchange Club, anyway?" k and without a doubt, the club has a

■ prospective member in that lad, as he -probably w ill obtain all desired in for­mation concerning the club and its activities.

The entire police force was engage'7 in regulating traffic near the park, and in keeping the children from injury Out*Of the twelve hundred children, only one injury was reported. One small g irl from Ita ly received a slight

i head injury while swinging, but after 1 attendance by Miss N ellie Mahar, pub­lic health nurse, and dressing by the

! Foster-Hatch group, the child return­ed to play.

A public address system and ampli- i fier was on the grounds and was used ! fo r making announcements, finding lost persons and providing music while the band rested.

The Penn Yan Rotary Club assisted the Exchangeites in making the -ay a success. Every man who helped stat­ed that the enjoyment derived equalled that of the boys and girls.

The Sunshine Special w ill be an P " - nual feature o f the Exchange Club and next year’s attendance w ill undoubted­ly be double that of this year.

Edward G. Hopkins and Charles E. W illis w ere general chairman o f the day and wish to thank all those who

| assisted in ar>TT way in making the day

W HEN a big business man gets excited'Sjj over a hobby it loses all the casual b

characteristics of a pastime and assumes tfe impressive" proportions.

Wilfred W. Fry is head' of N. W. Ayer f l & Son, Inc., advertising agency every day. Week-ends he is the “Master of Meridale." And this is his hobby. Just a matter of 3000 acres of farm and pasture land where more than 500 purebred registered Jersey cattle roam according to the most approved methods of modern cattle raising.

Mr. Fry did not drift into the Jersey cattle hobby. He was introduced to it in 1904 by his l&te father-in-law, F. Wayland Ayer, who founded the farm in Delaware County, New York, forty-three years ago. Since Mr. Ayer’s death in 1923, Mr. Fry has managed the farm and directed the progress of the herd.

Has High-Class Jerseys rpHERE were approximately 350 head of -L high-class Jerseys when Mr. Fry took over the “hobby.” There are now more I

than 500. It Is the largest herd of prize Jersey cattle in the country, kept under dairy conditions. There is a larger herd in Texas maintained under ranch con­ditions.

“The object is not, however, especially to increase the number of cattle,” Mr. Fry explained, “but to increase the quality of the breed, to improve the grade of milk and butter from the cows and produce the healthiest calves which will mature into heavy producing cows.

“There is something very fundamental about improving a breed of cattle. It is a satisfying, constructive service. That is the chief delight in thisjj enterprise. If I can improve our herd by importing the finest animals available and sell ; this su­perior stock to other farmers I am doing something tremendously worth while.

“As has been said— ‘If I can make two blades of grass grow on1 a spot of ground

; where only one grew before I perform an essential service to mankind and my country.’

“I spend every week-end In Meridale from June, when the children get out of

; school, until October, when they return.And I am in communication with the

i farm frequently all year."

High Spot for PostofficeM EREDITH, the postoffice for Meridale

Farms, has the highest altitude of i any postoffice in New York which stays j open the year around. A little Baptist I

church, established more than 100 years i ago, is the soul of the religious life and [ social activity of the people in this rural I

community.Over all this Mr. Fry is the “master.”

He is the president of Meridale Dairies, Inc.. manufacturers and dealers in milk, cream, butter and eggs in New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, which does a large and select business. Even!

Dr. Ernest Baxter, o f this village, ] the, success that g wag who graduated from Cornell Univer- f sity Veterinary College in 1930, has| been in town fo r a few days prior fr> leaving for Los Angeles, Cal., where he w ill become one o f the staff of the P i leading animal hospital .of the We^t. j located in Los Angeles. For the past year he has been an instructor at Cor- j, nell. Undoubtedly there w ill be a il grand reunion when Dr. Baxter meets [Carl Drakeley-, o f this village, who is 'v located in the coast city.

when the head of a large business plays he can’t escape success.

But it is play for this executive. It is play for him to direct the purchase of cattle and to sell the prize animals. Very often, when the superintendent of Meri­dale is away or otherwise engaged, Mr. Fry himself will see prospective cus­tomers and with a knowledge bom of deep interest point out the excellent points of the exhibited cattle.

Years ago Mr. Fry milked cows. But that is far in the past. Back in the days when he was the energetic son of a country preacher in Delaware County. Now that he is the master of more than 500 beautiful Jerseys there is no ‘ time for such employment. No man milks more than eight cows an hour and there are 250 milking cows on the Meridale estate. They are all milked by machinery.

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/ ? J I Also Likes HorsesM W is also a good judge of horseseither a lii? likes to get UP at 5:30 and, the r n l iw T t -®r Wlth a friend, ride over and oWvJI * ° watci1 the early sun—and admire the cattle and crops.

"Th ey are beautiful animals,” Mr, Fry said proudly and fondly. "There isn’t anything prettier than a fine Jersey cow or heifer. I like to just stand and look at them.”

There is a flock of Cheviot sheep roam­ing the hills, too. A very extra special Scotch variety, w ith an ancestry that dates back to the day of Scottish kings.

Mr. F ry is as good a farm er as his f predecessor, and it is said that you can f tell where Meridale Farms ends all j around by the difference in the green- j ness of the grass.

Mr. Fry is proud o f that grass, and > one of his keenest pleasures is to show it, with the cattle, sheep and horses, to his many guests.

Every guest at Meridale is introduced to the joy o f tooling over the hills behind Mr. F ry ’s four-in-hand, a sport which he greatly enjoys.

Mr. F ry does not play golf. Instead, early on Sunday mornings he goes to the little church to take charge of the Sunday school in which he has a special interest. Religious work is one of his chief activi­ties.

Has Other InterestsH E IS one o f’ the main supporters and

a most active worker in the North Baptist Church, Camden. He is also a member o f the National Council o f the Y . M. C. A. and president of the R e ­ligious Press Association.

In educational fields, too, he is enthu­siastic. He is a member of the Board o f Trustees of Brown and Colgate U n iver­sities, Rochester Theological Seminary, Crozer Theological Seminary and Mount Hermon School, his alma mater. In 1927 Mr. F ry received the degree o f doctor o f laws from Colgate.

A ll o f which proves Mr. F ry ’s opening statement:

“ For. recreation I like work.”

Protein premiums— 12 per cent, lc; ,12.5 per cent, lc; 13 per cent, 2c; 13.5■per cent, 2c; 14 per cent, 3c; 15 percent, 3c; 16 per cent, 3c.

Amber du ru m :No. 1, 60-lb. test .........................$ .25No. 2, 58-lb. test ........... y. .24No. 3, 56-lb. test .............................. .22

Mixed du rum :No. 1, 60-lb. t e s t * ......................... $ .21No. 2, 58-lb. test ......... .20No. 3, 56-lb. test ....... ...... i .18

F lax :No. 1 flax ........................... $1.07No. 2 ... 1.02Sample .........|...... 87

Barley (n e w ): Bu. Cwt:No. 2, 46-lb..........................$ .09 $ .18No. 3, 43-lb. .......... ............. 07 .14No. 4, 40-lb. ....'................ . .05 .10

Choice m alting barley 5 @ 10c mere.Rye (n e w ); Bu. Cwt.

No. M 54-lb...... ................. .08 $ .14

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Fifty Years Ago Long po in t on Seneca lake, i t . ap­

pears. by the en terprise o f G eneva people, is to be m ade a popular sum­m er resort. _

, F red S. A rm strong has m ade a tine im p rovem en t. by . the addition o f a fourth story to h is corner store.

A road la id out on the w est side o f . B lu ff Po in t ought to lead soon to the construction o f a shore road on the east side and thus m ake a beau tifu l drive all the w ay around the point.

Th e G reenbackers are hold ing th e ir state convention at E lm ira. One o f

I the best speeches w as m ade by R o b ert ( C. H ew son o f Penn Yan.

L e t us say that' th is season o f the | yea r w hen it is im portan t to m ain ta in | the utm ost clean liness about the prem- § ises, th a t persons keep ing sw ine or | other an finals must see that the pens | are w e ll taken care of. — G eneva I Adv. ' : ■I Byron Peck ins, son o f M yron Peck- i ins, has gone to Galesburg, 111., to at-

I fiend school. .

W d R D E N — A t his hom e at 244 Ham- ilton S t .,. Saturday, August 29th, Leonard Burton W orden, aged 82. | Mr. W orden had been il l but a few IS

days and was thought to be r e c o ve r in . when he was stricken about 1 o’clock 1 on Saturday m orning. H e was known

j as a m aster mason and brick layer S; and was the first to engage in the lay-

ing o f cenient sidewalks in the v illa ge 1 fo llow in g rem oval o f P »e old wood- ' ■ en and flag-stone walks. H e also con- (p ducted a school in brick laying at one |[ time.

H e is survived by his w ife , Jtilfa, | M^haney W orden ; three daughters, t Mrs. Edna Caswell, o f Penn Y an ; Mrs. | Hazel L. Tay lo r, o f B ronxville , N. Y .; | Mrs. M arie Cox, o f Rochester, and on e ,I son, Ralph W orden, o f Ph iladelph ia, if Pa. The funera l was held on Monday I afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the | home, R ev E. W . Chapin, o f Second | M ilo Baptist Church, offic iating. Bu- ‘ | ria l in Lake V iew cemetery.

ROSS— A t her home ’ in Eastf Mam 'Street, W ednesday,, ,'September 2,' | Mrs. Ju liette B riggs Ross, aged 82. 11 Surviving are two sons, Law rence

B., o f Havana, Cuba; W a lte r B., o f Memphis, T en n .; one dau gh ter Mrs,R. C. Casselberry, o f Ph iladelph ia, Pa.; tw o sisters, Mrs. Anna B. W heel­er-, and Mrs. W . W. Quackenbush. both of Penn Yan. The funera l which was private was held at 10 ojfilock on S a t-tJ I

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Station Basis at Points in M ontana Taking a 39«/,c Per Cwt. Freight

Rate to Minneapolis or Duluth. Minneapolis, Aug. 8. — Saturday’s

grain quotations:Dark northern sp rin g— 11 per cent

protein, otherwise f e d e r a l standard grade:No. 1 H. and No. 1 D., 60-lb. test....$ .34No. 1, 58-lb, test ...... ................. . .32No. 2, 57-lb. test .............. ......... . .31No. 3, 55-lb. test ..... ,..........................28No. 4, 53-lb. test ........ ;......... 24No. 5, 50-lb. test .................. 18

Discount 2c per each pound under 50 pounds.

Northern spring— 11 per cent pro­tein, otherwise federal standard grade:No. 1, 58-lb. vest .......................... $ .31No. 2, 57-lb. test ......................... .30

-No. 3, 55-lb. test ....... 27No. 4, 53-lb. test ............................... 23

f No. 5, 50-lb. test ...........1....................17Discount 2c per each pound under

90 pounds.' Dark hard w inter (n ew ) — 11 per

I cent protein, otherwise federal stand ­ard grade :No. 1, 60-lb. test ............. $ .24

! No. 2, 58-lb. test .... 22j No. 3, 56-lb. test ....... 20| No. 4, 54-lb. test ...... ........... | ...... .16- No. 5, 51-lb. test ................................10

Protein premiums— 12 per cent, lc; 12.5 per cent, lc; 13 per cent, 2c; 13.5per cent, 2c; 14 per cent, 3c: 15 per

; cent, 3c; 16 per cent, 3c.Hard w inter (n e w )— 11 per cent

protein, otherwise federal standard | grade:No. 1, 60-lb. test ............. $ .24No. 2, 58-lb. test ................. 22/No. 3, 56-lb. test V............. .20No. 4, 54-lb. test J.................... 10No. 5, 51-lb. test k................... 10

PE D D E R — 111 Penn Yan? ricesday, Septem ber 1st, H a rry Pedder, 63,Mr. Pedder, who was a native o f :

Engand, had been engaged in auto­m ob ile w ashing fo r the past severa l years in this v illa ge . H e dropped dead on Tuesday even in g about 7 o ’clock on Seneca Street, near the corner o f M ain and Seneca Streets. Dr. M. E. Cos­te llo was ca lled and rendered a c e r tif i­cate o f death due to heart attack. Th e fu nera l was held on Thursday m orn ­in g at 10 o’clock from the Corcoran fu nera l parlors in East M ain S treet, Rev. J. H. Perkins, rec to r o f St. Lu ke ’s Ep iscopal Church, at Branch- port, o ffic ia ting. B uria l in Lake V iew . S u rviv in g a re his w ife , th ree sons, A lb ert, James and H aro ld , a ll o f D resden ; three daughters, Charlotte, and Mrs. Charles W h itaker, both o f D resden ; Mrs. Edw ard C arnw righ t, o f Acton, Canada; his m other and a brother, A rthu r, o f London, England, and a sister, Mrs. Phoebe C itillia , o f Canada.

Mrs. G eorge E. W e lk er, o f D resden, has brought suit against the T a y lo r Chem ical Company, w ith a p lan t a lon g K euka outlet, fo r $.800, to recover fo r a lleged damages to the pa in t on the! W e lk e r dw ellin g. The com plain t a l­leges that the fum es from the stacks o f the chem ical com pany com bine w ith the lead in the paint fo rm in g a lead sulphide w h ich - b lackens the paint and disfigures the house. Th e action w ill undoubtedly be a t.estcase.

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E d ito r D em ocrat: I-I tw ice have v is ited the w onderfu l

niece of arch itecture known as the G arrett M em oria l chapel. The gran ­deur o f the scenery, the substantial and m asterfu l arch itecture and the exqu isite beauty o f the crypt and the sarcophage w ill m ore and m ore be­come one of the grea t attractions in this part of the F in ger Lakes region.

It has been m y p r iv ilege to vis it, at times, som e o f the renowned mausoleums o f the w orld . In our own country,! w e have the Bok Tow er, in F lorida . In its crypt lie the remains of Edwdrd Bok. I attem pt no descrip­tion o f This. In the crypt o f the: mausoleum in P a ris lie the rem ains o f V ic to r H ugo and V o lta ire , th e greatest o f F rench w riters, and in the crypt of the T a j Mahal in In d ia lie the rem ains o f the E m peror Shah Jehan and his beautifu l w ife. These I have m entioned and seen a re w orld - renowned, but I am free to say that the crypt o f none o f these w ill com­pare w ith the cryp t in the Grarrett M em orial Chapel. O f course, the set­tings o f th e d ifferen t m em oria l struc­tures are each v e ry d ifferen t from the others and are each m agnificent and most’ beatu ifu l, but the G arrett crypt surpasses them a jl and must become n a tiona lly known— and it is here in our m idst.

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L ilA rticles in MuseumCollection

F o llow in g is a lis t o f artic les in the museum co llection o f the Yates Coun­ty G enealogical and H istorica l Society which has a room in the Penn Y.an public lib ra ry w here the artic les o f h istorica l in terest are kept. Th ese articles have been donated and g iven at d ifferent tim es and to d ifferent in ­dividuals, and the lis t m ay possib ly stand correction.AR M STR O N G , MR. A N D M RS H. K .

Personal cu rrency iof G eorge R. Youngs, 1862 50 cents, 25 cents, 10cents and 5 cents.

Personal currency o f Sm ith M. Cole 1837— $1.

Personal cu rrnecy o f D. B. Buell, 1837— $1.

Yates County Bank b ill, 1831— $10. Yates County Bank b ill, 1839— $5. B ronze m edal com m em orating the

B attle o f Newton, made at the tim e o f the centennial o f Su llivan ’s E xped i­tion, 1879.

F ire buckets o f C. C. Sheppard and M. F. Sheppard.

A la rg e powder horn inscribed w ith the names H unnew ell and Ephraim Hathaw , and m any flo ra l designs.

Pam ph let: Certificate o f in corpora ­tion and by-law s o f the Yates County H istorica l Society, 1860.

L e tte r w ritten by the U n iversa l F riend , Jem im a W ilk inson , to. Anna W agener, 1737.

R ecord book o f th e ShakepeareClub, Penn Yan, 1883.

Record Book o f the R ead ing Club, 180.

Record Book o f the Yates County P o o r House, 1830.

Penn Yan Academ y catalogues,1860, 1903, also 1906.

R ecord Books o f the Penn YanA cadem y L ib ra ry .

Penn Y an D irectory , 1906, 1913,1927.

L is t o f Ya tes County soldiers and sailors in the W o r ld W ar.

,The centennial number o f the Yates County Chronicle, 1925.

Copies o f Penn Yan Dem ocrat, 1889; The P ion eer 1887; Yates County Chronicle 1879; D a ily Graphic 1878; Yates County C hron icle 1865; Penn Yan D a ily T e legrap h 1846; Yates R e ­publican 1830 and 1828.

A deed dated 1800, and a m ortgage dated 1801.

A la rg e co llection o f new spaperclipp ings o f lo ca l in terest.

Seal o f the first Yates County H is ­to r ica l Society.

N ew Y o rk H era ld . A p r il 15, 1865, -j | w ith news o f L in co ln ’s assassination, v | The E nglish R ea ler, one copy, 1827, v | another copy, 1837. i,'\ B irdseye v ie w o f Penn Yan , 1874.;« Maps o f Ya tes County, 1852, 1865,f 1899

P ic tu re o f old Ya tes County C le rk ’s o ffice , bu ilt in 1842.

A Y R E S , M RS. D. C.P a ir shoes said by. M iles A . D avis

to have been ow ned by Jem im a W il­kinson, the U n ivesa l F riend .

T w o Indian pestles.C IT IZ E N S OF P E N N Y A N

T h e Jem im a W ilk in son clock. D IN T U R F F , E D W IN C.

P ea r l-b ea rin g clam, shells, and a num ber o f sm all pearls from P o tte r swam p.

M achete used in the Cuban-Spanigh w ar.

P ictu re o f Tom Thumb and fam ily . Photograph of m oon ’s crescent. P ic tu re o f the Pa rn ell Club o f Penn

Yan.Yan, 1882.

P ictu re o f the U n iversa l Friend. Handbill, the obsequies o f Abraham

Lincoln , Wednesday, A p r il 19, 1865. An old watch.Several newspaper clippings g iv in g

the story of the d iscovey o f the N orth Po le.

R ushville Herald, 1883.A Geode.

D O TY , JUDGE LO CKW O O D R.Boyd and Parker, a book published

by the L ivingston County H istorica l Society.D U R R Y , MRS. F R A N K R.

Torto ise shell watch w ith chain. F IS H E R , MRS. M. W . (R u sh v ille )

Hudson’s L ife o f Jem im a W ilk inson . Picffure o f Jem ima W ilk inson .

GANG, E. J.German dress' helmet.

G ELD E R , M ISS JE N N IE (P la te with p icture o f the old Penn

Yan Academy.GOUNDRY, M RS JO S E P H IN E G IL ­

L E T T vFrench doll.P ic tu re o f J. S. G ille tt ’s m ill and

residence.M ethodist hymn book, 1813, once

own,edi by Samuel Henderson.P ew ter cup.Copper kettle.P a ir wooden-soled shoes.F ire bucket o f Capt. J. G illett, No.

2, 1829.Account book, Samuel J ille tt, 1829-

1840.Account book, 1812- R ock ing horse.

G REG O RY, DR. M IL T O N S. (O k la- Iahoma C ity )

Genealogy o f the Easton fam ily . H A M L IN , MRS. E V A (N ew Y o r l^ C ity )

Chair in which Jem im a W ilk in son sat when she preached in the F r ien d ’s House, in Jerusalem., P ic tu re off tom bstone o f G eorge N. Townsend, 1838.JOHNSON, P A R M E L E

P ic tu re o f Red Jacket.Au tograph letter o f H en ry L .-S tim -

son. iNo-license petition w ith signatures

o f s ix ty-eigh t men o f Penn Yan . JORGENSEN, M RS L U E L L A (B lu ff

P o in t)Candle m old w ith s tick fo r sus­

pending w ick.K n ife and fork , 150 yea rs old, m ade

in Sheffield, England.Candle stick.

K IM B A L L , MRS. H. H.F ile o f almanacs from 1818.T w o pairs shoes o f 1830-1840.

LO CKW O O D , M RS. E L IZ A S.B ottle thrown from ro o f o f the m ill

by M ain Street bridge, w hen it w as repaired by Abraham W agen er, 1824. H O T C H K IN , A L IC E F.

T w o pew ter plates once the p rop er­ty o f R. B. Lefferts.

F iv e do llar con federa te note. M A C K E Y , MRS. J A N E

Candle m old T a ilo r ’s Goose

OGDEN, JEROM E Charcoal foo t w arm er

P A T T E S O N , W IL L IA M Pocket scales found in the c e lla r o f

the Jem im a W ilk in son house. P E C K IN S , B YR O N (D resden )

Handm ade wooden rake.W ooden scoop shovel.M a llets and w edge fo r sp litt in g

sh ingles

P E R K IN S , M RS. J. H . (B ranchporty P iece o f homespun tab le damask

which belonged to Christina L iv in gs -~ ton, signer o f the D eclaration o f In ­dependence.

Th ree photographs o f Esperanza. R U S S E LL , A . N. ( I l io n )

Genealogy o f the Jones fam ily . SCUDDER, M RS. C. B.

T rave l imap o f the United States’, 1840.

Oil pa in ting o f man w earin g a doc­to r ’s hood (n o t ye t identified .)

Pocketbook o f W illia m Costiloe, 1774. V,. . •W A L K E R , E. J. JR.

P ic tu re o f Shearm an's storehous.e. V e ry old p ictu re o f B lu ff Point. Yates County Chronicle, 1893.

W IN T E R S , H. D. (K eu k a P a rk )Indian pipe made in P ipestone,

Minn., about 1725, found near Seneca Lake.

Hand-m ade iron square, W alsall,. England.

Hand-m ade b rick from firep lace in Schuyler County.

Spikes from the Penn Yan -B ranch - port t ro lle y line.W O L C O T T , W A L T E R

Old E n glish B ible.Germ an B ib le, 1705, sent by Ed­

mund K ee fe r , G loversv ille .DONORS U N K N O W N ,

C ylin drica l sadd le bag.L e tte r ca llin g fo r a m eetin g N ovem ­

ber 2, 1927, fo r the purpose o f organ ­iz in g an h is torica l soc ie ty and s igned by W illia n N. W ise, Charles T . A ll- dews, A rn o ld J. Po tter, S idney E , A yres , Calvin Russell, G eorge S.. Shep­pard, E. J. W a lk er, Jr., A rth u r L . B a il­ey.

F ifte en ha lf-d o lla rs , apparen tly counterfeit. _ - .

Candle stick.Com m ission o f G eorge W a gen er to

be L ieu tenan t C olonel o f 103rd JRegi- ment, January 31, 1838.

C a rr ie r boy ’s address, January 1, 1840.

Bue-edged ch ina dish.F iv e sm all g lass dishes,.Stays. - _ ■/ • - VSiT w o new spapers describ in g Jenny

L ind . , - ^Sacram ental M editation , 1792. P ic tu re o f Penn Y an bank.County map o f N ew Y o rk State. Survey map o f La k e Keuka.S ix g eo lo g ica l su rvey maps o f th is

section o f N ew Y o rk State.Copy o f the map o f the o r ig in a l sur­

vey o f the Genesee Country.F la x fibre and comb.

P IC T U R E S Penn Yan from M ain S treet bridge. Penn Y an m ills , Castner & Sheetz!; C rooked Lake canal, the firs t lock - H icks and Chapm an’s store.Penn Y an Band. . -

On September 6th Mr. and Mrs. Abram LaMoreaux of Penn Tan passed the 60th milestone in their walk through life together; They did not observe the anniversary with a cel­ebration, but were greeted by a few intimate friends who were aware ot the event.

Mr. .LaMoreaux, who as 86 years | old, worked for many years on the Penn Yan-DresdeH line of the New York Central railroad. He is now re­tired on a pension. When he first, came to Penn Yan, he didn’t like his job oil “The Corkscrew railroad,” as thj| branch was popularly known, nor did he like the village. He didn’t think he would stay here more than five years. He has now, however, resided in the same house, at 112. East Main street, for 46 years.

If anyone thinks people are drinking more now than they did before prohi­bition or that things' are wor^e in Penn Yan, says Mr. LaMoreaux, either they weren’t alive in 1885 when I came" to Penn Yan, or elsefalhey haY'e forgotten what conditions were th^n. W hy I could S’ee more drunks OM the street, ’in any one day then, than I can see now in five years. Penn Yan was the dirtiest and toughest/place / I had seen. Now, I consider/it one th,e nicest villages in the state.... Mrs. LaMoreaux wag Ida C.. Curry, born on February 22 >.,1850, at Valois, then kSown as" North Hector, >,/in [Schuyler county; She was graduated from the high school ‘ a t - W&tkMs, wliere she met MrY/LaMoleaux, who was a native of Lodi, SenCca1 county, born on January 11, 1845. When 21 years old he 'went t©;' WatkIh;s«tCtleb and worked in tlob dry goods store of Ames and Budd. They were married in that village at. the bride’s, honie on September 6, 1871. He worked in the [store for three years after their mar* riage.

Despite the fact that b&X” • fattier lived to see- 92 years atildt hi's1. mother 96 years, the doctoris 'mustleave the store and forsake inside ,#orj$: ibhe wantdd fsj^live mofp’thanfl^ [Wear longer. This order started t ibis

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working for .the railroad, first in Corn­ing for a year, then in Geneva for six years,, 'they came to Penii Yap from tiefibyi and moved .into; ,the/.^jKouse which they now own. -.The rear of the property borders on the Lake Keuka outlet ..directly across from the New York Central railroad station. Mr. La: Moreaiix erected a. .footbridge/ apross the outlet so he could walk from the path through* his backyard' onto, the tracks,, The bridge soqu became al­most a public thoroughfare. After his retirement he cut it down.

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Operating ReceiversAppointed

Charles A. Herrman, Penn Yan, and WiUiairiSA. FCarsbn, Rushville4, have ^felit^B'pipointed operating . receivers for the :j >enn Yan Boat Company of Penn "ian. Appointment "yas' made by r Judge Simon L. Adler in F M era l i

iGburt in Canandaigua, on Wednesday afternoon ori application of Kainer & I GompanY/ Que- of the company’s ered-1 itors’.-

Papers' filed with Judge Adler state|l thait the Penn Yan company was or- I ganized in i'922 and has liabilities of [ $225^000 and assets of $500-900. Harr| ris, 1 Beach, Folger, Bacon & Keating,, of Rochester, were appointed .attor­neys fo r the receivers who gave bond of $25,000., '

The ieompany is not ingOjvent’ and has not gone into bankruptcy, but the' receivers were appointed to manage -the business and put it on a firm fi­nancial basis and operate i t ' on a practical business _.basis.

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Kainer & l@ompany, Complainant, vs. j enn Yan, Bdat Company, Inc., PefeihdaHf.

Notice to Claimants and Creditors of Penn Yan Boati Company, Inc., to Prove Claims; IPursuant to an'-order made herein

by ,;tiie Honorable Simon L t Adler, District , Judg.e‘S|pf the United^States for -ihe'"Western .District of Ne.w York,;datefi September 19^ 1931, notice is feereby giveri'|io,' the.,claimants and Creditors of Penn Yan'Boiat Company,. inm |tp file with William A. Cars bn/ and Charles A. Herrmann, receivers of ’ said.ffbmpany, at the.’office of said receivers^ on the,premises -of saifi tebmpany in the village ef Penn Yan,; -New York, writtenM proof of .thmr claims and deinands against said'com­pany, duly verified, statiiigHhe amjcunt and nature V)f an'y/- security or lien, claimed or any claim, of :prefbrence in, payment from the property and assets] in the hands of/said company or said [receivers, on dr before the first day ^f BDecember, 1931, in accordance with thei [terms of said /pfder, aind in default thereiof, any jguch creditor failing to [so file his claim shall vbe debarred and [foreclosed from all right to assert the? same thereafter against any property^ or assets o| saidfcompany in its WM I session or in the possession of said re-rf} ceiver, or frdtth any proce-edingatOxre:/; cover said claim or said property and assets; .

Dated September 39, 1931/, William A. Carsdn and Charles X. Herrman, ' Receivers, Penn, Yan

: Boat Company, Inc.;E Julius J. Abesdn, Esq., Office and Post Office Address, 350 Fifth Ave-.

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RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD TIMER

One o f the greatly regretted trage­dies o f many years ago was the death o f R ichard M. Smith and w ife. For many years Mr. Smith was an agent w ith the Indians in the W est, and Mrs. Smith conducted a m illinery establish­ment one door east o f Bridgm an ’s har­ness shop on the south side o f W est E lm street. > W hen ve ry young we went there w ith our m other and re­m em ber w ell the strong odor o f brim ­stone which was used fo r bleaching lad ies ’ hats.

It happened that Mr. and Mrs. Sm ith w ere on a steamboat on Lake E rie during a hard storm which caused the steam er to sink. The door o f their stateroom was jam m ed and could not be opened and Mrs. Smith, who was a ve ry la rge woman, could not ge t out o f the window. Mr. Sm ith hero ica lly remained w ith her instead o f saving h im self as he m ight have done and both went down w ith the ship.

A daughter, H elen A. Smith, was the w ile of Charles S trobridge, who was fo rm erly agen t a t St. Lou is o f the Cunningham company, carriage manu­facturers in Rochester, N . Y., and la ­ter on was w ith the B irdsa ll company, manufacturers o f thresh ing machines, corner of M ain and H ead streets. Som e years later, ow ing to old age, loss of a governm ent position and fin ­ancial reverses, he ended his li fe in a park at W ashington, D. C. Mrs. S tro ­bridge passed on w hen liv in g w ith an on ly son, R ichard , at T w in Fa lls , Ida­ho. Thtis ended a fam ily w e ll known and prom inent soc ia lly in our v illa g e fo r many yea rs .

An amusing inciden t that occurred w ith Mr. S trobridge w hen he w as a young man and in the em ploy o f M or­gan ’s hardware, corner o f M ain and

Jacob streets, was/as fo llow s : A fe llow 1 clerk had a sister liv in g a t home in ! the country and thought a m atrim oni­al a lliance w ith M r. S trobd ige w ould j be h igh ly desirable. H e th ere fo re in- 1 v ited him to spend the week-end a t i his home. W h ile a t dinner, the daugh- r ter passed her p la te fo r a second help­ing saying “ M ore sop on tater„ dad.” Th is crude rem ark so a ffected Mr. S trobridge, w h o was rather refined and fastidious, that it ended the m atri-j m onial aspirations o f the brother and|^ sister.

A t a la te r date and not so v e ry long ago, Mrs. H. S., Easton had an unusual accident that caused her death. Mr. Easton, who had becom e w ea lth y in the o il field, had passed on some years before. In some m anner not exp la in ­able, Mrs. Easton w as pinned to th e fioor by a w ardrobe fa llin g over on her. She w as not ab le to ex tr ica te i h erse lf and liv in g a lone w as ob liged to lie there until the next day in the I a fternoon , w hen a re la t iv e ca lled and released her. T h e h is tory o f that" fam ­ily is trag ic. A son-in-law died in Penn Yan o f tubercu losis and a fte r ­w ards his w ife , A lid a Easton, d ied in F lo r id a o f the sam e disease. It" w as thought at the tim e, m istak en ly as w e know now, that the c lim a te o f F lo r id a was the on ly hope fo r tubercu losis.

T ra in ed nurses, now invaluab le, w ere then unknown, and it was cus­tom ary fo r fr ien ds to stay a ll n igh t w ith the s ick one. W e reca ll m any a w ea ry n igh t passed in the serv ice w h ich w as a g rea t help to the fam ily .

Thus ended another w e ll know n and h igh ly respected fam ily , res iden ts of our v illa g e fo r m any years.

T H E O D O R E O. H A M L IN . Septem ber, 1931.

Gas on Bluff Point

One^-of the Penn Yan men who be- 1 came tem porarily prom inent because | of his d is loyalty during the Civil w ar |

•' Was L e v i Mead, who had a small gro- v: B eery on the east side o f Main street, |

a short distance above Jacob street. |H e was called a Copperhead, as a ll |

, w ere called who w ere not loyal to the r-• Union. One day F red Poyneer, ch ief f ■

of police, was in the grocery, had an | argument and L ev i threw a w eight at

' him, h itting him a slight blow on the •; head. Poyn eer was representative of | those who w ere loya l and in favor of ; prosecuting the war. It happened at.

iff the tim e that a number o f men o f Com-1 S pany A , 126th Regim ent, U. S. V.,|■ v. w ere in town on furlough, and hearing : o f the assault lost no tim e in going to

M ead ’s g rocery where they threw,. .everyth ing in it out on the street,!:

leavin g it p ractica lly broom clean.; L e v i was thoroughly scared and ran!

up Jacob’s brook to the ja il and asked ‘ to be locked in, and other Copperheads;sought sa fety out o f town. Th is oc-;

. currence during the C ivil w ar o f 1861-k 65 illustrates the fe e lin g against th ose : who w ere disloyal. Th e house on Court street across from the c lerk ’s; office, w here L e v i lived, has recently: been torn down and rem oved.

Cal Carpenter and his w ife conduct­ed the A rk , ha lf a m ile up the lake,! and served ice cream and other re-: freshm ents, and Cal a lso de livered ice| in a one-horse wagon tw ice a week.! N ea r ly everyone depended on coal! ce llars and ve ry few used ice.

Th e only m ilk route was ow ned by James M ille r who lived up the L o n g h ill just w est o f the v illa g e .and m ost o f the m ilk was de livered by Ira O. ! Sprague. H e served it from a la rg e , can w ith a long handled d ipper ho ld ing a pint, not san itary accord ing to m o d -; ern ideas, bu't in those days v e ry l i t - ! t ie was known about m icrobes; Ira would also in form his custom ers o f

! a ll the news, how hot or co ld i t w as I the n ight before, and w hen he r a n g ;| his bell to signal h is . com ing, those |J w anting m ilk cam e out w ith th e ir I j pitchers, and heard about th e lo ca l gos- |sip. i I

In the w in te r season fa rm ers j brought in to town quarters o f b e e f in : th e ir s le ighs and to cut them up prop-: e r ly was quite an u ndertak ing but w e j

: thought w e w ere v e ry successfu l a t ; lit . Th e sle ighs w ere m ostly open box! j one runner ones but som e had b o b s ,! and both w ere w e ll pa tron ized by boys !I catch ing rides.

V ege tab les were, ra ised and sold J m ostly by P e r ry Danes and ■ A lfr e d | Rose. P e rry did not lik e to '“ p ed d le ” ‘ and sold to the groceries . A lfr e d R o se cla im ed he ra is ed 'th e la rg e s t qu an tity o f potatoes to the acre. N e a r ly e v e ry one had a garden and the sa le o f .vege­tab les w as lim ited .. N ow w e g e t them

I in the w in te r from Im p eria l v a l le y in i C a lifo rn ia in re fr ig e ra to r cars* and j have g reen peas, etc., etc., a w on d erfu l ! change fro m 50 years ago.

j , . T H E O D O R E 0 . H A M L IN .

A fte r se rv in g as p o lice ju stice f o r ! the past fou r yea rs fo r the v i l la g e o f j P en n Yan , John E. Sheridan has ten-1 dered his res ign a tion to the v i l la g e | board o f trustees, th e res ign a tion to | take e ffec t on O ctober 15th, w h en j M au rice M cCann, w ho has p racticed ; la w in P en n Y a n fo r the past s ix yea rs , w ill assum e th e duties o f th e o ffic e to suctieed A tto rn e y Sheridan , j O w in g to the p ressu re o f p r iv a te p ra c tice and his duties as county a t­to rn ey , Ju stice Sheridan w as ob liged to r e s ign fro m the o ffice .

D E A N — A t his hom e in Guyanoga, on Thursday, O ctober 1, B en jam in G. Dean, 54.Survived by his w ife , tw o daughters, !

M iss Genevieve and M iss E d ith Dean, ; 'both of Penn Y a n ; one- s is ter, Mrs.ffe? W illia m W heeler, P en n Yan . F u n era l ! held Saturday at 2 o ’c lo ck from the hom e and at 2:30 o ’ c lock from the i

M ethodist Church at B ranchport, R ev . j

R. N. Jessup, o f Penn Yan , o ffic ia tin g . B uria l in B ranchport cem etery,

C A R L IN — A t the hom e o f his son, ! P e te r Carlin, in Burns T e rra ce , ; W ednesday, O ctober 7, 1931, P a tr ick Canlin, aged 74 years "" ' j .H e is su rvived by h is w i f e ; th ree !

daughters, and tw o sons. T h e fu n e ra l w ill be held on F r id a y m orn in g a t "

,8 :30 o ’clock from th e C orcoran fu n er- ■ "jal parlors, E ast M ain street, and a;t,9 h o ’c lock from St. M ich a e l’s church, w ith buria l in St. M ich a e l’s cem etery .

S T O W — A t his home in B ranchport, Saturday, Oct. 3, W illia m S tow , 72. S u rv iv in g are one dau gh ter, M rs. v

T h eod ore Snyder, o f B ranchport, and a brother, G eorge S tow , o f I ta ly H ill..The fu n era l was held on Tu esday a f- | T e rn oon at two o ’c lock , R ev . E. W . fc ; Chapin, o f Second M ilo , o ffic ia tin g . K eu k a Lodge , No. 149, I. 0 . 0 . F „ h ad ■ || charge o f th e serv ices at th e g rave . B u ria l in I ta ly H il l cem etery .

SCHOJAN-— A t his hom e in P en fie ld , j W ednesday, O ctober 7, F red Schojan . k, S u rv iv in g a re his w i fe ; one daugh-

te r ; fou r sisters, M iss Soph ia S ch o -v P jan , Mrs. R a lph Cole, M rs. D w igh t Sm ith, Mrs. C harles M acK ay , a ll o f V

I P enn Yan. Th e fu n e ra l w i l l b e h e ld I | from the home in P en fie ld on Sa tu r- ' j ,

day, at 2 o ’clock. In te rm en t in Oak- 1 I w ood cem etery , P en fie ld . f i

T h e gas d r il l in g op era tion s h ave j1 s ta rted near the v i l la g e o f P en n Y an w ith the e rec tion o f a d r il l in g r ig | on the B lu ff P o in t p rop erty o f P a u l j G arre tt, on w h at is kn ow n as the [■ M a n ley L e e fa rm , w ith actua l d r il l in g f: ex p ec ted to be s ta rted th is w eek .

T h e new w e ll w i l l b e d r ille d by. the P rod u cers N a tu ra l Gas C om pany o f ; B u ffa lo , N. Y ., w ith N ie l C randall, o f ! B o liva r , as d r il l in g con tractor.

T h e P rod u cers N a tu ra l Gas Com ­p an y has con s id erab le a crea ge under ; lea se on B lu ff P o in t and it is expect- ? ed th at se ve ra l w e lls w i l l be d r illed on th e peak o f the b lu ff. A cco rd in g to p lan s n ow under con s id era tion , the n ex t .tw o w e lls w i l l b e d r ille d on the G r id le y fa rm , a ll th re e w ith in a rad ius | o f about 2 m iles .

A c c o rd in g to g eo lo g is ts and m en ex ­p e r ien ced in the 'gas d r i l l in g indu stry , | B lu ff P o in t| u n dou b ted ly w i l l o ffe r j som e o f th e la rg e s t p ro d u c in g w e l ls ' in th is t e r r ito ry . T h e lin e fr o m the ; W a y n e gas fie ld a co rd in g to su rvey , is rep o rted to cut a cross L a k e K eu k a I and th rou gh the B lu ff P o in t h ill.

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P ie r r e L . H a rp en d in g and C h arles S. ) H oy t, o f D undee, w e r e b a d ly in ju r e d : w h en the H a rp e n d in g ca r wasi s tru ck ! in a head -on co ll is io n w ith an oth er r ca r n ea r S im coe, O n tario , Canada, Sat- [ u rd ay a fte rn oon . T h e m en w e r e trea t- !; ed in a Sioncoe H o s p ita l and b rou gh t | to th e ir hom es in D u ndee, T u e s d a y .! M r. H a rp e n d in g su ffe red a bad cut| o v e r one eye and had cuts* abou t th e jj fa ce and th ree r ib s fra c tu re d . Mi*. K H o y t su ffe red a b a d ly in ju re d c h e s t '( and cuts and b ru ises . ; 1

Where Six Escaped from Yates J a il 7 6 '

Photo by Francis E. LarhamHere's the hole in the wall at the Yates County Jail through which six prisoners made their escape Sunday morning. (1 ) Otto Bardo, 42, of 18 Mohawk Street, Rochester, and (2 ) William Bates, 19, of Waterford, Pa., two of the six who were captured at Watkins Glen; (3 ) Sheriff Milton L. Rapalee. ^ m

Middlesex

— “ H e that is .slow to anger is bet­ter than the m igh ty and. he that ruleth his sp irit than he that taketh a city.”

— Th e grape harvest is on. The fru it is in fine condtion. The price fo r N iag ­aras is $22 per ton ; Concords around £20. Th e demand is none too good.;

Hiram Sw ortz H iram Sw ortz o f H im rod died at the

W illa rd State hospita l on Tuesday, Sep­tem ber 29, 1931, aged 78 years. H e is I survived by an adopted son, Charles Sw ortz o f H im rod ; one n iece and one nephew. H e had a lways lived in H im ­rod and conducted a m eat m arket and I g rocery store until il l health forced him to re tire from .active business. I

The funeral was held at the H im rod i Baptist church in Friday, October 2nd, I Rev. Gustav Manhold officiating. -! I lim rod Corres.

| New Bridge Opened

; Cutting the strand 'c,f ribbon which o ffic ia lly “ c losed ” ... the im posing new h ighw ay bridge at Dresden, Miss H ar-

* r ie t I. Dem pster, of Hornell> daugh­ter o f 0. J. Dempster, d istrict engi­neer.; o f the New. Y o rk S tate H ighw ay Departm ent, on Saturday afternoon

3 opened, the 720-foot span to tra ffic ’ a fter a construction program of a

year., The first cars to cross the bridge

fo il aw ing the clipping o f the silken barrier by Miss Dem pster w ere those o f her father, D istrict E ngineer Dem p­ster, and o f John Petrossi, contractor, o f Rochester. Other cars fo llow ed w ith state and county officia ls.

•— A farm bureau m eeting was held at M iddlesex Thursday even ing to make arrangem ents fo r fa ll m eetings.A tree trim m ing dem onstration w ill be held in town around Decem ber 1st. A public m eeting w ill be held soon to be addressed b y a professor from Cornell on “ Farm M anagem ent.” R o y Dunton says i f a man can show him how a farm can be m anaged to make money on 50 cent wheat, 25c. oatsj and barley, $10 hay, $20 grapes, 25c potatoes, 6c lambs, 15c wool, $1.50 beans, he is “ from M issouri” and w ill have to be

RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD TIMER

E dtio r C hron ic le-Express: —W ith the exception o f the tw o banks

now in our v illa ge , ev ery one preced­ing them has fa iled , but Baldw ins bank and the C itizens bank are pros­perous, w e ll m anaged, and w e be lieve are com petent to handle any amount o f business w ith absolute sa fe ty . M/any years ago w e w ere told by a prom inent and 'successful business man.' that in buying investm ents, “ buy the men m anagers,” m eaning that a w e ll m anaged one w ith m oderate re ­sources was fa r m ore desirab le than

\ a la rger one not so w ell managed. W e have been a buyer o f bank stocks fo r m any years, have not lost a do llar in them, and consider them today sa fe and desirable investm ents.

Th ere w ere various causes fo r the fa ilu re o f the Penin Yan banks, the Bank o f Bainbridge, Th e Farm ers Bank, The Y a tes County Bank, O live r S tark ’s Bank, J. T . R ap lee ’s Bank. Ya tes County N ationa l Bank and F irs t N ationa l Bank. The Ra.plee Bank bu ild ing was w here the Down block stands now, and a fterw ards it was used by the Ya tes County Judge and Surrogate, A n drew O liver. H e was. ve ry slow and deliberate and it was said o f him, that he never did today w hat he could put o ff until tom o rro w ! O nly a few days b e fo re the fa ilu re o f the Rap lee Dank w e knew o f a man w ho gave it fo r collection , U. S. G ov­ernm ent bonds to the amount o f ten thousand dollars. W e have a lw ays re­garded it as a p re tty close shave. J.

T . Raplee w ent to N ew Y o rk and for a tim e Was a m em ber of the firm o f Hem phill, H am lin & Co., a t 344 Broad­w ay, o f which George E. H am lin was a partner. As Mr. Raplee was not adapted to a m ercantile business, he sold his interest to his partner and retired from the firm. H is ' brother,; S'. S. Raplee, who was w itl\ him in the Penn Yan bank, m oved to Buffalo and engaged in the insurance business. W hen in 'P en n Yan tie resided in th,e house next to the Baptist church, and until the bank fa iled , was considered

j prosperous.Failures o f some o f the Penn Yan

banks w ere m ostly due to a lack of judgihent in ' m aking loans. Onj§ bank loaned to a man who bought a ve ry la rge quantity o f w ool at a do llar a pound. The price declined rap id ly and the buyer, and the bank, had to suc­cumb. Another bank foaled as the re­sult o f a costly and unfortunate m atri­m onial a lliance, and another from an unwise and hopeless com petition in ari outside line o f business. ; A ll o f them showed a lack o f financial m anage­ment and ability, and some o f the prom issory- notes foun(I in the assets, w ere not short o f grotesque. Today, safeguards are fa r- greater fo r the de­positor than form erly, und w e regard ou two banks as prosperous, safe, and well, m anaged in all respects, and each one has a la rge surplus.

TH E O D O R E O. H A M L IN .Rochester, N . Y.

Septem ber, 1981.

W IN D N A G L E — A t the home o f tier bon, Jerom e W indnagle, East Main Street, Sunday, October 11, Mrs. Adela ide W indnagle, 89.

Surviving are four sons, Ora, P ra tts- burgh; Ednah, Portland, Ore.; T. W a r ­ner and Jerome, both o f Penn Yan. The fu nera l was held on Tuesday a f­ternoon at 1 o ’clock from the Th ayer funeral home, Rev. E. W . Chapin, o f the Second M ilo Baptist Church, o f­ficiating. Burial in Prattsburgh.

Rev. Leona Sisson, fo rm erly o f Penn Yan w as ordained a m in ister in the Baptist church at the special m eeting o f tJhe Steuben Baptist association near Bath. She has served the Mount I W ash ington church as pastor fo r tw o) years and now becomes the firs-t wom­an pastor in the Steuben association.

M rs . L le w e l ly n A. Legg Mrs. M ary L e g g , aged 85 years, diet:

at her "hom e in Dresden on Sund'ay ‘n iorfiifig, October 18, 1931, fo llow in g an illness o f nearly three years during .which tim e she was unable to walk. She did her daily work w heeling about

1 hom e in an arm. chair. H er hus-1 fband, L lew ellyn L e g g , died in June o f j this year. Mrs. L e g g was one o f th ej eight children o f H en ry Gelder and Ann S isson-G elder and was born in f the town o f Benton Decem ber 24, 1846*. -I* ■' She is survived- b y -two brothers,^

Charles Gelder and George Gelder o f T o rre y and severa l nieces and neph­ews. Th e funeral was held from her ( la te home on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. I J. R. Carpenter offic iating. In term ent : iMKas . in Lake V iew cem etery, Penn Yan. — Dresden corres.

Signs of Spring?j p / f j . /

W i n t e r has de layed its cold b las t so long t h a t s igns of spring are becom ing n u m ero u s . N o t £ o n ly have som e people been p ic k in g a second crop of rasp - * b e rr ie s and s t r a w b e r r ie s , b u t also o th e rs re p o r t f r u i t trees blossom ing fo r th e second t im e .

L y m a n Johnson a t 172 Seneca s tre e t , P enn Y a n , has a black' c h e r ry tree , b ra n c h e s of w h ic h have been h o ld ing hop efu l b los­soms to w a r d s th e w a r m sun fo r th e past tw o o r th r e e w eeks .

“ T o n y ” W a t k i n s has an ap p le t r e e w i th sev e ra l b lossoms on it.

A p ear t re e , f ro m w h ic h th e f r u i t w as p ic k e d but a s h o r t t im e ago, is n ow in blossom. T h is t r e e is a lso located on S eneca s tre e t , on th e S ere f ine place.

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A m ong the Penn Yan people who j saw the B ig Red team o f Cornell uni­v e rs ity tear -the P rinceton t ig e r to p ieces on the Crescent at Ithaca Satur-I

-day afternoon, score 33 to 0, w ere : Dr.: and Mrs. W a lte r G. HallsteacI, Dr. a n d ! Mrs. John Hatch, M r. and Mrs. John : C. Fox, Ed. L ov itz , H a rry Putnam, | M iss Barbara Stow, M iss E llen Bailey, i Mr. and Mrs. John E. Sheridan, M r . ! and Mrs. W illia m M anley, Mr. a n d ' Mrs. Charles G. H etherington , Mr. and Msr. H ow ard Davenport, W illis B u rtj, and son, Mr. and Mrs. Claude B ige low ; and Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Y e t ter.

Mr. and Mrs. H en ry B. C ornw ell have sold their Court street residence to Mrs. G eorge Doughty, o f N ew York City, and th e ir L a k e Keuka cottage toC. B. B riggs, o f this v illa ge . Th ey have purchased the Indian P ines res i­dence owned by Mr. B riggs and w ill m ove D ecem ber 1st to their new home.

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— W e w ish to jo in w ith the Dem o-' crat in congratu lating our good friend, John Hyland, on his 54 years o f ser­v ice in one place o f business. S tick-to- ittiveness is a great, asset. M ay he en­jo y m any m ore ann iversaries is the w ish o f your correspondent.

Editor Chronicle-Express: —The Crooked Lake canal betw een |

Penn- Yan and Dresden w<as begun in | 1830 and finished in 1833. Th ere w ere j 27 locks and the fa ll from Lake Keuka I to Seneca lake was 269 feet. A spur from the, canal extended up Jacobs brook the length of two or three canal boats w ith a dock on the west, side fo r unloading all kinds o f fre igh t. As this was before the railroad from Can­andaigua to E lm ira was constructed in 1851 the merchants had no other w ay o f shipping in from N ew York.

was ground fo r spreading on the land.;Bott loads o f limestone were b

shipped in to a k iln at the foot of Pine j': street (now Keuka s tree t), and burned; there. Th e k iln was torn down, dur- i ing the “ Steam boat W a r .” In the vi-j? cin ity o f the second lock Albert Ran-i dall had a card ing m ill, and near by!; was a saw m ill, and fa rth er down! stream the o il m ill o f W illia m C. Joy. |

The .canal was g iven up about 50 b yeai's ago, and a branch o f the F a ll Brook ra ilroad was built from D res-:. den to Penn Yan. About this tim e 1

It was quite custom ary to name | canal boats a fter the ow ner 01: some | prominent person, and many citizens of Penn Yan w ere in terested as own­ers, helmsmen, deck hands, and driv­ers o ! the unfortunate mules. Starting a loaded boat a fter it was put through a lock must have been a heart-break­ing job for the mules. An additional team was carried on the boats and change made at regu lar times. Occa­sionally mud w ould co llect in the.i

navigation on La k e Keuka was in fu ll sw-ing and many excursions came over that railroad.. Mr. LaM oreaux was the engineer a n d ' F. W in ters , conductor, the form er still liv in g. Those w ere most in teresting tim es hardly b e liev ­able now w ith not a steam boat run­n ing on the lake, when fo rm erly m ore than 100,000 passengers w ere carried, annually on the boats o f the C rooked Lake N av iga tion Co.

Th e first steam boat on Lake Keuka

canal and boats would drag on the bottom, and when this occurred the water was drawn from that le v e l and the njud rem oved by men w ith wheel-' barrows.

N avigation to Lake Keuka was through the channel w ith the : tow path on the south side, w h ich separat­ed the mud hole, a fa vo rite fishing place, from the channel. The boats often sailed through ->ttie lake, using a

was bu ilt about 1837 by Captain Joe L ew is and named The Keuka.

Soon a fte r the railroad from Canan­daigua to E lm ira was in operation, an em pty fr e ig h t car w.as an ob ject o f curiosity to sm all boys, and a tra in was thrilling. W ood was used fo r fir­ing the engines which bad la rge smoke stacks, and loose couplings w ith an iron pin w ere in use. W hen a train started there w ere a series o f

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long wide plank on the side t o . pre-1 vent drifting. Th e second lock, not fa r below Cherry street, w as a favor-1 ite sw im m ing place, and just' be low j was the Baby, hole, w here the w ater

: was not deep • and w here youngsters learned to swim. G reat stunts w ere perform ed by experienced -swimmers, such as high d iving, sw im m ing long distances under w ater, p lay ing tag, etc.

N ear the second lock w as the A. W . Frank lin plaster m ill w here the stone

jerks as the couplings perm itted con- j siderahle p lay betw een the cars. W hen trains w ere a fterw ards run a ll n ight to N ew York, a trip was an unusual ex- j, pei’ience, the seats w ere not. com fort­able and sleep ing cars w ere ' unknown. Those w ho are now fam ilia r w ith the luxurious Pu llm an cars, .cannot appre­ciate the hardships o f tra ve l in the early days.

T H E O D O R E O. H A M L IN .R ochester, N. Y., O ctober 1931.

Frank J. W ells , who fo r ten years' has been running a g rocery store on North avenue, just east o f M ain street, this week sold the com bined store and house to the Red and W h ite , Inc., o f Buffalo, and W illia m Bashel o f E lm ira, who w ill serve as m ana­ger. . Mr. and Mrs. W e lls are now m oving to a home w hich they have purchased at the corner o f Chestnut and Law ren ce streets. Th e new ow n­ers w ill take possession o f the busi­ness M onday o f next week. Mr. an/1 Mrs. Bashel m aking their home there.

Mrs. Anna W illis Ringer Th e burial o f Mrs. Anna W illis R in ­

ger o f Bath took p lace from the old W illis hom estead in D resden last w eek Thursday. Mrs. R in ge r was a fo rm er D resden res iden t and m ost of her early li fe was spent at the W fllis home on Seneca street, Dresden, near Seneca lake.... She is su rvived by her husband, M y­ron R in ger o f Bath and a niece, Mrs. R ay .Horton o f D resden and a nephew in ' W ebster. She w as buried on the [ W illis lo t in the E verg reen cem etery ,!

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Under a canopy ,of maples, brillian t in their gorgeous autumn colorings, m ore than 300 people gathered on the lawn of the Congregational Church- at Rushville Friday afternoon, Octo­ber 23, to witness the unveiling and dedication of the m em orial m arker to Marcus Whitman, pioneer, m issionary and patriot which' had been placed in the church yard through the efforts o f Gu-ya-no-ga Chapter, Daughters o f the Am erican Revolution.

Mrs. E. R. Bordwell, regent of the Gu-ya-no-ga Chapter, presided at the m eeting and the R ushville high school band played during the program. In ­vocation was given by Rev. Ralph W y- rick, pastor of the R u sh ville Methodist Church, fo llow ed .by the reading of the 98th and the 108th Psalm s by Mrs. Eugene Shepard, chaplain o f the chapter. The Bible from which the Psalms w ere read was one which had belonged to the m other o f Marcus W hitm an and now is the p roperty o f Miss E lena Underwood, o f New York City, but is in the possesion o f her sister, Mrs. J. D. Dayton, o f Rqshville . The old B ib le contains the names, dates of b irths and deaths o f the mem­bers o f Marcus W hitm an ’s fa th er ’s fam ily and also the same o f his m oth­er ’s second husband’s fam ily , that o f Calvin Loo-mis. *

Another in teresting rem inder o f the W hitm an fam ily that now is owned by Mrs. Dayton, but which had been loan­ed fo r the occasion, and was on the tab le on the speaker’s p latform , was a w rought iron candle stick that had belonged to A lice Green W hitm an, m other o f Marcus.

Mrs. B ordw ell expressed thanks to a ll who had had any part in the erec­tion o f the m arker and that included friends from Rochester, Canandaigua, Penn Yan, R ushville and other places.

Mrs. M aurice H. H arrison, o f Penn Yan, a descendant o f Augustus W h it­man, a brother ,of Marcus, gave an ac­count o f how..the Oregon became a part of the United States, w h ich in- cuded how Marcus W hitm an cam e to go W est.

Mrs. W ilson F itch led the audience in singing, “ Am erica, the Beautifu l.”

Mrs. Ralph T. Norris, o f Penn Yan, explained the purpose o f Gur-ya-no-ga Chapter in p lacin g m arkers at places o f h istoric in terest throughout Yates County.

Mrs. H. H. Hardman, o f Penh Yan, gave incidents which showed the ex­tent to w hich Marcus W hitm an was revered throughout various sections o f the United States. .She quoted from

a letter, which had been w ritten her.; severa l years ago by a re la tive , Mrs. I John C. Frem ont, a daughter o f Thom- I H. Benton, who was a statesm an in j Washington^ at the tim e that Marcus ! W hitm an made his jou rney to that | city. Mrs. Frem ont said that she was in W ashington at that tim e w ith her fa ther and knew that W hitm an did save Oregon to the Union. .

C ity Judge H orace F itch , o f Canan­daigua, gave a b rie f l i fe h istory of Marcus W hitm an and drew lessons from his life applicable today. I t was an insp iring and patrio tic ta lk and., was much en joyed by the assembed guests.

W h ile the band played “ T h e Star Spangled Banner,” Mrs. G eorge F itch and Miss H elen Jones, both mem bers o f Guyanoga Chapter from R u shville, drew aside the ve il o f A m erican flags from the m em orial. Mrs. B ordw ell in a gracefu l and fitting speech presented it to tjie com m unity o f R u sh ville and ex-Senator W illiam A. Carson accepted it on behalf o f his fe llo w citizens.

The m em orial consists o f a huge boulder brought from the M artin W , F isher farrn^. fo rm erly owned b y a descendant o f Augustus W hitm an. Upon this boulder is a bronze p late w ith a has re lie f o f Marcus W hitm an,

| standing beside a w agon wheel, and garbed in the ;suit o f a p ioneer as he was. dresked when he trave led from Oregon to W ashington, D. C., in 1843. The s ign ificance o f the w agon lies in the fact that Marcus W hitm an is said to be the first to prove the feas ib ility o f tak ing w agon trains o f im m igrants across the R ockv Mountains w here he and others had established m ission stations am ong the Nez P e rc e and Cayuse Indians, Upon the p late is the in scr ip tion : “ T o honor Marcus W h it­man, born near this spot, Septem ber 4, 1802, m issionary to the Cayuse In ­dians. H is was the first w agon to cross the R ocky Mountains. In 1842-1844 he gave va luab le assistance in cla im ing Oregon to the United States. In 1847 lie and his wife,. Narcissa Prentiss,

, w ere m artyrs in an Indian massacre. E rected by Guvanoga Chapter, Daugh­ters o f the A m erican Revo lu tion and citizens, 1931.”

Th e w heel and distaff, em blem of the Daughters o f the A m erican R e vo ­lution, is on the tablet.

| P resen t at the u nve iling w e re des­cendants o f Marcus W h itm an ’s three brothers, Augustus, Samuel and H en ry W hitm an. Besides Mrs. H arrison , o f Penn Yan, other descendants o f A u ­gustus W hitm an w ere Miss Eunice M yers, Mrs. A n to inette M yers, Mrs.

7 7W illianvCushm an, M iss Garonne vusn- man, and Miss H a rr ie tt Crittenden, all j o f Rochester. Descendants of Samuel ! W hitm an w ere Mrs. Leona Holmes,* Mrs. Lena Magin, Mrs. Maude W a lk er,; Mrs. Anna Last," a ll from W ay land and j sisters of one fam ily , also their cousin, I Mrs. A lb ert Lander, o f Cohocton. D e -; scendants o f H enry W hitm an were Mrs. E llen Bates, M iss Anna Hark- ness, F rank Harkness and Charles Fox, a ll o f Rushville, also H en ry Fox, o f Stanley. Descendants o f Oren Green Loom is, Marcus 'W hitm an 's half- brother, . w ere Mrs. Jay D. Dayton, Mrs. E lm er H aw ley and two daughters, and M iss Pearl H orton, a ll o f Rush­v i l le ; Mrs. F lorence Kennedy, of Ita ly ; Steve A. Cooper, o f Sonyea; R. L . Robinson, o f Dund.ee.

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T h e - comm ittee in charge of a r­rangem ents consisted o f Mrs. Ralph Norris and Mrs. E. R. Bordw ell, of Penn Yan, and Mrs. G, M. Fitch, of Rushville. - I • /v* ■ ; .V i

An incident was related of the last time Marcus W hitm an came to his; na­tive heath to stay any length o f time, which was before his marriage. W hen he came to Rushville he a rriv­ed on Sunday morning, during - the services, in the Congregational church. Marcus entered the churc^, and”1 as he -did so, the congregation turned around and when the m other o f W h it­man recognized her son, she cried out, “ Th ere comes Marcus W hitm an.” He was accompanied by two Flathead Indian youths and they, w ith Marcus spent the w in ter'a t his home in Rush- v ille ,

Dr. W hitm an is known in Am erican h istory as th-s man who saved Ore­gon to the Union. H e studied medicine at P ittsfie ld , Mass., practiced in Can­ada and in W heeler, Steuben county. In 1843 he was accepted by the Am er­ican Board of Commissioners- for .For­eign Missions engaged in m issionary w ork among . the Am erican Indians, and was asign'ed to the Oregon terri­tory, then under jo in t occupation of G reat B rita in and the United States*

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D octor Whitman, foreseeing a plan to save Oregon to the Union, made a* trip on horseback - to Washington*^] w here he succeeded in convincing-the j ; United States governm ent" of the I threatened danger in Oregon, ^.emedi- r a l measures w ere at once adopted, [ w ith the resu lt that Oregon was .re- iv tained in the Union. Doctor and: Mrs.,1 W hitm an w ere massacred in 1847 by I the same Indians amchig whom they { had long labored .: A - .

Tuesday ’s election in Y a tes county brought out an unexpected heavy vote for, an “ off y ea r” and a surprise con­test or two. Outstanding in this re­spect was the de feat o f the present com m issioner of public •welfare, JayD. Barnes, Republican nom inee, by H en ry R. Brown,.Dem ocrat. Th e race was nip and tuck through Tuesday n igh t and W ednesday morning, as the returns w ere reported to the Chronicle- Express office. N o t until p ractica lly a ll the d istricts had reported was Mr. B row n ’s election assured. W ith Ita ly ’s one d istrict lack ing he led Mr. Barnes 3530 to 3056, a p lu rality o f 474 votes. Mr. Barnes has been in o ffice one term , j th ree yea fs . Mr. B rown was the only D em ocrat nominee to Win fo r a con­tested county office.

I tricts. On Tuesday, how ever, M i. 1 B rown carried his own d is tric t 133 to 50, and also Mr. B arnes’ d istrict, Jeru­salem 4, 163 to 126. Th is upset pro­vided the grea test point o f in terest as

I .he returns came in.

Mr. Brown was appointed to this county office some four years ago up­on the sudden death o f the holder at that time, John Ball. A t th e 1928 e lec­tion Mr. Brown, running as a Dem o­crat, was defeated by 'Mr. Barnes, R e ­publican, 4634 ito 3904, a p lu ra lity o f

f r a n k B. A l le y , O w n e r of A l l e y ’s In n , D ied F r id a y

Frank B. A lley , aged 71 years, ow n­er o f A lle y ’s inn at Keuka Park , died Friday night, October 30th, a t the inn. Mr. A lle y came to Penn Yan severa l years ago from H ornell, since that time operating the successful inn on Lake Keuka w ith the help o f liis w ife , I who died, last year.

H e leaves his daughter, Mrs. Jay Bundy o f Rochester. Am ong the tok ­ens o f esteem and respect at the fu-1 neral services, held from the home j Monday a fternoon at 2:00 o ’clock, was I one sent by the F in ger Lakes associa- j tion in the w ork o f which Mr. A lle y | was much interested. Burial was m ade j in the H ornell cem etery. R ev. J. H ow ­ard Perkins o f Penn Yan offic ia ted at the se rv ices .

Big Celebration

W ith about 300 children in the line o f march, dressed in all manners o f H a llow e ’en costumes, the grea t car­n ival and celebration held on Satur­day night brought-out more than 3,000 people w ho enjoyed the music by the boys band and the Leg ion bugle ahd drum corps and the general gobd time which prevailed in spite o f the cold wind, a ll ; in celebration o f the turn ing on o f the new boulevard ligh ts in E lm and East E lm streets,

The parade, w ith M ichael Shannon as master o f -ceremonies, formed at the Pennsylvania station, and, headed by the two musical organizations,: marched down to the four corners where a judge’s stand was placed and the prizes were awarded.

730. Both men then won their own dis- j

1 0 START PENN YAN GAS PIPE TODAY

Contract Awarded for Line

from Wayne Field — To Be

Completed in Two Months -

Bluff Point Well Due

Further assurance that Penn Yan w ill en joy a supply o f natural gas came Tuesday when the Lycom ing G-as corporation announced the award o f a contract fo r the construction o f a 15-mile line o f ten-inch pipe from its w ells in the W ayn e sweet gas field, in to Penn Yan to the m eter and va lve station which w ill be located on land, recen tly purchased from W illiam M„ Patteson near the lumber yards back o f H en ry street. A t a specia l m eet­ing o f the Penn Yan trustees Monday even in g the com pany was granted the righ t to cross South avenue with the pipe line .

R ich and com pany o f Bradford, Pa., is expected to start the construction w ork this w eek Thursday and has prom ised to com plete it w ith in two months. Th e line- w ill in tersect some 60 pieces o f property in Barrington and M ilo ■-townships o f Yates county1 as it goes from the field to Penn Yan, en tering the v illa g e through the South; avenue farm o f Mr. Patteson. P e r­m ission has been secured, according to J. French Robinson o f Pittsburgh, m anager o f the Lycom in g company,, to ' run the line through the various | properties. Te lephone and telegraph lines may also be erected along this lin e .

