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Nassau County Review Vol. XVIII - FR E E P O R T NEWS FREEPORT. N. Y., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1912 12 pages No. 8 HIGHW ATER TIDE TABLE (Sandy Hook, which is as near ocality as can be secured). this Friday, Dec. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 20 , 21 , 22 , 23, 24, 26. 26, 27, 23, 3:58 a. 1:5! a. 5:43 a. 6:33 a. 7 :23 a. 8:13 a. 9:05 a. 9:65 a. 10:06 a. Single copies ef the Review for sale at G r e e n b l a t t ’s and B i a i t h w a i t e ’s, Railroad A v e n u e ; Kiefer’s, Nassau County Review, DaSilva’s and Gobetz’s Main S t r e e t ; DaSilva's. West Merrick Road. tf A regular meeting of the Village Board of Trustees will be held this Friday evening. The divorce case of Stockman against Stockman will not be tried un til the J a n u a r y term of Court. The cuts on the first page of the Re view last week were kindly loaned us by the Telephone Review, through the local agent, C A. Ryder. Church Notes S u b j e c t o f S e r m o n s , S e r v i c e s o f t h e w e e i a n d o t h e r d o i n g s i n t h e c h u r c h e s a n d c h u r c h s o c i e t i e s Christian Science Society services Sunday mornings at 11a. in., Sunday School, same hour; Hempstead Bank Building; s ubject next Sunday, Dec. | 22, “ Is the universe, including man, evolved by atomic force?’’ Wednes day evening tervices at 7:45 p. m. Marie Bolton is leader for the Young People’s meeting Sunday night in the , Presbyterian Church; subject, “ What the coming of Christ has done and will do for the world.’’ (Chrisimas meet- i ing-) ____ ,* Without the assistance from the sup erintendent, the officers of the I..' T. i L. solicited a Thanksgiving basket for the family of one of our neighbors, who was recently burned out. On Thanks giving Day they took the basket to Local Topics Personal Mention P e o p l e w h o a r e v i s i t i n g o u t o f to w n o r w h o are e n t e r t a i n i n g v i a i t o r s Henry Carman and family of Brook lyn spent Sunday with Mrs. E t t a J. Carman on Brooklyn Avenue. Mrs. L. R. Thomp.-on of Bridgeboro, N. J., who has also been visiting Mrs. Car man, has returned to her home. C o m m s n t e a n d e i p l e n a t l o n e n o t e n t i r e l y of a n e w s n a t u r e , o n v i l l a g e a f f a i r e by t h e e d i t o r . MERRY CHRISTMAS This being our last issue before Christmas, I want to take this oppor tunity to extend my sincere wishes for a Merry Christmas to all my readers. Your patronage has been liberal dur ing the year and our circulation is i a gain larger than ever. OUR CHRISTMAS ADVERTISERS. Without any intention of doing so we seem to have slighted some of our regular advertisers in our Christmas issue last week, in the r \=b °.f 8et: Lively Class Times Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Bacon have, returned home after spending two weeks in the South. Mrs. C. F. Schtuiker has gone to Augusta, Fla., where she will spend about three weeks. his home at which time they recited l*j‘>|t \f Ins plimts and sang several songs for him. THE. MORNING AFTER. How Conker's nursery looked the morning after the ti e which destroyed The cellar, into which the firemen went and worked until 1 o’clock pumping it out, is directly under the two small windows showing in front Tin. fir, in .mo of the furnaces wiis not extinguished and the furnaces arc - ill in Rev. K. P. Ketcharn, former pastor of the Presoyterian Church here, occu pied the pulpit of the Preshy terian Church on Sunday. Th e fire in one ojxjration. Colonial Theatre “OK” Christm as Exercises ^ n f t Wednesday being a holiday, we | ga] ^ h e H Matur'd ay even ing^'^ Brooklyn Electrical equipment \s now in What the Churches and Societies JJhr\ ent ting that issue out we ran the list of advertisers in the Christmas colored cover ard neglected a number of our regular advertisers, who have fine stocks of Christmas goods entitling them to your consideration. These in clude DaSilva's, Ross & Randall Co., Jones, C. D. Smith, Seaman’s Dry