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VOLUME 125. CATSKILL, GREENE CO., N. I , JANUARY 5, 1917. NUMBER 23.

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Greene (M ^ \ Foremost Comity's WsSmt Newspaper

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 A YEAR

Desirable Real Estate FOR SALE

FARM Aa Ideal stock and fruit farm for a retired city mas. containing about 80 acres or land situate within one-half mile of the Tillage of Catsklll; 700 fruit trees; 300 ornamental trees along the road; 125 orna-Mental shrubs; a two-story bungalow resi­dence containing ten rooms, all hard-woou flaors, hot and cold water, bath, electric light, inexhaustible supply of water, hot-•rater heater;, large barn with suitable room for seren horses and Ave head of cattle; gar*ge. ice-house, tenant-house and amusement hall with bowling alley; corn-crib, ahed. two chicken-houses. This prop-arty Is located on high ground with a Commanding view of the Catsklll Mountains end the surrounding country, and within three minutes' drire of the- West Shore depot at Catsklll. Terms easy*

FARM Contamlng 600 acres, large farm dwelling fossa, barns, lce-honse, granary; 40 acres •f woodland; running stream of water; Bttaate within six miles of Catsklll.

HOTEL Balnea Law Hotel, centrally located, situ­ate in the Village of Catsklll. Price $5,000. Will take a mortgage of 83.000 for a part et tho parchase price.

HOTEL. •eatrally located on Main Street in the Vil­lage of Catsklll: has a large county and oat-of-town patronage; terms easy.

FARM Beatalning 70 acres wltbtn the corporate Omits of the Village of Catsklll; ten-room dwelling, large barn: two tenant-houses; large deposit of sand, stone and clay.

DWELLING Tea-room dwelling on Jefferson Hill, jaet outside of the Village of Catsklll. in good condition; will sell or rent.

RESIDENCE Brick, containing 17 rooms; all modem ImproTements; brick barn and four acres of land, situate in the Village of Catsklll.

RESIDENCE Containing ten rooms, modern Improve-aenta; brick barn and tenant-house; ten aorta of land, in the Village of Catsklll.

Fraise Swelling and Boarding Housa Accommodating seTeral families, centrally located within one block of Main Street, Ike rents from the property making It a good investment In a good state of re­pair. Will give facts and figures to any one wishing to purchase. Purchase money taertgage may remain on the property.

FRUIT FARM Containing 15 acres of land, 600 fruit trees ia bearing; 7-room frame dwelllag, barn aad two ben-nouses; S good springs: sit-cate one and one-half miles from Catsklll.

Price, $2,500

Professional Cards.

SoxiVxixiiiG—Consultation Tree. O. W. GOETCHICB.

CATSKILL, N. Y.

CUBTI3 * WARREN, Attorneys and Connselors-e4-lJew,

COXSACKIE. N . Y. Harrle SIcK. Curtis. Leonard A. Warren.

G. HOWARD JONES, Attorney aad Connseler-st-XVaw,

CATSKILL. N. I . Oflce In Base Building. William Street

C H. TAN OBBBN, Civil Engineer and Barrage*, Cfensalttmg Engineer.

Saga Building. 3d door. CATSKILL, N. T.

Br. W. A. COHKLIHG, DENTIST.

368 Main 8treet. CATSKILL. N.Y.

GIFFOBD A PORTER, Attorneys aad Ccunselora-si-Law.

ATHENS. N. I . Edward A. Gilford. O. Gatea Porter.

W. C. WEL80I7, Q D E N T I S T ,

BAVENA, N. I . Hoars—• t o IS; 1:S3 to 0. Open eTenlngs

for extractions a a d examlaat loas .

Real Estate and Insurance

FIRE INSURANCE.

LIVERPOOL AHD LOHDOH AHD GLOBE ; HSUBHCS COMPMY.

C. H . VAN ORDEN. Agent . Catskll l . N . Y.

LAWYER MELLEN, Insuranoo and Real Estate

46 Commit Avenue, CATSKILL. N. X.

PERCY W. DECKER, COTJN8ELOB.-AT-LAW.

INSUMNCE a i d SURETY BONDS OatsUIl National Bank Bullfi lng

Catskffl. N . . Y .

DWELLING eontalnlng eeren rooms; three acres of &ad; abundant supply of water, variety at fruit; located In Jefferson.

Price , $2,560

Apply t«

ORLIFF T. HEATH, 849 Main Street,

Phone 68. CatshUl, N . Y.

CHARLES WEISSEL HEAL ESTATE and IHSiSANCE

I.*eds, Greene Co., N . Y,

STORES, BTJ8INES8 PROPOSITIONS, KUTLDING BITES, BOARDING HOUSES,

COUNTRY RESIDENCES With Largre or Small Acreage,

PRODUCTIVE HONEY-MAKING F A B U 3 , Al l 8Ises ,

G E N E R A L FARMS, P O U L T R Y FARMS, D A I S Y FARMS, FHUIT FABMS.

