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The Catskill Mdimtain News

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T Rate Advances to ^32.50 ' Roxbuiy. ^ov., Rebekah c l ^ j lliini. tkifc. ' ' ^ i ^ n stop

by fearing I inight make the big, raw-boned te^ begin to tear into the wires' which had received me so' graciously.. If.you, dear reader, have trouble in getting over barb wire fences I can- tell you how to make one (juickly, easily and vthankfuUy^ It is like this. Have a bull chase you!

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New York man hunting deer ovenin Greene county met a chap in the woods. Chap asked him >about the hunting. New York fellow said it was wonderful, he had shot two partridges and a fox. Chap then showed badge that he was g ime protector and wanted to see the game. They walked down to the hunter's car, opened back cover a^d protector saw the. carcasses—two hen pheas ants and a farmer's chow dog.

T r^ad continually in the papers about teachers' wages 'and how poor a job the schools or the par-ents or both or somebody is doing for the kids.

• • •* . •.• ' I don't know about the wages. I have found a'teacher who makes no charge at EQI find has much to teach and" many lessons for me to learn. She is Life itself where if • a fellow cheats at examinations it comes back on his hfead and where if he does not study he has to. pay for it by wearing old clothes and eating, meager food.

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We do pot have to leam it all. Mer» and women who have lived in the pslst have much to tell us. But there is much more for us to know and nothing in life surely is more interesting than digging a truth out 6f Mother Nature than man has never before dis covered—^maybe it is only how a leaf unfolds.

These good people in the past have taken /their ideas from Nature. We profit by them but there is more to do. Keen eyes are always looking for lessons apd find many. There are more great se«:ets yet to be discovered for the future than have been dug Up in the past.

Oh, bride and groom the day is fair And love is singing everywhere! And friends are many smiling now The <vhile you take' your marriage ! vow; • . But life is made of joy and care And love has many things to bear.

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God bless the home which you can build!

May it with happiness be filled, May you set forth this lovely June To many a golden honeymoon; But storms will come, as old hearts

know. And love must weather many a

blow, ' . * * *

Go hand in hand adown the years, Keep faith through doubts and

hurts and tears. The honeymoon will rise and wane, Joy will be lost and found again; The tears must come to every eye, But love can live when hope must

die. • • * • * *

Oh, bride/ and groom, for you my prayer

Is not that every day be fair, For that could never be. I pray That LOve will lastr whate'er the

• day; Through all that comes of grief

and pain And hurt and care may love

remain. ' -^In Just Folks by

Edgar A. Guest

Shinhopple, Nov. 21,'—^^ a spe-' cial meeting of the executive com-mittee of the Shinhopple Institute held in Binghamton Wednesday, Nov. 25, Hon. Livingsti^ Xathajn presiding, it was decided to accept the numerous invitations to the game ' dinners offered by the members.

:r . * •" •.y;. Tom Ogdeh of Walton said he

wanted the men to get together on a venison dinner. Bernard Cher-nin of - Binghamton, who treks to the North Country, for bear, wants to put on a "^ear steak dinner." Andy Marone of Schenectady wants to put on a duck dinner. Dewey Bramley of Delhi has offered to treaty the men to a Brunswick stew at his camp on Beech hiU. Hon. Ralph Emmons Of Binghamton has been appointed 'to arrange the different dates and places where the festivals will take place. The committee in charge of these events is going to have a hard time W i th the ar-rangements. All the members feel they are entitled to have at least one of these events hrfd in their locality. Some headache.

The house committee held a meeting in Unadilla t'riday after. noon, Robert Kinch, the Unadilla apothacary, acted as rchairmian. There was no report from the swimming pool committee. It was decided to appoint Earl Winger to h^ve charge of this project/"' A healthy report of the finances was rendered by Mr. ,Kinch, the secretary. The W.ashington birth-day celebration committee will be in charge of Claude KeUy of Mar-garetville. , Just what the plans not disclosed. It is ; understood that the organization's quartette will render several solos. And the old maestro, George Burgin of Unadilla, Will recite the standby, 'The Face on the BarroOm Floor,"

with lighting and sound effects. * * *

Ira Tompkins of Shinhopple and Walter Donner of Binghamton fepl that the men in their section are slighted by their not coming over to eat Venison. It was also votpd to' present the hand-decoratpd, satin-lined waste basket to Mr. Donner, mayor of Shinhopple.