Goods Store, Kiefer's, Smith & Be dell's, Plump's and Johnston's Drug Stores, ai d mure. Look thru this s sue carefully and see what they have to offer. It is not too late to give them a share of your patronage, hutil my apologies for slighting would appreciate it if our readers would have their advertising and news i copy in as early as possible. The more | you send us before noon on Tuesday the better we will he able to enjoy Christmas. Nassau County Review, j At the meeting of Freepert Lodge ot Elks, held last Thursday evening, six members were initiated, making' the total membership 512. They were :! James L. Abrams of In wood, H. G. ' Gibson, jr., of Central Islip. Henry i McDonald of Freeport, Morris Cohen | of Hempstead, Daniel Ayers and Arthur Tilly of Sea Cliff. The pool and pocket billiard tourna ment that is in progress among the club members will not be completed until March 7. Hall under the auspices of the Guild of the Church of the Transfiguration was well attended and was a great success. About $85 was realized. Dancing was er joyed during the evening. Morton Crevoiserat is announced to lead the Epworth League meeting Sunday night in the M. E. Church; “ The Transfiguration (Christ- proper shape and approved by the Underwriters During the last 2 years, we have been obliged to make comments several times on the fact that the Sigmond Opera House, now known as Colonial mas).' Personality, fullly Revealed, Theatre, was not properly protected in the Highest Expression of Truth ’’ —1 ---- : ------- ‘ — 1 J:'’ — 1 “ Crowded Out, Or a Christies? Christmas,’’ will be the subject of the evening sermon in the First Baptist Church next Sunday by the pastor, Rev. Elmer E. Loux. In the morning he will preach upon the subject, “ The How arid Why of Christmas. ’’ “ The Influence of Christmas’’ will be the Sunday morning sermon theme Freeport T O Denial'll! J. I). Kiefer, secretary of the Free port Branch of the Rea Cross Charity Association, has received a letter from the New York State Headquarters to the effect t h a t the Brooklyn collector, who has been operating throughout Freeport, was known, and that a check for the proceeds of his collections, i amounting to $3, will he forthcoming 1 to the Freeport Branch. It was learned , , ,, about two weeks ago that a canvasser Paf ' n.K f;*r t0 , of the Brooklyn branch was making a be,d, m tJ” oklynh Ha ° n tbe af house to house canvass in Freeport and ^ ^ n ( , a v ’ December 27’ at 8 0 clock’ its electrical equipment and did not hjve a certificate from the Board of Fire Underwriters. Under the circumstances, we are more than pleased to announce that the necessary changes and corrections in the elect/ical work have been made, the certificate having been granted. are doing to Celebrate the Christmas Season METHODIST. The Christmas services at the Metho dist Episcopal Church commence Sun day. In the morning at ll :30 the ieg ular Church and Sunday School service will be held, when there will be spec ial music, and the pastor will preach a sermon appropriate to the occasion. In the evening a choir of 2u vuici s will render the Christmas cantata, ' i tie Prince of Peace.’’ There will he an orchestra accompaniment. THE of “ The Prince of a splendid list of solus of Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey at the I F i r s t Presbyterian Church. The even- I ing subject will be “ A Continuous Christmas. ’’ Tlie Social Club ot the Episcopal Church cf the Transfiguration are pro be The program Peace” includes and choruses, and is divided into eight parts, The triumph of prophecy, The Annunciation, The Vision of the Shep herds, The J ourney of the Shepherds, Grade Crossings The Quest of the Magi, M a t y ’s Slum For reasons which we have already b i r Song, The h light into Egypt, God explained, we publish this item from j Manifest. the Brooklyn Eagle, instead of being ! There will he a chorus ot 25 voices able to give our readers the informa-1 an(j t he following soloists: Miss Nina tion direct: | Humphrey, soprano; Mrs. Albin N. The village of