Fersoaal Inspection Invited.

FUNERAL DIRECTORS

B A K E R & L A N G H A M (Sujobesaor to Mr. John Frank)

CBB£2?IED EMBALHBBS ana

a FUHBBAL DIRECTORS W i t h L a d y A s i U t a n t s .

MOTOR EQUIPMENT O U I e e c u d Shavr B o o s

MANSION S T . COXSACJOE. N.Y. N i s e i Gaits t

G. A. Baker.83 P. H. Langham, 47-F-2 Office Phone, 80-F-3

ICE-HANDLERS WANTED

AT BANTAM LAKE, CONN.—

SIX WEEKS WORK 30 Cents Per Hour

House 65,900 tons. Good board at $5.90 per week . Free car fare if y o u stay until house is filled. Will come after 15 men. Write to

CHARLES F. DENO, Supt.. Bantam, Conn.

P^©© tTIll buy 28-room Boarding Houea,

three stories, in pleasant Tillage location, sails to railroad station.

Terms, Half Cask.

Fresh Cut Flowers OF ALL KINDS AT THE

JEFFERSON GREENHOUSES

Funeral iesips A SPECIALTY

Bays Hotel Stock and Furniture; year-rauni business.

Charles Vfclisel, Leeds, N. Y.

SUBURBAN RESIDENCE FOR SALE.

Phone 46-J GEO. H. PERSON

Ten-Room Brick Dwelling •torn e a 4 nearly Four Acre* ef land] l ea F r a i l Trees I s l tcate on tha Caatersktll B a a 4 a a * tnUo fresa the p e i t e S e a ta tbe Ti l l age ef CaUkllt . e n d oajy tfce Cfeiat^akHl Xaad afttreea this property aad ike Catrt-crakUl Cr«*k| c e»S b e a i t s s , fcitfcfpjr a s 4

Price, $2,5O0.C0. O E L 1 F F T. HF.ATH,

U<i Mala Btrect, Catsklll. N. I .

WAKTEDAT0NCB. Saiczmia for Wladhata. HeossaTtna, anC

caantry arooad. Highest cociaLcston paid ef any Tea Ccapanjr. F a r particular*, laqnlre at

T H B UNION PACIFIC TEA CO. SC9 Mala St., Catskll l . N. T.

HELP WANTED. Woman a* Coak; t io waaWng or Ironlnr-

Apply to Mrs. a. C. HOPKINS. Atbfns Road, Cfltcklll.

FASK F0S REIiT. For ca*b or on «har<«, to young married

man (wl lh no chlldrrn pr^fenrd) . . A frolt aad dairy place—milk relit for 8c.

I* W. MOWER, I/CCdd, N. Y.

F O U C5.TBNT3,

WOOD FOR SALE^_ X-arco t»ra-n»r*» <*aala bolt l»ad, atoTe

!t»n"f, bard *r»<frd for t3 i a l t o ehooka for Br*placM end htate~*.

M I M J N O T O N D R O a , TeUpboae 8M-F-1? Csttkl l l . K. T.

'ROUND ADOUT THE COUNTY.

ATHENS. =The Peerless Five will play the

Troy team this Friday evening at Brooks Opera House.

=The Christmas Thrift Club of the Athens National Bonk remains open for deposits until Jan. ISth. and is rapidly growing.

=The ice in the river and below Ath­ens measures "five and BIX inches.

=Many of our townspeople are suffer­ing from the grip.

=People are walking across the river by routes above and below the village where It is considered safe.

=?Ir.- and Mrs. Matthew Davenport of Saugertles have been visiting the former's mother, Mrs. Cornelia Murgln-troyd, who has been threatened with pneumonia.

=Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Every are re­joicing over the birth on New Year's Day of a bouncing twelve-pound boy.

=Edward N. Porter has had the mis­fortune to fall on the slippery sidewalk on the hill just North of the engine house in the lower village and is now suffering from a broken wrist.

=MIss IiOretta Sommers of Beacon, a trained nurse, Is caring for Miss Mary Hallenbeck, who is still very ill.

=Mra Fred Burger Is sick with grip, while her youngest child la suffering with pneumonia.

=Captaln Edward N. Van Woert was In Albany lost week, attending a meet­ing of the stockholders of the Catsklll & Albany Steamboat Co. He was re­elected as Its president.

=The Philathea and Baraca Classes of the Reformed Church Sunday School held a social gathering of their members on Monday evening in the church par­lors.

=Mrs. F. H. Elchhorn entertained a few friends at bridge on Wednesday af­ternoon.

=Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shields, a daughter, Dec. 27th.

=Mrs. Cornelia Murgintroyd Is suf­fering from pneumonia.

=James Lynch has purchased the Al­bert Van Woert house on Washington street.

=The annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Union School will be held' in' the schoolhouse on Jan. 30th at S o'clock, on which occasion the election of officers will take place. Every graduate should become an active mem­ber of the Alumni Association, because of old times, to keep alive their interest in the organization, and for the help thay may render our school.

