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Theories A b o u t D row n e d Bodies It iras a popular theory in days gone by that the body of a drowned man would float the ninth day. Sir Thomas Browne alludes to it aa be lieved in hie time, and in hia “Peeu- do-doxia Epidemica” there ia a du>- cuseion on this fanciful notion. It waa also believed that the epirita of those drowned at sea were doomed to wander for a hundred years ow ing to the rites of burial having never been properly bestowed upon their bodies.—ix>ndon Notes and Queries. ______________ _ London's Big Ben. Big Ben, the famous London bell which strikes a discordant tone, de rives its name from Sir Benjamin Hall, who was first commissioner of On th e S a fe Bide. They had been engaged for fully thirty minutes. “I have a surprise in store for you, Alfred, dear,” she said. “I can cook as well as I can play the piano.\ '\That being the case, darling,\ he replied, “ i t will be well for us to board.” .* works at the time the bell was cast It weighs thirteen tons and on a calm day floods London with u wave of sound. Discordant or melo dious, however, Big Ben will al ways remain the standard time- BALDWIN Single copies of the Review can be had at Maivin’s newstaud at the depot. The majority of the stock holders of the Baldwin Water Company met at their office in the Baldwin Garage Building on Merrick Boad last Friday evening when it waa unanimoosly de cided to raise the capital stock from (28,000. consisting of 280 shares, to (50,000, consisting of 500 shares. It was reported pt the meeting that the work on the plant and pipe line was progressing rapidly and that water woal.1 be turned in the pipes in the near future. Mrs. Emma J. Hulse, widow of the keeper for Londoners, who regulate ; late George W. Hulse, who died at their watches by it. ! Mansfield, north Carelina. on April 3, ! has been appointed administratrix of Double S.&H. Stamps FREE on Friday The Freeport M a rket Cor. Main St. and Merrick Rd., FREEPORT Phone. Groceries and Wines, Freeport 801 Phone. Meat Department, Freeport 802 At All 224 James Butler Inc. Stores Including Eggs for Everybody; Your Choice 14 ■ 25c EGGS, EGGS, Sweet and Good doz., 25c Empire Brand Selected in carton -Every i . . . guaranteed; j J J C sold only in sealed cartons; dozen . . . * * * ' ' + ' East View Eggs,!^\ Laid r p , Ripe, Tomatoes, ^ n f * New, ougar Lorn Asparagus, Sweet and tender Choice Califor nia spears in salmon-size cans, each | large ( No. 3 9 cans, Q cans O for Regina brand,* 25c 17c 10c Pride o f St. Louis FLOUR 69c, bag; 20c Superlative XXXX; best all-round family flour; 24rj lb. bag, . . Potatoes, Butterine, Cocoa, Prunes, from bfest shipments, Best Goverment in spected; print . . Peerless Brand, absolutely pure; c a n ......................... New shipment of choice Cali fornia fruit; lb. cut to . . 6 lbs 12c 25c 15c 5c Essie Sliced Peaches Essie Cherries, Compass Pears, in rich I syrup Choicest California Can . A Can, 10 Teas 100 60 30 15 15 S&H Stamps with t lb. for . ' . . . S&H Stamps with 1 lb. for . . . . S&H Stamps with lib. for . . . . S&H Stamps with 1 lb. for . . . S&H Stamps 70c 50c 35c 25c FREE will 1 lb. Coffees 30 s&H oSt. mp. with 3 g c 25 ?i Hfosrtamp8 with 35c 20 ?iHfwUmpe with 30c 15 S&H Stamp, with 28C Ideal Blend 25c Meat and Poultry Specials At All the 24 JAMES BUTLER Inc. Markets Loin of roast pork, fresh Jersey lb. 16c Loin mutton chops, choice lb. 14c Foreouarters of Mutton lb. 8c East View hams, sugar cured lb. 19c Boneless bacon, sugar cured lb. 18c Picnic shoulders, small and sweet lb. 14c Sliced boded hams, extra choice lb. 28c Porterhouse Steak, best cub lb. 22c Maryland turkeys, selected lb. 23c Roasting chickens, finestdry picked lb. 22c Young, tender fowl, finest lb. 18c his estate, which was about $3600 real. Besides the widow there are three children who are heirs to the estate, George W., Emily M. and Harold H. Hoiee. William Henry Still died at hia home here Sunday after an illnesa of two yeare. He formerly lived on Prospect Place, Brooklyn. He was born here October 11, fifty-four years ago, and waa a eon of the late Willi&m Thornton and Elizabeth Waters Still. He was for twenty-eight years in the employ of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and was a member of the old Firat Baptist Church of Brooklyn. He ia survived by his wife, Mimie E. John son; a daughter, Mrs. Grace E. Hill- yer; two brothera, Benjamin, of Phila delphia, and Frederick, of Coney Isl