Altamont Enterprise April 11, 1924

 

RESULTS OF THE HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN IN ALTAMONT
At the closing dinner of the Albany Hospital Campaign held at Odd Fellows Hall April 3rd, it was discovered that the sum of $700,000, which had been the goal of the campaign, had been more than oversubscribed. Thus ended one of the greatest welfare drives ever staged in Albany. The people of Altamont have reason to feel very much pleased at the result obtained locally.

 

MOVIES ON HEALTH SUBJECTS SHOWN HERE
A new four-reel motion picture entitled “Clean Herds and Hearts” is being used by the Farm Bureau to crystalize public opinion into action looking toward the beginning of eradication of bovine tuberculosis in Albany county under the accredited herd plan. 

 

“TWELVE OLD MAIDS” A GREAT SUCCESS

The entertainment, “Twelve Old Maids,” given by the young ladies of the Christian Endeavor society in the New Scotland Presbyterian church on Friday night of last week was a delightful affair and enjoyed by a large audience.

 

DUANESBURGH 

We are glad to see the Wilbur family out again after being under quarantine a long time for scarlet fever.

 

BERNE 

Superintendent Ira Saddlemire has a gang of men opening the roads for wagons. The sun doesn’t seem to help as much as usual for this time of year.

 

VILLAGE NOTES 

A meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Jesse Crounse Tuesday afternoon to select a list of new books for the Altamont Free library.

 

CLARKSVILLE

— We are glad to hear that Dr. Brown and Florence Shultes, who are at the Albany hospital, are on the road to Wellville.

— The town of San Jose, Costa Rica where Miss Pruitt is working as a missionary, has been violently shaken by earth quake. The greater per cent of the houses have been wrecked. Miss Pruitt at present is living out of doors. Letters from any of her friends here would be greatly appreciated.

— Attention! Bring your pails to Wright’s store on Saturday afternoon, April 12th, at four o’clock, for some of the delicious clam chowder which the Ladies of the Reformed church will have on sale at that time. Get some to take home for supper, 40 cents per quart.

— On Friday evening, April 25th, the members of the congregation of the Reformed church will hold an experience social in the church parlors. Each person is requested to earn one dollar, bring it at that time and tell how he or she earned it.

 

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IS EFFECTIVE APRIL 27
Thirty-six cities in the state with a total population of 7,133,449, or about seven-tenths of the state’s population, on Sunday, April 27, will turn ahead their clocks one hour. Rural communities along the highways that connect these cities will not be unanimous in their adoption of the daylight saving schedule, with the result that motorists will have to keep their watches in their hands to keep up with the changing of time.

In this section of the state, all cities but Schenectady will have daylight saving time.

 

FILING OBJECTIONS

Presidential booms are plenty,

I have counted more than twenty.

May I not in this connection

File here and now my objection?
 

I was wont to root for Teddy,

Chip on shoulder, ever ready,

But with years I’ve grown more steady.
 

Now-a-days I do not glory

Much in Bull Moose oratory;

Candidates have grown linguistic;

One pours speeches characteristic

Of a mountain in eruption

Belching fire, gas, mud, corruption.

Damning Bok and Eke the Asian,

Bellowing like the bull of Bashan,

Cracking all our tubes eustachian.
 

Indirectly I’m deploring

Big Hi Johnson the hell-roaring,

Like Vesuvius mud-pouring

Or Stromboli, snorting, snoring.
 

— W.W. Christman

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