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Heads Methodist Group
Presbyterian' Women
Install Nev/ Officers
meeting. Gifts ,were exchanged.
Mrs. Alfred Sammis and Mrs.
Frederick, a former v member, were
elected president of the Women's!
Society of Christian Service of the \
^Freeport Methodist Church at the !
•annual meeting held in the social
hall Thursday afternoon.
Other officers were named as fol-lows:
Mrs. Aflred J. Brady. Mrs.
Martin M. Mansper^er m and Mrs.
Howard Combes, vice-presidents;
'Miss Grace Bookstaver, -treasurer,
r.nd Mrs. Charles Lutz. secretary.
The officers will-be installed by the
pastor, the Rev. C. Newman Hogle
at the January meeting.
The December group turned $355
i r» to the treasury and the July-
August group-$275. A contribution
of $1,000 was voted to the building
•fund of the church.
There was a Christmas table and
refreshments were served.
.stalled as president of the Women's
Improvement Society of the First
Presbyterian Church at its Decem-ber
meeting in the social hall. She
succeeds Mrs. Harold Arnold, who
was unable to be present. In her
absence, Mrs. Charles Krummel,
second vice-president, conducted the
installation. .
Other officers for 1948 are Mrs.
Frederick E. Jansen and Mrs. Al-fred
Bcnfieid, vice-presidents; Mrs.
Frederick Eastty, secretary; Mrs.
Robert Miller, corresponding secre-tary*
-and Mrs. Frederick Blumer,
treasurer. Mrs. Jansen was chair-man
of the nominating committee.
A tea and Christmas party in
charge of the retiring executive
board,' were enjoyed following the
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40 South Main St. FReeport 9-4236
(From Main to Church St.)
Left tp
lete Building;
Break Ground Soon •
' Leo P. 'Giblyn, president of the
"Board of Education, announced1 to-day,
the -IJoarcUof Education had
•' aw\\ arded-contrac•»ts lor" ~€ne general
construction, "heating and ventilafa-ing,'
pliunbitig • and sanitation and
•electrical lwt>rk of the new Seaman
ave. school at:a total cost of $1,512,
872._ This .leaves.,$275,128 of the
• bond-issue of • $1,788,000 to furnish
"•and equip the building and grade
and lay outrthe;grccnds.
. The contracts' awarded include
alternates accepted by the Beard
and -also, -keeping within the estf-rnated
:flguraras~to the cost of the
structure, provide for additional
rtuidergarteri facilities- to accomrao-langer;
'number of children
" :;planed .originally. ,
." Contracts 'Tvere awarded as fcflr
A'
Exchange Ato Install
Officers on Jan. 7
Lewis H. Charles will jae installed:
as president' of the Exchange Club
of Preeport, succeeding Herbert KL
Wood, at the Annual ladies' night'
exercises in the Elks clubhouse on
Wednesday night, Jan. -7.
Other officers elected for 1948
are William B. Billmcyer and
George J. Smith, vice-presidents;
Russell E. Hotaling, secretary; Emil
J.-Frenger, financial secretary; Sel-win
R. Shook, treasurer; Walter
J. Nichols, William Lies, jr., and
John J, provenzano, nr.inbers of
the board of control for two years,
and Albert J. Smith for one year.
Harry Biedermann is in charge
of reservations.
For
Plan
Services
Baptists, Methodists, ^Lutherans
To See Old Year Out; Greet New
Former Merchant
in
'---Watch— Kight- -services— are lo be conducted in three local
churches on New Year's eve — the First Baptist, the Frceport Metho-dist
and Christ Lutheran, ^ : :
The program at the Lutheran
Was Long Active
In Religious and
Fraternal Groups :
Hyman- Schlosg,( .affectionately
"Pop". ^Schloss" by. his
church calls for an hours' strvice,
but in the two other edlflces, the
exercises will get under way at 9
with motion pictures followed by
a social hour with a solemn clos-ing
the old year and greeting of
the hew. -
At the. Methodist church there
will be an hour of motion pictur.b
•and entertainment ;;frpm a .to. l
Tho/0nly4in T888
Remembers Blizzard
Editor, "The , Leader,
Last of 110 Miles
Of Roads Plowed by
Stayed oii
Hydrants Diiq Qiit;
Firehouses Manned'
proud
Sir:
The 26-inch snowfall of last Fri-day
was a record breaker ,in so
far as the' quantity of lsnow that
f-,11. but,I doubt ;if any four-year-
• ^^^^k ^ IP ffi m On and After
will be in our new home
Sunrise Hwv. cor. Grove Street •L , . .
across the street from our old location
con tinue to specia in
Contracting Co., 1165 feroadway,
Manhattan, $91,273.
