Nassau County Review 19081127

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VOL. XIV
FREEPORT NEWS
Single eopiti.s of the lieview for sale a; Gobetz's, DaSilva'.s aud Keview Building. tf
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1908
I     Freeport Council, No. 57, Jr, O,   U. i A, M,, wiil attend Divine  Services  at
the Church of  the   Transfiguration  on
Sunday evening.
Charles L. Wallace has gone to Call fornia for his health.
The corner stone of the Bethel A. M.
E. (Jhurch will   be   laid  on   Thursday,
December 3, at 2   p.   m.    The  church
Elmer Kaynor has gone to .Monticelio j will be on Henry Street, nortli of New-
to recuperate'from his long illness,       ' ton Houlevanl
I^The Choir of the Presbyterian Church has prepared a Thanksgiving praise service for next Sunday evening.
The Chri.stmas number ofthe Ladies' Home Journal is n'>w on sale at the Nassau County Keview Stationery Store.
Mrs. (ieorgiana Cooper has been ufi- jiointed administratri.x of the estate of her husband, George H. Cooper. The value is given at $2,500 real and .$50 personal.
Pasquaie Bardora, an Italian, was arrested Saturday evening at .Shang'.s hotel. He is accused of holding up Clemence Hoovler, in Bennington I'ark, near Merrick Koad. There were three colored men in the party which held up Hoovler. Judge Swezey heid Bardora for examination.
Edgar L. Taylor's special messsenger service to New York should be patron¬ ized by merchants and others as well. He will do your shopping for you in New Vork and deliver the goods as cheap or cheaper than by express. We have found him very handy and hope he
Sneak thieves stole some clothing left on the line over night Sunday by Mrs. p'rank McGlynn, I^ong. Baech Avenue. It will be in order to take clothes in at night or iay for these nusiances with a shot gun. !
I     Next Thursday evening, Dec.  ;;,   in- i stead of Tuesday evening as previously j stated, the Ladies' Guild of  the  Epis- I copal  Church  wiil   present  the  farce i ; "The Old Maid's Convention," in Opera j j Hall.    These   ladies are working   hard! 140 make the afl'air a pleasing success.   !
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D.   B. P. Mott Post, G. A.   K.,   will j
I have   a   smoker anil camplire .Saturday j
i night,when the guests will ineiude .\dj. j
I Wm. H, Cornwell   of  Geo.   T.   Strong |
; Post of Brooklyn; General M,  Kerwin, !
; U.   S.   Pension   Agent  at  New   York :
; City;   General (Jhajielle of New   Yurk ; !
j P. D. Leys, assistant Ins.   Gen.   Dept. j
! N. Y. Co., and Coi. Jas. Dean of U. S. ;
' Grant Post.
I     The    choir    of    the    Presbyterian
Church, under the leadership  of  Prof.
I Palamountain, has prepared a Thanks-
BELLMORE
NO. 6
SEAFORD
Special services are being heid in the M. E. Church every evening.
School taxes are now due and are be¬ ing receiveil by George Newland, col¬ lector.
The entertainment and dance held in Firemen's Haii Wednesday evening by the baseball club was very succes.-ful despite the threatening weather.
Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Self are re¬ ceiving the congratulations of iheir friends. .Mrs. Self was Mrs. fJraee Livingston. They were nnirried at Hempstead on Wednesday.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hearn have re¬ turned to their city home for the Win¬ ter.
Unity I'leasure Ciub   will ilaiice in the V. M. I.   C.
The another Deeenihe!' '.'.
.\Ii.--s Winifred Fortesquet.'ole retunu-d from a few days' visit frienils in New Jersey.
l-.old Hall
has with
Mr.s. Clarence Lloyd and Miss Min¬ nie Lloyd of Aniityviiie have been visit¬ ing .Mrs. Norris Weeks.
Mr--. M. K. Post and family spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Ver¬ nie Fountain at Patchogue.
Ilenry    kiteherer    had    his    wheel Moses K. Cornwell is building a brick   stolen from the stuop of Geo.   Pennel's
olfice liuilding on his property  on server .Street. -—^
K. Lapidpe has opened a diiiy in the Davison Building, Village nue, near the trolley track.-:.
Oh-  Hotel, Massapequa, Saturday evening.
Mr. am Floral P Hendric
vert.
I Mrs. Is<aac Hendrickson of ark have been visiting Mrs. k.-<)i''s .^ister, Mrs.  H.   M.   Co-
Three Generations of Freeporters
will ^et enough patronage to make this I giving Praise Service for Sunday even
a permanent business. His address 12 Henry Street. He announces that he can furnish best Long Island refer¬ ences.
