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New Village Officers Elected Tuesday
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, NASSAU  COUNTY
Vol 2a Namber 35
Erery FriiUiy
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. MARCH 18. 1910
11.00 Yeuly, 3ingle Copy S-Cento
Merrick
Monday is offleial Spring. Help to make the village better.
Help to make the village clean; Doni't be just a constant fretter:
Add some beauty to the scene. You may not, indeed, be able , To erect a gleaming dome, But clean up around your stable.
Beautify your little home. Help    to   make   the village more splendid
Do your part you have to do; There is much that may be mended
Through a little aid from you; Help decrease the dirt that's blow-
Help to purify the breeze;
When it happens to be snowing Clean your sidewalks if you please. (Detroit Free Press.>
The above gives the general senti¬ ment which was expressed at the naonthly meeting of the Citizen'sLeague held in Firemen's Hall on Tuesday owning. Special mention was made ofthe nuisance created by the dumping of refuse and garbage on the lot north of Smith Street on the east side of Mer- rick Ave. The following standing committees were appointed: Railroad, P. G. Muller, W. H. Dowling and Ernest Miller; Sanitary, E. Angell, C. Bowne and F. Wolfe; Highwaya, Messrs. Richards, Bunker and Vonde¬ rau; School, Edw. Miller, L. DeLisle and D. W. Lawson. The Railroad Committee will endeavor to have the L. L R. R. replace the inadequate oil lamps which now light their platform with gas, and will also ask for a later train going west than the present one at 10.18. It was reported that the Brooklyn Water V/orks is filling up the unsightly holes which unadorned their property on Merrick Ave. leading into the pumping station.
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, the next before Eaater, at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. The Sunday School meets in the Parish House at 10 a. m. The services for Holy Week are evening prayer and ad¬ dress on Wednesday evening at 8, Holy Communion on Thursday at 8 p. m.; penitential office and address Good Fri¬ day, at 10 a. m. The special offering on Good Friday is in behalf of work among the colored people in this dio¬ cese. It is hoped that Everyone will take advantage of at least one of the services in this holiest week of the year. The rector is sending out a statement and appeal for a liberal Eas¬ ter offering this year to the church's support 	
Mr. Curtis Bowne has been appointed School Trtistee by Commissioner Cooley to serve out the unexpired term of Mr. Spiegel, resigned some months ago, because of removal from the village. The other two trustees are Messrs. J. W. Birch and Reed Midmer.
Mr. Frank Wolfe and family have returned to their residence on Hemp¬ stead Boulevard for the season.
Twins were bom to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harmon on Monday morning— boy and girl.
Mr. C. D. Harvey of Elizabeth, N. J., was here on Saturday looking to some improvements in his home on Mer¬ rick Ave. preparatory to occupancy for the summer.
Preparing for Miiieola Fair
Dates Sept. 20tli to 24—Plant For
Good Radnf—New Grand!
Stand to be Boilt
At a meeting of the Board of Man¬ agers of the Agricultural ^ooiety of Queens-Nassan Counties, last Satarday, Thomaa H. Bacon, as Secretary of the hoise department, sabmitted report of the early closing events for the Sep em¬ ber fair to be held 20th-24th inolnsve, wnioh it is believed will be even more satisfactory to those enterii>g in ^tbese events than ever before, tho payments being scaled on a different and more eqnitable basis. In the events, each for a purse of flOOO, there are 2.16 and 2.24 classes in the trotting, and 2.18 and 2.%6 classes in the pacing. Entrance fees:
One per cent, $10, total cost to start April 1st;
Two per cent, $20, total cost to start May 16th ;
'Three per cent, |80, total cost to start Jnly 1st;
Fonr per cent, $40, total oost to start Angnst 16th;
Five per cent, $60, total coet to start September 7th.
Horses most be named in whichever one of the closing dates th<>y are en¬ tered, bnt mnst be eligible to which¬ ever class they may enter in on April Ist. Condilions—Role- of the National Trotting Association, of which this So¬ ciety is a member, to govern, except if any or all parses do not fill satiHfactorily on April Ist, the rignt is reserved to de¬ clare off nny that do not. Hopples al- h>wed. Money divided 50, 26, 15 and 10|)ercent. 50 per cent, of pnrse de¬ ducted from money winners. No star¬ ter can win more thau one money. Two or more horses nuder the same ownership or control or trained in the same stable, may start in any race. En¬ trance mnst be paid on each horse named and every horse named is en¬ titled to start. All races to be mile heats best 8 in 6.
