Nassau County Review 19090521

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VOL. XIV NO. 30
 FREEPORT NEWS
Single copies <if the Review can be secured at H. Gobetz's and the Review- office on Main St. aud DaSilva's on W. Merrick Road.
Mrs. Sarah Dixon and family have returned to Freeport after spendinji: the winter in Brooklyn,
The Review staff enjoyed ice cream after getting out the paper last week, by courtesy of Editor Stiles of the Messenger.
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909
Official Paper of Nassau County
, Mrs. George Fyfe has been at the Presbyterian Hospital, Brooklyn, for treatment.
Henry Randall has been ill for the past two weeks from pneumonia, but is now slowly convalescing.
! How will atax rate of $1 to $1,05 1 for village purposes suit? That is \ what the Village Board of Asses.sors i expec. to give this year.
Base-Ball Notes
The (icliedule of the  Mechauic- Ball Leajrue is printed on pa>.'e *>.
Ba.<e-
There were about 20 people  at  Sig
mond Opera House for the concert Fri-
.,,.,,.       ., , day evening.    Money for  tickets  waa
William Murray of Ocean Avenue is  returned and the entertainment "called
nursing   a   sprained   ankle,   received  off,"
while playing bail in Brooklyn one day       * _ .
last week. Main Street  IS   being  fixed.      The
work of changing the grade is now ad- Reynolds    horse  ran away  Monday  danced to the  railroad   track   on   the
a   very If any
niorning, going through Pine St., down ^ ^est side of the street, which is  being
  Church,    and   thus   to   his    home    on; changed first
Next Tuesday evening the euchre of  South Main St.    A broken harness was i Freeport  Council No. 57, Jr. O. U. A.   the on'y damage. M.,   will   be held at Mechanics'   Hall, ~
in the Otten Building. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Ross are now
in   the third generation, a young  son,
Edwin   Ross  Clark, having arrived at
the   home   of  Mr.   and    Mrs.    Edwin
Clark, in Brooklyn.    Mrs.   Clark   was
formerly Miss Ida Ros.s.
A progre.ssive euchre will be held under the auspices of the Nassau La¬ dies' Aid Society at Fraternity Hall Wednesday evening. May 2<).
A small   insect   can   create large di9:urbance in a home, kind of   these   disturbers   has access to your home note .Smith &   Be¬ dell's ad. It.
HIGH SCHOOL
Last Friday Freeport met and de¬ feated Lynbrook High at Rockvilie Cen¬ tre, the score being 8 to 1.
Last Tue.sday the High .School met and defeated Friends' Acacemy on their own grounds by the score of 9 to 2.
Last .Saturday the High School played Friends' Academy at Locust Valley, an eleven   inning  game.    The
Two base hits, C. Leviness; struck out, by Leviness, 10; by Stoppel, 9; base jn balls, off Leviness 2, off Stop- pel, 3; stolen base. Cook; double play, Leviness to Young to Bristol; umpire, Jones; time of game, 2 hrs.
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BALDWIN
Walter Hawkins is visiting relatives and friends here.
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Mrs.   Charles  H.   Thomas has I  confined to her home by illness.
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Rev. J. E. Parks, a former pa.<tor of the M. E. Church, has been in town this week.
Totals- {»len Cove
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,1 Thomas Meyer and daughter (ier- _ trude of Montclair, N. J.., have been M  guests at the home of John H. Carl.
cured ^^^"'^ was a defeat for Freeport; score   ]\i|^ri.;,v  j-f
Mrs. Clarence VanRiper has gone   to      Funeral services of Grace   E.,   wife
''irginia, to recuperate   from   of P'rank Sutton, who died Wednesday   they defeated the of   pneumonia.    She   is   ac-   of last week in   her  20th   year,   were ^'^"''^."^'^ *° •'-
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an attack
companied by two of her children
Freeport Club Notes
The base-ball team won its second vic¬ tory at Glen Cove on   Saturday,   when home  tcatn   by   the
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Last Wednesday the Hijrh School de¬ feated Lynbrook at Lynbrook by a score of 5 to 4. This was a very close game. Rose made a thre'e bagger in the la.'^c inning saving the game.
