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IS OPENED Morley K. Dunn Is Again made Treasurer and Work Is Started For The Creation Of A Fund With Which To Defray The Expenses Of Rockville Centre's Com- memoration Of Its Soldier Dead. = Rockville Centre's Memorial Day fund has been started. Morley K. Dunn, former , village president, has been made treasurer of the fund. * The fund will be handled as last year when the committee in charge, with Mr. Dunn as treasurer, asked for contributions to defray the expenses of Rockville Centre's commemoration of its soldier. dead. Contributions to the fund .will be received by Mr. Dunn, either person- ally or by mail, addressed to his home, Lakeside Drive. Every effort will be. made by the committee to make the fund large enough to provide the-right sort of observance. There will a band, platform, decorations, ete. The total expense will probably reach $200, and Mr. Dunn is anxious to get the sum raised quickly, f The fund has been started by sew eral residents, including Village P ident G, Byron: Latimer and former Village President D. R. Longeneck DALE TOO SHOW CROWTH Neighboring Village is Completing New Structure and Also Additions Fow villages have made greater strides in the increase of educational facilities than Baldwin. School No. 4, on North Grand ave., will' soon be opened with a special ceremony. Bald- win has acquired considerable pride in the progress its schools have been making. -| mid I naddition to constructing School No. 4, the Board of Education has en- larged School No. 3, to double its for- mer size, The work represents the ouflny of $190,000, raised by bond is- sues for school building. No. 4,/a red brick building, with white trim, contains eight classrooms and an auditorium. , It will be devoted to the grammar grades. When it is formally opened on April 13, the Baldwin Masons will present a Bible, and the Junior 0.U.A.M. a large flag. Dr. A. E; Newton is superintendent of Baldwin's schools. 'The Board of Education is made up of Dr. W, J. Steele, chairman; David V. Dailey, George Gillies, Charles C. Boyer and Chazles Wheeler, clerk. COURT HOLDS CAR John L. Harrigan of 302 East 30th young woman. His case was to é“! Rockville Centre is losing one of its jusiness firms-Bodine & Wagner, who |. have been handling Delco-Light prod- ucts. The firm, which consisted of R. W. Wagner and Louis A. Bodine, is dis- solved, and as soon as existing con- tracts are completed the members will go into new territories. Mr. Wagner has sold his home on Centre avenue, and with his family is moving to Huntington, L +L, where he will continue to handle the Deleo- Light line. Mr. Bodine has been made district manager of the Domestic Electric Co., the sales organization in New York for Delco-Light. Mr. Bodine will take his family to Rochester to reside. Friends of both men regret seeing them. leave Rockville Centre, where they are well known and well liked. CLOSE WATCH IS BEING KEPT ON ALL POOLROOMS Nassau County Officials Deter- mined to Make Complete Report Poolrooms in Nassau County whose proprietors or managers infringe on the law will be put under close watch and arrests made after the first of- fense, Sheriff Augustus Kelsey and District Attorney Charles R. Weeks have announced. Peace officers are to make investi- gations and rt 'on. conditions to the county games. - Officers will ask the pol- room operators to oust the youths, and if they are permitted to return the proprietors will be arrested. All poolrooms, the county officers have decided, must be licensed as re- quired by law and have a bond filed. Finlure to comply with the law will result in prosecution. Democratic Club To Hold Entertainment April 26th _ Arrangements are being completed by the Rockville Centre Democratic Club for a euchre and reception at Masonic Temple; Lincoln avenue, on Thursday evening, April 26.. Suitable prizes will be awarded to those scor- ing the highest- number of points at euchre, bridge, pinochle and five hun- dred: A famous jazz band will play for the dancing which will follow cards. It is planned to start the dan- cing shortly after half past ten o'clock, William J. Murray, o pointed sub-committees on which are seventy-five persons. Miss May Kelly in charge of the collection and award of prizes, has reported that. thirty six gifts already. have been. donated. As. soon as convenient these. prizes will be placed on exibition in the show window of Frank H. Erisman's office, Villae avenue. Tt is expected that more than more than one and fifty prizes will be given to the club, = David W. Lellis, Jr., is in charge of alleys which was held on Monday nd 148 tickets. were sold, money paid on the spot for 121. John the Entertainment Committee, has ap- N Rockville Centre ins County Basketball (STUDY CLASS OF Championship Will These Fast Tossers » red, Winthrop Tillotson, Coach Floyd Brower, Harold Goldberg, John Burns. Kneeling left to right-Robert Hall, Lyman Hail, John Scott. The South Side High S