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Day Electricity for Freeport Dec. 24 The “Rae” Aground; Crew The Messenger Wishes AD a Merry Christmas ! SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER OFFICIAL PAPER. NASSAU COUNTY Vol 3, Number 22 Every Friday FREEPORT AND BELLMORE. N. Y., FRIDAY. DEC. 23, 1910 $1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cents Merrick To all of our readers we wish a Mer ry Merry Christmas and many returns of the season. | Judges Loose Higher Pay By 292 Votes Freeport Bellmore : Why City Defeated Suits Services at the Church of the Re deemer Sunday, Christmas Day, at 7:30 and 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Cele bration of the Holy Communion a t the early service and celebration, morning prayer and sermon at the sermon at the 11 o'clock service. The Sunday School meets in the Parish House at 10 a. m. There will be no lesson but the rector will give a talk upon the \Christmaa Heart.\ There will be einging of carols under the direition of Mr. P. W. Settle. Monday, St. Ste phen’s Day, there will be a celebration i of the Holy Communion a t 7.30 a. m. i , The Woman’s Auxiliary meets in the Parish House on Thursdays at 2.30 p. Court m. A cordial invitation is extended to all the ladies to unite with this or ganization. The Junior Auxiliary will not meet until the first Saturday in 1911. Choir practice in the Parish House on Saturday evening at 8 p/ m.. Prof. S. Reed Spencer, choirmaster and organist. Constitutional Amendment Beaten By Narrow Margin-Palisades Pare Wins By Big Majority The South Side Messenger Com pany wishes each and every one of its readers a very ’ i Merry Christmas Christmas and New Year’s with every j nurchase at Jacobson’s si™«, I 3tore—81 So. Main St., Family Shoe Freeport 2 ti! By the narrow margin of 292 votes, the constitutional amendment increas ing the salaries of the Judges of the Court of Appeals was defeated at the last election and the proposition creat ing the Palisades Park was carried by 68,370 votes, according to the canvass of the election returns which has been completed by the State Board of Can vassers. The canvass shows the fol- Send in your donation to help Vil-: mas music will also be rendered by the lage Trustee Charlie Sigmond in bis | choir morning and evening. All are plans for the poor children of our midst j invited. Sabbath School at 2:30 p. m. on Sunday afternoon, Christmas day. — _ The more h?i£fet8 the more people he j ,®n Sunday, Christmas Day, the ser- ! vices in St. Matthias Church, Smith- ville South, will begin at 3 o’clock, p. Handsome Souvenir given free for! Justice Putnam • Reason* for De- ‘ v riding Against Parties Suing for Damages for Loss of Water Sermons appropriate tor Christmas | The Btllbborn fight which the city is w, be preached by the pastor in the j maki to that the Departraent Belimore Methodist Episcopal Church , of Water Supplyi Gag and E,ectricity at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. hrist- jQgg not Berj0Ug|y affect the lands of Long Island farmers through the main tenance of pumping stations and infil tration galleries operated in Nassau can make happy. '< _ _ ___ Miss Katherine Fairfax, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton R. Fairfax, who occupied ‘‘Sunnycroft’’ during the summer, was operated upon at the New Yo k Hospital on Saturday for appendicitis. All of Miss Fairfax's friends here will be glad to know that the operation was very successful and that the patient is so far convalescent that her physician promises she may ■pend Christmas at home. Rodman Rowe one of the members of the Merrick basketball team has been suffering from bronchial trouble for the last two weeks and in conse quence has been confined to his home. ''•Rod'’ contracted the trouble at the Smithville South game. He will be about again in a day or so. Mrs. Frank S. Miller suffered the fracture of a rib on the left side in a fall sustained by slipping upon the ice on the stoop of her home Wednesday week. Mrs. Miller was fortunate to escape more serious injury: as painful as the present one is, she is able to be about the house. Mrs. L. B. Corlies left on Thursday to spend the rest of the old year and the beginning of the new with her brother and his family, the Rev. Frank Draper, rector of All Saints’ Memorial, New Milford, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Spear will spend Christmas with relatives in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Doane will pass the holiday in Brooklyn. The Merrick Gun Club will hold a clay pigeon ehoot at the usual place on Monday afternoon a t 2:30. The Freeport Club announces a holi- i day dance to be held at the Club House j next Friday evening, Dec. 30. The of Appeals Constitutional ! masquerade held last month was most Amendment—For 332,300; 1 against i successful, and the entertainment com- 332,692; majority against 292. Jm ittee hopes the subscribers to that Palisades Park proposition — For ! dance, with their friends, will be pres- m. The semon by the priest in charge. County for the purposes of securing water for the Borough of Brooklyn, another victory was gained when Jus tice Harrington Putnam of the Su- the Rev. E. N. Hollings, will been the ! Preme Court, gave an exhaustive opin- doctrine of the Incarnation. On , i,00 in the 8uits of n,ne claimants who Thursday night the Sunday School ser- j demanded damages aggregating vice and Christmas tree festival will be ; $190,732.01, as reported last week, held, beginning a t 7 :30 o’clock. ^lie trial of the caaea lasted six ------------ / , ! weeks, and in order to give the farmers Christmas exercises of the Metho-1, every opportunity to present their evi- costs awarded to the city, and its con tentions that the failure of cropa In Long Island farms is attributable to the lack of rainfall, and to the fact that in its absence farmers have re sorted to the use of fertilizers, which have produced unnatural soil condi tions which have become more harmful irr market gardening than the methods fqrmerly aoopted for ordinary farming, the court finds are strongly supported by the evidence.—Times. SmithviHe South The Independent Willing Workers will hold a Christmas social at the home of Mrs. Eugene Lattimer on Belltagh avenue next Wednesday even ing. Mrs. Lattimer will entertain the Workers with a supper at the conclu sion of which there will be an inter change of presents h> the members. i place. . . , . v/ii.iai.nao cAcivinc. ui me mcm v- ----- ^ - r r --------- v — --------------- --- Adolph Frisch has the contract to 349,281; against 285,910; majority in ;ent on this occasion. The patronesses dist Sunday School will be held in the deuce fully, Justice Putnam sat every, renovate the interior of R. T. Will- favor 63,370. ar : Mrs. Chas. P. Pond, Mrs. Freder - ' church 0n Tuesday evening, December : day during that period of time from ! m arth’s hotel, formerly the Buck The canvass of the vote on State 'ck G. S. Knowles, Mrs. Timothy R. 27th ! 9:30 a. m. until 10:30 p. m .. officers shows the following: Cutler, Mrs. Henry L. Maxson and! ----------- Justice Putnam’s opinion states that r> tr , c.-mson zn—.), x Mrs. Gilbert A. Smith. j “ Bill’’ Schwicker, who has been em- ingenious arguments were offered by ployed by C. H. Russell for some time,-.'the plaintiff’s counsel to show that has secured a position with the L. I. great havoc had been worked upon R. R. at Long Island City as checker ; Long Lland farmers since the installa- Governor—Henry L. Sti (Rep 622,299; John A. Dix. (Demo.) 689,- 700; Dix’s plurality, 67,408. Lieutenant Governor, Edward Schoe- neck (Rep.), 632,746; Thomas F. Con way (Demo.), 666,630; Conway’s plurality, 29,884. Secretary of State—Samuel S. Koenig (Rep.), 649,006; Edward La- zansky (Demo.), 650,879; Lazansky’s plurality, 1,873. Comptroller—James Thompson,Rep., €43,403; William Sohmer (Dem.) 661,811, Sohmer’s plurality, 18,408. Treasurer—Thomas F. Fennell (Rep.), 643,761; John J. Kennedy (Demo.), 662,093; Kennedy’s plural ity, 18,332. Attorney General—Edward R. O’Mal ley (Rep.), 660,312, Thomas Carmody (Demo.), 664,763; Carmondy’s plural ity, 4,461. State Engineer—Frank M. Williams (Rep.), 643,384; John A. Bensell (Demo.), 661,450; Bensell’s plurality, 18,066. The Board of Education at a meeting held Monday night, decided to name the Archer Street school, School No. 8, the Lincoln School. Eldridge Homan of Baldwin was found early Thursday morning in in the express yards. Single copies of the Messenger can be had a t William Wolfe’s drug store and from Anderson Bloomer, news deal- ft snow drift at the corner of Church and er’ a cents per copy Smith streets with his face cut and covered with blood, by Officer George A young daughter arrived at the Wantagh Now is the time to subscribe to the South Side Messenger for 1911. One dollar a year, less than two cents a week. Harry Braithwaite is our regu* larly accredited agent and will be glad to receive your subscriptions. Christmas services will be held in the Memorial Church next Sunday morning and evening with preaching by the pastor. Rev. Thomas S. Braith- waite. Special music by the choir and solo by Miss Laura Cowles. All are cordially invited to these services. The Christmas celebration of Merrick Sunday School will be held in the Parish House on Wednesday even ing at 7.30, There will be a Christ mas tree and it is hoped that good old Santa Claus will find it convenient to be present. There will be recitations, songs and carols by the school. All those who are