CATSKHJ. MOUNTAIN NEWS

Hie Gstsldfl Mountain News boughs and raises a pressure of50 pounds per inch a few feet above the ground, it works best when there are freezing nights and a sap kind of west wind blows by day, or when a storm is on the way. A sap bush is an ex­cellent barometer to him who has learned to read it. There is no pointer and no graduated scale.

* * *I never had a purity test made

of sap. But it is my thought it would show m <^ pure than a mountain spring W a brook bab­bling in the valley below the sap bush.

MargaretviUe, N. Y.. Friday. March 9. 1956

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CLARKE A . SANFORD U arstntT iU e, N. Y.

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ROSW ELL R. SANFORD BostacM Msoaser

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MOUNTAIN DEWA small bear cub is wandering

about in Rider hollow. The little bear is about the size of a amall dog, looks healthy and well fed. The bear may securf part of his food from a dead doe found in that vicinity. The ap­pearance of the doe indicates its legs were skinned and injured by cutting through the hard crust.

Reminiscing on Wednesday of this week, Harry Eckert of the MargaretviUe hospitsil staff, said, “I came to MargaretviUe 50 years ago today from the New Jersey Central to work for the D&N.”

"Already in the office were Dan Todd, Harry MiUer and James J. Welch. They had come to the job in the order named. The sev­eral sections of the raUroad, which had been under construc­tion, were tied together a short time previous. The road was al­ready operating from Arkville to East Branch.”

* » »He recalls that Dan Todd and

Harry MiUer were paymasters. On pay day they hired a horse and buggy from the Uvery stable and took the money down the line. It had been sent here in envelopes the day previous from New York. Each man was equipped with two loaded revolvers. They never had opportunity to use them on any­thing larger than a woodchudc. niis, after the money had been paid out.

Another sap mystery is. “How do the tiny tendrils pick up maple sugar far below the surface?” A beech tree has sap later in the season, but it is sour and unpleas­ant to the taste.

• * ♦There must be a factory some­

where in that great tree. The sweet cannot come from a thous­and or a million tiny root tendrils. Some of the factories, in the trees, make richer sap than the others.

* * *In the great echoes of the past,

the maple trees probably Uved mUlions of years before a wander­ing human tasted the sweet juice from a broken limb and for many more yetirs before he applied fire to take out the water and leave the sweet.

* * *I have in mind the picture of a

sap bush, the trees reach up into the sky, they are large in girth, they are hung with several buckets each, the ground froze the night before, there is a west wind, the sap begins to run, the buckets fUl. * * *

Comes the farmer with tractor. He hitches to a gathering tank and draws it through the snow from tree to tree emptying buckets of clear, cold, sweet sap. Back at the sap house the fluid goes into a great tank and from there into an evaporator. A roar­ing wood fire is built and before

jlong arises a sweet fog, once smeUed wiU never be forgotten.

* * *When there is a "big” run the

outfit has to be tended all night. The hot ashes make an exceUent place to bake potatoes, the boiling sap to cook eggs. The gathering has been exercise enough to make appetites. One who never boUed sap all night in a forest camp has missed one of the world’s pleais- ures.

Yours truly,The Mountaineer

Saturday weis the first day of Spring!

The sap ran, snow water ran in rivulets where it had not run since last year. False springs bubbled up in the fields, tiny lakes in the meadows were formed by melting snow, jagged dirty ice hung along the sides of the brooks.

* * *It was not so much Spring in

nature as it was in the minds of men. A gentle, warm sun, a soft southern breeze, that was aU. There was no robins, no bluebirds, no pussy willows, no taking off overcoats.

* * *Early Spring is a gentle, gentle

thing. It is here but it isn’t, one can smell it, but he can’t. A slight change of wind, a small drop of the mercury, it would be gone.

• » *There wiU be more cold days.