tory of the school. At the end of the season the team' had won thirteen games and had only tasted the Litter- ness of defeat four times, a which the members of the team might well be proud. The Rockville Centre team was not defeated by more than ten points in any of their losing con- tests, the highest score by which they TRUCKMEN \KICK\ OVER UNLOADING | THER VEHICLES Prohibition Agents Said to Have Caused Much Damage to Owners The holding up of business motor trucks near Freeport several nights ago by Prohibition agents in search of hooch, and the unloading of the conveyances resulted in much damage to property. One truck bound for lew York was loaded with flowers for the Easter trade, most of which was high priced stock, These were con- siderably damaged by the rough hand- w. The protests of the driver were finally heeded when the agent who bossed the job said: \George let them go; they're all right.\ The question 'now being: asked by business men who have stock curried by automobiles into the city almost daily is how far can these agents go Ing a search warrant, responsible for the dam- ages entailed? It is declared that some merchants will apply for a pistol license for their chauffeurs and en- join the latter to protect their prop- erty to the limit. Standing left to right-Huyler Eld: were defeated were defeated by stubborn extra perfod championship of Li right to con State O player. and all of these player 23:3: his letter. held down the two forward positions. L. Hall was the captain and best ali around player, accounting for more field goals than any otehr individual He was a good floor leader and a great deal of the credit for the successful season is due to his hard 20-19, when they ¥ Shore after a b fight for the Island and the < r for the will re- R. Hall and L. Hall Veterans Completing Plans | | 'Hold Session on March 27 With win Patten were hostesses Study Class of the Fortnightly Club on March 27, at the home of the for- mer or Lincoln avenue. !‘n in Song and Story,\ Mrs. Fox, Chair- man of Study Class, gave a short talk on' what the Negro had accomplished FORTNIGHILY IN iNTERESTINc meet Hutcheson as Mrs. llFrench Hostesses Mrs. J. E. Hutcheson and Mrs. Ed- to- the The : meeting was a very interest- # one, the subject being \The Negro “n Literature and art, particularly in the field of literature and music, [tioning many writers and musicians | and referring especially to Paul Law- {rence Dunbar, Charles W. Chestnut | | m l ~> Courtesy New York Evening Journal| brought to a close by Mrs. Kniffin arid untiring efforts. At the pivot~ position Harold Goldberg and Huyler| Eldred divided the honors. Both were | good floor players and accurate shots. | The defense the team rested on Aa * d cery I were hard game and aside from the m ing caged many goals from the field John Burns was the utility man, fill- ing in wherever it was necessary. these players Robert Hall, Goldberg and. John Scott will be back | to form the nucleus of next year's! team, which ought to equal the record of this year's team. LIGHTSHIP NEED For Big Dance April 7th - SEEN FOLLOWING Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rockville | Centre Post, expect to have a record breaking crowd at their dance, to be held Saturday night. of this week at! Salamander Hall, School street, Ocean-| side. > Those who aitend this affair will enjoy a real musical treat. tion: to the regular dance. music- Lamm's orchestra of there' will be a concert by the Rock- seven ville Centre Fire Department Band. The first number on the eoncert pro- gram by the Fire Department Band | will be at 8 o'clock. Dancing will be gin at 8.90, and will be intersperse by selections from the band. The affair promises to be one of the | most enjoymble social events of the season, and those who attend are as- sured of an evening of real entertain- ment. NEW, MOTORCYCLE Motoreyele OfMfcer Hanry of the Rockville Centre police force was on duty Sunday with the new po- Hea motorcyle, a Harley-Davidson| CaPtains or lookouts aboard mode! of the latest equipment, the| Darticularly in rough: weather In addi-| pieces, A, Curley, STEAMER'S PLIGHT Move Will be Made to Place Pro- tection at Mouth of Jones' Inlet The grounding nearly two weeks ago of the freight steamer Buekleigh near Jones Intet hns added another incident of the sea many of similar character, and great emphasis to the as- t fflmm of baymen and ship com- manders that a light tower or ship should be placed in the vicinity by the government. | Jones Inlet is known as one of the {most treacherous on. the Atlantic Coast. -It is extensive in area, unuk- | ually. turbulent and its sandy shouls have taken many good vessels to their doom, The Inlet's course is gua against by bell and whistling buoys but these are not heard sometim f sels machine having been bought by the deflects sounds. village to replace the machine Curley| Fire Island light to the east and! maker, and as usual has been riding the last two years.