ROCK TUMBLES OFF HIGH POINT 

The large rock known as “Balanced Rock,” which for more than a century lay only a few feet below High Point, at an elevation of nearly a thousand feet above the village, became loosened by the continued frosts of winter and the recent wet weather, and took an unexpected tumble last Saturday afternoon. A large fragment of the rock plowed a path down the mountain side over 400 feet long, lodging less than 100 feet west of the McNamara cottage. 

No one was in that locality when the rock fell, but from appearances it made mighty strides going down. Only a few days before it fell, a party of young men camped near the rock and a few of the boys stood on its top. 

Altamont High School Notes 

Last Saturday, Prof. Bacon, Karl Sand, Howard Goff, James Cullewn, Leo Westfall, Stanley Barton, Frank Wood and Donald Baird attended the intercollegiate track meet at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before witnessing the various stunts, the bunch visited the different laboratories, which are claimed to be among the best of the larger colleges. Following the track meet, a tug-of-war was held, the contestants being the freshmen and the sophomores of R. P. I. The freshmen used all of their strength and as a result the Sophs were gradually pulled through a steady stream of water. In spite of the “dousing” they showed what real school spirit had done for them. 

Among some of the places visited was the dining hall, where we all had dinner. The gymnasium also claimed our attention. As we went through the gym, we could not help thinking more than ever that the great need of our A. H. S. is a well equipped gymnasium. 

SOLDIERS BONUS BILL 

VETOED BY PRESIDENT
President Coolidge yesterday vetoed the Soldier Bonus Bill, accompanying the same with a lengthy memoranda giving an exposition of the question that is worthwhile reading as the position taken by the President is founded on principle and patriotism. 

He speaks of patriotism as a thing that cannot be bought and sold. “The bonus idea,” he says, “is wrong in principle as it is in economic theory.” 

Aside from these reasons the great financial burden that the bonus bill would place on all the people for the benefit of a class of our citizens is poor business and would put the finances of the country back after the five year struggle that has been made to lessen the tax burden of the country. 

KU KLUX KLAN VISITS CHURCH
AT QUIET QUAKER STREET
There was quite a large audience at the Quaker Street Christian church last Sunday evening, and as attendance has been small many wondered at the numbers. Rev. R. W. Chestnut of Duanesburg was filling the pulpit for the evening and preached the sermon before stating that he had had a letter from the Ku Klux Klan asking permission to speak to the congregation. This explained in a measure the unusual attendance, and showed that the word was passed about the community of the expected visit. Following the church service six Klansmen in regalia held a commanding show for a half hour on the objects, oath, and membership of the organization. 

Circulars were distributed but no effort was made to secure members.

A meeting had been held in the village on a previous evening which we understand was attended by a company of half a hundred who listened to a speaker known as the “Human Dynamo.”