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VOL. 1, NUMBER 20
FREBPORT AND BBLLMORS,   N. Y., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1908
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FREEPORT
BEUMORE
WAMTAGH
Elmer Raynor has retumed from Monticello, N. Y., where he has been recuperating after a long illness. He will leave Freeport witb  hi< family
Tuesday. December 8, the Ladies' Aid of the Bellmore M. E. Church will hold their annual fair at Firemen's Hall.    A  free  entertainment wHl be
for Toronto, Canada, where he expects 1 given.   They are going to try to please
to reeide permanently.
The Choral Society has postponed its concOTt to the evening of Dec. 22. at which date the Messiah will  be sung.
everyone present.
A large and appreciative congrega¬ tion greeted the Pastor at the Metho¬ dist Church Sunday evening, Nov. 29. A goodly,nuniber of men were present.
Rev. Charles H. Scholey of the Pres- j —	
byterian Church preached an excellent i Qr. C. S. Wing held the third quar- sermon, "A Present Problem, "Sunday tely Conference for the Bellmore evening, and there was a special, J^gthodist Church Sunday afternoon, Thanksgiving service under the direc-j jsjov, 29. After preaching a helpful tion of Prof. Palamountain. | aermon,   the Sacrament of the Lord's
,, , ,1 Sunper was administered.
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Robert J. Murray has returned to Freeport from Mexino. He prefers i Freeport to the South any time. j
Mrs. Jean M. Stiles' Barn Dance   atl
The apecial meetings closed Sunday night. I'he pastor was ably assisted in these services   by  the   Rev.   A.^.
Fraternity Halt takes   pjace   to-night j Bourquard of Stockholm, N. J
under auspices of the evening class.
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Rev. G. A. Gibson and Mis./Gibson were agreeably and pleasaWly sur¬ prised when Mns. George   F\   Newland
In the Methodist  Episcopal  Church Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Dr. W.
A. Richard wiil preach a sermori to j and daughter Miss Helen stopped their Young People on "My Partner and I." | car in front of the M. E. parsonage and All are cordially welcomed. | presented them with a fine turkey  and
At tho-close ol^this aervice, at 8.30, i aj] the delicacies necessary for a  corn- there will be a half-hour song  service j with "Alexander's Gospel  Songs,"   in j which  the  Baptist  and   Presbyterian i
plete and bountiful Thanksgiving din¬ ner. Besides there were numerous parcels  of groceries  and   edibles    of
congregations will join.   The object of | every kind, also a generous check, and
this meeting is to become familiar with the new music to be used in the series of Union Evangelistic Services, now being planned by the three church¬ es for January 7—25.
a card of "Greetings and  best wishes, from their many friends in Bellmore."
John Seaman received a birthday surprise party at his home last Satur¬ day when a number of hi^ jfi;iend8 jErom Wantagh, Bellmore and Smithville South landed unannounced at his Iiome for an evening's fun. It was 3 i^ m. before the crowd commenced to tiiink of home and the following day. Some of the bunch who were included in the crowd of fun-makers are JWr. and Mrs. John Kernan, Mr. and Mrs. John Ask- in, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Zeiner,, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Seaman, Mrs. Ackels, Mrs. Hunter, Mr. Keenis, Mr. and MissGarnsr, Miss Eila Gorman. Miss Edith Spates, Miss Ruth Askin, Mr. Knettle, Miss Keenis, I Mr. Keenis, Mr. Alec. Wallace, Miss : Gale, Mr. Balsi, Mr. Hunt, Mr. I Wright, and that's all, if you please.
I The Wantagh Brass Band waa or- I ganized last Monday night at the resi- i dence of Wallace Verity, with 16 j members. The officers are: Presi- I dent, Shepherd Bartholomew; Vice- I Pres., Dunham Norton; Sec'y. Grover I Siems; Treasurer, Percy Smith. The I following members were enrolled; j Bergen Seaman, Walter Ashdown, ; Raymond Corsa, Geo. Seaman, Ed. Hunt, Harry Sopet, Raymond Dean, I Henry Ultsch, jr.; Wallace Verity, j Fred Dean, Edward Hannington, ! Charles Soper. The brass band will j hold a Ball in Ultsch's Hall on Tues- jday, Dec. 15. Proceeds for instru- i ments.
