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SOUTH SIDE — 1 - ; For the - ■ - ---- - ------ ---------------------- — - ..... .... . .................................................................... A reliable means df communication between the business men Issued Weekly . r • South Side of and residents of Freeport, Merrick, Bellmore, ^Smithville South, Subscription Long Island East Meadow, Wantagh, Seaford, Massapequa and Amityville. $i.oo a Year — „— . . .« •' --------- — j — .... , - i ------------------ — VOL. 1, NUMBER 3 FREEPORT BELLMORE, L. I., N. Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1908 BELLMORE WANTAGH Counsellor H. G. Clock and his son Mr. Allen Baldwin passes his 82nd sailed tor Europe Saturday. birthday on Saturday. Smith Cox returned trip^last Saturday. from his auto An Automobile Club in Freeport, having for its members residents, not The biggest crowd of the season was at High Hill Beach Sunday. The hotel and cottages were filled to over flowing and the excursion boats to this place were all filled. People are rea- only of this village but of surrounding iizing what an excellent place is here ones as well, is the rumor that reached one (connected with this paper. The idea seems a good one if any thing of advantage can be gained by such an or ganization. Cities are not the only places in which an automobile club to find rest and quiet in. The Bellmore ball team lost their game with Freeport last Sunday; score of 11 to 9. Next Sunday they will play the strong Nassau Colored Giants prospers and there are enough motor on the home grounds. This will be the enthusiasts, in Freeport and vicinity who could doubtless derive much ben efit from a well regulated club of this kind. Acting together they would have a voice in the making of roads andj;repairing them and all roads in Nassau County are not just what they should be as y et; though this does not mean for a minute, that a local club could be a factor of sufficient size to make an immediate change, but the ball could be started rolling, neverthe less. great game of the'season and ought to be worth seeing. Batteries: Bell- more, Pettit and Lamb. N. C. G’s, Sampson and Saunders. Better be on hand and see the game. John Deubert and Charles Russell are finishing the concrete sidewalk in front of their properties on Grand Ave. Russell has made a good job of his stretch, bringing it close up to his piazza, with room for a flower bed in the circle, which gives a general ap pearance of neatness. Deubert is car rying the work right down to his cor ner. Concrete sidewalks are a neces sity and the property owner who has them is deserving of much credit for his progressiveness. Freeport Club 6 College Point On Saturday at Athletic Park the Freeport Club defeated the Vigilant A. C. of College Point by the score of ti to 2, after nine innings of the fast est and most exciting base-ball seen in Freeport in some time. With the wind behind them the pitchers had most own very hard to drive the ball out of the to place on the highways. This stuff diamond. will ruin any good cloth it touches. ^The visitors scored two runs in the ----- sixth inning. Levinus fumblejl Lewis’ Mrs. Ellen M. Ames, grandmother '•' infield tap, L. Ruck was out Raynor to of Mrs. James A. Stiles of this village, -j&ietol, Martinez singled but the ball has passed into the Great Beyond, tt*t UwougnThorp's I6fcs letting tcwis leaving behind her a memory that is It is too bad that something less dis agreeable cannot be found for the pur- everything their own way, it being p0se than disagreeable black oozy oil \tall miU nf the ~ ^ u: ____ rru:,. n* score, Rogers filed to Levy, making the second out; then Levy fumbled Roulf’s hit and Martinez scored; E. Ruck struck out. Freeport was unable to score until the eighth. Tooker started it by get ting hit, Bristol sacrificed him to sec- at once full of sweet recollections. Under the name of Eleanor Kirk she edited and published the world known magazine,Eleanor Kirk’s Idea and was the authoress of many strong well written books that to-day are regarded standard works in their class. A ond, Corby singled, scoring Tooker and wonderful woman, a beautiful mother, got to third while they were trying to and a grand character. Editorially the get Tooker at the plate; Levy reached Brooklyn Eagle, to which publication she was a valued contributor, says: “ Her personal qualities were marked by hospitality, service, uplift and char ity. Sorrows were born bravely, cheer was ever her mood, her motive and her method, and of ill-will or distrust she was incapable. ’’ first on an error, Raynor singled, G. Levinus walked on four wide ones, fill ing the bases with the score tied. C. Levinus put up a Texas Leaguer when the visitors went up in the air and Freeport scored four runs; Thorp struck out, ending the inning with the home team four runs_to the good. , 7. ,, , . . Been several meetings in town dur- The annual outmg of the Presbyterian j the last few dayg. ’ Last Friday Sunday School will be held next Wed- Lhe R lar Repub]ican Association of nesday to High Hill Beach The Pres- the 2nd dist. of the Town of Hem, byterian Calendar says: The first stead held their meeti in boat will leave foot of Raynor St. at 8 a. m. All the members of the Sunday School and friends are invited. The excursion is free, but a collection will be taken for the benefit of the school.’’ SEA F O R D Miss Mary Rhinehart of Brooklyn is visiting at Mrs. Bernard Albro’s. A minstrel show was held in the Y. M. I. C. Hall on Wednesday evening, under the auspices of the colored wait ers of the Massapequa Hotel, assisted by outside talent. The Unity Pleasure CMub will hold an outing on Saturday evening, going to High Hill Beach and returning to the Brant Point House for supper at about midnight ip- Firemen’s Hall. The Secretary was impowered to call a special meeting when the ban ner will be ready for raising. It will be strung across Bedford Ave. in front j ; of the Worth House; this banner is ex- | pected any day. A big turnout is ex pected at- the raising. Then there was the regular meeting of the Bellmore Fire Department at their headquarters, Monday night. Tuesday night meetings were held by all the school boards of the districts in their respective places of meeting. Bellmore Board of Trade meets to night at Firemen’s Hall to discuss mat ters of importance. Mr; and Mrs. Joseph Garra left Wednesday for Weatherly, Pa., where they will have their home for the fu ture. When the Republicans this village fling their banner to the breeze there ! will be a great time in town. They l will have fireworks, speeches and | large chunksuof enthusiasm. The ban- , ner will be located in front of the Worth House where all see and read. The annual fair of the Church of St. Michael and All Angels will be held in the Guild Room of the church on Tues day evening next, August 11. Fancy articles will be on sale. The annual beach party of the M. E. Church to High Hill beach was held Tuesday. The “ Carrie A.’’ conveyed the excursionists to the beach and car ried a large crowd. The regular annual school meeting of the district was held last Tuesday evening in the school house. Frank W. (Raynor was re-elected to succed himself for a term of three years and j royal good time for all. H. H. Graef was elected to fill the un expired term of John Half, who re signed. The appropriation of $2500 for school needs during the coming year was passed. A quiet school meeting Tuesday night did not upset the equilibrium of any one j present. An easy budget of $2100 was passed. Rev. Thos. Braithwaite is having Ids regular rest from active pastoral work. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Seaman are mak ing an extended tour, going as far as N ewfoumllaud. The regular theatrical season of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Thomas starts on the 27th. Wantagh Gun Club (there are some good shooters here) have a clay pigeon shoot at Hungry Harbor the 16th. There will doubtless be a lot of dead “birds” around. Up in the Adirondacks they have a sheet of water called Rainbow Lake and to this place have gone J. W. Cowles and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kropp and James Seaman, Jr. In a little while everyone of the trav ellers will be coming back to good old Wantagh and then affairs will shape themselves for the Fall and Winter. Ye Editor: An old newspaper man. On my an nual Summer travels, in passing Bell more station was surprised at the prog ress of that ancient village. I was Once a sojourner at Sir.ithville So. a id was interested so remembering how my dear old friend Artemas Ward found qut how many wives Brigham Young had, counted the stockings on the wash line on a Monday and divided by two, following his method, I counted the carriages waiting at Bellmore station on Saty. p. ra. and concluded by a mathematical calculation that your village, burgh or city had prog‘v*St,ed 75 per cent. I noticed that Wantagh had made headway since last year, the new lamps along the avenue being very conspic uous. I was delighted to find Mr. Nathanael Inch had arrived by the same train. Mr. Inch is a N. Y. banker who visits this neighborhood for hunt ing and fishing and to gather strength for the ensuing 50 weeks of the year. Mrs. Inch, Miss Ruth Natalie Inch, Mrs. Wells and her daughters Rena and Bettina have been visiting here since school broke up for the Summer vaca tion. Erasmus Hall, Packer and Adel- phi are represented by these young graces. Mr. Inch has been enjoying poor health lately. He fears the lobster palaces of little old N. Y. have not helped him ; he thinks a dozen or two of Sister Shearer’s flap jacks with about a half pound of nice corn