Nassau County Review 19151231

              assau County Review
Official Paper of Nassau County
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1915
Vol. XX, No. 53
Freeport
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News of the Churches In the Fratemai Orders
Your New Years Review
At Ihe suggestion of Fostmaster Robert G. Anderson we are getting out our papers a day earlier tban usual 10 tbat they will positively be deliv¬ ered before New  Years.
Swbiact  ef    Sermon..  Servic«   of    th.   w.ck
amd mtkmt dtaings in tk. church..
•ad church M>cB.ti..
Firat Chorch of Cfttiat, Scientist.— Servicea Sdnday morning at 11 o'clock. Heinpstead   Bank   Building;   aabject, I next Sonday, January 2, "God."
; Tha ladies of the Baptiat Church I will hold a "traveling basket social" I at the home of Mra.   Meyers, 226 Pint
Street, next Tuesday evening, January j 4.    Admission one ten cent uackage or
over.     Refreshments served.
Card of Thanka.—The olficera and teachers of the Baptist Sunday School leaire to publicly express their apprc'- ciation and thank^ to Cieorge W. Kay¬ nor for bia generous donation of trep, greena anl oranges towards their Chrisinas festival on Tuesday evening.
Doing, in  lho .ecret fr.tem.l orir.DiratioR. of Freoport and vicinity.
Baskets of goodies were distributed by the Frecport Lodge of Elks to the poor of this and neighboring villages on Christmaa Day.
Freeport Lodge No. 600, I. O. 0. F., conferred the third degree upon three candidates Monday night.
The following officers were elected: Noble Grand, Dr. Gordon Lindsay; vice grand, Harry A. Walling; secre¬ tary, .0. Frank Seaman; financial aec retary, William S. Merrill; treasurer, Sylvester P. Shea; trustee, Chester A. Fulton. The oflicers will he installed Monday evening, January 10.
All hrothers and their frienda are cordially invited to call at "open hooae," Mechanics' Hall, New Year's day, afternoon or evening.
We are going to say what we have aaid aeveral times before, that if there are organizations in the village  which
The Freeport and First National Banka advertise in our issue tbis week tbe time and place of their annaal meetinga. -
METHODIST Next   Sunday   morning   Hely   foin munion and reception of members wil take the   place of the   usual   aermon
In the evening Dr. Curtice will take are doing work regularlv, and 4nfor for his aermon theme "The Christ is mation concerning which would be of Here: What Matters It?" interest to our readers,  and if nothing
is printed, it is   because   of   the   fact
The Presbyterian Sunday School held   that there is no member of the organ
their Christmas festival in the church   ication under   consideration   which   ia
f. iirintinir office in New York    !5"   December   23.    The   kindergarten   enough interested, and who   evidently
nrSerrin   thrpettiil'^'P"'"?"^*^"'''''^^^^ '-'xer-   haa the time, to put us in   touch   with
n H   priniery    in   me      ewii , ^teea and then a company of boya   and ' the particulars, as we are always glad
girls presented the rantata, "The Spir  : to have all pos.sible information   along
it of Christmas."    'I'he solo work was • these lines.
commendable and the play was   laugh- j        I 	
able. Sach scholar was given a box of candy, and special prizes were awarded for the beat attendance.  Mas-
Edward Langer, who of a large will   ope Bailding on Cburch Street
proprietor j
A Channing Love Story
The Nassau Countv Review makes a rule of giving credi'^to its contem¬ poraries for original items which ap¬ pear in those publications. It is a pleasure to reproduce the following, wbich ia much better written tban is usual for an item of this kind, from a recent issue of the Brook'yn Daily Eagle:
Qh! Dove of Peace, long absent.
Fly to Thy stricken land; Save all the suffering millions
From France to the detert send.
Comfort the sorrowing mother, Lighten the sweethearts grief
Hear the prayer of Thy brother And bid the slaughter cease.
Now we are tired of turmoil;
Now we long for Thy voice; Down will we tling our weapons
And in Thy name rejoice.
Social and Personal
MaibIjt    About   GuesU.   VUiU   and   Parties   of Freeporters aaid Their Fri«n<i«
I Christmas at '
I the Churches
I BAPTIST
Mr and Mrs. Jobii Murray, af ter j The Christmas entertainment at the residing in Canada for the past three j Baptist Church was held on Tut sday years, have returned to Freeport. I evening.    A    pleasing   program    was
¦given by the children   of   the   Sunday Mr. and Mrs. I. Kingsbury and   "on . s^'hool.   '
of the Bronx spent Christinas with Mra. Henry Gobetz, Mrg. Kingsbury's aister.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Corbin and their son of Bronx, .N'. Y., visited Mr.
land Mra. C. C. Moore over the holi¬ days.    Mrs.   Corbin is Mr.   and   Mrs.
I Moore's daughter.