=MIsa I Katharine A. Slattery, who had been assistant postmistress for .the past twenty-three years, has resigned her position, and Claude B. Whiting will fill It. Miss Slattery has always been very accommodating and genial to the public and .has made a most efficient official. She will leave town In the near future.

=Mrs. Anna Bush had a gathering at her home on Christmas Day of .her children—Mr. and Mrs. Olin Kinney "and William and Herbert Bush of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. James Nedtwick and Charles and Leonard Bush, of Athens, and George Bush, just back from Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney went to New York for New Year's Day with the latter's brother, Martin Bush. William Bush, who Is employed by the New York Central BR. in Albany, was laid off by an accident but has returned to his work.

Out of Tows. -Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Van Loan, Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Van Loan, Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards, August Brady and Mies Keith of Hudson, among those at­tending the Fink dance at Ravena; Miss Alice Burk, In Albany; Miss Ber­tha Paul, with Miss Mary Kohl of Pitts-field.

Visitors.;._ . Mrs. Sanford Spoor of Elmira; Capt.

and Mrs. William Van Woert and son and daughter of Albany, with Capt and Mrs. E. N. Van Woert; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Biandow of Oak HIU, at Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Van Loan's; Mrs. Paul Mar­tin and child of Detroit, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs.' Wentworth and children of Braddock, Pa., with Mr. and Mrs. John Self; Stanley Kiley of Hartwick Semlnr ary, at Mrs. James Link's; Miss Pr!s-cilla Ring of Qulncy, Mass., with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Doomis; Miss Mary Van Valkenburgh of Watervlelt with Mrs. Anna Van Valkenburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Mower and daughter of Os-slning, at Mr. and Mrs, J. P.' Mower's; the Misses Clara and Aurora Faquet of Albany, with Mr. and Mrs. O. Gates Porter; Miss Loulso Kroll of Brooklyn, with Mr. and Mrs. John Myers; Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brooks of New York, with Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Brooks over New Year's Day; Mrs. Howard Cannlff of Cairo, at Mr. and Mrs. Levi Shaw's; Mrs. Albert Van Woert of Albany, with relatives; Charles Van Loan of New York, at Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Van Loan's; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peloubet and daughter of Jersey City, with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Travis; Miss Martha Krcebel of Cementon, with her mother, Mrs. S. Krcebel; Mrs. F. Starner of Locke, N. Y., with Mr. and Mrs. II. Becker;. Miss Helena Sheffield of Al­bany, with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shef­field; MIos Mao Brooks of New York, with Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Brooks; Mrs. Laura Carglll of Catskill and Miss Corrine Carglll of Albany, with Mrs. Charles Van Loan; Mrs. Albert Van Woert of Rensselaer; the Rev. and Mrs. G. B. Hllle'r of Hartwick Seminary, with Mr. and Mrs. U. O. Van Hoesen.

Reformed Chorea Notes. - v

=The. Rev. Henry J. Herge will preach on Sundw morning on "The House of the Lord Forever." Sunday School at 2 o'clock, with Baraca and Philathea elapses. Christian Endeavor meeting at 6:45. The evening subject will bo "The Polishing of the Diamond for the Royal Crown."

= Strangpra and tho?e not worshiping elsewhere arc cordially Invited.

about sixty years of age, and apoplexy seems to have overtaken her. Two sons and a daughter mourn her loss.

Church Notes.

=Un!on services are being held this week by the Methodist and Presbyter­ian Churche?. The clo?!nc* >̂ne -̂ 111 come on Sunday evening in the Metho­dist Church, when the Rev. William Mackay will preach.

Episcopal Church Notes. =Christmas exercises last week

Thursday evening, when the tree ;was plucked of its many remembrances,'was a happy occasion. The rector, the Rev. Benj. T. Trego, was the recipient of a purse of money."

Methodist Church Notes, =The sacrament of the Lord's Supper

will be administered on Sunday at the morning service. -.

=Melvllle S. Bulmar, a graduate of the Cairo High School and now a stu­dent in Syracuse University, being at home for the holidays, preached his first sermon in the Acra and local Meth­odist Churches on Sunday. Surely he must be working hard, as the faculty speak of him as a young man who at­tains high marks. His many friends here wish him success in the life work he has chosen.

=The Sunday School held a holiday social last Friday evening, when the pastor, the Rev. H. D. Chace, was pre­sented with a great wooden box which I understand rattled him somewhat, as he unloaded stones and cardboard boxes. True to name, he Chased away the rub­bish until he came to two jiO gold pieces hid away. Emotion succeeded motion when he expressed his surprise and gratitude for this offering showing the respect and love of warm-hearted friends.

C0XSACKEE. =Many Coxsackians were in Albany

on Monday for Gov. Whitman's second inauguration, a pleasing feature of which was the presence of the New York City Police Band. • =The houses and lots on Mansion street once owned by F. H. Sutherland will be sold at public auction at Cum-ming'a Hotel on Jan. 15th, together with eleven shares of the capital stock of the Coxsackie National Bank.

