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FREEPORT PERSONAL.^ j
RervicM   at   I.ntheran   Church   are \ kald at 10 30 a.m. and 7 4.5 p.m. Sun- *fij School  i« held at 2 30 p.m., and B^worth League devotional meetingr* •f* field «t 1 vrn.
The .fuTiior Class of Freeport High School will hold a sleigh ride party Wsdnesday evening.
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It's a nine pound boy, and Dr. Ijeo Rslpin is correspondingly happy. It was born  last week.
A card game recently among the Colored population in the pool room On Henry street resulted in Sherman Jarvis being stabbed under the left •houlder blade by P^dwin Kinlow, Of- Ams Feddsn arrci^ted Kinlow in ttempftead, and .lustice Flint rommit- ted   nim   to   await  e?;aminAtion.
On Thur.'day la.st Charles Mitchell was arrested on complaint of his uncle, Howard Horlon, who charged his nephew wilh stpalinu a ?iiit of clothes. When arri'sto'l Mitchell said he had only borrowe 1 a coat to ceme up the street, and that he hnd return¬ ed it a^ain. This the uncle denied, •nd Justice Flint committefl the youth to Rnndall's Islantl, whither he was taken  by  Ollicer Fedden.
Charles ('. Copeland left last Fri¬ day for Camp Wadsworth to visit his two sons, Frank nnd Carroll. lie has another son at Camp  Upton.
A number of 8olriicr.s from Camp Upton  were home for   the weck-enn,
Robert H. Kelby will serve as a Juror on  the February   list
George Ivcnker haa discontinued working for Doubleday, Page & Com¬ pany.
The Sons and Daughters of Liber¬ ty will hold a domino and euchre in the lodge room on Tuesday evening, February  5.
CHURCH NEWS
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GOD'S I,OVE nr    KUOKNB   TITtJg.     . .     . (Tun4 /yovdes Domini) To those who know His word. The Master's voice is heard.
Ever seekinsr our good; Showing to all  the way, That we may  never stray May it be understood.
It comes to  all  who sesk, ?lis message which we greet.
With holy faith and joy; It cheers us on the way, .And  holds  us   with  its sway
Without the  world's alloy.
Tts precepts  true and pure, Forever will endure.
And hold us  fast; And  when  the  end  draws  near, VVe''l seek Him without fear,
.And know Hia love at last.
Rev. Raul O. Curtis, paator of the M. K. Church, will speak next Sun¬ day on "The thinsrs oif others." The evenini? theme will lie " 'God Thou Shalt Not.' "
On Friday evening last a dance was given at Brooklyn Hall for ths benefit of Troops 1, 2 and 3, Boy Scouts of America. The hall was filled to capacity and the evening was apent in  the most enjoyable way.
Francis V. Arguimbau, who re- tomed several weeks ago from France, where he had served as a member of a hospital corps of the French army, enlisted on Friday last in the Naval Reserves, and is ord¬ ered to hold himself in readiness to report for duty.
COAL DEALERS PLEDGED
The JanuaiTT Student, i-ssued by the Freeport High School, is not out as stated in the Nassau County Review, and on account of certain unforeseen conditions it will be a little later than usual.
Agree to Adhere Strictly to   Gov¬ emment Regulations.
Forty coal merchants from Nass'au and Suffolk Counties gathered last Saturday afternoon at a meeting of the Nassau-Suffolk Coal Dealers' As¬ sociation held at Weidmann's Hotel at Mineola. An address of welcome was made by Police Justice George A. Littlejohn, and speeches followed by a numiber of those present. The meet¬ ing passed a resolution setting forth the desire of the dealers to work in co-operation with the Federal and lo¬ cal  fuel administration officers.
It was the sen.«e of the meeting that the dealers should hereafter_adhere as strictly as possible to the irule laid down iby the government, "whereby the needs of all will be supplied if possible, so that there will not l>e too little for one and a surplus for an¬ other. The majority of the dealers have followed this plan.
The members felt that there is no prospect that there will be an imme¬ diate improvement in the ifuel situa¬ tion.
ENGINEER ADVISES DELAY IN WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS
Recommends   SckeJnIe   of Work
for Year and Buoying of Creeks
and Channeb.
