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VOL. 9, No. 4
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
ANDERSON HEADS FREEPORT TICKET
TnMeet Mahnken and Bedell to
Have No Opposition to Re-
Election.
A new phase appeared in the cam- paififn to select otlicers for F'reeport village iihis week, when Robert G. Anderson, former Postmaster, and at
Rresent Commissioner of Jurors for fassau County, wa.s atronjfiy urjjed •a a candidate for President to suc- ' ceed Sidney H. Swezey, who has serv¬ ed one year.
While it was known that President Swezey did not care for another term, • number of his friends hoped he would reconsider his recent declara¬ tion affainat running. The President ¦et all doubts at rest during the week when he positively decided that it would be impossible for him to serve another term.
A representative of The Nassau Post was Kivcn confirmation of the decision from President Swezey yes¬ terday (Thursday) when he said:
"Yes, it ia true, that I am not a candidate for re-election as President of Freeport village. There is too much strain in looking after the nu¬ merous and hiffhly important affairs connected with villapre Kovernment, not to mention the smaller matters. Besides, my 'business affairs will not permit of auch an encroachment in time as the strict and continuous at¬ tention to municipal affairs de¬ mands."
Commissioner Anderson told the Post representative that while he had not solicited the nomination of Pres¬ ident, he expected to be placed dn nominaition by petition and would not decline to run.
Petitions to further the candidacy of Commisaioner Anderson are in cir¬ culation, also for other candidates on the ticket. These include Franklin Bedell and John H. -Mahnken for Trustees to succeed themselves, S. DinMD Smith for Treaaurer and D. Frank Seaman for Collector. Both are in office at present.
Theee candidates with Anderson will compose the People's Party tick¬ et, which is expected to have no op¬ position. T^he annual election will be held on Tuesday, March 19, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. There will be two poU- in'jr places. In District No. 1 the vot¬ ing will be in the houae of Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company on Church etreet, and in District No. 2 in the house of Vigilant Hose Company No. 4 on North Main street.
TWO LONG BEACH SUITS
McVine Realty Company Saes to Recover $45,873.
Complaints have been served in two suits brought against John G. Ger¬ hard, W. J. Wells, Warren E. Burns, Otto Seidenberf!: and Herman Gold- schmidt, former officials of Long Beach, in the Supreme Court of Nas¬ sau County for the recovery of $42,- 873 by the 'McVine Realty Company. The complainants allege that the money was used for cOhstruction of sewers and transferred from a $200,000 bond issue for street con¬ struction.
The other suit is for $3,000, wihich the McVine Corporation alleges was paid to Nathan Franko for band con¬ cert!.
IS YOUR HOME a mus¬ ic-made Palace? Have you music in your home? Do you feel that there is something miss¬ ing? Do these tremend¬ ous times hang heavy above you?
The solace of music is beyond words. Let music enrich your surroundings. Let it enter in and re¬ claim the waste places of your life. Let us place a
Newr Edison
in your home^ and thus place at your hand the world's greatest music perfectly re-created.
LEGISLATURE MAY GIVE HEMPSTEAD TWO SUPERVISORS
North Side OfRcials Attempt to
Thwart Effort to Secure
Rights.
.Mineola (Special.) The bill of¬ fered by Assemblyman McWhinney in the State Legislature last week providing for the creation of two supervisor districts in the town of Hempstead has aroused ccmsiderable .speculation among politicians as to whether it would be advisable to al¬ low the bill to go through as it now stands with the section which reads in part that "The electors of each Supervisor district, as established by the Town Board, shall elect a super¬ visor under the general laws relat¬ ing to the election of supervisors ap¬ plicable to such town, except that the electors of each ^Supervisor district shall vote for but one Supervisor, who shall be a resident of such dis¬ trict," or to have the bill amended so that the two Supervisors shall be vot¬ ed for by the entire electorate of the township.
One object of creating a new Su¬ pervisor district, it was learned, was to enable the Supervisors from Hemp¬ stead township to have the balance of voting power in the Board of Su¬ pervisors. Many people 'believe that Hempstead, with it large population of (;;i,271 as compared with 23^87 for North Hempstead and 29,867 for Oyster Bay, according to the 1915 census, should have the largest vote in the Board.
