ALTAMONT MADE A CLEAN SWEEP

Home Team Won Three Games During Past Week, Defeating Delmar on Saturday and Taking Both Ends of a Doubleheader From Voorheesville on Labor Day — Pitching of Smith and Buckles for Altamont Featured.

The Altamont baseball team made a clean sweep of its holiday games, winning three in a row. On Saturday the home team batted out a 10 to 4 victory over Delmar and replaced that team as leader of the Susquehanna League. On Labor Day, “Lefty” Buckles, of the Troy state league club, pitched Altamont to an 8 to 0 victory over Voorheesville in the first game of a double bill. His hitting also featured. The second contest was a hard fought pitchers’ battle between Perkins for Voorheesville and Smith for Altamont, the latter team coming from behind and winning out in the eighth inning.

A RETROSPECT IN HISTORY.

Reproduced From The Enterprise Files.

Thirty Years Ago.

(Sept. 12, 1885)

Thieves have been quite active of late throughout the town. On Monday night they entered the store of Mr. Kilmer at Guilderland and made a selection from his stock of goods, and on Sunday night they called at the residence of Ex-County judge Clute and relieved him of $151 in cash.

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The residents of Guilderland Station at a special school meeting voted to raise $1,175, for the purpose of building a new school house, which is much needed.

RUNAWAY FRIGHTENS PEOPLE 600 MILES AWAY.

The people who happened to be around a certain livery office in Seneca Falls the other day need no assurances of the perfection of long distance telephone transmission. Mr. F. O. Spaid, local manager in Seneca Falls, contributes an account of a most convincing demonstration which occurred there when W.H. Metcalf, a large dealer in horses, dropped into the office and stepped to the telephone to talk with a horse buyer in Orville, O. Hardly had the conversation begun when Mr. Metcalf sprang back, ducking and dodging as though something was about to  hit him from behind. Nothing seemed to threaten, so he regained his equilibrium and called several others to the telephone, where confused and frenzied cries of “Whoa,” “Stop him,” “Run” were rending the air and the crash of breaking glass and a turmoil of stamping and banging sounded as distinctly as if in the office where Mr. Metcalf stood.

In a minute the man in Ohio returned to the telephone and explained that a runaway horse had run afoul of the plate glass window of the office, plunging through into the room, and after entangling himself more or less with the furniture had escaped through a door into the barn. A Rochester paper remarks, “The purchase of two carloads of horses, specified to be kind and true, was completed and the talk ended.” — The Telephone Review, New York.

Deeply Hurt.

“Am I the first girl you ever kissed?”

“Well,” said he, “I knew I bungled it, but I didn’t think I made that poor a job of it.” — Louisville Courier-Journal.