Nassau County Review 19091217

              Freeport Offlciai Paper—30 pages
FREEPORT, N. Y.,1PRIDAY, DEC. 17, 1909—VOL. XV, NO. 8
Offlciai Paper of Nassau County
Single copies of the Nassat Connty Review can be Hccured of Willet C. Raynor, at tho depot: Wm. Greenblatt, Railroad Avo.; at Gofietz's or the Ro- TiewOfflco, Houth Miin Sr., and DaSil¬ va's, West Merricit Road.
News items received np to 5 o'f:lo<;k "rhursday niglit; advertisement form kept open till 9 o'clock Friday morning; rapers ready for delivery 1 o'clock Friday.
Mr. and Mra. Hamilton Merritt will spend the winter in Florida.
The ll'reeport   Bank   has  declared  a! Hemi-annual dividendoF H   per cent its capital atock.
School Notes
(Jn Monday on account of tho  atorni school wa.s only held for one session. Miss  Cj.   G.   Atkinson   has gone   to ] Clifton   Springs.   New    York,   for    a month's sojourn there, DaSilva's  Bazaar's  the   place;    121     Christmas  exercises will be held by Chridtmas post cards and   6 Christmas
cards, all for 10c
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FRKEPORT POST OFFICE
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rrivefrom Wo.^ 7:30 A. M 8:30 "   " 3:30 P.   • «:30 ••   ¦•
(ioiug WeHt 7:50 A. M 12:10 P.   '¦ 5:10 "   " 7:60"    •
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Vrrive from Kast 8.30 A. M. 12:30 P.   " 6:30 '•    "
(ioing East 7:50 A. M. 2:45 P.   " r.:10  "   ¦•
I A fair and cake sale will be held I Friday and Saiurday evening at the I cor. of Merrick Road and   South   Main
j Street, in the store formerly  occupied by L'Hommediea's Bakcrjt,   under  the i auspices of the Women's Relief Corps. ; Home made goodies will   be   .sold '. urday evening.
thc High School Thursday morning and by the grades Thuraday afternoon.
School will close Thursday, the twenty-third, for the Christmas holi days, and will re-open Tuesday, the fourth of January.
The  silver  cup  which wa.s won thi.s
Spring by the base-ball team   has been
engraved and polished and replaced   in
Sat- i the High School room.
The question of reading the Bible in the Pubiic schools in the village ia  ap
W.   H. Patterson Jr., of Gary, Ind.,
is  visiting  his parents for the Christ¬ mas hnlidays. .
Local Topics
A masquerade carnival and novelty ^^^j, ^^ttled again by the decision ;ball will be held at S.grnond Opera I ^f Commissioner Draper, particulars of ; House on Friday evening, Dec. 31,   by' t       f
the Freeport  Social   Club.    The   com-
<,'arrii-r Scrviw
Deliveries are mado sttfrting from thu Foet Office at 9 a. m. and 3:80 p. m., and ooUectious are made on the same . trip from mail Imxes along thc routes. Vnrther information retrarding free de- MTcry will be cheerfully given by the -carriers or the Poetmaeter, Robert. G. Anderson. ^ HOLIDAYS.
Post office closes at 9:30a. m.; curriers make oUe deUv^ry, in moming.
mittee is as follows
President, Chas. Werkheiser; vice-! pres., A. B. Wallace; 2nd, vice pres., j Henry Sigmond; .secretary, M. E. i Stokes; financial sec. M. C. Robinson) i trea.surer, M. E. Sigmond; floor mgr., ! Chas. A. Sigmond; asst. floor mgr., 1 Walter Cozzens; sergeant-at-arms, W. W. Cameron.
Draper, particulars which are given in thia issue, ercises  will   Lh  held from 9 with  school   opening    at    9rl5.      No scholar  is   compelled to he present be¬ fore the latter time.
appropriation for the fire department
so that tiremen  must  buy  their own
The Po.st Ottico Department, in a cir-j coats and boots or get wet.    Take  for
I cular,   urges  people who  contemplate | instance in the company to  which  the
the mailing of Christmas packages, for; writer  happens   to  belong; with  this
delivery in rural communities, to  po.st j year's  additions  we  have five pair of
1 them   as early as posaible, in order  to j wearable boots, all told, which are ex-
{ avoid congestion and consequent;  delay   pected to eqUip enough  men to handle
jat  post  offlces  supplying  carriers  on, eight  ladders^ And'as  to  coats,   the
Vigilant  Hose Company enjoyed  an j rural    routes,    Assist&nt;  Postmaster-, number  is  about  the same; this last
o^ter  stew  Tuesday   evening,    with ! General Degraw, having supervision"of ^onth   two  helmets  have been added,
gam.s and general sociability. 'rural routes, suggests the  advisability , both size 7; the men are looking for  a'
jof  marking  packages containing pres-! comrade  who  can  wear them; two   is On   the two day.s bolore   Christmas, j ^"t"- T^'^^^'^.to be opened   until   Christ-  enough, the size being as it is.