P e r m i t G ra n te dPenn Yan granted the perm it w ith

the understanding that it did not a f­fect. any lines now com pleted or pre­vent gran ting sim ilar perm ission to other com panies in the future.

T h e L ycom in g company is a subsi­d iary o f the Standard O il company of N ew Jersey from which company the N ew Y o rk Central E lec tr ic corpora­tion expects to buy its natural gas for# circu lation .in Penn Yan, Geneva andj other com m unities served by the net work o f pipe spreading out from the E m p ire coke works at Geneva. A pp li­cation- fo r new gas rates in Penn Yan are now under o ffic ia l consideration.I

B lu ff P o in t W e i lH avin g abandoned the w ells on the

W ard and T h ayer farm s on the Rati road, d rillers are expected soon tc start a hole on the Ed. Fu llagar place pn the Bath- road. v W pfk, is progress, ing in the m eantim e 1 on the Norris w e ll and the M acD ow ell w ell, the lat ter in B arrington .

T h e G arrett w e ll on the old Lei fa rm at the top o f B lu ff Po in t has reached a depth o f o ve r 2,00Q fe e t anc d rille rs rep o ited that they w ere w ith in a few fee t o f the O riskany sand on W ednesday. Th e “ d rillin g in ” is ex pected to te ll the story this, w eek.

F O E YATES BANKS JOIN CREDIT CORP

Affiliate with National Organ­

ization to Further Increase

Stability — Note Rise of

Public Confidence

Ranking officia ls of the six counties* making up group tw o o f the National Credit Corporation fo r New, Y o rk state met W ednesday even ing at Rochester to perfect plans o f organ ization in this section. H arry M. Putnam, president of C itizens bank, Penn Yan, and Clar-. ence R. Andrews, chairman of the beard o f the same bank, wrere present. Charles A. Lazarus, cashier o f the Rushville State bank, and officers of the Dundee State and Dundee N ational bank w ere also present. A ll four of these Yates banks have a ffilia ted w ith the corporation.

Over 50 banks n f L iv ingston , M on­roe, Ontario, Seneca, W ayn e and Yates counties -were represented by their ch ief execu tive officers. It was an­nounced that the m ajority o f banks in­cluded in this group have been author­ized by their board of d irectors to a f­filiate w ith the N ationa l Credit cor­pora',(ion, and it is expected, offic ia ls stated, that, group tw o would sub­scribe to the notes o f the body to the extent o f nearly $3,000,000. The Roch­ester banks all a re participating, and have subscribed their quotas in fu ll. The assets of the N ationa l Credit cor-, poration w ill exceed $500,000,000.

Raym ond N. Ball, president o f the L in coin-Alliance- Bank and Tru st com­pany, of Rochester, and chairm an of group two, presided. Th e assem bly chose the loan com m ittee to set up the necessary m achinery to m ake the loan ing facilities o f the N ation a l Credit

j corporation a.vailable to m em ber j banks. x .

PEHN YAN MASONIC M EET HAS RECORD ATTENDANCE

O n ta r io , Y a tes and S e n e c a C o u n t ie s

Send Big D e le g a t io n s to T h u r s d a y

C o n v e n t io n

G eorge H . H o llow ay o f Lyons was], the only D em ocrat to be elected to t office in the town o f Lyon s Tuesday | of last w eek , having been re-elected : supervisor. H e is a son o f M r. andj Mrs. W illia m H o llow ay , who w ere for-f m er residen ts o f Penn Yan , and he OM# i m any friends here. H is father for m any years ran a cloth ing store on; E lm stree t w here the M. C. Starkj com pany is now doing business.

On Thursday, N ovem ber 5, M ilo lodge No. 108, F. & A. M. of Penn Yan, was host to the la rgest M asonic con­vention ever held in the Ontario-Sene-

joa-Yates district, 335 m aster masons I being in attendance. H erify G. Meach- ! am, grand lecturer o f the state said, he had held 18 conventions t in various

j parts of the state s o .fa r this yed r blit this was the largest convention and no doubt it would be the la rgest he would

I hold throughout the year w iih the ex- ! captions o f those d istricts in which are | located such la rge cities as Buffalo,| Rochester and G reater N ew York .I A t the d istrict dinner served by the j ladies o f A m ity chapter, O rder o f the I Eastern Star, 329 w ere seated , Al- jbert T. Beardslee, d is tric t deputy grand m aster presided and at his tab le w ere seated Henry G. Meacham, grand lec ­turer, George Salisbury o f Phelps, Den-

I nis C. P ierce o f Penn Yan , H en ry W ieatherlow o f Naples, who are past

! d istrict deputy grand m asters, Ira C.I Ide o f-D undee, past' grand steward,I K irk W arner o f Naples, E. P. W righ t o f Penn Yan, assistant grand lectur-

1 ers and the ru ling m asters o f the 18

: lodges o f the district. . ‘ ; W! The -guests had just been seated ! when Mrs. R a y Campbell, a past ma-i ' tron o f the Eastern Star approached i the speakers’ tab le and in behalf of } the A m ity Chapter, congratulated A l- j bert T. B eard lsee upon his appoint- i ment as d is tric t deputy grand master fo r the second term and presented him w ith a beautifu l basket o f chrysanthe-

• mums. Mr. B eardslee expressed his ( appreciation o f the beautifu l g i f t and placed it in the cen ter o f the table.

I B efore the d inner was served a. flash j ligh t picture was taken.} The convention Avas ca lled to or- | der prom ptly a t 10: 30 a. m fb y the dis-:I tric t deputy who introduced the grand lecturer, H en ry G. Meaciham o f Seneda

Falls. M ilo lodge o fficers opened th e ! convention and this was fo llow ed bjtf a portion o f the second degree in the t fore&oon, in the a fternoon the rest o f]

' the second degree, and the th ird de­gree rece ived the attention o f the con­vention. Th e even in g .session w as taken up w ith th e first d egree w ith the o ffi­cers o f Pocahontas lodge No. 211 of Seneca Falls , the hom e1 lodge o f the grand lecturer, occupying the princi­pal stations.

An in terestin g feature o f the con­vention was the fact that A rthur A , Brooks o f Fayette , as past m aster of F aye tte lodge. No. 539, was 75 years cld oh the date o f the convention and was- ce leb ra ting his b irthday by at­tending a ll three sessions o f the con­vention. Mr. Brooks has the distinc­tion o f having held a t his h om e 'a m a­sonic picn ic ev e ry sum m er fo r 15 years: and it has not rained' w h ile the piCnic was be in g held in all that tim e. This- is know n as the Brooks p icn ic and has come to be one o f the func­tions o f the d istrict, lite ra lly thou­sands o f masons, th e ir w ives and ch il­d ren gather at the Brooks home every yea r fo r this picnic. A nother in terest­ing item was th e fa ct that the tw o old­est members' o f M ilo lodge w ere pres­ent, F. R ay A n d rew s- w ho w ill be 86 the 25th o f this m onth and is the o ld ­est in years and W illia m Conklin, w ho has been a m em ber o f M ilo lodge fo r 62 years and is the oldest iff m em ber­ship.

It is be lieved that this convention also had the distinction o f be in g the first in the s ta te to be m entioned in, the newk broadcast o f a rad io station, station W/HAiM o f R ochester g a ve it a prom inent p lace in the news broad­cast _of., M onday noon, N ovem b er 2nd.

M rs . R osc ius C ro sbyM rs, C harlotte O ’D ell B arrett Cros­

by, aged 74, w ife of; Roscius Crosby, died" at h er home in M anchester F r i­day, N ovem ber 13th, a fte r a long i l l­ness. She was born in Penn Yan A pril 8, 1857,,and was m arried to Mr. Cros­by on .January 14, 1878. She had re ­sided in M anchester fo r 18 years. B e ­sides her husband, she leaves | one daughter, Mrs. Mlary Jayne, of Man­chester, and, a son, F rank Crosby, o f Detroit,*: th ree sisters, Mrs., M ary An ­derson o f Topeka, Kan., Mrs. Emma B row n o f Sayre, Pa., and Mrs. Jennie Dodd of. L ea d v ille , Colo.

Funeral se rv ices w ere held Sunday from the hom e a t 2 o ’clock, Rev. L . L Swarthout, pastor o f M anchester Bap­tist church, o f w h ich she was a m em ­ber, o ffic ia ting. Buria l Avas made in Lake V iew cem etery, Penn Yan.

Mrs. F. N. Goodrich Mrs. Sarah Eugenie Goodrich died

at her home in Rochester on W ednes­day, N ovem ber 11, 1931, aged 73 years. She is survived by her husband, Frank­lin N. Goodrich; two daughters, Mrs. Grace Fow ler and Mrs. M arguerite Tut- hill; tw o sons, Dwight A., and Marshall G .; 11 grandchildren, all o f R och ester; two sisters, Mrs. W illiam E. Sea lies of Canandaigua and Mrs. Frank D. Burger o f Pulteney.

A prayer service was held Saturday morning at her la te home and a funer­al service on Saturday afternoon at the home of her sister. Mrs. Frank Burger in Pulteney at 2:30 o ’clock, Rev. A. B. Scofield, pastor of the ' Pu lteney Presbyterian church, of which Mrs. Goodrich was a member, conducting the service. Interm ent v/as made in Glen V iew cem etery, Pulteney.

A m brose A th aw es , Sr.Ambrose Athawes, Sr., a ged .87, died

at his home in Sheppard street, Penn Yan, on Thursday evening, Nov. 12th. Surviving are two sons, Am brose o f Penn Van, and Charles o f North East, Pa.; three daughters, Mrs. H arvey Purdy and Mrs. Daniel Coons o f Penn Van, and Mrs. Rosie Coons o f Dundee. The funeral was held from the Th ay­er funeral home Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o ’clock, Rev. W . M. Hydon o ffic i­ating, w ith burial in Lake V iew cem e­tery.

Gordon W. Ciiampney

Gordon W. Champney, 46, who has been principal • o f the senior high school in Penn- Yan fa r the past 4, years, died at the Soldiers and Sa il­ors Hospital in th is v illa ge on Wed-J nesday m orning about. 3:25 o ’clock.;

Mr. -Champney had been ill at hi si home since the first of Novem ber and his condition gradually became w eak­er until un Sunday last it was deemed

j advisable to rem ove him to the hos­pital. Last- spring he obtained leave j

I o f absence from his teaching, d u ties ; ! because o f il l health and was at his j home fo r the rem ainder o f the school 'year, return ing in September last.

Mr. Champney was a popular in ­structor and was a favo rite w ith t h e ! student body. During his 4 years in Penn Yan he made many friends who . w ere saddened at the news o f his

j'death. He was a charter member o f the Penn Yan Exchange Club and w a s ! assistant superintendent o f the Meth- j odist Episcopal Sunday School.

?!rG A V IN — A t the home o f her sister, Mrs. E llen f r i l l y , North Avenue, Saturday, Novem ber 22, 1931, Miss M ary Anne Gavin.She is survived by two sisters,

E llen R e illy , Penn Yan ; 'and Pa trick M cE lligo tt, Rochester, by severa l nieces and nephews.Gavin had been a life -lon g resident of Penn Yan. The funeral w as held from the Gavin homestead, 351 istreet, on Tuesday m orning at prOUND'RY— A t hisc home in

Tuesday, Novem ber 24, 1931,! ner Goundry, aged 85 years.

H e is survived by one son, Ora, at hom e; and a daughter, Mrs. H erbert LongweH, o f M ilo. Th e funera l w ill be held from the home on F riday a f­ternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. E. W . Chapin, o f Second M ilo Baptist Church, officiating. B uria l in Dundee cemetery.

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Landscaping w ork has been nearly com pleted by Pau l J. Barnes o f Jer­usalem, the successful bidder, fo r beau tify ing the grounds o f the federa l pos to ffice bu ild ing’ in Penn Yan. Post­m aster John B. Cram er reports that $200 w ill be spent in setting out the 16 varieties o f shrubs and sm all trees j now planted accord ing to the blueprint o f the p lanting plan prepared by the post office departm ent. Th ese include Chinese and Japanese juniper, colum- j nar, hydrangeas, spirea, je t 'bead,: honeysuckle, snow,berry, highfbushcranberry, m ock orange, Japanese, flow erin g crab and 50 bushes o f bar-' b erry .

T IT U S '— A t his home in M ilo on Sat- uday, N ovem ber 28th, M organ J. Titus, aged 73.Su rviv ing are his • wife.; tw o sons, I

A lb e r t and Glen, both o f M ilo. The I funera l w as held on M onday from | the hom e in M ilo tit 2 o ’clock and from j the Second M ilo Baptist Church at 2:30, Rev. E. W . Chapin, assisted by I Rev. R. N. Jessup o ffic ia ting. M ilo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. M., had charge i o f the services at the grave. Buria l in L a k e V iew cem etery.P L A IS T E D — In Penn Yan on Satur­

day, N ovem ber 29th, Charles A . 1 Pla isted , o f U tica, aged 58.Mr. P la isted died at the summer I

home o f his son on Lake Keuka. H e j is survived by one son, M axw ell I P la isted , o f Penn Y an ; tw o brothers, F red S. and Daniel P la isted , both o f Penn Yan, and one sister, Mrs. E va Reynolds, o f Penn Yan. The funera l was private and was held on Monday a fternoon from the chapel in Lake V iew cem etery at 2 o ’clock. B uria l in Lake V iew .

H A IG H T — A t his home in B lu ff Point, Thursday, N ovem ber 26, G eorge H aigh t, aged 83.S u rv iv in g is one one son, Pearl, o f

Saturday a fternoon at 2 o ’clock from Penn Yan. The funera l was held on the Th ayer funera l home, Rev. R. N. Jessup o ffic ia ting. B uria l in Lake V iew cem etery.

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Middlesex*1 — T ile ‘■-Democrat" a ays m its 20B years ago column that a bushel o f re Red K idn ey bean at $7.00 per buhel e would buy a ton o f coal. You w ill t now have to sell seven bushels to

buy a ton. Speaking about tiax^es, |Q schooh taxes are now out, it takes 3 42,000 pounds o f evaporator apples V to pay the tax on H ick o ry G rove farm . ) Th e tax is now $80.00; 30 years ago, i $18.00, w ith farm produce low er now

| than 30 years ago.

j \ V e a r s ^ A g oMr* and Mrs. Charles E. Guile

Observe Anniversary

T h irty -tw o guests gathered a t the home o f M r. and Mrs. Charles E. Guile on Tuesday evening, in hon­or o f the 50th w edd ing ann iversary o f Mr. and Mrs. Guile, who w ere m ar­ried 50 years ago in the tow n o f Barrington, by Rev. C. M. Bruce, pas­tor o f the Second M ilo Baptist Church.

Mrs. G u ile was H a ttie F in ton daughter o f G eorge W . and M artha Finton, and w as born in the town o f Barrington, Yates County. Mr. Guile was born in the tow n o f M ilo, the son o f P e rry A . and C elic ia Law ren ce Guile.F o llow in g their m arriage Decem ber 1, .1881, which took place at the home of Mrs. Guile’s parents, on the occa­sion o f the christen ing o f the new home which had been erected by Mr. and Mrs. Finton, the couple lived in B arrington until 1905, when they re­m oved to Penn Yan. In 1908, Mr. Guile, w ith his brother-in -law , T . W . W indnagle , purchased the P ra tt bas­ket factory, and they have conducted that p lan t since then.

Th e attendants at the w edding o f the couple who have trave led l i fe ’s path fo r 50 years in contentm ent and harm ony, w ere Charles B. G u ile and H a ttie K e llo gg , who, since have be-

■ com e man and w ife and reside in Geneva, N. Y.

M any beautifu l floral g ifts and personal - greetings w ere received by the couple as they presided at the in ­fo rm al dinner given in honor o f the

i occasion at their home. Th e decora­tions o f the din ing room w ere gold and golden yellow , the c’fiysanthe- mums and candles a ll harm onizing in corresponding shade.

-Am ong th e guests present w ere Dr, A. H. Norton, o f Keuka C o lle g e ; Dr. R. E. F arrier, o f R idgew ood, N. J.; and Rev. and Mlrs. G. A . Beers, o f Pu lteney. " ' ’ : - • • • '[rM

Mr. and Mrs. Guile have tw o daugh­ters, M iss Ruth Evangel Guile, at home, and Mrs. David B. A yres (E s­ther A ileen G” P e ) o f Geneva, N. Y., also two grandsons; David Bruce and Charles Fenton Ayres, sons o f Mr. and Mrs. David B. Ayres.

Rev. Beers, one o f the guests at the dinner, w rote the fo low in g poem, in honor o f the occasion :

mF IT Z W A T E R — In S. & S. Hospital,;

Thursday night, Decem ber 3, 1931, Charles F itzw ater, aged 81 years.H e leaves his w ife, tw o daughters,|

Fannie, o f New Y ork C ity, .and Mrs.! W illia m Moran, of Penn Yan ; a son,I John, o f Chattanooga, Tenn.; a broth-1 er, John, o f Geneva. T h e funeral ser-j v ices w ere held from the Thayer fun- j era l hom e on Sunday afternloon, Rev.j W . M. Hydon, pastor o f the Penn Yam M ethodist Church, o fficiating. Burial j in Lake V iew cemetery.

NEW COM B— A t his home in Benton,: Saturday, Ddvember 5, Arthur j j Newcom b, aged 71.Su rviv ing are his w ife ; two daugh­

ters, Mrs. Charles W ilk ins and Mfs. F lorence Covey, both o f Penn Yan; af: son, F rank Newcomb, o f Los Angeles,| Cal.; a brother, W ilbur Newcomb, o£| Stanley. T h e funeral was held on; Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from, the home, Rev. James Sykes, of Hall} Congregational Church, officiating.; Buria l in Vo ale cemetery.

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home and her face and hands severely burned as exploding gas wrecked her little home in the v illa ge o f W ayne on Tuesday was the harrow ing ex­perience o f Mrs. E lla M. Boyce, 59,, whto m iraculously escaped w ith her i life when natural gas fum es' ignited from the flame o f an oil stove in the j Boyce, kitchen causing the explosion j which damaged the Boyce home to ' the extent of $2,000 and rocked adjac­ent buildings.

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W IFE MARK ANNIVERSARY

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Mr. and Mrs. O live r Shoem aker, who for the past. 18 years have lived at their residence, 121 South avenue, Penn Yan, w ill have been m arried a h a lf century on Thursday o f this week. It was on D ecem ber 17th, 1881, that the couple w ere wed, E ld er Stanton o f Keuka o ffic ia tin g at the serv ice at the bride’s home in W ayne. :

W h ile liv in g in Penn Yan, the couple fo r some 15 years would spend the summers at the Severne vin eyard o f the la te .. W illiam T. M orris , o f Fenn |j Van, • in ! S tarkey township on thew shores o f Seneca lake. Mr. Shoemak-1

in e^er was an 'experienced fru it g row er I rcul and cared fo r the vineyards. A fte r | h e r ; their m arriage they lived in Steuben >rk county fo r many years, in Schuyler npii county fo r a short tim e and the rest ti-on) o f the ha lf century in Yates. F o r e n; some time he served as a m ille r in

W ayne, and again in T y ron e .H ay Mr. Shoem aker is the son o f the ard late Mr. and Mrs. U riah Shoem aker, ad, born on July 16th, 1858, in Steuben ir t county, near the little lakes. H is bride

th o f 50 years was .18 at. the tim e o f her g ii m arriage. She was born on June 28; fil i 1863, to the la te Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson C iE Crookston o f W ayne. T w o o f their Th ( three sons are now liv in g : Raym ond rm L. Shoem aker o f Penn Yan, R. D. 5, ach the W e s t Lake road, and Gerald o f ille H im rod , R. D. 1. a ; Mir. Shoem aker’s s is ter, Mrs. B. J.

ed iE ge ls to n and fam ily o f H am m ondsport ;c tew ill ga th er a t the coup le ’s h om e. w ith

the rest o f the fam ily fo r d inner Thurs­day noon.

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W IC K H A jM — In Jerusalem ,,7 W ednes­day m orning, D ecem ber 16, 1931, Edw in F. W ickham , aged 81 years. Th ere a re no su rv iv in g rela tives.

Th e fu nera l w ill be held from the T h ayer fu n era l home on F r id a y a f­ternoon , a t tw o o ’clock, Rev. W . M. H ydon o ffic ia tin g . y

Edw ard Creary, 20, o f Penn Yan, a ! student in th e Cornell C o llege o f En- j g in eering at Ithaca, has been aw ard- < ed the Joseph N. Evans scholarsh ip (; o f $150 per year, the aw ard being j based on scholarship, character and I: need.

TJhe young man is a graduate o f J Penn Yan Academ y, Class of 1927. 1 Th is is the first time that the Evans \ prize has been awarded, and comes I

.’ from an incom e from the fund es- 1 tablished by Joseph N. Evans, fo r (

: that purpose. ||

BABCOCK—-At her home in N orth Avenue, Friday, D ecem ber l l t l i , M iss H arrie tte Babcock, aged 77. Su rviv ing are one sister, M iss Mari-,

etta Babcock, >cf Penn Y an ; a niece,; Mrs. E llis J. Kennedy, and nephew,! W illiam C. Babcock. Th e fu nera l was held on Monday a fternoon at 2 o ’clock from the home w ith Rev. W illia m M.

: Hydon, o fficiating. B uria l in Lake V iew cemetery.

/ DEPRESSION A N D W A S TE

f A Call for Economy—Previous Hard Times

To the Editor of The Republican:—

Pollyanna preachm ents are popular just now, and have been fo r two years. But self-deception butters no parsnips. Concealment m ultiplies fears; why not face the truth?

The plight in which this nation now finds itself is due prim arily to the

fact that in the W o rld w a r the so - called civilized countries on this globe burned up or m ortgaged a la rge share of the w ealth that, m ankind had ac ­cumulated since the D a rk Ages. And thereafter, led on by the m irage of an inflated price-level, they continued the o rgy of spending and debt-con­tracting as if nothing un tow ard had happened.

Prosperity is based o.n thrift, and the very m eaning of that w ord has been all but forgotten. W h e n a re la ­tively important portion o f the. race has learned its lesson, and descended for an indefinite period to a lower standard of living, and by hard w ork and self-denial again am assed a sur­plus, then and not till then will “good times’’ return. The whole world is very much in the posture of a m an who has gone on a spree w ith cards, drink and the devil, du ring which he has blown in all his sav ings and pledged his home for more than It is worth. It will take him years to re -

, trieve his lapse, even if his m oral disintegration will admit of it. M ean ­time, his purchasing pow er is at a minimum.

A fter such a w orld -w ide fa k e ’s ; progress, repentance and rehabilita- : tion must be slow and tedious, and There will be pitfalls. W a g e s m ust be : readjusted. Tariff w a lls m ust come down or at least be lowered. W a te r will be squeezed out of capitalizations based on war profits. N o one w ill take his medicine w illingly , or w ithout a w ry face. E very law -m ak in g body will be besieged with all sorts of nostrum s intended to enable m en still to pos-j sess cakes that they have long since!; eaten. Some of the proposals that Willi appear this ensuing w inter at W a s h 4 ington and elsewhere w ill be calculat-l ed to make even the late lam ented1. B ryan turn over in his grave.

A fte r 1873, the w orst year w as 1877.1 Follow ing 1893, liquidation w as not I wholly completed fo r five years at least. And at those periods, recovery w as hastened by the fact that there w as a ready m arket abroad fo r all that this nation could produce, except fo r a brie f interval. T h a t is not. the case at present,

In the nineties, first-c lass artisans worked for $2 per 10-hour day, and re ­tail prices w ere in keeping. A n a ll- wool suit or overcoat, as late as 1899, could be bought fo r as little as $5.

It is interesting to recall the se-1 qupnce of events. G ra in sow n- in N e ­

braska the fa ll o f 1893 in som e cases did not germ inate until the spring of 1895, ow in g to drouth. In those days, corn from w estern fa rm s sold fo r 10 cents a bushel and w as burned for fu e l; eggs b rough t the housew ife three cents a dozen. In 1895 wheat sold on the Chicago B oard o f Trade at 48% cents, and 1896 brough t the silver^ craze. B u t last August, barley in M ontana brought the g row er five cents a ^bushel, and w heat as little as 10 cents.

B u t that drouth w a s negligible in com parison w ith that of 1930, and the abuse of credit, in the early seventies and nineties w as child ’s -p lay com­pared to that w h ich culm inated in 1929. N o r had there been, even in 1861-65 or ever in recorded j history, such appalling w aste o f capital through w a r and extravagance.

N o t that w ages and retail prices are likely to return to the levels o f the nineties, but B radstreet’s index num ber, which during those years reached a m inim um of $6 plus, is now down to $8 plus ($20 plus in 1920), and certainly this trem endous drop is not reflected extensively in what consum ers a re pay ing fo r m any a r ­ticles to storekeepers wedded to 300 per cent. And the $10-a-day men, who w ere getting $3 to $4 prior to 1914, are show ing no disposition to relin ­quish tlfbir cars and six -room m od­ern houses. A n d it is a popu lar doc­trine now adays that recovery can be prom oted not by prudence and econ­omy but rather th rough fostering the very spendthriftiness that has brought the. world to its present pass. I t can, in short, hard ly be said that liqu ida ­tion has m ade a beginning, except on the stock m arket and in respect to a few basic food-products and r a w 1 m a­terials.

M ankind, in the' mass, is seldom ca­pable of a rr iv in g at ju st conclusions by exercise of reason, and an in feri­ority complex and envy and distrust of superior m entalities m ake it loath to receive advice from . the expert; am ong vyhom, indeed, there is often little agreem ent, It fo llow s that leg ­islative bodies tend increasingly to emnrace few of outstanding character and ability, and results are what m ight be expected. N o fountain rises higher than its source. W e choose our representatives, and m ust abide the event. W h a t saith P oo r R ichard? “E x ­perience keeps a dear school; and fools w ill learn in no other.” T here are no short cuts to recovery from de­pression. C haracter-bu ild ing is not achieved by fiat. W . B. S H E P P A R D .

L em e.v, Gel., Novem ber 25, 1C31.

M O R E O N M IG R A IN E .™ ~ Y B. S. w rites: I have been\ \ I subject to migraine for 47I f W years ’> am rather fam iliar withf f ® its voluminous literature, am

fairly well versed in what little is known about the human metabolism; have con­ducted coup,tless experiments on myself and others in this connection; and re­gard myself as a witness of some com­petence.

Migraine is not an ache but an acute pain. It is a distinct pathological entity, always inherited, though the inheritance j is not always true to type, ar\d is thus j often obscured. The precise nature and basic etiology of the disorder are as shrouded in mystery today as ever. No explanation fits the facts, not even the recent ascription to sensitization. Any­thing that lowers the threshold of resist­ance may precipitate a seizure, may pull the trigger, so to speak. But what loads the gun is wholly unknown.

A ll theories break down upon impact with the clinical histories, the chief stumbling block being the unquestioned tendency of the disorder to : end, in woman with the' climacteric, and with men at about the same relative age,

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although many sufferers find relief in the grave alone.

There is but little trustworthy evidence going to show that migraine has any- ■ thing but ft fortuitous or coincidental relation to urticaria, .^asthma, or hay 'fever. Few laymen know anything worth while about hygiene' or diet, and in the early years of migraine almost any medi­cation, or improvement in regimen, or removal of any prpximate cause, such as caries or constipation, may effect, a cure which is not permanent. Cures, when they do occur, are purely spon­taneous. The most plausible explanation of the migraine complex, as yet totally unsubstantiated, is to ascribe it to some specific metabolic idiosyncrasy. AIt is not possible, in my opinion, to account for the spontaneous recoveries which in women are often abruptly synchronous with the menopause. That cessation of gonadal activity has any casual rela­tion to anaphylaxis is a tax on cred­ulity. It is in the later decades that resistance should be at its lowest ebb, so far as anaphylactic shock is con­cerned. It is precisely in these decades that recoveries from migraine should never occur, if this theory is valid.

There seems ample cause to suspect that the spontaneous recoveries are re­lated to a diminishing or suspended supply of some hormone that has been thrown into the blood stream in excess or of faulty quality. This notion seems to accord with the invariable tendency

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of nearly all glands, unless the pros­trate, to subinvolute in later life, and with the fact that anatomical and func­tional abnormalities are prone to be transmitted.

R E PLY .The record of yoiir experience is valu­

able, and we hope that others may follow your example in more ways than one. It is the common* opinion that ■there are a number of disorders which go by the names " sick headache ” and ‘ migraine,” and they differ in jause

ftnd in the treatment they require.There are people who have found treat­

ment based on allergy as the cause to be just what they needed and others who, having had no help in that direc­tion, have turned to other theories and treatments based on them.

George D. Earnest.Just five days before his 71st birth-j

clay, George D. Earnest o f W ayne died | fo llow in g a long illness, on Tu esday ,! Decem ber 8th. Mr. Earnest was a na-J liv e o f W aynff, being born on Decern- j her -13th, - 1861.' In 1885 he m arr ied : Miss Hal lie Runner o f Hamomndsport, j who died in 1897. In Septem ber of- 1899 he m arried Miss Lou ise Baxter j o f M ilo, who survives. H e also leaves j a w ide circ le o f friends. .

Hus cousin, Rev. L. C. Elveland, of­ficiated at the fu n era l‘ services which |] were- held from the home on the 10th. j1 Burial was made in the cem etery at W a y n e . i

Mr. Earnest was a g radu a te .o f the B ingham ton Business’ school and at j one -time studied in S tarkey sem inary. H e lived fo r a part o f his life in Mich-

! igan, return ing later to his native ! coun ty.

M rs R J. Dunn and son. Robert, tj pre en ioy in g a radio, the g ift o f Mr. M r‘M:ath of Pmrn Yan. „ T.__ j

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John Nichols, who for the past two years has been conducting the refresh­ment stand and gas filling station on the East Lake road, just beyond Red Jacket park, and his brother, Freder­ick, of Philadelphia, Pa., have pur­chased from the Frank Alley estate Alley’s inn on the west side of Lake Keuka., near Keuka college. Posses­sion was taken Tuesday of this week, the deal being consummated early Tuesday morning. It has four acres of land with 500 feet of lake front, the buildings, the name and good will.

The inn has been a popular place for the 15 or more years it has been managed by Mr. and Mrs. Frank A l­ley, who came here from Hornell to modernize what had been for years the Lake Keuka Yacht clubhouse. For years the fast sailing boat races were conducted from the judges’ pier in front of this club house, which became the center of much of the sport and social activity for Penn Yan people on the lake. In 1910 the roster of the

yacht club showed 182 members, over! 85 of which have now passed on.

Since the death of -Mrs. Frank A l-! ley, about a year ago, and Mr. Alley, ' a few weeks ago, the inn has been; managed by the estate, of which Thomas J. Mack of Hornell is the exe­cutor. Through Walter B. Tower of;1

I Penn Yan Mr. Mack completed the!sale of the inn this week.

I Mr; and Mrs. John Nichols lived in I Waterstreet, Pa., for three years, con-i ! ducting the Waterstreet inn, before! j coming to Penn Yan two years ago to.| manage the stand near Red Jacket! i park. Before going to Pennsylvania,;' however, they had been residents of ; the Yates countyseat for four years, 1 His brother, Frederick Nichols of Phil- [ adelphia, but recently retired after' serving the John Wanamaker stores' in Philadelphia and New- York cityj for many years as buyer for the leath­er goods department. Mr. and Mrs.I John Nichols are now living at 1091 East Main street, Penn Yan.

Miss Ella Ball. One of F irst Teachers j A t Keuka College, Dies

A t the Jacksonville hospital, Jack- j sonville, F lorida , a t 12:10 T u es d a y , morning, D ecem ber 22nd, occurred the death o f Miss' E lla Ball, aged about 70 years, o f Keuka Park. M iss Ball was a m em ber o f t h e . first .< facu lty o f , K euka college. She taught Latin . H er j father, Dr. G eorge Ball o f Buffalo, was the first president o f the co llege and i was one o f th e outstanding leaders of! the F ree Baptist denom ination, which established the loca l institution. She is the last m em ber o f h er branch of the Ball fam ily , her sister, Julia, h av­ing died about seven years ago. Ball brothers of Muncie, Ind., famous glass m anufacturers and lib era l g ive rs to Keuka co llege, both old and, new, are her cousiins.

For the past five years Miss- B all has liv ed in a suite o f room s in R ich ­ardson hall, the .new d o im ito ry a t the college, ea ting in th e co lleg e dining roomj and partic ipa ting in many! -col­lege a ffa irs with- the students-. Dur­ing recen t weeks-, how ever, she had not been w e ll. Just b e fo re Thanks­g iv in g she w en t to F lorida w ith M iss C icely Am bler, R. N.,-as her nurse- and companion. M iss A m b ler was w ith her at the tim e o f her passing.

STARKEY SEMINARY .

PRESIDENT HONORED

A lie n M c h a r r e nAllen McFarren, aged 75 years, died

| at his home on the Pre-emption road, near Bellona, Sunday morning, Decem­ber 20th. Funeral services were held from the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. J. R. Carpenter, pastor of the Dresden Methodist chur-ch and formerly pastor of the Bel­lona church, and Rev. F. Rrynne, pas­tor of Bellona Methodist church, offi­ciating. Burial was made in the Bel­lona cemetery.

Besides Mrs. McFarren he leaves two daughters, Mrs.' Edna Neally o-f Bellona and Miss- Jessie M, McFarren, at home; two sons, Elmer A., at home and Howard J., of Penn Xap-

D r. M a r ty n S u m m e rb e f l

At the regular morning service of the . Lakemont Christian Temple church Sunday -the 84th birthday of Dr. Martyn Summerbell, president of Starkey Seminary for the past 33 years, was marked by personal tribute spoken from the pulpit and by printed tribute extended by several famous leadeik in religion and education.

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D avid M il le r

|| On January first David M ille r o f j Penn Yan celebrates the 30th anni- i versa iy o f his start in the insurance | business. Mr. M iller, who is w idely I known as Republican county chairman j

•j in Yates and M ilo town clerk, also asj form er supervisor from Milo, entered!

; this business in 1902 when he moved; i into the county seat from the M illerj homestead on the East Lake road.

He entered into partnership with, James C. Goods peed, who was then conducting the business which was founded previous to 1843 by L ew is B. Ayres and which Mr. Goodspeed bought o f Miss H elen M. T. Ayres. Records still ava ilab le in Mr. M ille r ’s

: office show that the business was started nearly a century ago. Mr.

I Goodspeed died in October, 1923, a fter I which Mr. M ille r bought his interest.I The partnership o ffice was at first on i Main street over what was then Hop- I kins Jew elry store, now R. C. j Schm idt’s Jew elry store. Since 1905 it j has been in the A rcade block, at first I upstairs, but since 1912, when the post office m oved to the new federa l build-

, ing, it has been situated on the ground , floor. In the office are severa l j plaques, certificates and m edals m ark -' ing Mr. M ille r ’s 25 years o f serv ice with' respective insurance companies, Assisting Mr. M ille r in the o ffice are:J. Germain H yatt and Mr. and Mrs. I Rodney Frank o f Penn Yan . ,

YETTER— At the home in East Main Street, Thursday morning, Decem­ber 24th, Mrs. Harriett Keeler Tet­ter, aged 76.Surviving are four sons, Isaac, Rob-

er and Hobart, of Penn Yan; and ! Marshall, of Springfield, 111. j" one : daughter, Miss Desdemona Yetter, at I home; two sisters, Miss Fanny Keel­

ers. of Catowise, Pa, and Mrs. Mary . Raup, of Pittsburg, Pa. The funeral . was. held on Saturday afternoon at 3

o’clock, Rev. J. H. Perkins and Rev. John E .Wootton 'Officiating. Burial in Lake View cemetery.

'I M rs. T hom as M. M o o re D ies S u d d en ly | W h ile S hopp ingj Mrs. V irgin ia Moore, aged 66 years, jj I o f South avenue, Penn Yan, died sud-1 denly Saturday afternoon, Decem ber | 19th, in the business section of Penn j ;

| Yan. She leaves her husband, Thom- I as M. Moore. Funeral services, which J j w ere stric tly private, w ere held from j j the home Sunday a fternoon at o ’clock with Rev. John E. W ootton, j f

rector o f St. M ark ’s Episcopal church, j j

officiating. Burial was made in the 1J Lake View cemetery. j

Death came suddenly as Mrs. M oore 11 was shopping in the business section i -j at about 3:30 p. m. She had been buy- { ing groceries in the A tlan tic and Pa- j

| cific T ea store on E lm street. Theo-1 j dore W ettling, who w aited on her, U. thought that she seem ed pale, but she y,

I gave no other indication o f fe e lin g ill. j j - | As she stepped out o f the door and jK onto the walk in fron t o f the store, jT;

I she dropped. IT. W . M cConnell, m ana-jf j g e r of the store, who was w a itin g on [ a customer near the entrance, rushed IB

j to her assistance. Mrs. Moor e ’s dog apparently m isunderstood h is m ove and threatened him, so that Mr. M c­Connell and. others w ere unable to p ick

I her up.He at once ca lled an ambulance.

W hile some held the d o g by the rope, Mrs. Moore w as lifted in to the ca r.' But her loya l dog insisted on accom ­panying her. H er death -was nearly in ­stantaneous.

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Officers Installed

Milo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. M., and Penn Yan Chapter, No. 100, R. A. M., installed the follow ing officers for the ensuing year on W ednesday evening, December 30th, with A lbert T. Beards ■ lee, District Deputy Grand Master, acting as installing officer for Milo Lodge and O. F. Randolph installing the Chapter officers.

M ILO LO D G EMaurice W . McCann ............... MasterKenneth Alexander .... Senior W arden

1 Paul M. Sands ........... Junior W ardenPeter C. Pulver .................. T reasurerEverett P. W right ............... SecretaryCharles T. Andrews ............... TrusteeEarl Darmstadt ........... Junior DeaconMorris C. Johnson ..............................

............ Senior M aster of CeremonyLeon Comstock ....................................

...... Junior Master of CeremonyMilton Fitzwater and Schuyler H ib ­

bard .... StewardsW arner Bush ........................ OrganistCornelius B. Snedeker ......... M arshalJohn K. Livingston ................ T iler

PE N N Y A N C H A P T E RW illis F. Burt ................ H igh PriestFred E. Dean ................ ■........... K ingGeorge if. Frederick ............ ScribeClarence E. Cam pbell ........ T reasurerEverett P. W righ t .............. SecretaryVan R. Edington ..................... TrusteeR. B. Tw iliger ....... Captain o f HostChas. E. Menne ....Principal Sojourner j Paul M. Sands .... Royal A rch Captain Stewart R. Bishop .... M aster 3rd V a i l ,W arren Conklin M aster 2nd V a i l :John C. Bryan .... M aster of 1st Vail, James H. Voorhees ...... Sentinel!

CHAPMAN— At Stanley on Saturday, December 26th, Mrs. Frances J. Chapman, aged 72 years.Mrs. Chapman died at the home of

her son, H. Ray Chapman, after a long illness. Surviving are her son, at whose hcime she died; a sister, Mrs. Edith Heck, of Benton; three brothers, Clarence Scofield, of Gor­ham; John Scofield, of Benton and Charles Scofield, of St. Petersburg, Florida. The funeral was held from the home of her son on Tuesday af­ternoon at 2 o’clock.

Th e fo llo w in g ra te fo r E lec tr ic ity has been filed and approved by the Pu b lic S erv ice C om m ission and w ill go in e ffect January 1st, 1932.-

S e rv ice C lassification No. 1 A p p licab le to use o f serv ice fo r

ligh tin g , heating, sm a ll p o w er and m iscellaneous app liances by res iden ­tia l custom ers,

Character of Service:Continuous. W e do not guarantee

uninterrupted supply of electric ser­vice which might be caused by un­avoidable breakdown or storm trouble.

Alternating current, 60 cycles, 110 volts, single phase.

R a te :First 13 K W or less used per month, I

65c gross, 65c net.Next 87 K W used per month, 5c

gross, 4%c net.A ll over 100 K W lised per month, i

4%c gross, 4c net.Minimum charge :Sixty-five cents per month per me- :

ter installed except for cottages out­side the Village limits, the minimum charge will be $5.00 per season, May 1st to September 1st.

Terms of Payment:A ll bills will be rendered gross and I

discounted to net if paid within the ! discount period. •

Service is discontinued at the re -! quest of the customer.

Term :37w4 Penn Yan Municipal Board i

Rufus F. Schofield

Rufus F. Schofield, 78, a life-long resident of Yates County, died on Thursday, January 7th, at the I. O.O. F. Home at Lockport, where he had made his home for the past 6 years. Mr. Schofield at one time lived in the residence which is at present the rectory of St. Michael’s church. Later the family removed to a Bluff Point property, and upon the death of his wife, Mr. Scofield went to the Lockport Home. Surviving are a son, Dr. Lewis Schofield, of Athens, Michigan, and one daughter, Dr. E. M. Schofield, of Atlantic City Hos­pital, Atlantic City, N . J. The funeral w ill be held on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Thayer funeral home, Rev. E. W . Chapin, of Second Milo, officiating, and Keuka Lodge, No. 149, I. O. O. F., in charge of the services at grave. Burial in Lake View.

Mrs. Reuben Scofield

Announcement is made of the mar­riage of Dr. Bernard S. Strait, of Penn Yan, and Florence V. Owens, of Clinton, N. Y., on December 2eth, at noon. After a weddiing trip to Cali­fornia, Dr. and Mrs. Strait w ill be at home after January 20, 1932, at 325 Main Street, this village.

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W ord was received in this village on Saturday of the death in Cleve- | land, Ohio, on Friday, of Mrs. Reuben jA. Scofield, w ife of the late editor I) of the Penn Yan Express. Mrs. Sco- j field had made her home with her j daughter in Cleveland since the death of Mr. Scofield about 8 years ago. 1 A prayer service w as held on Satur- j day at the home in Cleveland, the I'

i body being placed in a vault until j: spring when it w ill be brought here y for interment in the fam ily plot in | Lake V iew cemetery. M rs. Scofield j was born in Canandaigua on Sep tern- f ber 11, 1848, but had lived in Penn Yan the greater part of her life. Fo l­lowing her husband’s death, she went to Cleveland and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Julia S. H arr on, who is lib rarian of the Cleveland Public L ibrary . Mrs. Scofield and daughter returned to Penn Yan each summer having a cottage on Lake Keuka. Mrs. H arron is the sole sur­vivor.

DEATH ENDS WORK il OF WILLIAM N. WISE

Active Community Leader and

Philanthropist Was Native

of New Yorlc City — Was

Known as “ Grape King”

I W illiam N ew ell W ise, aged 84 years and a native of N ew York city, died jut his home on, Main street, Penn Yan, Saturday evening, January 2nd, at about 7:00 o ’clock fo llow ing an attack o f pleuresy which was first detected about a week before. Ill health had kept Mr. W ise from active ly engaging

j in the business o f his interests in life ;;! during the past two years and had

forced him to spend most o f his tim e a-t his home or as a patient in the

; Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hos- j pital and in the C lifton Springs sani­tarium.

Funeral services w ere held from the home M onday a fternoon at. 3:30

- j o ’clock w ith Rev. W a lte r A. Henricks,i m in ister o f the F irst Presbyterian ;

. j church, officiating. M i1. W ise served !| as a m em ber o f the board o f trustees!1 i o f this church for nearly 25 years .and

, j was chairman o f the board for muchr ; o f this time. Burial was made in thei Lake V iew cem etery. H is nearest sur-|| v ivors are Mrs. F red P. Hopkins of!I Penn Yan and Mrs. W illiam Evans of!I Hampton, Iowa, his first cousins ; his I j sister, Miss. Sophia W ise o f Penn Yan, ]having died February ,5th, 1929.

L ived in Bentoni i To the younger generation Mr. W ise j I is best rem em bered as a ph ilanttiro-!- pist. who devoted much t im e . and |I m oney to the Sold iers and Sailors Me-| m oi ia l hospital and the Cue id ha P ra tt

| home. Perhaps a dozen young men [! land young women were assisted i|I through co llege by- his generosity . II tB u t to the older residents o f the com-/!;! inunity he w ill be rem em bered as one i

who spent, most o f his life in Penn j Yan and, one who a lways rem ained i j loya l to "this comm unity though it was | not his native to w n !

) W illiam N. W ise was born to John i ! J. and M aria Stark W ise on Septem- i

ber 29, 1847, in N ew York city. H is j ! parents w ere early settlers, in Yates I

county, having come here from Co- lumbia county and residing on farm s | in Benton township. In 1845 they! m oved to N ew Y ork city, return ing I. here when Mr. W ise was five years! old. Then they repurchased what is-' known as the Shaw farm. Some five \ years la ter the fam ily again moved r to the m etropolis, w here Mr. W ise re- p f sided until 1866, when he resigned from a. position in a w holesale dry f goods store to come to Penn Yan to I assist his fa ther in the hardware bus- j ^ iness — the store then located at tlie ll|| corner o f Main and East E lm streets, M the M organ corner, now occupied by $ Platm an, W a llace and Boyd, clothiers,, ly In 1875 Mr. W ise purchased the busi- p . ness zfroni his father and six years y } la te r m oved d iagonally across tiro I corner to consolidate w ith the Ann- L strong and H ollow ell hardware store.|

The Old Hardware Store T h is business, a^ is shown by the M

sign which appears on the front k

I the lold store in the accompanymg^pic-r j ture was first known as the Arm strong!,, and Gage H ardw are store. James'; A rm strong and Lym an Gage started the business on M ay 14th, 1862. ' lt[§ was during this first year that W . D;|§ H o llow ell began w ork ing as a clerk infe that store. S ix years la ter he pur- f chased the in terest o f Mr." Gage, the 1

■ name o f the firm then becom ing Arm - 1 j strong and H ollow ell. W hen James J •I A rm strong died, his son, F red S. Arm - ffl J strong, took over the business until p

y ;j his death in 1885.

Four years before the death o f F red i| 1 S. A rm strong Mr. W is e m oved across ||

the corner and entered the firm, the name thep becom ing Arm strong, Hoi- low ell and W ise. Upon the death o f :: F. S. Arm strong, fa ther o f M rs .H ira m Ballard and Mrs. O liver Ketcham of Penn Yan, his name was dropped, the i,

I rem ainder o f the title , H o llow e ll and || } ! W ise , having been used s in ce ;! Upon p r the death o f W . Delos H o llow e ll in |

1912, the business was incorporated i j under this name, Christie B. B riggs be- |k com ing the president and treasu rer,«

j w hich he is at " the present' time.

M r, W ise was agent fo r the" Am eri- can Express company fo r 17 years f . w ith offices in the hardware s to r e }

..-..building. H e was also superintendent y I o f the L a k e Keuka N av iga tion com- > pany fo r fo u r . years t and sup erintend- /|

ent o f the F a ll B rook -Cold .S toragefy : Company.

Becom es “ G rap e K in g ”

: Froni .1.88.7 to 1924 Mr. W ise was ac-j' ytive in the shipping o f Lake KeukajS

I '... : .grapes. T h e name, o f W . N. W ise and ; the W . N. W is e pack o f grapes becam e I known in nearly every c ity o f th e ! U n ited States. H e was heralded as “ the grape k in g ” and developed a per-1 sonal acquaintance w ith a grea t m any I

■j fru it dealers all over the coun try .I F o r m any years he was a stock hold-1 | er in Baldw ins bank o f Penn Yan. i j W ith A. F. Robson he purchased con- j tro llin g in terest in the institu tion at I the tim e o f Mr. B a ldw in ’s death and ;

j has held .the o ffice o f vice-president j l y

j ever since. In 1911 he was instru-1 j m ental in founding the W atk ins State I i bank at W atk ins Glen. H e served i : this bank also as vice-president until || 1930 when he was forced to resign be- [ I 1 cause o f i l l h ea lth .

H e lp e d D u r in g W a r C r is is During the W or ld w ar W . N. W ise i t

was president o f the w ar; chest and y chairm an o f 1 lie L ib e r ty Loan com- j m ittee . H e was also local coal adm inis - } trator. In this la tter capacity he 1/ made, a carefu l and system atic survey j: o f the, coal situation and w orked out ||y a; plan w hereby no ■ fam ily or in d iv id - i , ual was obliged to spend a n ight w ith-jl 'I

out su fficient coal to keep warm. Oft-, en deliveries in a bucket w ere neces-j . sary to preven t actual suffering. H is I vo lunteer serv ice and especia lly his j e ffic ien t methods w ere comm ended by!, the N ew York S tate Fuel adm in istra-! tion -and w ere, adopted by other fuel , adm in istrators.

F o r years since; the W orld war, he j|V has bee'n a m em ber o f the board of j directors o f the Guertlia P ra tt home, I a com fortable home fo r e ld erly w om ­en, located on Clinton street, Penh Yan. To this he has g iven much tim e !■ and m on ey . ' jvl

P ro m o te d M e m o r ia l H o s p ita l A t the close o f the w ar he becanle jg,

interested in the; p ro ject o f building a i hospital fo r Yates cou n ty , in m em ory j o f the boys who died in the serv ice o f f their country. H e contributed liber- l y ' ally to the buliding fund and in 1930.& created a trust fund o f $100,000 fo r | endow ing the hospital. H is w ill also designates an additional sum fo r car-

tO Qry ing on the work. Since th e Sold iers | ■»hd Sailors M em orial hospital o f Y a tes !| ; county was completed Mr. Wiise has j I served as president o f the botiird o f ;! directors, generously g iv in g months o f j his tim e to the w ork in vo lved . .

Because o f his grea t contribution to j this county’ hospital, it has been said j that the hospital Is as much a niemor- \ ial to W . N. W ise as it is to the soldiers I and sailors whose m em ory the name honors. C- . w j

Mr. W ise was the only honorary I member o f the Penn Yan R otary Club.

Mrs. O live T . Ham linThe burial o f Mrs. O live T . H am lin ,

w ife o f ’ fh eodore O, H am lin , w h o died in R ochester on Sunday, January 10th, was held Tu esday a fternoon a t 3 o’clock in La k e V iew cem etery. In ­term ent w as made in the H am lin fa m ­ily plot. ' M rs. H am lin w as O live T . Smith, a native o f Penn Y a n and a daughter o f Job T . Sm ith, o f Penn Yarn and also a s is ter o f the la te Mrs. W illiam N . W ise. M r, and M rs. H a m ­lin w en t to R ochester 39 years ago, and upon the com pletion o f the S a ga ­m ore Hotel took up their residence there, w here Mrs: H am lin ’s death oc ­curred. H er husband, T . O. H am lin , w as in the dry goods business in Penn Y an fo r m any years, Th e M etrop o li­tan, Inc., being successor to the T . O. H am lin & Co. store.

S u rv iv in g M rs. H am lin are her hus­band, T . O. Ham lin, o f R ochester; tw o daughters, Mrs. A . L . C ov ill o f 47 B ever ly street, Rochester and M rs. A .C. H am lin o f Tucson, A rizona.. Serv ices w ere held on Tuesday m o r ­n ing , in Rochester, w ith buria l in Penn Y an in the La k e V iew cem etery . R ev. J listin W . N ixom m in ister o f the B rick P resbyterian church in R och es­ter, also o ffic ia ted a t the services in the chapel a t the loca l Cemetery.

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Married 64 Years f

„ Thursday, December 31st, was thei 64th ann iversary of the m arriage off; Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Hopkins, o f } 305 Main street. •

The couple w ere m arried on De-V cember 31, 1867, at the home o f Mrs. I H opkins’ sister, Mrs. A . B. Porter, in Canandaigna. Mrs. Hopkins was BelleD. Stewart, daughter o f Captain and Mrs. W illiam H. Stewart, o f Jerusa­lem. Mr. Hopkins was the son o f H en ry A . and Betsey Oles Hopkins, and was born in Prattsburg, Steuben county, in 1844.

Mr. Hopkins Came to Penn Yan in j 1866 and began w ork in the jew e lry store o f Graham & Gaylord, and la ter / he w orked fo r L ev i O. Dunning. In 1869 he started in business fo r h im - } se lf in the store now occupied by| Bush Music House. La ter he was in i business w ith James Burns, then w ith j G eorge H. Lapham. In 1866 he a g a in ! purchased the business fo r h im se lf! and until 1917 when James Stratton g; purchased an interest in the business,; Mr. Hopkins conducted the jewelry]:;! business in his own name.

In 1920 he sold out his business toi Jared A . Darrow . He retired from ac-N t iv e business life at that time.

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YATES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ELECTS

C. T. Andrews Succeeds Late

W. N. Wise as President —

Report Shows Need of Cut­

ting Down Big Mortgage

A t the annual m eeting o f the di- •ectors o f the Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital association o f Yates county held in Penn Y an F r i­day a fternoon Charles T. A n drew s o f Penn Y an w as elected president to succeed the late W illia m N . W ise;

Charles T , A ndrew s

M . F rancis Corcoran w as chosen vice- presiden t; and G eorge S. Sheppard

; w as re-e lected secretary . Th e -some j- 50 m em bers w ho attended the m eet- j in g named M rs. W illiam. D. F o x o f ; j Penn Y a n a d irector to fill the unex- p ired term o f tw o years o f the late

j John H . Johnson. C larence R , A n - j d rew s o f Penn Y an w as nam ed a di« j rec to r in place o f M r. W ise. Christie i B, B riggs , Calvin Russell, M rs, Cora j H. H oy t, Dr. E. G. Foster, S idney E. A y re s and A . F la g Robson w ere re ­elected d irectors fo r th ree years.

The association m em bersh ip passed resolutions o f respect and apprecia ­tion o f M r, W ise and M r, Johnson. Dr. ,F os ter also expressed apprecia-

j tion o f the tim e and e ffo r t now being :i g iven the hospital b y Charles T. A n - ' drews, ■ .

Revenues D ecreaseTh e rep ort o f the treasurer, Chris­

t ie B, B riggs , showed the to ta l am ount o f the endow m ent o f the hos­p ita l as $125,589.18- B y s tr ic t econo­m ies. the reports showed, and by keep in g a fte r the co llection o f ac­counts due the hosp ita l, the bills fo r the y ea r w ere a ll pa id desp ite the fa c t th at the revenues decreased $6,o00 as the num ber o f pa tien t days decreased and as m ore patien ts used the less expensive room s and services. • Th is drop in receipts, it, w as pointed out,

i w as experienced in p ra c tica lly every I o ther hosp ita l du ring 1931. E xcep t | fo r the in teres t on the m ortga ge and i the deprec ia tion charge, the hospital I would have “ broken even this last I year. Th e $1,000 fro m the Beaum ont estate cu t the m o rtg a g e to $34,589.00.

j Th is w as the first, m o r tg a g e reduction

| in the past severa l years, po in ted out , I M r. Andrew s, and it is the m ortga ge , in terest that is a b ig stra in on the in- « j stitu tion ’s funds. H e stressed* the J j need o f additional g i ft s to be appliedI. j as paym ents on the m o rtga g e and to Hfcbe added to the endow m ent fund.! fContinued on pagre seven7

, The steam shovel th is w eek w ill re -1 • m ove the cofferdam about the new I hydro-electric pow er p lant on the 1 shores o f Lake K euka at Keuka. The dra ft tubes are now being put into place in the two new w heel pits o f the generating units housed in the new j part of the structure. . Th is means that |

j w ith in two w eeks the orig ina l unit -willI aga in be put to w ork genera ting e lec­tric power for the Associa ted Gas and; E lectric system w ith w ater broughtp

I from the little lakes on the hill, says; [m . B. K e lly , superintendent on the job; 'fo r the Lam oka P o w e r corporation.

Th is addition to the orig ina l p lan t! w ill be a very conspicuous part o f the Lake Keuka landscape as it adds some: 160 feet, and mounts to some 64 f e e t !

I in providing room fo r two w ater tuf-fi I bine pits and gen era tor rooms and; i three pump sta tion s .. A sm aller addi­tion on the south o f the orig ina l plant w ill house another pum ping station. The structure is based on the solid j rock. The pouring o f the - concrete is r practically finished now and the w ork of erecting the stee l structure w ill 1 start soon. As the steam shovel exca- ; vates the d irt from betw een the piles and planks which have form ed a coffer-1 dam, the w aters o f La k e K euka w ill j

christen the new bu ild ing as the waves j wash unm olested aga inst the new con- i crete walls.

Tw o N ew Penstocks The old penstock, 48 inches in diam-T

eter, and two new ones —- a 68-inch I tube, just com pleted and running south j-

: o f the gas engine building, and a 78- 1 inch tube, which w ill be bu ilt in the | , spring — w ill ca rry w a ter from the lit-j

tie lakes into the scream ing generator f turbines during peakload periods. A tf

1 other times these same tubes w ill be used to carry w ater back up the h ill lor storage in Lakes Lam oka and W aneta i The gas engines w ill be used continu-

;i ously, pumping w ater up the h ill most of the' time, genera ting e le c tr ic ity dur ing peakload periods w hen the hydro .electric plant is operating. i

The plant on the lake shore will have a capacity o f 14,000 k ilow atts The old unit generated 2,000; the firsj: new one on the north w ill g en e ra t,

! 5,000 and the next new one, 7,000. Th I j w ater pump on the south o f the orig ir | ' al generating unit is rated at 1,004 j I horsepower and is calcu lated to punl}

! 8,000 gallons from La k e K eu k a into thl little lakes every m inute. In the new

I section of. the lake-shore plant there w ill be th ree other pumps, tw o of8,000 gallons per m inute capacity and

: one of 17,000' gallons.Partly to p reven t som e o f the leak-

! age from the canal w h ich carries w a ­ter from the sm all lakes to a poin t on the hillside d irectly above the plant, a new headgate has been erected abou 1300 yards north o f the cem etery on

; the new W layne-Keuka concrete road. The old penstock has been m oved at

. the upper end to tap the canal at this point. The sm a ller o f the tw o new pen­stocks is now com pleted and about 30

j fee t of the la rgest one has been start­ed from this headgate. Th e la tter w ill not be completed, until spring, however. Th ese penstocks are all made o f W ash ington fir, s im ila r in con­struction to the o rig in a l one. T h ey

I are conspicuous fron i across Lake Keu- i ka as they run fo r about a m ile oh : top o f the ground, tak in g the subway j route just be fo re they reach the Keu­ka - Penn Y an h ighw ay.

New Gas Engine House - The stee l fram e and sheet-covered gas engine house stands out because o f its size, 60 by 120 fee t. T w o 1,200- horsepow er gas engines w ill be in-

K sta lled a t once, says Mr. K e lly , to gen ­erate e le c tr ic ity and pump w ater. Th ere is room fo r five in the plant; hcw ever. Gas from the th ree w ells on the Lam oka P o w e r corporation ’s owh p roperty and from the severa l w eils in which it shares an in teres t w ith the

I B ige low peop le w ill be used in fu elin g these tw o new engines. . C. W . S im ­mons o f South avenue, Penn Yan , en­gineer, es tim ates from e igh t to teh m illion cubic fe e t per day from m ost o f these w ells. A p ipe line is to be built to carry it ito the engine house.:

A m ong the fa c ilit ie s o f th is building are a la rge overhead e lec tr ic crane fo r in sta llin g and rep a ir in g the gas- en­gines and a tunnel which w ill lead up- j der the dirt, lakeshore road from the I

! gas engine house to the generating plant. Th is lakeshore h ighw ay w ill not be opened fo r -traffic at this point until February, it is expected.

A t B rad ford a concrete dam, back-; filled on each side and w ith th ree new I sp illw ays, has been bu ilt above th e j

: old one. I t m easures som e 200 fe e t j j; in w idth and is 16' fe e t high.

A s m any as 80 men. have been em - ! p loyed on this construction job during I

I the /past month, though but 40 are now [ ! occupied. A s the w in te r w ea th er sets i! j in this num ber w ill p robab ly be fu rth er I j reduced. Th e stee l and m ach inery fo r f- ! the plant are brought by tra in to Dun-!' ! dee and from there by truck to the § plant site.

Vaccination Clinics I

On W ednesday, S tate Com m issioner ; o f H ea lth Thom as P a rran Jr., notified j1 Dr. W . G. H a llstead , o f Penn Yan , and i other health o ffice rs and^ school a u - I thorities that he had certified the ex- j istence o f sm allpox in an area in and near Penn Y an and his notification [ covering a ll .of -Yates County w ith the ; exception o f P o tte r and M idd lesex I area w hich had rece ived ea r lie r not­ifications, it w as deem ed necessary i to order the vacc ina tion o f . a ll school J

CARROLL— AT Waxeroury / v v ^ r , Thursday, January 21st, Mrs. Kath- j! erine Carroll, of Branchport.Mrs. Carroll had been staying . at |

the home of her son, Henry. fo.r fhe 1 past several weeks, following ; the' | death of her granddaughter in W a- | terbury .She was a life-long residjent | of Branchport. Surviving are ; two I sons, Henry, of Waterbury; James? of | Branchport, and one daughter, Miss | Anna Carroll, of Penn Yan ! The ;fu- ! neral w ill be held on Monday morning 1 at 8:30 o’clock from the home of, per j daughter, Miss Anna Carroll, at 319 U Main Street, and at 9 o’clock from St. Michael’s Church. Burial in; ;St. I Michael’s cemetery.

PRICE— At Miami, * — , VariT-uary 17th, 1932, Ira Price, aged S3 years.Mr. Price, who has beem in pojbr

health for about two years, wentj l§o Florida November 1st to spend [tE| winter. Surviving are his wife; two I sons, Harry and Allen, and one daujg||- ter, Miss Ethel Price, all of Penn Ygft; a brother, Albert, and a sister,. M B. ‘ George Beidler, both of Buffalo. tj|e j body will arrive in thig village Sh I Saturday when- the funeral arran|i|- ments will be made.

T A Y L O R — A t his home in'Street, Wednesday, January 20th, | W illiam M. Taylor, aged 92.Surviving are three sons, Leon , o f ;

Penn Yan ; George, o f Costa R ic a ; p Parker, o f Lennity, N. J-", one daugh- j ter, Miss Fannie Taylor, o f Penn Yan. The funeral w ill be held on Saturday j. afternoon at 2 oclock from the home,. Rev. R. N. J-esiup officiating. Buria l in ] Lake V iew cemetery.

CO NK LIN — A t her home in Lake St., W ednesday, January 13th, Mrs. E ttie Conklin, aged 82 years. Surviving are her husband," W il­

liam Conklin, and one daughter, Mrs. Eva Seeley, both o f Penn Yan. Th e funeral w ill be held on Saturday a f­ternoon at 2 o’clock from the hom e in Lake Street, Rev. W illiam M. Hydon officiating. Burial in Lake iVew .

Arthur L. Bailey Succeeds the

Late W. N. Wise — Dundee

Doctor Heads County Society

— House Bible Club Elects

A t the annual m ee tin g o f the stockholders o f the B aldw ins B an k o f Penn Y a n held Thursday a fternoon A rth u r L . B ailey , president o f the B ir- k e tt m ills, w as elected a d irector o f the bank to succeed the la te W illia m N , W ise, who, to ge th er w ith A . F . Robson, bought the con tro llin g in ­teres t in the bank upon the re t ire ­m ent o f the founder, M ason L. B a ld ­w in, January 14, 1913, a fte r serv in g as president fo r 44 years.

E. H . Hopkins, F red C. W h ita k er and M . W . B u rk w ere inspectors o f the election.

C om paring the g row th o f tiie bank since A . F la g Robson has been p res i­dent, shows capita l, surplus and p ro f­its tod a y o f $367,813.43 as com pared w ith $175,000 in 1913. D eposits to ­day are $2,909,547.80 as com pared w ith $675,000 in 1913.

A rth u r L. B a iley , the new d irector, a residen t in Penn Y a n fo r som e 20 years, has been prom inent in business and com m unity a ffa irs. M r. B a iley sta rted as a la w ye r in W e lls boro, Pa., w o rk in g there in the p ro fession fo r th ree years. F rom W ellsboro he m oved to Penn Y a n w here he resided fo r a dozen years. F rom 1916 until 1924. he lived in Cohocton, Penn Y a n c la im ­in g his hom e since then.

M r. B a ile y w as secre ta ry o f the B irk e tt m ills fro m 1904 until 1924, a t w h ich tim e he becam e president, the o ffice he now holds. H e has served the L a rro w e Buckw heat F lou r co r­pora tion o f Cohocton as president since 1924 and the Penn Y a n Steam H ea tin g com pany, also. F o r tw o years he w as president o f the Cham ber o f C om m erce o f Penn Yan , o f which body he is now a d irector. H e is also presiden t o f the board o f education o f the Penn Y a n Pub lic schools and a d i­rec to r and secreta ry o f the board o f m an agers o f the Sold iers and Sa ilors M em oria l H osp ita l o f Y a te s County.

O ther d irectors o f the bank w ere re-e lected Thursday a fternoon : F .M. Collin o f Benton; Jam es H. Pepper o f B lu ff Po in t, C larence R . A n drew s and A . F la g Robson o f Penn Yan . A t the m eetin g o f the board o f d irectors w h ich fo llow ed A . F la g Robson w as elected to serve as president fo r the 19th year. J. H . P ip p e r w as named, vice-p residen t to take the p lace v a ­ca ted by M r. W ise. Charles E. W illis w as re-e lected cashier and L es te r H. S tork , assistant.

O IE R IC A AND THE ALL IE S

Why W e Entered the World W ar— “As Much Our Battle as Anybody’s”

To the Editor of The Republican:—W e entered the W orld war to save,

not democracy but our own bacon. Had we held aloof, Germany wrquld probably have won. In that event, a pinchbeck Hohenzollem colossus would now bestride the globe. Eu­rope would be under German Vas­salage; the British, and French would have lost their colonies, and their trade been diverted . by and for a Teutonic zollverein; cartels and pref­erential tariffs would have checked or ruined our exports, and even, per­haps, deprived us of vital raw m ateri­als. And we should now be .frantical­ly arm ihg against the day when our very national existence . m ight be threatened. For, having consolidated her position, Germany would have become an all but irresistible poten­tia lity fo r evil aggrandizement, like­ly to endure fo r centuries, or until she should fa ll apart of her own? weight. This is roughly what we es- caped, at a cost of 50,000 lives and a negligible fraction o f our national wealth. .

