: BEFiniNG FLAG DAY CEREMONY BY BLKS
Freeport Lodge "Gpes Parotic Pro¬ gram—Congressman Hicks Primdptd Speaker.
A beflttinif and impressive Flag Day observance was conducted by Freeport Lodffe of EBcs at the club¬ house Ust Friday evening. More than 600 attended the event, which was highly oatrfotic in character.
The Liberty Bell ritual was enter¬ taining and instructive, and a tak on the history of Old Glory and allied flags by Congfressman Hicks was lis¬ tened to with earnest attention and manifestations of enthusiasm by the audience.
Past Exalted Ruler Stephen P. Pet¬ tit, with Charles A. Sigrmond and William Wolff of the Lodge explain¬ ed the signiflcance of the Libertv Bel, represented in flowers of red, white and blue.
Exalted Ruler Leo Fishel welcomed the lodge members and guests at the opening of the exercises, which made everyone feel at hofne and inspired for the occasion.
The flinging of patriotic songs, invo¬ cation by Rev. Everett A. Burnes of the M. E. Church and selections by organist Harry P. Wolfer, formed part of the program.
Madame Bettinetti of Baldwin and Albert and Harry von Tilzed parti¬ cipated aa vocal sooists and pianist for the occasion and delighted ull present with their excellent rendi¬ tions. Sidney Feltenstein, who was to recite, and Miss Minnie Aldridge, who was to play the viiolin, were pre¬ vented from participating on account of disability.
The committee which arranged the splendid ceremony consisted of Moses Feltenstein, chairman; County Jud^e' Lewis J. Smith, Chester A. Fu ton, Douglas Lawrence and Past Exalted Rulers Wallace and Pettit.
BEST NASSAU SPELLER
BaUwin Boy Wine Ctnmty Cham¬ pionship Contest mt Hempstead.
Robert Collyer, age 14, a student in the eight grade of the Baldwin achool, won the spe.ling championship of Nassau County at Hempstead last Saturday and will be the county rep¬ resentative at the state fair in Sy¬ racuse this month. Here he will com-
FREEPORT SCHOOLS CLOSE NEXT WEEK
Program of Exercises Arranged^
Beginning on Snnday. Class
of 17 Gradaates.
Photo by Glickman, Freeport
ROBERT COLLYER Champion Speller of Nassau County
COCKS WILL LEAD WHITMAN FORCES
(Former Congressman William W. Cocks of Wesbbury announced on Wednesday his acceptance as manager of Governor Whitman's primary cam¬ paign for re-nomination. He wili open headquarters 'Monday in Suite GOu- 607 in the Manhattan Hotel.
Ex-Congressman Cocks was in Al- ibany recently when the suggestion was made to him by Gov. Whitman's friends that he manage the Governor's primary campaign. He told them he probably wou d accept the post ami would let them know definitely within a short time. His acceptance will Lo regarded as significant in vi»w of thi? fact that the campaign manager of Attorney-General Lewi.s in his pri¬ mary fight against the Governor is State Senator Theodore Douglas Rob¬ inson, nophew of Col. Roosevelt.
Mr. Cocks always has been consid¬ ered a personal representative of Cul. Rooseve.t, and his agreement to act as Gov. Whitman's campaigrn manairer would be taken as assurance that Col. Roosevelt is to remain neutral in the Gubernatorial fight.
pete against the best spellers of the state for supremacy and also have op¬ portunity to see the great fair.
Collyer is a Boy Scout leader .ind the-son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Col yer of Southard street, Baldwin. He won the county contest on the word "schism," which Berwick Taylor of the Hempstead grammar school, h;s nearest competitor, fell down on.
A notable feature of the contest was that Collyer's paper had no erasures or blurs.
GRAND JURY URGES LAW ENFORCEMENT
Presentment Advocates That Jus¬ tices Exercise Jurisdiction Con¬ ferred in Criminal Cases.
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Mineola (Special.)—^With the ob¬ ject of securing better enforcement of the criminal law and the promotion of substantial justice in Nassau County, the June Grand Jury, which finished its work' last Friday, made a pre- .-iontment to Supreme Court Justice Manning with the request that the I district attorney mail a copy to every I justice of the peace and police justice within the county.
