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MERRiCK
On Thursday sftemoon, February SS, a r^ifutar meeting was heM by «h« lAdiew* Auxiliary of the Merrkk Heok and ladder arnl Enjfine Com¬ pany No. 2 st th« honte of Mrs. Christian BaJinnen, Merrkk. Ths Preaident, Mm. Hermann Rottjer, was sbs«nt hi view af Mr. Rottjer's return from the South. Refreshment* were served at thp cKwe of the rrteet- injr. and a nnost enjoyable sftemoon was npe.TTt by aH present.
Regular meetlnm of the Auxiliary sre held every other Thursday. The next meeting will be held at the resi¬ dence of Mrs. Harry I^eich, Merrick, on Thursday afternoon, March 14, at 2 o'clock.
SMTTHVILLE SOUTH
MiM Oertrude Link, with E. John¬ son from New York City, and Miss Vera Thamm, with her younger broth¬ er, Richard, were most delightfully entertainefl at the honne of Mr. and Mrs Christian lUhnteen last Sunday afternoon.
At the regular hionthly mcetinff of the Merrick Hook, I.«dder and En- >rinc Company No. 2, held on Mon¬ day cening, March 4, the followring residents of Merrick were duly elect¬ ed to merrVbership:
Julius Heuthe, F'rancis Savona and Kdward G. Kammorer. Applications for membership were also received from Wilbur E. Clark and Herbert A. W. Bahnsen. Mr. Clark, who re- sijmed in 1913, applied for nvin- statement.
Herbert A. W. Bahnsen, who was suddenly taken ill, shows so much im¬ provement that his physician will soon permit him to rise and enjoy the Sprin*f weather. iHerltort waa stricken a week a(to last Thursday with a aliffht attack of pneumonia, and since then has been confined to 4jis home. If he continue* to improve, and this is the wish of all his friend.s, at the present rate, we will soon have him in our midst
5?CHOOL W)TF.a
Those pupils whose nsmee follow w*re perfect in tfttewkinr* during February. ThoiN» starred were also perfeet in deportment:
Room vl.—Frank Baldwin*, J'red Rice, Elsie Riee.
Room II.- Lillian Bi(wra*, Hswlsy Amea, Oharles Baldwin, All'red Caf- cajrnino, Conrarl Hein7-erlin|r, Ber¬ tram Hope.
Room III.—Rmma Briejral, Marie Dahl, Marie Rejfan*, Dorothy Sully, Hu(rh Boyce, Howard Jolhnwon, How¬ ard O'Niel, Roy Rice, Harold Sten- jrel*.
Room IV.-Joseph Bennett, I/eon- hard de Beche, Howard Horn*, Otto Knkrer, Walter L'Hommedieu, Vic* tor Wachosky, Marion Hendrieltson, Florence Riejire, r>orothy Schade, Rob"-
RooTO v.—Arthur Colberjr, Otto Diem, Myrie Roberts, Edward Sten¬ gel, Marion Colberj?*, Bertha Din>r- werth*, Melissa Harmer*, Ethel Hope, Viola Rywell*.
Room VI.—Ferdinand Colberg*, Mary Eberhardt, Cecelia Callo, Lil¬ lian Hill*, Sara Sprajfue*, Ruth WhitP*
Room VII.—Anthony Savona, Au- Kustine Bijfjr^, Wi helm ina Fields', Viola Hend ickson*. Catherine Mc- Quade, Juliet Nicholsen.
BELLMORE
Superintendent W. C. Mepham and F, J. Thornton, president of the Sch(K)l Boanl, visited the school on Thur.sday afternoon, February 28th.
Last Thuradbiy lliere was ronsi ler- a*>l4> excitwnent for a while when the f^re b«!|l ranir. The flre wss st the home dif Mr. Lsndati rvn Washinprton *venue. The flre waa extiniruis.ied. C M. Vanderoef, who lives next fkxrr to Mr. I/sndau, had just come home from the bank for lur^h when Mrs. I>andau ran over to his home and said ber house was on fire. Mr. Vanderoef immediately sent in an alarm and rushed over to the I/andau house. He found that the oil stove had cau(;-ht fire and started a conflajfration in the kitchen. He removed the oil stove and extinguished the rest of the Are before the fire company could re¬ spond to the call, which was certain¬ ly quick work, as it took l)Ut three minutes from the time the alarm was sent until ur>til the truck was ready.
