ALTAMONT BOY HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENT 

As a result of an automobile accident that should not have proved so serious, Kermit J. Sturges, 19, a well known and popular young man of Altamont is in the Albany City hospital suffering with a crushed back bone. It is feared that his injuries may prove fatal. 

The accident occurred Saturday night at about 9 o’clock. Kermit was out riding with his friend, Guy Amsden, and while driving on the Guilderland Center-Voorheesville road the car, a Ford roadster, failed to make a sharp curve near the residence of Henry Frisbee. The car ran off the road and completely overturned. Some part of the car must have struck young Sturges a heavy blow, to have inflicted such terrible injuries. Both boys said after the accident that they were driving at a moderate rate of speed. Amsden was not injured. 

A passing motorist took the injured boy to the home of Dr. W. F. Shaw, at Voorheesville, and from there to the Albany hospital. He is in a very serious condition, having been obliged to spend hours on the operating table in an endeavor to remove the small splintered bones and at least make the young many comfortable and if possible save his life. Since the accident his legs have been paralyzed and efforts to restore circulation in his limbs have failed. However, the report came this morning that some feeling was returning to his legs and that his circulation was improving.
Scores of Kermit’s friends and relatives have called at the hospital—so many, in fact, that it is feared that the excitement brought on by so many visits will aggravate his case. His brother May has come from Syracuse to be near him while his condition is serious. 

No blame is attached to young Amsden, as the accident was considered unavoidable. The injured boy himself absolved him of all blame for the accident, it is said. 

Kermit has been employed as a linotype operator on the Gloversville Morning Herald, and is considered one of their best men. He has been accustomed to spend his week ends in his home town, in order to play baseball on Saturday. Last Saturday afternoon he played one of the best games he has put up this season, as left fielder for the Altamont team. The entire community was shocked by the report that he had been injured so seriously, and it is the earnest hope of all that he will recover. 

CAR PLUGNES THROUGH
RAILING INTO CREEK 

A Marmon touring car with four occupants plunged through the railing at Esperance bridge early Wednesday morning and dropped down an embankment of about 20 feet into the creek. Two were seriously hurt, one perhaps fatally, while the other two occupants, young boy pedestrians whom they had overtaken on the road, were not seriously injured. Speeding was said to be the cause of the accident and the man at the wheel could not make the bend. 

WEST BERNE 

Miss Olive Shultes of West Berne left with her uncle, Rev. L. Vronman Schermerhorn, Wednesday morning for an extended visit at his home in Vienna Virginia, a suburb to Washington D.C. The trip to New York was made on the day boat. They expect to spend a day in the near future picnicking on the grounds and visiting the tomb of George Washington and another day in and around the famous Arlington Cemetery. Miss Shultes will see for the first time, her nation’s capitol and metropolis, one of the great dreams and hopes of all young people.