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VOL. XIV NO. 39
New Fire Districts
Tlic uew sy.stem of firp-district calls goes into ert'ect Angust 1. Firemeu or any otlier interested perHons may obtain tropies of tlie districts on a small card conveni¬ ent to carry in the pocket, by ap-^ plying .at the Review office or by' sending their name on a postal.
Clarenoe E. Jones, hardware deal-n', Maiu St. and Merrick lid. also will snpiily tlu'se (.-ards.
FREEPORT NEWS Coming Events
July '2',i and 2-1 -Annual fail*, UHU^h- tera of America,
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1909
Official Paper of Nassau County
See the gas company's ad in this is¬ sue in regard to water heaters.
If you want to borrow or lend money see Smith & Levy's adv. ii> thia issue.
Prof, and Mrs. A. Palamountain and babv are enjoyinp a vacation at Cairo, N. Y.
J. W. Fitzsirnon.s and wife leave for their annual visit in the White Mountains to-day.
New Fire Calls
f Siu^rle^ ropicH (if tlic Review can be eccnrcd at H. (iobetz's and tlio Review office on Main Ht. aud DiiSUvirs on W. Merrick Road.
Dr. G. A. Newton is back in hi.s office after taking a tv/o weeks' vaca¬ tion on the North .Sido. '
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Bejwn and son Harold of Pine Street are enjoying .a three weeks' vacation at Beaches
: Corner, Greene Co., .v. Y. They will
¦'return early in August.
i' The new sidewalk being laid from ¦' the Post Oftice building south to New- ' ton Boulevard, on Main Street, com¬ pletes a walk from Newton Boulevard ; to the Kailroad track.
The primary classes of the iM. E. ¦ Sunday School are to have their an¬ nual picnic on the Church lawn next Tuesilay, ,Iuly 27. There will be the usual games, a collation provided by the ladies, and to crown all, an auto- i inobile ride is promised to all the ^ children.
; The dog catcher has been on duty ^''thi.s week, and the number of homeless ' and uncared for dogs on the streets has temporarily decreased. The first [day about thirty canines were taken in. -^The law does not reipiire tho procuring : of a license, merely that when the : finimals are on the street they must : wear a muzzle.
Riley liaynor's house at Jones' Beach was burned to the ground Sun- ¦day. Kiley is a member of the life
¦ saving crew at Jones' Beach station i and has a house there which he occu¬ pies vvith his family. Nothing was saved except a small part of the furni¬ ture and some of Mr. Raynor's cloth¬ ing. The loss was about $1001).
A goat on the roof of the two-story
¦ building south .of the post otfice at¬ tracted considerabW_attention Mon-
] tlay. He pranced arouncTThe steep in- ' cline of the roof as though the ' glaciers of the ,Alps h.-^d always bten his playground. When the perform¬ ance was oVer he easily ran down the back roof and jumped from a shed to ' the ground.
Bids were opened for the new Long Beach Avenue school house Monday •evening. The firm of Gillies & Campbell bid $26.990; Wm. G. Mil- :, ler, $27,598; Geo. Libbey, $26,ti25. The contra-jt was accordingly awarded
¦ Mr. Libbey, and work is to begin at r once.' Mr. Libbey, it will be remem- i bered, built the Seaman Avenue school ' house, and makes a specialty of this I -class of work.
[ This bid does not include the heating I and ventilating system, which is to I be awarded in a separate contract
I Sunday afternoon a party of 22 went ['out from Freeport dock in the "Hemp- [ stead," with Capt. Alanson Ellison, t and only 21 returned," leaving one of t their party in the water at High Hill T Beach. The rest of the party except- l ing Cornelius Kempen, who was i drowned, "^nd one friend, went fishing \ with a net, while these two went ^ clamming. In their task they gradual- i' ly .separated and Kempen was not t misaed until the rest had returned to i; the boat. It ia supposed he was taken
iwith a cramp and was too far away from hia companions for them to hear him if he called. Capt. EHIson made two^ hauls for Kempen with the not but Without BuccejM and the party re¬ turned home. Two hours later Capt. Charles Whaley hauled the spot for fish and recovered the body, which was •till warm, about a quarter of a mile southwest of the dock: Capt. Whaley with the aid of his*crew and Dr. James W. Mackay, who was at tbe beach, worked for two hours but without re¬ storing any signs of life. Coroner Chas. p. Birdell of Central Park held an inquest Tuesday morning and ren- deredja verdictfof accidental^drowning. Kempen was a resident <lf New York, 458 Third Ave., and was 32 ^••rt old.