The presentment £ays in part that a number of cases have come before the Grand Jury, which in its opinion should have been disposed of in -jus¬ tices' or police courts. Section 56 of the Code of Criminal Procedure enume¬ rates the cases over which justices of the peace, sitting as a court of spe¬ cial sessions, have original jurisdic¬ tion to hear and determine. The Grand Jury says it feels that the jus¬ tices of the peace and police justices should exercise this jurisdiction con¬ ferred upon them to the fullest ex¬ tent.
It ofttimes happens that by holding: a defendant to await the action of the Grand Jury in minor offenses within the grade mentioned in section r)6, that defendant^.go unpunished and justice is thereby defeated for the reason that witnesses are nob within ITj^^'^risdiction of the court when the case is cailed before the Grand Jury, or influences are sometimes brought to bear which cause complain¬ ing witnesses either to be uncertain as to the facts or to have no desire to prosecute the case further. The justice, by reason of his prompt ac¬ tion, may remedy all this bv meting out such punishment as he thinks the case deserves.
While the Grand Jury urges the ac¬ tion lindicated in minor cases, it took opportunity to state that justices of the peace sitting as committing m<ag- i'«tr«tes should, navertheless, hold for the Grand Jury where the evidence warrants such action, and where the case i« of a nature us may only be prosecuted by indictment.' In this connection attention is cal.ed to sec¬ tion 208 of the Code of Criminal Pro¬ cedure, which states that if it ap¬ pears that the crime has been commit¬ ted, and that there is sufficient cause to believe the defendant guiltyi the maicistrate must order that be he held to answer the sanM.
The recommendation of the Grand Jury is signed by its foreman, Au¬ gustus D. Kelsey, and it8*olark, Al¬ bert M. Baylis.
It is learned from a reliable source that District Attorney Weeks is not pleased with the action of « certain Justice of the peace, who recently dis- nii»tted a number of charges afainst alki««d tcaniblers fcroggbt into Ilis court These mtv meee wriMsqueat- ly indicted by tiie Oittod Jury.
The public schools at Freeport will close next week with exercises of tHe usual character, including the annual sermon to the ^aduates, to <be de.fver- ed in the Columbus aveiiae school by "Rev. John L. O'Toole of the Holy Redeemer Church, on, Sunday after¬ noon at 4 o'clock. Other local clergy¬ men will participate and there will be patriotic singing with an offering for the vil.agre library.
Class dav exercises of the gradu¬ ates will follow on Tuesday evening In the Grove street school and the com¬ mencement exercises take place in the American Theatre on Wednesday evening at 8.30.
The High School Orchestra and Girls' Glee Club wid furnish the mu¬ sical portion of the graduating pro¬ gram. Prayer will be offered by Rev. E. A. Burnes, President C. Dwight Baker of the school board will presc.it the diplomas, and Rev. J. L. Hynes, new pastor of the Baptist Churcii, will pronounce the benediction.
Alfred Nygren is to make the sa.u- tatory address, Caroline Smith will give a reading, and Adolph Hotten¬ roth an oration entitled, "We Will Win the War."
The valedictory will be delivered hy Louis Finger and the exercises inter- sper^ with singing "The Star Span¬ gled Banner."
The graduates this year are E iza- beth Anderson, Anna Goldfarb, Mar¬ guerite Elizabeth Hansen, Christine Eidt, Louise Finger, Helen Isabel Hambler, Ethel Grace Peterson, Fay L. Petrone, Caroline A. Smith, Ed¬ ward Grant Davis, Adolph C. Hotten¬ roth, Alfred M. Nygren, Frpd H. Plump, Jr., Leslie F. Raynor, Johi A. P. Schlege!, W. Theodore Steven¬ son and Cornelius R. Rees, Jr.
Class officers are Caroline A. Smith, president; Walter Stevenson, vice-president, and Louise Finger, sec¬ retary.
The class motto is "To Excel! Al¬ ways;" the flower, the crimson ram¬ bler, and th^ class colors, crimson and "silver. /
TWO NEW POSITIONS CREATED IN NASSAU
Men Prominent in Nassau County
W. FRED ST AUKS, County Superintendent of Highways
County to Have Bmldings Superin¬ tendent and Finger Print Experts.