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Foster and Master Harry Foster of Bergen Place, will sj)end July and August in Europe. They will first tour Scotland and Eng- lancl and then go to the Continent.
The Freeport Telephone directory goes to press May 27, and^ if any changes are desired in telephones, or new phones installed, you should plan for them at once. See adv. of The N. Y. and N. J. Telephone Co., in this is¬ sue.
The railroad, through its general passenger agent, H, M. Smith, has is¬ sued a beautiful book descriptive and illustrative of Long Island. The views contained in it cover all localities and aro very fine. It gives a list of hotels and hoarding houses, and as a book of reference is well worth having.
While Frank, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dorlon, was out in his father's automobile Friday afternoon ; turning from Ocean Avenue into the Merrick Road, ^mother auto coming from the west hit his reap^xle and knocked the wheel off the machine. Miss Mary Davis who was in the car with young Dorlon   was  thrown  out but not hurt.
The other machine did not stop to find out the result of the accident.
The South Shore Yacht Club will hold its Annual Opening Day on Mon¬ day, May ;U (Decoration Day). There will be motor boat races during the afternoon, under the direction of the regatta committee, and orchestra mu¬ sic both afternoon and evening. The OJub will give one of its pleasing re¬ ceptions during the evening with danc¬ ing at 8.30 p. m.
held Saturday night. Rev. Charles H. Scholey odiciating; interment in Greenfield.
The 20fh anniversary of the organi¬ zation of the f]pworth League was ob¬ served by special exercises in the M. E. Church Sunday evening, and the newly elected ofTicers v/ere installed. The pastor Rev. W. A. Richard, made a short address.
Three polo ponies from the Harnum estates, north of Merrick, broke loose Sunday morning and spent the day rum¬ maging abound the town. They were recovered Sunday evening in the yard back of D. B. Raynor's store on .Main St.        '
Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Gladys Du.senbury and Harry Donaldson, both of this place, Satur¬ day, June '), at 7 :;iO, at the Episco¬ pal Church of the Transfiguration. Rev. Pelham St. Geo. Bissell will officiate. Admission to the ceremony will be by card only.
Jesse Ryerson has heen in Freeport for the past week. He was released from the Brockton base-ball club on ac¬ count of shortage of funds and jealousy of the players causing unpleasantness. Ryerson is a good catcher and will probably be with the Brooklyns next season.
will    help season   at
This   Saturday   the   club Northport    open    up  their NortHport.    Tho team leave on the l.-'iO train from   l^'latbush Avenue.
Hart and Sprouil have finished in the pool tournament, winning nine games and losing 2, while Kennedy and Sutherland, their nearest rivals for first place, have won eight and lost one with two more games to play. The standing:
Won   Lost KeinifdN and Putherliiml s        1 Hart and Sfyronll !•       ::
Corby and Thonip.-nn        7       'J .lohnsun and Brtiwcr 7        .'i
.^luith and  Wallace ¦'>        o
Munzinger and Lee ~>        I
¦MauCarey an<l Cook 1        1
Southard and Atider.^oii    ^       'i lOarle and .lohn.-on :; I
Finch ,'ind Knowles :!        7
Verity and Tallman 1       H)
istarr and Maxson o      11
Knowles by defeating   Burleigh 140 to   83   won his last game and   the   bil¬ liard tournament wtithout a defeat,  the final standing being as follows: Won   L;)sf Kuowli- 7       0
Lang '¦'        2
ilurl'igli 1       :!
(Tiunaiie ¦'        -
Moore :>       3
.Sawyer ".'       3
iJorlon <'       'i
Wallai-.. 0       t;
PHI ALPHAS Phi Alpha defeated  Amityville   last" nd rooters will i Saturday at A.thletic Park bv the scure 'ofyto4.