Freeport
Cornelius VanRees has spent two weeks travelling around Canada, through Chicago, to New Orleans, and will retum home Monday.
Crystal Lake Cottage having been thoroughly renovated, steam heated and refurnished, is now ready for all year round boarders, at reasonable rates. 264 Grove Street, Freeport, N. Y.
2.25, 2.24,
OPEN CLASSES :
Trotters—2.12. 2.16, 2.19,  2.22, 2.80
Pacers—2.10,    2.15,    2.18,  2.21, 2.28.
Contract for the erection of the grandstand was awarded to Thomas McKee of Mineola, at $15,445. The structure is to be bnilt of steel, con¬ crete aud wood. In lenK'h it is 300 feot, in ¦width 53 feet. It will seat 3500 ueople. The reutanrant and into ex¬ hibit floors will each be 38x136 feet. On the southerly >ide, space is left for of¬ fices and store rooms. Other bielders : Willi'im R. VanWioklerof Hempstead, $17,290; Bt"nj..min Duryea of Hemp- Btend, $18,424; Carl Mirschel of Mun¬ son, $18,600; Denton & Long of Hump- sread, $19,000; Valentine Bangert of Jamidca, $21,.560.
The special attraction on the track will be Manuel Uerzog's training stal¬ lions, eight in number.
There wiil be an entertainment under the auspices of the Altar Guild of the Transfiguration on April 12th, in Sig¬ mond Opera House. Part of Mrs. Jar¬ ley's Wax Works will be shown, also a playette introducing living pictures. Keep this date open.
The services in the Episcopal Church of*the Transfiguration next week will be:
Sunday: Holy Communion and Bless¬ ing of Palms, 8 a. m.; Holy Commun¬ ion and sermon, 10:30 a. m.; evensong and sermon, 7:30 p. m.
Holy Week—Holy Communion, daily except Friday, 8:30 a. m.; Litany, Wednesday, K) a. m.; Evensong, Mon¬ day, Tuesday and Wednesday, 5 p.   m.
Good Friday, March 25—Matins and ante-communion, 8:30 a. m.; Children's service and address, 10 a. m.; Passion Service, 12 m. to 3 p. m.; evensong and sermon, 8 p. m.
Easter, March 27—Holy Communion, 7:00  a.   m.;   Holy   Communion    and Sermon, 10:30 a.   m.;  children's  ser¬ vice sermon
The preacher at evensong Thursday j ^^gg proposition. In the face of all evening will be The Very Reverend! this, the Long Island raib-oad was John  Robert  Moses,   M.    A.,    Dean,  $300,000 ahead last year,   and we in-
Talks About L I. R. R. Company
Traffic   IManager   Langdon   Tells Real Estate Men Abont Rail¬ road bosiness^Why Rates Are Higber
(General TrafSc Manager A. L. Lang¬ don, of the Lone IsUnd Railroad com¬ pany, in speaking at a recent dinner of Long Island r al estate men said, in dis- oussing the railroad sitmition:
"While the pusenger ratfe on the Long Islund railroad are higher than the same rates on the Erie or Lacka¬ wanna railroad, it is to be remerabered that the average haol on the Long Is¬ land is slightly less than flfteeh miles, whereas the average haul is longer on other roads. Long IsUud rates most be high enongh, gentlemen, to meet the fixed charges snd expenses and allow some profit. The railroad baslness, iike all other lines of business, m nst be a prolitHble business, in order to prop¬ erly serve the pablic. I think yon will all mtree with me that that is a sensible proposition.
"The Long Island railroad, as you probably know, has beon for some time and is uow, under enormous expeuse, consequent on making these i ransit im provements, that when completed, will result in pushing Long Islaud up along¬ side of Manhattan. It has been and is a matter of millions of dollars to carry on the improvements in qnestion. Th( Pennsylvania Railroad company is helping ns out by placing money   at
BeOmore
Services at the M. E. Church, Mer¬ rick Road, will be held moming and evening on the coming Sabbath; all are cordially invited to attend; Sunday School at 2:30 p.m.
The Easter exercises of the M. E. Sunday School will be held on Easter Sunday evening, March 27.