There will be warmer ones and birds and bees and pussy w^ows and all the rest. I t will be de­lightful. But never, this season, can again come the first day of Spring.

* * »Ski conditions wiU change to

trout jumping, siiow wiU disappear as though stolen in the night, overcoats will hang on hooks, highways will have soft holes, great flocks wiU fly north, home folks wiU return from Florida, blue jays wiU go out of style, buds will sweU, a farmer wiU figure on which field is dry enough to sow oats.

• * *But not again in 1956 wiU re­

appear the magic first day.

When drops of sap from spring’s first tapping go ping, splash, splotch in the bottom of a new bucket, another sugar season has started, about the most romantic of all farm chores, albeit there is considerable work.

* • •Why does the sap run up the

maples in the spring? A scien­tist says it is the capillary attrac­tion of the mUlions of hair-sized roots which the tree sends into the ground.

I found the foUowing defini- nition of capiUary attraction, “a small tube in which a liquid wiU climb up on account of the action of surface tension, being greater than that of gravity.”

• » *That sounds like something. But

I rise to inquire, why does the sap stop rising after a few weeks? The tiny roots are there aU sum­mer. Looks to me they might make pressure enough, on a hot summer day, to explode the tree.

• * *Whatever the pump which

sends the sweet fluid to the top

Dr. Matthew Powell Gives Free Polio Shots

Dr. Matthew PoweU, a graduate of MargaretviUe central school, was featured in a New York Post editorial by coliramist Murray Kempton on Tuesday of last week. Dr. PoweU was involved in a dif­ference of opinion with the Mer­cer County Medical society over the free administration of Salk vaccine shots to the school chuldren of Princeton township.

The county group refused to sanction the polio shots on the ground that the TSTew Jersey State Medical society was opposed to cooperating with free medical clinics for anyone but indigent pa­tients. According to Kempton, PoweU administered shots to 257 Princeton township school chil­dren lis t Friday. The county group had previously said that any physician who broke forma­tion could expect a summons be­fore the society’s judiciary com­mittee.

PoweU, who has not had a day off in two months because he has used his spare time serving Salk dinics where no other doctor dared raise his head, says, “Hell, no!” to any question about his sympathies with socialized medicine. “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” he continues, “and you can’t use school children as a point of argu­ment. We’ve got to get the first shots in before June, and for God’s sake don’t tell me that’s contro­versial.”

Kempton added that the county medical group now hasn’t the nerve to discipline Dr. PoweU. stating, “Mercer county doctors hefd the line, and we can’t do anything about one interloper.” •

Church ServicesDeadUne Monday, 5 P. M.

The News is glad to print notes of weekly dinrch services withoat charge. The notices should reach this office not later than 5 o'clock Monday ev e n in n otherwise we cannot promise they wUl be orinted.

St. Slargaret’s Church: _Holy communion and sermon Sunday lat 9:15; church school at 10.

Fine Hill Community Church, Rev. Peter T. Ream, pastor: Sun­day, March 11, Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; evening worship, 7:30; offi­cial board meeting after service.

Fleischmanns Methodist Parish:Fleischmanns, church school at 10; morning worship at 11. Dry Brook, morning worship at 9:45. Halcott Center, church school at 10 a. m.; evening worship at 8.

Sacred Heart Church, Arkville: Masses: Sunday, M a r c h 11, Fleischmanns, 8:45; Arkville, 10; Andes, 11:30. Stations of the Cross, Friday, March 9, 8 p. m. Confessions Saturday, March 10, 4:30-5:30; 7:30-8:30.

Andes Methodist Church, an­nouncements for- Sunday, March 11: Simday school, 10 a. m.; wor­ship, 11 a. m. Pleasant Valley Methodist church, worship, 7:30 p. m. TTie message for that Sun­day WiU be “The Gospel of God” (Galatians 4:4).

Free Methodist Ouirch, Allaben, Evangeline Keesler, pastor: Sun­day school, 10 a. m.; morning wor­ship, 11; evening service, 7:30. FMY each Monday at 7:30 p. m.

