SLINGERLANDS HOTEL DECLARED A NUISANCE 

The Home Lawn hotel at Slingerlands, of which Albert Kientz, now serving a sentence of 60 days in the Albany county jail for violation of the prohibition law, is proprietor, was ordered closed for one year in a judgment given Thursday by Federal Judge Cooper. The action against Kientz was brought by U.S. District Attorney Todd. 

After Dr. Pearsons was killed by an automobile in which a man and woman, believed to have been drinking in Kientz’s place were joy riding, nearly all the residents of Slingerlands held a mass meeting, declared the hotel a public nuisance and demanded that it be closed. 

Judge Cooper decreed that the place not only must not be used as a hotel or saloon by anyone for one year from to-day, but enjoined Kientz from ever again using it for a hotel or saloon in which intoxicants are sold. He permits the building to be used as a private residence only. Since Kientz has been in jail, his wife has been running the hotel. Instructions to see that the judgment was put into force immediately were issued. 

The news that the hotel can not be reopened by anyone for one year will create rejoicing in Slingerlands. When the mass meeting was called by the Rev. H. E. J. Rickards, pastor of the Slingerlands Methodist church, he received an anonymous letter in which threats were made that he would be killed if he persisted in holding the meeting. 

For two years or more the Home Lawn hotel has been obnoxious to the respectable residents of Slingerlands, and it is said many a joy riding party became drunk there. 

Judge Cooper ordered that “all the intoxicating liquor now on said premises be destroyed, and that no intoxicating liquor be manufactured, sold, bartered or stored there; that “said premises shall not be occupied or used for the space of one year after the date of this judgement for other than the purposes of a private dwelling; and that the defendant be perpetually enjoined and restrained from conducting or permitting the continuance of said public nuisance upon the said premises.” 

Americans Greatest Users of Telephone 

The extent to which the people use the telephone, as measured by the number of calls per person during the year, is a reliable index of the telephone development of a country. For the United States the average number of calls made during 1920 per person was 172. Of all the European countries, Denmark comes first with 130 talks per person. For Germany the number is 58, for Switzerland 39, for Great Britain 19, for France, 13, and for Belgium 10. 

BERNE

— Retha Wolford, daughter of Charles Wolford, has scarlet fever. She and her mother are quarantined in. Mr. Wolford is staying with his sister, Mrs. Warren Wood. 

— While James Bailey was attempting to lead a yearling bull to the stable on Tuesday night, the animal became furious and picking Mr. Bailey up, carried him about 30 feet when he escaped with only a few bruises and a severe nose bleed. 

CALLANAN’S CORNERS 

George Wisenburn Sr. has a new Fordson tractor. 

VOORHEESVILLE

A Paige touring car, evidently abandoned, and thought to have been stolen, was seen burning late Friday night on the state highway between Voorheesville and New Salem. The authorities were notified. The owner of the car is not known.