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V O L . X I I I F R E E P O R T , N . Y ., F R I D A Y , D E C E M B E R 6. 1 9 0 7 NO. 6 FREEPORT N E W S See adv. of lost Scotch Collie dog page /i. Christmas exercises in the M. E. f ‘ ^end Sunday School will be held on Tuesday sen(i evening, Dec. 24. . : trial. us lUc in stamps and we will you the Review five weeks on Miss Hattie Miller sister in New York. is visiting her Capt. E. D. Taft of Decatur Street. Brooklyn, spent Sunday at the home Andrew E, Taft, Raynor of his The regular meeting of the Village Board of Trustees will be held this eve- son, Andrew r,. Tart, itaynor [ ning. Street. ------ --- Christmas and New Years Pysf. Cards The W. V. T. U. will hold its regu- now on sale. S. F. Pearsall, fi2 South lar meeting a t the home of Mrs. Wer Main St., Review Building, ner Nyrgcn, South Ocean Avenue, Mon- I day afternoon. A euchre will be held a t the Freeport ; Club house next Saturday evening, The Thanksgiving collection at the I Dec. 14, commencing a t 8:30. union service in the Presbyterian : , . , . , ^ i C hurch, amounting to S14.65, was has^rece.ved up to and including Dec. | (!mmU,(l to thv Mineola Hospital. 4, $17,bbb. 17 on account of the tax for the current year. I he term for col- Wednesday evening, Dec. 18, Ladies’ lecting at one per cent expires to- Night at the Freeport Club, dancing, morow night at 9 o clock. bowling, etc., will be enjoyed. Bishop . . will be present co furnish the music. _ F raternal Council, No. 19(52, Royal ______ _ __ Arcanum, will hold their m eeting fof While alighting from a trollev car , election of officers next Thursday even- Tuesday afternoon Mrs. A rthur Valen- I a t L v‘l s ing, Dec. 12. All members of the tine slipped ami fell over backward. ! v,ew llUlltl,n^ council are requested to attend, and a striking her head on the car step. She i , .. ,, .. , , special invitatioil is extended to all w,.s nicked un in an unconcious condi- ^ r ‘ ant ^ IS‘ ^ ana was picked up in an unconcious tomii | d a u g h te r Miriam of New York spent tom am conveyed to the store of S. ,,,, , . . , , . , .. , . , . i Thanksgiving with their parents, Mr. Hersteld, in front ot which the acei- , - ,, ,, . , . . .. , and Mrs. Morris Miller, dent occurred, and alter removed to her home where she is reported as being in a serious condition as a result of the hard blow received. Mr. and Mrs. G. Clayton Walker are entertaining a Teven pound daughter. If you desire to give some man or hoy a Christmas present and are unable to think of a suitable one read C h a s . P. Smith’s ad. in this issue School tax collector Wesley Pearsall Wm. Ebel of Springfield, a former | Free Lecture Course for Freeport resident of this place, vmi ted lit Alonzo Foster. President of the Free se hool last Monday. port Board of Trade, has arranged to _ ,, .. ... . give a free lecture course under the State Council Deputy. ^ alter | a livvs uf the Boar(, duri the win. Steers Jr., of Brooklyn paid his i re,. Thv V()lll.se wll, von8ist of four official visit to Freeport Council, Jr. ,ai. in, tnivtivt. lectures, om- -nj?. “\n I dramatic reading and one concert. The opening lecture will be given BELLMORE J. Hodgson te his house. is building an addition O. U. A. was warm in his praise of this council and its work. A large crowd was present to meet and welcome the deputy, who is from East End Council. Mrs. M. Thomas has moved to York for the winter. New Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fisher are enter taining a young daughter. h. B. Fish is now occupying his new Th photo in last week’s Review, of Wide Awake Engine Co., was furnished by Stafford, the photographer. The Review will be sent free to Jan. next Wednesday night, Dec. 11,in Fra ternity Hall at the close of the regular monthly business meeting. Justice A. B. Wallace, whose term I ,Tht> lecture will be given by Henry house on Newbridge Road, of office expires Jan. 1, 1908, tendered ^ • flig h t of Brooklyn and his sub- his associates in the Town Board and j xv'J‘ ^ hat a Boy saw in the a few others a dinner at Hempstead | Ann.v including recollections of Presi- Wednesday evening. * Thieves recently entered and looted the barn of Mr. Mostniek. 