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CATSKILL MOUNTAIN NEW ^rving tbe Oomnnmifies of Allabra, Andes, Arena, A i M l e , B^eayre, B ^ Indian, Denevr, Dry Brook, Dnnraven, Fleischmanns, Grand Gorge, Halcott Center, Halcottvill^ BC^hmonnt, Kelly Comiers, Mai^isuretvill^ New Kingston, Oliverea, Phoenicia, Pine SI l , Boxbnry, Shandaken, Sliavei^wn, Union Grove and Vega

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KiD Many Deer In First 10 Days

Of Good Hunting Reports From Many Sec-

tions Tell of Men Bringing in Large Animals

Fight Over Carcass List of Successful Hunters of

This VaUey. Doe Killed Near the Village

Deer hunters have done well in the ten days of the season. They have until next Thursday night to finish the kill. The take has been a normal one. It seems quite possible the snow which came Tuesday will aid the hunters con-siderably and raise a normal take to an exceptional one. Game Protector Bryan Burgin said yes-terday that official reports are not yet in and he has no way to know the actual number of deer shot. But from what he has seen and heard he is of the opinion this season will be much like the last two years.

Mr. Bui^n was called to the moimtain north of Margaretville Sunday where someone had shot a large doe near the George Bal-com fa im The doe had not been dressed out. But the cold weather had J preserved the meat and it will be turned over to a worthy cause.

There have been many perculiar happenings, considerable fun and some tragedy during the ten days. Protectors Burgin and Terry were called to the Gerry estate west of Andes Sunday where Aubrey James of Delhi had been stopped by a Gerry watchman while dragging a deer across the property. Walter Gray, the watch-man, tried to stop the man from going farther with the deer. Dur-ing the argument other hunters came up and soon a f i ^ t de-veloped. Glenmore Georgia, 21, of Delhi grabbed Gray and broke his glasses, cutting him some. Before Justice of the Peace J. A. Hiomp-son of Delhi Georgia pleaded guilty and was fined $10 on his promise to pay for the glasses. When the protectors arrived at the scene a crowd of hunters num-bering nearly 25 had gathered. Ten of them claimed the deer.

The affair was settled by allow-ing James to keep his deer. He pleaded guilty to trespass and paid a fine of $12.50 before Justice of the Peace Thompson. He had a legal deer and there is no question but that he was the killer. The trouble arose because he had not seen the Gerry trespass signs, he said.

Shoots 160-Pound Bear There are a few hunting stories

at present. Arthur LeFebvre had the best luck as he shot a 160-pound bear Sunday afternoon in Montgomery hollow, near Rox-bury, just after he had arrived at the place. Elmer Schuman of Oneonta and Berbard Bartley, now a state trooper and until recently stationed at Cooperstown. both former Roxbury^ residents, went hunting in the North woods and eadi got a deer.—Roxbury Cor.

Several Deer Shot Several deer have been shot in

this vicinity to date. The ludcy hunters are Conger Norris, Earl

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Goes to Jail for Selling Buck for $30

Frank Howe, 44, of Arena is in the county jail at Delhi for 30 days for selling a deer he shot last Friday. Howe, apparently a bet-ter hunter than a business man, sold the buck to two unidentified hunters from New York whose luck in the field was something less than good. Justice George Mayes, Fleischmanns, levied a fine of $30, the amount paid for the carcass, but Howe elected to serve out the time at the rate of a day a dollar. The arrest was by Trooper Kenneth B. Knapp of Delhi state police.—Oneonta Star.

Many Deer Killed In Oliverea Valley

Cold Spring farm guests go home loaded with deer. William Klimpel of Hempstead, L. I., took his buck, a spike horn weighing 165 pounds, on Nov. 16. Roy Peterson was next with a ten-pointer weighing 275 pounds. He bagged it on Nov. 18. The next day Ansel Wittanen killed his which had eight points, weighing 175 pounds, and, finally, Richard Peterson Jr. came in with a four-pointer weighing 160 pounds. The deer are plentiful this year.

John Cruidcshank and friends spent the weekend hunting at the Elm cottage in the Big fiidian club.—Oliverea Cor.

Mr. and Mrs. Cowan Will Celebrate Golden Wedding Mr, and Mrs. E. B. Cowan will

celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at their home between Dunraven and Andes on Tuesday, Nov. 28. They will be at home to those who wish to call that after-noon from 1 to 5 o'clock.

