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U COUNTY REVIEW F our b o y s in s e r v i c e 'Letters from Oar Soldiers and Sailors to Friends at H o m e - Doing in the Army and Navy Life. Expects le *• t» Califormia —Has Net Sees say at the Freeport Beys Tat W# received this letter from Bert •eanelly this week: Nantes, France, Feb. K, 1919. My dear Mr. Pearsall:— A few lines to let you and the rest ef my friends know I am still alive and feeling line. Am trying to look ay some of the Freeport boys that are ia hospitals and also stationed around Shis city. But as yet have not suc- eeeded. Would sure enjoy seeing some ef the boys. We are here on tempo rary duty and expect to start for the good old U. 8. soil in a few weeks. We were dropped off here so we could shake ourselves and get cleaned up and also get new outfits which we badly needed. As you know our out fit was stationed near St. Mihiel, Tool, | for more- Epenal and many other places on the line. Tuneville Sector was our hid ing place. Many experiences hap pened there which we will not forget. We were near Pierrefitte when the big drive started and that is enuf said. Well we are back now all safe and sound as a cootie. Hope I don’t get them again. Give my regards to all the boys that are getting discharged times lonely but enthusiastic over the work which we are able to do among the \hoys.” Somewhere I lost the list of boys which I clipped from your paper and brought with me. If I can be of any [service to fathers and mothers of Freeport having boys in Europe please say I will gladly do what I can and consider it a privilege. With all good wishes. Sincerely your friend, WARD C. MOON. 12 Rue D’Agneeseau, Paris, France. / Care Y. M. C. A. . (Sending you another clipping of the Roll of Honor, Neighbor, although have been sending you our paper right i along, and you may get it some day— ! surely glad to hear from you—and s. F^p.r , and tell ’em I don’t know when I will get back. Hope it will be soon, be- eause the way things look I’ll be sent straight to California where my home is. If that is so, I’ll have to go as orders are orders, but I will never for get Freeport and my old friends, so don’t worry. Thanks for the papers Rainbow Lad Visits FreeportJ'riends George Thropp, of m h ^ S treet, Brooklyn, a member of the 165th In fantry, formerly the 69th Machine Gun Company, honorably discharged, is visiting his friends, the McCords, at 176 Pine Street. Thropp went over the top three times and was fin ally severely wounded while carry ing an injured man back from the front line. He was in a drive with his Company when every man of his squad excepting himself was killed; his ammunition giving out he removed working parts of the gun and started back. On the way he picked up his wounded comrade and was carrying GOITl w o r r y . i nm iK a *vr m e y a p e io and letters, because they sure took him back when a shell exploded and away many unpleasant hours and bur- immaHmteiv ied them deep in the ground. Will have to close as they are giving away free cocoa in this Y. M. C. A. and I’ve not got a sou, so will have to get in line and get it free. Gee it is great to be broke. Regards to all and best luck. Your old friend, BERT. Corp. B. F. Donnelly, 18th Co., 2nd Regt., Air Service, M. T. C., A. P. O. 767. (We would like to have seen Bert before he went to California, but can appreciate that he will be glad to\ move toward home as rapidly as pos sible when he gets back to the United States.—Ed.) Fred Plump Still in France—Willing To Come Back , January 30, 1919. Dear Smith:— When I wrote that letter to Dad telling him of our experiences since we left the States I never thought that it would be prihted. It really should not have been, as the folks at home will worry about the boys over here. Some of them have gone ,$hru worse than I wrote about, but I don’t believe that there is a man in the A. E. F. who wouldn't go thru the same thing again. At times we wish we had stayed in the States, but then we think of when we will get home and how proud we will be to say we were in the A. E. F. All that the troops are thinking of now is when we are going home and • it is up to the folks at home to get us back quick. ’Nuff said. It doesn’t mhke any