Civil Engineer Birdsall Jackson who has been in charge of the im¬ provement of town waterways, sul>- riiitted his anniMl report to the Town Hoard on Tuesday. ()wing to the ab¬ normally high prices of material Mr. Jackson says in his report that he would not be in favor of starting any¬ thing new at present, and told the Board tbat he believes in the poli':y of making permanent what has been done and in getting ready to work to the best advantage when prices are again normal. In conclusion the re¬ port   re.ids:
"The extra cost of labor and mate¬ rials "will necessarily make some dif- Terence iri the amount we wiil be able to do in the future within our fixed appropriation. I would not, however, recommend nny incrense in the ap¬ propriation. I think we should rather try to so arrange our program that the lesser amount of work done will suffice for the needs of the town until conditions are radically different."
Mr. .lackson also told the Hoard that he would try to keep so far Ibelow the total appropriation that there would be a working balance left at the close of the year.
The report recommends tbat furth¬ er expenditures be made for improve¬ ment:? at Fundy and High Flats I>raiii, where the cross tides and diffi¬
culty of disposing of the materials have handicapped the engineer and his assistants. Dredginfr «t th«« *««t- erly emd of High Ffats Drain is es¬ perlally desirable, says the report, in the interests of the oystermen, to whom the use of this channel is in¬ dispensable.
Recommendations are made that the waterways lying off Bellmore and con¬ tingent waterways be given special attention, particularly «long tlie fer¬ ry routes to High Hill Beach or such portions of the.ae routes as lie within the limits of the town of Hempstead. In this section no money was expend¬ ed for dredginif during the past year.
The sy.'item of buoying tne princi¬ pal waterway."? are in the main satis¬ factory, says the report, nnd the ex¬ tension of the buoying system to in- f-lude the wnters adjacent to Kast Rock.iway, Woodmere and Ivong Fieach seems to have proven .satisfactory to those who petitioned for the buoys.
The report includes a recommenda¬ tion that huoy.s be nlaced at earh side of the entrance to Sea Dog C'reek.
Mr. Jackson .qpe.nks of the favorable commenUs thnt have come to him re¬ garding the improvement at Free- port Creek and Par.sonage Creek at Haldwin; further work at the lower end of these waterways would help to make the result.s at the creeks more permanent, he states, in recommend¬ ing thnt the additional work be done this coming season.
The report waa ordered filed, and the work recommended wiil, undoubt¬ edly, be taken up during the current year  as necessity  warrants.
Vital Statistics   [|
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Marriage Licenses  Town of Hempstead	
John F'rank Hartmann, 44; Edith Irene   Canning, 33,  both   of  Merrick.
George Edgar Vincent, 22, Lyn¬ brook; Phoebe Alice White, 19, of Baldwin.
Charles Wesley Midmer, 25, of Merrick; Agnes Jean Dunbar, 21, of Freeport.
Daniel Bordowchuk, 26; Annie Mrl- rhowskr, 21, both of Hempstead.
John Melling Walsh, 41, N. Y. City; Mary Beatrice Whiteford, 26, of Rockville Centre.
On Tuesday, January 29, Rev. Car- olus P. Harry addressed the Lutheran Women's  League at Freeport.
The annual smoker of the Holy Nante Society of the Church of Our Holy Redeemer was held in Parish Hall Tuesday evening, January 29. An excellent program was arranged, •nd an enjoyable evening', which was promised, was certainly received by all  who attended.
On Froday evening, January 25, the Senior Class of the High School gave the first sleigh ride party of the sea- |K)n. The class hired Lewis Brother's sleigh and horses .for the evening.
The party left the Hijrh School at about eight o'clock, and journeyed from Freeport to Baldwin, Rockville Centre, and then circled to Hempstead •nd home. The ride was enjoyed and livened by joke cracking and singing. The night, with the moon looking di¬ rectly at the joy riders, was typical for the occasion. The Misses Fair- child and Hanaman. teachers in the High School, acti'd as chaperons. Among tho.'.e who were present wen>: Misses liana'^an. Fairchi'd, Joeris¬ sen, Smith, Hambler, FAi]t, Teiple, •nd Messrs. Plumn, Smith. Story. Stswnson, Davis, I'aynor, Leibcrman, Van  Rees  and   Laux,
FRESH ECGS From Our Own Hennery
MASTERS     ~ 261 Pearsall Ave., Freeport, L. I.
MONEY
To Loan oo Bond aod
Mortgage
Quick Action
E. N. EDWARDS, FREEPORT, N. Y.
TO RENT—Dead storage space for automobiles, $2 per month. P. O. box  67, Freeport.
Births
Son, James Nordcross, to Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon Clarke, of Roose¬ velt.
Son, Marcellus Tallifero, to Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus T. Cooke, of Smith¬ ville South.
Daug:hter, Catharine Elizabeth, to Mr. and Mrs. James W. MeChesney, of Baldwin.
