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North Westchester Times, Mt. Kiseo, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1958 Bedford Village News Barton Emmet of Bedford form er director of the Westchester Playhouse, was the speaker last week before the members of the Mount Kisco Rotary Club. He spoke about his new theatre which he has opened in Bridgeport. mas sermon will ,be preached by the pastor, the Rev. John Cart- mell and the choir will sing spe cial anthems. There will be no church school services on that day. A Chirstmas party for the Sun day School children of the Pres byterian Church will be held Sat urday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Church School building. Games, carol singing and refresh ments will be included in the pro gram. Members of the new Men's Group and Sunday School teachers are arranging the party. The final organ recital in a series of four will be presented by Ronald Rudd, organist of St. Matthew's Church on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, followed by evening prayer. Mr. Rudd's pro gram will include \Advent Chorale\ by Pachelbel; \In Dulci Jubilo\ by J. S. Bach: \Flute Solo\ by Arne: \Flughetta\ by J. Guy Ropartz; \Green Sleeves\ by Purvis: \Sketches of the City\ by G.B. Nevin. A daughter, Barbara Ann. their sixth child, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Carmine P. Mazza of South Salem in the Northern Westchester Hospital on Nov. 30. Mr. Mazza is well-known in Bedford as South Salem's fire chief. Mrs. Byrne Miller, teacher for the modern dancing classes, being sponsored by the Bedford Parent Teachers Association, held open classes for parents and friends of her students Saturday at 9:30 A.M. in the school. A son, their first child, was born Nov. 17 in the Northern Westchester Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dillon Jr. of Mus- tato Road, Katonah. Named Nor man Dillon 3d, he is the first grandchild for Mr. and Mrs. Dillon Sr. of Katonah, formerly of Bed ford. The new mother is the for mer Miss Margaret Schroeder of Mount Kisco. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Lowe, and three children of Brookline. Mass. will be the holiday guests of Bayard Litchfield of Bedford. John Kinkel has returned to his home in Bedford from the North ern Westchester Hospital. The deacons of the Bedford Presbyterian Church met Tuesday evening to make final plans for the church family supper they are sponsoring tomorrow evening in the church school building at 7 P.M. The rector of St Matthew's Church has appointed William Will as a member of the churchyard and grounds committee. Miss Caroline S. Emmons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gard ner Emmons of Knowlfon Avenue, a\ freshman at Smith College will Spend the Christmas recess with her parents. Miss Emmons, this season's debutante will attend the Junior Assembly on Dec. 23 at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Mrs. John Fuller of Guard Hill Road was in the Northern West chester Hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday for minor surgery. Members of the Rusticus Club have completed about 100 decorat ed boxes in which the patients of the Northern Westtchester Hospital will receive their suppers on Chr'stmas night. This is an an nual Christmas project of the club. Mrs. William J. O'Brien of South Bedford Road remains a patient in the Northern Westchester Hos pital, where she is much improve ed in health. The Rev. Raj Daniel, a native of India, who was secretary of and for the Student Christian Move ment for Madras, preached at both services in the Bedford Pres- byerian Church on Sunday. Mr. Daniel has been studying in this country for several years. He was a student at Watme r College, re ceived his master of arts in Edu- cat'onal Sociology at New York University, and a master of sa cred theology at Union Theology Seminary. He will return to India this month where he will be sec retary of the National Christian Council. Miss Elizabeth Cnobloch, a sen ior at Smith College, majoring in English, will spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cnobloch of Cantito Road. A son, Peter Eric, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Poppler of the Farms Road in the Northern Westchester Hospital on Nov. 18. The new arrival has a sister, De borah and a brother, Paul. Mrs. Poppler is the former Miss Eliza beth Riecken of Dayton, Ohio. OPEN HOUSE Again this year the Rev. John C. Harper, rector of St. Matthew's Church and Mrs. Harper will hold an open house for students from school and college and the Young People's Fellowship at the rectory on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 21 from 4 to 6 o'clock. Christmas Recess The Bedford school will close on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 11'25 for the Christmas-New Year's recess. As has been a tradition in the school for the past ten years, carols and other Christmas music will be sung in the halls during the lunch period. Music will be supplied by members of the faculty with prin cipal, Raymond Belanger playing the accordion and Thomas Olivo strumming a bull fiddle. Other teachers who play instruments will join the \orchestra.