1922 CHRISTMAS SEAL 

MAKES APPEARANCE 

The 1922 tuberculosis Christmas seals have already made their appearance on mail. The seal sale in Albany county, conducted for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis by the Albany County Tuberculosis association, opened Sunday. 

The work which the association is doing in the county is entirely dependent on the seal sale each year. At least $20,000 is needed this year to enable the association to carry on its present work and to expand its program. 

Mayor Hacket of Albany, in a proclamation issued this week, called on residents of the county to support the seal sale by buying as many seals as their circumstances will permit. Several thousand letters have been sent out containing the appeal, together with $2 and $1 worth of seals, to residents of the city of Albany and of Albany county. The seals are either to be kept and the money for them forwarded to the association, or the seals returned. This will be the only appeal made this year for the fight against tuberculosis in Albany county. 

In 1922, 102 free clinics were held; 1,207 examinations made; 209 positive tuberculosis cases put under observation and treatment; 154 persons placed in sanitoria; 131 suspect cases are now under observation; 1,980 visits to homes of tubercular patients were made by association nurses; and more than 50 patients are now receiving treatment in the Pine Hills sanitarium in Albany. 

BIG COLORED TROOP GIVES 

“WAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE”
“Way Down South in Dixie” is the title of a minstrel show presented by a big colored company that will visit Altamont on Monday evening, December 4th and hold forth for one evening at the Masonic hall. They will present genuine southern scenes, dances and melodies. The Dixie Female Quintette and their famous Jazz concert band will take care of the musical features of the evening’s entertainment to be given at popular prices. 

GUILDERLAND CHURCH NOTES 

A pastor’s information box has been placed in the vestibule of the churches with the request that the names of any that are sick or any who have moved into the community to be placed therein by the members of the congregation at any time. Also it is the purpose of the pastor to have any questions that the people would like him to consider on Sunday evenings placed in the box so that he might base his sermons on the same. 

THEATER PARTY AND 

BANQUET FOR BOY SCOUTS 

The members of Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts of Slingerlands, were given a surprise treat last Friday night. Responding to orders from their Scoutmaster, Ray F. Arthur, they appeared at Odd Fellows’ hall at 6 o’clock and soon after they were taken in automobiles to Albany and ushered into the Grand theater, where they witnessed a good performance and a fine picture. At 10:15 o’clock they were given the signal to march out of the theater. The boys were again placed in the cars and supposed they were going home. They were surprised, however, when the cars drew up in front of Jack’s famous oyster house restaurant on Beaver street and they were taken into the large dining room. Here a fine course dinner was served, to which the Scouts and the members of the troop committee did justice. There were 24 in the party. The Scouts gave yells for the host and, at the conclusion of the banquet, for the Scout committee, the proprietor of the restaurant, and others.