C. D. Smith has .sold the plot south west corner Pine St. find Long Beach Ave. to Smith F. Jfearsall.
Christmas Day, and the Monday after, ! '""s ^^Y' ""^ sending them several two extra carriers will be put nn at i ^^^-Vs «n advance. One delivery will be the local post office. - ™»'^«^' "" "" '"^al route.s on Christmas.
You   should  put   a Ked Cross stamp i
Several ca.ses of fratneil picturt-s and , on   every Christma.s package you   send :
holiday  goods,   which were delayed by | out.    If you can't afford a  cent  more,
freight, were delivered on   VVednesday : for  the present, don't .send   it  at  aU.! |
to Kiefer's, 60 S.   .Mein   St.,   and   arojXhe  money   received    from this worK i
The ex-! "O"' «" =?»•«• "•       is to be spent in local work for thc pre-! t^g 1,^,^^ f<,r its tiremen.
to  9:15, ;;- ! vention    and    c,yre    of    tuberculosis,.     He is  al.so mistaken in  Haying  that
Tne annual meeting of the   !• reeport,^ and everyone ahould be interested. The   voters will be asked to approve a  bond
issue of "$6000 to $8000" at the  com-
For the benefit of Editor' Stiles we would say that our people never object to anything needed for the firemen, and if the alarm system and the new truck are not secured it will be the fault of the village board in not asking the peo¬ ple'for the amount required. When ; I he has been in Freeport as long as the writer he will lind that Freeport wants
mg the
picture frames at Gelding's, Main  St Freefxirt. from .'iOc to $5.00? It
Communication
election.    $7500  is required   for alarm   .system and enough for the
Last week was a strenuous  one  for tht  Royal  Arcanumites of  Freeport. j To tht^ Editor:
At a special meeting on Tuesday night; j have watched in vain for a protest H. E. Maxson, E. L. Watkins and D. from the women who "turned out" to A. Hamaker were duly elected to mem- [ vote on the sewer map and were, ap- bersbip in Fraternal Council, and on I parently, responsible for its defeat, Wednesday night were initiated in the! judging from the papers, mysteries of the Order ata union meet- j Surely they could not be so blind to ing held at Mineola under the auspices | the interests of the village, and to the of the Royal Arcanum Officers' Asso. children. What conld have been the of Nassau Co., with Chas. E. Cornell, point of view? Was it because they Grand Regent of New York, as the voted Without flrst informing them- gnest of honor. At the regular meeting selves as to the dangers of the present on Thursday evening the following i aystem, as some think? It was a otficers were elected for 1910: Rep- strong argument against woman's j resentative to Grand Coancil, John D. i suffrage, as all must agree. Gunning; alternate, Francis C. Morse;! Interested
William G. Miller has ao far recov-j regent, Werner Nygren; vice regent,: 	
ered from his recent illness as to be | r. h. Hunt; orator, F. C. Morse; past!
FREEPORT NEWS
^..State Councilor   Chas.   H.   Semken 'will make an official visit to Freeport
Council No. 57, Jr. O. U. A.   M.,   this
Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wallace cele¬ brated the tenth anniversary of their wedding last Friday, at their home on Church St.
Bank will be held Tuesday evening, j doctors will tell you that this dread January 11. from 7:30 to 8:30, for  the (disease  is   becoming  moro    prevalent
j election  of  directors   for the  ensuing | each year with our increase in   popula- _
Have you seen those  sterling  silver  T^u^""^ *^^ transaction of other regu-1 tion, and they will welconie all the help i tTuck'to"Wake^tL"'amount "$T6,000.