and, and a sister, Mrs. Ida Wright, of Kirksville. Mo. The funeral we* held j Tuesday night, with interment in Greenfield Cemetery on Wednesday. ROOSEVELT Basel! Hose Co., No. 2, la aolicitiBg subscriptions with which to eecwre neceeatary equipment They hive pur chased i hose carriage and 606 feet of hose, and have contracted to perchaee four Iota on Leonard Ave., near Main Street, open which it ;ie desirous of erecting a suitable fire bouse and meet ing place. A large alarm bell hae also been ordered from a supply house in New York, which the company expects to have erected in a few weeks on the above property. Since Lenker’e recent fire, the Com pany feels the very urgent need of rubber boots, bate, coats, etc., and ia desirous of purchasing these supplies end paying for the lot and building. They say in the letter which they are sending to those in their territory, remittances may be sent tn J. C. Get ter, P. O. Box 35, Freeport; or hia residence on Forest Ave. John Scblegel ha« purchased the L. B. Haskins cottage through the agency of Charles F. Behr. The little store building formerly oc cupied by Mrs. Mary Behr ae a confec tionery store, has been moved to Wil lard Place where it will be remodeled as a dwelling. Charles Wbitehouse, jr., who is a sophomore at Princeton, returned to that university on Thursday after spending the holiday eeason at the home of hia parents on Woods Avenue. Milton M. Smith of this village and | Mias Cora A. Hail of Lynbrook were | married Tuesday, Uec. 31, at the M. | P. Parsonage by Rev. R. S. Hulsart. E. B. Rose has been ill at his home here for several days with a sever* ! cold. Rockville Centre A largely attended meeting of Ruck- vil'e Centre Council, No. 80, Jr. O. U. A. M., was held on Thursday evening last, when State Councilor Tunison visited the council, attended by a num ber ot the State officers. The meeting proved a very pleasant one, and one which it is believed will assist in building up the council. Interesting Last Saturday evening a beefsteak | supper -was given by Mr. and Mrs. | Fred Vollmer at their home on Babylon Turnpike. The proceeds of the affair ! which amounted to about $35, was for ; the purpose of baying rubber coats for ! the members of Russell Hose Com pany, No. 2. In the near future other social affairs will be held to raise sufficient funds to purchase boots and helmets. The following letters are unclaimed at the Roosevelt Post Office: R. C. Webb, Miss Alice Martin, Mrs. Ber- ten, G. A. Boyce, Christopher Baer, William B. Curley, George Feldman, John Jabronse, Mrs. Mervin Jashur, William Keener, James McCann, H. Pillon, Miss B. Peterson, John Rud olph, Leo E. Townsend and Mrs. Sarah Wright. Church at Rockville William Goldbach of this village and Mias Maud Smith of Ocean Side were addresses were delivered bv the State i married la8t Saturday. Dec.. 28, by ; Sl. , . C,nd-c J , Ri,h,;d “ ««• V „ ne,. p..,o , of Ketcham, of Brooklyn; D. S. C., Sam uel D. Thompson and Chairman of Past Councilor’s Association Frank Baedeker, of Freeport. Following the business meeting, an old-fashioned c - .,..- oyster stew and other refreshments ^ were served. the Methodist Centre. Frank Wood and family spent Christ mas with Prof, and Mrs. Thomas Le- Prof LeRoy was formerly principal of the Roose velt School. Harold Lawson, son of Alexander; Lawson, has passed the required exam ination, and has been admitted to the N. Y. Nautical School, foot of East 24th street, Manhattan. The second annual ball of the Live Oak Juniors will be held at the Athen- eum Hall on Thursday evening, Janu ary 9th. The firm of Tuthill & Pitney, gener al contractere, waa dissolved by mutual agreement on New Year’s Day. Mr, Tuthill will continue the business, and Mr. Pitney intends going to Eastport, L. I., where he will engage in the poultry industry, especially ducks. We wish him success. Beginning with January 2nd, the library will be open daily, with the exception of Sundays and legal holi days, from 2 to 9 p. m., and on Satur day mornings from 10 to 12 in addition | to the regular hours. All arrangements have been com pleted for the dance and Five Hundred that will be held in the auditorium of the Rockville Centre Club on Friday evening, January 3rd, under the aus pices of the Alumni Association of the South Side High School. The commit tee in charge are: Edna Roeckel, chairman; Harrison B. Wright, And rew Edwards, jr., Willeby T. Corbett, Alfred Ives, Lecnore Wallace, Hattie Cross, Nellie Roberta, Ada