CEDAR GROVE
On Saturday afternoon a bolt of lightning struck and burned the large barn and outbuildings on the farm of William Lamoreaux in which there were three calves and nearly all his machinery. 

SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC
HELD AT SCHENECTADY
The “brown derby,” had there been such a prize offered to the first Altamont boy to take to the water in Central park lake, would have been given without dispute to Raymond Brunk and Alton Teter, members of the Reformed Sunday school. Quite unexpectedly these youths took a watery plunge less than half an hour after they reached the park, when a canoe they were paddling about overturned as they were rounding an end of the lake. It would have been better had they donned bathing suits before they got into the canoe. As it was, both were dressed in their best clothes and by force of circumstance they had to remain in bathing suits for a greater part of the day while their other clothes were hung up to dry. As the water was shallow neither boy was endangered. They merely got “all wet.” 

DELANSON 

— The writer recently learned that there is a silver fox farm in existence in the town of Duanesburgh. They are very valuable fur bearing animals. 

— Mr. Harding of New York City was in town very recently looking after the interests of Mrs. Alfred Duane Pell in regard to the land rent. These rents were assumed by the settlers of Duanesburgh as early as 1786 when the Duane Patent was granted. Mr. Pell recently died and his widow is anxious to close up this business as all the farmers who have this rent on their land are anxious to be released from this agreement which dates from such an early date. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— The D. & H.company is making some needed improvements at the railroad crossing here. This week carpenters have laid a new plank walk across the tracks, and are now engaged in tearing away the old wooden platform at the station. We understand a more substantial and costly platform will take the place of the old one. 

— The ladies of the Lutheran church will begin work on quilts and comfortables in the church basement on Thursday afternoon, July 9th. These meetings will be held every Thursday afternoon during the summer, except the first Thursday of each month. An invitation is extended to all the ladies of the congregation to help. 

— An alarm of fire was run at 10:30 this morning, but the fire was extinguished before the apparatus started out. A slight fire was discovered in the shingle roof of one of the sheds of the Altamont hotel, which must have caught from a nearby bonfire. 

DELMAR TO HAVE SAFE 

AND SANE FOURTH
The new Delmar Athletic association has planned a detailed program for Independence Day. The sports will begin at 10 a.m. with a 30-yard dash for boys 12 years and under, then a 50-yard dash for boys 12 years under, and one for girls 15 years and under. After this will be a three-legged race for any who care to participate, a 100-yard dash, also open, and a running broad jump. There will be a block race for girls only; a relay race for either girls or boys. The last is a shot-put for any who care to try. In the afternoon at 1:30 there will be a junior baseball game.