LAKE MYOSOTIS 

Hot weather surely gives the fish a good appetite for nice cool worms. Mr. William Mitchell of Albany caught 17 pickerel and 30 bull-heads during one day last week. 

FILTRATION PLANT IS NEARLY COMPLETED 

The work of putting in the concrete basin in the reservoir is nearing completion and Weaver Brothers are starting on the second section of the concrete coping today and are pouring the balance of the side walls. The building for the filters is finished, and the filters are looked for at every train. A day or two more ought to complete the work. 

UNION CHURCH 

An unknown man was killed by a locomotive on the railroad here Monday afternoon. He was dressed in a dark blue suit and cap, blue working shirt, tan shoes and socks. Coroner Mullens and Dr. Holmes were called. Undertaker Brunk of Voorheesville took charge of the remains. 

WEST TOWNSHIP 

Thelma Bell, daughter of Dewitt Bell had the misfortune to have the fore finger on her left hand cut so badly while she was playing, that it had to be amputated at the first joint. 

STONY HILL 

Miller Nesbitt is teaching Thomas Keith to drive his new car which his mother, Mrs. Taylor, gave him, before she left for California, for a visit of a year with her brother, George W. Sherman.  

PERSONAL MENTION 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Oliver of Schenectady left August 5th for the Adirondack Mountains. They expect to return some time in the spring. 

BERNE 

— Tuesday, August 22, the union Sunday schools of the town of Berne will hold their annual picnic at White Sulphur Springs. A day of enjoyment is anticipated. Music by Middleburgh Band. Two ball games. 

— On Wednesday of last week Miss Margaret Hochstrasser gave her Sunday school class a picnic in the church hall. Although the weather wouldn’t allow the class to have their outing in the woods as planned, all had a very pleasant time. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— Jacob May has completed the concrete bridge on the Western turnpike, and has started the construction of a bridge on the Township road in Knox. 

— Mrs. Harriet Lape has been quite ill for several days with a nervous breakdown. Her mother, Mrs. George Smith of Voorheesville, came here on Tuesday and is caring for her. At present her condition is somewhat improved. 

— Francis and Wilbur Fenn return from a month’s stay at Camp Hawley, the Fort Orange Council of Boy Scouts Camp, at Kinderhook Lake, on Saturday. While at camp, Francis has been awarded merit badges for dairying and hiking. Wilbur was awarded a merit badge for swimming. He also qualified for the rank of first class scout. 

About People 

Walter J. Hotaling received a large box of fish this week from W. H. Epple who in company with the Messrs. Snyder and Turner are on a fishing trip at Lake Champlain. Mr. Epple reports fine luck which was proven by the size and quantity of the fish he sent home and which included some six pound pike.