Rate Advances to $32.50

The rabies epidemic kept some men out of the woods this deer season. A ch^ told me this week he had never been afraid in the woods until now. "Suppose," he said, Va rabid buck with a fine set' of antlers .took after me in the woods, I would not know whether he wanted to bite me or to hook me." Fellow said if he had a choice he would rather be hooked by a rabid deer than bitten by one. > Some of the rabid foxes must have bitten a buck or two. * •'« *

I suppose the same thing might happen next summer. If a bull chases a fisherman how is the guy to know whether the critter wants to toss him or to bite him. A person walking in the fields who has never been chased by a bull has a thrill coming when the buU starts.

, Whei^ the cuss lowers his head, bellows and digs up a sod or two with his. front f^t it is time to get under- motion. .:aA bull is not fast md a good runner shpuld haVe opportunity to ma!ke the nearest fence. . • ' :

I have often cussed wire fences but changed . my tune one day some years ago when a big, unr gainly Holstein bull shouted 'no trespass" in no uncertain language.

Come the middle of next February/ when the groundhog turns uneasily in his burrow as he returns to sleep after his Candle-mas awakening some days previ-ous. Come the same day when Catskill mountain bears, not killed during the present hunting season; begin to think of spring. Come parsnips beginning to loosen in the ground while sweetness fills their marrow.Come the high winds that toss tall maple boughs till they telej hone dowi;i to tiny, rootlets, deep in the groxind, to be prepared to send up a 50-pound pr'essure of sap on short notice. When these days come my thoughts will turn back to

December. . * * *

How often in February have I wondered how I ever endured December and January. _ These winter months in February seem so feir away, so far from thoughts of spring, so cold, so dreary, so packing in promise of anything but long weeks df cold and snow and ice.

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But now as December ap-proaches and I know January will follow there, is a much happier view in looking forward that there will be on Candlemas day in looking backward.

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One day early this week I visited a farmer friend. We entered the house through the woodshed where were piled: great tiers of dry stovewood which can be reached with< ut going out of doors. He toolc me down cellar where as a great bin of potatoes and a home freezer containing half a beef, a pig, 20 hens, many cans of frozen fruits and • vegetables. He told me his mows were fuU of hay.

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When I thought over that array I did not want spring to come. What would be the use of harvesfc if we did not have winter to eat what is gathered. What joy would there be in spring if it came too soon Freedom is the greatest boon to him who has been im-prisoned. Spring is a great joy in the inverse proportion we en-dure the hardships of winter.

Yours truly, The Mountaineer

Boa|;d rate for children in foster care iti this-cdunty will be $32.50 per month in 1948, a rise of $4.50 per month over 1947.

Board of Supervisors,' appropria-tion for the child welfare depart-ment has not been increased, "i^e boai^ing home increase being met out: of the": department'; treasury balance. .

.Increases follow a recommendd^ tion to the board by Miss Eliza-beth Luce, county child' welfarie agent, and Harry T.v Hebbard, commissioner 'of welfare. Annual report of the former's department show ed a 20 per cent inCTease in requests for service, and a 15 per cent increase in the number of children in foster care.

Need More Homes The department hasv been han-

dicapped" by lack of boarding homes for children, Miss Luce, pointed out, and this year there-are 23 children in institutions Who could have been in private care if the homes ,had been available, Rising living costs have made it impractical for county women to take welfare Childreii into their homes and give them adequate care for $7 a week. As costs have gone up, the number of Children, requiring foster care has increasedi and the number ,of homes avail-able has decreased, she pointed out.

Board rates in the county have undergone a radical change since 1941 when foster mothers received $4 a week reimbursement for the care of children. At the end of that year the rate was increased to $21 a month or about $5 a week.

On Aug. 1, 1943, the rate paid by the county was raised to $6 a week and continijed at that level for three years, with the depart-ment steadily finding it harder to locate adequate homes, A year ago last July it was raised to $7 a week, and the present increase will reimburse foster mqthers with about $8 a week^ or double the 1941 figure'. .

Same Throughout State ' The foster home problem is not

peculiar to Delaware county but exists throughout the state," ac-cording to Miss Luce, with the result that institutions all over the state have been crowded for lack of boarding, horhes.

A great-deal is asked of foster parents. Miss Luce declares. Their homes are inspected and certified according to the rules of the State Department of Welfare. The certificate, is issued for oiie year and is renewed as long as the home maintains proper standards of care. The child is expected to be a member of the family, shar-ing in the home life and recrea-tion, No allowance is made by the county for spending money, and many fbster parents provide it out of their own pockets.

