South Side Messenger 19130314

              Kelsey Out of Hospital "^^   ViDage Elections Tuesday
Republicans Endorse H. R. Smith for Supervisor
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, FREEPORT VILLAGE
Vol 6, Number 33
EvwT Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, K Y.. FRIDAY. MARCH 14, 1913
$1.00 YMurljr, Single Copy 5 Cento
Merrick
Sins^ eopies of the Messenger ean be bad at Max Trillitzsch' news stand Merriek. L. I. tf
John Verity of Miller Avsnas is eon- ilnsd to his boms with a ssfsre attack of appsndieitis.
Fred Shebes of Willisms Ave., was aerloDily burned on his baads snd fsce wbeo a gasolene torch hs wss aiing, exploded. He will probsbly be con¬ fined to his home for some time.
A surprise party wss tendered Min¬ nie Button at ber home on Miller Place last Thursday evening ^toif a number of her friends.     	
Services at tbe Church of the Re¬ deemer Sanday, Palm Sonday, at 7:30 and 1 o'clock a. m. and 8 p. m. Cele¬ bration cf the Holy Communion at the early serf ice and Morning Prayer and sermon at ths H o'clock jfiervice. Tbe Church School meets In the Parish House at 10 a. m. Services and meet- ingk for Holy Week sre as follows: Wednesday. Holy Communion at 7:30 a. m. and Evening Prayer and sermon at 8 p. m. Thursday, meeting of the Woman » Auxiliary in the Parish Hoa-e at 2:30 p. m. Haly Communion and address at 8 p. m. Friday, Mern- ing Prayer and sermon at 10 a. m. Litany and Penitential Office at 4:30. The offering on Good Friday is for the Negro work in the Diocese. A cordial welcome ii extended to all to attend the services of thit special week.
Builder Edward Landau of Smith Street Is erecting a hoaie on Lyon Avenue. Mr. Landau recently con¬ structed the pretty dwelling on Court Street at preaent occopied by Martin Abene. 	
Mrs. W. C. Mepham and small daughter, Wella, left Wednesday for Ontario, N. Y., where they will stay for an indefinite period. Mri>. Mep¬ ham hopes to regain her health during tbe stay. 	
A. G. Doane has rented tbe Jennings cottage on Merrick Ave. formerly oc- cupiediby W. E Spear,for the coming Season. ______
Miss Mary Besset. whe teaches the lower grades of the local school, was absent on Wednesday on account of illness. 	
The Preeport Band baaketball team defeated Merrick in a rough and tum¬ ble scrimmage at the Pariah House laat Friday, the acore being 36 to 24. Merrick playa Lynbrt}ok next Friday evening. Owing to the Lenten aeaaon no admiaaian will be charged.
H. M. Narwood ia a shining light at tennia in Bermuda where he ia apend- ing the win^r. Mr. Narwood ia a prnmiaing pretender for a tournament cup, we hear.
Mra. J. W. Birch has been confined to her home the past week with illness. She was attended by Dr. Witmer of Freepurt.
The School inastera Club of the Town of Hempstead will hold a meeting in the auditorium of the High School building in Freeport on Friday even¬ ing. Wellington C. Mepham of Miller Avenue is president of the Club.
Mrs. Charles Powell is   critically ill at her home in Merrick Manor.
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TownBoard
A speeisl meeting of tba Town Bosrd was held last Tboradsy to tshe aotien 00 tbe matter of employing coonsel to represent tbe Town in tbe iojonction proceedings to bs held on Fr^lsy in Brdoklyo on ths mstter of tbe Bell¬ more- Sesford Lighting District.
The meeting reaulted io a deadlock throoghoat
Justice Raisig introdaoed tbe follow¬ ing resolution: "That the Town Board erred in properly and legally advertis¬ ing the apecial meeting at Bellmore to consider the appMcaticn to consider the creation of aaid lighting diatriet; Be it reaolved that the reaolotion made and adopted pn January 27, 1913, by the Board in the creation and making of tbe lighting district known as the Bellmore-Seaford Lighting District and the.reaolntiona made and adopted at a meeting special of this Board held st Bellmore on February 4, creating and making a lighting district known as the Bellmore Seaford Lighting Dist¬ rict and every other act that ia done by this Board by reaolution or other¬ wise, in tbe creation and making of a lighting diatriet known aa the Bell¬ more-Seaford Lighting District be hereby rescinded and cancelled.
Superviaor Craft and Juatieea Raiaig and Neu voted in favor while Justices Gittens and Norton ard Town Clerk Gilbert voted against and the motion was declared loat. >
Juatiee Gittens then made a motion that coonael be employed to represent the Town at the hearing in Suprenne Coort. This was also loat; Graft, Raiaig and Neu voting againat while tbe othei three voted in favor.