Uar business. that can be given them.   These stamps | A„d   we  know   the peoplo of Freeport
I * \ '^re  on   sale  at Johnston'.s,   Smith  & ^ ^,j]j ^j^g jj. j^, ^^^ ^^^
¦     Alpha  Council, D. of .\.,   had   their j bedell's,   the  Review   Office, or J. D. ;
i :."e":,t ""E waf thTr."  ™S  Sf ;;;\.ndnr;.i:rthrprL'°S":   ,T'.« -¦«¦» »' ';e Bo«.,£ Duster. S;T„ thI'r „,w U™. TL"SS i the ..me for one or a mlllto.    Speci.l \ °! JheFroeport Bank, m dectarhgjt. Hall,   and   the  State Deputy was   the \ credit should be given Rev, Pelham St. guesti of honor. iieo. Bissell for his efforts  in  getting
these stamps from the New York head- ., .   ,.       ,T »  LJ quartersjfHid placing them on sale: and
Mr. and  Mrs.   Henry   Ashdown  an-, 3,^ arranging for tfie-local work to be nounce:the niarnage of their daughter: ^^^^^      after the holidays. Beatrice to Eugene R. Bassett,  all  of
Freepart. Wednesday evening, in New ; jja^.g y^y niade out your check for York. Rev. Kneeland P, Ketcham, I ^^e contribution to the Christmaa din- former pastor of the Freeport Presby-, ner fund at the Sigmond Opera House terian (hurch, performed the cere-1 q^ Christmas Day? You would not monv, '
around the village, although note.ngag- regent, J, D. Gunning; secretary, G. J ing in much of hia business duties yet ' --     - _  _   —
Freeoort, N. Y., Dec L5, 1909.
Harrison; collector, S. P. Shea;" treas-1 "®tr.*^'^*^u^-o     ^   , -r   .^ e   ,-
urer. M. M. Raynor; guide. R. S.i When the Board of Trade was first Hamaker; chaplain. H. A Bacon; war-! °'?""J^«'^ "'^"y PfP'f '>«>>eyed it den, C, Fowler; sentry, A N. Johnson;  ""^h'P'^^ ^ ^^^^^^'^^ organization
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Scott and son General, are now in Palm Beach, Flori¬ da, for the Winter, after a pleasant voyage  from  their  Freeport ht>nie.     ! organist,  C. .S. Humphrey;'delegates !    At first it attempted to improve  the
trustee for three years, H, E. Howell;
; to the village.    Has it?
M. N. Milbank of Church Street is bailding two houses on Florence Placq, near Penn. Ave., to be ready f6r occupancy about.March 1. Geo. W. Reynolds is tfae builder.
At the meeting of Freeport Council, Jr. O. U. A. M.t Friday evening, a number of friends were Entertained, together with the members of the Coancil, by Jdhtt T, MacKechnie of Brooklyo, who gave an interesting ad¬ dress on schools and school foundations •nd purposes. The ball was filled and all present Highly appreciated the talk.
to Hospital Bed Fund Assn.. Adam ^'""8^ f^ *^'»?;""«""«^ ^^,t «^«f. ^^^ Schoneman and O, T. Phillips. The h°7 °^'''^ ^'"^S^^" ""''^^l^^'"'"?".*^ friends of the Council will be invited i'°-*.':« Pf^^'i^'^V^^^'V^ the munici- to attend a public installation of these  P«>'ty./he local cemetery.    It   was a
otficers on January 13. 1910, j y°°"K 'r^^l'i."        .^'''''""vl **''"'''
.      _ ; who took up the matter as Chairman
Fine line of chocolates in 1 lb boxes, |"' » committee.   What became of him?
j semi-annual dividend of six per cent, gives evidence of a prosperous hand- I ling of the bank's finances.
For the Holidays only, cigars  25   in I a box, for $1.00, at Casassa's.      It.
BALDWIN
trip  to
Rhodes was renominated for recording  P*""*' ^^^out intending to, let us  hope.
secretary, and Archer B. Wallace and
Sylvester P.   Shea  for financial sec-,
retary   and   treasurer,    respectively. 1
Further nominations may be made next'
Monday evening
Mrs. Kibert T. Davison is entertain¬ ing her father from Mediva, N. Y.
Miss Harrington, a  former teacher in our Pubhc School,    was   visiting
at Casassa's. It      1^'^ he lapse into innocuous desuetude,
 — ¦     I and may he not  be   resurrected?    Is
OBITUARY ¦ "'*'*^ *  telepathic understanding  be-
lOCKWnon PPARaAli ; tween  the   Board  and  him as to why
LOCKWOOD PEARSALL nothing has been  accomplished in this
Lockwood Pearsall died  last Satur-  matter?    If the Board has ever exerj
day at his home on South Main St., af-1 ised any intelligent action on the ques-
ter a lingering illness, aged 51 years, j tion, I would be pleased to learn of  it,
Faneral service was held Monday, Rev.   Has it?