Son, Joseph, to Mr. and Mrs. Syl¬ vester Cramer of Hempstead.
Son, John, to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rhodes, of Hempstead. Rhodes, of Hempstead.
Son, Nelson, to Mr. and Mrs. Sid¬ ney N. Hendrickson, of Valley Stream.
FATHER-SON WEEK
Y. M.C. A. Plans  General   Ob¬ servance Throughout Nation.
Deaths
Jan. 26, at Valley Stream, Edna Hendrickson, age 12 hours.
Jan. 26, at Hempstead, Augustus Zabriskie, aged 74 yrs. ,
Jan. 25, at Valley Stream, Charles A. Earle, age 78 yrs.
The idea of having February 11-12 observed as Father-Son Week is hy¬ ing promoted by the Young Men's Christian Association, and adopted throughout this country and Canada, and to some extent in foreign coun¬ tries.
The seQond day, February 12, Lin¬ coln's birthday, a Father-Son dinner will be held as far as possible in ev¬ ery community throughout the coun¬ try. Sons will invite their fathers to take them to the dinner where they will enjoy a good feed and listen bo a  good speech.
In return. Father will pay the bill and invite Son to spend Saturday af¬ ternoon and evening with him.
On Sunday they will attend a spe¬ cial service at church.
For a week Father and Son are chums together, and by that time it haa become a habit witb them.
Thd indications are that the week will be quite generally observed by the communities  of Long Island.
The initiative may be taken by any¬ one in the community.
Further information may be had from the Young Men's Christian As¬ sociation of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, at Mineola.
Services at the R. C. Church of Our Holy Redeemer Sunday morning at 8  and 10 o'clocka.
"Ted" Wiggins, member of the Alumni Association of Fre.'port IIi{;h School, visited many classes Monday morning.
Cadman IT. Frederick, of Freeport, has b;'cn summoned to serve as a member of the Grand Jury for Feb"- ruary.
On Friday, February 1, the Home Defense meeting will be called for the election i^ oflicers and re-organi^a- tlon.
RESERVES MEET TONIGHT
Section of OHicers to   Be Held Under Direction of Captains
"Franklin O. Hill, Captaln'of'Com'- pany D; Forrest S. Dunbar, Captain Of Company C, and Hilbert R. John¬ son, acting Captain of Company A, of the Home Defense Reserve, Free- port Unit, on Monday Issued tbe fol¬ lowing speciat order to every member Of the Unit:
In accordance with Instructions from the Adjutant Qeneral, you are horeby ordered to attend a meeting •f tbe Home Defense Reserve, Free- port Unit, at Brooklyn Hall, Brook¬ lyn avenue, Freeport, N. Y., on Fri¬ day evening, February 1, 1918, at 8 o'clock sharp.
>lt this time an election of offlcers will be held.    You are still   an en¬ rolled member of this organization. This Is a military order aud muat hn obeyed aud respeoted aocordtncly<
When yom bvy an automohUi what do jxj« really buy^
Do yoa ooity buy the material and laborf Or do you bu^ wbat a cbj stand* for in repu¬ tation, in achievment, in excellence of rank?
Wlien yoo buy a car, you believe what the maker says of rt You buy material and labor plus reputation.
Reputation in motor car building is most important. <^
Without reputation, your metal, rubber and wood would be merely a lii^'ily poli.shed nieeh- anical a.sst*nibly. With it, you are eertain of sat¬ isfaction, pleiLsure, health, and eflicient travel.
Chevrolet reputation is founded on complete sati.sfaction. We could uot have grown witli¬ out iu
GEO. V. SLOAT, Inc.
Olive Boulevard, Cor. Main St, Freeport
PACTOEIES: New York City, Tsrrytown-on-H udsoa: Flint Mirh.: St. LooU Uo.! Oakiaad. Csliforiiis; Onksws, Caosds;  Fort Wurlh. Texaa
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  1,000  MEN  NeeOEO *
  FOR  MOTOR SERVICE BY  
  RED CROSS IN  FRANCK.  
     
  More  thsn 1,000 motor tniclt  
  drivers, mechsnlclans  and help-  
  ers arc  needed Immc.-Ilately by  
  the    Amerlcnn   Red    Cross   for  
  service   in  France.    The   duties  
  of these men will be to operate  
  and repair the Red Crosa motor  
  truclcs  which transport  auppliea  
  to  wnr  hoapltals.    Men   In  thla  
  service will receive pay and ex-  
  pen SOS.  