\ A large live Christmas tree has been given to the school by the Bedford PTA. School will reopen on Monday, Jan. 5. KES Dancing Gass Slates Yule Party The Katonah Elementary School Social Dancing Class for fifth and sixth graders will have its an nual Christmas parry on Monday, Dec. 22, from 3:30 to 5 p m. in the school gymnasium. The 60 children planning to attend are anxiously looking forward to this party. In addition to dancing, there will be games and prizes and re freshments will be served. Jere miah Richards of New York City conducts the group on alternate Mondays throughout the school year. The group is sponsored by the Katonah Elementary School PTA. Mrs. James Beardsley, represent-; a rive, will be assisted by Mrs. Ver non Begenau, Mrs. Herbert Thom son and Mrs. George Winecoff who are responsible for the decorations Mrs. B. W. Warner handled the in vitations and Mrs. E. Paul Angot is in charge of the food. \ITS A' CROOL WORLD\ murmurs small Deborah Hewitt a L right, covering her eyes as she hands over a carton of can dy for the Christmas boxes be ing packed for the Wingdale Hos pital. These members of the Mid dle Patent Garden Club worked on their project at the home of Mrs. Norman Hewitt last week. Mrs. Walter B. Hoblin, president is receiving the package from Debbie. Chairman Mrs. Walter Phillips is at center and Mrs. F. D. Lazzell is at extreme left -nPhoto by D. B. Kirchhoff Bedford Native Will be 98 Friday, Tells of Nearly A Century of Life Christmas will be observed at St. Matthew's Church on Sunday, Dec. 21 with a Christmas pageant at the 9:30 A.M. family service. Members of the YPF will go Christmas caroling to the shut-ins of the parish on Sunday. GARDEN CLUB PROJECT Mrs. Norman Hewitt, Middle Patent Road, Bedford, civic chair man, announces the partial com pletion of one of the Middle Patent Garden Club Civic projects which is a landscape design in front of the World War II Memorial at the Village Green. The design was planned by Mrs. Walter Higle, Clinton Road, Bedford. Granite curbing was laid and a new topsoil brought in to form a bed by Mr. Norman Hewitt assisted by his son, Skip Hewitt and Mr. Otto Ra- kow assisted by his son Bill Rako- kow assisted by his son Bill Rakow. sandra dug from members gar dens which will be planted in the spring. Car Inspection May De Deferred While Vehicles Are Stored With the advent of winter, many car owners in New York State will be storing their vehilces until warmer weather or perhaps driv ing them south for a few months. Some of these vehicles may be scheduled for inspection under the periodic inspection law during the period when they are not in use or .are out of state. Their owners can obtain a spe cial form asking permission of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to defer the actual inspection. Deferred inspections must be completed within ten days of the date on which the vehicle is taken out of storage or is returned for operating within the State. The 1954 models are slated for inspection this month, 1940 and earlier models in February, 1941's and 1942's in March, and 1943's through 1947's in April. Inspection time extension forms may be obtained from any of the Motor Vehicle Bureau's issuing of fices. Dec 21 will be Christmas family Sunday in the Bedford Presbyteri an Church at 11 A.M. A Christ- Mrs. Smalley Feted At Stork Shower Mrs. Kenneth Smalley was guest of honor at a stork shower held at the home of Mrs. Donald Fer guson of 7 Todd Place, Ossining, on Saturday night. Twenty rela tives and friends attended. Mrs. Smalley is the former Miss Marcia May Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Hall of 38 St. Mark's Place, Mount Kisco. Mr. and Mrs. Smalley now reside in Morristown, N.Y. where he is em ployed with Bell Laboratories. (Editors' Note: Miss Elizabeth Williamson, Bedfords oldest livdn'g native will be ninety-eight tomor row. At the request of the editor of The North Westchester Times for some of her background, Miss Williamson decided to write the editor a letter, and to quote her, \it was easier to think that way, and it would sound more like her, because they don't change let ters.