W e rail against European arma­ments, and against the French in particular. I f only they would all disarm, they m ight pay us what they owe on account of the. war, thus runs our argument, .and we feel almost de­frauded. But all over Europe are smoldering firebrands, almost certain ■to start another conflagration. G ov­ernments are only human agencies, and mob psychology a weighty if not determining factor. No one can fore­cast the future, but France has been the battle ground of Europe since the dawn of history; her people ask no more than to be secure, having had many bittter lessons.

Security m ay mean the mainte­nance o f the present political equilib­rium, admittedly unstable, but the existing status happens to be large­ly of our own handiwork at Ver-f" sailles, and only another devastatingj war is likely to change it for the.j worse or better. But, to ask Europe! to disarm, in order to pay us. while j we at the same time refuse even toj join the W orld court, let alone the League of Nations, is to be almost incredibly obtuse as well as selfish.

The W orld war was actually as | much our battle as anybody’s, yet ' today, like .hucksters, we weigh our relatively paltry sacrifice in the bal­ance with the potential i f not actual bankruptcy o f all our late allies, and with the loss o f millions of the flower of their manhood. W e insist on our pound of flesih, while by our tariff walls we deny them the means of squaring their accounts with us In the only manner possible. The figure we have cut, climaxed by Congress’s late refusal even to parley with our allies in this, connection, is perhaps the shamefulest in our history.

W . B. SH E PPAR D .' Denver, Col., January 15, 1932,

Middlesex

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— “ G rey hairs are here and there! upon him y e t ,h e know eth it not.”

H osea : 7-9 j — T h is m igh t he said o f our good

friend, B rad ley M allory , who has just turned his 87th birthday. M ay he ex­perience m any m ore birthdays is the w ish o f your correspondent.

John O’Kain, Prominent Citizen, Succumbs to Illness

John O’Kain, a prom inent citizen of Dundee, died in Geneva hospital, Mon­day evening, January 23rcl, fo llow ­ing an operation. H is early life was spent a long Lake Keuka, and then for severa l years he lived at Severne on Seneca Lake. For a time he lived in New Y o rk C ity and was a metolber of the city police force. During la te years he has lived in Dundee. For 20 years he yvas town constable and fo r many years was truant officer.' H e is survived by his w ife, who was I

(Miss Anna Casey, o f Dundee; t w o ! sons, A rthur, of Lakem ont, and W i l - 1 liam, of Dundee; one daughter, Mrs. John Pal-ding, Dundee; three sisters, Mrs. E lizabeth K illig rew , o f Dundee; Mrs. Rose Stevens, Penn Yan ; Mrs. j Anna Campbell, o f H im rod; one j brother,' Ambrose, o f H imrod, and three grandsons, John and Lester I O’Kain , of Dundee and Lauren O’Kain, j o f Cornell University. The funeral was held Thursday m orning from St. M ichael’s Church in this Village, w ith burial in St. M ichael’s cemetery.

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M rs. Catherine A . H eckSatu rday morning, January 23rd,

Mrs. Catherine A . Heck, w idow o f John Q. Heck, passed aw ay. If" Mrs. H eck had lived lentil F eb ru ary - 10th, she w ould have celebrated her 95th b irthday.

M r. and Mrs. Heck m oved to B lu ff P o in t from Ohio. Soon a fte r settling oh the P o iiit they- took an a ctive in te r­est in the B lu ff Po in t M ethodist E p is­copal church and, accord ing to the church records, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. H eck united w ith the B lu ff Po in t church in March, 1878, when Rev. R. D. Ph illips w as pastor, by m em ber­ship transfer from the C ongregation ­al church o f F itchville , O. Thus Mrs. Catherine H eck was a m em ber o f the local church nearly 54 years besides the active service she xgave to her L o rd and .church in Ohio.

M r. and Mrs. H eck soon saw the need o f a Sunday school fo r the ch il­dren, youth and. adults o f the Point. So th ey proceeded to organ ize one. Th e splendid Sunday school a t the B lu ff Po in t church now wij;h its a t­tendance o f all ages, including a m en’s class that a much la rg e r church m igh t be proud of, shows how w ell M r. and M rs. H eck and the other fa ith fu l teachers o f the past have la id the foundations.

Tinder the m in istry o f Rev. Ph illipH. R icgel, and through the active la ­bors o f M r. and Mrs. H eck the m oney w as raised to build the present church

; auditorium a t B lu ff Point.Fu n era l services w ere held M onday,

January . 25th, j at the home o f her daughter, Mrs. Fred P o rte r on Clinton street, Penn Yan, where M rs. H eck had lived fo r several years. Rev. Charles A . Smith, pastor, officiated, w ith Dr. P . H. R iege l o f W eedsport, fo rm er pastor, assisting and preach­in g the funeral sermon. She is also su rvived by her son, G eorge Jaeger o f Rochester.

; North Ave. and Maple Ave, Paving Resolution

Resolved :1. That M aple Ave. and North Ave.,

! public streets w h o lly w ith in the V il­la g e o f Penn Yan, extending from the W est side o f Main street to the bridge across Sucker B rook on Maple Ave. be paved at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00).

2. That bonds or certificates o f in­debtedness be issued by the V illa ge o f Penn Yan fo r the expense o f such paving, not exceeding $10,000.00, to be sold at not less than par, the same to draw interest at the ra te not exceed­ing six per cent (6 % ) per annum, pay­able October 1st in each year, the principal to be payable in ten annual installments, the first insta llm ent to be paid October 1st, 1933 and annually thereafter.

3. That one-half o f the expense o f such paving be paid by the ow ners o f such property fron ting on said street, to be levied and assessed upon such properties in proportion to the fron t footage on said streets, payable in ten annual installm ents, w ith in terest on "all sums rem aining unpaid, at the rate o f in terest not exceeding 6% per an­num, payable annually.

4. That a public h earing be had to consider such resolution, and notice thereo f given as prescribed by law.

Notice o f H ea rin gN otice is hereby g iven that a public

hearing w ill be held and hearing had on the fo rego in g resolution, at the Trustees’ Room s on M aiden Lane in the V illa ge o f Penn Yan on the 15th day o f February, 1932, at 7.30 P. M., and all persons in terested there­in are invited to be present and w ill be heard in reference thereto.

WM. B. M A N L E Y ,42 w2 .f^ lerk !

Middlesex

Schools to Lose lvioney

— “ M ake a joy fu l noise unto the L o rd a ll the ea^th make a loud noise and re jo ice and sing praise.”

— T h e ch ildren o f Is ra e l w ere in ( bondage 40 years. M iddlesex tow n can

go them 20 years better. 60 years we have been in bondage w hich term in- ted Febru ary 1st, 1932. W e pro­pose to ce leb ra te . the occasion jo in tly w ith the 200dth ann iversary o f the birth o f G eorge W ashington, Monday, February 22nd. The com m ittees o f the various towns d irectly in terested have been named. The m eeting w ill be held in town hall and w ill beg in a t 10:30a. m „ w ith a song by the Cornish

1 quartette; prayer by Rev. Ra lph Smith; song by the quartette ; h istory o f the issuing o f the bonds g iven by prom inent citizens o f Naples, Rush-

i v i l le and M iddlesex; rem ininscences 1 by peop le of the various tow ns; roast

pork dinner at 12:30 .price 50c.; mu­sic during the dinner hour by R e illy B roth ers ’ orchestra o f Penn Yan ; m eeting ca lled to order at 2 p. m.; song by W ilson F itch ; address on the L ife o f G eorge W ash ington (speaker not yet en gaged ). A speaker a lso is expected to b e p resen t from the L e ­h igh V a lle y o ffic ia ls o f Sayre, Pa., and other prom inent o ffic ia ls o f the road. A rch W . M cClure, th e firs t station agen t a t M idd lesex ; Charles Gates, w ho shipped the first car o f liv e stock over the road ; R. C. Rackham , whose

, fa th er bu lit the firs t s to re a lon g the

lin e ; P a tr ick Hoban, w ho ran the first tra in over the road,; W ilia m Reynolds J whose father, w ith O. S. W illiam s, took; the first fu rrow in the g rad in g o f the roads, a ll are exepected to be present.

— Courtesy D em ocrat and Chronicle.C. E. Chauncey

C. E. Chauncey, w ho becam e prin ­cipal o f Penn Y an A ca d em y as this sem ester started, has ren ted the C la r­ence A ndrew s house a t 111 C linton street w ith the expecta tion o f m ov ­in g his fa m ily there ea r ly n ex t m onth.

M r. Chauncey, a n a tive o f B room e county and one o f the 11 ch ildren o f M r. and M rs. Jam es R . Chauncey o f M arathon, rece ived his A . B. degree from Syracuse u n ivers ity . W h ile ta k ­in g graduate w o rk a t C ornell u n iver­s ity he also served as fu ll- t im e d i­rec to r o f re lig iou s education in the. F irs t M ethod ist church o f Ith aca . F rom the U n ive rs ity o f R och ester he received his M . A . degree, and he w as a student in Teach ers co llege, N ew Y o rk city, ju st b e fo re com in g to Penn Yan .

H e has had considerab le p ractica l experience, how ever, tea ch in g in the W e s t H igh school o f R och ester in 1926 and 1927, then se rv in g as p rin c ipa l o f the H em lock H ig h school and also o f the Belm ont H ig h school.

In 1925 he m arr ied M iss G race F . Sm ith, daughter o f M r. an d Mrs. G eorge Sm ith o f P la ttsb u rg , a g ra d ­uate o f Oneonta S ta te N o rm a l school and a teacher in public schools fo r three years. T h ey h ave th ree ch il­dren: Jean, aged six y ea rs ; D ortha, aged five years; B arbara , w ho w as

I born the 12th o f October.

DARLINGTON-M ILLSPAUGHMiss Elizabeth M illspaugh, daugh­

ter o f Mr. and Mrs. W illia m H . M ills ­paugh o f this city, and Sandusky, O., w ill be m arried to Thom as D. D a rlin g ­ton, o f W ilm ington, Del., today in Pa lm Beach, Fla. Only im m ediate m em bers o f the two fam ilies w ill be presen t at the ceremony which w ill take p lace aboard the F irelance, the yach t o f the prospective bride’s parents, on w hich Mr. Darlington and his b ride la te r w ill sa il on their w edd ing trip . T h ey w ill l iv e in W ilm ington . M iss M ills ­paugh was graduated from B ryn M aw r and la ter studied at Colum bia U n iver­sity. Mr. D arlington w as graduated from Leland Stan ford U n ivers ity , and is a m em ber o f th© U n ive rs ity Club. — N ew Y o rk T im es, Feb. 2.

T h e Millspaiugh fa m ily fo rm e r ly liv ­ed at Branchport.

A t a specia l m eetin g o f m em bers o f the boards o f education o f th e Penn Yap , Dundee and R u sh v ille h igh schools held in Penn Y a n last w eek a resolu tion was passed to be sent to o ffic ia ls a t A lb an y protes tin g against the proposed reduction in the pro rata appropriations o f schools, since a reduction w ou ld have either to be m et by additional lo ca l taxes as the loca l budget w as increased by neg­lec tin g to care fo r the students in the school or ;by econom ies fin th e lo ­cal school budgets w h ich otherw ise could be m ade to be o f benefit to loca l taxpayers by ta x reductions,

H a rry B row n, P e te r M urtagh, G il­b e rt H. Baker, and A . L . B a iley , o f Penn Y an ; F ran k S. V a n L iew , E. S. Sproul, C. D. Chapman, and J. K . Sul­livan , o f Dundee, and F . H . B ow ker, o f R u sh ville , requested that this cut be postponed until lo ca l boards o f education had been g iven tim e to m ake thd necessary financia l read­justm ent to take ca re o f th e decreas­ed incom e w ithou t im m ed ia te ly shoul­dering the defic it upon lo ca l taxpay­ers.

Penn Y an school w ou ld he deprived o f about $5,000 and Dundee schools o f about $3,000 (by the reduction , the board m em bers estim ated.

C A H IL L — A t her hom e in H en ry St., ] Sunday, F eb ru ary 7, 1932, Mrs. f B ridget C ah ill, aged 83 years.'She leaves one daughter, M iss M ary a

Cahill, o f Penn Y a n ; a son, James, o f j M ilo ; th ree grandch ild ren and one grea t grandchild . Mrs-. Cah ill w as the w idow o f John Cah ill, o f M ilo , and was one o f the o ldest com m unicants o f St. M ichael’s Church in this v illa g e , '] having been a devoted m em ber o f that ! congregation fo r m ore than 65 years, i! She had been a res iden t o f the town if o f M ilo since com ing to this country j from Ire lan d m ore than 65 years ago. ij Th e fu n era l w as held fro m St. M ich- ! a e l’s Church Tu esday m orn ing at n ine ! o ’clock, w ith bu ria l in St. M ichael’ s ; cem etery. L : v ... - iC A R L E T O N — A t R ochester, F riu ay ,

Feb. 12th, M rs. M ary E lizabeth Carleton .S u rv iv in g are th ree daughters, Mrs.

F lo ren ce T e lfa ir , o f W est Orange, N. J.; M m M abel Schueler, o f U tica ;! M rs. Ru th A n drew s, o f Penn Y an ; five sisters, Mrs. H u gh O’D onnell, Mrs. A nna Neid , M rs. B erth a W h ite , a ll o f M u m ford ; M rs. G eorge M acK ay, o f Caledonia, and M rs. H en ry Spengler, o f R ochester. T h e fu n era l w as held on M onday a ftern oon at 3 o ’c lock at T r in ity Church, R ochester, w ith in te r­m ent in R iv ers id e cem etery.

S W A R T H O U T — A t her hom o in L ib ­erty street, M onday, F eb ru ary 15, 1932, M rs. C la r ice L . C a s e . S w art­hout, aged 53 years.She is su rv ived by her m other, Mrs.

A de la id e Sw arthout, and one broth­er, H a rry , both o f P en n Y a n ; a sister, Mrs. D u d ley V . G elder; o f L yon s ; a n iece, M iss M argaret, and a nephew, H en ry G. G elder, o f Lyon s . T h e fun­era l w as held on W ednesday a fte r ­noon, R ev . W . M. H ydon and R ev. R. N. Jessup o ffic ia tin g . Th e body was p laced in the rece iv in g va u lt in Lake V iew cem etery .

C O NN IC — A t her hom e at 128 East M ain S treet, Sunday, F eb ru a ry 14, M rs. Celesta Connie, 81.She is su rvived by one daughter,

M rs. E dw ard G. H opk ins, o f th is v i l ­lage . She w as a m em ber o f A m ity Chapter, O rder o f E astern Star, and o f th e W om an ’s R e lie f Corps. Th e fu ­nera l w as held on Tu esday a fternoon at 3 o ’c lock fro m the hom e, R ev . W .A . H en ricks o ffic ia tin g. B u ria l in Lake

§

A. Flag Robson Explains WhaMcEvoy on

To the Editor o f the Penn Yan Dem ocrat:

Dear E d itor:I t was a surprise to be among those

drafted by your M iddlesex correspond­ent, in last w eek ’s Dem ocrat, to speak

I out in m eeting on the T a x Question, but his way is so begu iling and the

j apparent need so great, it seem s un­gracious to refuse.

A s our supposed “ servants” at W ashington have come to use the word B illions rather tr ip in g ly on the tongue when re fe rr in g to D ollars and Debts, and those at A lbany have also placed the w ord in their vocabulary, let us place the glass on a B illion D ollars and see what they look like. A S ilv er D o lla r weighs one ounce, th erefore a b illion o f them w ill w eigh 62,500,- 000 pounds, or 31,250 tons. W ith tw en­ty tons to a car, it w ould take 1562 fre igh t cars to transport them, or 39 trains of 40 cars each.

And yet Senator L a fo lle tte has, this w in ter, asked the Congress to vo te an issue o f F iv e B illion D ollars w orth of what he is pleased to term “ P rosp eri­ty Bonds.” One is prone to iron ica lly ask, prosperity fo r whom? Not the taxpayer surely, neither the holder of ex istin g governm enta l securities.

Credit, like fire and water, when used w ith discretion and kept under control, is a grea t b lessing to man, but out o f bounds it becomes his m as­ter, and a severe one. T h ere are those who are so sim ple and old fashioned as to be lieve that the m isuse o f Cred­it, in the past decade, is the base and prim e cause o f the w o r ld ’s present business and financial trouble.

W e a re prone to use a te lescope to scan the business horizon to ascer­tain the cause o f our w oes, perhaps a m icroscope w ould serve us m ore com- prehend ing ly and b ring to v iew con­ditions w ith in our pow er to control.

O ccas iona lly w e m eet a person who thou gh tless ly a ffirm s “ I do not ow e a do llar.” L e t us see how that ana­lyzes in the case o f a residen t o f Penn Yan. T h e re a re outstanding som e­th ing over fifteen b illions o f do llars o f U. S. G overnm ent bonds; d iv id in g that sum am ong our en tire popu la­tion, w ould be about $125 fo r each person. Th e funded debt o f the State o f N ew Y o rk on June 30, 1930, was $276,000,000 or $23 fo r each citizen. The Bonded Debt o f Yates County was recen tly $346,000 or $22.00 per capita. Th e Debt o f the V illa g e o f Penn Yan is around $150,000, or $27,50 per p er­son. The Debt o f the Penn Yan Union School D istr ic t is nearly , i f not quite, $500,000, or $83.00 per capita. A tota l o f these five item s amounts to $280 fo r each person liv in g in the v illa ge . And this is the p rinc ipa l o f the debts only, to which must be added m any do llars o f in terest. A s th ere is only about one taxpayer to five o f popu la­tion, each taxpayer finds h im self ow ­in g around $1,400.00. And this show ing is an exce llen t one com pared to m any loca lities.

P ra c t ica lly a ll o f these debts have been contracted during the past th ir­ty years, and every do llar o f it is rep ­resen ted by T a x F ree Bonds, whicl^. makes a harbor o f re fu ge in w hich the w ea lthy escape taxation .

Th ere are certa in econom ic laws which apply w ith equal fo rc e w heth ­er it be to an ind ividual, fam ily , c ity ! or state. Men, w hether s in g ly or co l­lec tive ly , who pers isten tly spend m ore than they earn, are headed fo r disas- j ter. F o r years we have rea lized how that applied to an ind ividual, tax-

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Penn Yan Native Marks 37th I . Year as Bank President'

RO B E R T A. PATTESON

payers are beginning Uo ~ii i that it also applies to. m en co llec tive ­ly;

A ccord ing to the State T a x Commis­sion, tota l collections, Federa l, State and Loca l, w ith in the State o f New1 York,, increased from $415,000,000 in 1913, to $2,137,000,000 in 1930. The cost, State and Loca l, o f Pub lic Edu­cation from $92,000,000 in 1919 tc $319,000,000 in 1931. And the cost of State Governm ent ' a lone increased from $85,000,000 in 1919 to $320,000,- 000 in 193i.

The Taxpayer is beginn ing to con-; sider his overhead expenses as being too grea t fo r the results accomplished. W h ile taxation has risen four fold, his a b ility to pay is about in inverse ratio, he is pa in fu lly rem inded o f the

■' ’ ’ W io o a r .. rodnnPU TN A M — A t C lifton Springs'" Sani­

tarium, Friday, Feb. 12th,; Denni? Putnam, o f Starkey,Mr. Putnam was a prominent Yates

County farm er and fruit grower. He had been i l l for some time. H e leaves his w ife and one son, H arry M. Put- , nam, president of The 'Citizens Bank j o f this v illage . The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon.

Bids for Municipal Work

adage, “ The pow er to tax is the pow ­er !to destroy.’ H e fe e ls he is beingdestroyed. ?

I f the fo rego in g seems to diagnose the= disease only, it is w ith the hope that som e o f the others ca lled upon w ill assume the ro le o f physician and p re s c r ib e a cure.:< * ] A . F . ROBSON

M ild

The bid for the additions and re­pairs to the - Municipal P lan t on the west side o f Lake Keuka. has been awyarded to B. S. T w ilig e r & Son, local contractors, at a figure o f $3,900.- 80, the lowest of 6 bids received by the board.

T h e bids were as fo llow s: Charles i N. K e lly , $4,736; J. Leo Hoban> $4,393.- 13; W ilfred Randall, $4,306: Marshall I (W atk ins Glen) $4,301.14: Bishon &J Carey, $4289.01. Specifications sta te ! that w ork shall begin at once and be|$ completed by April 1st. The workfe calls fo r the raising of the roof of theH _ municipal plant boiler room to aci|| ac­commodate a large, new boiler.

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vm ained w ith the .paper. On Janu ary ! 1st, 1926, w hen the Penn Y a n E xp ress

and Y a te s C ou n ty -Chronicle w ere | consolidated, M r. A c k le y continued f | w o rk in g fo r the C hron ic le-E xpress, i arid now w eek ly does the hand cora- ! position fo r the d isp lay a d ve rtis in g o f j the- new spaper.

' H is 55 yea rs in the shop have seen T considerab le change in the s ty le o f 1 advertis ing . Sm all business cards or | announcem ents, usu ally one-colum n ; w ide and a fe w inches lon g and fu n - j n iiig fro m a fe w m onths to a f e w .. years ' w ith ou t ch ange w ere cu stom ary j in the ea r ly days. M erch an ts n ow a- - I days use la rg e d isp lays, a t t ra c t iv e ly : I illu stra ted w ith s ty le in p ictu res, to ■I educate and in v ite buyers to th e ir ! stocks and stores. L it t le a tten tion ■was paid to new s g a th e r in g then/ as | com pared w ith now . W h a te v e r new s | w as b rou gh t in to the o ffice , m igh t ( happen to find its w a y in to print.! W hereas, the C h ron ic le-E xpress tod ay | not on ly W elcom es a ll contributions,! but sets up a s ta ff o f o v e r 50 co rre ­spondents to assure rece ip t o f a ll im -

j p ortan t even ts and o f m an y in teres t- j in g item s o f loca l va lue. P o lit ic s w as ) the subject o f m ost o f the v igo rou s ) ed ito ria ls o f the ea r ly d a y and o f | much o f the new s and a d ve rtis in g - also. P o lit ic a l a d ve r tis in g and pa-

! tron age then w ere about the on ly rea- | son fo r a n ew spaper 's ex istance.

“ H arvy” as he is know n am on g the I m em bers o f the trade, has seen a rad- I deal change in the fo rm , s ty le and p r in tin g o f the sm all tow n .paper,

j W hen he wab a beginner, the E xpress I w as p rin ted on a la rg e b lanket sheet, w h ich paper cam e fo lded . I t had to be unfolded, sprink led w ith w ater, then la id fla t so th a t the fo ld in g crease w ou ld “ iron out.” A l l p r in t­in g w as done on w e t paper.

Penn Y a n ’s Im p rovem en tN o less m ark ed has been the change

and im provem en t in the tow n o f his birth. D u sty and m uddy stree ts have g iven w a y la rg e ly to clean brick pavem ents; o il lam ps to e lec tr ic arc and bou levard ligh ts o f d ay -lik e bril-i lian cy ; in d iffe ren t . s to res w ith w ood aW nings lean in g ove r rou gh fla g s ton e

I w a lk s to trim , w e ll-d ecora ted store , fron ts and concrete w alks.

A s the -Main s tree t b rid ge , oven .the. La k e K eu k a ou tle t w as being rebu ilt recen tly , M r. A c k le y w as rem inded o f the days w hen it w as firs t con stru ct­ed, w hen he had to w a lk dow n the

i steps fro m the low er p a r t o f M ain Street, cross the C rooked L a k e canal ’ ion a sm all fo o t b rid ge and the ou tlet j bn a s im ila r tem p o ra ry span, then ascend by a pa ir o f sta irs to E a s t . 'M ain street, fo rm e r ly G ille tte streets pn the south side. H e recalls , too,,, how the v il la g e fin a lly vo ted in a spe- . c ia l election and a fte r m uch debate to p a y the ow ners o f C astner and

r,Sheets m ill, n ow the B irk e t t m ills, fo r 1 m ov in g th e ir bu ild ing back som e 15 j feet. Th e m ill n ow protrudes fa r th e r . tow ard the s tree t than o ther busi­ness b locks and in those days w as in

j the m iddle o f the th o ro u gh fa re ., The /•street leve l w as ra ised som e ten fe e t

a t th is po in t w hen the b rid ge w as com pleted.

T h e O ld CanalTh e C hron icle block, in w h ich M r.

jl A c k le y w orks, the A nderson and the • j Quenan blocks, are bu ilt over the bed I o f the old canal w h ich carried the

barges on w h ich he used to en joy r id ­in g as a boy. Th e guard lock, firs t o f the 27 in the d itch betw een K eu k a lake a t Penn Y a n and Seneca lake a t D resden w as loca ted under the

I p fesroom in w h ich M r. A .ck ley fre - . fluently w orks. I f a canal boat could , c lear the sill o f th is lo ck it w ou ld be

I able to pass th rough a ll o f the ga tes fu rth er dow n the canal. A short spur o f the canal branched to the north

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across S e n e c a street and ran as fa r as Jacob street in back o f the stores on the east side o f M ain street, to r provide room fo r shunting canal boats out o f the canal just below the firs t j lock and to m ake additional harbor fa c ilit ies fo r loading and unloading at Penn Yan . Steps led pedestrains from M ain street down to Seneca stree t in r ; those days.

M r. A c k le y m arried M a ry Pa tte rson ; in 1880. H is w ife died in 1927, leav- ; n ig him w ith tw o children, F r a n k , j A ck le y and M rs. Glenn Orcutt, both o f Penn Yan , and three grandchildren.

D uring his 55 years in loca l prin t shops, M r. A ck le y has tau gh t severa l you ng men “ the trade.” M ost o f them have yielded to the lure o f the c ity and have found their w o rk in la rg e r shops, but when they return to their old hom e tow n they never m iss ah opportun ity to come in and ta lk thiftgs over w ith “ H a rv .”

Tucson, A r izon a Feb ru ary 23, 1932 '

E d ito r Chronicle-Express: —Som e readers are probab ly fa m ilia r

w ith th ik section Of the U n ited States, but w e believe our experiences w ill be in teresting.

Our route from Chicago w as by the R ock Island system v ia E l Paso, and beyond that c ity it w as a lm ost en tire­ly desert. The sage brush, w as green, ow in g to frequen t rains,- and w e passed m any la rge enclosures o f w ire fences in which discouraged look ing ca ttle w ere try in g to keep a live and apparen tly there w as noth ing fo r them to eat but sage brush. Th ere w ere also a good m an y horses, w hich w ere in better condition than the ca t­tle but w e did not d iscover the reason fo r it. F o r m iles a long the ra ilroad

tum ble weeds. T h ey are round, open w ork , v e ry ligh t,, about the size o f a bushel basket and the w ind carries them ca vo rtin g across the desert fo r perhaps a m ile or m ore until a fence stops th e ir career.

A p p roach in g th is c ity , pronounced “ Tod-sohn,” are hundreds o f m iles o f desert w h ich w e ju dge accounts fo r the dryness o f the air. Tucson is on a round desert mesa, about 50 m iles in d iam eter and surrounded by m oun­tains. Th e "snow in w in te r and h eavy rains in sum m er prov ide an am ple supply o f c lear cold potable w a te r w h ich flow s underground not fa r be­low the surface. A n in teres tin g fe a ­tu re o f this lo ca lity is that even

I w hen it is ra in ing, the dryness o f the 1 a ir is noticeab le, v e ry d iffe ren t from sim ila r conditions in the east.

Our opinion is th a t th is condition is occasioned because the surrounding

| cou n try is arid fo r hundreds o f m iles I and also by the pecu liar p enetra ting sunshine. Th is c ity is a m ecca fo r those su ffer in g from sinus and pu l­m on ary a ffections and it is one o f the fe w p laces in the U n ited States w h ere sure re lie f can be had from arth ritis .

Th e clearness o f the a ir on the desert is v e ry dece iv ing and moun-

fence there w as a la rg e co llection o f

■li jins.. w h ich ,: to eastern ey e s ; appeal | on ly a couple o f m iles aw ay, are t e i j dr 20 tim es as fa r. j Th e sage brush are so regu la r eyl; *j eryw here, a t equal distances apart]:I th ey appear as i f set b y hand. The- J reason is there is not enough fe r t ility , in the soil to support them any near-i er together.

On the desert there is an occasional, hab ita tion w ith a, w indm ill fo r d ra w ­in g w ater, but w e do not understand; how any one can endure the iso la tion ,:

i m iles to the nearest neighbor. The.'I use o f autom obiles is, how ever, uni-w. versa l and distances o f - a fe w miles:.

! a re not considered, as there a re good | roads everyw here, i t i s . not unusual fo r ch ildren to be brought 20 m iles I e v e ry day to school, a > T H E O D O R E O. H A M L IN .,

REPORT o f M U N IC IP A L BOARD OPERATIONS IN 1931 Electrical Department

In the -year just passed, the Board has m ade numerous changes in elec- j tr ie ligh t locations fo r the benefit o f taxpayers and property ownei^ and in ; addition to this, has trim m ed trees fo r w ire clearance and better ligh ting ,ahd j> has fu rth er c leared w ires to aid in rad io reception.

A ll overhead w ires on E lm street betw een*Keuka street and the Penn­sy lvan ia ra ilroad have been rem oved and 39 new ornam ental poles erected |? fo r street ligh ting , as d irected b y the Board o f Trustees.

A pow er line o f la rg e r capacity duplicating present lines to avoid in- ; te fru p tion o f service has been run from the p lan t to the com er o f Lake and L ib e r ty streets. Th is w as done to reduce line losses o f energy and to in- crease fa c ilit ies fo r additional pow er loads in the v illage.

P Y ou r B oard has ordered a new 600 h. p. boiler to supplement th eir pres- ent power. Th is is the la test im proved type o f the Babcock & W ilcox M fg . k Co., w ith w elded drum in lieu o f the old type o f riveted, drum, and installa- ‘ i tion w ill be. m ade shortly a fte r A p r il 1, 1932; and in order to accom m odate! this bo iler and im prove w ork in g conditions at the plant, the roo f o v e r the [I bo iler room has been extended 10 feet, and proper ligh t has been provided i fo r w ith ven tila t in g steel sash, and a mew robf w ill be placed over th is pa rt j ; o f the bu ild ing to elim inate the humped and patched roo f now in use.

Th e in terio r o f the p lan t has been im proved by the installation o f m etal j.: ce iling and the pain ting o f in terior w alls in gloss white.

The 1000 k. w. turbine has been run continuously during rthe w in ter | m onths w ithou t in terruptions to service.

N in ety -seven new e lectric m eters have been installed w ith in the last,’ , cu rren t year, and your B oard is pleased to rep ort a tota l o f 1904 m etered ! customers.

W a te r D epartm ent . ID uring the preced ing period o f 1931 a survey w as made o f all w ater lines |

by the P ito m e te r com pany o f N e w Y o rk , and a ll mains were tested fo r leaks ,' and severa l serious leaks w ere discovered, which w ere taxing the ca p a c ity o f the reduction p la n t b y the abundance o f w a fe r go ing through the sewers. ’ The to ta l leakage unaccounted fo r amounted to approxim ately 115,000 gal-1 Ions o f w a te r per day. Th e elim ination o f these leaks has produced a m ateria l I sav in g in pum ping expense.

A su rvey has been com m enced and w ill continue through 1982 o f m eter i inspection, and any w a te r service leaks th a t develop w ill be corrected and a fu rth er sav in g in w a te r unaccounted fo r w ill be stopped.

D u rin g 1931 and 1932 tw o hydrants have been placed at the disposal o f fa rm ers fo r fr e e w a ter . »

Th e 700 g. p. m. pump has been reconditioned and put in first-class -work­in g order.

T w en ty -s ix new w a te r m eters have been installed during the current year.

S ew er D epartm en t A num ber o f stoppages have occurred in the m ain sewer, all o f Which

have been corrected and pu t-in first-c lass order, and 'th ree complete renova­tions have been m ade at th e D isposa l p lan t and a new sump pump installed fo r the fu rth er betterm en t o f the D isposal plant, which has previously shown evidence o f obsolescense.

In addition to the above, your B oard has engaged an engineer t o m ake recom m endations fo r th e fu rth er im provem en t o f th iKdepartm erit.

Th is is in b r ie f the rep o rt o f you r Board, w hich i£> respectfu lly submit- j ted, and deta iled particu lars w ill- be g iven to any interested taxpayers by the I Superintendent or any m em ber o f the Board. • r ■

C. A . K E L L Y .h . M e r t o n s m i t h ,E. J. W A L K E R , JT.

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W ith few exceptions, each year* o f i the calendar has ca lled upon the

scribe and h istorian o f events - to record the “ w orst snow storm ” in many

; years, but Sunday n ight furnished the United States and part o f Canada w ith one o f the 100 per cent, simon- pure b lizzards which has1 not visited j

i -such a la rge area in 44 years accord­in g to records.

S tarting about 4:30 o ’clock as a 1 fo llow u p o f a ra instorm which began : about 1 o ’clock, on Sunday afternoon, j one o f the w orst snowstorm s to v is it J W estern and C entral N ew Y o rk bore down on this section and w ith in 6 ; hours had com pleted the first steps in ! com pletely ty in g up ra ilw ay, h ighway,

"w ir e and a ir tra ffic . A u tom ob iles ,j busses and ra ilroad trains w ere sta lled in snow drifts in ou tly in g sec- | tions by m idnight and by 2 o ’clock I M onday m orning, the dam age from the sn ow fa ll had reached m any thou- sands o f dollars. T e leg rap h a'iid te le ­phone w ires w ere down and communi­cation in m any places was impossible.

The ba lm y w eather o f Saturday

The special meeting called b y the Yates County board of supervisors in

. their rooms, on Friday afternoon, to consider the advisability of meeting

' the proposition of the New York State j H ighw ay Department as to . the route I o f the new proposed highway on the fc I east side of Lake Keuka was attended .|U ! by 75 people, whioh-taxed the capacity |'1 o f the rooms of the,eounty board. The m ajor number of .those attending the pT; m eeting w ere property owners.

Testim ony o f . witnesses for andf against the proposed route, was taken--) , $ Representatives of.the E lm ira cottageM colony o f the Penn Yan Chamber of Commerce ’ and individual property* owners a long the,proposed route -all gave their opinions as to the benefits | and damages whichj'would be derived from the construction o f the road.

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ter, M rs> ' A lva h R ogers, o f B lu ff Po in t, Saturday night, M arch 12, 1932, M orris R. R o b e r t^ a g e d 84 years.S u rv iv in g are his daughter, Mrs.

R o ge rs ; a s ister, Mrs. G eorge A . Lord , o f F lo r id a ; a brother, GeorgeH. Robert, o f Phelps. Th e funera l was held from the home o f his daugh­te r on M onday afternoon . Com m it­m ent was made to the receiv in g vau lt in L a k e V iew cem etery. B uria l w ill be m ade la ter at W atk ins Glen. R A P A L E E — A t the home o f her son,

M ilton L . Rapalee, in L ib e r ty St., Sunday, M atch 13, 193.2, Mrs. D i- ve rn Rapalee, aged 80 years.She is, survived by h er husband,

G eorge W . R apa lee ; th ree sons, M il- fon L ., H om er D. and R oss R., a ll o f Penn Y an ; one sister,. Mrs. Eugen ia H ayes, o f Penn Y an ; and a brother, D ouglas Pu lver, o f Dresden. T h e fun­era l was held on W ednesday a fte r­noon at 2:30 o ’clock, R ev. R . N. Jes­sup officia ting. B uria l in L a k e V iew cem etrv.

F rom Penn Yarns popu lation o f o ve r 5,000 persons, less than 300 turned out to the p o llin g p laces Tues- I d a y a fternoon . K a r l M ah ory , D r. F e -

I te r C. P u lv e r and F ra n a n o ban w ere j nam ed trustees fo r tw o yea rs to suc- j ceed Jam es M oore, E . u. G ille tt and j r. H . j . M aciVaughton . M au ricce W. j M cC ann rece ived a to ta l o f 264 votes ! fo r po lice justice, short term , and ■ 24x j vo te s fo r p o lice justice, fou r-yea r term . B y d is tr ic ts the vo te fo r trus­tees fo llow s :

Pays Tribute to Late Miss Elizabeth B. Teal

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T E A L L — A t the Genesee H osp ita l,R och ester, M arch 16, E lizabeth B.T ea ll.'She w as th e daughter o f the la te

Dr. and M rs. H orace T ea ll, o f Penn Yan . T h e fu n era l w i l l be held on Sat­u rday a fte rn oon at 2 o’c lock from 21 E ricsson S treet, Rochester, w ith bu­r ia l in L a k e V iew cem etery, th is v i l ­lage.

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1'E N O S— A t his home m~ S tark Avenue,

Saturday, M arch 19th, Cyrus E. *1 Enos, 68.

H e leaves his w ife, D ella Enos; one daughter, Mrs. C lara Staples, o f E l­m ira; one son, C larence E. Enos, o f Ham m ondsport; and 3 grandchildren. H e was a m em ber o f the M ethodist

l Episcopal Church and o f Keuka Lodge, t* No. 149, I. 0. O. F. Funera l services i w ere held from the hom e at 129 S tark

Avenue on M onday a fternoon at 1:30 o ’clock, Rev. W . M. H ydon offic ia ting,

j Burial was m ade in Prattsbiurgh.

1 C A R P E N T E R — A t her hom e iu :t L j v illage, on Friday, M arch 18th, Mrs. j

‘M argaret Carpenter, 73.I She was the w idow o f John Carpen- j ter. She leaves tw o sons, H a rry J., o f

j C orn ing; and David, o f Penn '•■Yan,. • The fu nera l was held from the home

I at the corner o f W a te r and L ib e r ty ; Streets on M onday a fternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. J. H ow ard Perk ins o f- j ficiating. Buria l in L a k e V iew cem ­etery.

O W E N — A t his hom e m seneca s tree t,. Saturday, M arch 19th, G eorge D. I -..xbwen, 46. . j

S u rv iv in g are his w ife , M aude M. j Owen; tw o daughters, Mrs. John In - j boden, o f Palisades, N. J.; Mis® Mar-. [ ga re t Owen, at hom e; one son, A lb ert, i at hom e; tw o brothers, A rthu r, o f

I T o rre y ; Stephen, o f Penn Yan . Th e J fu nera l was held on M onday m orn ing !

t at 9 o ’clock from St. M ichael’s Chiurch j w ith buria l in St. M ichael’s cem etery. /

±tu x— A t tne so ld iers ana sanuroj i H osp ita l, Monday, M arch 21st, Mrs.'// M ary Grace R oy, 6p. IShe leaves one son, H a ro ld R oy, o f |!

T o rre y ; one sister, M iss H a rr ie tte L Sutherland, o f B rook lyn ; one broth ­er, U lysses S. Sutherland, o f R id ge- ' wood, N. J. Th e fu nera l w as h e ld ion*

/ Thursday a fternoon at 2 o ’c lock from the Th ayer fu n era l home, R ev. R. N. Jessup o ffic ia tin g. B uria l in La k e V iew cem etery. T h e fu nera l w as s tr ic tly nrivate.

H om er C. P e lto ji, o f the firm o f D oyle & Pe lton , a ttorneys, w as the

: guest o f honor at a s tag p a rty at the j Chateau Dugas on Tuesday even ing, ;the event being g iven in honor o f Mr.: P e lton ’s approach ing m arr ia ge to M iss j F rieda R in g, o f V an E ttem T h ose pres- ient at the dinner w e re Dr. John A.| Hatch, Dr. Ross Lau tzenheiser, Dr. Glenn Hatch, F ran k Sw ift, L e e H a r­ris, L eo Hatch, M e rr ill B ridgm an, H om er C. Pe lton , a ll o f Penn Yan , and Joseph J. D oyle, o f Seneca Fa lls , Mr. P e lto n ’s law partner.

R ochester, N . Y .,M arch 21, 1932.

E d ito r C h ron ic le-E xpress :I w ou ld lih,e to p a y m y tribu te to

the l i fe and ch aracter o f E lizabeth B. T ea l w ho en tered the l i fe eterna l in th is c ity on M arch 16th. M ids^Tea^/ w as the daugh ter o f D r. H orace I5L \ i and M u rilla Teal, and w as born in 1 G eneva Septem ber 13, 1959, her p a r­ents m ov in g to Penn Y a n when she w as an in fan t. F o r a fe w yea rs she tau gh t in the p r im a ry grades in the Penn Y a n A ca d em y and in the old H ead S tree t school, and in both places her pupils were, fond o f her. W ith ou t tem per she held them s tr ic t ly accountable fo r th e ir behavior and th e ir studies.

I knew her b e fo re this, how ever, ; when she w as a m em ber o f the L a tin k

. class fo rm ed by Adolphus C. B r igg s jl when he becam e princ ipa l o f theii

! A cadem y. A m o n g the m em bers of®1 th at class I n ow reca ll: M issesl.j E t ta Crane, E th e l Banning, Annakj : P ren tiss, L iz z ie Bow en, John H yland,n 1 E va rts L . P ren tiss and the w r ite r ] •I - T h ere w as a rea l fe llow sh ip among!/ j the m em bers o f the class, a sort o f | underground sym path y running]/ j th rough the group w hich g rew out off/| the d ifficu lties in vo lved in L a t in verbs; i! and noun endings. I a lw ays have held j i t one o f the choicest m em ories o f m y i l i fe to have been associated fo r a tim e!

w ith this a le rt and studious group. M iss T ea l w as one o f its b r ig h te s t :

, mem bers.A ft e r a b r ie f period o f teach ing in|

Penn Yan , M iss T e a l rem oved to j R ochester and took up secre ta ria l h

r w ork , w as en gaged fo r a short tim e w ith a shoe m an u factu rin g firm , and then becom e the secre ta ry o f M r. H en ­ry S trong, a t th a t tim e presiden t o f the E astm an K od a k com pany. She rem ained w ith th a t com pany, in r e ­sponsible positions, until the tim e o f her death, and o ffic ia ls o f the o rga n i­za tion acted as pa ll bearers a t the fu ­neral. H e r rem ains w ere p laced in the beau tifu l chapel va u lt a t M t. H ope and in M a y w ill be p laced by her fa th ­er and m other in L a k e V ie w cem etery in Penn Yan .. M iss T e a l w as an accom plished w om an and g re a t ly adm ired in the b ig industria l p lan t in w h ich she w as so lo n g an a c t iv e and in fluen tia l f ig ­ure. Th e head o f the departm en t w ith w h ich she w as connected to ld m e she w as one o f the m ost com peten t and tru s tw orth y helpers he had ever had. “ W hen she w as asked to do a th ing ,” he said, “ one knew it w ou ld be done and w e ll done.”

M iss T e a l had m an y fr ien d s w ho held her in h igh esteem . I used to m eet her on the P a r k avenue car qu ite frequ en tly , and it w as a ra re p r iv ile g e to rem in isce w ith her about the Penn Y a n days and people. She n ever los t her genu ine lovh fo r the hom e tow n , and in th a t w e had much in com m on. She had the fine qua lity ! o f 'optim ism , liked , good lite ra tu re and

i the best music. A b o v e A ll she w as L honeSt and rea l in fix in g her stand-j/

{ ards h igh and liv in g up to th em .] M a n y y/ho kn ew her d esc rib ed 'h er as § “ A fine gen tlew om an , a refined and® g race fu l ch aracter.” She w as both]./ aiid a loya l fr iend . She took up the / figh t fo r h e rse lf and m other, and th e y ! w ere inseperab le until h er m oth er] died and then she kep t up the w o rk , fo r her friends and the gen e ra l good. \

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T O W N S E N D — A t Richmond, V irg in ia , Friday, M arch 26th, Griffin T ow n ­send, aged 44 years.H e was a form er resident of this

county, and w as a son of M r. and Mrs. A. Oastner Townsend. H e is* su r­vived by his wife, and his mother, Mrs. A. Oastner Townsend. Th© body was brought to this- v illage and funer­al services held from the Thayer funeral home on Sunday afternoon, Rev. Chester V. Zogg, of Milo, o f­ficiating. Interment was made in City H ill cemetery, Dresden.

B R U E N — A t th e h om e o f h e r d a u gh ­te r , M rs . C h es te r Kim /ball, T u esd a y , M a rc h 29, 1932, M rs . E l la V . B ru en , a ged 88 y ea rs .She le a v e s one d a u gh te r, M rs. K im ­

b a ll, a t w h o se h om e sh e d ied ; a g ra n d d a u gh te r , Mists B a rb a ra K im b a ll, and a g ran d son , C. W in s to n K im iba ll. T h e fu n e ra l w i l l be h e ld fr o m the Kim Jball h om e on F r id a y a fte rn o o n at 3 :30 o ’ c lo ck , R e v . W . A . H e n r ic k s o f ­fic ia t in g . B u r ia l in L a k e V ie w cem e- j te ry . ■ . - - - - . ...

L E E — A t h is hom e in R u s h v ille , on T h u rsd a y , M a rch 24th, D a n ie l J. L e e , a ged 73.A b o u t 25 y ea rs a go th e fa m ily

i m oved fro m B lu ff P o in t to R u sh v ille . i S u rv iv in g a re h is w ife and tw o daugh- | ters , M rs. W il l ia m S n yd er and M rs. I r v in g P ra tt , a lso fiv e g ran d ch ild ren . F u n e ra l s e rv ic e s w e re h e ld fro m th e 'hom e on M on d a y a fe rn o on at 2 o ’c lockw ith bu ria l in R u s h v il le cem etery .

A n unusual observance m arked the annual m eeting o f the F irst P resby te r­ian congregation , o f Penn Y&n;>held on T h u rsd ay even ing M arch 31st: Mrs. H elen Bridgm an. B ru ce w as guest q f honor in appreciation of her services as organ ist and choir d irector of the

| of the church for a period o f 50 years. ] (Seated w ith her at the tab le fo r the | supper w hich a lw ays form s a part of this annau l gathering o f the congre­gation to conduct the bu sin ess of the church w ere th© pastor and his w ife,

| Rev. and M rs. W a lte r A . H enricks, j the m em bers of the choir, M rs. Lem an jo . 'Conley, soprano; M rs. H en ry B J \ Cornw ell, a lto ; E lton D. Ketch, bass.;-»| ! James H . Chidsey, tenor; m em bers o f || ' the m usic committee and their w ives .fj I Mr. B ruce and other guests. M r. !- Charles W . K im ball, senior elder and I I long a m em ber o f the music conimit- j tee, made rem arks appropriate to the long and fa ith fu l service of Mrs.' Bruce at the organ, stressing the high; quality of her work, and her able dir. rection of the choir/ In closing he presented her with a purse, in token of the appreciation of the congrega­tion This was followed by an orig inal poem composed for th© occasion and j read by E lder Russell. ml

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Mr. and Mrs. Orville F. Randolph, | of Penn Yan, observed their golden I wedding anniversary on Sunday, April

13. Hattie Shearman, daughter of Mr.$ and Mrs. Charles Shearman, of Liber- j I ty street, Penn Yan, and Orville F. i

Randolph, son of Jeptha F. and Me- lissa Kress Randolph, of Torrey, were If married on April 3rd, 1882.

Mrs. Randolph’s daughter, Mrs. Ii: Harold F. Tuthill, Mr. Tuthill and her i children, Cameron and Helen Morri-p son, all of Rochester, were at the§j| home for the week-end to help cele- §| brate the event. On Monday members

of the guild of St. Mark’s Episcopal || Church called at-the home and pre-1 isented a purse of gold,

Mr. Randolph, who has just begun IF

M rs/" B ru c e Com es "from a m u s ica l fa m ily , and a l l . her,, l i f e sh e has been in te re s te d in th is a,rt. A t th e a g e o f 13, she w as o f f ic ia l ly a p p o in ted o r ­ga n is t in th e M e th p d is t E p is c o p a l C hurch , o f P e n n Y a n , a t a s a la ry o f $100 p e r y ea r . In A p r i l , 1882, sh e a c ­cep ted th e p o s it io n in th e .P re s b y te r -

• ian C hu rch , w h ich she has f i l le d so A c c e p ta b ly s in ce th a t tim e . A h a lf a | c e n tu ry o f s e r v ic e is n o te w o r th y in an y fie ld , and th e ch u rch i i to be con ­g ra tu la te d fo r a ll th a t such a re co rd 1 m eans.

M a n y ch an ges h ave tak en p la ce i s in ce M rs. B ru ce fir s t becam e a s s o c i- . a ted w ith th© ch u rch and but f e w o f £ its p re sen t m em bers can r e c a ll {a n y $ o th er o rga n is t . D r. D a v id H e n ry P a l- • m er had b een L p a s to r but a fe w o f i the 30 y ea rs in,, w h ich h© s e rved th e j ch urch w h en she com m en ced h er w o rk [j a t the o rga n w h ich w ip a Sm all in s tru ­m en t op era ted by 'w a te r p o w e r In 1908 w h ile rep a irs w e re b e in g m ade, it a c c id e n ta lly cau gh t fire , and w as to ta lly destroyed . A m eta l c e il in g and the e f fic ie n c y o f the lo ca l fire depart­m en t saved the church b u ild in g . A f ­te r the fire the in te r io r o f th e au d ito ­rium w as rem od e led and red eco ra ted and the p resen t A u s tin 3-m anual e lec-

| t r ic a l ly op era ted in s tru m en t w as in- !s ta lled . Som e yea rs la t e r th e gas ' l igh ts w e re rem oved and th e church 'b u ild in g ligh ted w ith e le c tr ic ity . : 1

... W h en D r. P a lm e r died in 1910, M rs. B ru ce o ffic ia ted a t th e o rgan d u r in g the fu n e ra l serv ices , /and S ince .then has seen, the p u lp it occup ied b y the

; successors in the m in is try o f the church, firs t b y R ev . N ev in D/ B ar- I

j th o lom ew , w ho w a sv pastor fro m 1911 i j to 1919, and w ho died la st y ea r a t • E d ge H ill,_ Pennsylvan ia :; then b y R ev . ; C harlSa ' K . Im brie ,' w ho' served from 1919 to 1927, w hen b e res ign ed to be­com e pastor o f the F irS t P resb y ter ia n Church at. N ew bu rgh , ,New Y o r k ; and by the p resen t pastor, R ev . W a lte r A . H en ricks , .

A m o n g the item s o f business tran ­sacted at the m ee tin g was the adop­tion o f the budgets fo r th e fiscal yea r com m encing A p r il 1st, and the e le c ­tion o f church trustees. G. L . Barden, S tuart F a r ra r and Dr. E. C. F oster w ere e lected to this o ffice fo r a term o f th ree years and M., J. fill out: the unexp ired term N. W ise, deceased.

his fifth term as ju s tice o f peace of Milo, is a graduate of Starkey Semi­nary in the -class of 1873. H e studied in Oberlin Collage, Oberlin, O., for a short time, then began the study o-0

|p law in the office of Charles S. Bak j; er, o f Dundee, two years later ctin- i tinuing his study in the B riggs an

jr K nox pffice at Penn Yan. Returning IV to Dundee he began the practice of

law after being admitted to the bar in June 1877. Four years later he mov­ed his office to the county seat. After spending a short time in the west he entered into a partnership with Cal-

/ vin J. Huson, of Torrey, now deceas­ed. In 1901 he again left Penn Yan go­ing to Buffalo, Iowa, St. Louis and State of Washington, finally return­ing to Penn Yan.

H© has served the town of Milo as Justice of peace from 1895 to 1899 and from 1916 to 1932. He has been sec­retary of the board of trustess of Starkey Seminary for several years, a vestryman of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church o f Penn Yan and an officialin Masonic orders. 4

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Miss Theodosia W elles {(F r o m P u lte n e y C orresponden t) 1

M iss T h eod os ia W elles, the _ last| m em b e r o f the fa h t ily o f B en jam in F.| and R e b e c c a P ren tis g W e lles , w born in W a y n e A p r i l 12, 1834, and passed a w a y a t her hom e in P u lten e y fo u r days be fore h e r 98th b irthday. T h e W e lle s fa m ily h a ve resided in P u lte n e y since 1876. M iss Th eodosia has been tenderly ca red f o r h e r la te r years, by h er cousin-,M a rth a P ren tiss; M iss W e lle s ’ w a s v e r y a c tive fo r one so advanc in years. She- could rep ea t the U. S constitu tion* the Lad y o f the Lake , and m an y o ther poems, besides lon g p assages o f scripture;// She had beeft a li fe - lo n g m em ber / o f ' the Pultene-j P re sb y te r ia n churchy her p ro fp im d in ­te re s t "in th e ' church' and ‘ her fa ith in

R apa lee to o f W illia m

1 G od n e v e r w aver in g th ro u g h a ll th e i m a n y y ea rs o f her life.

F u n era l services, conducted by R ev. M , H . Stoddard , pastor o f th e South P u lte n e y B ap tis t church, w ere held a t the hom e a t 2 o'clock on Sunday, A p r i l 10, w ith internient in the fa m ily p lo t in G len V iew cemetery.

T h o s e fro m out o f to\yn who w ere h ere fo r th e funeral w e re : M r. and M rs. A lb e r t Brewster, Mrs. A d e lle Pren tiss , M rs. G. E. Case, JVfiss M a b e l Pren tiss , M r. and Mrs, F rank G ipson o f Syracuse, M r. and M rs., FtoydVHtizit o f B ranchport, Clarence Andrew s p f

( P en n Yan , fK N{, {Goodrich , add '{M fs.| G race F o w le r o f Rochester. ,f{. .V I!

T h e 'W e lle s fam ily molted to P y lfe -k n ey f f om W a yn e the day a fter,, Miss j j! W e lle s w as s ix years/old/ T h e fe 'fy e re ji; e ign t Children in thg fam ily , ^ e r la^t rem a in in g sister, Miss H arnett, W ylies ||| died , in' 1927 at th e 'age o f |98 years. Ijij M iss Theodosia W elles cast .her first h, vo te w hen she voted fo r H oover in | . N ovem ber, 1928.

| PENN Y A N R O T A R Y

M ARKS A N N IV E R SA R Y

F irs t I*reside id U. Andrew s

T h e Penn Yan R o ta r ia iis en joyed a ten th -ann iversary p rogram o f fun and reminiscing', a t their w eek ly luncheon;

■ in the Benham hotel Tuesday noon.; C larence Andrews, firs t - president o£>

' the xclub, was -tendered the gave l by P residen t P e rc y G r iffith s ,. A basket o f flow ers w as g iven M r. A ndrew s in .recognition o f his in teres t in R o ta ry w h ich had much to do w ith the found -1 in g o f the loca l club and its charter presen tation on M arch 23rd, ten years j ago. E. J, W a lk er w as the firs t secre-1

. t a fv and Calvin R jissell. the second ■

president. R eca llin g the ea rly high- |i ligh ts and some o f M r. Russell's po- jj eery about the 25 charter m em bers i; p rov ided p len ty o f fun. The presen t) secre ta ry o f the club, F a y H errick o f T o rrey , provided m any laughs w ith som e o f the am using le tters and rec­ords which he unearthed from the files o f the club. M r. A n drew s expressed w h at he fe lt to be the rea l purpose

j I o f R o ta ry -- an a ttem pt to m ake the 11 golden rule operative in business, ij R ichard Roenke represented a t thisI | m eeting the G eneva club, whichI I fa thered the organ iza tion o f the local

club a decade ago. Joseph W o o lf and Ir v in g Springstead o f E lm ira w ere the other v is itin g Rotarians.

R.M.KINNE I DIES SUDDENLY

Served as Member of Village Trustees

Remsen M. K inne, prom inent busi- j n&s man of the v illa g e and county, i died at his apartm ent at 213 Main ' Street, on Sunday afternoon, follow ing;I an illness o f three weeks o f heart J trouble. M r K inne suffered a severe j illness about two years ago and bad been in fa ilin g health since that time. H ow ever, he had been about and had attended to his insurance busi- up to w ithin a few weeks ago.

Mr. K inne was born in Ovid, a son o f Silas Kinne, who was cashier o f Baldwins Bank fo r m any years and also a member o f th e coal firm of Potter, K in ne & Kendall. Rem sen M. K inne succeeded his fa ther in the coal business, his first venture being a m em ber o f the firm o f K in ne & Lew is. Upon the death o f Eugene Lew is, Mr. K inne conducted the bus!- nes under his own name, la ter form ­ing a partnership w ith I. L . Yetter. The jun ior member o f the firm w ith­drew from the partnership a few

| years ago, and Mr. K inne carried on I the busines under his own name at 109 Benham Street, se llin g it to L Seymour Purdy about 5 years ago.

Mr. K inne was prom inent and in­fluential in all v illa g e affairs. H e had

j served as a m em ber o f the v illa ge board o f trustees, and m any other positions o f prom inence. In 1896 he was rece ive r fo r the Yates County National Bank, which closed its doors here at that time. H e retire® from the coal business about 5 years ago and since then has engaged in th© insurance business.

Mr. K in ne was a m em ber o f M il® kLodge, F. & A. M., K n igh ts Tem plar, j and the Penn Yan Club. H e was a life- : member of the E llsw orth H ose Gem~ 'pany.

H e is survived by two sons, © N ; j George R. K inne, o f Penn Yan, and R em sen , M. K inne, Jr., o f Boston,

I M ass.; tw o daughters, Mrs. G. W .1 Steenken and Mrs. H aro ld J. W hita­ker, both of Penn Y a n ; a sister, M rs ., Charles E. Doubleday, o f Penn Yan,

l and five grandchildren, j The funera l was held on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o ’clock from the Main Street apartm ent, Rev. W alter;A. H enricks offic iating, w ith b u r ia l in Lake V iew cem etery. The honorary

j bearers w ere : H. M erton Smith, G len s , !L. W heeler, A. J. Obertin, Charles Hunter. The bearers w ere : L . P. Jol­ley, M orris Buckley, I. L . Y ette r, John

I Durry, John B. Cramer, a ll o f Penn I Yan, and F red Henderson, o f Rocjies-J j ter.

N E W M A N — In Penn Yan , A p r il 7, 1932, M iss S. O retta New m an, aged 92 years.

R O F F — In Pu lteney, A p r il 8, 1932; Charles R. R o ff, aged 90 years.

W E L L E S — In Pu lteney, A p r il 8, 1932, M iss Theodosia W elles, aged 98 years.

H E N D E R S O N — In Ithaca, A p r il 1 L 1932, M iss D oris F rances H ender­son, aged 20 years.

K IN N E — - In Penn Yan , A p r il 10, 1932, Rem sen M. K inne, aged 62 j

Congressman Taber Explains i)

Stand Against B o n u s — II

Describes Giant Cacti — ij

Complains of Unfair Taxes j

W ash ington , D. C.A p r il 8, 1932 ■

E d ito r C hron ic le-E xpress: — „Th is is a tim e when ev e ry loya l j

A m erican must have in m ind firs t the j ! in terests o f his country. H e m u s t !I have it in m ind that he is to do s o m e -1 ' th ing fo r that coun try ra th er than g e t j som eth ing out o f it. W e m ust rea lize i

j that i f w e are to res tore public eon- j fidence w e m ust balance the fed e ra l j

i budget and in order to do that w e : j must cut down expenses drastica lly . I I W e w ill have to stand burdensom e j | taxes in addition to th e d rastic cuts. I

In m y own opinion to vo te fo r any | la rg e expenditures o f public m oney i beyond the absolute m in im um current I requ irem ents fo r m a in ta in in g the g o v - !

I em inen t w ould be fa lse to m y oath o f j j office. H a v in g th a t in m ind, I am j absolu tely opposed a t this tim e to the j

I present paym ent o f the so ld iers ’ bo­nus w hich is not due„until about 1944. I

I I am abso lu tely opposed to m ost o f ] the federa l aid p ro jec ts fo r roads and that sort o f th in g because th ey w ould cost a terr ific sum o f m on ey and w ould not in any substantia l w a y aid em ploym ent. E m p loym en t w ill be aided and people w ill be put back to w o rk read ily enough, i f w e can stopj the o rg y o f spending and balance the budget and restore confidence and

1 perm it the funds w hich the g o ve rn ­m ent w ould have to bo rrow by bonds

! to be put in to p rodu ctive en te rp r ise .;I T h at this position has the back ing o f ; j the com m ander o f the A m erican L e - :I g ion is in d ica tive o f the p a tr io tic at- j 1 titude th at the L eg ion is ta k in g I tow ards the res tora tion o f the nation- j

: a l credit.T o help b rin g this about, I e x p e c t ;

to take a cut in m y ow n sa la ry and j I fra n k ly do not see how it is possib le j to g e t along, unless e v e ry one else con-

I nected w ith the govern m en t serv ice I j takes a cut, those w ith sm a ller s a l - ! j aries tak in g a sm a ller cut than those |I w ith la rg e r ones. Th e peop le ip pri- j va te business have tak en cuts and j w e m ust do the sam e th ing. W e m ust m eet th a t situation p a tr io tic a lly h a v ­in g in m ind that i t is b e tte r fo r a ll o f us to have retu rn in g p ro sp e rity than i i to insist upon eve ry th in g th a t w e can I g e t r igh t n ow and p reven t the retu rn i o f good business. ■ j ij

J O H N T A B E R , M. C. rl

Matthew McEvoy

M atthew M cEvoy, aged 79 years, county superintendent o f h ighways and a prom inent county o ffic ia l, died F riday m orning at 2:40 o ’clock at his

I home at 522 L ib e r ty Street, a fte r an -illness of tw o days. H e was stricken shortly a fte r a ris in g on W ednesday m orning and his condition steadily g rew w orse until his death.

Mr. M cE voy was appointed to the : o ffice o f coiunty superintendent o f h ighways on. N ovem ber 30, 1909, when

I the office was created and has been the on ly incum bent through the 22 years fo llo w in g his appointm ent. H e ;had served as a m em ber o f the v illa ge board o f trustees and was a m em ber o f that board when the w ater and sew er systems w ere insta lled in the v illa ge and rendered much va luab le assistance in the insta llation .

H e was a m em ber o f the Republican I counity centra l com m ittee, having j

j served as secreta ry o f that o rgan iza ­tion until a few years ago. H e had a wide acquaintance am ong the h igh w a y1 o ffic ia ls o f the state and was ve ry ac-j

't iv e at the m eeting o f road offic ia ls ! held at A lbany.

Unlusually active and in terested ini a ll public a ffa irs he p robab ly had

-w ritten m ore le tters to news papers ': on topics o f gen era l in terest than any', other ind ividual in the county. Hi?: advice was sought on m atters p e r ta in ! ing to po litics, h ighw ay, and othe|$; m atters o f im portance.

H e was born in Schoharie county. .and cam e to this section at an earl) age. H e attended the Penn Yan Acad

^emy, w a lk in g in from his home sever- ja l m iles distant to attend the seS Isions. L a te r du ring the su m m e!. months he w orked at the car pent e; .v- : trade and in th e w in ter taught in th- ’ ru ra l schools in H a ll, T o rre y an t,:other nearby places.; Mr. M cE voy is said to have had i grea t kn ow ledge o f the h ighw ay la y and could quote en tire sections from the law from m em ory. H is accu racy .

F rank C, Chapman, Once Owner of:Dunnings, D ies ■ (

:p n April. 3rd, a t R iverv iew , F laJ, occurred the death o f F ran k C. Chap­man, who until some dozen years ago! ow ned “ Dunnings,” the well-known, p la ce1 and landing located on the west s ljb re o f the E ast branch o f Lake Keuka,, about, fo u r m iles, south, ^ o f : Keuka: c o lle g e .. > M r. Chapman soldi tlfe place to R obert Stevens, now o f r, Rochester, and w en t w ith Mrs. Chap-j mian to Tam pa firs t in the fa ll o f I 19,18. H e moved perm anently to R iv - 1/ c rv iew in 1921. H e a t once became j| identified w ith all the in terests o f the ; com m unity. B y his s tra igh tfo rw ard |V m ethods o f business, his honesty and | in te g r ity he endeared h im self to all j) business associates, friends and ac- |i

; quaintances. H is cheery, optim istic j| ’.sp irit made him a fa vo r ite a t th ejj church, in his lodge and in the home.

Mrs. Chapman w en t to her rew ard |j som e years ago.

!F o r some tim e be fore his death he w hs in fa ilin g health. H is son, Claude, w ith his w ife , m oved to R iverV iew to be" w ith him and care fo r him.

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Anderson - Enos M a ry V eron ica Enos, a native o f

Y a te s cdun ty1 who lived here until about fou r years ago, now a resident o f Sayre, P A ; and Janies A lfr e d A n ­derson o f W a ve r ly w ere m arried off F eb ru a ry 29th. F o llow in g k w ed­d ing trip ; M r ! and : Mrs. Anderson w ill m akb their ' home on Spring street, W a ve r ly . ^ [

GRANDSON O F YATES COUNTY IS HONORED

D r. W illia m H en ry W elch, W hose

P a ren ts L ived in Renton, P ra ised

In N e w Y o rk T im es

Th e N e w Y o rk T im es this m onthand system atic procedure in draw ing I ed ito ria lly pra ised Dr. W illia m H en ry up agreem ents w ith the severa l town J W elch, w ho ow es his o rig in to his road superintendents is a m atter of fo rebears in Y a tes county and who, record. W hen an agreem ent was- made : m ay, th erefore, in a sense, be listed

| w ith M r. M cE voy, it was known to be- y! am ong the m en and w om en w hom ;! correct. H e was an ardent Republican! Y Y a tes county has contributed to the land had contributed tim e and w ork to: [notab les o f the world, jth-e e fforts o f th at party. H e was pos-j j Dr. W e lch ’s m other, whose m aiden js-essed o f a rem arkab le m em ory and nam e w as E m eline Collin, w as the | was ab le to quote dates and in fo rm a - ' , j you n gest o f the three ch ildren o f , tion. o f h is to rica l or o ther data w ith - ;, H en ry and N a n cy (M c A lp in e ) Collin, jou t g lan c in g at a book or memo o f ! w ho w ere m arried in A p r il, 1814, and. any kind.j W ith in a few w eeks o f the observ-

- j ance o f th e ir go lden w edd ing anni- ive rsa ry , his w ife died tw o years ago. jF o r m.ore than h a lf a cen fury, Mr, 'M cE vo y had lived in the house in [w h ich his death occurred.| M r. M cE voy was taken il l on W ed ­nesday, A p r il 6th, and his condition s tead ily g rew w orse until he exp ired at an ea r ly hour F r id a y m orning.

