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Nassau County Review. VOL. XII FREEPORT. N. Y., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1907 NO. 15 FREEPORT NEW S Mrs. Fletcher C. Willis has been spending a few days with her parents in Flushing. E. Brindel has sold his grocery busi ness in the St. M artin Building to A. Edelman. See adv in this issue. Mrs. Jennie Hicks, colored, died at her home on Newton Boulevard on Monday afternoon, of pneumonia. Progressive Council, Daughters of Liberty, initiated three candidates at their m eeting in Fraternity Hall Mon day evening. Thomas W. Murray has been confin ed to his home for the last week with a severe attack of the grip, but is slowly improving. The Church of the Transfiguration will have a rummage sale this Friday and Saturday in the vacant store un der Opera Hall. The trolleys are now running on schedule time. On account of the drifts they did not run Tuesday until late in the afternoon. Miss Mabel Cornelius, who has been in C. P. Seaman’s dry goods store for several months, is now at Dr. Sulli van’s office, Railroad Avenue. The regular m eeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, at the residence of Mrs. Donnelly, Long Beach Avenue. W. E .Palm er and J . Stratton have formed a real estate partnership, w ith office in Mr. S tratton’s store, South Main Street, near Smith Street. The officers of Mystic Rebekah Ixidge, No. 298, will be installed this (Thursday) evening, D istrict Deputy President Maidment, installing officer. The nineteenth anniversary enter tainm ent of the Freeport Mutual Ben evolent Association will be held in Odd Fellows’ Hall next Wednesday evening. Mrs. W. Grenada, who has been at Lakewood for her health, has joined her husband at the Higgins’ house. Mr. Grenada is manager of the local branch of the Nassau & Suffolk Light ing Co. The Freeport Artificial Stone Com- p;iay has installed a new cement m ix er, which is run by a Baldwin gas en gine. Clarence M. VanRiper, foreman of the company, is the inventor of the machine. Miss Jeanette C o tter is employed at Alvin G. Sm ith’s office as stenographer and typew riter. She began her work Monday. The annual birthday party and re ception to officers of the Jr. Y. P. S. C. E. will be held in the Presbyterian Chapel this Thursday’ afternoon. S c h o o l .Notes Miss Cooley, of Northport, the school on Monday. ■ i ted Archie Post has returned to school after a w e ek’s illness. The first grade rhetoricals of this term will be held next Friday, Feb. 15. BALDW IN The Trump Club will meet with Miss Emily Lancer on Friday of next week. WANTAGH W antagh 'Nuff said. m instrels—February 21. Miss H a ttie J . M o tt of Sayville is visiting Mr. Richard Mott and family. Dd Chas. your drug trading by ’phone. P. Smith tells in his ad in this There will be no session of the school , . next Tuesday owing to Lincoln’s b i r th - ,ssue how you can do >t satisfactorily , (| whi(.h fs a S(.hool holidav. if you reside five miles from his Don’t fail to attend the play to tie given by the Suffola Club next T h u rs-1 day evening in UItch’s Hall, for the j Miss May Carman is visiting Rev. j benefit of the Parish House Fund. Ice | and Mrs. S. J. Dorlon a t Bloomingdale. cream for sale. N. J . '* The illustrated stcreoplicon ‘Pilgrim ’s Progress,” in the lecture M. E. even store. The Freeport Choral Society will give its first concert in the M. E. Church on Monday evening, February 11. Be sides the selections by th e society, special New York talent has been en gaged including Prof. Rudolph Jacob, violinist, and Prof. W a lter De Nike, ’cellist. Rev. K. P. Ketcham will deliver the sermon in the Presbyterian Church Sunday morning and in the evening the February praise service will be held. It will be of special interest and the quartet and chorus choir will be assist ed by outside friends. These praise services, which have already excited a great deal of interest, will be held every month. Miss Leith has been days with the grip. ill for several Mrs. King sub stituted in Miss L e ith’s absence. Miss Hastings was called to her home at Palmer, Mass., last Friday, on account of the death of her father. Miss E. J. Holbrook, a teacher of science, from Bayshore, attended th e 1 school entertainm e n t Saturday night. Fred Lee from Meadow Brook, O r ange County, having moved to Free port, attends school here. Fred is a valuable addition to the basket ball team. Miss Clara Dean of Cortland, N. Y., has been engaged to teach in the Union School. Albert E. Mott u f the firm of God dard & Sons, at Boston, has been home for a short stay. The Public School was closed on Tuesday on account of the severe snow storm. W