THE
day evening, March 19th, at 7:30.
Miss Caroline Lester is in charge of
the class studying the Southern
Mountaineers, using the book “The
CHiest Republican Paper in Seneca County,
•rtered as second-class matter at postofflce, Land of Saddle-haga.” Mr. Merrill
®'alls. W. Y.. under Aot of Congross,
is in charge of the class which stud­
•«*9cih3,^g3S.
ies the foreign topic. On account
a- a . POLLARD - EDITOR of the impossibility of procuring
promptly the book on Siam it will
be necessary to change to the topic
POSLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
of China, using the book .“ China’s
'f f l e jo u r n a l P n b M i n g Co, Real Revolution.”^ All who possibly
can should enroll in one or the other
( l im i t e d )
of the classes.
A lice B. P ollakd , - President.
SE^ECAITCOUNTY COURrER-JOtiRNAl
Tfee C ourier - Journal
SENECA FALLS, N. Y.
D . P o l l a r d , Sec. and Treas.
«E,ARY BLOCK. SENECA PALLS. N. Y.
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TERMS:
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. (N * 9oribers outside tbe county, $3.00 per year
postag e prepaid; Supsoription for six
^months, $1.00 in advance.
®ATES FOR ADVERTISING
tSade Known XJipon Application
FIRST FIFTY YEARS
HARDEST, SAYS
TELEPHONE MAH
PERSONALS
—Howard Parroh has been visit­
ing relatives in East Syracuse.
J, W. Stearns
—Mrs. William Ferguson of Ilion
is visiting Mrs. George B. Huff.
of Jamestown,
Tells of His Early Telephone
—Mr. and Mas. J . L. Adamson
Experiences
spent the week end in Rochester.
—Mrs. B. R, Kellogg and Mrs.
Edward A. Frank spent Saturday
sn Syracuse.
—John Milford has accepted a po­
sition at the New York Central
freight office.
—Mrs. A. R. Palmer is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Palmer at
White Plains.
—Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Maier
have been spending a few days with
friends in Oswego,
—-Mrs. W. D. Pomeroy spent the
week end with her mother, Mrs. T.
During
Half
Century of Wire Service.
James W. Stearns, one of the tele­
phone p ioneers early recruited from
the telegraph service, who has been
an outstanding figure in the telephone
field in the western part of New York
State, recently celebrated his fiftieth
year of wire servicer, says the Tele­
phone Review, and declares that the
first fifty are the hardest. Mr. Steams
received a diamond service pin on his
Rev. Wm. Howes. Pastor
Preaching service at 10:30. Sub­
ject : “ God Appeals to Reason.”
Bible School at 11:45 ; Young Peo­
ple’s Meeting at 6 p. m.; Evening
preaching at 7 o’clock.
Praise and prayer service always
at 7:30 on Thursday evenings. You
are invited to all these services.
The Willing Workers class will
meet with Mrs. Mary Royston, on C. McIntosh in Utica,
Chapel street, Friday afternoon,
—Hon. N. J . Gould of Larchmont^
L et’s k n o w e a c h o th e r b e tter
/ ’^ U R business office is as much a p art o f
V-/ your telephone service as the instru­
m ent, the wires and the central office.
Aiid o u r Local Commercial Manager, and all
his associates welcome the opportunity to
serve you whenever you come to o u r busi­
ness office by telephone o r in person or
w rite to us about your problems.
Y o u have telephones to be p u t in, taken out
o r relocated; questions to be answered about
March 13th a t 3 o’clock.
N. Y., is spending a few days here
this week on business.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL. CHURCH.
—Mr. and Mrs. Luther Lotz have '
Rev. H. G, Burley, P astor
taken up their residence in the
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The Woman’s Home Missionary So­ sher house in 'Walnut street.
