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.jy ^ = ~ ' \ \ . ' — \ T i ' mi 1 iiitiiTnrwc-^^imBPBB^ f - i ¦ 'ii - • I I Have You Ever Been Offered J I A Fairer ' Proposition? 1 % H § Frankly, the small initial payment we ' re asking | during our special Hoover offer is probably the lowest a I amount that will ever bring a Hoover into your home. S We ' re making this unusual offer for a short time that -I II every woman who wants to get out from under the 1 ¦ • shadow of broom and carpet beater can do so . without f > n inconveniencing herself in any way . $3.25 Down ] It HO OVER j It BEATS... as it Sweeps as it Cleans | \ LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO. j / DEMONSTRATION PARLOR § i' ( GRIFFIN Ave. Tel. 323 RIVERHEAD f ;< ,- 11. ^ I i i II \ i 1 \ \ i II i ' ' i i ' i i - ~f-\ m «. HYDROPLANE LANDS ON NAPEAGUE BEACH Made the Tri p ,o f 450 Miles from Norfolk , V a., in Three Hours. There seems to be considerable mystery connected with the landing of a hydroplane at Napeague beach last Friday. There were three -men in the machine , one of them returned to the cit y and the other two are stopping at Agawam Inn. One report Is that the -heavy gale last Friday forced the operator of the hydroplane to make a landing at Napeague beach and in doing so the engine 'becamo dis- abled. The machine was not in the service pf the U. S. Government , but was made at Norfolk , Va., and we are inform ed was being delivered to the purchasers In Boston . The tri p from Norfolk to Napeague was made in 3 hours , an average of 150 miles an hour , and it is given out that the high rate of speed caused the engine to get out of order. The motor was taken from the machine and brought to a machine shop in Southampton for repairs. Officers o£ the Coast Guard service are making an investi- gation of the landing of the hydro - plane at Napeague , as this type of machines are now being used by rum- runners and t \ho movements of those not owned by the U. S. Government are being carefully cheeked up. BIG FOREST FIRE DOES MUCH DAMAGE Hampton Forest Conservation Association is Making an Investigation. Last Wednesday afternoon a fire started on the east shore of Big Fresh Pond between the fake and North Sea road. Owing to the extremely dry weather of late and the strong wind the fire burned fiercel y and threat- ened to burn all the wood land laying between the North Sea road and West Neck. But for the prompt action , on the part of the Fire Wardens , Elias Miller and Ilconard Foster , who arrived with the fire fighting appar- atus , recently purchased by the asso- ciation , together with the help of volunteer members of the association and others , the fire would have cer- tainly crossed the North Sea road and destroyed a much larger area of wood land than it did. Only through the good work of the apparatus and the hard work of these men was it gotten under control and confined to about ten acres. A dete rmined effort is being made by the association to find out how this fire started. Under the new law ' a heavy fine wiU be imposed on any one starting a fire without first having qecured\ arpprrhit from the Fire War- den of the district. It is not the desire of the association to make trouble for any one , but they do want to stop the destruction of the woods and to solicit the help ami co-opera- tion of the community. Hel p the association to hel p save Southampton ' s woods! Value in Proverbs The study of proverbs may be mora Insti'iirtlve r,ni| comprehensive than the most elnlinrnte scheme of pliil oso- phy. —Miitlierwell . RADIO CHATS WITH i Powel Crosley J K g= j| IIF.UK are 21 , 000000 , owned M homes in the United States. Ml Of that number nearly 10 , - 000 , 000 are equi pped with sonic kind of a musical reproducing in- strument—a p honograph , a piano- player or what not Thirteen million are equipped With electrical service. Nearly 12 , 000 , 000 have motor cars. From 8 , 000, 000 to 6 , 000.000 have their own radio sets . What a future for the radio in- dustry? Some day every home will have it* own radio. |5 P S] ^V industry tcith such a future WiW