Nassau County Review 19091022

              Official Paper, Village of Freeport
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, OCT. 22, 1909-VOL. XIV, NO. 52
Official Paper of Nassau County
Newf« itemf« received op to 6 o'cloek Tbnrsday night; advertisement form kept open till 5> o'cloek Friday moniinK; papers readr for delivery 1 o'clock Fritlav.
Smith & Levy have sold their house on the ¦south side of .Archer Street, west of Bay View Ave., to J. Walter Westcott of Manhattan, v.ho will take possession about November 1.
FREEPORT NEWS Coming Event.s    *
The Socialist Local, Town of Hemp- ste.Td. will meet with Cha-^. Lenker, North Main .Street, Sunday at o p. m., to debate on the subject, •"Resolved, Monday evening, Nov. 1, Sigmond , that poverty is due to the present corn- Opera House, drama, "Utah," for ben-1 petitive system." efit of Freeport Fire Department. IT'-^ Wednesday, Nov. 10—Annual din¬ ner Nassau County Firemen's As.so- ciation.
Mis.s Louise DaSilva is visiting brother in Allentown, Pa.
her
The Review is fourteen years old to¬ day, with a larger circulation than ever.
A delicatessen store is now the Hanse-Pettit building on Avenue.
open   in Railroad
The case of Turner vs. Seaman will come up before Judge Tatem next Thursday afternoon.
James Dean and family have moved to Brooklyn, where they will remain for the ne.xt year.
Mrs. Benjamin Combes cut the end of one of her fingers off while using a sickle to cut grass last Saturday.
The Nassau and Suffolk Lighting Co. has a combination gas and hot water heater which they are advertising this Week.
Frank H. Seaman has opened a car¬ riage   shop  at 1339 South Main Street.
Mr.   Seaman work.
is  an  old   hand  at  this
Ne.vt Wednesday evening in Fra¬ ternity Hall the Na.ssau County La¬ dies' Aid .Society will hold its annual euchre.
Mrs. Timothy Sheehan and Mrs. James R. Smith are spending a week at the Sackett Lake House, Monti- cello, N. Y.
How about that printing order? You can get it done in Freeport as good as anywhere, or better. Telephone, write or call Nassau County Review printery and we will be around to see you about ! it at once; telephone eight. It.
District Deputy Grand Master A.  B. i Wallace and his staff, who  will   begin ; the work of installing officers of  vari-1 ¦ ous officers in the  Queens-Nassau  dis- j ' trict  after  January,   were   presented ; with  handsome  rega'ias   on    Monday
night  by Freeport Lodege No. 600,   L
O.   O. F., of which the deputy and his
staff are members.
The presentation was made  for  the
Iddge by Vice Grand E. V. Baldwin.
William H. Bracken, a former Brook- lyniie, died at his home on .Mount Avenue Monday, aged SI years. Fu¬ neral services were held Wednesday evening. Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of¬ ficiating, followed by Masonic ritualist¬ ic exercises; interment in Brooklyn. Mr. Bracken is survived by his wife, to whom he has beer, married -",1 years, and two children.
Someone broke into the laundry,build¬ ing of Charles T. .Mock on Brooklyn Avenue Saturday night and took some of his clothes and cash. The window at the re.^r of the building was pried up and entry made in that manner. An overcoat and a pair uf trousers were among the missing. One of the helpers in the laundry stated that when he returned home Saturday night he met two men, who, when they saw him, separated and ran away.
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School tax collector D. Frank man will begin collecting tax next week. The rate will be against .'?2.0S last year.
Dike- early
$1.97
Mrs. Joseph Carman and her sister, Mss Josephine Carman, and their niece, Miss Grace Carman, have been visit¬ ing .Mrs, S. Roosa at Liberty, N. Y.
Mrs. Ida B. Powell has  been  spend-, ing  this  week   at  Northfield,   Mass., visiting  her daughter.   Helen, who isl studying at Northfield Seminary.
