Farm Bureau Auto Excursion.

The Albany County Farm Bureau will conduct an auto orchard inspection trip to Coxsackie and Kinderhook Wednesday, Aug. 16. Stops will be made at the orchards where owners will tell how they grow and handle their fruit. The party will assemble at Ravena and leave there promptly at 9 a.m. Arrangements will be made for dinner at Kinderhook.

Remember the date, Wednesday, Aug. 16. Take a day off after the long hard pull of seeding and harvesting. The change will do you good and what you will learn by seeing the Kinderhook fruit district will be worth more than a month of toil at home. There is every indication of a big turn-out. State roads practically all the way. The trip will be made rain or shine. Take a picnic dinner if you wish. Dinner will be provided for those who would rather buy it.

VILLAGE NOTES.

—The severe hot spell which has been experienced for several days past was dispelled Tuesday noon, when a copious downfall of rain came to refresh the earth. The weather prior to that time was very oppressive and at times the thermometer hovered in the nineties, the highest point reached being 97 degrees. Splendid harvest weather, just a little too warm for comfort.

WITHDRAWS FROM LEAGUE.

On account of lack of support on the part of the fans of the village, the Altamont Athletic Association has forfeited its franchise in the Susquehanna league. A meeting of the association was scheduled for last Wednesday night to act on the resignation of T. D. Cowen as treasurer and manager, but as no one put in an appearance the officers decided that it would be useless to keep a team in the field while there was such a lack of interest. Our team has been losing consistently all season, and Altamont fans will not support a loser. The principal source of revenue of a baseball team is the gate receipts, and as the amounts received from admissions have been scarcely enough to pay expenses at home, the association has come to the end of its resources.

RENSSELAERVILLE.

The Camp Fire Girls “hiked” to Lake Myosotis Wednesday and spent the day. Swimming and boating were enjoyed. A camp meal was cooked at the water’s edge. Among the jolly crowd were: Misses Ruth Smith, Edna Youmans, Emma Prout, Ethelyn Swart, Harriet Linson, Hilda Babcock, Mildred Lasher, Jeannette Bailey, Edna Finch, Edith Smith, Emma Swart, Ida Bouton, Louise Baitsholts, Irene Babcock, Florence Baitsholts and Minnie Aley.

A Retrospect in History.

Thirty Years Ago. (Aug. 14, 1886.)

James Van Deusen, of Cedar Hill, a former resident of Berne, fell from a scaffold while engaged at carpenter work on a building near that place last Saturday, dislocating the spinal column which caused his death within an hour.