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SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, NASSAU  COUNTY
OFFICIAL PAPER, FREEPORT VILLAGE
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Vol 4, Number 10
Every Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. SEPT. 29. 1911
$1.00 Yeariy, Single 0>P7 5 Cents
Merrick
Miaa Petrina Burn is attending  the 1 Teaebera' Training School at Jamaica. '
Services at the Charch of the Re-1 deemer Sunday, the sixteenth after | Trinity, at 7:30 and 11 a. rd. and 8 d. ; ta. Celebration of the Holy Commun- j ion at the aarly service. Litany, cele-: bration of the Holy Communion and ! aarmon at the 11 o'clock service. The | Somny Sehool meets in the Parish < House at 10 a. m. The Woman'a Aoi- \ iliary will resume its meetings for the i year 1911-1912 on Thursday aftemoon in the Pariab House at 2:30. On Son- j day the annaal offering will be received ' ior "General Miaaiona." A cordial' invitation ia extended to all to attend the aeryices of tbis charch.
Red Cross Seal Not Abolished
.fieUmore
At bis  little home on  Mill   Road, , I where he had reaided since 1859 (fifty-
No Official Order IlSUed—New De-1 **<>   years)    Foater   Smith,   aged   75
years, one of our oldest and highly re¬ spected citizens, died at about 7 o'clock on Friday evening last from cancers, with which he had suffered for about two years. He had suffered great pain daring the; laat few months and was unconacioua for aome time before death. Mr.   Smith   vfaa   born on   May 10,
sign will be Used—Agents Every Sute
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Miss Florence Hewlett ia viaiting her aiater, Mrs. Allen Beetham, of Baltimore.
"Not only will tbe sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals be continaed this j year, but will be carried on along I broader lines, and will be larger and I more comprehenaive than ever befoie," aays Dr. Livingston Farrand, Execu- ' tive Secretary of The National Aasoci- ! action for the Study and Prevention of I Tuberculoaia, in a atatement issued yeaterdav by the Press Bureau of that \ orgainzation.
I Dr. Farrand denies abaolutely the i atatefiienta whicb have appeared rec¬ ently to the effect that Poatmaater General Hitchcock had fo^bidden^ the ; sale of Red Cross Seala.
No  official
The regular monthly and annual! order haa been issued on thia matter," meeting of the Merrick Hook and Lad-; aaya Dr. Farrand. "On July lat the der Co., No. 1, will be held in the Fire ' Post Office Department decided that Hall on Tueaday right at 8 o'clcok.       ! they coold no longer carry mail matter
 . i which bore stamps or seals   which   re-
Poatmaater J. W. Birch installed a aembled postage stamps. Our deaign new aafe  on Thursday   to replace   the  of the Red Croaa   Seal,   however,   has
one injured by the robbers who entered the office recently.
The Rev. Wm. H. Littebrandt re¬ turned on Wedneaday from a two weeka' atay in the White Mountaina at Bethlehem, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Littebrandt returned at the aame time from a ten daya' visit at Little River, Conn,	
"Arboriculture" givea us a few hints which   may be valaable t"   some of us
been approved definitely by Postmast¬ er General Hitchcock and the De¬ partment, and it does not come within the prohibitions of this order of July lat. It hardly looka aa if we were go¬ ing to abandon the aale, when we have already placed the order for the print¬ ing of fifty million aeals and for large quantities of advertising matter.
"The Red Cross Seal this year will be from a new deaign drawn by an ar¬ tist in Waahington, D. C. Every effort has been   made   to   get
FOSTER SMITH
Ex-Overseer of Poor-Elected in 1878, which office he held 9 years.
j 1836, on the   place  now   occupied   by I Arragot   Pasch on   Newbridge   Road, far ' "^^e house was later torn  down and he i a three-eighth acreen.