In last week's Messenger an item stated that Mrs. John H. Gangloff, who had been ill for some time, was in a serious condition. It should have read Mrs. John H. Rehberg instead of Mrs. John H. Gangloff. Mrs. Gang¬ loff is improving nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. William 'Parkinson and daughter of New York City were the guests of Mrs. Parkinson's grand¬ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Russell, last week.
Mrs. Frank Roberts is| confined to her home witb an attack^of grippe.
JOHN  D. GUNNING Freeport'* N«w Village Preudent
Roosevelt
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The colored people of the village have banded themselves in a club known as the Willing Workers and en¬ joy sociables among the members, the object of which is to raise money to build a church. The officers are: President, R. H. Toomer; secretary, Wm. Baker; treasurer, Mrs. Jarvis.
tend, to keep it ahead, for<yonr sake as well as onr own.
"I want to seize this opportunity to set the rulroad company right before the pablic, as far as rates are concern¬ ed.
'•'•It is all very well for certain gentle¬ men to tell us what we ought to do, bnt it so happens that we know some¬ thing abont the railroad business, and, in all kindness, we are going to run the Long Island railroad along railroati lines. The compimy cannot operate The Freeport Club Entertainment'the road on the basis of what is going Committee announces an informal dance  ^
Long inemen are arrang- annual dance in the truck house of the Alpha Hook and Ladder Company on the evening of Saturday, March 26. The last affair of the linemen, who have a large num¬ ber of friends, was a great success and this also promises to be one. Music will be furnished by Prof. Mole's or¬ chestra.
Raymond and Elsie Brown, daughter and son of Mr. and Mr. David Brown, Jr., and Mrs. Frank Wood, are confined to their homes with attack of the grip.
, _      The congregation of  the   St.   Paul's
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for  the  evenmg  of March   23.    They | ^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^^ „'f p^^^^.^^ know-  "8"^' faster music.
say:      These dances have   been   most | ig^^g of railroad conditions on Long Isl-! "      	
enjoyable in the past and they afford | and. We caunoc d> al in features in : The opening dance of the Roosevelt a splendid opportunity for a social eve-I railroad operation, strHuge as it may i ;^ti,igj.j(. Association will be held in ning and getting together, so come out: seem to the layman.    It^ requires  busi- | piremen's   Hall   on  Tuesday  evening,
Seaford
Mr. and Mrs. Edward VanNostrand have removed to Amityvilie, where Mr. VanNostrand will conduct an automo¬ bile business.
and bring your friends.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Anderson are en¬ tertaining a young son since last Thurs¬ day, at their home. South Main St.
A pound party, cake and candy sale will be held at the residence of Mrs. Ammerman, 252 West Merrick Road, this Saturday, afternoon and evening, for the benefit of the Church of the Transfiguration.
ness to operHte a railroad at all.
1 April 5th.    The committee is  working
"You are getting pretty good  service ^i^"'""'-     ^ "^-""."" t«^.=   w»i^.i.K and better, fiom tho  Long Island rail-' hard  toward   the success of the   affair
A  special   meeting of  the    Village Board of Trustees was held  on  Thurs¬ day evening to take action in preparing the  trolley   franchise   but    Counselor Fishel reported that he  had  not  been Otto   Hasneder, who has been ill for I able in the short time alloted  to  prop- nearly a year, is reported to be improv-  erly   prepare  the  agreement,   so  the ing,   as  is  Nelson Verity who was in-  meeting was adjourned to  this  Friday
A apecial meeting of the Men's Club j is called for Friday evening in the Par-1 ish House at 8.30.
The fourth and concluding lecture { upon the Life of Christ was given in | the Parish House last night, including I the period from Palm Sunday to the I Ascension. Over 110 views were; shown, representng all the best thought' of the greatest artists suggested by j this most sacred of themes. |
The Rev.   Wm. H. Littebrandt was 1 ,   the  Lenten   preacher at    All    Saints | Church,    New    Milford,     Conn.,    on | Wednesday evening.
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' The librarian of the Merrick Library \ reports 43 visitors to the library in'[ February and 63 books taken out. We [ wonder that there are not more who | avail themselves of the opportunity j afforded by the 2000 and more books upon most every subject collected so^ conveniently at our hand.
jured some time ago by the explosion of his gun at the breech. Mr. Verity is expected to retum home from the hospital during the latter part of the week.
