THOMPSON’S LAKE 

— Red Robins have been seen here. 

— The thermometer registered 4 degrees above zero on Tuesday morning at 6:30. 

BERNE 

— The first wagon made its appearance in Berne on Monday. 

— The euchre party in the Maccabee hall last week was well attended and much enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Jesse Jones won the ladies’ prize and Frank Hart the gentlemen’s prize. There were two booby prizes presented to the two winning the least number of games. 

Minstrels by Delanson 

Fire Department 

The date for the opening of the Delanson Fire house and Village hall has been set for May 3rd, when a supper will be served from 6 to 8 o’clock, followed by an old fashioned minstrel entertainment.
The members of the William H. Lynes Chemical company are practicing for the entertainment, which promises to be a real minstrel treat. We could not learn all who are in the chorus, but we did find out that William Foote is to be interlocutor, supported by Jacob Enders, William H. Lynes, James Hooley, Raymond Hagadorn, Wendell Wilber and Harold Shoudy, as end men. 

DORMANSVILLE

Our mail man came to Dormansville with a car Tuesday. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— Spring is here according to the almanac, arriving Wednesday morning at 10:29. Monday night was the roughest one on the winter calendar, with a high wind that must have come from the great northwest and which did not spend itself until it reached the Atlantic. Roads are being opened and all of us will soon be neighbors again. 

— Miss Mildred Ferris of Albany, a former resident of Altamont, has been chosen a representative of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad company, to compete in the “Good Will Election” against the candidates from the other divisions of the company, for the chance to go to France for six weeks this summer under the auspices of the American Committee for Devastated France. Miss Ferris is an employee in the offices of the accounting department. 

GUILDERLAND CENTER

The Albany bus came through at 4 o’clock on Wednesday, for the first time in many weeks. It was welcomed by the folks here.

WEST TOWNSHIP 

Nearly everyone has had the grip or a bad cold. 

NEW SCOTLAND 

Monday morning about thirty men turned out and opened the state road through New Scotland village and to the town line near Slingerlands. At noon a hot chicken dinner was served them in the Presbyterian church dining room. 

WEST BERNE 

At the recent meeting of the W. B. R. C. at the home of Mrs. S. Bellinger the feature of the evening was an entertainment ball. Each one whose name fell from the ball as it unwound continued the story that was begun by the chairman of the entertainment committee. The story grew and was very amusing.