Altamont Enterprise October 5, 1923

 

VOORHEESVILLE
The remains of James Keyser, a workman, employed on the Castleton Bridge and who was struck by lightning last Friday afternoon during a thunder shower, are in the funeral parlor of Frank Brunk at this place awaiting the arrival of relatives to claim the body. It is said the man has a mother residing in Troy and also a brother at Green Island but as yet nothing has been heard from relatives. Coroner Mullen, and also the contractor by whom he was employed are working on the case. The man is about the age of forty and has dark hair. 

BERNE 

Frank Hochstrasser would like the person who borrowed his tackles and rope to please return them at once without further notice. 

DELANSON 

Miss Mabel Gardinere, who had specimens of plain sewing entered at the Cobleskill fair, which she did when she was thirteen years old, took first premium on all. She also entered a dressed doll and received second prize on it. 

QUAKER STREET 

A horse owned by Edwin Barton was killed early Thursday morning when it was struck by a Willys-Knight car driven by Imer Bellinger of Schoharie. The horse was loose in the road just below the “La Belle Farm.” Considerable damage was done to the car. 

DUNNSVILLE 

Kellam and Shaffer have finished laying concrete on the western turnpike road and will commence laying concrete on the Guilderland-Schenectady county line highway. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— William J. Stafford brought to the Enterprise office on Tuesday a bouquet of blossoms picked that day. It contained strawberry and pear blossoms picked in the orchard of Dr. Jesse Crounse, and raspberry and blackberry fruit found along the railroad near “Wood curve.” 

— Miss Edith St. John has resigned the position of operator at the local telephone exchange, after serving the New York Telephone company for more than eight years. Her resignation took effect Oct. 1st. Miss St. John’s marriage to Karl W. Clark will take place Oct. 18th, and they will leave the following week for their future home in Buffalo. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. John, will accompany them to Buffalo and will reside with them at 567 Ellicott street. 

PERSONAL MENTION 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Carpenter expect to sail for Europe about the 20th, for a sojourn of several months. 

EAST BERNE, SUNNYSIDE 

The movement started by the Albany Chamber of Commerce for keeping the roads open this winter meets with the hearty approval of nearly all in this neck of the woods and a motion to that effect was carried unanimously at the last meeting of the (common) council held in Nat’s store. We unfortunate fellows who are compelled to stay winters as well as summers on this hump of the Helderbergs have agitated for years that a way should be found to compel all those absentee owners of property and those who move to town for the winter to kick in and help keep the roads open in winter, but, unfortunately the two men who decide such matters for this town have neither of them ever owned a horse nor an automobile and their business could always be transacted without ever getting foot out of doors, and they do pay tax so there you are. 

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