FUEL ORDER HAS FAR

REACHING EFFECTS

All Industries and Business Places, With Few Exceptions, Will Observe Mondays Until March 25 as a Holiday, According to Garfield’s Order.

Industries and business places generally, including all normal activities that require heated buildings, will observe a holiday every Monday for the next ten weeks. This will close on Monday, not only factories but saloons, stores, except for the sale of drugs and food, and nearly all office buildings. Places of amusement will close on Tuesday instead of Monday.

Establishments engaged in war work NOT excepted from the operation of the order, except by special permit.

Penalty for violations, $5,000 or one year’s imprisonment.

VILLAGE NOTES.

— On account of the order by Fuel Administrator Garfield, calling for five “heatless” days, several of the business places in the village were closed on Monday and Tuesday. In consequence of the order all trains on the D. & H. railroad were run on a Sunday schedule on these two days. Some confusion was occasioned, as the traveling public could or did not understand some of the changes.

— Sneak thieves ransacked several henneries in the village last week. On Thursday night 21 good fat hens belonging to Mead Z. Sheldon on Lincoln avenue, and 15 fowls of Mrs. Euphemia Frink were carried away. It is quite a task to keep fowls these days with the high price of feed, and very annoying, to say the least, after feeding them almost through the winter with a good prospect of their laying very soon, to wake up some morning and find the hen house empty. Bad luck to the guilty ones.

BERNE.

— It is suggested that, if the weather conditions grow any worse, an aeroplane route be started between this village and Altamont.

— One of the knitters for the Berne Red Cross branch, Mrs. David Reinhart, who is 83 years old, has knitted two scarfs and a sweater this month. Mrs. Reinhart scraped lint for the surgical dressings used during the Civil War, and recalls many incidents of work done at that time for the Sanitary commission.

Audubon Bird Notes.

Just at present we have in Altamont one of the most beneficial of birds, the black-capped chickadee, or titmouse. It eats eggs and larvae which it gets from trees. It has been estimated that one of these birds destroys 138,730 canker worms’ eggs in 25 days.

During such a winter as this it welcomes crumbs, fat pork, suet, etc.

The disposition of the chickadee is its chief point, as its plumage is not beautiful — and song, just merry.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

— Position for married or widow lady, with grown-up daughter or assistant, to operate telephone switchboard at East Berne, N. Y. Salary, $700 per year; house rent free. Apply to J. L. Borst, 501 Western Ave., Albany, N. Y.

— To Let — Near Delmar, house, barn, 40 acres, suitable truck gardening, water, electricity; $20.00 month. Oliver, 51 State, Albany.