Freeport, through its Johnson, contralto; Harold E. Brown president, James Hanse, has asked the and Wilbur Raynor, tenors; Jere E. Public Service Commission fur an; n r o wn. baritone; Miss Libby Hewlett, HERE IS A NEW ONE FOR TROLLEY COMPANY One of the junior members of our office force got on the trolley and handed the conductor five pennies. The conductor took them and looked at them and then said: “ Say kid, I can’t take these. ” The \ k i d ” looked at the conductor and remarked: ” Well hand them to the Company then,” and went on reading. A WORD ABOUT OUR FIREMEN. It i« not in nv line, since I have a special correspondent, to wriTS any thing about the firemen, but 1 am go- ii g to say this one thing. The next time you hear a man criticising our tire department, or any fire depart inert, for there are some who think that they can handle fires better than the firemen do, kindly inform them that there are plenty of vacancies in the fire department, and that we are a t School Tuesday afternoon Superintendent Me on. of the Free pert Schools tele- phoned police headquarters that sonn- onv had been in the Pine Street School on Monday night between 11 and 12 o'clock. He stated that he thought it was some of the High School boys and asked to have the officer on duty in that locality notified to be on the look- Early Wednetday morning, between midnight and one o'clock, Officers Cronley and Merrill caught Jerome Nolan, Russell Randall, Russell Tree, Wright Lewis, Alfred Kollo and Fred Bedell, all members of the Junior Class, as they were coming out of the Freeport High School Building. According to one of the Juniors, the Seniors took down the school pennants from the Assembly Hall and placed them in their room. The Juniors did not like Ihis and took the seniors to task for it. 1 hey also recaptured the pennants and the Seniors challenged the Juniors to a bowl light to decide which class was to replace the banners in the Assembly Hall The fight was held on the school lawn on Tuesday ami the Seniors lost. According to the agreement the Seniors were to tack up the pennants. They captured Alfred Kollo Tuesday afternoon and forced him to help them do the work. While placing the regular pennants in posi tion the Seniors also placed an oh piece of cloth with the Juniors year painted on it on the wall of the hall. As soon as the Juniors le.arned that entirely willing to have the assistance ° ne Ibeir men was forced to help the of any who want to help in the real work at fires. complaint was immediately made to the I Tbe haM will be appropriately decorat- order compelling the l o n g Island Rail- Willard Van Riper, violinists; Clin ton or . , ed and a good 85 per cent of , B, who attend. time is promised to all State headquarters, the money collected from the stamps in the local teriitory is kept for the Af) nu Bchoo| W1„ be he|(i next Mon. fight against the white plague\ here. | doy the L T L and the y dby (:lub an(j will meet at 2 o'clock instead of 3 o’clock. and maintain j Hrown, cornetist; Annie 1. Eldridge, - the crossings in the village , p i a n i s t ; Mrs. G. T. Van Riper, organ- desire another position someone asks ist; G. T. Van Riper, director.’ you if they are honest bite your tongue Holiday Goods, Toys, Games, Fancy Goods. Iron Toys, 10c to $1.00 Express Wagons, 25c to $3.00 Velocipedes, $1.75 up Sleighs, 50c to $1.75 Rocking Horses, 50c to $1.50 Mechanical Toys, 10c to $1.00 Steam Engines, 50c to $1.50 Magic Lanterns, 60c to $1.00 Dolls, 10c to $2.00 Dolls Carriages, 30c to $3.00 Dolls Dishes, 10c to $1.00 Books, 10c to 50c Pictures, Fancy China, Novelties, Neckwear, Gloves, Handerchiefs, and many useful articles. Seaman’s Reliable Dry Goods Store, 11 Main St., Freeport Next Sunday at the Methodist Epis- road Company to erect gates at all at all hours The petition sets forth that the vil lage is first-class, with a population of 6,627; that Hill road, Henry Street, Grove Street, Ocean Avenue, Bergen Place, Long Beach Avenue, Bay View Avenue and Brookside Avenue cross IT IS NOT RIGHT. I do not want to presume