Word has been received here that Mrs. John Telford, of Cambridge, N. Y., mother of Miss E. H. Telford, prin¬ cipal of the local school, who has also been ill for some time, died at her home last Wednesday after suffering for some time from Bright's disease. The funeral was held on Saturday.
evening, March 18.
Decree for Mrs. Jackson
Judge Aspinall, sitting at Mineola Saturday, granted an interlocutory de¬ cree of divorce to Rhoda B. Jackson of Wantagh, in her suit against her hus¬ band, Robert Jackson. Mrs. Jackson is allowed $6 weekly alimony and the custody of her fifteen-year-old daughter Helen.
The decree was granted on the stat¬ utory grounds.
The woods across from the station at this place is being cut down, and the ground cleared preparatory to erecting a hotel there. It is also understood that application will soon be made for the extension of Jackson Avenue north of the track. At the present time vehicles of any kind coming north on Jackson Avenue are forced to go a block east to Washington Avenue to cross the tracks. This extension would be a great improvement to the village.
William H. Condit is preparing to erect a new cottage at the comer of Jackson and Hickory avenues. The place is already laid out and the exca¬ vating of the cellar will be started in a few days. Mr. Condit, who resides in the old Smith Homestead at the cor¬ ner of Hickory Avenue and Seaman Neck Road, the history of which dates back over 100 years, intended to move tha old building back and build hia new home on the old site but later decided to build on the main thoroughfare to the station.
The Passion Play, which is presented every ten years by the peasants of Oberammergau, Bavaria, in accordance with a vow made upon their deliverance from "the black death" in 1633, will be described by Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey at the First Presbyterian Church on Wednesday at 8 p. m. Mr. Scholey spent some time in Oberam¬ mergau when he saw this play, which portrays the Passion Week of our Lord and has had the beautiful views which he obtained artistically colored for this lecture which he has given in Washing¬ ton, New York, Cleveland and else¬ where.
While Miss Minnie Aldridge was rid¬ ing home with her brother Howard, from the Columbian Brass Foundry office where slje is employed as stenog¬ rapher, their wagon and a heavy wag¬ on collided at Weberfield and Grand Avenues and their wagon being the lighter was thrown over and Miss Al¬ dridge received a badly sprained wrist. The occupants of the other wagon did not stop to offer assistance or see what damage they had done.
There was a large attendance at the St Patrick's supper at the Presbyter¬ ian Church Wednesday evening and the ladies in charge were kept very busy waiting on the two large tables which were filled from 6 to 8 o'clock. As usual with such affairs the evening was one of sociability.
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Do You Want to Buy er Sell? Everybody's Column.
rood than you ever did be lore, judging by the way the railroad is patroniz'd. Its timetables are no longer considered joke books by the traveler over the sys¬ tem. He has to bny a joke book from the newsd-aler on the trans now in order to enjoy a joke. L:ist year fhe Long Island railroad carried 27,422,000 pasengers over a system only 893 mdes long. I ask auyone to cite a road sub¬ ject to similar conditions ihat is doing anywhere near as good as th< Island railroad is doint;."
and .the  music "Our Favorites.
will   be  furnished  by
East Rockaway
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Roose¬ velt Board of Trade tendered a social evening at the Board of Trade Hali on Tuesday evening to the members of the two organizations and their friends. The  affair  was well attended and dur-
, ing the evening games were played, ^¦^'^S dancing, singing and refreshments en¬ joyed. It is the intention of the la- dies to  hold  the  social  evenings  fre-
I quently and thereby create more inter-
I est in the Board meetings.
The most exciting village election ever held in East Rockfu^ray was held Tuesday. The regular Citizen's Tic¬ ket defeated the People's Ticket as fol¬ lows:
Citizen's—For President, Henry F. Johnson, 163; For tmstee, Henry H. Garrison, 154; For Treasurer, Alexan¬ der Rhame, 156; For Collector, Charles E. Curtis, 154.
People's—For President,' Richardson B. Combes, 98; For Trustee, Nathaniel Abrams, 102; For Treaaurer, Hollet Pearsali, 102; For Collector, James A. Barry, 108.
