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SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL  PAPER. NAS3AU  COUNTY
Vol 3, Number 19   •
Every Friday
FREEPORT AND BEIXMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. DEC. 2, 1910
$1.00 Yearly, Single 0>py 5 Cents
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Merrick | Down in the Southwest} Freeport Activity at Freeport Club
de^Vr'lUay^^he^erndin'^^^^^^^^ of   Le^e"   Fr6m|     By arrangement with Editor  M.   J.
at7:30andii8. m.^^and 7:30 p. m.     the Odd Places of New Mexico    ^LT."' T ^°"7'^- y-l
Celebrati6n of the Holy Communion at _. .. !    H"b,'    we  are  planmng to give our
the early  service and   Litany. Aarmon | By M. J. Brow., EJi».r Littl. VJl.y, N Y. H«b  i;®^*^?"  a  sketch  of  hs  trip m New •nd Holy Communion st the second ser- -    -— ?I^T  ""'^.   °'^?''   «""!''""   .F°'"'«:
vice.    The  ofTcring on Sunday will be i     I hadn't  been in Las   Vegas an hour ; Mr. Brown is an interesting writer and to defray  the  Christmas  expenses of  ^>efore a reporter   had   his  semaphore I I'^e  think   odr readers will enjoy visit- the Sunday School.   The Sunday School   against me and   wanted to know   what   '"K w^h him. meets  ifi the Parish House at 10 a. m.   I thought of the city.
1 suppose he knew I was a stranger i The trustees of the Freeport Public because I wore a black hat and smoked ; Library \yhich is housed in Public white cigarettes. I told him it was ' School No. 1 at the corner of South the best town I had seen since Trini-1 Grove and Pine streets, have undertak- dad. He didn't seem pleased, and 11 en^ campaign to raise a fund for the asked where I left the trail. But I j maintenance of a separate library had said it too soon and there was no ¦ building, use trying'fo square it. The hotel clerk Friday   but has  been changed to  suit j to't^ •"« what the bad break   was.    He
said between Trinidad and Las Vegas was a few sand towns, Wagon Mound, Shoemaker and Arriba, and the com parison was not flattering.
Bowling Contests Arranged With
Other aabs—Pinochle Party
Next Wednesday Night
Bellmore
Single'copies of the  Messenger can
be had at William  Wolfe'a drug store
: and from Anderson Bloomer, news deal-
I er, at 5 cents per copy. tf
Practice o| the Christmas carols will tie taken 4p under the direction of Mr. F. W. Settle. During Advent the Lit¬ any will be read in the Parish House on Wednesdays at 9 a. m. The Wom¬ an's Auxiliary meets in the Parish House on Thursdays at 2:30 p. m. The usual day of meeting this year has been
the greater convenience of the mem¬ bers. The Junior Auxiliary meets in the Pariah House on Saturdays at 2:30 p. m.
Wantagh
Frederick Sietz has been confined to his home with a severe cola. Frank C. Young has also been ill with an attack of indigestion.
""Next Sunday evening Rev, .T. S. Braithwaite,' paator of the Memorial Church will preach the fourth sermon in the course on the Lord's Prayer; topic, "Our Dally Bread."
Freeport, Rockville Centre and^Ami-; Christmaa serVicetf at the Bellmore tyville clubs have formed a bowling j Presbyterian Church will be held league to bowl for a cup; same to be | Christmas night, Sunday, Dec. 25, at retained by the club winning at thei 7:45 o'clock. The permanent pasfbr, first year.    Following is tbe schedule: i Rev.     L.    N.    Jones,     will    preach
Amityvilie vs. Rockville Centre,   at j an  appropriate   sermon    and    special _^
Amityvilie, December 8.    ^ j music has been arranged by Mr. Harry } King'"s' DVughtetVon'WednMday a~fter-
Amityville vs. Freeport,   at   Free-  R.   Zeiner, organist  and ^choirmaster,   noon at her home, port, December Ifi. Mrs.   Louise  Mitchell  of New   York
Rockville Centre vs. Freeport, at City will sing a soprano solo. All ard Rockville Centre, December 22. ] welcome.    Seats free.
