WEST BERNE.

At the meeting of the Reading Circle last week, Mrs. Basaler met with a serious loss. Any one finding a hand bag containing documents and money of the order is requested to leave it at the post office.

SCHOHARIE AND BARTON HILL.

Miss Mary G. van Linden and Miss Hazel Fuller were week-end visitors at the home of their schoolmate, Miss Phoebe Mace, at Preston Hollow. Ferris Hagadorn carried them both ways in his car.

WOLF HILL.

The farmers in this vicinity are in hopes of getting a little more snow. Because of the ice the roads are somewhat dangerous to travel with wagons.

VILLAGE NOTES.

— Melvin B. Lainhart succeeds Ivan A. Sand as baritone player in the Altamont band. Melvil Chesebro has joined as alto horn player.

— John Coyne, engineer on one of the Altamont locals, met with a painful accident recently while in the D. & H. yards at Green Island. A metal bar protruding from a passing train struck his right hand which was resting on the cab window sill. Three fingers were broken and the hand badly cut and bruised.

— Earl Teter, carpenter, formerly of this village, was painfully injured last week while working on a new underground railroad crossing north of Schoharie Junction. Mr. Teter was building concrete forms when they collapsed, burying him beneath part of the structure and considerable earth. He suffered seven broken ribs and severe bruises.

CONSTRUCTIVE REFORMS.

Governor Whitman’s message to the Legislature is notable for the number of constructive reforms which he recommends to the consideration of the lawmaking body of the state.

The Governor reviews the development and improvement of the workman’s compensation law during his first administration and calls attention to the fact that no provision has been made for the compensation of state employees who might be injured  or to dependents of employees who might be killed. He recommends that the Legislature appropriate money sufficient to pay claimants in cases in which awards have already been made and provide funds and machinery for payment of claims which are certain to arise in the future. He further calls attention to the fact that unless all state employees are brought under the provisions of the act without regard to their occupations many employees, such as guards and keepers in prisons and nurses in asylums will not be protected by the law.

LOST.

Lost — Tuesday afternoon, a red Irish terrier, wearing a collar, called Riki; from the Helderberg farm, Edward R. Cassidy. The finder will be rewarded by returning the dog.