I New   Year's   Dance.    .\   tea   dansant
I will    be   held   at   the   Freeport   CJub
! Houee   Saturday,    January    1     (New
Year's afternoon) from 3 to 7 o'clock.
CAT!! 01.'. On Christnias n.or':u ; •   '    >-:¦
were at 6:30, H and 10:30.    with   spe- cal Christmas music by the choir, with IMrs. Frank Keogh :it the organ  at *lie ,-yg^'JerB, fi:3ii and 10:30 services.
In the Fire Department
Mattir. of int.re.t to .nd ebout '. in ouf local depart mon by H. E. P.
IS AUTOMOBILE APPARAIUS PRACTICAL'.' Attention of those who doubt the practlciibilily of tiutoiiuUnle npfia'atua IS Celled to the fire Sun''a> !:",-¦ at, -,vhen the three piecea in our depart.nent hdd no trouble at ail in traveling through the snow and ice for a mile, doing their work and getting Jhack   to
\a,,^     .u _ 1    _       .u     There will be a lucky number contest, • r,,.___ta
When this poem appeared over   the j   ,     . f     h       r presents
LUTHERAN
Christinas morning the chief service was held with a Christmas sermon by till' (lister, Hcv. A. C. Karkau.
The Christmas celebration of the Sunday Sehool was held in the after¬ noon,    with a tree   and   exchange   of
Receipt of a calendar with large fig¬ urea, is acknowledged from the Free- port Bank.
Also one frum the International Tailoring Co., throagh Isaac W. Miller.
ter Raymond Willis received the high- Tomorrow (New Year's Day)   being !*'*• ""' havinfTbeen abaent from Sun a holiday, the Post OflRce will be closed | <J»y School one Sunday in five years, after 9:30.    The banks,    the   newspa¬ per oflices and most   of   the   business j
With the initiation of eight candi¬ datea at their meeting last Thursday night, the membership of the local lodge of Elks waa increased to 960. The new members are: Dr. J. Mans¬ field Foster, Michael P. Kadisch, of Valley Stream; William S. Pettit, Thomas Salkeld, Henry   J.   Southard,
 ,..,^„„      "^^^ ""^" of tbe Catholic  Church  of
rilH<-oa will tia, elnaoA nil i.r nnrt iif"7hp I Cur Holy Redeemer donated   the   last ,
places will be closed all or part of the , ^^^^.^^^^ ^j^^,^^ .^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^    ^^^^ , of Inwood; Michael O'Rourke, Paul F.
^'  ! subject being "The descent of the Holy j Luck,   of   Lynbrook,   and   T.    Daniel
A certificate   of   incorporation   bas | Ghost Upon the Apoatles."  This com- | Downing, of Babylon.
been filed with the Secretary of   State | pletea the   eleven   beautilal   windows I 	
by T. P. C, Forbea Co., Inc.. Freeport, I repreaenting events in tbe life of  our j DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY ELECT
realty brokerage, $10,000; M. Harten-] Lord.    This window   was   visible  for'     The annaal election  of   Progr
stein, P. W. Davis, jr.,  W.    C.   Lille-; the first time Christmas mornmg  andj Council,   Daughters   of   Libertv
holm, 769 Union Street, Brooklyn.        ; came   from   Zondel's   Studio,   Hollis, ! j,g)j   Tuesday evening   of   last
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A aummona and notice in action   forj     Masses cn New Year'a Day will   be abaolute   divorce    by   Addie    Bierling I at 8 and 10:30 a. m.    Mass   will   also
against her husband, Frederick W Bierling, is published in a Hempstead newapaper, signed by a Freeport at¬ torney. Mrs. Bierling waa a native of Freeport.
be celebrated in Roosevelt at 8:30.
The children of the parish held their Christmaa tree exerciaea Wedneaday afternoon.
Progreasive , was Week, and resulted in the election of the fol¬ lowing oflficers: Mrs. Anna Willets. coancilor; Mrs. Pauline Golden, asso¬ ciate councilor; Miss Gassie Bently, vice councilor; Mrs. Ida Jones, asso¬ ciate vice councilor; Miss Florence I Fullager, guide; Miss Mary Crevoiser-
— I     The Woman's Missionary Society of   "'• secretary; Mrs. Freda Combs,
The First National Bank haa de-j the Presbyterian Church will meet in ' **"""*? *«"*'*''y = ^"- ^'"""^ M"""'' dared a semi-annual dividend at 4 per , the chapel on Wedneaday, Janoary & ! financial secretary ; Mra. Henrietta cent,, payable January 1, 1916, aa a j at S p. m. The subject for discuasion I *'°''^*"'.^'¦^"*"'^''' ^^'' Aurelia Wil Christmaa dividend to tbeir atock-1 will be the aame as announced for thei''"'"*' '"8"^e guard; Mrs. Theodore holders. Last year the dividend waaj December meeting, "The place of i ^°'<^''"' ""'*"^''^uard ; trustee, Freda for tbree per cent., evidencing contin
ued prosperity.