Bassett, Mrs. John H. Bates and Mrs. Burten T, Bishop. All invitations have al ready been sent out, and if any of the former students of the High School have failed to receive one, they are re quested to communicate with some member of the committee. Arrangements are being completed for the second of the series of the euchre, ninochle and Five Hundred which will be held daring the winter under the auspices of the Civic Club. This event will be held at the Rock ville Centre Club on Wednesday even ing, January 29th, 1913, at 8:30 sharp. There will be dancing throughout the entire evening. A meeting of the Social Circle will be held at the residence of Mrs. John T. Davison, Merrick Road, on Wed nesday afternoon, January 8th. A meeting of the Board of Village Trustees will be held on Tuesday even ing next. The Woodland Hoeei Company, No. 4, ia having plane prepared for the erection of an up-to-date hose house. The next meeting of the Women’s Foreign Miaeionary Society of the St. Mark’s M. E. Church will be held at the home of Mre. Alfretta Walker, 146 South Centre avenue, on Monday af ternoon, January 13th, 1918, under the charge of Mrs. Qeerge J. Quinn. The topic of the dey will be “ The Cbineee Church. ’’ About 25 of her friends gave Mrs. William Schildtneckt a surprise party at her home in Whitehouse Villa last Monday. Mrs. Schildtneck was com pletely surprised but soon made her visitors feel at home. Dancing, sing ing and games were enjoyed during the evening and refreshments were served. Miss Mary Whithauee has moved from her home on Whitehouse Avenue to the rooms over the Methodist Mis sion on Main Street. The Roosevelt Social Club will hold a masquerade ball in the truck house of Alpha Hook and Ladder Company on Saturday evening, January 26. Mole’s orchestra will furnish music and prizes will be given to the pretti est and most unique costumes. The committee in charge consists of Wil liam Stuart, E. L. Eldridge and H. B. Gilman. The Wednesday evening dances under the auspices of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Roosevelt Board of Trade, which were discontinued during the holiday, will again be held, commencing next Wednesday evening. The dance will be held in the Board of Trade Hall. J.ast Tuesday evening the following officers were elected at a meeting of the Board of Trade: President, Henry Smith; vice president, Henry Albers; aeeretary, Edward Ube, financial sec retary, William Tabb, and treasurer Edgar Dye. Louisa Sagendorf has moved from hia home on Whitehouse Avenue, to Rockville Centre. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. P. Dorlon and Mies Mamie Crevoiserat of this place returned home Wednesday after spend ing a Week as the guests of-A. F. Bull at Saybrook, N. J. Clifford Johnson a young lad of the village who broke his collar bone two weeks ago while wrestling with some of his friend), is slowly improving. Uol Tipics Coeclided ordinance on this matter la very plain, however, ao far as it relates to the pay ment of the license and says the license shall be “ for one year (60; for one month (S0.“ It further says that any person violating thla section ahall be lieble to ■ penalty of (28. As I have remarked in this column before, the law does not seem to no hesitation in saying that there ie nothing to i t To those of ae who worked at the Lenker fire, there wae no qeestion bet that the fire started in the eellar, and Mr. Looker said so him self. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. The suggestion of President Hsnse at the mewling of the Board of Trus tees on Dec. 20 that the oyster men •mount to much between friends. . . . . * „„ c. k nre. Under this law any person giving a ™ show before the license ie paid, which ih! in no case could be less than (6, which | Pa.\ °.f ^ pr0VldlDg for ** ia the fee fixed for one day. it is the ! raiaiD* eno®Kh money . . . . . . , . . . . . . . 1 fix the brook which rune duty of the chief of po ice, through his , officers, to arrest the proprietor and eaeterl* 8ecl,on ^ have him peniehed. Notwithstanding this condition, there to oroperly through the the Village, eon- ; necting with Freeport River ie an ex cellent one. The local Board of . . __ . ; Health, and even the health authorities thJ f . J of New York City ha',e had troable month. ,nHhnnt J r»nt f S !!« „ « 1 ” 1 with this brook for years. While h.