Amitvville -vs.   Freeport, at Arwity
llo     Donomhoi. OQ V'
Mrs.   Helen   Allen   entertained the
The present public library was start- . ,^_^   ,
ed about fifteen yeas ago and comprises  ville. December 29. V^    j     School taxes are now due.   Collector
a  collection of between three and four j     Rockville  Centre,   vs.    Freeport, at j George M. Newland gives  notice   that thousand  volumes.    It  is  kept in the I I'^reeport January 5, 1911. ; he  will   be  at  his residence, MerrKck
puti^jjc school building and is under the I     Amityvilie vs. Rockville  Centre, at 1 road, any day, Sundays excluded,  from One  m"usti8U^^rvision->of  a  Library  Board who j Ro<=kville Centre, January 10. ! 9  a.   m.   to  4  p. m., to receive same.
The regular business meeting of tbe Hook, Ladder and Engine Co. waa held on Thursday \ evening in the Truck House.
Ground was broken on Monday for the new house to be erected by Mr. A. Clarkson on Byron road near the lake. Freysted of Brooklyn is the contractor.
Mrs. Elenora Lisankowa, residing with her daughter, Mrs. Valentine on Park avenue, North Merrick, died on Sunday after a lingering illness of cancer of the liver, age 63. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, the Rev. Wm. H. Littebrandt, Rector of 'the Church of the Redeemer, officiat¬ ing.    Interment was at Greenfield.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cammann are enjoying a two or three weeks' visit to Havana, Cuba.
The Rev. Frederick L. Plinchbaugh, rector of Calvary  Church,   Cincinnati,
have  an open season mind readers'   li-jare  appointed   by   the  School  Boarl. j     Rockville  Centre  vs.    Freeport,   at  The rate this yea^r i^ 50c per $100. cense   to  please  these   rival town pa-H^  is the opinion of the Library Board   Amityvilie. January 19. m. ...      • \u    n -• «
'      ^  ...   -.. ... Rockville  Centre vs. Amityvilie,  at      The reception in tbe Bellmore   Pres
Freeport, January 27.
Amityvilie  vs.   Freeport,   at  Rock¬ ville Centre, February 2. '
from the mountains, and the old fellow remarked:
"Up in Iowa we pay big money for ditches to carry the water away; down here they spend millions for ditches to bring it in."
The people are land crazy and water crazy. There are irrigating com¬ panies,   land  companies,   development
was the guest over Monday njghtot his ! f'?'"P»T«'~-<=°-''Pf*^'^«<=<""P»"'«8--^" college  chum,   the  Rev.   William   h. ^'"i'^ °f'^"'"P^^'^f v^"*"®"" **'®^''"*'"«
triots. ' that if the Public Library could be sep-
I took a street car as far aa it went, ¦ arated from the public school it would then jumped into a Mexican cart and j attract more patronage and become 1 rode several miles into the country. | more used by the residents of Freeport. And when I had climbed a sand, butte j At a recent meeting of the trustees] overlooking Las Vegas, I found anoth-! the following committee was appointed er traveler had beat me to it. He wai i to raise a fund of one thousand dollars an    old    German    from    Iowa.      We ' with  which   to equip and maintain for
watched   a  gang of  Mexicans  and  a'one year a library building;   Henry P. !     August Reimert has bought a plot of dredge  cutting  irrigation  ditch down i Libby,   Albin N. Johnson and  Samuel j land   100x300 on the south side of Je-
Hempstead
Littebrandt.
Mr. and Mra. P. K. Jennings will take up their residence at the Renais- aance. Fifth avenue, Manhattan, on Monday but will keep their home open here for week-end Visits when the weather is not too severe.
The monthly meeting of Merrick Hook and Ladder Co. N. 1 will be held in the hall on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. W. H. Bowne and Miss Bowne left on Tuesday to spend the remaind¬ er of the winter in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Curtis Bowne and family have gone to live in Brooklyn until the mid¬ dle of March.    _^
The Men's Club basketball team, Mr. James Mulcahy, mana'ger, has ar¬ ranged thus for the following schedule: Dec, 6.. Smithville South A. C. at Smithville; 18th, Hempstead High School, at Merrick; 23rd, Freeport Hign School at Freeport; 29th, Copiapue, at Merrick; Jan. 6th, and 18tn, Freeport at Merrick. Other games, it is expected, will be arranged with Oceanside. Lynbrook, Smithville South and the Southside High School at Rockville Centre. To all games played in MerricK an admission fee ot ten cents will be charged. The team will be a very light one this  year  but
to develop and reclaim the land, others to separate a man from his money.
It seems to me that nature was more wise than the man where years ago this part of the country waa heaved up to cool off, and wait for land agents and Missourians. From Pueblo south for hundreds of miles there lay millions of acres, as level as a floor and fair to the aye—waiting for a time when crowd¬ ing men shall devise a means to liiake them produce. And there these acres lay, wanting but water to make the deep, rich soil produce anything and everything. And when our elbows be¬ gin to touch and necessity demands more mom and more produce, then will the means be forthcoming
$300 already promised.
