VILLAGE NOTES.

— A small band of gypsies is in camp on the cross road north of the village. Instead of going about in the old style manner — horses and fancy wagons and a retinue of camp followers — these people have an up-to-date automobile and seem quite civilized.

FREIGHT CAR CATCHES FIRE.

Box Car With Empty Oil Barrels on D. & H. Train in Flames — Fire Department Called Out.

Residents of Altamont were aroused from their slumbers at 4:45 o’clock Monday morning by an alarm of fire. The blaze was in a box car of a freight which was passing through the village. The car was loaded with empty oil barrels. The train was a through freight for Albany. On arriving here flames were discovered coming out of the top of the car. Altamont Hose company No. 1, was soon “on the job,” and had the blaze under subjection in short order.

The damage was confined to the car and its contents. Later the car was taken to Albany by the way freight.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE AT BERNE SATURDAY EVENING

Mrs. Edward Deevey of Albany Will Talk on “What Women Are Doing in War Service,” at the Reformed Church Hall.

In an illustrated lecture to be given in the Reformed church hall in Berne at 8 o’clock to-morrow evening, Mrs. Edward Deevey of Albany will tell of “What Women are Doing in War Service.”

One of the principal war services in which women are engaging in this country are the campaigns for food conservation. The campaign for signatures for the Hoover pledge is being very largely fostered by women and particularly by suffragists. The New York State Woman Suffrage party is taking a very active and important part in the campaign for signatures.

Among the suggestions which are being made by the United States food administration are the following: Save the wheat, have one wheatless meal a day. Use corn, oatmeal, rye or barley bread and non-wheat breakfast foods. Save the meat, beef, mutton or pork not more than once daily. Use freely vegetables and fish. At the meat meal serve smaller portions, and stews instead of steaks. Eat no young meat. Save the milk, use every drop. Use butter milk and sour milk for cooking and making cottage cheese. Save the fats; we are the world’s greatest fat wasters. Fat is food. Do not use butter for cooking; other fats are just as good. Do not waste soap; make your own washing soap out of the saved fat. Save the sugar; sugar is scarce. To-day we use three times as much per person as our allies. Save the fuel. Coal comes from a distance and our railways are over burdened hauling war material. Use the perishable food; fruits and vegetables we have in abundance. As a nation we eat too little green stuff. Double their use and improve your health. Use local supplies, patronize your local producer. Distance means money. Buy perishable food from the neighborhood nearest you and thus save food transportation.

At suffrage headquarters, 109 State street, Albany, food conservation literature is on hand for distribution. Included are bulletins issued by the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, the State College of Agriculture at Cornell and three leaflets issued recently by the Albany County Home Defense committee.