.Matty Furst,   who   pitched   for   Phi
'Alpha   heid   Amityville    safe   at    all
stages of the game with the e xception
, of the first inning,   when   wildness   on
his part together with   several   errors
and   a   few ,hits,   was responsible   for
three runs beijig scored by Amityville.
¦ He received the best of supjiort in   the
' field,   Johnson   and    Gerhold    playing
well.
DeC^uilfeldt, who shut out. Phi Al- jjha with •') hits in the previous game Severnlj,weeks ago, pitched for Amity-' ville and was batted quite freely. Furst, Gerhold and McConlogue car¬ ried off the batting honors. Next .Sat- ' urday Phi Alpha plays the Liberty A, C. of Brooklyn at their home  grounds.
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Totals ^con Fr>'eport Club Ghu Cove	
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by inniiij:s ,..000  1  o 2 0 , ,.o o J  0 0 II l.l
Freeport Council No. 57, Jr.   O.   U. A, M., will entertain its  State  Board  lister in Islip, and she in turn paid his of officers next Friday evening in   Me-   ^^^e home, which ended his  trip Mon-
chanics' Hall.    An invitation has been  ^'ay morning.	
extended the members of the following       ^        , r ,
coimcils to be present:    Port Washing-      ^^aturday   afternoon     and    evening
The duck pin tournament was to have Stanley Handy, a 12 year old lad   of   finished on May llth, but as there   are
4   Henry   Street,   started  out   Sunday \ several postponed games to roll off the
afternoon,   to  attend   Sunday   School. ^ final  results  are  still   in  doubt.    At
Instead  he went to the depot where he  present  the  games  won and lost are:
wsa   invited  to  go to Patchogue.    He
accepted  and  when   it  came time for
him to return home, his parents became
much worried and informed the police. '
Meanwhile the lad went on to Pat- ; chogue, where he visited a brother who ' advanced him the  money  to  go  to  a
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The game .Saturday will start at  3 :45
The  Phi   Alpha  team  announces it among the High   School   boy would like to arrange a game with  the ' for the missing boy last .Men Freejiort  (^luh   for   a   parse of .?.10 to .SI 00.
FREEPOKT CLUB
Freeport Club .">, (jlen Cove 3.
The Freeport Club played its second game of the season at Glen Cove on .Saturday and came off a winner for the second time. Leviness pitched a steady game, having ten strike outs and allowing six scattered hits and two base on balls.
Corby played an excellent game at third accepting seven chances, while Lundy a new man in right field carried off the batting honors with Leviness, both securing two hits.
Kneafsey, third baseman for Glen Cove, was hit just above the heart by Leviness while at bat and was knocked out  for  about five minutes;  he  came
L0.ST.--R011 of bills containing .$128, with elastic band around, on xMain Street, tir Merrick Road; finder please return to S. P. Shea, Village Office, Freeport; Liberal reward.
School  Notes
.Miss Cook of Woodside, L. L, spent Sunday with Mi?s Knight.
.Miss Galagher of Montclair, .\. J., viisted Miss Lewis over Sunday.
Miss Thayer of Brooklyn .stayed over Sunday with .Miss Grsce Parker.
The boys who won the cups in the jiushmobile races have had them i»ut in the new case in the Study Hall.
Four .search parties were organized to look ay after¬ noon, and searched until dusk.
Miss Healey, who has taught very successfully in our puhlic schools fur .several years, has accepte<l a position in White Plains for the coming year at a decided increa.se in salary.
Prof. F^ugene F. McKinley, former superintendent of this school, visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clock over .Sunday, with Mr.s. McKinley. On Monday he visited the school, and acklressed tho student body at chapel, where he was warmly welcomed.
SEAFORD
Wm. Rich has removed to Patchogue.
Harry Graef has purchased a new Jack.son touring car.
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Interesting reports were given by those who attended the Conventions at Flu.shing and .Amityville on  Thursday.
