FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL
AT ESPERANCE DEPOT
THe Esperance Depot school, one and one-half miles south of Esperance village, was destroyed by fire about 2 o’clock Tuesday  morning. The school house, a one-room building, was in district 25, Town of Duanesburgh, Schenectady County. The winter’s fuel was destroyed with it. The cause of the fire is not known. It is supposed that it started from an overheated stove. Before the neighborhood was aroused the flames were beyond control. Miss Georgiana Brown of Esperance is the teacher. No plans of certainty for the future accommodation of the pupils have been made. 

SOUTH THOMPSON’S LAKE 

— Chicken pox is quite thick in this vicinity. 

— The severe snow storm last Sunday completely blocked the roads for autos last Monday and Tuesday. 

STATE ROAD, SOUTH BERNE 

— Mrs. George Reid has been at the hospital again for three weeks. 

— Little Lillian Martin has gone to Switzkill to live with her grandmother Martin there. 

SLOANSVILLE 

— Harold Johnson and Earl Baxter are suffering with boils. 

— Elmer Westfall is attending Court at Schoharie as juryman. 

— Reuben Cox is attending the Beekeepers’ meeting at Syracuse as a delegate. 

RENSSELAERVILLE 

Frank Hallenbeck has rented the brick building on the corner and has opened a store and meat market. 

Classified Ads. 

FOR SALE — One hundred barrels hand-picked Baldwin apples, $3.00 a barrel. Frank Oliver, Voorheesville. 

FOR SALE — On account of the death of a member of the firm, will sell old established Hardware and Coal business with properties. Joslin Bros., Voorheesville, N. Y.  

FOR SALE — One buick coupe, in first class repair, good rubber, and many extras. For quick sale, $250.00 Inquire of W. E. Deitz, Berne, N. Y. Tel. East Berne 20-F-31.

FOR SALE — 1 gray mare, weight 1200, or will trade for hay or grain. Millard Frink, Altamont.    

VILLAGE NOTES 

Friends in Altamont have received cards from Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dorsett, who stopped at Quantico, Va., on their way to Miami, Florida, where they will pass the winter. 

GALLUPVILLE 

Mrs. Robie Packard wishes to thank all the people who remembered her on Thanksgiving Day by sending her gifts. She received a sum of money and many things to eat. Words couldn’t express her appreciation and gratitude. 

REIDSVILLE 

Andrew Udell had a black and white Holstein cow stray away about three weeks ago. He has not as yet found her. 

DELMAR 

Reformed Church Notes 

At the cabinet meeting of teachers and officers it was voted that all money gifts should be devoted towards the rebuilding of the girls’ school in Japan recently destroyed by earthquake.