The firemen had   another   run   Wed-
ne.sday morning,   in  answer  to" alarm I
from No. 64.    A range in the building |
occupied by .Mrs.   Charles   W.   Bedell, j
corner  Archer  Street    and    Bayview i
Avenue,   having been  constructed   too
near   the wall, set  it  afire,   and Mrs. :
Bedell thought it was time to  call   for;
help when she found smoke coming  up ;
from  a  radiator  in   the  second floor, j
The fire worked very   slowly   and   was j
put out without using any   hose,   with !
the aid of extinguishers.   The loss will
not exceed $50.    Chief VanRiper  was]
in charge.    There was  again  a  delay
of several minutes  in   sending   in  the
alarm, owing to not being able  to  get
Major George   E.   Libby,   who  was  » P^oper call at the power house.
severely   injured  about the face  from !
a fall when attacked with vertigo, is' Some of the ladies of Freeport recovering rapidly and is able to be i are looking forward to a very pleasant around. winter  with  Miss  Cecile   E.    Payen,
  who gave a series  of  informal   parlor
The fall time-table of the L. 1. R. R. ; t«»ks on art two winters ago. This time will go into efTect on Wednesday; No- ^'^'^/«J'^« ,^'» cover the people, art, vember 3. and provides for the most ^"^t^'"^ of various countries Miss extensive service of any winter sched- ^«yf ! ^^^a ^"^ extensive traveler ule ever issued by the company. I ^"'J,^"^ ^^^^'^^' f^ «","^'«f'   P^Pl«;
. , ; customs, habits, the art and legends of
Mystic Rebekah Lodge will be guests various lands. This winter her talks of the First Presbyterian Church Sun- ^iH be largely on China jnd Japan day evening when the pastor. Rev. where she has traveled under most fa- Charles Herbert Scholey, will preach! ^orable circumstances seeing much an appropriate sermon. \ that  is  denied  the ordinary traveler.
^   ' Sh^ will illustrate her talks  with  the]
many curios gathered during her trav¬ els.
The course will commence the first Fri>iay afternoon of November, (No¬ vember 5) and will meet every alter¬ nate Friday at the different; members' house.>i.
The meeting of the Women's Relief Corps, No. 189, an auxiliary to the D. B. P. Mott Post, No.   527,   G.   A.   R.,
Villaiie Trustees
.All the members of the Village Board of Trustees ware present at the regular meeting Friday evening.
Superintendent Coffey of the T. .A.. Gillespie Company asked for a price for a million gallons of water to test two sections of the new 72-inch con- jJuit line being laid for the City of New York. He wants the water in one day, which Engineer Wm. R. Smith said he could furnish all right. The price was fixed at $110. He ^^'as also given permission to use water for the boiler used in filling in trench at the regular rate, and for 40 yard cubic yards of concrete work.
It was voted to g've Jas. H. Cruik- shank grade at Smith Street for his oroperty on Smith Street and Ocean Ave. also Edward L. White, 13 Grove St., and Mrs. Ida Baird, West .Seaman A ve.
Police Justice Swezey submitted his report for September, in which he stated there had been no time in month of Sept. when he had not been able to serve; that he had collected S112 in fines.
The Board decided to purchase from Norton and Gorman Contracting Com¬ pany, Brooklyn, 1500 ft. of blue stone bridging, 5 inches thicfc and 14 inches wide, at 20c per lineal foot, this being the'towes.t bid of three received. This is for use in crosswalks.
Applications were granted for water to Geo. Duryea, Archer St., and Au¬ brey Pettit, Nassau Ave.; electric light, John Agnew. North .Main St. ; Theo. .\. Gi.ssell, Whaley and Bay View entitled Ave.; J. Francis Hunt. :\assau Ave. ; Forrest DeMott, S. Main St.; Cornelia Kellum,   Pine St.
H. .Schloss asked that an electric light pole in front of his store be moved about 4 feet further south; this was an old pole and the matter was referred to the light committee with power.
Clarence A. Edwards, in a communi¬ cation, stated that he had one house and intended building another on Ray St.. between Grove St.' and Ocean Ave., and asked for water and electric light connections and that the street be hone.;.    The   applications    fur  water
News of the Churches
The Circle of tlie Baptist Church has planned a "progresssive dinner," for ne.xt Wednesday evening. Oct. 27, at the Crystal Lake House, from 6 to > p. m.    Tickets are o5c each.