The Nassau County supervisors last Friday voted to create the office of county superintendent of buildings. The incumbent of the office' has not been appointed, but the appointee will have the care and custody of such county buildings as are designated by the board.
The district attorney was authoriz¬ ed to have installed at a cost of $375 a finger-print system, to be used in identifying criminals. An expert will probably be appointed later to super¬ vise this new branch of the district attorney's work.
Theodore Bedell, Jr., Freeport, w.as temporarily appointed as bookkeeper in the comptroller's office during the absence of Joseph Keuthen, who has enlisted in the military service of the United 'States. The salary of the new appointee will be $1,800 a year.
"The board granted an application of J. J. Brooke, of Brooklyn, for a public hearin)^ on August 5, to con¬ sider whether the board will prive per¬ mission to the congregation Beth Dav¬ id, Inc., to use for cemetery purposes a piece of land adjacent to the Elmont Cemetery.
County Superintendent of Poor C. C. Van Deusen was authorized to at¬ tend the annual Sessions of the su¬ perintendents of the poor to be held frotn June 25 to June 28 at Alexan¬ dria Bay, N. Y.
W. Fred Starks of Glen Cove, county superintendent of highways for Nas¬ sau County since Apri., 1915, has had a varied experience in surveying and engineering which has provided him with information that is useful in his work.
Superintendent Starks works under direction of the state department of highways in n>ost cases wher^ road work is done. He assists in the prep¬ arations and must approve all town road agreements. He gives assistance to the town superintendents of high¬ ways in their work and follows up and approves plans for state highway ftnd county highway work. He em¬ ploys local engineers in many in¬ stances where town roads are to be
built or improved. Under a law re¬ cently passed, the county superintend¬ ent has to prepare plans for bridges over county roads and county high¬ ways.
The county superintendent was born in Newburgh, N. Y. After leaving public school, he obtained employment with the engineering corps of the Bal- tinrore & Ohio Railroad at Grafton, West Virginia. Later he worked in the engineering department of the Jersey Central and the New York Central Railroads. He established his resfdence on Long Island in 1897, and from that time to his appointment from the civil ^rvice list has conduct- ' ed a general surveying and engineer¬ ings business.
Town Clerks Can't Issue
Licenses For Phone Marriages
Says Ass't District Attorney o
State to Oerk Gilbert of
HempaUmL
Hempstead (SpeciaL)—Town Clerk Gilb5|tt haa heeo^advised 'by Deputy Attorney General Edward E. Grif¬ fin that town clerks should not issue .icenses to parties desiring to marry over the telephone where one of the parties is in tjiis state and the other party in another state.
'Recently several marriages over the telephone and telegraph wires have been performed for soldiers at Camp lyills desiring to marry before they leave for P'ranee. Several days ago a Hempstead minister was call¬ ed upon to officiate at one of these marriages and refused to do so un¬ less a marriage license was issued The license was refused by Town Clerk Gilbert and another minister was obtained.
Deputy Griffin refers to a case where a soldier in a camp in Texas desired to marry a girl in this state.
The State Board «f Charities prepar¬ ed contracts, one of which was exe¬ cuted before a judge of a court of record in Texas. "We think," says the letter from the Attorney General, "that this constituted a valid common law marriage."
Continuing, the letter in part reads: "'While the statute, therefore, con¬ templates that both parties wiil ap¬ pear before the person officiating and that they appear toother in the same place. I do not mean to say that such marriages as have been performed over the telephone are absolutely in¬ valid. I merely go so far as to hold that where such marriages are per¬ formed the clerk issuing the marriage license has no duty to perform, should not issue marriage licenses to such parties, and shou.d not receive such licenses upon return for filing. I have little doubt that the courts would make every effort to uphold as valid marriages made over the telephone."
Undoubtedly careful clergymen who are asked in the future to officiate at telephone or telegraphic marriapes will refuse to do so unless thji parties are supplied with marriage licenses or valid contracts.
62 Per Cent Republican Enrollment
j Mineola (Special.)—Figures coni- , piled by the Election Commissioner's I office this week show that a total of 17708 women voters have enroled in
Nassau County. This number is divid* led as follows. Town of Hempstead, I 4450; North Hempstead, 1380; Oyster jBay, 1878. The figures reveal that
about 62 per cent of the women have
enrolled with the Repiiblican party;
The Democrats are second and the I Prohibitioni*s third. ! The largest enrollment of women
in Hempstead town was recorded in
the 12th election district, Roosevelt,
where 349 enrolled,
There are 15,240 male registered
voters in the entire county.