The Johnson Corp. is one of the
best -known general contracting
companies in the country,. Among
schools it has erected are the
.Junior-Senior high at Harrison,
the Port--Ann Sphpol, Fort
Ann, N.Y.t and^the Central,school
at Goshen, N~Y. In addition to
ihahy other government contracts
the-Postal-
Concentration Center in Queens,
e Sampson Naval Training Sta-
," Sampson, N. Y., Camp Kilmer'
i School -Fellowship will
Mr. Schloss was in his SOth year. | hold a new year's reception and
of the; services
various
ing
Camp pix in New Jersey.
round for the new school is ex-pected
to be broken early in Jan-uary.
-'Police Save W^man
/Overcome by Fumes
'..}.-Mrs. Elizabeth Bond. 67, was
byircome by coal gas while asleep
oh a couch "Uirher home, 33 Bed-ave.
f- Sunday afternoon.'*'She
atrolman Wilton
who had be:n sent to the
-%'hbuse after relatives had telephoned
•••the polic'e theyrwere anxious about
door bell^nd knocking, Hamill
in the 'rear door and tound
:huse reefiing with fumes ema-jdtchen
stove. He
A-bEAL TRUCK MIRED
ANOTHEE IS HIRED
The A-Deal Food Market truck
got stuck in the snow while making
deliveries in the Freeport Bay Es-
:Knipe, Irritation House; " V f . /-..--
Gets Signal His Home Is Ablaze
Sgt. Raymond Knipe was in the Police Station Monday at 2
A.M., when the signal was" received that his home at 7 East ave.,
was on fire. Dashing into a pTdice car, -he raced home over the
was on hand continuously In the
office of. the Department of High-ways
to answei' telephone colls. All
inquiries were answered" court ously,
he salcl, and'people were informed
when they .might expect ..their
streets to be' reached and advised
what to-do in the meantime. In
several cases highway employees,
went?' out of the way to
Thd:
police station and
Claude Baynor"aud Jos- tates area on Friday and had to
were rushed to the •be abandoned while still laden wi,th
an " Inhalator. Dr. Leon- slippery streets happy to Ind the«>
;-;.rd:;C;.Swenson.also was d.spatphed
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wiSthoo unt od1 eolinvee riews,o utlhde hmaavnea getom egnot pfluatm eosu tI n-w itthhe msiunnopra rdlaomr ahgaed. been rinogom t haen dp hpriusltlmeda st hter ewe irlieg hctosn nfreocmt- people in emergency cas s. SES and ; ; ' T h e y -wored . over Mrs. Bondhired a truck, the employess usrd The house* is occupied 'by Sgt.
'>until~: an ..ambulance arrived fr.om their personal cars or went on foot Mrs. .Knipe, >Mrst- Knipe's Tberi Mrs
brother -and sister-in>law, Mr. and her husband . and Mrs.~ Knipe? q u c *
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to thie homes where foodstuffs had
ly formed, .a bucket
doused the ' -flames. Thejr1. ha/;the
'i: j^nv;Garpenter -continued to ; oper- lrx E&rry/ Walling; ''jr., : and er
7atents;-to;-and-Mrs't
: Harry- Wal-een-
ordered.
in rthe ambulance
the hospital; TAIBEP.'S PHRMACY fire out before the flrenaen arrived
TO KEEP younger'' Mrs. IWaUlng dis-almostcon the heels
and 'is-exected The Taibef Pharmacy,; 152 South covered ....the fire -when she went Fife Chief iFTrederickyus after
ocated Jfe an examination attributed 'theljflre LEE^S 3own' \sairs -;tvjrat;out the cat.
lace •.curtains, a nig and'a to --a" - cigarette butt
ablaze, and the place fill- couch, but: Mr. WalUng,
smoke:: she"<lashed into the.U (Continued pn Page ^ •f P,.—r—--sii-v r =•-- - -.:;.- ^t t^-.n viv jvr'.:-'-^.r.•!>•:'«•» ;• > * • ( • . - a^;«^''.^T--*^»
He had been a Resident of Preeport
for 55 years, and was long one of
the village's leading merchants as
the ownc r of Schloss1 department
store on South Main st. He retired
from business about 25 years ago.