The Village Board of Trustees will hold their regualr meeting next Fri¬ day evening.
If you have malaria you want it promptly and thoroughly eradicated in the manner suggested in Smith & Be¬ dell's adv. It.
The Catholic Church of Our Holy Re¬ deemer will hold a fair on the Church grounds from Saturday, July ;^1, to Tuesday, August 10.
Assemblyman and .Mrs. William (J. Miller, and daughters, Etta, and P'lor- ence will go to Europe for a month, sailing on August 7.
A large spiral chimney is being erected at the village jjower house and as soon as this is comleted two more boilers are to be installed to meet the increasing demand for water and light service.
D. Frank Seaman, village tax col¬ lector, is receiving the tax at the vil¬ lage office, Rairload Avenue. Any readers wishing further information about tax matters, or wishing us to get tax bills for them, are invited to write the editor at any time.
An entertainment will be held at Sigmond Opera House this Friday evening for the benefit of a yoyng gij?l who is in the hospital, and whose parents are very poor. • Buy a ticket and help along the cause. You can get the tickets at the box office.
The little green pennant of the Merokee Canoe Club is becoming fa¬ miliar on the Bay. New canoes and new members are being added con¬ stantly and a very pleasant season has been jilanned. The Club meets this week at "Anchored", the home of the vi''e-commodore. Dexter Haight.
The engineer of the steam digger in Bennington Park who was arrested Thursday night on complaint of resi¬ dents of that section for running the digger at night, was tried Monday night, when sentence w is suspended, under an agreement that the work should be stopped from nine p. in. to four a. m. each night.
Irving Rhodes of Roosevelt was mo torman of a trolley which killed two- year-old William Kakidsny at Wood¬ haven last Thursday. The youngster and his little sister were crossing the tracks and did not notice the car until it was right on them. Rhodes was arraigned on a technical charge of homicide and paroled till August l:i for a hearing before Magistrate Gil- roy at Far Rockaway.
Following are sales recently made by the Onslow-Moore Company at Bay view: To Henry Randall, plot Rose St.; R. Davis, Bayview Avenue and Rose Street, 'with house; Ira Duryea, Whaley St.; Paul G. Downing, Archer St.; George Kinscherf, Archer St.; Chalres M. Christensen, Onslow Place; Otto Nelson. Onslow Place; Henry E. Randall, Onslow Place and Southside Ave.; T. P. Forbes, Southside Avenue; Thomas F. Burns, Southside Ave. and Roosevelt Place; R. Davis, Archer St.; Archer Seaman, Archer St. Many of these plots are to be built upon at once.
A large number of the members of Freeport Lodge. No. tiOO, I. 0. O. F., Monday evening accompanied by mem¬ bers of th^ Hempstead, Rockvilie Cen¬ tre and Woodhaven lodges, witnessed the installation of the officers for the ensuing year. The work of the even¬ ing was done by District Deputy Grand Master John I. Shepard and hia staff from the Woodhaven Lodge. Address¬ es were made by the installing officer and some of his staff, after which cream and cigars were enjoyed by all present. The following officers were installed: Noble grand, Frank M. Smith; vice-grand, E. V. Baldwin; past grand, D. Frank Seaman; chap¬ lain, Wiliam S. Merrill; warden, Wil¬ liam fiornscheuer; conductor, Edward Gom])ert; scene supporters, Jacob Johnson and Eugene Helland; right support to noble grand, Franklin Be¬ dell; left, Emil Anderson; right sup¬ port to vice grand, Fred W. Greaves; left, Jesse F. Bedell: inside guard^n, John Ryerson; outside, James W. Ray¬ nor.
J..
adopted, to go into August 1. at 12:01
The
village.
We give the list of districts here, but have printed the same in small type suitable for carrying in card cases, and will be pleased to send a cofiy to any reader on receipt of a re- (luest on postal. The districts are: Start with one long blast:
1 .School No. 1, cor. Pine and Gi;ove Streets.
