Altamont Enterprise Back in Time March 31, 1916

ALBANY BOY LOST LAST WEEK

Eight-Year-Old William Clark Missing Since Saturday --Police and Boy Scouts Searching Country In Vain.

A general alarm has been sent out by the police department of Albany for William Clark, aged eight years, who has been missing nearly a week. The boy lived with his uncle and aunt, Mr. And Mrs. John J. Shea, of 32 Eiebel Street, Albany.

Last Saturday morning the boy attended the motion picture show at the Leland theatre, accompanied by his brother, aged ten. The boys became separated afterward and William has not been seen since. The Albany police were notified and have searched the city and surrounding country without success. Tuesday the boy scouts of Albany were enlisted in the search, but no trace of the missing boy has been found.

It is believed by relatives that the child has either been mistaken for a son of wealthy people and kidnapped in hope of ransom, or has wandered to the outskirts of the city and died from exposure. The police recall a case about two years ago when a child disappeared and was returned a week later by a farmer who had picked him up outside of the city and taken him home, bringing him back on his next trip to the city.

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A NOTICE TO OUR PATRONS

On account of the recent advance in price of print paper and printing material during the past few months, advertising and job work will necessarily cost more from now on. Of all lines of business affected by recent advances in price, none has been more severely hit than the printing business.

Subscription rates to country weeklies, in many of the states, are being raised from $1.00 to $1.50 per year, which is not being objected to by the subscribers generally. It is not our intention to raise the price of subscription now, but we do ask that all subscribers make it a point to pay their subscriptions in advance. We particularly require those who are in arrears a year or more to respond to the call  made to them about December 1, 1915. Beginning April 1, we will again call for payment upon all those who are on the delinquent list and ask them to pay up the amount due.

--THE ALTAMONT ENTERPRISE

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PRIMARIES TUESDAY.

Don’t forget the Primary Election next Tuesday, April 4th.

LET”S DO IT.

We suppose that by this time the crop of resolutions planted on January 1st, 1916,  may be considered a total failure. Well, let’s forget it. We can start all over again. Let us make a new resolution, here and now. Let us all really determine to work for the good of our town this year. And let us use a little of the New Thought in connection with it. They tell us that it is a fine plan, when one wants to really keep a good resolution, to repeat ten times a day the formula, “I am going to do so-and-so.” They claim it impresses one with the spirit of determination. And they say that a safeguard against backsliding may be taken by going to the five persons for whose high regard we care the most and telling those persons, not in a boastful spirit, but as a matter of fact, just what we intend doing. Then we feel that we must do the thing or fall very low in the estimation of our best friends.
If about ten or twelve of us would make that experiment we might be able in the course of a short time to warm things in this town up to the boiling point. Anyhow, we never will get anywhere unless we hustle, and the principal thing needed is a start. Let us try this: “I resolve to put my shoulder to the wheel for Altamont; to boost it every time I get a chance, and to be in the vanguard for progress and prosperity.”