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THE WAUSAU POST, RT, H T , PWDA.Y, MARCH ft, l l l f t - P * ! . 8 LEGISLATURE AMENDING DOG LAW TO SUIT CLERK GILBERT T * n Clerk Hms Thanks of Def Owner* Thromghomt the Town of Hempstead. The foMowtn* letters written and saceriThd by Town Gkrk Franklin C. Gilbert In relation to the much her alded (log law, are of a very refresh ing natufe. Clerk Gilbert on behalf of Ms fellow townsmen haa been fight ing to have the Legislature do away with certain abuses in the old law and to particularly incorporate cer tain new features of benefit to tax payers and dog owners. The letter to Assemblyman Mc- Whinney impart# quite frankly the information that Gilbert ie getting the law in the form most beneficial. State of New York Department of Farms and Merke*# THviskm of Agriculture Albany, March 2, 1918. Mr. Franklin C. Gilbert, Town Clerk, Hempstead, N. Y. Dear Sir: Yours of February 28th, is at hand, and in reply would say that no change has been made in the law at this writing. It is expected that some amendments will be made, and we trust during the next thirty days, before the licensing period ex pires. Yours Very truly, C. W. L a r m on , Chief, Bureau of Statistics. Hon. Thomas A. McWhinney, ..Assemblyman, Albany, N. Y. Dear Sir: Subsequent to our con versation of Saturday, proposed amendments to Chapter 800, Laws o f 1917, being commonly known as State Dog License Law, were received and I am very much pleased with the action taken by you in causing cer tain suggestions which I offered to be incorporated therein. The section extending the expira tion date of the licenses issued last July and August to June 30th, 1918, will be greatly appreciated by the townspeople since they will have a full twelve months license which they are justly entitled to. I notice that licenses issued between February first and July 1st, 1918, will continue in ■force until July 1st, 1919. This will relieve the minds of many persons who have already taken out the 1918 license, which reads '•Dog License for years ending February 28th, 1919. It is also gratifying to learn that li censes will not be necessary until the dog attains the age of six months in stead of four months. Section 134 provides for the taking of the census on or before July first of each year and th a t the census list shall be prepared in duplicate and be alphabetically arranged. This is a very good arrangement inasmuch as the census will be taken before the issuance o f the licenses. As it is now the census would be taken after the issuance of licenses and there would be no list to report delinquents from. I also note you have caused the ten- day period to be incorporated in Sec tion 139-d, thereby giving ample time for the town or city clerks to report delinquents to the justices of peace or magistrates. Many people are at loss to under stand what becomes of the fees col lected for dog licenses and Section 139-f covers the matter in a very COUNTY TRACTOR SCHOOL STARTS11TH Following the completion of the plans by the Bureau of Production o f the New York State Food Com mission for the holding of tractor schools it is announced that a tractor school will be held at Riverhead on March 11th. 'Many requests for these tractor schools were received from the various counties of the state, but it was im possible to grant all of them. Suf folk County, with a school a t River- head, is fortunate in being selected the location of one tractor school. Be tween 35 and 40 requests have been received: so far 19 schools have been arranged. Because of the limited number of schools it is desirable to have each accommodate as wide a territory as possible. I t is planned to have Nas sau County co-operate with Suffolk. The Riverhead school will 1>e short, six days of practical work with trac tors with morning and pfternoon lec turer by tractor experts from the State Food Commission and the State College of Agriculture at Cornell, and morning and afternoon lessons on different tractors. Each student will have the opportunity of studying a t first hand the essentials of tractor construction and operation. Different^ machines will be used, each in charge of its own expert. Any person interested, who wishes to attend, should make application to R. C. Parker, as there is already great Interest and it may become necessary to limit the attendance Mr. Parker can be reached by mail or telephone a t the office of tne Suffolk