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< . i . • • i < ' , V . '^ . ■. i - J i -i*SAii i.efcjkv-tiAkvj Ku Klux Klan trophy ...... Its p a s t...... Its future from pa^o 2 tt'hilc the winsrn of tbe tthJrdc e^'c&ts will itcehe hiodsome mediU for &nt and lecood places,” reported the Nassau Daily Review on A u p st 26, \924. A detoonstration of “the ladder oozzle,” s tuj of Wax and appeannce by Ben Mnivey, a vaodevilUan and member of Hose Company #3, were several of typical events of the Labor Day celebration of that yeat Awards for the 1923 Labor Day home tournaments and parade ceremonies conducted by the Freeport Hre. Department includ^ a variety of I’rUea and trophy cups, donated by tndividuiU, groups and organizations. *nMy i n d u ^ one £rcma Congitasman Robert Lowe Bacon, Ibwn Supervisor . Hiram R Smith, the Long Island Rill Road. The DaUy Review. Willis M. Summers (fire department officiaU), ' American La France Co. (prominent manu&cturer of rircminic cquipmentX FlayUnd Sporting Goods of Freeport, William E. Crevoiserat (prominest FreeporterX i&6 others. induded was a trophy cup offered by the .Freeport Chapter #10, of the Ku Klux Klin. A sob-headiog in the Tuesday, August 28,1923 edition of The DaUy Review announced. . . *Fual Meeting of Labor Day Committee Held in Fire Heachtuarters - Offer of Cup from Ku Klux Klan Accepted - Believed l b Be the Fuat Offer Of Its Kind at Ftxexunie Tournament <• Parade To Precede Contests • Water Fight the Feature * T ie offer o f ibe 1923 U b o t D ef committee (of the Freeport Fire Department) of (he K.K.K. trophy caused a tremendous amount of dlscnsslon within the group. NotiBcation of the offer was in a typewritten correspondence with a typewritten signature of *W A JoneA Executive Committee,” causing eonsldettble doubt- regarding authenticity. \After discussing the matter from all an^es It was d ^ d e d {by the Labor Day eoramittee] that the publicity accrued by the offer would help' the success of ^ e day, and it was unanimously accepted. It was brought out forcibly thtt the Fieeport Fire depanme&t is made up of men who are taken b to fight fues and that is their ,one qualiHcation, and that b accepting the Klan offer, the department was working tot the best interests of the departae.*!t as a w :oI^” •* 1 ?!so WOO the c ' P which w as cups ever se Nassau Daily Review reported in their Tuesday, September 4, 1923 issues. The trophy was handed to Valeatbc Wright, captab of the efficiency team' of Hose Company I I , shortly after a grass fire alarm ended, holdbg up, for the ftf<t fi’rue, any (oumsmenl of past t .j-y Vor • r-' -.jc i<‘ '•hies. f I nore I What’s up with Lydia Hali? ^ 1 - i' ! s I>v4 by Sue Morgan ' ' ^ c r e If light a t the tad of the ■ tnnnel, and It's not a train coming,* developer Michael Wdss said last w ^ of the still boarded-up Lydia Hall Hospital ■ MnWnsslsapannerlDtheHealdnd Edgel-Meadowbrook Group, which plans to spend some $30,000,000 to transform the former hospital into a 280*bed ”f.tate of the art* nursing Cacili^. While some Freeporters have expressed coocera that after more than two yean, not a ^ o v e l of dirt has tamed, Mn Weiss called delays in the \bureaucraUe morass” of approvals \Donnal to a project this size.” He a i d the group w a \about to me for HUD insnrance,” and has a \firm coBunitment” for Us Cnandng, which be said b tnw in Us \last stage.” He projected that work w ^ d begb th i s . fall on th e ' \snbstantial (cerftved on poQa IS) PROFESSIONAL AERIAL VIEW, was taken In August, 1922, for the New % ik State Firemen's Corwention (50th AnrUversary), hosted ^ the Freeport Ftre Department The central Intersection is (irove Street (Guy Lombardo Avenue). Railroad Avenue (now Freeport Plaza West) and ODve Boulevard (now a part of Sunrise Highway). THEJRERi^GTJWA^LmFEED YOUR PLANTS CORAUHOUSE Magnificent Waterfront Weddings WI^ ' • SPRING • SUMMER ' I L feeders ( tin one m H^fromMIRAGLE-G^^^^ NO-CLOG^2 GARDEN & L AWN FEEDER it* fi* Diiflu'isiopiei'ficiiiile; ' * ✓ E>^Exaxhlned ' ^Inylslble Bifocals VCbntact Leasts ✓ Cblldiren'a Eyewear ✓ Vision Training Accepting Assignment On Most Insurance Plans; Including: Aetna ' * Cross/Blue. Shield • Choice Care ClOl^ •EmpirePlan • QHI ' H^lhplcx .* Newman * Medicaid Medicare • Metropolitan/Medi Met * Oxford Travelers' • US H ^ thcare • AND OTHERS ATLANTIC NURSERY r . . NURSERY GARDEN SHOP UNDSCAPING 250 ATXJUmC a t e ;, FREEPORT, N.T; * (518) * 3 7 6 ^ 7 3 ^ 7 ^ • Hours: Dally 8-7; Frf. B-8; Siin. 9-6 * ^ , H & R O p t i c a l S e r v i c e s 21 WlMerrickRd Freeport 3 7 9 - 4 0 4 1 a ( t- i ! ii 1 ^ ' t — »,