The secretary of the Board has been directed to write to Andrew Carnegie inquiring as to whether his old offer still holds good. This offer was that Carnegie would give $10,000, $15,000 I or $20,000 for tbe erection of a build¬ ing, the village to furnish a suitable site for the structure and maintain the library.
For the first time since Chief Van Riper's double alarm system went into effect several months ago the entire department was called out to fight a fire Sunday evening.
Shortly after 7 o'clock the fire whis¬ tle blew alarm 17, corner   Randall and Long Beach   avenuei?.     Vigilant  ^ose „ Co. No. 2, Excelsior Hook and   Ladder
"All this country needs is water," is Company No. 1 and Bay View Hose the observation you will hear every- | No. 3, responded and arrived in the where, and coming from the east end j order named. The large cottage on of this dump of a country, where the j Long Beach avenue at the end of Rus- rain falls on the just and unjust every ten days. I can't help but come back at
R. Smith. Their idea is to rent a j rusalem avenue, and two plots 70x200 building for the next few years until a each on the west side of Uniondale permanent home for the books  can be ] avenue, from August J. Burkard.
secured. 1	
Each of the three men have   already i   ~Mt. and  Mrs.   V.   Mollineaux have raised  a considerable   amount  toward | been at Saranac for a few weeks.
the  total  wanted and Mr. Smith   said I "*	
ih speaking of the subscriptions last | The profit of the bazaar held by the night   that he had between   $200   and i Ladiea' Society of the German Luther^
an Church is $481.38.
John R. McLean has purchased the Herman Lasche farm fronting on Jeru¬ salem aveune. East MeadQW.
The Board of Town Auditors have completed their work for the year. The total amount of "laima fpr the past year aggregate $40,904.96, $4,345.09 less than last year.
: byterian Church last Friday evei 1 ig, tendered to the new pastor. Rev. L. N. Jones, of Brooklyn, was largely attend¬ ed, being a great succees. An elabor¬ ate supper was served, after which speeches were made by Rev, Thomas S. Braithwaite of Wantagh Memorial Church, Rev. Mr. Scholey, pastor of Freeport Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Mr. Kerr of Hempstead and others, which were very interesting and enjoyed by all in attendance.
Regular services in the church next Sunday evening with Sunday School in the afternoon. These services are he- coming more popular every week. Everyone is invited to attend.
Last Saturday evening a fire was dis¬ covered in the grass in the rear of the old horse shed at the depot by Town- send G. Smith, who quickly gave his assistance in extinguishing the blaze. Looks like some more work of firebugs. Had the shed burned the loss would have been little, oWing to its dilaoi- dated condition, but all efforts could not have kept the flames from spread¬ ing to the depot, owing to the heavy north wind blowing that night.
Ground was broken on Saturday last fur a Pa^sh House to be built in the rear of tbe Memorial Church. The building will be of frame 70x23 ft. with brick foundation; it will have an 8 ft. basement, over nhich will be an auditorium of ample size. Ansel Ray¬ nor is t'.ie builder.
An examination under the   direction i     .. ,  ,,      ^,     ,     „,    ^
of the United States Civil Service I ^^- »"^ ^rs. Charles W. Lawmas- Commission will be held in Hempstead j !,^r„I'l^^_T_T„ ^u^.'!°°}}r.-J°L *^! on   December  10, 1910, for the   posi
tions of clerk and carrier in the post office service. Application blanks, in¬ struction to applicants and further in¬ formation may be obtained of George F. Smith, at the Hempstead post office.
winter  months, the spring.
They  will return   in
theA With the old retort that that is all hades needs.
Men come here in hundreds from the east and middle west, attracted by the cheap lands  and  the  Santa  Fe's  pic¬ torial  folders.    Tney  come  here with a little money to  try   "dry   farming" {and   they  go    back    with    a    prairie i schooner  and    sad    experience.      For ')\er three hundred days in the year the I bun beat? down,   with   never  a  cloud, j with never a drop of rain fall. !     Cut I didn't come here to write  you
sell Place, owned by William Bartow, j question of our day. Labor Conditions jr., was all ablaze in the rear, from industrial Accidents, Mrs. Powell. In- cellar  to  attic.    The firemen  went to i dustrial Betterments,  Mrs.   S..edeker.