County Farm Bureau, Riverhead. The onlv cost will be the registra tion fee of $1, which will be refunded if the student does not miss more than two sessions of the school. The school will start promptly a t 9 a.m. Monday. UNCLAIMED LETTERS Freeport, N. Y-, March 6, 1918. Berger, Frank; Croatt, J. M.; Vrvuld, William; Lee, Mr., Thomas «Venue; Marsel, John; Makentere, Mrs.; Oetindarffe, Mrs. G.; Roes, Thomas; Wallace, Ernest H.; Young, Miss Qerrie; Yodyeky, Gr., Jr. T . B un son S mith , P. M. Freeport, N. Y. thorough manner, This section pro vides for the payment of damages to owners of domestic Animal* af fowl* attacked, cbaaed, worried, injured or killed by a dog or doge a ad after proper appraisement by the Town As sessor* for the payment of inch dam age* I notice this section atoo pro vide* for the remittance of all fee* collected to the County Treasurer in stead of the State Commissioner of Agriculture and that all but seven per centum of suck fees are retained by the county and a fter all damage suits and actual and necessary ex penses are settled the various towns of the county will receive their pro portionate share of these fees on the first Monday of March in each year. This is a very good feature since practically all of the money is keipt right at home and is handled by our local officials. La At, but not least, I note with a great deal of pleasure th a t provision is made for the establishment and maintenance of a dog pound or pounds and the appointment of dog catchers. This question has caused all of the disturbance within the town since the constables had no niece to impound the dogs In case of seizure. In conclusion please accept my sin cere thanks for what you have done to remedy this law and my only hope is that th? proposed amendments will be enacted. Yours very truly, F ranklin C. G ilbert , Town Clerk. Hempstead, N. Y., March 6, 1918. SOLDIERS WRITE FROM\OVER THERE\ The tSoldiers’ Welfare Association, organized last year for the welfare of the men in the Rainbow Division at Gamp Mills, and whose headquar ters are at 101 Wallace street, Free port, is constantly in touch with American soldiers now in France. The Nassau Post has been tendered three letters received by the Associa tion from grateful members of the Camp Mills division. The most in teresting of these letters is from Carl Kemp, one of the Freeport “boys” now on French soil. The Post is pleased to present the con tents of the letters, believing they will be of much interest to its readers: Somewhere in France, January 20, 1918. Soldiers’ Welfare Association, Freeport, N. Y. My Dear Friends: I received your Christmas package and I thank you a thousand times. It certainly was very kind of you to remember me, es pecially being so far away from home The articles were all very nice ana useful and I appreciate them. I am going to write just a few lines about our doings. I am proud to say I was picked with three other men for a company of 250 to go to a training school. The course will take about six weeks and will consist of a study of wire less telegraphy and radio telephonic line construction and a number of other methods of signaling. The last few weeks will be spent in the trenches under fire. The work is very, very interesting and plenty of it. The country is wonderful and the churches beautiful, but the houses are very old. One house in this town has a marking way back in the year 1731. The people are a splendid lot and very kind to the soldiers. They are very happy to see so many American boys. They are all old folks here. We do all we can for them. The climate is fine, not so awfully cold. We had plenty of snow but it disappeared this week. The grass is green and the Winter wheat is popping out of the ground. We have plenty of good food and clothing We a re all work ing very hard, as we expect to gox into action soon; in fact we will be' disappointed if we don’t. We expect to bring this thing to an end. I must close, thanking you very much for your kindness. Kindest regards to Mr. and Mrs. Zulzer. Sincerely yours, C arl K em p . Somewhere in France, January 24, 1918. My Dear Friend of the Soldiers’ Wel fare Association: Your letter, altho delayed by the congestion of Christmas mail in France, was very welcome. * So far all my needs have been tak en care of by my own relatives and kind friends. At the present time, there is really none of the small com forts which one needs lacking. Many thanks for the kind