Kobert Kiano, who is on his western tour with "The Four Rianos" writes from Lincoln, Nebraska, this following interesting noter
"The weather out here is awful waiin for this time of year, last Wednesday the thermometer registering TO, the highest ever I'egistered for November.
Last week at Denver it was ex¬ tremely cold with plenty of snow, mak¬ ing it according to local weather re¬ ports the coldest November vveather for 35 years.
Sunday the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration celebrated the sixth anniversary of the incumbency of the priest in charge, Kev. Pelham St. George Bissell, M. A. A. K. C. special features characterizing the servics of the day. At evensong. Very Kev. John Robert Moses, dean of the Cathe¬ dral of the Incarnation, Garden City, preached, and there was an offertory solo by Mrs. Louis T. Wells. Tne church was filled.
During the six years that Rev. Mr. Bissell has been in charge of the ¦church, marked progress has been made, in finances, membership, spirit¬ ual strength and in other branches of church work and organization.   A  new
ing. Vocal and violin solos, ijuartets and choruses will be a feature of this second monthly musical service. Kev. Charles Herbert Scholey will preach in the morning on "A Heart's Quest" and in the evening on "A Present Problem."
j     In    tlie   Freeport    Baptist    Church
i (Stanley W. Koberts,   minister)   there
j will be public worship Sunday at 10.30
I a.   m. and 7.30 p. ii^j.; morning theme,
i "The Path of Duty in a >{eligious Cri-
!sis."    Kev.   Harvey   P. Vaughan   will
I preach.    Evening    theme,     "Christ's
J Choice for the World."    "This  will   be
1 the   first  sermon    in    the    series    of
"Christocentric Choices.'"    Kev.   Mr.
Koberts will preach.    Bible  School   at
2.30.    Prayer  service Friday  evening
at 8 o'clock.    A welcome to ali.
Villaiie Trustees
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees Friday evening, the unusual business of receiving a letter of thanks was the first matter brought up, when a communication was received from A. B. Sealey thanking the Board for having placed a much needed arc light corner Bayview Avenue and Archer Street.
Nelson S. Seaman applied for per¬ mission to lay cement sidewalk on North Main St.; granted.
The    following    applications    were
OBITUARY
.STKONGBOW KHODES   	
Strongbow, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Khodes, died Friday at the home of its parents in this place. The funeral and interment was heid on Saturday in Greenfield Cemetery.
Stephen Lewis   lias   g(jne   to   .Mans¬ field, North (."aroiina, for tho winter.
rectory has been built, costing over j granted: For electric light, Adam $5,000, with only a mortgage of $2,600. The church has undergone many im- provement-i. Electricity has succeeded kerosene as a means of illumination, changes in the chancel and choir room have been made, a new carpet laid, new oak pews and choir stalls put in. A new furnace installed, all costing over $1,100. In addition, new hang¬ ings, vestments and linen have been purchased at an additional expense of $300 or more. The entire improve¬ ments show nearly $4,000 raised and ex¬ pended on the church jiroperty within si* yeaiss- Of the money spent, over $1,700 has been raised through the efforts of the women menibers of congregation.
The number of communicants increased from 51 to 110 during six .years. Fifty-two have beei# con¬ firmed, twenty nine male.and twenty- three female. The Sunday School has doubled in number and the church at¬ tendance shows an increase of nearly 100 per cent. There have been sixty- eight baptisms, twenty-one  marriages
Mrs. .Morris Miller anil daughter Hattie are visiting Mrs. K. .M. Kidish ill New Vork (Mty.
About forty people, members of the N. S. D. C, and their friends gave ^a supper at the home of Mrs. Bertha Kandall, lio Long Beaeh .\ve., Tue.sday evening. A bountiful supper was pro¬ vided and a short jirogram rendered consisting of piano and tlute solos, readings and recitations, after which singing and games were indulged in. There were people present from Bald¬ win, Mineola and Brooklyn.
We publish in this is.sue a   plioto   bv Kiefer oi three generations of the Hel¬ laiul family:    Charles E. Helland,   the genial truant ollicer who finds it a part of his duLie;i to secure shoes and  other clothing lor youngsters who are unable to attend school for the lack   of  them, and who siiends several hours each day looking after the children on their way to school, at the cornerof Main .St. and Merrick Koad, where   the   trolley   and autos Jiass;   P^ugeno   W.   Helland,   his .son ,who is employed in   the   Freejiort Harness Store, and the grandson, Wil- , lard,    the   best   natured   youngster   in Charles Herbert  Scholey  officiated  at \ Freeport, who can sing on his  way  on the services and the interment was   in ! an errand at six o'clock   in   the  morn- Greenfield Cemetery. ing,    Charles and Eugene are members '                                                     of Excelsior  Hook   and   Ladder  Com-
I pany.