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CHURCHES
I
’TRIN ITY EPISCOPAL
W. B. Clarke, D. D., Rector
T he services
next Sunday, the
tl i M StmiJay in Lent, will be: Holy
^Cosasaranion a t 8; Church School at
Morning P rayer with sermon
mt i l ; evening service at 7, with
iiynansfrom the Mission Hymnal and
.
Instruction by the Rector, the
snibjectheing^'Sin.” The Young Peofellowship .will meet in the pari^aiofuse a te . The Fellowship can
^ •e -a ^ re a t help in the life of the par-
and we ought to have a far
.d ark er attendance.
A t the close of the Friday evening
'Service this week, the Rector will
..|pve an inform al talk on “ The Use
• f tkelP rayer Book.”
The preacher at the service next
Wednesday evening, March 18th,
■swill b e Rev. F. B. Blodgett, Dean of
Sfc. PauPs Cathedral, Erie, Pa.
Tbe Junior Guild is meeting every
Honday night in tne Parish House,
preparing articles for the Mission­
ary Box. All the young women of
•the parish are cordially invited to
atten d these meetings and to become
stsembers of the Guild.
The Woman’s Auxiliary and the
Y dnity Church Guild Jmeet each
^Sirsday afternoon in the ‘ Parish
Mouse at 3:00, to sew for the Lenten
MissionarylBox. At 6:00 a Tureen
Supper is served, after which a Mis­
sion Study Class is conducted by Miss
BCanehe Daniels, the subject being
■^‘The Four Gospels.” There ought
to be more workers and donations of
saoney , or material for the Box
wonld be gratefully received.
The Primary Department of the
Qjurch School will hold a pastry sale
m the Parish House on Saturday af­
ternoon of this week beginning at 3
j.'e!ock. The object of the sale is to
'feelp ‘■he little ones with their Lenten
^*3issionary offering.
t“ (PtST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sev. Robert D, Merrill. Pastor
The Westminster Circle will meet
ssu Friday afternoon in the chur.ch
■parlors.
Pledges for the coming year for
fee support of the church and for
l^nevolences will be made next Sun; they will be brought to the
sbureh and dropped in “ The Chest
s f Joshua” immediately after the serThe subject of the sermon at
Hie morning service at 10:30, will
Ibe ■
“ The Blessedness of Strength.”
The Sunday School meets prompt'i y a t 12. The Tower Class had a
iSae attendance last Sunday and
ifeottld have one at least as good as
•*4ha4; regularly. The Junior Society
affleests a t 3:30 andi the Young People’s
• SocSOty a t 6. At the evening service
.
7 a set of stereopticon slides will
il»e;^own on the subject of “Young
*€feina’s Problems.” The Zealous Cirasleof
King’s Daughters will be
incTiar^e of this service, which will
:% eia the church auditorium.
ISfee study of Home and Foreign
niiaaoos subjects will be continued
cat ^ m id - w e e k meeting on Thurs-
ciety will hold its monthly meeting
in the chapel of the church on Fri­
day afternoon of this week.
Sunday services; At 10:30, Wor­
ship of God, The pastor will preach
on “ The Pure in Heart.” Sunday
School at noon. 6 p. m., Epworth
League service. Topic, “ The Place
Where I Live—Keeping It Happy.”
Leader, Mrs. M. K. Smith. The or
chestra will play. At 7:00, the pas­
tor will preach on “ The Old Rug­
ged Cross.” , The new illuminated
electric Cross will be dedicated at
this service. The Masonic Quartette
will assist in the music and sing sev­
eral selections. All are welcome.
Tuesday afiernoon the Silver Tea
in charge of the Home Missionary
Society will be held in the chapel
from 8 to 5 o’clock.
Thursday night is the regular
Prayer Meeting service at 7:30.
Teacher’s Training Class a t the
close.
Sunday, March 22nd, we will! be­
gin a series of pre-Easter services.
Services will be held each evening,
except Saturday, at 7:30.
service and service charges, advertising in
the telephone directory and the best use of
—Mrs. Martha Hughes of Waverly
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Stephen
Weatherlow in State street.