S u rv iv in g are tw o brothers, Edward, o f Seneca County, and David, o f S tock­ton, C a lifo rn ia . Th ere also are severa l nephew s and nieces. ,

Th e fu n era l was held from the hom e on M onday m orn ing at 8:30 o ’ c lock and at 9 o ’c lock from St. M ich ae l’ s church. B uria l was in St. M ich ae l’s cem etery.

Th e bearers w ere Charles M allory , L e e Cook, R ay W. Rapalee, Charles Butcher, Justin Hyland, W illia m Huey, M any prom inent county o ffic ia ls ; w ere in attendance at the funera l.

in the sam e month', w ith a tw o-horse lum ber w agon o f .household goods, m ade the jou rn ey fro m H illsdale , to their n ew hom e in Uhe lo g house on lo t 79 in the “ west' w oods” o f w hat is n ow the tow n o f Benton, Y a tes

; county. L o t 79 had been “ d raw n ” by jD avid C ollin (th e fa th er o f H en ry , ■who m arried N a n cy M c A lp in e ) in the .d ivision o f lo ts ceded to the “ Lessee ‘ C om pany” by Phelps and Gorham.

In the sp rin g o f 1815, D avid Collin v is ited his ch ildren in the “ fa r w est,”and a rran ged fo r th e ir rem ova l to thelo g house on the “ Buell fa rm ” in thetow n o f Benton , a m ore fa vo ra b le lo ­cation, on w h ich H en ry and N ancy, a fe w yea rs th erea fter, bu ilt the fram e house in w h ich Em etine Collin, the

[m oth er o f D r. W elch , w as born, and w hich n ow (consid erab ly en larged ) is

j the hom e o f Hon. F ran k M cA lp in e Collin, w ho jo ins w ith Dr. W e lch in

j be ing num bered am ong the grandsons ! o f H en ry and N a n cy (M c A lp in e ) Col- j lin.

Dr. W e lch ’s sister, E m eline (W e lch )1 W o lco tt, w as the m other o f F rederick Collin W o lco tt, now a U n ited S tates senator from Connecticut, and a dis­tingu ished grea t-gran dson o f Y a tes -county.

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Tucson, Arizona * April 14, 1932

Editor ChroniclC-Express: —The aviation -field near this c ity is

about 1% miles long, % o f a mile wide, icompjising 1,200 acres and is a regu lar stop fo r coast-to-coast flyers.I t is kept clear o f weeds and brush, is absolutely a dead level, and is sur­rounded w it li electric lights. La rge searchlights that are visible fo r miles show the precise place fo r stopping but are not used unless requested by an incom ing aviator. There are red I ligh ts to designate danger localities, | and the whole held is lighted e v e ry ! night, rain or shine.

There land here every day tw o : transcontinental* flyers, tw o shuttle j flyers and in a ll not less than six A y ­ers a day. A -large, elaborate hangar o f the latest type, housing 20 planes and everyth ing pertain ing to aviation, has just been completed.

Some o f the small practice planes! th at w e .examined w ere so fr^ il xye- wondered that anyone would risk us-1 ing. them." Em ployees think no more- o f an aerial trip than one does of a-,- ride in an automobile.

F o r the fa ith fu l men w ho fly a llp through the night carrying the mails j a t g rea t personal risk, w.e have th e .greatest respect. F o g and th ick w eather wAtch cQmpletely obscure the! vision are deadly foes, and an qcca-| .siqnal loss o f life ..of a valuable man;; is inevitable. When accidental la n d -; ings beyopd the qontrol o f the p ilo t have occurred, th,e heroism apd devo­tion to duty has p lw ays equalled that o f a veteran on the battlefield.

One o f the most in teresting places w e have visited, owned and m ain­tained by the U n ivers ity o f Arizona, is a cactus bed Where every varie ty that is n a tive to this state is. grown, There ’are hundreds o f every im aginable size; and shape, a wonderful exhibit. A d ­jo in in g are two or. three pits about 12 fe e t long, eight fee t w ide and eight fe e t deep where rattlesnakes and Gila m onsters, who live on fr iend ly term s, are kept. The snakes w e did not see as they stayed in their holes, but w ill be ou t when the weather is warm er.

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WHEN I WAS A BOY IN PENN YAN

Recalls C. T. Burrill

Since I w ro te m y last, article, I was in conversation w ith a musician whom I asked i f he ever saw a rich man who fo llow ed music fo r a living. And he said no, and cited a man who was a piccolo p layer fo r Sousa, and is now sw eeping out a Salvation A rm y hall fo r a living.

Eli MbCoiineU’s Boats I said in m y last article I would

touch on the boats on the lake, so I w ill commence w ith the “ N onparie l,” a pleasure boat belonging to E li M c ­Connell, who would gen era lly take his o ffice force, consisting o f G eorge Lampson, Charles K earn ey and w ife, Jennie, and a niece o f E li ’s, who used to set type on the Penn Y an D em ocrat and W ashington Courier, a m onth ly paper which w as edited by a man named Bennett, o f Dresden, a pension a tto rn ey m W ashington. Th ey would take a trip around the lake each Sat­urday afternoon in consideration fo r their w ork ing every Thursday evening to print and fo ld the papers o f the Penn Yan Dem ocrat. L a te r E li had another boat which he called the “ P a r ­agon,” and he usually took all his friends out fo r a ride at d ifferent times, besides his o ffice force. F rank Carey, a photographer on the first door o f the A rcade, and his fam ily w ere usually in the crowd. La te r they w ent to Syracuse and E li vis ited j them quite often.

The “ P o llyw og ,'' a sm all boat owned and operated by L e ro y Tobey, who la-1 ter patented a grape basket hook I which made good, w as about the same .size o f “ N onparie l.” L a te r he had I another la rger boat a fte r the other I became unfit fo r passengers, which he 1 named the “ Rob R o y .” ’ Th is boat like j the “ P o llyw o g ” he used to m ake trips | to the A rk and back each Sunday and j holidays, and som etim es in the eve- j n ings o f ex trem ely w ar rn days. Ice ; cream, candy, cigars, tobacco, pea-j nuts, so ft drinks, etc., w ere sold at, the A rk . A t the rear o f the A rk was a spring, where one could g e t a drink o f sulphur wa.ter, i f he so desired.

The Old A rk The A rk w as at firs t a la rg e house

boat which w as tied a t this point. L a te r a tw o-s to ry building w as erect­ed on the site, being btiilt over the water, w ith a la rge dock in fron t on which severa l benches w ere placed so people could en joy the beautifu l scen­ery. Around the A rk w as a double veranda w here there w ere also benches placed next to the building fo r people to sit and look in the w a ­ter, which w as quite shallow at the side, and w as usually filled w ith row boats which w ere tied to the building w h ile their passengers w ere inside be­

in g refreshed. The inside o f the A rk consisted o f a la rge room, o ff o f which w ere lit t le rooms w ith tables and chairs, w here one could sit aw ay from the crow d and en joy refreshm ents. The second s to ry w as usually a place; w here the boarders, w hich w ere m any in the summer, could have room s and; the upper veranda w as fo r their spc- . cial use. Som e w ould w a lk up to the . A rk fo r the exercise, w h ile several j r ig s w ould also be tied a t a fence w hich w as erected fo r th eir conven­ience.

Th e firs t one I rem em ber to have charge o f the A rk w as Calvin Carpen­ter, a short “ Q uaker-like” man and his w ife , w ho w ere usually v e ry busy and had lots o f help to w a it on the

; m any vis itors ana ooaraers w ho w ere I usually there a t a ll times. L a te r a j man by the name o f D ew ey had it in charge and used to put up a g in ger

[ beer which w as placed in sm all earth ­en bottles w ith the corks tied down. H e g o t , quite a reputation fb r the

|j beer and he used to m anufacture it I; in a la rge w ay so as to supply a de­ll mand from Penn Y an dealers who

placed it on their bars. I see the building has been, taken down and severa l co ttages erected a long the shores a t this point. One could take a trip up and back fo r 10 cents.

Som e years la te r John Sheridan, who w as a gam e warden, bu ilt a boat

! which he christened the “ G overnor H ill," usually manned by “ Shab” Greening. Th is boat w as used the same as the “ Rob R o y ” on Sundayis j and holidays, fo r trips to ting A rk .

There was a boat that, used to come r. down the lake from Branchport, which j was owned by a man nam ed W e a v e r , ! who had a v e ry p re tty boat, t r im m e d ' w ith polished brass a ll over it. T h ey used it as a pleasure boat, and i t w as called the “ M ascot,” I t m u s t ; have j caused a lo t o f w o rk to keep up the, looks o f the boat fo r every th in g on j it was polished brass. I t had a ve ry ; p re tty cabin, which w as also brass

I trimmed.L a k e K eu k a ’s Steam boats

There w ere a t firs t tw o boats which w ent to H am m ondsport and back that w ere called the Steuben and Yates. These boats, w h ich w ere named a fte r the counties through which they plied w ere used fo r passen­ger service;' but during the g rap e sea­son w ere filled w ith grape baskets and crates, which w as the on ly means that the grape g row ers had a t this tim e to send th e ir grapes to m arket.A sm aller boat w as bu ilt to go down the branch o f the lake, because o f a la rge sand bar that w as near B ranch­port. This boat w as called the “ Lu lu .”

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I have stood on, th e h ill near the land- j ing on Keuka s tree t and could hear the paddle wheels some distance away, which we kids lisbd to say sounded like “ Catch a n ig ge r ! Catch a n igger.” A ft e r awhile the old Steu­ben became unseaw orthy and was le ft oh the beach at Ham m ondsport, where m y sister and m yse lf had a lot o f fun go ing up and down the stairs and in its cabin w h ile m y fa th er was in Hamm ondsport pu tting on roofs, j The Ya tes w as burned at the dock on Keuka street severa l years later, t B efore the Y a tes w as burned another boat was built by the same company, >• called the “ Urbana,” which w as a l i t ­tle la iger, and w as a lit t le faster than i the old boats. I t USed to cost about; $1.50 to go up the la^e a t t ip s . tim e I and one . had to s tay up when they , go t there, as one boat would stay ini Repn Y an and the other, in H am - monidspprt. .L a te r th ey usecLtp m a k e ; it both ways.

Once in awhile th ey had 'excursions | up and,back, and at this .time the; crowd w as rather small. The orehes- trian organ, which was on the p ill in Ham m ondsport, w as the a ttraction at this tim e ahd w as in a la rg e - hall where dances w ere held, and also a place where one could procure all

j i*dds o f drinks. Th ere w ere tables placed all around and w h ile the peo­ple w ere .being refreshed they could

| listen to the organ, which p layed mu- sic from all the standard overtures at

thaTATme. S o m e ^ f tfm dancers w ould usually dance to the strains o f the W altz when one o f the la rg e rollers, w hich had lit t le brads d riven in them , w as changed. Th e organ a t th is tim e w as a wonder, as it had drums, bells, and a ll the traps w hich the num ber called for.

T h ere w as a v e ry p re tty g len a t H am m ondsport w hich I have v is ited severa l tim es, and a lthough not v e ry la rg e is v e ry p re tty and w e ll w o rth seeing.

L a k e K eu ka has been ca lled “ Th e M odern Rh ine,” and as the Rh ine is noted fo r its scenery, one can see w here it gets its name. T h e vin e-c lad hills and the usual qu iet w aters, to ­ge th er w ith the co lors o f the ripen ing g ra in and p re tty trees w h ich adorn its hills, m ake it a beau tifu l s igh t to see.

I w ill t r y • and continue a lon g this line next w eek and w ill show som e o f the th ings th a t helped put Penn Y a n in the lim eligh t, as it w as during the tim e o f w h ich I am g o in g to w rite . M an y peop le cam e to Penn Y a n to see this w onderfu l, sheet o f w a ter , and to lea fn o f its w onderfu l trou t fish ing places.

C. T . B U R R IL L ,2242 E. M a in street,

. Rochester, N . Y . 1

New County Superintendent Hiphways

G eorge E. Havens, o f Benton, has been appointed as Yates County Su- I

j perimtendent o f H ighw ays, to fill the jnnexpired term of the Jate M atthew I M cEvoy, who held the o ffice fo r 22 ■j years, since, its creation by the board o f supervisors.

Mr. Havens was appointed F r id a y ( m orn ing o f last w eek at a specia l i: m eeting o f the board o f supervisors, | and out of a list o f 8 candidates was 8 the one to receive the honor. Due to jj his experience in road construction ! Mr. H avens was considered the best qualified, and w ill fill cu t the tw o j yea rs ’ unexpired term of Mr. McEvoy./ The position is com petitive and < is under c iv il serv ice and Mr. H avens w ill be ob liged to take the exam ina­tions a long w ith the other candidates later. The Benton man has had seve r­al y ea rs ’ experience in supervis ing construction o f paved roads, the tim e requ ired being 5 years: since 1908 he has been engaged by variou s construc­tion companies in grad ing , cu lvert, bituminous macadam, b rick and con-

! crete road construction , and fo r 3 years he has been em ployed by the m aintenance departm ent, H o rn e ll d i­vision. o f the N ew Y o rk State D iv is ion o f H ighw ays, and fo r 1 year in the public serv ice departm ent on the East R iv e r tunnels. H e was in charge o f road construction fo r 10 years.

Other 'candidates w ere : Owen C. Hoban, Penn Y an ; G eorge M. Sim on- sen, R. D. 2, Penn Y a n ; L e e Cook, M ilo ; H ow ard 0. M cConnell, Jerusa-( lem ;' W ill is A. F in ger, P o tte r ; R a y ' Rapalee, B arrin gton ; A lb e r t D. Bates, M iddlesex, and E. E. Evans, Sr., o f Jerusalem.

See This Good Lumber— $15 per Ti. and up, from dism antled whiskey,, warehouses. Save m oney. Sid ing/ ro o f boards, planks, dim ension stuff/; barn tim bers. B ricks $6 per Mu Cor­

rugated iron. P. H. R itchey, W aterloo , H I y . 1 4w4*

OLD SCHOOL HOUSE GIVES WAY TO CARS

Penn Yan’s Maiden Lane;

School To Be Razed —

Modern Parking Station to;

Cover Once Popular Site

Edw ard G. H opkins o f E a s t M a in street, Penn Yan , loca l rep resen ta tive fo r the N ash autom obile, has acqu ired the M cConnell H itch barn on M aiden lane, the on ly h itch ing barn fe ft fo r horses in the countyseat. A t a fo re -

: closure auction held Sa tu rday H om er I Pelton , bidding fo r M r. H opkins, w as i the only one to vo ice a figu re outside o f the rep resen ta tive o f the firs t

' m o rtga ge holder.- M r. P e lto n bought the place fo r M r. H opk ins a t $3,285, w hich w as $3.00 m ore than the am ount o f the second m ortga ge . The sale is subject to a firs t m o r tg a g e o f $2 ,000.

M r. H opk ins ’ ten ta tive plans call fo r se lling the buildings, w h ich a t one tim e housed Penn Y a n ’s public school,' and h av in g them rem oved fro m the prem ises a t once. H e w ill then c lear the parce l o f land fo r a p a rk in g s ta ­tion and erect on it a m odern Span­ish sty le bu ild ing to con ta in com plete and com fortab le res t room s and o f ­fice. Th e res t room s w ill be nicely; furnished fo r the convenience o f thosef w a itin g , says M r. H opkins. P rob ab ly ! three kinds o f gas w ill be sold b y a un iform ed attendan t and the en tire a rea w ill be enclosed in a s ix -fo o t w ire fence. Specia l p laces w ill be reserved fo r the p a rk in g o f cars be­lon g in g to regu la r custom ers, the res t o f the a rea be ing leased fo r short-

;tim e park ing . F lo od ligh ts w ill keep j- [the a rea b r ig h t ly illu m in ated at I n ight. j

Th e land runs back fro m M aiden lane som e 127 fe e t to the C ostello p roperty. F ro m C oste llo ’s lane i t extends to the land ow ned by the P o t ­te r estate, on w h ich the old dw e llin g w as recen tly razed . M r. H opk ins plans to p lace the p a rk in g a rea fa r enough a w a y from M aiden lane so th a t th ere w ill be am ple room fo r cars passing and fo r pedestrians in fro n t o f his p rop erty . W o rk w ill s ta rt as soon as possible.

W a s Once SchoolW h en the M aiden L a n e school w as

abandoned in 1893 fo r the n ew one then erected on L ib e r ty s tree t, n ow the g rad e school, one o f the P en n Y an new spapers p ro tes ted v igo rou s ly . Som e o f the trees in the old school yard and p layground , w h ich once e x ­tended to M a in street, w e re cu t dow n to m ake room fo r the h itch in g barn. O n ly one o f these b ig trees n ow r e ­m ains. Som e o f the w a lls o f ' the h itch in g barn and the cupola w e re a p a rt o f the school w h ich m an y o f the o lder residen ts o f th is com m u n ity a t ­tended. T h ey w ill doubtless fe e l a m ild r e g re t to see the la s t rem inder

i o f the school days fa l l b e fo re the ad­vance o f c iv iliza tion as pa rked cars and gas pum ps tak e th e ir p lace.

(C on tinued on p age seven )

Walter Wolcott

W a lte r W o lco tt, Y a te s cou n ty and Penn Y a n v illa g e h istorian , m ade his annual rep o rt as -v illage h is to rian be­fo re the tru stees a t th e ir recen t m ee t­ing. D u rin g the y ea r M r. W o lc o t t has p repared an a lphabetica l lis t o f the inscrip tions on the o ldest tom bstones in the L a k e V ie w cem etery . H e* has a lso a lis t o f the P en n Y a n res iden ts w h o died in the y ea rs 1824 to 32. T ra c in g o f o ld m aps o f the v illa g e , da ted 1852, 1854 and .1865, and a lis t o f th e p rom inen t business m en o f 67 yea rs a go a re included in. th e data ' w h ich he com p iled fo r the v il la g e ini the past year.

(C on tinued , on p a g e seven )

H. E. and F. M. Wilkins Buy Insurance Agency

, The insurance business conducted for a number of years by the late Remsen M. Kinne was transferred on M ay 1st to the new firm of H. E. and F. M. Wilkins.

H arry E. Wilkins has been in the employ of the Walker Bin company for over 30 years. In recognition of his years of service, the company’s employees presented him with a pen and pencil set. His daughter, Miss Florence Wilkins, who will be associ­ated in the business, has been in the employ of the Penn Yan Printing company And its predecessor for about 25 years. She was presented with a gold piece by her former colleagues.

The new firm will represent _ the same six insurance companies as did Mr. Kinne and for the present wil\ oc­cupy the same offices. About the first oT'Jutie they expect to locate in new offices in the business section.

Penn Yan Clothier Dies

George W. Donaldson, 60, one of , Penn Ya'n,’s leading clothing mer- | chants, and well known in Yates County, died at his home at 119 East Main street on Thursday morning, May 12, 1932, following a long illness.

About three years ago, Mr. Donald­son was seriously ill but recovered so

> that he was about his store, but sev­eral months ago, he was obliged to leave the care of the store to his son, Ernest, and since has been confined to his home,.

Mr. Donaldson was born in Branch­port the son, of Thomas L. and Pru­dence Chaple Donaldson, and lived there engaged in farming until 1896, when he came to Penn Yan and enter­ed the clothing firm of Stark & Hol-

I loway. From 1896 to 1903 he was with this firm and in the latter year, the, firm of Stark, Donaldson & Co., was formed. In 1912, Mr. Donaldson formed a partnership under the name of Don­aldson, Hess & Co., which is the name

i of the firm today doing business at 111 Main street, Mr. Donaldson’s partner,

v Richard Hess, died several years ago [‘ hut the firm continued to do business under the same name.

Mr. Donaldson was a member of | Keuka Lodge, No. 149, I. 0. 0. F./Lake

Keuka Rebekah Lodge, Penn Yan. Grange, and a steward of the Metho^ dist Episcopal Church.

He is survived by hiis widow, Mrs., Florence Townsend Donaldson; one

son, Ernest W., of Penn Yan; three ; brothers, Lyman and Thomas,, of

| Branchport, and Oliver, of Pulteney. jThe funeral will be held on Safcur-;

j day afternoon at 3: 30 o’clock, from the I ?| home in East Main,1 -street, Rev. S. G. I

Houghton, of ‘Canandaigua, and Rev. | ;: L. S. Boyd, of Geneva, officiating. Bur- j

ial in Lake View cemetery.

LAND ON—At Penn Yan, SundayrM ay 8th, Edward J. Landon, 66.Mr. Landon was ill for the past sev- (

eral weeks. He had been engaged in j [ the carting arid trucking business in !• Penn' Yan for the past 35 years and [ was widely known esepecially among ! the commercial salesmen and theatri­cal professions as he had handled practically every piece of baggage in! those lines coming into the village. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Laura G. Landon; one daughter, Mrs. Warren Clark, both of Penn Yan; a nephew, Charles W. Landon, of St. Louis, Mo. i The ,funeral on Tuesday af- v

GOVERNMENT OF INDIAGloomy View of Native Ca­

pacity For Self-RuleTo the Editor of The Republican:—

William Graham Sumner of Yale once inveighed in wrath against those people, whose emotions being stirred by some human contretemps, become imbued with the notion that they are thus endowed with wisdom to solve the most baffling problems of man­kind. In short, such wiseacres rush in where the most competent scarcely dare to tread. It is not difficult for any fairly omnivorous reader to diag­nose the nature of India's troubles; prescription and prognosis are dif­ferent matters.

In 1771, the average cultivated hold­ing was 40 acres; owing to the uni­versal custom of dividing a decedent’s property‘‘among all his heirs, it is now seven acres. And, because of centuries of mishandling, the cultivated lands suffer from exhaustion. Women, un­der the purdah rule, are largely dronee, contributing little to productive en­terprise. Buddhism teaches that a man’s soul will fare ill in the next world unless at his demise he leaves a son to perform funeral rites, Hence child marriage, with its enfeebled off­spring. The whole peninsula is a hot­bed of contagion. Due to hookworm and malaria and an ill-balanced diet, a man is old and dead in his. thirties, while cholera'and bubonic plague are endemic. Sanitation is all but impos­sible, because of density of population and passive resistance based on re­ligious scruples. W e Americans have not been able to extirpate malaria and hookworm even in our own South.

There are 3000 castes,'and no talent or gift can lift its possessor out of the station into which he . is born, which is a check on all initiative. The marriage customs compel the average father to mortgage his entire future at the nuptials of his daughters. Cat­tle are objects of worship and sacred; and there are 67 head to every 100 acres of cultivated land, a ratio that is commercially profitable in Holland and Denmark alone, and there only by the most intensive farming, and resort. to imported feedstuffs such as oilcake. Hindu cattle are zebus, owing to insect pests; they are never slaughtered for beef, and give little milk.' These cattle alone are largely responsible for the ryots’ low estate.

Literacy in India is nearly nonexist­ent. There is no such thing as an en­lightened public opinion, nor any pos­sibility of creating any. It is practical­ly true to say that the population as a whole is steeped in ignorance and the grossest superstition. Among the Nordic races, self-government is a

plant of some 1260 years’ growth, and i it still lacks much of attaining to its j maximum maturity and perfection. In I truth, in not a few regions it would j appear to have gone to seed, or to be | unsuited to its cultivators’ intelligence, t As a matter of cold fact, represents- i tive government has either broken I- down or has failed to get itself firmly established in all but a few countries on the globe,

j There is not the slightest reason to [~: suspect that India will be fit to gov- 1 ' ern itself for hundreds of years, if ever. Seriously to propose that this hodge-podge of ignorance and degrada­tion shall be intrusted with control of its army, its finances and its for­eign affairs is akin to the hallucina­tions of the demented. Were the Brit­ish to comply with the demands of Gandhi, some 300,000,060 of helplessj creatures would be surrendered to slaughter and famine.

N o dark-skinned race has everr shown aptitude for self-government,! and in India every presumption is a d -1 verse. W. B. SHEPPARD.

Denver, Col., April 28, 1932.

A/ , £ vI G eorge W . Steenken, aged 56, d ied a t his hom e on the B as t L a k e road, ea rly W ednesday m orn ing. H e w as born in B rook lyn ,on M arch 26, 1876. H e w as m arried to M iss K a th er in e M. Kinne, dau gh ter o f the la te Rem sen M. K inne, M a y 19, 1917. P rev iou s to his rem ova l to h is la te residence on La k e K eu k a he w as a m an u factu rin g chem ist and m ade his hom e a t Sau- gerties. D u rin g the w o r ld w a r he served in the chem ical serv ice o f the governm ent.

H e is su rv ived b y his w idow , K a th ­erine M. K . S teenken ; th ree brothers, E dgar H., F . L., and A lb e r t ; and tw o sisters, A n n a M . Steenken, and M rs. C. Grandeman.

The fu nera l w ill be held from his la te residence F r id a y a ftern oon a t 2:30, w ith R ev. W a lte r A . H en ricks o ffic ia tin g. Th e fu n era l is s tr ic t ly p r iva te and fr ien ds a re asked to om it flowers. B u ria l w ill be m ade in L a k e V iew cem etery .

j On Saturday n igh t M r. and Mrs. Clarence R. Andrew s. M r. and Mrs.

I Sidney Short, M r. and M rs. John C. j Brooks, A . C. Brooks, M r, and Mrs. (Ra lph T. N orris, M rs. W m . D. Fox,! Mrs. A b e l R. Corbin, M iss A dela ide Hazard, Mrs. G. L . Barden and Mrs. Charles C. H unter w ere am ong the 900 people who heard fo rm er Senator James W . W adsw orth o f Geneseo and Mrs. John S. Sheppard o f N e w Y o rk c ity speak in the B ath m un icipal hall in fa vo r o f repeal o f the 18th am end­ment. Mrs. Sheppard w as M iss Rum - sey o f Bath before her m arr ia ge to John S. Sheppard o f Penn Y a n and is chairman o f the N e w Y o rk S ta te d iv i­sion o f the W om an ’s O rgan iza tion fo r N ationa l Proh ib ition reform .

D evoe P . HodsonD evoe P . Hodson, . lon g a ctive in

sta te D em ocratic politics, died a t his home on the W est L a k e road M onday m orning. H e w as born in Ith aca and commenced the p ractice o f la w in the c ity o f Buffa lo in 1888. H e served as c ity judge o f B u ffa lo from 1908 until 1914 wheii he w as elected head o f the Public Serv ice com m ission. In 1919 he became a. p a rtn er in the law firm o f Hodson, Jorden & W ebster and retired in 1923. F o llo w in g his re t ire ­m ent he came to Penn Y a n and has since made his hom e a t his residence three m iles south o f Penn Yan . He w as an active m em ber o f the M asonic and E lk lodges, and m an y other lodg-

.j es and clubs during his life . H e I j served as a m em ber o f the board o f ] j education w h ile in B u ffa lo , once was; a candidate fo r A tto rn e y G eneral o f j N ew Y o rk sta te and once w as pro-; posed fo r governor, but declined. | Since com ing to Y a tes county he hasi served on tw o com m issions to assess dam ages fo r r igh ts o f w a y needed fo r I road construction and as a m em ber o f ; the Yates County D em ocratic com m it­tee.

H e is su rvived by ..Ms w ife . Th e funeral services w ere held fro m bjs la te residence W ednesday a t 2:30 p. rn., Rev. W a lte r A . H en ricks o ffic ia t­ing. The rem ains w ere taken to the chapel at Lake V iew cem etery, w here services w ere conducted by M ilo lodge,F . & A . M. Th e body w ill repose at 201 East E lm street until tod ay when it w ill be taken to M t. H op e cem e­tery, Rochester, fo r crem ation .

B earers1 at the fu nera l w ill be m em ­bers o f the Y a tes County B ar asso­ciation, John E. Sheridan, John "H y­land, Spencer F. Lincoln , G eorge Sheppard, Charles K im b a ll and M au­rice McCann.

M rs. A n n a H athavvay M rs. A n n a H a th aw ay ,■ w ho m ade

her hom e in Penn Y a n fo r m an y years, died a t M iam i, F lo r id a , Th u rsd ay a f ­ternoon a fte r a lon g illness. She w as the w id o w o f the la te A lb e r t H a th a ­w a y and a dau gh ter o f the la te J. E . M cLeod . She is su rv ived b y one b ro th ­er, L e la n d M cLeod , o f R och ester, and an aunt, M rs. D. C. B u v in g e r o f M i­am i. Th e funera l; w as held a t M iam i, Sa tu rday a fternoon .

John H . S ta rk Sunday m orn ing , fylay 22nd, a t dug

hom e on s ta rk avenue, Perm Y an , oc­curred . t h e . death o f John H. S tark , aged 77 years, a n a tiv e o f T o r r e y township. F o r the, past w eek s M r. S ta rk had been in fa il in g health . H e leaves his. w ife , M rs. M a rth a A . S e­ra, ans S tark . H a d M r. S ta rk lived until W ednesday o f th is w eek , they woukl h a v e , m arked th e ir 51st w e d ­ding ann iversary.

M r. S ta rk w as a m em ber.. o f the. F irs t P resb y ter ia n church o f Penh Yan. R ev. W a lte r A . H en ricks , the m inister, o ffic ia te d a t the fu n era l services, w h ich w ere held a t th e home, 104 S tark avenue, Penn Yan , a t 2:30 p. m. Tuesday. B uria l w as m ade in the L a k e cem etery.

F o r m an y yea rs M r. S ta rk served the Repub lican p a rty as coun ty com- m itteem an fro m his election d is tr ic t

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M a ry Shannon H arpend ing (F ro m Dundee- Correspondent)

' Mrs. M a ry Shannon H arpend ing died at her la te residence on M ain street, Dundee, ea r ly F r id a y eve- lin g , M a y 20, a t the age , o f 75 years. She w as the daugh ter o f the la te H arrison and M a tild a L ew is Shan­non o f S tark ey and Dundee. She was born in S tark ey and fo r her en­tire life had lived . in Dundee and zicin ity. One son,xPierre L . H arpend- ■ng o f Dundee su rvives her, and tw o granddaughters, M iss R ebecca H a r ­pending o f A u ro ra and M iss M a ry H arpend ing o f E lm ira . H e r hus­band, Spencer R . H arpend ing, died severa l years ago. Th e fu nera l w as ] neld fro m her la te residence M onday a ftern oon a t 2 o ’clock, R ev. G eorge M cCulloch of' the Dundee P re sb y te r ­ian church o ffic ia tin g . B uria l in H ills id e cem etery.

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Th ou gh the silhouettes w ill be con­tinued th roughou t the y ea r b y the B u rnell studio, th is w eek is the last o f th e w ord contest. Th e p ro file r e ­produced b y the studio in its ad ver­tisem en t on th is p a ge is th a t o f a w ell-ku pw n Penn Y a n D em ocra t and county o ffic ia l. N e a r ly everyon e should recogn ize him , and fro m the fe w le tte rs w h ich his last nam e con­ta ins th ey should be able to m ake m an y accep tab le w ords o f tw o or m ore letters .

I R O S E — A t Penn. Yan, Thursday, M ay 26tih, Mrs. A r v i l la Rose, aged 86.

! She is su rv ived by one sister, Mrs. Em m a L . H avens1, o f Penn Yan. A p rayer se rv ice was he ld a t the hom e at 209 Sheppard S treet, on M onday a fternoon at 1:30, and serv ices w ere

1 held a t St. M a rk ’s Ep iscopa l' Church at 2 o ’clock, R ev. John E, W ootton , rec tor, o ffic ia tin g. Buria l in Lake V iew .

Joseph Lord , one o f Penn Yans best known merchants, died at his apart­ment over his store at 112 East Elm [ Street, Saturday night, M ay 28th, fo l- | low in g several months illness.

Mr. Lord was 70 years o f age, hav­ing been born in G regario M agno,Italy, Novem ber 12, 1861, and came to this country in 1883, settling in Penn Yan, where, in 1891, he started in the can-J fection ery business w ith his brother, | James Lord , who died a few years | ago. Severa l years ago, the brothers,I discontinued tlie ir soda fountain, can- J fin ing them selves to other branches of | the con fectionery business. I t is said | (hat Joseph Lord was never absent i; from his store until a few months ago I when il l health obliged him to g ive j up his da ily work.

H e was an active member o f the [; Sons iof Ita ly . H e is survived by two |; brothers, G regario, of Ita ly ; and Fran- -1! cisco, o f Buenes A ires, A rgen tin e ; one \ sister, also liv in g in A rgen tine. The J funeral was- held on Tuesday m orn-V in g f from St. M ichael’s .Church at 9 j o ’clock Tuesday m orning, w ith burial j in St.. Mm baet’s cemetery.

Tw o Yates C ou nty1 nonagenarians have celebrated birthdays during the. past fe w days. On Tuesday, M ay 24th,

(M rs . M arion W illiam s, of M iddlesex, m other of L ew is C. W illiam s, passed

( her 97th m ilestone, m aking her the Voidest wom an res iden t in Yates Coun­ty. On W ednesday, June 1st, Mrs. E l­v ira S. B r ig g s celebrated her 91st b irthday at the hom e o f her daugh­ter, Mrs. H. H. Hardm an, at W illow -

, hurst, on the w est lake road. Mrs. B riggs was born in Y a tes County, and

Vis the oldest m em ber o f the Penn Yan j Baptist Church and o f Gu-ya-no-ga

ij Chapter, Daughters of the Am erican j Revolu tion .

New Regent Elected

F o r the first tim e in 10 years, the m em bers o f Gu-ya-no-ga Chapter, Daughters o f the Am erican R evo lu ­tion, on Thursday afternoon elected a new regent, Mrs. Jessie Edith Bord- weYi having held that office-(since the organ ization o f tihe chapter.

Mrs. Ra lph T. Norris, who has serv­ed as reg istrar, was honored by e lec­tion. to the first .'office of the chapter. Mrs. B ordw ell, who organ ized the chapter in December, 1922., has been made honorary regent in recogn ition o f the va luab le w ork which she has

| done during her 10 years as regent.! Due to i l l health, Mrs. B ordw ell Was unable to continue longer in her of-

jfice as head o f the organization.|r; Other o fficers w ere elected as fo l­lo w s :

1st v ic e regent, Mrs. W m . D. ITox; 2nd v ice regent, M rs .1. S. T ilto n ’( 3rd vice regen t, Mrs. G. L. Barden; record­ing secretary, Mrs. C. B. Scudder; cor­responding secretary, Mrs. H. H. Hardmani; treasurer, Mrs. T. W , W ind- riagle; reg is trar, Mrs. Courtney E arle ; h istorian, Miss E lsie Mead; chaplain, Mrs. C. E. Shepard.

The m eeting was held at tihe home o f Mrs. F ran k H. Cole, C linton Street, as hostess, assisted by Miss Barbara Cole, Mrs. C. E. Giule, Mrs. J. J. Gardner, Mrs. D. W . Spear, Mrs. W . H. W heatley , and M rs A. J. Sunderlin. Mrs. L . W . S tever read a paper on “ H aw a ii,” and Mrs. H enry B. Corn-w e ll sang a solo.

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EFFECTIVE DATE OF SEW GAS RATE POSTPONED

Hearing Shows Contract Price of Natural Product at Wells About

80c per Cubic Foot

The hearipg on the proposed newij gas rates fo r Penn Yan, held Saturday || morning in the court house and at* tended by; iofficials o f Penn Y a n : and || Canauaigua villages and o f th e i N ew | York Central E lectric corporation and j the Associated ' Ga‘s' and E lec tU U b yM | tem, appears’ to be but the first b f a t series o f hearihgsr 1't "would' ■ 'W i in - j

I possible to Start use o f the, proposed i;“ th£rrh’v rstte'-’before Monday,'. i.V j;

Vadmitted ' k t' "toe hearing Since1 it; siderabie work'must yet be done' be- |i fore natural, gas can be broughti^tot^ i1 Penn Yari‘ma$s,'' MalcolmF/( Orfpn |i; of Albany, fipelf. of the research (and j; valuation department of the Public |[ Service commission, intimated,, that j. the rate woujd not be approved un- ji til the cost oknatural gas to the com- pany and certain^* production costs j| were studied’ more thoroughly.

John J. Hyland, v illa ge attorney, If called attention to the fa c t that it is j

i a serious question whether or not a V 'franch ise fo r the sale and distribution j o f natural gas in Penn Yan has been I granted bv the viliag’e:

Henry O. Palmer of Geneva, presi-j ; dent of the Empire Gas and Electric L company, which supplies Penn Yan with manufactured gas outlined the reasons for chajngihg toe method ' of measuring g^s. to the consumers from the cubic foot to the heat unit basjs, noting that there would be a 46^; re­duction in the volume of gas sold wl^en | natural gas (is finaly .used here, apd that there wojild .be a much increased | , heat value to the lesser amount..! Straight natural f+.s would be dis- □ tributed in Penn • Yan. Under . ques-! (-( tioning by Mr, Hyland, he said no, con- tract had actually been signed with, a f subsidiary of' the Lycopaing Natural

' Gas corporation for Supplying Penn; i j Yan with natural gas through, a pipe ! : ( yine already .. laid from the Wayne- ((i Dundee field to Penn'Yan. The price I.(

I to be paid had been agreed upon, - V however, he said. .This price,, it was later brought out, w as . 30 cents per (A1,000 cubic feet of natural gas with aij |fB. T. U, ratihg of from 975 to 1,025 ;tS for the first year, 35. cents for the |jv| second year, 40 cents for the third1 y| year and 45 cents thereafter.

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J. A llen Henderson A t his residence, 237 East M ain

street, Penn Yan, on Saturday m orn­ing, June 4th, occurred the death o f J. A llen Henderson, aged 86 years. Besdes the w idow , tw o sons, A rth u r

**and P erry D., b o th 'o f M ilo, survive hrm. « Funeral servcies w ere held from the home at 3 p. m .1 M onday w ith Rev. Chester V. Zogg, pastor o f the M ilo Center M ethodist church, o f­ficiating, and w ith burial in the Lake V iew cemetery.

Former Yates Couple Observe 50th Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. A rth u r M oxcey o f L a Cumbre road, Santa Barbara, Calif., have had as their guests during the past month, their daughter, Mrs. C.F. Martin, and granddaughter, Miss Helen Martin, both o f W oodbury, I Conn., who le ft on M a y 27th to return j to their eastern home. Mrs. M artin i and daughter made their lon g jou rney to be w ith Mrs. M artin ’s paren ts fo r their 50th wedding anniversary.

A rthu r Moxcey, son o f Rev. John Moxcey, and M iss H en rie tta E liza j Dana, daughter o f Rev. Joseph C. Dana, w ere m arried at N e w A lb a n y ,; Pa., on A p r il 26, 1882, a t the home o f her sister, E lla Dana (M rs. G eorge W .) Moxcey. In their hom e near Penn Yan, four children w ere born to Mr. ,and Mrs. M oxcey. These fou r chil­dren accompanied them on A p r il 26, 1904, the day o f the 22nd anniversary, when Mr. and Mrs. M oxcey le f t N ew York state fo r a new home in Cali-'i fornia. The fa m ily first located ini Modesto, in the San Joaquin valley,, but in 1910 w ent to Santa Barbara] as permanent residents.

Soldiers and SailorsHospital Named in W ill,

In Monroe County Su rrogate ’s court the w ill o f E lizabeth ,B. Teall, o f 221 Ericsson street, Rochester, has been adm itted to probate. U nder the terms o f the w ill, the Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital in Penn Yan is the ch ief beneficiary. The es­tate consists o f $14,000. M iss Tea ll died in Rochester on M arch 15th. She was the daughter o f the la te Dr. and Mrs. H orace B. Teall, fo rm er residents o f Penn Yan,

F i f t y Y ea rs A g o I t is rumored the P resbyterian

j church choir is soon to b;e m ade a j quartette choir by reta in in g Mrs. j James T im s, soprano; M rs. O. F .

I Read, a lto ; E. H. Hopkins, tenor, and W . B. Davies, basso.

M orris T. Sheppard is about to erect a handsome co ttage on B lu ff P o in t near the O -go-ya-go house. J.

j H. Butler is having a substantial dock built in fron t o f his lake p rop erty and

j n ext w eek w ork w ill be comm enced i on his new co ttage “ K il-K a re .”

A b ig catch o f b lack bass w as made j last F r id a y by J. L o r im er Ogden o f

Penn Yan, near B lu ff P o in t. T h irty - i tw o beauties was the num ber ca u gh t.; J L. O. Dunning advertises a la rge [ i stock o f knives, fo rks, spoons, tea j I sets, etc., at prices su rpris in g ly low . :| The N e w Y o rk C en tra l R a ilroad com pany have "placed on sale a t their

[ ticket o ffice at R ochester excursion | tickets from that plaCe to G rove i Springs and return fo r $2.87.

INVENTOR, NATIVE OF YATES, DIES

Emmett Horton of Crystal

Valley Perfected Automatic

Machine to Make Climax

Baskets

John J. F lahive, of 207 Court Street, has been awarded the contract fo r car­rying the United States m ail between the local post o ffice and the railroad stations, according to w ord received from the post office departm ent at Washington, D. C., w h ere a ll bids w ere sent sealed by Postm aster JohnB. Cramer. Mr. F lah ive ’s bid was low out o f 23 bids submitted, the largest number ever subm itted at the Penn Yan postoffice fo r the job o f transport­ing the m ail to and from the post o f­fice. The w ork w as done for. the past 13 years by the la te Edmund J. Lan­don, whose death recen tly le ft the job open fo r bid. T h e new carrier w ill begin his duties on Friday, July 1st.

.ND REW S— A t W illa rd State"' H os­pital, Tuesday, June 14th, Ethel F ord Andrews, aged 43 years.She was the fo rm er w ife of C lar-

nce R. .Andrews. Funeral services fe re held on Thursday a fternoon at

o ’clock from the residence o f C lar- nce R. Andrews, M ain Street, Rev. L- H ow ard Perkins officiating. Burial n Pu lteney cemetery.

(E m m ett H orton w as born on w hat is now known as the Ketchum fa rm , about three m iles from Dundee on the C rysta l V a lley h ighw ay. Charles H orton w as his fa th er and A lfred , now o f Dundee, ism ne o f the su rv iv ­ing brothers. The au tom atic m achine fo r m ak ing C lim ax baskets w as in ­vented w hile he w as a resident o f Y a tes county. F o r a tim e he m anu­factured it in Dundee. La te r, he p er­fected it fu rther, so th at a ll opera­tions, including the nailing, w ere done by the machine, and m oved the p lant to E lm ira. Though the inven­tor and the m achine w ere both Y a tes county products, none o f the Y a tes county basket fa c to r ies ever used it In its completed, fu lly autom atic form . — E d ito r.)

Both Sides of Question

The Public Service Commission has labeled the sale o f stock by employes o f the Associated Gas and E lectric f System and subsidiaries as “ im proper i

and not in the nublic in terest." The ]: commission also goes on to state that j it would order the operating compan- P ies “ not to perm it or requ ire” their employes to devote any o f their work- |

1 tim e to the sale or exchange o f se- | curities not actually issued'.by the op- § cra ting utilities by w h ic li they are ! employed.’.

The operating companies- of the j Associated Gas and E lec tr ic System r on which the commissions order w ill j be served are: New Y o rk State E lec- I; trie & Gas C orporation ; E lm ira L ight, ;;; H eat & Pow er Corporation ; New York I Central E lectric C orpora tion ; Em pire £ Gas & E lectric Com pany; Rochester ?■ Gas & E lectric Corporation ; Staten P Island Edison Corporation ; Owego P Gas Corporation ; Federa l N. Y. Com- 1 pany Inc.; Brockport. Gas L igh t Com* ; Pany; Lake Ontario Pow er Corpora- I tion; Patchogue E lectric L igh t Com- | Pany; and the Lon g Island W ater Cor- ■ poration.

D av id R . Voorhees, R u sh v ille ’s o ld ­est residen t and a fa m ilia r figu re on the stree ts until th e past fe w w eeks, passed a w a y a t his hom e F r id a y m orning. H e w ou ld have been 90 years o f a ge A u gu st 7th and has spent a ll his l i fe in R u sh ville and its im m edia te v ic in ity .

W a s V eteran F a rm erD av id R . Voorhees w as born A u ­

gu st 7, 1842, on the p lace now ow ned by Leon Em bry, ju st o ve r the tow n

dine in M iddlesex. H is parents, Jacob and Jane Reddou t Voorhees, had one dau gh ter and seven sons, o f w h ich D avid w as the fourth . W h en he w as ten yea rs o f a ge the fa m ily m oved about one m ile east to the fa rm now owned by his nephew, S tan ley E. Voorhees, and here he lived ' u n til his m arriage .

On D ecem ber 12, 1866, he w as united in m a rr ia ge w ith a n e igh b or ’s daughter, Soph ia M cD onald , and th ey began housekeep ing on the A1 F o s te r fa rm , n ow ow ned by C harles Eddy. A t this tim e fa rm p rop erty w as boom ­in g and in 1872 he sold th is f&rm fo r $80 per acre, p rob ab ly th ree tim es its presen t value, and b o u g h t '73 acres o f the fa r w h ich he ow ned a t the tim e o f his death; a t $100 p e r acre. T h e n ex t y ea r the bo ttom fe l l out o f fa rn i va lues and th is fa rm has n ever reached in va lu e the p r ice he pa id fo r it.

T o pay fo r his fa rm he pu t a $4,300, seven per cent m o rtg a g e on it, and th is he paid o ff besides bu y in g $ an add itiona l 40 acres and e rec t in g or m ak in g over the bu ild ings fo r com ­fo rta b le l iv in g fo r m an and beast.

M r. V oorhees used to laugh w hen asked h ow presen t fa rm in g conditions f com pare w ith those o f his ow n youth. | F a rm crops in his . e a r ly m anhood 1

Announcem ent has been m ade of. ; the m arr ia ge at Geneva, on Saturday • even ing, June 19, at 7:30 o ’c lock o f M iss M arian G. F eag les, o f H a ll, and

, Charles J. K ipp , o f Penn Yan . R ev . A lexan der Thom pson,, pasto r o f the

: F irs t P resbyterian Church o f Geneva,-t perfo rm ed the cerem ony. Th bride h a s .

been a student at the State T each ers ’ | C o llge at Buffalo, and the groom is 1 a patro lm an on the. Penn Y an po lice force. M r. and Mrs. K ip p are en joy in g

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Rate Suspended

H A lbany, June 16— A p'ropost I sched- u le o f rates fo r gas serv ice L ied by

I the N ew Y o rk C en tra l E le c tr ic Cor- :]l poration and is ought to be made e f­

fe c t iv e in the v illa g e o f Penn Yan ,■ Yates county, has been suspended by

the Pu b lic S erv ice Com m ission, pend­in g a determ ination o f th e justness and reasonableness o f the proposed rates.-

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Mrs. Frank R. Cole Was 90 Years Old Wednesday

G reetings and calls from friends and re la tives W ednesday m arked the 90th b irthday an n iversary o f M rs. F ra n k R . Cole, w h o lives on the old Cole hom estead p a rt w a y up the B en ­ton hill, ju st outside o f the Penn Y an v illa g e lim its. D esp ite her years, M rs. Cole eh jo ys good health anti, is able to a ttend church and the m ee t­ings o f its a llied organ iza tions, in w h ich she has been active a ll th rough life . *

M rs. Cole, nee M a ry Jane, daugh­te r o f W illia m and Sarah H ow e ll L a zea r, w as born /,in B arr in g ton June 29, 1842. H er sister, E lizabeth , died j w hen y o u n g ; her brother, Samuel, | died some ten yea rs ago a t the hom e j o f his daugh ter in N o r th Salem . M rs. Cole as a you ng w om an a ttended th e j N . W . A y e r school, w h ich w as housed in w h at is now the G eorge S. Sbep-1 pard hom e on M a in street, Penn Yan . On M a y 24, 1866, she m arried Frank. R ich a rd Cole, son o f A sa and L y d ia W ilk ersori Coel. H e w as born in the house in w h ich M rs. Cole and' her ch il­dren now live , the hom e h av in g been built but a y ea r previous to his birth . Th is w as 95 yea rs ago, he having, died a t the a ge o f 73 in 1911.

O f the five children, the son, Chas. W ., and the daughter, E u retta , have both passed on. M iss A d a and M iss E m m a L. Cole both m ake th e ir hom e w ith th e ir m other. T h e o ther son, F ra n k A s a Cole, lives across the street.

M rs. Cole has been a life - lo n g m em ­ber o f the F ir s t M eth od is t church.

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T h r e e specimens- o f Show y Lady S lipper, a ra re and beautifu l swam p blossom , have been on d isp lay in the w indow o f the Raldw -ins Bank. The flow ers w ere taken from the Collins Swam p in Benton by A , F la g Robson, w ho has succeeded in g row in g the del­ica te bloom in his garden in S tarkA v e n u i£ ' E j & f r - f z r "~?f|

— i g t y .Dr. and Mrs.. G eorge 'N e lson G ris­

w old , o f Skaneateles, dNV-Y., fo rm e r ly o f Penn Yan , announce the m arriage o f th e ir daughter, P r is c illa F err is , to Captain E m il Otto P fa ff, o f the United i States Sh ipp ing Board, N ew Y o rk City. T h e m arriage was perform ed by t F a th er H a rr ison R ockw ell, a t the Church o f the Transfiguration , June [ 23, 1932, in N ew Y o rk City.. Captain . and Mrs. P fa f f w ill res ide in N ew - Y ork . • ‘j

Railroad Would Abandon Penn Yan Passenger Service

On Thursday m orning, July 7th, at 10 a. m. in the G eneva C ity hall, the N e w Y o rk Central ra ilroad com pany’s app lication fo r perm ission to aban­don a ll five passenger tra ins between Penn Y a n and Dresden w ill be given a public hearing under the direction o f the public service departm ent ofthe state.

D elegations from M a y ’s M ills and other com m unities served by the ra il­road are expected to attend the hear­in g to oppose abandoning all passen­g e r service.

E gb ert C. H ainesF u n era l' services fo r E gb ert C.

Haines, aged 81 years, w ere held at 139 S ta rk avenue, Penn Yan , Tues­day a fternoon at 2 o’clock, w ith Rev. R o ya l N . Jessup, pastor o f the F irs t B ap tis t church o f Penn Yan , o ffic ia t­ing. B uria l was made in La k e V iew cem etery.

M r .PIaiiies was a prom inent Ben­ton fa rm er , liv in g fo r years on w hat is now the F red L ew is fa rm at the top o f Benton hill outside o f Penn Yan . H e died Saturday afternoon, June 25th, a t the home o f W illia m P a ig e in Dundee^ N o near re la tives survive.

The death o f John Gorges, fo rm er resident o f Penn Yan, occurred in Rochester on Thursday, June 23rd, fo llow in g an illness o f three weeks. Mr. G orges was w ell known in this v ic iin ity and in Corning having lived in; that c ity p rio r to com ing to Penn Yan. The funera l was held on M on­day m orn ing from the Church o f the Blessed Sacram ent in Rochester w ith in term ent in H o ly Sepulchre cem e­tery. Mrs. Dennis Lyons and Mrs. A rthu r C lark, o f Penn Yan, daughters o f Mr. Gorgse, w ere in Rochester dur­in g his illness and death.

Dr. Edw in F rank Wood, 47, a native o f Penn Yan, and a prom inent physi­cian o f Rochester, died at hi& cottage on Canandaigua Lake qn Sunday eve- | n ing o f a heart attack. Dr. W ood had : retired from active practice two years I ago, but his death, however, was. un- j expected: H e was horn in Penn Yan j M ay 22, 1885, and was graduated from ; Penn Y an Academ y. W h ile attending j the Penn Yan school, he was active in j a th letics1 and was prom inent in a ll ; school activ ities. H e was graduated i from U n ivers ity of Buffa lo in 1917. H e 'j began his m edical career in Rochester, j H e w as a m em ber o f the Monroe County M edical Society, . Yonnondio ; L od ge o f Masons, the Consistory, the Shrine and Scottish Clan, and Loya l I O rder o f Moose. Doctor W ood is sur- Lj v ived by his w ife, Mrs. Anna W ood, | and one daughter, Nathalie, and one I brother, Frank. The funera l was j held on Thursday; afternoon at ; 2:30 o ’c lock from the home at 1309 , D ew ey Avenue, w ith interm ent in " W h ite H aven cemetery. Dr. Wood, is » a nephew o f W illiam H. O’Brien, of Keuka Street.

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‘f H orace M ills , o f the w est lake road, observed his 85th birthday Thursday, Ju ly 14th. H is father, John C. M ills, was the first man to make photo­graphs in Penn Yan. Other galleries^ w ere located here in 1 8 5 8 . hut t ey made ambgotypes.

7Ludwig Reuss

Ludw ig Reuss, 53, committed sui- 'J cide by hanging on Monday morning in the garage at the rear of the Reuss home in Court Street.

Mrs. Reuss upon arising about 6:30 ; o’clock missed her husband, and | upon investigation, found his body I suspended by a rope from a ra fter ia 1 the garage. L ife had been extinct | for but a short time as rigor mortis | had not set in when the body was fi taken down.

Mr. Reuse had suffered from spells J of despondency fo r some months past hi due to fa ilin g eyesight and other re- ' verses, and apparently while attacked j by one of these despondent spells, he i committed the rash act. Coroner John ■A. Hatch was summoned and issued |: a certificate of death by suicide w hile suffering from despondency.

Mr. Reus® was born in Obererthal, | Germany, and' came to this country | settling in Elmira. He came to Penn $ Yan from that city about 30 years 1 ago where he engaged in his trade as 1 a cigar maker, having been employed r in the cigar store of the late George j<H. H im ler for several years. When a I slump came in the cigar making I, trade, Mr. Reuse took up the wood- |

Xvorking trade and was employed in | two of the local woodworking plants. | For the past several months; he has j been engaged in- various pursuits. A 1 few weeks ago, Mr. and Mrs. Reuss j

j sold! their property in Court Street to | H oward McFarren, of Benham Street, j and were preparing to move to j another dwelling.

Mr. Reuss was a member of Jerusa­lem Commandery, Kn ights Tem plar, and was a Past Master of M ilo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. M.

Besides his wife, he is survived by two childrens Frederick and Doris, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Francis W elch, Mrs. F. L. Thomas and Mrs. W illiam Schneider, and a half-(brother, Joseph K arl, all o f Elm ira. The funer­al was held* on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the home, Rev. W . M. Hydon officiating, w ith. Jerusa­lem Comnrandery having charge o f the services at the grave and Milo Lodge in attendance.

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Jacob F ry , 77, d ied at the home o f {-■ F rank Sturtievant in Barrington, on !|V Monday, Ju ly 11th. The funeral was held on W ednesday afternoon, w ith ' burial in H ills id e cemetery, Dundee, j

n ing a t 2 p. m. Three trustees w ill be elected to take the places o f A r ­thur L. Bailey, Dr. John A . H atch and H a rry M. Brown whose term s ex ­

p ire January 1, 1933.

M r. Hetherington explains:“ The budget as proposed calls fo r

ra is ing $5,786.34 less by taxes than last year. This saves taxpayers 8% although average daily attendance in the h igh school went up from 504 to 568, 12%, and there were over .600 registered during the year. I t is ex­pected to m ake this saving in spite o f the fa c t that next year’s high school w ill probably have 40 more pu­pils than this year’s. There is not so much room fo r saving because the cost per pupil, is already very low. F rom the last report from the de­partm ent a t A lbany, out o f 86 report­in g v illa ge schools haying superin­tendents, there w ere only three that had a cost per pupil cheaper than j / Penn Yan. These figures are run-j; tiing costs and do not include bond laym ents and interest.

“ I t cost the district 5% less per yupil this year than it did' last year md‘ 1% less than two years ago in he old building. I f as many come to

;ehool next year .as we now think,,

the cost per pupil will go down prob- 4 ab ly 5% m ore.” W ^ 0 fl

Natural Gas in Fall

It has been announced that con­tracts covering the purchase of a nat­ural gas supply have been signed and that orders have been placed by the New York Central E lectric Corpora­tion fo m a te r ia l necessary to bring gas to the village.

It is believed that natural gas w ill be turned into the mains of the Penn Yan system on or about September 15th subject, however, to the approval of the Public Service Commission to a rate for gas which already has been filed with the commission.

The natural gas supply is brought to the v illage gate from the W ayne field through the new pipe line at a pressure of approxim ately 100 pounds. A t that point m eters and regu lators are installed reducing the pressure to aproximately 30 pounds and it is then transmitted to the old gas plant which is the center of the Penn Yan distri­bution system.

In the gas plant building a re in­stalled1 three principal pieces o f ap­paratus required to condition the nat­ural gas as nearly the same as possi­ble as in manufactured gas because the distribution system is built to handle artific ial gas. In the artific ia l gas there are certain quantities of oil present at all times and thisi o il is carried through the system and even­tually into the meters themselves: Natural gas is $ bone-dry product, there being no ligh t o il in it as it comes directly from the w ell. I f no oil were put in it, the natural gas would extract oil from the pipe joints and also from the m eter diaphragms In the oil fogger a special grade of oil is atomized into the gas stream

j Hearing on Railroad Service j

Continuance o f passenger service on r the New York Central R a ilroad branch I f

; between Dresden and Penn Yan fo r ’ the benefit of school ch ildren was *

urged by a comm itte o f citizens from jf hamlets along the route at a Pub lic i

f Service Commission hearing in C ity F H a ll on Thursday, July 7th.

M. C. C leveland, engineer, presided ;f at the hearing on the petition o f the !j railroad to drop its passenger service i on the branch. A petition signed by 53 if ;

! residents o f Cascade M ills . Mays M ills |;! and Seneca M ills requesting refusal o f the ra ilroad ’s request was read by Mr. C leveland.

i Pau l Fo lger, Rochester attorney, ap- 'p earing fo r the Central, o ffered in place o f the trains to be dropped, a schedule ca lling fo r com bination

. fre igh t and passenger trains. There . would be one m ixed train in each di- ' rection daily, accord ing to his plan.

Railroad em ployes testified that it j :: cost $5,100 annually to operate the 1 branch, w hile income from passenger-1

. service had dropped $22:2 per month j ■to $34. The carrier is desirous o f re- j taining its fre igh t business, it was ff

isaid.C. W. Eggleston, o f M ays1 M ills, told |

.o f the difficu lties encountered by • school ch ildren who had to w a lk two m iles to reach a school bus. H e point­e d out that the proposed schedule ; zould not enable them to reach school

.uring the proper hours. Others in- i erested appeared satisfied w ith the proposed plan i f they could be assur­ed it would be continued.; The schedule proposed by the ra il­road called fo r a tra in leavin g D res­den at 10 a. m. and a rr iv in g in Penn Yan about an hour later, and leaving

and is so finely divided that it holds the Yates County seat at 4 p m De- there, in a mist form ation, th rm gh ou i cision was reserved, the distribution system.

In the humidifier a certain amount oif water vapor is introduced into the natural gas in the form of steam. This equipment is automatic and has been highly developed in the past two or three years. Its purpose is to duplicate as fa r as possible conditions that are

|noiW existing in the system fo r the I distribution of manufactured gas. j In the odorizer, there w ill be intro­duced into the natural gas an oil com­pound that w ill produce a slight odor similar to that ex isting in manufact­ured gas. It has been considered es­sential throughout the country to do since in event of leaks it could not be easily detected, as natural gas is practically odorless.

A fte r the gas has been conditioned the pressure is fu rther reduced by means of regulators to approxim ately 6 inches of water at which pressure it is carried throughout the town by the ex isting system.

The route o f the 6-inch welded steel main w ill probably be from the va lve ho-use near the Hutton Street School down Comlmercial Avenue w est on Lake Street across L ib e rty Street bridge and thence down W ater Street to the gas plant. In addition to the in- ■ stallation of the main, governors and plant apparatus, it also w ill be neces­sary to adjust the consumers’ equip­ment such as ranges, w ater heaters,!; etc., changing the .size of the orifices.: at each burner through which the gas- is entrained.

In order to convert the consumers’ equipment it w ill requ ire the services of approxim ately 25 men over a period- of 6 days. The v illa g e w ill be divided into four sections and natural gas w ill be supplied to one. section at a time, as the necessary changes are completed.

Veteran W a tch R ep a ir Man, Charles F . Com ings, D ies

A fam ilia r fa ce passed suddenly | from the Penn Y a n business section ; Tuesday night, Ju ly 19th, when Chas. F . Comings, aged 61. years, w ho served

! as a w atch repa ir m an in loca l jew - | e lry stores fo r 39 years, died in the i Soldiers and Sailors M em oria l hos­pital.

I t was 39 years ago as a young i man, who had been cripp led since childhood, that he began to learn his trade under E. H . H opkins. M r. Com ­ings continued to w o rk at the fa m ili­ar stand in the fron t o f the Hopkins Jew elry store when- Jared D arrow purchased the business. R obert C. Schmidt o f E lm ira , presen t owner, then took over the business and Mr.. Comings, h im self a n a tive o f E lm ira, continued w ork in g fo r him. Satur­day, apparently in usual good health, he put th ings in order a t his repair bench and w en t to the home o f Charles H a rfo rd o f Chestnut street, where^ he has iiyed fo r the past sev­era l years. A bou t an hour la te r he suffered a severe stroke, from which he never rallied. .

Funeral services w ill be held from the H arford .home at 2:30 o ’clock F r i- !• day afternoon w ith .Rev. J. H ow ard ! Perkins o ffic ia tin g and w ith burial in) the Lake V iew cem etery. H is near-/ est surviving re la tiv e is a step-broth-1 er, George Supplee o f Bainbridge. \ Mrs. Rena H y a t t o f Penn Y a n is an j aunt: I . I '1

Village to Borrow Money

The* regu la r m eeting o f the V illa g e Board was held in th eir rpoms on Monday, Ju ly 18, a t 7:30 p. m.

j P resen t: M ayor W in d n ag le ; T ru s- j tees B allard , Hoban, W heeler, Vann and Pu lver.

The m inutes o f the preced ing m eet­ing w ere approved as printed. Upon m otion m ade by Vann and seconded by Hoban the b ills w ere ordered paid as audited.

Upon m otion m ade by B a lla rd and seconded by P u lve r the fo llo w in g reso­lution be adopted:

W hereas, on the 15th day o f F eb ru ­ary, 1932, a reso lu tion was adopted by the Board o f T ru stees o f the V illa g e o f Penn Yan , au thoriz ing the pav in g and cu rb ing o f oN rth and M ap le A ve ­nues in the V il la g e o f Penn Y an from M ain S treet to the b ridge crossing Sucker B rook ;

W hereas, it is requ ired under the V illa g e Law , Section 129A that specia l assessments b e le v ied and a ll persons a ffected b e g iven opportun ity to pay

1 their assessments in fu ll and that no perm anent bonds b e issued un til a f-

, tor such steps have been taken.■| Now , th erefore, be it reso lved that ! the V illa g e o f Penn Yan borrow , pu r­su a n t to said V il la g e L a w , not to ex­ceed the sum o f Ten Thousand D ol-

; lars ($19,00000) fo r th e purpose o f I paving and cu rb ing N orth A ven u e and M aple Avenue;/ as a foresaid , and and that said: board issue th ere­fo re the tem pora ry notes o f the V i l ­lage o f Penn Yan in such amounts as

'm ay be necessary, not ex ceed in g the ! amount above named, payab le on or I before one yea r from the date o f is ­s u a n c e w ith in teres t at the ra te not jexced lng six per cent (6 % ) per annum.

Be it fu rth er reso lved that said note ;| or notes m ay be so ld at public o r p r i- j vate sa le fo r not less than par.

Be it fu rth er re so lv ed th at sa id j note or notes m ay be so ld at pub lic j

or p riva te sa le fo r not less than. par. 1 Be it fu rth er reso lved that said note

or any renew als th e reo f be paid from funds ava ilab le fo r that pu rpose and from the proceeds o f sa le o f the per- ; m anent bonds when issued. C arried , j

M otion m ade by M a llo ry and second- | ed by Pullver that the fo llo w in g per- 1 m its be gran ted :

H en ry Carey, 104 M onell St., to bu ild a double g a ra ge ; H en ry Carey, 106 M onell St., to bu ild a s in g le garage. Carried.

W M . B. M A N L E Y , C le rk

I M iss Fan n ie Geer, daugh ter o f Mrs. 1 Lau ra Geer, o f I ta ly V a lley , and R ev.

■Harold C. Eatoin, son o f Dr. and Mrs. j 1E. L . Eaton, o f Chevy Chase, D. C-, 'w e r e m arried Saturday, Ju ly 16th, at ! I ta ly V a lle y M ethodist Church, Dr. E. | i L . Eaton, assisted by R ev. R. L . Smith, i p e r fo rm in g the cerem ony. R ev. and ■ Mrs. Eaton le ft fo r a trip and a fte r . 1 Septem ber 1st they w ill be at hom e in B ryn M aw r, Pa., w here M r. E aton is I

• pastor o f the church.

•Sam P e r ry and James G eoghegan opened th e ir new shoe store on Thursday, Jb ly 21st. T h e store is lo ­cated in the store w h ich has been a shoe m art fo r the past 60 years; known as the “ W agen er shoe store,” M ain street. T h e new p rop rie to rs -w ere fo rm er ly w ith the Endicott-Johmisori store iin Penn Yan.

S hsB r , ch erry crop is oh but I w ill not be harvested as there is no m arket fo r the product. I t looks to . •bad to see an orchard o f fin© red ch er­r ies go to waste.

