PENNED NOTE TO SAY
“YOU WILL FIND ME DEAD” 

Chester Gordon, aged about 59, farmer, residing about midway between Sloansville and Carlisle, one half mile north of the state highway, ended his life Saturday by hanging himself in a barn at the homestead farm.
Discouragements and troubles, it is thought, brought about a condition of mind which caused the rash act. 

A note left under a plate at the dining room table said, “You will find me dead.” 

He was alone at the farm in the afternoon, his brother, who lived with him, having gone to a funeral. His son, married only a few days ago, was away on a wedding trip. Both the brother and son returned to the home late Saturday afternoon. Search was begun after the tragic note was found. 

It did not take long to prove the truth of the fated note found on a table in the home. The dead man had drawn the curtain on his life. 

The coroner’s statement of cause of death was “suicide.”
Funeral services will be held today, and burial will be made in Rural cemetery at Carlisle. 

Richmond Gordon, father of the dead man, died suddenly in a Gloversville street two years ago, and it will be remembered that his resemblance to a Gloversville man whose absence from home was unexplained caused the body of the Carlisle farmer to be claimed and prepared for burial by strangers. The mistake was discovered just before the time set for the funeral, when the supposed dead man reported alive and well at a farmstead several miles from home. 

SPELLING BEE CONTEST
On Friday, May 15th at 1:30 p.m., a Spelling Bee contest will be held at the Altamont High school. All teachers of rural schools in this community are urged to select one or two contestants for this preliminary to the County Spelling contest. —Lester F. Bacon, Principal. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

The annual school meeting of the Altamont School district was held at the High School building on Tuesday evening. Edwin J. Plank, who has served on the board as president, was induced to accept a renomination and was reelected for another term. The estimated budget prepared by the Board for consideration was adopted. It covers an expense of $15,955, with estimated receipts of $6,000, leaving necessary to raise by tax $9,955 for the new school year. 

DELMAR
A number of the Delmar ladies are making the necessary survey of the town to ascertain the opinion of the residents as to whether they will or will not use gas were it to be brought to Delmar. 

MAN HELD FOR THEFT OF AUTO 

Edward Johnson, thirty-one of Yonkers, who had been employed by the Holy Names academy on the sisters’ farm on New Scotland road, was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of having stolen the car which the sisters used about the farm. 

According to the academy authorities, Johnson had been discharged Monday because he had taken the automobile out Sunday night without permission. According to the police, Johnson returned to the farm Tuesday night and took the car again. He was traced to Albany where he was arrested. Johnson was turned over to state troopers Wednesday morning and taken to Slingerlands where he was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Albert M. Reynolds. He offered no defense, and was remanded to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury.