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Altamont Enterprise Sept. 24, 1920

COUNTY FAIR HAS “FAIR”
WEATHER AND BIG CROWDS 

No more favorable weather could have been furnished if ordered for the occasion, then smiled upon the twenty-eighth annual fair of the Albany County Agricultural Society, which held forth this week at Altamont. 

Altamont Enterprise Sept. 17, 1920 

CLARKSVILLE. 

— During the electric storm Sunday night the barn of Samuel Wintson was struck and burned to the ground with all of its contents. One horse was killed. 

Altamont Enterprise Sept. 10, 1920

RENSSELAERVILLE. 

Clinton Wood caught an eel in the mill dam which weighed eight pounds and was four feet long. 

 

WEST MEADOWDALE. 

Altamont Enterprise September 3, 1920 

MAN WHO HANGED YOUTH
WAS FOUND THIS WEEK 

John J. Conway, assistant district attorney, announced Monday afternoon that William Lyons, arrested recently charged with having hanged Ralph Cook, 11, of Cooksburg to a tree near his home on Aug. 17, admitted having committed the crime after interrogation.