Prayer meeting Wednesday a t 7:30 p. m. .WMS meets with Mrs.

jNora German Friday at 7:30 p. m. JMS Saturday at 3 p. m.' Free Methodist CSmrch, Arkville, Rev. Elwood E. Brant, pastor:

^Rev. Paul Hosier, the district su­perintendent, wUl hold his quar­terly meeting March 10-11. Serv­ices Saturday and Sunday evening at 7:30; Sunday school, 10; mom-

ling worship, 11. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:45.

MargaretviUe Advent Cbristian Church, Rev. C. WUUam BaUey, pastor: Sunday, Simday school, 10 a. m.; morning worship, 11; evening worship, 7:30; Youth group, 8:30 p. m. Wednesday, prayer meeting, 8 p. m.; choir re­hearsal, 9 p. m Saturday, YWA meeting at the church in the aftrenoon.

OovesvOle Bible Baptist Church, Richard llait, pastor: Sunday school, 10 a. m.; moming worship, 11; evoiing service, 7:30; prayer meeting, 7:45 Wednesday, at the parsonage. Saturday, Mardi 10, at 1:45 p. m. Mrs. Richard Findi will hold a dass party at hcf home, Tuesday evening, Man* 13, a t 8, the trustees of the dhurdi will hold a business meeting at

I the parsonage.

' SlargaretvUle • New Kin(»ton ■ iMtger rutUb, Rev. John Earl jNaegele, minister: MargaretviUe, {9:30, Sunday school; 10:30 morn­ing worship, "Neither Do I Con- donn You. ’ The Ccxnmunicants’ dass wiU meet a t the manse Thursday, March 15, after school. New Kingston; 10:45, Sunday

school; Uj moming wwship, “Neither Do I Cond^nn You.” Hie Ladies Missionary sodety wiU meet Tuesday, March 13, at 1:30 p. m. The trustees wiU meet at the home of Ralph Faulkner onWednesday, March 14, at 8 p. m.

CamKHisville Plans Old j Frank George Died Home Day July Fourth jAt Walton Saturday

Plans for CannonsviUe’s Old’ Frank M. George, 66, who was Home day, July 4,1956, are taking bom in ArkviUe Aug. 24, 1889, shape. The executive committee <iied Saturday a t his home in

- has set up the order of the day Walton foUowing a heart attack.M argwetvi^ Methodist Parish as foUows: I His funeral was held at the Lyon

Kv 8 a. m. to 11 a. m.—Registration funeral home there an Tuesday,^ t o r - ' U ^ m .,^^^aretviU e! a t the Community house, when the His body was placed in a vault sermon “The Four Dimensions”; reception committee wiU present 10 a. m., Sunday school a t Mar- everybody with a badge and a garetville; 10:30 a. m., Sunday brief history of Cannonsville as a school a t ArkviUe; 5:30 p. m., souvenir for the day.Methodist Youth Fellowship. Tues-i 11 a. m. to 12 noon—Grand ^ . M archp , umjm lenten s |^ . para depicting life in these

parts from the time of the Indians.12 to 1 p. m.—Basket lundi onbyteriah church, MargaretviUe.

Wednesday, March 14, offidal ^(Atkins) George. There

mission on education, 8 p. m., par- Brief address by present and for- *dso survive a son. Leland F. of

and wiU be interred at ClovesviUe at a later date.

