DELMAR

Last Sunday was a red letter day at the Methodist church. Lincoln’s anniversary was honored by the Juniors at the Epworth League service, and at the evening hour of worship, the pastor, Rev. Harold S. Metcalfe, delivered Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews’s tribute to Lincoln, including his Gettysburg address. It was given with such power and pathos that the whole audience was as moved to silence as was the one on the great occasion; while Lincoln’s pictured presence, draped with the American flag, gave a touch of real significance to the scene.

WANTED.

Wanted — To buy 2 Fawn and White Indian Runner drakes. W. J. Carl, So. Berne, NY

Wanted — A gobbler turkey. S. Tisco, South Berne, NY

Wanted — To buy a barn to tear down and remove. Fred Nehemiah, Slingerlands, NY

Wanted — Farm work by the month. Competent foreman. Chas. Bradt, Voorheesville, NY

Wanted — A reliable young man to help with bees and other work this summer. James Hallenbeck, Altamont.

FRAUD PAINT

The worst mistake one is likely to make in painting is wrong paint; it is easy to make.

We all say “Ours is the best;” and there are 1,000 of us. One is best; but a dozen are so near on a level that no one knows, for sure, that his is the one.

The worst paints are worst liars; they know what they are, put on a bold face, and brazen it out.

Their one argument is low price; but low-price paint is always, must be, a fraud; it is made to cheat cheatable people.

FATHER GOOSE FOR FARMERS

By Don Allen

Farmer Boy Blue, go toot your auto horn,

We’ve cash in the bank and we’re not forlorn.

But where is the city chap who gave us the laugh?

He works all week for twelve-and-a-half.

Go help him, go help him! Oh! no, not I;

He doesn’t need help, he’s such a “wise guy.”

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Higgleby, Piggleby, my black hen,

She lays an egg every now and then.

At nine cents a dozen and sometimes ten,

The profits all go to the middlemen.

BORST OF EAST BERNE BUYS ’PHONE EXCHANGES

New York Company Lets Two Rural Systems of About 100 Subscribers Go Into Private Hands.

The New York Telephone company, through its Albany office, it is declared, has sold outright two rural exchanges and all of the subscribers’ lines connected therewith. These exchanges are at East Berne and Rensselaerville, and serve approximately 300 subscribers. Change in ownership will take place March 1st, when J.L. Borst of East Berne says he will assume charge of the telephone field bounded by Altamont on the north, Clarksville on the east, Greene county line on the south and Schoharie county line on the west. Within the boundaries of this district are East, South, and West Berne, Knox, Thompson’s Lake, Township, Reidsville, Rensselaerville, Westerlo, Medusa, and Crystal Lake.
This action on the part of the telephone company, declared to be radically different from its general policy, is due, it is declared, to the fact that the district involved is a sparsely settled one which has yielded little profit. Mr. Borst will continue the twenty-four hour a day and seven day a week service.