\) Dear Editor: You ask that I write something about myself for my ninety-eighth birthday, which is to arrive, on the 19th of this month. I have lived so long that it really does seem to me that just about every thing has been said that needs to be said. The quiet life I live now does not have much that is new to write about and readers of your paper can tire of reading of the past. However, when one has lived almost one hundred years there is more of the past to think about than there is of the future. We who live to this age know more about the past and can be sure of what has happened. Much con nected with the present we find tiring and the future is uncertain at any age. I believe mis is why elderly people just naturally talk about the past and so often over do it I have always tried not to do too much of it. I find the present with its wars and rumors of wars can be tire some so I like to escape to the more peaceful past and to the days when life was simpler and sweet er. The days, when life was less hurried and more conventional, made for a nicer way of living, I believe. During those days people were more considerate of each other and less independent. We depend ed much more on each other and I am sure we had closer friendships, closer social ties and closer fam ily ties. There was less of each individual for himself and more for the general good of all. I have of course seen many changes come to Bedford town ship. I lived through years when changes were slow. Years when old houses tumbled down or burn ed down and were not rebuilt. Years when few new people came to Bedford to live, t ARMING PASSES Then the time came when more and more young people left the farms and went to the city seek ing a new way of life. Gradually over the years more and more people left the city and came to the country to live but kept their business or professional interests in the city. They began to buy what had been our prosperous farms and as time went on farm ing which had been Bedford's first industry passed out. There was something so whole some and peaceful that went with that old time way of life. We have lost much that was good and which I fear we will never know again. When I was young education for women was not as extensive as it is today. However, I believe it was I a sounder and more stabilizing m- flunce than is the education of young women today. j A part of our education was the being trained to be a lady. This was considered a necessary re quirement for a well ordered way of life. Just being a lady helped one through the trying situations of every day life and made life's way less of a strain. It was all of a certain gentility which I have seen gradually disappear over the years. Women were not all college graduates but their speech and manners were more perfect. Both seem to be less necessary today and so the pattern of life has changed. I do not call it any im provement either. We never used to talk about \tensions\ for we had less of them. We did not need sleeping pills and there was much less by way of nervous break downs. We did not diet to reduce weight and of course a real lady did not smoke. To be thin as a rail meant delicacy and of course we wanted to be strong and healthy. The girls who had their minds set on marriage knew a man needed a strong, healthy wife.- House work which to me seems so over done today. Children in the home and school were disciplined. Sound common sense was the order of the day. No one ever considered what was psychologically wrong with a child Any child was taught and trained to follow a certain pattern of be havior. Some were more difficult to train than others. Some parents were more on the strict side than others but there was a certain pat tern of behavior that was consid ered proper and wise people fol lowed it. So we managed withou a school psychologist and no one was psychoanalysed. Discipline and common sense took the kinks out of most people. Every schoo teacher and parent settled the problems right on the spot. There was no refering them to someone else. Were we any the worse for it? I don't think so. We tilled our soil, managed our homes, Went to church, had something by way of social life, read the literature of the day, belonged to choral groups, art clubs, sewing circles, the pedestrian club, the mission ary society, worked for our church and helped those around us less fortunate than ourselves. Today things get accomplished on a big Unitarians Schedule Yule Service A special Christmas service and amily Christmas party will be held by the Unitarian Fellowship of Northern Westchester on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 21, from four to seven o'clock at the Women's Civ ic Club on Bedford Road in Katon ah. Dr. Harry C. Meserve will preach a Christmas sermon entitled \Fact and Truth.