At the meeting Monday afternoon the minutes of the meeting of March 3 were read and approved. When the minutes of the apecial meeting were read, Justice Gittens objected to the approval of them on the groand that toey bad no right co make any motion or do other bosineaa than employing an attorney as it was for that specific buinesas tbat the meeting was called for. He moved that' this part of tbe minutea be stricken oot. Thia was lost, Joatice Gittens, Norton and ToWn Clerk Gilbert voting in favor and the other three membera voting against.
A motion to approve the minutes of the special meeting aa read was then offered and thia, like tbe othera, wss laat, Superviaor Craft and Justices Raiaig and Neu voting Ir. favor, while Juatieea Gittens, Nnrton and Town Clerk Gilbert againat.
Justice Gittens made a motion that counsel be employed to repreaent the Town this Friday at the hearing, to which time the proceedings were ad¬ journed from laat week, but the Super¬ viaor declared the motion out of order.
Ordera to ahow cauae wore received from tbe Nassau & Soffolk Lighting Company snd from Franklin C. Soper. The former was for permit to enter as one of the defendants and the latter was to enter with Harry Zeiner aa one of the plaintiffs.
The lease of Town land for Frederick Gilbert st Cedarhurat waa executed.
New and Old Home of Advance H., L & L Co.
Freeport
Phoio hv ( iiilsK ^ 0^ Dodge Cut by courtesy of Brooklyn Times
BELLMORE'S NEW FIRE HEADQUARTERS
Marrisige Licenses
During the paat week the following marriage licenses bave been issued by Town Clerk Gilbert:
March I—Joaeph B. Noaworthy and Jennie B. Vail, both of Freeport.
Andrew L. Ennia and Phebe J. Pow¬ ell, both of Freeport.
If you want to reaeh the people   put 't in the "Meaaenger."
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OLD FIRE HEADQUARTERS AT BELLMORE
The me'mbers of Advance Hook, Lad¬ der and Engine Co. No. 1 of this vil¬ lage are proud of their new fire hall on Grand Avenue, which is completed, having already been used for an enter¬ tainment and several dances. The front and side viewa are shown in the cut above, and we alao use a cut of the former home of the firemen on Bedford Avenue, showing the comparison be¬ tween the two buildings. The new hall is a two-story brick building, »ize 38x65 feet, and was built by Contractor Charles Johnson from plana prepared by Architect Edward P. Self, (botb of thia village, at an approximate cost of 58,000.
On the ground floor there ia a fine up-to-date court room (the beat in the Town of Hempetead) where Judge Corodon Norton preaides; company and engine roems, jury and Cell rooms, Itfd- ies' and gents' wardrobe quarters and a kitchen, which is osed for preparing eatablea for the dancea, etc. There ia a cellar under the whole building, which eontaina the gaa plant, water and heating apparatua. The second floor is a large auditorium, with a fully equipped stage, and has a seating ca¬ pacity of four hundred. The Catholic Church of the village uses the hall for aervieea every Sunday morning and tbe Uemocratic Aaaociatiop meet there4
once a month.
The rates of tbe hall, including the use of kitchen and wardrobe quartera, are:
One nigbt $10.00
Two nighta $16.00
Three nights S22.00
Four nighta $27.00
Five nights $32.00
Six nighta $36.00
The rstes for churchea for fairs, en¬ tertainments, etc., are $5 per nigbt; for political clubs, for meetings, $2 per meeting; churches, fer services, $2 per service.
Thia company waa organized in June,
1897, with an enrollment of eleven charter members and by the latter part of August, the same year, enough mon¬ ey had been raised by subscription to purchase a combination Hook, Ladder and Hand Engine, which up to that time had been oaed by a volunteer fire company at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The company received ita new appar¬ atus on September 3, and the boys were very proud of it. The inscrip¬ tion on the truck, "Where duty calls, ynu'll surely find us," has proven ap¬ propriate ioi^'the membera of Advance Co.
By   the   early part of January   in
1898, aufflclent money had   been   col-
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On Tueaday evening at 8 o'clock, Misa AlmA Randall, daughter of Vil¬ lage Truatee and Mra. Erneat Randall, of 26 North Long Beach Avenue, and Harry L. Baukney, aon of Mr. and Mrs. George Baukney of Hempstead, were married at the home of the bride's par¬ ents by Rev. Frank Kerr, paator of the Hempatead Preabyterian Church, of which the groom ia a member.