2 .School No. 2, Seaman Avenue.
Villaiie Trustees
At the regular meeting of the Free- L, '"^ *';}^% ^'^^'^ ^«.^ P''^''^"* at port Fire Council Monday evening, the ^^l -^'ef'"K f riday evening, new system of numbered tjre ajarm L ^ i^"^*-"f ^'l?"'^^ ^,f'^'-•^;^'«1 ^/-"'^ calls, as prepared by First Assistant I J^^ ^'^^"^'^^ ^""^'1.'''^' """f^r Engineer Clarence M. VanRiper was ! J'^^-T/'? ,^,°f M ^.'^^'^^''-^'^f ^^^"'^ effect Sunday, t'^'-^'^Jff [}^^' thanking the Village TV,.acc ^oiie ' tioard for the excellent police and Mre
Tl, i IlfrSG Calls | ^_ ¦ . ,1 r^^ i ¦• 1
„ -II L , • ¦ 1 . ..u f •.. service given at tlie C ub fireworks e.x-
will be a big au to the liremen in .-,•.• , , -.,
. , , . • I hibition July .'ith.
answering alarms, and a vast im- ¦'
provement over the present plan of ii I The application of E. S. Randall for districts, in place of which are 24 dis-1 ^^'^t^^r for a house on Long Beach Ave. tricts so arranged that in nearly ev-j ^'^^ granted, as were also the applica- ery instance the firemen will find I <^'«"-'^ "J^ T. E. Murray, .Miller Ave.; themselves within one block of the i <^"»^' Winston, Lexingtun Ave.; C. blaze should any one of the district i ^^•'''^"^'"^""' Onslow Place; Kate I. calls be sounded. | Biddle, Dean St.; E. J. Gwilt, Miller
To further facilitate in getting in j Place; Heien A. Bissell, Long Beach a tiuiel^ alarm, cards bearing the num- I-'^^^;- f""" electric light service, ber of the district will be placed on j A'report from the Hartford .Steam every telephone in the territory cover-, Boiler Insurance and Inspection Co. ed by that call, throughout the entire \ reported boilers No 1, 2 and ;J at the
power house from an external examj:i- ation to be in a good condition.
Apjilicatiun v/as receivtd, through attorneys, for exemption from tax¬ ation, of the property at northeast corner Ocean Avenue and Pine St., owned by J-Ct. Rev. Chas. E. .McDon nell, it being the intention to use the {iroperty for church purposes. lielief was asked for taxes of lihlH and 1909. As the proper place for this petition School No. ;!, Archer St. and Long j was before the Board of Assessors on Beach Avenue. j "grievance day," the application was
South Shore Hospital, South Ocean jrejected.
Avenue. j (JiJlies & Campbell in a cjmmuirica-
Riot call. Answer, Head(!uarters ! tion to the Board stated the grade for Out of Town. Report to Individ-' sidewalk on S(juth Bay View Avenue ual fire houses. I furnished to them would make the
.North Main Street and Seaman | walk lower than the road, and asked if Avenue. I a mistake ha(i been made; referred to
Grand and Shonnard Avenues. village engineer to report back to the
North t)cean and Lena Avenues. Board.
Hansom and Florence PI. | The Onslow-Moore Company asked
Pearsall and Pennsylvania Aves. | for a light at corner of (Jnslow Place
I and Archer St. ; no action taken. j The ihatter of street sprinkling was 'discussed thoroughly, but owing to the j heavy demands on the roa-1 fund no ac- I tion was taken.
I It was decided to have the principal ' buisness streets of the village kept : cleaned of paper and refuse, the village I and the county 10 share the expense. j A resolution 'A'as piasstd raising the ' salaries of village employees as fol- llows: Win. R. .Smith, engineer at the i power house, from .SlOll to $125 per j month: John T. Cotter, a fireman, from ; !57.5 to .$90 per month; Thomas H. I Chilton, assistant fireman, from .'>70 to j •'JiSO; Daniel C'ombs, dayman, .$iiO to I Siifi per month JC. O. Niles, lineman, : from iii.SO to $.sp per month. j Trustee Sigiiumd stated that Young I Bros, had agrei^l to ;iay all expenses j for taking the engine and hose wagon-- I to the fire at their lumber yard at i Wantagh Saturday night, July lo, and wanted to know the cost. The B(3ard was unanimously of the opinion that no charge should be made for the use of the village apparatus, and the fire¬ men were commended for their work. Preaident Fitzismons of the Board of Health stated that the digger of the City of Brooklyn had been operated during the night hours, and that a large number of complaints had been received on account of the noise and smoke at night; and that several sick people in Bennington Park had been disturbed and prevented from getting proper rest.- He asked what the Board would advise and was informed that the matter waa entirely up to the Board of Health.
