ITEMS OF INTEREST

Newsy Notes Gathered From All Parts of the Empire State Telling What Others Are Talking About

William Lee, of Indian Orchard, Mass., has started a “worm” farm to supply bait for anglers. The worms are fed on soap suds, sugar, and bread crumbs.

For the fourth time Fort Plain residents have voted down a proposition to build a new and much needed school house. After the vote was declared this time, the entire board of education resigned.

Village Notes

The “racket” Tuesday night was not “The Boys of `76” come to life again. It was simply a number of our spirited young men out with an array of drums and other noise-making instruments, celebrating the outcome of our village election.

The real progress of Altamont as a village depends upon the individuals who make up the village population. These individuals must give their best efforts at all times to the solution of our village problems if real progress is made. Let us have both individual and team work.

Junius D. Carr, while planing a hemlock board recently, came upon an old-fashioned army bullet, such as was used in the guns of the Revolutionary War, embedded in the wood. This bullet was probably shot into the tree by a hunter several years ago, as the tree showed about 12 inches of growth since the missile had entered.

Dominick Domio, a native of Italy, died last week at his home, about a mile above this village. The circumstances surrounding his life before he moved here a short time ago and since he has been here are ascribed as the cause of his death. Mr. Domio was a former resident of New York City, and while there was threatened several times by the Black Hand Society. When he moved here he thought himself beyond their reach, but was surprised when the letters continued to arrive. Worry over these letters is given as the cause of his death.

Robert Stadtler received a painful injury the past week. Mr. Stadtler was coming down the hill through the woods back of the home of Willard Ogsbury when he slipped on some ice and fell, striking the ground with his hand under his body. This all happened on election day. Some say “Bob” was afraid he would not get his vote in on time and was hurrying, but others are inclined to lay it to natural causes.

Women to the Front

Shortage of medical men resulting from the war is giving women doctors the best opportunities they have ever had to obtain important posts on hospital staffs in England. Many hospitals whose doors have been closed to women are offering them places. A number of institutions have even asked women doctors to become resident physicians. Public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women both as assistant medical officers and as school doctors. Since the beginning of hostilities women have obtained posts at such institutions as the London Hospital, Samaritan Free Hospital, and at the London Temperance Hospital.