to advise a woman but 1 am passing this on to whom it may concern. If you have a person working for you and when they Seniors and also that the cloth had been fastened up they began to plan a revenge. The basketball team played a gam. at Merrick and as soon as the game was over the Juniors returned to Free port and called Ralph Hoyt, a Senior, on the telephone. Hoyt was in her but as soon as he was made to under stand that some Juniors were about the School Building and that the cocopal Church, Dr. W. A. Richard, the tracks, and that there is protection pastor, both services will be devoted on|y between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. at to the observance of the Christmas Grove Street, Long Beach Avenue and anniversaty. At 10:30 a. m. the con- Kay View Avenue, while a t Main and gregation and Sunday School will join Henry Streets protection is offered in worship. The pastor will give a twenty-four hours Christmas address and the choir will The balance of render special music. At 7:30 p.m . a choir of 25 voices, accompanied by an orchestra, will sing Camp’s beauti ful cantata, “ The Prince of Peace ’’ A daring capture of a Old Nineteen Twelve is on the run and here is the new year on the way. May your stay with us be a happy and prosperous one. Greetings to all our notorious I CU8tomers wbo have purchased good streets, notably Ocean Avenue and Bergen Place, are unprotected. On September 26 of this year the board of trustees adopted resolutions asking that gates be erect ed at Bergen Place and Ocean Avenue, and t h a t all gates in the village he op erated for the entire twenty-four hours. A letter, inclosing that reso lution, was sent to the Long Island Railroad Company, but the company Invitations have been sent to the memhers of the Cradle Roll Depart ment for Monday afternoon Dec. 23, at 2:30 o'clock, at which hour will be held the Christmas festivities in the church. Miss Helen Crandell will welcome the babies through a recita tion entitled, “ Cradles. ’’ Miss Shir ley Fulton will preside at the piano, Miss Dorothy Lorraine Chase will render a vocal solo. Miss Marjorie Hamaker will recite and other mem bers of the Cradle Roll will e n t e r t a n as the spirit moves them. Mrs. W. A. Richard, the Cradle Roll Superin tendent, will give a brief report, fol- .?r,ynLh^ , ! . , deknowt'lit Seni° rs \eeded his help, he immediate- in 1 burglar by a brave boy, a thrilling ad- i clothing from us this past year, and a fa j | e(j to comply, and still refuses venture in a fast speeding autombile, hearty handshake to all new customers o r a n t the additional protection speeding autombile, and a funny predicament ot a negligent policeman will he acted in a photoplay entitled “ Billy’s Burglar” ’ in two reels, by the Vitagrph Co.’s stars, at the Plaza, Tuesday, Dec. 24. Doors open at 7 p. m. It who come to us in 1913 for high grade gra()e crossings, the petitioners say. rlnthino. nnH f u r n i s h i n i ' s Barasach's . __ It clothing and furnishings. Dept. Store. The doctors all agree that a hearty laugh is a good tonic. Liberal doses of laughter given to each of our guests We expect to have a bigger sample everJ’ Wednesday at the I laza. Don t of calendars for 1914 than ever. m ' 98 Ke t t ing your share. It Please wait until our representative ., . , ., . . , ,, calls on you before placing your order . Cop'e9n ? f the p,Ctare of h?,.Sec°\d this year Nassua County Review. An,’ual R ,m,er of hre^ ort, h f1e; Advertisement rartm e n t now on 8ale at Rhodes ttaverusemeni. Studjo> 55 So Majn street, formerly Don't fail to see Santa Clauirat the ; Stafford’s Studio. It Crystal Saturday matinee. It $7.50 in gold given way to our pat rons tonight. Save your coupons and bring them in on Friday nights. It Freeport Coal Co., successor to W. P. W. tiaff, the largest coal dealer on Long Island The cheapest place to A real live Santa Claus will be at the Crystal Saturday matinee. Bring the children to see him. He has some thing stored away for each child. It Christmas is only a few days off and gift