After givinjT the alarm for fire last Thur.sday, February 2«, Captain Anderaon Bloomer of the fire com¬ pany found that the bell rope was in very bad shape, so with the aid of a couple of the other firemen he imme¬ diately got a new rope and installed it so that there will be no dang:er of the bell being out of order.
• difitMT «t the «huf«h Thamday even¬ ing wh-ich was «W,»»rHled by a Mrge crowd of hungry people who Haimnd that it was the beat affair of its sort they had sttendsd ;for some trm«.
Willi»m Wolf, our local drufflst, was under the dot-tor's care during the latter part of last week, birt we are glad to note that he is no-w back at work.
During the month of February sev¬ eral new parties moved into town, and if bhe rate for that month Iceeps up there will he considerable activity here this Summer. Bellmore is cer¬ tainly having a remarkaible jgrowth considering tne times, and if it con¬ tinues to grow as it has it won't be long before it will make some of the villages with which it ha.s been classed "look sick."
MERRICK
Hermann Rottjer has returned from Macon, Florida, where he spent the past month assi.<?ting the Vitatrrapl Company of America in the filming' of the l)ook "Over the Top," by Ser geant Arthur Cuy Empey. The story is now running serially in one of the New York eveninfr newspaper.«.
"A Rliffht conception of the frijjan- tic task beinp: undertaken by the mov¬ ing picture concern that is filminjr this l)ook can be Riven the public," snid Mr. Rottjer, "when one is told that five thousand United States sol¬ diers from Camp Wheeler took part in one scene alone."
The ruddy complexion of Mr. Rot¬ tjer is very convicing proof that he has enjoyed the pleasing company of the southerners and their health¬ ful climate.
Miss Marguerite Becker, teacher of the second grade, has been engag¬ ed to teach in Bellmore next year.
The Church of St. Barnabas is pre¬ paring to hold a real Irish night in Fremen's Hall on March 16th. The ocrnimittoe appointe<l on this affair states that there will be an entertain¬ ment composed of Irish dialogues and songfl. The affair will be well worth attending.
SMITHVILLE SOUTH
At a mewling of the Smithville South ("ivic Society held FVbruary 23, business of much importance was , transacted!. The n'?xt regular meet-' ing will be held on March Dth. and all I residents of .Smithville South are in-! vited to attend, whether they care to become membera or not. The object of the society is to improve the con- 1 ditiona of the village, and as residents I it is the duty of all to attend the | meetings.
«OHOOL NOTES The Boy 'Scouts presented s most excelleTit imprt>mpttf proirram in hon¬ or of liincoln's Birth<lay on Monday afternoon, February llth. The entire program waa in chargp of Patrol lieader Goodenough and every Scout represented in school did his part ss only s Scout can do it.
Monday evening, February 18, the Eighth Grande pupils gave a party at the sdhool building. Those who en-
Ioyed the occasion were Misses Mary )Tigfcn, May Mulcahy, Helen Otto, Mildred Dewar. Wella Mepham, lA>is Greaves and Hertha Block, Messers. Earle Goodenough, Richard Thamm, Rinaldo Phillips, Howard Bartow, John Britton, Robert Miller, Francis Kober, Anthony Canini and M. E. Powell.
school (>ni)(NTig mnd eMoywd from seiwh to nfna o'drack.
John Britton of TIHnois arnl JH Sumili of Manhattan have enterarf our school. Th«» formsr is « Asvantk Orsde pupil *T»d t-h* Istter a Sixth Grade pupil.
Throrugh the courtesy of Rowe** Lynbrook Pharmacy the pupils hsTS enjoyed music from a GolunMa Grsphophone since February 18. "Thla i machine is pa^icularly designed ter school use.
Exercises appropriate for Washinig- ton'a Birthday were held Thursda'y afternoon, February 21. The Boy Scouts again g«ve a demonstration. Rev William H. Littlebrandt, paator of the Ohurch of the Re<lcemer, gave a rousing address.
