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TH E E A S T HAM P T ON STA R . FR ID A Y. JUN E 28. 1918 TIMELY NEWS NOTES FROM NEIGHBORING VILLAGES SPRINGS Mrs. W a llace Erskine, o f N e w York City, has arrived here fo r the sum m er and is stopping fo r a tim e at Chestnut Burr. Gilbert E. Miller returned the first o f the week from Roosevelt Hospital, where he has been having treatment fo r throat trouble. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. deLoiselle and son Edmund, o f Southampton, were Sunday callers o f their uncle, R. G. Foster, at Bay Shore. Mrs. C. Herman K ing has m o ved to her bungalow at Montauk, where she is spending the summer with her hus band, who is em p loyed there. Mr. and Mrs.' A. IV. Foster, o f East H am p ton, quietly celebrated their w edding anniversary with their par ents in this village the past week end. Mrs. Etta Parsons and her daugh ter, Miss Esther Sanford, left here Friday to spend the summer visiting with relatives and friends in the west. Misses Catherine and Ruth Miller arrived home the first o f this week to spend their summer' vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Miller. Mrs. W ilson Grilling, o f Am a gan- sett, was in the place M onday giving musical instructions and making ar rangem ents with her pupils fo r the summer. Mrs. Emma Corwin, o f East Hamp ton, visited with Mrs. C. Howard K ing in this place several days last week, returning to her home Monday o f this week. Members o f the Senior Class of E. H. H. S., and their friends, from this village, attended the baccalaur eate sermon last Sunday at St. Luke’s church, East Hampton. W e regret very much to learn that Mrs. E. Betken is am o n g those on our sick list this week. Mrs. Betken is being cared fo r by Mrs. W illiam Pfeiffer, o f Southampton. The funeral services o f the late Mrs. William Topping, o f W ainscott, form e r ly o f Barnes Landing, in this place, was held at St. Peter’s Mis sion, at East Side, last W ednesday. Misses Caroline Miller and Hila Foster, members from this place, of the graduating class o f E. H. H. S., w ere entertained last Friday night by the Juniors at Three Mile Har bor. P. Koppleman made a trip to the m etropolis last week, returning to his home the latter part o f last week. Mr. Koppleman i& one o f our truck gardeners, and this year has a novel w a y o f advertising his products. If you haven’t observed his sign, take the pleasant drive to Fire Place and view it as you pass his gardens. The service flag com m ittee in charge o f last Friday evening’s cake and ice cream sale, wishes to thank the residents and friends and those who helped in any way, fo r their hearty response in com ing out on such a storm y night and also the ladies fo r their' gifts o f such lovely cakes, which were very much appre ciated by those who partook o f them. The amount taken in was $52.08. The proceeds o f the evening will be for purchasing a service flag in m emory o f the boys o f Springs who are called to serve their country’s flag. W A IN S C O T T AND SA G A P O N A C K ; Randolph H. Gaul, o f Brooklyn, | spent the week-end with his fam ily \ in Sagaponack. The Case cottage on Beach lane, | has been leased to Mrs. W elshm an’s daughter for the season. Mrs. Mary Birch and granddaugh- j ter, Miss G ertrude Foster, o f Saga ponack, were the guests last week of Mrs. William D. Barnes. Thomas Tyndall, until recently first man at the M ecox coast guard station, has received his pension after more than thirty years o f service. ] Mr. and Mrs. WilbUr Hedges re turned on Tuesday to their home' in East M arion, a little earlier than ex pected ow ing to the illness o f Mrs. Hedges. The “ Busy Bees” were very pleas antly entertained on Tuesday after noon by Mrs. Fridolph Lundin, the next m e eting will be held with Mrs. J. S. Strong. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows C. Foster, with their daughters, Misses Edith and G ertrude, spent Sunday at “ Bay- view ,” Springs, the guests o f Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Foster. Mrs. Garfield Vail, o f East Hamp ton, with her cousin, Mrs. Eugene Clark, o f New Haven, Conn., were guests on Thursday last, o f their cousin, Mrs. LeVi Crapser. Mrs. Eugene Clark and little daughter, Jean, o f New Haven, Conn., are guest o f Mrs. Levi Crap ser, fo r a few weeks. P r o f. Eugene Clark, o f Yale, having gone t o France fo r service as a French interpreter. Mr. and Mrs. W ilbur Hedges, of East M arion, arrived in W a inscott on W ednesday evening fo r a visit am o n g relatives, Mr. Hedges having received a ten-day furlough from his duties at the R o cky Point coast guard station. Mrs. Hattie Gay, o f Brooklyn, fo r merly Miss Hattie Smith, one o f our W ainscott girls, had the honor o f re ceiving the first prize, $5 in gold, which had been offered to the w o man collecting the largest am ount of money in New York City in the re- ’ cent Red Cross drive. David Osborn, L. H. Osborn and the Misses Jennie and Florence Os born and Miss Etta Hedges took an auto trip to G reenport on Manday. Howard Hand, Everett Hand, John Hand and W ilbur Hedges took an auto trip to Montauk M onday after- SOUTH AM P T ON BRIDGEHAM P T ON A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brennan on Jsunday a f ternoon. Mrs. D. L. Chester was a visitor with relatives in Connecticut fo r a few days last week. Miss Cynthia W iley entertained a num ber o f Vassar college friends at a house party one day last week. Mrs. Nathan Hand, o f Amagansett, entertained the Thimble club o f this village very delightfully on W ednes day afternoon. The Bridgehampton bathing station will open fo r the season on Saturday, June 29th..- M ortim er and Herbert Cooper will be in charge o f the sta tion this season. Private Frank Schenck, who has been stationed at Camp McClelland since his enlistment a few weeks ago sailed the latter part o f the week to join the A m e rican forces overseas. As usual Thomas C. Topping, who is one o f the largest grow e rs o f strawberries in this vicinity, has a fine crop o f the luscious fru it this year in his big strawberry field, again proving that he knows how to raise them. Every \season the de mand fo r his crop fa r exceeds the supply, and such has been the case this year more than ever. When one sees and tastes the excellent berries, there is no further need to wonder why everyone wants them. Mr. T o p ping picked from one variety this week berries that easily averaged over two inches in diameter, and the w riter can say from “ e x p e rience” that they were perfect, and judging from these samples it would almost tempt anyone to follow the.examplfe o f the boys who recently spent part o f a Sunday afternoon am ong the strawberries, were it not f o r the fa c t that the owner, despite his age, can run about as fast as those o f younger years. Mrs. George Hammond, o f Fort Meyers, Fla., is a guest o f Mrs. Jesse Fowler. The Southampton Canning Kit chen re-opened fo r the season on Monday last. A daughter was born on W e d n es day o f last week to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel V. Micari. Addison J. Whitman, o f Tacom a , Wash., is in Southam pton, stopping with his brother, W a lter Whitman. The eighteen young men from Southampton who went to Camp Up ton two weeks ago leave today for Jacksonville, Fla. The Southampton bathing station opened Saturday fo r the season, the temperature o f the water at that time being fifty degrees. J. Harold Culver has recently been transferred from Camp Dix to Bos ton, Mass., where he is on guard duty in one o f the harbors. Bruno Huhn, organist at St. An drew ’s Dune church, was in town over Sunday and will com e down about July 1st fo r the season. Jesse Lutz has enlisted in the Quarterm a ster's Departm ent o f the U. S. A ., and left last W ednesday for Camp Meigs, W ashington, D. C. David H. Cameron has arrived ov erseas, a cablegram to that effect having been received M onday. Louis Willumsen, Everett Higgins, Edward Duryea. and others from Southamp ton have recently reached the other side. William Drew has sold his prop erty in Maple street to the Brooklyn Polish D iocese and the latter will take possession July 1. W e under stand that the house and garage will remain as a t . p resent and a church will be built on the lot in the near future. Ten o f the Camp Fire girls clev erly enacted the three-act play, “ Miss Fearless & C o .,” at the Auditorium last Saturday evening. In the cast were Eleanor H o w e ll, Gladys W e b ster, Helen Kendrick, Ella Topping, Adelaide Corwith, Mildred Eve, B e t ty Bishop, Elizabeth W h ite, M a rjorie I Payne and Evelyn Cartwright. | W ork has been com m enced on Mrs. j Albert H. Ely’s new cottage in Shin- necock Hills. C. Elmer Smith has I the contract and the house is to be j similar to Dr. and Mrs. E ly’s form e r summer home in Ox-Pasture road. The new cottage will be located on a beautiful site overlooking both of the bays and the ocean and will be a notable addition to that section. A t M aurice B eck’s, Patchogue, L. I., a large selection o f graduation dresses in georgette crepe, crepe de chine, voile, organdie and net, at at tractive prices.