Engagements Are Announced Mr. and Mrs. George Lawrence

of Vega, have announced the en-gagement of their daughter, Evelyn Ruth, to S l / c Gerald F. Tiffemy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-liam Tiffany of Bainbridge. He is a Seabee stationed in Marianas. He has been overseas since Sep-tember.

Mr. and Mrs. John Schuman have announced the engagement of their son. Pvt. John Henry Schuman, to Miss Virginia Don-nan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Donnan, of Metuchen, N. J. I^ss Donnan is a student at Rider college, N. J. Pvt. Schuman re-cently returned home on a fur-lough after four years' service in Hawaii and the Pacific area.— Roxbury Cor.

WiU Consider Price Fixing Delaware county's delegates to

the 29th annual meeting of New York State Farm Bureau Federa-tion in Syracuse last week, George Many of Hobart and Roland Bur-ton of Andes, will join with other leading farmers of the state in determining the wishes of farmers from Long Island to Niagara Falls about governmental price fixing.

As members of the county exe-cutive committee of the county Farm Bureau, they and other members of the committee have been requested to talk with rep-resentative farmere all over the country and then vote on th^ price-fixing resolution submitted at the Syracuse meeting.

Sells Fl^schmMins Home Arthur E. DeWitt, formerly of

Fleischmanns, now of Troy, has sold his residence in Armstrong park to George Johnidis, who has taken possession. — Fleischmanns Cor.

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Thanksgiving Day Finds Deep Snow In The Catskills Varying Depdi Arrives in

36-Hour Storm. Roads Made Slippery

Roads Now Clear First of the Beautiful Is Earlier Than Usual. Mer-

cury at Freezing Thanksgiving week brought

deep snow to the Catskills. Snow began to fall in large wet flakes Monday evening, continued all that night and all day Tuesday and part of Tuesday night. A large amount fell throughout the entire mountain area. Thermometers stood on the edge of freezing and the snow almost entirely melted in some secticms, in others a degree or two made enough difference that it did not melt.

In Margaretville the roads are dear and the fields have less than five inches. In Dry Brook there is more snow. From the Dry Brook church north there is about an 18-inch fall. New Kingston reports five to 24 inches and Hal-cott Center over a foot.

The storm was not accompanied by wind and there has been no damage. It is a kind of post card snowstorm and came at the right time to give the countryside the appearance of "an old-fashioned Thanksgiving."

Pine HQl to Highmount was a terror to motorists Tuesday and many were stuck there. A chap who drove to Oneonta that day said he counted 15 cars in the fence or over the bank between Margaretville and Oneonta.

AWVS Holds Card Party An AWVS card party at the

Fleischmanns high school Wednes-day evening of last week was well attended. Prizes were won by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gordon, Joseph Lemer, Kenneth Avery, Miss Clapp, Mrs. Paul Shaver, Mrs. Gene DeMott and M. Klein.

During refreshments, which were served in the cafeteria, Mrs. Sydney Flisser, secretary, gave a report of the work accomplished by the Fleischmanns imit during the year. The AWVS wishes to thank all those who contributed to the success of the party—Ruther-ford Brown for tickets, Phillip Miller, J. C. Kaplan, Mrs. Haderup, Milt Hirsch, M. Burkarth and Charles MuUer for prizes, Mrs. Harry Solomon, Mrs. Max Arono-witz, Mrs. Joseph Lemer, Mrs. Bertha Silverman and M. Boscu for food contributions, besides aH of the members who baked and sold tickets.

Organize Blue Star Brigade There was a meeting at the

central school in this village on Thursday evening of last week to further the 6th war loan. Ralph Higby of Walton spoke. Hie local Legion post is working for the township of Middletown in an ef-fort known as "The Blue Star Brigade."

Purchases Reynolds House PFC and Mrs. Ordway Atkin

have purchased of Mrs. Mamie Reynolds her house in town. It is the former Davis property.— Shavertown COT.

Supervisors Cut Budget, OK Town Expenses

The supervisors at Delhi have completed the first half of the annual session. The business of the session has been mostly routine.

County Treasurer Channing Garrison submitted his preliminary report, which shows sums to be levied against the towns for such items as support of the poor, re-turned resident and school taxes, and assessment rolls. The totals, by towns, are:

Andes, $2,357.68; Bovina, $1,-036.43; Davenport, $1,624.63; Del-hi, $3,541.89; Deposit, $965.35; Franklin, $4,065.73; Hamden, $1,-080.30; Hancock, $9,066.09; Har-persfield, $2,443.53; Kortright, $2,323.97; Masonvffle, $2,846.35; Meredith, $497.77; Middletown, $6,047.11: Roxbury, $6,725.20; Sid-ney, $3,027.51; Stamford, $3,130.68; Tompkins, $2,795.79; Walton, $7,-839.36.