selections must soon be made. If buy coal. Exclusive dealer in some of you are in doubt as to what to buy read the best grades of coal. It Smith & Bedell's ad for suggestions. It Captain Hanse points out in the petition that there is much travel across the street crossings in Freeport before and after the hours between 7 a. m. and 7 p. in. and because of that the protection should he given for the twenty-four hours as asked. At Grove Street, south of the track, there is a moving picture theater that abuts the corner, cutting off the view of trains coming from a westerly di rection. At Ocean Avenue the view is spoiled by the same building for trains coming from the east. Captain Hanse declares that he will produce proof of the dangerous conditions and will show maps and photographs if a hearing is granted by the Public Service Com mission. The petiton states that the opera tion of gates between the hours of 7 a. in. and 7 p. m. is all the more dan- lowed by distribution of presents omf provef| or re futed, just the candies. Cradle Roll Mothers, babies and Home Department will then re pair to the lecture room for a social hour and light refreshment. On Tuesday afternoon at the Unto one of same hour the primary department will The least of these, have their Christmas tree and exercises Ye have done it and the Junior, Senier and adult de partments in the evening at 7 :30 o'clock. to their character unless you to he true, and necessary. I have mind a case where the unkindness of woman is preventing a girl so situated (whom I believe to he entirely honest I from securing a position. If that girl goes to ruin, there will be a bigger black mark on the Book of Life against the woman who maliciously or carelessly hurts her reputation than \ “ tomobile^hen returned against the motherless girl who must get her living in one way or another. It is a most pitiful condition. Each time someone insinuates something all emenating from the same source and no one stating anything that can be same ex ecrable and ruining insinuations. “ Verily 1 say unto you: Inasmuch As you have done it Unto Me.' Following is the program of the ex ercises of the Sunday School for next Tuesday evening, Dec. 24, at 7:45: Song, by the School, Christmas Bells,” page 2 of “ Gift Supreme.” Greetings. Prayer, led by Rev. W m. A. Richard. MAIN STREET, FREEPORT. I have spoken in this column once or more about Stearns Park and its jw tier, who says the newspapers are so under the influence of the Telephone Company that they will not fight for lower rates or better service. I could not but think of this when I passed Stearns Park, or its entrance, ly dressed and started for the Sell on, Building. When he neared the corner of Smith anhd Grove Streets he was set upon by a number of Juniors win tied him and placed him in Randall’s automobile. Hovt was then taken to Seaford, and his feet untied, and told to walk home, which he did, arriving about two o’clock The boys in the to Freeport after leaving Hoyt at Seaford and crawled through one of the windows of the School. They then crawled through a transom to get into the room where the pennants were. Some of the Seniors who were on the watch immediately sent word to the police headquarters and two officers were sent to investigate. The boys were taken to headquarters where they Were paroled by Officer Cozzens until 9 o ’clock Wednesday morning when Judge Pettit dismissed them after a lecture. Jr. (). U. A. /VI. N o tes By F. S. S. Freeport Council paid a fraternal visit to Eagle Council, No. 46, of Air- ityville, last Monday evening. Six teen brothers in all were on hand from this Council. On the same evening State Councilor about a quarter of a mile north of the J 08ePh U- 1 unison, accompanied hy Song, by the School, “ Shine Bethie- north limit of the Village of Freeport National Representative Henry Kleist, _ Os-,,- ** c i _ . i • r n n H p n n n f f i r l n l v i s i t t n R az / I p f ' n n n t G l Time does fly. Frederick H. Plump, the druggist on Railroad Ave., is celebrating the fact that he has been here one year, and calls attention to it in his advertising this week. Buy your holiday luxuries, Mince meat, Comb Honey, Nuts, figs, dates. Table Raisins, etc., they are all of the beat quality, at Wahlen’s Delicatessen. 