M. J. Coffey, superintendent of the Construction company, said that hia, men had been intimidated by village officers and, he thought, had not been treated right; that the company was doing its best to get the work done as soon as pos'ii^'le "and did not think the village authorities were not giving him a square deal.
Mr. Coffey said he had heard that
there were several sick oeople in the
Four boats took about two hundred neighborhood but he had been unable
to hnd them; A. (.. .\ckerman of the Health Board replied that there were three people in the immediate neigh¬ borhood of the digger at present who were recovering from recent opera¬ tions. Mr. Coffey said that the com¬ pany was human and would stop opera¬ tions in case a person's life was in danger.
Permission was granted Chief Cam¬ eron to take the fire apparatus to Bald¬ win next Wednesday evening, July 2.S, by invitation of the fire department of
BALDWIN
Long Beach and Randall Avenues.
Randall Avenue and Grove Street.
Randall Avenue and Bergen PI.
-Main Street and Grand Avenue.
Broadway and Columbus Avenue.
Broadway and Commercial St.
Main Street and Brooklyn Avenue.
Main Street and .Merrick Road.
Smith and Church Streets.
Merrick Road and Helen Avenue.
Pine und Church Streets.
Newton Boulevard and Henry St.
Bedell and Raynor Streets.
Main and .A.rcher Streets.
Bedell St. and Atlantic Avenue.
Archer and Church Streets.
Grove and Archer Streettj.
Ocean and South Side Avenues.
Ocean Avenue and Whaley Street.
Ocean Avenue and Smith Street.
Merrick Road and Grove Street.
Long Beach and Railroad Aves.
(Jcean Avenue and Pine Street.
Long Beach Avenue and Merrick Road.
Lexington and Madison Avenues.
Pine Street and Bayview Avenue.
Long Beach Ave. and Pine Street.
Long Beach Avenue and Wha¬ ley Street.
Bayview Avenue and Archer St.
Bayview Avenue and Smith St.
Bayview Ave. and Merrick Road. 1 long blast -recall. The alarm is always to be preceded by one long blast.
Miss Freda I^evine of Brooklyn is spending her vacation with her aunt, Mrs. I. DaSilva.
The Freeport Enterprise Band has a cottage at Point Lookout this week, and the rest of the cottagers are enjoy¬ ing a treat of nightly concerts.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Miller have been ent»»rtaining Richard M. Kolish and daughter Miriam D., Joseph Abels and son Ernest and Mrs. Lena Krause of New York.
people to High Hill Beach on the ex¬ cursion of the Presbyterian Sunday School W'ednesday, where the usual pastimes were enjoyed.
Evidently with a desire to "get sijuare" some one cut the harness at¬ tached to the wagon of the dog catch¬ ers Wednesday evening but the trouble was discovered before any accident re- .sulted.
The Freeport Public Library, at t.he
school house on Pine Street, is open
every week-day afternoon except Sat-
{urdays and holidays, from 2:30 to 5
; o'clock, and Wednesday evenings frgm
7\o9.
;. In the front ranks of reliable realty j concerns is the Onslow-Moore Com¬ pany, developers of Bay View. They I sell land at reasonable pries on reason¬ able terms; see their adv. in this is- l sue. Most of their business is done I with Freeport people, by tbe way.
that place, to participate in their an¬ nual parade, providing proper substi¬ tute apparatus wa.s left in fhe fire houses.
"What more n.atural than that a man of 76 years like Thomas C. Piatt, worn out of body but active in mind, should recuperate by the minute under the invigorating influence of Long Inl¬ and air. T. C. Piatt will be chipper as a youth if he stays on Long island long enough."—Times.