James H. Fairbrother bas aecured from Snaan J. Chase a plot of groand on the east aide of South Main Street, near Atlantic Avenue, for tbe erection of a machine ahop, where he will make a apecialty of repairing marine en¬ gines Mr. Fairbrother is a conscien¬ tious and capable worker, and will un¬ doubtedly make good.
In thia issue the Freeport Bank calls attention to a dividend of 6 per cent, on their capital atock, payable Janu¬ ary   1,   1916.    This    ia   a   Cbriatmas
i prayer in Mission work and in mission-1 ^ombi;   representatives,   Mr.s.   Flora iary meetinga."    As the   time   of   tbe I ^°'^«"'     ^''^'    ^"'''^    Combs,     Mrs. I annaal meeting of the Society has been I <^'"" Rhodes. Mra. Jennie Fedden and changed ao as to confornj to tbe   rules ; ^"- ^'la Scudder. of tbe   Woman's   Board   of   Missions, ' ,-    _, m       v
members of the Society are   aaked   to »<> Uoserve New Years
make an extra offering for this month Preeport Council No. .57, Jr. O. U. so that the pledge of the Society may i a. m., and Preeport Lodge No. 600, be me by the hrst of February instead , j. q O. F., will combine forces again of the first of March as formerly. The ; ^^j observe "open house"    on   Satur-
response to rollcall    will be a text aervice.    All women of the church are invited to attend the meeting.
ROCKLEDGE ADULT BIBLECLASS] (Another item from  F'lorida) ]
The annual   meeting   of  tbe   Adult i
preaent to the stockholders which will | gible Clasa of the Rockledge   Presby
terian Church waa beld at   the   Manse on the evening of   December   7th   and
be appreciated. Incidentally, the management of the bank is to be com¬ plimented on the evidence of tbe con tinned good management.
From the Southland
Under date of December 26, Editor { aecretary; Miaa Laara M. Towers, Archer B. Wallace of the South Side treaaorer; Mra. K. P. Ketcham, teach Obaerver aend the following greetinga j er.
from Southern Pinea, N. C.: ''Thia I After the annual reporta of tbe sec- ia a fine |ilace to apend the winter, j retary and treasurer were given planh Climate grand. Foond my mother im-' were diacuaaed for making money for proving.    Jack   and I walked  aeveral | the^ piano fond.
day of this week, January 1 (New Year'a Day) afternoon and evening, in Mechanics' Hall.
It   has   long    been   the  custom   of the   Odd   Fellows   to   observe   "open house" on New   Year's   Day   and   re¬ cently the Mechanics   were   asked   to join with them to help celebrate. Carda, dominoes, muaic and general fifteen were   present.    The   following j «°'"^/f"°^«^*P ^'" ^«.   ^he   order   of officera were elected:    Mis.   Alto   g^ 1 *^« """""°" ""f «'^"'"^.    Many   of Wakefield,    president;    A.   G.   Hum-i  ^^ "'"'"''"'"l" f""'**'^"'^«'"^^ f phrie, vice preaident jK.M.Dingharo, I*""*   °.PP''>-t"nity to   renew   acquaint-
1 .     ».:_.    , .__-    .<    m-. "! anceahip and meet new brothers.
Coffee, cake and sandwiches  will be
milea yeaterday. bat we didn't take overcoata witR ua. It wae about 6S to 70 degreea.    We   leava tomorrow,
Porcupine quill necklacea were made to be sold at 50 centa eacb for the pi¬ ano fond.    A porcupine drawing   eon-
*nd expect to go North aa far aa Rich-' teat was held and prizea were awarded mond or Waahington, getting bome on ! ae follows: First prize, R. Van Sickle Wedneaday.    A trip here woold both | aecond prize, John S. Sims;   firat con •wrpriae and pleaae you."
I provided in the banquet hall, while ; pipes and tobacco will be obtainable in the meeting room. Singing and music will be furnished by interested brothers.
A cordial Irvitation is extended ev¬ ery fraternal brother to viiit Mechan¬ ics' Hall on this afternoon. Drop in, if only for»a half hoor, and meet the different ones asaembled there.
Tax InformatioD and Notes
School taxea in the following vil¬ lages are now subject to an additional C per cent fee for collection:
Merriek—Daniel Landau, collector; rate 51 centa.
Freeport—Arcber B. Wallace, col lector, ofBca of Tbomaa W. Lucaa, Railroad Avenae; rate $1.15.
Baldwin--W. Auguatua Miller, col¬ lector. Grand Afenue, near L. I. R. R.: rate $1.22.
Roosevelt—Charlea E. Whitehooae, collector, Naaaao Road, Stop 66; rate $1.5«,
Rockville Centre—William U. Con-
. solation, Mrs, Van Sickle t G. Humphries.
second, A. Dainty refreahments were aerved, a !
