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The Catskill Mountain News

Entered as Second Class Matter in tbe Post Office at MargaretviUe. N. Y.

^ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY

CLARKE A. SANFORD. PublidiW

ROWLAND G. HILL, Editor

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MOUNTAIN D3EW

Local chap says his new car is the best he ever owed.

Local lass has had her fingers into everything—except a wedding ring. .

Some farmers claim grass-hoppers are eating their crops. Send the big trout after 'em.

grasses, oaks, maples and pines are wind pollinated.

A wonder of the i>ollen is that it works without being noticed Tiny grains are developed, each grain a complete entity with all the chromosomes necessary for a complete new plant. . When it fertilizes iffe opposite the results in due time, is a seed. It some-times travels a considerable dis-tance as in com. The pollen tube has to grow several inches before it reaches a kernel. Each kernel was made by a single grain of pollen which travels down the long tender silk.

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Each species of grass, flower and tree has different shaped grains of pollen. Beneath the microscope they seem exquisitely fashioned bits of jewelry. The largest gnown grain of pollen is that of the pumpkin, about one hundredth of an inch in diameter.

Size of plant has no relationship to the size of pollen. That of a 300-foot sequoia tree is about the same as that of a violet. Pollen grain of forget-me-nots are about one-ten thousandth of an inch iii diameter. Those who study fossil plants and plant parts have identified plant pollen that has been preserved in rock for 700,-000,000 years.

When it's 90 in the shade you never find 'em mowing the lawn, they go out on the golf "course where it is 110.

"Main Street," edited by John M. Henry, in the August issue of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, con-tains a clipping from this column.

A small boy rode past a dairy of Holsteins and Jerseys in a jiearby pasture one day last week. He looked at them and exclaimed, "Oh, see the skim milk and cream cows!"

Most of us have a yearning to travel. But there is so much a

; few miles from homes even a few feet, that we do not know about. I recently saw a man on the street step: not far from his office and pick a blossom from a common weed which had grown in a stone-covered drive.

To seven persons to whom it was shown it might as well have been from China. They admired its shapeliness, eirrangement and the delicate aroma. Yet they ap-peared bewildered when told the floral bit was the common milk-weed.

* * * -Last week the lower end of the

Dry Brook delta was dry, the water had all sunk underneath the stones. I saw a rabbit run up the dry bed and stir up small rabbit-sized <douds of dust. In other words. Dry Brook was dusty.

Go to the fields and meadows, hillsides and woods these August days and be in the midst of Nature's magic. Life goes on. It lives its ordained time. We know the mechanics of pollfen magic but when one thinks of the total pic-ture he is humble. Test tubes and sildes that bring knowledge do not explain the mystery of Life itself.

OUT of the MAILBAG

Union Grove, N. Y. , August 3, 1949

Dear News: I wonder if there is such a thing

as law and order for children in Union Grove. If there is I wish somebody would take over. Be-cause every time you go to walk on the street you git hit with an apple or sfone. Gr you git swore at. Then if you sit on your porches yet get stones thrown at you. wish somebody will look after such children.

There ought to be a law about throwing stones and apples from the highway. Thank you*

A Eeader

How often diu-ing the hot, dry summer have the youngsters, and even the adults, of MargaretviUe wished for a convenient place to dip into the water and cool off— maybe even paddle aroimd a bit ? * * *

Taking a ride up or down either branch of the Delaware or its feeder brooks, a casual observer is bound to notice many pools and ponds filled with kids taking the easy way of escaping the heat.

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deep spots in the river where it is possible to swim and dive. Others are formed by merely throwing sand bags or other artificial barrier across a convenient spot in the stream, causing enough water to collect behind the temporary' dam to make a handy swimming hole.

one natural pool at "The Rock" in the West Branch has served residents of Delhi for many gen-erations. Youngsters and oldsters o f ^ t h sexes throng the pool oh hot days. m * *

other artificial pools have been built on the Delaware by feirmers for fire protection. Cost of build-ing these has been low, often below $100, in one case $5. The same farmer built a 50 by 100-foot swimming pool, five feet deep, for

Looking upstream from the main bridge in MargaretviUe, I would guess that a pool or pond could be constructed for little cost. K the hot days of this summer, especially those of last week, were to continue, the thought of dipping in such a pool would seem to be worth a large_price.

Perhaps. . enough heat-haters could even assemble a few sand-bags to build a temporary pool themselves. It would wash away in the first flood. But, oboy! Doesn't that water seem sweU in this heat ?

August is a month of pollen^ ask -a hay fever sufferer A breeze^ will lift a golden cloud from com blossoms. I have seen the pollen of hemlock trees cover the earth with a reddish carpet.

The green beauty of our earth is mostlir due to the magic of pollen which completes a cycle of life. Bees and insects carry it iunong flowers and trees as fruit, locusts, horse chestnut, etc. The

Outdoor Locals, Personals Birds can see 100 times better

than man. V

The first frost is five weeks away—according to the shriU song of the locust. « * *

Gene Davis of Shavertown put poison bug killer on his potatoes a recent day but found he had only enough of the material to cover half the patch. He secured more the aext day, one of the hottest we have had, and was, sur-prised when he arrived at the patch to find the intense heat had killed all the remaining bugs.