1,1908, to any person sending $1.50 for mousiy adopted: a year’s subscription to Jan. 1, 1909. At the regular meeting of the Town Board of Health Monday afternoon the following resolution was unani i dent Lincoln. ” Business meeting will be iield at >s o'clock. The lecture will be given at 9 o’clock. All interested are invited to attend. Single copies of the Review for sale 1. DaSilva’s, Gotyetz's and the Re- Arcanum brotheri residing in Freeport to be present. The committee in charge have made arrangements for a smoker witli an entertainment and re freshments at the close of the business meeting. Whereas, The meeting of Dec. 4, , 1907, is the last regular meeting of j the Board of Health this year at which ! we can enjoy the presence of our! Genial and only really handsome fel- | low member. Justice A. B. Wallace; therefore be it (iiit to H. 11. Ma> land At the installation of the newly elected officers of the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association, ; Brooklyn, Monday night, R. H. May- ,, , , , , , . , land, the retiring president, was nre- Resolved that we the members ot the , sentC(i with a handsome solid silver 'lov- I^ . o fi hy ^ ' . n !!t. Hrm-l e:?nl rei,rr\! ing cup. The presentation address Dr. Geo. G. Kelly, V. S., is still sen ting the citizens of the Town do hereby extend our sincere and hearty thanks to our retiring member. Archer j was made by ex President Byrnes, who j paid a glowing tribute to the work pei - The dramatic recitiation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas carol by “ The Dic kens man” at the Presbyterian Church Wednesday evening was a most grati fying success. In consequence of the snow storm and the numerous public distractions of the season ^he audience was small but appreciative and en thusiastic all the same. Mr. William son’s power of impersonation is fully equal to his power of description which so charmed his large audience at his former appearance here. A bright feature of the entertainment was the organ playing of Mrs. Ida B. Conklin, which furnished the audience with a pleasing sandwich of music and litera ture. Mr. Williamson will lecture in the Hempstead Presbyterian Church January 27. The seventh anniversary supper of the Daughters of America was held in its rooms, Fraternity Hall Tuesday ( evening and notwithstanding the storm, there were a large number of with the Freeport Veterinary Hospital j ‘^\'''his'^H H ^ .V ' 'and j ,'j'rna‘<1 b* Mayhmd in building up spavins, curbs and splints treated Mrs. Place and son of New York spent Thanksgiving with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Frisch of Jamaica have been visiting Mr. Frisch’s parents. Send us 10c in stamps and we will send you the Review five \yceks on trial. A meeting of the Democratic Club was held in Fireman’s Hall last Friday evcTing. J. Day uf Brooklyn has peen spend ing several days at Wm. Lawmaster’s cottage. : while the animal works. If school taxes are not paid to-mor- tv or sooner the collector’s percent- upp^sciation storm, there were a large number ot will be 5 per (.unt instead of 1 per ............ “ ' the members and their families pres- j cenL; his office win a)so be 27 Raynor St. after that date instead of Review Building as now. ent. During the seven years of its ex istence this council has been slowly j but surely forging to the front and was I never in better condition than it is to- 1 day, and the membership is steadily in creasing. Next Tuesday evening. Dec. 10, in the M. E. Church at 8 o’clock, the : j Freeport Choral Society will render the ' The regular meeting of the Hpworth League will be held at the residence of Mr. and Mfs. J ere E. Brown, Brook lyn Avenue. Wednesday evening. Officers for the ensuing year will be . , , , , i — membership of the association ... efficient service to the people; also be , Nassau and Suffolk Counties, whirl* ll £ur ,ei , . . .. largeh made up for the defection in Resolved, that we, as his colleagues j ter Nvw York so that the mem. take this o,)portumty to express our , hershi is iarger than ever. Mr. Mav- L. ,, for his uniform courtesy, ; |and ,nadv a hap )y rusponsu saying h.s able assistance and efficient dis- | that he had only done what ought jio be charge of official duties assuring him , ex vted from anv ();livel. of t he asso- of our best wishes f o r a fong and u s e - , (.jation_ givi full credit to his asso- ful life and be it further i ciate officers who had supported him Resolved that these resolutions be i , „ in his efforts for the betterm ent spread in full upon the m inutes; also | of the associatioUi Mr. May land was ie it fui tiier evidenltv treated to a genuine sur- Resolved that this Board adjourn ■ risv. He expressed himself as being w ithout f u r ther fiusiness. We surmise Justice A. Gus. Bopp is having a bis house. large getting in line and extension made to A large delegation of Freeport Council, Junior American Mechanics, attended service at the Episcopal Church of the Transfigura tion Sunday evening, and listened to an address by the rector, Rev. Pelham St. George Bissell. The preacher took for his tjjxt the words found in St. favoriet oratorio. ‘‘The Messiah.” H. L. Trubenback has removed bis Lovers of good music should not miss j arehitects office from Railroad Ave.. this unusual opportunity of hearing ; to more roomy quarters at 127 North this work outside the city limits. The ' Main Street, where he w ill be able to 1 .. undertaking is a great one and the! conduct his business on a