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SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, FREEPORT VILLAGE
Vol 4, Number 31
Every Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE. N. Y., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1912
$1.00 Yearly, Single G»py 5 Cent*
Merrick
Things which could never make a man bappy develop a power to make bim atrong. Fbillipa Brooks.
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, the first In Lent, at 7:80 ard lla. m. and 7:30 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Communion at the early service and morning prayer and aernrion at tiie II o'clock service. The Sunday Schoel meets at 10 a. m. in the Palish House. Lenten meet¬ ings: Divine service each Wednesday at 8 p. m. With an addresa by the rec¬ tor upon the history of the '.hurch; Woman's Auxiliary Thursday at '£:3() p. m.; Litany service Friday at 10 a. m.; junior Auxiliary Saturday at 3 p. tn. Atcnrdial invitation i» extended to all to attend the services of this ehurch.
Miss Ruth Rent is visitinf^ her sister at ihe Convent of the Holy Nativity, Fond du Lac, Wiaconain.
Fred Hewlett returned to Williams last week after spendinf; a few daya at bia Aome here following the mid-year examipatinns.
N. Y. State to Farmsh Electricity
CoDserration Conunission WUl Har*
ncM Unutilized Waters of the
State and  Ron Wires
to Erery Nooli
A decided interest ia being shown by the chamhera of commerce and other commercial organizations of the cities and incorporated villages of the State in the Conservation Department's efforts to secure preliminary estimatea as to the amount and kind of power ueed for lighting public streets and buildings, residential and commercial lighting, and fnr the operation of power companiea and manufacturing plants.    Quite a  large  percentage  of
Bellmore
the organizations in   the   175   various _
cities and incorporated   villages  have'^'ibe cily won't give the railroad p'erin'it
Singie copies of the Messenger can be had at William Wnlfe'n drug atore. Bellmore, L. 1. at 5c each.      , ~     tt
Bellmore residents have been greatly inconvenienced for come time past, due to the fact tbat we have had no freight house at the ra Iroad depot since ihe old one was burned. After waiting for several months the raiiroad com¬ pany decided to move the old freight station here from Uarden City. Laat Fall the company had concrete piers and heavy floor beama laid on wbich to build and have also carted conaiderable of the lumber from Garden City, but the work has not yet been started, and it looka as if we won't have a freight house for some time to come, owing to the fact that a portion of the ground where the building was to be erected, b«]|Ongs to the City ' of  Brooklyn,   apd
The Junior Auxiliary of the Chorch of the Redeemer held an election of officers on Saturday with the following reaults: Alice Sehledorn, Pres.; Min¬ nie Hutton, V. Pres.; Ida Baitow, Sec, and Msrgaret Hatton, Treas.
Me. Varneke haa been eonfined to bia home for tbe last few daya with illness.
Heflex ga'i lighta are best for the eyes and purse, Nassan A Suffolk Lighting Co.  It
"I aaw it in th* iVI««a«ng«r"
SmithviUe South
The Independent Willing Workers will give a barn dance in Firemen's Hall on Saturday evening, March 2. If you wish to enjoy a pleasant even¬ ing and have a good laugh be sure to attend as some of the most original costumes will be worn at tbis affair. Admission 25 cents.
Mike, my old friend, bad invited me down to the road biiuse, whicb I ac¬ cepted. . We had not been there, seat¬ ed at the card table playing cards, more than an hour, when the propriet¬ or drove in with his spike tail mare and rubber tired wagon from market. The manager or general salesman of the place rushed out to assist him. The proprietor came in all smiles, blowed the house several times, and aeated himself by the red hot stove, lit a fresh cigar and started in to tell some of hia experiences and explain why Lew Haff's hand-miide axe han lea were better than factory made, etc., Ha'o'e, in the meantime, was very bury cleaning up and waiting on the trade.
