South Side Messenger 19090416

              "%ife on tbe South Sibe is TlWortb %MnQ"
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
For the .Sbuth Side of Long Island
A reliable means of communication between the villages of Rock¬ ville Centre, Baldwin, Freeport, Roosevelt, Merrick, Bellmore, SmithviUe South, Wantagh, Seaford, Massapequa and Amityvilie.
Issued Weekly Subscription $i.oo a Year
VOL 1, NUMBER 39
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE. N. Y., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1909
PRICE, 5 CENTS
FREEPORT
At the Methodist Episcopal Church next Sunday morning Dr. W. A. Richard will preach his firat annual sermon, which will include a review of the work of the church and its various organizations for the past year, as well as a preview of the year ahead. In the evening he will preach on "The Answer of Experimental Religion to Modern Doubt." filled the church
Light and Power Service in the Day Time
Several  business  men of   Freeport
The Lenten season having passed,      jt ^as Ladies'. Night at the Board of Sigmond Opera House will reopen Sat- i Trade  Wednesday night and despite urday evening with a  vaudeville  bill,   the rain. Fraternity  Hall  was nearly including aeveral  acts  from  the  city ; fiHed.    The discussion on general mat-, theatres. i t^rs was very quiet, owing,   as Presi- j have stated to the Measenger that they
On Wedneaday evening. April 21, jent Foster put it, to the fact that la-1 sre in absolute need ,#f electric light the Sigmond Stock Company will ap-digs were present. At the close Miss end power during the day time and in pear in the 4-act comedy, "The Gentle- i Lilian Lamson recited the well-known ' connection with this matter President
Southern  play  "The Warrens of Vir-! Morrison wa-i asked if there  could  be ginia"  in  a  way  that  won  for   her ' some arrangement made to supply this
man Burglar." All .seats are re¬ served at 25, 35, 50 and 76c, and may be procured at the box office any even¬ ing, or by telephoning or writing to Crowded audiences ! Mr. Sigmond's office, 4 Brooklyn Ave- both   morning and j nue, Freeport.    Telephone 176.
Here and There in Freeport
Stephen Pettit has just received his automobile from the shop, where it has been overhauled and placed in a condi¬ tion equalling new.
Roswell Davis of tlie First National has a new Jackson car of the runabout type.
evening   last   Sunday.    The    Easter ] _.
cantata. "The First Easter," rendered !     Village Board of Trustees meets  to
by the choir at the evening service was | night. ; -.
very cordially received. '""   "
much applause.
Expert hat cleaning by up-to-date methods at 9 Railroad Ave., Freeport. Cleaning of Ladies' shoes a specialty. Opposite the station. 2t.
' service. The matter seems to be one \ ot importance and Mr. Morrison in- j formed the Messenger's representative j that as soon as the new boilers are in- ! stalled at the pumping station the vil- i lage conld supply this light and power hi the day  time  to  all  who need  it.
extra.
Manager Sigmond promises an e.x- cellent bill for his Saturday night's show at his Opera House and will in future endeavor in every way to please his patrons by furnishing a vaudevile performance appealing to every one. Ho has made several changes in the acts that are to appear in future and thinks these will meet with popular | ^j,^ preeport Club will hold its reg- approval. A goo<l word must be said j ^^ ^^^^^ly dance next Wedne.sday forthe ex<ifellent performances given I   j^^ ^j ^^^  ^,^b  j,^^^^     ^  ^i,,  ^e
by  theDonaldsonbtockCo.. who have I    Ladies'Night" and  a  good   time  is
won a name for themselves  here.    In j u-oTiised
fact all the productions and amusement j ' .    ..     _
offerings at this theatre seem to  have ¦    Dr, W. G. Smith, Deutist, »U W. Mer-
taken the public fancy and no doubt  it | rick Rojid, Freeport; 'Phoue 85-R.       It
will  continue  to  be  .sustained  as    it      ...      ,-.,,    j   /-¦   ^ •    <.
Miss  Mildred   Cort  gave  a private
in  company  with ment of the State.
To-night th* Catbolio Club will give a big c:ance of the shirtwaist and skirt variety at the Crystal Lake Hotel, Grove St.    It will be  one  of  the  big
dances of the season and should be well ; . The annual meeting of the Freeport patronized, judging from the interest \ Fire Department was held Tuesday taken in it. An orchestra will furnish i night jn the Wide Awake Engine Com- the music. Tickets are 50 cents, supper i pany's hou.se.     William  W.   Cameron,
Saturday and Sunday.   Assemblyman Miller was inspecting  the quarantine | The Board of Truatees of the village is station in the lower N. Y. Bay Sunday J i^^ady to  receive applications    which
the Health Depart-  should state how much current will be
M. J. Cuffey  has Buick touring car.
purcha.sed  a  new
C. D. Valentine has a snappy little runabout' that he drives—at^ut the southside in.
Oscar Rhodes has an autoomblie  too
required and if enough appilcations are and he is careful in handling it since he
the Chief-ele '.t of the department, was elected a delegate to the convention of the N. Y. State Firemen's Association with a twenty-five dollar allowance fi expenses. Efforts will be made have the convention of the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Asso¬ ciation held in Freeport this j-ear.
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; received to warrant the expense, ser- I vice will be given at once. It seems I to be now up to the business men of i the village to prepare and file their i applications to have their wants satis- ified.
Keep to the Right
At one time in New York  City   the marter of traffic regulation was regard¬ ed as a joke, or Jn r.cher  words,   of so ! little importance that no one  bothered to    devise   a  means  of handling   it.
spilled several of his friends in the mud recently running East of the vil¬ lage.