Bebekah» ' Ateet Bbxbtuy .Roxbury, ^ov., 22.-'— Rebekah

Past Grand < association of Dela^ ware county -met Friday evenings Nov. 21, with HeasaQt Vieiy Re-bekah lodge at their rooms at th6, ^Masonic halL Over thirty were present, and^ the president, Mrs. Evelyn Hawley of Delhi, presided at the meeting. Following Jhe meeting, games were played, and? a delicious-supper of salads,Sfiand' wiches, cake and coffee servedi"

Those present from other lodges included Mrs. Carrie' Germond Mrs. Florence Wynn, Mrs. Mina Blakeslee, Mrs; Curtis VanValk-; enburgh, Mrs. Ralph Felter, Mfsi Ella' Lawrence, Mrs. - Herbert Raeder, Mrs. Sid Kelly' and 'Mrs.' Harry . Eckert, all of Arkville lodge; Mrs. il rt. Riddell, Mrs. Margaret Mickel and Mrs. Morris Ridden of Davenport lodge; Mrs* Maude Morchesiter, MrSi Gladys McNutt, :^rs. Margaret Badtlett, Mrs. Jessie Gladstone, Miss Lulu Oliver, Miss Edith Stockman and Mrs. Joseph Hazlitt, all of l oon-light lodge, Treadwell.

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~ Stoi]iy Hollow Garage Burns Fire destroyed the Stony Hollow

garage last week Thursday eve-ning, together with two cars which were undergoing repairs. . The loss was estimated at over

$10,000 and there was only a smalT amount of insur£ nce on the build-ing. ^In the" garage were ma-terials, tools and equipment valued at $3,000 to $4,000.

Roxbury Willing Workers Meet Roxbury, Nov. 20 Willing

Workers held a most enjoyable meeting Wednesday afternoon the home of Mrs. James J. Lci'ons at the Methodist paisonage. Mrs. OKatherine Scudder led the devo-tional meeting; and Irma M. Griffin had idiarge of the enter-tainment program which consisted of some games. ' •

At' the diose of >the meeting .de-licious fruit salad and cookies were served by the hostessi '.The December meeting will be at the JbcHne of Mr& Elma Brower..'

Why They Were Thankful Roxbury, Nov. 21. — Delaware

Valley Grange had an exception-' ally interesting program Thursday evening under the direction of the lecturer, Mrs. Harry Gockel. Chester Thorington led the roll call which waS' on. the subject "Things we have to be thankful for.". Each member found so much to'be thankful for that it. was hard to eniimerate them. Health, and a home in America seemed the two most importianf "blessings. . .

Jaines B. Ploutz read an article on "The President's Program." John Thorington read an article on "The Friendship Train and Freedom Train.'' A contest was hel don the words from . "Thanks-giving." Prizes for the most cor-rect list were won by George Haight and Irma M. Grtffin. A comic Thanksgiving poem, 'The Silver. Lining" or "The Quarrel of the Pies," was read by Irma M Griffin, and another poem, "Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving," Was read by Donald More,

Mrs. James B. iPloutz read "Household. Hints," , Omar J Griffin had charge of a recrea-tional number. The numbers were seated in a circle and a bean-bag was passed rapidly around the circle. The one caught with the beanbag when this whistle blew was "out." Last lady .and man remaining received, prizes, * They proved to be Mrs. Linnie Wheeler and Irving Tyler Jr, . ,

It was announced at the meet-ing that the next Pomona session will be held Nov. 29 ^t Paven-port Grange at Davenport Center.

Supper was.served in the dining room at ^ e close of the''meeting. Supper committee were Mrs, Lin-nie Wheeler and Iriha M. Griffin. Next meeting Dec. 4 there will be, first and; second degrees conferred upon a class of condidates. There have b^en a large number of - new applications recently. Dec. 18 will be tiie annual Christmas party. ^

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Flelschmahns Girl Scouts Organize Fleischmaims, Nov. 24. t— An

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At present there are seventeen interested girls in the troop. They afe busy decorating their troop room, in the Skene . Metrtorial library. The troop is sponsored by the Women's Fortnightly jdub. The troop committee consists v. of Mrs, Chafles Barrett, Mrs. Howell Birdsall ind Mrs. Robert Todd. The scout 16ader is Mrs:; Gordon Kent and hei: assistant-is Mr^.' I eila Masdm. > ' '

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