larger and I'lcmocrs oi choral society and its energetic conduc- j mpre thorough scale tor deserve the support of the com-1 munity and should he encouraged in this laudable object of giving the best of music in our. home town. Time and labor have been spent for months in re hearsing and the committee have not spared expense in engaging the best B. Wallace will get an appointment either in the office of County Treasurer Lewis or Dis trict Attorney Coles when his term of office as Justice of the Peace expires. Matthew : x., 32 and ....: Le ye strong j talent from the city to assist, and very courageous. ^ He touched Miss Electa Gifford will sing the! upon the foundation of this country, soprano so]os and said it was those kind of men and women who came here in the early period and worshipped God that had given us the splendid country we have today. “ If we take the Bible frftni Nothing is better for a Christmas present than a nice piece of jewelry. The jeweler who realizes the value of advertising is the one who will get the trade —see the adv. of A. A. Web ster & Co. in this issue. prise. j deeply sensible ot the thoughtfulness of his friends in remembering him with such a beautiful gift, and said that he fully appreciated the love and friend ship that had prompted it. There was a large attendance, representatives be ing present from every one of the sev- Next week the annual Christmas ! eti lower counties in the association. numb< ;• of the Review will be issued, I President Warren K. Haviland, Yin and will contain the advertisements of president Green and other.- also all merchants who think it worthwhile appropriate remarks, to advertise. We found one merchant | who has all the trade he can handle and j while he believes thoroughly in adver- F ml ley Hearinji Miss Irene Van Riper, a pupil of Pro fessor Palamountain, will sing the solos alotted to the alto. Berrick Von Norden will shig tjie tenor solos and Magnus Schutz has we take tiiv hinie tymn our | been engaged for the bass solos. Prof, schools it will next >e the flag horn j g Lambert and his New York orches our country, and if we take that, we | ^ wjjj may as well turn our backs in shame, not only as Christians, but as men. ” 'ro be manly and courageous was the injunction of the speaker to the mem bers of the council. The impressive evening service of the church was used in connection with the address and special musical num bers rendered. An interesting meeting of the Allied Boards of Trade and Civic Clubs of the Town of Hempstead was held in Fra ternity Hall, Saturday evening, Presi dent William P. Jones officiating. The\ members discussed at length quite a number of subjects that are , interesting to the residents of the Town of Hempstead, but they were laid over for further consideration. supply the accompaniments. Mrs. George T. Van Riper will preside at the organ and Miss Hattie Wallace at the piano. The chorus will consist of. about GO voices and those who at tend are promised a treat. Profe ssor Palamountain will conduct. Tickets for admission are now on sale. The Brooklyn Times published the following article Tuesday evening. We have seen many ridiculous articles and comments in city papers concern ing this and neighboring communities but this “ takes the cake.” A man who complains because the board of education buys the books which would cost hundreds of dollars more each year if bought individually and then kicks because he was lined for damage done tising we readily could see he must In excused; in another trade and the local dealers did not believe it paid to advertise and would not talk with us at all, but we are thoroughly well pleased that our merchants as a whole realize 1 JouLik to 1. Greenport village is considering the matter of “ free” delivery. If they know when they are well off the busi- , , . . , . . ness men of that place will stick to that advertising does pay and they have the good old fashioned way of calling taken advantage of this.spec.al oppor- for their mail and be satisfied to let ^mty to get the announcement of Track and Fare Question Considered by the Public Ser vice-Commission, Counselor Elvin N. Edwards, on be half of taxpayers and the Allied Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Smith, jr., are stopping with Mr. Smith’s parents for the winter. A. Kohl of New York has purchased the cottage of J. Hodgson mi the New- bridire Road, C. Cornell and family have moved to Wainscott, L. L, where they have purchased a farm. Mrs. Crowning.'hield’s parents of Boston are spending a few weeks w ith their daughter here. • Rev. Mr. Kerr of Hempstead will preach in the Presbyterian Church this Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. John Johnson and family of Brook lyn are now occupying one of Samuel Post’s new houses on Bedford^ A venue. Samuel Abrams and family of Bound Brook, New Jersey, have