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The Catslull Mountain News Eatered as; Secoad ClaM Matter in the

FoH Office at Margatotrille, N Y.

CLAKKB A. SANFOUD, Publiiher

PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY

R O W L A N D G. HILI«, Editor

SuJ^sctiptions h y mail per year^ none accepted lor less than one year, strictly in advance. All subscriptionB discontinued expiration of time for which ordered.

We reserve the right to reject'any copy, either advertinng or news.

MOUNTAIN DEW Contrtbtttloii* Welcome, Beprlntliic

Invited

No use in q^vertising your troubles- there are no buyers.

. Log cabin era has passed—some future president may boast he was bom in a trailer or Quonset hut.

A dollar won't do as much as it once did. It's because folks wonft do as much for a dollar as they once did.

You can't peek through the knot holes to see a baseball game —aU that lumber is being put Into expensive homes.

The ancient plank and timbered floor hold the hidden wonder

of long passAi horses' hoof-beats drumming distant thunder;

a load of hay rolls slowly through sweeping dusty rafter,

leaving timothy behind and a boy's lost laughter;

haven in a lightning storm; home for a swallow ; . .

an old shell, the wooden bridge with edioes in its hollow.

—Anon.

Did you ever see a ton of choice beef steaks? Did you ever watch barrels and barrels of lobsters being rolled in? Did you ever see truckloads of melons and other garden truck unloaded fw one food place?

The above is a daily sight at the Kass inn, less than two miles from Margaretvillej, a place the years have made famtus for delicious food well served in a pleasant atmosphere Many come to eat the great quantities mentioned,

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Saturday and Sunday Mr. Kass served 700 dinner^ to outside guests. He has over 100 boarders on the premises. These folks ate 600 meals in the two days—-a total of 1,300 meals served Saturday and Sunday.

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Little Wonder he buys beef steak by the ton and other food in. proportion The meats are not bought in "halves" or "quarters. That is a job for the butcher. The Kass-inn has enough to do without cutting up the meat. All meats are purchased ready to cook. By

^that I mean beef steaks, or. chops ^br steaks, etc., as the retail cus-tomer buys them at a local, shop

They are kept at the inn in a large refrigerator.

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Guelsts come from considerable distances, as they went at one time to many famous up-state places. Seventy Kingston folks were fed one day recently. Others come from all parts of Delaware county, from Oneonta, from Al-bany, from Binghamton, from most towns in a 50-mile radius and often farther.

August, five days old,, slouches across the land on dragging feet. The living carpet on Nature's breast has faded brown patches; The Indians called this period Thunder Moon . month. Black thunderfieads do spurt from the horizon with little warning, jagged lightning smites the earth." Inter-mittent heat flashes light the horizon at dusk. ^

Nature has slowed down into a quiet period, m our mountains man has the busy month of the year. But Nature has lifted her foot from the accelerator. Twice each year there is a 4ull before

' the great changes.'

In February there is hushed ^ - expectancy as winter's grip

, loosens; in August there is a . lessened tempa as Earth gathers

its strength for the glory burst of autumn. The leaves and grass are a bit less bright. Heavy dust covers shrubs, grass and weeds along the highway, strident grass hopper songs are muted music on the meadows. Cireeks and the Delaware flow without huny to the sea. • , « * •

j Jjjeat. is a smothering blanket over much of the land; Here and there are occ^onal flocks jof birds, already gathering, following the raising of their young, for preliminary autumn trips. Toward the end of the month goldenrod

^ ^ lifts its pennant and fall's fu-st ^ asters timidly reflect the blue of ' tibe sky.

Dusk falls heavily and quietly to bring motionless moist air

•pressing against the Umd. Go to the edge ojf the TOmfleld an

August night and hear a faint rustling as the tall stalks drop gplden pollen to Waiting floss be-low. Crickets in the grass, a night hawk's lonely boom. This is August—Nature's interlude before the sudden rush of maturity. The grunt-bark of a fox on the ridge tells us summer is going, autumn is poised'on the horizdn.

The director of Camp Agudah sent out a call for help. A bear cub, three feet tall and red-eyed was working around the garbage cans, d^aging the cabins and scaring heck out of the boys Game Protector Bob Van Ben^ schoten answered the call, took look. "The bear makes awful noises under the cabins at night, the director told Bob. Bob crawled under one of tjie cabins and found several floor timbers chewed by a porcupine and pol-ky tracks in the dirt abbut the garbage cans. •

To those not familiar with ways of porkys, the sound of their Chewing in the dead of night is an awesome thing. To those who know the beasts it is ai ioyii S*-Many sounds of the night seem teiTifying. All are interestirtg and there is no danger. The porky, when with others of his tribe, will grunt and squeal. A startled deer will snort and whistle in the dark. By keeping my boat in the j hadows along the shore of a lake on a moonlight night I was able to ap* proach within 30 feet of three deer. They bounded out of the water and into the woods where they made the forest ring with their whistles.