Foot-Ball !    «, „       r    ,    ,
*- „, ,   , 1      FT        1        '     Believing   this    vioinitv   ilemands u
The   game  between   the  Herculean   store to fill  its reiiuiremeuts of high-
.¦\ sale of Christmas articles wii! be held in Parish Hall under the auspices of the Choir Guild on Tuesday, Decem¬ ber S.
There vvas a large attendance at the subscrijition dance of the Kockville Centre Tennis Club at the Parish* Hall Friilay evening.
HENKY HUGHES CANALIZO Henry the fourteen-months old .«on of Mr. and Mrs. ^Canaliio of Ocean Avenue,^died iast Saturday from croup. Funeral services were heid Sunday with interment in Calvary Cemetery.
CHAKLES HENKY BEDELL The funeral services of Cliarles Henry Bedell, an old and respected les- -ident of this place, were held Monday afternoon at his late home, where he died on Saturday jfrom paralysis. He resided in Freejjort twenty years, was a farmer by occupation, was born at Baldwin and lived at that jilace and Freeport all his life. He was eighty years of age. Deceased was survived by five children: Henry Bedell, of Merrick; Mrs. Thomas Baldwin, of Baldwin; Catherine, Tredwell and Archie  Bedell,   of this  place.     Kev.
Under tlie ausjiices of the Kockville Centre Concordia, a concert will be given in the Atheneum Hall Thursday evening, December 10. Extra talent has been secured for the occasion.
Under the auspices of the Nasi-au He¬ brew Congregation a Sabbath School has been established in Kockville Cen¬ tre. The sessions of the Sabbath i^hcooi will be heid at the residence of Philip Goldberg, .Morris and Grand .Avenues, every .Sunday morning, from 10 to 12 a. m.
Under tiie auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society (jf the Lutheran (Miurch, the annual fair wiil be held in the Ath¬ eneum Hali on the afternoons and even¬ ings of December 2, 3, 4 and 5. Wed¬ nesday afternoon, December 2, frotn 2 to 5 Jl. rn., will be observinl as Child¬ ren's Day.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the -M. E. Church will hold their annual fair and Christinas sale in the Y. M. I. C. Hall Wediu-'sdiiy and Thursday of next week.
A very jtretty church wedding oc¬ curred Sunrlay evening, when Charles Hatr and Miss Anna Kosseau were mar¬ ried. The ceremony was jierformed in the Ej)i<coj)al Churcti"of St. Michael and Ail Angels at H o'clock, before a large number of friends and relatives, who completely filled ^he church. Men- delf.sohn's Wedding march was played by Mrs. Edward Mansfield. The bride was giveii away by her uncle, Louis Ketcham. The bridesmaids were .Mis.s Muretta Ketcham of this jilace and Miss Lizzie Hartman of Mineola. Kev. J. I'orte,s(]ue-Cole jierformed the ceremony.
The bride was attired in light blue silk mull with pearl trimmings and Irish Jioint lace. She wore a long wedding veil and carried a bouquet of white chrysanthemums. Miss Ketch¬ am wore blue mul! and carried white clirysanthernuins and Miss Hartman pink mull and carried white carnations.
At the home of the bride's mother, iClrs. Louis Ketcliam, a wedding sup¬ jier was served. The couple will re?ide in .Seaford.
team of Lynbrook and  the  Phi  Alpha  class household etteets in floor coverings  ground, ani had his right shoulder dis- Saturday afternoon   at  Athletic   Park was a tie: score 6 to 6.
While alighting from the 7.57 train Thursday evening, .Mr. Ratliheiin, a member of the firm of Zadeck & Co., was thrown from the train in a jiecui • iar manner. The train had been brought to a stop and just as Mr. Kath- heim was alighting, the train started UJJ again without any warning and pro¬ ceeded a short distance, when Mr. Madalene Estelle, daughter of Mr. Kathheim, who was on the lowest step and Mrs. Charles Walters, was baptized of  the second car, was thrown   to  the   jn the Memorial   Church  last  Sunday.
WANTAGH
William A. Seaman is having a new barn built in the rear of his jirojierty on Park Place.
the
has the
Schuman, 210 Smith St.; Rev. Pelham St. George Bissell, 165 Pine St.; for water, E. B. Lent, Lexington Avenue; Stephen Whaley, Archer St.; George Maurer, Columbus Ave.; Edward O. Tree, Porterfield Place; Alfred J. Klar- enmeyer, Long Beach Ave.; Vande¬ water Post, Randall Ave.