been visiting friends and relatives here for the past week. A supper was given at thv M. K. Boards of Trade of the Town of Hemp- parsonage, under the auspices of tly Helping Hand Society, Thursday cvcfn- ing, and was quite a success financially. well enough alone. Our post office is as well managed as any can be under a “ Free” delivery system and we have yet failed to find one single advantage to offset the many disadvantages to a business man. VVe have added to our stock a new; their goods before the public. No one has been coaxed to place any advertis ing in this issue nor do we want the advertisement of any person who does not expeefc to get his money’s worth. The Review is trying to make Free port a village of stores to be patron ized by its people at home and only stead, filed with the Public Servict Commission, at Albany, supplemental and amended petitions to compel a double track of the New York and L. I. Traction trolley company, in Nas sau County and also to compel the said Company to establish a five cent fare between the village of Freeport and Hempstead and to correct other abuses claimed to exist. ’1 he date for argu ment and taking testimony has not been set yet by the Commission but will be probably fixed for some time the latter part of this month or the first part of January. ' The members unanimously expressed by his children, is incurable. We do themselves as being antagonistic to the not give the Times correspondent cred it for such a piece of nonsense but further leasing of any sea-beach prop erty that still remains the property of the Town of Hempstead, and it was unanimously resolved that the secre tary communicate v/ith the members of the Town Board, stating that at the meeting of the Allied Boards of Trade tom, of imposing and Civic Clubs of the Town of Hemp-; shcool pupils who imagine it was written by some dis gruntled parent who had been obliged to pay for the carelessness of his chil-' dren. The article: “A new and somewhat surprising cus- i penalty on public get ink spots on line of men’s and women’s leather poc- asks the business support of its mer- ket books, card cases, bill books, Wo-i chants in so doing. And by Freeport men’s leather hand bags and shopping | we »Pean the adjacent villages of Free- bags, music rolls; etc. Our line of ! P°rt. Merrick, Belt more, Baldwin, trunks, bagsand suit cases is also com- 1 Wantagh and Sea ford. We do not wish plete. Freeport Harness Store, 68' to encourage the buyers in those vil- j^ajn gt ' lages to leave their home stores - don’t (This is a line of goods which should | do it -but when you are out shopping be well patronized. The demand for f°r what you cannot buy in these vil- these articles has not been fully met ages,come to Freeport instead of spend- before —Ed.) ! ’n(? a dreary day in New York. i * ____ . • People are kicking hard about the disagreeable condition of Main Street, | C L . D r e c s c , VI. I). especially between 1 ine Stieet and the; .Specialist in Throat and Lung Troubles Merrick Road. The V iliage Board of E n d o r s e s Vinnl Trustees will shortly submit a proposi-i . ... > lion to the voters which will give them . Hv « r‘tes: n cas|e.8 where the cur- a chance to appropriate the money to | at,lver in»uen.ca «f cod l.ver o, is need nut the street in decent condition, j f d-/ brescr,he Vinol, which I find to There ought not to he a dissenting vote. far ™°re R a table and efficacious sk ipping r reeporu. is cuscoiuinueu The condition now existing will never than other cod liver preparations. 1 The train just ahead of this wh,eh be improved until the road is graded to | am convinced from my own experience skipped Baldwin and Merrick Bell- allow the water to run off, and lhen ami from a knowledge ot the nature of more, Wantagh - . o -r. -., ...... Changes in Time-table The Long Island Railroad Time-table for the winter schedule goes into effect to-morrow. The changes in the Montauk Division are as follows: Train leaving leaving Long Island j City at 8:02 will leave at 8:24, arriv ing at Freeport about 9:16 instead of 8:52 as at present, will run through to Patchogue; has been stopping at Baby lon. , Train leaving Long Island City at 5:14, arrving at Baldwin 6:00 o’clock, skipping Freeport, is discontinued. Thi> tra i n inst. nhearl o f th i s wl Some one anticipated a little bit and stole the roast beef intended for the Firemen’s supper last Thursday even ing, but in suite of this, everybody had “ a good square feed.” Harvey Sprague died at the Nassau Hospital, Mineola, Sunday evening af ter an illness of about two we iks, of pneumonia, following typhoid fever. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, Rev. Mr. Shoemaker officiat ing, and the interment wheh followed was in Greenfield Cemetery. His wi dow and four children survive him. W ANTAGH A regular meeting of the Hook and Ladder Company was hold last night in the truck house. The monthly business meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society will be held this Friday evening. Send us send you trial. 