Elks BaD Tomorrow
The Freeport   Lodge   of  Elks
will
silver offering given, for the piano fund ! ho^d ita third annual  charity   ball   to-
and it waa agreed to bold an   Interna I """rrow nigbt. when   aeveral   bundred
tional Pow Wow on New  Year'a Eve, - peraona will crowd into   the  spacious
— Florida paper, Dec, 10, iqawtera of  the   "Billa"   of   Naasao
-     - j County.    Members and their  families
in Police Court : from all villages in Long   Island  will
Mra. Laura  E.    Whitman, Wednes- j ^''. P«»«nt on this   occasion   and  will
day night, after trial,   was   sentenced   "•'"«" the depwtu'-e of the  old  year
by Jastice FUnt to thirty daya impris-! "".^ *''* •"'^»' °^ ^^« "«^-,   ^^f '"'""
I mittee of arrangements,   including J. I Huyler Elliaon, Roland M. Lamb,   and
cnment in the County Jail, he having adjudged her guilty of indecent lan¬ goage toward Nelaon H. Ashdown. The complainant and defendant were neighbora on INvrjor Avenup. Mrs. Whitman bad a counter   complaint   of
78 Village Avenae; l hke nature agaiiiHt. Mra. Aahdown, but after hearing the evidence. Justice Flint acquitted Mra. Asbdown,
Dooglajs  C.   Lawrence  and   Clock and Seaman, counsel for   Mrs.   Whit
nell,  .collector, rate $1.16.
Bellmore—Joaeph H. Weimer, col¬ lector, Grand Avenue; rate  60  cents.
At tbe Plaza week of January 3: Monday—Robert Warwick in "Tha Flaab of an Emerald;" 6 acta. Toea¬ day-—Edith Storey and Ned Finlay in "A Man's Sacrifice;" 3 acta; Cbarlea! Chaplin in "A Night in tha Show."i Wednesday—Olga Petrova in "My: Madonna;" 5 acta. Thursday—Flor-j ence La Badie, in "Tbe Price of Har ; Silence;"    4   acts.      Friday—Louise I . .     .
Vala in "The  Hungarian  Nabob;*'  4 ! w'"".   'oggy tn afternoon, acts.     Saturday —B.   H.   Calvert    in "Reckoning Day;" 8 acts.    Each day the feature is followed  by   additional leomediea and'dramas.
^      _     Adamrximmtmmmt
Buy good coal at the right price. Preeport Coal Co., 19 S. Main St.; Tel. 898.
Aitvertti
Bernard J. Loonam, has left no detail undone to make the charity ball a great aucceaa.
Tbe decorationa, beaides the osual Christmas greens, will include flags, draperiea and other trimminga through¬ out tbe lodge room. There will be two orcbestraa, one upstairs where the dancing will be in conatant awing dur
man. have appealed  the  case  to   the !'"« **" V'^*"' ".^f •"°'*'e'   <^°W''»'»".
County Court, and   Mrs.   Whitman   ._ ....
Ott $1000  bail,   furni.hed   bv  Garret i ""J .«'**"•    ^"   impressive Duryea and Mrs. Goldberg    " will be the  ceremony   at   11
where dinner will be served and a cab foature tfeXock when all the lighta will be extinguished and the chimes on tbe lodge clock will toll tbe hour.
The funds realized through tfae   ball will be   appropriated   to   tbe   bencvo
name of Misa Mildred Cort, daaghter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cort of Oak creat. Centennial Avenue, near Free- port, L. I., in a local paper no one guessed its inspiration. (3nly within the past week waa it revealed when Mias Cort's mother announced her daughter's engagement to Lieutenant Harry Barnes of the British army. Lieutenant Barnes is now convalescing in the Base 'Hospital at Alexandria, after long and severe service at the Dardanelles. Miss Cort's muse breathes a hope for the peace that will send her lover home to her.
"Would that I were well enough to return to the trenches—better than ly¬ ing here idle," is the wiah of Lieuten¬ ant Barnes, expresaed in a letter re¬ ceived in Freeport.
Miss Cort does not know if Lieuten¬ ant Barnes has been wounded in battle or is there because of other illness. She fears the former, because her fiance has kept this one fact from her. It has been a month aince she last heard from him. It takes a month between letters, which are consider¬ ably censored when they do arrive.
The meeting of Miss Cort, who is a grandiece of the late General Benja¬ min Tracy and of General laaac Cat- lin, with Harry Barnes was an acci¬ dental one. He had just finished at Pembroke College, Oxiord, and was on a visit to his friend, Herbert W. Clock, in Freeport. He was booked to sail on December 18, last year. His father. Rev. Henry Barnes, of Thorgenby, York, sent for him to re¬ turn and fight for his country.