He was active in the fraternal and
religious life of the community.
He was one of the organizers and a
charter member of Wide Awake
~C6T"bf "the 'Freeport Fire
Department- He was one of the
founders of Temple B'nai Sholom,
•Reofev-iHo Centre, a«d-tetef-e-j
plo B'nai Israel, Freeport, which
he had served as vice-president
throughout its ejcistpnce.
Mr. Schloss was a- charter mem-ber
and trustee of Sunrise Lodge,
1069. F. & A. M., and he had be-longed
to the Freeport Lodge, 1253,
B. P. O. Elks, 35 years.
Surviving Mr. Schloss are his
wife,' Lillian Livingston Schloss;
two sons, Dr, Meryin L. Schloss, of
Freeport, and Lawrence L. Schloss,
of New York; a grandson, Norman
Schloss, of New York, and two
sisters, Mrs. Anna Caplan and Mrs.
Martha Schwartz, both of Bridge-port.
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party for high school and college
students from 9 to 12, to which all
students have been invited.
"Beyond Our Own" is the title
of a religious film to be shown at
the First Baptist Church at 9
o'clock. Sanford Smith will preside
at the organ. This will be followed
by a social hour and the serving
of refreshments. During the de-votional
'hour startlng""ar "IT; "the"
Rev. James L. Hynes will preach
on "Good-bye Old Year." The
ptvrUikeii.of-ouAes:^'
T~~ca"ri~7'~jr"^:I£y"^^??r*!^^
drifted up to/S^^^^^^^^^flrem^;;'^^^^"
lows Arid for / s"ove'ed thfe snow away/tram every!-:.-•-•., '^CL'ffiL ° **d Jo£j ¥5.*?™*^:*«:«"^isfessM
still see the snow
the second story windows.
want of a cellar, we had wood-j Completed. the taskvJbefore ouncmy
sheds in the rear of our back yard, afternoon, eliminating any possibUJ-In
my mind's eye I con still pic- ty of a conflaffratlon due to the
my father and another tenant
just before midnight.
At Christ Church, the Rev. David
G. Jaxheimer, pastor, will conduct
a service starting at 11 o'clock. His
topic will be "New Year's Musis."
Next Sunday at 9 A.M., the
Matins service. Frank W. Wagner,
assistant pastor-elect will preach,
and at 10:45 there will be a Com-munion
service with Pastor Jax-heimer
taking as his s.rmon topic
"A Planned Life."
There will be no New Year's Eve
services in Our Holy Redeemer R.
C. Church, but a full complement
in the same house reaching up to
the roofs of the sheds to pull down
the snow so we could get fuel to
heat our homes.
I recall little else concerning the
-blizzard-.-- -Birfc~thiiHs"the-din'eronce~
between a blizzard and' a heavy
snowfall. By saying this I would
not detract in the least from the
accomplishments of the Municipal
employees who so quickly opened
up our streets following Friday's
storm.
Respectfully,
Anonymous
Freeport, L.I.. Dec. 27.
of masses Thursday morning, as
follows: 7:30, 9*(for children), 10:30,
11:30 and 12:15.
Tlr; Rev. John J. Mahon an-nounced
this week prayers would
be offered at all masses for peace
during the coming year.
Chief., Frederick ,vJ3uss. kept the
flre companies manned eontfnuousJy :
from the tjme It .became .evident
the snow would create a flre ha2-
ratus could roll at n moment's
notice. Friday night, he had four
men at Hose Compahfts 1, 2 and
•&;— Saturday nighl u llku number -
at Hose Companies 3 and 4 and
the Engine Co., and Sunday night
at 1, 2 and 5, while flve men were
kept on duty all the- time in the
Truck Co.
Ryan Commends Chuisano
Mayor Cyril C. Ryan and Trus-tee
LeonarcJ D. B, Smith speVit
much of Friday and Saturday -
nights and Sunday going about the
village- observing~th"e. worlf~bTf the
snow removal crews; Sunofay night —
he remarked "Harry Chuisano and
his men did a fine Job and cannot '
be commended too ' highly for the ,
task he performed." ifo commented
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