Friday evening, .March forty youngsters gathere<l
, about at the
The following pupils were perfect in attendance for February. Those starred (*) were honor roll students having in additio<n to perfect attan- dan an average of 85 per cent or more in the monthly tests and ex¬ cellent deportment:
Mary Driggs*, .lohn Britton*, Rin¬ aldo rhillips*, Howard Barto-w, Doni>- thea (Joooenoukh*, Susan Mertzger, Agnes Rogers*, Robert Miller*, Wil¬ ton May*, Mary Baldwin*. Dorothy Borel, Genevieve Borel*, Helen Jon¬ asch, Kathryn Phillips*, Frances Jon¬ asch*, Andrew Rogers, Roger May, Joseph Bartow, Walter Baldwin*, George Britton*, Ramoner Carpen" ter*, Marion Murray*.
The Easter vacation will begin oa Friday at 3 p.m., March 22, and ex¬ tend to Monday, April 1, at 9 a..in.
Misa Eli7.abeth Stark presided at the Mothers' ("lub meeting held Wed¬ nesday afternoon, March 6th.
Mr. and Mra, Harmer entertainetl tho teachers at their home on New¬ bridge road Thuraday afternoon and eveninK', February 2Hth.
Franci.s Dedek and Arthur Hen¬ drickson. class of 1916, recently visit¬ ed the school
An epidemic of measles made the 'irrcentage of attendance for Febru- Jiry unusually low.
OBITUARY.
JOHN J. SCANNELL •loiin .J. Scannell. former Fire Com¬ missioner (Vf New York City, who re¬ sided in Freeport for eight years, 'Ik'd in .St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, Weilnesday morning', agiid 78 years. Pneumonia was the cause of death. Ho was T>rominent in Tammany Hall politics during the career of Richard Crocker and a personal friend of the former Chief.
Third Election District Republi¬ can Club will hold its third annual dance Saturday evening, March 9. Those who have attended affairs of this club before know of the good time that is in atore for them. Rep¬ resentatives of all partiea can well af- ^ford to bury the hatchet for the night. There will be dances and amusements in which both the young and old peo¬ ple may take part
The Board of Trade held a meet¬ ing- last Monday evening in Firemen'.s Hall. Data on incorporation was pre¬ sented which proN'ed very encouraging to those in favor of this move The data consisted principally of letters from incorporated villages in answer to letters sent them in regard to taxes lefore and after incon'oration. Nearly all the incorporated villages sta.te that the increase in taxation after incorporation is little or noth¬ ing at all, and in some cases it is claimed that taxes were re«luced after I the incorporated village had perfect¬ ed its system.
The Ladies' League of the Presiby- torian Church met at the home of Mrs. J. J. Molloy of Oak street last Tuesday afternoon The I.,eague held
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH I
Rev. William Steinbicker, pastor.
Bible School at 2.30 p.m.
Service every Sund:ay at 4 p.m.
Last week the Parish Aid Society mot at the home of Mrs. W. Dietzel on Park avenue. The meeting was well attended and interesting. Plans wera made for aggressive work on behalf of the church. A part of the meeting waa devoted to a study of the history of Lutheran missions. The course of this study will take the members on a journey around the world with .stop overs at every coun¬ try where mission work is carried on.
This week an attempt will be made to call togethoj- the young folks of the congregation and effect an or¬ ganization. Saturday evening of this we3k the Church Council will meet to decide upon some matters of vital importance. Every moml)er should make it a point to be present.
EVERHHING EECTRICAL
Light, Wiring, Fixtures, Motors, Phones, BeUs JAMES F. CAMPION
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
Phone Connection
Freeport, N. Y
BALDWIN
Natalie C. Verity has been granted an interlocutory decree of divorce hy Supreme Court Justice Lazansky, sit¬ ting at Mineola, in an action brought against her husband, Elbert W. Ver¬ ity A similar decree was granted Henry F. Frost of Rockville Centre. His wife, Ruth E. Frost, was named a Qo-resipondent in the Verity case.
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Labor and the Law United
In Opposition to National Prohibition by Constitutional Amendment
Excerpts from Two Arguments made at a Hearing before a Joint Committee of the Two Houses of the General Assembly of the State of New York, February 26, 1918.