Stop at Firemen's Hall Dec. Sth and j     The 5th sermon in the series admire the display of everything  use- i "Book of Job" or "The  Great
ful and ornamental to make home com fortable and house beautiful
on the Drama
I Mr. and cupy their ! for the WfhteK'
The Board of Education will hold a special meeting in the Grove St. School building Tuesday evening to allow the taxpayers to vote on the proposition to parchase a site for $8000. for a new achool building  corner  of Archer  St.
and Long Beach Ave. !	
;     (;;ap(;_    ^^d    Mrs.    Spates    had
The Women's Relief Corps  have   a j Thanksgiving  guests  Mr. and Mrs Bazaar and Fair at Main St. and   Me*- ! n. Spates,   Misses  Spates  and rick Road to-day and to-morrow.    The | Spates -ti Brooklyn, coro^ is an auxiliary of  the D.   B.   P. i .   _    ._
Mott Post. No. 527, G. A. R.
of Doubt" will be preached by theE^ps- tor in the Memorial Church next  Sun-
  j jjgy evening. Last Sunday evening tbe
Mrs.   Samuel Self will oc- i Choir repeated the Thanksgiving  mu- new  bome on Grand Ave. ' sic and a soprano solo "I know^thatmy Redeemer livfeth!^  was sting  by MtsS- Laura   Cowles,   wRich  was   much  en¬ joyed.
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The scholars of the Sunday School are rehearsing for their Christmas ex¬ ercises on Dec. 23rd.
'Obstacles" will be the morning theme of the Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey at the First Presbyterian Church. In the evening his subject will be "Short-weight."
The Willing Workers are  preparing Firemen's   Hall
The  Catholic  Club of Bellmore held a meeting at the home of H. R. Zeiner i for a reception in the this   week  when   plans were perfected | on New Year's Eve. for an invitation straw ride in January.
The Choir of the Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Prof. Palamoun- tian and assisted by other talent, will give a musical entertainment on Wed¬ nesday evening, Dec. 9, at eight o'elock. Tickets, twenty-five cents, are on sale at the drug stores. Pro¬ ceeds are for the benefit of the Sunday School's Christmas Festival.
Mr. George Wallace witl deliver a lecture before the Odd Fellows. Hemp¬ atead Lodge, to-night;^ subject. "Fa¬ therhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man as a doctrine of Odd Fellow* ship."
The Stroller's Column
I notice in Seaford at the R. R. sta¬ tion a guard fence between the tracks and a letter box on the platform, both of which are commendable in their way. *
Tuesday the first of December was ! way, on Tuesday last.
about the mildest day we've had so far, I 	
the thermometer registering 67 at 3 p. A little girl came to brighten the m. The following day there was a I home of Mr. and Mrs. George James drop, though. I on Tuesday moming.
George William and Dorothy Wilhel¬ mina, children of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse I. Smith, were baptized at the Congre¬ gational Parsonage last Sunday.
^ev. T. S. Braithwaite, with Arthur D. Southard as delegate from the local Church, attended a Council of dismis¬ sion  in   Bethany Church, Ea^t Rocka-
The Old Maids' Convention drew an ¦expeetont crowd to Opera Hall last night to enjoy the aveninr'a fun. They were well repaid and the per¬ formance could be repeated here at onee and again fill the hai). The ptay called for eiiecialties which were in¬ troduced during the evening and were well received.
The Bam Dance to-night at Frater¬ nity Hatllwill be something unique in dancing evients hereabouts.