must necessaril y shoulder IBaJI real public responsibilities . Xo industry can have , tuch a close relationship to the public ¦ without having tremendous public obli gations. The radio has groxvn so rap idl y that those in it have neglected to devote enoug h of their time and en- <r ?y to \'** r ohligaiiont ' and , re- sponsibilities. — -»» - ¦ \ Radio it being conducted today for prof it. Those in it are in it to make money. That it the purpose of all basinets. But no business—this may tound trite but It it just at true at it teat th* day it wot firtts erprtsttd —can protper excep t on the basis of conscientious service to the public. 15=51 T was Abraham Lincoln who II HI s 0 wdl taid tnat \ without \mJB\ publ ic sentiment nothing can succeed; with it nothing con fail. \ That app lies to radio. Radio broadcasting mutt be eon« ducted for the benefit of the great- c»t number. • That of course is the purpose p f the Department of Commerce of the United States Government in exercising supervision over radio and to the credit of that deport- ment let it be said that it has done well. But enormous problems face the industry today. From week to week we shall consider them. Established in 1850—Catch- ing Menhaden Was An Im- portant Industry—In 1 835 •12 ,000,000 Moss Bunkers Caught in Riverhead Town. ( H T D T S .) Lontf Island men learned to render oil fro m denizens of the deep before 1650 . They took a \tip \ from the \ - aborigines , who caugh t whales off the south side ai the 1-dand. When these whalemen and descendants of whalemen , saw tho whaling enter- prise languish, th^-y changd their r .c- tivities to procuring oil from men- haden. Contrary to belief of many the men- haden industry on Lung Island ii al- most as ancient as tho West India trade of 1770 and the whaling voyages of 1785. The-fishery 'dates back to 1794 (but not the rendering of oil from menhaden) and perhaps before that year. Southold Town records , tell of a catch, a tremendous large one , of ¦ menhaden , 250 , 000 fish , drawn ashore in Southold Bay before 1800. Hon. Ezra L'Hommedieu . the most promin- ent citizen of the period , is authority for this statement: \This year (1794) 1 sawv 250 , 000 taken at one draught which must have been more than one ^hundred tons. \ Each year the farmers , who needed fish for fertilizer formed seining com- panies. In spring and fall they caught the great schools of menhaden , or bunkers , that came \ into the . Peconic Bays to spav. 'n. The menhad2n-U a fish from twelve to sixteen inch»s long, very buney, and of little value as a food fish; if is rich in oil arid fertilizer salts. In later years there were organized fiVning crews , with fish-houses and reels at chosen spots on the beaches . The y caught the men- haden and farmers came t** the beach and carted away loads to be thread ' upon fields and ploughed beneath the| surface and there left to decay. John Howard -Payne , -who -wrote the immor- tal- song \Home , Sweet Home , \ bas .,: :• __ I *i-_ * • PH .. .... . uGMiiucu nir: UI < IWJI |£ ui ia,c acuiu 1111 the Atlantic , a» follows: \At East Hampton a horn is sounded at day- break , whenever-(he sea g ives promise of abundance. Ail the- men , of all orders and conditions , hurry to the beach , in their boat toggery. The boats pull off , and ere long all hands arc pulling at the net-ropes , waste deep in the watery and the sands are swarming with fish of every variety, the greater part of which are used for the purpose of b^ing left to decay upon the fields for manure. The hide- ous and pofeon sting-ray is :usually among the captives; and I ha ve seen from fifteen to twenty sharks strewn upon the ' shore from a singl e haul. \ This was written in 1S3S. An old fish house was located nea 'iv Short Beaeh at North Haven, east side of Noyac Bay. The Bridgehampton farmers had a fishing station . near Long Bench spring... Other stations stretched aiong the shore from River- head to . Orient Point , and from Shin- 1 necock ip-Montauk , 'both \ on bay and : ocean sides. _; In.the town of Riverhead. in 1335 , ' there were caught in a single season ¦ over 