"All the young blood are going for the love of country and I want my boy to be among tbem," was the father's command.
Barnes packed up and sent hi« bag¬ gage aboard the ill-fated Lusitania. ¦The next morning he missed the boat and returned to Freeport to await the next sailing.
"Come, viait a friend," invited Clock, and Barnes met Miss Cort on the day intended for bis return home. Then he requested a furlough from his father and lengthened his visit, miss¬ ing a boat. In January Barnes sailed and carried a love message across the water.     It was the word "Yes."
He became a member of the Prince of Wales' Own at West Yorkshire and was ordered to Camp Harrogate and later to Scaiboro. He was aent into Egypt, where he fought in the Dard- anellea campaign. Lieuienant Barnes' regiment was within fifty feet of the enemy's trenches while shrapnel fell on all sides of him.
A small "Freeport^ pennant, pre¬ sented to him by Miss Cort, was un- f Aed to the breezes and placed on the summit of the trench for the enemy's bullets, but nene atruck it. This pen¬ nant the lieutenant will return to bis futare wife.
At Oxford Lieutenant Barnes was a star oarsman, making the famoaa Ox¬ ford crew, and also waa a skillful sock- er player. Miaa Cort ia a skilled equestrienne. Sbe writes poetry and is musically inclined. With her aister Virginia she attended St. Mary's, Gar¬ den City, and Brooklyn Heights Sem¬ inary.
"Yes, it waa love at firat aight," admitted Miso Cort. "So atrange how we met. If he had caught bia boat it could not have bappened. Again, if be had called on Mr. Clock, whoae peo¬ ple are close friends ot the family, I would have been out. Fate intervened in our favor. If tbe Kaiser leta him return our wedding will be quiet. We have had aeveral recent deatba in our family and Lieutenant Barnes lost his mother before going to war."
''And you kept vour aecret for a year?" she was asked.
"Yea, some girla can keep a secret, but I found when I did tell my frienda of nur engagement recent'ly that   tbey knew all about it," uf course, there waa the poetry.
also refreshments.
Firemen Out at Midnight
Awakened by the barking of his dog, H. B. Remsen, proprietor of the Boulevard Stables, formerly at Mer¬ rick Road and Church Street, but now ou Grand Avenue, near "Weberfield, found hia tarn and wagon sheds in flames late Sunday evening. Mr. Rem¬ sen, after some difficulty in locating a telephone, sent in an alarm, and then, witb his assistants, endeavored to get out th>i four horses stabled in the building, the fire still being in the mow, in which were atored several tons of hay. Two of the horses near¬ est the door were taken out but the heat and smoke had then become so intenae it was necessary to abandon the other two, which perished in the fire.
Notwithstanding the snow, the de partment made good time, and two atreama of water were thrown on the flames, but the fire had gained too iruch headway and the buildings were destroyed, together with a number of wagona, and a large quantity of farni¬ ture which was stored in the barn.
No borse drawn apparatus reached the fire, Hoae 3 stopping at Broadway and Roaedale Avenue wben the recall blew, and Hose 1 having been obliged to stop on account of the slippery roads, bat Hoae 4,   Truck 1 and   Hose
Sunday evening the services was en ! titeiy musical, Gounod's   "Nazareth' I being sung in addition tu other Christ mas music.
CHRISTMAS   AND    NEW
At the Methodist Lhurch .\ preaching service was held Christ- miis morning.
At the Sunday evening   service   the
(Jhristmas      Cantata,     "The     Christ
i Child," by C. B. Hawley,    was   rend-
I ered by a apeciai chorus of twenty-six
i vcices.
! In apite of diaagreeable weather, j rain having set in about noon, the I littleat people of the Sunday School, I the children ot the Cradle Roll, were i present in surprising numbers on Tuea¬ day afternoon for their Christmas party. Babies in arms, toddlers just beginning to run about and little peo¬ ple whose feet had become swift and sure were present. Mrs. Saul 0. Cur¬ tice and her helpers had a busy, but happy time directing the brief pro¬ gram of aong and recitation, giving out the gifts for the children and serv¬ ing refreshments to the mothers and friends who had come with the child¬ ren.
Wednesdiiy dawned dismally, a cold rain, freezing as it fell, covering every thing with ire. But in the afternoon Mrs. Robert Anderwcn and her aasoci- tho Home Departnient were on
o     n        .       J • .        A        - hand in good cheer and a goodly   nuni-
2. all   motor   driven,   experienced   no 11        , ' •* _ ,,   , ¦,„.,,. a .,«,..«....
^_, ' I ber of those enrolled in the department
I gathered in the chap^-l to confer as   to
; their work and enjoy a aocial hour   to-
'¦ gether.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Edwin Van
difficulty
The damage to the barn which wu.'^ owned by Louis Cehen of Hemiiatead, and was a total loss, is placed at .'i''60il, fully covered by insurance, while Mr. Remsen places his loss at $2.'iU0, with $1600 insurance.