interest the As sociation has shown me. Very sincerely yours, C arl B rown . Somewhere in France, January 13, 1918. Soldiers Welfare Association, Freeport, N. Y. My Dear Friends: I received your most kind Christmas letter the other day. I sure was \lad to hear from Freeportt where I spent so many pleasant evenings while stationed at Camp Mills. I must say the people of Freeport treated the boys of the 149th and myself fine when we visit ed your town last year. I t is all the name suggests, a Free Port to all the soldiers. I wish you would wish all my friends in Freeport a happy new year for me, atoo knowing you are sincere in your offer, I know some cigars, cigarettes or some hard candy would be very thankfully received by me. On our return to Camp Mills a f ter the war, 1 hope to wait you all once again at Freeport 1 Sincerely, . jAM aa B M agan , 149th F. A., Now at the Front. HOT TALK ON TWO SUPERVISORS BILL (CONTINUED FROM PAO* 1) Girdell V. Browner, postmaster of Rockville Centre, was introduced ss a well known Democrat, and speaking in favor of the bill, said that Hemp stead ie paying for two mile* of road for every imle that ia built within Its own borders. Supervisor Hiram R. Smith spoke at length upon the afltaire of the coun ty, contending the the idea previously advanced by Surrogate Howell that Hempstead only wanted political con trol in asking for another supervisor, is erroneous. “It js only a matter of justice,” he continued, \for Hemp stead to have a greater representa tion on the County Board of Supervi sors.” The Supervisor spoke of the great cosmopolitan community that has developed in Hempstead. In speaking of the great amount of traf fic on the town’s road he said that on a certain day he counted 18,900 autos going over the Merrick road from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. He comment ed upon the distant places from which many of the autos came. “ It is no more than a matter of justice,\ he said, “to have two Supervisors in the town of Hempstead. The matter is not open to debate. We a re a big town down there and we are broad enough not to take the other two towns by the throat.” (Supervisor Smith stated that the North Hempstead and Oyster Bay Supervisors are just as much in “a combination” as any two Supervisors can be. “I came to the organization of the County Board,” he said, “and was told that I was to be chairman, but the clerk of the Board and the County Attorney have already been arranged for. I had nothing to say.” He added his belief that there is a combination on the North Side be tween the Democrats and Republicans and that they are going to stand to gether against Hempstead, without regard to the taxpayer or the divi sion of funds. \This is a worthy bill,” he concluded, “and it will appeal to the people of Hempstead.” Speaking for the opponents of the measure, Assemblyman Coles said he doubted the constitutionality of the bill, and expressed his belief that it is unsafe to give to any territory control over a large state or munici pality of any kind. The Assembly- man asserted that the question of giv ing Hempstead added representation is not one o f politics but of policy. Surrogate Howell took the floor of the committee several times to deny statements made by the men from Hempstead, and in turn, to hurl ac cusations of unfairness in financial and political matters at Hempstead town. In speaking of the two-Super visor plan he said: “One 'Supervisor is going to be a dummy ISupervisor. One is going to the east of the town and another to the west. Who gets the dummy Supervisor? How long will he be one? He is going to say some day, T ’m going to he a dummy no longer,’ and will yell, ‘Come on in; the water’s fine. I’ll vote with you.’ I vet each Supervisor have one vote. No one Supervisor should con trol the Board. The inside of this proposition is political control and nothing else. It has been the bone of contention for years. Hempstead is the big town and uses that to con trol every year.” The Surrogate charged that Hempstead wants abso lute political control of the Board of Supervisors. In rebutting statements for Hemp stead town, William S. Pettit of Woodmere, well known as a lawyer and civic worker, said that he had never heard so much camouflage by the objectors to the bill since he had begun to atterwf legislative seas ions. He asserted that there len t any town In the state or nation th a t has a pop utottom as large as Hempstead’*. “A new Supervisor will not be a nonen tity,\ be declared. “One Supervisor' will be a general manager of town affaire and the other an assistant manager, to have such poorer* a a the bill delegates to him.