a llace L o s e s , a s Lsual On Friday last the appeal in the vasp of Wallace vs. Dean, et al. was argued in the Appellate Division. This is the case in which the plaintiff tried to evade the village tax on his property, because he pretended to think the as sessment was illegal. In Supreme Court he lost his case, and the Appel- j The Ladies’ Aid Society m et at the , T, . . ; home of Mrs. Miller on Wednesday af- Miss buy the Pcnri Payne is enjoying j ternoon a 2 weeks' vacation w ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Payne, on Grand Rev. T. S. B raithw aite, pastor of Avenue. j the Memorial Church, has invited the members of the Wantagh Hook and The store formerly occupied by M. | Ladder Company to attend service at DaSilva on Grand Avenue wlil be o p e n -1 the Church on Sunday evening, Feb. 17. ed the latter part of this week under — — —— new management. late Division, after hearing the case, did not bother w riting an opinion but unanimuosly affirmed the decision of Mrs. Helen Allen entertained the so lower court ciety of King’s Daughters on Tuesday , Thanks t(> Ml', W allace’s action, the village will have to pay about $500 last. t h e ; “ (S r rS o t , r t o P‘b r he ^ <\ ‘»e afternoon, in the M. E. Church Monday evening , Feb. 11, will be the best mucsial en tertainm e n t ever furnished to a Free port audience. In addition to a chor us from the Society of about sixty voices, the following professional tal ent from New York has been engaged: Miss Marie Stillwell Hager, contralto soloist of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, and of Damrosch’s Oratio Society; DeBeriot Trio, composed of Prof. Rudolph Jacobs, violinist;W a lter iiujjcu viiov DeNike, celloist, and Miss Florence N. j her father Taylor, pianist. Prof. Alfred Pala- mountain, tenor soloist. Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, and con ductor of the Choral Society, will have charge of the program. The perform ance commences at 8 o’clock sharp. On account of the severe storm Tues day only one session of the school was held, the children leaving school about half-past twelve and not coming back A number of flags have been present ed to the school by the faculty and al umni attending other colleges. It is hoped that every alumnist will see that his college is represented by a flag in the Assembly Hall. Robert A. Whealey of this village j and Miss Lillian B. W right of Lyn- hrook were married a t the parsonage of St. Jam es M. E. Church, Lynbrook, Rev. H. L. Glover officiating, on Mon day afternoon. The bride was attend ed by her sister, Miss Mary W right. Frank A. Duruz of this place acted as ! best man. The happy couple are re- j siding in their new home on Harrison I Avenue. counsel fees in defending this case, which will have to he paid from the General Fund. That is, unless they want to follow the action of said W al lace, who, when he was President of the village, caused or allowed the Gen eral and Fire Department funds to run in together and from this amount caused to he paid to himself a bill for some $000 which the former Board of Trustees refused to pay. LYNBROOK The young blizzard of Monday night caused considerable delay in railroad travel, and all travel on the trolley , was delayed until the afternoon. I o w n Hoard Proceedings Mrs. John Sprague has sold her 20 John J ' Kamia11 of FreePort« who acre farm to Stokes and Knowles. asketl the Town Board to grant him ft Mrs. Sprague intends leaving for Eng- lease to about 8 acres of meadow and land shortly, where she expects making i marsh land bordering on Sw ift and a lengthy visit. BELLMORE Charles Verity, a boat builder, and The meeting of the Freeport Mason ic Association was held Wednesday evening at P e ttit & W allace’s office, Main S t.,at which by-laws were adopt ed and a permanent organization form ed with a membership of about forty Free and Accepted Masons. The fol lowing officers were elected for the first y e a r : President, Rev. F. 0. Cun ningham ; viec-president, M. J. Suy- dam ; secretary, Albin N. Johnson; treasurer, Robert P e r r y ; members of exeuctive committee, the foregoing officers, and A. Adams, Rev. D. A. Jordan and F. G. VanRiper. Meet ings will he held in Odd Fellows’ Hall the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. The next m eeting will he held There has arived a new assistant teacher for the High School. It is not , , , , ,. known a t present what work Miss an old resident, disappeared from his Smith will have charge of, but it is home on Monday and no trace has been hoped th a t she will prove as efficient as S ta in e d as to his whereabouts. Prof. Roy L. Smith. Vail’s show is exhibiting in the j _ , ,, Foremen’s Hall this week, and is at- ■ Freeport High School basket ball : tracting large crowds, team journeyed to Hempstead last F r i day afternoon. 