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Official Paper, V illage of Freeport FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, OCT. 15, 1909—VOL. XIV, NO. 51 4 Official Paper o f Nassau County News items received up to fi o’clock Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson have Thursday night; advertisemeikt form ! r e t urne(j to Brooklyn after spending the summer in Freeport. kept ojien till 11 o'clock Friday morning; papers ready for delivery 1 o'clock Friday. Single copies of the Nassau County Review can be secured of W illet C. Raynor, at the depot: Wm. Greenblatt, Railroad A v e.; a t Gobetz’s or the Re view Office, South Main Sr., and DaSil va's, West Merrick Road. W illiam Golden of Grand Ave. has a littlle baby daughter, born Wednesday night. Mystic Rebekah Lodge No. 298, has Jam es Hanse and Stephen P. P e ttit have purchased the Oscar Rhodes build-1 a rcepted an invitation from Hemp- F., to George Sunday ing on Railroad Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. George Cochran of the Bronx visited Mr. and Mrs. John T. Cotter, North Grove Street, Sunday. Special Announcement a . Meyer, steward at the Freeport ln Club, is managing the cafe at the Sig- mond Opera House, with Mrs. Meyer in charge. / All subscription orders sent from now to January 1 free for the balance of you will get the Review Jan. 1, 1911, for $1.50. will be sent the year; or from now FREEPORT NEWS ! Contractors are tearing down the south end of the old Opera Hall block — this week, to make way for that city : pipe line. stead Lodge, No. 14, I. O. O. attend divine service in the St. Episcopal Church, Hempstead, evening, Oct. 17. The case of The People against George Seaman, charged by Mrs. Ella Turner with assault, came up before Justice Tatem Wednesday and was ad journed to Thursday, Oct. 28, after the jury had been drawn. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Cochran of City Island visited Mr. and Mrs. Wes ley Pearsall, Raynor Street, Sunday and Monday. Coming Events Wednesday evening, Oct. 27, 8:3U— Euchre. Nassau County Ladies’ Aid Society at Fraternity Hall. Wednesday evening, Oct. 27— Pro gressive Dinner at Crystal Lake Hotel from b to 8 p. m., Baptist Church Circle. Wednesday, Nov. 10—Annual din ner Nassau County Firem e n ’s A s so-' See the adv. of Thomas Johnston, ciation. ; d ruggist, this week. Continuing its reputation Freeport even raises big sweet potatoes. Two on exhibition a t the Review office this week, raised by Nicholas Blake, Ray nor Street, weigh about five pounds. Dominick Ferrara, who has won quite a local reputation during the past few months in foot-racing at 100 yards, added to his achievements on Saturday by defeating W illiam Long of Far Rockaway. His tim e was 11 seconds. B Mordecai Post is sick at his home on North Main St. Mystic Rebekah Lodge is to attend service at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening, Get. 24. William Raynor, son of Joseph J . Raynor of South Main Street, has en tered Heffley I n s titute for a business course. The regular mid-month m eeting of the Village Board of Trustees is held in the village office this Friday even ing. Wall papers at 8c per roll up; pic ture frames made at short notice. J. S. Shapiro, Main St. Upholsterer. The October meeting of the W T. U. was held at the home of Mrs. J. S. DeMott, tw e n ty members being present. A fter the business of the day was finished, the society listened with in terest to the report given by Mrs. Hammond of the progress of tne mis- Next Wednesday, Oct. 20, the John J. Randall Co. wfill sell a t acution about i 100 building lots on both sides of Grove I Street, beginning at Smith Street and | on both sides of Rose Street, Whaley Street, South Side Ave. and A tlantic ! Avenue, between Grove Street and Ocean Avenue. The Company wishes | it understood that this is an absolute i sale and the lots are not to he bought in 1 but will be sold to the highest bidder. I This is an opportunity to buy at your ^ I price house lots in the best residential section of Freeport and on easy terms. sion work on T u rk’s Island. teresting letter from Miss Phebe Griffin and also extracts from various The entertainm e n t for the Fire De- papers, among other things the declar- partm e n t will be ‘\U tah” by the Sig- ation of Gen. Fred T. Grant that “ be- mond Stock Company, on Monday even- cause moderate drinking is a practical j ing, Nov. 1. impossibility 1 became an absolute i ~~ teetotaler.” President Lincoln’s as-1 The progressive euchre of the Nas- sertion was also read that ‘‘pure A d - 1 sau County Ladies’ Aid Society will be am -g aie from the