* * * The who-who who-o-o of the

great '^omed owl cairies far and strikes terror to the little wood-land creatures. Occasionedly one may hear the death shriek of a cottontail as an owl strikes it. The sound most awesome and terrifying to humans is the occa-sional cry of the grey fox. Many people have heard it and declared a woman -was being murdered or a panther was abroad.

Some believe it to be the cry of a wildcat. All agree it is nerve-shaking—but harmless. Many a traveler, alone on a woodland trail has been frightened almost out of his wits by the weird cry.

I like the more pleasant sounds of the night, the mating call of the toads and the peepers in the spring, 'the squawk of the night heron, the call of the katydids and crickets, the wind rustling the leaves, the distant roll of thunder, the splash of the trout, the sharp slap of the beaver's tail on the water, the patter of a deer mouse running on the dry leaves, the quavering call of the raccoon, the murmur of the quiet, flowing

stream, the roar of a waterfall. * * * •••

All these interesting sounds and more will come to you at night along the woodland roads and trails if you will leave behind the car, the radio, and walk quietly.

Yours truly,

The Mountaineer

^ OUT of the MAILBAG Washington, D* Atigust 1, 1948-

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Dear News:

On visiting one of our newspaper editors at home, recently I asked him if he thou^t people would be interested in knowing exactly what sum their own township or city was contributing to E. C. A. oi; foreign relief. I have had these figures prepared by the Library of Congress, because this editor and many of my friends in the dis-trict told me they would be inter-ested in having these figures brought down to the local level

These amounts are for the four-year program.

First column below lists towns of Delaware county. ' ,

Second column is population. Third column is , cost, computed

on a per capita basis to cities and towns of the 29th district, vof four-year aid billion dollars.

^des Bovina Colchester Davenport Delhi Deposit Franklin Hamden Hancock Harpersfield Kortright Masonvillie Meredith Middletown Roxbury Sidney , Stamford Tompkins Walton

program of .17

1,687 806

2,092 1,240 2,950 1,443 2,019

J 1,177 3,813 1,200 1,288

931 1,182 3,520 2,277 4,509 1,993 1,642 5,220

$217,809 104,063 ^70,098 160,096 380,875 186,306 260,673 151,962 492,296 154,932 166.294 120,201 152,608 454,467 293,983 582,157 257,316 211,999 673,954

Katharine St. George

Member of Congress

Classified Ads 2 Cents Per Word. Minimum Charge 50 Cents.

M d Afternoon Shower Roxbury^ Aug. 2.—A shower for

Miss Edna Scutt was held Sunday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Scutt, at Bovina Center. Miss Scutt, Who will become the bride of Paul Barkman Jr. of Roxbury the end of Au^st, received many lovely gifts, which were piledl on the table of a beautiful dinette set, the gift of Mr, and Mrs. Paul Barkman Sr., who were among the 32 present at the shower.

DANCE! DENVER HALL

Elvery Tuesday PARISH HALL

P H O E N I C I A

i Friday, Aug, 6 Beaver Lake Lodge OVINGSTON MANOR

Every Wed. FLETCHER HALL , SHAVEBTOWN

Thurs., Aug. 12 : Benefit Andes Fire Dept. J

Margaretville Fire Hall j Friday, Aug. 13 :

Benefit Fire Department

THE TAVERN OIlverea>

Every Saturday : CONSTABLE'S ;

ORCHESTRA.

Legion Auxiliary • Owns Comfortable Hospital Bed

Th« American legion Auxiliary owns a new hospital. bed. This bed was. purchasel by the county committee with money earned' in a recent magazine campai^ in which many of the townspeople shared.

Six Auxiliary units in the county j now own beds. This bed is for the use of the people of the com-munity who need a bed to make the sick more comfortable at home. It is stored at the Ameri-can Legion home and can be bor-rowed for a period of time free! of charge. The officers of the Auxiliary would be glad to explain rules and regulaliions to people desiring to use the bed.

Rendered, Excellent Music Phoenicia, Aug. 3.-^The congre -l

gation of the Methodist church enjoyed a beautiful choral service last Sunday. The choir of the Reformed church of J£imaica, L. I., under the direction of Mr Jones, gave a tine rendition of the L< Prayer, the Lost Chord apd several other numbers. Mrs. Alice Ralph Woods was soloist, H. O. Woods organist 'and Mrs. GEirpenter| pianist. We are very grateful toj Mr» and Mrs. H. O. WoodSi who I made it possible for the congrega*-! tion to hetir so fine a group of singers.

