SPECIAL TRAINS FOR FAIR

The D. & H. railroad has granted the request of the Albany County fair officials to run a special train leaving Albany at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 19 and 20, returning leaving Altamont at 5:30 p.m. This is a great favor to the local fair association and its patrons, as all railroads are against running any special trains for any purposes. But President E. G. Crannell and Director Peter G. Ten Eyck represented the association and presented strong arguments for the special trains, and will have their request granted.

VILLAGE NOTES.

— William Hoag has a tomato vine in his garden which measures eight feet eight inches in height. Mr. Hoag has already picked about a bushel of tomatoes from the plant, and there are more than 150 of them left. Some plant. Can anyone beat it?

— The members of the graduating class of ’12, A. H. S., will be interested in knowing that their president, Chester T. Hallenbeck, received a commission as first lieutenant at Fort Niagara, where he has been in training for the past three months.

— A telephone has been installed in the residence of Junius D. Ogsbury, clerk of the Town Board of Education. The number is 27-F-5.

—County Clerk Luther C. Warner received a cablegram from Paris Tuesday night, announcing the arrival of his nephew, Luther C. Warner, 2d., of East Berne, who sailed from an American port on July 23, to join the American Ambulance field service in France. Mr. Warner is well known in Altamont, where he attended High School. He graduated with the class of 1913.

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

Irving Zimmer of Zimmer Hill, while at work cutting oats with a scythe, was struck by lightning and instantly killed last Thursday afternoon. Together with some harvest hands Mr. Zimmer was trying to finish up the work of harvesting before the threatened storm burst upon them. The stroke came in advance of the storm, and no one else was injured.

Less than a year ago Mr. Zimmer and his wife were in an automobile accident near Berne in which the latter was killed. An orphan daughter six years old survives.

NORMANSVILLE.

Last Thursday afternoon, while Master Daniel Guarneiri and a few other boys were returning from the Normanskill creek to their homes on Delaware avenue, and when passing Graceland cemetery they found a package by the gate. Boy-like they opened the package and were quite surprised to find that it contained a new-born babe. They immediately notified the cemetery authorities, who soon had Coroner Hastings on the spot. Upon investigation of the matter the coroner pronounced the case one of abandonment.