The time quickly passed as we aat there listening to the diiTerent argu¬ ments on the weather and why Teddy will be our next President and bow rhe town was being acaied atiff over a few starved and neglected mutts that they claimed had tbe rabies and how the town is being (Quarantined by sbooti.ig all dogs that run at large and how they •topped all doga eoming in or going out of the town and aotna ot the legu- lars explaining wbat they would do and bow they would wollop the conatable that touched their dog. etc. After the erowd bad all left 1 thought it waa my time to blow and juat as i was think¬ ing it over the proprietor aaked Habe if he had brought in the chicken and groceries he had purchased fir the next day's dinner. Habe apologised^and made qaiek work getting out to the wagon. In a few minutes in eame Babe, hat off and all excited and aaid tbat the goods were gone.
Well, that • atopped all argnroenta ¦nd uf course I waa put buay on tbe Job at onca to find the thieves. I gave Uike the wink to'follow and we made off in a hurry. We walked out to the wagon and made a careful search and sure enough tbe roasting chicken an i other articlea were gone. So I told my celebrated detective friend that we
already responded.
It is important that no community shnufd be unrepresented in the reports, becauae it is not ^conceivable that there is any place in New York State which is aatisfled with the present cost of energy used for lighting and power purpoaea. The Conaervation Depart¬ ment is planning to harness the unuti¬ lized watera of the State to the end that the ultimate consumer shall se¬ cure all ttie accruing benefits. A tentative outline of a program has been suggested which contemplates the construction of a great transmis¬ sion line carrying cheap power for lighting, heating and manufacturing purfXisea to every nook and corner of New York.
The power used \oday in New York i* expressed with approximate accu¬ racy.at three million horae power. Uf this amount only aboot 800,000 is generated by water. The remainder must be produced by coal, aggregating in the neighborhood of twenty-two million tona. The commission esti¬ mates that at least one million horse power could be developed by waters which are not now used. The growing cost of power emphasizes the import¬ ance of an early utilization of the hy¬ draulic energy now wasted.
Roosevelt
The banner presented by the L. H. Grodski Association at a recent ball to the aasociation having the most members present is on exhibition in Aseoli's barber shop. It was captured by the Koosevelt Athletic Club.
A new tailor nhop has been opened here in uruwn's bailding by John Crota.
Monday afternoon an automobile ran into and killed a large dog on Main Sl^reet. The steering gear of the machine was injured but after some repairs the machine continued on ita way.
Last Wednesday evening a number of the young friends of Miss Agnes Crevoiaerat gave her a surpriae par^y on the occasion of her birthday at tbe homeof her parents on Whitehouae Avenae. The evening waa pleasantly paased with the usual games and re- ifresbmenta were served.
The Yankee Athletic Club baa joined the Junior Leagae of Naasaa County and will work for a trophy to be pre¬ sented to the winning team by a Brooklyn newspaper. The other teams in the leagae are Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, Freepert. Hempstead and Mineola.
The Roosevelt Athletic Club ts ar¬ ranging for a vaudeville entertainment and dan^e to be beld in tbe truck house of A ipha Hook and Ladder Company Monday evening, March 18.
The program will be a very interest¬ ing one and will be in pBrt: Mono¬ logue, A. Marino; "Fun In a Dream," Thomas McCaffery, ar.; "Tbe Haunt¬ ed House," Brown and Williams; "That Funny Kid," Johnny Geer; "Twentieth Century Burglars," Gil¬ man and Smith; sonpa and dance, Mr. Grilman, and Long and Short, Merritt
and S-blegel. Thnre will be dancing would go home and take a good night'a until the early cars m the morning. rest so we could start in early in the! The committee in charge of the affair morning and work on the caae witib aj i^f E. L. Eldridge, chairman". Ei^ward frMh and clear mind^ Welt, we went Aacoli. assistant cbairman: H. M. right to bed but I couldn't aleep as Straus, secretary, and Charles White Mike would break out in a tit of hnu^e, treasurer. Floor managera, R. laughter every few minutea, a wonder- Golder, E. Saunders, C. AndrewN, L. ing what Pop, Jobn and Habe would Grodski and L. S.blegel. Sargeant- bave for their dinner now. atarma,   J.     Schardt     and    George
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Tfce bett w«y to fitfcf tfce aail eti       ^  „ „  . .        .