\ Members and guests as well as children of all ages are welcome to attend. Mrs. Lawrence Malawista of Pounds Ridge, a member of the board of trustees of the Fellow ship, is in charge of the party. A special feature will be the decor ating of a \mitten tree\ with gifts from the children to needy chil dren abroad. Christmas carols will also be sung. On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, Dr, Karl Chworowsky of Westport, Conn, conducted the regular bi monthly 11 a.m. service at the Bedford Hills Community House, new Fellowship meeting place. Dr. Meserve attended that weekend a conference of religious leaders and psychiatrists at Arden House in Harriman, N.Y. The conference explored the subject of religion and mental health. There will be no Sunday School classes on Dec. 28. The next adult service will be held on Jan. 4 at 11 a.m. at the Bedford Hills Com munity House. New Castle Tribune, Chappaqua, N. Y., December IMJSft 3 Pound Ridge Activities Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. LeRoy of Stone Hill Road, Pound Ridge, have named their new daughter Barbara Anne. She was born oh Nov. 29 at the Northern Westches- er Hospital. The LeRoys have three sons, Thomas, Frank and Robert, and another daughter, aura Jean. Mrs. LeRoy is the brmer Miss Jean Fraser, daugh- ;er of Mrs. Robert Fraser of New Hartford, N.Y. and the late Mr. Fraser. Barbara Anne is Mrs. Fraser's 13ih grandchild. The baby's paternal grandmother is Mrs. Maynard Wolcott of Braden jon, Fla., who now has seven grandchildren. Her paternal grand ather is the late Frank A. LeRoy. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Quade and daughter, Stephanie, of Westches ter Avenue, Pound Ridge, were in Glendale, L.I., on Sunday to visit and have their first dinner with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs. Fred Roth. Mrs. Roth is the former Miss Rosalie Quade. The couple were married on Nov. 26 and spent their honeymoon in the Pocono Mountains. Mr. Roth is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Roth of Germany. woman for a wile.- nouse WOTKU ^ ^ different ways was more arduous and ^trengMf^ we fo^the same?jnterest and was. needed to cover the/ n< of daily' living. Food gave stren; and we ate plentifully of it We put on less weight than does mod ern woman because we were more active in different ways. We walk ed more and had fewer labor sav ing devices. Work took longer so we were on our feet more. DIET CHANGES Most of us had a hired helper in the home but the way of life being what it was there would be some work for every member of the family. All food was cooked at home for we did not depend on bakery shops and chain store quick meals. As for the modern mixes! My mother, my grand mother and my great grandmoth er would have thought them lack ing in the essentials of good nutri tion and I do not think they would have been far wrong either . . . People used to suffer less from nutrititional diseases. We had our whole wheat which was home grown and other unrefined foods which had more of a vitamin con tent. It is really surprising to look back and realize how well we man aged to get along without knowing a single thing about psychology rae sa&e wilShgnesI for Mbrk. We <^ared for more ijfiiess in e home and kept our old people with us until they died. Fewer in the family worked away from home and the care of the sick and aged was a home responsibility. Dignity in Death I think there was more dignity in death those days when families were at the bedside, of their dying loved ones, in their own homes. Today so many die at hospitals surrounded by oxygen tanks, and so much other equipment, that there is no room for the family who has to wait in the halls. Not only does everything we buy come enveloped in cellophane we even have to die enveloped in a tent of it, with no protest, for one should comply with the new developments or be left behind searching for the ways of the past which are gone forever unless the pendulum should swing back as it some' times does. Probably the three things tha have changed our way of life so much in my time have been electricity, the automobile, and the air plane. I like to think of the days when we managed so wel without them for I sincerely be Iieve that people were happier and much more contented but we can not go back. We have to look ahead and move forward to meet the time that is always coming. W.ill I live to be one hundred? Maybe. But, please do not ask me to pose for a photograph. When people reach that age they ought to look at photographs of the pas\ and not the present. There can be too much checking up on the changes that the years just na turally bring. Time Marches On At ninety-eight I am thankfii for my many blessings during al these years and wish Bedford and its people the best through the years to come. It would be inter esting to know how Bedford will change in another hundred years Changes come faster than they used to come. Time marches on with never a single stop and have seen almost one hundred years of it right here in old Bed ford* OPEN EVENINGS TOYS - TOYS • TOYS KIDDIELAND 24'/: E. Main Mt. Kisco 6-6803 Maurice Tressard of Paris, who is associated with Air France, left on Saturday morning after being an overnight guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. J.. Sindeband of Stone Hill Road, Pound Ridge. er. a gift \from the entire faculty. Miss Betz will'ibecome the bride of William B. Breuninger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Breuninger of West Lane, Pound Ridge, on New Year's Day. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oren G. Betz of Philmont, N. Y. She re sides in the Empire Apartments, Main Street, Bedford. A Christmas program, including music and films, will be presented tomorrow in the Pound Ridge El ementary School at an assembly for first, second and third graders. James Vulcano, sixth grade teacher in the Pound Ridge El ementary School, is a patient in the Danbury Hospital as a result of an automobile accident on Sat urday. The Pound Ridge Elementary School will close on Tuesday at noon for the Christmas-New Year recess. Classes will be resumed on Monday morning, Jan. 5. Weston Lewis of Salem Road, . ound Ridge, is recuperating at home from injuries received in an automobile accident on Oct. 26. Before coming home, Mr. Lewis was a patient at the Northern Westchester Hospital for weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zwick of Stone Hill Road, Pound Ridge, presidents of the Pound Ridge Newcomers Club, entertained on Friday night at a get-together par ty given for new residents of Pound Ridge. Those present, in cluding officers of the club, were Mr. and Mrs. James Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. John MacLean, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Slotnik, Mr. and Mrs, Harold Ramsey. Mrs. Thomas Knowlton, Mrs. Bernard Bertlandt and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Me Kenna. Bvron Halstead of Old Mill Riv er Road, Pound Ridge, is now a patient at the Brookside Nursing Home in South Salem. Before en tering the nursing home he was confined to the Northern West chester Hospital for three weeks. Horace Zezima, father of Mrs Carl Quade of Westchester Av enue, Pound Ridge, is in Serte- frati, Italy, visiting friends and relatives in his native town. He plans to be away for a year. George Kormendi, son of Mr and Mrs. John Kormendi of Long Ridge Road, Pound Ridge cele brated his second birthday on Dec. 5 with his parents and his sister, Louisa. EETtaEjiptff' 'REWARD' MAMARONECK—The Board Education has made permanent an experimental policy on teacher re tirement carried on for two years. It provides that teachers who plan to retire because of age may re ceive two months pay for their final month of service if they have notified the board before Feb. 1. Plan gives officials more time to select successors. Paul Kohnstamm of Lower Shad Road, Pound Ridge, is member of the Board of Trustees of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, having been elected to this office recently An alumnus of Horace Mann, he was graduat ed from Williams College in 1944 Mr. Kohnstamm is president H. Koh^tjm^and Co., Inc., and of the General Color Co. Miss Gloria Katherine Betz was guest of honor at a party given on Friday night, Dec. 5, by the facul ty of the Pound Ridge Elementary School at the home of Mrs. Olivia Hill, West Lane, Pound Ridge Miss Betz, a member of the facul ty for the past three years, teach es the fourth grade. She was pre sented with an electric coffee mak- five Area Woman Will Share in Loeb Estate NEW YORK — Mrs. Nancy L. Weal of 424 Ridgeway, White Plains, and Mrs. Mary Ann Konh- stamm of Lower Shad Rd., PoundS Ridge, will eventually share in the estate of their father, Wiilard E. Loeb, senior partner of L. F. Rothschild & Co., New York brokerage firm. This was learned today with the filing of Mr. Loeb's will for pro bate in Surrogates Court. The will provides that the widow. Mrs. Mary Frank Loeb of New York, receives personal prop erty and half the estate outright. Following distribution of §100,000 in bequests, the rest of the estate is placed in trust, income from) which goes to Mrs. Loeb for the rest of her life. Upon Mrs. Lgeb's death, the two daughters will divide the trust in come equally, and at their deaths, the principal will go to their chil dren. Active in philanthropic work, Mr. Loeb was treasurer of the Hospital for Joint Diseases and also of Blythedale of Valhalla, a home for handicapped children. He died on November 26th at the age of sixty-two. Value of the property is un known, pending an inventory. Kitchen Cabinets - Formica Tops >>- ~ ••\ SEVER1NI MOUNT KISCO, N. Y. CARPENTER and BUILDER GENERAL CONTRACTOR MO 6-8127 OPEN 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. 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