Freeport's New Theatre
Work on Chas. A. Sigmond's new theatre on Main St. is being pushed rapidly. The huliding will have the auditorium on the ground floor, with a foyer entrance at the front. It will accommodate seven hundred people with seats, which will be of the new opera chair variety, with plenty of room for each person.
Electric lights and steam heat with proper ventilation, will insure a com¬ fortable place for the amusement lov¬ ing public who will be able to enjoy here in comfort, a carefully vaudeville performance.
A/rangements to present the latest moving pictures with popular subjects and the nevVest illustrated songs in'ad- dition to the vaudeville part of the pro¬ gram are being perfected.
The new theatre will be of the kind known as the family theatre, catering to those who wish to enjoy agood clean show without any objectionable fea¬ turea surrounding the place.
Owing to the reputation of Mr. Sig¬ mond for "doing things right" thesuc- eeu of his new venture ia piaotically aaaured.
A Bellmore lady handed me the fol¬ lowing, "for December:"
If cold December gave you birth.
The month of snow, ice and mirth. Place inwoor hand a Torqaoise blue. And Jloeesss will bless whate'er yeu dp."
There is one roan in F)%eport who makes more noise every week-day than any otber and no one objects. He's the cfa^p who touta tfae six o'clockj^whistle at the pumping staticni.
Wm. Bedell of Bellmore, who is con¬ nected with the water worics, is finish¬ ing a new dwelling at West Hemp- iftead, and likes it so well that he in¬ tends moving there soon as it is com¬ pleted.
H. L. Trubenback burns the mid¬ night oil, pardon, electricity, regularly at his residence in Freeport. He is an architect who tums out plans for every kind of a building from a poultry house to a theatre building.
MERRICK
While driving on the Merrick Road. Wednesday aftemoon, Gus. Muller and hi^s sister had a alight mishap. The horse shied, throwing both occupants to the roadway . No serious injnriee. The horse was stopped by John Doty of Smithville Sooth.
A plan is under way to form a social club among the men of the church. A meeting was called for last night at the parish house.
Horses, trucks and a car load of lumber arrived in town for work on the city water works in this section. A gang of Italian laborers are quartered in the old camp grounds and work will be started by the first.
Under the able management of  the officers and trustees the fire   company have placed  the  organization upon  a rr,,       •    • i. 13 14.    ..1. ,. I very satisfactory footing.    They have
They   insist    up  m Roosevelt,   tha  |  ^e^est flre  hall  to  be   found here- their town is the only, only, and  point \ ^^^^^^^ ^,.^^^ ^ chemical engine and   a
hook and ladder apparatus and a new addition to the fire hall is being finish¬ ed.    David Greaves is  foreman.    The
to the new dwellings going up to prove that  the  place is growing faster each ! week,   and the trolley runs every  half hour.
Braoklyn daily attributes the recent
selected ! weddings and anouncements of engage-
j ments to its being leap year but this is
nonsense   for    when    a  Long   Island
maiden decides on any particular young
man. she has a peculiar  way,   all   her
trustees are J. W. Birch, Reed Mid¬ mer, and D. Harrison. There are over forty niernbers on the rolls.
New Stainps Defective.
A defect in a new issue of two  cent stamps, 200.000.000 of which have been
 ,„    ^f  i^,.i.:„„'^ Ui.., 1^ t-u t.\.^i^ i put in circula'iou, h;i8 beon discov^ied
own. of letting him know that he be- { ^he postmaster-t-eneral. As a result longs to her. and the leap year part of ., jt^n^ nt first thought tnat thftso stamps it is entirely forgotten, and she don't j ,ivould havo to be retin d. The post- propose either. | master-general has decided otiierwise.
I The new stumps ir api^ars, do^not ecu-
BALDWIN
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
The Long Island R. R. i.« using on its regular passenger service some of the new steel vestibuMd coaches which later will be equipped for its electric lines'. These cars are the same size as the day-coaches now in use and are an improvement over  the  small  cars
Miss Ethel Carman gave a birthday party at her home Saturday night, and entertained a large rumber of friends, who remembered her with some very pretty presents. The even¬ ing was well spent in amusements of various kinds.
i used on the electric trains at
The dancing class for children and j They have wicker cross seats, adults is now established in Seaman's Hall. Information can be aecured from Mr. Seaman concerning class days and terms. It will flll a long felt want among those who wish to become proficient in dancing ^and ball-room etiquette.
present.