«n ^,' iup I h fV t i n 1™ .,! h 1 there '• n0 eewage leading into it, it ie At the last meeting of the Board of i “LTrlVuTuTder iV c o rdU ion^and Trustees an arrangement waa made, , n„„eP'finn la hv the u'llleoe which however, wa. not legally pas.ed, the 80M eat'°\ 18 made, providing that moving picture thea.rei ^ gl,neer8 tbat be. » “f t0 T r u r?. o.;h,'r! 5 per month, .b i l e . n , w » .n .nd pr.«nU U _ c o n t.m l..lion. in, might be required to pay $20 which j . r . e. i zx ia the regular monthly license, or $6, R a r c e l S R o s t 111 O p e r a t i o n depending upon the action of somebody. Freeport Poet Office is in unit 717 At the present time this is merely a 0n the parcels poet map. The United resolution adopted offhand by the Board ^ states has been re-mapped by the Post of Trustees, and ia not a part of the Office Department into units, and there Village Ordinances, and it still remains are eight zones, each zone containing the duty of the Chief of Police to have several thousand units. Each unit is arrested and fined every moving picture the center of a series of zones which show proprietor who has not paid $60 radiate from it in concentric ciicles. for one year in advance, or $20 for one Within unit 717, in which Brooklyn ie located, are also included all of Queens Borough and a part of Suffolk and Nassau Counties. Long island City, Flushing, Oyster Bay, Glen Ceve and Freeport are all in unit 717. Par cels mailed from one point to another within this unit get what ie called the local rate under the new law. This ie 5 cents for the first pound, increasing up to 16 cents for eleven pounds, the latter weight being the limit under the law. But included in the same zone with Brooklyn are a number of other Long Island towns, although they are not in the same.unit. The Poet Office De- mentb in advance. I don’t claim, or think that this ie as it should be, but it is very plainly whai. the law reade. On the other hand somebody is to blame for allowing one of the local concerns to run for so long a time without the matterof the license being attended to, letting it run free and making the others pay. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT. At the present time there is one gin mill in Freeport which sends more men to the hospital and more to the jail than ail the others combined. There partment has drawn a line between is no doubt but that concerted action | Freeport and Massapequa, the latter on the part of the good people of our town could close this joint. What are you going to do about it? Since I wrote the above President Hanae advises me that he has had this place closed. The people of Freeport owe a debt of thanks and appreciation to Mr. Hanse for this work. Here ia hoping that it will never epen again. A man does not need to be a temper ance crank to admit that a place which has as much notoriety ae had the two places which have been closed by Presi dent Hanse in the last year, ia not a benefit to the village. CHARLES E. HELLAND. Last week just as the Christmas day was beirg ushered in, there died at his home on Pine Street a man who did more than usual of good to his fellow men. and yet but few knew anything about the work that he was doing. 1 refer to Mr. Holland. In his work as truant officer of the schools he fre quently calls upon people to find why the children were absent and found them, for instance, in bed, because they had no Clothe, to wear, and were stay- sVaten hiand.' The fir.t zone rate will mg m bed to keep warm Many such ; , from Brooklyn to all points in cases of distress were relieved by Mr. Greater New York It will a,l0 in. Holland, who would quietly put the c,ude Jersey City. conditions before some interested c.ti-: Theee rateB went into efTect on Jan. zen, and without any display secure uaty !, * hen the new system was es- the necessary clothing for the young-, tah|j8hed. stera and send them to school. \ _______ town falling in the unit 667. This unit runs to a point between Patchogue and Moriches and includes such towns as Islip, Babylon, Amityville and Patchogue. From Brooklyn to any point within unit 667 what ie known as the first zone rate previ ils. This for, one pound ia 5 cents, the same as the local rate. But after that it in creases more rapidly so that the first zone rate for eleven pounds, is 85 cents, whereas the local rate for the same amount ia only 15. Generally speaking, all of Long Isl and west of Patchogue is in the same zone with Brooklyn, while all of the Island east of a line between Patch ogue and Moriches is in the second zone. But the second zone, starting with Brooklyn ae a basis, includes