The Ladies' Aid .Society are making all arrangements for the strawberry festival to be held in the M. E. Chapel on Thursday evening. May 27.
Winant P. Pettit has been putting modern improvements in his cottage corner .Millburn Koad and Clinton Place. He is also having granitoid sidewalks laid.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hdwani .Sprague started on Monday for a trip fRrough part of Peun.sylvania. They will visit .Mrs. .Sprague's sisti-r, Mrs. Charles BoLirdett.
.\ company of the younger girls iield a May Party in Stanton Park last Sat¬ urday. They went in the niorning, took lunch with them and had a royal good time.
George T. Schuneman is having some fine greenhouses erected on his place on Merrick Road. Violet Range will be turned into a place for the culture of carnations as a specialty,
A litrge aui'tion sale of all the fur¬ nishings of the^Craig Manor, .Stop M, Baldwin, will be held on Friday, .May 2S, r,»Oi), at 10:01) a. m. sharp." S. P. Pettit, Auctioneer.
The Christian Endeavor Convention of the .\ew Vork Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church con¬ vened in the .M. P. ('hurch here Wednes¬ day and Thursday. Good sessions were held both days.
ton, Roslyn, Hempstead, Amityville, Rockvilie Centre, Lynbrook, Spring- iield. Valley Stream, Woodmere and Inwood.
Memorial Day exercises will be held on Sunday, May 30, at 3:30 o'clock  in the  Council rooms, instead of at  th" cemetery,   as has been past years.    Addresses
afternoon     and Freepwrt Chapter No. 302, Royal Arch Masons, entertained a number of mem bers of  other  chapters,   when   R.   E Comp. Geo. McGown,   Grand   Lecturer j of the State of New   York,   conducted '¦ the   exemplification  of   the  work  of; these capitular degrees.    The  conven- the custom in  ^^°" ^^^ ^°^ '^® Royal Arch Masons of will  be made  *'^® First District and the arrangements '
William    Covert    and   family around  all right however and  finished , shortly remove to Freeport. the game. j
Glen Cove scored first in   the   third, '     .Mr. and Mr.s. VonSallet are now  oc- when McDougal walked and came home \ cupying their,Summer cottage here, on a long drive  by   Kneafsey;   in   the'
fourth C. Leviness hit for  two  bases, \     Mrs.   Stanton   Smith  and  daughter The  Gospel^ w-^11 be preached at the  ^^^ ^.^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ .^ ^.j^^^j^ ^^  q.   Le- \ are  visiting  Mrs. Thomas   Brower  at
Church Notes
by Rev, W. A. Richards, Rev. Chas. Herbert Scholey, and several others. Singing will be rendered by a ijuartet under the direction of Mrs. Reach. Members and their are invited to the.se services.
Charles friends
Special for Friday and Saturday: Butter peanut brittle, 10c lb. ; walnut cream kisses, 10c lb.; DaSilva's Ba¬ zaar, 15-17 W. Merrick Road.
A large auction .sale of all the fur¬ nishings of the Craig Manor, Stop 81, 'Baldwin, will be held on   Friday,   May
28, 1909, at 10:00 a. m. sharp.    S.   P.
Pettit .Auctioneer.
were completed and directed by K. E. Comp. Charles A. Tippling, of Long Island City, who is the assistant Grand Lecturer for the district Tho conven¬ tion was opened at 4 o'clock by the Grand Lecturer and was continued in the evening. The degrees of Mark Mason,    Most    Excellent  Master  and
\ Assembly Hall, Otten Building, next ] Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock by Wil- j liam Cameron.    All welcome.
At the Methodist   Episcopal   Church i Sunday evening  the  pastor.   Dr.   W. A.   Richard,  will preach on "The   Art of Seeing."
The Women's Prayer meeting of the Presbyterian Church will be held in the chapel next Tuesday, May 25th, at three ' o. m. ; Al' ladies are in¬ vited to attend.
viness. ' Woodmere.