Edward H. Olsen specially advertises chiffoniers this week.
Mr. and .Mrs. Roland .M. l^amb have returned from their wedding trip and are occupying their new home in the Bavview section.
Miss .Annie I. Eldridge's class of the The case of John Bedell of Baldwin M. E, Sunday School will hold a cake aaginst Handy Fanjoy was withdrawn sale   at   Mrs.   H. L. Crandell's.  South   by the complainant  when   it   came   up j
before  Justice   Tatem   Tuesday.     Be
Ocean   Ave.   and   Pine St.,  to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon at 3 o'clock.
"A lost son and a yearning father," will be the topic of the Epworth League meeting in the M. E. Church at 6:45 Sunday evening. Miss Marie Parkerson is announced to lead.
Miss Eunice C. Fitch is announced to lead the meeting of the Young Peo¬ ple's A.ssociation of the ""Presbyterian Church Sunday evening; topic, "Why some men and women do not succeed in life."
"Encouragement for hours of dis¬ couragement," will be the Sunday morning sermon theme of Rev. Chas. Herbert Scholey at the First Presby¬ terian Church. The pastor will preach a special sermon to the Rebekah Lodge at the evening service upon the theme "Developing   the   best in everybody."
dell claimed he was struck at the South Shore Yacht on Labor Day.
by   Fanjoy ("lub   races
The members of Alpha Council, D. of A., and their families, had a very pleasant time Tuesday evening after the meeting. The occasion was the first of a series of socials to be held monhtly. Games were*played and re- freshmentts served and every one went home  well   pleased.
Local Topics
The Brooklyn Eagle says that .A. M. Herring has completed his flying machine, on which he ha^s been working for several years. Mr. Iler- ring4i5 a resident of South .Main Street and bis neighbors are hopie^ for' Tiim to do great things.
We would again suggest to the fire council the advisability of "getting busy" on a practical fire alarm. The live minutes the companies lost at the Ryan fire last week waiting for a cor¬ rect alarm might be disastrous at another fire.
The Epworth League of the M. E. Church will hold their nonlhly social in the lecture room of the church next Wednesday evening, Oct. 27. The feature of the evening will be a fair six days in one." There will be liooths prettily decorated, to represent the days of the week. .All are Welcome.
"Christ's Message to the Modern Church," as given in the letter to Sardis, will be Dr. W. .A. Richard's subject at the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday morning ne.i^t. This is the fifth in the series qn the Seven Churches in Asia. .At 7:30 p. m. he will take for his subject, ".A Rich Find."
Sunday afternoon   the   new   Christ' Lutheran   Church   was formally conse-
and  light  v.-ere refeniped to tbe proper crated    The  services were   conducted
committees,
Sprague wa
street.
ind Street Commissioner ftructed to   f:\   up   the
William H. Reynolds, president of the Estates of Long Beaclrwill speak at the Sigmond Opera Hall next Friday evening, on his proposition to buy more land at Long Beach to be voted OM at the ToVfn Election Nov. 2.
Mrs. Joseph Carman will have charge of the novelty table at the fair for benefit of the Children's Home, at Mineola, to-morrow  (Saturday)   after-
iToonT'amr would app^eTaVr^bnatVonslS^^;^^^^ -evening   in  Odd   Fellows'
of any kind s.^t to her house. i "/ ' ^^« the occasion of the inspection
•^ of the corps by Miss Anna Busch,   As¬
sistant Department Inspector, and her staff of ten, from Manhattan. After the inspection refreshments were served and the Inspector was presented with an umbrella on behalf of the „,_„,,,¦, .   ,    .      Corps.    Last Thursday  afternoon  and
W. P. W. Haff.   largest coal dealer j evening the members of the Busy  Bee
You might be able to get along with¬ out the preparation mentioned in Smith & Bedell's ad. but you wont af¬ ter you have tried it. It.
School-'lVotes
Eight ne.v pupiN v.'ere registered this week.
Fred Lea, a former scholar, has en¬ tered Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
Peter Beck received an honor card in the liigh school. for the month of September.
iJ^The attendance in the high school and eighth grade has been almost per¬ fect for the past two weeks.