The power of dividing the tovm in¬ to Supervisory districts is, under the bill, vested in the Town Board. The Town Board is also given power to appoint a supervisor after the bill
becomes a law, the appointee to hold office until hi.s successor is elected at the bienniel town meeting first held thereafter. The bill provides that until the Supervi.sors of each district to be elected by the electors thereof, the Supervisor first in office shall be chairman of the Town Board and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of a Supervi¬ sor of a town, and the Supervisor appointed by the Town Board to fill the vacancy, in the district establish¬ ed, until the following biennial town meeting, shall be vice-chairman and shall have the powers and duties pro¬ vided in the bill and those delegated to him by the Town Board,
The Town Board is given the right following an election ta select one of the two Supervisors as chairman of the Board for the ensuing year; each Supervisor is to be a member of'the bounty Board of Supervisors and will receive the same salary and ex¬ penses as now provided by law for the otiher Supervis»ors of the County.
The prospect of having two Super¬ visors from Hempstead town has not met with the approval of the politi¬ cal leaders in Oyster Bay and North Hemjpstead towns. On Wednesday, Supervisors Remsen and Seaman, in company with Edward Allen Repub¬ lican State Committeeman from the Second Assembly District, and Surro¬ gate Leone D. Howell were in Al¬ bany attending a session of the State ISupervisors Association, and while there registered a protest with As¬ semblymen McWhinney and Coles against bhe proposed law. A public hearing on the matter Will be held before the Committee on Internal Af¬ fairs at Albany on the afternoon of March 5.
HUGH IMPROVEMENT AT FREEPORT P. 0.
WOULD CHANGE CODNTYJAX LAWS
Diviaon of Receivers' Payment Would Reduce Amount of Coun¬ ty Loans Made.
Mineola (Special.)—At a confer¬ ence of county officials on ^Saturday at Mineola, attended also by the Tax ¦Receivers of the county, Assembly¬ man McWhinney, the county SupieiTri- sors and William S. Pettit, the de¬ cision was reached, after lengthy dis¬ cussion, that the town and other spe¬ cial districts are not in need of all the money levied for them, as soon as collected, and that their needs would be met if the present law is changed so that but 50 per cent, of their moneys were paid them as soon as collected. It was the concensus of opinion that this would enable the county to get a greater share of the monies due it from tax levies and that it would not have to wait as long as now for its full share. If this proves true the county will not be forced to barrow as muclh in the future as it has in the past to pay current expenses, since the tax monies will be available for that pur¬ pose.
The meeting concluded that the school district moneys should be paid over as soon as received, since the school year begins in August and debts are contracted several months prior to the receipt of tax money.
The meeting was in favor of amend¬ ing the present law so that the plan to obtain tax moneys for the county as aforementioned can be placed in operation
Comptroller Bennett advanced the idea that larger sutns of money col¬ lected by the Tax Receivers would be on hand for distribution if taxpayers w^re required to pay all of their taxes at one time instead of making payments twice a year, as permit¬ ted by the present law. It haa been found that the small taxpayer, as a rule, pay his or her taxea at one tin»e, while the rich man and tSie big cor¬ porations take advantage of the two payment privilege.
The law was designed, in part, to assist the small taxpayer and the poor man in paying up their taxes in installments, but according to the records this class does not take ad¬ vantage of the leniency which the law extends to them. It was thought best to try the present system for another year, at least
The question of establishing a tax arrears bureau to facilitate the work of collecting back taxes was discussed and the opinion of the majority was that while it would be a good plan to have tax arrear data brought up to date and centralized under one bu¬ reau, it would not be wise to establish auch a department unless it could be shown with reasonable certainty that the bureau throug'h ita function in obtaining taxes from dilinqueq,t tax¬ payers would be self sustaining at least.
The nieeting listened to some inter¬ esting data read by Comptroller Earle J. Bennett, whicn indicates that the present system of tax collection in the county is an improvement ov¬ er the old method. The Comptroller -stated that in 1910 fourteen And six- tenths per cent, of the taxes were un- i-oUected. He showed that this was the lowest percentage of uncollected taxes for any year up to tbe flr»t year of tax collection under the new sya- ten (1916) when the percentage of uncollected taxes waa lowered to 12.6 per cent.
HALF MAST FLAG FOR W^ VICTIMS
Freeport Trustees Order Service
Emblem to Fly for Five Days
AHer Fatality.
The Trustees of Freeport, at a meeting held Wednesday evening, adopted a resolution that the Police Department be instructed to place a flag at half-mast on the village flag¬ pole for ifive days after authentic in¬ formation had been received that any resident had been killed in service of the United States Army or Navy. It was voted to purchase for the purpose a service flag, 9 x 12 feet, at a cost not to exceed $30.
The Board met to consider the bud¬ get of expenses for the year and pre¬ pared one, but oflicial adoption was postponed until this (Friday) even¬ ing.
