George H. Quay Dead

Well Known Rensselaerite Stricken While Addressing State Teachers College Alumni Association at Albany — Former Resident of Knox.

Prof. George H. Quay of 1443 Broadway, Rensselaer, suffered a stroke of apoplexy, while addressing the Alumni association of the State College for Teachers at its annual meeting Saturday afternoon, and died a few minutes later.

Professor Quay, who was celebrating his fiftieth anniversary as a graduate of the school, had been called upon to make an address. He was in the midst of his talk when he threw up his hands, it was thought in a gesture, and fell backward in a faint. Several persons who were seated on the stage ran to his assistance, but he never recovered. He had just finished reciting a poem and started to tell about a friend saying to him ten years ago he was too old to teach. An ambulance from the Albany hospital was called but Quay was dead before it arrived and the body was turned over to Tebbutt & Palmer, undertakers.
 

THOMPSON’S LAKE.

Some one evidently needed a pump, an ax, and a clothes line, as those items are missing from the Hungerford home.
 

STATE ROAD SOUTH BERNE.

Rev. C. E. Lewis has opened a grocery store in town.
 

GOOD WORK DONE BY FARM BUREAU.

The following is a summary of the work of the Albany County Farm Bureau to June 1:

“Get Acquainted” meetings—23, attendance 727; pruning demonstrations—17, attendance 255; oat smut demonstration meetings—19, attendance 219; lime meetings—4, attendance 83; farmers visited—79; letters written—586; office calls at headquarter —152; circular letters written—356.

Aside from the work recorded above, the manager, H. E. Crouch, has given aid to farmers indirectly by inducing seedmen to handle seeds that are best adapted to this county. There is a great deal of room for improvement along this line. A large percentage of the seed corn offered for sale in this county is no better than one would expect to get if he were buying corn in car lots for feed. He failed to find a seed dealer in the county who knew exactly where his alfalfa seed came from. Most of the men interviewed were glad to know the importance of getting a northern grown seed and will handle it in the future. One firm put in an order to some at once. This state of the market, of course, is due in part to a demand for cheap seed. As a matter of fact, cheap seed is the most expensive in the end.
 

VILLAGE NOTES.

— The pupils of the third and fourth grades of our school have certainly kept up to the standard in their work during the past year, some excelling in one thing and others in another. Special mention should be made of the spelling record of Louise Lainhart, who has not missed a word throughout the year.