difference whether a man has been here since the Armis tice was signed or a year, he wants to get back and the quicker the better. You needn’t worry about us getting away before your next two or three letters; some of us will be here an other six or eight months. Thanking you again for your letter I am Sincerely yours, FRED H. PLUMP. (And the beauty of it, Fred, is the way our boys are “taking their medi cine.” There is no need of bluffing— we think you might be sent home faster without hurting anybody but we are just “hoping and hoping” that some day not far off things will be speeded up and our boys allowed to gift back into civil life.—S. F. P.) wounding young Thropp so that he was sent to the hospital and did nit return to his regiment. He was sent home with casuals and confined for a time to the Greenhut Hospital from which he was discharged. He is now working at the War Camp Communi ty Service Club at Patchogue. BALDWIN The dinner given by the Ladies’ Aid Society in the chapel last Friday ev ening was a very delightful event About 126 guests were seated at the tables and enjoyed the well planned served dinner. Rev. George M. Stock- dale acted as toastmaster. Lieuten ant Commander Mastic responded to | “Our Country;” William Mansfield spoke on “Baldwin, Past, Present and Future,\ his prophecy for the future being most optimistic; W. E. Sprague toasted “The Ladies* in a very good speech, and C. H. Thomas’s remarks on “Our Pastor” were much enjoyed, particularly by the pastor, who was presented with “one hundred sugges tions to help him and his family” in the form of crisp greenbacks. The M. L. S. had a patriotic meet ing on Saturday evening at the home of Miss Rope. The program for the most part took the form of a Roose velt memorial. After enjoying the-1 it ers ry part of the evening, the guests were invited to the dining room, which was beautifully decorated with the national colors, and a cherry tfee, the fruit from which was much enjoyed. Victory Loan Flashes NOW is the time to begin * saving for the Victory Loan. * Don't let a day go by without * putting aside a small sum to pay * for the first of your Victory * bonds. * If you begin to save n<w you * will be able to subscribe for sev- * eral Instead of one. * Be forehanded, and forearm * yourself with the funds for your * initial payments, even if you * cannot save the whole amount * The thrift taught by the first * four loans should stand you in * good stead. Count your pennies * for the Victory Loan. Buy for * Peace. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * W. S. S. MODERN MAGIC Corporal Hesse Sends Card Corporal William Hesse writes on a Y. M. C. A. card acknowledging re ceipt of mail. He is with the M. T. Co, 24. Good luck to you neighbor. Prof. Moon at Coblenie—Glad to Help Freeport Parents We are glad to hear from Prof. W. C. Moon, who gave up his work as Superintendent of Freeport Schools in order to enter the work of education for our soldier lads “Over There.” It is a big work that Prof. Moon and 'his associates are engaged in, and we know our readers will be glad to hea from him. January 26, 1919. Dear Bro. Pearsall:— I have just received your interesting little sheet of December 80 and I wish to thank you for myself and any of the real “boys.” , No one will quite appreciate any thing of that kind until he ia actual ly in a position of this. sort. While of course my situation is in some ways not to be compared with that of the boys, yet after all it is not so differ ent for we are all in a strange land far from family and old friends. ! landed here at Coblens, Germany, j Christmas Day. A little later I will •end you a little writeup of my work and experiences. You can say if you care to that I am well, happy, some- Greels His Petite Fille Little Miss Mary Elliot has re ceived the following letter which her mother kindly passes on for our read ers, received from her grandfather, M. H. Lowe, with the Y. M. C. A. in France. For the benefit of our readers, who do not read French, and through the courtesy of Miss Pauline Martin, we print this letter in French and then in English: - “ Dijon, France. J!)m. 25th,1919. Mon Petit Bebe:— J’ai pense qhe je devrais vous ecrire une petite lettre en Francais, et votre