kr fcoMtiai roar owa batkoM eai wgrfciaf yaar K«<>ex 8V lishts are heat for tbe kurdiot to Mka il irMr. AivtrOAit ia this eyes and pifrse. Naaaaa A Suffolk papm wil Mr. I Lighting Co. It
to use the grounds, therefore, the people who snend their good money to the railroad for freight charges, will have to experience the same trouble in the future of having their freight jam¬ med in cars on the viding. Local mer¬ chants often complain of having to wait several days for their goods stored iv the "freight house on wheels," un¬ til some one else, who has freigbt near the ear door, gets ready to cart theirs out. BeUmore is a good paying town for the railroad. Other stations along the line doing less business than is done here, get all they want to make things convenient.
Editors to Meet
on Long Island
Freeport
Single copies of  thi  Messenger  can be secured at Greenblatt's  newa  store Annnai   Conrention   of  New   York! o" Railroad Avenue or  Kiefer's, Main Press   WiU   be .held   at (Street, Freepor^J^ tf
Garden Gty i'he Linden B3fe Ball Club of Flat-                              bush, a light semi pro team,   traveling
The fifty-ninth knnual meeting dfj Saturday only, uniformed, record ihe New York Press Association this {of 86 gamea won and 2 loat laat year, year wili be beld on Lnng laland, at i haa again organized for the coming Uarden City, and Wednesday, Ihuis-, season. Have all dates open in May day and Friday, July 10, 11 and 12 and June. Would like to close May 26 bave been selected as the dates. or Junel  with   some   light   team   in
There has been no meeting of the , Freeport. Want expenses for 12 men, aasociation in that part of the State | address Chaa. E. Randall, Mgr., 2619 fbr a number of years,   and   the   Long | Bedford Ave., Brooklyn.
Inland members have promised a pleas- j ant time to those who attend. Special I rates have been secured by the execu-1 tive committee irom the Garden City j Hotel, where the meetinga will b^ | held. ' I
Last week dispatches  frohT  Cincin¬ nati, Ohio, reported that George Stone, an actor, had shot and killed Max  Ab¬ bott,   another   actor   of   New   York. The papers stated   that Stone   was   a In a circular notifying   members  of j brother of Fred Stone of   Moiitporaery the time and   place   of   the  meeting, !& Stone.    Fred S<one is a son of L. P. Secretary A. 0. Bunnell  of  Dansville j Stsnn of this place and is   no  relation says: j to   the   George   Stone   who   did   the
"Garden Cit> ia the most celebrated j shooting.
and attractive 'country   city'   in   thej 	
United Statps, perhapa in the woild. ; The highest bowling score made on It lies a little west of the centre of any of the alleys in the village this Nassau county, midway between the season is claimed for Ralph Smith, oeean and Long Island Sound; about who bowled 257 on Gere's alleys last twenty miles from   the  new   Pennsyl- ( week.
vania raiiroad terminal in   New   York j 	
City (a wonder in itself) and eighteen j Ruth Alma Poat arrived at the home miles from Flatbush Avenue in Brook- of Mr. and M.s. Wallace R. Post, lyn.    Thirty two railroad tracks carry i Tuesday night, for a permanent viait.
passengers daily  between   New   York | 	
and Long Island City. j     vVord has been received from   Elvin
City   ow-s   Its   origin   to i n. Edwards from  Porto   Rico   lo   the
'Garden   City   ow<>a   its   origin   to
Talking  about the water queation. a   tlll""!:^".!: ?'-""''i:_'''f.5/"i*^!.* ! effect'that bfs"cond'itiJn re'ma^na'about man was heard to say   the   other  day
that everyone in Ihe village has water on the brain. Guess that's so. Go in¬ to every business or public piace in the village and all you can hear ia water! water! and before it is settled, it is aafe to aay that aome of them will be arguing with their fists, if it hasn't happened already. There is one place where the propoaitionis discussed and knocked every night, but when the meetings are held these so-culled setters remain silent aa a mummy. The place for dipcussing the question is at the publico meetings, not in stores and public places where everyone who enters is obligee to be annoyed by aeveial jaws running at once.
