ITEMS OF INTEREST

Newsy Notes Gathered From All Parts of the Empire State Telling What Others Are Talking About.

Schairer Brothers’ cow sale at their farm in Glenville last week was so largely attended that there was not room for the people in their covered sales ring and the auction had to be conducted out of doors. In spite of the rain, the buyers stood out all afternoon with the water running off their clothes and paid handsome prices for the 26 heads of fresh milkers and near springers. The first ten cows put up sold for $1,006. The price for fresh cows ranged from $85 to $126 and springers from $85 to $110, except one sold for $130.

A train of twenty-seven palace horse cars containing 597 horses bound for Europe to be used in the war passed through Albany last Saturday and in less than half an hour the train had been inspected by inspectors from Boston, who came to Rensselaer to ride the train to that city, where a steamer was waiting to transport the horses to their destination. The train had the right of way and was 15 hours ahead of scheduled time. The best engine in the service of the Boston and Albany road was attached to the train in Rensselaer in order to make passenger time.

VILLAGE NOTES.

— A new telephone has been installed in the Altamont bakery. The number is 21-F 4.

— Charles V. Beebe, the local harness dealer, has just completed an extra fine set of brass trimmed heavy double harness for Charles Smith, of this village, who has a good roads contract at Sayville, L.I.

— The family of Andrew Gaul, living in the W.S. Keenholts house on Main Street, were nearly asphyxiated by sewer gas one night this week. The trap leading to the septic tank became broken and the cause was not located for several days until the condition became serious. An outside vent has been attached to the pipe and other repairs made to the drainage, which it is hoped will overcome the difficulty.

— Monday night thieves entered the premises of P.C. Dugan and made off with upwards of sixty fowls. It is believed the thieves are the same parties who stole several bushels of grain from Charles Crounse near Dunnsville, last week in broad daylight. Two men were implicated in the Crounse affair, traveling about with a two-horse rig, ostensibly with the purpose of selling fish, but more likely with the idea of stealing from the farmers on their return home. The same men were at the Dugan farm during the day and suspicion points to them as the guilty persons. Chas. Steadman had some grain stolen the same night.

COMPULSORY VACCINATION

Vaccination will be compulsory for pupils of public schools only when smallpox appears in the vicinity of the institutions if a bill introduced at Albany by Assemblyman Morell E. Tallet of Madison becomes a law. The measure has the support of the state health and the state educational departments.

STONY HILL

Mr. and Mrs. Vanderzee LaGrange and family wish to express their thanks to the friends and neighbors who came to assist them in fighting flames and carrying water to prevent the spread of the fire early Sunday morning.
Vanderzee LaGrange sustained a great loss Sunday morning about 2:30 o’clock when his barn, filled with hay, straw and grain, and sheds, nine cows, twenty-one sheep, three horses, poultry, harness, and farm implements were completely destroyed by fire. Many willing workers rushed to the scene as soon as the fire was discovered, and did all in their power to prevent the spread of the flames.