—Miss Florence French of North­
east, Pa., is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. Bullock in Fall street,
—Mrs. Robert J. Mills of Bridge
street is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Elmer Rix in Cleveland, Ohio.
—Patrolman and Mrs. James Delia
of Barker street are the proud par­
ents of a daughter born this week.
is still actively engaged in te le­
—Mrs. Lenora Beiter of Plainfield, who
phone work after fifty years of wire
N. J., is a guest at the home of her service.
brother, Henry Miller in Johnston
an niversary, p resented to him by J.
street.
—Willis G. Knight and Robert S. McCulloh, presid en t of th e N ew
Knight returned Thursday evening York T elep hon e Company.
In 1877 w h ile Mr. S tearns w as oper­
from an outing of several weeks in
ator and manager of the Western
Florida.
U nion telegrap h office in "Warren. Pa.,
—Paul S. Sisson has returned from
som e o f h is friend s who had
the diflferent classes o f LongD istanceService.
In these and other telephone matters, both
large o r small, w e seek to serve you in a
way th at is possible only w hen w e are able
to com bine o u r know ledge o f telephone
practices w ith an understanding o f your
particular telephone problems.
T h at is why we say “Let’s K now Each O ther
Better.”
O n such a foundation we can make our busi­
ness office a p e rso n a l service sta tio n o f a
higher order, and that is w hat we desire it
N E W Y O R K TELEPHONE C OMP AN Y
been
Grove City, Pa., where he was called reading about the telephone told him
by the death of his aunt, Mrs. Mary th at w ithin a short tim e there would
be no u se for telegraph operators, and
E. Eldridge.
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wayne that he had better look around for an­
oth
er job. T his inform ation, and his
have returned from a three months’
Whether its a business ”trip^* or social **visit**the tele­
phone will take you there quickly and inexpensively!
natural interest in the new invention,
visit with their son, Elm er C. Wayne,
made him determined to go into the
at Pittsburg.
business, and a few months
—Howard D. Hadley of State telephone
later h e received tw.o hand telep h on es.
street submitted to an operation
“That was the biggest thrill of my
WESLEYAN METHODIST
Monday at the Seneca Fails Hospital young life,” Mr. Stearns remembers,
Rev. H. S. Hill, Lit. B. S., P astor. performed by Dr. G. M. Brandt. ^
“when I strung the first telephone in
Wesleyan Church, 83 Years, “ In
—Edward ft. Albere returned to the town, which was also the.first in
the Service of Men, in the Name of Brooklyn Thursday evening after i Warren county, Pa. The telephone
Christ.”
spending several weeks with Mr. j ran oetween the telegraph office and
Preaching a t 10:30 Sunday School and Mrs. Elden J. Riegel in Fall m y home, four blocks away, and vis­
itors from far and near came to talk
at 11:45 Evening preaching service
over the instrument. Soon I began
at 7 o’clock.
—William J. Mackinand John E. to string wires over the housetops for
Cottage prayer meetings twice a Mackin were called to Binghamton other telephones, until I had such a
week as announced from the pulpit. Monday evening by the illness^and maze of wires that I had to appeal to
city council for a permit for tele­
“ Have you ever seen a hog carry death of their sister, Mrs. Merwin the
phone poles.
an ear of corn to another hog? Updike,
A Walking Extension Telephone
N either have we.” The people'who
—Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Saunders
“My first d octor subscriber took
do not have time to serve the Lord of Syracuse are the proud parents of only one teleph on e and m agneto bell,
on Sunday and prayer meeting night a daughter born last week. Mrs. with a line extended from his office to
can not be looked to to carry the Saunders was formerly Miss Gladys h is hom e four b locks aw ay. H e would
carry his instrument hom e under his
Gospel'to their fellow men. The Maxson.