*!!i! l"':^"ili'"i.,*il".?:..^."»!'"!, k"; ; a^aVfi-omlhe c'onvTntio^nardearjn 'of! [".°Z*l.!'.!i:-^''u.?'"-*'' *.?-.--!- ''°'!'*.
sons rake the leavea into piles and burn I them, thia being the eaaicst method of | ^ ,
disposing o' them. There are few lo¬ calities, however, where theae aame leavea  would  not have   been of great
possible.    The
ill   depict   a   very  pretty
winter acene.    In the lower right hand
corner   will   appear   a -snow-covered
... J,   ,   ....     ».    , house with a   pine   tree,   alao   snow-
-!M*^Vi.'-"V'u^'?^A",. 1° f?u!"!!„.u! I covered, in tlie foreground.    The acene
ia at night and the windowa are light¬ ed. In the background are trees and In the upper left hand corner will appear a email red crosa.    The entire deaign   is  enclosed
soil.    Tbe richest lands are the  newly
cleared forests where the accumulation
of leavea  haa maae it fertile,   and the j gnow-canoed hilla
pooreat lands are thoae from which the | i,„„j\,„«i!,_ „:ii
leavea  and annual grasses are  burned
over   each   year to diapose   of   them.
Sandy soils, aays the paper, and that's
as.   especially   are infertile,    becauae
there   ia   no  bumua   present.    Theae
leaves would aoon   enrich  auch  sands
now occupied by Mr. Enters, the watchmaker, at Smithville South, where he reaided for a number of \ears. He attended achool at Smith¬ ville South in the building which now atands on Wantagh Road, which haa been uaed as a polling place for a num¬ ber of years and at that time atood on the aite of the Smithville South Fire Hall. The place waa then called Shackle Point.
Does Father Knick Buy Inferior Gravel
Charges Made Against G>ntractors
at Freeport Haye Raised
the Qnestion
Th« interesting qnestion has been raised, Is New York City apending milliona of dollara for inferior gravel? It was raiaed yeaterday aa a reault of teatimony introduced at a pablic hear¬ ing held in Freeport last Tharsday and overlooked at the time.
Laat spring the village of Freeport appropriated $50,000 for gravel to lay on ita roads and awarded part of the contract to the Henry Steers Company of No. 17 Battery place, Manhattan. Another contract waa given to the John J. f leniing Company, also of New York. After aome of the gravel had been laid, George £. DeGroat, superintendent of the Steers Company, told the Village Trustees that the ma¬ terial furnished by the Fleming Com¬ pany was not up to specifications and a public meeting was called to thrash the matter out.
At this meeting Alfred J. Taulley, counsel for the Fleming Conipai y, brought out the fact that Columbia and Cornell universities possess the only apparatua in this part of tbe coun¬ try for properly testing gravel and then produced a test made by James S. MacGregor, an expert of Columbia, showing that tbe Fleming product was superior to that furnished by the Steera Company. According to this test it was ahown that but 52.3 per cent of the Steers gravel remained on whereas 75 per
Freeport
Single eopiea of the Messenger can be aecured at Greenblatt'a news store on Railroad Avenue or Kiefer's, Main Street. tf
Hempstead Bay Yacht- men Proud of Their Mascot
While cats are generally looked upon as ordinary animala, useful in the main for catching mice or rats, the El¬ der ialand-Hempstead Bay Yacht Club peaaeaaea one known as "Chub" which, by ita cleverneaa in performing stunts and ability to swim is looked upon as a wonder. "Chub", who by the way is 8 young St. Thomaa,  born   last  Sit.
There waa a amall attendance at tbe the meeting of the Village Improve¬ ment Society Tuesday evening in Fra¬ ternity Hall.
Charles  G.   Hill,   A. A.   Sealy  and i Ernest Randall were appointed a com¬ mittee  to take   care of the mfttter of the   rates of the telepbone   comnany <-,...,,   r., ,        , ,    ..
