POTATOES HAVE SHOW 

ALL TO THEMSELVES 

Potatoes of all kinds and from backyard gardeners and hundred-acre growers will strive for honors in a unique potato show which will be held in connection with Farmers’ Week at Cornell, the dates for which are Feb. 12-17. 

No matter whether a man is a commercial grower or uses a six by eight patch to get a few spuds for his own use, he can send in specimens of his best ones for the Farmers’ Week show. A twelve-tuber sample of each variety submitted is asked. 

WEST TOWNSHIP 

Marvin Truax had the good fortune to shoot another red fox last week. 

CLARKSVILLE 

Mrs. Baltis Van Alstyne expects to return home as soon as an auto can come over the roads. She has been in the city for a few weeks under the care of a physician. 

SOUTH BERNE 

Much praise is due our mail carrier as he only missed two days during the recent heavy snows and bad roads. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— From four to six inches more snow was added to our already good supply by Wednesday’s storm. Wind followed with the clearing sky, and Thursday saw some heavy drifting. Thursday night there was another drop in temperature to nearly zero, under a clear moonlit sky and sparkling stars. Today it looks like another snow. 

— The sale in foreclosure, Adam C. Passage, plaintiff, vs. Emily Swan, defendant, was held at Hotel Altamont on Tuesday afternoon. The property in question is the farm formerly owned by George B. Passage, and consists of about 70 acres of land on Settle’s Hill. A. C. Passage had a claim of nearly $1,500, and bought the property for $730. 

— We are informed that Joseph Torlish has purchased the property on Main street adjoining the railroad formerly owned by J. F. Mynderse, and sold to him by Peter Long last year. The price is said to be in the neighborhood of $7,000. The building is now occupied by the Schaffer store, Mrs. A. Secor’s new room and restaurant, and Matthew Tice’s barber shop. 

WELL KNOWN BETHLEHEM
RESIDENT PASSES AWAY
This community was shocked and saddened on Friday when the angel of death hovered over Bethlehem and took from our midst one of our most esteemed residents, John S. Hotaling, aged 67 years, a well known farmer of this place. 

Mr. Hotaling seemed in his usual health when he left his home on Friday accompanied by a son, William J. Hotaling and a daughter, Mrs. Seward Miner. After driving a short distance from his home, the sleigh in which they were driving overturned and they proceeded to right the sleigh, after which the father remarked, “Well, I guess that was too much of a lift for me!” and dropped dead. 

Delmar Boy Scout Notes 

Scoutmaster Kirk announced Clarence Ginder as winner of the bugling contest. Clarence deserves the title as he has worked hard since he first learned to blow the bugle. Don’t stop with the troop bugler championship, but we want to see you the council bugler also. Ginder learned to play the bugle only a year ago.