The Freeport Fire Department has '
engaged Freeport Enterprise Band for
the parade at Baldwin next Wednes- Miss Ethel Herria
day evening, when they expect to photographic work.
bring home the prize for the largest
number of men in line.
has taken up
Mrs. Williani G. .Miller met with'a painful accident Wednesday morning. She was leaving a local business place to enter her automobile when she tripped over a piece of wire netting in the gutter being built <i;i Main Street. She fell heavily, striking her head on Point Lookout
.Mis« Kate Glover has been visiting at the liome of Wesley B. Smith. ¦ V^
Mrs. Alfred Smith and Mrs. Isaiah Thom.as are sojourning at Saratoga Springs.
The M. E. Sunday School went to
the cement curb.
Her son. Dr. .Miller, was in the auto and took her home where it was found that she had esc^iied with a few se¬ vere bruises.
The ijeo|)le at Na'ssau-by-the-.Sea had an unusual fliversion this week when a whale sever.teen feet long was discovered on a sand-bar between Pt. Lookout and Long Beach by Mr. and .Mrs. L. H. VanSies-, wb.o are occupy¬ ing the "Rockaway" cottage, while out for a morning stroll. The whale had evidently been stru-.-k by the pro- jieDer of a large steamer, as a large piece was gashed out of ils back and another out of its fin, the latter in¬ terfering with its propelling power, and probably being the reason it had been caught on the iieach. After the colonists had watched it floundering around for some time -Mr. \'anNess
its . annual outing Wednesday. A lar^e number attend-
Rnv. .Mr. TucKt-y's father left for Atlantic City on Monday morning af¬ ter a visit of several weeks at the parsonage.
The M. P. Sunday School held its an¬ nual picnic in .Schreiber"s Grove Wednesday. The usual good lime was had.
S'l' ihi: Jiiliii J. KamUill ('oin[iai.!y ad- viTti^emeiit (if liunj^alovv slieMiiid water front and dock lots at Fri-i-pin-t, Uiiig Inland in this i'-snr. tf.
-Miss Ethel Jayne of this village ia a cliampioii tennis [ilayer. Miss Jayne is a member of the Rockvilie Centre Tennis Club.
Several of the fishermen are having
shot the whale. He was oifered i^lu'l large cacthes of lobsters, which liring for the carcass, but decided it would a uood price on the market. Blue fish
lil on are also running now.
be better to get the blubber shares, which he did.
Church Notes
The jireajhers in the -M. E. (.'hun.-h
for ¦'i.he first four Sundays in August here, wil be Rev. W. L. Davison. Rev. E. „., , , , • ,. , .
G. RicharcLson, Rev. H.M. Richard and ,.^'^^" '"".'';'"' fh"".' "'^-'^'V.'-^'i "^ u*"'^
Rev. S. O. Curtice. The pastor will '¦!}^^}'l'^^ ^''1' ^'^^^''j '" ^^l*" High School be on his vacation at that time.
Announcement is made of the mar¬ riage of .Miss .Maude Hautsch and Al¬ bert .McKay, both of Richmond Hill. -Mrs. .McKay was formerly a resident
Building on Tuesday, August ;!, at 7:.';o o'clock. One trustee is to be ele"ted and aiijiroprialions voted on.
A large number of people of Baldwin attended the sales and baloon ascen¬ sion on the Freeport tJolf Grounds.
"My Brother's Keeper" will be the .Sudnay morning sermon theme of Rev. (,'harles Herbert Scholey at the First Presbyterian Church. In the evening the theme will be "Save Thyself."
In the First Baptist Church, Stanley Several of the jieople here were pre- VV. Roberts minister, there will Ij^-'-'^ented with the gifts which were dia- worship Sunday at 10.;iO a. m. and tributed.
7..'50 p.. m.; morning theme, "Is there anything Wrong with the Churches?"; evening, "The Solitude of Duty." Bible school at 2.:iO. Y. P. S. C. E. meeting at 7. Midweek ser\ ice Fri¬ day 8 p. m. Everyone invited to all services.
At the Methodist Episcopal Church
The twenty boys and girls from Warren St. M. E. Church left for their homes Wednesday morning, af¬ ter spending two weeks in Baldwin. They all looked rosy and happy when starting off.