Maman peut vous 1'ecrire en Americain pour vous et si elle ne peut pas vous la lire pour vous conservez-! la et je la lirais pour vous quand je j retoumerais. - ' J ’ai quelques jollis presents pour vous, une gentille petite poupe un col en peau de tigre pour que quand vous dans irez dans votre petite viiture vous n’aurez pas froid, et quelque chbse encore. Soyez une gentille petite fille et soyez toujours sage, et Granpere sera la 1'ete et vous et moi nous aurons beaucoup de plaisir tous les deux. Avec des baisers pour vous et tous le Monde. Votre Grandpere quivous sime My Little Baby:— I thought I ought to write you a lit tle letter in French and your mother can write it for you in American, and if she cannot read it for you save it and I will read it for you when I re turn. I have a few pretty presents for you, a sweet, pretty little doll, a col lar of tiger skin so that when you go. out in your little carriage you will not be cold and a few other things. Be a ’sweet little girl and always be good and Grandpa will be there in the Summer and you and I will have a great deal of pleasure together. With kisses for you and everyone. Your Grandpa who loves you. The daily papers have published this week the following Freeport cas ualties from the war: Henry Toomer, 16th Infantry, Co. E, wounded, degree unknown. Francis T. Copeland, wounded slightly. Mk. Copeland was injured several months ago asd it i*. probable that Toomer was also injured in the big drive on September 29. This was the time when Fred Dennison of the same regiment was wounded, and the lat ter has since returned home. The country that doesn’t pay its bills is morally bankrupt. War bills are in billions of dollars. But they can be paid in War Savings Stamps selling at $4.18 to $4.23, ac cording to the iponth of purchase. In stamps you only lend your money —it comes back, WITH INTEREST. This INTEREST will make the mil linery bill and the garage bill easier to meet at a future date. Modern Magic—that's the War Sav ings Stamp. Try one—buy one—get the feeling, j - ------- What do you do with your loose O r g a n izin g A rm y change? • 1 J You’4 better put it into War Savings Stamps. Our Boys in Service Raymond Amador, U. S. Marines, ia now in the Navy Yard Hospital, in Brooklyn, where he is to undergo a corrective appendicitis operation. He expects to be mustered out of service as soon as he recovers. Herbert Grifenhagen, son of ex- Sheriff Grifenhagen, has returned from abroad, and ia now at Camp Merritt. Irving (more affectionately known aa Honey) Potter is back from abroad, and is now at Camp Upton. He has seen much active service and says he would not trade Bennington Park for the whole of France. Walter Williams, Co. G, 16th Inf.,! paid us a brief visit Tuesday. He i s ' now back in civil life. 1 William Smith has been out of ser vice since the middle of December. Shortly after getting his discharge he was riding a horse on Main Street and Olive Boulevard when the animal fell on him and broke his foot. He ia now walking on crutches and will be for some time yet. “Bill” Herring has his honorable discharge from the Navy. Sergeant Clifford Teeple has re ceived his discharge from the Chemi cal Warfare Service. , ■CJeorge Wulfing has received his discharge after being away from Free port for the past eighteen months on convoy work, on a converted yacht. We came near saying inverted yacht, and George says he thought it was go ing to be that once or twice. His boat has an official record for having sunk one submarine and while in service he had a 1,200 mile trip on a submarine when the official electrician was taken sick and he was sent along to help in the electrical work. George has not yet decided what work he will take up, but hopes to locate in his old line. James H. Fairbrother, Master En gineer, 488th Eng., Reg. U. S. A., sends postcard greetings from Bee- ford, Va., where his outfit was stalled on account of bad roads, while en route for Florida. The card he sends is a view of the Elks National Home. Frank Post, formerly with the Nas sau County Review, has received his honorable discharge, after several months in France. Frank tried hard to get into service both in the Navy and Army and was rejected on ac count of flat