The bride, who was attired in white charmeuse with shadow lace, waa at¬ tended by Miaa Helen Boise as maid of honor, Miasea Dorothy Moore and Louise Rollo as bridesmaids, and Made- Ian Nichula aa flower girl. Miss Rand¬ all carried white rosea while her maid of honor carried pink onea. Mias Boiae wore white ailk with chiffon over, and Misa Moore and Mias Rollo, pink dreas- es witn chiffon over. Tbe flower girl was also dreased in white. | "i^^^"^ Russell    Baukney,   brother   of  tbe
I groom,   attended   him   as   best   man
^while John J. Randall, ji., uncle, and Roaaell Randall, brother of the bride, acted as ushers.
The bride waa given away by her father and Mrs. Harry Frost preaided at the piano.
After the ceremony a wedding sup¬ per   waa   cerved snd   on    Wedneaday
; morning tbe couple staited for Florida,
where   they   will be the   gueat nf the
bride's grandfather, John J.  Randall.
The   groom is employed by the Met-
I ropolitan Steamship Company.
i A meeting of the Schoolmasters Club of the   Town of Hempstead   will
I ba held at Freeport High School thia Friday evening. In addition to tbe routine work there will be papers pre¬ pared as follows:
; "Standard of promotion in the gradea," Stephen V. Smith,   Principal
\ of Floral Park School.
I     Discussion, Walter L. Shubert, Prin-
' cipal Baldwin School.
i     "Teaching children how to study va.
I mere   cramming   for     information,"
j laaac M. Wright, Principal Lawrence High School.
I     Discuasiun,   Ira  M.   Gaat, Superin-
: tendent Hempatead School.
I     Wellington   C.   Mepham,     District
i Superintendent,    is   Preaident of   the
I Club, and H. Denton Arthur, Principfil
I Freeport High School, is Secretary.
For Supervisor
CANDIDATES OF NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY TOWN TICKET
For Town Clerk
JAMES H. PAHEN
of Roclmlle Centre, LI.
For Saperintendent of Highways
ROBERT B. BROWER
of Lynbrook, L. L
For Justice of the Peace
WM. V. S. HAPPENER
of Hempstead, L. I.
For Justice of the Peace
GEORGE ^, NORMAN
of Seaford, L. L
For Assessor, (four years)
LE ROY J. WEED
of Garden Gty, L. I.
For Assessor, (two years)
LESUE BEACH
of Lawrence, L I.
AUGUSTUS D. KELSEY, sf Lyskeak
VOTE FOR AUGUSTUS D. KELSEY FOR SUPERVISOR AND- THE ENTIRE PROGRESSIVE TICKET
"WHY     J.     HUYLER      ELLISON
SHOULD BE THE NEXT PRESI- ;DENT OF FREEPORT."
Election, March 18; 8 to 8 P. M.
If politics are to be kept out of the village oflnce, J. Huyler Ellison muat be elected. Mr. Ellison has no ma¬ chine, ia running non-partiaan, thor¬ oughly realizing that by thia method, he owes to no one anything, and hia only pre-election promiaes are to the votera; while his opponents both are politicians bent upon but one purpose, to build up their respective political machinea. One a Republican State Committeeman. On the other band, you have a Democratic Leader whoae intereata are identical with the Demo¬ cratic machine. We aee Ellison re- aiening as Republican leader, ao aa to be free and untramelled in hia oflice. In him you will have an independent, non-pitrttaan, energetic man. True, he is ambitious; that is the reaaon the politiciana have been againat him, but his ambitiona are laudable, to wit: To serve the people well and to have their approbation.
Citizena, votera, taxpayers, you bave kept politicb out of your municipal affaira heretofore, don't maae a mia- take at thia time and elect to office a party man.
VOTE for J. Huyler Ellidon under tbe Horse Shoe.
"Buddha," a wonderful educational film, showing tbe coloaaal work made rrom brenze by tbe Japanese in 1623 A. D., will be ahown at tbe Plaza Sat¬ urday.
AdvertlaenMnt
Thomas snd Ids Raynor of t^s vil¬ lage were left $33 each by the will of their grandmother, Mary A. Golder, who difd at Rockville Centre on Feb¬ ruary 2^, leaving an estate of $10,000 real and $4900 personal.
Dr. and Mra. Edwin Csrmsn sre spending some time st Atlantic City for ths benefit of Dr. Carman's health.
Mr. snd Mra. Dohald Mackey and daughter Dorothy are also at Atlsntic City, where Mr. Mackey ia recuperat¬ ing from an attsck of rheumatism.
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Mr. Kelsey Improving
AUGUPTUS 0 KELSEY The nominee on the Progreaaive tick¬ et fur Town Super