j arm every n ight, and bring it back
people who are carrying the Gospel
M. R. Sanderson left last even-' to h is office in th e morning. T he w ires
are the same folks who are enough ing for Long Beach, Cal., where he were so arranged that he could make
interested in their ownlsoul’s salva­ was called by the sudden death of h is o-RTi con nections. I k n ew th e intion to be at church and-assist there. his father, which occurred Monday , converricnce of carrying the teleph on e
around would wear him out in tim e,
When Dr. Johnson lay dying he was evening.
and w ithin tw o m onths h e took an­
much concerned about his soul. A —Leon M. Donnelly, son of Mrs. ! other teleph on e.”
friend said to him, “ Sir, you seem Florence Donnelly of Troy street, j
Growth of T elep hon es
to forget the merits- of the Re­ has entered the United States air ' The teleph on e exchan ge which Mr.
deemer.” “ No.” replied Dr. John­ service, and is stationed at Mitchell S tearns started prospered, until in
1SS2 it w.'is transferred to the N ew
son, “ I do not forget the merits of Fiejd, Long Island.
I York ami P en n sylvan ia T elephone and
the Redeemer, but I remember tha:
—Miss Ruth Daniels, operato” at Telegraph Company, organized under
He said that He would place some the Western Union office, submitted th e B ell S ystem . H e was appointed
on His right hand, and some on His to an operation at the Seneca Falls D ivision Superintendent of setmn
n ties in w estern N ew York and
left.”
Hospital this week, performed by Pcou
en n sylvan ia: Erie, l^^arren, McKean,
Preaching at the Varick Wesleyan W. L, Wallace of Syracuse.
l Pe'^ter. of Pa., and Chautauqua, Cat­
Methodist church .at 2:30, followed • - Fred C. Fisher and Leonard taraugus, and AUegany, of N ew York,
by Sunday School.
Rhinehart left tor Cleveland Tues­ em bracing tw en ty telephone exchan ge
day noon, returning home on Wed­ centers, with headquarters at Jam es­
tow n. N. Y. R ebuilding old, and build­
C O N G R E G A T I O N A L CHURCH.
nesday with a fine new Willys-Knight ing n ew central offices and connecting
‘The Church with Winning Ways” e ir, vyhich Mr. Fisher wiil drive.
toll lin es betw een offices in th ese
Rev. Inman Wilcox, Pastor
—Dr. Fred W. Lester was in Al­ seven cou n ties “were som e of h is
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 bany Wednesday in the interest of d uties until 1909, when th e com pany
as m erged with the N ew York T ele­
with sermon on “ The Law of Stew­ the Karle-Dunmore bill, medical w
phone Company, and he becam e D is­
ardship.” Sunday School at 11:50. practice act, amendments and joint trict Com mercial Manager. A year
Junior Endeavor meeting at 5 o’clock. committee of public health of . the later h e w as appointed Special Agent,
in addition to the position of President
Star C E. meeting at 6 o’clock. Senate and Assembly.
of the Cattaraugus Union Telephone
Topic: “ Help Our Town Program.”
—Mr. and Mrs. Elden J. Riegel Company, and Director in th e A lle­
Leader. Miss Leona Dutcher. Eve­ entertained at dinner last Wednesday gany T elephone Company.
ning worship at 7. Sermon, “ Man’s evening in honor of Edward H. Al- j
F iftieth Year of S ervice
First Great Problem.”
On Friday, N ovem ber 21st, 1924,
The Hopeful C irc le of King’s here of Broo.klyn. Their guests j when
h
e attended th e W estern Di-vi­
Daughters will meet in the church were Mr. and Mrs. Nathan H. ' sion F irst
Aid Contest of telephone
parlors Thursday afternoon. A DeLavan and Mr. and Mrs. Lwellyn com pany em ployees at Buffalo, h e w as
tureen supper will be served.
Sherman.
presented with a fifty-year diamond
Mid-week meeting Thursday at
—U. L. Seekell, district deputy service pin, in honor of h is achiever
7:30 p. m. Topic “ Wisdom and
m ents.