trotn   this and   other   villagea to New | ^"*f,"='' ' ^?,^'J.?^ ^T^^ }° ^I'f ^ "^ YjijIj •* jby Mrs. C. B. Milbank,   of   211   Pine
Secretary Eliiaon reported that at | St«et. Her huabano ia a prominent the preaent time petitiona are before ! '"e"\be': of the yacht club. "Chub" the Public Service Commiaaion aaking I ?'" *"'',^" ^ ^}^ '^'"^ ^°"«« "«" P°l"* for lower rates for gaa here. | Lookout Beach on the bay  along with
the meeting there  waa con-   ^'^ mother  "Keeea" to nd the  place diacuaaion on the matter of I ^^ "?'<=« t?'^ '.?*« .""'^ ^^^ P^l'^ '^'^ **>«":
During siderable
with a heavy red circle. The year is expreaaed in Roman numerals. The only other worda on the aeal are, "American Red Creaa, Merry Chrisi- The corners
cent of the Fleming stone adhered. The city specifications demand that 76 per cent be retained to insure that the atone will pack properly and wear well. J. V. BurgeviA, Superintendent of Parka in the Bronx, testified that the Steera gravel is uaed by the city. While there is nothing to show that the Steera Company furnishes New York with the aame quality of gravel aent to Freeport, it remaina a fact that thia city has no wav of properly not   know
!"l.'!'"'l! J„^!!!l„i'***l°l'''*i„„h*"!!' I if the aeal, which will be  aquare,   are
Town Board
piled in aome corner soon decay and may then be uaed as a top dreaaing perhaps with the addition of some con¬ centrated manurea. The kitchen gar¬ den   will   also   be  improved   by' the
leavea, while burning all the  valuable |
in white, thua giving the   effect of circular seal when it is affixed to   let¬ ters and packages.
"It ia very important that overy one I bear in mind that the Post  Office   De-
Aftor leaving school Mr. Smith took [ making its t^ata and   doea up the trade as carpenter which he fol-1 vvhat it is getting.—World lowed  until about 2 years   ago,   when ' his   poor   health forced him to retire. He was also conaidered one of the best carpenters in thia vicinity.
At the age of 23 yeara, in 1859. he was married to Sarab White, who also resided in this locality, and at that time built the houae on Mill Road in which he died.
and paaa away into the atmoapbere.
Mra.    Lord   and family   retarned to their home in Baltimore today. 1
,     .    , ,^   .  . partment will not   carry   any   lettters i,. Mr.   Smith  was a hfe-long  Repub-
chemicala   are   converted   into   gases u^3^i     t,,^^ ^^^,3 ^^ ^„y  ^t^,   „„„.; hcan and on April 2, 1,875  waa elected .... „... „.„.., .. „ »K. „.„....i.„,»       I p^^^^^^ ^^^^p^ ^^^ ^^^  ^^^^   ^^  ^^^ , to the office of Overaeer of the Poor of
letter.    Red   Croes   Seals   may    and
ahould be placed on the back of letters I and packages.
I "Agenta for the aeals of Red Croaa i Seals hava now been appointed in ; every large atate of the United Statea.
More territory   will   be   covered  thia ' year, and more agents   will sell  aeala
than ever before.    We need and  want
a million dollars from the aale of Red 'Cross Seala In 1911."
Hempstead
The Daughtera of Isabella will hold a euchre and reception next Wednes¬ day. Oct. 4 at the Knights of Colum¬ bus Hall, Front street.
George Powell of the lecal freight' station is apending a month's vacation i traveling through the west.
Miss Loretto   Bacigalupo -^f Clinton
Marriage Licenses
Sept. 15»—Jonathan   and   Annie  K.
R:nk. both of   Garden   City   Ektatea.
I      Street, is attending  the  girls'   achool  They were married on the aame day by
^      at Far Rockaway. -      -   -   --
Rev. H. B. Munson in Madiaon Street,
Brooklyn. !
Sept. 16—Abram   C.   Williams  andi
I Alen May Nichola, both of Hempatead. '¦
They were married by the same aiin-1
ister aa the former couple on  Septero-
I ber 21. / {
!     Sept.    17—Jan    Chrabotonski    and:
I Kathryn Babinske, both of Heirpstead. t
i    They were married on the same  day |
j by Rev. Francis Wilamowski of Ftoral j
{ Pnrlr I
The Board of Trustees have entered i ""• ,„ pko.i— m n.-f «fi into an agreement with the Cathedral i A,?r^*,„,l^~J MnHr«l *' R?r~n nJ i Avenue Realty Co. foV an extension of I Amityville and Mildred A.   Bergen  of I
the   water   maina on Atlantic   Street r"*P°"-^,_,    ^.. _.    .
from Hilton Avenue to St. Paul's Road      Anna Westenberger and Leon Stark, and alao two other amall streeta.    The  ^°**' °' V*"«y Stream.