=The Nonpareil Bhirt and collar plant here' has opend a branch in Ravena, em­ploying thirty operators. " The force will be increased later to sixty.

=MIss Lillian Lewis took personal charge of the office work for the Adiron­dack Tree" Expert Co.'last Friday. "

=Mrs. Palmer, shot recently In a Jer­sey City restaurant In company with another woman's husband, was well known In this village. Interment was made at Catsklll.

=Warren Titus, Union University, was with his parents for the holiday.

=Thomas Henry Kennedy fell last Friday at his home and fractured his hip, but Is doing as well as can be ex­pected.

=Miss Zoe Jerome recently entertained Miss Bessie Varden and John Slam of Albany. b

=William Prendergast of Brooklyn, and William Forsyth, who stands high in business' circles of Newark, N. J., were New Year's guests here.

=Ge"orge Moore, our former towns­man, who is employed by S. M. Decker, a horse-dealer In Howells, N. Y., writes that he is doing well and drives a pacer which can tear oft a mile In 2:00.

=Contrary to report the Opera House Is to'rent, with or without music, for dances; price given<nn application. A hop will be given there this Friday evening.

=The tax rate for the village is $11.80 per $1,000; outside it Is $16.40, each rate being $2 per thousand lower than last year. The sum of $29,000 is to be col-leoted, to say nothing of the dog tax.

—Mr. and Mr" f^^rsry Tone's infant

Aad p t s t a wsr la frssn JffW «• $l?,!f%

AT.SO B4 ACRES O S K O R I OF C O E A r TTCOD LAKD.

* « q 4 particulars at cc^ea. CHART/EH WEI83KL, ! * e « a . If. T .

E0UFS FOR HALH. »«ry "-!«-* Tf»«e«, f-1 X>\-:-'-~t

-r'r--ri, CoitVUl. Ifiqc|r» o.* MIPS JULIA COMPORT,

53 W*3t*r& A T « a t \ Alb.-^y. h, ? .

COTTAGE FOE eALK Pit rcctn*. metfrrn J.»n?r»Trrar3{s, *re"

«3rrful cseantota T!CTT». MRS. EDWARD RATERS,

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CEIR0PRAGTI0. Tiersotea ran*o e-C <H»t««# witll*ist ra*3I-

c ! - j er esrjrrrT. r.rr-r:---;lva ami eSrl*a fre*. Tce-s^^rt med Friasjra, X -fc» AJIMCSJK.

O. K. HOWKBft. D. C_ ras* it«TH3tnsr. caukti), H. f.

5T0VB FOE SALS. Farlsr atflri fer fS, cort Mr

cprljt' lit aa*« s;»«d draft, ir.votrc ef J. P. S A H D F . m B R fir V. OI-SEN*

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CAIRO. =:The new room !n tho r-chool build-

Injr has be^n completed, and tho puplla will talto up phyplcal culture aa a part of thrir work.

t= William Rrar.dow was appointed col­lector by the Town Board, to fill a va­cancy CIUMH! by the death o? hi«brother Jacob, end will receive taxes at Fre-IMriS'R bnkery.

rrOaston Wynkoop and ^rife enter­tained friends at a N'ew Year's dinner on TuecSay cvenlnjr, whieh was not only a most enjoyable afT/dr but consisted of snich delicacies *fl the hoetepsi k.sows eo well how to prepa! >.

=Harry Gr«.\nh of Dee? Rlrer, Conn , !s vlMtlr.g hie slr.ti-r, Mrs. Walter Jor.e*.

=:Viola, wider.- of Theodora Ler.non, d!e<! roddsnly Rt her hoaio near Wc^vl-

^- ?• I clock on*Mon^Sfey morning. 8h« ̂ -far,

"FS c-^e.

child died on Wednesday, after an ill ness of a few daya

=Fred Overbaugh is laid up with a broken bono In his foot, the result of a fall from a barn-roof at his father's place South of Coxsackie. -

=C. B. Van Slyke, for twenty years among our best citizens, has moved his family and goods to Beacon, N. Y., hav­ing a better position on the Newburgh-Fishkill ferryboat His son Arthur and his family will go there at the same time. May success follow them.

=The New Year's dance at the Opera House was attended by sixty couples, while tho gallery was filled with specta­tors. Ivan Gardner's orchestra fur­nished music, and Leo Lynch of the Ith­aca Conservatory of Music gave a few selections to applause which shook the house. The management served light refreshments,

=The local Veteran Firemen's Asso­ciation at its annual meeting on Dec 29th elected ofllcers, committees and trustees. The financial secretary's re­port showed receipts of $364.40, and the treasurer reported $587.96; dlsburs3-ments of $464.50, a balance of $128.46. The Association has a truct fund of $2,249.68 deposited In tho National Sav­ings Bank, Albany, and with the Albany Trust Co, Four deaths had occurred during tho year—those of James Lamp-man. Philip Wolfe, John B. Van WIo and John Goodwin.