Transfer of moneys was made from a number of funds to others to obtain proper arrangement of fin¬ ances. From the general fund, $327.50, which had been paid for rent of police headquarters since May 15, 1917, was transferred'to the police fund.
To the general fund was transfer¬ red $1,200, part of the unexpended balance in the sidewalk fund; $9,000 taken from the light fund and placed in the light sinking fund; $3,500 taken from the light sinking fund and placed in the street lighting fund; from the water fund, $250, and from the lig'ht fund, $750, to be placed into the employees insurance fund; from the police fund, $500 unexpended bal¬ ance was ordered transferred to the general fund, and $500 from the gen¬ eral fund to the Board of Health fund.
The salary of Edgar Carman, em¬ ployed at the power house, was in¬ creased from $65 to $70 a month, commencing March 1.
Appointments by President Swezey of inspectors for the annual village election on March 19 were filed with Clerk S. P. Shea.
For District No. 1 the appoint¬ ments are Walter B. Cozzens, Mrs. Agnes C. Earon, A. B. Wallace and William Bornscheuer
F'or District No. 2, August V. John¬ son, Mrs. Annie B. Raynor. Russell A. Randall and Edward A. Rice.
Harold W. Smith Promoted.
The numerous acquaiatances in Freeport and elsewhere of Harold W. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Smith, will no doubt be pleased to learn of his promotion from the camp at TarrytowTi, N, Y., to a com¬ missioned officer on the New York State Sehoolship "Newport," which 9o-op«rat..>8 with the government in training boya and young men for the service. His duties are in line with advertising and publicity which he has successfully conducted in Man¬ hattan. This work on the sehoolship will be to aid in recruiting classes.
MARY EMMA LAYTON
Mary Emma Layton, mother of Mrs. Frank Wood of Roosevelt, died at Oyster Bay village on Februj^ry 20, in her 77th year. jShe was the widow of Thomas Layton, for many years an Ass^asor in the town of Oyster Bay. Funeral services were held Kriday afternoon, with inter¬ ment in the family plot at Brook- vilfe ceowtuy.
Postmaster Smith Has Plant Re¬ modelled and Enlarged—New Eqaipntent Installed.
Through the energy and progres¬ siveness of Postmaster G. Benson Smith, coupled with the co-operation of C. Milton Foreman, owner of the building, the post ofTice at Freeport
POSTMASTER SMITH
is undergoing extensive changes and improvements.
The floor space will be increased from 1,200 square feet to 2,000 square feet By eliminating the old interior vestibule and erecting one on the outside at the front entrance, considerable space has been added to tho public lobby. The lobby has a white tile floor with marble surface. The new lobby arrangement adds to the warmth of the office.
The heating system of the office has been rearranged to afford a more equable distribution. Ceiling lights have been installed and particular at¬ tention given to adequate ventilation 0^ ihe office.
An entirely new and modern equip¬ ment is to be installed in the mail¬ ing room and the carriers' work room. A "swing" room has been provided for the carriers on the second floor so that they may obtain rest between service hours.
A separate entrance to the office for (Continued on page 8)
RUSH RED CROSS WORK
Freeport Society Establishes Record for Rapid War Service.
The following is a list of the fin¬ ished work of the ^Veeport Branch for the past month:
Bath robes, 15; 17 pairs pajamas, 70 hospital shirts, 6 operating leg¬ gings, 80 bandaged foot socks, 2!) pairs of 'bed shoes, 45 bed coats, 65 rest pillows, 10 under shirts, 10 com¬ fort bags, 3 nightingales, 14 baby shoes; surgical dressings--163 pads, 821 compresses, 85 wipes, 140 gauze strips, 120 gauze sponges, 66 gauze rolls, 15 abdominal bandages, 19 head bandages, 34 T bandages, 70 triangle slings, 23 scultitus, 5 splint straps, 10 trenclh packets including 120 arti¬ cles, 7 heel rings, total of 1796 sur¬ gical dressings; knitted goods—25 sweaters, 122 pairs wristlets, 24 muf¬ flers. 76 helmets, 6 pairs socks.
We feel the members of the Red Cross have accomplished a spjendid amount of work during the past month and are to be congratulated.
We acknowledge with thanks the following donations which have been made to the Red Cross during the past week:
Card club, Mrs. Knobel, treasurer, 50 cents; Friday B.idge Club, Mrs. Stuart, treasurer, $3; Mrs. Charles M. Hart, $2.5; surgical dressings classes, under the direction of Miss Gladys B. Story, $14; Mrs. C. M. Eadie, $4; Mrs. M. T. Ford, $5; total, $51..50.