Mr. and Mra. S. Alonzo Smith have' been apending two weeka on the east- '¦ ern end of tbe Island.
Cyril E. Marahall, engineer, is to | make a map of the sewerage system, showing the location of all the mains, manboles, flush tanka and other appur¬ tenances.
tho town which position he held for nine consecutive years, and we are in¬ formed by people who remember back that far, that he gave entire satisfac¬ tion to the people, duing all in hia power to assist those in poor circum¬ atancea, wh ch made for him a boat of frienda.
Besides a wife he is survived by 9 children, € daughters and 3 sons. They are Mrs, A. L. Brown. Bellmore; Mrs. John Combs. Freeport; Mra. George Birch. Freeport; Mrs. George Raynor, Freeport; Mrs. Melvin Smith, Free- port; Mra. Bert Terry, Amityville; Wallace Smith, Freeport;. George W. Smith and Wilbur Smith, Bellmore.
Funeral aervieea were held at hia late  residence on   Monday  afternoon.
At the Town Board meeting on Mon¬ day afternoon, Hiram R. Smith of Freeport appeared on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Nasaau Hoapitai Asaociation. Mr. Smith atated that he had a bill from the As¬ aociation againat the Town in the amount of $1797.70 dating from April 1908, and wished information as to what procedure he waa to take to col¬ lect the same. The matter was a com¬ plete aurprise to the membera of the Board and Mr, Smith waa informed that it wes up to the Overseers to the Poor to pay the bill. A resolution-waa paaaed inatructing the clerk to give notice to tha Overseers of the Poor to meet with the Town Board next Tues¬ day at 2 o'clock and an invitation waa extended to Mr. Smith to be preaent witfa his bill and all orders and papera connected with it.
Tbe matter of the unsatisfactory bridge over Parsonage Creek was taken up. Highway Superintendent Raynor explained that the bridge was not orig¬ inally erected by the   trolley  company
B(>werage in the village but no action was taken.
Preaident Hanae, R. M. Lamb and A. A. Sealy were appointed on a com¬ mittee to prepare and get aigners to a petition to be preaented to the proper authorities for the widening and straightening of Bedell Street at the corner of Smith and Main Streets, also North Main Street, at Brooklyn Ave¬ nue and Atlantic Avenue at the Mil- bjrn Bridge.
It was decided to purchase postals and each member to aend some peraon- aonal notea to hia friends and ask them to attend the next meeting of the as¬ sociation which will be held on the fourth Tuesday evening of next month.
Excellent early fall fiahing ia prom¬ iaed in this section by the arrival of flounders and black fish. The former have just made their   appearance  and
work well. During the early part of the aeaaon "Chub" waa taken aboard a boat by some of the club mambers who wanted a swim in the bay. When the membera got ready for a dip, aome one yelled "Jump" and to the aurpriae of all "Chub" jumped with the bunch. Everyone expected to see "Chub"' go to the bottom of the bay, but to the aurpriae of the members hc struck out like an experienced awimmer and seemed to enjoy the aport aa though he had been at it all his life. After a good long awim "Chub" got aboard the boat and from that time became a great favorite with the club membera. During the 6Ummer."Chub" haa taken a swim almoat daily, apparently diare- garding warnings of his mother to "Keep away from the water." The youngster waa taught a number of lit¬ tle tricka by the elub members, includ¬ ing that of standing up on ita hind legs when 8 choice morael of food or other
ufJ_^* l"J"!'lT!l';t.-?'^!'^^l''.?" ide'ikacyVas'offeVe^itV "a7 the'sta'g
biting strong and aa they ^are a deli cioua fiah, will no doubt be eagerly sought after. Weakfiah continue to he caught, but the aeaaon will aoon be over for them, it ia expected. Outaide fiahing—that is, in the ocean, is re¬ ported to be first-clasa.—Times.
dinner of the club last Saturday, photo of "Chub" swimming in the bay adorned the aouvenir menu diatributed and Mri. Milbank compoaed an approp¬ riate piece of poetry to accompany the menu. It ia needleaa to aay that "Chub" waa guest of honor at thedin-
  I ner.