Harry T. Hebbard, county wel-fare commissioner, submitted a 1945 budget for administration of public welfare showing a total of $30,000 to be raised for that pur-pose in the county budget.

The board appropriated $7,875, plus an unexpended balance, for public health and expenses of the county nursing system next year. The chairman of the board was authorized to negotiate with the Otsego laboratory fOT making public health examinations for Delaware next year and $400 was appropriated for the purpose. The board also appropriated $2,000 for care of poliomyelitis patients.

Taxes, totaling $80.84 illegally and improperly levied against property of Harry R. Perley, town of Colchester, were ordered re-turned. An assessment of $4,500 against the Roxbury village water company, now owned by the town of Roxbury, was ordered removed from the assessment roll.

On recommendation of James F. Foreman, chairman of the county Republican committee, Everett A. Lee, Sidney, was re-appointed one of the two election commissioners.

On recommendation of the com-mittee on salaries, the annual salary of the childrens court clerk was fixed at $1,200 and that of county court stenographer at $800. Miss EUa Jackson of Delhi holds both positions.

The board levied $2,050.13 in taxes for court and stenographers expenses.

The board audited routine bills against the coimty totaling $11,-358.76. They are: County Judge and surrogate, $332.95; War coun-cil, $148.85; probation officer, $324.77; tuberculosis hospitaliza-tion, $2,210; childrens court and physically handicapped children, $512.59; printers bills, most of which were election supplies, $1,-792.49; child welfare, $244.41; dis-trict attorney, $313.48; county at-torney, $58.06; Supreme court library, $16.80; Supreme court chambers, $122.97; sealer of weights and measures, .$95.94; Bangs disease and bovine TB, $330.74; clerk of the board, $105.95; justices and constables, $81.30; commissioners of election, $696.05; Civil service, $10.50.

Also, department of public wel-fare, $978.32; county treasurer, $118.42; county clerk, $900.38; superintendent of highways, $228.42; miscellaneous, $446.31; miscellaneous, pertaining to dogs, $244.45; insurance and premiimi on bonds, $748.80; coroners, $363.31; and public health, $32.50.

A resolution, offered by Clarence Stephens, provides for the annual levies against the towns for vari-ous highway purposes. Figures in

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Townships Swi p Farms ToEstablii h A New Boundai y Middletown and Andes I ig

Up 25-Year-Old Bound* ary Question

This Is Permanent Comer of Old Time Farm in

Oblivion Since Legisla-ture Set Up Line

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ITie board of supervisors on Monday established a new town-ship line between the towns of Middletown emdr Andes at a pQint across the Delaware river from Arena village. Some 25 years ago there was an agreement between the town boards of the two town-ships to establish this line and all parties were agreed. But this agreement, although written and signed by each, was not biding without the OK of the board of supervisors. This was not sought.

The reason there had been a question about the town line, which was established by an act of the state legislature many years ago, is that the boundary of the so-called Gerson Jackson farm could not be established. David Williams of Union Grove found the required data during the summer in papers belonging to Tracy Had-dow. The town board of Andes then sought to have the line re-established and this was done on Monday without opposition of the Middletown town board.

The former agreement put the Arena bridge and the Jackson-burgh bridge half in the towns of Middletown and Andes each. The new eurangement puts the Arena bridge entirely in the township of Middletown. It also changes 63 acres of the Will Franks farm from Middletown to Andes but does not take the residence. The. Harley Miner farm goes from Middletown to Andes as does the Chauncey Sprague farm. The line is moved over on the Toner farm about 200 feet. There are some other minor changes, not import-ant.

Did Not Practice Medicine Without License A jury in the court of Justice

Donald McCune, Shavertown, Sat-urday found Dr. Martin Sonnen-field of New York, physician at a boys camp last summer, innocent of practicing medicine without a license and wrongfully using the title, doctor. Dr. Sonnenfield was accused by state police following an investiagtion of an outbreak of poliomeylitis at the camp.

Two Feet of Snow on New Kingston Mountains

The Weather Man started out Monday evening with a light, wet snow that mostly melted as it fell. All day Tuesday it continued with the same wetness and oii Wednes-day the fall ran frran four or five inches in the valley to two feet on mountains.—New Kingston Cor.

l ^ t e r Is Here! Six inches of saxm on the ground

Tuesday morning. "Winter is here! —^Halcott Center Cor.

[Editor's note — Hiey had 15 inches Tuesday evening.]

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