MIDDLEBURGH CIDER WAS
8 PER CENT, AGENTS SAY 

Cider seized in the poolroom of John Mattice, Middleburgh, January 18, had an alcoholic content of from five to eight per cent, federal agents testified before Commissioner Hubbard yesterday. Forty-three bottles and two barrels filled, were taken in the raid. The case was adjourned to Wednesday. Mattice is out on $1,000 bail.

CLARKSVILLE 

The men of this community who are interested in better roads opened the state road to the Bethlehem town line last week, after digging through snow banks five feet deep. Undertaker Applebee was the first man to benefit by their labor, making a trip to the city the following day with his car. Since then the road has drifted shut again. 

WEST BERNE 

The boys, both big and little, are enjoying skiing now. When they are not right side up they are wrong side down. Hope there will be no broken bones. 

VILLAGE NOTES 

— On Saturday afternoon about one o’clock, Morton Makely saw smoke issuing through the windows of the shoe repairing shop of Natale Genduso on Maple avenue. Mr. Makely tried the door of the shop and found it locked. Mr. Genduso was found in the barber-shop of Joe Galioti by Mr. Makely. The door was unlocked and a shelf was found to be on fire. The fire was caused by some papers near the over heated stove. A bucket brigade formed and the fire was put out. 

— In reporting the coal situation in Altamont two weeks ago we mentioned that coal was being sold at Guilderland Center to many Altamont purchasers. Since the publication of this item, we have been told that our information was not well grounded. Even newspapers are led to make mistakes from rumors which come, as it were by radio, through the air. 

MAN LOSES FOOT 

IN JUMPING TRAIN 

A young negro who gave his name as Joseph Carroll of Madison, North Carolina, and age as 19, tried, with a companion, to board the 10:21 train to Albany Thursday night, after it had left the station at Altamont, and the icy condition of the ground must have contributed to his undoing. He slipped and fell under the train, the wheels passing over one of his ankles. His head was badly injured also. 

It would appear that the two young men were trying to steal a ride to the Capital City, as the accident happened down on the tracks by the Plank and Righter buildings. 

It was not known that an accident had happened until the negro’s white companion came to the station and told of the injury to his pal. 

Mr. Smith, the night agent, summoned Dr. Crounse, who rendered what assistance he could after those about the station had hurried to the scene and brought the injured man to the station. 

A freight which followed the passenger train was flagged and Carroll was taken in the caboose to Albany and then to the hospital. 

On inquiry we found that the two men were in Delanson in the afternoon, had come in on a freight and after inquiring for work and not being able to secure any, had jumped a train out later in the afternoon, getting off here. The other man gave his name as Ralph Burnett and said he was from Walton, N. Y. He had succeeded in boarding the 10:21 between the cars and jumped off again when his pal fell. 

FOR SALE — Meridan double barrel hammerless 12 gauge shotgun; also one Iver Johnson arch frame bicycle. Both in good condition. $35.00 takes both. Charles C. Rowe, Berne.