To Build East Lake RoadThe Yates Couimty Board of Super­

visors have endorsed the construction of the new east lake roivf extending 5.64; miles from the Steuben County line; to Crosby. The action was taken at a: special meeting of the hoard on Tuesday evening. The action, of the board is in direct reversal to that of

I Jun© 16th. It is said that the board investigated and found that if oom-

| pel|ed to improve the did road and. i widen it, the cost would exceed the

amount which would be paid for the rights of way for the new route, hence the resubmitting and endorsemelnt: of the project. It is expected that the cost of the new road w ill be approxi­mately $263,000 and the estimated cost of the rights of way will be less than $22,-600. W ork will be started within a few weeks. It has been arranged that payment for some of the rights of way will be made at once, while several other property oiwners are w illing to

..wait until the taxes are collected In 1933 arnd others until 1934.

Penn Yan Man Slightly Better Following Stroke

A. J. Obertin of Liberty street, Penn Yan, is slowly recovering from the stroke which he suffered about 7 p. m. Saturday while* fishing. on Lake Keuka in about the middle of the lake and near his cottage at Gib­son.

Mr. Obertin narrowly escaped drowning. A s he was stricken heapparently fell into .the water, a Slight wind fortunately blowing his craft within his grasp as lie came to the surface. Two Elm ira fisher­man noted his, f l i g h t a n d in v turn sprbhtf to ( : aia-rm' Olialferi '’Hefrman^' of Penn Yan, and W illiam Dart o f Gibson, also hurried to the scene. They found him with his right, hand firmly grasping the side of the craft, but they were unable to lift him in. Mr. Spiegle with his motorboat came to tfie rescue and hurried Mr, Ober­tin: to his cotta ge^/ Though in seri­ous condition, he is considered im ­proved! * . '*

PARKING STATION OPENS SATURDAY

E. G. Hopkins to Give Away Souvenirs

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Mulian—DrakeleyThe Presbyterian J Church o f Penn

Y a n furnished the setting for a pretty mid-summer wedding on Monday af­ternoon at 4 o’clock when Dorothy

|Drakeley, daughter of Mr. amid M rs ., xBugene P. Drakeley, of 113 Benham street, became the bride of J. Boyd

. Mullan, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. '\ •’Mullan, b£ Wellington Avenue, Rpcb- I 'ester, the ceremony being perform ed! by Rev. W alter A. Henricks, pastor of ij the church, in the pres ©nice- of 350, J gueste

13: G. Hopkins w ill open his new parking-station in Maiden Lane to the public. on Saturday, July 30th/ when souvenirs w ill be given to patrons. ’

A handsome new Spanish style rest room and office have been erected on the.sroundS; formerly .occupied by the Maiden Dane “hitch - barns”, and a gas filling station also is part of the equip­ment. At one time in the history of the town the site was occupied by a school 1.which was attended' by many of the present business men of the vil­lage. When the- , old hitch barns were leveled preparatory to remodeling the place, an old school bench .was found ip, the upper portion of the building, a relic o f the Maiden Lane School

j whffgn was greetedv in 1842 ;

IfR A M E —At th e/Soldiers and Saitorsj.I. H ospW , Friday, July 2.2, Miss Cora

Iffl ' H i • WShe is survived/ by five sisters, Miss

• Eunice and Miss Catherine Frame, ot I Penn Yan ; Mrs/iAddie Townes, Mrs.' gesise Majett, and Miss Alicel 0f Rochester; two nieces/, Mrs. ElsieNyland, of Rochester, and Mrs, Robert Williams, of W a n to n , Pa. TheYrineral

, was held on Monday afternoon at 2.30 I O’clock from the home at 5,55 Ltberty Street, Rev,- W . M. Hydon officiating. Burial in LaJ|ev

O W E K vA t her|ho.me in East Main StM M onda#^^™ Z§, Aug.us^l, 1932, Mr^J

| M a r a m it lS ^ m 73.,v.;Besides her husband, Merton Owen,

site leaves, a daughter, M r ® John i'fic-hols, Iptf ^Keujka Park/ a 'ippiter, plrs. Mary S. Davis, of .Tyrone, Pa. funeral held* on Thursday aifter-f noon at 3 ' . S k from the home, <Rov. R. N. Je^fup- and "Rev. JohnE . Wpbt-' ton officiating. Bi$&al • in Lake View..

HOiRTON— At her, home, 300. Main St., piSundayV! July 31, Mrs. Jerinie W . C.■' Horton.'

Besides her husband, E* L. Horton, she le a '^ ^^m ^ SOn, Harold W . Conk- l i h M l^ p ^ | Yan; one ::Mrs.Agnes - I # * , of Hollywood, Caif1 Fun­eral seryiciel were held on Tuesday afternoon a t ff lo ’4 #P k froin tk€ u°me* Rev. W . M. Hy-dpn officiating.

Result of School ElectioriWhat-‘wa?^ silMe’d S$be a -uuiet/pro-

$a4c ; affair turned ihto a ' .h q ^ ^ g ^ i ' /'.(tested fight in the annual meeting and |£$|ejption: of the Penn Yan UniquxSnMigl 1/bis.tri.ct' held in Penn Yan Academy/ ll/on' - afterhdon.. W ord re*'h ,’iayed thatl^n eleventh-hour surpylife / had been sprung and a hark hd’ng’e can- i, didate’s name rwas being^ written in •• on thehb^Hdti in place, of Dr. John A.

p Hatch. Friends of the dioctar'imtoedi- i a te ly , to- %he ' O'ccjdpqrn • and/ rushed in en-pu&h vqtqs to swamp the | opposition. The three trustees who | were co^Bdatei* for re election wM-S |A.^L. Bailey, president of,the Board/qf’ i Education,! H arry M. Brown and Dr., J. A. Hatch/ U;p to Tuesday noon, no I open opposition had -been, announced.|; The-., vote asV/cas.f was,: A , S Bailey I The vote a ^ c a l^ w h s : A . L< Bail:ev,.:I 50^ H. M. Brown, 512; : J, A, Hatch,1476; :john V. Stark 47. Scattering, jj votes e a st : were: R o y , Wheeled, 1; c, s E. Guile, 3. The budg^pfof ,t|ip. Penn j Yan Union School District is $169,500, i with $73,'500.88 to be raised by taxa-| tion which is $5,300 less than had fog

[b e raised last year.

H R. A. Scofield, John T. Andrews and 1 George R. Cornwell were electedI school trustees over the opposition | ticket composed of John S Sheppard, 4 Christie B Briggs and Henry J. 1$ McAdams.1 Receipts of the county clerk’s office j for July were $110.84.| 1 W alter Wolcott was appointed car- g rier on R. D. 4.

v •; The expenses of the sheriff’s office for July were ,$32/9,6. /■; h,:/Rev, Joseph W . Hendrick, of Ovid, celebrated the 2-5th anniversary of his [ordination on August 7th. Hon. John T. Knox, Mrs/ Elfza Hyland, W illiam Hyland, John Hylahid, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Reilly,, of/Penn Yan, attended the exercises.

J Taking advantage of the offer of The vSpenCer fruit farm to give away all the r|»| I cherries * on the trees, many,'hundreds ! have picked and carted away more M ; than T ^ n s of cfcerries. Therf were 8 /IH Vtqfis' of fruit, on tpfe trees when the . H offer appeared in/the press a week H|

1 ago and over the weekend the- orchard 19 |-was the seen© of a Con-|ihuq;us stream Jb j of vehicles loaded with fruit.

Cottage on West Shore f jt-'Of Lake Keuka Burns

About 10 p.m. Thursday the cot­tage of Charles Quackentaush, loca­ted just south of Dunning’s on/the west shore o f 'L a k e Keuka, was burned with all its contents. Mr. Quaekenbush, formerly of ^olumbus, Ohio, now. off Penn Yan, was on the lake shore for a time;/ When lie re- turn||| to / the cbttage he found the front doorj open and qjjfront room in which, so far as he knew, no one had been for three ‘ days, filled with Barnes.

N o dther buildings were endang­ered but Fire/Chief W allace of Penn Yan and the pumper were sum­moned to fight a blaze “about-h mile south of the college.” They were un­able to he of any assistance, M r. Quaekenbush carried no r insurance^ on the building;;

f%- ^ Mrs. Ella RichmondA t the home on the pre-emption

road in Benton Sunday morning, A u ­gust 7th, occurred the death of Mrs. Elia Richmond,! aged 66 years. Be- sides 'iier husband, Simond, her son, •Lawrence, both of Benton; her broth­ers/ E. Smith, Fred, ,John and Charles H e^erson , all of Penh Yan; and a sistert M rs. J iU ia m , French of Milo, survive. Funeral services were held at ' fh^ hbmC at 2 p. m. Tuesday with Rev. W illiam M. Hydon officiating and with burial in the Lake VicfW cemetery.

‘ Lieutenant arid Mrs. Birkett Feren^ haugh and daughter, Dorothy Anne, were called last week to Fort Ben* ning, Ga., where he will be stationed for some time, , perhaps • as Uqiig- as •three years, as an officer in the in­fantry. They had been -spending six weeks on the W est branch of Lake Keuka at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ferenbaugh, but their furlough was cut short by a change in schedule which required

fhis going to Georgia at oncev

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. \ /1/aniel Bo-tswick farm, V2 Middlesex, consisting o f 75

acres, sold at foreclosure sale, F r i­day, August 12th, was bid in by Wm. Dunton, holder of the- mortgage,; at $1,000. This farm was sold in the 70s for $6000, by Edw ard Carr, who then purchased the two farms- now occu- f pied by LeVern-e El-well and John Pow - I ers, containing 110 acres, at $106 per acre. It is a wonder to the w riter | what has happened to agriculture dur­ing this period. W e have agricultural | colleges, farm bureaus, co-operative concerns galore, farm boards, etc! and notwithstanding all this agriculture has steadily declined. The sale of this farim by m ortgage foreclosure is only the beginning of what w ill happen if taxes le<ied by boards of supervisors and town boards are not lowered. Last week’s Democrat contained 12 columns two full pages of tax sales', and yet President Hoover said in his speech of acceptance that he would like to finish the job which he has begun so auspiciously (?) H is speech seemed to suit both sides of the prohibition ques­tion. “Let’s all now take a drink.”

H O P K IN S — At the Soldiers and S a il-1 ors Hospital, Tuesday, August 16, j 1932, Mrs. Bessie Hopkins, aged 50 j years.She leaves heir husband, Lew is ; two|

sons, Lew is and Ralph, of Penn Yan ; f five sisters, Mrs. Anna Ireland, Mrs. I Eva Heldert, Miss Hattie Johnson, - of | Seneca Fa lls ; Mrs. M ary W alters, of/ Shortsville; Mrs. Lena Ryan, of Roch­ester; th ree . brothers, Ralph, (Justin, and W illiam Johnson, of Seneca Falls. The funeral w ill be held 011 Friday morning at 9 o’clock, from St. Mich­ael’s Church, w ith interment in St. Micha el’s/ c erne te ry .

Pearle It. Chapm an, Form er Penn Y an Resident, Dies

Pearle R-. Chapm an of Chicago, 111., aged 71 years hhd form erly a resi­dent of Penn Yan, died Sunday, A u ­gust l4th. Besides his immediate fam ily he leaves a brother, Ernest, of Penn Y an and two sisters; M iss Jeanette Chapm an of N e w Y o rk city and Mrs. W . E. Burleson of Roches­ter.

M iss W ea lth y Shaw Miss W ealthy Shaw, who fo r near­

ly all of the 87 years of her life has been a resident on the old Shaw place at the corner of the Pre-em ption town road and the Penn Yan -D resden state road in Benton, died in Seneca county Thursday night, A u gu st 18th, fo llow ­ing an extended illness. H e r nearest! relatives are tw o nephews, Eugene, Porter of N orth avenue, Penn Yan ,j

and M arvin Porter, w ho recently moved from Buffalo to G age vicinity. The funeral services w ere held Satur­day afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Thayer Funeral home, Rev. W illiam M. Hydon officiating, w ith buria l in the Lake V iew cemetery.

The Shaw home w as built by her father, G uy Shaw, w ho served Yates as assem blym an in 1863. H e pur­chased the place from M r. and M rs. W ise, parents o f the late W illiam N . W ise of Penn Yan . They w ere buried at one time in the orchard orif the farm , buT w ere later rem oved by their late son. A brick tavern stood-on the m uch-traveled pre-em ption road for years. The brick from this old struc-, ture w as used by M r. Shaw in lining h is new home, which is now a land-| m ark and occupied by M r. and Mrs. W a lte r , Jensen, who are w ork ing the farm .

Jam es W hite James White, fo r m any years a

well-known blacksmith in Penn Yan, died Saturday, A ugust 20, in Roches­ter where he has made his home fo f some time. H e is survived by two i daughters, Esabelle W hite of Roches­ter, and M rs. John Conley of Canan-j daigua; and three sons, John B., | Charles E., and Harold, all of Roches­ter. The funeral w as held Tuesday; m orning from the residence of his, son on Elton St., Rochester, at 9:30; and from Corpus Christi church at; 10 a. m. Interm ent in H o ly Sepulcher;, cemetery.

— .Dr. Lym an D. Lockwood

Dr. Lym an D . Lockwood, aged Tj. years, a veterinary surgeon . w idely known in Yates and Ontario counties, died at his home east of Stanley Sun­day evening fo llow ing a long illness. H e had practiced his profession in this vicinity fo r over 40 years, start­ing in Penn Y an fo llow ing his gradu ­ation from Toronto university. A few years ago he moved to the fa rm near Stanley which he has since occupied.

H e is survived by his w ife ; one son, George Lockwood of Orting, W ash,; and a sister, M rs. Stella Rich o f Roch­ester. The funeral w as held from the' home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. James Sykes o f H a ll offi­ciating. Buria l w as m ade in Lake View cem etery) Penn Yan.

John L. H arpending (F rom Dundee Correspondent)

John L. Harpending died suddenly of acute indigestion Sunday, A ugust 21st, in a physician’s office'in Dundee where he had gone for treatment. He

I w as born in Dundee October 11, 1877, son of the late A n d rew and Octavia

; Harpending, and spent nearly his en- ' tire life in that village.. F o r a num ­ber of years he operated the H a r ­pending hotel in Dundee. Later he moved to Geneva where fo r several years he conducted a tourist inn. Last autumn he returned to Dundee to again operate the H arpending ho­tel.

H e/ is survived by his w ife, Mrs. M ary G. Harpending; two sons, A b ­ram and Richard, both of Dundee, and one brother, Anthony S. of Rochester.

The funeral services w ere held from the home W ednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, w ith the Rev. M arshall E. Bartholom ew of Bellona, form erly of Dundee, officiating. Buria l in H ill­side cemetery.

Yates Historical Society To Meet at The Chestnuts

The summer meeting of the Yates County Genealogical and H istorical society w ill be held at The Chestnuts, home of Dr. and M rs. J. H . Rose, near Branchport, o n . Saturday a fter­noon. The fo llow ing p rogram w ill be given at 4 o’clock: “Captain John Bed- doe,” Mrs. F lo ra Evans V ail; “Indian Remains in the Tow n of Jerusalem,” F ran k Botsford; “W o rk of the Mound Builders in Y ates County,” Berlin H. W right.

The program w ill be followed by a social hour and basket picnic. A ll who are; interested in the history of the county are invited. B rin g dishes, silver, sandwiches, lemon and some dish for the table.

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Buff alt) Contractor Bids Low on East Lake Road

The division or h ighways opened bids F riday at A lban y on ten upstate construction projects. The biggest individual con trace w as tor 9.90 miles in Ontario county, between L im a and E ast Bloomfield, Holcom b and Can­andaigua, W est Bloomfield and Hone- oye Fa lls and on the Bristol highway. The low bidder w as the M anitou Con-

| struc tion company of Rochester, with I an estimate o f $413,749.95.

M . L. Rupp of Buffalo v/as low bid- I der on the E ast L ake road in Yates ft i county, designated officially as thei ICeuka-Penn Y an highway, part 2. The Rupp bid w as $136,257.41, while the engineer’s estimate fo r the job w as $210,000. The road is about 5 2-3 miles long and the contract calls for grading, base and grave l top. Con­crete w ill not be laid until next year. There are a num ber of bridges and culverts to be built.

There are now 156 contracts under­w ay in the state, em ploying 8,451 men. D uring last Week 261,348 square yards o f concrete w ere laid, m ak in g a total o f over 266 miles so f a r this season. The maintenance force fo r the state num bers 5,796 men.

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American Tobacco Co.

P A R K E R — A t the Soldiers and Sail­ors’ Hospital otm Saturday, Aug. 27, Paul S Parker, 38. 'Mr. Parker had been ill for the past

few weeks. He had succeeded in line of conduct of the Parker Plum bing business which had been conducted in Penn Yan for several years, and was at the time he w as takemi ill, carrying on th© business: -under the name of

! Parkers P lum bing Inc., with shop in ' Seneca Street. H e leaves his wife,!Esther M. Parker; on© daughter, Reva, i both of Penn Y an ; two brothers, W iL

' liam, of Geneva, and H a ro ld ,, of |Karlingen, Texas; one sister, Mrs.>1 E arl Savage, of Corpus Christi, Texas, ii The funeral was held from th© Thayer I funeral home at 201 East Elm Street on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. E. W . Chapin, o f Second Milo, officiating. Buria l in Lake V iew -ceme­tery. Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Tem plar, was in charge of services 'at the grave.

Joseph H . P ierce -1 The death of Joseph H. Piercd, un­

til his retirem ent in January, a prom ­inent E lm ira architect died at his home in E lm ira, Sunday, A u gu st 28, aged 77 years.

M r. P ierce w as born in Dundee and| spent his early life in that village. | Follow ing his graduation from Dun-j dee p reparatory school and Starkey i Seminary, he went to E lm ira Where [. he engaged in business. H e had been!

jv e ry active in church, social and'I civic activities o f the city and held! various offices in these organizations.

H e is survived by his w ife and one .brother, W illiam Pierce.

The funeral w as held from! thei! home, W ednesday at 2 p. m. w ith the| Rev. Benjam in R ow e and Rev. B ruce] Pierce, a cousin, officiating. Buria l in W ood law n Cemetery, E lm ira/

M r. and M rs. Charles H . Havens m °ved from their home on B row n street the first o f this w eek to their new residence on E lm street, at the j entrance to the L ake V iew cemetry. j M r. Havens, who is the superintendent of the cemetery, occupies the House

'b u ilt from the remodelled office and ; w aiting room at the entrance. Jaihed ; Fisher, w ho form erly r.erited rooms in the Corcoran apartm ents 011 E ast M ain street, has purchased the H a v ­ens home on B row n street. » '

Joseph. C. Widpier, a director of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Com­pany and its director of purchases, with offices at 212! Fifth Avenue, died on Tuesday night in his apart­ment at. the Hotel Barclay of a heart attack brought bn by influ­enza, from which he; had suffered since Nov. 28. His age was 74. ..:

Bofn in Philadelphia, Mr. Wid- mer attended the University o Pennsylvania, leaving during the’ course to become a tobacco broker. Two years later he went to Pitts­burgh,where for eight years he en­gaged in the sanie business.: He then became manager of the Continental Tobacco Works, the Louisville branch of the American Tobacco Company. In 1901; he came to New York, and thereafter was employed in purchasing and manu­facturing capacities on the Amer­ican Tobacco Company and its sub­sidiaries, including the American Cigar Company and the Amster­dam Supply Company,.

In 1911, owing to a decree of the United States Supreme Court hold­ing that the American Tobacco Company was a combination in violation of the Liggett & Myers Company war formed, to purchase factories; brand and business from the American Tobacco Company. Mr. Widmer became director of the new company and director of pur­chases. He also served as a direc- which was absorbed by another company.

His clubs were the Manhattan and the Hudson River Country.

Mr. ‘ Widmer is survived by a widow, the former Miss Kate

4Webb; a sob, George Widmer, and a grandson. His daughter, Miss Gertrude Widmer, wis killed in a motor-boat collision at Alexandria Bay, N. Y., in July , 1929

Funeral services will be held at noon totday in the Protestant Epis copal Church of All Angels. The honorary pallbearers will be C. W Toms, F. L. Fuller, Benjamin Car­roll, W .W .'Flowers, W. D. Car­michael, G. W.-Whitaker and J. W Andrews, directors of: the Liggett & MyerS Tobacco "Company,;: Ar­thur Ringer and Reginald Newton Burial will takei piece in Kensido Cemetery.

WALTER C. REID.' Special to Thk New York Timbs.

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Jan4.—Walter C. Reid of 44 Vernon Avenue, formerly vice president and general manager of the Lincoln

; W arehouse Corporation of New York, died early this morning at Dr. Jacoby’s Sanitarium, Stamford, Conn'. He was born in Brooklyn seventy-three years ago and was a graduate1' of the College of the City r>f New Before his retire-

Barn and Contents Burn

W ith nothing but a 'basketful of smouldering ashes to m ark where a big farm barn stood filled w ith grain, straw, cattle and other farm articles, L ee Cook, o f Second Milo, is try ing to solve the fire which destroyed his barns and .swept the harvest o f two seasons1 into a charry mass on W ed­nesday morning 'about 2 o’clock.

Th© farm property is occupied 'by i Lee Cook, but is the property o f James Maloney, of P^nn Yan. Mr. Cook was | awakened about 2 o'clock ;by a noise * which he thought was thunder, then a roar as o f a heavy rain. H e glanced at his bedroom window and saw that it was a ll lighted up. Investiga ­tion showed that his big 84x36 gam ­brel roo f ibarn was a mass o f flames. Flames w ere shooting aut the whole length of the barn_wlien. Mr. Cook dis­covered it.

The Penn Yan fire truck responded to a call fo r help but w ere unable to save the big structure. S ix cows, two calves perished in the 'blaze, as w ell as 500 bushels of 1931 wheat, 200 j

j bushels o f new wheat, 150 bushels ofj beans, 40 tons o f hay, the crop from 8 acres of wheat un.thresked, and th e 1

! harvest from 12 acres of oats' un^l j threshed; 4 sets o f double harness,

..lumber wagon, fanning m ill, set 2000- pound scales, corn sheller, bag truck,2 set,s hay slings, yokes and pulleys, and m any other farm tools and equip­ment. A shed, 50x20, separated from the b ig barn by a drivew ay also went up in smoke.

Th e loss is placed at approxim ately $15,000 w ith partia l insurance.

Fortunate ly the wind was- blow ing away from the other farm buildings or the loss m ight have been greater. Mr. Cook is superintendent of h igh­ways in the town o f M ilo and had a large quantity o f road w ork ing ma­ch inery stored in another 'barn about

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DESCRIBES EARLY BRANCHPORT FOLK

English Captain and Bride

Were Pioneers, Settling at

“ The Chestnuts” 134 Years

Ago — House Still Stands !

(M rs. F lo ra Evans V a il o f Brahch port a t the picnic m eeting < o f the Yates County G enealogica l and H is­torica l society, held a t the Chestnuts onthe W est Branch o f Keuka lake, Aug|is4>^' 23th,.'’ read?, tfep* in fbrn^tive^ jyaper desicritiing the ‘first settlers iiV th a t pa rt o f Jerusalem; — j Editor,;) 'v, 'r:'!

Captain John Beddbe Captain John Beddoe w as born in

W a les in 1762. I could find no ac-j count o f his boyhood. The first rec-j brd w as a sea vo ya ge when he was j 21 years o f age. H is ship, the S u lli- ' van, sailed on M arch 15, 1783, fo r Bom bay. H e w as gone two years, re- : turn ing June 12, 1785. Caleb B arton has a lo g book o f this voyage which) all w ould en joy look ing over, and I presume i f w e could read all o f this da ily record, we m igh t find much o f interest. England and France w ere at w ar and the Sullivan was one o f three ships o f the British navy that w ent to Bom bay and sailed around the horn, being six months on the. w ay.

I t w as 13 years la ter that Captain Beddoe came to A m erica and was m a r r i e d . -to Catherine James.: F romthe dates on the tom bstone she was only 18 years o f age and the captain was 38 when they started fo r their home. An Jerusalem.

Somehhe asked, “ H ow did he hap­pen to come h e re? ” ' The records say\ he bought a -large tra ct o f land, 7.000 acres,' from his brother-in-law1, ' John Johnston, in London. I t w as a p,art o f the Phelps and Gorham purchase o f 2,600,000 acres. Massachusetts held the pre-em ptive righ t; that is, the righ t to purchase before others, and just how Captain Beddoe came to buy 7,000 acres o f Jerusalem land

' in London is hard to understand. A n y ­

w ay, when he le ft England he had the deed o f this land. A ft e r a journey o f weeks and perhaps months, Cap­tain Beddoe and his bride landed in N ew York , in M ay, 1798. H e bought a three-ton boat, on which he loaded his goods. I t must have been a sail boat fo r it w as nine years la ter that Fu iton and the first steam boat came up the Hudson. I t seems sa fe to say that Captain Beddoe sailed up the Hudson, up the M ohaw k and on to Geneva, where naviga tion w as im pos­sible and w here he had boat and goods carted. On reaching Geneva he engaged five men to come on w ith him. Th ey le ft Seneca lake at D res­den and came over to Keuka.

Came H ere 134 Y ea rs A g o Perhaps it was a sum m er day like

this when that litt le boat came around B lu ff Po in t on the last m iles o f their long journey. Can’t you see them com ing down the lake? W aters blue and rippling, pine elad hills on every side, a glorious sunset o f red and gold. Then Catherine, the w ea ry young

i bride, sees this fr ien d ly shore. I can | hear her saying, “ Oh, John, can’t w e | land h e re? ” The sails are lowered, j the boat d rifts in, and Captain Bed-,} doe and his w ife take possession o f their fu ture home. I t w as this ve ry

I spot, and now, 134 years later, the!| Y a tes County H istorica l society is!

gathered here to do them honor.| T h e ir first house w as a sm all fram e i one in which their three children w ere)

! born: Johnston in 1804, Charlotte ini 1805 and Lynham in 1807-. T h at year,! 1 8 0 7 , 1 Captain Beddoe built a better) h o m e -o f. hewed logs which I believe stood near the ravine just north o f 1 the Van De W a te r home. S till la te r ! he built a fram e house, which is still I standing, the D isbrow house.

Mrs. Beddoe died January 9, 1815, when she w as 35 years o f age. P ioneer life proved too hard fo r m any a w om ­an as the ea rly dates on the tom b­stones prove. H ers w as the first cas- j ket carried up to the fa m ily burial! ground, on a b leak w in ter day, on a : h igh knoll in the lonely pine forest, overlook ing Keuka ’ s blue w aters. W ith her now rest the' captain and; her three children. On her stone is< cut a French quotation, the w ords being pe rfec tly leg ib le : “L a mort|nous attends tou jours!” ( “ D eath al-['i w ays aw aits us!” )

Johnston, the elder son, died in! 1828, aged 24 years. H e had been ill ; w ith ep ilepsy fo r nine years. C harlotte jH., on ly daughter, m arried G eorge S tafford o f Geneva. She died 1833, j aged 28 years. She had one son, John. Lynham , the younger son, died I in 1871, aged 64 years. H e m arried ) E leanor Cuyler Cost o f Oaks corners. | Th ey had fou r children, one o f whom is w ith us today, Mrs. M a ry Beddoej' Hurd — the last o f this noted pioneer fam ily .

F irs t B ranchport House Lynham Beddoe occupied the first!

fram e house bu ilt in Branchport. It) is opposite the Episcopal church and

■ - n .| orig inally it w as 60 feet long w ith anupper and low er porch across its en­tire front. T w o la rge rooms and a hall, each* 20 fe e t square, w ere in front. Th is house has been remodeled but still has much o f h istoric interest in the orig ina l woodwork, fireplace, etc.

Captain John Beddoe was a man of culture, and also loved adventure. I t is said he had a fiery temper. John Rose used to te ll this story : The cap­tain 's daughter, Charlotte, had a lo v ­er o f whom her fa ther did not ap­prove. One day the captain was storm ing around about it, and w aving his sword he said, “ B y the sword o f the Johnstons, I won’t have it. W hy, John, I had rather see her m arried to you.” W hen one rem em bers the splen­did cultured southern gentlem an that John Rose was, this story is most amusing.

I would like to say something o f the Rose fam ily , so closely connected w ith Captain Beddoe and this early history. John and H enry Rose came from V irg in ia in 1823. John Rose bought over 1,000 acres o f land o f Captain Beddoe, a tra c t east and north o f the head o f Lake Keuka. John Rose built love ly Esperanza in 1838. H e m arried Jane M acom b of N ew Y o rk and her mother, Christena M acomb, was the granddaughter o f !) Ph ilip L ivingston , a signer o f the j j D eclaration o f Independence. She is buried in the Beddoe and Rose b u r ia l! p lot on the Rose estate. N

H en ry Rose built the house now | the home o f Mrs. H. R. Sill, whose | husband w as a nephew and adopted L son o f H en ry Rose.

R obert Selden Rose, Dr. Rose’s fa th ­er, w as a nephew o f John Rose and j purchased 365 acres o f his uncle about 1850, which is “ The Chestnuts,” the home w here w e are today.

A u n t Jane, as everyone called her, le f t Esperanza a fter her husband died and lived fo r m any years a t Branch­port in the home now owned by Dr. Ranson. A lw a ys so devoted to the church, one could hardly w rite a his­to ry o f St. Lu ke ’s w ithout it being also a h istory o f the ttose fam ily .

F o r a m om ent just picture what this country was when Captain Bed­doe came here in 1798. I t was an un­broken wilderness. Perhaps there w ere one o f two log houses where Penn Y an now stands, but no roads, no settlers near. The Friend and her fo llow ers came about 1794, their land being a tra c t north o f the Beddoe tract. Th e Friend ’s house, the one still standing, was built in 1809. Branchport was named in 1831 by Spencer Booth, the first merchant. There w as no post office here until 1834. Th at was only one year before Captain Beddoe died. So you see he w as the pioneer o f this vicinity.

This early h istory o f our county is m ost in teresting and I hope w e m ay have m ore m eetings soon.

F L O R A E V A N S V A IL .

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F i f t y ^Tear§ A g o The firs t tra in from Rochester tp 1,

B radford, Fa., over the new R- and P. ft- R- w as run on Mpnday.

On W ednesday afternoon, August 30th, M iss L o ttie W elles tiqd a pa rty j cut in her sa il boat when it cap- ; sized. 3Juch d iffip iiity was experi- !; enpepl in rescuing t£em ,.hpt two row ! boats put out from Fenton ’s m ill apc| [ topic the p a rty tp shore afid to the N homes o f M r. Guile and Mr. Feptpn,, j where they w ere cared for. A m ppg I those in the boat w ere Clarence Tut- [; hill and W ill T . M orris and some i young ladies from out o f town.

H opkins Bros, have renioved the ! la rge boiler from their shop on M gip ij( street. Mr., H aines has purchase^ it jq, and w ill use it in his m ill in Bentop.

I t is said that there have b een !

Dr. John S. Thompson

Dr. John S. Thompson, a practicing dentist in Dundee fo r 50 years, died M onday afternoon a fter an illness of severa l weeks. H e was 81 years o f age. !

H e was born in M ecklenberg, and w ent to Dundee about 50 years ago. Dr. Thompson was a prom inent R e­publican and served as sheriff of Yates County during the W orld W ar. H e also was clerk of the town o f Starkey for 20 years. H e «w a s a Past- Master of Dundee Masonic Lodge and a member o f the Odd Fellow s. He was chairman o f the board o f directors of the Letts M em orial Hom e and was in charge o f the rebuild ing o f that p lace about 20 years ago. He had served as marshal o f the Dundee Fa ir parade fo r many years. Dr. Thompson had a w ide ac­quaintance in Yates County and many friends in Penn Yan.

H e leaves two sisters, Mrs. E. C. M Loom is and Mrs. H enry E lsing, of

Gainesville, Fla., and one brother, SJj Dr. D. B. Thompson, o f New York . iti Th e funeral was held on, W ednesday M a fternoon at 2 o’clock at the Presby-

) terian Church, Dundee, Rev. George M cCulloch officiating. Burial was made

10 in Burdette cemetery, w ith Masonic o rites.

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Communication

T h e last 3 or 4 public m arket days w ith their increased attendance, both by the farm ers to se ll and the crowds to buy, would indicate that the new fa rm er ’s m arket is to be, and in fact now is, a big success. M ost o f the stock was sold out last Saturday and some o f the pincipal articles, lik e potatoes and tomatoes, w ere gone before the m arket had scarcely started.

I W illia m S. Cornw ell, son o f Mr. and [M rs. H en ry B. Cornw ell, o f Penn Yan, I has accepted an appointm ent as grad- luate assistant in the zoo logy depart­m e n t o f Duke U niversity , Durham, IN. C. W ith the assist ant ship Mr. Corn- w e ll w ill study fo r his degree of Mas-

: ter of A rts. H e w ill leave on Sunday | night for his new position.

James was*

Estimate Farmers Took in$700 at Market Saturday

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E. G. Hopkins, owner and m anager o f the M aiden Lane P a rk in g station in Penn Yan , estim ates that the 53 farm ers who displayed and sold p rod ­uce there Saturday m orning at the o ffic ia l.... opening took in a gross hmount o f approx im ately $700. In ­dividuals reported sales as h igh as $60 and $80. There w ere at least 1,000 patrons o f the m arket Saturday, he states.

E very m arket day, W ednesday and Saturday, so far, has brought clear, w arm w eather to please both shoppers and sellers.

A. C. Robinson to Retire

F if t y Y ea rs A g o The Republican tick e t fo r election

this fa ll is as fo llow s : F o r governor, Charles J. Fb lger; fo r m em ber o f as- i

[ sembly, S ta fford C. C leveland; fo r ’ sheriff, P e te r L . D in tu rff; fo r county j

j clerk, E dw ard K enda ll; fo r treasur- ! er, D aniel F . Randolph; fo r coroner, i Ben jam in L. H o lt; fo r justice o f ses- ; sions, B rad ford S. W ixom .

The D em ocrats o f the county m et ! and agon ized togeth er fo r a couple o f j hours la st Saturday. E xcep t e lect­in g delegates to the sta te conven­tion noth ing o f im portance w as done.

A irian in Auburn w as sent to ja il j i f or 24 days fo r sw earing.

The new G eneva T im es is a liv e ly five-column paper and seems to have

'a good patronage. W e w ish it suc­cess.

Th e telephone line betw een R och ­ester and Buffa lo is completed.

Roenke and R ogers have opened a branch business in Dundee.

T w o hundred boat houses have been built in this v ic in ity and new ones are constructed every year.

Green-Perkins St. M ark ’s Episcopal church in

Penn Yan was the scene o f a ve ry p re tty wedding, solem ized Saturday, Septem ber 17th, a t 4 p. m. by the Rev. John E. W ootton, w ho k ind ly supplied fo r the bride’s father, R ev. J. H ow ard Perkins, who has been ill fo r the past three weeks.

The bride, M iss E lizabeth Perkins, is the daughter o f the R ev. and Mrs. John H ow ard Perk ins o f Penn Yan, a graduate o f the Penn Y a n A cadem y and Russell Sage co llege and em ­ployed fo r the past tw o years as se- ro log is t by the Rochester H ea lth Bureau laboratories.

Th e groom , F rancis E. Green, is the son o f M r. and Mrs. W illia m C. Green o f Rochester and a graduate o f E ast H igh school and the U n ivers ity o f Rochester.

The bridal p a rty proceeded to the

H arry P. Morgan, proprietor of the A rcade Barber Shop, who has been in the b a rte r in g business in Penn Yan fo r more than 40 years, and is the sec­ond oldest barber in. point of years of service in the v illage , has inaugurated | a 25-cent haircut. Th is is commend-t ab le in v iew of the fact that about 25 per cent of the v illa ge population is - uriemployed.and that the other 75 per cent have had a cut in their wages. Mr. M organ states that other prices have dropped and that a barber can cut a man’s hair in almost the same tim e that it takes to shave him, so he thinks it on ly just and righ t to re ­duce the p rice of haircuts from 50 cents to 25 cents. The new price is e ffective at once. H is new scale of prices appear in an ad in anbther part o f the paper.

A lb ert C. Robinson, last of the old- line, independent grocers o f Penn Yan, is se lling out his stock of groceries preparatory to go iiig out o f business. Mr. Robinson has sold groceries in Perin Yan for the past 47 years, 30 of which he ha© been in business. fo r himself, and in the same store which he now occupies. H e always has car­ried a A - l line o f goods and was one o f the first grocerym en to inaugurate the sale o f tropica l fru its on a la rge scale. It is his proud record that he gave credit to those who needed it and it ie a w ell known fact that “ A . C.” carried m ore than one fam ily through the w in ter when w ork was slack and sm all mouths had to be fed.

I He never has been absent from his 1 w ork fo r more than a few hours at a I time and never has missed a Saturday since he entered business.

I f ’ ;Seeks Recovery of Lost

Natural History Specimens!

Penn Yan , N . Y .Septem ber 23, 1932

E d ito r C hron icle-Express: —W hen the Penn Y a n A ca d em y w as

rem odelled the co llection o f speci­mens, m inerals, fossils and shells w as rem oved to some other location ! and lost s igh t of. A m o n g them should be a la rg e slab o f sandstone,!

tw o by three feet, and three inches in thickness, covered on one side w ith so-called “ mud w aves” or cascades, standing out in r e lie f from tw o to three inches. Th is specim en the w r ite r procured a t considerable labor and expense from a deep rav ine in the tow n o f Ita ly , and presen ted it to the A ca d em y as an ob ject o f no m ean value in illu stra tin g the ea r ly g eo lo ­g ica l h is to ry o f their p a rt o f N e w Y o rk and o f Y a tes county in pa rticu ­lar. I f any one know s o f the w h ere­abouts o f these specimens, especia lly this slab, th ey w ill con fer a g rea t fa v o r by n o t ify in g the w r ite r and be rew arded.

The co llection should be sa lvaged fo r the A ca d em y or fo r exh ib ition in the lib ra ry h is torica l collection.

B E R L IN H A R T W R IG H T .

B R Y A N —A t the Soldier© and Sailors Hospital, Tuesday, Sept. 27, W illiam II. Bryan, ..of: Benton, .74.H e' leaves his w ife, Mrs. M ary B ry­

an; one son, .Geoyge, of F lin t, Mich.; two sister®, Mtsr Martha Beal©, of

; Geneva; Mrs. M ary H arvie, o f Roches - ■ ter. The., funera l w ill be held Friday 1 aftem |on at 2 o’clock from the home,Rev. John E. W ootton officiating. Bu­ria l in Lake View,?,i EM ERSON— A t her hom e near Ka-

shong, Wednesday, September 28,1932, Mrs. Jane Emerson, aged 93

- ybars.Mrs. Emerson had lived im her home

■at Kashong fo r m ore than. .60 years. _She wa© a native o f Scotland, coining I, beautifu l to this country w hen a sm all cliild.She taught school fo r severa l years.

* She was found dead in bed by a V neighbor W ednesday .morning* She

leaves a sister, Mrs. 'E lizabeth M ar­tin, of New Jersey,, and one brother,

Sirs. ■ M a ry Id a S ill Found D ead a t H e r H o m e . in Jerusalem

( M rs. M a ry Id a Bill, aged 77 years, d|ed M onday, O ctober 3rd, a t her hbme on the Penn Yan -B ran ch port rbad. She w as the w id ow o f the la te t fe h ry R ose S ill w ho inherited from his uncle, H en ry Rose, the fa m ily home known as H am pstead, bu ilt in 1840, near the John R ose place, Es- peranza.

M rs. S ill had not been w e ll recen t­ly, but her son and w ife noticed noth ­ing unusual when she re tired fo r the n ight. The, .next m orn ing w hen she did not gppear fo r break fast, in ves ti­ga tion reVealed th at she had died dur­ing the it igh t and apparen tly w h ile sleeping*.

She' Was the dau gh ter o f the la te M r. and ■■ Mirs, Charles Stebbins o f B ranchport. She Was an a ctive m em ­ber o f St. L u k e ’s E p iscopa l church o f B ranchport and has p laced severa l

m em oria l p ieces in the church. ,

M rs. S ill is su rvived b y one son, H en ry R. Sill, 2nd, the presen t ow ner o f H am pstead ; one daughter, M rs. E dw ard Green, o f D etro it, M ich., and five grandch ildren

W illiam M cIntyre, of Benton. T h e fun- : Th e fp n era l-se rv ices w ere held on eral w ill be held on F riday afternoon ^Vednesday a fternoon fro m St. L u k e ’s at 1 o’clock from the Th ayer funeral Ejpiscpp&l. church, B ranchport. Th e home, w ith burial in Bellona ceme- services w ere in charge o f the R ev .

ite ry . John E. W oo tton , due to the illness o fthe rector, R ev. John H . Perk ins. B u ­ria l in B ranchport cem etery.

; P lan”,‘ ‘T h e L iqu id a tion Other bu lletins to *>- oX7 n am e from the p.r€S&a

Jacob West (From Crosby Correspondent)

• The death of Jacob West occurred iii Seneca county Thursday, Septem­ber 29th. Mr. W est’s home was in Crosby until about 15 years ago whenj he went to Corning to reside with his .daughter, Mrs. Ed. DeWaters.W Surviving are three sons: James, of Crosby, Solon of Corning, and Edward of Painted..,Post; and one daughter, Mrs. Ed. DeWaters of Corning.;; The funeral was held from the chap­el in Lake View cemetery Saturday afternoon, with burial in Lane View cemetery.

Economy Council

The first m eeting o f the d irectors o f th e recen tly organ ized Yates County Econom ic Council (a ffilia ted w ith the

. ;N ew Y ork State E conom ic Council In c .) w as held Thursday night, Sept. 29th, at the C ourt H ou se e lec tin g James P a rk er Long, o f S tarkey, p res­

id e n t and Fayette M. H err ick , o f T o r ­rey, as secretary. E lection o f o ther o f ­ficers was deferred pending the e lec­tion o f five additional m em bers to the

- board. B y-law s w ere adopted as w e ll as a resolution to g ive cooperation to the fu lles t ex ten t w ith Pom ona G range

, in their presen t tax activ ities.| In line w ith proposed activ ities , a public m eeting is planned w ith speak- ers from the State Council, the date o f I

I w hich w ill be announced a t an e a r ly ! date. T h e m eeting w ill be open to a ll ; taxpayers.

I The fo llow in g reso lu tion w as adept- fe d :

J W hereas, The N ew Y o rk S tate Eco- !| no-mac Council in Session on Sept. 29 [ |{ has adopted the fo llo w in g program , and whereas, The Y a tes County Eco-

1 nom ic Council is w h o leh ea rted ly in sym pathy w ith the proposed plan,

j th ere fo re : B e it resolved , that Y a tes j County Econom ic Council adopt the sam e program as its ow n and agrees to a c t iv e ly support it.

Council le g is la t iv e p rogram :a M arked ly reduce federa l, state

a 'and loca l expenditures. | j b R epea l or adequ ately am end a ll sta te law s fix in g m andatory expendi- : tures upon loca l governm ents. R epea l

or adequ ately amend a ll rules, regu ­lations or p ractices that fix m andatory expenditu res upon loca l governm ent.

c R epea l o r so amend a ll law s and regu la tion s fix in g w ages and labor conditions: so th ey w il l no lon g ­er unduly ra ise the cost o f pu b lic con-

Vstruction w h ich now pena lize the ta x ­payers' o f the state and in e ffect pre-

i ven t a re v iva l o f a c t iv ity in p r iv a t e ,■ construction ,

j d Abandon paym ent to ve teran s j fo r d isab ilities not a ris in g out o f ac­t iv e service. Oppose cash paym ent be­fo re m atu rity o f the ex is tin g fed e ra l ; bonus.

e Oppose fu rth er en tran ce o f g o v ­ernm ent in to business in com petition w ith p r iva te business., and fu rth er e x ­tension o f govern m en t regu lations o f p r iva te business.

j B u lle tin s are now a va ila b le upon ’ app lication to the d irectors, the p res i­dent or th e secretary . A m on g the lis t:

i “ T h e N ew Y o rk State Econom ic Coun­c i l , Inc.— Its Purpose and P la n ,” “ Pu b­l i c Education and the Need fo r Pu b lic f E conom y,” “ T a x Reduction— N ew Y o rk

L e t Us Redefine P a tr io tism ,” | o f G overnm ent.” j be announced as

” BACCHANTIANMAIDEN"'T AST week, after eight or ten I | years of shooting at the Eigh­

teenth Amendment, one of the ■ so-called "women-Wets” set up a new target, giving the drys an unusual opportunity of having something to attack instead of defend. Mrs. JohnS. Sheppard, State chairman of the

. Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform, offered a plan for New York State liquor control if and when the Eighteenth Amend­ment is repealed.

Condensed into as many sentences as it has columns, Mrs. Sheppard’s

(plan calls for the creation of a State j Liquor Commission with three mem­bers appointed by the Governor and

| four from such organizations as the I Bar Association, Medical Association, Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Regents. The commission

I would buy, manufacture, import and i sell liquor. Retailing would be in the hands of private concerns supervised by the commis­sion; liquor could not be sold for

i. profit, but soft drinks might be, and each place where alcoholic drinks were re­tailed would have " a meeting place

. for recreation.” i 4 Mrs. Sheppard is t|he wife of a New fjYork l a w y e r .; From Lenten sew- j ing classes and posed social gatherings she gradu-j. ated to settlement work, and, she|;

Isam "it M my experience jMwjswhich made a vehement anti-prohi-‘

I bitionist out of me.” Actually, therej | is nothing vehement about her. She’1 | is tall, slim, with white-haired dis-| | tinction.

There is something about tier whichi] I seems tq infuriate the D. Leigh Col-1

vins who have frequently debated j | prohibition with her. Last Spring, a I j few days after a platform duel with ; jj Mrs. Colvin of the W . C. T. U., Mrs. j |j Sheppard crossed microphones with ! ij Dr. Colvin of the National Pro- ! j hibition Committee. Dr. Colvin be--!

d m

Mrs. Sheppard, f

similar well-dis4;

came so provoked that he burst forthI W ith a fe w hot words about "Bac- i ;Chantian maidens parching for wine j

y—who, lik e the drunkards whom their I - p rogram will produce, would take I Jpennies off the eyes of the dead for 1 the sake of lega liz in g booze.” The I

Jans we r of the "Bacchantian maid-1 i fpns” was to publish Mrs. Sheppard’s k ^photograph. , p

Robert C. Vair, Form er Penn Yan Candymaker, Dies in Waterloo

The death of Robert Coleman Vair occurred early Saturday morning, October 1, at the home of his sister; Mrs. H. S. Townley of Waterloo, after a brief illness, aged 68 years. His death was botti sudden and unexpect­ed and the first i'n a heretofore un­broken fam ily of three brothers and three sisters, the children of Robert and Hettie Byram Vair, a fam ily w e ll known in Waterloo for the past 80years and over. ; 4 4^

Deceased was a confectioner by occupation and operated stores in Waterloo, Geneva, Trumansburg and Waverly. For nine years* he worked for Seward McDonald in Penn Yan, going to Waterloo in 1930.

i COUNTY COURT—YATES COUNTY, j Timothy CostePo, Harriet E. Holmes, I as executors of the last W ill and

Testament of Mary E. Costello, de­ceased, & Harriet E. Holmes, Indi­vidually, Plaintiffs, against Lorada Wayand and The Citizens Bank of Penn Yan, Defendants.Pursuant to a judgment o i foreclos­

ure and sale, rendered herein on the 30th day of August, 1932, and duly en­tered in the office of the clerk of Yates County, I, the undersigned, referee duly appointed for such purpose, by said judgment, will sell at Public Auc­tion to th© highest bidder on Satur­day, the 22nd day of October, 1932, at ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day, at the front door of the Benham Hotel in the Village of Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, the real estate to be sold by said judgment and therein described as follows:

A ll That Tract or Parcel of Land, situate in the Village of Penn Yan, County of Yates and State of New f York, known as No. 32.1, on the east side of Main street in said Village of | Penn Yan, N. Y., bounded and des-1 cribed as follow si: bounded on theinorth by a lot formerly occupied by ® Rachel Crawford at the time of her I death; on the east by Jackson Street; 1 on the south by a lot owned by Sophia (■E. W ise; and on the west by said Main| Street in said Village of Penn Yan, foe-1 ing fifty feet front on Main Street and [I the same width in rear of the lot.

JbH N E. SHERIDAN, Referee. 1 Dated: September 1, 1932.JOHN J. HYLAND, , ;

Attorney for Plaintiff,Office and P. 0. Address,

Penn Yan, New York, 21w7

Patrick O’Keefe Died Suddenly Friday at His Home in Penn Yan

Patrick O’Keefe, aged 73 years, died suddenly while sitting in a chair on the front porch of his home at 122- Keuka street, Penn Yan, Friday afternoon. He is survived by five’ daughters, Julia and Cecelia O’Keefe,« Mrs. John Hanoven, Mrs. Freeburn William and Mrs. Thomas Carroll, all of Penn Yan, and one son, Richard O’Keefe of Rochester.

in the Elmira freigM ^ ^ i lV ^ n t i a - Pennsylvania railroad. He w ill main. S H i s tome in Penn Yan, however, returning tore week-ends.

. mr:;Krffar±.

Dr. John A. ITatcti of the Foster- Hatch Medical group left Friday for the Genesee hospital - in Rochester, where he wili be for some time .for observation.

i. Mrs. Margaret MahaneyMrs. Margaret E, Mahaney, aged

67' years, died at her home on Hamil­ton street Sunday afternoon.

She is survived' by her husband, John Mahaney; two daughters, Mrs, Camilla White of Syracuse and Mrs, Frances Harrington to Rochester; a son, Alfred B. Jeftsen of Penn-Yan;, and two grandchildren.

She was a member of the Penn Yan Methodist church grid of the W., B s A< association. The funeral was held from the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 the Rev. w . M. Hydon officiat­ing. Burial in Lake View cemetery.

DANIEL L PADDOCK DIED TUESDAY

President of Rushville Bank

and Village Passed Away in

Branchport — Mrs. Margaret

Mahaney, Other Deaths

(F ro m R u sh ville E d ito r )

D an ie l L . Paddock , R u sh v ille ’s "G ran d O ld M an ,” d ied about 6 o ’ c lock Tu esday even in g a t the hom e o f his s ister, M rs. Jam es P rosser, in B ran ch port w h ere he had been s ta y ­in g fo r the past s ix w eeks. H e w as 83 yea rs o f a ge the 30th o f la s t Ju ly but had reta in ed his m en ta l and phys ica l v ig o r to a rem ark ab le d egree until the p ast su m m er when, a lthough his m ind w as c lea r as ever, his ta ll ru gged fo rm began to stoop. H e m a y have had a prem onitib& fo f th e rap id ­i t y w ith w h ich he w o u ld g o down, fo r he bade m an y o f his fr ien ds here an espec ia lly a ffe c tion a te fa r e w e ll the day he w en t to his s is te r ’s home. A l ­thou gh n o t confined to his bed much o f the tim e, he has been g ro w in g s tea d ily w ea k e r and his condition w as know n to be serious w hen he suddenly

, passed aw ay .In h is passing, the en tire com ­

m u n ity o f R u sh ville will- fe e l:a person­a l loss. M o re than an y o ther one m an in R u sh ville he w as honored and

, respected fo r his honesty, s tren g th and fa irness, and lo ved fo r his kind-

i ness and understnading.H e w as iden tified w ith the bus­

iness in teres ts o f the com m u n ity up to the d a y o f his death. H e has been a d ire c to r o f R u sh ville S ta te B an k since its o rgan iza tion 20 yea rs ago, and fo r the past 15 y ea rs has been p residen t o f th a t institu tion . H e has served the v il la g e as p residen t fo r seve ra l term s.

M r. Pad d ock w as born in the tow n o f Jerusalem , Y a te s county, a son o f W illia m and S a lly S im s Paddock , ana liv ed th ere and in the tow n o f I ta ly until manhood. In his you n ger years he w as a ca rpen ter and firs t cam e to R u sh ville and v ic in ity in th a t capa ­c ity , h e lp ing in the e rec tion o f severa l fa rm bu ild ings here. In 1886 he m a r­ried M iss A n n M cM ich e ll o f P ra tts - bu rg and b rou gh t her to the fa rm w h ich hfe had purchased n orth o f R u sh v ille w h ere th e ir m arr ied l i fe w as spent and w h ere th e ir son now resides. T w e lv e y ea rs a g o they m oved to R u sh v ille v illa g e w h ere she died a fe w m onths la te r. M r. Pad d ock has k ep t his hom e in the v illa g e , sh arin g i t w ith M r. and M rs. Joseph Johncox, and g la d ly g iv in g his tim e and in te res t to the co m fo r t and w e l­fa r e o f fr iends and com m u n ity.

M r. P add ock is su rv ived b y one son, Jam es A . Paddock , o f th e tow n o f G orham ; tw o grandsons; one brother, C harles A . P a d d ock K>f P ra ttsb u rg ; and th ree sisters, M rs. C la ra Schm oker o f E lm stree t, P enn Yan , M rs. Sarah A lex a n d e r and M rs. Jam es P ro sse r o f B ranchport.

T h e fu n era l se rv ices w ill be held F r id a y a t 2 p. m. a t R u sh v ille M eth o ­d is t church, R ev . C. S. E m erson o f P o tte r , and R ev . R . L . W y r ic k o f R u sh ville o ffic ia tin g . In te rm en t w ill be m ade by the side o f his w ife in R u sh v ille cem etery .

R u sh v ille S ta te bank and a ll o ther business p laces o f R u sh ville w ill be closed du ring the hour o f the funera l.

FOOTBALL GAME AROUSIK PROTEST

Injuries Suffered by Penn Yan

Boys at Seneca Falls Satur­

day Starts Investigation —

Officials Make Statement

The Pen n Y a n A ca d em y fo o tb a ll team retu rned fro m Seneca F a lls S a tu rday even in g de fea ted , 20 to 0, and w ith bad in ju ries and bruises w h ich m arred the rou gh and tum ble contest. In the fir s t p la y L o r im e r Ogden, fu llback , a ged 17 years, son o f M r. and M rs. L . G erom e O gden of,

! South avenue, Perm Y an , rece ived a j fra c tu re o f the bone in th e r ig h t leg! j below the knee. H e n ry L . Dickson,! w ho is in ch arge o f th e ph ys ica l edu­cation w o rk fo r th e boys in the junior] and sen ior h igh schools, took h im to| the Seneca F a lls h osp ita l a t once and w as there w ith h im du rin g the r e - ; m ainder o f th e gam e. L a te r th a t!' n igh t he w as tra n s fe rred to the Sold iers and S a ilo rs M em o r ia l h osp i-1 ta l in P en n Yan .

A s the rou gh ga m e continued, how -; j ever, K en n eth B lakes lee , le f t h a lf

back, a ged 17 yea rs , son o f M r. a n d 1 M rs. L le w e lly n B lak es lee o f L a k e ] street, rece ived a b low on h is head w h ich rendered h im unconscious and rem oved h im fr o m th e gam e. Sam uel G ibbs o f Jackson s tree t, P en n Y an , su bstitu ting fo r L o r im e r Ogden, w as also knocked out o f th e gam e, but w as able to be abou t S a tu rd a y n igh t. E d w a rd R am sey , a ged 16 yea rs , son o f M rs. M a ry R . R a m se y o f N o r th

.M a in stree t, P en n Y an , su ffered a fra c tu re o f th e sm a ll bone in the ankle o f h is le f t le g w h ile p la y in g le f t guard .

John R m n s k ill Th e death o f John B runsk ill, aged

80 years, occu rred a t the hom e o f his daugh ter, M rs. C larence L ew is , in Seneca F a lls Tu esday, O ctober 25th, fo llo w in g an illness .o f seve ra l m onths. U n til about seven y ea rs a go he had m ade his hom e in Penn Y an .

H e is su rv ived by a son, Charles, o f G en eva ; .two. daugh ters, M rs. W . S. W o lla v e r and M rs; C larence L ew is , both o f Seneca F a lls ; a brother, Thom as, o f P en n Y a n ; a sister, M rs. Pe lla .jP .e rry ,,o f P en n Y a n ; a grandson and a -g re a t grandson .

A pffaybr b e rv ic e w ill be held a t the I L ew is hom e to d a y a t 2 p. m. w ith

fu n era l a t the chapel in L a k e V ie w cem etery a t 3:30 o ’c lock . R ev . R a lp h H in ey o f the Seneca F a lls M eth od is t church w ill o ffic ia te .

F ra n k C arm ou y Th e fu n era l o f F ra n k C arm ody, a

pa in ter and paperh an ger w h o liv ed in Penn Y a n m ost o f his li fe and w h o died in Seneca cou n ty F r id a y , O ctober 21st, w as held On M on d ay m orn in g a t 8:30 o ’clock fro m the hom e o f his sister, M rs. W illia m Quenan, a t 131 B enham street, and . a t 9 o’ c lo ck fro m St. M ich ae l’ s church. B u ria l w as m ade in St. M ich a e l’ s cem etery . H e lea ves one sister, M rs. Quenan. M r. C arm ody w as a b ro th er o f th e la te Th om as Carm ody, fam ou s la w y e r and a t one: Nine a tto rn ey gen era l o f the s ta te of!N ew Y o rk .

Yates Bank Deposits:Total Nearly Five Million

T h e q u a rte r ly s ta tem en ts o f th e fiv e banks in Y a te s cou n ty ju s t r e ­leased in d ica te th a t d esp ite u nsettled fin ancia l conditions in th e p a s t the to ta l deposits a re p ra c t ic a lly f iv e m il­lion do lla rs -— $4,981,226.49 to be e x ­act. H e re is h ow th is t id y sum is ] d iv ided :B a ldw in s o f P en n Y a n ... $2,022,197.3|4 C itizen s o f P en n Y a n .... 1,644,029.66Dundee S ta te ...... 481,381.36R u sh v ille S ta te ....... 459,550.85Dundee N a t io n a l .............. 374,167.48

C harles W . K im b a ll

W ed n esd ay o f th is w eek C harles W .l K im b a ll o f P en n Y a n m ark ed his 85th b irthday, c e leb ra t in g the even t by ] fo llo w in g his usual rou tin e —- w o rk in g som e fiv e hours in th e o ffice ,

M r. K im b a ll w as g rad u a ted fro m H a rv a rd u n ive rs ity in 1871, then tau gh t fo r tw o y ea rs b e fo re ta k in g a course in the N e w Y o rk U n iv e rs ity L a w school, fro m w h ich he w as g ra d ­uated in 1874. F o r 12 y ea rs he p ra c ­ticed la w in N e w Y o r k c ity b e fo re ill h ea lth fo rc ed h im to w o rk a v in eyard on the shores o f L a k e K e u k a fo r f iv e years. In 1891 he opened an o ffice in P en n Y an , w h ere he has sin ce been p ra c tic in g , m a k in g a reco rd o f 53 y ea rs in p ractice . H e has been v e r y a c­t iv e in th e F ir s t P re sb y te r ia n church and o th er com m u n ity organ iza tion s.

Middlesex

— “ T h ere w en t out a d ec ree in the j days o f C laudius Caesar th at a l l the jf

.w o r ld shou ld be taxed .”— T h e above sc r ip tu re tex t w as jij

! sbh t- t o - oneEb y . m y good fr ien d , John | H y lan d ; o P the M etrop o litan , as a | p ro p e r scrip tu re te x t fo r the head o f i th e M id d le sex iterns. - I t is a v e r y ap- ... p rop r ia te tex t at th is tim e. L e r o y A . =

Ja y D. Barnes, fo rm er Y a tes County W e lfa r e C om m issioner, has been ap­po in ted ju stice o f th e peace o f M ilo , in the v i l la g e o f Penn Yan , f i l l in g the vacan cy caused by the res ign a tion o f O rv ille F . R andolph .

ALLEN PROPERTY SOLD FOR HOTEL ,

Historic Penn Yan Main Street j

Residence Sold to Bath |

Mayor, Walter Wagner —-

Will Be Rebuilt

M r. and M rs. W a lte r W a g n e r o f L a th have purchased the A lle n p rop ­erty on M a in s tree t in P en n N:an w ith -me invention o f rem od e llin g i t fo r useu.s a m ouern n ote i w iu i s leep ing accom ­modations fo r about 60 persons. M r. v/agner, m a yo r o f B ath , purchased me C am pbell residence in th a t vil-gU; .age e ign t y ea rs ago, con verted i t and jrg a n iz ed the v e ry successfu l W a g - v , mer hotel. On Ju ly 1st he leased th is vO others on a ten -yea r a rra n gem en t J

A cco rd in g to th e ten ta t iv e plans,) M r. Vv agu er w ou la aua a u iree-Svofy] auaition to the o ia hom e opposite the c o u r t H ouse park , equ ippm g i t w ith; uams, eievavOrs ana um m g room th a t - vv'iii acuomuuate aoou t jlUU. a d r iv e 1 n-om M a in s tree t is p lanned to ap-| proach the hote l under tne overhang-;, m g trees w in eh lin e the roe fe e - o n ­s tree t fro n ta g e . T h e p ro p e r ty ex-;; tends back as fa r as Jacoos urook,i w here a ro ck ga rd en w ou ld add to! f tne na tu ra l oeauty. T h e presen t Darn,' w ould be con verted in to a g a ra g e and residence fo r em p loyees w m ie another, ’ g a ra g e w ou ld be constructed fo r a d - ! mitional ca r accom m odations.

Th e sa le w a s m ade b y W a lte r B. T o w er, P en n Y a n rea l es ta te agen t, I: and p lans a re be in g p e r fec ted f o r [ - tra n s fo rm in g the h is to ric o ld res i- K dence, p ro v id in g the v il la g e g ives jv perm ission unaer the zo n m g oruin-l ance.

Th e p ro p e r ty w as once used b y a t ta vern ana la te r by a school. O scarG. M u rray , a t one tim e p res id en t o f , the B a lt im o re and O hio ra ilroad , w h o )

' a ied M a rch 14th, 19 i7 , sn o rtly a fte r : res ign in g iro m Onice, g a v e to his, cousin, tne la te M rs .. A lien , life -u se o f j .

i this luxurious res idence in P en n Y an . ‘ M r. M u rray^n ever lived here, ou t M rs . i A lle n occupied the house fo r years.

. U pon her death in M arch , tw o yea rs ago, i t r e v e r te d to th e R a ilro a d E m -1

1 p.uyees r>enevoienc la n d to w h om the. /, proceeds fo r th is p resen t sa le g o as a neip in ca r in g fo r tn e w idow s, or-j. p lians and m aim ed em p loyees o f the

, 'company.

/ 1824, an old E n g lish sea cap ta in Ib y the nam e o f E li ja h H olcom b/ w h o j

- had le f t th e sea and tak en up fa rm - j ■ ing, disposed o f a go o d fa rm th a t he I ow ned in B en ton and becam e a ta v - r : ern keeper in P en n Y an . H e bu ilt a I

la rg e hotel, on the s ite o f th is res i- i j dence and nam ed it the “ W a sh in g ton

H ou se.” On the second o f June, 1825,| he ad ve rtis ed the sam e as “ rea d y fo r ; the recep tion o f com pan y.” O n the fo u rth o f Ju ly o f th a t y e a r a g ran d ce leb ra tion w as held in P en n Y a n on w h ich ocassion the n o tab les o f th is ; v i l la g e and v ic in ity assem bled a t the W a sh in g ton house and th ere p a rto ok o f a public dinner;

: C ap ta in H o lcom b k ep t th is ta v e rn ]u n til 1828 and then le f t the sam e, as ! w as once reported , a good deal p oo rer in purse than w hen he en tered it. D r. 1 O liv e r P . W o lc o t t then k ep t i t a sh ort I t im e when, as he used to say, " i t s 1 fire s w en t ou t.’ " T h e h o te l bu ild ing ; w as then changed in to a school house and because the lo ca tion o f “ Th e Y a te s A ca d em y and F em a le Sem in ­a ry .”

B ecam e School H ouse • Th e firs t trustees o f th is in stitu tion

w ere the fo llo w in g w e ll-kn ow n and prom inen t citizens o f th a t t im e : Sam ­uel S. E llsw orth , C ornelius H asten , Th om as J. N ev in s, G eo rge Shearm an,; E b eh eze f B row n , I r a Gould, H en ry B rad ley , Jam es C. Robinson, Efoen; Sm ith, Joseph K etchum , A a ro n R em er and A n d rew F . ’ O liver. A ch arter had been obta ined fo r an academ y and fem a le sem inary in the w in te r o f 1828 and these trustees purchased the hote l p rop erty and turned it in to the ] b e tte r use o f in s tru ctin g the r is in g | gen era tion . Th e in stitu tion w a s ; opened on the firs t M onday o f Janu­ary , 1829, under the superintendence o f G ard iner K e llo g g , assisted by a com peten t num ber o f w e ll-qu a lified m en and w om en teachers. M r. K e llo g g w as a g rad u a te o f B ow do in co llege

in M a ine and cam e h igh ly recom ­mended.

This, academ y w as continued fo r a! num ber o f y ea rs under the ch arge o f d iffe ren t p rin c ipa ls am ong w hom the m ore p rom inen t w e re Seym our G o o k - ; ins and R ich a rd T a y lo r . D u rin g the principa lsh ip o f M r. G oodkins th is in ­stitu tion could be said to h ave been) a t the h e igh t o f its g lo ry , the ea ta - j logu e fo r 1834 sh ow in g an a tten d a n ce j o f 202 m a le and 139 fem a le pupils. I t a dvertised 27 p r iv a te room s ana board to r pupils ■ a t $150 per w eek . I t con- I tinued to p rosper fo r som e years, but r e ly in g en tire ly , upon tu ition fees, it ceasea to ex is t about the y ea r 1842 fo r la ck o f support.

Became Jail BarnE b en ezer B. Jones, a c it izen o f g rea t

prom inence, and a m erch an t o f r e ­nown, then purchased the p rop erty , on the s ite o f w h ich h e ' erected a fine residence. A t th e beg in n in g o f his ow n ersh ip th e fra m e o f the o ld school bu ild ing */as m oved across the s tree t on to tne C ou rt H ouse p a rk and there m ade o v e r in to a ja i l barn.