In the sixth Freeeport secured  two runs, Charlie and George Leviness both j     Work has been started  on   the  new singled and   came  home  on  a  hit  by ' agrage for .Milton Updike, on the  site Mills.      In   Freeport's eighth   Young I of his old one. singled, went to second and third on an | error and a fly, and scored on an error, j In Glen,Cove's eighth Murray walked, I Rooney   singled,   and  Iwth  .scored  on | "igh HUl Beach F'oley's hit.
In   the  ninth   Sutphin   singled  and scored on hits by  Corby  ard  Bristol.
The score:
Miss  Bessie Morgan, who has  been seriously   ill,  is spending the week   at
The latest addition to the business I life of the village is a .shoemaker, who I has located on Merrick Road.
A "seven .social" will be held in the ,  -     ,  .. , , chapel  of  the  .M. E.   Church   Friday,
Royal Arch Mason were ably conferred , ju^g  4,   at 8 p. m.,   sharp.    Refresh- and comprehensively explained. ^^^^^^  will be served.    Entertainment
Supper was  .served  the   visitors  at   furnished  by noted artist residents   in Grim's  restaurant,   as  the  gue.sts  of Freeport Chapter.
On  Thursday  an  enthusiastic  corn- In response to an invitation from AI-  p^^y  ^f you„g peonle from the  Free- fred P. Brown, 28 Lena   Ave.,   an  en-  port Epworth League attended the Dis- thusiastic meeting of a  number of the  trict Epworth  League  convention   for parents of boys ranging in age from   7   the  South   Side  of   Long   Island,    at
Diamond Dust
Mrs. E. F. Buck, wife of Rev. E. F. Buck, is expected to join him at the parsonage this week.
Freefxjrt.
Freeport made a nice double play in the fifth with Kneafsey on first, O'Brien hit to Leviness who played toj \irs, Vernie Fountain and daughter Young, catching Kneafsey at second | of Patchogue have been visiting .Mrs, and O'Brien at first. \ Foun,tain's mother, Mrs.  .M.   E.   F'ost.
Owing to the failure (if Tookershow-j .   -   	
ing up Sutphin   played  second   in   his|     A  strawberry   festival  was  held in place. the  Guild Room  Tuesday evening  un-
Freeoort is hitting the ball hard this ' der the auspices of the  Ladies'  Guild.
b<jat
R. A. M. Hobbs will launch his motor  to 11 years was held  at  Mr.   Brown's ; Amityville. Hit Saturday morning and   invite.s his  residence Monday evening, for the pur-'
year,  12  hits Glen Cove.
at   Babylon  and   11   at; The Freeport Club must be  cjuite
MeniLsJolielp in the event at the South  pose of organizing the Freeport Cadets. !     Rev   Frank M   Kerr D  D   of Hemp-  'drawing card,     fhey   he.ped   Babylon 8horelft«'ht(^lul)HoQseorat KllLson's,      Arrangements    were     made     with ' * '    "'  ^^''	
any time after 10 a. m.
DRAMATIZATION OF DORA THORNE Iu the Sigmond Opera House Wednes¬ day evening, the Sigmond Stock  Com¬ pany will present Lem B. Parker's   f^- tnous   dramatization   of    Bertha    M.
Arrangements were made with Sergt. "Wm. H. Tabb to instruct the boys in strict military drill and diaci- ^tt^e, and it was decided to organize ana have the first drill on the ball- grounds at 4 o'clock this Friday after¬ noon. May 21.
A, P. Brown, J. P. Keenan, H, E. Howell  and A. B,
stead,   wiil prea'h at the morning ser vice in the First Presbyterian Church
The entertainment given in the Y. .M. I. C. Hall Wednesday evening by the vVantagh Brass Band was of a very high order, and well attended.