HAROLD SEAMAN KILLED
Former Freeporter Fatally Hurt by Manhattan "L" Train
Harold Albert Seaman, 28 years old, of 423 Ridgewood avenue, 'Cypress Hills, son of Mr. and Mra. Harry A.
I Seaman, Freeport, a foremtyi of con¬ struction in the signal service de-
' partment of the Interborout^h RaiU
I road Company, died on Saturday in the Knickerbocker Hospital, in Man¬ hattan, of a f raoture of the skull. He was struck by a south-4K>und
' train of the iSixth avenue elevated railroad two hours before his death.
! The funeral services were held Tues¬ day evening at his late residence, and
' the interment was in GreenAeld Cem¬ etery, Hempstead, following, a second
! service a\ tne home of his pstrents ifi Freeport,
j Seaman was born in Freeport. He was s mentber of Inwood Council, Jr. 0. U. A. M. He is survived by his wife, ESflte; his patents, Harry A. snd Anna Seaman; a sister, B«s tries, sud a brother. Dor ranee A.
I Seaman.
"^ Birthday Celebra tion.
On Saturday evening, June 15, a birthday party was given Mrs. H. A Driscoll at the home of her daugh¬ ter, Mrs. H. T. Lindsay, Bennington Park,, F^reeport. Many gifts were re¬ ceived by" Mrs. Driscoll. One was a purse from her two daughters. A collation was served.
Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Chajles Driscoll of Pat- chogue, Mr. and iMrs, John Dpscoll of Freeport, Mr. and Mrs. Widiam Driscoll of Ocean Side, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Langdon and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Lindsay of Freeport. Seven grandchildren and seven great-grand¬ children were also present.
I Tryins to Make Legal Lease.
j Representatives of the Queens-Nas- i sau .Agricu.tural Society appeared
ibefore the Town Board on Tuesday I and asked that the board consent to ! the society leasing the Fair Grounds ' to the government for hospital pur- I poses. "The consent of the board is re- i quired, since a restrictive clause in j the deed conveying the land to the
society states in substance that it is ; oply to be used for the promotion of ' agricultural interests. It is the plan ' of the society to submit the question ' to the voters on November 15, if the
consent of the board is given. The
board decided to refer the matter to I Counselor Wood and will take up the i question again on Thursday.
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I Pay of Trolley Men Inaeased.
! Motormen and conductors of the
j N. Y. & L. 1. Traction Company are
I working under increased wages
which in some instances amount to
nearly 20 per cent.
Short term service men have been advanced from 24 to 29 cents an hour and those employed five yeafs and over, are advanced from 29 to 38 cents. Workers in other departments will receive a corresponding increase.
Hicks Dlstrlbatts Flag Posters.
Congressman Frederick C. Hicks has sent to all the public schools in his district a large poster flag, upon which is depicted the flag in color and Quotations from his addreks on the fla^ delivered in Congress. He will mail copies to anyone upon request.
The congressman will please accept thanks for one of the poster Hags sent to this paper.
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J. P^fl Fhigrath. editor and pub¬ lisher of the Soutk Side Signal at Babylon, has been named as one of three supreme court oomniissiouers to appraise land reauired for school pur- Bpsss ai Sag Harbor.
Doxsey Deputy Health Inspector.
The Town Board on Tuesday ap¬ proved the appointment by Health Officer Rhame of Charles Doxsey of Lynbrook as deputy health inspector. Doxsey will supervise the sanitary conditions in and near the waters of the bay and will pay particular at¬ tention to the cleanUness of waters near oyster beds. His salary will be f 100 a month and he will be em¬ ployed until Oecemfber 1.
Pftars to Snporrise I. L L ¦.
Ralph iPsters, president of the Long Island Rsilroad, has been nam¬ ed mi fsaersl manager of the system by Charles H. MaHcham, federal di¬ rector for the Allegheny region. Mr. Peters will oontinue to msk« hb of- flce •« fsdsrsl nuutagsr in Mataiijil-
BOARD HAY ADVISE CLOSING SALOONS
Military Authorities Make Demand
at Town Board Meeting—PubUc
Hearing Thursday.