a great Ueal more than Long Island. It rune as far north as Albany and ae far south as Philadelphia. It will be just as cheap to mail articles by parcel post to those cities as it will be to send them to Moriches. Included in the first zone with Brook lyn are Manhattan and the Bronx and I recall one such case which came to my attention of a little Italian, who really wanted to go to school, but had sickness in his family, and although his father worked hard he could not cloth the youngster properly. No friend will mourn Mr. Helland more than that dirty little bright eyed Ital ian, who seemed to almost worship him. And this waa one of many simi lar cases. Town Board The regular meeting of the Town Board was held at Hempetead Monday afternoon, all the membera being pres ent. —■ Permission waa granted to John S. Rikroan to assign his lease of meadow land on Black Bank Marsh to Fred G. Herman. Town Clerk Gilbert reported that be had eerved Richardson Combs of East Rockaway with a notice to move hie house off Town land within 60 days or ejection euit would be commenced. Mr. Combe wae to have been before the Board on Monday but did not ap pear. The Supervisor waa authorized to pay Wbitney Van Wicklen ($22.68 for services at the Town Almabouae. Terminal at Fort Pond The following item from the Watch man, published at Creenhport, is of in- ; terest, in connection with the proposi- 1 tion to establish a railroad terminal at Montauk Point. The writer of this I item, Henry A. Reeves, editor of the Watchman, is one of the best informed men on Long Island, in regard to this ! proposition. “ Over 2i columns of innocent space 1 in the Bridgehampton News (one of ! many similar victims) is wasted on a someone did not have enough backbone lebore<l effort to exploit ‘Montauk to make the Village Board of Trustees Port ” ? ne °.f tbe. mazing, not to hold a tax sale. This was when his aav amusing, building blocks in this tall fabric of imposture is a statement credited to Mr. Ralph Peters of the L. , I. R. R. Co., which owns some land around its Fort Pond Bay station, that 1 “ Montauk is a naturally perfect har- ; bor.’’ Whereat “ the smile that won't come off” deepens over all Eastern Long Island with every men who has j the slightest knowledge of the facts. It is, however, lather pitifu I than humorous to see such a preposterous bit of baldness charged to such a source In truth it might be said that i there is no harbor at Montauk, and never will be one there. In that part of Fort Pond Bay which lies under the lee of Gardiner’s Island there used to be, years ago, fairly good anchorage iq some conditions of weather, but the Light House Board abandoned the east end of the Island to the sea, and no part of Fort Pond Bay is safe holding eround, and it cannot be made into even the semblance f a harbor with out an expenditure of many millions fer breakwaters. Coincident with THAT VILLAGE TAX SALE. A reader asked me this week why attention was called to tbe fact that theie is nearly $9000 due on the 1912 tax alone. The reason is that the law does not require the Village to hold such a sale, although it gives them the privilege of doing so. According to the resolution offered st the meeting on Dec. 20, they evidently prefer paying someone 10 per cent of the amount for collect ing it, and making the people who pay their taxes regular to pay this extra 10 per cent rather than compelling the people who are in arrears to do it. A tax sale would incur no expense to the Village for the holding of the sale. Hiring someone to collect the taxes takes 10 per cent off the pro ceeds. EXCUSE US FOR BRAGGING. If anybody tries to claim that they have a paper as good as the Nassau County Review for Freeport news, we wish you would ask them to compare our last week’s issue with the papers T , '~ /: j in neighboring .iii.g . . which g r e n d i \V* “ \ t' from Washington a five-line Item say- . Er _ __ _ itiK that Secretary Stimson bad ap- ifi items’ whirh^irt n t an’ Proved arld submitted to Congrets the o\ ,bi i'' ?rm? e: 1 gmeers, who bad given two hearings to to be Fieeport papers. In our last there were pear in those papers. the Fort Pond Bay pro- a column of police news, a column of fire department and over a column of tbe regular report of Village Board of Trustees. 1 condemning ject.\ THE “ LENKER” SCARE. . For tbe benefit of oor readers who may take some stock in tbe iteme in tbe Brooklyn papers regarding black band and other similar worda, I have , 00 IT NOW