T h e n ex t res iden t a fte r M r.- Jones w as M rs. H eb e P . E llsw orth , du ring w hose occu pancy the house and grounds w e re im p roved to a la r g e ex ­ten t and a p a ren tly w ith o u t rega rd to expense. A n e labora te n ew barn w as erec ted and a lso a la rg e con serv­a to ry in w h ich w ere m an y ra re and va lu ab le p lants. A fou n ta in w as pu t up on the fr o n t la w n and an iron fen ce w as p la ced in fr o n t o f the p rem ­ises. I t can be w e ll sa id th a t under h e r m an agem en t th is house becam e the m ost p re ten tiou s m ansion in the v illa g e . M rs. E lls w o rth w as the w ife o f G en era l Sam uel S tew a r t E llsw orth .

In 1877 th is p ro p e r ty w as purchased b y C harles C. Sheppard fr o m G eorge ivi.ag.ee, ex ecu to r ro r the E llsw o rth esta te . O n h is decease in January, 1888, his son, John S. Sheppard be­cam e the ow ner.

L e tte rs o f adm in istration w ith the w ill annexed have been gran ted on the estate o f Jan e Em erson , o f Ben-, ton, w ho died on Sept 28. John L, Stokoe, o f Gorham , and E lizabeth M artin , o f E ast O range, N. J., a re jo in t adm in istrators o f the es ta te w h ich consists o f $100 personal and $400' rea l.

M IL L A R D — In Geneva, M onday, Octo­ber 31, 1932, W il l is H . M illa rd , 87.1 H e had been a d ru ggist in D u n d ee ;

fo r 35 years b e fo re m ovin g to. H om er ' about fou r yea rs ago. H e is su rv ived

by his w ife , M rs. Bessie Y o rk M illa rd ; ! I tw o daughters, M rs. D e lla M aloney, o f Dundee; M iss L u c il le M illa rd , o f N ew Y o rk C ity ; a son, Lou is, o f M i­am i, F la ; tw o s is ters, M rs. F ran ces K napp and M rs. A n n a T u th ill, o f D undee; a brother, L , S* M illa rd , o f Dundee,. T h e fu n era l w as held from the H om er M. E. church W ednesday

. m orn ing , and at Dundee a t 3 p. m.,| R ev . H erb er t E rw a y o ffic ia tin g at the 1 serv ice in. Dundee. B uria l in L a k e I V iew cem etery, P en n Yan .

v. _ m : ,lis: / J2JJMunicipal Board Entertains

Saturday even ing, severa l invited c | guests gathered at the m unicipal elec- |I tr ie ligh t and pow er p lant to inspect i , the p lan t and to partake o f a turkey ;; luncheon which was provided by the I M un ic ipa l Board. Th e event m arked ■I the com pletion o f im provem ents to the J p lan t includ ing the insta llation o f a ,/ new bo iler w h ich is said to be the last | w ord in m odern e lectr ic generation.!' The guests w ere seated in the boil- |- ■ R room [w ith th e 'm achinery o f the j I p lant roa rin g and the turbo-generators !1 .z*d>df'h § th e ir :b it H . Asll^n W agener, I;| president of the municipal board, pre- I sided.

The Municipal plapt was established ;v in 1894, and the water commissioners

at that time were Edson Potter, Wm.,N . Wise, George H. Lapham, George R. Cornwell, Calvin Russell, Sr., John Sheridan, Sr.

Th e presidents o f the severa l sue- m f ceeding Penn Yan M unicipal Boards i f / which have conducted the m unicipally , owned, w a te r and lig h t p lan t sucess- jp ; fu lly th rough th e years, have been as

fo llo w s :' 1894-95, Edson P o tte r ; 1896-1900, i W illia m H. F o x ; 1901-190-8, W illia m H. i i ' H o llow a y ; 1909-1925, F red R . L yn n ; |! 1926 to present, H . A lle n W agener.

j Penn Y an has atta ined nation-w ide .11 ; pu b lic ity through the fa c t that the mu- n ic ipa l board h a s severa l times, reduc- fA edl Ithei co s t o f w a te r and ligh t to its p patrons, and now is fu rn ish ing those

; tw o necessary adjuncts to c iv iliza tion d ' ’ at a rate w hich is sa id to be on e o f | :

the low es t in this and severa l other States. : / 'r , ffl

T h e new bo iler w h ich has been in- p I s ta lled is a D etro it underfeed stroker.; - Irt is the third of three boilers in the V'plant whcih now is qapable of pump- I |ing 700,009 gallons of water daily, || [and of generating 8,000 to 10,000 kilos ; a day. The boilers are 250, 375 and 600 j horse-power respectively, and are I;

[ what is known as water tubular boil- ers. The plant equipment is now said

[to be qne of the best of its kind o n l| ] the market. It was the custam ti£ the M board to pay $400- annually for water ||

' softener but with the new boiler this |f| expense is eliminated. The water is || boiling when it enters the boiler, be-s/fl ling heated by the exhaust steam. The ||; municipal board states that the new 1 plant ranks among the finest and that

: there is “none better in the U. S.* M I To keep the plant running ten tons of ||; '[ coal per day are consumed. One in- | I; teresting feature of the guest lunch- :||

eon on Saturday evening was the fact j J 4 that the fires were stoked several i:| times during the evening, and the f guests noticed no coal dust or other ; disagreeable accompanying annoyance j which would naturally be associated .

! with stoking the boilers.Herbert W . Perry has been the cap-;

able -and efficient superintendent of ] the plant since 1 23. L ; . SW IL L IA M S — A t his home In Jerusa-

lem , Saturday, Nov. 5 ,1932, A. C la rk . j? W illiam s, aged 61 years. N . ip H e leaves his w ife ; two sons,,5James j

H erb ert W illliam s, o f Rochester, and f H ow ard C lark W illiam s, a t home; m

■ one daughter, Mrs. M orris Burke, o f j K euka Park . T h e for • -.wal was held I

I from the hom e on W euuesday a fter- pi: noon, R ev. C h arles Smith, o f Branch- H ; port, o ffic ia ting. Buria l in La k e V iew

U cem etery. M r. W illiam s was a mem- j her o f the Penn Yan Grange, Yates ||;v' County F arm Bureau, and a d irector |m 1 o f the C linton Produce Company, also j 1 a m em ber o f the B luff Po in t Metho- j 1 d ist E p iscopa l Church.

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Sunday of next week, November j! 20th, brings the 60th wedding anni- j versary of Mr. and Mrs. Vinson Run- F yan Edington of^524 Liberty street, U Pehn Yan, a couple who were born, reared and married and who have al-1 ways resided in this vicinity. After | theiip marriage they' becanid'vineyard-f ists near Glenora then farmers near | Rock Stream before coming to reside I in Pehn Yan. Mr. Edington is-thedast I of the IT,children and the last of three k sets of twins born to Mr. and Mrs. | Phillip Edington, a Stanley farmer. | His parents lived t© celebrate their |

’ 6?nd wedding anniversary then died ■ j within a week. As a young man he f i helped them on the farm.

Mrs. Edington was Mary E. Cat te r -,1 son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W il- j j jiam Catterson of Geneva^ HCr fath-| er> following the war of. ’65, wehtfc back to the farm. One of her broth- p ers was William CattOrson who for a ” short time,.served as rector of St.?' M ark’fo Episcopal church in Penn Yana during- the troubled days of 1870 andf] following when the church (member­ship-'Was divided between those pr(£sl ferring the high Episcopalian service! ahd those who desire tjhe low servi-cK/i Her other two brothers were also col­lege educated and her three sisters were, like herself, teachers. Miss. Cat­terson tgught in rural school about Geneva until she met and married Mr. r Edington.; Rev. James Rankin at St. Peter’s Episcopal church in Geneva officia|4d|i at their wedding on , Nd^epiber 20.th, 1872. Two, of the bride’s sisters wtidij| vyare there are still living, Mrs. H. H.j| Henderson and Miss Susan Oattersopj| both of Genevan also her brother,rDn,| T, L. Catterson of Spokane,Mrs. Henry Sill of Jerusalem, whc di^d but a few weeks; ago,^also attend! ed the?-wedding.

Became y Vi neyardistsFollowing theirJm-arrijige they liv^q -

on the- Stanley farm for three or foul

years then moved- tb- Glenora where I . they purchased a vineyard on the 4 shores .of Seneca lake, , where they re- U sided for 1-7/ years. A t first grapes ; brought a good price, wh&n vineyards k were limited to the few along the [. lake’s edge, the theory being that the [. warmth .held !by the water- kept the J;

I killing frosts," away, until the crop; rip­ened. Soon, however, farmers farther

j up the hill learned that' they<-"j$buld J raise - grapes arid theft any advantage 1

! of a vineyard, being near the water, [where the Soil was shallow, was over- i‘ j -pome by' the richer ground farther p away from the lake. Mr. and Mrs. ! Edington then sold their vineyard anti I

| purchased “Rosecrof t/’ '4"a farm just I nqrth of Rock Stream. Here they.f lived until they sold out in 1919, com- r ing to Penn Yan the following spring |. and purchasing the house Jin which p

j they now dwell, opposite the Liberty | Street school in Penn Yan.

Mr. Edington, while he owned the g Glenora vineyard, spent six years in j j partnership with a man from Fort | Wayne, Ind., in Australia with th e . Picturesque Australia company, sell-j ing nursery stock. Charles Griffeth, j

j uncle of Welles Griffeth of Penn Yan, i for three years before Mr. Edington | returned to this country, took part in the business. He is sttill engaged in j an outgrowth of this company.

I A t the home of their son and his j wife, Mr. and Mrs. Van R. Edington, on Sunday they will ma'rk the anniver-

I sary of their wedding day. The two I sisters of the bride pf 60 years, her I granddaughter, Miss M ary Edington, physical , education iristructor in Dans- ville, and a few others will participate

!jn the event. "...

I H. Allen Wagener, who recently purchased the parcel of land known as “Electric Park” in Jerusalem; near Keuka Park, has workmen engaged in

^cleaning up thieP property and plans to portion off; part:of the lake frontage in cottage sites.

Mr* Wagener states' that plans are under way/for re--eonstructing the old brick building which was used as a power house - of the Perm Yan, Keuka Park Branbhport Railway, and build new additions and use it as the head­quarters of the Keuka Yacht Club, which-has had no quarters of its. own for jthe past several years. The bay •which is formed in Lake Keuka at the> Electric Park site is ideally located fo^ a sheltered basin for Sailing and other boats.

There are 850 feet of lake frdntage in the site-, m

‘1: Alpnzo Walters The death of Alpnzo Wqltprs,, agmj

83 yparisj b.cptirrpti tit hi§ hbipP in V(^orham ; Monday' evening, November 1-StthL, ah.S-Sff.o’clQgli; Mr. fa lt e r s had bee^ 'in- failing health fbj: several rqontti^ and off' Montiay apgCareq "in bpttqr spirits than usual. A fter par- ta,Mrig," o f Am eal he satbqc|| in his* chair and appeared to be in a dlpze* His daughter going to him

'tyai amazed to, see he' had passecr away.

He is "survived by three daughters, M r|f William Byckalewl Mrs. Harry

iff* ‘jSoI^and Mrs. Tra- * Le&gerwqod, with whom hef^resMed. The funeral Was .held, from1 the hoine Wednesday B ’te^poonf'atf 2 "o’clock. Rev. Dr.. ISeshget-opr of Romulus and Rey. Dr. JdafiLenlfof Gorhanq officiated. Burial in tils’ S^huinan cerheteryV The' fol-

T neighbor^4* &c'tted'v as ( pall bpafeiist^pttbs CadE' J. "Li stb‘ Sje£ M. P | Lee,‘^ a R e r l£az^ll, Fred Ipndet- ;h& g^,aiid J. S; Cole. Stanley Lodgfe, Nq, 434, "at which he was a iriemp.er,

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ShUrinOn N . Flood .Oh Moriday#' Nhvdmbfer 14th, Shan-:

non N. Floodf1 aged-tffS^&arS, died at I his-bomb; about two miles west’- pf $ Shanty Plains, ih'| the township of r Jerusalem^ He iedves three sifters, I Mrs.- M ary JfecGbyljra and MiSs Natiy- [ .jty Flood of :r5|nri Yan and Mrs: Ellpn- Mitdhell of 3 eruealbtti; tlifeb bribthbts, ifolya apd Morris ,of Jerusalem and Vin^bht* of Rochester. The funeral services were held from the lat’e res- iden©e -gn Thursday , morping ' a-64.9 pfckfck and in St. Michael’s church, I'tenn Yan, at 9 o’clock, with burial in the St. Michael’s .ijgembtery.

Mfiinie M. BaMbeh ^Mrsi1" Mirinie ‘ M. Bard'^Si, -hged. 64

years, .died at Pulteney oil Monday, November 14thi She leaye^ twoj-SQBS* Lbuis-.pnd Raymorid, both ^ ^ ^ Perinl fh r i; a 'tirhthb’r, H&try jHall, Hipa- idd; a sist'er,; Mrsi Lilliaii Snyderz< of Punxshtaxyne^-i, Pa. Th^ funeral w dia held from the,hdine of her sori, Louis, Wcdhesdhy dftefhoon at "2:30 -S’clocic,

|Rdv. Stdyai' N : iJ ^ u p , pa'sipi- of,.t^;el First Baptisf-’church of Penh Yah, of- fi|iating. g Burial was - made, in the Hiniityu ceriietdt1-

Mr. and Mrs. G. ti. Ddwell of 36 North^^Cotmt^ Club drivS Phoenix, Arizona, announce the marriage of their daughter, Isabel, to Frank M.

: McNiff, on'Wednesday, November 9th, at Phoenix, ReV. Robert Burns, pastor of Brophy. chapel, performing the cefemdn'y:' M r.-M cNiff is the son of ■Mrs. F. M. McNiff, of East Main

^street, Penn Yan, and has been in Arizona for the past six years.

A lbert Chase <Ip Jerusaiem on Thursday night,

November 17th, occurred the death of Albert Chase, aged 87 years, who for some time served as caretaker :of the, tianford place, just south of Penn Yan along the shore of Keuka lake. No near relatives survived him. Funeral services were held from the Thayer Funeral horiie in Penn Yan at 2:30 p. m. Saturday with Rev. William M. Hydon officiating and with burial in the Lake View cemetery.

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Reduces Own Salary

One of the most 'gracious acts dur- t!periOjdV,of depression is the

unlS;olicited•', donation of- Judge Gilbert H.' >,Baker, BurrOgafcd and 1 Judge -Of “Little Yates”- when he voluntarily ;cut his, salary as; executive of the county 10'Jper; cent'." •'

This'1 generooiis; ^ stu re was entirely voluntary orijthe part of Judge Baker, i

Yates Qounty, known as one of the’-! banner Republican counties - of ‘the state, is proud of ttie'-gesture' -of its judicial head. While Judg^ Baker; is a Demograt, his reelection, tenu after j h|erm, is evidence of the esteemS/in i which he is held by Yates County;

Town Board Reduces BudgetI Th§ Milo town board at its meeting Thursday evening in Pehn Yan, reduc­ed its budget to an amount more than $5,000 less than that of the past year. The .sum .set aside for the. relief of the poor .during the coming year was left the same as before but the -high-

■ way expenditures, the, general bills and the salaries, were reduced.

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! road imiprovement, most of the, money j beirisg used for n-ecessaTy, repair; and ! maintenance. The voluntary cut in. salaries and per diem pay of the town,

j boarti, m ^ b e r s means a saving in j the- future of" about $610. The super- [ visor and the four justices of peace used to got .$4 for board meetings, now

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Dr. W illiam W allace Barden, aged 89 years, died at his home in the town o f Benton, near Bellona, at an early hour Tuesday; morning, fo llow ­ing a short illness. H e was born in the v illa ge of Penn Yan on January 9, 1843, the son of Dr. H enry Barden and Caroline Purdy, the form er being a well-known physician in Yates coun­ty and connected w ith every phase of public w elfa re during his life.

A fte r leaving the Penn Yan Acad­emy the young man attended the Cleveland Medical College fo r one year but as the climate did not agree with him he transferred to the Ph ila ­delphia U niversity where he gradu­ated from the Homeopathic Medical College in 1869 and the schools o f Pharmacy, Dentistry and Chemistry. H e taught chem istry there fo r two years and then spent one year in travel.

On the death ; his father he re ­turned to Penn Yan where he took up the practice of medicine which he continued until 1888, then going to Brooklyn and practicing there until 1912 when he retired from the active practice o f medicine on the death of his w ife and returned home to live w ith his sister, Mrs. Cornelius Van W yck who died in 1917. The h om e1 farm was the birthplace of his mother and has now been in the fam ily fo r 132 years, at present being the prop­erty of Mrs. G eorge S. Means, o f Ge­neva.

H e m arried Mrs. Cornelia McCar­thy, nee Madden, who die& w h ile the couple w ere liv in g in Brooklyn.

H e leaves no immediate survivors, his on ly relatives being the sons and daughters of cousins, of wJiom Mrs. Means, of Geneva, and Miss Bessie Stevenson, of Canandaigua, have been most interested in his w elfare. He has spent the summers on the farm, fre ­quently spending the cold months w ith Mrs. Means.

The funeral w ill be held from his home F riday afternoon at 2 o’clock w ith burial in the Bellona cemetery.

— Mr. and Mrs. H iram B allard mo­tored to W ashington, D. C., this w eek to spend Thanksgiving and the w eek­end w ith their son, F rederick A. Bal-

> lard, who is employed in a law office 1 there.

Wants Budget Balanced

“ Robbing Peter to pay Pau l” tac- j tics in balancing Yates County’s bud- V get w ere alleged by H arry 0. Bennett, f county treasurer, Monday when he V appeared before the -board o f super- t ’ visors and asked that the sum o f $70,000 to pay off tem porary loans ; due on Feb. 5, 1933, be included in the 1933 budget. p

Money borrowed -during the year [ should be included in the next budget, § Treasurer Bennett said, although va- ( rious finance committees in the past f had “ never seen fit to do so.” He said i he would refuse to pay the notes when j they com e due if no provision is made j fo r them in the budget, pointing out i that he did not fe e l he could jeopard- u ize his position as co-unty treasurer I by paying them from funds a p p ro -, priated fo r other purposes. Th is con- I ditio-n is -not an “ unforeseen contin- : gency,” he said.

Supervisor Norris asked Mr. Ben­nett i f including the amount asked in the budget would not create a sur­plus at the expense of the taxpayers, pointing out that taxes w ould be j raised at least one-third over last i year by such action. Treasurer Ben- i

% K iil nett said it m ight leave a surplus,

Th is community was shocked and saddened on Friday afternoon, Nov. 25, to hear of the sudden death of W alterB. Tower, prom inent Penn Yan busi­ness man and head of the Tow er Real Estate and Insurance Agency.

Mr. T ow er ’s life less body was found in his car by W illiam W. Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bailey, who was w alk ing along the lake shore about 4 o ’clock Friday afternoon. The car was parked in the lane leading to the Sherman cottage, on Sherman’s Point, owned by Mr. Tow er. When young Bailey discovered the car, he saw that something was w rong as- the engine was running and the lights w ere turned on. Quickly opening the doors and turning off the engine, -the young man saw the life less body of Mr. Tow er in the seat. A call was sent to Foster-Hatch Medical Group and Dr. Ross Lautzenheiser respond­ed, but all efforts to resuscitate Mr. Tow er w ere unavailing. The cause o f death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Coroner M. E. Costello rendered a . certificate o f death by suicide. Mr. ; Tow er had been dead about thyee | hours when found.

Trooper F red Guyle investigated and ! found that a piece of hose had been I attached to the end of the exhaust pipe i of the Tow er car, and had been led | in the le ft rear w indow o f the sedan. j‘i

| W ith -the car closed tight, it was but i a matter of a few minutes, pre&uma- ]!’

| bly, before Mr. Tow er was overcom e f|I.by the deadly fumes. The body w a s .1 brought to the Corcoran undertak ing: parlors and on Sunday was removed ■ to the T ow er home at 203 Elm S tree t..

No m otive is ascribed to the1 act.Mr. Tow er took his car from the N

T ierney garage at 1 o’clock on F r i-| day afternoon and it is supposed 1 that he drove im m ediately to the lake- j/ side property.

In the death o f Mr. Tow er Penn Yan and Yates County lose a prominent . and public sp irited business m an .; He had become w idely known

■ throughout New Y ork State, as a man j o f great ability and efficiency- in his ; chosen field of endeavor. His activities I. in real estate and insurance circles - marked him as one of Penn Yan ’s I

popular and influential business men, and his interest and labors in the cause of any movement for the better­ment o f his community w ere known far and wide. H is time was always at the disposal o f those who sought his advice on matters o f civic pro­

gress and his kindly acts and cheer­ful manner endeared him to hundreds who were grieved and shocked yzhen the news of his death became known.

W a lter B. Tower was born in Fac- Loryville, Wyoming County, Pennsyl­vania, on March 2, 1871,: a son of Rev. Qharles M. and Mary E. (iSainter) Tower, both of whom were descend- j ants of Old Colonial New England families." The fam ily moved from Pennsylvania to Dundee, and WalterB. Tow er received his early education i in the John K line private school at j; Dundee. H e entered the business;} world by identifying himself with the! mercantile interests o f Dundee, later coming tp Penn Yan where _ he was connected w ith the Down Dry Goods Company. Later he conducted a men’s clothing store on the corner of Main and East Elm Streets, w h ere ' the Platman, W allace & Boyd clothing

| store now is located, j In 1915, he entered the real estate ! business and had continued in that I field ever since with signal success. [H e handled all kinds, of - real estate [but specialized in farm lands and lake- i side property. He was ever active in ! Fenn Yan community projects and his ; business interests were closely inter- i woven w ith those of his community.j H e served as a member of the board of supervisors from 190-2 until 1910 inclusive and was chairman of the board fpr a term o f two years.

H e was a member o f the Ellsworth Hose Company, of Keuka LodgeI. O. O. F., and had served as district deputy grand master of that lodge as w ell as representative to the grand lodge as a member of the committee ! o f appeals fo r eight years. He also was a m en ’ ?r of Milo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A.' M., Metawissa Tribe, No. 124, I/ O! R. M. He was a charter mem­ber o f the. Penn Yan Rotary Club of whiph he had served as president and secretary. He was a member of the advisory and executive committees- of the F inger Lakes Association having represented Penn Yan and Yates County/as delegate-at-large. He also was a member of Geneva lodge of Elks. ;tiie was past president of the F inger Lakes Council of Boy Scouts of Am erica and of the Penn Yan Cham­ber o f Commerce,also having served as secretary o f that body. During his ad­ministration, the Penn Yan Chamber of -Commerce reached its peak 1 in membership and efficient functioning. During the W orld W ar he was active, in putting over the campaigns for W ar Chests in Yates and many other counties in New York State.

H e leaves his wife, Elizabeth Sher­man Tow er; his mother, Mrs. Mary S. Tower, o f B in gh a m ton a sister, Mrs. If Bert-ha T. Murdock, of Dundee, and j; two brothers, Frank Totter, o f B in g-§ hamton, and Charles Tower, of Onei­da. The funeral which was private was held on M-onday afternoon- at 2 o’clock from the home at 203 Elm Street, Rev.R. N. Jessup, o f the First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was made in Lake V iew cemetery. The bearers w ere: Clarence R. Andrews, John J. Hyland, H arry M. Putnam-, Dennis C. 1Pierce, W elles Griffith, Sewafd Me- ‘Donald. '

Board of Trustees Vote To Cut Village Expenses!

A t a special m eeting o f the board o f trustees held on W ednesday even-! ing, the com m ittee w hich w as re-j cen tly appointed to present recom-j m endations fo r cu tting the expenses] o f the v illa g e adm in istration ' in order] to balance the budget fo r the rem ain­der o f the year, reported the fo llow in g recom m endations and the boqrd voted in fa v o r o f ca rry in g out the program .

Reduce sa la ry o f s tre e t superintend­ent from $31.50 to $28.50 per week, estim ated savin g o f $51.

T h a t F ire board p a y fo r heating o f E ngine House N o. 1 from its own funds; estim ated savin g $250.

R em ove telephones from trustees’, po lice and H ydran t hose rooms.

Reduce m ayor ’s sa la ry 20%, from $31.25 to $25 per month.

Reduce trustees’ salaries 20% from $18.25 to $15 per month.' Reduce the sa la ry o f treasurer and

c lerk $25 each.R equest police o fficers to re fra in

from using the p row l car unless when absolutely necessary.

Reduce sa la ry o f each police o fficer $10 per m onth ra ther than dispense w ith services o f one man. .

Recom m ended, that the sa la ry o f the police ju stice be reduced to $75 per m onth to take e ffec t when he w ill s ta rt the fou r-yea r term in January.

Dr. B. S. S trait, health officer, asked to rem it to the treasurer 20% o f his sa la ry from D ecem ber 1st to A p r il 1st.

Th e to ta l savin g w ith the exception o f the po lice ju stice and health officer, amounts to $1,053.70.

The com m ittee w as composed o f I T rustees Hoban, Pu lve r and M a llo ry , f

John E . Sheridan

K eu k a co llege students, m em bers o f the D ebate association, en joyed an address g iven this w eek W ednesday even in g in the Y , W , C. A . parlors, by John E. Sheridan o f Penn Yan , Y a tes county a tto rn ey and fo rm er ly police ju stice o f the countyseat.

Mrs. Eve Gretchen Lindblad, w ife o f Pau l E. Lindblad, d ied in M ia m i,; F la., on Dec. 3, a fter an ilnness o f severa l months. She was the second daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. James i

| Charlton Goodspeed, fo rm erly o f Penn v Yan. She is su rvived by a daughter, j ■Mrs. Pau l Johnson, o f W oodstock, N. Y .; her mother, Mrs. James C.

; Goodspeed; th ree sisters1, Mrs. Ernest W . Dudley ,f o f L os Angeles, C al.; M iss H elen Goodspeed, o f Ph iladelph ia, Pa., and Mrs. Donald C. Stuart, o f U tica, N. Y., and one brother, J. Irv in g Goodspeed, o f E lk ins Park , Pa. The funera l serv ice was held in M iam i,

! and burial was in the L indb lad tomb in Greenwood cem etery, N ew Y o rk

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V A IL — A t his home in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 13, W illia m T ; Vail, aged 74 years.Mr. V a il had been a life -lon g res i­

dent of Branchport. H e was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mason Va il, H e leaves his w ife ; one son, Arthur, of M assena; two daughters, Mrs. Julia Cole, o f Penn Y a n ; and Mrs. F red M artin , o f Branchport. H e was a member o f St. Lu ke ’s Episcopal Church. The fu ner­al was held from that church on Thursday afternoon, Rev. John E. W ootton o ffic ia tin g..B u ria l in Branch­port.

M rs. G eorge H . Lapham In Guernsey, England, on D ecem ber

13th, occurred the death o f Mrs. K a th ­leen B. Lapham , w idow o f G eorge H. Lapham, president o f the Y a tes Na-1 tional bank, w hich at one tim e did business in the p lace now occupied by the C itizens bank. M r. Lapham!' died some 20 years ago.

M rs. C ora W eaver R eport o f the death o f another fo r ­

m er Penn Y a n resident w as received here this w eek. Cora A n n etta W e a v ­er, daughter o f the la te G eorge S. W ea ver and S. A n n etta Thatcher, died D ecem ber 11th. The funeral

: w as held from St. John’s church in Flushing, L on g Island, oh the 17th,

H a rry K idder A resident o f Benton, H a rry K idder,

aged 59 years, died at the Soldiers and Sailors M em oria l hospita l in Penn Y an Sunday n ight, D ecem ber 18th, leavin g his w ife ; a son, F ran k o f Benton; a daughter, Mrs. F lo yd P a lm er o f H im ­rod. Funeral services w ere held from the home at 2 p. m. W ednesday w ith R ev. James Sykes o f the H a ll U nion Congregational,church, o ffic ia tin g and w ith burial in the Gorham cem etery. 1

M iss A lic e F . H otchk in M iss A lic e F . Hotchkin , aged 72

years, died Saturday on Benham street, Penn Yan . She is survived by tw o sisters, Mrs. Rose B aker o f W il- li&m sville; Mrs: M arth a M cLau gh lin o f H am m ondsport and one niece, Mrs. J. M. B ell o f Penn Yan .

’ The funeral w as held M onday a fte r ­noon from the hom e o f Mrs. F ran k Monnin, E ast M ain street, a t 2:30 p .m . R ev. W a lte r A . Henricks, pas­tor o f the P resbyterian church, o ffi­c ia ted . B uria l in La k e V iew cem etery.

A t the D ecem ber m eeting o f the i board o f v is ito rs o f the N ew a rk State | school M rs. H . K . A rm s tron g retired j a fte r 25 years o f service. D u rin g this tim e the num ber in the school has in ­creased from about 400 to 1,749, in ­cluding the colonies.

v-y i v v ' : M cM a,th-Adam s >1 ■A f Seneca Castle, Tuesday evening,

December 20th, took place j.the mar­riage of Virginia, daughter-'ofxMr. and Mrs. David Adams of Jerusalem, and Samuel A. J. McMath of Penn Yan. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Clayton Comstock, pastor of the Sen­eca Castle Methodist Episcopal church. The bride taught school and the groom is a Penn Yan business man. ,

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Dr. John D. W o lco tt o f the lib ra ry 11 o f congress, W ash ington , D. C., w as i presented by his M asonic brethren I w ith a beau tifu l go ld and jew eled past I m aster’s badge, togeth er w ith a past] m aster’s apron at the exp iration this j m onth o f his term o f o ffice as m aster o f the Theodore R ooseve lt lodge. Dr. W o lco tt w as recen tly chosen a, m em - | her o f the board o f d irectors o f thej. W ash ington F ederation o f P ro tes tan t churches as a rep resen ta tive o f the j,C o n g re g a t io n a lis ts o f th a t c ity . Th is

. board holds a luncheon m eeting each m onth to discuss m atters! o f in terest to th e loca l churches.

_— Th e gorgeous sunset Christmas night attracted w ide attention. I t had a ll the prism atic sp lendor o f the rainbow. S. T. Sedam, w ho has. trav­e led ex tensive ly through C a lifo rn ia and o ther W estern states, declares that our sunsets here are as splendid as the famous sunsets in C a lifo rn ia .

Pasadena,. Calif.D ecem ber 20, 1932

Id itor C hron ic le-E xpress: —E veryon e who comes to Pasadena

should v is it M t, L ow e and those w ho can do so should go on horseback to the summit, which is 5,450 (m ore than a m ile ) above sea level. The ocean, Cata lina island 75 m iles aw ay, and 56 cities can be seen, a glorious, m a g ­nificent, rem arkab le v iew .

The descrip tion o f our trip w ill be­g in at Rubio canyon a t the fo o t o f the 3,00.0 foo t-lon g inclined ra ilw ay, g

' A t one side w e m ount ten or 15 steps to take seats in the car, which stands on the incline a t an ^angle o f about 45 degrees, but the seats fo r passengers are level. T w o steel cables about three, inches in d iam eter are used and m ovem ent o f the tw o cars is controlled underneath the station

| p la tform . The rise on the incline in j a trip o f h a lf a m ile is 1,245 feet,I ana in the steepest p lace the grad ian t | is 62%. W e confess w e fe lt re lie f on ] reach ing p ie top o f the incline and ! g rea te r re lie f on the return trip when landing at the bottom . ■

A t the top o f the incline begins,'the 3 1 4 m ile ride on the tro lley to M t. L o w e tavern th at is 4,420, fe e t above

I sea level. W e believe this is one o f the m ost w onderfu l scenic trips in the w orld and g ives one a constant thrill.

Th ere a r e . 127 curves, ha ir pin, c ir­cular and ev e ry other kind, m ore eas­ily described as a continuous succes-

f sion o f curves and the longest s tra igh t j stretch is on ly 225 feet.! The tro lley I croSses 18 deep canyons, runs a long the, ed ge o f one 3,000 fe e t deep but a few fe e t from our car and a long the edge o f m any others o f a ll depths. A .t one point w e can see the tro lley line in severa l places 600 fe e t below , but it is about a m ile from us by the r e g ­ular route. Th is road goes up a steep incline in m any places, w as bu ilt by P ro f. T. S. C. L o w e a t a cost o f about '$700,000 and is a rem arkab le trium ph o f engineering skill. Th e scenery is grand, glorious, sublime, h igh m oun­tains, deep Canyons’ gulches, ravines and every fea tu re o f the stupendous creation o f the universe that' no language can adequately describe. A t a distance a ll m ountains appear sm ooth but on the con trary V L m L

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I Dr. George W hite, o f Buffalo,' physician and surgeon, hag come to Penn Yan to practice and is on the sta ff o f the Fostrir-Hatch Medical Group.

PE LTO N — A t his home at Bluff P o in t,!Sunday, Jan 1st, Hom er L. Pelton, j 84. • ■ m ■ 1 /: ..H e lived in the town of Benton for

many years. He leaves his w ife, four daughters, Mrs. Jasper Manning, of I Benton; Mis© Julia Pelton, of New Y ork C ity ; Misis Laura and Miss Ella, at home; five sons, Charles E., o f G eneva; George B., of Baltimore, h M d.; Hom er M., Monroe and Herbert, ' | all at home; a brother, Martin, o f Delton, Mass. The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock, i , Rev. R. N. Jessup officiating. Burial in Bellona cemetery. ;

C O N LE Y— A t his home in Lake St., Monday, Jan. 2nd, C larence C; Con­ley, 54.H e leaves his w ife ; one daughter,

Miss Cecile Conley; three brothers, Dr. J. A. Conley, o f Penn Yan ; Roa- coe, o f Ita ly, and Delos, o f Penn Yan ; a sister, M m Frank Keeoh, of Branchport. The funeral was held on W ednesday afternoon at 3 o ’clock from the home, Rev. W . M. Hydon officiating. Burial in Lake V iew cem- 1 etery. ■ -w-: ■ i\ j

G ARD N ER— A t the home o f F red Lew is, in Benton, Monday, Jan. 2nd, Roland J. Gardner, 82.H e leaves one brother, Abner E., o f

M ilo. Th e funeral w ill be held from the home in M ilo on F riday afternon at 2 o ’clock, Rev. F rank Johnson, o f Penn Yan, officiating. Burial in Sec- ■ ond M ilo cemetery. . !

M r. and Mrs. Rob.ert L. Denison of ; Portland, Me., have announced the ;j m arriage engagem ent o f their daugh- ii ter, Miss Julia Sheppard Denison, |! granddaughter o f the la te John S. Sheppard, and D avid Rum sey, Jr., o f -S- N ew Y o rk city, grandson o f fo rm er j! Judge W illiam Rum sey o f Bath.

cbui1 very' im aginable 1Asize, shape, contour, rising one above | ic j another irregularly, in confusion and; | W ith gorges o f all depths everywhere. |

N ear the tro lley we saw. several f-i deer and one young one scampered ~

aw ay up the mountain. They are fed, j

| undoubtedly, as they could not ge t | . enough food on the rocky slopes. The 1 I entire mountain is covered w ith trees | ; o f several varieties.

On arriv ing at Mt. Low e tavern, ! one o f the things to be done is to j hike to Inspiration point,\where there j is a great v iew o f the 'country fo r :

* hundreds o f miles, including Pasa- |3 den a.[ • A ve ry interesting excursion starts , from here over a narrow gauge road, j ; about 30 inches wide. The m otive power is “ H erbert,” a w ell fed mule, j H e is hitched behind the car, pushing | it in fron t o f him so the dust he kicks up is behind and does not g e t | on the passengers. A t a signal by the conductor H erbert rings a jingle f bell hanging near his head and at an- j other signal starts on his route. I t j is a comical, unique idea. There are. j tw o seats the length o f the car and, passengers sit back to back, rid ing I sideways. The trip o f a couple o f i miles requires about half an hour.

The entire trip from the bottom of the incline to the top o f M t. L ow e we believe is not excelled in scenery in any other part o f the world.

TH E O D O R E O. H A M L IN .

Military Honors Paid At] Impressive R i t e s in i Ledyard for Officer of I

• ifFamous llltfy

M 'i ' ' - C j Jj,Funeral services fo r -Capt. Sam-1|

j udl Bradley, 90, C ivil W a r vet- | eran, and one o f the most prom ­inent citizens o f the sou thw esff

j part o f -Cayuga County, w ere held at the B rad ley homestead in the Tow n o f Ledyard M onday a fte r­noon, and w ere la rge ly attended. Burial was in K in g F e r ry Cem e­tery, the land fo r which was given by Jabez Bradley, p ioneer se ttler and ancestor o f the deceased. The services -were conducted by Rev. W illia m T . Thayer.

A firing squad m ade up o f the Am erican Leg ion members fired a vo lley over the grave and “ taps” w ere sounded fo r the ve t­eran. Th e casket was draped w ith the national colors. W orld W a r veterans form ed an escort from the house to the hearse and to the grave in K in g F e rry Cem e­tery.

Capt. Samuel B rad ley was born in Ledyard and the fam ily has had an im portan t pa rt in the en­terprises and developm ent o f that section, as w e ll as being p ro m - ,

J inent in a ll com m unity affairs, j

A t the age o f 20', he enlisted fo r | the C iv il W a r in Company K o f I j ■the 111th 'Regim ent. H e had a j f d istin gu ished w ar record.

Captain B rad ley participated in f \ battles o f the W ilderness,|j pttsylvania, Cold H arbor and !“ her engagem ents o f the -Second I5 m y Corps under G eneral Han- ; k. H e partic ipated in the

o f Petersbu rg arid the ^m ts which led up to the evacu- fefbn o f Richm ond. H e was se~

ply wounded in the battle o f jtysburg during which he was ommand o f the reg im en t for j {

line a fte r superior o fficers had i k illed or wounded.

W hen the board o f d irectors o f tne j Baldwins Bank o f Penn Yan m et Tues- h c’ay and re-elected A . F la g Robson president fo r another year, he if started his 21st year as head o f the 1 bank which. Jt>r some years has I boasted the largest deposits o f any f,i Ya tes county bank.

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m,u' C a p ta in B rad ley is believed to be the last C ivil W a r veteran from the Tow n o f Ledyard, A fte r the w ar he attained considerable notice as an author o f artic les perta in ing to the C iv il W a r bat-

j ties, and o f h istorical sketches, | many o f which w ere published in m ilita ry journals and preserved as au thorita tive in form ation re ­gard ing engagem ents in which the 111th R eg im en t participated. He* was a grea t student o f m ili­ta ry strategy.

Captain B rad ley had a retrea t erected on his hom estead fa rm j) w here he studied arid w ro te his j articles. F o r many.; years he was president o f the 111th R eg im en ­tal Association and attended the annual reunions.

R ichard C. S. Drum m ond o f jj Auburn, whose fa ther, the la te j| R obert L . Drummond, was a |j m em ber o f th© ga llan t - 111th, ij represented the R eg im en ta l As-1| sociation at the funera l.

Captain B rad ley was believed to be the next to the last su rviv­in g com m issioned o fficer in the C iv il W a r from Cayuga County. M a jor Reuben J. M yers, fo rm er sh eriff and an o ffice r o f the 111th, is liv in g at his hom e in Mart.ville.

A . F la g Robson

Mr. Robson was born in Ita ly town- I ship on February 8th, 1857. H is fa ther ■ was the storekeeper in Ita ly Valley,

,where Mr. Robson was:'educated as a ; boy before go in g to the Eastm an col- |

Mege in Poughkeepsie. A ft e r his j : studies he. returned to help in the j -store and to serve as postm aster fo r ,1 several years. H e was supervisor j] frOm Ita ly in 1885-6 and assem bly­man from Yates county from 1894 to 65. In 1896 he came, to Penn Y an to live.

In 1903, 30 y ea rs ; ago, he entered the bank as' a clerk, soon becom ing

) vice-president and succeeding Mason j i L. Baldwin, founder and president fo r f j 44 years. *. §

. D irectors Rorelected A t the: annual m eeting o f the j

stockholders Tuesday the fo llow in g 1 directors w ere re-elected fo r the en- suing y e a r : F.' M. Collin, A . L. Bail- j ey, J. H. Pepper, C. R, Andrew s and jA. F. Robson. Thei fo llow ing gentle- i) men w w c. elected inspectors o f e le c - i tion: E. H. Hopkins; FAC .. ' W hitaker;,! and M. F. Burke. j j . A . " v ' ;j ■

A t a subsequent m eeting o f the I* above directors A . F la g Robson w as j re-elected as president o f the bank :j fo r the .ensuing year; James H. Pep -;' per, vice-president; Charles E. W illis, ii cashier; and Lester H. Stork, assist- =1 ant cashier.

The bank shows a prosperous con- .7 Edition, having deposits o f $1,936,000 ;| ;.with a capital and surplus o f $250,000. :j

Mrs. Lucinda M. Peck 1Mrs. Lucinda M. Peck, aged 91 j,

years, died M onday evening, January 9th, at the home o f her daughter, Mrs. ; M artin Craugh, 110 Lake street, Penn |; Yan. Besides her daughter, w ith;! whom she lived, she is su fvvied by

- one son, Leon L. Peck o f Savona.The funeral w ill be held from the i

home o f Mrs. Craugh on Thursday ? m orning at 10 o ’clock w ith burial in I the cem etery at Canisteo. Rev. W il- j liam M. H ydon w ill officiate.

Mrs. Louisa Burg A t her home, 213 Clinton street,

Penn Yan, Tuesday night, January 10th, occurred the death o f Mrs. Louisa Burg, aged 73 years. Sh leaves her husband, M ichael; a son L. W arren Burg o f K im ball avenue Penn Yan; a sister, Mrs. Hattie H atch o f Po tter; a brother, George W erly o f Angels Camp, Calif.

Funeral services w ill be held from the Thayer Funeral home at 2 p. in. F riday with. Rev. W illiam M. Hydon, pastor o f the F irst Methodist church offic ia tin g and burial in the Lake' V iew cemetery.

M ary J. Lapham Z W lC - On Thursday morning, Januaiy 5th

occurred the death o f M ary J. L a p ­ham, w idow o f Clarence M. Page of Rochester, and sister o f Mrs. John T. Knox. She leaves a daughter, Miss W in ifred M. Page o f Rochester and a grandson, Clarence F. Page, also of Rochester.

T h e :directors o f the Community!; Rest room voted to close the. room on

I Decem ber 31st until definite finances ; can be assured to w arrent its con­tinuance. Since it has been closed,a|

; number o f people have shown a live ly j in terest in m aking plans to- raise! m oney fo r its support. A card party ! w ill be held at the rest rooms soon to raise funds, the time and date w ill beJ announced later.

Edgar S. Payne

Edgar Sutherland Payne, 46, prom i­nent stockman and farm er of Benton, j died at his home in that town on i Thursday morning, fo llow ing a week’s I, illness of pneumonia. Mr. Payne had j been prominent in agricu ltura l pro-1 jects. He was an active member of | the Yates County Farm Bureau, was i: serving his second term as president j. o f the Yates County Agricu ltu ra l So- § ciety, was tax assessor of his town, I school trustee. H :e owned a herd of | Guernsey cattle and distributed' dairy butter fiom his Benton property, known as P ine R idge farm .

He leaves his w ife ; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Payne, of Geneva; a brother, Frank B., of Ith aca ; three sons. Fenton, Frank and W esley ; two daughters, Miss M argaret and Miss Grace Payne, at home. " Funeral w ill be held Sunday afternoon from the home at 1 o’clock, Rev. James ESberle and Rev. A, A. Foster, o f Benton, o f­ficiating. Burial in Voak cemetery.

Simon J. Richm ond On Saturday night, January 7th,

five months to a, day fo llow in g the death o f his w ife, Simon J. Richmond, aged 70 years, o f Benton, passed aw ay in the Soldiers and Sailors M em orial hospital, Penn Yan, fo llow ­ing an illness o f but three days ’ dura-

I tion. Mr. Richmond w as born in ! W h itesville where his fa ther was born and lived until the son was

. eight years o f age when the fam ily j moved to Kansas. Both the parents!

died when the youth was 14 years of age, at which time he came to Yates ] county and was cared fo r by M rs.] C live Longw ell. He had lived here j ever since that time. /

H e leaves one son, Law rence J., o f I Fenton and a sister, Mrs. Isadora! Barney o f La Mesa, Calif., also three ] grandchildren. The funeral services v rere held from the home in Benton 1 usday afternoon at 2 o’ clock w ith Rev. W illiam M. Hydon, pastor o f the f i r s t Methodist church o f Penn Yan, o ffic ia tin g and w ith burial in the Lake V iew cemetery.

Mayor Does Not Choose to Run

1| T. W arn er W indnagle, m ayor o f Penn Y an fo r the past seven years,

j this w eek announced that he w ill not ’ be a candidate fo r re-election this

spring. M r. W indnagle ’s statem ent j fo llow s: “ M y term o f o ffice as m ayorI o f Penn Y an expires A p r il 1st. K n ow - I in g that a fevz are dissatisfied, that j some others desire a com plete change

? j and reorgan iza tion o f the v illa ge I board and believ ing it necessary fo r me to g iv e m ore tim e and attention

I to business, I m ake ’ this ea rly an­nouncement that I am not a candi-

I ca te fo r re-election in M arch .”

Charles F . A v e r y E a r ly M onday m orning, January

16th, a t the home o f his sister, M rs. Charles J. B ernard in Syracuse, oc­curred the death o f Charles F . A very , aged 67 years, a resident o f Penn Yan . | Besides his w ife and sister, M r. A v e r y | leaves a brother, V ic to r M. A v e r y o f j Tunkhannock, Pa .

The funeral services w ere held from the home at 212 N o rth avenue, Penn Yan, W ednesday a fternoon at 2 o 'clock w ith Rev. R oya l N . Jessup, j pastor o f the F irs t B ap tis t church o f Penn Yan, o ffic ia tin g and w ith burial j in the Lake V iew cem etery.

A d m ira l F ran k H. Schofield, Y a tes jj county native, now a m em ber o f the | N a v a l A d v is o ry board a fte r se rv in g !

j as com m ander-in-chief o f the U n ited j States fleet, a rrived in Penn Y an from j W ash ington this a fternoon to attend i

I the funera l o f his brother-in -law .

M iss Id a E. L ew is (F rom Dundee Correspondent)

M iss Ida E. L ew is died Sunday eve-, ning, January 15, fo llow in g a short; illness o f pneumonia a t the home oni

’ the L o g C ity road o f M r. and M rs .; : Adna H illigu s w ith whom she had j : m ade her home the past fe w months, i ] She was born in the town o f B a r - ; ! rington and resided w ith her parents j I on a fa rm before com ing to this vil-1 ! lage severa l years ago. She is su r- ! v ived by a nephew, Leon A . L e w is ; o f Rochester.

The funera l w as held W ednesday!, a fternoon at 2 o’clock from the Sar- : gen t funera l home, the Rev. T h o m a s ! W . Carter o ffic ia tin g. Buria l in H ill- ;side cem etery, Dundee.

The ooufm ittee o f the directors' o f the community resit mom. held a m eet­ing on Tuesday a fternoon ait which tim e the plan o f reopening the rest room was discussed.

Accord ing to the arrangem ents made, th e rest room' which has- been closed temlporardily, w ill reopen on Felb. 1st, when the Keuka D ry -Clean­ers, who have th e ir w ork ing plant a t Indian Pines, w ill have floor space in the room, -and w i l l furnish the hostess servic-e -and take care o f the room, w h ich w ill be open to the pub­lic as- it was in the past.

This plan has. been care fu lly w ork ­ed out b y th e m em bers o f the com­mittee, and w ill save in th e neighbor­hood of $500 1which recen tly was one of th e -expendituresi o f the room.

T h e fo rm a l re-opening o f the rest room wall take p lace on W ednesday, Feb. 4, when w affles and co ffee w ill be served fo r ,a m inim um charge. Th e

, public is invited.

i M OORE—A t h is u 'jm e at 137 Sotttfl!Avenue, SabuL v«.y a fternoon , Jail.21st, Thom as M. M oore, 78.M r. M oore w as a re tired business

man, havinig come to Penn Yan from N ew Y o rk C ity about 10 years ago. F o r severa l years Mr. M oore w as con­nected w ith the N ew E ra Mbvetaent. H e a lso had held execu tive positions, in Pan-Am eroan, '.St. Louisi, James­tow n , Cortland', Panam a-Pacific Expo- isitions. Mr. M oore -also served as a m em ber o f H erb ert H oover ’s B elg ian R e lie f in London du ring the W orld W ar! A t one tiimle h e operated coal m ines in the South, and ow ned A m er­ican agricu ltu ra l fa rm in g im plem ent industry in N ew Jersey. H e was a m em ber o f th e N ew Y o rk A th le tic Club, E ngin eers ’ Club, N ew Y o rk R e ­publican Club o f New Y o rk City. I Th e funera l which w as private, w as 1 he ld Tuesday afternoon , Rev. 'John 1E. W oo c lo u offic ia ting. B uria l in L a k e 1 View caibeiery. Mrs. W . M. Patteson, ; o f Penn Yan, is a n iece of; M r : MooTe.

T h e child, whose p ictu re appears in th e C ream o f W heat advertise­m ents in the current m agazines o f the month, is that o f Catherine John-: son, 2y2, daugh ter o f Mr. and Mrs. Parm ele Johnson, o f 326 M ain S treet. The picture is a reproduction o:f one

| o f a group taken by Ruth A lexander " N ichols, o f Brooklyn, w ho spends her * summers on La k e Keuka.

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J. H. Teece, o f Gorham , has leased jj the Chris N- A lbertson garage, cor- ' ner o f E lm and L ib e r ty street. M ar­tin Tones w ill be in charge o f the m echanical departm ent.

Ten fa rm ers p lo w in g th e ir fields (w e fe cdunted betw een Syracuse a n d ' ! Penn Yan on Tu esday a fternoon , Jan. 24 th, by Ted Townsend, w ho ad-1 dressed the Penn Yan E xchange Clubat th e ir -dinner m eeting.

Mrs. John S. Sheppard, o f N ew York , daughter-in law of. the late John S. Sheppard, o f Penn Yan , has been ap­pointed as one o f nine m em bers o f the state com m ittee to study and propose eg is la tion fo r ,the con tro l -of th e sa le vf beer when and i f Congress lega l- z-es the sa le o f beer.

A dm ira l F ran k H. Schofield, 64, w ill be retired from a c t ive s e rv ice in the U. S. N a v y on Tuesday, January 31st. A dm ira l Schofield is ope o f tw o ad­m irals to bo ld the n avy ’s, h ighest command afloat, that o f com m ander- in -ch ie f o f -the U n ited States fleet. A dm ira l Schofield was born in Jeru­salem, Yates County and is a brother o f Mrs. Charles A v e ry and E lm er Schofield, o f Penn Yan.

O live r iSheppard, o f Penn Yan, is in the litnaca H ospita l recove rin g from an operation perform ed by Dr. M artin T in ker, oif Ithaca, on Saturday m orn­ing. M r. Sheppard's fa ther, G eorge S. Sheppard, a ttorney, had a s im ila r bp*- erauion severa l m ontbes a g o and has j com p lete ly recovered .

F o rm er M ilo Assessor, A n d rew F .N ichols, D ies

A n d rew F . N ichols, aged 81 years, fo r severa l term s assessor fo r the township o f M ilo and a residen t o f M ilo Center, passed a w a y Tu esday m orning, January 31st, a t the Sold iers and Sailors M em oria l hospital.

H e leaves his son, Jesse o f M ilo and a sister, Mrs. D ora Ow en o f Penn Yan . The funera l services w ill be held at 1 o’ clock Thursday a fternoon at the la te residence w ith R ev. W . C. M oyer, pastor o f the M ilo C enter M ethod ist -church, o ffic ia tin g and w ith burial in the Lake V iew cem etery.

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H ow ard S. Fu llagar

A t the annual m eeting o f the N ew Y o rk State Central organ ization o f j Co-operative Mutual F ire Insurance companies held in Syracuse last week, I

i H ow ard S. Fu llagar o f the Bath road, M ilo township, w as elected president.

M r. Fu llagar, who represented the j Farm ers ’ Reliance M utual Insurance I company, served last year as vice-] president. H e has been a d irector j since 1905 and president since 1917 of' the Farm ers Mutual, in the Yates, Schuyler and Chemung county dis­trict.

Mrs. Fu llagar was elected secretary and treasurer o f the w om an ’s auxil­ia ry at the Syracuse m eeting.

Mrs. A llen Price E a rly F r id ay m orning at the home,

409 Court street, Penn Yan, occurred the death o f Mrs. Ida H. Price, aged 45 years, who had been critica lly ill fo r the past tw o weeks. She leaves her husband, A lle n ; her father, W il­bur W . Hutchinson, and a sister, Miss D orothy Hutchinson, both o f Law renceville, Pa.; a. brother, G eorge L. Hutchnson o f N orth Lawrence. Funeral services w ere held from the home at 2 p. m. M onday w ith Rev. R oya l N , Jessup, assisted ’ by Rev. W illiam H. W heatley, officiating. Burial w as . made in the Lake V iew cem etery. Mrs. P r ice had been a m em ber o f the choir o f the F irs t B ap­tist church and active in church a ffa irs since com ing to Penn Yan.

Dr. W . H. Rhudy, who has been ch ief surgeon at the C lifton Springs Sanitarium since ea r ly last fa ll, leaves fo r Penn Yan about February 15th to engage in p rivate practice. H e has leased a house in that v illa ge and w ill have the offices fo rm erly occu­pied by Dr. Harman. Until his. appoint-

! ment as chief surgeon Dr. Rhudy was assistant surgeon at the Sanitarium fo r about e igh t and one-half years. Announcement o f Dr. Rhudy’s inten­tion to move elsewhere fo r the pur­pose o f engaging in p riva te practice has been received w ith genuine re­gret at the Sanitarium and the v i l­lage. Dr. and Mrs. Rhudy w ill carry w ith them the ve ry best wishes of many friends.— C lifton Springs Press.

M . ,A BRUNDAGE— A t Dundee, Friday af- j ] A ternoon, Feb. 3,, Miss Adelle Brun- §• dage, 75.

For many years she was a school i teacher in the vic in ity of Dundee. She ; was a member of the Dundee Metho­

dist Church and an active worker in | the W. C. T. U. She leaves a brother,:i| Orson Brundage, of Hammondsport.A The funeral was held . Sunday after-

noon at the Methodist Church, Rev.1 Erw in W ilson officiating. Burial in § Bath.

COMSTOCK— A t Bellona, Friday, Feb.3, Israel W ood Comstock, 81.He leaves two daughters, Mrs. How-

.! ard D. Hadley, of Seneca F a lls ; Miss . $ Helen Comstock, of Dover, D el.; and

one son, Lieut. Donald R. Comstock, b of San Pedro, Cal. The funeral was j, held on Sunday afternoon, with a I prayer at the home at 1 o’clock and 7 services at the M em orial Presbyter­

ian Church at 2 o ’clock, Rev. M ar­sh a ll E. Bartholomew officiating. Burial in Tyrone cemetery.

G. Emmett Bassage

G. Em m ett Bassage, 50 died at his home at 343 E lm Street, on W ednes­day afternoon, Feb. 8th. Mr. Bassage had been critica lly i l l since Satur­day, Feb. 4th, but his death came as a shock to his many friends, few o f whom knew that he was ill. Mr. Bas­sage was em ployed as- a salesman fo r the Patterson-tSargent Pa in t Co., o f Cleveland, O. F or several years he was em ployed as a druggist in the Frank Quaekenbush drug store. He was a member of the Hydrant Hose Company, and had served as ch ief of the Penn Yan fire department. He was a member o f M ilo Lodge, No. 108,F. & A. M. He leaves his w ife, Mrs. Rose K. Bassage, two brothers, Charles, o f Branchport, and Amos, of F inneville, Mich., and one sister, Miss M aria Bassage, o f Penn Yan. The funeral w ill be held from the home on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. John E. W ootton, rector of St. M ark ’s Episcopal Church, officiating. M ilo Lodge, F. & A . M., w ill have charge o f the services at the grave. Burial in Lake V iew cemetery.

Governor Lehman, Monday night transmitted to the senate fo r con­firmation, the nomination o f M ichaelF. Buckley, o f Penn Yan, as a mem- ber o f the board o f v4sito.rs o f the New ark State 'School, Newark, to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration

g|of the term -o f Sarah F. S. A rm - ; strong, Penn Yan.

M IL L E R — In Seneca County, Monday, Feb. 13th, George W . M iller, 70. H e leaves his w ife, Mrs. E m ily J.

M ille r; tw o daughters, M iss Clara B. M ille r and Mrs. Charles Geoghegan. a ll o f Penn Yan, The funeral services w ere held On W ednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the home at 226 Ham*

f lton Street, Rev. R. N. Jessup o fficat- ing. Burial in Labe View . Mr. M iller had been a member o f the Keuka Lodge, I. O. O, F., fo r m ore than 40 years.

BLOOD— In New Y o rk State C lin ic Hospita 1 ; Wednesday, Feb! 15, Mrs. A lida E. Blood, 6&. i . r She leaves one son, ■>Gordon >Adams,

o f Benton ; three sisters, M rs.-W illiam Arm strong, Mrs. P e r le H aigh t, o f Penn Yan, and Mrs. W illiam Paddock, o f Prattslburgh. Th e funeral w ill be held from her la te home at 208 East E lm Street Saturday afternoop, at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. W . M. Hydon offic i­ating. Buria l in Lake V iew cemetery.

Italy Landmark Sold

Mrs. Augueta Harris has sold the Y Harris property at Italy Hill to EthelB. White. The Harris property has been an Italy Hill landmark for many y years, Mrs. Harris with her husband i r having conducted a store in Italy for 1 more than 40 years. The Harris store | was known for miles around the up- | per floor being used as a dance hall. | The , Harris dances were known for ; their general good times, and the j' celebrated oyster "‘suppers served in connection with the dances were fa- mous, both for quality and quantity.

M ore than 100 couples w ere in at- h tendance at each dance. That was in | the days, o f .the h orse and/cutter, and j when one o f the "H arris dances w ere , on, the church hitch \sheds, barns and A the hitching poets w ere a ll tethering ; places fo r the horses, w ith cutters, j; bobs and wagons. In those days, Ita ly H ill was a booming litt le country -. town, w ith tw o stores, one conducted by Mr. and Mrs. H arris and the other k by Charles Lare. There w ere two blacksmith shops, one run by Don p| E llsw orth and the other by W ilson Mattes on. A log and basket factory j w ere a part o f the tow n ’s enterprises, | own by W illiam Kennedy. H ere the j;>A logs w ere brought in and process o f ; sawing out the wood fo r hand-made and hand-nailed grape baskets was1 j completed. /; . A ; ' - f||

A t that time It^ ly H ill supported a 1 band and furnished music fo r special A occasions.

Mr. and Mrs. H arris had their home j in connection w ith the store and in j , those days the general store was the 1 gathering place and m eeting house fo r j a ll the community.

SPOONER AX ills UULU'V 1JLL iTiiiv.,Wednesday, February 15, M arvin ' L .Spooner 79.H e leaves his w ife, one eon, Leon,

o f M ilo ; one daughter, Mrs. O. H. A r ­nold, of Bergen. T h e funeral w ill be held on F riday afternoon at 2. o ’clock, from , the home, Rev. W . C. M orey o f­ficiating. Burial in Lake \View ceme­tery.

CROSBY— A t Penn Yan, Saturday, Feb. 18th, Edmond Crosby, 81.Mr. Crosby was a descendant o f

Nathan Crosby who came to Yates County in 1821 from Putnam County and his descendants established Crosby,, on the east side o f the lake. He served as sheriff o f Yates County several years ago. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. F loyd Lament, o f Penn Yan, and Mrs. George Sunder-

I lin, o f Cortland, and one brother, ] Fred, o ( Penn Yan. The funeral ser- : vices were held on , Tuesday a fter­noon at 2 o ’clock from the Lam ent home at 221 Clinton Street, Rev. R. N. Jessup and Rev. W. H. W heatley o f­ficiating. Burial in Lake View .

QUENAN— A t Penn Yan, Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, John Quenan, 82.* H e leaves his w ife ; three daugh­

ters', Mrs. V?. J. McCarthy, o f Roch­ester; Mis® 'Catherine and Mis® M ary Quenan, a t home; one brother, Edward Quenan, o f Penn Yan, and one granddaughter, Miss Veron ica Q. McCarthy, o f Rochester. The fiin era l w ill be held Saturday m orning from St. M ichael’® Church at 9 o'clock, w ith burial in St. M ichael’s cemetery.

Clarence H. Ferenbaugh

The many, friends of C larence H. I Ferenbaugh w ere saddened on Sat-1 urday, Feb. 18th, when telegrams I came to Penn Yan bearing word of sudden death at Ft. Banning, Georgia, | o f Mr. Ferenbaugh, who had le ft Penn ( Yan the preceeding Saturday, w ith Mrs. Ferenbaugh, for a visit with their eon, Lieut.' B irkett Ferenbaugh, U. S.A., who is stationed at Ft. Banning

Mr. Ferenbauigh’s death was caus­ed by apoplectic etroke and he died w hile being taken by his son to the

’.hospital, just 24 hours a fter his a rriv­al at the Southern city. The body was brought to Penn Yan on Monday eve­n ing on the 6:10 train on the Penn- , sylvania Railroad and was placed in j St. Mark’s Episcopal Church until the 1 funeral service on Wednesday a fte r - ; noon at 2:30, hundreds vis iting thej church to pay their last respects to i one who undoubtedly was unaware of the gifted personality which he i possessed and which even radiated to I scores who had m erely a casual ac- uaintance w ith him. Expressions of regret were heard on every side at the sudden passing o f a genial friend ! and neighbor.

Mr. Ferenbaugh was born at Fer- enbaugh’s Station, near Corning, Steuben County, 67 years ago, and came to Dresden several years ago and was identified With the operation o f the Dresden F lour Mills. About 20 years ago he came to Penn Yan and entered the em ploy o f the W a lk er Bin Company and continued in that work until his death, being secretary of the firm at the time o f his death.He wag a member o f St. M ark ’s Epis­copal Church and had served as clerk of the Vestrymen. He was a director of the Izaak "Walton League, Lake Keuka Chapiter, and had a summer home on W est Branch, where he en­joyed the sport o f angling, the year around. He was a member of M ilo Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. M., Penn Yan Chapter, Royal A rch Masons, and Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Tem ­plar.

He leaves his w ife Mrs. Delia B irk­ett Ferenbaugh; one son, Lieut. B irk­ett Ferenbaugh, o f the U. S. Arm y, at Ft. Banning, Ga.; one sister, Mrs David Rogers, o f Ferenbaugh’s Sta­tion.

Funeral services w ere held from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on (Wed­nesday afternoon at 2:30, Rev. John E. Wootton, restor of St. M ark’s*, o ffi­ciating, and the Knights Tem plar in charge o f the committal ritual. Bur­ia l in Lake V iew cemetery.

H ow ard C. W oodru ff o f "^Dundee, { director o f the C itizens Bank o f Penn j| Yan, escaped w ith cuts and bruises : about the le ft side o f his ace W ed- jj nesday m orning o f last week when j] his car skidded and struck the ditch, h smashing the le ft running board and }j fenders. The accident happened on j l

the icy state road near the top o f the j hill south o f Second Milo, when he] was driv ing towards Penn Yan. • I)

W ord has been received in this v illage o f the death o f Prof. W ill N. Hazen, a t his home at St. Helena, California, Feb. 7th. He was the last member o f th® fam ily of Caleb Hazen, one of the pioneer residents o f Yates County, who lived at Hazen’e Corners, in the town o f Benton. Ther® are sur­viving his w ife, and five children, a ll o f whom reside in California.

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W illiam H. Conklin

One o f Penn Y a n ’s veteran business men, who has been a barber fo r 70- years, and w ork in g in his. present lo ­cation fo r n early a, h a lf .century, a

"fiatiVe b f < Jerusalem " tdvvnshipt' is. ce l­eb rating his 85th b irthday Thurs­day, shaving beards and cu tting hair as usual in his shop over the Shepard and G rady Jew elry store. H e began bis trade when 15 years old.

Mr. Conklin jo ined M ilo Lodge, No. 108, F ree and A ccep ted Masons, on

{F eb ru a ry 11, 1870 atid has ju st cel- j ebrated his 63rd. M asonic birthday, j H e is the oldest liv in g m em ber o f M ilo lodge.

M r. Conklin was born in the town o f Jerusalem on the site o f w hat is

| now K euka college, M arch 2, 1848. H is la th er w as a w ell-know n v in eyard ist

{in those days.M r. Conklin served as apprentice in

the barber shop o f Charles H adley, ^having as customers m any fam ous } 'personages, am ong them p ra c tica lly i -gall o f the judges o f the seventh Judi- I cial d is tric t from that tim e on. j

H e has cut the hair o f P. T . Barnum , i the g rea test showm an o f them all.

Th ere w ere on ly tw o barber shops in the v illa ge in those days and in their confines, then sacred to the m em bers o f the m ale sex, the destin ies o f the v illa g e and nacion w ere threshed out; the go ings and the com- | ings, tria ls and tribulations, joys and isorrow^, and all the news w ere poured t; into his sym pathetic ear.

B arbering H as ChangedTh e custom ers w ere m any, the shop j

opening at 7 in the m orn ing and clos-1 ing about 9 in the evening. On S a t - ! urday n ights it w ould be m idn igh t j o ften tim es be fore the tired barber - could close his aoors. “ In the good old days’’ shaves could be had fo r 10 j cents and a haircu t fo r 25 cents. H is { new depression price fo r haircuts is i. ju st as low as it w as then, though j

me now gets 20 cents fo r shaves. B ut j lit t le tonic was sold in the , ea r ly days, j m en’s trade funn ing . to hair and j mustache dyeing. Mr. Conklin re- I calls one man w ho had brillian t red ' hair but a mustache dyed a je t black. :

The difference in the trade now and I then can be measured by the trea t- j m ent o f the customers, says M r. j Conklin. In those days the w ork j would be rou gh ly and qu ick ly done w ith the ch ie f ob ject being to g e t the i

. M r. Conklin returned to Penn Yan in/ the. fa l l o f, 1872 and 13 yea rs la ter entered his presen t p lace, o f business, w h e fe he has been, fo r 48 years. .