10c in stamps and we will the Review five weeks on stead, representing over six hundred books or tear them has been put in op- residents of the Town of Hempstead, eration here, sanctioned by the Board it was unanimously resolved to peti- of Education. In discussing the mat- tion the Town Board to refrain from ter one property owner who did not granting rttiy further leases for any 1 want his name mentioned said. “I help sea-beach property still remaining the pay for the school books and one of my property of the Town of Hempstead, children had a penally imposed for and the secretary wa* also instructed some spots on a book which another to communicate with the various scholar put there. 1 think such boards and clubs in the federation of methods wholly unreasonable and they the Allied Boards, urging them to pass should be done away with. It is hard similar resolutions, and to forward the enough to pay taxes for school books sam elo the Town Board. i these days without having a double The secretary was also directed to tax imposed by the penalty for ink communicate with Assemblyman Mil- ; spots.” ler and Senator Burr, urging them to The Board of Education thinks that use their utmost endeavor in securing the imposition of penalties will make the repeal of the Percy Gray Law. He children more careful of the books, but was also directed to communicate with ' there has been some lively kicking the Allied Boards of the Eastern End from parents about the fines notwith- s tana ing they were small in •amount.” « r ; ; i v m . ^ ...... ... to sustain the heavy traffic. “rat'on m » h!ch » Phya.rian may have _ ___ every confidence. (_. L. Dreese, M. H Y M E N E A L ° S u T S t ^ o n y furnishes further Conklin—Titus evidence to the people yf Freeport that George T.-Conklin, deputy clerk in : our delicious cod liver preparation, 1lon the post office, and Miss Bessie Titus, Vinol does all we claim for it. daughter of Postmaster DeWitt C. Ti- As a body builder and strength-crea- tus of Hempstead, were marriediThanks tor for old people, delicate children, giving eve by Rev. F. M. Townley of weak, run-down persons, after sickness Merrick. The wedding was very quiet, and for chronic coughs, colds, bronchi- Roscoe Conklin, brother of the groom, | tis and all throat and lung troubles, and Miss Lillian Titus, sister of the Vinol is unexcelled. This is because of the Island, urging them to join in this measure, and soliciting their sup port. No wonder the “ property owner” (?) didn’t “ want his name mentioned.” Regular service.- in the Memorial Church Sunday with sermon by the Pastor. Rev. T. S. Braithwaite. The Sunday School of the Mem >rial Church is preparing a cantata for Christmas entitled “ The Old Fashion ed Santa Claus.” The Ladies’ Aid Society held a meet ing at the parsonage Wednesday after- affecting this section, there will be noon and were hospitably entertained also taken off several express trains by Mrs. Braithwaite. and others which have been run through to Patchogue or from Patch- An entertainment and dance will be ogue will start and stop at Babylon. held by the choir of the Memorial ________ ‘ Church in Ultsch’s Hall next Wednes- more, wantagh. and Sea ford will now make all the stops, arriving at Patch ogue at 7:12. Train leaving Babylon at 9:59 a. m , arriving at Freeport at 10:30 will be discontinued; but in its place train 50 which has been an express from Baby to Jamaica will stop at all stations, arriving at Freeport about 10:11. These are the principal changes Mr. and Mrs. Conklin are residing in , tive and concentrating process from | Yodr store will not keep in the race (,ay t-venmg. proceeds for the benefit Freeport. fresh cods’ livers, combining with pep-1 for a month after you have ceased to of Parish Aid Fund. Curtain will I ton ate of iron all the medicinal, heal-1 try to ‘‘keep up” with the advertis-1 raise promptly at K o’clock. The.en- Gilder sleeve—Smith ing, body building elements of cod liver! jng pace. tertainment will consist of up-to- At the. Presbyterian parsonage, oil, but no oil. | ; date minstrelsy by the Merrick Mins trels and songs by a Ladies’ Quartette Wednesday evening, Nov. 27, Belle Gildersleeve of this village and Edward Clarence Smith of Islip were united in wedlock by the pastor, K. P. Ketcham. oil, but no oil. Anna We ask the people of Freeport to try Vinol on our oliter to return their mon ey if it fails to give satisfaction. Rev. Thomas Johnston. Druggist. Freeport, Subscribers arc requested to send us their Street and No. so as to insure prompt delivery. from the churchy Charles Livingston, pianist; concluding with that really laughable sketch ‘‘That Troublesome Servant.”