The Bellmore Social Club announces a  masquerade  and   civic ball at Fire¬ men's Hall this village, on the evening of Wednesday, December 21.   This so- { cial  club is composed of several of our On  December  15th the   Hempstead ; popular young men ot the village,   and Woman's ^Club  wiH^ dUcuss a leading i they are sparing no pains to make this " "~ " '"'     "   '" ¦' affair a success.    Handsome prizes will
Number and Character of the Unem¬ ployed, (a) causes for Unemployment, (b) Methods of Relief,  Mrs. Geer.
work with a will and as soon as Chief Van Riper arrived he saw that they had to contend with a stubborn fire and called out the other two companies, Wide Awake Engine and Ever Ready Hose Co. No. 1. ¦      i •
After fighting the fire   for about an '¦ '"«'*»"«  arrangements hour,   the   blaze was   finally   exting
the   features of the
!     The   ladies of the M. E. Church  are
for their   Fair
" I and Supper to be held on the afternoon
uFslied.'but noruntiTafter"considerable | ^!:''l''_^"i"?°.^"_^^!":'.^^'" l^P'^I;. P"^ damage was done to the building.   Ow¬
ing to the large quantity of water that,   .,
had to be used,   damage  to  the  walls I ^,^^ ,
church
it  gives  promise of being speedy.    It    , ,     .      , j     ¦ ^ «..,.¦ .- :, ,
is to be hoped that  the  Lnager  will' °^'"?'^J^'"^^^'!'"T^^" f "^'^",*^*     I and furniture was considerable
not  permit  his  men to play any team '     '   '«^'  *^^  ''•^'"   ^."% »   get  the ; The origin of the fire cannot   be ac-
which may be presented but insist that! '^'T*'^   °"-  °'  % ^^'^ °^ ^''*"" If^^  «=T'^^ f'"' ""u*""; .^^'to*   was in the
the weight agreement be fulfilled which:""''    ^^t   «way   from   Harvey  eating I cellar only a short time before the fire
of  the   features of the   Fair will be a
Remembrance    Table,"    containing
from   former   members of the
Also a Fancy, Candy and Ap
be awarded to ladies and gentlemen ap- peaing in best costume. This will be tbe first dance given in the fire hall since last March, and no doubt will be largely attended.
Next Monday evening a meeting of Advance Hook, Ladder andiEngine Co. will be held at 8 o'clock, when officers for the ensuing year will be elected. A lively meeting is anticipated by the members of the company.
Contractor Stanford  Smith   ia  pro- ron tables. Country Store and "Needle! gressing rapidly with the work on   the
he  has   made in arranging the games. This   is   the  only  way   to  reduce the chancea of bodly injury to a  minimum and   to conserve the reputation  of  the ! team.
  1
Snhtll barrels were given to each one | in attendance at the Sunday School of j the Church of the Redeemer on Sunday.
in the Haystack" wiil prove attrac¬ tions. Supper will be -served at 6 o'clock.
"BABY MINE" AT DALyS. The old saying   that /'good  thirjgs
houses for twenty-four hours—a day i was discovered, to attend his furnace off to get my appreciation to working , The fire apparently started in the lower for the wonders and ruins of the wierd portion of the house and the blaze fol- old olacea that I will soon visit ! lonfed  up the.   sidewalls   to  tne   attic
But  odd  spots  and ^trange  people j where   the   dry   shingles  of  the roof j improve  with   age"   miist have been
may be found anywhere in New Mexico | quickly caught fire. *      | written with "Baby' Mine," Margaret
and Arizona. i     Mr,   Bartow  esimates  his   loss    at | Mayo's   uproariously   funny  tarce  in
Last winter, from the mountain Mex-1 $2Q00 on the house and at  least $1000,1 view.    "Baby Mine" is now in its sec-
_  ^      ican hamlets sDuth of Toas, I wrot«* an jon furniture.    He wishes to thank   the | end century at Daly's, New   York, but
They are kno^n as Adveti' barrelsTnd'*'"'^''^'* °^ ^^^^ ^^"'*®"*'^*' '*'"'^''¦^"^^i^ ^°'"  **'^''' efforts  to save hiu j there are no evidences of waning iiiter-
are given td the members of the school i''^"''"^ ^®'^'^*^°''«^'"K  Flaggellants  of! building and   says  they certainly  did j es, and big audiences   continue nightly to hold their offerings which are  made  ?:^°"   *^, A™"'<=*"«, ''""*   "^'''^'^-I fi"« w"'^*'- 0
from now up  to  the  Christmas  exer-r*""''"^^i'J*^^"T''°""'^u".^*'® *'^"'I .	