I have seen several black horses this summer which have been al-lowed to run the fields consider-ably faded by the hot sun. This does not apply to Mr. and Mrs. Crow and family. They are jet black as ever. The crows have been seen about the fields in single families since the youngsters learned to fly.

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Now two families are uniting. Groups of -10 to 12 are in the fields. Crows love to gather in crowds. They start with the single feimily groups, then combine with another family and when the young are more sophisticated join continuaUy larger groups imtil they may aU unite in one great congregation. The entire arrange-ment is worked out by a well laid out system.

Joy Eppenbach, nineryear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Eppenbach of Weaver Hollow, has a saddle buU she rides about the neighborhood. MargaretviUe folks will recall the little girl rode the bull, then several months old, at the HaUoween parade last fall and took first prize.

This stimmer she secured an English horse saddle,: fitted it to the bull, and goes aU over the farm and about the neighborhood with the bull as a steed. The critter has an easy gait, walks rapidly and seems to enjoy the fun as much as woxild a horse.

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Cooperation is not confined to the human kind. Ride along the highway any of these hot days and note how the farm team, turned out to pasture, stand heads to tails to switch each others flies.

Car drivers who flit up and down the highways must have licenses. Not so the creatures of the wild—they are free to go when and where they please — no li-censes, no flats, no gas, no mort-gages, no weeds to puU, no grocery biU, no shoes to mend, no clothes to buy, no income tax, tio schools, no churchesj no hospitals, no doc-tors, no lawyers, no .iilhibitions— nothing to do but hunt and fish.

The horrid, torrid weather of last week has cooled. The mer-cury, several mornings this week, got down to 50 and Sleeping was a pleasure. Neighboring communi-ties have had rain. Up to Wednes- day there had ^ n little in the East Branch valley. It looks that Mother Nature is trying to dis-courage the Dov^viUe dam /build-ers who are spending a hundred million to catch'the^waters of the Delaware—now the size of a spring brook.

Yours truly. The Moimtaineer

MargaretviUe, N. Y. iVugust 2, 1949

Dear News: Since the notice in last* week's

paper, stating that Dr. Ives of Roxbury had joined in the medical clinic with Drs. Palen, Huggins and Remy, and would be available for anesthetics at the Margaret-viUe hospital, I have had so many inquiries from friends and fOTmer patients of mine* that I feel this letter would supply the informa-tion to all those interested.

I will still be available, 24 hours a day, for anesthetics at the Mar-garetviUe hospital, whenever the patients or doctors request me, as

have been for the past seven years.

I have had special training in anesthesia, and have practiced for 29 years.

I do not administer spinal anesthesia. I was a member of the original committee that worked^ to organize our hospital and have always supported it.

I have always been devoted to my profession, and hope to con-tinue to practice, as* long as I £un of value to the profession.

Ethel H. Bussy, R. N.

Frederick H. Helntz Mt. Trempery July 30, — Fred-

erick H,-Heintz, 74, who died sud-denly here • Tuesday, was buried Friday in the Mt. Hope cemetery hi Westchester county. Funeral services were conducted from the Gormley fimeraf home in Phoe nicia with Rev. Edward RusseU officiating.

He conducted a real estate busi-ness here for many years. Mr. Heintz belonged to Monitor Ma-sonic lodge and was a veteran of th<B Spanish^American war.

Will Keopen Diner Roxbury, July 27.—Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Steifert returned Saturday from Miami, Fla., where they had spent'two weeks. They expect to reopen the Roxbury diner after the redecoration is completed. The diner has been closed since it was badly damaged by fire July 2. Carson CantweU, Curtis Burroughs and Howard Slater have been do-ing the carpenter work and re-decorating.

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FLEISCHMANNS, N. Y. Two showings each night, the first starting at 7 o'clock and the second at 9:15. Matinee dally at »:30.

Friday-Saturday Aug. 5-6

"Home of the Brave" Douglas Dick - Steve Brodie

SundayrMonday Aug. 7-8

"The Great Sinner" Gregory Feck - Ava Gardner

Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday Aug. 9-10-11

"Anna Lucasta Paulette Goddard

Broderlck Crawford Friday-Saturday Aug. IS-'IS

"You re My Everything" (Color by Tedhnicolor)

Anne Baxter - ; Dan Dalley

DownsviUe WiU Dial Downsville telephone subscribers

of the Delaware Telephone Go., with headquart^ in Walton, will have complete use of a dial system by Aug. ,20. ^ j

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MargaretviUe

Two showings each night in the week; the first starting at 7 o'clock, the second at 9 o'clock or very soon thereafter. Matinee on Saturdays at 2:3Q,

Friday-Saturday Aug. 6-6

"The Lost Tribe" Johnny Welssmuller

Myma Dell • —also . • > ' •: • •

"Champion" Kirk Douglas - Marilyn Maxwell

Sunday Monday Tuesday August 7-8-9

look for the SOver Liumg' (Color by Technicolor)

June HAVXSC - Bay BQL.GEB

WedL-Thurs, Aug. 10-11

"The Great Smner" Gregory' Peck - Ava Gardner

-Frlday- Satnrday Aug. 12-18

'Africa Sqreams'' • Abbott » CkMStdlo

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"The Red Pony" (In Color)

Mynm lioy - Robert Mitchum

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