fed pork for breakfast will restore him to normal. Ludford’s lake at Beltagh ave, caused by a broken bridge has been depleted of nearly all its beautiful sheet of wa ter, destroying the picturesqueness j of the scenery and.depriving others here about of their boating and fishing. I met my old veteran, warrior friend, Captain Spate’ this morning who is chipper as ever. By the rule of in verse ratio he is getting younger every year. He extended a cordial invitation to dine with him wjiich we instantly accepted, and that gallant old defender of our rights and firesides added by the way of an extra honor to the ladies that he would hoist Old Glory the day we came over, and said: “ We will reach down the good old bugle and have another song. ’ ’ I don’t thjnk strangers ever die of hunger here if I may judge by the hospitality with which I am received. Yours &c “ Hancock.” Wantagh , Aug. 3. SMITHVILLE SOUTH aud EAST MEADOW Tuesday night a good sized assem blage attended the school meeting in this district. An interesting meeting took place; the new building came in for a deal of discussion, the budget for ’08 was gone over and there was LIBRARY THIEVES, Assorted Into Four Classes by a LI* brary Official. “Library thieves fall Into four class es,” said the librarian. “The first and most numerous is the umbrella class, gender, I regret to admit, feminine. VThis lady lounges about your libra ry with an unrolled umbrella In her brought out at the meeting much that j hand. If she sees a book she wants, was of interest concerning the new j a magazine or a newspaper, pop it goes structure that will in 1909 be ready to : Into the umbrella’s capacious folds, receive its pupils. W. E. Horn made | Her type Is well known. Never carry an efficient chairman. All the board ; an- unrolled umbrella into a library If was present excepting Trustee Jeffrey | you would escape the surveillance of who is away on a trip to the West, j the watchers and attendants. Speeches were made by Messrs. Loren- i “Anotheg class—male—steals week- zo Smith, J G. Kelley, S. S. Smith, j lies. This daring thief rolls a weekly Frank Hack, John Deubert and others, j into a cylinder, slips his hand through These men showed a keen interest in j It and works it up his sleeve. Fancy the matter of school work. It is. gen-1 running such risks for a five or ten erally conceded that the present board i cent weekly! is capable and painstaking and Frank ■ “A rare genus, feminine again, is the Hack is an aggressive and progressive | partitive or installment thief, who Secretary-Treasurer who is always ready to advance a theory for what he considers for the betterment of the work in question. In the different bal- lotings about thirty votes were cast.. who run may The annual outing of the 2nd district Republican Club to High Hill beach will be held on Wednesday, August 26. I There will be entertainment furnish ed, athletic games at the beach, and a Thomas Roberts was taken to ! sau Hospital on Saturday morning last, where it was'said lockjaw had develop ed. It is not known \whether this is caused by the wound inflicted upon Mr. Roberts by the bursting of his gun some time ago, pr whether it was caused by a few grains of powder which he possibly got in his hand around July '4. AH reports indicate that Mr. Roberts has a chance for recovery, although he is in a very pre- The Fire Department will hold its annual moonlight sail to Pt. Lookout on Wednesday, Aug. 12, from Corn well’s dock. Music will be furnished Nas- I by Tucker's Military Ranch 1 — - ------- J . ------------- - T - . : --------------- 1 Where Politeness Doesn’t Pay. “French and German bats,” said a hatter, \only last half ns long as ours. It Isn’t the poor quality of the hats, but the fine quality of the manners, that causes this. Lifting the hat In sal utation is the hardest work that fails on the headpiece, and the French and Germans lift It to men and women equally, thus giving It twice as much labor as we do. Naturally, then, it wears out twice as quickly. It goes 1* the brim in no time over the waterJ%- Cinclnnatl Enquirer. BALDWIN Justice Geo. C. Tatem held an inquest on the body of \Mrs. Jane G. Turnbull, who died suddenly Monday night around 5 o’clock at her residence. Mill- burn Ave. She was bitten through j the lobe of the nose by a pet cat, re- j suiting in what was considered by the symptoms to be hydrophobia. ' , .\j .V \ j’f _ But Yet a Man. “I suppose I have about the, most thoughtful, kind and considerate hus band In the world,” she was saying sadly. “When he comes hotae at about 2 of the morning, turns all the lights on and wakes me out of a sound sleep, he always says In the roost polite way Imaginable: “ ’Don’t let me disturb you, dear. But will you please help me unfas ten this collar button?’