Miss Sprague of New York has been visiting Miss Southwell, high school teacher, this week.
A special rehearsal of the High School pupils, to learn some new songs, was held Wednesday after school.
Fire drills have been held in the schools recently, and the scholars left the building in good order and time.
Miss Clara Cooper, who has been staying with her sister. Miss Florence E. Cooper, visited the school last week. A football game was held at Free- port Athletic Park Friday afternoon between the high school team and a pick-up team, the latter winning by the score oi 11-0.
I A the regular meeting of the -Board Monday night it was decided to engage two more teachers—one for the Sea¬ man Avenue School and another for the primary department of the (jrove Street school; al.so to have electric lights placed in the mathematics room and gas lights in the chemical labora¬ tory.
At meeting of the Interscholastic Prize Speaking Association will "oe held at the Grove Street School this Satur¬ day afternoon, at 2 o'clock, to elect officers and transact other business. Frank Pitcher and Florence Stiles were elected delegates from our school. Glen Cove has been added to the list of members. The first rhetoricals of the school for this year were held last Friday, with the program by the Senior class,   with
by Rev. S. G. Weiskotten, D. D., pres¬ ident of the New York and New Eng¬ land Synod, assisted ijy the pastor of the church, FCev. Oscar Werner and Rev. J. C. Kunzman, D. D.. superin¬ tendent of the General Council of Home Missions; Rev. H. S. Knabeschuh, pas¬ tor of Christ's Church, Brooklyn; Rev. H. P. Miller, president of the Eastern Conference and the pastur, inarched in a procession across Main street, bear¬ ing the church Bible and the sacred vessels and singing "The Church's One Foundation." The procession moved slowly around the church saying, re- sponsively, the One Hundred and Twenty-third Psalm, until it arrived at the chancel, when the ministers en¬ tered and deposited the Bible and the sacred vessels in their places. The lesson for the day was read, followe d by the consecration prayer and the con¬ secration service.
During the afternoon remarks were made by all the visiting clergymen, who also congratulated the pastor and his congregation.
The chapel was secured by the Brook¬ lyn Missionary   Society for use in  this parish and the purchase was made pos¬ sible  by  gifts  from    former    Mayor Charles A. Schieren, D. Cook, F.   Bis- chofT,    George     Schneider,     Rudolph Reiiner,  Mrs. Louis Lins, R. L. Fiege, John P. Wierck, Henry Batterman, and the    'congregations    of  St.   Stephen's and St. Barnabas churches of Brooklyn. The  following  gifts  were  received by the congregation in connection with the    consecration:     Piano,    Mr.   and Mrs. Charles W. Mahnken; Bible. Mrs. S. Meyer; communion vessels,   Ladies' Aid  Society; baptismal bowl. Miss .M. Behrens;  altar  candlesticks,  alms ba¬ sins and altar cross. Church of the Re- tormation;   book   markers.    Miss    N. Behrens;   chairs,   Mr.   and Mrs. J. H. Mahnken: reading table, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conrader.
Mis.s Katie C. Rouss of Stuyvesant, N. Y., has been visiting her sister. Miss Sarah Rouss, at 12.S N. Grove St. Miss Rouss also entertained on Sunday Miss Lydia Hurlburt of Elmhurst, .Mi.ss j (Jeorgia Hubbs of .Jamaica. John Gifford of Baldwin arirl Perry Jones of Patcliogue.
Freeport Lodge .N'o. Guo, I. O. O. F.. will entertain the   Lodges   of   C^ueens- Nassau District   at   a   special   district lotlge next Wenesday evening, Oct. 27, at   Mechanics'   Hall.    Past   Grand   .A. , B.   Wallace,   district deputy, will pre- I side.     A number of  grand   lodge   ofli-1 cers   and   others   prominent   in    local I lodges are to be present. ,    ¦
Friday and Saturday. Lutrer peanut firittle. l(ic; home made roroanut cakes. 10c (loz.. DaSilva">i Bazaar.
Freeport Club .Notes
Wednesday evening^ the entertain¬ ment committee held the first informal dance of the season   at the club house.
