MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES 

Post M. H. Barckley, No. 198, of Altamont visited Fairview and the Reformed cemeteries on Memorial day and decorated with flags and flowers the soldiers’ graves at each place. The members then went to Guilderland, and in the afternoon attended the memorial services at Prospect Hill cemetery. They listened to a splendid address by Rev. W. H. Harding, pastor of St. Mark’s Lutheran church of Guilderland Center, after which they visited the soldiers’ plot and conducted the Grand Army Ritual service at the monument. 

WATER SUPPLY IS 

TO BE IMPROVED 

The much needed improvement to Altamont’s water supply by the installation of a filtration plant and the concreting of the storage reservoir, is to be an accomplished fact. 

At the request of the water Board, the Board of Trustees of the village called a special election for last Monday, May 29, at Makely’s hall, at which time the electors voted 48 to 5 in favor of a bond issue of $6,000 to pay for this improvement. 

Mrs. Brunk Injured in Fall 

Mrs. William Brunk is critically ill at her home, “Hardscrabble Farm,” as the result of injuries sustained in a fall Tuesday night. The accident happened while Mrs. Brunk was getting ready to come to the village to attend the movie show. Mr. Brunk was in another part of the house when he heard a scream. On investigation he found that Mrs. Brunk had fallen over the railing of the stairs to the floor below. Dr. Jesse Crounse was summoned, and found that she was badly injured and bruised about the head and other parts of the body. 

CORNELL FIELD DAYS
TO BE STATE PICNIC 

This year’s Farmers’ Field Days at the State Agricultural College at Ithaca will be held on Thursday and Friday, June 22 and 23. They are to be first of all a real old-fashioned family picnic for everybody in the state. 

A state-wide horseshoe pitching tournament and other athletic events for both men and women have been arranged for the grown-ups. The older children will have a program of their own arranged by the state boys and girls club leader, and the ones too young to travel about will be kept happy and contented in a model nursery and playground presided over by members of the home economics staff. 

Besides having a good time, visitors will have an opportunity to see the institution and its farms in the growing  season and to talk with specialists about particular problems that interest them.
VILLAGE NOTES

Raymond Hamblin entertained a few friends last Thursday afternoon, the occasion being his eighth birthday. Out-door games had been planned, but the steady downpour of rain prevented the carrying out of the program, and porch games were substituted. Prizes were awarded for the best score in checkers, dominoes and tiddledy winks. A peanut hunt was held and Cuyler Becker was awarded the prize for finding the greatest number of peanuts. 

DUNNSVILLE

The steel work is on the ground for the construction of a new bridge over the Normanskill creek on the Western turnpike road to replace the old wood covered bridge which has stood for over eighty years.