CHILD DESERTER JAILED
C. W. Raab Pleads Guilty in Coun¬ ty Court—Abductor is Paroled.
Mineola (Special.)—Charles W. Raab of iRockville Centre pleaded guilty in the County Court last Sat¬ urday to an indictment charging him w^ith abondonment of his children. He was remanded to jail for one week..
Frank Matthon of Merrick was con¬ victed in the County Court on Fri¬ day under an indictment charging 'him with abducting Minnie Riechelt also of Merrick. On Monday Judge Lewis J. Smith suspended sentence, and placed Matthon on parole.
Charles Lutz of Smithville South pleaded guilty to an indictment for burglary in the third degree. He was charged with stealing chickens from Adee Wood. Sentence was suspended. Walter Smith, Fred Miller and Frank Waring, charged with being connect¬ ed with the same crime, pleaded not guilty to the indictments of third degree burglary. Each was released on $1,000 bail.
SHORTAGE OF HELP HANDS
MAY CRIPPLE FARM WORK
Mineola (Special.)—^Figures glean¬ ed from the tabulation sheets filed with the agricultural census of Nas¬ sau County, show a severe labor shortage for this county. According to the reports liled there were 2,001 persons devoting their full time to farm work in the county at this time last year. Now there are 1,878 per¬ son devoting their full time to farm work. Fifty-five men have enlisted and 158 have been drafted from the farms in the past year. There are now 99 persons doing farm work in the county w'ho were working in some other industry a year ago.
The figures indicate that at pres¬ ent the county has 927 men working on farms. A year ago, at this time there were 1,041 men. There are 853
year men already hired for the com¬ ing year and 683 yet to be hired. For the growing season there are already hired 391 men and 748 yet to be engaged. 154 men have been listed for the harvesting period, and there are 1034 yet to be found.
In commenting upon the census the Farm Bureau News issued this week says: "There were about 30,341 acres of land in crops last year. No ac¬ curate figures can be given on the probable acreage in crops this year, but figures indicate 20,444 acres will be cultivated this' season. This is a decrease of 9,897 acres ahd is in the main due to lack of skilled labor, caused by men leaving the farms for government service and other indus¬ tries."
TOWN PROSPEIUTY
POUCE PROFITABLE
Not Guarded by Wealth But by Pulling Together.
A well-knowa Long Island ex¬ change prints the following, which may have gone the rounds of news- paperdom, But if it has, appears to possess sufficient virtue in the way of truthful application to warrant re¬ production:
"The prosperity of a town is not guarded by the wealth of its inhabi¬ tants but by the uniform,ity with which they pull together when an im¬ portant undertaking is to be accom'' plished. A man with a thousand dol¬ lars at his command and a love lor his town in his heart can do more for its upholding than the millionaire who locks up his capital and snaps his finegers at home enterprise."
Chief Hanse of Freeport Makes Re¬ port of Successful Year.
New Eni^and Supper Held.
The New England supper held on the evening of Washington's Birth¬ day under auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. Church in the basement dining room, was well conducted and highly successful. Sup¬ per was served to 200 and included among other -appetizing dishes, roast turkey. Mrs. Albert Hutton was in charge of the. dining room, which was decorated with patriotic colors »ud well designed artificial cherry trees laden with plenty of fruit. Mrs. Thomao Lucaa, recently chuaen Pres¬ ident uf the Society, nad charge of arranging the menu, and ita «xe»Uia- cy VMM aitwtad by all.
The annual report of James Hanse, Chief of Police for Freeport, filed with the Village Trustees Wednesday evening, shows that his administra¬ tion for the year has been a great success.
During the fiscal yoar the police handled 81 cases. There were 61 con¬ victions, 10 suspended sentences and 16 discharges. The Children's Court had 11 cases and 9 convictions. Vio¬ lations of village ordinances number¬ ed 309, with 302 convictions. Fines amounted to $3,967. Goods were re¬ covered, including three automobiles, valued at $8,635. Fines from town¬ ship cases amounted to $1,069. The total net fines and property recover¬ ed aggregated $13,103.25. The police appropriation by the village for the year was $10,000.
The Chief recommended in his re¬ port that the village employ a regu¬ lar traffic oflRcer and tAat tne salary of all patrolmen be increased to $100 a month.
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Bridge Tenders' Salaries Raised.