Henry P. Keith, the Democratic | "Keeae" was brought home to Free- leader of the township of Hempstead, port, leaving "Chub" in full charge of in retaining his leadership at the prim- affairs in looking'after any mice or ariea held in Nassau County Tuesday rata which may appear at the club night, won every district in Freeport houae during the remainder of the and Rooaevelt. aeason.    "Chub" is of   only  ordinary
In the Fourth District he had aome : breed, but aeema to inherit conaider- oppositlon. Milea Rhodes oppoaed j able of the intelligence diaplayed by him, but   the Keith forces,   with Her- \ his mother, who can do   about
Rev. Thomae S.'BrajthwaiterpMtor'of j ff;^'."8_ i^.«P.«j=L'^l"^L°"" A*!!^ ..^'llll!
Memorial Clwrch, Wantagh. officiat¬ ing, with interment in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempatead. Wantagh Mut¬ ual Benefit Aseociationh, o which Mr. Smith was a charter member, attend¬ ed the aervices.
Mr. and Mra. Walter Rhaesa enter¬ tained a few of their frienda at their bome on Tueaday evening, the oeeaaion being their aecoad wedding anniver¬ aary A very pleaaant evening was epent.
company to pay the village the sum of $120 per annum.
Mra. Fred Smith of 30 Villa Court haa been spending a few days at Shortaville, Ontario County.
P. Fowlkes, both of Freeport
Joaeph A.   Ascb   and   Florence   B. Hunt, both of Freeport.
Sept. 22—John Obryciki and Sophie Teauroseka, both of Hempstead.
        :     Sept.  23—Guataf   F.   Johnson  and
'1/   II n. \ Ida M. Parker, both of Inwood.
VaUey   Otream l     Harry Northan  of   New   York   and
  ; Emma Drinkwater of Freeport.
The Rev. Frederick Pollard, pastor \ Henry P. Bedell. Jr., and Jennie of the Baptist Church, will deliver an '. Cheshire, botb of Merrick. They were interesting lectare in the Baptiat j married the aame day by Rev. Frank Church thia evening, taking for his M. Kerr of Hempstead, topic, "Around the World," which! James B. McHugh of Seaford and will be illustrated by tereopi cen Madelene E. Fippinger of Wantagh. views. i They were married in  Hempstead the
 — same day by John I. Green,  Justice of
We are pleased to note tbat tfae Rev.   the Peace. P. C.  Creveling," who is at ttwStT   Sept.   25—Edwin  C.   Wtckett. of John Hospital, Brooklyn, is aomewhat Orange, N. J., and   Margaret Snyder nproved. i of Hempstead,
„.     .    .      ^      . .... Singie copiea of the  Messenger can
Sept. 21—Arthur Douglaa and Alice i b© had at Wm. Wolfe's drug store  at
Miaa Jessie Newland has returned from a two weeks' viait in New York, where Miaa Newland is now stopping.
Barasch can aapply you with that new suit.    See adv. elsewhere. It
The   following communication  was sent in early last week, but was neces¬ sarily held over tHl this iasue. Dear Editor:—
I would liko to congratalate, through the Messenger, our school board in hav¬ ing obtained such  excellent   teachers. , ....
They   certainly ^o not  Uke any   non-   */'/*r«''^l*» .?""! m " """"*•«? ' .       . . ! of Justices DeMott and Nea to  report
had never placed a man tbere to move the bridge. It was laid over until the the next meeting.
The committee from' the Booaevelt Watee District recommended 31 new hydrants which have been placed, and the reiital of the aame was to start from May lat of this year.
L. Simon, whose new bailding has been engaged for the polling place of the new district in Lawrence, atated that he expected to have the interior of tbe building in c ndition to bold election there but the front windows would not be in place.
Lewis J. Smith, representing the Windsor Land & Improvement Com¬ pany, appeared before the Board and made application for permiasion to dredge a portion of the East Rocka¬ way Creek so as to allow their dredger to arrive at a point where they intend¬ ed to dredge a canal through aome rec¬ ently acquired land which they wished to develop.