'
Foolishness, Strength a n d Weak­ grand chancellor, was one of the
speakers Friday evening at the ban­
ness.” I Cor. 1:18-31.
ONLY T H E HALF. OF IT
Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the quet of Cayuga Lodge, K. of P., in
What-So-Ever Circle of the King’s Auburn, in commemoration of the ’'The word telephone originated
Daughters will meet in the church sixty-first anniversary of the found­ from the Greek words, “tele," mean­
parlors.
ing from afar, and “phone,” meaning
ing of the order.
ENGLANDJEJR
COUCH-BED
Sdki evetywbiae byhmiifure
dealers and depanmeid^cnes
^ r i ie jo r tUustsMboMd
j
—Announcement has been made
of the marriage of Miss Florence
Toombs, daughter of Mr. andi Mrs.
Albert Toombs, and Earl Guthrie
of Garden street, the ceremony hav­
ing taken place on Friday, March
6th. They will mako their home
here.
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sound, says the Telephone Review.
—Miss Gertrude Garnsey, daugh­ The. two words were thus combined
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Garn- into the one word “telephone,” an
sey of Cayuga street, a sophomore inetrament for conveying sound beat Vassar College, Poughkeepie, haa ^ e e n distant points.
*WhM ydu hear the word “telebeen appointed assistant business
therefore, redneed to just
manager of the “ Vassarian,” the fiala “phone,” only half of the etory
Vassar year book.
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Mr. Tobacco Grower I
Sixice
l.f . t nriccs
for high quality lerf, it is natural
ijiat you should bt m :ra interested
improving your gruJe;.. When
can be cen e nnC I '.i 'leid aiso
• . reused, you have a cci:
-rabinatlan
reul profit,
il can be done. The experi. — -e'.vr-rs, confirmed t y
etc, r.-o-.t-. t's;
b.JTji incied-e ycur yj
'■7 l;)-.-
.hiin;, iucierftj? of sul-
I ■' lerlilierA-
Take the ^
i.r Mr. L. B. K nott
lbs. per acre
lertffizer aee got 320
32U_lbs.
ijc . t'.ib.. ''. where he tried 1000
per acre of 8-4-0 ino potash) fer; b eer he got C..0 lbs. of 18c. tobacco
■ d on the plot where he applied
: .:0 lbs. o f 8-4-10 P N K fer'dlizcr
•nntaining rnifate o f potash)
pot;
he
•.dsed 760 lbs. off 23c. tol
tobac
Lite o f potr.-'-h costing oh
1 roughthim $63.20 more inc
income per
Then there is Mr. W. L. Crouc
grower o f Burley tobacco in Coffee
:y,^Tey. W
’ ith no fertilizer
Iris yield and quality were so low
th at he got a crop return o f only
$92.50 per acre. When he tried lOGO
lbs. of 6-4-0 fertilizer (no potash) he
did better for he got a return of $150
per acre. Hor.v-Ver, when he acided
10 So potash derived from sulfate of
potash to the ab ete inb-rture, his
yield and quality i.n y o v e d to such
an extent that he) g(
gi •:
t $191
fd
per a.
$6.00 worth of subi.ate of potash gave
him an extra return of' $4i.C0'’per
B y adding 10'', pota-:h frcni ,suliate
pot£
ite ooif potash,
Mr. J. S. Curtis of
Steuben Ci inty, N ew York, increased his ield o f Cigar Leaf to-
30^0''^i
pcta':h gave him :
c.tLra income of $60.0u per acre. '
Cu’fate of potash makes tobacco
with a longer burn and better aroma
and these are tfie qualities that
command higher prices. Wherever
jre is a possibility
possi'
there
o f sand drown,
u should use
us sulfate of' potash
iagnesia i hich is .a potash salt
ipecially ■
. lapted to combat this
The new edition o f “ B E T T E R
TOBACCO” explains ju st how
:e of potash should be u
used for ■
suits. You can
c
ity results.
secure a
)e copy by v.-riting for it now.
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