VILLAGE NOTES. 

— A meeting was held at the High school Thursday night at which Company D, 75th Regiment, Corps of Cadets of the State of New York, was organized. The company is composed of 24 boys of Altamont and vicinity of the ages of 16, 17 and 18 years, and is organized pursuant to the Military Training law, which provides that all boys in the state between the ages of 16 and 19 shall undergo military training. Drills will be held in Keenholts hall every Thursday night. 

— The first real frosts came Tuesday and Wednesday nights, killing much vegetation and turning the leaves on the trees a beautiful golden hue. It now remains for the farmers and market gardeners to hustle in their crops of corn, buckwheat and potatoes before the hard freeze up comes along. The fall has been exceeding favorable for the harvesting of all late crops. 

CLARKSVILLE. 

Mr. Gregory of this place has a wood yard for the poor and needy. All one has to do is to make it known and help oneself. It is very kind of Mr. Gregory. 

SLINGERLANDS. 

Photographs of the Old Village Wonders and the Albany County Baseball league teams which were taken three weeks ago on the local diamond by Mr. Shufelt of Delmar, are on exhibition at the Slingerlands post office. Miss Minnie Coughtry and Miss Florence Slingerland will take orders from those who desire to purchase the pictures. 

A WORD OF THANKS. 

To the Editor: 

Will you kindly grant us a little space in your paper to say a few words of thanks and praise to the people of Altamont who so kindly helped us the day our house took fire? 

In an incredibly short time the firemen with their apparatus were at work in the attic where the fire had made such headway that it was a seething mass of flames; but the men, fighting against desperate odds made an entrance, and in spite of the fact that flooring was laid only in parts of the attic, by their splendid efforts finally got control of the fire. 

While below, the volunteer workers, with admirable calmness and system, soon emptied the house of its contents. Just a word about the “book and china brigade”: It seems marvelous that not a book was marred and not a piece of china was even cracked. 

The gallant firemen who certainly risked their lives under the burning roof, and the big-hearted people of Altamont — we thank you all! 

THE WEAVERS.