MERLIN L. OGSBURY

Passed Away Tuesday Night at the Home of His Parents—Was 24 Years Old—Funeral Friday Afternoon.

A sad and, to our seeing, most untimely death, is that of Merlin Leslie Ogsbury, of our village, who succumbed to acute laryngitis on Tuesday night. He was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ogsbury and was in his 24th year. All that Christian home influence can bequeath to a child, and all that the schools may do to sharpen and broaden the intellect, were Merlin’s. His future as a felt force, was bristling with promiseful achievement. His parents, four brothers, sister and young widow have the sympathies of all in their sudden, inexplicable loss.

Mr. Ogsbury graduated from the Altamont High School in the class of 1911 and entered Union College in the fall of 1912. In the early part of the Freshman year he joined the Phi Delta Theta Greek letter fraternity. He was an all-around student, but excelled in mathematics. During the following winter he was obliged to leave college because of poor health.

In January, 1914, he went into partnership with his father in editing and publishing the Altamont Enterprise. He married Miss Helen F. Parker of Voorheesville June 17, 1914. Thus happily surrounded, keen was his desire to live, but he resigned his all uncomplainingly to the All Father.

His funeral will be held this Friday afternoon at the home of his parents, Rev. George W. Furbeck, pastor of the Altamont Reformed Church, of which the deceased was a member, officiating, assisted by Rev. S. M. Adsitof the Presbyterian Church of Voorheesville, Mrs. Ogsbury’s pastor. Interment in the family plot at Fairview cemetery.

Do not Tennyson’s words, touching the death of Arthur Hallin, his young friend, "In Memoriam,” express our sentiments?

“I wage not any feud with death,

For changes wrought on form and face;

No lower life that earth’s embrace

May breed with him, can fright my faith.

Nor blame I death, because he bare

The use of virtue out of earth;

I know transplanted human worth

Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.”

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HELDERBERG HALL AT SUMMER CAMP TO BE DEDICATED.

The Helderbergs have often been called the summer resort of the valley cities. To the 1,200 girls who come to Altamont Camp each summer the Helderbergs mean new physical strength, many new friends and a fresh, encouraged desire to go back to their homes and work, to live strong and to give service.

Through the past years the camp has grown steadily in its equipment and its capacity for making larger numbers of girls comfortable and happy. Until this summer there was the great need for a gathering place large enough to accommodate all the girls and the camp neighbors and friends at the evening prayer gatherings and the Sunday vesper service. Rev. J. V. Moldenhawer, of Albany, who taught a Bible class last summer at the camp, was one of the friends quick to see this need, and he presented it to the members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Albany, with the result that a beautiful new building, called “Helderberg Hall” now stands on the crest of the camp hill as a centennial memorial of this church, erected to the service of young women.

On Saturday, June 26, from 5 to 6 p.m., a dedication service will be held. Mr. Moldenhawer will be in charge. All the people of the village of Altamont are most cordially invited to be present. Supper will be served to any friends wishing to stay. A camp fire will be held in the evening, and the camp girls will entertain the guests with camp songs and cheers.