spring is the only I held at Fraternity Hall Wednesday beverage i have ever allowed or used i evening, Oct. 27, at 8:30 sharp. C. O. Niles had a wheel stolen from in front of his residence on.Pine Street Tuesday evening. This is the fourth wheel Mr. Niles has had stolen. Major Geo. E. Libby of North Ber gen Place was seized with an attack of vertigo Tuesday evening and fell on the floor of his barn, sustaining a p ain ful cut on his face. He was taken to a hospital for treatm e n t. ‘‘Ten dollars or ten days in the Nas sau County ja i l ” was the sentence meted out Tuesday by Justice Tatem to Ralph Horton, a young negro, ar rested a few days ago charged with grand larceny. Horton, who had been The'leader o 7 ‘the day “ read an in- | employed for aome tim e by Liveryman S. A. Williams, entered his employer b stable and took therefrom one of Wil liam s’ horses and a carriage, went joy riding, and was arrested by the village officer charged with stealing the rig, while on his way back. Counselor Elvin N. Edwards, who appeared for Horton, made a strong plea for him on the ground th a t he had learned a lesson. The justice imposed in my fam ily.” The m eeting closed l ^ 6 fin®> however after reducing the with a few moments’ social chat. • charge to petit larceny, and the money Press Cor i was Pald by the young man s aunt af- l ter Horton had served one day of his Yachtsmen Ate Steak | sentence. The South Shore Yacht Club ended | the 1909 season with a beefsteak din-1 A quantity of paper used for carpet Freeport Cjub Notes An informal dance will he held next Wednesday evening. * The following visitors registered at the club last week : C. P. Reed and J. R. Ketcham of New York and N. French of Syracuse. On Thursday evening, October 28, a treat is in store for the members of the club and their friends when the club will hold a corriplimentary Smok er and entertainm e n t. There are undoubtedly within the village and the immediate v icin ity . many worthy and genial gentlemen who ar£ strangers to the attractions j and joys incident to membership in the Freeport Club, and it is the plan of the committee to introduce the club and its social features to the new com ers in the village and to the old timers who have a leaning for such sociabili ty as there prevails, but who for some reason or other, have never had enough interest to come around and look in. It is the hope of the committee_that the .members will aid them in this pro ject by inviting one or more of their non-member friends or acquaintances for the 28th hist. There will be plen ty of the ‘‘soothing weed” passed around, and it is the hope of all that this evening may he made one of royal welcome and brotherly feeling to all club members and invited guests. During the past week in the individ ual pool tournam ent Sawyer defeated Sutherland 12U to 77 and Sprouil with a handicap of 65, easily defeated Mun- zinger, who seemed to he a little out of form. The schedule for next week will be: Monday, Malmken vs. Sawyer; ^Tues day, Munzinger vs. Corby; Wednes day, Kennedy vs. Sprouil; Thursday. Thompson vs. W allace; Friday, Ray nor vs. H art. The standing to date is as follows: Won Lost Corby 2 0 Hart 1 o Kennedy 1 0 Sprouil 2 1 Raynor I 1 Dunbar 1 1 Munzinger 1 1 Thompson 1 1 Sawyer 1 1 Wallace ., o I Sutherland t) 2 Malmken 0 2 There were so few team s entered in the five men team bowling tournam ent that the committee decided to hold the entries open another week. News of the Churches Local Topics last Thursday night. The diners, who included the lady friends of the mem bers, presented an interesting picture seated about the room in the form of a horseshoe, each wearing a white G e y g e M. Levy was sworn in as an apron. While the steak and other good attorney and counselor at law Wednes- things were being served, the Twen- ner at the club house on Randall’s Bay : padding caught fire in the cellar of the large house owned and occupied by M. W> Ryan on Long Beach Avenue, shortly before 8 o’clock Friday even ing, bringing out the Fire Department. The firemen removed the blazing pa per which was found near the fur nace, and extinguished it with water. tieth Century Q u a rtet rfom New York entertained the diners w ith vocal and instrum ental selections. During the evening, fancy paper caps for the women folks and razzle- dazzles, horns, cow bells and other noise-making instrum ents, were dis- day before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, of the Second J u dicial D istrict, in Brooklyn. He has an office at 29 Railroad Avenue. A special meeting of the Fire De partm ent was held at the Engine house Thursday evening, at which a