—New York P T C ., In the issue of July 31 in Smithville steals a book u few pages at a time. Though this genus Is known to libra ries, I have met with but two speci mens in ten years. One stole a Hall Caine and the oth^r an^H. A. Vachell volume in lustallihents. Both were more or less daft. “The most numerous class of all is South notes the use of the word j the open, daring one. These people “ forced” was in error, the misplacing bluff They walk out with a stolen of one letter caused the mistake. The book or paper under their arms as If it Ladies’ Auxiliary has been “ formed” | were their own. And, hang it, they (“ c” being used instead of “ m.” ) is : escape, too, if they are careful that the way it should have read. , our label doesn’t show. _____ __ “Our percentage of thefts? Well, we Charles Johnson and Adolph Frisch, jrM both of Smithville South, have re-j hnadred stolen. -Cincinnati Enquirer, ceived the contract to erect the new school house in Smithville South, to, A BORN TRADER. cost when completed $18,000. These ----------- enterprising and capable men are to be - He Was a Bit Unlucky, but Then He congratulated upon receiving the award ; ( Had No Dull Times, for tile erection of this important build- j “One hundred dollars seems an aw ing and much satisfaction is expressed ! ful high price to pay for a typewrtt- here that local people are to have the ' ing machine,” said Mr. Jenkinson, who work in charge. They will begin oper- had just bought one. \It may seem so to ations the 10th of August. ! you,” answered his friend, Mr. Hankin- son, “but I have one at my house that m , - c c. A • , , 1, , , , . | cost me $750, atid I don’t suppose it’s The S. S. A. C. will hold a dance in , half ftg g* 0(1 ag yours/. Kraft’s Grove on Tuesday evening, August eleventh. Come and enjoy a pleasant evening. There will be a decided novelty in the line of refreshments which the com mittee >f eel assured will be met with favor by the visitors, not only for its “You needn’t tell me such a”— i “It’s a fact,” broke In the other. “Why, how ip the world”— “Well, I’ll tell you. A j*ear and a ! half ago I bought an automobile for $<00. j After I had paid $150 for re PRICE, 5 CENTS i — — - ------------ —<■ - j— The Stroller’s Column Great place is High Hill with its comfortable summer cottages perched upon the surrounding hills aqd all filled with folks seeking the rest cure by the sad sea waves. Last Sunday the place was packed by a week end crowd who find much to please in this seashore re treat. The steamers on the ferry from Free port to Point Lookout have on all daily trips a two-piece orchestra to enter tain the passengers making these trips. In spite of the plague of mosquitoes there are a good sized bunch of cottag ers located for their vacations at Nas- sau-by-the-Sea. In conversation with John Schneider, Mr. Frisch and others in Smithville South, it was stated that a fire com pany is being considered for that sec tion. Roosevelt has one, and other villages of less importance than this are equipped with companies for fire purposes and the wonder is that a company has not been started before in such a well settled cimmunity. If steps are taken it will probably be for the organizing of a company which will have for its apparatus a chemical engine. It was brought out at thfc school meeting in Smithville South that the new school building will be equipped wth the old Jcpks and seats now in use in the present building: aside from that, everything else will be modern. The Bellmore Board of Trade are working hard to get a signal belt at the Bellmore Ave. crossing. Success be to their efforts. For so important an object, it ought not to require much -.--u effort either. uniqueness but for the remembrance of j f ^ the times they had at—, well enough said. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Hilton are entertaining a girl baby, born Aug. 4. Mr. Hilton will arrive here from his home at Orwell, N. Y., on suburban lot. \The lot proved to be in the middle of a swamp, and when a real estate man offered me a horse and buggy for it I took him up. “The horse ran axVay one day and smashed the buggy into kindling wood. Sept. 5, to get things in shape for op- I traded the horse for a gold watch? , ening up of our school, of which he principal. School will open Sept. 8. “The watch wouldn’t keep good tlm^, and I swapped it for a bicycle. One day I fell from the bicycle and put a finger out of joint. Then I exchanged the machine for a secondhand type writer.” “I see.” “And I’ve no use for the typewriter. Do you know of anybody that would give me a good dog for it?”