Children's   Day  will   be   celebrated
open their season;  last  Saturday   was (Jlen Cove's opening game and this Sat¬ in the evening the pastor  will  preach  urday they will  journey  to  Northport | jn^,;;'  y,^    E.   Church   Sunday,   June the  second  sermon   in  the   series on  ^o help them  open  the  season   there. ^ j^^ ^t which time the childwji  of  the Adam, "A Cure for Loneliness." It is not very nice for  these  teams  to, gy^^^y  ^^^,00!   will  render  an appro-
  loose their opening games as it always; p^jate service, In the evening.
In the Freeport First Baptist Church  takes a few weeks  for  the  defeat  to j Stanley  W.   Roberts,   minister,  there   wear off, but Free-port has  to keep up |     Seaman's  Neck   Road  has been en-
The Woman's Foreign '.Missionary .Society of the .M. f]. Church had a pleasant meeting at the home of Mrs. Edward .M. Preston last f>itlay after¬ noon. A number of the ladies will at¬ tend the Grout) .Meeting at St. Marks Church,Rockvilie Centre, next Wednes¬ day afternoon.
The 20th anniversary ot the organiz¬ ing of the general Epworth League was duly celebrated last Sunday. In the morning a pleasing talk was given by Miss VanVarick, Junior Superintendent of the Brooklyn South District Ep¬ worth I.^>ague. The Juniors occupied front seats and .sang. At the evening service the installation of ofiicers was held. W. E. Sprague gave "League Reminiscences;" there were short talks by Rev, W. D. Tuckey and F. W. Miller and the singing was spirited. The front of the church was attractive¬ ly decorated with cut flowers and plants . in red and white.
BELLMORE
A horse belonging to Adam Emeigh ran away Tuesday, but was stopped be¬ fore any damage was done.
The Bellmore Victors defeated a team from Amityville last Saturday in a close and exciting game by the score of 3 to 1.
Advance Hook and Ladder and En¬ gine Company have decided to enter the hose contest at the t'-'urnarneiit to be held at Hempstead this year.
Wr;i. Schwicker had one of his fin¬ gers smashed last Friday by getting it caught in the machinery where he was working,   on  the Water Works.
Ground has been broken by Robert Wilmarth for a cellar for his home on Grand Avenue. Mr. Wilmarth is to move to this site the cottage he pur¬ chased from the Water Works.
At  the special school   meeting  held
in the Smithville .South district it   was
decided tjo dispose  ot  the  old  .school
Wailace  were ap-iwill  be  public worship of God Sunday   their record so now for another victory | tirely   blocked by the Company laying   building and fixtures, and to apply the
Clay'a popular novel "Dora Thome," jiointed a committee on equipment to {at 10.30* a. m. and 7!30 p. m. Rev", at Northport on Satruday with Miss Alice Donaldson appearing make arrangements for the purchase of H. P. Vaughn will preach in the mom- It is not'every town on I/jng Island in the strongest part in which she has uniforms. The parents are invited to ing and Rev. E. S. Hildreth in the eve- that can boast of two winning Uiams, boen seen on l^ong Island. Walter be present at the drill on I'riday to en- ning. Bible School at 2.30, Y. P. S. while the Club team was administering O. Hill will appear in the character of roll thair boys. The expense of join- j C. E. raeetii* at 7, mid-week service \ defeat to Glen Cove the Phi Alpha Club Stephen Thome, the strong old man.; ing will be only the necessary cost (or Friday eveniiw at 8 o'clock. Every-; was trouncing the Amityville boys at i^puiar prices for all parts of the uniforms and equipment and oi^afiiz- ooe most cordially invited to all ser-i Athletic Park. Keep up the good Jaitm. y       [ing... vices. I work.
the  pipe  line digging a trench  across money  thus procured towards furnish- the  road.    Having  this  road blocked ing the assembly hall in the new build- means going a great ways  out  of  the ing to'be used as a lecture room, way for anyone desiring to go north of --——------—---------—--—---—----——
the track. There iu no nece.ssity for WORK WANTED—Position as gen- keeping this road closed, bh a wooden eral housework or washing to take bridge cobld easily be built while the home. Mrs. B. J. William", 4 Henry trench is open. , St. 1 ^^>