to take part in the ex ercises are requested to meet in the Parish House tomorrow, Saturday, at 2:30 p. m. on and Tuesday immediate ly a t the close of school. Mr. John Swan is again a guest at the Hotel Merrick. We are sorry to hear that Mr. and Mrs. Theodore McCluskey lost a young I daughter named Gertrude on Monday i last. The child died of diphtheria at t*16 the home in Jerusalem and we under- = i -i'(l there are other members of the fjimly ill of the same disease. Rev. Thomas S. Braithwaite has had an attack of grip. .xfias Stella 1*81 ling has gone to her ho s in Northern New York State for ch Christmas holidays, while Miss Boyden, ar., on his way home about 1 ; home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Hunt o’clock. i I881 wedk and \ K ip\ is busy receiving He was brought to his senses and , congratulations^ ___ taken to the court room on Railroad - . , „ „ , avenue, where Lieutenant Elmer Ray- ! A regular meeting of Advance H., nor washed the face and found a bad j L- &.EnS - Co- was held last Monday laceration over the right eye, which : even,n8.whenc°n8lde»:able business was was bandaged and Homan sent to his tran8acted- A committee of five was home appointed to arrange for a dance to be - -----------' , held in the hall some time next month. At the next meeting, the first Monday in January, the newly elected officers will take charge of their respective duties. The masquerade and civic ball at Firemen’s Hall Wednesday evening by the Bellmore Social Club was a decided success, the hall being well filled with young people who enjoy the popular pastime of dancing. Quite a numoer were masked and some very nice cos- toumes were seen. The two handsome prizes awarded to those appearing in the best costume were won by two young men from Hicksville, whose names we were unable to ascertain. After the unmasking and prizes had been given out, Mole’s orchestra played , tion of the city's water securing de vices in Long Island. After referring at length to the evidence which the city offerred through its engineers, who testified that the falling off of crops, injuries to trees and loss of surface water shown by differences of streams and the lowering of farm wells, were not attributable alone to the operation of the city’s pumping station, the court comments upon this kind of liti gation as follows: \The testimony of farmers engaged in market gardening discloses an artifi cial condition due to liberal and some times excessive use of fertilizers, re sulting in a crop production beyond The schools will close at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon for the Christmas holidays and will re-open on Wednes day, January 4. Election of officers will be held in Freeport Lodge, I. O. O. F., Monday evening. The following nominations have been made: Noble Grand, James We Cheshire; Vice Grand, Stephen W. Hunt; Reco-ding Secretary, Miles S. Rhodes; Financial Secretary, Archer B. Wallace; Treasurer, Sylvester P. Shea. Woman’s Relief -Corps No. 139, do nated to the Old Veterans’ Home at Oxford, 25 handkerchiefs for the old men, 21 aprons for the old ladies; also a box of oranges for the Christmas tree. On account of complaints about throwing snowballs a t the Grove Street School, an officer was stationed there to keep the boys under reasonable restrictions. and incomes since 1905 are made up mostly of local transient memoranda from wagon sales a t Wallabout Market with the outlays from some receipted bills. The standard of normal potato yield claimed by many plaintiffs is 90 to 100 barrels per acre, whicn with a light, sandy soil, is obviously high and the supper march and everybody-get- a-difficult average to be maintained. busy and partook of the good things that had been prepared for them. The dance concluded a t a late hour. The club will probably be heard from again in the near future. The Christmas exercises in the school j this afternoon (Friday) were neatly rendered by the children. Several Christmas presents were given out and the trustees presented each child with an orange and a neat box of choco|ate bon-bons. School will open agaty on January 2, 1911, F. M. Wood is erecting a new cot- the public school, will spend her vaca- li-.ii here. 1 ne school will be closed until January 3rd. On account of the Christmas exerci ses there will be no Christian Endeavor meeting this week. There will be a choir rehearsal in the church Friday night. The Willing Workers will hold a re ception on Wednesday evening, Decem ber 28th, in the Firemen’s Hall. The three young Freeport men who started South in the auxiliary yacht Rae are having an exciting voyage, according to reports arriving here. The owner of the boat, Oscar Rhodes, received word Monday that the Rae had gone aground off Lewes, Del., on the morning of December 16. Life savers _ ___ _ ____________ a from the Assateague Life Saving Sta-1 tage on his property on Wilson avenue and will erect two more there in the Spring. Gee. the other lady teacher in j tion aided Captain Frederick Hunt and Handsome Souvenir given fu-e for Christmas and New Year'* with every purchase at Jacobson's Family Shoe Store—81 So. Main St., Freeport. 