A Reader.
Tbe writer would like to call atten¬ tion to the trustees of the public school that there should be a pump for drink¬ ing water inside the school building. One ¦ ay recently while passing tne school hou^e, I noticed several boya go to the pump outside on the grounds for a drink of water. They found the pump was frozen and were unable to get water. 1 later noticed that sever¬ al of these bnys were eating snow to quench their thirst, and aome of them were sucking icicles that h-ing from the building. I think the trustees should have this matter attended to at once, the cost wouli be trifling, and the benefit to the children great.
"One who loves water,"
About twenty of the members and friends of the Independent Willing Workers invaded the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Greene, on Wilson Avenue, last Friday evening, the visit being in tbe form of a birthday surprise psrty to Mrs. Greene. The evening was pleasantly spent imgames and dancing. At midnight a aupper, supplied by the invaders, was served. The visiters departed to tbeir homea at a late hour after having spent a most enjoyable evening.
A meeting of tbe Bellmore Baaeball Clab was held at Smith Bros.' store on Thursday evening of laat week, when nearly all the members attended to make arrangementa for tbe coming season. The following oflicers were erected: Frank B. Hunt, manager and treaaarer; Samuel Seaman, captain; Harry A. Self, secretary. It was de¬ cided to hold a couple of dancea to help raiae funds to start the season. Thu men will be seen in new uniforms this year, tbere will also be erected new seats on the ball ground, the diamond will be put in first claaa condition, and as 111 these improvements will reqnire considerable money, the generous sup¬ port of the people will be appreciated by the members. It was decided to hold the first dance at Firemen'a Hall on Saturday evening, March 9.    There
w^.ti M%) ^.f^^KM ...waiv,    ICIIv^riiiieritS   iiiu
I'jts of other good thinga. The com¬ mittee in charge are: Amos Buldwin, William Valentine, Harry Apeler and Ernest Schneider. The committee ask the co-operation of tba village folk  in
York merchant of the last century, ¦ ,be same and that health permitting, who forty yeara "go with the P^-| u j, ^is intention to sail for home on science of a prophet, bought a tract of i Februarv 28
ten thousand acres from   the   town  ofj	
Hempatead and established   thereon
residence community. Literally mil¬ lions of dollars have been expended in improvements thereon, which reflect the highest skill of landscape garden¬ ers,   engineers   and   architects.    The
I Mrs. Edwin Van Riper is annoanced to lead the Epworth Leagae meeting Sunday night in the M. E. Cburcb; topic, "Message at Bethel."
George Washington waa first in the placo IS sometimes called the Cathed-1 hearts of his countrymen and Reflex ral City from the magnificent Episco-! gas lights are first in the minds of pal Cathedral, erected at a cost of ov-1 those enjoying a good reading light, er a million dollars by Mrs. Alexander i Nassau A Suffolk Lighting Co. It
T. Srewart as a memorial to her bus-1 	
band. I     Joseph P. Adams   died at hia   bome
In addition to  the  manifold  attrac-   at ia5  North   Main   Street,   Sunday
tions in and about Garden City, -it   is | morning, after a lingering   illness  of
hinted by the wide awake   Island  edi-   Brights disease, at the age of 66 years
t'trs that the Long Island Railroad may give us a tour over jts admirable sys¬ tem and through tbe tunnels which are among the most admirable accomplish¬ ments of the age.
