GUILDERLAND 

As a result of the White Christmas in the Sunday school, many little hearts in the Childs hospital, Albany, were made glad on Christmas morning by the toys, etc., which were sent from Guilderland. Also $12.00 was sent to the Albany City Mission and another sum of money to the Near East. 

The members of the Sunday school have adopted a child in the Near East and have pledged themselves to send each month a gift sufficient to care for him in one of the orphanages there. 

NEWS NOTES 

— The snow of last week was just beginning to slip away when Thursday’s storm arrived and kept it up until late in the evening. Throughout the countryside snow is piled up. One would say a foot of snow had fallen, but the weather bureau at Albany reports a fall of seven inches and a drop in temperature to 16 degrees above zero. It is fortunate that just a moderate wind is blowing or all traffic would have been impeded. 

— Mount Marcy and other high peaks are now the property of the people of New York state. Deeds just received by the Conservation Commission convey to the state this highest peak in the Adirondacks and many others which go to make up Victory Mountain park. During the last five years the commission has examined over 400,000 acres, and purchases in the Adirondacks and Catskills have now reached nearly 200,000 acres. There is much virgin timber on the mountains. 

AUTOS MUST HAVE NEW 

LICENSE PLATES JAN. 1 

Only 2,500 motorists of Albany county had secured their new 1923 license plates up to noon Thursday. The allotment for the county for pleasure car licenses amounts during the new year to 20,000. A good percentage of these owners, however, will not take out their new licenses until spring, but there will be, apparently, many who will be unable to get their plates who intend to use their cars on the highways Jan. 1. 

WEST BERNE 

A word of praise is due the children who entertained us with their songs and recitations Monday evening. You did well. The chicken supper was also enjoyed by many. 

DUANESBURGH 

The village school has been closed for two weeks on account of scarlet fever. 

REIDSVILLE 

— Harold Conger received a Christmas present of a cow from his father. 

— Roy Flagler and brother Floyd of Berne are spending Christmas hunting with relatives. 

SOUTH THOMPSON’S LAKE 

The young people of Knox and Thompson’s Lake enjoyed a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Read Monday night, in honor of Albert Gibbs, who expects to begin study for the ministry in the near future. Nearly 45 were present. 

DORMANSVILLE

We received a letter on Tuesday from David Peck of Attalissa, a former Dormansville boy. He wishes to be remembered to all his friends. He writes that he had a prosperous year in grain and hogs. He had only 80 hogs last spring; he sent us two fine pictures of them. No snow there, but some cold weather.