Next Thursday evening will occur the smoker and entertainment for the club members and their friends. The pool tournament is nol progressing as fast as the tournament committee would like; only two games were played during the week, Hart defeat¬ ing Dunbar 105 to 50 and Sawyer win¬ ning over Mahnken 120 to :!7. The schedule for'next week will be; Mon¬ day, Dunbar vs. Sutherlan'i; Tuesday, Hart vs. Wallace; Wednesday, Munz- inger vs. Sawyer; Thursday, Kennedy vs. Corby; Friday, Thompson vs. Sprouli.
The standing to date is as follows: W(!U L<tst
Our readers are requested to notify US at once of smy change of address, «o that the Review can be forwarded reg¬ ularly. All papers are sent from our office at 1 o'clock Friday for local de¬ livery and four o'clock for out of the village, in time to catch the Friday evening mail. We believe our subscri¬ bers are entitled to their news regular¬ ly and want to know when you have I any trouble about getting it.
Being a member of the Village Board of Ti%jstees is a position which all who want and can fill are welcome to -there is enough committee work to satisfy any man and meetings two or three times a month till around midnight or later. If you are not (luite satisfied with the way things may go sometime remember the Board is doing a lot of work without any reinunera- Tjon, ami doin^'; its level best, too.
BELLMORE
Chas. W, Smith has sold his Cadillac car to Peter Avagadro of Wantagh.
Stafford'.- in Firemen"
Cinematograpli is showing i   Hall   Tuesday   evening.-.
W-n, horse, ness.
Bnc'ktnan iias purchased a new to be userl for his hacking busi-
Hai-t J o
Kennedy 1 o    .
Spronll   . 2 1
Sawyfr >! 1
Hiiynor i 1
Munzinj-^f-r 1 1
Wallace 1 :
Duubar J 2
Thomjisou 1 ::
Sutherlaml 0 2
Mahnken J o ;)
The 5 men team bowling tournament started Thursday evening with seven teams, when team No. 1, King, Mc- Keeman, Fyfe, Kennedy, and Suther¬ land rolled against team No. 2 com¬ posed of Cook, Sutphin, Thompson, Earle and Denton.
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DaSilva's    Bazaar—Ciemo  cigars,   7 for 2.'k': Cajwdnra's, 7 for 2.x;.
Single copies of the  Nassau  Couuty
SEAFOI^D
A new gas generator is being placed in the Y. M. L C. Hall.
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Senator Wm. H. Reynolds appeared in the Y, M. I. C. Hall Tuesday even¬ ing to speak in favor of his proposition to buy Long Beach, or certain parts of Long Beach, as announced in another column, and a good-sized i-rowd listen¬ ed to his interesting remarks.
Thomas Roberts of this place is lying at his home painfully injured as the result of a curious auto accident Tues¬ day morning at Merrick. He was run- nirg his small runab<jut, and had in the car with him two Pollacks, one of whom was under arrest and was being ^^^^^^„^^ .^^ ,„, taken to the jail.    Mr.  Roberts  states l^lg^^^i-ia]   Church
Charles Russell is looking very happy over the advent of a 12-lb. daughter into his family last Saturday morning.
School Ta-v tlollector (Jeorge F. New- land is now receiving the liiO'J school tax. The rale is .$1.05 against $1.10 last year. There is al.so a special tax of 19c per -$100 for purchase of ad¬ ditional school ground.
The three year old son of^ Mr. and .Mrs, Henry Verity died Friday of con¬ vulsions. The funeral service was held Sunday, Rev. Thomas S. Braithwaite officiating, and tht interment was at Greenfield.
WANTAGH
I     Harold Kropp is visiting for a month ! at Rainbow Lake.
Seaford Avenue is being graded and treated to a coating of Peekskill grav¬ el.
The topic for the Christian Endeavor meeting this Friday evening is "Why Some Men and Women are not success¬ ful in life."
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Me¬ morial Church is busily planning for its annual fair to be held Wednesday evening, Dec. 1, in Firemen's Hall.
Ex-Senator Reynolds spoke here Sat¬ urday evening on his proposition to buy the rest of Ixmg Beach. He was greeted by a small audience.