Freeport's First  Community  Tree
Freeport enjoyed its first commun¬ ity Christinas tree this year, and j to fill with their ovvn gifts for other Thursday evening a large number of ! children lesa favored than themselves, children from the schools gathered | and upon thin they hung the thinga around it and sang (.'hriatinas carols, which later will be distributed where The tree waa brilliantly lighted with they will bring happiness to other lit electric bulbs.    It was located  direct- ', tie people.
ly north ot the railroad tracks, be-1 For many yeara Mrg. Nelson Sniith tween Grove and Main Streets, and is had given thia little tree for the child- about 35 feet high. I ren to fill with their giftu.    Last Sum
Mrs. Roland M. Lamb, wife of Prea- '"ier M>n. Sinith, over eighty years old, ident Roland M. Lamb, wa.i chairman j passed away. Ihis year her son. Hi of tha Christmas tree committee, and | ram K. Smith, gave the tree in his ahe    was   assisted by    Mrs.    Fred   E. I mother's name.
Story, Mrs. Phoebe Scholey, Mrs. I Thursday ovening the main school Henry J. Raymore and othera. | held   its   ChristmaH   festival.      There
No toy.- were hung on the tree, nor was an orange and a box of eandy for were needy little ones presented   withjevery    niember of the   school.    There
WHO LOST MEDAL'.' • A Freeport Fire Department Medal, Field Day, 1910, was recently found by A. J. Southard and turned over to the Chief, who will gladly turn itover to the owner. -.-
Girt Shot in Indian Game
Freepurt, December liT Fifteen- year uld Michael Robuck shot and killed hi? sister Hosa' during their Christmas play at their homo at Smith- i ville South. .Mthough literally sur- YEARS ¦ rounded with toys Michael became fas¬ cinated with his double-barreled shot gun. While playing an Indian game the life uf Hosa, 9 years uld, became the sacrifice.
KosB and her brother had been play¬ ing with mechanical toys, dolls and Christmas trinkets when the boy chanced to see his father's shotgun. Theiiarent.s were in an adjoining room and the door was closed. To Michael it was the long-looked for opportunity to play with the gon.
"Corne on, Rosa, let's play Indian," he whispered. "Dad'a out in the otb¬ er room and we can ha\e ull the fun We want."
The child agreed and waa cast for the rule of the kidnapped "paleface." Michael took her prisoner, made her march before hiin and go through all the actions thut hia ingenuity could picture as the part of u ea'ptured white woman. Fin«lly he decided that it was time to obtain a scalp. Rosa waa ordered to stand with her back to tbe wall, and Michael went thruugh tbe motions he thiught were the stock in trade of bad redmeri. In the midat of his antics his foot became entangled in a rug and he stumbled.
Ihere was a crash ua buth barrela of the shotgun were diacharged in the face of the girl. Horror-stricken, Michael bent over his dster and tried to atop the blood that fiuw td from a wound in her face.
Janes Ko'iuck,    father of the child¬ ren, rushed into the room at the aound ly num-^ me   the doctor arrived the child was dead
An investigation by Justice Norton rcaultrd in the exoneration of th«i grief stricken brother.
uiper marshalled the children   of   the
Primary Department for their  Christ  ,   > .. . , ,.  .
¦"^    .-^"^       ™, , ,   ot the explo^llon and iinniediBte
mas exercises.    There were songs and ,     ', n    .,
,,,,       ,.., '^1, nioned a physician.     By the   tn
recitations.     Ihe chi.dren were all re-| ,    . ',..''  ,.l      ,   , r .
meinbereil with 8omej;ift.   Then there
waa a tree all ready   for   the   childien
anything publicly. Instead, the Neigh orbood Workers obtained a list of the needy ones in the village, and they viaited their homes, distributing bas keta of food and toys, where there were children, in automobiles.
Arts Club Lecture Monday
The Arts Club of Freeport will hold its regular meeting Monday, January 3, at 8 o'clock, in the chapel of the M, E. Cburch.
The aubject of Dr. lyenaga's lect¬ ure will be "Peking—Seat of Old Monarchy and of New Republic." Dr. lyenaga has made three visits to China, one in 1898 as Commissioner to study the opium question, wbich en¬ abled him to speak with first-hand knowledge of his subject. Thia lect¬ are which ia illustrated will be one of the most important of the series.
Try my special box of   cut flowara,
76c for the weekeod.    C.   P..   Ankara.
florist, Rockvil|e Centre,   L. I.    Tela*
pbone connection; tlel ivery   any whara.
