THE “ENTERPRISE” TOBACCO FUND

Do you know what it means to a soldier at the end of a hard day’s work — without a smoke? You remember how often “at home” you were stranded but think of your soldier friend at the front — what a “smoke” would mean to him. Thousands of our boys are somewhere in France without their favorite smoke — they are fighting for you. Won’t you contribute 25c to supply your soldier friend with a week’s supply of smokes?

The Enterprise Tobacco Fund has just been started, to supply our boys with their favorite smoke. Will you help make it a success? Many of our Albany County boys are now in France. Many more will be there shortly. Thousands of dollars worth of tobacco has already been purchased and sent abroad. It will take many times that amount to keep the boys supplied. The Enterprise has joined the leading papers of the country in doing its mite. This has been endorsed by the Government. Arrangements have been made with the American Tobacco Company to send 45c  worth of tobacco for 25c .

Here is what they will get:

2 Packages of Lucky Strike Cigarettes, retail at 20c

3 Packages of Bull Durham Tobacco, retail at 15c

3 Books Bull Durham Cigarette Papers

1 Tin of Tuxedo Tobacco, retails at 10c

Total: 45c

A return postcard is enclosed in each package, so that every contributor will receive a personal acknowledgment of their gift. You will treasure this message from the trenches. Everybody wants to give a little. Will you help make it a success by doing your bit? Send 25c to the Enterprise at once. All contributions will be acknowledged weekly in the Enterprise.

WITBECK’S HOTEL RAZED BY FLAMES

Witbeck’s hotel, in the western turnpike, about a half mile west of the Albany Country club, was destroyed by fire early Thursday morning with a loss of $20,000. The hotel which was built in 1793, was one of the old landmarks of Albany county, probably the oldest hotel in the Capitol District, and the scene of many famous Albany county political fights.

The fire caught three inmates of the hotel asleep, and they escaped only by climbing from their window to the top of the porch and sliding from there to the ground.

Those who escaped in this way were Charles Ebel, the proprietor, Miss Margaret Nolan, a domestic at the hotel; Robert Cummings, an employee at the hotel.

The hotel, an old wooden building, burned like tinder and was virtually destroyed fifteen minutes after the fire was discovered. There is a rifle range in the rear of the hotel and a bucket brigade, which had been formed by neighbors to fight the flames was scared away by incessant reports from the interior of the building. It developed later that these were caused by a case of cartridges which had been stored in the hotel.