New State Highway Proposed to Connect Altamont and Voorheesville. 

Plans have been prepared by the state highway department for a new state road connecting Altamont and Voorheesville. The plans will be presented to the Albany county board of supervisors at the next session of the board which will convene next winter. If the supervisors approve the plan the necessary right of way will be purchased and the work of construction will begin sometime during 1920. 

The proposed road will begin at the intersection of Helderberg avenue and proceed south over Prospect street, past E. G. Crannell’s lumber yard, and thence in a southerly direction to the highway at Leonard C. Crounse’s farm. From there it will follow the Indian Ladder road through to Voorheesville. 

LIBRARY AT VOORHEESVILLE CLOSES ITS FOURTH YEAR 

The Voorheesville Free library has closed its fourth year, and the residents of the village have just reason for pride in the institution. 

During the four years 1,437 volumes have been purchased and donated, and 406 borrowers listed. The library is open four hours Saturday and one hour Wednesday evening. The average number of books loaned weekly is 87. 

VILLAGE NOTES. 

— Joe Gaglioti, the barber, has a new assistant in the form of a little “shaver.” It’s a boy and arrived Wednesday morning. 

— The jars from the Loysville Orphan home have arrived. Any one desiring to fill one or more jars with fruit, vegetables, jam or pickles will find the jars at the Lutheran church hall. Kindly sign name and number of jars taken. 

BERNE. 

— We are sorry to hear that Mrs. James Bailey is at present under the doctor’s care with a nervous breakdown. All hope for a speedy recovery. 

SLINGERLANDS. 

— An automobile driven by Floyd Brunk of Voorheesville caught fire while in this village Monday. The flames were quickly extinguished, however, before much damage was done. 

— Dr. D. C. Case of this village, who was run down by an automobile at New Scotland, where he had gone to attend a patient on June 29th, from which he sustained fractures in both legs and a dislocated knee, was brought home Tuesday from the Albany hospital. His many friends will be pleased to learn that the doctor is improving rapidly.