A4»arU«<Maiii
Weekly Weather Repod
(For our readera in other localitiea)
Friday, Dec. 24, clear, warm.     -r,---.-	
Saturday (Chriatmaa Dayl overcaat, i lt,ncen carried "on during  the' veBr~ by irm,   foggy in afternoon.    Began to ' the lodge. ^ blow hard during tbe nigbt, and hefore -
^elchTng^'sSmL. «tut:irb^!?^ -So-th Shore Y
sleat, lightning and  thunder,   turning Tbe  South   Shore  Yacht   Club,   by
to blizzard after 7 a. m. George B. Paterson,   auditor,   has   is-
Sunday,    srfow   from   7   to 11   and sued   ita   annual   statement,   showing
cleared off quite   warm   in  afternoon, the condition of the Club   on  January
heavy wind ontil about 8 p. m. 1, and comparing witb one   ^r  ago.
Monday, clear, ground covered with The flgures are carefully   given in de-
anew, about  8   inchft  on   level,   nice tail,
winter's day ; snow melting. The excess of liabilitiea over aa^ets
Tueaday. clear, warm,    snow   going, is   $16 299.76,   compared   with  $15,-
fast, overcaivit and aluahy in p. qi., 221.67 on Jannary 1, 1916,   a net  in-
WMnesday,   raiii,    aleet,    slippery creaae of ove.r $1000.  after  deducting
wa'S^ing- $750 depreciation.
Christinas at Columbian
Brass Foundry
Each of the employea of the Colum¬ bian Brass Foondry was given  a  tor- key by tbe management,    for   Christ mas.    The turkeys were   supplied  by Bender.
The employea of the foondry in ex¬ pression of their good-will to the man¬ agement, preaented Mr. Hall with a traveling bag, completely eqoipped, and Mr. Patrick a bicycle.
Dr. Steele ScUs Phi^nnacy
Silver Lake Pharmacy, conducted by Dr. W. ,f.Steele for the past fif¬ teen yean and   recently  managed  by
Stearns Dines Friends
Hugo Stearns of Roosevelt gave venison dinner to a number of bis friends at the Elks' Club House Wed¬ nesday evening of last week. - The following were the guests of Mr. Stearns: Edward Langer, Aubrey Pettit. George Morton Levy, Archer B Wallace, Roland M. Lamb, Isidor Mayer. Leo Fishel. Charles C. Moore, Charles A. Sigmond, Alexander R. Rhodea, A. Sidney Malcomson, Arthur R. Nosworthy, Paul Halpin. Roy D. Poarsall, George Fyfe, Clarence A. Edwarda, Lewia Cohn, Charlea H. Hawkina and William W. Levy, of Freeport; Donald MacDonald. of Hempatead; Joaeph NeuhofT, Charlea Endel. Lamont Enscoe and William Enscoe, of Roosevelt.
Mrs. O'Keefe Gets Divorce
Word is   received   here   that    Mrs. Francea   O'Keefe,     sister    of     Mrs.
were special gifts in recognition of faithful attendance on church nervices and aessiotis of the achool.
The special feature ot the evening was a cantata entitled "Santa Claus and Hia Toys," given under the direc¬ tion of Misa Annie I. Eldridge, assist¬ ed by Miss Edna Eldridge and Miss Florence Miiler.
Santa Claua and hia wife, with their helping fairies and brownies, finish up their Christmas work one day earlv, and decide to spend the time of rest it
Strenuous Bill Collecting
Theodore F. Archer, the .lamaica auctioneer, the tip of his nose atill scarred by an alleged lighted cigar burn, and Esmond Stilea, advertising manager, circulation manager and sec¬ retary of the Nasaau Poat Corporation- of Freeport, L. 1., hia left cheek se¬ verely bruised, appeared before Mag¬ istrate Joaeph Fiti'li in the Jamaica police court recently preferring cross charges of assault Arche;- was rep¬ resented by Lawyer Leander B. Faber t»nd Stiies bv Lawyer  James Seaman.
After lii'ariiig teatimony abuut the little unpleasantnesa, which occurred in the effice of Auctioneer Archer, in the Jamaica Post Olhce Building, last Tuesday afternoon, following Mr. Archer's refuaal to pay an advertising bill of $10.80, Magiatrnte Fitch dis¬ charged both men, aaying;
"It you had been arrested by a po¬ liceman in the street under similarcir- cunistancea, I would have found you both guilty of disorderly conduct. Whatever the reason or whatever  tbe
gives them in watching the toys they ' provocation, the testimony shows that have made exhibit what they can do. 1 V^u were both willing to enter into a In the midst of this pleasant occupa- breach of the peace. While one of tion, he learns that a delegation of; >"" "'"y have been more to blame broken toys are coming to induce his than the other, 1 find that yoo were new toys to strike and refuse to go , both to blame. However, I will dia- out with him in the   Christmaa   pack. ' charge you,"
The delegates arrive and make their The testimony of Stiles did not ma speeches. They are interrupted by teriaily differ from that of Archer, the arrival of a visiting nurse, who ^^o'h men were provoked. Stiles waa comes to ask for old toys to give to , «"Ke''ed when Archer applied to him the poor children in her ward. Then the short and ugly word, and Archer come a delegation of children who when Stiles called him a "dead beat." have beard the awful newa, and aet Stiles denied that he shoved a light- forth posthaste to beg the toys not to «d cigar in ^rcher'a face. He said ha strike.    Moved by their plea, the toys   *""' ¦'¦* ' "' - "'"¦"   '"   *-'-    "¦
had a'atump of a cigar in his mouth and tbat the auctioneer mashed it with hia face. Arcber denied that he had any instrument in bis hand when he hit Stiles. —Brooklyn Eagle.