commit- tr p )Uted to the men as souvenirs, tee of arrangem ents was appointed to prepare for the convention and narade DaSilva’s Bazaar—Cremo cigars, of the Southern New York Volunteer for 25c; Capadura’s, 7 for 25c. Firem e n ’s Association next October, ------------- and the carnival to be held at the same time, consisting of J . Huyler Ellison, chairm an; Archer B. Wallace, vice- chairm an; w ith the foreman of each company and the departm ent chiefs. This committee is to select a general committee and the general committee is to appoint the sub-committees, to get at work r ight away. Board of Trade At the regular m eeting of the Board of Trade Wednesday evening, railroad m a tters were discussed at some length. A resolution was passed requesting President Peters of the Long Island Railroad to have train No. 36, leaving ‘ Flatbush|Avenue at 4 :39, stop a t Rock- iville Centre and Freeport, when ar ranging for the W inter schedule. Aus tin Adams jr., president of the rail road committee, said he understood the i 7 :45 a. m. west-bound express is to be , continued, and the 8:14 a. m. would be changed to 8 :24 ; that there would also be a new east-bound train put on; ‘‘I wish to thank you very kindly for F,la,tbf h a \ d LoW Lsland City the excellent manner in which you took about 1 ° clock in the afternoon, care of the fire which occurred in my The Service of Consecration of the building of Christ Lutheran Church. 42 North Main Street, will be held Sunday, October 17, at 2:45 p. m. The regular monthly m eeting of the Presyterian Church Improvement So ciety will be held at the Manse next Wednesday, Oct. 20, from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. This Saturday evening there will be a barn dance and book social under the auspices of the A ltar Guild of the Church of the Transfiguration at Mrs. C. B. M ilbank’s, 211 Pine St. The “ Growth of Seed T r u th” is the topic for the Epworth League m eeting in the M. E. Church Sunday evening. This is Mission Study Rally Day and R. H. Hunt is announced to lead. A sale for the benefit of the Mission Church on Turk’s Island will be held a t the home of Mrs. A. H. Hammond from 2 to 5 p. m., Saturday, Oct. 16. Tea will he served and cake, bread and other articles will he on sale. At the Methodist Episcopal Church next Sunday the pastor, W. A. Rich ard, will preachat 10.30a. m. on ‘‘The Message to the Church at Thyatira and its Significance for to-day.” In the evening at 7 :30 o’clock, his subject will be “ Unrecognized H e roes.” The Junior League of the M. E. church has taken up study after the summer vacation. The following offi cers have been elected for the y e a r : President, Gladys Cook; -Mercy and Help chairman, Edivh Crandell; social chairman, Helen Seaman: secretary, Annie B e d e ll; Treasurer, Harold Hum phrey. “ Why cues God chasten?” will he the Sunday morning sermon theme of Rev. Charles H erbert Scholey at the F ir s t Presbyterian Church. The Young People's Meeting at 6:45 p. in. will be led by Miss Eleanor Roe; topic, ‘‘Doubting C a stle,” in Pilgrim ’s Prog ress Series. The pastor's evening sermon will he in the series on Mes sages for the Present Day from the Minor Prophets, “ Hosea: Salvation from the Heredity and H a b it of Greed. ’ ’ DISTRICT MEETING. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Brooklyn South D istrict will hold a D istrict Meeting at Patch- gue, L. L, on Friday, October 22. Evidently Judge Gaynor, democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City, is o u t1 w ith the big stick. The Mes senger talks of the big vote he expects to “ p ole.” If any of our subscribers fail to get their paper at any time blame it on the post office—they are good natured and can stand it, whether its their fault or not, but please let us know and we will see that another copy reaches you. We want all our readers to get their paper each week. The town assessors give notice that the town tax books are now completed and on inspection at the town hall, Hempstead. This is the final notice regarding those books to conform w ith law, and it is too late to have any changes made at this day. These are the assessments which are used for the school tax this fall and the “ town, county and sta te ” tax in January. “ Can women vote here?” The man had just accompanied his wife to the polls to cast a vote on the sewer proposition, and heard this question asked over his shoulder. The inspec tors told him they could if they were owners of property in the village. “ All rig h t,” he said “ I am going to bring three votes to offset that one,” and he did it to with one for good measure. Another spectator rem a rked: “ Well, if that is the way he feels about it 1 guess 1 will get busy too.” so he went out and brought down his wife, mother and sister to vote, to off set the three extra votes brought in by the man who had learned. So a f ter all the trouble it was an even break. Geo. M. McCombs, M. I).