— Adv. SAG H ARBO R Miss M adelyn A ffron is enjoying a vacation from her duties in the Jos. Fahys office. A . A. Brownell and fam ily are moving into thhe Brown apartments on Main street. Sergt. Garrett B. Carmen, of.Cam p W adsworth, Spartanburg, is spending a short furlough with friends in town. A daughter, M&rie Kathryn, was born, June 14th, at Southampton Hospital, to Ensign and Mrs. Carl J. Christman. Miss Clarice Tillinghast, o f Sara toga, N. Y ., is spending the summer vacation with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Tillinghast. Carlton A. Smith is enjoying a va cation from his duties at the local post office, and with Mrs. Smith and their son are visiting at Southamp ton. The Long Island Gas Corporation com m e n ced on W ednesday o f last week to refund the fifty cents serv ice charge collected during April from a num ber o f its custom ers. Owing to a serious accident to one o f the big engines in the factory last Saturday afternoon, M anager Sexton was unable to put on his show at the Atheneum . This m eant a loss to Sexton o f over $250. Mrs. Frank Jaffee has received cards stating that two o f her sons, M ortim er and Theodore, have reached France safely. They are on a hos pital staff. The third son, Lionel, is at Camp John W ise, San Antonio, Texas, learning wireless telegraphy. He is attached to the 34th Balloon Company. Mrs. Florence E. T a b o r received the degree o f B. C. S. in Journalism at New York University on June 12th. Studies fo r this degree included fi nance, governm ent, econom ics, soci ology, law, news w riting and news reporting, editorial w riting, literary and dram a tic criticism ; special feat ure writing, short stories, current events, magazine m aking and editing and newspaper practice. Commercial Spanish and Argum e n tation and pub lic speaking w ere also credited. Miss M arion Backlund and Harry Mathhewson Bell were married by the Rev. J. B. Gee at the Congrega tional parsonage, at Riverhead, Mon day afternoon, June 17th, 1918. The bride and groom m otored down from H ollis, accom p a n ied by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rackett, uncle and aunt of the bride, and a fter the cerernttfy, continued on to Sag H a rbor for\ short call on the bride’s fam ily before resum ing the jou r n e y back to H o l lis. Mrs. Bell is the eldest daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. H u g o Backlund and is in training at the Jamaica Hospital. Mr. Bell is a resident o f Philadelphia, and is stationed at the Aviation Camp at Garden City, L. I. He shortly ex pects his Commission as second lieu tenant, before going to France. 200 DOCTORS IN CAM P More than 200 m em bers w ere pres ent at the spring m e eting o f the A s so ciated Physicians o f Long Island, held last Saturday at the Base Hospital, Camp U p ton, L. I. The m eeting started at 1 o'clock, with a dinner at the hospital, follow ed by a short business m eeting. Short addresses w ere m ade by Colonel Whitham o f the m edical staff, Gen. Bell and the president o f the organ ization, Dr. Lefferts A . McClelland. A fter the m eeting the doctors were divided into sections, each section com p osed o f men engaged in the same specialized branch o f w o r k , and a tour was made o f the hospital, in order that the physicians might study the vast clinical material contained there. Provisions w ere made by Dr. Ed- warc^ E. Hicks, chairman o f the com mittee on arrangem ents, f o r guides to show the members around the camp and fo r transportation to and from the trains. AG RIG RAPH S Crops over here help to fight Krupps over there. A rainy day jo b : repair the ship ping crates and egg cases. Every weed in the garden