The real business part of the con¬ vention will be given special atention in a program to satisfy and gratify the moat earnest tiAemkers of the craft. Suggestions solicited from every mem¬ ber. It ia becoming more and more keenly realized that the business of printing and publishing has opened in¬ to a new era which pro nises substan¬ tial returns to our profession more in"* keeping with its cspital of brain and cash. The new situation will be ii>tel- ligently discMEseJ at this meeting ami it is confidently expected that such practical good will rtsult therefrom. This convention will give an opportu¬ nity for a study not only into our buai¬ ness, but also in aviation, architecture, landscape gardening, arboriculture, floriculture, etc., in the attractive field of beautiful home making,'object les¬ sons of wbich will appear «n every hand."
Edgar L. Adama, poblisber of the Marathon Independent, is president of tbe association.
Mr. Adams had been out West fur a number of years for his health and only came back to this Fection about 6 months ago. He was a member of the Mutual Assistance Association of Hempstead, and is survived only by hia wife..   f:rz ~_;  tw    "
The funeral services were held from
the late  residence Tueaday   afterncon
at 2 o'clock.   Rev.   W.   A.   Richards,
astor of *the M. E. Cburcfa, ofiiciating.
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put
Malcomson Wins Suit
A. Sid^ney Malcomson received a verdict of $1,060 againat the Monaton Realty investment Company of Man¬ hattan in the Naasau Supreme Court Monday before Justice Garretaon and a jury. The plaintiff was the ¦ as- aignee of Mabel A. Maxson of Plain- field, N. J. Miss Maxson reaided at a hotel in Plainfield with her mother and in the »ame place resided C. Mc¬ Kay Smock, an agent of the defendant company.    Tfae claim of  the  plaintiff
During the past few days men have been at work cleaning the mud and ice "out of the gutters on South Main Street and carting it away.
The committee appointed by the "Peoples'Party" to call the primary for nomination of village officers has fixt tho date for Tuesday evening, March 6. The full notice appears in an advertising columns.
More than $400 was taken from this village to be spent in merriment at the Waldorf-Astoria Saturday night. Tbe occasion for this sudden "exodus" of a lump aum was the Elks' dinner at $10 a plate. The Freeport lodge ia one of tbe moat progressive, althougb the youngest, and it sent forty members to tbe dinner. Six tablea were reser¬ ved for tbe Frfeepottera.—Eagle.
The store building on Main Street, formerly occupied by Haaa' meat mar¬ ket and Herzfeld's shoe store, is being completely remodelled and will have a new front. New floora have been laid and aa aoon aa it is completed the nortb j half will be occupied aa a delicateaaen store.
Clarence B. Jonea baa move bia hard-
was that Misa Maxson purchaaed eight  *"* '^°'^ '""! '^e corner of Merrick .1. t.i. * J   -1—1.   -*^u-iRoad   and   Mam   Street to tbe   store
formerly   oceupied by Joliua Shapiro.
Last Friday Mra. Eleanor P. Bor- rowea, mother of Harry W. Borrowes of this place. di«d at her home in Brooklyn. Tbe funeral was beld Sun¬ day.
shares of the preferred stock of the defendant company subject to the ap¬ proval of ber brother. Henry A. Max¬ aon of Freeport, who ta a lawyer.
Mr. Maxson did not approve of tbe inveatment and a demand waa made upon the corporation for the return of the money.    The company   refuaed   to _ 	
ratiirn tha mnnav <>laiminap IKbI Smnolr i   . _.    . 	
wa."'notTut"horis;d to make'ti;; "sTaTe"- i A UCITON CONTINUES TOMORROW menta of the sale aobject to the relurti i The faction sale of the handsome and of the money and they forther claimed r « Ri.,?P^ tv,»*'f»Jl® reaidenee of that the aale was not'subject to ."y I &iiLrMv%^nue*f'so^r^l ^K^'^ conditions. ( Baldwin, will be continaed at 2  P.   M
The case war tried for  the  plaintiff < tomorrow, (Saturday).