Hempstead (Special.)—The Town Board of Health was taken by surprise on Tuesday when Lieutenant John L. Cornell, representing the ^Federal 'Law Enforcement Department, and Captain C arke Tobin, head of the n^ilitary police at Camp Mills ap¬ peared and asked the board to pass a resolution requesting the State Ex¬ cise Commissioner to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages in the entire township and to suspend the liquor tax certificates in the town for the duration of the war and while Camp Millir and Hazelhurst Fieid are in use as military posts. After some dis¬ cussion in which seveAl mennbers of the board expressed the belief that the action requested would not be of much benefit if liquor is sold in Queens and New York City, the board decided to hold a public hear¬ ing on Thursday at 2 p.m., when rep¬ resentatives of the various incorpor¬ ated villages and others wi.l 'be pres¬ ent.
Captain Tobin stated that the men at Camp Mills are getting all the liquor they want and that while the saloon keepers are not to blame for the conditions, the bootleggrers are. He stated that the men continue to get inebriant drinks in spite of the fact that over one hundred bootleg¬ gers h&ve been arrested and most of them convicted. Captain Tobin said that he believes the boot.eggers are getting most of their liquor from sa¬ loons in the town of Hempstead. He hinted strongly to the board that if the action is not taken, the military authorities will step in and effect the desired result. Lieutenant Cornell said that he will make a similar re¬ quest of the North Hempstead and Oyster Bay boards. If ail three boards act favorably on this matter the whole county will be dry.
Lsst year the town of Hempstead received $68,000 as its share of state monies received from liquor taj? cer¬ tificate revenues. There are aibout 190 places in the township that would be required to cease selling alcoholic beverages if the desired action is taken.
LIQUOR BARS CLOSED
Camp Mills Military Police Moves to Stop Bootlegpng.
Captain C. W. Tobin, In charge of* the military police, at Camp Mills de¬ termined to enforce the law regulat¬ ing the sale of* liquor within a pre- scri/bed radius and has"closed up many bars in saloons and Jiotels located in Mineola, Wesbury, Garden City, Hicksville and Hemipstead. The law prevents the sale of liquor in incor¬ porated villages half a mile from a camp, and in unincorporated villages five miles from the camp.
Captain Tobin^^^determined to com¬ bat the "bootleggers" who infested the camp and concluded that the only way he could effectively end their traffic was to close up the bars in ho¬ tels and saloons within the boundary prescribed by law. He cosed up eight bars in Mineola and eight in \Va-tbury before he completed his tour.
The hotel and saloon proprietors were indignant at the action of Cap¬ tain Tobin, in view of the fact that they had put in a big supply of "re¬ freshments" for summer tourists.
Register for War Service.
(!ov. Charles S. Whitman having is,sued a proclamation to the citizens, requesting them to assemble in some public place in they* respective locali¬ ty on Jufie 28, and p.edge themselves to the saving of War Savings Stamps, Village President Robert G. Ander¬ son has designated the place for the village of Freeport, at the Grove Street School house, next Friday, June 28, from 1 to 10 p.m. On that day every citizen is supposed to pre¬ sent himself and make a definite, bind¬ ing pledge of the amount he will en¬ deavor to save for this purpose dur¬ ing the ensuing year.
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Freeport Red Cross to Move.
The Freeport Branch of the Amer¬ ican 'Red Cross this week acknow¬ ledges contributions of $39.65, and on Saturday will move its quarters to rooms on the second floor of the Fore¬ man Building, Brooklyn avenue and Main street, C. Milton Foreman, the owner, having donated their use.
The. quarters in the Jacob Post '^ 'ilding on Main street widJ tie clos¬ ed tomorrow (iSaturdsy) and the new Quarters opened for work next Moa- day.
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Long Beach Elects tayBoMiL
The annual election for the village of Long Baaeh on Tuesday, result¬ ed in a victory for formsr Senator William H. Reynolds, who was ele4;ted president of the municipality as head of ths iPspple's ticket, <Ufe»tiiw Wil- 4Um B. Wllwn. Tbe satire People's tiekst defoated ths Liberty ticket, which Wilson h»».i»d.
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