LABOR
By SAMUEL GOMPERS
President of the American Federation of Labor:
I have been invited and requested by the officers of the New York State Federation of Labor, by the Central organized bodies of workers in many cities of the State, to come here and to argue and protest against the ratification by the New York Legislature of the proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Of all the orators I have heard argue for Prohibi¬ tion, I have never heard one of them addressing himself to this vital fact: that is, does or will Pro¬ hibition, or will the Prohibition Constitutional Amendment, root out the evil of intemperance? * * * I know of no factor in all our Govemnnent or vol¬ untary agencies of America that has had a more potent influence to bring about temperate action on the part of the great masses of the people—temper¬ ate in drinking, temp>erate in every other activity of tife—than the much misunderstood and misrepre¬ sented organized labor movement of America.
It may not be uninteresting to know thia: That the hatera of the organized labor movement, thoae who have been ntost hostile to it, and those who are the greatest oppreasora of the workers, are 8up» porters—strong, staunch supporters—of the Pro- hibition Movttment.
THE LAW
By AUSTEN G. FOX
Keprfsenting the New York State Bar Asaoeiation :
it is for those who advocate the proposed amend¬ ment to show that, in its present form, it is exi>ed- ient, or at least not inexpedient, to insert it into the Federal Constitution. This is the first time that anyone has suggested that it is expedient to state in terms that "the Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce" guiy article of the Constitution by appropriate legislation. * * «
What would have happened to the Thirteenth Amendment* if the South had proposed to insert a provision that "the Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce" thia article by appropriate legislation ?
We should have said, "Dangerous, if it meatus what it says. And in any event we shall not run the risk of the Supreme Court holding that tbe language does mean what it says."
If we really mean to put the enforcement of Pro» hibition in the poAver of Congress and take it away from the states, let us say so, and provide, aa has always been provided with every other amendment that called for such a provision, that "the Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro¬ priate legislation."
If, on the other hand, we deem it wiser that each state shall control its own internal afEairs, then 'we need no amendn»ent at all to the Federal Constitution.
*Aboli*blQCiUavu»-.
BOARDS OF REGISTRY
VILLAGE OF FREEPORT meet
Saturday, March 9th, 1918
8 A. M. to 8 P. M.
You Must Be Registered personally or by proxy in order to vote at the annual
VILLAGE ELECTION
To be Held Tuesday, March 19, 1918
REGISTRY PLACES:
DISTRICT No. 1-House of Truck Co. No. 1, Church Street.
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES-Comprising 6th, 7th and 9th Election Districts of Town of Hempstead within incorporated limits bounded and described as fol¬ lows:
Beginning at a point in the center oi the Long Island Rail¬ road tracks vPhere said point intersects the easterly line of the Village of Freeport, and thence following the easterly and south¬ erly boundary line of the Village of Freeport until it comes to the center of Millburn Creek, and thence following the center line of Millburn Creek in all its courses in a northerly direction until it comes to a point in such creek where the center line of Whaley street if continued in a westerly direction would intersect said cen¬ ter line of said creek; thence running easterly following what would be the center line of Whaley Street if extended and also following the center line of said Whaley Street until it comes to the center line of Grove Street; thence running northerly and following the center line of Grove Street until it comes to the center line of the Long Island Railroad tracks, and thence run¬ ning easterly and following the center line of the Long Island Railroad tracks to the point or place of beginning, and embrac¬ ing all the territory within said bounds.
No. 2, N. Main
DISTRICT No. 2-House of Hose Co. Street
DISTRICT BGUNDARIES-Comprising 8th, 10th and llth Election Districts of the Town of Hempstead bounded and described as follows:
Begrinning at a point formed by the intersection of the center line of Grove Street with the center line of Whaley Street and thence running westerly along the center line of Whaley Street to the end thereof, and thence still westerly followingr the same direction as if Whaley Street were extended until it comes to the center of Millburn Creek; thence running northerly following the westerly boundary line of the Village of Freeport until said westerly boundary line of the Villaere of Freeport intersects the northerly boundary line of the Villsife of Freeport; thence east¬ erly following the northerly boundary line of the Villasre of Free- port until said northerly boundary line of the Village of Freer port intersects the eat^terly boundary line of the Village of Free- port; thence in a southerly direction following the easterly bound¬ ary line of the Village of Freeport until it conies to the center of the Long Island Railroad tracks; thence wetiterly following the center line of the Long Island Railroad tracks to the center line of Grove Street, and thence southerly following the center line of Grove Street until it comes to the center line of W'balay Street at the puint or place of beginning, and embracing all the tarritpry ^ithin aaid bounda/^