Ice Not«u =Tho freexe-up in December has in­

creased to eight inches, actual measure­ments.

=Mcn and boys find no danger in crossing, and a horse, with carriage or sleigh attached, began going on Sunday.

=At tho Gorman house North of the villas* tho rough ice Is being cut and the chips pre rcTf-r^d off.

=Pub',lc worship on Sunday, with preaching by the pastor on "The For­ward Reach" and "Grasping the Law of Progress." The Sunday School, which convenes at 12 o'clock, will bo of special Interest, as tho Graded Lessonn will be Introduced. The Alpha Blblo Class for men meets at tho same hour, taught by the pastor: all men Invited. At tho Epworth League meeting, beginning at ft:80, there will bo a roll-call with re-rponreB, and a consecration fiervice led hy" the" president, F. Longhnm; topic, "Lifting Our Hearts Godward." This service will mark the beginning of a erwinl v^M of prayer and evancelir.m. commencing on Monday at 7:80 and continuing every evening of next week except Batui^ay. Good muslo with in­teresting addresses by tho panto? or others will bo features. An JnyltAiion la otten<5ed to all.

=On Thur'^'vy evening at the clo-e of the f;*rvice, at £:,'<% the annuel meet­ing of tho chvir-ih a.v" con arc \Ucn Trill take pUca, when four trvcteci will bo elected.

LEEDS. =Mr. and Mra John W. Cunningham

both are confined to the bed by severe attacks of grip.

=Mr«s. Madeline Wolfe was called to South Cairo on Sunday by the.sudden lllnnaa of her mother, Mrs. A. F. Parka.

=Mrs. Harison Meade has returned home from a month's stay In Potter Hollow.

=Mra. Potter,'mother of Mm. Sam­uel Fowks, Is slowly recovering from an illness of neuralgia about the heart.

=Harry Teich Is enjoying a well* earned vacation in New York.

=Mr. and Mrs. L. Boomhower and son George, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alle,,newly-weds of East Durham, were guests over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Harris, Main street.

= A quiet wedding took place at the Dutch Reformed parsonage on Dec. 28th, when.tha Rev. J. H. Heinrlch Joined in marriage Isaac Hoag of Cairo and Anna M. Overbaugh of this village.

, =Mra. H. H. Edwards entertained the L^LX- fl? nf-ttia Methodist Church'on Wednesday. " " • ' • ' "• .

=Earle R. Potter and Charles Bunco have filled their Ice-houses with nine-inch clear-water Ice,

=Visitors: : Miss Berdella Moore, Catsklll Road, with Miss Adlno Telch; Mrs. Garald Lennon o.id daughter Gene­vieve of Purling, at John W. Cunning­ham's; Miss Edith Wolcott of Newark, N. J., with Mra, Richard Phelan.

Methodist Church Nates. = A very delightful service was given

by the Sunday School on Wednesday evening, Dec 27th, and the children were made happy.when Santa Claus, with a huge bundle of gifts, made his appearance through the large ornamen­tal chimney. Several persons were pres­ent from Lime Street and Sandy Plains.

=Epworth League meeting oh Jan. 9th; leader, Stephen Lampman.

=The Rev. J. E. Spencer will give an appropriate message for the New Year on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 7th. .

• • • LIME STREET.

=School reopened on Tuesday. =Dinner parties are In full swing.

. =The place of the. watch night meet­ing was changed, so two did the watch­ing.

==Tbe Rev. J. E . . Spencer's friends presented him for Christmas with a goatskin lap-robe and a sealskin cap, for'which'he thanked them on Sunday from the pulpit * - ' : ;

=Mrs. L. M. Lounsbury and grand­children remained here when Mr. Louns­bury went back to his school in Medusa.

= 1 . H. Powell writes from New York that he is suffering from a bad cold.

=MIss M. J. Foster will make a stay of Indefinite length in Albany to assist In the care of an aged aunt, who is very ill. The patient Is Mrs. Jane Whltmore, formerly of Urlton and this town.

=Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Houghtaling are guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earle Potter of Leeds.- . •

=Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Collier, Miss Evelyn Lampman and Mrs. I. H. Powell are nursing light colds or the grip. Harry Lampman also has Inflammatory rheumatism, and Harold Tiffany came home theatened with typhoid fever.

=MIss Annott Chamberlain, accom­panied by her cousin, Miss Isadora Col­lier, returned on Saturday to Cornwall-ville.

=The Ladies' Aid Society on D e c 28th elected Mrs. I. H. Powell, presi­dent; Mra J. K Mumford, vice-presi­dent; Mra Grenville Houghtaling, sec­retary; Miss M. J. Foster, treasurer; Mra M. T. Perry, buyer; Mra W. H. Youmans and Mra C. B. Day, cutters. The meeting on Jan. 11th will be held at Mra M. T. Perry'a

=VisItors^ G. H. Mower, at home for the holidays; Miss Evelyn Lampman, for a short stay, going again to Spboren-

rgh-Rcr.d on Tuesday; Mr. and Mrs.

tion, as it WOB in every detail a fine en­tertainment Everybody hopes the per­formers may come again" another year.

