ALTAMONT HIGH SCHOOL NOTES 

— School opened Wednesday after a vacation much enjoyed by teachers and students. 

— The basketball game scheduled for last Friday night at Middleburgh was postponed. Our boys made a brave attempt to keep the date, but were forced to return after meeting up with some of those Knox snow drifts. The game will be played at a later date. 

— Friday night, Jan. 11th, the girls’ team will make their first appearance on the home court, when they will meet the Schoharie High school girls. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— The ice house on the Tracey estate was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Charles Vinehout, Jr., had been using the ice house for smoking hams. A number of the village people tried to extinguish the fire with snow, but were unsuccessful. 

— The county tractor and snow plow located here for the purpose of opening the highways hereabouts this winter, had a tryout on Thursday. It was driven over the state road up the Altamont hill as far as Claude Weaver’s and worked through a stretch of snow about three feet 

deep for perhaps two hundred feet with perfect satisfaction. 

— Robert Verch fell on the ice New Year’s Day and sustained a slight fracture of the skull. Dr. A. I. Cullen was called to attend. 

UNION CHURCH 

Anthony Pangburn, who was recently injured when his car ran into a telephone pole, is recovering slowly. 

BERNE 

— The village stores will be closed on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 6 o’clock for the remainder of the winter. 

— Earl Mattice, who has been spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Mattice, has returned to West Point from which he expects to graduate in June as a Lieutenant. 

— Almerine Deitz who has been at the old man’s home for several weeks seems to like the place for he is contented and happy. 

SLINGERLANDS 

William Degenaar awoke about 5:30 o’clock Wednesday morning to find his bungalow filled with smoke and upon a hurried investigation discovered the attic in flames. He awakened his wife and daughters, Doris, five, and Catherine, ten. Little Doris awakened Harvey A. Brown and family and several other neighbors were quickly summoned. Hose was stretched from the new bungalow which Mr. Degenaar has under construction and another hose from the burning bungalow was put into use. The neighbors fought the flames vigorously up until about 9 o’clock before they were entirely extinguished. Nearly all the best furniture, which was stored in the attic, was destroyed. The loss is partly covered by insurance. The fire fighters were considerably handicapped by the severe cold, the thermometer registering six below zero. Chas. Fowler, while hurrying to the fire, ran into a wire clothes line and was thrown on an icy walk, breaking off six of his teeth. Had it not been for the timely discovery of the fire the entire family would have lost their lives. 

CLARKSVILLE 

— Our New Year resolution for 1924. Electric lights for Clarksville. Let’s talk it, agitate it, work for it and make it possible. 

— People in rural districts please note: It is unlawful to deposit ashes in public thoroughfares.