2t. Merrick defeated the fast Hempstead High School basketball team in the Parish House on Friday night last by a score of 42 to 35. In the first half Hempstead carried Merrick complete- Alfred Seaman ka(J moved , h bj ly off its feet to the 8urpnae of all | famil fro|n Eagt Rocka ’ present. In 8P'te of the chagrm of a | f da^ vil, Lawrence score of 21 to 12 in favor of Hemp- 6 ’ stead in the first half, there was only | a , admiration felt for the good work of rl he Gun c ,ab wil, ho,d a cl j the visitors. In the last half Memck ahoot on Monday moming. It is hoped breezed around like a young whirlwind , that there wi„ be a good number prea. let loose and would not be denied. The ent bei tbe la8t ahoot in the players with their baskets scored as | ________ follows: Hempstead, Daniels, r. f., 8; McKay, 1. f., 3; Kolar, c., 1; Vly- men, r. g., 4; Smith, 1. g., 1. One foul was called-in the game and that on Merrick. McKay threw the basket Merrick, Mulcahy, r. f., 7; Colvin, 1. f., <; H. Muller, c., 10; Verity, r. c., 0; Burns and Herbert Muller. 1. g., 0. H. Muller, c., 10; Verity, r. c., 0; bums and Herbert Muller, 1. g.. 0, Mr. Holmes Narwood was tbe referee, giving A1 satisfaction to both sides. There was a good and enthusiastic at- (continued on page 4) A sleigh ride was held last Friday night when a number of young people rode to Hicksville and spent the even ing in dancing and returning after a very pleasant time. A euchre was held last Monday night in the Firemen’s H a lt Mr. Schorr won the prise for the men and Mrs. Clinton Place won the lady’s prise. M y m try to qlaarti— year star* he . wUU--.yw1 k Ikeakfel tk t n c i a \owy tike” ever get let* • n«f i his sailors, Herman Gould and Irving Ellison, in getting her afloat, and she continued on her way accor4ing to the report, undamaged. The Rae was forced to seek harbor on account of the last heavy snow storm and her continued delays make the date of her arrival at Norfolk, Va., uncertain. Friday afternoon the Freeport Fire Department had a new call, 62, for a blaze at Sackman’e on Pine street. The firemen responded quickly but when they arrived they found the barn on the premises all ablaze. They soon James Moore and family of Smith ville South have moved into their new home on Centre avenue which they re cently purchased from A. Palermo. the normal. The alleged shortages and resultant losses set forth as damaged | old favorite playing forward, figures were mostly after-thoughts, not estimated at the time, but calculated after the harvest returns had been bal anced against the long struggle and otlay of successive market garden sea sons. As they reviewed the period of about five years since the water system was operated, they were ready to find Our captain of sports of the S. S. A. C. is well pleased with his basket ball teams, as each one of them, the 1351b. team and the 165 lb., scored a victory in the past week. Last Thursday night the lightweights defeated the Copiagues with a score of ‘6 to 11; while there were twenty-two fouls called, this was a clean and scientific game. The visiting team took their, defeat in good humor and invited our boys to give them a call later at Co- pi ague. Last Tuesday night the heavyweights under tne manage - ent of Lieutenant Frisch, defeatedtheir oli rivals, the Lindenhursts, with a score of 47 to 9. This was the first game of the season for these boys and it certainly was a corker. With John Doty, who meas ures 6 ft. 7 in in his stocking feet, playing center, and R. E. Hilton, our old favorite playing forward It was simply a game of Doty reaching it gt center, and then passing it to Hilton and then in the basket. Out of the 47 points, Mr. Hilton scored 41, making 20 field goals and one foul goal. Capt. Schnieder has arranged for two games for the lightweights tonigbt with the Merricks at Merrick and next in the operations of the city a case for ; Thursday night with the Almont A. C. their losses. The figures of receipts 1 of Amityville at the club house. Granting, however, that farming oper ations of the plaintiffs do show deficient yields in 1908 a direct cause is a phe nomenally low rainfall of that season, only 34.44 inches and said to be the lowest since 1864. Another reason why the plaintiff’s naturally recall bet ter crops before tne installation of the city’s water system is, that the aver age yearly rainfall of 