BENEFIT DANCE CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART

AT THE

,St. Regis Hotel,. Fleischmanns

11 Tuesday Night, August 10]\ TWO ORCHESTRAS FLOOR SHOW i!

• ROUND and SQUARE DANCING

• DoU Dressed in 60 One DoUar BUIs WiU Be OiVen Away i

> RICCI'S ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK AND

THE MELODY BOYS OF MARGARETVILLE Sf Qonation $I«00 Per Person panctng 0 to 1

The New Hanson-Gates Boiler-Bumer Unit'

For water storage tanks up to 600-gallon capadly. Heats 100 gallons per bour with a |.00 degree tenogperatore rise . . . automatic gun type oil burner . . uses No. Z oil. Special flame slu pe adjust-ment. 54 feet of l-inch copper as healiner unit.

For home heating . . . up to 350 ft. of liot" water radiation.

Claude Green PliUMBING - HKATING

Phone 8>R-11 lilargaretviUe, N.T*

GALU-CURa T H E A T R E

Margaretville

Two showings each night in the week; the first starting at 7 o'clot , the second at 9 o'clock or very, soon thereafter. Matinee on Saturdays at 2:30<

ONE DAY ONLY Saturday August 7

Strawberry Roan Gene Autry - Gloria Henry

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"TTie Big Punch" Wayne Morris - Xois Maxwell

Sunday Monday Aug. 8-9-10

Tuesday

"The Noose Hangs High" ABBOTT and COSTEIXO

Wednesday Thursday Friday Aug. 11-12-13

"KEY LARGO" HUMPHREY BOGART

XAUREN BACAUi E D W A R D G. ROBINSON

ONIB DAY ONI.Y Saturday August 14

"Eyes of Texas" Roy Rogers - L.ynne Roberts

—plus—

"Wallflower" Joyce Reynolds - Robert Huttim

WHEN DID YOU LAST ENJOY MUSIC?

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BOXBUBY Plione 2162 T W O SHOWS NIGHTLY

Continuous 7 to 11:80 P. M . , Comfortably Air Cooled

Friday-Saturday

—plus— 3 Stooge Comedy - Cartoon

Travelog

Sunday Monday Tuesday

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Wednesday Thursday Aug. 11-12

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JOHNSON

BUlCH JENKINS

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RECORD SALE ; Purchase 6 Get 1 Free

i I Purchase 12 Get 2 Free i: Purchase Any Album of 4 Records

Get 1 Record Free SOME ARTISTS IN STOCK

POPULAR Dick Kuim Bing Crosby Perry Come Vaughn Monroe Russ Morgan Frankie Carle Ken Griffin Carmen C^vallaro

WESTERN Eddie Amo Roy Acuff Eddie Dean Slim Bryant Judy Canova A1 Dexter Foy Wiling Ernest Tubb

BABCOCK ELECTRIC Galli-Curci Theatre Bldg. Margaretville : J

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HOMPARE SPEED Does a i weejk's wash in less ditfn an hons! One tub tudsbes while the other rinses and spins damp-dry. Removes up to 25% more watet clothes dry. foster. COMPARE CONVENIENCE No slow feeding of pieces dirough a wringer. No set tabs needed . . . you rinse right ui the spinner basket. ' COMPARE SAVINGS E ^ gives you more for your money. Saves cleaning bills . ^ . does •Cashable" drapes at home! S ^ h in actioo todayl^

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Margaretville Hardware, Inc. Phone 20-R . Margaretville, N. Y.

ITS A DATE... AUG. 28 Join Our Christmas Savings Club

Now 1st Prize

$50.00 MERCHANDISE YOUR CHOICE Kight other valuable prizes you oan win in Edition to your

own savings.

If you live within a 50-miIe fadios and can do your shopping through the month of-Deoember in Margaretville, it will pay you to stop in and ask for ihe simple rules of Joining onr club.

You've probably heard of onir popular club before. It's easy and lots of fun to Join. Some of your best friends belong.

May we have the pleasure Of adding your name to our growing list?

Our values in our new children's wear line are becoming

known far and wide.

Our values in our exdu^ve gift lines are well ^tablished.

Remember Your Selection Is Store-Wide GET YOUR NAME IN NOW. JOIN UP TODAY

Club Starts August 28, Ends DecemW 4 Watch for Our Children's Fall Line Coming in Soon

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