12.000.6ft0 .moss bunkers. The first sold from fift y- to seventy-irve cents a thousand. t The fi. -;lii..g or<. A\ s operated two large seine boats . The bu'lding of! these boats was a business keeping j rriany shi pwrights busy. Trom five to, twenty men ware employed in the 1 crews. The seine 1 crews took names : and there is >a memorandum for j Southold town , in .lune , 18. '15 , as fol- i lows: Name of Seine: Weazle , nine . men; Diago'i , ten men; Cove , twenty ; men; Caots , ten men; Crow , eight men; Skunks , ten men; Munfudgeon , eight men; Wolf , ten ' men; Sea Ser- pent , ten -men; , ..Turk s , ten men; j ¦ Hawks , - twenty men; Greeks , tan men; i Owls , ten men; Water Witch , eight men: John Garner , eight men ; Jack- son , eight men; Union , ten men; Op- position , twelve men; Ni g ht Haw!: , | seven men; Indian Chief , ten men ,: Uttle Jackson , five \ men; Little States , | five men; Pipe ' s Neck, five men. j • The seines emp loying ten men were about. 150 reds long, exclusive of line, which was- . - geiiurall y. double that length. The average time employed in fishing was five weeks. At a latar perjo d sailing sloops .transferred Chu .catch from place to place. Marcus Osborji , who had owned , commanded anil been agent of whale ships , turned his ' attention to render- ! ing oil from mess bunkers. This was not the firs t essay to utilize bunker oil. It was the initial effort , however , to make a paying business of extract- icgjbunker oil , clarifying it , and of- fering it for sale . In the year 1848 he obtained a heavy, black arid odor- ous oil. It was used by \Judge \ Os- . born for coarse painting and other purposes on hu farm. Small amounts were sold to other parties. This oil had been used more or less as occa- sion required - to aid in dressing leather and in rope making. \Judge \ Osborn , \ as \ he wis coHoq-aalfy called , is believed to be the first man to put up trypots for rendering bunkers into oil for .commercial ' purposes. There had been shore tryworks , used for rendering whale blubber , along thti ocean beach , for 200 years before this time, and-there wm a try house at Sag \\TT^flriw. - riEfn ' ra ^thb-revoiuticynaiw-wSr , where blubber cut from whales cAugnt off the south shore of Long Island , was brough t in , packed in ' the holds of sloops , arid there rendered. Long Is- landers were familiar'with obtaining oil from the yield of the sea. : ' • ¦ - . Osborn located 'his tryworks at Jes- sup ' s Neck, a long beach and head land in Rou ' .liamp lon ' town. !t stretched out to the north in I' cvomc Bay and div 'ded the b:i\s of Noyac and Peconic cast of U- ;bin ' -i I. -land. I' «\ . \ - an; ideal location Tor a convenient land- ing \ with deep water close to shore , ' and with a good lee for vessels on either side of the Point , according t-i direction of the wind. Vessels merely Viad t\ weio-li anchor and make the short run around the headiandj ami shoal to gain a harb.ir when i:ai.gnt on * , ..... - . *'— ¦ v-i-mn iiy {in.e= of heavy 'Vinds- or hifi ii seas. Osborn s nra ' % attempts U ulillzp bunker oil were discouraging. Htr -introdiu'od improved READ REVIEW ADS l i methods and ma4e a better quality at \ ' oil. Some years RUbseiruuMl y O&boi-n i : erected a steam rendering. plant at , [ •isSsup ' s Point. There is nothing now . I remaining to 1 show where it stood. ' i The year was about 1861. I The first fish factory in the United . ' ! States was located nt Chruuit Point ,! en Shelter Island , near the present ! site of the Shelter Island Yacht Club jj House. • Daniel \Wells and his son ,| Henry E. Wells, of Greenport , built ! j this factory in \1850\ , says the late ! j Henry A. Reeves , who wrote a paper 1 i on Commerce, Navigation and Fish- 1 cries , read in the year 18S3. Another j writer , who has looked up the date ; gives it as \1853. \ Whichever may i be right , soon after I 860 there was at this place a plnnt for obtaining fish oil. The Wells boiled fish , skimmed off oil , and pressed it off in a primi- tive hand press . Later , or very soon after 1S50 , they procured a large i steam boiler in which