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MOUNTAIN DEW

Bladcbeny pidcers are warned to watch out for black bears.

The price of jam up. We are not in a jam but if this keeps on jam will not be in us.

If your wife has an antique craze make her a present of a Model T with no tires.

Colleges open soon. Spedal courses in Cigarette Inhalation, High Ball Construction and Gen-eral Cosmetics.

Margaretville business man, new car, holiday ahead, plenty of gaso-line, hurried just a bit. Judge said $10.

When the manufacturers get way low on oil by-products I hope they cut the chewing gum or ration i t HoWd you like to be <m the chewing gum ration board?

A fanner in this township says the war will end with cold weather. Says his boy, 25, was inducted in the spring and never did hold a job more'n six months.

A western r^ t i ve writes me. Indian was introducing family thus, 'Tm Brave Eagle, niis is son Fighting Bird, /niis is grand-son Four Motor Bomber."

dear, Before I mairied I was her pi . Her predous peadi, her honey

lamb. The apide of her eye. . But alter years of marrfed life Hiis thou^t I pause to utter, Th ( ^ fancy names are gone, and

now rm just her bread and butter.

—Office Cat

Here's a question for the boys' jury. Young merdiandiser parked his crate near a fence. Sc»ne mis-creants (probably side-kidcs) wired the car to the fence. Merchandiser started home after daik and down came fence.

• • • Owner asks merchandiser to put

it back. But same says it was not his fault but the prank of the wire men, vslio should be rounded up and made to pay.

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Jury is still out.

Everywhere I go, every time I turn, every war letter I read, every soldier I encounter, all tdl me boys in the services need lefr ters almost as mudi as food. • • *

And few of us write them. They do not want h i ^ falutin' descrip-tions of Catskill scenery. T h ^ 'want to know how the little things are going along in the home family, the home town, the farm, the sh(^ • • *

Tliey will be glad to know how many cookies Mother baked Sat-urday, how many cows are being milked, xx^at the milk brings per hundte^ how the corn grows, about the church social, the home folks, just diatty letters about all the little events you almost do not X K r t i o e .

It may be many weeks before the letters readi the lads. But they vdll arrive. A friend of mine difs the funnies out of the news-papers and sends them with a cheery "hello."

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In a ;way, letters from strangers car folks who are acquaintances^ only, might almost the list. Sudi letters will let the lad know he is being recalled by others than his own family.

« • • But don't leave letter writing to

the families. There are thousands of boys who have no family ties. How they must hunger i^en a side-kick gets letters from home. For them I make a special appeal. • • «

There is an effort in many lo-calities to make a list of the boys who have gone. This would be a wonderful thing to do. The ad-dresses ought, in some way, to be publidy available.

« • • In all the war organizations we

have in Delaware , county there is none to do this great job of writing to the boys. I believe it would do more for the success of the war than ones we now have.

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A radio talker says write the boys the good news, keep the bad news at home. "Diat's not my idea. I would tell them the ^ o l e truth, there is no other way to write a good letter. Give 'em all the facts.

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I believe many of the boys will appredate a letter almost as much as a medal from a superior officer. If we had the power to grant them medals we would spend a lot of time at it. But we have a'higher power—writing thran letters. • « *

I know a lad who has been in the army five months and never got a letter. If it could be reduced to a money propositiMi I believe this lad would pve a month's pay for a chatty letter frwn the home town.

• • « I wii^ every community had an

organization that would attend to sending letters to the soldier boys.

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They have given up everything— life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to face a pagan and a heathen enemy. Can we not spare a half hour a day, every one of us, to write them about the little do-ings of home and friends?

Yours tnily. The Mountaineer

Tmck Rons Away Floyd Hadden escaped serioqs

injiuy in an acddent Thursday aftOTioon when his trudc, parked on a hill, while he was harvesting oats, started to run away. He jumped on the running board to apply the emergen<y brake, was unsuccessful and thrown off, straining the musdes about his heart severely. He was treated by Dr. J. A. Gaul, who found no brcdsen bopes. He was able to be about Friday. The truck was damaged.—Roxbuiy Cor.

From the Catskill Mountain News of Aug. 18,

1922

Andes Appreciates Ho^tal The Monster ball for the benefit

•of the Margaretville hospital will be held Aug. 19. lliis is a most w o r ^ cause. Many fnxn this section have greatly beenfited by having this fine institution dose by in emergency calls for quick medical aid. Let's all show our ai^reciation and help the cause.— Andes Cor.

Enlists in Anny Gordon Perry, wiio has been em-

ployed by C M Kelly» left Mon-day for Albany for examinati(Hi. He has enlisted. His wife and daughter, Joan, are visiting at the Platts.—Kdly Comers Cor.

Card of Thanks

ers, to Miss Blanche George, Mrs. Lynn Ge<»ge, Rev. Jones we are especially grat^uL

M ^ Rkhard Wri|^t HanddW al4p Frank and Wiifi^t

The atizens bank at Fleisdi-manns has /ione more business this season than ever before.

Snyder's ordiestra fumidied music for a very large dance at the Denver hall Saturday evening.

Work has been started in Hal-cottville to redaim the old grist mill so that it can house the elec-tric lig^t plant.

J. H Hitt is building a garage on the property recently purdiased of A. J. Scott.

Mrs. Mary Sanford visited her sister, Mrs. Harley Moseman, in Halcott Center recently.