feet. He was later draft ed and sent to France, where his foot broke down on a long hike. He was sent back to a government printing of fice, where he remained for several months until time to return, when he was put in with a Casual Company and returned to the United States last week. His foot troubles him considerably and the injury seems to be more or less permanent, At Ghubbuck’s preserviag eggs. 45c WATER GLASS far a geart cam PENSLAR CELERY COMPOUND the best caloathre far aenr- eas peeple. $1.00 $ MINER’S GREASE PAINTS aad ether oahe-ap essea- tiak—a complete stack THERMOS BOTTLES AND LUNCH KITS aba aafira flh n for that brakes w * BORAX CHIPS the royal read to easy laua- $ dry walk—11a the box PUPPY AND DOC HSCUITS Spratt’s, Milk-Boee, Ass- tin’s. Old Grist Mill— is 15c and 35c boxes Interest) when they have become full- powered—when their purchasing pow er is back to normal. That’s making money two ways at once. Are you buying yours? and Navy Union General Marquis de Lafayette Gar- What you put in comes back to you 1 rison No- 72• the new garrison which jn fuii _ j is being formed in Freeport for Nas- And with interest compounded. i sau County, has been enrolling mem- What that means i s : You put into ^ ^ers 'h preparation for the installa- W. S. S. today, low-power dollars, tint | tion which is to toke Place on Satur- won’t buy what they used to. _ j day- March 29. You will get back your dollars (With | Captain W. Atwood French is the 1 organizer, with Capt. Forrest Dunbar (H. D. R. S.) as senior Vice command er and Otto Graser as paymaster. The organization is shaping itself to take in every returned soldier, sailor or ma rine. The Garrison accepts men from any arm of the service, whether the applicant did duty here or abroad, or whether he saw service in this or some other war. The object of the Garrison 4s to promote comradeship among the re turned men, to unite for benevilent and social fellowship and to foster the spirit of Americanism which was developed while in service. The Garrison will have the use of the rooms at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Club on South Grove Street and rifle range at the foot of South Main Street. Charter members are still being en rolled, and every soldier with an hon- j orable discharge is eligible. Informa tion and application blanks may be se cured at the Club on any Sunday af ternoon or of the Senior Vice Com mander at his home, Onslow Place. r w a k £ U P H TMCKt'S M WAR. SAVINGS CAMPAIWT m i i M i i m t i k ' : CHUBBUCK’S QUALITY DRUG STORE F r e e p o r t This May Help a Little. If you live In a place where the Ismllord was looking the other way wh*r_ they were handing ont closets, you need not permanently despair. Take down the old piano hex, turn it on its side, doll it up and there you are. Turn the front of |t into a door. Imagination hath no bounds for the decorating possibilities of the well- known piano box when it turns tur tle in your bed chamber. You can cover it with burlap, cloth, wall paper or the pictures of your best friends In loving remembrance.—Thrift Maga- “Yankee Doodle.” The tune, or jingle, is very old and the author or authors were of (he dim long ago. The tune under different names can be found among the peas ant dances and nursery rhymes of England long before 1600. In Ireland In those days it was a jig tune; in Spain a sword dance; In Holland a song of labor and nursery rhyme; In Germany a folk song nnd dance; In Poland a folk song and dance. ? .. in Wonderful Automatic Clock. The dials of the world's largest ped estal clock, erected in the center -ef the new $10,000,000 wholesale termi nal at Los Angeles, can be seen from any part of the 20 acres covered by the market place. The clock, which is 35 feet high, automatically operates its own lighting system, turns it on at sundown and shuts it off at daylight, and winds and sets itself. Cold Kills Fish. ' - It lias been proved that sudden cold sometimes causes the death of thou sands of fish in the shallow waters of the tropics and sebtropics. Many spe cies are so chilled as to become help less, and are either killed directly by drowning or are washed ashore In n comatose state. The phenomenon la known locally as \freezing although the temperature 6f the water may be several degrees above the freezing 13 ?