HILL CLIMBING CONTEST 

AT ALTAMONT JULY 22 

A hill climbing contest for automobiles and motorcycles will be held at Altamont, July 22, under the auspices of the Albany Auto club, to which applications for entry will be made. Five cups will be offered as prizes. The classes will be: 

Motorcycles — One class open to all. 

Automobiles — Cars costing $700 and under; $700 to $1,200; $1,200 to $2,000; and open to all. 

The contest will start at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and the track will be policed by the state troopers. 

NEW SALEM 

Picking berries is the order of the day at this place. Many who have been huckleberrying on the hill have returned with full pails. 

ALBANY BOY SHOT
BY HIS COMPANION

David Fuller Crounse, 14, son of Mrs. Caroline P. Crounse and the late Major Fuller Crounse, of 31 Buchanan street, Albany, and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. David J. Crounse of Altamont, was accidentally shot and killed Sunday morning by his friend and playmate, Nelson Olendorf, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Olendorf of 28 McKinley street, Albany.
The incident occurred at the Olendorf cottage on the Susquehanna river near Ninevah, where the Olendorf family is spending the summer. The Crounse boy was there as a guest. An investigation was made by state troopers who reported the shooting accidental and exonerated Nelson Olendorf.
Members of the Olendorf family Sunday morning at 8 o’clock were packing preparatory to leaving for their home in Albany. Among the articles to be taken was a rifle. Nelson Olendorf picked up the gun and shouted playfully to his companion, Crounse, “Throw up your hands.” Olendorf pulled the trigger and to the surprise of both the gun went off. 

“I’m shot,” said the Crounse boy as he staggered into the cottage and sat on a chair. He lived but a few minutes. The bullet had penetrated the right side under the arm and entered the heart. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— Helderberg Chapter, 331, Order of the Eastern Star, will serve home made ice cream on the lawn of Mrs. Frank Lape, Saturday afternoon, July 15. The sale will begin at four o’clock, standard time, and continue until all cream has been sold. 

— Madison Warner is having a two weeks vacation from his duties with the Hudson Valley Paper Company at Albany. During his vacation he has picked sixteen bushels of cherries and did numerous other chores about his home. 

—  A number of the young people of Altamont’s summer colony went to Warner’s Lake for a swim Tuesday afternoon. Charles Townsend and the Misses Mary and Abby Cobb left about five o’clock for home. The Ford car which was driven by Charles Townsend was overturned in the ditch about half a mile from the lake and badly damaged. Charles had taken a hand from the wheel to brush fire from his clothing caused by a spark from a cigarette, and lost control of the steering wheel. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and a severe cut on one hand. The Misses Cobb were bruised, Miss Mary also having a badly cut lip. Franklin Townsend, brother of Charles, coming along later, discovered the trio and took them to a physician. The car was towed to Makely’s garage after considerable work in getting it out of the ditch.