71 South Main St. —, , Xmas Post Cards. One half dozen Xmas Tags free with every dozen 1 Xmas Post cards at 10c doz. Da-1 Silva. It Big line o f Men's Slippers at Smith's \ Shoe Store. I t ' gerons because, when the protection is I ------------- discontinued, persons seeing the gates I You are always sure of seeing a re- lifted are apt to walk across or drive . fined, clean show at the Crystal, the as the case might be, in front of an ! theatre with a reputation, pictures that express train, suit both young <md old. It j -------------- ; Follow the crowd to the Old Kelia- Just arrived from Germany, all hie Crystal where you nre always sure kinds of Lebkuchen, Spicedoops, Mar- of seeing a show of high class photo- zipan, etc., at Wahlen’s Delicatessen, plays. It 71 South Main St. '■ ' Women’s Felt Slippers in a variety Women’s Leather Hand Bags. 60 of styles and colors at Smith’s Shn'e hem S t a r , ” page 6. “ Christmas Bells,” Lafayette Brown, Norman Maxon, Lina Colder, Henrietta Terry, Phyllis Lucas, Vira Raynor, Frances Haveqs, Edna Hut ton, Nina Crevoiserat. i “ Somebody's Mother,” Milton Seaman. “ Two Little People,” Frances Voges. recently, and saw on a sign post this sig n : Main Street, Freepoit. There is a law against advertising misleading statements regarding real estate. I do not know styles. Store. 50c to $5.00, at Sm i t h ’s For Xmas Gifts Via.t DaSilva's 6 and 10c Store. A aquare inch of clear conscience for | a c e n t— the Red Cross Christmas Seal. Red Cross Seal. Peace,\ page 6. Shoe Store. I t 1 “ I t Came Upon the Midnight Air,*' I t ; ------------- Gladys Howell. “ My Heart Breathes a Welcome,\ 5 0 c Isabel Hibbard, Vera Bedell, Willard It Van Riper, Harold Humphrey. ---------- j Song, by the School, “ The Promised A gift within reach of everyone—the King,’’ page 10. (Continued on page 7| law will cover the case in point, but that sign certainly does not belong there, and it undoubtedly will lead Sharing Christmas,” Marie and people to think they are buying prop- Elizabeth Mabie. erty in Freeport, when they are not. “ Xmas Box,’’ Freda Young, Eleanor Of course, I am not prepared to say Finch, Annie Ritchie, leabel Seaman, what the purpose waa when putting it Helen Hamber, Edward Davie, Gerald there, hut it did not seem to me that Howell, Millard Johnson, Milton Be- it was a proper place for such a sign. dell, Stephen Carpenter. ----------- - , \W h y the Stockings Were E m p t y , ” LONG ISLAND AUTOMOBILE Evelyn Teeple. CLUB. “ Christmas Lullaby, Hannah Hal- a reader wants to know how be can 'day- become a member of the Long Island Song.^by t h ^ School, “ The Reign of Automobile Club. Can any of oar readers send us the desired in- made an official visit to Eagle Council. Several of the local brothers ven lured to make the journey in automo biles and after a few minor delays a r rived at the Council rooms nearly 45 minutes late. The return journey wa« whether this made without any mishaps. After several interesting addresses, the entertainment committee served sandwiches, cake and coffee. Follow ing this short remarks were made by the brothers from Freeport. Several of the brothers of this Coun cil accompanied State Councilor Tuni- son on his official visit to Wood me re Council last Tuesday night. Chocolates As pure a* they are delicious, lb. DaSilva’s. formation? EXCUSE US! City papers announce the engage ment of Alma, daughter of Village Freeport Council has received an invitation from Rockville Centre Council, No. 80, to attend a m e e t ing on Thursday evenng, December 26. Brothers will leave the depot on the 8:14 train westbound. “ Gold and Glitter, ’’ a thrilling Western picture by the Biograph Co., will be shown to our guests at the I t Trustee and Mrs. Ernest S. Randall, | P>»za Saturday. Local Topics Cootiaoea on Page 7, lore Freeport Hews on Page 12