saps the strength o f food crops ^ind robs them o f water. D o n ’ t delay getting the binder twine, if it is not already on hand. The supply may be short; T o increase you r interest— both financial and patriotic— turn Liberty Bond dividends into W a r Savings Stamps. Utilize that idle acre. Find some crop suitable fo r the places where fche winter wheat killed, and get it in. Buckwheat is good. W ith the hatching season over it is wise to produce infertile eggs whether they are to be shipped or preserved. Sell the roosters, eat them, can them, or, if especially good male birds are to be kept, pen away from the hens. No farm e r would drop his m oney in a heap back o f the barn. But this is the way he often handles manure, which represents m oney. Have you had your copy o f Bulletin 127, on farm manure, from the state college o f agriculture, at Ithaca? A post card will bring it. East Hampton IC E C o m p a n y D. E. Osborn, Manager PURE ICE FOR SALE ON W OODS LA N E — E A S T HAM P T ON An attractive, modern house— T w o acres o f land with 180 ft. fron t age. House has thirteen room s, two baths, approved plum bing, elec tric light and hot air heat. G arage and stable on the property. In quire fo r terms and particulars. Price attractive. E. T. D A Y T O N , A g e n t Post Office Building ’Phone 301-W . Sheriff’s Notice I, having been appointed as Agent fo r the State Industrial Commission to carry out the Com p u lsory Work Law, am prepared to receive com plaints against persons who do not w o rk at a useful occupation for at ! least thirty-six hours a week, and to ? receive applications from persons who desire to engage help fo r some law- fu l, useful recognized business, oc cupation, trade or employment. Am za W . Biggs, Sheriff o f Suffolk County, N. Y. Riverhead, N. Y. Formerly Puchmuller’s Inn E A S T QUOGU E, L. I. Opens Saturday, June 22 Live Lobsters, Steaks, Chickens, Ducks, Etc. Cuisine and Service U n excelled Tea Dansant every afternoon 4-6 P. M. M usic by Julius Klein and his celebrated orchestra E v e ry day from 4 to 6 p. m ., 7:15 p. m. to closing Your Patronage Is Invited D. C. Y A V I S , P r o p rietor Last three seasons proprietor Shinnecock Casino Telephone 320 East Quogue -E3 M O T O R C A R S H ALSEY’S lARAGE EAST HAMPTON, N. Y. Distributor and Service Station for Eastern Long Island J- J- G a y j ; E. Gay OSBORNE HOUSE STABLES LIV E R Y and BO A R D IN G Horses and Carriages to Let Parties taken to and from trains and beach B. M. OSBO RN E, Mgr. HARDSCRABBLE FARM Dairy C r • » n E. M. Baker D e livery A g e n t Phone. 49-R LOUIS VETAULT Potted Plants, Trees, and Shrubs, Vines and Hardy Perennials Cooper Lane T w o Responsibilities The telephone company builds and operates the telephone system — the public uses it. When the telephone company recognizes its responsibilities in con struction and operation — When the public recognizes its responsibilities in perform ing the several tasks w h ich only the public can perform , such as consulting the Telephone D irectory, always speaking clearly and distinctly with lips close to the transmitter— T h e result is quick and efficient telephone service. NEW Y O R K T E L E P H O N E COMPANY Is There a Thrift Card in Your Pocket? T H E H UN T T IN G C H A S . S . P / H f f S O / V S O p e n s April im C loses December isi G O O D R j O O M S G O O D BEDS G O O D T A B L E “ It R e m i n d s M e o f H o m e .\ O T T O S I M M O N S P L U M B I N G Steam and Hot Water Heating Stoves and Ranges Main Street East Hampton T E L E P H O N E 1 0 6 S e v e r e W inter Injures H u n d reds of V a luable Trees B e tter have me exam ine and rem edy your trees now. A local injury to the bark you ’d hardly notice, will, if neglected, result in a decaying tree. Prevention is always better than cure. LE O N A R D G. V A I R M aster Tree Surgeon M u n icipal Building Southam pton, New York Telephone Connection J. F. MILLER G E N E R A L C O N T R A C T O R AND M O V E R OF AN Y T H IN G M O V A B L E Non-Pumpable Cesspools, High Pressure Water Sys tems Installed. Wells Sunk, Drilled or Driven All Kinds of Concrete Work Done EA S T H AM P T O N , N. Y. E. M. LYNCH FIRE WOOD AND KINDLINGS $5 a Load CESSPOOLS CLE A N E D AND G A R B A G E REM OVED Telephoi Springs Road Connection East Hampton