the fish were i J \ cooked . \ _ The Osborn and Wells ! plants were the first menhaden \ pot- woiks, \ oo-ealled because the fish were cooked in iron pots the oil then being pressed from ine residue in wooden presses , and the scrap sprea d upon board platforms for sun curing or drying. It was not a clean busi- ness and the odors arising from the decaying fish caused complaint , just ) as such odors at times are disagree- j able to dwellers in vicinity of the is- j olated Promised Land fish factories.; the only ones , aside from Hick' s Is- [ land , nearby, now operated at eastern I Long Island , in the town of East; Hampton. . j The Wells took a que from Os- born ' s incentive. They appear to have grasped the comemrcial possibilities his experiments promised. At any rate Orient , Grecnport and East Mar- tnn Melvino. /.wuva na wnl l x*<& iiohiy rtr crews employed by the Wells , sold lish to the Chequit Point works . The business was a success. This success led other men to invest capital in fish rendering plants. In 1852 the Chequit Point plant was moved to a site , near White Hill , Shelter Island , opposite Fanning ' s Point . Plans for a larger factory were \ pro jetted. \\ The factory was never completed. Colonel Morga n , ut Connecticut , bought the AVcl!^ ' equipment. He moved the steam \ cookers. \ He took machinery and and boilers to Poquannock , near Gro- ton , - Conn. -He built-therc enlarged screw presses. ¦ In the fall of 1853 another fish fac- tory was built at White , Hill beach , Shelter Island. The meri inte re. et. ->d in. this yenture , were the Wells , father and son , Harmon Tu thill , if axon Tut- hill and the Strongs , of East Marion . They are said to .have used the first puise seines , which were boug ht in Rhode Island and brought to Long Island. This purse seine was the invention of Capt. Benjamin Tallman. It was an ingonius movable trap for impounding fish. He never patented his invention. It has been of incalcu- lable value to fishermen. In 1854 the Wells bought the interests of the Tut- hills and Strongs. The Wells con- tinued in business until many years later and did not retire until all fish- ing plants of the section were acquired by the American- Fisheries , -yndi.:ato. VV'hen Shelte r Island was developed ' as a camp meeting site and sukse- i quently as a hotel and cottage resort , j the Wells sought another remote site. ! They located at Cedar Beach , or East j Point, in East Hampton town. The \ jpot was the former site of an Indian v:llsge. It was seven miles away from a settlement , and four miles across the bay- from Sag Iiarboi - , a sheltered spot washed by the waters tf Shelter Islamd ^Sound. There was deep water close to shore , but flats outside. These flats in places had to be dredged to open a channel . Thi &, channe l was narrow and winding and \ at night stake lights were placed to direct the sail carry ' ways , yachts and steamers from the main ship channel to the rendering plant. j The development of the menhaden j fishery was rap id. As whaling Ian- 1 guished , a great business was built 'ip from fUh oil and fish scrap. The old method' of spreading \ raw \ fish on .the; . fields , because of a prevalence of tetanus , or lock-jaw , was conde m ned. Fish scrap, sun-cured , was in demand. It had a 'high value for fertilizer. Then phosp hate rock was mixed with the scrap and the time of scientific fertilizers dawned. A fleet of . sailing craft , large ves- sels , srme carrying twenty ' arfil thirty men , to haul the seines , was est ab- lished. These seine operating boats were known as \ yacht?!