\ Sandy Hook light to the-west are too LAG The old motorcycle, also a Harley-| far away in thick weather if a vessel Davidson, was taken in part payment for the new one. Officer Curley took the old machine Saturday afternoon where repre frequent? omnes current y carry vessels coming up the New Jersey ions or traveling along the Long Island coast into the or onto the number of selections from Paul Law» | rence Dunbar's poems, the majority | being: in dialect and depicting the life | and character of the negro. of Police Here Harold | ‘lnd W. S. Braithwaite, as posts and novelists, and to W, E. Burghardt Du | Bois who is reco | great sociologists of the day, and as the man who more than anyone else {has given scientific accuracy to stud- ‘iu relating to the Negro. zed as one of the \Jean\ and \Little Mrs. W. H. Kniffin, Jr., read a ~Kifter a half hour of \tea and talk\ Singers were given on the phonograph to illustrate the \Negro Spiritual\; and the afternoon's program was with further readings: from Dunbar. DF BU A;';}1 _ to Police Headquarters for Examination |. Police of the village are investigat- Ing the fact in connection with the | recent escapade of Alfred Metcalf, a | minor of 115 Terrell avenue, who | drove @ Ford car into a five globed electric street lamp in North Village [avenue near the Long Island railroad } crossing Wednesday night and later | sent the car into a plate glass window of the Art Shop in Observer street. The young man claimed in his story to the police that there was trouble with the steering gear of the machine, He was taken to the police station ' | after the lamp post smashing incident ul and was allowed to depart after tell- ing his story. 'The trip which took him into Obsert@r _ street . and . up against the plat@\@hiss in the Art Shop window was as a second chapter in his experience of 'the night and with the echo of the lamp post incl= dent still a melody in his mind. Des- pite its double contact with obstruc- tion no damage resulted to the car the.young yan was operating. On Wednesday, with Robert at the helm, Henry smashed into a $100 lamp post in front of the Verity Building, Village avenue, Rockville Centre, 'The post was a wreek, but Henry and Rob- ert escaped without a seratch. After the collision Metcalf, with as- | sistance, backed his $25 purchase from the debris, gave it a twist and «dis- Impaled». | ._Eye-witnesses claim that Robert and (\Henry\ had a disngreement about | which way the machine should io, and | the lamp post tried to be the pease received . the worst end of the deal. Publicit precedented for Rockville Centre is In the realm of music mention was | residents \ $made of Samuel Coleridge | Harry T. Burleigh, | Shannon, accompanied by Mrs. Walter {Hood at the piano, sang two songs | by Burleigh, | Mother of Mine.\ Unprecedented Influx Of Resi- dents seen by Men Who Are Familiar With Situa- tion. _ Rate To Be Trifle Over A Dollar Per Hundred \Or Less Than Half That Of An Average For Surround- ing Villages. An un building . boom seen by man who should know\ as re): Taylor and | sult of the extremely low tux rate and Mrs. Walter | which the village will enjoy this year. While other villages will be offering sterotyped and imaginary advanzages Rockville Centre will have me great talking point-a. well soverned village with the lowest of Tow rates. the one tax [Rockville Centre's tax rate this year will be a trifle over $1., a drop of 25 per cent. over last year. . With this | several selections by the Fisk Jubilee|!0W £8X rate comes low water rates and low electricity rates. This is cue «o municipal owsership of th , and water plant. » af the power ,_ Residents of other villages are Ing to dig deep this year to pay 53; their taxes. Rockville Centre residents are going to put more money in the than ever before. To the prospective uation should: appeal . boom the village are @ to feel the satisfac of succesk, LOCAL HIGH MAY HAVE SET A NEW HIGH SCORE MART: Which is Thought to be & Record It is believed that the South Side team set mwew hiih score record for Long Island 'when it defeated Friends Academy to the tune of 103-7, It also defeated Oceanside by the score of 80-10. _ Anotifer . victory, . which eaused some thinking ketball fans was the defeat of Brook: Iyn Tech. by\the score . of - 42-4% Hempstead was also defeated by an overwhelming score of 51-12, -- Announce Engagemefi Of Mary Caird - Francis Klaess Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Caird, 88 Davison place, formally announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Janet to Frances J. Klaess, son of the late J. M. and Mrs. Klaess of 15 Ter- rell avenue, among the bas- The announcement was made delightful dancing party, given-ti); Miss Caird's parents, at their home on evening, when some f friends were entertained. 'The Cai was attractive in spring flowers, and an orchestra played for the dane- Ing until midnight when . a delicious supper was served. The guests included Misses Rocalind Leonard, Ruth £ this art: © ~
