WOMEN OF COUNTY MAY ENROLL UP TO JUNE 15

Women of this village and all the towns in Albany county may enroll by affidavit up to Saturday, June 15. Many have already taken advantage of the opportunity of exercising one of the highest privileges of American citizenship and all thoughtful, earnest women in this vicinity will do so at the earliest possible time.

Women are not subject to the slightest embarrassment when enrolling. Inspectors will only require name, residence and age, and an elector over thirty years old may state such age as “over 30.”

SCHOOL MEETING HELD

Regular school district meetings were held over the entire state Tuesday evening. The repeal of the township school law by the enactment of the Martin law, which was recently signed by Governor Whitman, again gives the management of the schools into the hands of each school district, as formerly.

Five trustees were elected at a meeting of school district No. 7 at the High school in Altamont on Tuesday evening, and are as follows: For one year, Charles P. Blessing; for two years, Mrs. E. G. Blessing and Mrs. E. D. Gardner; for three years, Walter Severson and Earl Barkhuff.

Mr. Severson was a member of the Board of Education of the town of Guilderland and is well informed as to the work of the board. Additional interest is created by the election of Mrs. Blessing and Mrs. Gardner as trustees. Both are well qualified for such work. This will be the first time in the history of school work here, that women have had a voice in the management of school matters.

14,000 IN JUNE DRAFT

Fourteen thousand men from New York state will be summoned to entrain in the five day period beginning June 24 for training in the National army. The call is the first since the contingent of more than 500 men left Albany county the last week in May, and, with the exception of that call, under which 32,330 draftees from this state entrained, is the largest in the history of the draft.

VILLAGE NOTES

A valuable cow belonging to James O. Stitt was stolen from his barn yard early Tuesday morning. Late the following evening the cow was found near the school house at Osborn’s Corners, having been milked dry and then turned loose to find her way home. Mr. Stitt was glad to recover the cow, not counting the loss of the milk.

REIDSVILLE

David Crawford has erected a temporary barn for his four horses since his barn and outbuildings were destroyed by lightning. He has the sympathy of the people of this community, as his loss was great. The house also caught fire, but the flames were extinguished with but little damage. Mr. Crawford lost pressed hay, oats, buckwheat and corn.