cises on Dec. 28th for carrying on the!^""*' """ I saw them at their pagan j A Progreshive Five Hundred party mission work in the Archdeaconry of I ntes—and I drank the poison that was will be held at the Freeport Club House Queens and Nassau.    The main idea is I '"tended to stop my investigations. next Wednesday evening, D?cember 7.
that erth barrel shall he a  family  re-1 ^ "ad supposed and learned that only |The   co*bmittee  says: "Our   previous
new house of James E. Goode on   Bt 11 I more avenue and hopes to have  it  en¬ closed   before the rough  weather  sets in.    ^Vhen completed the building will be 20x30.   with  an  extension    8x15. Let the good work go on.    Each build- ! ing of this kind helps  to  increase  the i size and population of the village, and we have lots of room.
eeptacle and represent the gift of each   '"   the remote mountain hamlets  were | efforts at cards have  indeed been most
toNbubble  over with  merriment in fol lowing   its   excruciatingly   funny epi¬ sodes.    "Baby Mine" has been  called ,.       ,,        » .     .   r>  •.      j "tbe funniest farce ever written," and  ""™''*''.?^^°"Al'''''"fl .^*'L""1."I" it deserves its reputation.    A night at
Charles E. Frost  and  family  spent last week with friends in the city.
1500 More Commuters
There  ia  an iacrease of 1,457 in the
Daly's with "Baby Mine," as preaent¬ ed  by Marguerite  Clark,   Ivy   Trout-
i-      particular  family  to the  cause.    The'iu^®   Mexicans  allowed'Jto    practice | successful and have afforded a splendid | man,  John Glendinning,   Walter J
their wonderful  fanaticisml-the  most j opportunity   for  a  pleasant   evening, shall   in  some  way  earn  the    money ! !!;"I?,'i*'"'^.L^"^_ **/"]  1". *V*^'V'l'fed wish of your com
which
year from „,„„„      ,«„_..„ .» . «.
moat fascinating game and is enjoyed by many, more than euchre or other card gamea."
idea  ia that each possessor of a barrel
in  some  way  earn  the    money u    •   i x c j *u ..   • l. lv     -   »      i
is deposited.    The offering  last *«"•'«—^ut I find that right h^e in Las | niittee that thia occasion may even sur-
¦om this source amounted to about l^^l^' "'""?«' ''^.^'^^^ "^ f'"'.!* ^^'^^ ! pa= $25.00.    The Rector has suggested that I b'^cks  of  American   capitalika,   this
this year $30.00 be the goal «''^°f b^b"'"" o^ t^e MiddU  Ages
- IS still  practiced^ .and men who are
Tbe Merrick G.jn Club held a shoot on Thanksgiving Day with a small at¬ tendance of raer.ibars and a poor score. The Club has not been shooting aa fre¬ quently this year as last. The scores were: Reed Midmer, 16; Ernest Mil¬ ler, 14; Sannuel Bartow;'lj8 and Edw. Miller, 10.
American citizena, men who serve aa jurors and try white men, men who will soon be recognized under a new state aa a part of our Union—these men still SI orge themselves, flog their naked backs with quirta until the blood drips [from their heels; cany loads of cifictua aridUcroBftes, lie^on cac¬ tus beds and perform these eelf-ior- turea that are incredible and almoat un-
.Mr. Richard P. Kent^ate with  the       . Cbic«g9*Ne«ap%per Union ia now oon-: «>«l»ev«ble.
 Ljg.,—^ And leaa than a dozen milea ontaide
(OantinBed oo page 4.)
(continued on page 8)
and   the   other clever  playera  in the cast, ia a tonic.
i muters this month over the number for November, '1909. The number tbis ye&r is 10,653; last November it was 9,196. The gain is nearly ICpercent and ia looked upon as an indication of the rapid growth of Long island. ^
The gain by Divisions is as followa: 1.344 1,027 327 8,170    2,816    855
Wilbur D. Rider of Wallace street was the victim of a very painful acci¬ dent Sunday evening. Rider was on his way to Lynbrook on a train of the L. I. R. R.   When the train neared the      _ _
Lynbrook station he aroae and placed , j;^"iu"bright'and "joyoua' aide," and hia band againat the jam of an open ^hile there are linea and aituationa door. As the train swung around the | thai bring the team, there are othera curve in front of the sUtion the catch that furnish comedy that ia irre^iatible. That l>oWa open the door gave way and i jt i. all very aVeet and homely.