=Badgley Bros, have purchased the Coonley farm (occupied by Supervisor A. W. Pierce), but they do not take pos­session at once, as the place is leased to Mr. Pierce for more than a year yet. We all are glad to haw the Badgleys permanently locate in town.

=AU those who have not season tick­ets should buy a ticket for the evening of Jan. 12th, when Prof. P.* A. Parsons of Syracuse will give his celebrated lec­ture, "Just Plain Folks," in the First Reformed Church, beginning at '8 o'clock; Prof. Parsons is one of the brightest men on the lecture platform. Everyone may go expecting an Intellectual treat, and will come home saying he has had i t

Reformed Chnrch Notes. =On Sunday: 10:80, Communion serv­

ice, with reception of members; 12 o'clock, 8unday 8chool; 6:45, Christian Endeavor meeting, led by Miss Margaretta Swart-out, the subject being "Are You Evading Moral Issues?" 7j80. sermon by the Jttev. w. A . uumoni on Need of This Hour."

=C. E. business meeting on Tuesday at 7:30.

=The Prayer and Mia«don Circle meets at 2:80 on Wednesday.

=Mid-week service at 7:80 on Thurs­day,

=Seata free for every service, and a welcome' fo all.

=At 8 o'clock <on,Friday, Jan. 12th, Dr. P. A. Parsons will give his lecture "Just Plain Folks," and should attract a large audience. .•

n » — : -FROH UHLTON TO FLORIDA.

Greene County Folks Enjoy Snmnter Weather at Christmastime.

Miami, Fla., Dec 26, 1916. Editor* Recorder—I received the paper

this .morning, and it was like a' letter froth home, for we all enjoy reading tho news of Greene county.- It does not seem possible you could have such cold weather, when here It Is like the Fourth of July at Urltom ."•".'"

.We drive over to the beach nearly every day to take a dip in the ocean. We cross a bridge, three miles long and are charged twenty-five cents for each car. On Christmas Day the gate-ten­der told me 667 automobiles had crossed that day, and I should think five hun­dred persons were bathing In the sea.

The weather Is very fine—eighty in the shade nearly every day. ; I bought our place after I reached Miami, and then made our garden, in which I now have tomatoes as large as walnuts, radishes ready to eat, lettuce nearly large enough, and beans In blossom. I set out a patch of strawberries and will have fruit in four or five weeks. On Christmas Eve I picked strawberries and had them for supper. -We have all the grapefruit oranges and lemons we want and lots to spare from our own trees, and I have sent orates to Cox­sackie friends, but the expressage is' too high to do much of thla Fruit here is very cheap, and one can drive all day past acres and acres covered with golden citrus, :

Life in this country Is one continual pleasure, as the weather Is delightful and one can start out In the morning and drive all day on roads like a house-floor, through beautiful scenery. On Sunday we plan to take a trip to Home­stead, which, ia said to be a beautiful excursion. Nearly every day we drive through cocoanut groves and see the Deering's estate, which is said to have cost nearly $50,000., and, I should say. Is not more than half completed. He belongs to the Mowing Machine & Reap­er Manufacturing Co.. and his brother has a large estate across the road from us—one which he intends shall outdo the other. It Is-wonderful to see his rose-garden, and the aviary which con­tains a specimen of almost every bird

Henry Day of Catsklll and MrTand Mra«fi|i the universe. J. Meyenmyer of Kingston, at Castle Day's and Osmar Day'a Mr. and Mra J. H. Lampman, Mr. and Mra Ells­worth Perry and Mr. and Mra Nelson Terry* entertained on New Year's Day.

Church Notes . =The pastor will deliver a sermon

suitable for the New-Year in the High Hill church oh Sunday at I0r30 o'clock.

=The Rev. and Mra J. E. Spencer are heartily grateful to all who so generous­ly contributed to their handsome and useful Christmas gifts.

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NEW BALTIMORE. =Somo of our young people enjoyed

a surprise party recently at the home of Bronk Van Slyke.

=The younger set are on the ice every afternoon, and a new method of skating has been Introduced by I. C Schermerhorn.

=The Rev. Geo. D. Merry was under the physician's caro last week, but we all are glad to see him in action again.

=Wllliam Sickles, sr., has been housed for a few days with a severe cold.

=Mr. and Mra Hull have returned from Durham after a very enjoyable holiday visit

=Arthur Anderson has taken a posi­tion for the Winter on tho Storm King, plying between New London, Ct, and New York. - =Othom away: Mr. and Mra Edward Wilson, over the holidays; Mr. and Mra George Lockley, In Albany for tho last ten days; Mra J. Wicks, visiting with J. N. Briggs of Coeyman8; Misa Abigail Whltbcck, looking at certificates of value in the city of Schenectady. "The parsons have some nice ones."