A large congregation '^as in at- Sunday morning at 10:;^0 o'clock tendance at the M. E. Church Sunday the congregation will be addressed by evening. Scripture reading waa il- r4v. E. L. Fox of New York City, who lustrated by stereopticon pictures of will sjieak of his work on the lower "(Christ's Works of Mercy ;" also pic- East Side, and especially of the boys' tures of Fresh Air Work in Baldwin, work in the .summer colony. The six- Next Sunday evening there will be ty-minute service will be held, as us- a .song service, ual, at 7:4.5 p. m. The pastor, Dr. W. A. Richard, will preach on, "The Ministry of Meditation."
LYNBROOK
Next Wednesday will be the opening
of the four day carnival to be given
by the Baldwy^i Fire Department on
the grounds adjoining the fire house on
Grand Avenue.
- Prettily decorated booths will be
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haves expect erected and these will be brilliantly il-
to remove to Brooklyn about August 1. luminated by electric lights. There
w'ill be a dancinjr platform in the cen-
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cotton are tre of a large grove; a min.strel .show spending their vacation at Stroudsburg, will be given each evening, and there N. Y. will be many other features.
On Saturday afternoon at 1 ::iO the
William Ronalds svill leave .Saturdny following events will be run off: 100
to spend his vacation in Sullivan and yard dash, handicap ; .00 yard sack race.
Orange County.
Rev. and Mrs. spe.ntling a two Monticello, N. Y.
H. L.
weeks'
tilovei* are vacation at
The L. I. R. R. has established a water tank at Atlantic Avenue, Lyn¬ brook, for the convenience of securing water f(jr their engines.
Rev. Ronalds Taylor of Inwood, will occupy the pulpit of the St. James M. E. Church on Sunday next, at both the morning aiid evening services.
The funeral service of .Mrs. Jane M. Langdon, \yife of Carman S. Langdon' who died at her late residence, Nor¬ wood, on Tuesday of last week, in her 64th year, was hel.l on Friday after¬ noon last. Rev. F. W. Varney officiat¬ ing; interment in Rockvilie Cemetery.
An automobile owned by Pres^sley
potato race, three-legged race and ten mile handicap bicycle race. Hand¬ some prizes 'V'll be awarded to the winners in ear h event and already a large number of eLtt-ies have been made.
A hot supper will be aerved each eve¬ ning hy the women friends of the fire¬ men.
A feature of the carnival which is already attracting considerable atten¬ tion, is the voting for the Queen of the Carnival, to be crowned on Saturday evening, July ;!i. Electioneering is already going on at a great rate. At. present the votes are totaled every Tuesday and Saturday evening.
The young woman receiving the largest number of votes will be crowned (^ueen, while thoSe receivinK the second and third higheat number will be elect¬ ed maids of honor for the (jueen. ! The queen will be,presented with a beautiful diamond ring, while the
N. Sproule of Brooklyn, an uncle of "'a''^'' "^ J*""""" *>'• ^^ presented with
James Sproule of Lynbrook. was run » Ko''^ "^JL^^^ «"d f°^' ""'' » Bteriir.g sil-
into and damaged by another auto- ^er chateline bag.
mobile while driving along the Mer- The committee in charge of the car-
rick Road on Sunday afterno<m last. "'v*' consists of Francis J. Gately,
Fortunately no one was seriously in- chairman; Henry Hebenstreit jr., ser-
jured, although the machine attempted retary; Joseph P. Gomes, treasurer;
to climb a tree in front of the residence Jo^"i "• ^^^^^i J«hn Denton jr„ A.
of Hamilton W. Pearsall, t^ouging a Schoenbachler. F. Westfall, JcWeph
i large chunk out of the tree. filler, Chester A. Smith, Richard P.
1 . . ^ Suits, William Carl, A. Hutcbeeon,
i See the John J. Randall Compauy ad- William Gillaril. William Wolfe, Amos
vertisement of buiiK*low site* and Pearsall, Frank Valentine, George T.
I water front and dock lota at Freeport, i Jones, Thomas Baldwin, Thomas P,
I Long Island in tliis issue tf. I Moran and Prank P. Cotte.
