SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
AT CHATHAM FAIR 

When on the evenings of September 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 readers of this paper see rays of light illuminating the heavens, it will mean that the U. S. soldiers from the Plattsburg barracks are using the gigantic search lights which they employ in connection with the army maneuvers they are representing as a special attraction at the Columbia county fair in Chatham. These lights are of more than one billion candle power and their lenses are five feet in diameter. They are capable of throwing light forty to fifty miles. 

These soldiers will stage sham battles with machine guns, tanks, airplanes, and smoke screens. See the attack, the repulse, the victory; see the tanks demolish obstacles and plow through depressions; see the airplanes drop bombs and destroy bridges. 

State troopers from the Troy barracks will present some extraordinary and remarkable feats of horsemanship. 

WHITE BLACKBERRIES 

Specimens of long white “blackberries” were brought here by Edward Sturges on Monday which were grown on his farm on West Mountain. The berry is of a pinkish white color and grew alongside of the black ones on the same bush. Lately Dominick Disco of Saranac Lake, reported that he had several branches of the white variety and said that they are true blackberries except in color. S.B. Hadsell, of Lebanon Springs, also has grown some white “blackberries” of his own. These berries, unlike white crows and purple elephants, are not products of his imagination, as he had them on exhibition. 

Brookside, South Berne 

The Sunday services in the Christian Church have been well attended and the children are showing great interest in the Sunday school. 

3,500 ATTEND PICNIC
AT ALTAMONT 

The farmers’ picnic, that big annual affair which is held at the Altamont fair grounds under the auspices of the County Farm Bureau, took place last Saturday, August 29, with an attendance estimated at 3,500. 

It was like a ‘County Fair’ day in Altamont, with hundreds of automobiles making their way through the village to the fair grounds, and it was not long after 10:00 o’clock before the sports of the day began. The horseshoe pitching contest was the first to get under way, and it was a real game of skill by experienced teams. Two Berne men, Milton Wright and Clark Adams, won the horseshoe pitching championship of the county and will compete in the contest at the Syracuse fair. The winning team defeated Ernest and Raymond Wright also of Berne, the champion team for the last two years. 

Two blooded blue calves were given after drawing of lots. Stanley Tryon of Coeymans Hollow won a Jersey calf given by Henry Ingalls of South Westerlo and Bert E. Ward of Ravena won a Holstein calf donated by Parker Corning of Albany. 

Frank Schultz of Lamb’s Corners won the men’s peanut race, the prize being a pocket knife. Donald McLanvey of Greenville won the peanut scramble. Esther Wright of Berne won a box of candy for winning the girls’ baseball throw. Mrs. Avery Zimmer of East Berne was the first to drive three nails through a board and was awarded a hammer. A balloon fight was won by Baird Cook of Preston Hollow.