'I he F reeport ^ boys, It is reported th a t Moses Hunt has j The newly-organized Ladies’ A u x il iary of the Lynbrook Engine Company is working strenuously to assure the success of the grand annual ball o f that company, which will be held at the Lyceum Hall on Thursday evening, February 21st. The ladies are work ing faithfully, and the success of the affair is positively assured. ROCKVILLE CENTRE A m eeting of the Village Board of owing to the lack of practice, although purchased an automobile, while in Flor-1 Trustees will he held on Friday night. \amo — « j(]a. which he will bring home w ith 1 -------------------------- ------------— y1jm i A m eeting of Rockville Centre Coun- j cil No. 8 Daughters of Liberty will be held next Monday night when the in itiatory degree will he confered. they played an excellent gam e, w ere defeated by a score of 27 to 24. Church Friday evening, by Rev. F. Px. p eh. 2ti, when all members of the Tower, proved a very pleasant treat, although owing to the stormy w e a ther the attendance was small. As a result of the entertanim e n t ‘‘Mr. Boh” in the Assembly Hall at the School House last Saturday even ing, a profit of about $80 was realized. The room was crowded, with the ‘‘standing room only” sign out. The parts were all well taken by High School students. Flxcellent music was furnished by the High School Orches tra. The boys of the High School as sisted generously in preparing the hall for the entertainm e n t. Alvin G. Smith has begun the work of placing numbers on the houses and stores in the village. He puts these numbers on at a cost of 20 cents each. In answer to a number of queries we would say that no one is compelled to have Mr. Smith put the numbers on. If it is worth the extra amount for the convenience he will he glad to do the work but it is e n tirely optional. The regular monthly meeting of the Freeport Board of Trade will be held at F raternity Hall next Wednesday evening, Feb. 13. The special order of business will be the m a tter of Free Mail Delivery in Freeport. The m eet ing w ill he called to order a t 7 :30 sharp and will probably close shortly after 8 to enable members of the Board to attend the School meeting, which is to be held the same evening. craft will he welcomed. The first High School rhetoricals since the new term, will be held this FTidayl The program is ns follow s: Singing 1. The Irish Soldier’s F'arewell Theodore Bedell 2. A T a rry town Romance Clinton Brown 3. Bad Prom ise Karl Brown 5. The B a ttle of Bunker Hill Douglas Brown Singing ti. We notice the old fam iliar face of Harry M e rritt driving one of Russell’s hacks. Past Grand’s night will be observed Thomas Thornton, a mason, fell from b.V Rockville Centre Lodge, No. 279, a ladder while at work one day last j J- O. O. F\, on Wednesday evening, week in Brooklyn, and was taken to A masquerade surprise party was tendered E. S. Randall on Wednesday evening, by about 40 of the members and friends-of the N. S. D. C. The party met at the home of Frank R'ise and from there went to Mr. Randall’s home on the corner of Long Beach and Pearsall Avenues. The feature of the evening was a mock trial, Mr. Weyms being charged with bigamy. The officers of the Court w ere: Judge, W alter Nichols; D istrict Attorney, Huyler Ellison; As sistant District Attorney, Mrs. A. Sprague; attorney for the defendant, Gilson Raynor; court stenographer, Wallace Post. A fter several witness es had been examined the jury retired hut were unable to agree. Judge Nichols then discharged Weyms, with a light sentence. Among the guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Huyler Ellison, Mr. and Mrs. Gilson Raynor, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Combes, M)rs. W illiam T. Raynor, Mr. and Mrs. William Post, Mr. and Mrs. Myron Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Morri son, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Raynor, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Post, Mr. and Mrs. Weyms, Mr. and Mrs. A. Sprague, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Post, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rose and Mr. and Mrs. W alter Nichols. The Legend of Flvil Stanley Armington 7. The M aiden’s Last Message (a la cremation) Jennie Bowne 8. “ T hey Say” Edith Bedell 9. An All-around Intellectual Man Helen Barrie 10. The Baldheaded Man Clyde Brown Singing VALLEY STREAM < / George Lindner is having a windmill erected upon his property on rick Road. February 13th, when the initiatory