AMERICAN LEGION TO HAVE 

POPPY SALE THIS YEAR 

Edward E. Spafford, state commander of the American Legion has announced that the annual sale of the Veterans’ Mountain Camp of the American Legion at Tupper Lake, N. Y., will be conducted by every post and Woman’s Auxiliary in the state on or just before Memorial Day. The poppy is the Legion’s national flower and was suggested by the famous poem of Lieutenant Colonel John McGrae, “In Flanders Fields.” 

COUNTY HEALTH NURSES
DO EXCELLENT WORK
Evidence of the splendid service to the people of the rural districts of Albany County by Miss Mary Harmon and Miss Marguerite Brown, county nurses, is gradually demonstrating the value of preventive health measures. 

Some sense of the ground covered may be had from the fact that outside of the cities of Albany County there are 113 schools. All of these schools are visited in the course of the year by two nurses, and this work is in addition to home visits, organizing of town and village health clubs and assisting the county agencies engaged in welfare work. Since this service was organized these nurses have found among the school children 3,089 defects. 

One specific case cared for strikingly illustrates the splendid work. In the course of her visits throughout the county, Miss Harmon found a young man who would be an invalid for life had she not given him service. Through her efforts she secured his admission to an institution in the state devoted to bringing such cases as his back to normal health. She arranged for his transportation and accompanied him on the journey, giving him the benefit of her trained service. It is confidently expected that as a result of this excellent constructive work this man will be returned to his family, able within a few months to again take up his full family responsibilities. 

CHILDREN’S WEEK
OBSERVANCE 

Automobiles to the number of five hundred were on parade at Albany Saturday afternoon, May 3rd, participating in a Children’s Week demonstration by the Sunday schools of the city and county. The procession passed through many of the residential streets of the capital city, ending at the capitol building, where a half hour of song was enjoyed, the little children being massed on the eastern staircase and led by O. L. Davis.

DELANSON
Surveyors are at work on the road that is about to be built from here to the Western Turnpike. It is to be concrete. Much of the road machinery is here on cars waiting to be unloaded. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— Sunday, May 18th will be observed as Thread Day by members of the Lutheran Bible school. Each member will bring one or more spools of thread to be sent to the lace workers of India, this being the principal method of support for the women of India. The numbers desired are 50 to 100 (white). 

— This has been Clean-up Week in Altamont. Thursday morning was the time designated when the street commissioner would call for all rubbish that might be gathered together for removal. That Altamont improved the opportunity was evidenced that morning by the array that greeted one’s eye up and down our streets, but it soon vanished and now the village looks spic and span under the spring time rain that has been falling for two days.