The Hippodrome
An important new feature was add¬ ed to the bill at the New York Hippo¬ drome on Monday's matinee when Gerson's famous troupe of 50 "Little People" (Midgets) was seen for the first time in America. These diminu¬ tive folk present an entire circus per¬ formance and have a cortege of 50 cir¬ cus carriages, drawn by as many tiny ponies—said to be the smallest in the world. Amongst the wee performers are clowns, equilibrists, equestrians and acrobats, all skilled and capable of duplicating the acts done by full sized circus people. Besides the circus, in miniature, whicb is sure to make a strong appeal to the children, the three big shows "A Trip to Japan," "Ballet of Jewels" and "Inside the Earth" will be given in their entirety. The tribe of Fighting Maoris still remain and the scenic wonders of the Hippo¬ drome continue to excite the wonder and admiration of the twice a day crowda which have filled tbe big play¬ house since the beginning of this, its roost prosperous secaon.
The regular meetihg of the Board of Trade will be held next Tuesday even¬ ing when it is expected that the matter of trolley facilities will be taken up, as it is understood that a number of cards distributed by the Board for notes on the bad service has been retumed to the Secretary.
At a meeting of the Town Board on Monday a committee of five of the tax¬ payers of this place requeated the Board to approve of the fire district here and to make a contiact with the Roosevelt Water, Light and Power Company for water and 85 hydrants at $30 per hy¬ drant. The Board ordered the clerk to advertise for bids to be opened at a meeting on March 28th.
A meeting of the Bellmore  Baseball I Club will be held at Smith Bros.' store on Friday evening at 8.30.    All  mem-k bers are requested to be'present.
Last Saturday aftemoon Miss Mattie Wilmarth was tendered a birthday sur¬ prise party by a number of her friends. The afternoon was enjoyably spent in dancing, music and refreshments.
Miss Minnie Werkhauser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Werkhauser, was taken to Seney Hospital, Brooklyn, on Tuesday where she underwent an operation for appendicitis on Wednes¬ day, which was very sucbessful.
Charles Harse is about again after being confined to his home for 8 weeks with serious illness.
The cellar was dug this week for one of A. Palermo's houses on Centre Avenue.
Frank Fosmire, who some time ago published the Spectator, a newspaper in this viUage, but which later was stopped, has again commenced its pub¬ lication under the name of Bwana'Tom- bo.
Walter Raynor, Superintendent of Highways for the Town, has been or¬ dered to sell the house acquired by condemnation proceedings when Cen¬ tennial Avenue was extended.
The next regular meeting of the Fire Department will be held on the first Monday evening in April, when nomi¬ nations will be made for the officers for the ensuing year.
Royal Mollineaux is having his boat painted for the coming season. Royal says he isn't going to take the "dust" from anyone tbis year.
Edwin Gangloff of New York]"City spent Sunday at the home of his par¬ ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gangloff.
David Baldwin sr., Nick Meyer, G. Bennett Smith and Lea. Brown were seen one day this week riding about town in a new auto. It is reported that Dave sr. bought the machine, but we can not verify the report.
Misses Mattie Wilmarth and Flor¬ ence Adel are both confined to their homes with illness.
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The Ladies' Aid Society of the Pres¬ byterian Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Lattimer, Thursday aftemoon to make arrangements for a sale of fancy articles, which will be held in the near future for benefit of the church. The date will be announced next week.
Elaborate preparations are being made for suitable Easter services in the Bellmore Ave. Presbyterian Church. The congregation is being rapidly increased by the able sermons of Rev. W. H. Phraner of Garden City. A feature of the Easter exercises will be an Easter solo and "Song of the Soul" by Mrs. Louise Mitchell, of New York City.
The Rev. George Gibson, pastor of the Bellmore Methodist Church for the p>ast year, has gone to his native home in Kentucky, where he has been sent by the Church Society. The pulpit will be filled by a new minister April Ist.
Mr. David Waller, of Oak Street, an employee in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was taken to Seney Hospital last week to undergo an operation for seir- ious illness. At last report, Mr. Wal¬ ler is improving nicely and will be home in a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Sorenson of Brooklyn are stopping at Mrs. Wm. E. Bowne's.
Benjamin Smith is flagging for the L. I. R. R. Company at Valley Stream.
Work has been begun'on the founda¬ tion for the new drag store being built by Samuel Self.
Harry Apeler was in town for a short visit on Monday. He retumed to Farmingdale again where he is working.
A regular meeting^ of Advance Hook, Ladder and Engine Cotof^Dj will be held next Monday evening at 8.00 p.
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