de- I g ree will be conferred by the Past | Grands of the Lodge. There is a good attendance a t each of the services that are living held at ! the Mission at the Church of the As- ! cension this week under the personal ! supervision of Archdeacon Bryan. Mr. and Mrs. Crook have returned, ThvSL, services will he continued until the St. John’s h o spital in an uncon scious condition. It is feared that he was injured internally. SEAFORD from a visit with friends in New city. York i Sunday evening. L ittle Sw ift creeks, adjacent to land through which he is digging a w a ter way 100 feet wide, was denied the privilege sought, at a meeting of the Board Monday afternoon. Justice A. B. Wallace voting alone in the affirma tive, his five associates voting in the negative. A committee of the Board, consisting of J u s tice Wallace, Justice Daniel DeMott and Town Clerk Weeks, appointed a week previous to confer with Mr. Randall, failed to agree in making a report to the Board. Jus tice Wallace, as a minority of the com m ittee, favored granting a lease to Mr. Randall for 11 years, for the nominal fee of $1; to reserve 200 feet front on Little Sw ift Creek and 150 feet on Sw ift Creek for a public dock; to pro vide a roadway free for use of the pub lic in reaching the dock, and to exca vate a channel 100 feet wide from a point on his property, which was for merly John Henry Raynor’s creek, south to Sw ift Creek, the channel to he at least 15 feet deep. The Justice moved adoption of his report, which was defeated. The m ajority of the committee re ported in favor of laying the m a tter on the table, and suggested that Mr. Ran dall prepare a resolution for the people Miss F’ortesque-Cole is able to about again, after a recent illness. the Mer- I. Lang has sold his two valuable lots on Mineola Avenue to George Dow, of Rockville Centre, who intends having a pretty cottage erected upon the prop erty at an early date. F’red Kearsh has sold his property on Corona Avenue, to Mr. Cordmeyer, and a pumping station will he erected thereon. I to vote on a t the town meeting in j W ith the assistance of the wives, ! April, to determ ine whether he should he daughters, sisters and lady friends of ■ ^Hrve *vasv- \ the members of the Live Oak Engine j lids report was adopted, Justice i Company, a grand public f a ir will he | Wallace voting against it. Mrs William W h itnev of Rmoklvn I held by the Company at the Atheneum ; ^ 1\- Randall, who had told the Board has been visitimr her uarents Mr -md I Htdl on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- intended filling in the land adjoining i S l F ^ n k ^ f i e W . 1 \ \ ' W February 18. Ill, ami 2(1. fur the i ‘he new channel, thua Improving it. tie- : purpose of raising funds to wipe out ( :i longer term lease; would not, it the m ortgage on the firehouse, a n d ! was ^ated, put anything satisfactory The mid-week prayer meeting the M. FI. Church has been changed to Friday evening instead of Thursday evening as before, and will he held at the cottages of the different members of the Church. \* i the members appeal to the residents of the village for their patronage and support. EAST ROCKAWAY The “ sweet sixteen” social was held Announcement has been made of the at the M. E. parsonage on Wednesday c a r r i a g e of Miss Carrie E. White, evening and many were the persons I ^ u g h t e r of Mr aiyi Mrs Orlander who suddenly became “ sweet sixteen” ! to Mur‘ J ra,'k ,A‘ L r a f t‘ \ in honor of the affair. But then we I Brooklyn wh.ch took place a t Inwood January 12th, the Rev. Frank r. to a m ajority of the committee in w r it ing so that the Town Board could tell definately what would he done. A ma jority of the Board thought the lease should only run for 11 years and thus expire w ith other town leases. Then it could he renewed. are informed the ladies only were quired to he still in their youth in der to attend. Hummel officiating. Sigmund’s Point Lookout Hotel, built several years ago by Village T rustee Charles A. Sigmond, has pass ed into the hands of interests in con trol of Nassau-by-thc-Sea and the Sea shore-Municipal Railroad Company, it is announced. The hotel, which occu- '• pies a site on the bay side of Point | Lookout Beach, near Jones’ Inlet, the | Prospect Gun Club and Hempstead Bay j General fund, $166.08; street Yacht Club, is to be altered, a portion $298.97; water fund, $707.45 VIliadv T r u s t e e s Trustee Frank Stevens -acted as chairman of the Village Board of Trus tees at their m eeting last F'riday night, in the absence of President Hiram R. Smith, when Wilson Golden, a night watchman in the Ocean Avenue dis trict, was appointed a special officer. The