Elmer Bedell reported that the dred¬ ging that the company had already done in that section was damaging the oysters planted only a short distance away and the mud that they were throwing out was being awept by tbe tide down on   the   beds.    Tbe  matter
thing but talk, as   Mra. preaaea it.—Timea.
every- Milbank   ex-
Wantagh
There will be diving aervice in the Memorial Church next Sunday morning and evening with preaching by the paator. The time of the evening aer¬ vice Will now be 7:30 inatead of 7:45. Boya' Brigade meeta in the' Pariah Houae every   Wedneaday  night.    The
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"I aaw M In tha MaaMnger"
back at tbo next meeting.
bert-J. Bacon repreaenting hira. won by a aubatantial majority. Carl Dahrenberg, another Keith man. won over John S. Sumner by 4 votes. Ed¬ ward Meaney had no oppoaition in the Twenty-aecond Diatriet.     •«
CARD OF THANKS. Freeport, L. I., Sept. 26, 1911. Editor Meaaenger:—
We wish through your paper to ex¬ tend our aincere and heartfelt thanka for the many kind act% and expressions
of sympathy and assistance to us in our { Auxiliary League every aecond and bereavement caused by the loss of our j fourth Tuesday in the month and the loved one. | Christian Endeavor every Friday night.
,        Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dunbar. *
Harry Roaenkranz. i     A well attended meeting waa held in.
  I tbe Frienda'   Meeting   Houae   Jerusa-
The following extract   from   Poatal! lf,'P''a«t   Sunday  afternoon.    Henry Lawa and Regulationa ia worth noting: I Wilbur waa one of the chief  apeakera. Ten   daya  before the laat  day ot each | quarter  poatmasters  are  required   to place   in each  tented   box a notice  of box rent due.    If a box holder fails to renew hia right to hia box on or before tne last day of a qaarter, the box ahall then be closed and offered for rent and the mail placed in the general delivery.
Misa Mary Crevoiaerat and Mrs. Wealey Golder have retarned from Watertown, N. Y., where they attend¬ ed the State Convention of the Daugh¬ ters of Liberty. They also visited Clayton, Alexandria Bay and the Thousand Islands.
Miss Crevoiaerat was elected Aaao¬ ciate Secretary of the'State Council
Alice Meyer, the 9-year old daugh¬ ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer of Shonnard Avenue, had ber left arm broken in two places last Saturday af¬ temoon. She atarted to deacend in the cellar when the door fell on her arm and caused the fractures. She waa attended by Dr. 0. A. Newton.
George Howard Randall is building a large addition to his atores on Brook¬ lyn Avenae, weat of his present baild¬ ing, to be occupied when completed by Frank Nugent, whe will run his Air¬ dome there, the lease of his present boilding expiring aoon.
A. Bell Malcomaon, Jr., has passed the civil service examination aa rod man in tbe State service.
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Advertiae it In Kvarybody'a Columu'   Ari^artiM  In Everylietfy'a Cohimn irav««9 bttp.
Fred Ohm left for Cornell Univer¬ aity Wednesday laat to take a courae in agriculture. We wiah him all auccess in hia n-3W sphere.
The ladies of the Auxiliary League held a meeting in the Pariah Houae on Monday afternoon to further plans for the fair which the League expects to hold about tbe first of December for the benefit of the chareh.
Rev. J. S. Braithwaite condacted the faneral service of S. Foster Smith of Bellmore on Monday. Mr. SmiUi was 76 years of age and had suffered for many weeks with a cancer. He leaves besides hia widow three sona and four daughters. The Mutual As¬ sistant Aaaociation also condacted a service. Geo.' E. Box acting as chap¬ lain. The interment waa in Greenfield Cemetery.
On the afternoon and evening of Tuesday next the Ladies' Aid Society will hold an Apron, Cake and Ice Cream aale in the Parish House of tbe church; proceeds for Church expenses.
A ahower will be held by the Ladiea Committee of the China, Glass ,and Handkerchief table, in the Parish House on Tuesday evening, October lOtb. The admiaaion will be a piece of China, Glaas or a Handkerchief. A pleasing entertainment will also b« given.
Tbt bsct way ts^.right tk* asil ertm baaae i* I bj tiiiisl yeiir s«a WdssM amt wsrUat ysar hsr^sit Is asks h  grew.    A^vsrtitiBf  ia  this