---Exam i nation for glasses; treatm e n t nose and throat M anhattan House,Fridays, Saturdays, 1 to 5 p. m. t r . BA L D W I N Mrs. W illiam Rope of Buffalo, N. Y., is visiting relatives in town. School was closed on Tuesday in ob servance of the new legal holiday, Columbus Day. Last Friday night Amos Pearsall gave a barn dance. People were pres ent from this and adjoining village Mr. and Mrs. William B. Austin of Harrison Avenue have returned from a visit with relatives in Massachusetts. No damage was done to the house ex cepting by smoke. Through some misunderstanding alarm No. 6 (out of village) was sound ed, delaying the firemen somewhat hut they made good tim e notwithstanding. Chief Cameron has received a letter of thanks from Mr. Ryan, reading as follow s: SEAFORD Mr. and Mrs. George L. Weeks jr. are spending the week in Sayville. H Y M E N E A L HAMILTON—ABRAMS Miss Louise Marie Hamilton, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ham ilton and Samuel D. Abrams of Inwood j were married Saturday evening, by ■ Rev. Charles A. Logue, priest-in- i charge of the Catholic Church of Our Redeemer, of which the bride is a mem- Sitting in special term at Mineola her. Friday, Justice Townsend Scud4,er | The bride was gowned in white satin, granted Eleanor A. Parraga of Free- trimmed with Duchess lace, and her port a decree annulling her m arriage attendant, M iss Zoe Hamilton, a sis- to A lbert R. Parraga of M anhattan. i ter of the bride, was attired in pink The couple were m arried in New Jer- broadcloth. The bride wore a veil aey on February 14 last. It was a run- j caught up with orange blossoms, and away St. Valentine’s affair. The bride carried a bouquet of lilies-of-the-val- waa then less th a t 16 years old; in f a c t 1 ley, while the bridesmaid carried a she did not reach th a t age until four bouquet of chrysanthemums. Harry months later. Ahern of M anhattan was best man. A fter two days of wedded bliss the A fter the ceremony a wedding sup- youthful Mrs. Parraga was whisked off per was served, following \ L‘ ' house on Friday, October 8. Ordinar ily a lot of damage would have been done by w a ter and •smoke, but the ex pert way in which it was handled saved | me a lot of damage, for which I again thank you very heartily. Yours truly, M. W. Ryan. to Europe by a kinswoman and only returned a short time ago. Then she applied to the court to have her mar riage annulled and got her decree. Theye was no defense on the part of the husbarid, who is a very few years his bride’s senior. A remedy that should be kept in every home and one that may be need ed any day ia the liniment spoken of I in Smith & Bedell’a ad. It. 1 -- Special, DaSilva's Bazaar, 14 qt. agate dish pan, 28c; agate roasting pane, 28c; Dennison floral crepe paper, 13c; Dennison's tissue and napkins; window shades, 20c, all colors; Kayo lamp, $1.49; stove pipes and elbows. which the newly married couple left in an > auto mobile, followed by some of.the party in other automobiles, who showered them with rice and confetti. Upon their return from their wedding tour they will reside at Inwood. School Notes Owing to our school representative being incapacitated this week we are unable to run cur regular school notes column. all sizes, 15c. -i How about that printing order? You can get it done in Freeport as good as anywhere, or better. Telephone, write or calVNaaeau County Review printery and we will be around to see you about it at once; telephone eight. It. Yachtsman Badly Hurt John White, an ex-commodore of the Hempstead Bay Yacht Club, is con fined to his home in Hempstead with a fractured nose, a painful laceration of the upper portion of his mouth, and two front teeth missing, the result of an accident which befell him while on his a u x iliary cruiser Question, in R a n dall’s B»y, Monday. The ex-commodor^ was putting the It was resolved to make the special order of business at the November nieeting the discussion of the idea of dividing the village of Freeport into wards or districts. Editor E. N. Townsend of the Hemp stead Republican was p resent and spoke on the proposition to be submitted at the November election to sell to the Estates of Long Beach the remaining part of Long Beach not yet owned by them, about 1034 acres, for $100,0^0. He was followed by George Wallace, who gave an interesting talk on his re cent trip