\ Counselor Pet tit complimented Supervisor 'Smith by saying: “If we had not elected a very capable Supervisor in Hemp stead the machinery of the town and county government would have stop ped functioning some time ago.’* Among those who were present at esterday’s hearing in support of the ill were Assemblyman Thomaa A. McWhinney, Jeremiah Wood of Lyn- brook, A. I). Kelsey, a director of the Lynbrook Bank; George L. Hub- bel of Garden City, Daniel Morisaon and Francis Hamm ill, town Over seers of the Poor; A. G. Patterson, Town Superintendent of Highways; Dr. J. Carl Schmuck of Lawrence. Postmaster Girdell V. Brower ana Dr. Frank T. DeiLano of Rockville Centre; Andrew Weston, a prominent contractor of Cedarhurat; Supervi sor Hiram R. Smith and Adolph Adel- berg. Among those who appeared against the bill were Assemblyman Franklin A. Coles, Supervisors Cornelius E. Remsen of North Hempstead and William H. Seaman of Oyster Bay, Dr. James E. Burns, Mayor of Glen Cove; Dr. H. L. Carr of Bayville, a well known Republican committee- man; William McCarthy of Mineola, Byron C. Gould of Port Washington and Edward Schmide of Mineola. Counselor William S. Pettit, who has assisted Assemblyman MoWhin- ney in revising the bill, said to the The Nassau Post correspondent last night, in Albany, that the plan to have two^Supervisor districts in Hempstead town would be abandoned and that the bill would be amended to provide that the candidates for Supervisor be voted for by the en tire electorate of the township. F red D. B a u iw in . ------------------ 4 ------------------ Friday, April 12, Is Bird Day. The observation of Bird Day is set for this year for Friday, April 12th. Out of the deptihs of a winter of un exampled severity Freeport residents are looking forward to the return of the heralds of Spring. They have been far, have traversed seas and continents, but they are “coming over” and we must extend to them, our annual welcome. But not only because they bring more endurable days with them, days which a re going to help u s reduce the cost of living, but because they are fighting with us against the<common enemy. The birds are our allies and any offense against them is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They are exempt from military ser vice on the fighting line, but are drafted for agricultural and horti cultural service, and without them we can do nothing, for the birds, let us say once more, stand between us and starvation. A. C. TRAYk WOUNDED Freeport Corporal Reported As Maimed in France. Information was received by Ed ward P. Trayer of Columbus avenue, Freeport, Thursday that his son, Cor poral Arthur C. Trayer, had been badly wounded in action in France. Corporal Trayer enlisted with the Twenty-Third Regiment and served with it on the Mexican border. He is understood to have been transferred to the one Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Infantry (the old Sixty-Ninth Regi ment) and sailed for France with the Rainbow Division. COIIERCIAL MEN HAVE \BIG NIGHT” The “bqg night” of Lon* Island Council No. 660, United American Commereial Travelers of Amefrica, was held in Mechanics' Hall, Free port, last Saturday evening To crown the event and express the apprecia tion of the Grand Council for the fine work done this year. Grand Secretary Walter M. Winn of Utica, N. Y„ made a splendid and constructive ad dress. The members turned out in force to greet the distinguished visi tor and presented the following can didates for initiation: John M. Keegan, Austin I. Moeebacher, Earl C. Hanford, A. 'Smith Oakley, of Free port; Arthur H. Kramer of Farm- ingdale, John H. Meyer and Albert M. Para of Mineola, and Arthur W. Thomas of Baldwin, who were de lighted with the splendid manner in which they were received. The Ray of Hope lecture was giv en in an unsurpassable manner by Past Senior Counselor J. M Wile of Knickerbocker Council No. 114, Man hattan. Delegations were present from Ja maica Council No. 460 and Hartford, Conn., Council No. 210. The Jamaica i hoys acknowledged that Long Island Council had won the membership con test held between the two councils and invited the winners to a banquet to be given April 27th in their council rooms at Woodhaven, L. I., where