\ They were built for speed and had -fine lines. They carried no fish. With- purse seines available the menhaden schools could be pursued. It wa3 not neces- sary to wait for the fish to approach shore. \Carry ' way \ boats fallowed the yachts. They had .no seines , nor did they tow seine bq^ts. Like the whale fishery of early years , before the ruthless taking of leviathan , great schools of migrating \ menhaden were met and followed along the . coast. Catches were made miles distant from factories. The carry ' way boats . brought in the fish and then went back to ' the \ yachts: \ Steam succeeded sailing gear. - , The first steamer used in the menhaden fishery wa3 not desi gned to carry fish . It was a tow-boat. B y towing the sail-driven carry ' way boats time was save d and quality of-oil improved by getting filth to the boilers before decay set in. Bloody and\ high smell- ing fish long kept in transit did not make a good grade of oil. Clarifying processes were not perfected as they are at present. Fish laying in the holds of boats •decomposed ' .quickly. -01iver. . - -BU-hop,-::buiIt=-the: i fir^. t _. ' -|}eaOT low-uuaL rur LHU iiieii.iu...^.. ir.au;-vry, in 1870. Power installed was inade- o , uate to give profitable service. The boat was sold to the Greenports and Shelter Island Ferry Company. It plied for many years: as .. tliej fcrrybba 't . Cambria and was also used as an ex- cursion boat. ¦ -, . ' .. j Sometime before 1872 William A. Wells had a nVn fact.nv in Maine. Also ' was built for Wells one of the 'fli.it fishing \steamcis . It was christ- , ened the William A. Wells . Other i steamers were soon after this built I for other companies. In some in- ' stances steamers paid for themselvc I in a single season ' s fishing. I At South Bristol , Maine , was built i the first fisluiiK atra— icr cvr used in I Long Island waters. It was the E. |, F. Price and Capt. Benjamin Tallman j gave it its name. I Thomas F. Price , of Grecnport , was j manager of the Range r C : ' Company, 1 Save Money—Read Our Ads ' ! of Grecnport , for whom the steamet I fished. The Wel ls factory moved fi..;,i Shcl- ¦ itr I. -!.in.i to ( . Y.U i - E; n.l : ' ,, 1S72. The Seven Urotncrs is said to have i besn the first fishing steamer , built • for taking menhaden. It was owned i b y Church Brothers , , of Tivert-m, R. ; *• Hawkins Bros., of Jmncsport , built | their first fishing steamer in 1K71. I Before large steam factories suc- I c-ceded shore works there were trv- 1 works at Napeague , a waste of saiuly i beach , cast of Amagansett. No habi- | tations were nearby. The odor of ren- I dcring fish ^ while not cotrsiuered to be j a menace to health , was objectionable to many. Thus the fishermen sought isulated . -pots fur their try-pots . The Greens , I'ithiat, & llort m and others had small* t lints inside Napeague Buy or iiurbor. Wells & Co. established a fish fae- ; tury at Virginia, in 1889. It did not pay so it was moved back to Maine. At Promised Lar.d, '\having \\ deep water approaches , several fish factor- ies were erected. There are still factories there and at Hick' s Island , rlose by. Location and ownership of factor- ies for the period of 1600-1900 , in- clusive , are : Shel ter Island, at Bunker City, plant of Capt. Cartwright , for- mer whaleman , and the Hawkins Bros. At Long Beach , near Orient , Atlan- tic and Virginia Fertilizer Co. At Northwest , D. D. Wells & Son , and Sterling Oil Co. At Promised Land , Abbe & Co., George F. Tuthill & Co., O. H. Bishop, pot-works of William H. Tuthill & Sons , Dixon Company. Jonas Smiih. T. F. Price & Co., Ellsworth Tuthill 4: Co. At Acaoonae , Benjamin . Payne. Hawkins Bros, had a fish factory at Barren Island. One of the first factories where fish scrap was dried for fertilizer was lo- cated at Hay Beach , Shelter Island. There was an old fish factory at Paradise Point , in Southold town. A writer for an historical pamphlet issued in 1924 by the Shelter Island Historical Society, whose name 1 would g ive credit , bat the article is not siVrn'd , say*: \The capture of fish for the expres- sion of oil and the manufacture of fertilizer -first-became a- business _of some- importance to _ Shelter _ Island during the year 1S53. The first pot : works were located at Chequit Point and owned by William Wells , of Greenport. These works were later located on the shore near the house now owned b y Dr. John Scudder. Af- ter the Chase property, known as Prospect , was sold in # 1871, they were removed to North West , East Hamp- ton. ' \About the year I860 Kallett- & Fielder , a Riverhead firm , built a fish factory at Dinah ' s Rock , which was sold in 1864 to A. deFigunear , of New York City, to be used for the manu- facture of phosnhate. The whole property was sold ' in 1873 to Prof. E. N. Horsford. Alterations and addi- tions soon made it a favorable p lace of amusement where shore dinners were served to people who were p lea- suio seeking. \A steam factory (which cooked fi-=h by steam) was built about the si:ne time at Itam Head hy G avitt & Lay, of Rhode Island and was after- ward sold to Morgan & Gallup, of Groton , Connecticut. In 1S63 Capt. Benjamin C. Cartwrijrht became the owner of the enterprise , and continued to own it until it was condemned in 1872. \In ihe year 1385 or lSGti two fac- tories with pot-works were built at the foot of Burn s avenue. One was owned by King, Rogers & Co., the other , Union Factory, was owned by men of the Island. ' • ¦ \The year following Horton &\Fith- ian of Southold , erected a steam fac- tory on the site where the Monastery of the Passionist Fathers now stands , i and in the same year , Jacob App leby. I of Southold , built fish oil and * guan o works at Ram Head. They were sold to Henry Ac-kley & Co v in 1868 and destroyed by fire in October , 1871. \Clark & Tuthiil of Greenport , first- erected pot-works on P^am Island Beach. These were afterwards re- moved to the valley between Dinah' s i Rock' and Hay Beach Point. About the same time pot-works were erected on Rain K' .and Beach by Corwin & Vail and Downs Bros., of Riverhead. \In 18C7 a. phosphate factory was erected by dePerrmege on the ' end of Hay Beach Point for liie manufacture of p hosphate which was . shipped by sailing vessels to Savannah , Georgia, to be used us fertilizer for cotton and tobacco . Some was also shipped to the Connecticut Valley for the. pro- duction of tobacco. ' \The meiihaden fishery hail devel- oped into a vast industry by the year IS67. An extensive bteam factor; , the Peconic Oil Works , was built at Bunker City, by Harrison and Hub- bard Corwin, of Riverhead. Later they VPTC joined in this erlerpri sp by Capt. B. C . Cartwr i ght , their invest- ment of capital being about $40 , 000. \The largest concern engage d in this line of business was Hawkins Brothers of Jamesport . Toial capital invested in their works at Barren Is- land and Bunker City, Shelter I>land , amounted to $175,000. \The low prices realized for oil and fertilizer compelled the Peconic Oil Works to sell their boats and factory in 1882 . Between the year 13t)0 and 1894 menhaden were very scarce and the Hawkins Brotheis fa;torie= .were cl osed , but in 1895 the factories and boats were agar: eiiuipped. Five years later , in 1900 , th\y sold their p lant, to the Atlantic Fisheric. - , 1,0., tnr'j i t fd ,it PmmiSL 'd Lalld. \Fur .nearly fi fty year* the catching of menhaden and the manufacture of fertilizer was one of the leading en- terprises of the pcple \I \ Sheltar Is- land. \ The American Fhheri es Company bough t up all the east end p lu ' iiU and combined them in 1900. IV was a syndiei ' .e bucked largely by Eng lvsh capital. Fort y years ago there « ¦ ¦ ¦ >' ;• ninety vessels of steam , and 2.10 sailing vessels taking menhaden in the Unite d States waters. The cap ita! in- vented exceeded $5 , 000 , 000 and the value of the menhaden products in 'Ne w York State alone was over $1 , - 500 . 000 yea . 'ly- The Fisheries Company had an eventful existence. Management by a corporation; in Hi is instance , did nilt prove so profitable * a-; when tho fishery was worked by private ownershi p of 1 Get the Habit—-Pea d the Ads men who went fishing for themsclveB and who , as fishermen , and some as former whalemen, were familiar with ¦ ill details D f tn 5 business. The only fish factories today are in East Hampton town. They are supplied by a fleet of steam trawlers. Aeroplanes and hydroplanes are now used to \ spot\' menhaden. Crews arc paid wages. The days of bonuses have passed. The incentive to catch fish in the profits of which all share no longer exists. A report from Promised Land , this month of October , 1924 , is that the Fisheries Products Company, which operates fertilizer plants at Promised Land , Delaware and South Carolina, l.as gone into bankruptcy. The Promised Land plants had a hard time keeping going the past season on accoun t of the scarcity of menhaden. SHELTER ISLAND HAO FIRST FISH FACTORY I SWEZ EY ® N EWIiN S , INC. I x . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ \ The Sunshine Store On The Sunrise Trail \ - PATCHOGUE gst -l-, * . ¦¦ — , - ¦ ' ' ¦ ' —- ¦ ¦¦ . — ofr BLANKET S We have been lucky enough to have the personal acquaintance of a large blanket house of nationwide reputa- tion. Due to this personal touch , we have been able to make a purchase -which could not be obtained more j than once a year. ALL SOLD AT */ 4 OFF REGULAR PRiCE. j Cotton Blankets \yfo Q \ Mixed Blankets I Wonl fiLkets ' IWiful pattern, , full seleCion. A li„. tha, can harflv be .old W. T , \ ™ PF™-**? . A i i .1 • r .i • i I AII \ i ^-j ' «ne quantity oi these are limited, just the thing for the coming pure wool. All colors and pat- T L * / , C ,. \ V.. - ,. - . , «i i r l- r f A 4.T i -l ,- , . .rr . . .. 1 hey are or such fine quality that weather, rtlso the finest line of terns. A worth-while opportunity . . . . -? ° . . , *P . H .. °\-J ™ a j. 11 , . v. • 11 o I it is a rare privilege to own them. Indian blankets obtainable, bev- f: I eral prices and qualities , ' from Prices from Prices from j j $2J0 to $400 __ j $4.95 io $ 8.00 $10.5 0 to $15.00 I Be Sure to See the Living Models of the ? MiMrt ' Q Np rlfW^a** Ladiaiia DreSSeS aild Jilfy Tuilic An assortment of- ties that is a treat to see. Ties that j _ PlftiicAc I shouid be so ^ ioT $- ' . -^ to ^ ¦ *95 are bsing of\ B' iC ****'UoCa fered at a special price of This is a new idea in home dressmaking. Anyone can make up either a tunic blouse , a dress , or a child' s . ' i> 9 Tbt 1 dress. ' **°P ©lOUSeS The Ladiana Dress (women ' s) , $1.50 Something that the economical mother takes advantage I The Jiffy Blouse . .. 1.00 of. A com p lete line of madras blouses. Col- QQ g* The Kiddie Dress . .. 1.00 ? ored stripes. Regular price $1.50. Special . . . \~ ! ! - T -—- - -——~ —--— - -TO/\li I If You Need Towelg | Curtains MIW ( Linoleum Look* \ ° ! our new drapery depart- V acuum U eaner onoieum LOOK . G et rea d y for the sum _ , ment fs wor£] f J^ visit . . $3.25 DOWN P^?\fnoli n ™? ,W mer. Take advantage of W . Now is the time to T1 ^ way to clean your Printed Linoleums , short 5 j j „ ' u L W / mgs before you put them lengths , large enough for an exceptional opportun- ! j redecorate the house. We a way is with a Vacuum one room , however. . j flf 2?c | j have a new line of ere- cleaner. Inlaido that yrefe as high . ' • ' l ° n n e „ s • marauisettes ' Large size , with gear- I as $2.75 , 95c. e — nets - ' SI ' ks * and a man drive n brush , $65.00 i» . ,. ' ,, A t „ <t1 S\S\ who knows the drar-^ry With attachments $77.50 Fnntecs that were a? hig h 4 tQr .nl.UU i. ll6 ; neM Small size , with attach- * - d* 1 1 A ff\ Uli olllCoo. * I 11 as $1.1 . 0 , 69c. ments only, $35.00 , . j Nelson Green , of Southampton , was elected District Deputy Grand Master of the I. O. O. F. and Osman C. Lane , of Southampton , was elected District Grand Secretary at the an- nual meeting: of the District Grand Committee of Suffolk District No . 1 , held at Amityville last Wednesday. The meeting next year ,will he held in Southampton. ' • Suffolk District numbers a member- ship of approximately 1, 500 Odd Fel- lows and is one of the strongholds on the Island. There were 03 Past Grands at Wednesday ' s meeting, rep- resenting- East Hampton , - Islip, South- ampton , Center Moriches , Patchogue , Sayville , Bay Shore, Babylon , Linden- hurst and Amityville. DIST. GRAND COMMITTEE MEETS AT AMITYVILLE Electric train service ' over the Mon- tauk Division of the Long Island Rail- road , between Jamaica , Queens and Babylon , wil begi n on May 21 , the day on which the railroad' s summer time- table becomes effective , the company announced yesterday. The improve- ment will coat more tnan four m illion dollars and electric cars , now being constructed , will be used. ELECTRIC SERVICE TO BABYLON BEGINS MAY 21