Chief Engineer Wallace called atten¬ tion to the fact that the trolley com¬ pany's signal box on Atlantic Avenue interfered with Bay View Hose Com¬ pany getting their apparatus out of the house and the clerk was directed to re¬ quest the company to move this box at once. The Qhief also requested the Board to allow the prize won by the Froeport Fire Department at Hicks¬ ville to be placed in the village oflice; granted.
The meeting was a short one, not much business being presented for con¬ sideration.
" Need spices?    Jbhnston gives prices in his adv. this week. It.
F. H. S. football team defeated St. Paul's at Garden City last Saturday by a score of 41 to 4.
Thanksgiving Day the Herculeans defeated Phi Alphas in an exciting game by the score of 5 toJ).
Some ueople's skin  begins  to  chap
fall winds. If you are one of them, it will be well for you to heed the hint in Smith & Bedell's ad'in this issue.  It
and thirty-seven funerals. , ,, .. •    i   #    11
Offerings  for charities and missions promptly upon the arrival of cold,
since November 20, 1907, have amount¬ ed to $232.45. In 1902 the offerings wer* 17.84.
The church has a vested boys' choir, and the roaaical portions of services have been greatly enhanced through the energetic and progressive methods of Dr. BiMell.
Tbe «diflce was erected and dedicated foortoen yearr ago. It occupies a pietoroaque and accoaaible .site comer of Loim Baaeh Av«iu« and Pine atreet The rectory adjoina on tl^ Pine Street adie.   ThactaMh plot ia 226x190 feet.
Tha pwiMit pieat in dMurge ia held inBlffli eetMm bf Ua •ongiiflatSoo and iMf Ml ftt, it aaM apH^win MsdMd «M mU of M«Jak«nia«keflddto
Before closing store for the Winter, Scott's Remnant store, upper M«in St.; opp. Lena Ave., will give a two days' sale, Monday Nov. 30, and Tuesday Oec. 1, of laces, chemisetts, collars and cuff sots, Val., Torchon, Macklin, and many others. Get your Christnias presents now.     We re-open May 1909.
Bmolkh SPAViir IjInuunt reoioves Hard, Soft or Oalloased Lamps aud Bkwiirtes from horfea.^also Blood Spav- ina, Oarlis. Splints, Saraaaey, Ring Bone. Stlflsa. Bnains. SwoUen Throata, OongliB, eto. &» • ISO by oae (rf ooe laSSa.   w«Miad*af»l Blsniah Oata. JSSBna'^aamJftimiaa. Dnnist.
School Notes
The winners in the pushmobile race last Saturdaywvere Carman and Wal¬ ling, Post and Darrigan, Wilson and Tree.
E. F. McKinley, a former Superin- t^dent, visited the school on .Mondaj morning and was warmly welcomed by teachers and students.
Following is the program of rhetor¬ ical exercises at the school Wednes¬ day afternoon:
Music—.Mandolin Solo
Chloe Kaynor
1. Aboil Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt
Alice llarrsion
2. When the Frost ia on the Pumpkin
James Whitcomb Riley Percy Mc:: ".son
3. Thanksgiving >.
Howard Seaman
4. The Kide of Jenny McNeal
Will Carleton Mabelle Cheney
5. Thoughts for Young Men
Horace Mann Stanley Raynor
6. The Courtin' James Russell Lowell
Marj»rie Pitcher Music—Chorus
7. The ImairtiRlary Invalid
Jerom€ K. Jerome Ada Christiians
8. Lady Clare Tennyson
Maiy Davis
9. Tbe Legend of Belgenz
Ira^ Provoet
10. Same WelMr'a Valentine   Oickt^
H«lcBSmith
etc., a complete stiK-k of KiigN, Linol¬ eums, Carjiets, Oil Cloth. Beds, Bed- diug. Lace Curtains and Window Shades has iK-eii installed in SS S. Main St., near Merrick Road, aurl your in- sp<>ction of which is resjiectftiUv .solic¬ ited.
Prices \sill meet any Mttrojxilitaii competition and satisfaction guaranteed: Rugs iu particular will be featured, a most careful s«>!ectjkon having been nmde.
Patterns   comprising    the      iMijinlar
located.    He   was   taken   to  hi;- where his injury was dres.sed.
hom
Mrs. Helen Allen entertUined the members of the Ladies' Aid Tuesday afternoon, when business was transact¬ ed relating to the forthcoming fair un¬ der the auspices of this Society to be held in P'iremen's Hall next Wednesday afternoon and evening.
At a meeting of the Village Board of Trustees Friday night, C. W. Pink¬ ham was granted jiermission to place a sign jiost on the edge of the side¬ walk.