Re fanned Charch Notes . —Communion of the Lords Supper

next [luriday morning; meatlng of eld­ers at 10 o'clock. Evening union serv­ice in tho Methodist Church; theme, "The Head of tho Church."

. ̂ Quarterly meeting of Con-Istory will bo hold at tho parsonage on Jan. 8th at 8 o'clock.

=Tho Sunday School have recatved a flno collection of books for the library.

= A very great tntercit"was nhown at tho f rst meeting of tho Weok of Prayer, held In the chapel. Brother Meeker gave a very direct r.ddre&a on tho mis­sion of thft church.

TFRST C0X8ACKIR. ~ P . W. Crancton of Elkhart, Tnd., was

a business visitor hen> lately. sMIas Maud W. Cas»U left us on

Monday for her school w»fk In East Orang», N. J.

=Mr. and Mra. H. CAdco and their ron Randall of Albany were r?oa;H guatfa oi CoxKAckla re*stives.

—The cottage prajer ni£?*msra ATA

I never saw so many houses built as there, are going up now In Miami, car­penters getting $4 and $5 a day and working but eight hours dally with Sat urday afternoons off. Masons have $6 and $7 dollars a day and • men enough can't be found to do the work, or as painters. I am putting.up my own building, since I can do it myself. We have bought more land and I shall soon build a hcuse there. . . ' CHARLES WOODRUFF.

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Sunday Schools Make Good Showing. From a report just printed from data

compiled by former* County Supt Gee D. Merry of New Baltimore we "learn these facts about the Greene County Sunday School Association for the past four years:

1912 1913 Teachers-Officers.... 791 Scholars 4248 HomeDept . . . . 297 687 Cradle Rol l . . . . 269 - 686

1914 777

4812 662 529

6180 2625 96

1915 832

4663 725 619

6844 2992 101

Total 6181 6163 Aver, attendance . . . . 2554 Number schools.. 67 95

1312 showed 8 Home Departments and 13 Cradle Rolls, while in 1915 there were 80 of the former and 46 of the latter.

There were received into churches from the Sunday Schools, 62 in 1912, and 244 in 1915.

There are 12 Training Classes, with 110 students; 133 Secondary Classes, with 881 scholars; 117 Adult Classes, with 1,111 mombera Aleo 49 organised classea

There are 5.449 boys and girls of Sun­day School ago (5 to 18 years) In the county.

10 standard per cent schools with 100 i-viwi'S ar.d 1* Premium Scijoola with 100 points. v

J. D. Hopkins of Catsklll eucceeda Mr. Merry aa county superintendent, and ha* as associate superintendent John D. Howard of Windham—both thoroughly equipped for their official duties.

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I =Tha annual baftqu^t M tftrEpwr-rih

tTCTl R t n r > *r* nil tJ-v* aarvittva connected xitb tho church.

rs-Th© concert 'given- by tho Weitsal gu*. Witt coour on Ttt< ^-7, Jan. XtfvJ. | Co. of N w York dwnr** apeclal

Before Sarrofrate TaHmaJbre. Letters of administration on estate of

Edward Brink, lato of Catski!!, graat«€ to George Brink.

Will of Anna Falka. late of Catskil!, admitted to prabaf*; Isttsrs testamen­tary irTant^! to Gustave BSrneat Falke.

Will of Pa via Davis, lata of Windham, admitted to probata; letters.taatamen-

burgh. WiU of Sarah B. ScovlHe. lat<» of COT-

rackle, admitted to probate; letters testamentary granted to Arthur W. Roach, Delia Roach and Lucy Dunham.

Will of Martha E. RrolSpy, lata of kt:% Ritrnltted to t>ro«»;«; lettera

testamentary granted to Or'r.u T. lletth, ••'. BAfW.t s n i Albert C. Rlecd-

*" Will of Nizoral -T. BciUh, late et tJ-ee'n-vlHo, t><3tf)tUed to probate; lntters t«s-tainwtary granted to William H. Btnlth.

ARQENTIKA'S WHEAT PAMPAS.

With Russia's and Roumanians whea* crops cut off from the rest of the world by the Dardanelles, with Canada's ani Australia's cereal output "spoken for* by England's armies, and with Amer­ica's product commanding record pricey the eyes of empires turn toward Argen­tina, which ranks' sixth among th* wheat-growing countries of the world.

The soil and the climate of the nam* pas, which cover an area of 200,00f square miles, give the Argentine Re-public Its high rank among the wheat and corn growing countries of the world. The soil Is an ancient alluvium, tho fine sediment carried by old rivers far out from the mountains, like the deposit now being made by the Para­guay and Its tributaries, an island delta in the Interior of the continent The sediment is very fine, and mingled with it Is a large proportion of fine volcanie dust-blown from the volcanoes of the Andea Like the renowned loess sollo of China, it Is exceedingly fertile, and, belna^very porous. 1 nhsnrru, ths-rslm waters, which rise again by evaporation and supply the surface Boil constantly with plant food.