Charles Herbert Scholey, pastor of the      The Board, I believe, worked intelli- The Revitiw office is now open even- Presbyterian Church, officiating; inter- gently  for class benefit, and was suc-
ings till 9 o'clock, till  after the holi- { ment in Freeport Cemetery, days; where you can always fee some¬ one about  that order of printing or leave us any items of news or adver¬ tising.
Our news correspondents and adver¬ tisers are requested to have their copy in a day earlier for the next two weeks SQ we can get ^ur papers in the mail fur all to have them on the holidays with the other good things of the day.
Oon't f'ail to aee Seaman's Beautiful di&play of Holiday Goods,
Einpty Christmas boxes, for handker¬ chiefs, gloves, etc.. 6c each: Review Stationery Store, 62 S. Main S .    1:^.
HYMENEAL COVERT—SMITH
Announcement is made of the mar¬ riage of Mips May Coveit to Percy Smith, both of this village, on   Sunday ; selves socially   at meetings?
cessful.    I  refer  to better train ser- I vice for the commuters.
Has it done anything, other than \ this, for tbe benefit of the community? I Has it<.done anything but pass resolu- ! tions,   und   the  members enjoy   them-
Ooes  it
Albert Mott has gone on miss  the  small  amount  you feel like 1 Cuba.
I donating and how happy you may make ' — 	
At  the   ineeting  of Freeport Lodge ; some little lad or lassie!
No. 600, I. O. O. F., Monday night, E. 1      , . .  ^     „     ¦
V. Bal.lwin was nominated for Noble j. Or genial reporter from the'Brook- Grand; Clarence VanRiper and Robert »yn Eagle has an happy faculty of J. Murray for vice grand; Miles s. i 3ay>"B T^'^er mean things about Free- port, witout intending to, let us  hope. ...     , „
Here is his latest effusion in Monday'si "'en^s over Sunday	
edition, speaking of the fire department'     r„.    ».   «  o . j       ovi       nuu 1 and the need of a new truck : ! ., ^^u^'^- ^"'"^fl ^'•*^' ^T ivM
"The whistle can be heard for a long | >»« Christmas  celebration oh   Friday
, distance, but sometimes during tbe day ; evening, December 24.	
' or nifilht, delays occur between  repoit-,     ,     .       ,       ,. ^ i i^g the fire an blowing of the  whistle, 1    ^u^'ng »»>« cold days skating on  the Every   year  during  the  inonths of it has been claimed.    The village  has |'al^e ^^ ^^Joy^*"''y anu^o^'^f 8TOwn November and   December, engineering  jg^  than   a  dozen  fires  a  year,   and  ^ol^^^ as well as boys and girls, students from all the leading  universi-  these have mainly been of  small' call-
ties of the country make little journeys  jjgr.    The village is under quite a stiff '<    The Junior League fair held last Sat- to the works of  Dodge. Manufaturing  taxation at present,   and  it has been ! urday afternoon in the basement of the Company, Mishawaka, Ind., the largest proposed to issue bonds for the alarm ' M.   E.  Chapel was a   decided success. in the world devoted to the manufature gygtem  instead of raising    the    sum ! About .$25 was cleared, of power transmitting  machinery  and  wanted by an immediate tax levy." " -   — .
appliances, elevating and conveying] He says "it is claimed there was ^e- The M.E. Sunday School will hold equipment and water softeners. De- ij,y ;„ sounding the alarm," when he j its annual Christmas celebration on Fri- cember 9 the advanced class in en- j^ng^v there was such a delay on mere {day evening, December 24. An attrac- gineering at the  university  of Notre  j^an one occasion.  Ke .says the village 1 tive program is being arrsnged.
Dame, spent the day at the  big  plant has less than a dozen fires a year,   and ;  —-——~
and under direction of Dodge officera ^jjese are of smali calibre;  it would'     Miss Pearson, one of the teachers of and engineers inspected every depart-i^ave  sounded  better  for him to have ' the School, ia confined to her home at ment.    Throjgh  special  exhibit.^ and: g^jj  the department was   called out 1 Lake Mahopac with  illness,    Mrs. Be- explanatory methods they   became  ac-] twenty times last year and the  reason |dell, of Frecport, is taking Her place, quainted with every step in the making  „o gerious fires occurred  was  because I ", ,   .