The Ladies' Aid meeting Tuesday ; Mr^^. John Carl.
Society  had   their t   thc  residence of
Arthur B. Wood, formerly of the Observer staflT, will shortly issue a new south-side'weekly newspaper, The Rockville Centre Herald, which owing to the hustling ability of its owner wilt probably secure a good foot-hold from the start. The Messenger wishes Mr. Wood and the Herald much success, lots of excitement, and plenty of monev.
PBIOK, B CENTS
SMITHVIUE SOUTH
A letter has been received at this office, which has been re-written and printed as follows. The correspondent expects too much evidently from the newly organized fire company, which, had it had an apparatus, would not shirk any duty it would be called upon to perform.    The letter follows:
Dear Editor: The firemen are dead slow in Smithville .South. There was a house on fire about 8 a. m. Monday and there was not a fireman to it, so I think they had better organize a com¬ pany of women for there ytkre seven of them turned out. If they had had the hose they would have put the fire out. as they didn't it burnt just the same. Nov. 30. 1908.
The- L. I. Holiness Association is. conducting Gospel Services at the M. P. Church under Rev. Hammel of De- lanco, N. J.
They have broken ground for tbe erection of several new cottages on the old James Pettit farm on .Seaman and Grand Aves.
A circular has been distributed broadcast throughout Freepart signed Bayviewites, calling the attention of taxpayers to the Bay View section of Freeport and pleading for an equal distance between school buildings in order to provide for the fast growing sections south of the track. Four sites  are  described  ranging  in   price j gpeakers
ijfter
W. Augustus Miller is now receiving taxes at his store on Grand Ave., near the depot, for School District No. 10.
from $7347 to $8600 and an by taxpayers is asked  for.
Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Oscar MacMillan Buck, B. D., Pastor. Sunday Services—Preaching service, 10.30 a. m.; Sunday School, 2.30 p. m.; Epworth League. 7.00 p. m.: preaching service. 7.30 p. ra.; prayer meetings, Thursday; Ladies' Aid Society, Wednesdifiy.
Special services in  the  Church  this
week   and    next,    except    Saturdays.
this   week:    Tuesday,   Rev.
The  residence Harrison Ave., was
of  Mr.  Buckley,   on entered  by   burg-
The concert by che Singing Society Concordia, Rockville Centre, will be given in Atheneum Hall, Thursday, Dec. 10. This will be a rr.usical event of note.    Under the direction of   Wm.
inspection I h.   W.   Munson of Hempstead; Thurs- l jday. Rev. F. A. Scofield of New  Yrok
City; Sunday, Rev. Edward Cunning¬ ham of Brooklyn. At the other ser¬ vices this week the pastor wilt preach.
lars on Tuesday night, who  got  away ! Papp thfl following will be on the   pro-
with about $500 worth jewels and dressea.
of silverware,
The Epworth League of the M. E. Church, on next Tbursday evening in the Sunday School Chapel will present the 3 act farce entitled "The Blunder¬ ing Mr^ Browo"; tickets 35c.
gramme: Miss A. Falkenmayer, so¬ prano; Theo. Hunhold, Baritone, and the Vienna Orchestra, under the leader¬ ship of M. Stock, concert master ofthe Royal Opera of Copenhagen.
Tickets are 50 cents Jeach; dancing will follow without additional assess¬ ment.
The new steel and brick ice plant of the Welz and Zerwick Brewing Co.  at
Amityvilie is about completed at a cost
Mr. Gerhold, formerly of Rockville Centre, will open on Saturday Dec. 5th, a grocery store and lunch room in
the  store   which  he   has  leased from j of nearly $60,000, including machinery.