'Mr. George, a carpenter, had lived in Florida, Ohio and Indiana, and in several viUages in Delaware county. He is survived by his widow, the former Beulah A. Sy- monds, of Waterbury, Conn. He was the son of David H. and Lu-

Trout Creek, and two daugfiters, Mrs. Angelo Modica of Kingston

sonage. On Palm Sunday, March mer residents.25, two weeks frcan this cc»ning 2 to 4 p. m.—Ball games.Sunday, we will observe the Sac-: Mrs. Leland Boyd is in charge and Mrs. Frank O’Brian of Accord.

of preparing a brief history of ,Given TV Set for 75th Birthday

of KeUy Corners, March 6.— A

that service are asked to contact charge of exhibitions, has re- the pastor as soon as possible. I “ *ved many interesting items— Choir practices: Margaretville, one, the personal account book Wednesiuy, 7:3Q p. m.; ArkviUe,' Benjamin Cannon, with entries IThursday, i p. m.

Dunraven Ladies Held Annual Meeting Dr. Huggins Gives Talk

The D unraven^dies Aid held At Andes Club Meetingthe annual meeting last week Wednesday evening at Kass inn. There were 39 present.

The next meeting wiU be held at the home of Mrs. Jay Conine Thursday, Mardi 15.

be- party was given to Mrs. Bertha ginidng in 1801 when the -town Trowbridge on her 75th birthday was first settled. Thursday evening, March 1, at her

home by her children. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Trow­bridge and sons, James and Steve, Mr. and Mrs. Gideon George, Mr.

March 6.— Dr. C. Ray-and Mrs. George Todd, Mr. and of MargaretviUe was [Mrs. Robert Hanley and chUdren,

Osena Fairt>aim, Merwin Mr. and Mrs. Gerald

Mrs. Trowbridge re­ceived a TV set.

Andes Cubs Have Blue and Gold Dinner

I Members of Andes Cub Scout .Pack 38 and their parents were guests at a Blue and Gold dinner in the cafeteria of Andes central school Wednesday night, Feb. 29. At the speakers’ table were OVvot PUgrim, district commissioner; Robert Wolcott, institutional-rep­resentative, and Mrs. Wolcott, and Harold Schwenk, cutunaster.

After enjoying dinner, tastUy served against a motif of blue and gold decorations, a'brief [H^senta-

. tion ceremony^ wsa held, during ! which Cmnmissioner Pilgrim pre­sented the foUowing awards: One- year service pins, Bobby Matthews and John Boyl; Wolf badges, Gor­don Rowe, John Harvard, Janies Hisman; ^ a r badges, Jolui Am-

] merman, John Drew; gold arrows, ! John Ammerman, Calvin Ingram; silver arrows, John Boyd, John Ammerman, Harold Schwenk.

Hie evening was conduded with ,a brief committee meeting whUe !the Cubs enjoyed games in the- school gymnasiimi.

Andes,Hugginsguest speaker at the Men’s Cbm- 'Mrs. mimity club last Wednesday eve-; Shultis, ning. His topic was “How to Get Trowbridge, a Doctor in Andes.”

Andes Couple Honored 'At 50th Aimversary Party Andes, March 6.—The famUy of Mr. and Mrs. Norman L«tliam

, gave a party in their honor a t the Governor Clinton hotel in Kings­ton. Ninetera members were present to help them celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

One Maple Producer Remains on Beech Hill

Shavertown, March 5. — Uoyd- rick Butler tapped his sugar bush last week Friday. He has modern equipment which wiU produce a top quaUty product.

He is the only producer remain­ing on this Beech hill highway, where every farm, several years ago, produced considerable quan­tities of syrup, the total going into many h im d r^ of gaUons. A maple worm kiUed many trees. The Sherwood tenpin factory at Livingston Manor paid exceUent prices for maple logs. Many farmers thought best to have the immediate money and sold their maple to be made into tenpins.

Sidney Record-Enterprise Puts Subscription at $3.50

The Sidney Record-Enterprise, one of the best weeklies in this county, announced last week a rise in subscription price on account of continuing increases in the prices of everything which go into the production of a weekly news­paper.

After March 15 their subscrip­tion price wiU be $3.50 per year in Delaware county and $4 per year in outside territory. The news­stand price of the paper wiU be 10 cents per copy after March 15.

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