  A   recruItlnR   office   hna   been  
  onened   at  the hendf|iinrters  of  
  the Atlnntlc Division nnrler Mr.  
  J. I.eo Skellpy of Ihe Ued Cro.<(8  
  Forclpn   Trnns|M)rtntl(>n   I>cpnrt-  
  ment   llorniltlnR Scrvlro.   AppM-  
  cntits   nniRt   be  over   thlrty-ono  
  yenra of nge.  
   
RED GROSS ISSUES CALL TO NURSES FORWARSERVICE
Statement Says Between 30,000
and 40,000 Will Be Needed
jn a Short Time.
A cnll to qualified nurses to enlist for wur service has been Issued by the American Red Cross Nursing Service, fhe niohlllzlng iiKcncy for nurses for the United Stulus Army and Navy. Attention Is culled ulso to the Imper¬ ative need for un Increased enrollmunt In training schools so that fully (lunll- fied nurses may be released from civil¬ ian Kospltuls for military service.
Citing an estimate of the Surgeon- GentTal's oflice that the Army alone will need between 30,000 and 40,000 nurses In short time, tlie Ited Cross Nursing Service makes It clear that the present average enrollment of 1,000 a njontli falls far short of the military needs of the tiovernment Moreover, it Is asserted, the Allies are depending upon this country to sup¬ plement ttioir nursing service.
The fact that the recruiting of nurses does not keep pace with the military needs does not Indicate that the women in the nursing profession are slackers, according to Miss Jane A. Delano, Chairman of the Red Cross Nursing Service. It indicates merely tbat the sudden and extraordinarily heavy demand for nurses has not been thoroughly realized by the women available for this service.
At demands grow daily, tbe prob¬ lem of home nursing for civilian needs becomes harder to solve. It Is estimated by the Army Nurses' Corps tbat over 30,000 nurses will be need¬ ed, on the basis of the present esti¬ mates, for an army of 1,000:000 men. 16,500 Enrolled.
Statistics prepared at the headquar¬ ters of the Red Cross Nursing Service In Washington show that there are between 80,000 and 90,000 registered nurses in the United States. Of this number approximately 16,.')00 are en¬ rolled Rea Cross nurses, the nmjorlty of whom are In active service or ready for mobilization for specified purpose. The Red Cross enrollment forms the reserve of the United States Army Nurses' Corps and. the United States Navy Nurses' Corps.
Already 1,790 nurses have been equipped nnd sent abroad by the Red Cross Nursing Service. For service at home the Red Cross has provUtpd 2,.')0() nurses. More fhan '2,(KM) addi¬ tional nurses have been or^'iuilzt'd Into units which now are ready for tnohili/.ntion.
Red Cro.><s nurses nlso nre doing spcciiil worU In simltary 7.<>i\es sur¬ rounding caiitonnu'iit.s. Ki;;lity-iiine are scrvlnti In n pulillc hoalili ilftnch- nient under fho American Red Cross Krance. Twelve puhlic health nurses are In Itomiinnia, tliree lu Greece and one In Serbia.
Requirements  Modified.
All Red Cross nurses as.signpd to duly in military hospitals uutoniailcal- ly become members of the Army or Navy Nurses' Corps and are no longer under the supervision or direction of the Red Cross. These nurses, when on active duty, are entitled to the same Government war risk insurance us Army or Navy 'officers and enlist¬ ed men.
To meet the increasing demands of the Army and Navy Nurses' Corps the Red Cross has modified somewhat the former requirements for enrollment. The age limit Is lowered to twenty- one years, and In special cases nurses over forty may be accepted. Small schools for training nurses bave been placed on the accredited list.
Since the entrance of the United States In the war the number of pu¬ pils entering nurses' trainlnR schools has increased 20 per cent Within the last few days the Red Cross has re¬ cruited and equipped a group of 100 nurses for the Anny Nurses' Cor,T» for service with the British Expedi¬ tionary Forces st the request of the British Cov ernment. It lias also mobilized several highly specialized groups of nurses for orthope«llc, |Miy- chlatrlc and fa<-lal surgery hospitals, as well ns tnoblle operating units aad other important groups.
DletHbuting Depot Opened.
The Aflsntlc division has established at 1018^22 Wsshlngloii ilreet. ii(tt>o- fcea, a distributing depot for oattliting tbe soldiers einbarlilnc for service Sbrosd. This depot will be under tbe dlroctlon of Mrs. A. U. Olney.
SPIRIT TO WIN WAR KEPT UP . BY RED CROSS
AMERICAN     AID      HEARTENS FRANCE ANO HER ALLIES.