The pampas are a vast grassy plain. Is there anything more to be said? Aa an Englishman put It, 'What can yoa say about a bally billiard table except that It Is a bally billiard table?""' Yet the plain of the pampas. Is not like the great Western; plains of the United States—the latter are broken by gullies, furrowed by streams, traversed by river valleys; the pampas are not Among all the landscapes of the world them is none more meadow-like than the flat pampa, with, the eat tie grazing in tha rich grass; but the meadow-grass hides -no meandering brook. Hour after hour and day after day you may ride without crossing a stream. You will, however* encounter many shallow pools and lake­lets. • . •

'The pampa looks .so fiat, so feature* . less! But Is It? Watch a horseman galloping away toward the horizon, to­ward which he rises silhouetted against the sky. Soon he sinks and drops out of sight, having apparently ridden over.: the edge of the world; but an hoar later he may rise again, topping a mors distant swell of the vast grassy ocean surface. North, East, South and .West It is the same—a billowy plain, hollowed and molded by the wind, the free-flow­ing air, which In place.of running water has sculptured the Immense expanse of fine brown earth. ••---'-' .. t

In former days.It mattered nothing to the world at large and comparatively little to the Argentine himself whether the season was a favorable.one for wheat or not; but now, when millions beyond her confines look to Argentina for bread and when Argentine pros­perity is regulated by the wheat she -sells. It matters much. 7 i::f ;•-.•-•

The time will come, probably, when plentiful rains or drought will, matter less than now, for at present agrlcul- = ture in Argentina- Is in that elementary state when It. Is most exposed to injury by the vicissitudes of climate. Great fields are cultivated by few hands; tha poorly prepared soil, the shallow plow* lng, the neglect of cultivation, all In­vite losses in any but a favorable year. In the East rainfall usually Is abundant or excessive..,. There are areas ox Buenos Aires province which are inun­dated by heavy rains, and great drain­age works have beep undertaken by the government at the Instance, of the land-ownera From East to West the rain­fall diminishes till It becomes insufficient for agriculture In the average year, and ~ farming can prosper only where Ir­rigation to practicable. »v i

Thus the pampas, of which we may think as a monotonous plain, exhibit great diversity of aspect Portions of them may be flooded while other dis­tant regions of the same plain are dry­ing up. Portions ara suited to the growing of wheat, otherato cattle rais­ing, and still others in the warmer rainy zone about Rosario are adapted best to the raising of Indian corn.

To gain an idea of the extent of the fertile pampa region, one needs but look at a railway map of Argentina. Buenos Aires and Rosario are the two ports of shipment of its product, the centers from which traffic radiates to all sections of the country. English and other capital has been expended to the amount of a billion dollars In build­ing railways to develop the rich lands, but In the more arid and less profitable country the lines have been extended only as trunk lines, aimed to reach some distant point The"pampas are the hub of the Argentine wheel of fortune, of which Buenos Aires, the Argentine El Dorado, is the center.

The area of tho pampas is one-sixth of the country. In tho larger part which lies beyond the pampas, the other five-sixths, there* is a great extent of lands destined to pastoral pursuits; there are some real desert areas, and there are also districts of great natural resources, which aro cither .actual or potential contributaries to th& natural wealth.

Tho pampas are a paradise for cattle in tho average year when the rain Alia the lakelets and when the •pasture,-whether freshly green or cured to nat­ural hay, affocda abundant feed. Oc­casionally a dry Ecasbn intervenes—the water pools dry up, the plain becomes a waterless desert Formerly In such years disaster overcamo the hordsmaa and his herds; lingering by the Ehrlnk-Irig pools, hundreds of thousands of cat­tle and sheep suffered from thlrat and famine till they fell and mummified in tha dust, but it is somewhat different now. The Peauons still vary inexorably, and from time to time comes ono of drought and loss, but it has lost its gravest menace. Scattered over tho pampa, wherever they may be wanted, ara wind­mills, and beside each mill is a tank and drinking trough.' The wind, which so Rculpturr-d the hollowa of the plain that a very larga proportion of tha rainfall sinks Into i t now pumps tho supply back to the herds, which ©th&raissj might perish while stamping tha due* just above the eubterrane&n water*.

6*tpp©5£4 Grease Coaaty Kaa a EaJdla. Harvey E>. White we.a found dead f.-cra

ga« InheJatlon in a room In tho Naw R«-vere House In Troy on Wednesday even-

though he was registered from Ool-brook. N. Jr., tho police, cst-srdins *s-ths Troy Record, are of th» opJnlon that he la a resident of East Jemtt, in thla county, an on his pereon wure found a Gre«rs» oounly hunter's lio«n» ant. postcard* from Eist Je?reit The en< r*-;-;-.*-.? r. rmnkatta with th^ • ;v."-;-r of that vilage and with P. TT. rerklns of Tanfisravlllo. hv.t •;-* b&lf r>53 not Fit t>e»n chsJoifd, Theraaa wa« •t^il dressed but wa» eesmtngty ~':* ' fl

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