Special music was rendered by the choir at the service in the Memorial Church la.st Sunday evening, it being the tenth anniversary of the entrance o'; Rev. Thomas S. Braithwaite, the pastor, into the pulpit of that church. In addition to the music by the choir, Miss   Laura  Cowles  also  sang a solo.
A reception   was  tendered   to   Rev.
Thos. S. Braithwaite, by the   societies
of his church Wednesday  evening,   in
I honor of the tenth annivcrsaay  of  his
acceptance of the  pastorate   of    the
^« i..«o.i«i««^     TK..^K«»,.«=t r,io,^t«i "^   "•'   —-'  the assistance oflMisaes Ruth Jenkins   R^Vie^''^n   be secured of WiUet C
on Long Island.   Jne «|^»Pef^ P}^^ to j Sewing Circle connected with the Corps and Virginia Peterson; the program :
buy caal.    Exclusive dealer in some of ^^t .t the home of the President. Mrs.
the test grades of coal. It.      Bentley, <Jn   the occasion  of ber  first
" i wedding anniversary.    In the evening
Geo. M. McComba, M. D.—Exami- a reception was held for the members nation for glasses; ti-eatment nose and their husbands when the bride and and throat—ManhatUn House, Fridays, groom of a year ago received a num- Sajturdays, 1 ^ 5 p. m. t'.      ber of valuable presents.
  The  members of the   Corps   have
Special, DaSilva's Bazaar, 14 qt.'. completed their autograph album quilt agata diah pan, 2Sc; agate roaating on which is sewed about 500 names pans, 28c: Dennison floral crepe paper, in the various squares and have da- 13e; Danniaon's tissue and napkins; nated to the Old Soldiers'Home at Ox* window ahadas. 20c, all colors; Rayo for. Taey realized about )50 on the lamp. $1.49; stova pipe and elbows,' quilt, which goes into the treasury of ail aixaa, 16c. I.tha corps.
VALLEY STREAM
that as he was going along at a good clip all became a blank, and the next he realized was when he was in the office of Dr. Fletcher in Freeport. It probably will never be known just what caused the accident, but passers-by — found the car overturned and both Mr. Roberts and the Pollack pinned fast in the wreckage while the other passen- 94 ger l)ad disappeared and haa npt since . , been heard from. It was thought at first that Mr. Roberts was dead and an undertaker was called as was also The North Pole, John Jt, p. (Joller; For the benefit of the First M. E. Dr. Fletcher. He was taken to the The Vagabondat J. T. TVarobridge, Church a Hallowe'en social will be held i office of Dr. Fletcher and later brought Robert PataraoD;0»AliiaB. Jerome at the residence of Mrs. Hiram W. [to,his home here. His face and body K. JaionM, Marioa fetMa; The Gold Fleming on Friday evening, October were badly cut and bruised in several Laaia, Lawranea Wti^m^ .r 129th. I places, bu,^ he is improving nicely.
Rayuor, at the depot: Wm. Greenblatt, Piano solo, "Faust," Miss Jenkins; Railroad Ave.; at Gtobetz's or the He- The Petrified Fern, Petrina Burns; The view Office, South Main St., and DaSil- First Circumnavigation of the Evrth,   va's. West Merrick Koad.
W infield Raynor; Breaking the Charm,   —  - -    — '——~
Mildred Humphrey, What of That? Karl Brown; The Chambered Nautilus, O. W. Holmes, Florence Carpenter;; The Soldier's Last Salute, Hot^e Poller, Frank Pitcher; Vocal solo, "Anchored."  Watson, Miss Peterson;
The School Tax for Dixtrict No haa been fixed at 11.82 per  $100.    An increase of 28c over that of last year.
Dr. Braithwaite was ordained a min* ister in the Memorial Church in 1890, and almost immediately took charge of Bethany Congregational Church, at East Rockaway where he remained un¬ til 1899, in October of which year he received and accepted a 'call from tha Memorial Church, and has served it as pastor ever since. During his pas¬ torate the church has about trebled in membership and it is deemed to tha credit of this church and pastor that the need of another church has never been strongly felt in Wantagh. Ha ia also actively interested in local affairs, and haa been a trustee of tha Wantagh Hook and Ladder Co. sinca its organization.