—Youth’s Why He Was There. The occasion was the annual re union of the survivors of the —th regiment, volunteer infantry, and it took place in a thriving city in one of the western states. Among the I Companion, veterans in attendance was a sol- ~ . dierly, erect old man with the fire [ iT° ' der of the Go,de\ H o rseshoe. . , - i i i How many persons have ever heard of youth still in his eye, who had of the 0rder of the Golden Horseshoe, journeyed across hall a. dozen oi j Rl(j drSf. order founded in America? In 1724, when Virginia extended from the Atlantic into the unknown west, few of her colonists had crossed the Blue Ridge or the Alleghanies. So full of dangers from savages and wild beasts and so full of natural difficul ties was the passage of these terrible heights that Governor Spotswood, set ting out to discover a pass, tboked on the expedition as so hazardous that he took with him a guard of “soldiers, more states in order to meet once j again his comrades of the long ago. 1 It came his turn to address them. He rose and began: “I have traveled 1,700 miles”— j Here the memories of the old | days overcame him, and his voice | broke. Recovering himself with an . effort, he tried again: “My dear old friends and com- 1 rades, I have traveled 1,700 miles”— Once more his emotions mastered him. Dashing the tears from his eyes, he'smde a third attempt: “I have traveled 1,700 miles,” he blubbered, “to do the crying for this whole regiment!” gentlemen and pioneers,” armed and ! carrying provisions. These scaled the i pass with great hardships and perils and returned after the goverhpr—bad cut the name of King George in the rocks on the highest peak. He then constituted the society, or order, of the Golden Honseshoe. Each 1 man who had scaled this high pass was —7 ------- - ---------- made a member of it, and to each one Fruit and Sugar For Horses. ! he presented a golden horseshoe. On Grain is not the ' only food 'on i the side was inscribed in Latin, “So It which the horse thrives. In Egypt j leases Him to Cross Mountains.” iv t ? i a „ Any man thereafter who could prove Tthc bhedivc s best mates are. ^ : .M , L had read Wlth hi, ow„ e 4 th. largely on currants, and these frn name Df fbe j^ g ou the height was en- fed animals are noted for their en- titled to become a member of this or- durance and speed. Figs during the der.—Chicago Record-Herald, ftg harvest form the food of the horses in Smyrna. They turn to it ; ‘. ~ ~ T ? ... , from oats or hav. The green tops i Firemen m Nassau County wi be of the sugar cane are fed to the horses of the West Indies, and for long weeks in many parts of Canada windfall apples ‘•form the horse’s only food. In -Tasmania peaches and in Arabia dates take the place of the usual hay and oats, com and bran. Post, which occurred at Mineola Hos pital Friday morning, following an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Post had been treasurer of the Nassau Coun ty Firemen’s Association since its or ganization, and was one of the most popular members of that large organiz ation. • . % f c v . ' Again is talk being heard that the Main Street from the railroad to the Merrick Road, in Freeport, should be paved with vitrified brick and this is almost a necessity for the street at present is in bad shape and will be worse in the Winter months, both for driving and crossing. It should be improved and made usable for hardly in any village in Nassau County can one find a more valuable stretch than this same street traverses. It does not require much of an effort for any one to concede that Freeport is one of the most important villages on the southside. There are others, to be sure but Freeport is more than holding 1\! its own. ■\ --------- { There is one little street between Bellmore and Smithville South running from Thornton’s corner to Andersens that is blessed with three names. Two land companies are selling lots there, one has it Bedford Ave. (the second in town, by the way) the other has it Maple Ave., and the maps name it Pea Pond Road. The residents can take their choice. Real Estate T ransfers Isidor Lang and or. to Philip Datz, Valley Stream; nom. David Driscoll to J. C. Thompson, Lynbrook; nom. James Armstrong to J. A. Chi Ison, Roosevelt; nom. L. J. Smith, Ref., to Elmer Bedell, East Rockaway; $1200. j Anders Magnusson to J. H. Bischoff, Freeport; $300. Sigmond Realty Co. to M. F. Jackon, Freeport; nom. .-Henry Kohl to A. S. Knapp, Free- port Manor; nom. Same to- H. E. Williamson, same; ! nom. : S. J.1 Harding ot T. A. Holmes, Lyn brook ; nom. C. H. Foster to W. E. Sprague, Inf- wood ; nom. John VanWormser to Amelia Heil-J mann, Rockville Centre; nom. Wililam Lipfert to Frances Anson, Lynbrook; nom. M. E. Hunt to George Benzer. Be more; $6000. C. A. Cornwell to F.- S. (jomwell, Rockville Centre; nom. Sarah Bedell to J. J. Gangloff, Bell more ; nom. I. D. Van Wickler to Sarah VanWick ler, Inwood; nom. , ■ '., Laura Pearsall to J. L. Servi Roekyille Centre; nom. ___ H. C. DeGraff to K. B. DeGraff, same; nom. | J. H. Southard to E. R. Southard nom. 7\jgh Leonard Colson to William Kai— Lynbrook; nom. •’ - * . L. J. Smith, Ref,, to Richard Dool East Rockaway; nom. v .; 7 - |