The rejiort of Chief John Munk as to      Rev.   Thos.    S.    Braithwaite    will the test of the fire hose was   accepted,   preach the fourth sermon in the  series
Fred Smith was  apjiointed  Hydrant  on the "Book of Job," or, "The Great
orieuta^ styles for living nKim and dining   Inspector at a salary of .$50 jier annum.   Drama of  Doubt," on Sunday evening
room, also dainty rtoral tffeits for jmr lor aud bondoir iire here for your Selei-- tion. Everything snitable for home¬ like environments is imlufled and aliove ull, prices will be low and witliin the ixi.ssibiiities of every one. Your patron- ag' is hojieil for.
It. Edwiuil H. OIm-ii.
ROOSEVELT
Special services wiii be held at the Presbyterian Chapel next week, under charge of Kev. C. H. Sciioley of Free- port and Ke^^rA H. Kennie of Ocean- side, with the f(jHowingi subjects: Sunday, Nov. 29, >''.15, "Facing the Past" ; Tuesday, Dec. 1, 7.30, "Facing the Present"; Wednesday, "Facing the Future;"' Thursday, "Washing - Cleansed"; Friday, "Looking - Saved".    There will be sjiecial music.
At the meeting of the Board of Trade
Tuesday  evening,   word  was received
from Congjrpssmain Cocks that  he   will
give a stereopticon lecture on his  trip
¦ to the Philippines on Tuesday evening,
j December  1,   for  the  benefit  of the
Board.    It was decided to hold week-
{ly dancer in the hall.    The building has
The requistion of the Live Oak En¬ gine Company and the Keliance Mo.se Company, No. .3, was referred to the Fire Committee.
The contract for the laying of .'595 feet of water mains on Willoughby street, and 40t,) feet of mains on Shell- bank Avenue, with one hydrant, was awarded to Louis Werner, for .*412.21. Mr. Werner also agreed to lay any ad- nitional mains required at .'i9c jier foot.
The clerk was directed to notify P.'ii- gineer Lott to proceed with the exten¬ sion of the street lights oi^ Shellbank Avenue.
The clerk was directed to c.Dmmuni- cate with the officials of the L. I. li. K, and request them to extend the plank¬ ing across the Village and Park Avenue crossings from sidewalk to sidewalk.
•^ MERRICK
in the Memorial (Jhurch; topic "Faith in Perplexity." There has been con¬ siderable interest manifebted in these sermons, which have proved helpful to many.
The Thanksgiving .service last Sun¬ day evening viras largely attended. I'rof. Schorr, jirincipal of the public sfhool, read the I'riiKideiit's Thanks¬ giving Proclamation, and the choir rendered musicj apuropriate to the occasion. A ladies' quintet did ex¬ cellent work, as did the choir. The King's Daughters decorated the Church tastefully.
VALLEY STREAM
Mrs.   Oscar  Toombs has been enter¬ taining Mrs. .Minnie Harder of Rrwoolt-^''
Under the auspices of Justice  Coun» cil. No. 2(i, D., of L.. s dance  will  be
Charles Millor, for many years a res¬ ident of thi* place, died at his home on
Sunday  after  sufTering a  short  time held in Flremen^s Hall  Monday  even«
from heart trouble.   The deceased,wbf> jng. was ^connected   with   the     Episcopal
IJ uoiitc-i ••• wre ••oil.    iiic i,«..w.i.,!, ..au  Church of the Redeemer,   was section ,   Joseiih  Feiton is having a large aod^
been  completed and  formally turned  foreman for the I.ong Island  Railroad attractive residence erected upon bil'^
over tu the Boaid of Trustees.    A bill- Company between Freeport and Massa- property  at  Franklin Avenue and tlur^
iard Uble has been installed.    Charles   pequa for 42 years.     He  is survived Merrick Road. %
Edwards   was     appointed   executive  by two sons and three daughters and
memb.   of   the  Inland    Waterway.-«^«>yjjr^,^ SS:^^ fror.a.nialiU^ ^*^'                                                   I o'ciock. Rev. Mr.  Littlebrandt, rector , «t the r«iid«ice ot  H.  C. H«llid»jr,
IiCH eued in 30 minates by Wool-! of tbe Churcb of the gedeemer, officUt- Corona Av«WBe. damage to ^J|»««J«*^
fold's Qaidtarj Lolion. NeVer Cails. Sold by Ihcanaa Johnatna. Dnngiat
inc. Interment was itt Greenfield Cem- 1 ^ ^^ ^^L**"* ****** ^ "~^ ""^^ etary. [ extinguished.
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