Major Murphy, Who Had Charge
of Relief Work Abroad, Describes
Seven Months' Achievements.
By  MAJ. QRAYSON   M. P. MURPHY.
(Retiring Red Cross Commissioner to Europe, who was in charge of war relief operations abroad for seven months. Major Murphy soon will re¬ turn to France to joi i General Persh¬ ing's staff in a purely military capa¬ city.)
This Is a war not of armies. It Is a war of nations. ''I'liere Is not a mnn or womnn or child In tJrent Britain, in ISoIkIuiii, In France or In Italy that is not a factor In this war. It Is not the nrtnles of France tliat are the essen¬ tial thing to France in this war, nor the nrmles of Fngland, nor the armies of  the other allies.
Those armies will do their part and do it to n finish If they nre supported by the people behind. The great cry¬ ing need In Europe today Is to build up tlie spirit anil keep up the spirit of the people behind the lines. It Is that great work which the Red Cro.ss— thanks nut to tho.se on the other side, but to the people on this side—hus performed. It Is this work tliat lias made the Ainoricun Ited Cross Ihe lar¬ gest known single factor sluce our entry Into the war.
'i'lie American Red Cross, beginning Its operations In France, went Into a country tbat was stripped by three years of wur. There la very little iliat cun be bought ou the otlier side In the way of supplies and materiul. There Is very little that can be had In the way of human power. The Red Cross hud to Import practically all the labor needed in Its undertaking. It had also to get together supplies from places other than In Europe itself.
The Red Cross on arriving In Franco started Immediately the construction of a great system of transportatioa and warehouses. This system is very complicated. The government had oc¬ cupied practically all tbe points de¬ sirable for warehouse sites. "Warehouses Crammed With Stuff."
But the Red Cross has a system of warehouses, beginning at eight of the principal ports In France, 'in Paris it has great base warehouses All along the front, particularly in Belgium, all the way down to and along the French Hue, along that down to Italy and uluug the Italian Hue, at the seaports and along railway routes the Red Cross has warehouses, crammed with stuff nt points where it cau get hold of It when trouble comes.
To supplement this warehouse sys¬ tem, It hns about 5O0 ambulances and motor trucks concentrated In Paris and others distributed at various points so that In case of an emergency the Red Cross can use them to get quick action unywhere along the front
The Department of Civil Affalra Is working among the children of France. It hopes, in co-operution with the Frenc-li governnienf, to be able to ro- ('uce. In due course, the nunilier of (lentils of young infants In Krs.tico from SO.tKM) a year to 40,(K)0 a year.
Tlu'-se little tots' are bnuight back from the districts wiioie they are un¬ der ^as flre. . They aro too small fo wear a gas niasl; and consequently lliey would be Ullled. From Toulo iiiiibtiliinces move around In the coun¬ try. There are clinics wliere our doc¬ tors nnd nurses cure for the sick, jiar- tlcuhirly children, who cannot other¬ wise j;ot treatment becanst' all the doc¬ tors have been called Into the service. Fighting Tuberculosis.
In conjunction with the Rockefeller Foundation It Is conducting u work against tuberculosis, wblch Is certain¬ ly uuyurulleled lu the history of the world. France has sutTeied greatly fixini tuberculosis as a result of the (leople living In unwholesome dugouts, l^iberculosls has developed In tbe trenches too.
Working with the Rockefeller Foun¬ dation, the Red Cross has put into ef¬ fect a system of education in France, a system to cure for bad cases In suni- torlums and u system which will lead to tlie establishment of 300 dispensaa, rles throughout France, with vUitlug nurses  attached.
In the military division the Red Cross is carrying on un extraordinary work with the French, with the Bel¬ gians, with the Italians and, to a cer¬ tain minor extent, with the British, und with our own people. It ha« a system of canteens. It has rolling canteens which ure operating right up In the trenches, where the soldiers are given hot drinks. In L>e<'ember '£i!j,- 000 soldiers were served hot '<lrii)Ks lu this wsy. Red Croas men woVked under shell flre all the time. When Ihe gas comes over tiiem tiiey wonr gas masks. They are great pals w^tb the soldiers.
hi coiijuurtion with the French gor- ernment the Hed Cross Is f**e<llng—not giving drinks snd Haiidwlcbes, but giv¬ ing hot meals—to 1,000,000 French sol¬ diers every month. Theae men sit and have IhHr dlunem and tulk sad va*k» merry tn vrcai re^'reallon bslla