His,’ m ind runs 'b ack to the days w hen Penn Y an had woocjen awnings .covering the w alks in fro n t o f the stores and a w ooden ra il a long the g u tte rs .severa l fe e t .above the ground fo r the purpose o f.h itqh in g the horses

j o f the fa rm ers w ho drove iri to tradq, Old w ooden shutters w ere p laced in

j fron t o f the w indow s w hen the stores w ere closed fo r the iiigh t.

Th e streets w ere then ligh ted w ith kerosene lamps. A m an w ould ride arouiid w ith horse and w a gon filling, ligh tin g and clean ing the lam ps and

-'chimneys and in the m orn ing ex tin -’ gu ish ing them. H e has one o f the old o il s tree t lam p posts in the ya rd o f his home now.

S ix ty yea rs ago the 23rd* o f F eb ru ­a ry he m arried M iss E sth er Gay, w ho died the 13th o f January la st year. She w as a y ea r his junior, but ih e ir b irthdays fe ll on the sam e day. H is Daughter, Mrs. E v a Seeley, resides w ith her fa th er on L a k e s tree t, Penn Yan.

PENN YAN STORE , HAS ANNIVERSARY

Many Well Known Men and

Women Have Worked for

Lown Dry Goods Co. in Past

Years

T h ir ty years ago W ednesday o f this w eek the L ow n D ry Goods com pany, j; Inc.,, .was incorpora ted under the law s f o f the sta te o f N e w Y o rk , and the store is ce leb ra tin g the even t byf- launching this w eek a m erchandis-j’ ing release . sale. Th e store its e lf is/'

j much older, how ever, h av in g been iri its present prom inen t location on!

j M a in s tree t during the 44 yea rs sincej : jJ. H. L ow n erected the Low n block; Th e business is even, older, since M r. ;'L ow n and his associates conducted ad ry goods store elsew here on M ain

! s tree t previous to construction o f the j building.

In the store w ith him at that tim e, a h a lf cen tu ry ago, was^ W illia m

I Henderson, B en jam in H avens, H en ry M cA d am s and Cassius M cFarren . W om en w ere not em p loyed until a fte r m ovin g to the new building. On M on ­day o f this w eek the stockholders .o f the presen t corporation m et, electing1. L . Y e tte r , F red W h itak er, ; Mrs. F lo ren ce P . Y e tte r , M iss Desdam ona j Y e t te r and T . J. R eyn o lds d irectors. ! The d irectors in turn nam ed M r. j "Y e tte r president and M r. Reynolds | secre ta ry and treasu rer to serve i another year.

In con trast w ith the ea r ly days when no w om en w ere em ployed, the present s tore em p loys m ore w om en than m en: M iss D esdam ona Y e tte r , M rs. M aym e F lah erty , M rs. Jennie Sherwood, M rs. M arie, B o lger, M rs. I Gordon W ilcox , M rs. E lizabeth Dolan, M iss F rances Robeson, M rs. H elen j G riffiths, F ra n k Haven®, H a rry K lube, I Eugene P o rte r , E ld red B arc liff, I. L . Y 'e tter and T . J. Reynolds. D esp ite the depressiori, the store “ w here shop- j p ing is a p leasure” has k ep t its en tire personnel in tact. T h ey are now busy conducting the s to re ’s sa le o f a ll its h igh -qu a lity goods a t low prices. Dean o f the em ployees o f the store is F ran k Havens, w ho cam e in to the em p loy ­m ent o f M r. L ow n s ix m onths be fore bis death, w h ich w as 35 years ago.

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Am ong the- many weii-icnown resi­dents who have heen employees o f this store during earlier years are: Thelate W alter B. Tower, Ann Hoban, Seward McDonald, Mrs. K ittie Spangler Kenne, Miss M ary Meehan, Miss, Abbie Middleton, Miss N ettie Babcock, Mrs. E ffie Oswald Johnson, Mrs. Marie- Halloran Whyte, Miss Ellen Baxter, Mrs. M. E. Barnes, Miss M aria Dent, Mrs. Abram Gridley, Mrs. Delia Hopkins Whitaker, Mrs. Eleanor Kinner Frey, Miss M atie Mahar, Mrs. Anna Geoghegan, Emerson P e r­ry, Wendell McFarren, Scott Genung, Cyrus Negus, Mrs. Nathaniel P. Sack- ett, W illiam Clapper, Fred Hender­son, Miss H attie Stryker.

A ll rumor o f a division o f opinion and o f two tickets in the field o f Penn Yan politics appeared to vanish like h. cloud Saturday evening when around 100 men and a few women assembled in the rear o f the fire department house on Main street to nominate w ith form al regu larity Michael F. Buckley, democrat, fo r m ayor; E. G. Hopkins, J. Campbell Moore and H arry W . Hurford, all republicans, fo r trustees to serve fo r two years. Mr. Buckley, having served three I terms some time ago, is the first dem- ! ocrat to be nominated fo r m ayor in many years.

patron ' out o f the cnair as quivrvtjpossible to make room fo r the next

1 customer.Fo llow ing - a two-year period in the j

Hadley shopff which was then located ; in the store now used . by the Lake J Keuka F lo ra l Co., on Main street, Mr. Conklin and his brother, C. C. Conk­lin, purchased the Hadley interests j and started business fo r themselves.

The scenes o f C ivil war days le ft a strong impression on his mind. He : recalls the sound o f the fife and drum j

coming down the street. Customers, . faces covered w ith lather, often times j w ith hair half cut, casting' aside the j

sheet and towels, would dash out in- j to the street to join the other boys j in blue on their w ay to the front.

In 1871 Mr. Conklin disposed o f his business and w ent w est to see some­thing o f the country. H e finally lo - j cated in Topeka, Kansas, where he] met the cowboys and “ bad men” w ith the heavy ’’ shooting irons” hung from either hip ready for instant use.

MCDONALD— A t his home in PennYan, Wednesday, March 8, HenryMcDonald, 79. ,Mr. McDonald, with his w ife, con­

ducted the McDonald Bakery, on East Elm street for 40 years, until their re­tirement about 5 years ago when they; sold their baking business and bought. the A. C. Shearman property, corner Elm and L iberty streets. Mr. McDon- aid was born in Tnumansburg July 13, 18-54. He leaves his wife, Mrs. E liza­beth McDonald; a son, Hugh McDon-

' aid, o f W illa rd ; a daughter, Mrs. M.B. Burke, o f Los Angeles, Cal.; ' a sister, Mrs. Sidney Hammond, of Roch­ester, and a nephew, Paul V. McDon- , aid, of Trumansburg. The funeral w ill be held on Friday morning from St. M ichael’s Church at 9 o’clock, wi-th burial in St. M ichael’s cemetery.

PECK— A t the S. & S. Hospital, F ri- I day, March 3, Robert J. Peck, 79. r * He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Carrie ! Chrisler, o f E lm ira; one son, Howard Peck, o f Benton; -two brothers, Thos. Peck, o f Rochester; W alter, of Geneva, j and one sister, Mrs Am elia T ills , of :

I Geneva. The funeral was held fr o m ' the home in Benton on Monday a fter­noon at 2:30 Rev. James -Sykes, o f the

I H a ll Congregational Church, official- j I ing. Burial in Benton cemetery.

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R u s h v i l l e P a r t y

W illiam Millspaugh, a formek ipsi- dent of Branchport, and a son o f Mr.- gad Mrs. Levi Mi'lspaugh, has giiven

I to the. Branchport Cemetery associa- ] tion a valuable g ift, the form er home

of Mrs. Catherine Carrol ’, which he recently purchased, w ith a half acre of land. This property lies on each side of the cemetery entrance. Mr. Millspaugh le ft here a number o f years ago, locating at Sandusky, O., where he became very successful in the manufacturing o f Millspaugh oaction Couch and Press Rolls and other patents which he designed.

He has now expressed his interest] i fir his boyhood home and the buriali place o f his parents by this gift.

The lower, or old part of the ceme­tery, is on land bought by the P res­byterian church A pril 15, 1833. I t was deeded to the church by O. S- E llsworth and John R. Brown. There was a burial made there in 1834. In June, 1862,. the west section was pur­chased. A t this tim e the cemetery was incorporated under the name of the Branchpbrt Cemetery association. These ;old papers are signed by Mr. M illspaiighs father, Levi Millspaugh,

! who was a justice o f the peace at that I time. The first trustees were W illiam ] P. Hibbard, Charles H. Vail, W il iam A . Pelton, John Laird, Franklin B>

j Lamb and H arvey G. Denniston.About 18 years ago the restoration

! c f this cem etery was undertaken by ; Mrs, C am e Hurd Evans. A t that ,tim e the old part w as a brush lot of | locust trees, blackberry bushes, poi-j | son ivy and broken stones, i Mrs. Evans, w ith determ ination j and presistent effort, had this cleaned j up. Both old and new sections were | graded, stones reset, an attractive en- ! trance bu ilt and shrubbery set. j Mrs. Evans is still president o f the i association and at her home at , Brownsville, Texas, wall be glad to j know o f Mr. M illspaugh’s g ift.

The present officers and trustees j are: Mrs. Evans, president; Mrs. Ger- ! trude Parker, vice-president; Clarence | Davis, secretary and treasurer; A r- j thur Sisson, Fred Burk, Edna Stever, Vernon Haire, Schuyler Hurd and Frank Botsford, trustees.

Yates county was taken as com­pletely by surprise as any commun­ity by the sudden em ergency bank holiday declared Saturday and ex- j tended over the country until Friday j o f this week. The initial flutter o f excitement, caused by the announce- i ment, disappeared the first o f this j; week as the purpose o f the general moratorium became clear.

Officials of the two Penn Yan banks Wednesday afternoon stated that they expect to open their doors F r i­day morning fo r restricted business. Co-operating to help the public through the days o f lim ited circula­tion o f currency, the local merchants and business men have been accept­ing checks on lo ca l. banks as usual. Retailers o f food and necessities have been, generally speaking, more liber­al than usual in extending credit. The N ew Y ork Telephone company, / among others, announced the first o f this w eek that it would accept checks in payment on the accounts o f its I subscribers.

U Last Thursday night Undersheriff : Kerskie- and Deputy Sheriff Bacon of'I Canandaigua responded to a call from j I ’esidents o f North Main street, Rush­ville, and interrupted a wild party at the bungalow home o f Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hughnor' and took ifito cfist: tody those found there, including; Ray-' mond Hughnor, 27; his wife, Frances Fughnor, 21; W illiam L. Hobart, Jr., 22, all o f Rushville; and Robert Cox, 32, of Canandaigua. F loyd Hughnor, who was found hiding in the cellar, appeared to be sober.

Upon the arrival o f the officers they, found Raymond Hughnor bleed­ing profusely from a cut behind the ear. He claimed that he was stabbed with a case knife by his w ife and made a complaint before the m agis­trate upon which a warrant was! is- sued charging her w ith assault. A fte r Hughnor’s wound had been dressed by a Rushville physician, all were taken before Justice M. W . Fisher who di­rected them to appear fo r a hearing the fo llow ing afternoon. Mrs. Hugh­nor was taken to Canandaigua by the deputies and was brought back F r i­day afternoon fo r the, hearing. She pled gd ilty to the charge and was sen­tenced to 30 days in the county ja il and a $10 fine. The ja il sentence was suspended on condition of good be­havior.

Messrs. Hughnor, Hobart and Cox pled gu ilty to public intoxication charges and were sentenced to a $10 fine each and 30 days in the county iail. Mr. CoX’s ja il sentence was sus­pended during good behavior in order that he m ight not lose tiis job at the veterans’ hospital in Canandaigua. The others were taken at once to Can­andaigua jail.

PRO PO SITIO N Shall the Board of Trustees o f the

V illage o f Penn Yan, New York, allow the p laying o f Baseball on Sundays be­tween the hours o f 2:01 and 6:00 o’clock in th© afternoon at which an admission may be charged?

W IL L IA M B. M ANLEY, I 47w2 Clerk.

1 HERRINGTON— A t Mt. Vernon, Sun­day, March 12, Dr. J. M. Herring­ton, 52.Dr. Herrington was' a former resi-

dent of Penn Yan, having been en­gaged in dental practice here for sev­eral years prior to his1 removing to Mu Vernon. His death was caused by chronic neuritis, fo llow ing an illness of one month. He was a native of Canandaigua. H e leaves his wife, Mrs. Mabelle McFarren Herrington, and one daughter, Mrs. Talbot Johns, of Camjbridge, Mass. Funeral services

, were held at the home of John J. Me- Elllgott, 301 Main St., on Wednesday afternoon, at 3 o ’clock, Rev. J. H. Per­kins, of Penn Yan, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at Branchport, o f­ficiating. Burial in Lake View ceme-

Mrs. Anna Carlin Mrs. Anna Carlin, a, form er J Well

known resident o f Penn Yan, vpasset yway suddenly at the home o f he] daughter, Miss Rose Carlin, 121 Ed- gerton street, Rochester Tuesday, eve­ning, March 7th. She is survived- by t.wo daughters, Miss Rose Carlin and Mrs. Michael J. Carroll o f Rochester; two sons, Thomas Carlin o f Buffalo and Henry Carlin o f Fulton; four grandchildren, Hubert Carlin an j Mrs. Dolores Carlin Sands o f Buffalo, Thomas Carroll o f Rochester and Miss Rhoda W ilson o f N ew York.

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X A L L E N —A t Keuka Park, Thursday, Mar. 10th, Miss Edna Mae Allen, 48.She leaves her mother, Mrs. L ila

A llen, o f Benton; a brother, Stewart, A llen, o f Benton. The funeral w as j held on Sunday afternoon at 2:30: o ’clock, Rev. Roy Hodges, o f Keuka Park, and Rev. A. A. Foster, o f Ben­ton, officiating. Burial in Gorham cem-j e te ry ..CRANE—A t Chicago, 111., Saturday,

Mar. 11th, Miss M arietta C. Crane, 74.■She, w ith her sister, Miss E liza-

: beth Crane, who survives her, was a ! teacher in Penn Yan Academ y in ' form er years. Funeral services w ere- held from the Thayer funeral parlors Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o ’clock, Rev. W. A. Henricks officiating. Buri- j al in Lake View.

George Tenbrooke, o f W atkins Glen, has purchased the Lake Keuka F lo ra l Company, Which includes the store at 109 Main Street, the greenhouses and residence at 225 Main Street, and w ill continue the business which has been conducted by Mrs. Mae Owen fo r the past several years. j

Mr. Tenbrooke is a fo rm er em ploye I o f the Lake Keuka F lo ra l Company and is w ell acquainted w ith the busi­ness and understands the floral and

I greenhouse part o f it thoroughly. Mr. and Mrs. Tenbrooke w ill occupy the

Employes of the new floral com­pany w ill be Mrs. Inez Daines, in the Main Stret store; A lexander F. Mac- Kerchar, brother-in-law o f Mr. Ten- brooke, and R oy Lid'diard.

Forms New Association

A grouip o f interested - men hav-e form ed the F inger Lakes. National Farm Loan Association, covering the counties o f Yates, Schuyler, Ontario and o-f Pu lteney Township in Steuben County, and have elected the fo llow ­in g officers: president, Orson R. Rob­son. H a ll; vice-president, W . Floyd; M iller, Penn Yan, R. D. 3; secretary-i treasurer, Fayette M. H errick , Penn Yan, R. D. 1. Maurice McCann, attor­ney, oif Penn Yan, w ill act as counsel and attorney fo r the association tvhich is a branch o f the Federal Land Bank.

App lication fo r a charter has been made and the filing o f incorporation papers is under way. Th e purpose o f the new association is to care for and rece ive applications fo r loans1 front the Federa l Land Bank located1 a t Springfield, Masis. W ith the new group function ing it w ill not 'be necessary to apply to the headquarters at Spring­field but applications fo r loans can be made to the loca l association and loans- w ill be made through them to cover the terr ito ry included in the group.

T h e fo llow in g are d irectors o f the association elected at a m eeting held at the H otel Benham on Saturday, March 18th: Dean Sm alley, Rock Stream ; Glen Andersen, Penn Yan,R D.; W . F loyd M iller, Penn Yan, R jD. 3; Fayette M. H errick , Penn Yan, R. D. 1; Orson R. Robson, Hall. The o fficers w ere in turn elected by the directors.

D r . Edmund M. Mills

Rev.. Dr. Edmund M ead Mills, prominent Methodist clergym an and form er chairman o f Central Methodist Conference, died Wednesday, Mar. 15ith-, at his home in Santa Aha, O a l-, ifornia, o f a stroke suffered three week aigo. H e was 84 years In1924 Dr. M ills retired as a mepiber o f

i the Epworth League board o f pontrol I and as secretary o f the general' con­ference o f Methodist Episcopal, church a fter which he moved from Syra­cuse to Santa Ana where he continued i his horticlutural pursuits to gain a national reputation fo r his- develop­ment o f m ore than 100 varieties o f Am erican roses. E arly in h is , life Dr. j Mill® began an investigation o f rose culture. In 1926 he w as chosen honor- j ary president of the Am erican Rose j Society. H e also was actively, .engaged in N ew Y ork State horticu ltural asso­ciations before his. rem oval .West.

Dr. M ills w rote two volumes o f sermons, which w ere published in 1905. Th ey w ere issued in the “ Pu l­pit Series” under the titles ‘ ‘As H e Thinketh” and “ Only a Profession and Other Sermons.” Dr. M ills was also a delegate from the Am erican church to the Methodist Encumenical con fer- ence at London in 1901, .and at To ron ­to in 1911. "Wesleyan U niversity , hon­ored him in 1888 w ith the degree o f Doctor o f D ivin ity. Syracuse awarded him a L itt. D .Jn 1918. H e was i , m em ­ber o f Ph i Beta Kappa, D elta Kappa Epsilon and several Masonic orders. H is first w ife, Mrs. E m ily Adams M ills, whom he m arried in 1873, died several years ago. H is second w ife, Mrs. Sadie B row n Allbright M ills , ' sur­vives. .. . ,

Mrs. Elvira Briggs

Mrs. E lv ira Stephenson B riggs, 91, one o f Yates .County’s o ldest res i­dents, diied at the home o f her daugh­

t e r , Mrs. H. H. Hardm an, at W illo w - • I hurst, W est Lake Road, on Sunday ; m orning, Mar. 19th, fo llo w in g an i l l ­ness o f tw o weeks.

Mrs. Briggs- was born in Jerusalem , j the daughter of. D aniel B. and S a lly i Y o rk Stephenson, p ioneer resiednts j o f the town, and she had lived in Jerusalem a ll her l i fe w ith the ex­ception o f 12 years -spent in the

's ta te o f M ichigan. A bou t 70 years ! ago, she m arried1 H a rry B riggs , whose

' death occurred in 1893. Mrs. B riggs was the oldest m em ber o f the F irs t

\ Baptist Church in Penn Y a n and also the oldest m em ber o f Gu-ya-no-ga j Chapter, Daughters o f the A m erican ,

I Revolu tion , and1 was: a m em ber o f the | N ational D. A R . body, having becom e a m em ber three years fo llo w in g its organ ization . She was a life - lo n g j m em ber o f the Y a tes Counity W . C. T . U. and had served as presiden t o f the loca l chapter.

Mrs. B riggs becam e a m em ber o f the Baptist Church in 1855 at the age

I o f 14 years and a lw ays had been a fa ith fu l member. She attended church

I services until advancing year® pro- j hibited: her from tak in g a ctive part j in the service. H e r d a ily l i fe w as an j exem plification o f the tru e p rin c ip les I o f re lig ion , how ever, and she- w ill be m issed* by a host o f friends and ne igh ­bors. H er m em ory and in te lle c t w as j rem arkab ly keen and she could con­verse o f the present or the past w ith c la r ity and in te lligen ce. D u rin g the I recen t centennia l o f the penn Y a n j B aptist Church, Mrs. B r igg s ren d ered , va lu ab le assistance in p reparin g th e ! pageant fo r presen tation as her m em - ' o ry o f people and happenings o f m ore than a h a lf cen tu ry ago w as perfect.

Mrs. B r ig g s had been up and about until tw o w eek s ago in sp ite o f the

fact that on June 1 st, next she woulti have reached her 92nd- birthday.

Mrs. Briggs is survived by one daughter, Mr®. Hard/man, with whom she had m ade her home for the past .several years.

The funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o’clock from the Thayer funeral home, Rev. R. N. Jessup, officiating assisted by Rev. W. H. Wheatley, and Rev .W. A. Hen- ricke. Interment in Lake View ceme­tery.

T o Reduce Budget

Th e Penn Yan board o f education is com pleting plans fo r reducing the local budget and fo r ca rry in g on the w ork o f most a ll the school depart­ments despite the State A id cut. No contracts w ill he g iven out to teach-

I ers, however, until the exact amount I o f the State Aid! reduction is known.

Th e board expects that a reduction o f at least $13,000 w ill be m ade in the budget, and this w ill mean that ap­p rox im ately $10,000 w ill be saved to j the taxpayers a fter the S tate A id cut I which at present is placed at 10 per j cent, has been deducted. The loss to the Penn Yan U nion School D is t r ic t ,

i as a resu lt o f the reduction in State I A id w ill amount to approx im ately ’ >$9,000. T h e d ifference is m ade up in !

! part, how ever, by an increase i n ' j State m oney this year resu lting from ii j an increased school attendance in the j district du ring the past year.

I Teachers in the d istrict now are ! paying a 5 per cent contribution from th e ir sa la ries and a ll have agreed , that i f th ey are em ployed here another j

{school year they w ill m ake a con tri- ! j butibh w hich w ill then amount to 10 I j per cept o f th eir sa laries, to ta lin g ap- 1 proximat-ely $10,000.

j T o p ro tec t pension p r iv ile g es and i to com ply w ith p resen t state man- :' date®, the teachers ’ sa la ries a re k e p t ! on the same- basis as in fo rm er years j and a contribution m ade .to m ake up the t im e ly adjustm ent. • •

Penn Yan Couple Mark Anniversary

M r. and M rs. H . N e w e ll Sm ith w ill ce leb ra te the 50th an n iversa ry o f th eir w edd in g on W edn esday o f n ex t w eek. F i f t y y ea rs a go a t the hom e o f her fa th er, Jacob A ih n g to n , on C lin ton street, R ev . E. M. M ills , pasto r o f the* F ir s t M eth od is t church o f P en n Y an , w ho died W edn esday in C a lifo rn ia , o ffic ia ted a t the w edd ing . M iss K it t ie J A llin g to n becam e the b ride o f H . N e w e ll Sm ith , son o f W . H . Sm ith, w ho lived ju st outside o f th e v illa g e Pm its near the top o f the W id o w hill.

T h e b rid e ’s fa th e r w as a con tractor. H e bu ilt the M eth od is t, P re sb y te r ia n and E p iscopa l churches and the public lib ra ry in P en n Y an . S evera l w ho a t ­tended the w edd in g a h a lf cen tu ry a go stili l iv e in P en n Y an .

A t th a t tim e the g ro o m w as a ph otograph er. H e s ta rted th is bus­iness in the studio o f H o ra ce M ills , loca ted o v e r w h a t is n ow the P ro u ty and W a ld ron D ru g store. F iv e yea rs a fte r his m a rr ia g e he sold th e 1 bus- ines to Mr.' C rum m and m oved to C olorado S p rin gs w h ere th ey res ided fo r ten years, he w o rk in g as a je w e le r and head o f a d ep a rtm en t store.

E x cep tin g fo r this* decade, res id in g ,"n C olorado, M r. and M rs. S m ith h ave m ade th e ir hom e in P en n Y a n . F o r 20 y ea rs he w as a c le rk in th e C harles K e l ly g ro c e ry store. F o r m an y y ea rs th ey liv ed in the red b r ick res iden ce in C hapel s tree t, n ow ow n ed b y D r. J. A . C on ley, w es t p f th e M e th od is t church. Som e n ine y ea rs a go th ey

purchased ana m ovea iu u ie ir present home, on the corner o f L ib e r ty and Chapel streets.

T w o o f their three children are l iv ­in g : Mrs. (A ilen e ) Pau l Culver o fE lm ira and Leon H. Sm ith o f Roch-

| ester. Carl C. Sm ith died some 20 years ago. M r. Sm ith has fou r brothers: Dr. W . W . o f Rochester, De W it t and H erm an o f Penn Y an and A llen o f Colorado Springs; Mrs. Sm ith has tw o liv in g sisters, Grace and

j Sarah M a y A llin gton , both o f E lm ira.

BRU ND AG E— A t M ilo, Thursday, Mar. 23rd, Mrs. A lic e Brundage, 76.'.She leaves her daughter, Mrs. F red

H o llow e ll, at whose home she died; a son, B ert Brundage, o f M ilo ; two brothers, G eorge Noble, o f R u shville; D aniel Noble, o f Ontario. W ayne .Oo!u:nty; tw o sisters, Mrs. Thom pson Gage, o f R u sh ville ; Mrs. Charles M cRae, o f Haynes, A laska. The funer­al w as held on iSunday afternoon at 3 o ’clock from the H o llow e ll home, Rev. R. N. Jessup o ffic ia tin g .. Burial in Lake V iew .B A R D E N — A t the home o f her daugh­

ter, 3 Eastland Ave., Rochester., Saturday, M arch 25, M ary E lizabeth Barden, 83.Besides her husband, H en ry M. B ar­

den, there survive two daughters, Mrs. •Fred H oughta ling and Mrs. U. Z. C lark , and two grandchildren, Adrian and M artha C larke, a ll o f Rochester. A p rayer service was held at R ochester on W ednesday m orning, Mar. 29th, and the funeral services w ere held from, the Th ayer funeral home in Penn Yan W ednesday a fte r ­noon, Rev. Samuel G. Houghton, o f Canandaigua, officiating. Buria l in Lake View-

C'OATES— A t the home o f her dauign- ter, Mrs. M. C. Seager, in Geneva, Tuesday, M arch 27, Mrs. Diana Coates, 83.She is su rvived by tw o sons, F red

and Charlies Coates, o f Penn Yan ; fOur daughters, Mrs. M. C. Seager, Mrs. A. W . Davey, o f New R och e lle ; Mrs. ,J. H. Cook, o f Muskogee, Oklahoma; Mrs. J. T. M ills , o f Colorado Springs. The funera l services w ere held at the hom e o f her daughter Thursday a fte r­noon. Buria l in L a k e V iew cemetery, Penn Yah. /

Thom as F. K irw an , o f N iagara Fa lls , has purchased the J. D. R ogers res i­dence at 344 M ain Street, and w ill take possession about M ay 1st. Mr. K irw an , who has been in the grocery business-in N iagara Fa lls , is contem ­p la ting en gag in g in a line o f busi­ness iri Penn Yan. H e w ill m ake ex ­tens ive a ltera tions and im provem ents to the residence. T h e sa le w as made by V in a ll & Oaraon rea l estate agency.

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M rs. L y d ia P a rk e r Baldw in (F ro m I ta ly H ill Correspondent) M rs. L y d ia P a rk e r B a ldw in died on

Sunday even ing, A p r il 2nd, fo llow in g a w eek ’s illness w ith - pneumonia/ She w as born in M ich igan D ecem ber 6, 1849. In you ng w om anhood stie

j w as united in m arria ge to Oren Bald- i w in, w ho died O ctober 20, 1908. Tw o I ch ildren w ere born to them : Gertrude Pu lver, w ho died A p r il 25, 1931, and A lfr e d B aldw in who died March- 31, 1927. She is survived by fou r grand-

j ch ildren: George, (Liss’ie and^Miss C or­ne lia B aldw in o f R u shville and Mrs. Edna P u lve r M cM inn o f Branchport. Th e funera l w as held W ednesday a ft ­ernoon a t 2 o’clock from her la te home, the Rev. Charles A . Sm ith o f B ranchport o ffic ia tin g. B uria l in Ita ly

j H ill cem etery.

Thursday, A p r il 6th, Mrs. Rachel W ym an w ill pass her 95th b irth day ’

: quiet1 y in the fa m ily o f her son,F rank W ym an, on the fa rm in the

I town o f P o tte r where she has resided fo r the past 65 years. She is the oid-

1 est resident o f this section in point o f years but retains her m ental facu l­ties and physical health to an unus­ual degree, reading" books and period- j

j icals and keep ing in touch w ith the issues o f the day, and w ork ing at the ligh ter tasks around the home.

A lthough keen ly interested in the; i a ffa irs o f her community, she seldom

leaves her home except to spend a j few days from tim e to tim e w ith her daughter, Mrs. M a ry Lackner o f P o t ­ter Center. Besides the son w ith 1 Whom she lives and Mrs. Lackner, j she has three other children, Burnette i

) W . W ym an o f the town o f P o tter, Mrs. j

Sarah Voorhees o f B olivar, a n d ; G eorge W ym an o f Saskatchewan, Cananda. She also has 15 grandchil- j

A dren and four grea t grandchildren.I Mrs. W ym an w as born in Penn ’: Yan , the daughter o f M r. and Mrs., I Samuel C raw fo rd .. She m arried Whit-i

I fo rd W ym an o f P o tte r in Novem ber;| 1869, and came at once to the farm !

1 which has since been her home. M r,; W ym an died M arch 2, 1910.

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PENN YAN HOTEL WILL OPEN SOON|

Former Bath Mayor to Com-]

plete Renovations on Allem

House — The Wagner To Be

Ready Next Week

N ex t w eek w ill see the opening: o f The W agner, an event long an tic i-1 pated by m any residents o f this v i l ­lage. L a s t yea r M r. and Mrs. W a l-1 ter W a gn er purchased the A llen prop­erty on M ain stree t and announced that the old “ Sheppard house,” as it is known by a number o f the older inhabitants o f Penn Yan , would be converted into a m odern hotel w ith | sleeping accom m odations fo r 50 per- j} sons. W o rk on the old structure w as 1 im m edia tely begun and the new hotel j is to be opened fo r business some tim e I next week. Because certa in furn ish­ings w ere delayed in shipment, M r. j W a gn er w ill not be able to open E as-j ter Sunday as he had planned.

M r. W agn er w ill be behind the desk fo r a fe w weeks. The rest o f the 1 sta ff, including the chef, w ill be made up o f the same people that w orked w ith him . in his hotel in Bath, j The kitchen is thorou gh ly furnished ; w ith all the la test equipm ent and the j dinners that m any people o f Penn j Yan w en t to B ath to en joy m ay be I had at home now. The W a gn er w ill i not boast a bar.

The people that rem em ber some o f ; the h istory o f the beautifu l old Shep­pard home w ill be rem inded that over , 100 years ago, in 1825, on the 2nd o f ; June, an old English sea captain, named E lijah Holcom b, opened a ta v ­ern called the “ W ash ington House” on the present site o f The W agner. I

Must Walk on Left Side of Highway

A pril 6, 1933 To A ll Issuing Offices and P o l ic e !

O fficials:Honorable H erbert H. Lehman, Gov- I V

era,or o f the State o f New York , on I-,1 March "31st, signed the fo llow in g b ill r which becomes effective July 1, 1933: *

Chapter 114 o f the Law s o f 1933 (v amends Subdivision 6 o f Section 85 o f th® Veh icle and T ra ffic Law to read j/,: as fo llow s :

6. Pedestrians w a lk ing or r e m a in - ;I ing on the, paved portion, o r traveled If part o f a roadway shall be subject to, and 'comply with, the ru les govern ing j vehicles, w ith respect to m eeting and turning out, except that such pedes­trians shall keep to the .left o f the center lin e thereof, so as to perm it j all vehicles to piass them in either di- j

nection on their right. Such pedes-1

1 trians shall not be subject to the || ru les govern ing veh icles as to g iv in g ; f v signals.

Th is act shall take effect July 1st, j/■1933. '/ ''I:--, '■ T V ' •' ' f ' f :

Th is is a radical change from the present law which requires that pedes- ; trians shall be subject to and com ply w ith the rules govern ing veh icles w ith respect to m eeting and turning out. It is hoped that the new law w ill be an aid in the reduction o f accidents in­vo lv in g pedestrians on highways.

It is requested that this in form ation be conveyed to the general public in order that the provisions o f the law m ay be com plied w ith when it be­comes effective.

.Commissioner o f M otor Vehicles

DUNIN— A t Penn Yan, Sunday, Apr. 9, 1 G eorge B. Dunn, 88.Mr. Dunn died at the home o f his j

daughter, Mrs. M ark W ilhelm , leaving i but one C iv il W ar veteran in the jj to win o f M ilo and a tota l o f seven | “ Boys in B lue” in Yates County. Mr. f Dunn en listed Dec. 4, 1863, in the 14th New Y ork A r t il le r y and was assigned to Battery B. A fte r serving w ith heavy a rtille ry in and about New Y o rk City, he went into active duty in the field in V irg in ia on M ay 11, 1864, when the company served as in fan try but p re­served its battery form ation. H e was I mustered out w ith the battery Aug. j 26, 1865. He had been sick in bed fo r I severa l months. ' H e leaves no near j re la tives besides bis daughter, from I whose home the funera l was held on i W ednesday afternoon at 2 o ’clock, i ‘ Dundee Lod ge o f Odd Fellowis was I in charge o f the services at the grave in La k e V iew cem etery, Penn Yan. I

■ j W arren Conklin has moved from Keuka Street to the F rank Roe fa rm in Benton, and Mr. R oe w ill move to

■ the Conklin house on Keuka Street.„ ; X '

! Carro ll W ro te It.W hy ask Mr. Shaw to write a

I play about himself? Carroll wrote it years ago—“ The Jabberwock

1 w ith eyes o f flam e came w h ifflin g through the bulgy wood and bur­bled as it came.” —A. V O N W O N ­D E R LA N D , Elizabeth, N . J.

W. E. DeMelt Honored

T h e Lakeland (F lo r id a ) E ven in g I ‘ L ed ger and T e leg ra m o f A p r il 11th, contained an item to the effect that Dr. W . E. DeM elt, pro fessor o f psy- : ch o logy at Southern C o llege has been j named to succeed Carl S- Cox, w ho I has becom e L a k e la n d s h igh i

: school p rinc ipa l and supervisor o f If ; l schools. Dr. D eM elt w ill assume the

duties o f the deanship at the end o f 'jf x : summer school. If

'The L ed ger sa id : “ A man o f w ide j experience in educational w ork , Dr. j D eM elt jo in e d : Soluthern’s fa cu lty in Septem ber, 1931. H is persona lity has j, •; won m any friends fo r him am ong ‘ tow nspeople as w e ll as. am ong m em ­bers o f Southern ’s facu lty and stu- j

r dent body. ( N“ H e received the degrees o f bache- |

lo r o f ph ilosophy and m aster o f arts I from Buc knell U n ive rs ity and the ! th ird degree o f doctor o f pedagogy | ' from the U n ive rs tiy o f Toron to . J

“ A fte r se rv ing as p rin c ipa l o f th e j h igh school in Ph iladelph ia , N. Y ., from 1906 to 1910, he w as made prin ­c ipa l o f Penn Y an schools. H e held ! the latter position until 1928. H e has j

. been an instructor in K euka College, j 3 and w as an exam iner in the N ew Y o rk State departm ent o f education from I > 1907 to 1916. ’ I

“ Dr. and Mrs. D eM elt have one son, | t I who is a piupil in the loca l ju n ior f l I h igh school.”

C O N K L IN — A t the So ld iers and S a il­ors M em oria l H osp ita l. W ednesday, A p r il 19th, F red Conklin , 55.M r. Conklin w orked on the Lake

K euka steam ers as p ilo t and engineer fo r m any years, s ta rt in g in w ork on the lake boats when a sm all boy and continu ing to w o rk until the Lake Keiuika naviga tion by steam er came to an end. F o r the past few years he had been em ployed at the Penn Yan p lant o f M ichaeHStern. H e leaves his w ife ; his m other, Mrs. R ose H opk ins; 5 sisters, M rs. Catherine Thom pson, Mrs. R ichard M aroney, and Mrs. J er­ome Carr, a ll o f Penn Y a n ; Mrs. Car­r ie Janowski, o f E lm ira ; and Mrs. E lizabeth Beers, o f R ochester. Th e fu nera l w ill b e held from the hom e at I 1 P rospect A ve., Saturday a fternoon , I at 2 o ’clock. R ev. John E. W oo tton o f- j delating. B u ria l in L a k e V iew cem e­tery.

- W hom I t M a y Concern:I ' Th e Penn Y a n P r in t in g com pany intends to publish an ea rly issue as! a specia l ed ition o f the C h ron ic le- j

E xpress com m em ora tin g the centen- i n ia i o f the incorpora tion o f Penn Y an j

1 as a v illa ge . Th is ed ition w ill be I known as the “ Centennial and Wei-1

1 fa re E d ition ” and the m an agem ent j o f the C hron ic le-E xpress has en tered I in to an agreem en t w ith m e as com - i m issioner o f w e lfa re o f the county of j Y a tes to turn ove r to m e fo r sa7e at , 10c the copy the en tire issue excep t I those destined fo r regu la r paid sub- i j scribers. I;

I t is also understood betw een the m anagem ent o f the C hron ic le-Express j

I and m yse lf th a t a ll m oneys rea lized l\ from the sale o f these papers shall jj be used fo r cou n ty r e lie f under m y | direction.

H. R . B R O W N ,C om m issioner o f W e lfa re .

B IR M IN G H A M — A t h is home a t 147 | E ast E lm Street, Sunday, A p r i l 16, John B irm ingham , 77. §M r. B irm ingham w as a c ig a r m aker

by trade and! had conducted a c ig a r store and m an u factory in Penn Y an fo r the past severa l years. H e leaves his w ife ; one son, John B. B irm in g ­ham, and an adopted daughter, Jul­ianna MCOarrick, a ll o f Penn Yan.,

I The funeral' was he ld from St. M lch- I a e l’e Church Tu esday m orning, w ith ; burial in St. M ich ae l’s cem etery.

F an n y F e rn F itz w a te r , dau gh ter o f M rs. M a ry C. F it z w a te r o f 217 S,hep-

, pai-d street, P en n Yan , has been a p ­poin ted fash ion dr,lector o f the N e w Y o rk H era ld -T ribu n e. F o r 12 y ea rs she has been on the s ta ff o f the p a p e r as a fash ion artis t, spend ing s ix o f these yea rs sk etch in g the la te s t c r e a ­tions fo r the fash ion p a ges o f the da ily . D u rin g th is t im e she e s ta b ­lished close connections w ith a ll the lea d in g d ressm ak in g houses o f P a r is and London.

Y a te s - on - the - Chop tank. M a n y jadu lts o f tod a y rem em ber th is nam e and kn ow loca l residen ts w ho liv ed there. In fa c t, a t one tim e th ere w ere around 300 Y a te s c itizens w ho co l­on ized this th r iv in g you n g com m u n ity ! in E a s tern M ary lan d , loca ted about j 40 m iles up th e C hoptank r iv e r from /

. the Chesapeake b a y and about 8 0 ! m iles fro m B a ltim ore .

E d Chapm an s ta rted the m ig ra t io n .; E n tran ced w ith the possib ilities o f ; th at com m unity, a fte r v is it in g i t ; i

I charm ed w ith the c lim a te and d e­ligh ted w ith the scenery, he retu rned j to .Penn Y a n to te ll the s to ry and to I p rom ote the settlem en t. A s a result,

jin abou t 1876 dozens s ta rted fro m th is I com m u n ity by horse and tra in fo r the

I C h op tan kr “ F ro m Penn Y a n to C hop­tank, sounded lik e a Chinese p ilg r im ­age, but the “ heathen ish ” sounding ( nam es re ta rd ed no one then. (

BALLARD—BRACKETT T h e m a rr ia ge o f M iss M a ry E liz a ­

beth B rackett, daughter o f Mrs. W i l ­liam D avidson B rackett, o f M inneapo­lis, Minn., and F red e r ick A rm stron g

I B allard , son o f M r. and Mrs. H iram Cum m ings B alla rd , o f Penn Yan . took p lace Sotu rday a fternoon at 4 o ’clock at A l l Sou l’s Church, Cathedral and Ix Connecticut Avenues, W ash ington , |;D. C. T h e R igh t R everen d Charles i Charles K en d a ll G ilbert, o f N ew Y o rk j City, perfo rm ed the cerem ony.. I™ " w j

Th e b rid e is a graduate o f w en s C o llege and spent her ju n io r y ea r at j the Soribonne, U n ive rs ity o f Paris , re­ce iv in g her degree fro m there. Th e j b ridegroom is a graduate o f H am ilton ! C o llege and the H a rva rd L a w School, j H e is a m em ber o f Chi P s i and Ph i I B eta ]$a,ppa and is now a ffilia ted w ith the law firm o f C'u th ill, W h ite, H otchk iss & M ills , in W ash ington . j

A fte r a Southern m otor trip , M r. i and Mrs. B a lla rd w ill be a t home a f- i ter June 1, at 127 P rin ce S treet, A le x - }j andf i a ^ V a . , " - , . , . ■ 'j I 1

M o tion m ade by T ru stee M a llo ry j and seconded by T ru stee H ob an th a t j th e v illa g e b o rrow fro m the board, o f c em ete ry com m issioners, perpetu a l , care, fund, L a k e v ie w cem etery , on an ,1 in teres t b ea r in g note o f 5% the sum j o f $3,000.00, o f w h ich $1,500.00 is to I be deposited in the h igh w a y fund and j $1,500.00 in th e po lice fund. T h is b o r­row in g is m ade n ecessary due to the la rge am ount o f v illa g e taxes fo r 1932 s till unpaid. .

Walter Wolcott

W alter Wolcott, aged 73 years, died 7 7 at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial it Hospital, Saturday. He is survived by | one sister, Mjss Abbie Wolcott, and j one brother, John D. Wolcott, of Washington, D. C.

\9 W a lte r W o lco tt, Y a tes county and I 1$ Penn Y an h istorian , w as born in Penn jj

Yan, D ecem ber 15. 1859, the son of? John D orsey W o lc o tt and C aroline $ C orn e ll W o lc o tt ; he received his ed u -l

V catin in the Penn Y a n Academ y, be­ing graduated w ith the class o f 1878; I

*. Republican in p o lit ic s ; m em ber o f the F irs t P resb y ter ian church, author of-1 M ilita ry H iS'tory o f Y a tes County, j 18'9'5; C le rk o f Y a tes1 County Surro- r ga te ’s Court, 1877, ru ra l m ail ca rrier, jj 1902-1919, p rev iou s ly and subsequent- ; ly substitute m ail b a r r ie r ; appointed ;; by m ayor o f v illa g e , v illa g e h is torian ; jj nam ed as county h istorian by Yates | County B oard o f Supervisors. - 1

W hen the ru ra l fre e d e live ry was I ! firs t estab lished in Penn Y an M r. W o l- jj cott assisted in the p lann in g o f the j

' severa l routes, and traced the first I o ffic ia l map sh ow in g th e ir locations,

; w h ich m ap was sent to the Post O ffice j D epartm ent in W ash ington , D. C. As a ru ra l m a il c a rr ie r he covered routes ! 4, 3 and 7, and as substitu te ca rr ier

v he covered a ll o f th e routes. D u ring the w o r ld w ar M r. W o lc o tt sold m ore th r ift stamps and w ar sav in g stamps j than a ll o f th e o ther ru ra l m a il car- ; r iers combined.

M r. W olcott,' w ish in g that a proper m em oria l be p reserved o f the so ld iers i. who fought du rin g the c iv il war, w ro te i and published in 1895 “ T h e M ilita ry I H is to ry o f Y a tes County.” H e has sjtat-' I ed that he set the exam p le w h ich was J; a fterw ards fo llo w ed by other w rite rs I lo ca lly , each h av in g .produced a book | o f s im ila r s ize and nature.

M r. W o lc o tt w as probab ly the best 1 in form ed m an in Ya tes county on jj

/ gen ea lo g ica l m atters and w as the source o f in form ation, about a ll occur- | rences in the past. M any a new spaper j w r ite r has rushed to h im when in I

- need o f re lia b le data concern ing som e r im portan t even t that had taken p lace | du ring the past hunderd years fo r not [ on ly had the h istorian kept carefu l j record o f a ll events that tran sp ired in i h is ow n l i fe but had accum ulated a ' fund o f usefu l in fo rm a tion by research and reading, ta lk in g w ith o lder people and in e v e ry w ay com p ilin g a mass o f h is to r ica l facts.

Fu n era l se rv ices w e re held on Tu es­day at 2:30 from th e hom e in L ib e r ty street, R ev . W a lte r A . H enrickg, o f i the P resb y ter ian church, o ffic ia tin g. B u ria l in La k e V iew cem etery. ;

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T h e fo llo w in g tribu te w as in corpor- , a ted in the m inu tes: / j

“ In th e death o f W a lte r W olcott, the v il la g e h istorian , the v i l la g e has lost one o f the o ld e r citizen^ who m ade it a p ra c tice to fo llo w the h is­to ry and g row th o f Penn Y an from the ‘ beginn ing. M r. W o lc o tt has tu rn e d ! intp the v il la g e som e v e ry va lu ab le 1 data fo r the use and education o f the ‘ fu tu re generation and the board fe e ls i th at in th e death o f W a lte r W olcott, i a va lu ab le c it izen has been lost to / Penn Yan . V- Li

Village Budget

T h e tax rate fo r the v illa g e o f Penn Yan w ill be less for 1933 than it has Ibeen in the last two. years. I t w ill not exceed $9.90 per $1,000 o f assessed valuation. In 19*3>2 it was $11.40, and in 1931,. $12.60. The amount of the 1933 budget fo r the v illa g e is $48,093.64.

T h e several items in the budget adopted by the v illa ge board are: .iStreet ligh ting .... $6,000.00Sew er maintenance, repair .... 1,000.00Board o f H ealth Fund:

Appropriation , $1,000Venerea l disease, $50*0 ..... 1,500.00

F ire companies ...................... < 800.00Fi're Departm ent Fund:

Appropriation , $1,750, Hose, $550 ........................... 2,300.00

P o lic e F u n d ............................... 5,840.00Contingent Fund .................. 6,000.00H igh w ay Fund:

Appropriation , $7,000Interest, $60 ....................... 7,060.00

Red Jacket P a rk Fund |...... — :------Benham Street Pav in g Bonds

and in terest ...........1.......... 1,361.11Burns T e rra ce P a v in g bonds

and in teres t ....... 913.63Chapel S treet P av in g Bonds ,

and in terest ......................... 538.13Clinton S treet No. 2 P a v in g

Bonds and in terest .... .... 6,011.83Court iStreet P av in g Bonds

and in terest ................... . 1,644.95Keuka Street Curb Note and

in teres t .................... |. 606.36Lake S treet P av in g Bonds

and in terest ........ .............. 2,348.40L ib e r ty Street No. 2 and 1

P av in g Bonds and in terest 3,104.38 L ib e r ty Street No. 3 P av in g

Bonds and in terest ........... 4,06-6.93W agen er S tree t P a v in g

Bonds and in terest ...... 59-8.92E n gin e House No. 1 Im prove­

m ent in terest ................ 50.00Hunted H ook & Ladder truck

note in terest ................... 100.00Elmi and East E lm Im prove­

m ent note in terest .... 120.0-0-Johnson-M yrtle Aves. and

H am ilton St. sew er note and in terest I ........ 40.00

$48,093.-54

STORE HOLDS EMPLOYE RECORD

Hollowell & Wise Co. Has Average of 31 Years

W ith an average o f 31 years em­p loyed fo r each o f 7 em ployees in its istore, the H ollow elll & W ise Co., Inc., h ardw are m erchants, o f Penn Yan, undoubtedly holds the record in the lin e o f long-term em ployees in the v illa ge .

T h ere a re some men w ho have w ork ed at a trade lon ger than the emlployees o f the H o llo w e ll & W ise; Com pany, but there is no firm doing I business in Penn Yan today w hich has' 7 em ployees w ork ing fo r it Who have been w ith the firm fo r an average em - j

p loyces ’ term o f 31 years.T h e term o f years o f the em ployees |

to ta l about 240 years, d iv ided as fo l­lo w s : Christie B. B riggs , 47 yea rs ; i John H. Meehan, 56 y ea rs ; James Tuinney, 35 y ea rs ; W illia m H. O’Brien, 35 years; M iss M ol lie Bhalen, 35 yea rs ; M iss M argaret Mahar, 35 years; W illia m B ordw ell, 25 years, and Mrs. F lo ren ce Geoghegan, 20 years.

T h e H o llow e ll & W ise corner has ibeen a “ hardw are” corner fo r n early three-quarters o f a century, or 75 years. The first hardw are store was opened there in 1862, and was known as A rm strong & Gage, th e members

o f the firm being the late James A rm ­strong and Lym an Gage. Upon the death o f Jamies Arm strong, his son, F red Arm strong, and Delos H o llo - iwell became a ffilia ted in the business, and the firm name was changed to A rm strong & H o llow ell. Mr. A rm ­strong was the father o f Mrs. H iramC. Ballard, Mrs. O liver Ketcham and Mrs. Edward E lsworth, o f Penn Yan. M r. A rm strong died in 1885, and the firm becam e the H o llow e ll & W ise Co., w ith W illiam N. W ise and Delos H o llow e ll as its heads. In 1912, the firm again was changed the name now becom ing the H o llow e ll & W ise Co., ln c „ the em ployees taking in terest in the firm. Th is change | occurred fo l­low in g the death o f Mr. H o llow ell.

Christie B. B riggs is now presi­dent of the company and- has been in the hardw are business fo r the past 47 years. W ithout exception this is a record of which few reta il firms can boast fo r long ter mis o f service for seven employees.

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Supervisors Cut Salaries

Yates County board o f supervisors have slashed the salaries o f some o f the county officia ls. Th is cut w ill take effect fo r the term s beginning January 1, 1934.

T h e fo llow in g changes in salaries w ere m ade: County Treasurer from $2400 to $1800; -County C lerk from $2400 to $1800; d istrict attorney from $2,000 to $1200, this to include office rent, a ll extra counsel and assistance; deputy county clerk from $1500 to $1200, and su rrogate ’s c lerk from $1600 to $1200., Th e deputy county clerk and surrogate ’s c lerk are ap­pointed by the county c le rk and the surrogate, respectively .

Th e board reduced the amount o f $300, which has been fixed as the re­m uneration fo r ex tra c lerk h ire in the m otor veh icle departm ent o f the coun­ty c le rk ’s office to $:260.

The county treasurer, H a rry O. Bennett, has been authorized to bor­row $2250 to pay the expenses o f the special repeal election on M ay 23rd, the co-unty to b e re-imburs-ed la ter by the State.

In accordance w ith the provisions o f the H a w ley act, the county treas­urer has been authorized to take $20,000 from the county road fund to he used in paying in terest and p rin c i­pal paym ents on county h ighw ay bonds.

B ills to ta lin g $10;547.68 o f which charities and public health amounted to $9,019.43 w ere audited and ordered paid.

E. J. W a lker, Jr., has been appoint­ed county h istorian to take the place of the la te W a lte r W olcott.

Events of the W eek ^Fam ous . E lm Destroyed . — N atu ra l!

gut which filled hollows in its 130-foot | trunk and exploded when grass • at ^ itsl base was burned by farm hands was I credited A pril 26 with destroying Ita ly I Va lley ’s historic elm tree, a Yates Co., N. Y., landmark said to be the, largest elm in the State. The elm had been a I landmark in the township since the settle­ment there by John Mower in 1790. Sparks from the top of the tree were car­ried by the wind to the farm of Charles Herrick, where three barns were "de­stroyed and the roofs of two dwellings burned. The nearest paying natural, gas held is 10 miles east of the tree.

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Frank Deckerman Has Beau- / 3 ^ tiful Place on East Main

One o f the real show places o f Penn Yan w ill be the garden o f Frank Deck- enman, a t 127 East Main Street. Th is [ garden when completed', undoubtedly j w ill be the most attractive and beau­tifu l between E lm ira and Rochester.

C overing an acre o f ground it is landscaped w ith crtulshed stone walks, I' white fountains, rose arbor, th ree fish, ponds, and a va rie ty o f about 400 kinds o f flowers, trees 1 and shrubs. The tlui- lips a lone which a re now at their best | and a mass o f -blooms number about j 3,500 plants. A p rivate green house in which are hundreds o f plants ready i {to be transplanted and in which t h e ! flowers are keipt during the winter, is j a part o f the private park. A ll w inter the greenhouse is kept a t an even te-m-

I perature by means o f an o il burner.I in the lis t o f plants in the green- | house a re cyclamen, pansies, calen- jdula, shasta daisy, chrysantheimums,, forget-m e-nots, larkspur, carnation, 1

I m arigold, aster, coryiopsis, helio- | -trope, salvia, zinnias-, gladiola, pe-/ tunias, geraniums, dahlias, tu lip s ,! evergreens, caim a lilies, shrubs ,and j

, hundreds o f others.The garden is bordered by lilac

trees, and a rock garden w itn b ird baths, and w ater trick lin g down over j a casacxte o f stones bordered w ith

■ many-hued rock-garden blooms add j to the beauty o f the spot. A handsome ] rose-arbor around which are planted' m orning glories', la ter to be replace*! by van-hued roses is in the end of the garden. Stone benches a re placed at in terva ls throughout the plot and d iffe ren t shaped flow er beds a re de­signed. M etal gates w ill be placed at the en trance to the gardens which are laid but in three separate; plots. The ponds are d ifferen t sizes, the largest neing 12 ft. by 16 ft, the other 5 ft. by 10 ft. and the third- one in center or ithe rose arbor is circu lar and about 7 feet in diam eter. A w h ir lin g foun­tain ispray moistens a ll ground and blossoms w ith in a radii Js o f 20 fee t from the arbor. T h e fish ponds a re painted a b rillian t -blue inside, the I-

jpaint being a special preparation w ith- [- Out o il or turpentine, as these tw o in- j gradients would k ill the fish life.I M any brillian t, geranium beds W ill I

e la id out aind peonies a re ready to j urst their blooms, and as each bloom- j

ih g season ' a rrives d ifferent blossoms j w ill add to the gay a rray o f colors. I Pillaris a re p laced a t the entrance to- the three gardens. T h e ground is a ll i is loped so that it is drained into a 22- foot sew er which carries away a ll ex ­cess water. P ecu lia r ly shaped .gtonee ' are used in the rock gardiens, having j been brought from Ontario County, I where the stoines a re o f an usually i queer shape and substance.

W illiam H alladay, a native o f Penn j Yan, but who lived in Rochester lutntil j about a year ago, is in charge o f the 1 w ork o f landscaping and building His- know ledge o f the w ork is exten- j isive and he understands the peculari- ty o f each p lant and shrub a ll o f which call fo r d iffe ren t treatment. One thing was noticed and' that w as the presence o f m oth balls in many sm all jars which are kept there to keep away insects-. M any handsome urns and jarden iers w ill be placed about the garden w ith in a few days.

A new fru it orchard has- been set out at the south side and when the trees ■bloom next year undoubtedly w ill flair- nis-h a beautifu l sight.

PICTURES COUNTY CENTURY AGO

There Were 13 Postmasters in

Yates Before Penn Yan Was

Incorporated — Attorneys

and Clergymen

In connection w ith the centenn ia l ce leb ra tion o f Penn Yan , there a re

j m an y pertin en t fa c ts about Y a te s county contained in the N e w Y o rk A nnu al R e g is te r fo r the yea r 1830, a copy o f w hich is ow ned by W illia m H. R ia l o f B a tav ia , w ho has prepared

I this en ligh ten ing a rtic le . W h en the j s ta tis tica l in fo rm a tion w as com piled by E d w in W illia m s and published by

j J. L e a v it t a t 182 B road w ay , the un­iin corpora ted v illa g es in Y a te s county,' besides Penn Yan , w ere B ellona, E d- jd y tow n (n ow D u ndee), D resden and Rushville, the la tte r b e in g also lis ted

I fo r O ntario county. T h ere w ere 296 unincorporated v illa g es in the s ta te and 87 in corpora ted v i l ­lages. The c it ie s ,1 w ith population , w ere : N e w Y o rk , 190,000; A lb a n y ,21,000; T roy , 11,000; Hudson, 5,000; Schenectady, 4,000. B rook lyn and R och ester each w ere v illa g es o f 12,- 000 population. B u ffa lo had 4,500, A u bu rn 4,000, Ith a ca 3,500, G en eva 3,000, C anandaigua 2,500, P a lm y ra2,000 and O sw ego 2,000.

Y a te s C ou nty Postm asters W illia m T . B a r ry w as postm aster j

i genera l, A n d rew Jackson being pres- I j ident. Th e A lb a n y posto ffice in Jan.- j uary, 1830, listed these posto ffices and postm asters fo r Y a te s cou n ty : I B arrin gton , Sam uel L ock w ood ; B en - : ton, M a rtin G age ; B en ton Center, j

ft D a v id H. B uell; H erp en d in g ’s C or- i iners, N eh em iah R ap lee ; I ta ly , A.,/ j M ax fie ld ; I ta ly H ill, E . D ou b leday; Jerusalem , H en ry L a rze le re ; M id d le -i sex, R ich ard M . W illia m s ; M ilo C en -j

I ter, Isaac N ic h o lls ; P enn Yan , Eben- j ezer B row n ; S ta rk ey , H a lsey San- fj fo rd ; W es t D resden , D y e r F o rd ; j Y a tesv ille , Is ra e l A rn o ld .; Th e to ta l num ber o f posto ffices in j j the sta te w as 1,406. M a il w as dis- j I patched by stages, th ere be ing 103 j I le a v in g A lb a n y d a ily and ca rry in g an j a ve ra g e o f 776 passengers a day.

W h en the census o f 1825 w as taken, the popu lation o f B arr in g ton w as 2 - j 099, B en ton 3,730, I t a ly 995, Jerusa- j lem 2,050, M idd lesex 3,161, M ilo 3,- i 278 and S ta rk ey 2,142. T o ta l 17,- j 455.

A tto rn e y s and C lergym en Jam es T a y lo r o f S ta rk ey w as dis-!

t r ic t a tto rn ey o f Y a te s county in! 1830. M iles B enham o f Penn Y a n ! w as sheriff. A tto rn e y s lis ted in P en n | Y"an w ere W illia m C ornw ell, B e n ja - ! m in S. B ey , H en ry Eno, Cornelius | H asten , R od er ick N . M orrison , W il- liam Nash, Th om as I. N ev ins, A s a A . N orton , W illia m P o tte r , E v e r t V an | Buren, H en ry W e lle s and H en ry A . W isner. Th ere w e re 1,688 a tto rn eys and counsellors in the state. In the Court o f C om m on P leas , fo r Y a te s county the firs t ju d ge w as Sam uel S. E llsw orth , the o th er ju dges be in g Jam es N orton , A lle n Pau l, A b e l P eck and D av id Thom as. C ou rt w as held the firs t T u esd ay in Janu ary and June and the la s t Tu esday in Sep­tem ber. A n d rew T . O live r w as sur­roga te 'and A b rah am H . B en n ett the county clerk.

Residences o f c le rgym en in Y a te s county w ere not g iven , the fo llo w in g being nam ed: P resb y ter ia n , JosephB rackett, W illia m Todd, C. E d dy and Sam uel W h ite ; B aptist/ A m o s Chase, John B. .Chase, John G off, W illia m Ketchum , W illia m M ore and S im on Southerland. A b n er Chase w as the

J M ethod ist m in ister in Penn Yan . John C lark w as the p res id in g elder.

Pu b lica tion o f N ew sp ap ers Y a te s coun ty had tw o new spapers

in 1830, both prin ted in P en n Yan . Th e Penn Y a n D em ocra t w as ed ited j) b y A . H . B en n ett and the Y a te s R e ­publican by E. G. FOwle. T h ere w ere 211 new spapers published in the state , the on ly counties h a v in g no paper be ing C attaraugus, P u tn am and R ichm ond. N e w Y o rk c ity had .47 papers, m ade up o f 11 da ily , ten sem i-w eek ly , 23 w eek ly , tw o sem i­m on th ly and one m onth ly. Th e a v ­erage c ircu la tion o f the d a ily papers 1 w as 1,555 copies. f

Jam es R eese w as p res iden t o f Ge-| n eva co llege, w h ich w as founded i n ! 1825. /

G eorge W illso n w as p rin c ipa l o f the It I O n tario F em a le sem in ary a t Canan-1 daigua, in corpora ted in 1825 w ith a cap ita l o f $10,000.

M o rr is F . Sheppard o f P en n Y a n ! w as m em ber o f assem bly in 1830.Txr?nos T ‘ T l lr o °P w as go ve rn o r and W illia m M . O liv e r o f C anandaigua lieu tenan t govern or.

Edwin C. Nutt

A fte r m any m onths o f illn ess ahd su ffe r in g , d u r in g w h ich h is l i fe w as despa ired o f m any tim es, E d w in Che­n ey Nuitt, 65, assem bly rep resen ta ­tive , p rom inen t c it iz en and a g r icu l­tu ris t, passed aw ay a t the' S o ld ie r s tand Sa ilors H osp ita l on W ednesday a ftern oon about 3 o ’c lock , _

M t . N u tt w as perhaps one o f th e best kn ow n m en in the county in his genera tion . H e a lw ays had been iden ­tified w ith public a ffa irs and had taken an ‘a c tive in teres t in the w e lfa re o f h is com m unity. H e w as honored by h av in g se rved as rep resen ta tive o f Y a te s County in the N ew Y o rk State A ssem b ly fo r s ix consecu tive years fro m 1926 to 1931.

M r. N u tt re tired as assem blym an in January, 1932 in fa v o r o f the p resen t incum bent, F red S. H o llo w e ll, o f M ilo . H e w as born January 12, 1863 in the tow n o f T o rre y , th e son o f M r. and j M rs. E d w in H. Nutt. H e w as a fa rm -1 ier from boyhood and partic ipa ted ! fa ith fu lly in the G range, be in g a mem-1 h er o f th e B en ton G ran ge o f w h ich h e w as a past m aster. H e w as also aj past m aster o f Y a tes Coutmty Pom ona j G range.H e w as s in cere ly occupied w ith com ­m un ity a ffa irs being, know n as a mian o f sound con serva tive judgm ent. H e w as seer eta ry -tre asu rer o f th e T o r ­r e y T e lep h on e C om pany fo r a num ber o f years and w as presiden t a t the tim e o f h is death. F o r tw o years, h e s e rv ­ed as p res iden t o f the Y a te s County Agrcu l.tu ra l Society. H e had also (served as a d ire c to r o f th e Yates C ounty F arm Bureau and m em ber o f th e T o r r e y T o w n Board. H e w as a m em ber o f K eu k a Lod ge , I. 0. 0 . F., o f Penn Yan ,

M r N u tt is su rv ived b y his- w id ow ; o n e daugh ter, M rs John A . H atch , o f Penn Yan . M rs. Hatch, w as absent a t th e tim e o f h er fa th e r ’s death, hav in g gon e to N ew Y o rk C ity to m eet her husband, D r. John A . H atch , who re ­tu rned from spending severa l w eeks a t C ora l G abies, F la . A fe w m onths a go M rs. H atch m ade a tr ip by a ir ­p la n e from C ora l Gables to reach the bedside o f h er fa ther, w hose condi­t ion sudden ly had •become critica l.

Humeral arrangem ents w ere pend­in g on Th u rsd ay until a r r iv a l o f Mrs? -Hatch. - r ,

Less than h a lf o f the reg is tered vo te rs o f Y a te s cou n ty w en t to the po l s T u esd ay fo r th e specia l election , the vo te be ing esp ec ia lly l ig h t in the s tr ic t ly ru ra l sections. O f the 4,713 ba llo ts cast, 1,816 w e re fo r repea l o f the E igh teen th am endm ent and 2,897 w ere fo r re ten tion o f the am endm ent, a m a rg in o f 1,081 a ga in s t repeal. N e a r ly 12,000 Y a te s res iden ts w e re reg is te red and e lig ib le to vo te , but fa rm ers appeared too busy.

O n ly s ix d is tr ic ts lin the county vo ted w et, the rem a in in g 23 b e in g dry, som e v o t in g d ry as h igh as fiv e to one. F iv e o f the w e t d is tr ic ts w ere in Penn Yan , y e t th e v i l la g e d is tric ts to ta ’ ed a d ry v o te o f 1,050 to 910. T o r r e y 1 w as the on ly o th er d is tr ic t to vo te w et, 66 to 56. N e w Y o rk state , o f course, to ta led a vo te fo r repea l.

WORKING FOR BOYS BAND

Benefits Being Held to Send Band to Chicago

A n in ten s ive d r iv e ig be in g m ade by a corps o f w o rk ers to rafsie suf­fic ien t funds to pay .the expenses o f a trip o f th e Penm Y an A cadem y Band to the C en tu ry o f P rog ress E xposi­t ion a t Ch icago. Band concerts are be in g held, dances g iven , and o ther m odes o f en terta in m en t p rov ided in order to add to th e sum. A house-to- house canvass is b e in g m ade and Clubs and organ iza tions, as w e ll as in d iv idu a ls a re con trib u tin g to the fund. T h e am ount to be ra ised b y pop­u la r so lic ita t ion is approx im ately

..$925. T h e boys w ill le a v e on June 6th j and w il l be a t the fa ir fo r 5 days, j-: .return ing to P en n Y an on Sunday, j

T h e Y a te s C ou nty B ee r board has | taken o ffic e space a t 124 M a in stree t, j o ve r the F re d R oese J ew e lry store, and is using tem p o ra ry o ffic e equ ip-j: m en t u n til the sh ipm ent o f com - j p le te o ffic e equ ipm en t purchased j by the sta te , is rece ived . R a lp h j E x c e ll has been nam ed by the (• board as tem p o ra ry ex ecu tive sec- j re ta ry . H e w ill be in ch a rge o f the o ffic e u n til a perm an en t appo in tm en t j can be m ade fro m a lis t o f e lig ib le 1 cand ida tes w h o h ave tak en a civil,! se rv ice exam ination . A n y business p e r ta in in g to p e rm its fo r se lling 3.2% beer and w in e in Y a te s county m a y be re fe r re d to M r. E x ce ll, o r his fa th er, G eo rge E x ce ll, one o f the tw o m em bers o f th e n on -partisan county beer board. A lb e r t T . B eards lee is

j the repub lican m em ber o f the board. .