\ THE NEXT LOAN. John N. Hartmann, jr., returned home with his honorable discharge on Wednesday morning of this week. ALONZO W. MYERS Expert On Chimney and Kitchen Ventilating j General Contractor Ranges, Furnaces, Fireplaces and Chimneys Cleaned and Repaired. Chimneys and Fireplaces Rebuilt and Lined. Roofs Painted. Hotel, City and Country Work a specialty. Hat Air Flues and Pipes Cleaned. < 49 Bennington Are, FREEPORT, L. L Telephone: 60 Freeport Z Observer Building Rockville Centre, L. I. \Good Morning. H a v e you bought a V ictory L iberty Bond?” W e can expect soon to receive this form of salutation as we step out of our hom es and sta r t dow n tow n for the office, from the m ilkman, th e policem a n , and of th e school children on tpe way. unless we have th e b u t- And. of course, unless tons or other Insignia L iberty L o a n Committee w h ic h the local ee will give to bond buyers, we can expect to buy a bond, or an o th e r one, as the case m a y be. We m a y t r y to dodge out of I t eith e r through being already listed m a n Investor, or Just through sheer cussedness, but It c a n 't be done; t h a t Is, It w o n ’t be possible to while the new arm y of volunteer col lectors and solicitors Is on th e Job, and during th e four previous loan cam p a igns th e y ate, lived and stay e d aw a k e on the Job tw e n ty-four hours of every day. T h e children, p a rticu larly . wUl no long e r be collecting \peach pits, prune pits, m a g a s tnee for th e Bed C ross f as the little cross-eyed girl on o u r block used to ask me, during th e w a r. T h e y will have a chance to specialise on th e one topic—Bonds! T h e re w o n ’t even be e U n ited W a r D rive on. so all th e little ones will certainly have to w o rk for the V ictory L iberty Loan. M ore pow e r to them , say t, and to th e o. d. heroes who a r e flocking back to th e hom e (Ires. Im a g ine any one refusing to buy a bond from a veteran of C h a teau-T h ierry! “Good night! H a v e you bought a Vic tory Bond?” When Hat !• Taboo. No man can wear a hat In England while ringing a church bdl. It ia an old custom rigidly adhered to today. Necessary far Friendship. There are two elements that go to the composition of frtendahlp; Truth and Tenderneea.- F r e e p o r ters A tten d in g Church Conference A large delegation of Presbyterians are in attendance at the New Era Conference now in session in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City.- The session of the Freeport church is represented by the pastor, Rev. J. Sidney Gould, and Elder Alvin G. Smith. The ladies of the Missionary Society and the Improvement Society by Miss Florence Wright, Mrs. Alfred T. Davison, Mrs. Robert Earon. The Sunday School by'Miss Eloinor Roe and Miss Dorothy Gould, and the- con- gvegetion by James Wright and Mrs. E. W Ault. The Conference is com pined of the Syrcda of New Jersey and New York and .over a thousand churches are rep resented. Weekly Weather Report (For our readers in other localities) Friday, Feb. 21—Overcast, cool in a. m., snow and rain continuing all day from 11:00 o’clock in a. m., slop py walking, anow melting as falls. ! Friday, overcast and raining. Saturday, ditto. Sunday, overcast, sun out a few minutes. Tuesday, clear, not sold, cooler in afternoon and hard rain in evening. Wednesday, colder and windy. Thursday, clear, cool. Two Aptos Burned i Two autos were burned while stand ifig along the Merrick Road near Hew lett Avenue, at Merrick, late Sunday Don’t Do It. n It is bad manners,and bad business etiquette for two employees of the same office to discuss the personal af fairs of fellow workers or of their em ployer. Almost every worker ia In pos session of some private information as a result of his work, but that should be regarded as a trust not to be be trayed. It is also bad manners to in quire as to the wages or the particu lar duties of fellow workmen.