Altamont Enterprise August 31, 1921

GUILDERLAND CENTER 

Some time ago our Fire company extinguished a fire in some lumber belonging to the railroad company. Recently Raymond Hurst reported the matter to the company, and they responded with a check for $100. 

 

DUNNSVILLE
An automobile in which three young men were riding was lost control of and dropped off the unfinished concrete road and in regaining the concrete shot across and through the fence into the cornfield of Herman Wahl. The machine was a total wreck. The occupants escaped with slight injuries. 

 

CLARKSVILLE 

Swart and Deans’ bus took a large number of Clarksville people to Saratoga on Tuesday. Some visited the race track while others spent the day viewing the many things of interest in the town. 

 

THOMPSON’S LAKE

— William Secor, who has employment in Schenectady, was obliged to return home suffering with a felon on his finger. 

— Last Sunday a ten year old boy was seriously injured when he fell from what is known as the “Bear Trail” at Indian Ladder. It is a fifteen foot drop and the boy suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. He is in a hospital at Albany and there is little hope of his recovery. 

 

FEURA BUSH, SOUTH END

Quite a number of interested people attended the poultry culling demonstration given by F. E. Mather of the Department of Poultry Husbandry of N. Y. State College of Agriculture at Jay Tryon’s on Tuesday. A number of interesting and instructive points were brought out. 

 

PERSONAL MENTION 

Wheeler D. Wright and family have returned from a thousand mile automobile tour to Niagara Falls and Alexandria Bay. 

 

SLINGERLANDS 

Tawasentha Chapter to Award 

Prizes for Patriotic Work 

Members of the chapter board of management of Tawasentha chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of Slingerlands at a meeting last Thursday afternoon in the City club rooms, Albany, voted to distribute $26 in prizes during the coming season under the direction of the patriotic committee. Chapter work was discussed, and it was reported that the graves of 25 Revolutionary soldiers buried in Guilderland have been cared for by the chapter. 

Albany is being considered as a permanent headquarters for the state D. A. R. organization. 

 

COOK-HUNGERFORD
WEDDING AUG. 25

A very pretty wedding took place Saturday afternoon, August 25, 1923, at the residence of Mrs. Luther Hungerford, of East Berne, when their daughter, Miss Florence Winifred Hungerford, became the bride of John Alden Cook of Austin, Minn. 

The Rev. F. V. Lehman of Elsmere performed the ceremony on the lawn of the bride’s home, before over 125 guests, many coming from distant points in the United States. 

The bride wore a cream-colored gown of Spanish lace with black velvet picture hat and carried a shower of ophelia roses. 

Classified Ads. FOR SALE — Two bowling alleys. Lakeside Hotel, Thompson’s Lake. -1t

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