John R. Seaman on   Grand  Ave.   near jit  will  have  a daily output of  thirty
the depot. ' tons.   The management is under Henry
  i Ploch, who has given much satisfaction
The children of Tredwell D.   Smith,  \ to those served by him and the  afTairs Stella,   Florence  and    Clifford,    have I of the company are in excellent shape.
rented the flat over Scott's Drug Store j on Grand Ave.
Beginning next Friday and continu¬ ing through the Winter regular dances will be given at Seaman's Hall, Bald¬ win, starting at 8.30 p. m., Fridays. Admission 25c. These are to be the regular dances gotten up by the young people of Baldwin and vicinity.
Bicycle thieves busy again in Massa- i pequa. Henry Kitcherer is minus a wheel which was stolen thi# week from in front of Pennell's Hotel in that sec¬ tion.
Archer B. Wallace has been in Washington D. C. this week to ar¬ range for the accommodation of the Bog Houae Hose Company, whicb or^ ganization will take part in the inau¬ gural celebraion.     ^
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form to a provision of the universal postal convention in that the value of denoniiuation is expressed in letti ra in¬ stead of in fi:^ures.
The pos'master-general ha^rnled that thi« provision is suggestive rather than obligatory.
"     ROOSEVELT
On Thanksgiving Eve. Sajpuel Self ot Bellmore. L. I., was married to Mrs. Grace Livingston of the same place, by the Rev. Chas. E. Edwards, at his home in this village; the happy couple expect to spend about two weeks here.
The pushmobile race attracted a very large crowd of enthnaiaatic apectatora in this V illage Thankgaiving moming.g A purse of 76 canta waa made up for firat prize, one of 60 cents for aecond prize and one of 26 centa for third. The cars were started one minute apart, seven being started. No. 4 first. No. 7 seoond. No. 8 third. No. 9 fourth. No. 11 fifth. No. 14 sixth, and No. 16 seventh. No. 8 won firat prize, time 8 minutes 32 seconds, team, Herbert Van Dusen and John Bier; No. 4 won second prize, time, 9 minutes, team, Frank Merritt and Clarence Chapman; No. 9 won third prize, time 9 minutes 12 seconds, team. Arthur Wood and Harry Smith; course one mile; start¬ er, Eugene Eldridge; timers, Frank A. Wood and Chas. Edwards.
Thursday, Dec. 10 th the Wa Wa Boat Club will give their dance in Firemen's Hall. There wil! also be a drawing for a sharpie.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Seaman cel¬ ebrated th« 15th anniversary of their wedding at thefr home Wednesday. May they celebrate many more such anniversaries.
Engagement of Miss Edna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Seaman, one of the popular joung ladies of this sec¬ tion, and George McKay, is announced. The wedding is to take place in June.
The dance under the auspices df the Freeport Band, Saturday, was a suc¬ cess and enjoyed by many.
Two more new houses started this week and a new comer in town in the iierson qf Chas. Whaley of Pinelawn, who has rented E. D. Seabury's new house on Cottage Place.
Over in old Flushing the volunteer firemen have been replaced by the paid department of the City of New York, who will hereafter assume at all fires in that section.
The going out of the "volys" was celebrated by a parade and banquet which marked the passing of the old and the coming of the new.    -
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the d. S. A. C, will give a Leap Year Dance and supper at Firemen's Hall, Bell¬ more, Wednesday evening. Dec. 8, '08. Dancing tickets 25c.
Mrs. Geo. Fieseler and Mrs. Gua Baldwin were guests of their sister, Mrs. Chas. Seaman, during Thanks¬ giving week.
A surprise party was tendefel Samuel Seaman by his friends at hii home, Monday evening, Nov. 30. It? was his birthday and his friends pre¬ sented him with a number of presents./ Dancing and refreshments were enjoy¬ ed.   The party broke up at a la';e hour.
Miss Adeline Perkin spent Thanks¬ giving with her sister. Miss Mary Per¬ kin.