of split wood and split iron pu'l^ys, the companies at their own expense; The Christmas exercises of the Pub- interchangeable bearing systems, fric-jhonght drop harness to aid thern in ' I'c Schools will be ^eld next Thursday tion clutches, fly and balance wheels, gg^^jn^j ^q fires promptly, and han\eA\^^^^rnaon. Most of the teachers will sheaves, etc In this way they learned the alarms so that no blaze was allowed «<> to their homes for the holiday va- certain practical facts about transmit- i ^^ „^^ y^^jer headway.    Then he winds '- cation-
last.    They   will    reside Street, this vilfsge.
ting machinery that could  not  be  de-iyp   ;„   an  effusion ab'out the stiff   tax
The  recent entertainment giyoD un¬
on    Church I contemplate being a civic organization I rived    from   any   college  curriculum.   ,.^te when the rate has not been   lower I
of    benefit  to  our  village.?    Has   it I The Dodge plant covers  nearly  all  of  for years than this year, and there was ! ^e"" .^''^""•'P,'';:?? of ^Misif  Schuman's I studiously discussed the need  of  com-; 60 acres and is operated tinder  a capi-: „o excuse for such a Statement i Sunday School Class cleared aboot $60.
Freeport was;     Qf  course   it  has   been proposed to , w»"ch   has  been presented to tfae Sun-
Cookel isaue  bonds for  the daaircd improve-  ^ay   School  for  the  purchase cf new
• 1 ments as an expenditure of $10,000   is  «»"« "*'°'"':. -•
netent building inspections here?-   Has' tal stock of $1,000,000.
Com. Draper Renders Decision ,.^, ... ,    ,     .• ^   i . ^ ¦  *u-  . •       a  t
it discussed the proposed automatic fire' represented in this trip oy A. J In regard to tbe reading of the Bible  giarm  Bystem,   and  how  many of  its'who is atteading Notre Dame, in the schools under jurisdiction of the I members  hava  been  down to the  en- (Contributed)
State Department of Education,   Cora
.    . A    o    n , ginahouse on Church street to witness ... _^
missioner  A.   S.   Draper has issued  a Uhe practical demonstration of the sys-      „    ^ .   .^
leiter,   which  wan  sent  to   President  tem?    Is the poard in a position to in-!     ^""'^'f;:'•"^   ^^^^ Smith of the Freeport  Board  of   Edu-j telligently discuss the requirements  ofi'""''^'^^ DaSilvas. cation.   The Freeport Board placid the jthe  village  aa a    muijicipality, " and
See    - -• Jpe'nn? the schools at  9:15 a. ,niake a determined stand as a result of
m, and arranged for the reading of the ] their inveatigaiions and deliberations? Bitjle  from  9 to 9:15 a. m., for  tliore |     if ^Yigsei queries can be afiirmatively
all
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The -annual  corporate   meeting   of the M. E. Church will be held on Mon-
The holidays  without fine   candies j jj^^ „, j     the schools at 9:15
would lark eome'.hing eBsential.    See ^- -
and profit by  Smith & Bedell's adv.
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Are you looking for a sterlinf^ ailver or extra heavy plated ithavi»g set for $1.76 to $9? Go to John E. Golding's, Main St., FreeporL It.
Buy your^ holiday footwear at P. Jarobflon's' Bargain Store, 81-^3 S. Main St., Freeport; souvenirs given free to every cuatomern. 2L
January Argosy now out at the Be¬ view Stationery Store, 62 S. Main St. Freeport It
wKo desired to attend and tbe Commis-
I answered,   maA^   persons are  anxious
sioner holds that this  is permissible if Ito become   mtWbers. attendance is npt compulsory.
A  bold daylight thief entered. the | *7P residence Grove Stre at work his   wife   in   the   '"ity,   ransacked  the
nvol vud which no one would desire paid in dne year. 1
And  by   the  way, if anyone tries to ,^     ^^^^.^     ^^^^^,^^^ ^     ^^ ^,^^^^^^ CO .v.nce you our present t^"ck is  good ,     ^         ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^.^ ^,^
tenough  psk   him.f he  will   goto thej               ^,j^^,,^^Hg^^^j^^^/^^   ^^ ton of our forty-foot ladder with   three; __. „   „ , „
sonable prices.
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Christmas tags and cards for pkgs., 5c dozen; Rewiew Stationery Store, 62 S, Main St
How ^oald a writing,  aewiog.  em¬ broidery or darning  set do  for that prnse'it    for   mother?     Ranging    in prices from $1.60 to $2.65, can be had W. P. W. Hafl.^ largest coal dealerjat John E.  Golding's, MainSt, Freti-
port     ' .
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C. O. D. package^.