a banner will be presented. The follow ing officers were elected: Senior Councilor, Walter M. Nich ols ; iPast Senior Councilor, Albin N. : Johnson; Junior Councilor, Charles ! W. Kimpp; Secretary-Treasurer, Ed ward A Spiegel; Conductor, Leon C. Moore; Page, Charles H.Collins; Sen tinel, Charles E. Hunt; Executive Committee members, John J . Boland, Joseph Mortimer Palmer and Clif ford J. Mossbacher; Delegate to Grand Council, Albin N. Johnson; Alter nates, Forrest IS. Dupbar and John J. Boland. A good feed was provided by the entertainment committee, interspersed with songs and followed by smokes. The entertainment committee report ed that 85 members and their wives enjoyed a theatre party to Brooklyn on February 21. A flashlight pic ture was taken on Saturday evening of some of the assemblage. With the addition of new members Long Island Council will no doubt win the New York state membership contest in,.which it has so f a r led, in the well- known order of over 80,000 travel ing men. BALDWIN A Briener of Grand avenue, who has been ill with pneumonia for the i past three weeks, has recovered. Miss Mamie Wuest was given a birthday party by her uncle, Henry Hefoensteit, last Saturday evening. All who attended had an enjoyable time. The Pigs’ Knuckle Club will hold its annual supper at King’s Cafe on the evening of March 16 ( St. Pat rick’s Eve.) All members are urged to attend, as business of importance will be transacted. AT THE H. Y. THEA “CHEER UP” KEEPS UP RBOOflKI Charles Dillingham’s joyous pa ge&nt, \Cheer Up,\ at the H?t>pe drome entered upon the 29th week d its unparalleled run on Monday witt s record of attendance to date whtei surpasses that at All other prodwe tione a t the big playhouse. The num ber of performances given to daft is 340 and the total attendance is equal to the population of many l a i n cities in this country. The new features—recently pro vided— in addition to the already fan; list of varied spectacular a mu semen with the introduction af Houdinl'l entertaining mysteries, May Wirth’i daring aeifity on horseback in “TV Circus Modem,” Sybil Vane’s roc* interpolations and all the rest rasUa a return trip to the big HippodronM a rare delight this season. As an additional new sittractiof this coming week the tout ensemWi in the big production will present special features and the girto—\80C of them and all pretty”—will shoe their versatility and dexterity wHl new dances and divertisemente in tin workshop scene and in the big ammtM spectacle at the close of the “Thrw Cheers.” Matinees are given dail and the prices are within the read off all. 217 South Ocean avenue, 10 1 rooms and bath, or will rent fur- 1 nished for Summer season, $500; 1 exchange considered. F. A. Ware, i 291 Broadway, N. Y. 4t-62 W A N T E D Boys With Good So prano Voices FOR Garden City Cathedral Chorus To be between 11 and 12 yean of age. Must be of good more character. Apply to ORGANIST At the Cathedral, Thursdayi at 4 P. M. Save 9#c. By Buying Ever Reliable CASCARA v 0 QUININE No advance in price for this 20-year- old remedy—25c for 24 tablets—Some cold tablets now 30c for 21 tablets— Figured on proportionate cost per tablet, you save 9%c when you buy Hill's— Cures Cold in 24 hours—grip in 3 days—Money back if it fails. 24 T a b lets for 25c. At a n y Drug S^ore Omar Lawrence, employed a t Camp Upton, spent the past week with his family. The regular monthly meeting of the Baldwin Fire Department will be held at headquarters on Monday next at 8 p.m. Nominations for the various offices to be filled will be considered. TO RENT—Dead storage space fo automobiles, $2 per month. P. <3 box 67, Freeport FRESH ECGS » 0 6 » BLOSSOM HEATH INN Second Season of Nassau County's Finest Resort , CUISINE UNEXCELLED BEST OF SERVICE Auto Parties Will Find This a Most Delightful Place For Lunch Parking Space for 100 Cars Remodeled Dining Room has Accommodations for 400 Guests O P E N A I R S K A T I N G Merrick Road Lynbrook, N. Y. 18 MILES FROM NEW YORK CITY 0 0 0 From Our Own Hennery MASTERS 261 Randall Ave., Freeport, L .I MONEY T o Loan on Bond Mortgage Quick Action E. N. EDWARDS, FREEPORT, N. Y Latest Designs and Makes in Beds, Springs and Mat resses Upholstering and Repairini of All Kinds VICTOR FAHRENFELD Merrick Road Freeport, L i ¥ Established 1907 CLARENCE A. EDWARDS AU Branches of INSURANCE Automobile, Fire, Burglary, A Gasualy Lines, Surety Bonds. O f f . Depot rseaport, N. J Toft., 34 low 4 9