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VOL. XIV NO. 39 New Fire Districts Tlic uew sy.stem of firp-district calls goes into ert'ect Angust 1. Firemeu or any otlier interested perHons may obtain tropies of tlie districts on a small card conveni¬ ent to carry in the pocket, by ap-^ plying .at the Review office or by' sending their name on a postal. Clarenoe E. Jones, hardware deal-n', Maiu St. and Merrick lid. also will snpiily tlu'se (.-ards. FREEPORT NEWS Coming Events July '2',i and 2-1 -Annual fail*, UHU^h- tera of America, FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1909 Official Paper of Nassau County See the gas company's ad in this is¬ sue in regard to water heaters. If you want to borrow or lend money see Smith & Levy's adv. ii> thia issue. Prof, and Mrs. A. Palamountain and babv are enjoyinp a vacation at Cairo, N. Y. J. W. Fitzsirnon.s and wife leave for their annual visit in the White Mountains to-day. New Fire Calls f Siu^rle^ ropicH (if tlic Review can be eccnrcd at H. (iobetz's and tlio Review office on Main Ht. aud DiiSUvirs on W. Merrick Road. Dr. G. A. Newton is back in hi.s office after taking a tv/o weeks' vaca¬ tion on the North .Sido. ' Mr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Bejwn and son Harold of Pine Street are enjoying .a three weeks' vacation at Beaches : Corner, Greene Co., .v. Y. They will ¦'return early in August. i' The new sidewalk being laid from ¦' the Post Oftice building south to New- ' ton Boulevard, on Main Street, com¬ pletes a walk from Newton Boulevard ; to the Kailroad track. The primary classes of the iM. E. ¦ Sunday School are to have their an¬ nual picnic on the Church lawn next Tuesilay, ,Iuly 27. There will be the usual games, a collation provided by the ladies, and to crown all, an auto- i inobile ride is promised to all the ^ children. ; The dog catcher has been on duty ^''thi.s week, and the number of homeless ' and uncared for dogs on the streets has temporarily decreased. The first [day about thirty canines were taken in. -^The law does not reipiire tho procuring : of a license, merely that when the : finimals are on the street they must : wear a muzzle. Riley liaynor's house at Jones' Beach was burned to the ground Sun- ¦day. Kiley is a member of the life ¦ saving crew at Jones' Beach station i and has a house there which he occu¬ pies vvith his family. Nothing was saved except a small part of the furni¬ ture and some of Mr. Raynor's cloth¬ ing. The loss was about $1001). A goat on the roof of the two-story ¦ building south .of the post otfice at¬ tracted considerabW_attention Mon- ] tlay. He pranced arouncTThe steep in- ' cline of the roof as though the ' glaciers of the ,Alps h.-^d always bten his playground. When the perform¬ ance was oVer he easily ran down the back roof and jumped from a shed to ' the ground. Bids were opened for the new Long Beach Avenue school house Monday •evening. The firm of Gillies & Campbell bid $26.990; Wm. G. Mil- :, ler, $27,598; Geo. Libbey, $26,ti25. The contra-jt was accordingly awarded ¦ Mr. Libbey, and work is to begin at r once.' Mr. Libbey, it will be remem- i bered, built the Seaman Avenue school ' house, and makes a specialty of this I -class of work. [ This bid does not include the heating I and ventilating system, which is to I be awarded in a separate contract I Sunday afternoon a party of 22 went ['out from Freeport dock in the "Hemp- [ stead" with Capt. Alanson Ellison, t and only 21 returned" leaving one of t their party in the water at High Hill T Beach. The rest of the party except- l ing Cornelius Kempen, who was i drowned, "^nd one friend, went fishing \ with a net, while these two went ^ clamming. In their task they gradual- i' ly .separated and Kempen was not t misaed until the rest had returned to i; the boat. It ia supposed he was taken iwith a cramp and was too far away from hia companions for them to hear him if he called. Capt. EHIson made two^ hauls for Kempen with the not but Without BuccejM and the party re¬ turned home. Two hours later Capt. Charles Whaley hauled the spot for fish and recovered the body, which was •till warm, about a quarter of a mile southwest of the dock: Capt. Whaley with the aid of his*crew and Dr. James W. Mackay, who was at tbe beach, worked for two hours but without re¬ storing any signs of life. Coroner Chas. p. Birdell of Central Park held an inquest Tuesday morning and ren- deredja verdictfof accidental^drowning. Kempen was a resident |
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