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• TH UR S DAY/AUG UST 3, 1939 T H E WATCHMAN PAGE FIVE :»: . t \ P e r s o n a l I t e m s o f I n t e r e s t . . \ Miss Jean Armbrust entertained a few of her relatives last Monday ^ in honor of her birthday. * On Wednesday of last week the ladies of the Lutheran Church gave a picnic to the Sunday school children in Marratooka clubhouse. Miss Helen Kuletsky visited with her parents in Islip last Tuesday. Miss Stephanie Kander of Pacific street, spent last Tuesday in New York City. The Ladies’ Auxiliary held a card party last Thursday after- 0 noon at Marratooka clubhouse. Refreshments were served after the games. Mrs. William B, Reeve and Thomas Coleman have gone on a trip to Virginia. Mrs. Wilbur July had as guests of the week-end Mr. and Mrs. R H. July of New York City. Mr. July spent many summers here when a boy. Mrs. A. Merkent of Brooklyn, ^ sister of B. Stanwyck, spent ? week with her sister-in-law, Mrs. G. Teibel, on the bay. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Van Friberg- er and their sons, Richard and Robert, of Brooklyn and Madrid. Spain, are spending the summer with Mrs. Van Friberger’s sister, Mrs. Abbott, who was brought out of Spain last summer on the U. S. S. Quincy. Miss Elizabeth Epper of Brook- # lyn has been spending two vreeks at the Dutcher bungalow on Sigs- bee road. Miss Sarah Jane Middlebrook of Flushing, is spending a week with Miss Barbara J. Bergmann on Pacific street. Miss Maureen Clark of Corona, is visiting at the home of Mr. and M!rs. George R. Gildersleeve. Miss Ruth Weeks of Ozone Park is spending two weeks at the ® home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Savage. Mr. and Mrs. Guild Dean of Greenport, are the happy parents of an 8 lb. and 6 oz. baby son, born in the Eastern Long Island Hospital on Monday, July 10, and will be called Guild Dean, Jr. Mrs. Dean was formerly Miss Eunice Tyler of Pacific street, Mattituck. Mrs. Joseph Savage went to % New York last Friday morning. Mr. Savage with Miss Ruth Weeks and son George, went in Friday night. Miss Weeks and George Savage attended the World’s Fair, and all came home Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson are spending the summer in their home on Sigsbee road called Shady Nook cottage. Mrs. Clifford Johnson has spent • a week at Shady Nook cottage. Mrs. Frank Johnson’s daughter, Mrs. Renney, has just left after a stay of two weeks. Mrs. McGee and family of Flushing, are spending the sum mer in their bungalow. Mrs. Elizabeth Lunners of Riv- erhead, was a Sunday visitor at the home of Mrs. Alonzo Robin son. Mr. and Mrs. Lundow of East “ Setauket, visited Mrs. Bertha Rowland at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Robinson last Thurs day. Mrs. Earl Gilmartin and son, Marvin, of Lindenhurst, are on a ten days’ vacation at the Bay View House on Bay avenue. On Monday of this week the ladies of the Lutheran Church gave a going away shower to Miss A Catherine Wyckofl at Marratooka clubhouse. Mrs. Maud Hasslinger with her daughter Virginia and son George, of the Bronx, New York, were week-end guests of Mrs. Anna Spilger. Miss Gladys Torrey, Ernest Dickerson, Henry Dickerson and Mrs. Catherine Phillips motored to New Paltz on Sunday to bring Miss Karen Phillips back to Mat tituck. Karen has been vacation ing in New Paltz the past week with her aunt, Mrs. Michael Ped ersen. Free X-Ray fitting. Chiropodist in charge of Foot Correction Dept Tennenberg’s, Riverhead. adv.tf Mr. and Mrs. John Conroy with their son Richard, of Elmhurst and Jack Knight of. Mount Ver non, motored to their homes or Sunday, after visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Gild ersleeve. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Price o 1 Bay avenue, left here last Tues day for a trip through the New England States, arriving home las' Sunday evening. K L A P P E R — RUPP Mrs. Ralph Ramond of New London, Conn., annojunces the en gagement of her nie 6 e. Miss Grace Barbara Rupp, o;f New York City, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs Thurston E. Rupp of Milbrook, Greenwich, Conn., to Hermon E. Klappert, Jr., of Baldwin, L. I., son of Mrs. Helene Lankeman Klappert of Baldwin, L. I., and Herman E. Klappert, of New York City; Miss Rupp, formerly of Millbrook, Greenwich, Conn., and West Palm Beach, Fla., attended Greenwich Academy and the Edgewood School, Greenwich. Mr Klapper was graduated from the Hempstead High School, attendee Nassau Collegiate Center, Garder City, L. I., Pratt Institute and the New School for Social Research Mr. and Mrs. Herman E. Klap pert and son spent many happy summers in Mattituck at Shady Point run by the late William S. DeB,ois. The wedding will take place on August 24 in the Lutheran Church in Hempstead, the Rev. Waite’ Ruccius will officiate. The bride will be attended by her sister. Mrs. John Greaves. The best man will be Winthrop A. Mandell, Jr. Tennenberg’s Summer Shoe Sale now on. Walk-Over $4.95 up. tf Last Thursday night the Minne- paug Club picnicked at Honey suckle Lodge at Duck Pond on the Sound, the picnic being an an nual event. • Miss Marion Hecker, of Brook lyn, is spending the month of Au gust in Mattituck at the home ol her sister, Mrs. Allyn Tuthill. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Browne had for their guests last week Mr. and Mrs. James N. Browne and son. Jomjs, Jr., of Wilniington, N. C. On We^5i e.'’aay, AugJil Ulh, the annual fooa sale and card party of the Epipcopal Chui'cn of th»_» Redeem jr will be heid ai, llie summer Home of Judgi and Mrs. E. A. Richards, on Peconio Bay Over eighty dollars w is cleared by the American Legion A u x il iary’s caid party and food sale at the Marratooka club house last Thursday. Thirty-two tables of cards were in play. The door prize was won by Mrs. John Courtney, of Peconic, the prize be ing a hand-crocheted chair set The affair was arranged by Mrs. August Armbrust. Tennenberg’s Summer Shoe Sale now on. Walk-Over $4.95 up. tJ A card party is being arranged to be held at the Sacred Heart parish hall, Cutchogue, on Thurs day, August 10th, for the benefit of the Catholic Churches of Cut chogue and Mattituck. Refresh ments are to be served at 1:30 p. m., followed by cards and a food sale. Mrs. Vincent Browne is chairman of the committee. Mr. and Mrs. Jason Schatt, ol Glen Head, were week-end guests of Mrs. Schatt’s father, Mr. Ar thur H. Penny. Charles A. Slade spent the week-end at the home of'Mr. and Mrs. Arthur N. Penny. Wiman (Curly) Archer, who has been cruising about the world as a seaman of the merchant ma rine, is spending a month at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lillian Archer. The Marratooka Club men met at the club house on the Bay last Saturday for their July dinner, which was prepared by William V. Duryee, Charles McNulty and others, who served roast lamb with pletny of vegetables. Corn on the cob was a featured side dish, and it is said that if the leftover cobs could have been placed end to end they would have reached to Mars. Tomorrow (Friday) i*t will be worth while to amble over to the Pi'esbytericsn Church lawn to io a bit of shopping at the .annual bazaar given by the ladies of the' cnurch. In addition to the usual display of food, fancy work, etc., there will be a \white elephant’’ sale that guarantees a lot of fun, and special features for children, including a fish pond and some thing brand new at these affairs— pony rides. The time is 2:30; Down on lower Pike Street, on the lot east of the fire house, a big carnival is running full tilt all this week. It is being sponsored by the Raymond Cleaves Post, Ameri can Legion. M: H. s . Music Director Walter Williams rendered a fine tenor solo at the Presbyterian Church Sunday morning to the delight of a large congregation. An-excellent sermon was preached by Rev. P. E. Radford. Two beautiful bou quets of gladiolas, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Norris, were used as church decorations and were greatly appreciated by all. Mrs. S. ‘H. Gildersleeve has been spending a week visiting in New burgh and Buffalo, N. Y. The Merry Wives enjoyed a luncheon party last Wednesday, feasting at the Three Villages Inn, Stony Brook. Summer Resident To Celebrate 8 8 th Birthday Next Thursday, August 10, John M. Van Wagner of Mattituck and Brooklyn, will celebrate his 88 th birthday at his summer home on Hamilton avenue, here. To help celebrate the occasion many of his friends will be on hand, including: Jacob H. Van Wagner, ex-police inspector of New York, his son, daughter and her husband, Alfred E, Van Wagner, ex-fire chief of Far Rockaway, and his two daugh ters, Marea and Carry, Mrs. An nie Delany, Mrs. Pheland and son, Mr. and Mrs. I. Coulton, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Knight, Mr. and Mrs. David Manning and son, Mr. and Mrs. John Manning, also Mr. and Mrs. Van Wagner’s two sons, Wil liam Eugene and Raymond. Besides being Mattituck’s oWest summer residents, they have \the honor of being able to say that for the past 64 years they have sum mered here without a miss. This past February the couple cele brated their 60th wedding anni versary, while Mrs. Van Wagner recently observed her 8 6 th birth day. They still claim that “there is no place like Mattituck.” Con gratulations to them both! One of the easiest sports to establish most anywhere is quoits, or horseshoe pitching. Perhaps a twilight “barnyard golf” league might be popular among both old nd young folks in a neighbor hood. Elast End Youth Drowned In Bay Monday William Spizenberg, 20, of i^au- relton, L. I., occupying a cottage with his mother, Mrs. Lucy Spiz enberg, and brother, George, 17, at Gardiners Bay Estates in East Marion, was drowned in Gardin ers Bay Monday, July 31, while swimming with his brother and c companion. Spizenberg had been in ill health for many months, and it is thought he suffered an attack while swimming and was drowned before he could call for help. He was a student at JamaiCi High School, Jamaica, L. I., where his mother taught the third pri mary grade. Otto Anrig and Antone Chituk of the Southold Town Police De partment, covered the unfortunate tragedy. Credit is due Chief Smith and Patrolman Howard of the Gjeenport Police Department for their efficiency in handling the pulmotor in an effort to revive the young man. NEW YORK POTATO MARKET DULL AND WEAK New York: Market dull and slightly weaker. Supplies mod erate. Baltimore: Market weak. Boston: Market slightly weak er. Cleveland: Market weak. Philadelphia: Market weak. Pittsburgh; Market is about steady. 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