1900 to 1904, in clusive is 48.82 inches, while the last five years, 1905 to 1909, show about 41.64, a surprising difference df 7.18 inches—enough to account foV the large losses in vegetation in the lands exposed to the summer conditions of evaporation which prevail on Long Isl and. It was also established that tree growth is so dependent upon rainfall that the rings on the trunk added each year will be relatively narrower in the seasons of small rainfall; at least if the deficiency comes in the growing months between April and October. I Lat ' n^ com pletTanhdOUreead°y f o r T c S i K r o w ^ M i g b ^ a S “dedine* o f T e e s ! pancy. ' Upon t^ic \Freeh\ eggs are the latest on the market-wonder what kind they are? The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Pres byterian Church held a bread and cake tog Vto0u d ™ man°df pu^out the Maze\' 88,8 in the chUrch la8t Saturc1ay after- with the building about half destroyed. proud of the remark made by the ladies who lived in tbev adjacent house, when she stated that the New York Department could not have re sponded in better style. Qpening a manhole to g et a t the gas main of tbe Nassau 4 Suffolk Gas Company, in Main street Monday morning and descending into it *ithoot waiting fo^fhe gas that bad accumu- (continued on page 8) I noon. u The Christmas exercises in the Pres byterian Church will be held Monday night The children are busy practic ing and a good program is promised. The property is occupied by Charles Sack man and family, but no one in the house knew of the blaze until a pass erby called theijr attention to i t The damage was estimated a t about $350. ThTh0/ £ \ ° l ! r e fifM i8HUnkn,0Wr\ Anna Thorogood. colored, aged 36 The members of the department are e djed at Brooklyn last week of oud of tbe remark made by one of \ ___ _ __ n __ - Q. __ 1 _ ____ . , , ___ consumption.\ She was brought here Sunday and buried in tbe colored ceme tery at North Bellmore. She was well known by the residents of that section. At the Democratic primary beid Saturday for tbe Second District the following were elected to the various offices: John J. Gsngloff, president; William E. Bdwne, Vice president; A. H. Dean, secretory,; BL B. Fish, treaa- • (Coirtfcoed on page 4.) upon tbe plaintiff’s farms does not necessarily point to any effects from defendant’s pumping. Some of those trees showed evidence of scale and oth er pests. None pf these’ appeared to have received the spraying and care of modem orchards.\ Tljp estimates which the plaintiffs offered as to the diminution of stream flow in Long Island caused by the city’s pumping, the court said were too • vague to form a basis for judicial find ings. The records of the city. Justice Putnam stated, showed clearly the ag gregate quantities of water taken and of rainfall upon which a finding could be made. \During the last five years,\ the court states, “ the whole rainfall over the tributary watershed under investi gation was 811.6 billion gallons, of which tbe city took 80.6 billion, or on ly 26.8 per cent” According to the consensus of authority going back to 1864, this proportion, Justice Putnam bolds, cannot be called excessive, and he says that it does not appear that the taking of this water has harmed the plaintiffs. In the dismissal of all tbe complaints. The following is the official score: Lightweight—135 lb. Claes let half 2nd half G. F. G xxx XX F. o 00 oo aa o S. S. A. C. Appier, r. f. Baldwin, 1. f. Smith, r. g. o Hubbell, 1. g. aoaoo Schnieder, C. o 1st half 2nd half Copiague G. F. G. F. Lampagnoli, 1. f. x aoa oo Austin, r. f. oo x o Becker, I. g. oo o H. Lampagnoli, e. x ao Schyler, r. g. x Referee, J. A. Johnson; umpire, Fred Ohms; timekeeper, C. A. Wood; scorer, R. E. Hilton; date. Dec. 15th. * 166 lb. Class 1st half 2nd half S. S. A. C. G. F. G. F. Hilton, r. f. xxxxxx XXXXXX * xxxxx xxxa Doty, c. a a 0 Frisch, r. g. x Seaman, 1. g. X Higgins, 1. f. 0 do y~ 1st half 2nd half Lindenhurst G. F. G. F. Muller, c. a o 00 Beaver, 1. g. 0 oo Hammerlch, r. g. x E. Haab, r. f. X X C. Haab, 1. f. X Referee, J. A. Johnson; timekeeper. C. A. Wood; scorer, H. Apeler. ; K x stands for field goals; a stands for foul-goal; o stands for foul play or two points or one point Mr. and Mrs. William Kraft an nounce the engagement of their daugh ter Ethel E. to Arthur W. Goud of Merrick. A reception and ball will be given by the Smithville South H., L. A Eng. Co. at fire headquarters, Saturday evening, Dec. Slat; committee of arrangements, S. J. Thornton, F. Koenig, A. Calcagnino and F. L. Hack. This is the third annual New Year’s ball for them and they promise a good time to a ll; don't miss i t Mike says tbe sun is shining bright now so suppose I’ll have to g et op an^i get out again; darn the rheumatism.