abroad. At the November m eeting Herman Otis, a New York lawyer, will give a lecture on “ W it and H u m o r.” Mr. and M rs. A. C. W alters are spending a week with relatives in Amityville. Mrs. M. E. Post spent Sunday and Monday w ith h e r daughter, Mrs. Vernie Fountain, in Patchogue. Wm. Stable was a delegate from the local fire departm ent to the convention of the Southern New York Volunteer Firem e n ’s Association at College Point last week. A roof is being placed over the stoop at the M. E. Church, and as soon as this is completed the entire building will be painted. The money for the roof was raised by Mrs. Edward F. Verity, and for the painting by Mrs. H. M. Covert, by popular subscription. WANTAGH band hoard siding up to the opening through th e ^ ^ th M thL'm o n ^h!^ which he started the engine, and was endeavoring to shove in the pin of the , flywheel, which had lost its spring. ' ^ The Schuman Orchestra met The pin caught umler the siding and it da* a f ternoon with M r.. Edgar J. was jammed up under his chin, then man- slipped to his mouth and nose. The injured yachtsman cried out with pain and almost fell into the arm s of ex-Commodore Isaac DeNyse, who was on board w ith him to join in a w e ek's cruise. Temporary aid was given and a physician summoned. The race between the ehgine com pany and the truck company of the ______ local fire departm ent occurred last Fri day evening from the corner of Wash ington Ave. and Merrick Road to the /-^--^-cprner of Seaman Neck Road and Mer- ijan^e rick Road. The truck company got away to flying start and at one time had n good lead, but this was gradual- Thurs- j ly overcome and at the finish so close Sea- were tbe two that the judges declared it a tie. The Ladies’ Aid Socity m et Wednes day afternoon with Mrs. Alfred Sea man. Fire broke out in the house of N. T. Smith on Jackson Avenue Sunday af ternoon about 4 :30, being caused by the overturning of p lighted kerosene K ing’s lamp in one of the bed rooms. An ter receiving treatment, the former commodore was hurried to his home, where the family physician attended to him. The next nieeting of the Daughters will be held next week with alarm was sounded and pending the ar- A*\ 1 M rs. Chas. Schafer. - l rival of the departm ent a bucket bri- ---- gade was formed which kept the fire The Sigma Euchre Club hel^ its first from spreading until the arrival of the meeting for the winter Thursday eve- firemen, who soon extinguished the ning with Mrs. Birdsall Jackson. blaze. Tly fire was confined to one ---------- » ------------- i ro >m, which was completely gutted, . Friday and Saturday, batter peanut j The Ladies’ Aid Society is busily 1 and it could be easily seen that only brittle, 10c; home-made cocoanut cakes, planning for its fair, further announce- very quick work saved the entire 10c doz., DaSilva’a Bazaar. ment of which will be given later. house from destruction, i . ' The Mercy and Help Department of the Epworth League netted about $15 at the cake and bread sale held last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. W illiam D. Turkey will enter tain the Ladies’ Aid Society,of the M. E. Church next Tuesday afternoon at the parsonage. Joseph P. Gomes and family have removed to Spencer Place, Brooklyn, for the w inter months. They will re turn here in April. ? The M. E. Church had their carpets in the church and lecture room cleaned by the Tw entieth Century Vacuum .Cleaner, A. J. W right, Rockville Centre. George McChesney is having grani toid walks laid about his property on Merrick Road as is also Mr. Good- enough at his residence on Harrison Avenue. There was a light frost hereabouts Tuesday night. The weather has been very fine and people have been n eglect ing to “ take up” their plants, etc., but little damage was done. Rev. William D. .Tuckey, pastor, will preach a t both services of the M. E. Church Sunday. Sunday School at 2:30 p. rn., and Epworth Leauge at 64:5 p. m .; topic, “ The growth of seed-truth;” leader, Miss Amy M. Smith. There promises to be an interesting time at the public hearing to he held on Wednesday night, October 20, at which time the application for the es tablishment of a w a ter d istrict in Bald win to be supplied by the Baldwin W a ter Supply Company, for a term of fif ty years, will be taken up. The M ethodist Protestant Confer ence has closed and the pastor sent to the church here for the coming year is Rev. Lewia Woodley Gordon, a young man full of'enthusiasm and energy. A successful church werk is predicted. Rev. Francis A. Smith has been ap pointed to Moriches and Manorville, L. I. E b r x , : ; , : J i m v.. - < - y A * . / . { j f l