MineoU (Special.) -At their last nieeting last Thursday, the Nassau Cuuiity Supeipvibors voted to increase the salary oif the five bridcre tenders to |100 a month, each, ijcginninK March 1. There are four tenders at bridges on the road laudiiiK tu l.>oug Beach and one at the Bayvill* bridge. The in«n applied for the salary raue.
STORY KILLED IN FALL AT MEMPHIS
Freeport Aviator Survives Short Tme After 1000 Foot Fall.
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W. Clinton. Story, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Story of West Merrick road, Kreeport, was fatally injured Tuesday afternoon at the army avia¬ tion camp near Memphis, Tennessee, in a collision of airplanes which he and Cadet William J. Weissinger of Beulah, Miss., were operating. Weis¬ singer was almost instantly killed nnd Story so badly injured that he died later in the field hospital where he was taken after the accident.
Both men were student aviators, members of the second solo or ad¬ vanced flying classes. They were fly¬ ing out of the same field and going in the same direction when the col- lission occurred. Story turned his machine to* make a glide to landing, according to neAvspaper reports from Memphis, and the airplanes came to¬ gether. Story felf from his machine when it was desceading and landed beneath its wreckage. Weissinger also landed under his machine. The airplanes fell about 1,000 feet.
"The parents of Story received a telegram informing them of the acci¬ dent and left home immediately for Memphis. After they departed and reached New York, a second tele- grom told of his death. An attempt was made by relatives and friends to communicate with the parents at the station in New York, but their train had left. They were reached by telephone at Newark, N. J., where the train was paged and the message that their son had died, delivered. They returned to Freeport.
'Story, a cadet in the aviation branch of the army, was 25 yeara old. He was a graduate of Freeport High 'School, and prominent in athletics. In 1913 he graduated from Princeton University. He entered the Platts¬ burg Training Camp for officers, and not securing the commission he de¬ sired, sought and obtained i>ennis- sion to enter the aviation branch. Hii death is the first of the war among Freeport men in service.
Flags in Freeport were placed at half mast Wednesday and vrill re¬ main so until after the funeral. Bus¬ iness places are expected to close dur¬ ing the funeral hour. The body of the unfortunate young aviator was directed sent to Freeport by his pa¬ rents
The body of Cadet Story has not arrived in Freeport at the time of going to press, but it was announced on "Thursday afternoon that funeral services would be held at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Story, 171- Merrick road, on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Sidney Gould, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, is expected to officiate. In¬ terment will be in Greenfield Ceme¬ tery.
Cadet Story w^as a mem'ber of the Freeport Club and popular among the members.
THREE AUTOISTS HURT
Cars Hit a Pole and Fence at Sea¬ ford and Lynbrook.
Last Friday evening, a'bout six o'clock, William P. Steveifs of Free- port, accompanied by a friend, Mr. Reading, was driving westefly in an automobile along the Merrick Road at Seaford, when east of John W. Southard's residence, the auto skid¬ ded and smashed against a telephone pole. The auto was wrecked and the occupants injured. They were re¬ moved to the home of Mr. South¬ ard and attended by Dr. Max H. iSkou of Bellmore and Dr. George A. Newton of Freeport, physician to Steven's family.
'Stevens and Reading were badly cut and bruised, and Reading receiv¬ ed two comminuted fractures of the right leg below the knee. Both men were removed to the Stevens* home at 108 Brooklyn avenue, Freeport.
In returning from a trip to Hemp¬ stead early Friday evening, an au¬ tomobile occupied by Charlea H. A. Bungart of Valley Stretim and his brother-in-law, Thomas Trowbridge, skidded into a fence at the junction of Hempstead and Franklin avenues, Lynbrook. The wind-shield of the car was smashed, also one of the front wheels. Trowbridge was thrown through the front of the car from his seat and received a number of cuts and bruises. He was partly stun¬ ned by the fall. Bungart held onto the steering wheel and escaped in¬ jury. His automobile was towed to Kerns' garpgc after his injured broth¬ er-in-law had been revived. The men then proceeded to Valley Stream in another car.
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Septuagenarians Bave Birthdays.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Washburn of 68 Lincoln Place celebrated their flf- , tieth wedding anniversary last Fri¬ day. Mr. Waabburn a Civil War veteran, is 74 years old. Mrs. Wash¬ burn is 69. A family gathering wrti held at tbe honae of their aou, E. B. W-ashburn, 78 'I..incoln Place. ThoM present were E. B. Washburn aad wife, five grandchildrtn, one graat- grandchild and Mrs. H. M Dudley, a sister of Mrs. Waaltburu.