report of Village Treasurer | John E. Golding, showed the follow-1 ing balances in the various funds: I fund, light to he converted into cottages. The hotel closed last season early in August on account of small patronage. At the m eeting of Freeport Council, No. 57, Jr. O. U. A. M., held last Fri day evening, the following persons wefe elected : Albert Hoffman, Chas. 0. Homan, Albert Jackson. Alfred W. Bedell and John Herbert of Baldwin, and W alter Baldwin and Alvin Sprague of this village. Another \m o ck t r i a l ” , one of the members being charged with insanity and public annoyance, was held before Judge Jam es Cronly. Af ter much amusement at the expense of the defendant, the judge pronounced him “ h a rm less.” The council will hold a class initiation of about a dozen candidates this (Friday) evening. fund, $2,070.92; Board of Health fund, $5.70; interest fund, $698.78; tax ar rearage fund, $169.16; fire fund, $224.- 62; s treet light fund, $270.41; light extension fund, $7.94; w a ter ex tension fund, $164.92; water sinking fund, $3,060.00; street •*ign fund, $98.22. The Hartford Steam Boiler Insur ance Company reported having ex amined the boilers af the power house and finding them in good working order. The application of A. S. Brown for electric light service a t his residence. North Main Street, was granted. A fter further routine jusiness and auditing a number of bills, the Board adjourned until Friday evening, Feb ruary 15th, at 8 o ’clock. Soft as snowy,' dow n y pillows Come the boorhm g ocean billows, Rolling in! Let no want of yours be slighted. ADVERTISE— you’ll be delighted, For replies will soon be sighted,' Rolling in! HEMPSTEAD The annual Mite Box social of the W oman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will he held Wednesday, February 13, in the Sun day School rooms. A series of three cake sales will he given under the auspices of the Junior i Departm ent of Mission Work of the i P resbytrian Church. Beginning with 1 F e b ruary 9, the sales, opening at 3 P. M., will he held Saturdays during that month. The four-act dram a,“ Josh W inchest e r ,” or “ Between Love and D u ty,” a plav founded on Civil War Days, is be ing rehearsed by a number of local am a teurs with the view of presenting it in Liberty Hall, F’erhruary 21, for the benefit of the Hempstead # ’adet Corps. A t the regular communication of Morton Lodge last week, steps were taken, looking to the purchase of a site and erection of a Masonic Hall for Morton Lodge. On motion of F’rancis B. Taylor, Wor. Master Wm. H. Camp bell appointed a committee o'n Plan arid Scope. Local members of the com m ittee arc Mr. Taylor and Mr. Lush, who will he glad to receive profnisals from owners of eligible building sites. It isn’t wise to hide a truth behind a cloud of doubt. T i s all in vain to love a g irl unless she finds it o u t ; And yet, some men will own a store, with goods all closely packed, And never think it worth their while to advertise the fact. Work A p p r e c iated At a m eeting of the Board of Over seers of the Poor held a t the Town Alms House on Wednesday, F'eb. 6, in behalf of the Board Overseer VanDeu- sen in a few appropriate remarks prv- i seated to the matrons the following framed engrossed resolution: At a meeting of the Board of t Over seers of the Poor, held December 19th, 1906, the following preamble and res olutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, during this period of Christmas Greetings, we the members of the Overseers of the Poor of the town of Hempstead, desire to express our appreciation of the excellent ser vices rendered by the matrons of the Alms House a t Uniondale, Long Island, Mrs. Daniel S. W illmarth and Mrs. Mary S. Combes, during our six years incumbency, services rendered so cheerfully, so well, to the benefit of the Town and with credit to them selves. Therefore be it Resolved, That we attest our high appreciation of these services and ex tend to th' tn our sincere thanks and gratitude, wishing for each that as the years roll on, as age to age is added to life’s journey, they may look with kindly eyes upon this engrossed copy, recalling the deeds which carried it into effect, and may their lives lie spared many years to still further en gage in acts uf charity, may life’s pleasures he many and prosperity abound more and more with each well wrought service actonpltshed until the final summons comes, he who accom plishes all things well, will say unto them “ Well done, good and faithful servants, as thou have done it to the least of mine, thou has done it unto me, enter thou into the joys of our Lord. ” . C. C. VanDeusco, President. F'ranklin Bedell, r Secretary.