Work on the new school building is being delayed on account of not being able to obtain readily the needed ma¬ terial.
Mrs. James Moore is on the sick list.
Dr. W. Q. Smith
Dr. W. G. Smith lias located perma¬ nently in Freeport, with offic<! and resi- denue at 62 W. Merrick Road for tho practise of dentistry. Dr. Smith sold his offlce in Oarthage, N. Y., where for twenty years he had the leading nrap- tiae, to locate on Long Island, partly to esoape the severity of tho northern win¬ ters, bnt xaaae because ho bolievos in t'he future of this locality.
He is a member of the Jefferson Oonn¬ ty Dental Society and also the Fifth District Dental Society of N.  Y.   State.
On the occasion of his departure the Jefferson Cki. Dental Society, of which organizatioil Dr. Smith is an ex-Pi esi- dent, tendered him a banquet at the Hotel ISlmhnrst at which fifteen of Ms nrofessional brethren from Lewis and Jefiferson Counties were present.
The Cartilage Club, of which Dr. Smith was a charter member and many years a din.«tor, also gave Dr. and Mrs. Smith a farewell reception.
SEAFORD
Miss Hattie Woods and Mrs. Charlea Colvin spent Saturday in the city.
Mrs. Joseph Garra, who haa been the guest of her mother, Mra. Mary Um¬ hauer, has retumed to her home in the city.
Miss Catherine Stephenson spent her Thankagiving vacation In Brooklyn aa the guest of Mra. V. McGlincey.
Mr. Jamea Moore and Mr. Samuel Hunter attended a amoker in Fte^fiot% iMt^Saturday evening. ,;
The next meeting of the BeUmore Catholic Cluh will be held at the home of Mr. Zeiner.
The following-papila were perfect in attendanoe during the montibi of N(»- vember:
Primary Department—Alfred Heck¬ er,    Arthur    Keiper,   EIrnest  Corae. Charles Smith,   Erwin von der Heydt. Frank Waring, Leon Jackson, Magaret Morrison, Katie Morrison, Helen Bopp, Ruth Bopp, Annie Beyerle, Jennie Bey¬ erle. Bertha Carman.^Della Mott,   Ma¬ rie Rath, Florence Baldwin, Jack Mur- . phy.  Willie  Pettit,   Lorenzo Carmen, Fred    Hodgson,    Howard    Schneider. Frank Colvin. The performance and dance at Y. M. j     Intermediate Department — George ] {. C  Building the 16th is for the bene- j Morrison,   Edith   Baldwin,  Margaret ' fit of Milton Updike, who recently was I Kreuzwieser.    Emma    Miller,     Elsie i a heavy loser by fire here. ' Smith, Inez Roberts.
i -        — Grammar  Department—Mary   Mur|
1     The ;.adies'Aid oP the M. E. Church phy.  Gladys  Self. Raymond  Smith«| I held    their   annual     two-days     fair | Kenneth Smith, Wilfrid von der Heyc j Wedne.sday and Thursday,  wnich  was | I voted  a  success  from   the   start.    A i
ROCKVILLE CENTRE
good crowd was on hand to buy  everj'-:
thing in sight. k -—^	
1 The Young Peoples Society of D. Clinton James, a resident here,' M. P.'Church have their oyster 8U| met with a strious accident while! to-night in.the Ch%rch Hall, walking in his sleep, Satuiday night. I HeMell down stairs, injuring his headi The Ladies'Circle. Thursday, have J and left arm. Seven stitches were planned a New England supper at the: taken in bis head. At last accounts he , Baptist Churchy He had a narmw  ea-!
was improving, cape, though.
You never see a merchant fall
Who's truly wise. The secret is no lengthy tale:
Juat advertise.-—Ex.
Reliance  Hose announce their'. for Dec. 9 and 10 at their hode
I     The Allied Boarda of Thtde ol '. Town of Hempstead have a I here to-morrow night.