by the brother of the purchaser, Henry j  _
A. Maxson.    The jary was out bat  a . (Continaed on page 5)
abort time and retarned a verdist for 	
tiM full amount—Sagle. *M saw it In th* MaaMma^el"
Dog Quarantine in
Hempstead Town
Concerted Effort Being Made b Nassan to Stamp Ont Rabies
Sheriff Cbarlea T. D«Mott, of tino. sau Coanty, has been notifled by tha State Department of Agriculture that a quarantine againat doga in theentira townahip of iieinpstead has been or¬ dered-by the department and be ia di¬ rected to use all necessary meaaurea to enforce the order. The Sheriff im¬ mediately took ateps toward the ap¬ pointment of deg catchf-rs in the town, of which there are six, who will, under the State quarantine, operate wtthin Incorporated \illage8 as well aa in tbe unincorporated aections of the town. With the declaring of thia quarantine order against the town of Hempatead, two of tbe three Naasau county towns are noW made uncomfortable for doga running at large, the embargo in tbe town of Uyater Bay having been raised several w^eks ago. In the town of North Hempstead dog catchers bave been appointed by the Sheriff and by the Local Board of Health whieh is co¬ operating with tho State department in the effort to stamp out the rabies.
The order againat the town of Hemp¬ stead will affect the Meadowbrook Club, which even should tbe weather prove propitious for tbe sport wiii not ' be able to hunt, excepting without dogs, in which there woold be no sport. Under the ruling of the department the hunting doirs will bave to be con¬ fined to tbe kennels, exepting for daily exercise, when they will have to be kept in leaab, as the dog catchers bave orders to >take all dogs running at large, whether in the fields or on tbe public highways,—Eagle.
Hempstead
Work has now been about completed on the new village oflice building which ia probably the most attractive and complete on Long Island. Being constructed of iron and brick and threa stories in heigh*, it commands an ex¬ cellent view, being opposite Falton Park. The village officials and Chief David B. Tod, of the Fire Depart¬ ment, are planning a fitting cele¬ bration of the opening of tbe new building wbich cost more tfaan $30,000.
W. J. Clark of Cruikahank Avenua thinks he holds the rerord in Hemp¬ stead for egg?. During Janaary he gathered 400 eggs from 30 hens. He thinks he will do even better tbis month, if not in quar tity he knows he can in quality. He has one egg wbich measured 7| inches around by 4| inches long.    Who can beat it?
___     —SentineL
E. F. Knapp, formerly superintend¬ ent of aehools of Hempstead, haa been elected superintendent of primary and grammar schools of Syracuse.
At the age of 86, Mra. Sarab Searing died here Saturday at the house ot her son, Benjamin T. Searing, on Proapect Street. Old age was the cause of faer death. She had been gradually failing for some t,ime. fbe funeral servicaa were at St. George Episcopal Chnreb; iiterment in Greenfield Cemetery. Mrs. Searing was the widow of tb« late Dr. Gideon Searing, who died about ten yors ago. ,. He was a direet descendant of tbe original SaariBK family that first settled at Hempataad, and the sixth pbysician in direct lina in tbat family. Mrs. Searing herself waa a deacandant of the Seaman fami¬ ly, wbo were the owners of tbe land wbere the village of Merrick ia now situated. Sbe is survived by ooa daoghter, Mrs. Elizabeth Peek of Cfaicago, III., and three bops, BenjaniB T., who lives at Hempatead; Saotoal, of Jacksonville. Fla., and Cbarlaa T., of Orange, N. J. Ona son, Gideon, who was a pbyaitian, like bis aneaa- tors, is deceased.
County Attorney Removed
Edward J. Deasey, attorney of Nas¬ saa County, was aummarily removed Monday by the Board of Superviton, having failed to resign as he waa re¬ quested to do two weeks ago. The po¬ sition pays $3,000.
Attprney Deasey's removal it an outcome of the factional strife in the Board ef Supervisors between. Cbair¬ man Chrisf. and Mr. Cratt on ths one side and Mr. Cocks an the otber, Deaay    as a Cocka appointee.
AtVit the meeting dt tha Board, Mr. Deasey <aid he had nothing to say ex¬ cept that bia removal waa the result of politics. 	
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