Milk Dealer Held for Grand Jury
decide, inatead, to send for the mend ing man to mend up their,broken toys. The mending man arrives and takes them in charge, and they are all car¬ ried joyously back in Santa Claus' sleigh.
Those taking part in this pleasing Charles Dahl, who runs the dairy on little sketch were: Williard T. Van : Washington Avenue, Roosevelt, waa Riper, Helen Ruhl, Mildred Stiles, ; arrested Thursday on complaint of Phylia Lucas, Grace Post, Milton Sea- i Health Officer Runcie of Freeport on man, Newton Khodes. Norman Maxon. the charge of putting wrong labels on CllfTord Hunt, t^enneth Voyght. Har- - bottles. The caae of was reported te old Cornelias. Hannah Holaday, Grace I the State Board of Healtb, and tbe VanRiper. Irene Poat, Theodore Johan- state Sanitary «juperviaor, Dr. Over- sen, Alva Pearsall, Marian Seaman, ton of Patchogue, made an additional Ehrman Smith, Reynolda Poat, Averil Inspection with Dr. Runcie. and after Marlow. Dorothy Marlow, Dorothy ! an analysis of the milk forbade Dahl Raynor, Marian Raynor, Mildred 1 using any labels marked Grade A, aod Morse, Etbel Uwis. Alice Davison, , g,ve bim one week to get labels George Fyfe of North Bergen PIpce S'''f"c?.°","' v-!."?.""*^,7^5'^' "«'!." ""'•"«* ^""^'> ^- '^^' R""'*' •*•»" had been   granted a divorce from   h«r! ^.*?'"' ^*"''7 '^"r^'"i:.^"t/*"^.*''' S'i'u '¦ '*"'. ^*'"* ^'^ '•^''^ *»'-> ^"""'^   "'hi
husband. Austin C)'Keefe, of Oyster Bay. Justice Mareen was tbe referee in tba caae andO'Keefe was ordered to pay bis wife $8 weekly in alimony. Tbe couple have a 6-yrar-old daughter
G. J. Ernst, was aold to Schultz Bros.   The father was granted   the  privilege last Tuesday.    The Schultz Bros, will endeavor to give prompt   service  and
quality,   together   with  fair    pricea, They bave bad considerable eiperienee
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of seeing bis daughter once each week.
Big Aoto for $665
eline Nichols, Dor6tby StaaU, Ruth . again carrying rtiilk in the Village of Place, Zella Holaday, Helen Lee. ' Freeport labelled Grade A, and thore Gladys .Smith. Estelle Hauser, Edna opon a warrant was sworn cut for hia Hauser, Gwendolyn Hornbeck, Cath-1 arrest. He was taken before Joolt* arine Sutherland, Clifford Combs. Har- Norton, wbo held him dnder $200 b»«- old Combt, Ronald Combs, Walter! for examination before the GratA Briggs,   John LaiEory,   Fred   Howell,   Jury.      Bail   was     furniahed   by   ht«
father.
The Colombian Brass   Foundry   has
\ Uarold Jackson, Elizabeth Mabee, •Marie Mabee, Edna Hutton,-Blizabetb : Carman, Myrtle Shea, Evelyn Teeple, j Vira Raynor, Fannie Smith. Mildred Wagner.
in the drog   bosiness.      G.  J.   Ernst t takan the agency for the Maxwell   car will go with  tbe  Milborn  Pharmacal , and have on exhibition   at   their   ga
Co.,   makers of Benzomint,   the   tote  ttga the m^deX aa  advertised   in   tbej     Wateb-Nigbt  services,    wbile    not threat   remedy,   with  offices  in   tha | Naasuu County Review this week.        ! confined tr the Methodist Church, have charity ball. Elks' Times'duilding over the drug etore.     j    Tbey invita  you   to  read  the  adv. | beeq specially emphasised and utilized >     FebtHary 16 pnd 17, annoal minetri^ —Baldwin Times,   and then to see the car. , (continued on page «) show; B. P. 0. Elks. ^
Coming Events
Friday evening, Feb. 11, ball, Wid* Awak« Engine Co.
Friday   evening,   Dec.   81,   tnttaai.