I was  a i
on Long Island. The cheapest pla<:e to buy coal. Exclosiye dealer, in aome of the best gradea of ccal. It
Adv.—fb« Naasair Covnty Jtwiew
ritf \ )m!tp A batter 4ia« ti ^aiei d^ra
¦B.«ir«f tMa faat aad fiftto jp«« (o
L«^l». ^ Iff fM MwMI t* Aid him
—    Newspaper re- .   , ...
porta do not teem with civic advantage  P'«ce, carried away a set ofsilverware, to  the  village of dlir Beard of Trade, i a fWd's bank   with   $L25   in  it   and Christmas Trees at Casassa's at rea-  Perhaps they do not publiah all that the '. ^f ™e articles of clothing.
Board accompilthes.    Many of us have I     ^rs, Thomas Lucas, a neighbor, saw been thinking of organizing a  Boatd  ^^^  t^ief  leave   the   Smith residence, of  Trado  if  the  present one is of  no reai civic advantage to the community. Very truly yours.
Willing to be Informed, (We publish this  communication  as ,     ,        , ,,    u a
sent in, but must  beg  to be excused  c«P and dark ovefcoat    He had from any comment or anawer to the  P*'"" «* 8»'o«5't'^'^^'*'"« badly worn, qaestifin at  this time.    The meetings      Mr. Smith discovered early in the af- of the Board are open to all wbo wish,**'"^®"  ^' *"«  ''»¦"« '»** been en- to know wbat the Board is doing.    We' twcd. happen to recall une  instance   over¬ looked by oor correspondent,    where the Board took the initiative in tb** ac¬ tion to comjiei  a redaction of trolley tita between Freeport and  Hempstead frota 10 centa t<^'5 cents, and tuiva no cbabt'tW reewda of Um Boatd wiii alMv wta^ tfOtat iwapXtioA bnwilU.)
ertH,
Homkn.
If you have forgotten aliout that Cbriitmas preseni or don't know what ip'aeieet, make it * Watermao'a Ideal Ptomit4iin pon; tbey viwaya pleaae. Re- visw ataltoMitjt jKori; 82 S. Main St., FrtepiMt . St.
, ,.     .,        ou            , A     Don't    be    eurprised    if     you carrying several bundles.   She accosted 1 p^^^^^^^^^  handsome  fire   truck  re- h.m and he  said   lie' was looking   for, ^      ^ing toalarms with a regular team Mrs. Smth, for wjiom   he  had  several 1   I;  c-   l    :_   .u-     *..,..,.. i.
At the servicea of the M. R.   Church
I next Sunday Fpecial Christmas noosi''
will   be  rendered by  the choir,   both
morning and  evening.    Prelicbing ' by
  the pastor, Rev.   WilliaQi  p.  Tnckey.
J     I •     *   ,u .r..^ .*„:.»>» ! Sundav School at 2:30 p.   m.  and Ep-
Speaking further on our fire depart- . ^    ^ ^
ment:   The  Patchogue   Argus    "ysj^i^h the topic, "Leav*i„R the lump."
' Leaders, M ins Jennie K,%ehaman and
would do for ladders at the second firei if two alarms occurred near together.    '
of  fire  hordes  in  the near   future.'
.    ,    ,        ^     i      '^'^^ ^y^t^ 7"" "I Freeport  has responded  to all alarms stout clean shsv^n- man, wilha  Iieavy j ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^h^ iarit t*o years, nnd
°"  *}the members   pnrcljased    their   drop
MissG. Ethel Golder,.
HEMPSTEAD
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Lfle mcmu«ra pur..i«ru ««» „.. 'fhe muB.cale and reception on-Tboi-A harness without any expense to thevil-' d»y evening was highly ^uccessfaj. It J       tjjy -I     r , ^^^ gjveii at tbe Prcsbytenan Cfavrch
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From indieatiuns no windows | And while we.are«n the subject, it i E. Society. The object was 4 wwtby oir doors bad been forced, hut the boneef^geems hard to believe that Editor Siiies; one, erisbiiss t!:» society togiv^.Cfarist- was wide open when he reached it.' He j of the Messenger wrote tbfli aentence, I maa «h^. thinka the thfef must have known that | which appeared in his last issoe.   "Re- j
bi'i wife and fae were away and used  al Q,arkA are heard to the effect that  the |    Tbe  Charity  Cirel* of   the Ki* akeleton key (o unlock a door,—ll'Jnies.   village baa enough    indebtedness   at I Dsugbten aaka   for contrttwMfi^''
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