There are four pages missing including page one and the page with the masthead that carries the legal information about the newspaper — publisher, address, cost, etc.

A two-page spread in the center was welcoming the Postmasters Convention but the information of how many were attending or what region they were coming from was referred to the page one story which we don’t have.

The Postmaster story jumps from page one to page six and the convention apparently was a big deal because the Postmaster General of the United States was the guest speaker:

“Speakers at the final session will be Postmaster General Jesse A. Donaldson [probably a distant cousin of the Harrietstown Town Highway Superintendent, Craig Donaldson], Albert Goldman, Postmaster of New York; Burris C, Jackson, National resident of the organization; John Hardy, Second Assistant Postmaster General and John J. Lawler, Third Assistant Postmaster General.

“Following an afternoon of golf the annual banquet will be held in the main dining room of the Hotel Saranac where Saranac Lake Postmaster, Thomas P. Ward [former SL Mayor] will be toastmaster.”

[The last line in the story after listing all the speakers reads; “Dancing will follow.”

That centerfold had 30 advertisers, all in one-inch block ads, along with pictures of Mayor Alton B. Anderson, Police Chief William Wallace and Ed Worthington, Jr., President of the Chamber of Commerce; all with welcoming messages to the conventioneers. The top of the ad has this message in big black letters — “THE LATCH STRING IS OUT” — I am sure that all the readers of this space will know what that means but I decided to look it up — because I had no idea of its meaning.

So again I have to call on the brainy Sir Google to tell me : A string attached to a door latch that is hanging out allows one to lift the latch and enter from the outside and is welcome. If the string is closed inside the door then the latch, which, of course, is on the inside of the door can’t be lifted.

News from the sans

and the cure cottages

TRUDEAU — We happily welcomed back Fred Fraley who returned from a stay at Sunmount. Fred says he’s fine. His folks are visiting him this week.

We are proud to have with us William A. Brophy. Bill was the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1945 to 1948. He was personally appointed by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

We are happy to announce the engagement of Joan Guilfoy and Bob Gould, alumni of Trudeau.

WILL ROGERS — When the N.V.A. sanatorium opened its doors on Spion Kop some eighteen years ago, approximately 60 patients registered in. Among the first ten to sign were Dan Astella, Frisco DeVere, Ben Schaffer, George Harmon, Helen O’Reilly, Harry Namba, Toni Temple, Lawrence McCarthy, Bobby Hart and Happy Benway.

Mrs. William Morris, known to all the ailing artists of the theatrical world as ‘Mother’, planed to London, England, to enjoy a much-deserved vacation. She will attend the grand opening and debut of the “last-of-the-Redhot Mamas, Sophie Tucker. Miss Tucker registered the biggest hit ever registered by an American artist in the history of show business. Her good deeds to the N.V.A/Will Rogers patients shall never be forgotten by the gang.

GUTSHOW –  Joseph Wells of Hampton has been visiting his aunt, Mrs. Joseph Hazen. Dorothy Bogart was delighted to have her family visit her from Granville over the weekend.

SCHREINER — Miss Alice Moll has been entertaining her niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Marshall Jr. of Huntington. Dr. Raymond Whitney, who has spent several months with us is leaving for his home in Boston this week. We hope he will come back to visit us.

GONZALEZ — Mr. and Mrs. (our beloved “Rosita”) Benito Collada, who have been our guests for a week have returned to their home and famous club “El Chico” in N.Y.C. Ray de La Torre of Havana, Cuba has been the guest of the Marquesa de Esteban and her daughter Hortensia. Mrs. Aida Conseugra has had a happy reunion with her husband who flew up from Colombia, S.A.

LYNCH — We welcome back Mr. O. J. Nicastro of New York City. Mr. H. St. John Simpson of Montreal has been the guest of Mr. Norman MacGregor and has returned to his studies in N.Y.C. Mr. Archibald Fisher of N.Y.C. has been a recent visitor of Marguerite Gillore.

News from Lake Clear by Phyllis Lyeth

Mrs. Rose Perry of Catskill spent the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lyeth. She came to Lake Clear by car with Mr. and Mrs. George Burchell who were enroute to Malone from Lake Worth, Florida.

Miss Oehler, a student at Mt. Agnes, has returned to Lake Clear to spend the summer at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Oehler.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jarvis of Lake Clear visited in Plattsburg Sunday.

Mrs. George Lyeth returned Sunday to her home in Lake Clear after spending the winter in Hampton, Virginia with her son, Harry Lyeth.

Mr. and Mrs. William Fox have moved into their summer home in Lake Clear.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sweeney and family of Camden spent the weekend in Lake Clear while their summer home is being completed.

Mrs. Edward Reyome and son, Danny spent the weekend at Lake Clear with Mrs. Genevieve Reyome.

Mrs. James Strack has returned to her home in Lake Clear from the Saranac Lake General hospital.

Mrs. Charles Fisher left for New York City Sunday morning and will remain there for ten days.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gillmett and family spent the weekend in Malone visiting Mrs. Gillmett’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Primeau.

[Howard Lyeth and my son, Keegan, are great pals and I went to Saranac Lake High School with Bob Lyeth. Now I know back in the day that all local correspondents were paid by the inch so, just saying, maybe that is why there was so much Lyeth news in Phyllis’ column.]