Commission Orders Trains
Continued by D. & H. 

The Public Service Commission has issued an order requiring the D. & H. to continue in operation two commutation trains morning and evening between Albany and Altamont. 

It will be remembered that the D. & H. planned to discontinue one commutation train each way daily and that the commuters of Altamont, Voorheesville, Delmar and Elsmere took up the matter and presented their case to the public service commission, through their attorneys. 

The D. & H. agreed to run the trains as per schedule until a decision should be reached. The commission made known its findings last Friday and the trains will continue to run. 

The commission’s order was accompanied by a memoranda reviewing the evidence given at the hearing and from which the commission drew the following conclusions: 

“That the communities which this service reaches have been built up and are in a large measure depending upon it. 

“That the bus service now available as well as that possible does not necessarily justify a conclusion that steam railroad service is unnecessary or may be severely curtailed. 

“That while the cost of rendering steam railroad commuter service may be in excess of the revenue received, the difference is not necessarily great enough to warrant the curtailment of service.

“That a service consisting of one inbound and one outbound train in commuting hours is not adequate to meet the present demand.” 

DELANSON 

— Dimont Rector has turned what used to be a shed for horses in the rear of the post office into a three stall garage. Frank Wilber did the carpenter work. 

— Floyd Barton is putting in a Texaco gasoline filling station at his garage at the head of Main street. 

NEW SCOTLAND 

Clayton Brownell has sold his farm on the Clipp road and has accepted a position with the Standard Oil Company of California. They expect to make the trip by auto and will start in a short time. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— Mrs. Lewis Tower had the misfortune to slip on a linoleum rug in her home last week, and broke two bones in her wrist. 

— The bright lights of Teeling’s ice cream parlor on Main street attracted a visitor Wednesday evening that had lost his way. Mr. Teeling heard something strike his window and upon investigation discovered a most curious insect about four inches long, with large wings of grayish green, a large flat head from which reached out two long antennae and two curved bony claws that crossed each other like a pair of tweezers. Curious to know where and to what this strange visitor belongs, we looked up his family name and record and have entered it on the police docket in case he is wanted in his home town. The family name is “Plecoptera,” and he lives on the rocks near the streams where fruit or salmon abound. Mr. Teelingi has this strange bug on exhibition. 

— Lloyd C. Van Benscoten of Altamont has a fine oil painting of the Indian Ladder region on exhibition in one of the windows of Annesley’s Art shop, Albany.