—Biddy Bye. F i r e l e s s C o o k e r s That A re Safe. Recently the national board of Are underwriters Issued a caution against using wooden palls 4>r tubs to make home-made fireless cookers. To elim inate the danger of fires from these valuable fuel savers, the department of agriculture advocates using ground up asbestos in place of hay, paper or wool for packing in them. Additional safety may be attained by making the cooker from a tin can. 1 A F a t h o m . When sailors speak of fathoms they do not always mean the same thing. On board a man-uP-war a fathom means six feet, on board a merchant man five and a half feet, and on board a fishing vessel five feet. City; and Country. The city feveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes os, lifts us up with religious sugges tion.—Chapin. TO-RE-CO Food Flavors are the beat, also the cheapest on the market YOU WANT THE BEST TO-RB-CO Food Flavors are much superior to extracts or spices for all home cooking, candies, puddings, taken, pies, dressings, ices, etc. TO-RB-CO Food Flavor* are nom-aleo- Soldiers Entertain W ar Workers A number of the war workers of the War Camp Community Service of Freeport and Wantagh were guests of the soldiers at Lufberry Field, Wan tagh, Wednesday evening, for a din ner and dance. There were over 100 in the party. Following the dinner, dancing was enjoyed at the Parish House in Wantagh. Draft Board Work Finished The Local Draft Board has finished its work and all ita papers are ready for shipment, awaiting inatructions. The work of wrapping and preparing the material for shipment has been done by Miss M. E. Southard, assisted by Purdy Williams. One ton of this new preparation of coke will give as much heat as one and a quarter tons of coal. It costs the same as coal. Wherever you are using nut coal, nut size Coke will take its place with economy and better ser vice. For sale by Sinclair L. Raynor. _____________ ______ A d v e rtieem e s t Single copies of She R e v iew fo r ra le a t ■eenbletfe and B ieS li e l i t e 's . R a ilroad Ave- __ le; Lleberm an'e. N a s s a u C o u n ty Review, D a S ilva's and M lglino's, Mali s i r 's S tationery S tore. G rove io IT s , W e s t M e rrick R o ad Main Street; Snlt- Streat; Mkh- Dlptomney Whua Frank speakers (or whatever may term themselves) should her that certain kinds of ft __ bring a lot of uneaslueUa and often to others, and those of us who stop think at aU will admit that It In far th e better part of valor to reft from telling everyone at all timne j what we think. We should study temperaments of the persons u w h o m we come In contact, and whOa before some we may express ourselvw freely and without reserve, we must ha the pr»4«ence of others be m and guarded J* our remarks. Women and Houescleaninf. When a woman returns from month's visit she says, \Oh how dread to begin cleaning up this house.* Bnt she doesn’t Too can tell by that glee with which she arises the and the duater and stirs up a grant cloud of dust that she li now realhdsR that which she baa eagerly antidpeto)! all the time she was away. There nothing a woman enjoys no much kicking up a dost For the dust IB sura to come down again, sad source of fun la never Kansas City Star. ' i U. S. Food Administration License G-10886 At all James Butler, Inc., Stores f Highest Quality Lowest Prices Get the habit—trade at the Butler stores for economy and satisfaction. Prices always lower than elsewhere. ESSIE BRAND Sugar Corn The best grown; can, 20c Choice Quality Corn Can, 15c Peas a\View 19c ^e*ecle^ Qua^ty Bon Bon Bread i6 o,. u a i . . . P O t a t O e S 5 Lbs. 1 3 c is Pounds . . Whole Head Rice cm to «>. . . . TrawMralm'.ra* Selected California 1 O i n a t o e s Red-ripe Fruit, No. 2 1-2 can Coffee Our very best; lb ................................ t ^ - A D kinds in bulk; lb ........................................ Pea Beans X J q V u. . . . Rolled White Oat Meal 3 u».. Aunt Nauna’s Pancake Flour Blue Ribbon Syrup c.„. . . . Blue Ribbon Buckwheat F « b „ D i r a l r l z t o Sweet and Sour llCKieS Mixed, Plain and Clyw, bottle . . . MEAT DEPARTMENT SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Boneless Pot Roast . . 30c lb. Boneless Rib Roast . 35-40c lb. Pork Loins . . . 15c 7k 39c 10c 15c 32c 45c 10c 17c 13c 13c 10c 10c Dixie Bacon Smelts . . Finnan Haddie FISH 32c lb. 28c lb. 18c lb. 18c lb. FRUIT-VEGETABLE DEPT. Large Size Grape Fruit 10c each Florida Oranges ££,\r'd 45c dozen Sweet Potatoes . . 3 lbs. 25c Best Yellow Turnips . . 3c lb. JAMES BUTLER, h e