Mrs. Marion B. Williams Cele­brates 98th Birthday

H a v in g the hon or o f be in g th e old­es t w om an in Y a tes County, Mors. I M arion B. W illia m s , o f M iddlesex, ce leb ra ted her 98 th b irth d a y on W ed­nesday, M ay 24th. M rs. W illia m s has lived an a c t iv e and in teres tin g l i fe and has taken an in te res t in her co'Jntry, v ic in ity and neighborhood life .

C O LE — A t her hom e on. N o rth Main.S treet, W enesday, Miay 24, 1933,M rs. M a ry J. Coley 90.She is siulrviyed b y tw o daughters.,

A d a and Em m a L ., a t.h o m e ; one son, ’ Frank. A . C ole, o f Penn Yan . T h e fu n ­era l w ill be held, fro m th e hom e a t 3 o ’c lock Saturday a fternoon , R ev. W . M. H ydon o ffic ia tin g . B u r ia l in L a k e V iew cem etery,

/<?$$M rs. F rank K . Cdle

A t her h om e. on the Benton hill, just north o f Penn Yan, W ednesday afternoon, M a y 24th, occurred the death o f M rs.,F rank R. Cole, aged 90 years.

Mrs. Cole, nee M ary Jane, daughter o f W illiam and Sarah H ow ell L a zea r was born in B arrington June 29, 1842. H er sister, E lizabeth, died when young; her brother, Samuel, died some ten years ago at the home o f his daughter in N orth Salem. M rs Cole as a young wom an attended the N . W . A y e r school, which was housed in w hat is now the G eorge S. Shep­pard home on M ain street, Penn Yan. On M a y 24, 1866, she m arried F rank R ichard Cole, son o f A sa and L yd ia W ilkerson Cole. H e w as born in the house in which Mrs. Cole passed away, the home having been built but a year previous to his birth. Th is w as 95 tyears ago. M r. Cole died at the age o f 73 in 1911.

O f thejdve children, the son, Charles W., and the daughter, Euretta , have both passed on. M iss A d a and Miss Em m a L. Cole both have been m ak­in g their home w ith their mother. The other son, F ran k A sa Cole, lives across the street.

Mrs. Cole, who has been a l i fe ­long m em ber o f the F irs t M ethodist church, w as buried in the La k e V iew cem etery Saturday afternoon, fo llow ­ing funeral services held from the home at 3 p. m. w ith Rev. W illiam M. Hydon, pastor o f the Penn Yan church, o ffic ia tin g.

Leon A. Potter

Leon A. Potter, 46, a member o f the board o f supervisors o f Yates County from the town o f Ita ly , died at the. W ayland H ospita l o-n Sunday, May 28, about 5 o 'c lock from In juries received oin Saturday m orn ing when he was assisting a veterinarian in doctoring a sick horse on the Po tter farm.

M:r. Po tter was help ing the doctor to care fo r the sick animal when it I suddenly struck out with, one of its hooves and struck Mr. Po tter in the I leg knocking him down. Th e horse j then kicked Mr. Po tter in the head, j Th e injured man was im m ediately taken to the W ayland hospital but all ], e fforts to save his life w ere un avail- j i in g and he died on Sunday, about 5 j o ’clock in the m orning.

Mr. Po tter was horn in Yates Conn- \ ty and had ispent his l i fe in tihe town | o f Ita ly . He was w e ll known in Yates j and Ontario counties, having s e rv ed : Yates county as supervisor fo r tw o ' terms, and was a m em ber of Naples I Grange, having been Overseer o f that I group and Gatekeeper o f the Ontario j Pomona. He, leaves- h is w ife ; his j mother, Mrs. Erm a ’ Po tter, o f Italy;- i three sisters. Mrs. D an a-B arker, of N ap les ; M rs. Edna Potter, o f Ita ly , and Mrs. W illiam Olney, o f .Ingleside. Th e funera l was held on Tuesday a f­ternoon from, the home at Ita ly , Rev. W aldo Maring, o f Troupshurg, o ffi­c ia ting. Burial in Ita ly-N ap les ceme- terv.

Lady Supervisor

F o r the first time in the h istory o f; Yates County a woman w ill s it as. a i

' m em ber o f the board of supervisors, 1 ; when Mrs. H azei Potter, w ife o f Leon A . Potter, whose untim ely death caused a vacancy in the board, w ill take her place as a rep resen ta tive o f the town o f Ita ly .

Mrs. Po tter has been appointed to fill the unexpired term o f her late husbahd, Leon A. Potter, who was serv ing as a supervisor from Ita ly fo r his second term when his death re ­sulted fro.rm the k ick o f a horse on j

Sunday last. Mrs. Po tter was before j her m arriage H azel C lute, of Ita ly , and is w e ll qualified to accept the

) ' ■duties. Ifl-dl n Ira . hoo-

H arry 0. Bennett, county treasurer of Yates County, was taken to the Soldiers and Sailors Hospital Monday m orning suffering from a fractured hip received when he tripped on a w indow ledge w h ile en tering the coun­ty building through a window, having forgotten his keys. W ith the aid o f Charles Caswell, turnkey at the Yates County ja il, he had placed a bench against the w all to enable him to climb through the w indow. H e caught his heel on the ledge and fe ll four feet to the floor s trik ing on his hip. He w ill be obliged to remain in a cast fo r several weeks. The Yates County Board of Supervisors held a special meet ing on Tuesday even ing to a ;> thorize Mr. Bennett to appoint a deputy treasurer to assist in the w ork w hile he is confined to his home.

T h e dw ellin g on the form er Ander­son farm , recently purchased by Ray­mond Rugg, o f Pehn Yan, and located about 5 m iles from Penn Yan on the Dresden -Geneva road, was burned to the grotv.lnd on Monday m orning about 1:30 o’(Clock. Th e fire was of undeter­mined origin. About 11:30 Sunday night, Mrs. Brundage, who lives across the road, heard a car drive into the R u gg yard, but did not investigate. About 1:30 she looked out o f the w in ­dow of her home and the R u gg house was in flames. The Pehn Yan fire truck responded tp an alarm but upon the a rriva l of the firemen they could not save the house but saved the other buildings. A number o f carpen­ter too ls w ere destroyed as well! as other equipment. Th e loss is placed at approxim ately $3,000. Th e house was being fixed irip, repainted, redecorat­ed and other im provem ents made prior to the m oving in o f the R ugg s. No fire has been bu ilt in the house, and no one but the owners' had access to it. (Sheriff F itzw ater and his deputies have been investigating.

/ jfA L L E T T — A t Denver, Colo,, Sunday, May 14th, Mrs. Julia allett, 86.Mrs. H a lle tt was the w idow of Sam­

uel Irv in g H allett, and had lived in 1 Dundee fo r m any years, t i e r husband erected the H a llette hoi: fee located at W ayne and W aneata Lakes. This property was s till in the possession of Mrs. ailtett at, her death, though it I has not been occupied fo r many j yeans, it is one of the show places o f

I the section. A ccord ing to reports o f the w ill le ft by Mrs. H a lle tt the m ajor

.. part o f her fortune is le ft fo r the es- I tablishm ent o f a home fo r e lderly w o­men o f refinement and the p lace des­ignated o r this purpose would be the H a llett home near W ayne.

M iss F lo ra S tark has a beautifu l garden o f iris now in fu ll bloom. There

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are over 100 varieties in her collec­tion, m any o f them being choice v a ­rieties. M iss S tark has been accumu­la ting her collection fo r severa l years, and last yea r added some 50 new varieties. A n y who would like to see J th em .w ill be w elcom ed to the garden I a t the S tark home, 108 S tark avenue.

Rev. John H ow ard Perkins, o f Penn Yan, who has been rector o f St. Luke’s Church at Branchport fo r the past 35 years, has tendered his resignation to the board o f vestrym en o f that church. Rev. Perkins has been il l fo r the past s ix months and his illness makes it im possible fo r him- to go on w ith his

11 Work at the Branchport church. The congregation of St. Lu ke ’s church ex­press deep regret at the severing ot the ties o f pastor and flock of so many years. *

W hitfield and Sons, Inc., bus body r builders of Penn Yan, Wednesday fil- | ed a vo luntary petition o f bankruptcy It in Federal Court, listing assets of less than $50,000 and liabilities of more than $75,060. This company, one j o f the oldest in the business, w a s ! founded in Penn Yan 66 years ago. I t ; was incorporated in 1924. Famous for - their school bus bodies which are in use in many districts in the E a s t.; They have more than 1000 bodies in I service. The officers of the company are: C. H. W hitfield, president, W . j R. W hitfield, vice-president; C. M. i B igelow , secretary and L. S. Cornell, I treasurer.

Two Young Men To Go To West Point

Yates County has the unusual honor of having two young men elig ib le for appointment to the United States M ilitary Academ y at W est Point as 'the result/ of recent com petitive exam­inations held fo r entrance to that [school. Notification has come from Hon. John A. Taber, representative In Congress from the 36th Congres­sional D istrict, that the on ly two young men in his d istrict who tried the W est Po in t entrance exam ina­tions w ere from ' Penn Yan. W illiam Bailey and Richard Barden.

Young B ailey had been notified of his successful appointment two weeks ago but the fact that his alternate, R ichard Barden also was in line for appointment did not come until last Saturday. Both boys w ill accept .the appointment and w ill enter W est Point this fa ll. They both are at pres­ent students at Colgate Universityy at Hamilton, N. Y. W illiam B ailey is the son o f Mr. and Mrs-. A rthur L. Bailey, and R ichard Barden is a son o f Mr. and Mrs. G eorge L. Barden.

H H l l l l l wedding to be solemnized I m Garrett M em orial Chapel at B luff Point took p lace Thursday afternoon, I June 6, when Iren e Losey, o f Bath ; and H arry Yount, of Buffalo, w ere!;

I united in m arriage by Rev. G. h . A I- ;M m E il] Bath Presbyterian iChurch. The attendants w ere C lara F

■ S M I ° b n ath’. and John Mato, o f p Buffalo. F o llow in g a wedding trip 1EH an<* M m Yopunt w ill live a t Keuka I where the groom is employed by the / Lam oka Pow er Corporatin. J:

Miss Dora K. Arnold, who is col­lector oif taxes fo r the Penn Yan Un- ion (School D istrict, has been appoint- ed deputy county treasurer by H arry t 0. Bennett, county treasurer, to act |, fo r a period o f ten weeks. The ap- i; point ment has been endorsed by the Yates County Board o f Supervisors. g Mr. Bennett recently broke his hip and w ill be confined to his home fo r | some time. . ,! ...

We Don’t Know

W hat’s the m atter w ith the gold

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> standard ? W e (don’t know I j W hy can’t Europe agree to live in peace? W e don’t know !

W ho’ll pay the w ar debts? W e don’t know!

| W ill Japan get out o f China? We!' don’t know!

Is the w orld 3,000,000 years o ld ? W e don’t know !

A re the Am erican people in a revo4 (lutionary fram e o f m ind? W e don’t* know !

| W ill you pay utp your subscription: this m onth? W e don’t know!

I f you have any other question that is bothing you and want an answer— we probably w ill have some convic­tions and opinions, hut the truth o f \ the m atter is “ we don’t know” and we can’t re fe r you to anypiie who does. —Genesee County Express. EX

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Presidential Policies, Legislation and.; Court Decisions

To the Editor of The Republican:— “The origin o f legal tender among;

English-speaking people,” said Ed-i- ward Atkinson, “ was the decree of, an English king making it a penal, jffenss to refuse the king’s money-: after he had debased it.” In this country this doctrine first appeared in the legal tender act o f February,! 1862, which made greenbacks a “ legal; tender in payment of all debts, pub-’ lie and private, except duties on im-; ports and interest on the public debt.” ;’ This legislation was frankly a war| measure, the necessity of which has; been in much dispute ever since;; but the recent experience of Europe j lends color to the belief that when na-j tional existence is in peril, forced; loans and levies of this character are', difficult to avoid.

In 1870, this legal tender act was held by the United States supreme court, five to three (Hepburn against! Griswold, 8 Wallace, 603), not to gov­ern contracts entered into prior to; its enactment. The decision was based; on article 1 of the federal constitu-; tion: “No state shall make anything^ but gold and silver 'coin a tender in ; payment o f debts or pass any ex post ; facto law, or law impairing the ob- i ligation o f contracts.”

In 1871, two vacancies on this bench j were filled by appointment of Justices ! Strong and Bradley; two days a fter j the confirmation o f the latter, the at- j torney-general moved fo r a reconsid- ! eration ; and a few months later Hep- ; burn against Grisw'old was formally | overruled as to prior contracts by a j vote o f five to four. In making the decision, the court harked back to the kingly prerogative, best exem pli-; fled by Henry V I I I , who reduced th e ! ratio o f the silver coinage from 37-40; to 4-12. In 1883, this court held,! (Juillard against Greenman, 110 U. S.,i 421), that Congress possessed this! prerogative, to the extent o f making; any old thing a legal tender for alii debts payable in lawful money . no matter when contracted.

Since 1883, in this country, most! j long-term obligations have contained ;; stipulation for payment in “gold coin I of the present standard o f weight and I

| fineness.” In 1868, this court had held (Bronson against Rodes, 7 W allace,;

: 229) that such contracts are va lid .1 And this distinction between real and flat or stage money was recognized in the words o f the act o f May, 1878,.

| “ unless otherwise expressly stated in I the contract,” and even by the Sher­

man silver purchase act o f 1890, the treasury notes issued under which were made legal tender, “ except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.” Both in 1872 and in 1883 a cheap dollar was in high favor among sundry large interests that had maturing obligations, as is the case I today.

I t would thus appear that the pro­posed transfer o f 2D0 billions from th e\ Creditor to the debtor class may lack somewhat of perfect fruition. The loss ( w ill fa ll largely not upon the bond­holders o f Senator Thomas’s imag- j inatPon, but ' on the wage earners,.! savings bank depositors, life insurance ; policyholders, trust funds for philan­thropy, widows and orphans. A lso,j upon the whole industrial community, whose operations are checked, often to the verge o f paralysis, by the un­certainties o f an unstable medium o f exchange. Since the dawn of history, debasing the currency has always wrought evil. W hat happened in 1929 and since has been the inevitable aftermath o f the riot of extravagance, waste and speculation invariably in­

duced by" inflation.Even in the darkest days o f 1864,

when $100 in legal tender notes could buy only $35.09 in gold, the federal government, its back to the wall, met its ob ligatior- as nominated- in the bond, in gold. Even Grant vetoed a

’ “ silver remonetization” bill. And Cleveland issued bonds to maintain the gold standard, and wrecked his political future in forcing the repeal of the Sherman act. The act o f No vember. 1893, had declared it to be the policy o f the United States to “ maintain the equal power o f every dollar coined or issued in the market or in the payment o f debts” and this declaration has been fortified and clarified since.

John Stuart Mill's dictum has more than passing interest n ow :—

“ Profligate governments have until a very modern period never scrupled for the sake o f robbing their creditors to confer on all other debtors a license to rob theirs by the shallow and im­pudent artifice o f lowering the stand­ard: that least covert o f all modes o f knavery, which consists o f calling a shilling a pound that a debt o f a hundred pounds may be canceled by the payment o f 100 shillings.”

But what saith the preacher? “That which hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” Inflation is like a drug habit; both, doubtless, can be controled. j

W . B. SH E PPA R D . ; / Denver, Col., M ay 16, 1933. J

Penn Yan Enjoys Band Festiva

Th ron gs lined the streets o f Penn Y a n S a tu rday even in g and a thous­and peop le filled the aud itorium o f the Junior H ig h school bu ild ing to en­jo y the school bands and drum corps fro m R u shville , N ap les , W a tk in s J Glen, Lyons, Geneva, Seneca Fa lls , P a lm y ra and Penn Yan , w h ich p a rtic ip a ted in the band fe s t iva l. Th e u n iform ed boys and g ir ls m ade an a ttra c t iv e appearance, especia lly in the parade.

In the a ftern oon the m em bers en­jo yed sports and contests on the school a th le tic field.

Large Crowd Greeted Band

W ith the w arm w eather and the ex­citem ent a ttend ing the return o f the H igh School Band from C hicago there

I w as very, litt le s leep ing done in this v il la g e Sunday night. A t 12 m idn ight

I F ir e Ch ief E lias W a lla ce v igo rou s ly J c langed the fire h e ll to ind icate to the residents that the specia l t r a in 1 b r in g in g the pa rty home from C M - ! cago had le ft Dresden and over jfooo people congregated at the N ew Y o rk C entra l station on K euka ou tle t to w elcom e hom e the group that had

! sp en t_ the w eek in the m idd le west, b rin g in g back subs tan tia l honors as m usicians o f ab ility.

L O W E L L ^ B R IG G S T h e m arria ge o f M iss Esther R ose

B r igg s to L ieu t. Erdm ann Jelli&on L o w e ll took "p lace at h igh noon in 'th e cadet chapel at W est Po in t on W ednesday, June 14th. L ieu t.-C olonel C layton E. W heat, o f the United States M ilita ry Academ y perform ed the cer­emony. Th e bride is the daughter

: o f Mr. and Mrs. F red er ick F err in g ton B riggs , o f Benedict Avenue, T a rry - town. N. Y . L ieu t. L o w e ll is the son o f Mr. and Mrs. F ran k H o lt L ow e ll, o f E llsw orth Fa lls , Maine. Th e L o w ­ells are fo rm er residents o f N orthT a r ry to w n .

D r. A sb u ry (From Dundee Correspondent)

The remains of Dr. Asbury H. Baker* prominent Elm ira surgeon, were laid to rest in Hillside cemetery, Dundee Tuesday. The funeral was held from Trinity church, Elmira with Rev. Henry E. Hubbard, officiat­ing. „ : I. IV

Dr. Baker was born in Dundee Oc­tober 23, 1860 and spent his early life here. He attended the Dundee Fre-

31 par^atory school and later graduated from the University of Buffalo. Dr. Baker began his practice in Dundee before going to Elm ira where he be­came such a noted surgeon. Before beginning his medical career, he was associated in the printing and pub­lishing of the Dundee Observer. Many of the older residents of Dundee re­m em ber D r. Baker very well.

Dr. Baker’s death occurred at an Elmira hospital following a short ill­ness.

Besides his widow, Mrs. Helen Rappleye, he is survived by two sons,-F. Rappleye of Elm ira and Charles; of Corning and six grandchildren. He was a cousin of Harry B. Harpending of this village.

H E M E N W A Y — A t R ochester, Monday, 1 June 12th, M iss L ou ise H em en­w ay, 63.Mips H em enw ay had been a public

school teacher fo r 33 years and had taught in L ib e r ty S treet school fo r the past 21 years. She leaves fou r sisters, M rs. Sy lvester" Lounsbery; and Mrs. E rnest Tears , both of! F r ien d ; Mrs. Lau ra Jones, G o rh a m ;: Mrs.. Thom as Christensen , B en ton ; one brother, Isaac H em enw ay, o f Rochester. T h e fu nera l w as held o n ; Thursday a fternoon at 2: 30 o ’c lock j from the hom e o f her sister, Mrs. ; Christensen, at Benton, R ev. S. G. Houghton, o f Canandaigua, assisted by Rev. W . M. Hydon, o f Penn Yan, o f­fic iating. B uria l in L a k e View'.

BARDEN— JOHNSON A t H ow lan d Chapel, B ridgeport,

, Conn., on Saturday m orn ing, June 10, a t 10 o ’clock, took p lace the m arria ge

: ° f M artha E lizabeth Johnson, daugh­ter o f Mr. and Mrs. J. A lb e r t Johnson,

, o f B ridgeport, and G eorge B ryce Bar- , den, son o f Mr. and Mrs. G eorge L. j Barden, o f Penn Yan , the cerem ony , being perform ed by Dr. W illia m H o r - 1 I ace Day, o f the U nited C on grega tion a l ,! Church. i

I i -Jerem iah E dw ard C reary, o f 231

! E. Elan S treet, was. graduated from C ornell U n ive rs ity this w eek, re c e iv ­ing degree o f c iv il engin eer. H e is a graduate o f p en n Yan A cadem y and he

, held a S tate tu ition scholarsh ip and a M cM ullen scholarsh ip a t C ornell.

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T h e Hon. H a r r y A . W illiam s, o f the | Bureau o f M unicipal Accounts, o f the S tate C om ptro lle r ’s O ffice, has a r ­r ived in Penn Yan and w ill be here in te rm itten tly fo r severa l w eeks, to ;;aid the deputy county treasurer, D ora K . A rn o ld , in her new duties, and the gen era l w o rk o f the o ffice during the tem porary absence- o f th e cou n ty

^treasurer, H a rry O. Bennett..— --I-;

H O P K IN S — In Geneva, F riday , June 16, Mrs. N e llie Hopkins, 67, fo rm e r­ly o f Penn Yan.She leaves one, daughter, M rs. H a r ­

rison Dann, o f R och ester; fou r b ro th ­ers, C harles U pDyke, o f Oanoga; L u k e UpDyke, o f Seneca F a lls ; D an ie l and D avid Updyke, o f F aye tte ; tw o sisters, Mrs. P e a r l Robinson, o f W a ter loo , and M iss C h arity U pD yke, o f Boston, Mass. T h e fu n era l w as held from th e Th ayer fu nera l hom e on M onday a fternoon at 2 o ’c lock , Rev. w. M. H ydon o ffic ia t­ing. B uria l in L a k e V iew cem etery.

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AS SOME OF US USED TO LOOK F IF T Y YEARS AGO

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DEAR CLASSMATES OF F IF T Y YEARS AGO:

We w i s h to s e e y o u a l l on the o l d W IL L IS T O N CAMPUS o n c e a g a i n . Come an d b r i n g y o u r w i v e s . We h a v e made e v e r y p r o v i s i o n f o r y o u r c o m f o r t a n d c o n v e n ie n c e and a t a m o s t r e a s o n a b l e e x p e n d i t u r e .

COME.’ W e ’ l l n e v e r h a v e a n o t h e r F IF T IE T H t o g e t h e r

<3* R O G t fR A <3rrUWEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 4 t h , 1 9 3 3 .

A r r i v e i n E a s th a m p to n a n y t im e on W e d n e s d a y a f t e r n o o n . R e g i s t e r a t t h e New W i l l i s t o n Gym on P a r k S t . , t h e n go t o the CLASS OF ’ 83 h e a d q u a r t e r s a t t h e AMBER LANTERN TEA HOUSE on th e N o r th a m p to n R o ad ( C o l l e g e H ig h w a y )2-k m i l e s f r o m E a s th a m p to n .

THURSDAY, JUNE 1 5 t h , 1 9 3 3 .

1 0 : 00 A.1 New Gym.

G r a d u a t i o n E x e r c i s e s i n th e ■1 : 0 0 P .M . CLASS DINNER OF THE CLASS OF ’ 83 a t t h e Am ber L a n t e r n T e a H ou se (T h e Men w i l l d i n e a l o n e )

6 :3 0 P.M. B i g A lu m n i B a n q u e t a t t h e New Gym nasium . T h i s i s a l w a y s a s p l e n d i d a f f a i r w i t h d e l i g h t f u l s p e a k i n g a n d s i n g i n g b y t h e s p l e n d i d l y t r a i n e d G l e e C l u b . ( I n f o r m a l D r e s s )

P r i n c i p a l a n d M r s . G a l b r a i t h i n v i t e th e L a d i e s o f o u r P a r t y t o t h e L u n c h e o n on th e Law n a t t h e O ld W i l l i s t o n H o m e s te a d .

1 0 :3 0 P .M . B o n f i r e on the s h o r e o f th e p o n d .

1 0 :3 0 to 2 o ’ c l o c k - D a n c in g i n th e Gym.

ACCOMMODATIONS a r e p r o v i d e d f o r a l l a t th e Am ber L a n t e r n . S i x d o u b l e r o o m s , two s i n g l e a n d s i x a d d i t i o n a l r o o m s j u s t a c r o s s the s t r e e t .RATES - $ 2 .5 0 f o r d o u b l e r o o m s . $>1.25 s i n g l e . B r e a k f a s t s $ . 3 5 u p .O u r cwn CLASS BANQUET $ 1 . 5 0 .

I f you come b y t r a i n , go to N o r t h a m p t o n a n d t a k e t a x i to t h e Am ber L a n t e r n on! th e ' C o l l e g e H ig h w a y . W e ’ l l t r a n s p o r t y o u a f t e r t h a t .

PROBABLY - A t s i x A .M . " J u d d y " an d C a i r n s w i l l r o t a t e t h r e e m i l e s q u a r e a n d r e c i t e g e o m e t r i c t h e o r e m s , a t 8 A .M . " A I . S m ith " and S e d g w ic k w i l l r e p r e s e n t *83 a t C h a p e l , l e a d i n g t h e C h o i r , f o r w h ic h f u n c t i o n S h u r t l e f f ( ? ) w i l l h a v e i n s t a l l e d a H o rn O b l i g a t o f o r t h e O r g a n . " P r o f . " B a c o n w i l l b e d e l e g a t e d b y t h e c l a s s to a s s i s t P r o f . B u f fu m i n r e m o v in g f r o m M i d d l e H a l l a cow t h a t m ay h a v e w a n d e r e d i n t o t h e b u i l d i n g d u r i n g th e n i g h t . A l l h a n d s w i l l a p p e a r a t t h e B o n f i r e a t t i r e d i n t h e t r a d i t i o n a l N i g h t S h i r t . P a j a m a s a r e o u t l a w e d e x c e p t a s w o r n b y l a d i e s .

COME J COME J COME 1 Y o u w i l l n e v e r h a v e a c h a n c e to a w a k e n so m any p l e a s a n t m e m o r ie s . Y o u owe i t t o u s and y o u owe i t t o y o u r s e l f . P l e a s e n o t i f y N . P . Ames C a r t e r , 22 G ro v e A v e . , C h i c o p e e F a l l s , M a s s . , b y F r i d a y , June 9 t h , and he w i l l m ake r e s e r v a t i o n s f o r y o u . I f y ou c a n ’ t d e c i d e u n t i l t h e l a s t mom ent, come an y w a y I

YOURS MOST CORDIALLY, IN THE LASTING BONDS OF YOREJ ’

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AS SOME OF US LOOK NOW — F IFTY YEARS LATER

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Mrs. Louisa B. C. Rose Mrs. Louisa B. Chapman Rose, w ife j i

o f Dr. John Henry Rose, died Sunday J| evening, June 11th, at the Rose home, J 492 Souih Main street, Geneva. Mrs. j Rose is w ell known in Penn Yan and :

j Branchport, having lived at her hus- ; band’s ancestral home, “The Chest- j nuts,” on the W est branch o f Lake/

! Keuka fo r the past several years.: Mrs. Rose was a communicant o f St. ;•

I Luke’s Episcopal church in Branch- ■I port, as w ell as Trin ity church in G e -1 I neva. She came o f a distinguished !| fam ily and was a direct deScendent o f | j John and Priscilla Alden. She leaves j, her husband; a sister, Mrs. ■ Charles ; Holland o f Monte Carlo; a brother, j Robert H. Chapman o f Hollywood, I

| C a lif.; tw o nieces, Mrs. P r is tilla A l- j j den Chapman A ldrich o f Hartford,I Conn., and Mrs. Cornwallis 'U an k ey ! o f London ; a nephew, Kinneiiah Corn- j wallis, advisor to K in g Feisal Of Iraq, j

; Funeral services were held last W e d -1 jnesday morriihg at 11' O’clock'At' Trin- j i ity Episcopal churpji, .Geneva, Rev. tS. H. Edsall officiating. Burial in j

I Glenwood cemetery.

Dldest Woman Resident of Penn Yan Died Monday

Mrs. Joanne Thornton, oldest wom ­an resident o f Penn Yan, who would have been 97 years old next October 14th, died Monday afternoon at the home o f her daughter, Mrs. M ary Tears, 7 Main street. A t the tim e of her death she was a grea t grand­mother. Under pioneer conditions she raised 17 children o f whom 11 were her own. She had been married twice, the death o f her first husband, Vernum Northrup, at the age o f 77, leaving her w ith the responsibility o f raising the 17 children.

Mrs. Thornton was born October 14, 1836, near K inney’s Corners, on Bluff Point. H er parents; Elisha H aigh t and L y r ia K ingsley Haight, were the descendants o f hardy Dutch pioneers who came to Yates county when the country was inhabited by Indians. A t the age o f 20 she m ar­ried Vernum Northrup o f Ita ly , who I

-had a fa m ily o f six children. A s the I years passed, 11 more w ere added to the fam ily. She did her own spinning, |

BLOOD— A t Penn Yan, Tuesday, June 20th, Em ory A. Blood, 76.He leaves his w ife ; a son, Ray, of

Penn Yan; three brothers-, Dewitt, o f Penn Yan; Fred and Edward, o f Bel­lona; one sister, Mrs. Eva Jennings, o f Geneva. The funeral was held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o ’clock, from the Thayer funeral home, Rev. W. M. Hydon officiating, with burial in Bel­lona cemetery.

K a rl Rogers was taken into cus- I tody by the chief o f police Tuesday on an intoxication charge. A sen­tence o f 21 days imprisonment was made. H e was then given a choice o f an additional 25 days or $25 fine. H is license w ill probably be revoked by A lbany officials.

Mrs. Ross E. Lautzenheiser

F or two years teacher, o f the first grade in the L ib erty street school o f Penn Yan, Miss Leona Lamoreaux, daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. H enry L a ­moreaux o f Valois, became the bride Saturday o f Dr. Ross E. Lautzenheis­er, fo rm erly practicing in Dundee, now a member o f the Foster-H atch M edical group since 1929.

Two Town Offices Joined

A t a m eeting o f the Milo town Board j held) on Monday evening, the board passed* resolutions combining the o f­fices o f town co llector and town clerk, and decreasing the number o f assess­ors from 3 to 1.

The office of town collector v irtua lly has ibeen abolished as the town clerk w ill execute the duties o f the clerk ’s office and at the same time w ill col­lect the taxes for the town. The office w ill be open, fo r election and the o f- i fice o f assessor w ill be appointive.

The new order w ill take effect on ; January 1, 1934.

David M ille r now is town c le rk ,!' having held that office fo r the past 20 years, and George H. Frederick is/- serving his second term as co llector, I

CHEAP MONEY.ji

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, “ Believe, I t or N o t” R ip ley is} | featuring in his cartoons the fa ct i that W illiam Conklin o f Penn Yan | started the barber’s trade in 1863 and

| a fter 70 years in this occupation is! still at his place o f business daily. A recent article in the Chronicle- Express carried this “ believe it or not” story to the popular feature artist.

Recovery W i l l Be S low and Not by T h a t Means.

To the Editor of The New York Times:At bottom of the urge for a cheapt

money is a demand that those who! have consumed their cake shall be! enabled by fiat still to possess itf that those who have eaten a sour grape shall not have their teeth set on edge; that those who took no thought of the morrow, who put; their money on wrong horses, who; believed that $3 wheat, forty-cent cotton and ten-dollar-a-day wages were to last forever, should escape retribution.

Those of us whose rent, food, clothing, and the comforts and necessaries of life doubled, tripled and even quadrupled in cost; who ,bought Liberty bonds at 4 per cent, when 8 per cent was to be had in the market; who sustained the brunt of the burden imposed by the war, are now having our inning, as is fitting. But every effort is being bent in Congress to deprive us of it.

There are no short-cuts out of de­pressions. Recovery will come when by hard work and self-denial an­other surplus has been amassed. That objective will entail a definite descent to a lower standard of liv-

the infamous Smoot tariff must be reduced, war j

/; debts mostly charged off, bal­looned capitalization pricked, shoe-

. string equities forgotten, fantas- I tio wages, profits and overhead j trimmed.I The most discouraging feature of • the present situation is the failure 1 to realize that rehabilitation must ; be moral as well as industrial, and

’■ ] of this there is at present very lit­tle appearance or prospect. The

- universal aim is to resume at the il929 level.

It would seem as if bitter experi­ence must have ground into the j very fiber of the human mentality j the evils of depreciated currencies and of tariffs; yet both are in higher favor today than ever in re­

corded history. But, as Poor Rich­ard remarks, “Experience keeps a dear school—and fools will learn in no other.”

Concededly, the times are out of ; joint. Failure to make any seem­in g ly appropriate gestures, even . though empty, and terrifying in their potentialities, might contain

- i awkward political and social possi­bilities. But it may be better to; bear the ills that we have than to; fly to others that we know not of.j To ascribe our plight to an appre­ciation of the gold dollar is mostly pure assumption. There is more of the yellow metal in existence than

1 ever before; and it has, in fact,: nearly ceased to be a circulating lif medium at all, serving chiefly as a i basis for token money and instru- ;; ments of credit, and to settle inter- , national balances. Is the dollar any f ‘dearer” today that it was in the /Eighteen Nineties, when wire ’ nails sold for 85 cents a keg in Pittsburgh, and eggs at 3 cents a

, dozen in Nebraska; when contrac- f tors even in New York State paid ; 90 cents to common labor for a ten-

I hour day; when Central of New : Jersey 5s were above 140; when :/ Bradstreet’s commodity index aver- / aged, for the year 1896, $5,912?/ That was the time when much or I most of the underlying indebted-

ness of the railroads, which it is . now proposed to devalue, was is- ( sued, in the wholesale reorganiza- j tions of that period.

W . B. SHEPPARD, j Denver. Col., May 26, 1933.

UULti— A t tne so ia iers and Sailors Hospital, Friday, June 30th, Lew is Cole, 62.He leaves his w ife, one daughter,

Mrs. Howard T y le r ; his father, W o l­cott Cole; a brother, W olcott Cole Jr., a ll o f Penn Yan, and a sister, Mrs. Oscar Griswold, o f Bath. Th e funeral which was private, was held on Mon­day afternoon from the home in P leas­ant Ave., Rev. R. N. Jessup officiating. Burial in Lake View .PO O LER— A t the Soldiers and Sa il­

ors Hospital, Penn Yan, Saturday, July 1st, D ew itt Pooler, 64, o f Dres­den.H e leaves his w ife ; one daughter,

Mrs. A lbert Dean, o f Fulton. T h e fun­eral was held on W ednesday a fter­noon, from the home o f his brother- 1 in-law, Bert Edwarde, at Fulton, Rev. W illiam Lord, o f the Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church, officating. Burial at Fulton.

—M arried, at W ellsboro, Pa., on Saturday, May 27th, Leona, F., daugh­ter of Mr. and Mrs. F rank Bailey, and j J. Franklin Pepper, son otf Mrs. B er­tha French, both of this place.

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DEFLATION JUST PENALTY

Mankind Can Learn Only From B it­ter Experience

To the Editor of The Republican :— At ’bottom o£ the,, urge tor cheap

I money is, a demand, that those who have consumed their cake shall be enabled by flat still to possess it; that those who have e^ten a sour grape shall not have their teeth set on edge;j that those who took no thought ofi the morrow, who put their money on wrong horses, who believed that $3] wheat, 40-cent cotton and " $10-iarday were to .last forever, should escape retribution.

Those of us whose rent, food, cloth- ng and all the comforts and neces­

saries- of life doubled,, tripled and e-ven quadrupled in cost; who bought Liberty bonds at 4 per cent, when 8 per cent was to bp had in the tear-, ket; who figured ks cheap skates or suckers to ; every store and factory; who sustained the" brunt of the bur­den imposed by , the war, are now having our-innings, as is fitting. But every effort is being bent in Con­gress to deprive us of it. I t , is we who, primarily, are to be “made the goat” for the gentry named.

There are no short cuts out of de-j pression. Mankind has been on a spree, in which were dissipated or I mortgaged a large share of the wealth

i accumulated since the Middle Ages.1 Recovery will come when by hard

work and self-denial another surplus has. been; amassed. That objective will entail a definite descent to ? a lower standard o f living. Incidentally, the infamous Smoot tariff m ust be reduced, war debts mostly charged off, ballooned capitalization pricked, Shoe-string equities forgotten, fan­tastic wages, profits and overhead trimmed. '

The most discouraging feature of the present situation is the failure to realize that rehabilitation must, be

1 moral as well as industrial, and of 1 th is . change of heart, of fruits meet j for repentance, there is in this nation j very little appearance or prospect.• The universal aim is to resume at the 1 1929 level.J All attempts to take rabbits out' of | this hat will probably fail. All such /are reasonably sure to make confu-

ysion ultimately more confounded. The I debacle of 1929 was the just and in- | evitable penalty invariably exacted i ■ for an orgy of inflation. B y just the]!.degree of success met with in :the present inflationary expedients, to that extent, precisely is the experience! of 1914-1929 likely to be repeated.

For inflation always involves a huge transfer of wealth from the saving and experienced to the inexpert and improvident, who proceed to waste their windfalls in a riot of extrava­gance, speculation and debt-contract­ing. There is for a time a semblance of prosperity, but the end is always the same, differing1 in unessentials and degree.

What happened in 1929 is what Prof W . G. Sumner used to call a conjunc­ture of markets, the necessary re­adjustment of a dislocated supply- and-demand ratio. The - prodess is painful and in some cases agony long drawn out. The excesses of the war/ of 1861-5 appear not to have been ex- } piated in full before the late 1890s.

It "would .seem as if bitter experience j must haye ground into the very fiber of the human mentality the evils of depreciated currencies and of tariffs; I yet both are in higher favor today I than ever in recorded history. But, | as Poor Richard remains, “Experience keeps a dear school-r-and fools will learn in no other,”

Concededly, the times are out of joint. Failure to make -any seeming­ly appropriate gestures, even though

empty and . terrifying in'" m eu^poteh- tialitieS, might contain awkward po­litical and social possibilities. But} it may be better to bear the ills we I have than fly to others that we know r not of.

To ascribe our plight to an.appre-l elation of the gold dollar is mdstly I pure assumption. There is more of I the '■ yellow metal in existence than [ ever before; and it>has in fact nearly [ ceased to be a circulating medium at | all, and serves chiefly and almost I solely as' a basis for token money | and instruments of credit, and to set-1

I tie international balances.Is the dollar .any “dearer” today

! than it was in the 1890s, when wirq nails sold for 85 cents per hundred-*' weight in Pittsburg, eggs at three cents a dozen in Nebraska, and con* I tractors even in New York state paid j 90 cents to-common labor for a ,1 0 - | hour day; when Central of New Jer­sey 5s were/ above 140; when Brad- street’s commodity index averaged for the yeai' 18.96 $5,912? ."

That was the time when much of mos|. of the underlying. indebtedness of the railro.ads, which 'it is now, pro.- posed to devalue, was issued, in the

wholesale reorganizations of the pe­riod.

Folly, as well as wisdom, is justified of its children. W. B. SHEPPARD.

Denver, Col., May 30, 1933.■ 2r- . ,. - . - ' M M

STATE OF NEW YORK— COUNT Yj;COURT— COUNTY OF YATES

, Eebjrin €|:/Smith ■ as;, AdmMatratoTS with the W ill annexed/of the EstateP of Eugene E. Lewis-, deceased. Plain­tiff, against Georg© H. Excell an!di Mary L. Exceli, his wife, Defendants.j| In Pursuance of a . Judgment. > of|

Foreclosure and Sale, duly granted in > :the above entitled action, and enter-1 ed in , Yates County Clerk’s office, 6h| th'b eleventh day of July, 1933, I, Or-| ville F. Randolph, the undersigned, | RefereAin said Judgment named, will | sell^at' publd'C auction' at the front hteps of the Benham Hotel in the V il­lage of Penn- Yah,/ County of Yates r;]SL Y;, on- the *2-pth day of AugusC 1933, at ten o’clock A. M., the- premises described in said. Judgment^- 'as; fo l­io,WsV'yiz.: A ll That Tract or Parcel of Land:, sitmMe in the Town1 of. Milo/ County of Yates, .and State ^6f*,.New York, bounded- and described as fol- JlowSj Wiz..’:

On the north, by Boundary Street, of the Village’ pf Penn Yan; on the east, by a gully and lands belonging to the Kimball Estate; on the south, by lands of George Plympton, Charles

Brown, Nelson Hyatt and Jam ei Thomas, and on the west, by the h igh ! way, known, as Lake Road and thei Bath Road, supposed to contain forty-? hine acres o f land.

Dated at the Village of Penn Yan, N. Y „ this 11th day of July, 1933. .

ORVILLE F. RANDOLPH,

SPENCER F. LINCOLN, R^feree.Plaintiff’s Attorney,

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The Lyons National bank, a 'co m ­bination of the fornier Lyons Nation­a l and the Gavitt National banks, opened fo r unrestricted business Friday. Dr. Fletcher ■ Toivler- ton is the president and Frank W. Coffey, W illiam Holloway and Saxon B. Gavitt vice-presidents. The Lyons banks had been in the hands of a conservator since March £tb, during which time restricted bus­iness had been carried on.

Martin Stark, son \ of .Mr, and M rs; G^harf^ ’Stark and grandson of M rs.1 M. C. Stark of Stark avenue, Penni Yan, is leading-in the national intercol- \ legiate1 chfefeb championship being Ptayed^at the Century of Progress ex-j •position inr-Ctiicago. Mr. Stark, wko| is a ' frequent summer visitor in Penh1 Yan and on Lake Keuka, was gradu­ated from H arvard . university this1 spring. Fbr three: yearAihe won the lhte|collegmte che$s dhaAipionship for The S leagim of w p c ^ jAaryard i s 1 a %iemblr; /The fourth- yCAr no tourna­ment was held.::, H 'H H I

Mrs. Roy Brti'd^,*Tdr 51 'years or­ganist at the First Presbyterian church in Penn Yan, was forced to be. absent from th§ cbfasbl© at the F r i­day morning s<g*vice., Mrs. Bruce id seriously ill at her'hbind on Liberty

.street. Mrs. Gladys Rush Ttirher played for Sunday’s service, in Her stead. Last year the. church cele­brated the 50ttt Ahhivets&f’y df MfS. Bruce’s service as organist. During that half century she has been forced, to miss very few U VrcfcSA

Helen Bridgman Bruce jMrs. Helen Bridgm an Bruce, 74, i

organist for the First Presbyterian Church of Penn Yan for more th an 1 51 years, died Saturday afternoon, July 15th. In addition to being or- ^anist of the Presbyterian church she had been a church organist in Penn Yan for 61 years. ^ 'V t l

On Sunday, July 2. she last played the organ at the Presbyterian church and stated to friends: afterward that it would be the last time. Last Sun­day when she heard the church bell ringing out its call for services, the '.p realization that she was unable, to I attend-, caused a nervous breakdown. -i

"When she marked • her 50th anni- I • veraary as church or gainst in March, | 1932, Mrs. Bruce w as the guest of | honor' at the annual meeting of the | church in. appreciation of her ser-1 vices xas: organist and choir director, i• She w as presented a purse at that !| |Sme and praised fo r-h e r long . and I j faithful service in talks, given by ] j church officials. - --

Mrs. Bruce came from a musical •> fam ily and a ll her life she has been i interested in music. A t the, age of 13,■ she was officially appointed o rgan is t ' of the Methodist Episcopal-church o f f

: , Penn. ' Yan at a salary of $100' per f year. In April, 1882, she accepted the

position in. the Presbyterian church which she filled acceptably fo r m ore

ith an half a century.Few of the members of the church

can recall any other organist having ^served. Many changes have taken place' since Mrs. Bruce first became

If associated with the church. The or- Egaii which she first played was - a Esmall instrument operated by water 'power. This organ was destroyed by

l a fir© in 1908 while repairs were be- > ing made and only a metal -ceiling and

the efficient work of the fire depart- : ment saved the edifice. A fter the fire,' the interior of the auditorium was

| remodeled and the present Austin 3- •, manual electrically operated instru- ; ment was installed. She had seen four | pastors ; serve, Dr. David Henry• Palmer being the first, and down to Jj the present pastorate of Rev. W alter

A. Henricks.She is survived by her; husband,

Roy A. Bruce; two brothers, Perl Bridgman,, o f Penn Yan , and -Chester A. Bridgman, 0f Scranton, Pa.; three sisters, Mrs. Stark Ferris., of New Jer­sey, and the Misses Mary and Lulu Bridgman, of Penn Yan.

Funeral services were held on

PENN YAN APPLIESFOR FEDERAL AID

Seek Funds to Widen Main St. Paving j from Chapel St. to North Ave.

Ban Beer Use at Park

A t the regular meeting o f the Penn Yan village trustees Monday evening action was taken to apply under the I Federal A id act fo r the necessary funds required to widen the Main street pavement between Chapel street and North avenue. H arry Hur- f ford, Frank Hoban, Karl M allory and ‘ E. G. Hopkins were named members o f a committee with power to em­ploy an engineer to make the neces­sary plans and specifications for fil­ing w ith the state h ighway depart­ment at A lbany on or before the 25th of this month.

Main street was paved shortly a ft­er Jacob street and Maiden lane. A t Chapel street the pavement, as a

1 m atter o f economy was made more narrow. A t Clinton street again the width was lessened, so that fo r the f remaining mile to the village limits, near the foot o f the Benton hill the brick pavement is unusually narrow for a street o f its importance and bearing the amount o f traffic that it carries. W ith difficu lty two cars can

j pass a parked machine. The plan ' calls fo r widening the thoroughfare from the business section to North avenue, where a part o f the tra ffic w ill be shifted to the Marcus W h it­man highway.

The trustees believe that widening ;the street w ill make traffic movement in that part o f the village much safer. Churches, library, hotel, school and park, all bring heavy parking and slow-moving traffic onto this part o f the street at different times, so that a wider pavement would be o f great help. I t has also been sug­gested that the municipal board be invited, i f this project is secured, to remove its poles, putting the wires under ground and continuing the boulevard light system north on Main street.

A t Monday’s m eeting the trustees also passed an ordinance forbidding the sale, purchase, possession or con­sumption of any drink containing in excess o f V2 o f 1% alcohol w ithin the lim its o f Red Jacket park or any other park or public playground. Fines varying from $10 to $50 for violation o f this ordinance are also provided by the new village act, which is printed elsewhere in this paper.

The trustees have authorized a five- year lease w ith H. A llen W agener for the municipal building on Maiden lane.

Seeking Nomination

Homer C. Pelton, a popular young attorney with offices in Penn Yan, has announced his candidacy for the nomination fo r the office o f Dis-

, trict Attorney of Yates' County, at the primaries to be held Tuesday, September 19th. Mr. Pelton is a na- tive of Penn Yan, graduated from the

• Penn Yan Academy with the class of 19i2i2, and from the law school of the University of Michigan, in 1928. He is looked upon as a very successful law­yer and during his' five years of ac­tiv ity has, been connected with sever­al important cases.

The only other name so fa r sug­gested is that Of John J. Hyland, also of Penn Yan, and at present village attorney. For several years he was a member o f the firm o f Huson & H y­land, his partner being the late Cal- vine J. Hii&on, a prominent attorney j and Democratic leader in this com­munity during his life and at one time Commissioner of Agriculture.

Both of these candidates seek the nomination from the Republicans o f the county. W ell known and well thought of in the community the con­test between the two for the nomina­tion may develop into a. spirited ra ce .'

B ISHOP— At Penn Yan, Saturday, July 15th, Seth Bishop, o f Bluff Point, 82.Mr. Bishop was ascending the stair­

way leading to the offices of Dr. W. P. Rhudy, ini Main Street, When he was stricken anid died. He leaves his' w ife ; two sons, Rolia, of Bluff Po in t; Clarence, o f E lm ira; a sister, Mrs. Fred Brown, o f Bluff Point, and 2 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchil­dren. Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the home, Rev. Charles Smith o ffic i­ating. Burial in Lake View.

Bankers Defeat Methodists

W ith approximately 500 fans root­ing from the side lines, the play-off game of the first round o f Tw iligh t Softball League was played at the fa ir grounds on Wednesday evening.

BRIGGS—-At Penh' San, c>aiumay, July 15th, Mrs. Ina B riggs,■ 73.She leaves her husband, Christie

B. Briggs; one sister, Mrs. Jullia Rosenicrans, of Dundee. The funeral was held from the home at 214 East Main Street, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. W. M. Hydon offici­ating. Burial in Tyrone cemetery. INGRAM —A t Potter, Friday, July 14,

Mrs. Emma Ingram'. 81.She leaves three sons, Harry, Oli­

ver and George, all of Potter, and 8 grandchildren. The funeral was held from the home on Sunday at 2 o ’clock, Rev. C. S. Emerson officating. Burial I in Nettle Valley cemetery.

' ‘The fo llow ing history o f th e ; B fanchport-Bluff Po in t Methodist Episcopal churches w ritten by the paid tor, the Rev. Charles A . Smith, hhs been inspired by the Old Home day celebration which w ill be held at the B luff Point church Saturday and Sunday, July 29 and 30. This cele­bration marks the 95th anniversary of. the organization o f the Methodist society at K inney’s Corners (now B lu ff Po in t) as a separate church; the. J05th anniversary o f the inclusion o f .Kinney’s Corners in Benton circuit

r a nand the 140 til anniversary o f the set­tling o f the first Methodist fam ily in the town. - o f Jerusalem.. The history has been- prepared w ith the; know l­edge that it is incomplete' and the w riter would appreciate old clippings J o f historical value, w ritten or remem- Z' bercd data that anyone can add to, this record.

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Tragedy, stark anti grim, swept I across Lake Keuka on Sunday after­noon, July 23rd, in the wake of a mid-stimmer storm wbich in fury and short-lived intensity m ight have been compared with a F lorida hurricane. The lives of three men - was the toll taken by the sudden and death-dealing squall which scuttled across Bluff Point lashing its fury on Lake Keuka j| waters and churning them into 12-foot waves, tw isting trees on shore and rocking summer homes and boat houses like children’s block houses.

Three men, prominent in civic and sportsmen’s circles, especially w ell j known as yachtsmen and extremely | popular with the summer colony on.i Lake Keuka went down in deep w afer j when, a fleet o f sailboats of the Keuka Yacht Club was capsized in the lash­ing storm.

The three men lost are;Dr. Donald I. Gleason, 47, Ham-

mondsport dentist, yacht club sec­retary anti civ ic leader.Lawrence (L a rry ) Woodside, 35,

prominent Brooklyn sportsman; Arthur Conley, 26, Cohocton

automobile salesman and amateur .. ...oailnr _

Observes 75th Birthday

Lew is C. W illiams, “ Sage o f the Middlesex Valley,” whose opinion and notations on local and world current events are sought and enjoyed by many admirers-, celebrated his 75th birthday on Thursday, July 27th.

Mr. W illiams, ,or “ L. C.” as he is more fam iliarly called, was born in the Middlesex Valley and has lived there ever since. He has been engag­ed in agriculture and is considered one of the successful all-around farm ­ers in that section. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and taught the K in g ’s Business Sunday School Class, a class of young men, for 20 years. He also was Sunday School superintendent for 10 years and missed hut two Sundays from his duties in that length of time.

He is an ardent baseball fan and has played the game and is one of the -strongest supporters and workers for the Middlesex team.

Far from looking his 75 years, he has the active m entality and physical alertness o.f a man at least 15 years younger.

Rev. Charles A. Smith

Beer Tax' Apportionment i

The apportionment o f the beverages ;tax made possible 'by the return of af percentage of the monies received by;

jthe State on the beer revenues hasj •been mailed int the form of checks to? the several towns in Yates County by?: the county treasurer’s office.

The payment of the checks was tern-; porarily held up due to the receiving o f instructions to hold up payment/ until Attorney-General John J. Ben-t nett handed down a decision concern-1 ing the status of towns where no heerj was being sold. Attorney Bennett rul­ed that a ll towns were wet until they had voted dry, and accordingly appor­tionment of the share of the beverage tax was apportioned to each town in Yates County, according to population! fis fo llow s:

Population Tax796............ ..... $ 110.41

1845.................. (257:85510.................. 71.,27

2072.................. 289.57839............. 117.25

6561............... 916.931190................ 166.312237............ 312.6,3804............... 112.36

TownBarringtonBentonIta lyJerusalem.MiddlesexMiloPotterStarkeyTorrey

$2354.58/

Bus BuildingPlant Again Busy

W ille tt W . W ettm ore o f Buffalo, form erly o f Penn Yan, is back "hom e” again, and again is in the manufacturing business. H e has j1 leased the auto bus body plant o f thel| referee in bankruptcy fo r W hitfie ld and Son, Inc., and Monday called, back a dozen o f the old employees, I?

, working on school bus body building, j j Mr. W ettm ore has made an offer to \\! purchase the plant, stock and equip- j ment, which w ill be considered at a m eeting o f the creditors on August 10th.

In the meantime Mr. Wettmore!'! hopes to secure enough school bus j \ orders to g ive employment to p ra c t i- j! cally all o f the form er experienced!: workm en and to w ork on other ty p e s j1 o f bodies when the school bus season j .j ends. j

Mr. W ettm ore came to Penn Yan in 1892 w ilh Russell and B irkett and continued in that business until it I was closed. Then he was w ith John! T. Andrews arid son, Edwin C. A n ­drews, in the Andrews and Son Co. fo r ten years, in the m ill on the Main street bridge which was destroyed by fire. In 1910’ he went to Buffalo w ith the N iagara Radiator and Boiler com­pany, which business was sold in 1927. Since that time he has been in the heating and ventilating business! under the name W. W . W ettm ore cor­poration. This business was closed in 1932.

Big Barn BurnedPenn Yan firemen w ere blistered

. and heated on Tuesday when they | w ere called to fight the blazing barn ; o f Enos Robinson, about 5 miles from - Penn Yan on the east lake road.

The b ig farm 'barn which w as des- t troyed with its contents at a lose of ; approximately $7,000, was close to the i road, and, when the b ig fire truck from ; Penn Yan drove by the blaze in order 'to reach the house side of the struc­tu re , E lias W allace, chief of the de­partment, received blistered arms from the intense heat. I t was impos­sible fo r a few minutes to drive down to the lake to pump water ow ing to I the intensity of th e blaze, so the

Penn Yan has come in fo r its share o f the heat wave which has settled upon the country. Foi* the past 4 days, thermometers have started out in the m orning w ith a temperature o* 98 de­grees in the shade and as the day went along the heat g rew until it reg- j istered 105 in the shade. F o r the first f time in many years, residents haver sought re lie f at night by sleeping out

- of doors. Hundreds have cooled off in f the waters, o f Lake JKeuka and la/wn;

'sprink lers have been kept busy day and night. I t has been one o f the hot­test, driest spell© in many years, j: Tuesday afternoon a brief rain storm cooled o ff the a ir a few degrees1. j

Coroner M. E. Costello, o f ±*enn Yan, opened an inquest Wednesday m orning at 10 a. m. in the grand ju ryroom o f the Yates County Court House in Penn yan to investigate the mys­tery surrounding the death of F loyd Parker, aged 54 years, who was foandl unconscious about 20 feet from his I home in Branchport at 10:30 Satur­day evening. Th e man fa iled to re­cover consciousness and died in his home at 3:30 Sunday morning. Po l- ! low ing the .discovery of the injured f man Dr. Costello was called and found j that Parker had a gash over his right I eye. He treated the in jury and left fo r j home. As the patient became w o rs e ! during the night, Dr. Costello, w as) again called but Parker was dead when he arrived. i

H U N TE R — A t her home on East iviamStreet, Thursday, August 3, Mrs.Carrie E. Hunter.She is survived by two sisters Mrs.

Ida M. Ely, of Medina, and Mrs. Chris­topher Grant, of Elm ira. F. E. H oyt and fam ily ,of Penn- Yan are the local relatives.' The funeral w ill be held at the home on Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Burial in Hector cemetry.

. R. E. Kinsman, retired, o f E lm ira, has purchased the Id lew ild property on the west shore o f Lake Keuka, about five miles south o f Keuka col­lege. This old Van LieW lakeside property has long been a favorite. In the time o f steamboats it was a show place. The new owner is repairing and improving it.

* Penn Yan received its first close 1 contact w ith the W estern and Central | New York m ilk strike on Monday ! when Sheriff Jay W. F itzw ater and I deputies, w ere placed on guard at the Ii ’local plant of the Dairymen’s League |

■J on Lake Street. The deputies went on I, guard early on Monday m orning and jj on Monday night they were augment­ed by about 40 additional men sworn in as special deputies. These men were

/ j guarding the plant Monday night and i Tuesday m orning and a detachment escorted some of the trucks to the plant. Sheriff F itzwater and a deputa­tion of his men went around the coun­ty to watoh the centralized m ilk load­ing points, but no trouble was found and no violence reported

Employers Receive Blanks

Em ployers in Penn Yan on Friday, July 28, received' blanks to be used for the President’s Reemployment

■ Agreement, which is authorized under Section 4a o f the National Industrial Recovery Act. A t the top of the sheet

' a note is printed to the em ployer as ii fo llow s:

“To E very Em ployer:1 Th is agreement is part o f a na­

tionwide plan to raise wages, create employment, and thus increase pur-

' chasing power and restore business.I That plan depends w holly upon unit­ed action by all emlployers. For this

J reason I ask you, as an employer.to db your part by signing.

| 2 I f it turns out that the general' agreement bears unfairly in any group of' employers they can have .that straightened out by presenting prom ptly their proposed code of fair competition.”

The note is signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, W hite House, July 27, 1933.

The blank sets forth the rules gov­erning the emergency reemployment drive, * and asks that the employer agree w ith the stipulations set forth for the period from Aug. 1 to Dec. 31, 1933, or to any earlier date o f ap­proval o f a Code o f Fa ir Competition to which he is subject.

TH E CABBAGE ROSE

Today I worked in m y garden | ’Mong roses common .and roses rare, Moss roses, te;a roses and ramblers Many kinds of roses are there.

Paul N[eyron large, fu ll and .round, General Jacq. dark, ve lvety red.Long, pointed buds of w axy white Some round and pink, some crimson,

some red.L 'la \ [fa: i. ! .1 ‘ : '* "J S

Some la rge and fluffy o f pearly pink, Some dainty and fine, some big and Some like the flush of the morning

•bold.And some like the sunset’s gold.

Though all are love ly and sweet .Not one in the lot can compare W ith that sweet old-fashioned rose, That pink cabbage rose so fair.

I t brings' to m y mind sw eet memo­ries

Of m y childhood days long ao,And dear fam iliar faces Of loved Jones here below.

I g ive it the place of honor And tenderly care for it there So delicately sweet and double Am ong the others so fair.

The dear old cabbage roseThat bloomed by m y childhood home;I w ill carry that picture in my heart W herever m y feet shall roam.

Sometimes , when I ’m homesick and j weary.

I think o f that dear old rose And wonder if someone loves it I f still by the window it grows.

— Maud Plaisted DurfeePenn Yan, R. D. 1 ]

— James A. Farley, dispenser of patronage for the Democratic Party sayis in regard to returning Republi­cans in office says: “ I am an old base ball player and_ I like to call things straight. Any Republican not on the civil service list hate a chance of re­appointment, but he has two strikes

I called on him. ”

VILLAGE MAY REPAIR SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT

Ai<i for Street Widening Refused; Trustees Seek Loan for Another

Relief [Project

H aving been refused assistance in widening* Main street, the village of Penh Yan is now seeing federal aid, on the 70-30 basis, fo r rebuilding its sewage disposal plant on the Lake Keuka outlet.

A t a regular meeting of the board, held Friday evening rather than Mon­day, the trustees learned that the state would not entertain the plan to assist the village in widening its Main street, from Chapel north to North avenue. A t this meeting, how­ever, the mayor made Campbell Moore, E. G. Hopkins and W illiam B. Manley members o f a committee to determine upon the procedure for filing a request fo r a federal loan suf­ficient to perm it repair o f the disposal plant, which has been under the fire o f the state health department for the past several years. The rate, of interest and method o f payment of such federal loans, the trustees think, toay be sufficiently inviting to make it desirable fo r the village to under­take this w ork now as an unemploy­ment relie f project.

The sewage disposal plant, located at the foot o f Cherry street on the Lake Keuka outlet, has been in op­eration 30 years and needs recon­struction, remodeling and repair, ac­cording to the trustees, who think that the w ork m ay now be under­taken at a substantial saving in the expense to the village.

The trustees at this meeting also voted to pay $75 to the F inger Lakes association as a part o f the assess­ment on Penn Yan.

Apropos of the m ilk strike of New York State, the M ilk Control Board makes the fo llow ing statement: “ A small m inority of well-meaning but misguided daiiry farmers in New York IState have gone on 'strike in the be­lie f that by. this means they can se- 'cure 'better prices fo r their m ilk than they can through the orderly means of legal control prescribed by the Pitch­er law. It is regrettable that these 'good citizens by taking this action, since the only results inevitably w ill' be to dissipate, the benefits they have thus fa r received through the work of ■the board. The farmers who continue to deliver their m ilk w ill benefit from this strike because keeping a certain amount of milk off. the market reduces the surplus and shifts it into fluid use. * * * I f the m ilk strike continuesto spread, farmers in other states w ill take the market now held' by New York farmers. Milk producers in oth­er states have informed the board that large supplies o f the fluid are availa­ble for the New York market and w ill be shipped if permission is given. * * ”

Dr. Frederick Starr, aged . 74 years, American anthropologist; "who died! in St. Luke’s, hospital in Tokyo, Ja­pan, .on his 15th trip to the orient the first of tlfiA Week,; was the son of Rev. Frederick Sta'rr,minister of the First Presbyterian .. church of Penn Yan from 1862 to ’65; (The de­ceased was f bbrii/shdrtly after his parents left 'this village. 4 ' A : . sister, Miss Lucy Starr, lives ito Seattle, Wash. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Chicago anti be­lieved that Japan Was justified in its invasion of Manchuria. ; pr. Sta.rr had lived . fob- months with: savage tribesmen in the interior of Africa and had often been reported dead. He told his friends xhe would live to be 120 years old. He never married.

James A. Townsend, Jr., of 213 Law ­rence Street, Penn Yan, was one of 527 successful candidates out of 1180 who tried th e June State Bar exam i­nations. Mr. Townsend is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Townsend, of Penn Yan and a graduate of Albany Law School, 1033. The applicants cer­tified for admission to the Bar must a.ppear before the committee on Char­acter and Fitness appointed by the Appellate Division in each judicial district to be examined as to his char­acter and fitness -and to show proof o f having served the required clerkship.

f — 'Joseph McConnell, of Penn Yan,

who celebrated his 99th birthday in the home o f his daughter, Mrs. L lew e l­lyn Jolley, in that village, in January, called Saturday on Mrs. Eliza House!, who was, celebrating her 99th birth­day here in the home o f her son, W il­liam Housel. The two old friends were the center of an interested group of relatives and friends, as they related many experiences, of the past. Mr. Mc­Connell h&J. lived in Naples and v i­cinity until moving to Penn Yan about 20 years ago. The two w ere photographed together.—Naples News.

R eports of destruction by hail coin- : tinue to come into the v illage from 1 outlying sections which were hard hit j ' by Sunday’s'storm. Damage amounting I to approximately $65,000 is estimated I fo r the section of Yates County which ; lay in the path of one -of the heaviest !§§ hail storms which has visited this I m county in many years.

A t the 346-acre farm owned by James Leo Hoban on the old county! house road in the town of Jerusalem, I ^ the entire crop of potatoes, -beans, corn and grapes are wiped out. F ifty young broilers were killed and every pane of glass in the window in the" west side of the dwelling on the farm

was knocked out by the hail. Andrew ] Jensen and fam ily occupy the h orse :

■ and when the storm was at its worst, j ; the fam ily went into the cellar and j ; crouched against the west wall, think- \ tog that at any moment the house [ would be knocked from its founda­tions. The stoooato sound, o f the h a il , on the walls and roof off the building f was described as “deafening and | sounded like the hail o f machine gun h bullets.” A coupe standing in the yard j and owned by Jensen had 15 holes perforating the top, while the side o f the wooden buildings on the place re- t semlbled a target against which shot had been fired.

Wheat Allotment ^lan

P. I. H igley has been appointed Emergency County Agricultural Agent for Yates County, to assist lo c a l1 wheat growers in setting up the ne- j cessary machinery to enable them to secure the benefit of the wheat- a llot­ment plan. Mr. H ig ley is employed un- j

i der the supervision of the Extension Service of the New York State College j of Agriculture, and like other county I

j agents it w ill be his function to n o ti- ! ' fy growers in regard to the plan, set ; up a temporary committee o f wheat j growers, call community meetings to explain the plan and provide the necessary forms fo r farmers who wish to reduce their acreage and receive j payment for it. 0

A c ircu la r 'le tter has already g o n e ! out inquiring, among farmers as to -

I Who is interested and applications and 1 details w ill be sent to anyone who de­sires.

’ Mr. H ig ley has set up temporary o f­fices at 119 Elm St., in the same build­ing and practically the same offices as those form erly occupied by the Yates County Farm and Horn© Bureau Association. He is using equipment loaned by the'Yates County Farm Bu­reau. V

A C K LE Y — A t Penn Yan, Tuesday, Aug. 16th, Mrs. M ary Elizabeth Ackiey, 65.She leaves her husband, John* L.

Ackley; two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Mu|Lvihill, o f Rochester, and Mrs. E liz­abeth Hubbard, of Penn Yan, one nephew and one niece. Funeral ser­vices were held on Friday morning a t 1 9 o’clock from St. M ichael’s Church, [ with burial in St. M ichael’s cemetery. |

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