Miss Mildred Gorsdi has re-turned fro mthe summer school session at the Oneonta Normal sdiooL

Mrs. J. Trylone and daughter have returned home after a week's visit with friends in Meridale.

Work on A. J. Scott's new bung-alow on Orchard street is nearing completion. The Scotts expect to move in September.

Attorney J. L. Keator of Fleisdi-manns and W. D. Winter of this village were in Newark, N. J., and New York dty last wwk on a business and pleasure trip.

Scott Sanford has taken up the stu^ of astronomy. To secure an uninterrupted view of the relative positions of the constellations, he seeks out-of-the-way nooks by the side of the road.

Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Hess and son, Orvan, have returned after a two-week auto trip to western New York.

Swarts steps are gone. Some ruthless carpenters tore tHem out early in the week. This is the be-ginning of a plan to remodel the oldest store in the village.

Mrs. Niles Fairbaim was taken to the Kingston City hospital Mon-day by Dr. Telford^ suffering frcwn a severe case of appendidtis. She was put on an operating table at once and her condition is said to be very serious.

Nelson Fairbaim has sold his store on Bridge street to George Hoffman, a barber emjdoyed for some time by Delameter & Myers. The price was $2,275. •

L. L, Henderson died at a sum-mer camp in Maine one day last week from pneumonia.

Lauren Shultis of Kelly Comers has made a oHnplete airplane and expects to make his first fUi^it this rooming. The plane has a wing span of 22 feet and is powered by a 15-horsepower motorcyde en-gine. This is a novel plan for a fanner boy and his initial flight will be witnessed by many.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Butler of New Kingston are visiflng their daughter, Mrs. Grant Brisbane, on Dingle HilL

Workmen are busy putting in concrete for the Firwnen's hall whkdi is to be erected in Arena, near Osterhoudf s market.

Miss Ruth Tompkins of Arena retumed last^week from a month's visit wth friends k» White Plains and Mt. Vemwi.

Sherman K. Rugg, 65, died at his home in Arena Friday after-no(m.

Layman Snyder of Arkville re-tumed home fwHn Tannersville Wednesday.

John Ganoune and Jeanette Keator of Denvrf were called to lOngston Saturday by the sudden death of a c o u ^ Mrs. Hendridcs.

S<xne used cars on hand with self-starters.—Sanford & Jenkins.

Dr. R E. Smith, a veterinarian, who has been practicing in Kings-ton for several years, has ^dded to locate in Margaretville. He will begin his practice hare next Monday. He is a graduate of ComeU university and comes weH spoken^ of by Kii^gston peoi^. Un-til permanent quarters are found he may be located at Dugan's feed store.

Mrs. Harrison Todd of Oneonta has been hired to teadi the Seager sdibol.

HieDry Bnx^ lifethodist diurdi will hold the annual diurch fair on the diurdi lawn Aug. 23, afternoon and evening.

Friday, August 14. i m

99 By Their Fruits • • • • By DR. J. T.

Through a series of releases, the Margaretville Hos-pital has not only publicized its annual campaign and Monster Ball, but it has also helped to familiarize the public with the role the hospital has played and continues to play. In this manner, our readers have learned some-thing about an individual case study, the relationships be-tween war and health and the place of the hospital in the community. There is one more aspect of health wherein the hospital plays a tremendous role, but it is an aspect of medicine which, very fortunately, even well-educated people seldom think of— the field of miental health. For centuries, men have beqi striving to achieve healthy bodies and minds, but it took generations imtil they dis-covered that both were inseparable and that one cannot be healthy if the other is ill. Today we. have come to imderstand that worrying over our health is bound to have disastrous effects upon our bodies.

Many of us know a great deal about the intricate machinery of our automobile, ab ut our hydraulic piunp, about our dynamos, even about airplanes, but most of us know very little about the most important machine we have—our body. The study of this machime byjgcertain people means that when we are ill we have a good chance of reclaiming our health, happiness and peace. All about us mankind is being assailed by strange and fearful enemies called heart disease, cancer,,tuberculosis. But in our midst there walk modem knights who seek the Holy Grail of health, modem saints who are ever ready to help and heal us. These knights are on duty every hour of the day. Should a patient be carried iiito the emergency room, they are prepared. Should an emergency ambulance be needed, they are ready to go. Calls are made day and night. Never is the hour too early or too late.

A decade ago intelligent and far-visioned members of our, your community were moved by the noblest human sentiments— the desire to help the unfortunate— and in 1930 founded the Margaretville Hospital for those of our community who needed medical aid. For the past twelve years, this institution has been amstantly improved and has grown to become the center of all humanitarian effort in the locality. For these past years, all the sick and ailing have looked to the Margaretville Hospital as the source of their salvation. That aid has 'been forthcoming only be-cause you have contributed towards the hospital, because you have supported it, because you have attended its affairs. "By their fruits shall you know them"—no tmer words can be applied to the Margaretville Hospital, the doctors, the nurses, the directors, the public-minded men and women who support the hospital who labor to make its campaigns and annual monster affair a success. The battle against disease is on and now is the time for all good men and women to unite in support of the Margaret-ville Hospital and make this year's Monster Ball a well-deserved financial and social success.

[Tliis publici^ made possible Dr. Abraham Weinberg;

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