"MOTHER" AT THE HACKETT.      SJonteur The  hold   that "Mother"   baa upon j i<]orth Shore the thinking element   among the thea-1 par Rockaway tre-going public is remarkable, and the ; Rockaway Beach   > Hackett   Theatre, New York,   contin-1 Hempstead Branch ues  to attract large and appreciative j Oyster Bay Branch audiences   to aee Julea   Eckert   Good- j Wading River Branch 429 man's beautiful play of home- life ifnd j Atlantic avenue maternal   Jove.     "Mother"   has   its | j^^g Beach heart tugs and ita tragedy, but it also Manhattan Beach
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450
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483
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642
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385
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A4v«rtla«  in C«arylie«ly*s CalHinn
Send «a $1 aadgal fAm Msiiwagir till .Ian. 1, 1912. TW Mrwdlaat va«Mr m ihm t«wB.   ,
The annual f&ir of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Memorial Chiirch waa held in the convenient hall of the Mu¬ tual Association of Tuesday afternoon and evening. Despite>the disagreeabe weather the fair was a succcess, though it would have been much more largely attended had the weather b^en favorable. A fine supper was served. The following ladies presided at the tables:
Delicatessen — Mrs. Helen Allen, Mrs. Frank Place, -Mrs. Charles W. Abrams, Mrs. T. S. Braithwaite.
Dining Room—Mrs. John H. Davis, Miss Sutherland, Mrs. Van Nostrand, Miss Elizabeth Seams, Miss Stella G. Failing,' Miss Flora Mae Gee, Mra. Chas. bchafer.
Fancy Table—Mrs. John T. Cowles, M>as Emma Mott. Mrs. E. J. Seaman, Mrs. Wilbur Southard.
Utility Table—Mra. Frederic Seitz.
Aprons—Mrs. W. A. Seaman, Mrs. A. D. Southard.
Magazines—Mrs. Frederic Kropp.
Candy—Mrs. Rhoda Jackson, Mra. J. J. Fussell.
Novelty Table—Mrs. Birdsall Jack¬ son, Mrs. A. E. Hunt.
Ice Cream—Miss Florence Seaman, Mis« Lillian Abrams.
A large congregation assembled in the Memorial Cnurch last Sunday eve¬ ning to greet the members of the Hook and Ladder and Engine Co. and Willing Workers of Smithville South. The pastor welcomed the guests of the evening and referred in his sermon to the good work of this fine department and the progressive spirit manifesting their work. A committee of the offi¬ cers of the Wantagh Hook and Ladder and Engine Co. acted as nahera. The music by the choir and solo by Misa Laura Cowles were much appre¬ ciated. 	
On Thanksgiving Day the Gun Club held a clay pigeon shoot. There were not many members present. The fol¬ lowing are the scores made: Claaa A— William Dean, 21; Jamea M. Seaman, 21; W. Ashdown, 19; W. Schultz, 19^, Class B—Elliott Van Nostrand,. 16; Harry Braithwaite. 16; George Smith, 12; J. J. Fueseil. 9; Wiil Garner. 9. In Class A Will Dean and Jamea Sea¬ man were tied and they had to shoot off in'wbich Will Dean won. In Claaa B, H. Ultsche, E. Van Nostrand and H. Braithwaiie were tie and H. Ultsh won in the shoot off. This was a very interesting shoot, there being so many that tied the score.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jackson moved into their new residence on Wantagh avenue on Monday last.
Decides Long Beach Case
Justice Putnam, in the Supreme Court in Mineola, Wednesday decided that the town of Hempstead never owned the strip of outer beach at Long Beach, which the town sold three yeara ago to former State Senator William H. Reynolds and hia associates for de¬ velopment ..urposes. Before 1870' there waa a continuoua beach at Long Beach. Then the sea forced the inlet, and John L. Lawrence and the town of Hempstead went to law. In 1894 th« Court of Appeala defined tfae Lawrence righta as tbey then existed. Tbe ot^ter beach, afterward built op by theoeoan, i>ext came into controversy.
The atrip sold to Reynolds waa tfare« and a half milea long and ia 2,000^ feet wide at the wideat point The atrip by Justice Putnam's decision falltfsinto tbe ownership of the Lawrencea, bead- «d by NeWbold T. Lawrence. Vaey claim all that the sea builds np thcwe in the way of an outer beach. The Reynoida iotereats aay they will appaal the caae.—Preaa.