Grimes' restaurant will remove from i its present location in Fratfernity Hall j to the Otten building.
The matter of having the parade and ; However it soon became apparent that
should.
Young man wishes board and rof>m in private family in Freeport. State terms to Mechanic, care the Messen¬ ger, Freeport.
tournament of the Nassau County  Vol
unteer Firemen's Association at -Free- j masquerade party to about forty of her • port was passed up, the convention , friends at her home on  Merrick  Road   coming in for more favor.
j and Grove Street Monday night  which - 	
I was one  of  the  social  events of the       Mrs. Jean M. Stiles will give a clos-
'week.     The costumes were all   unique i ing afternoon reception   to  the  PuP'ls ; pj^^j^ j^ uggj^ London and elsewhere and pretty  and  dancing  was enjoyed ' of  her  Wednesday  afternoon dancing ; jj^  jg  ^^  longer "Commish" but his
something must be done in this mat¬ ter and Deputy Police Commissioner Piper viaited thejlarge cities in Europe and returned to New York with a plan for handling vehicular traffic which I was made up princially from  different
with an intermission for refreshments until a late hour.
"Sabbath    Freedom"   will   be    the moming sermon theme of Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey at the  First  Presby-1   The entertainment committee of Free- terian Church.     The evening  subject! port Council, No.- 57, Jr. O. U. A. M., will be "He that is against me." | jg  busy  arranging  for a euchre to be     - held in the council rooms, Otten Build- William    Crawford,    colored,   com-, ing, Thursday evenirtg,   May  6.    The mitted suicide in front of the Preeport j proceeds of this euchre will be given Bank  Building at  2 p.   m,   Thursday; to the new South Side Hospital, morning.    He had been  drinking  and ¦     A meeting of delegates from  lodges had assaulted  Mrs.   Cornelia  Monroe, : in   Nassau  County  was held in Wood- colored, after an altercation over money ; mere  last  Thursday  night to   discuss matters. plans for a baseball   league.    Another - meeting   was  held   last night to  elect H. F. Gideon and S. E.   Gideon   and officers.    Indications point towards the wife  from   Boston,    Mass.,    will
class next  Wednesday  afternoon    at i Fraternity  Hall  at quarter to   four, j This will close her dancing  classes  in : Freeport for the Winter.
George Howard Randall has the pon- \ I tract for erecting a two-story building j j on Railroad Ave. for Murray Bros., I ; printers, who will have living apart- '< ; ments'upstairs with their shop down- - stairs. It will be of concrete constru¬ ction.
Smith Cox Honored
guests of Mr.   and Mrs. J. after Sunday for a week.
When the Town Bbard met at Hemp¬ stead  Monday   Supervisor  Smith, Cox be i formation of a league with games every  ha no idea that the big crowd of Free-
D.  Kiefer i Saturday.
The Mail and Express Club will give their third dance of the season May 5th at Fraternity Hall. The same good time is promised those attending who have been guests of the boys beiore.
In   the   Preeport
Clifford Colyer, class of '10, Univer¬ sity of Penn., has been home for the Easter vacation.
Miss Nellie Anderson has been ill at her home for the past week.
A narrow escape from  a  serious ac-
traffic regulation scheme stands to this day as a monument to his work. In smaller municipalities there is need .for traffic regulation just as well as in big cities, in a modified form of course. It;would be a wise move on the part of the Village Board or those in charge of the principal streets of the village to have erected "Keep to Your Right" signs at prominent places and warnings posted to drive slowly around corners. Probably this seems far fetched to some, but to an interested person there seems to be a necessity for drivers in general to keep on the right side ofthe road. Main St.. Merrick Road, Rail¬ road Ave. and Ocean Ave. should be protected from careless drivers. At Grove St. and Merrick Road, Main St. and Merrick Road, Railroad Ave. and Main St., and elsewhere, automo¬ biles and  carriages   swing  from   one
Baptist    Church, ; x;ident was'the automobile  and bicycle ; a^^^rQT«'KK.^^r' .V-iTo. VJiT^'^.MfuV^!^^! Stanley W. Koberts minister, thei^ will j «„ashup Tuesday at 43.0 p. m. at Pine ! ^HtlV^^J^r^.Z^^.!^!^^ T^SUT.
be  public worship of God  Sunday  at I ^fj^j  Grove  Streets 10.30 a. m. and  7.30 p.   m. '
theme, "The Sources of our Knowledge of Jesus;" Bible School at 2.30;
P- ,«..v.   ^..v,.^  .^wv.^....    A large  touring evening  car owned by J. D. Adams of W. 72nd
port men who had gathered  there  had signalled him out for a  special   honor, and  had  deemed  that as the time and place proper for the  occasion.    Presi¬ dent  Roswell   Davis of  the First Na¬ tional Bank of Freeport stepped to the   "treet into another with no'diminishing front and in a pleasing and well-deliv-  of gpged and some day there will be an ered speech, preaented to the  Supervi-  accident.    An ounce of  prevention   is sor a handsome gold watch as  a  mark   worth a pound of cure, of esteem from  his  Freeport  friends
ROOSEVELT
Samuel R. Smith's handsome new residence on' Grove St. is rapidly near¬ ing completion.
The new Lutheran Church is an es¬ tablished feature of thereliigous world of the village.
Through the agency of Mrs. B, Tru¬ benback, the motor boat "Annie" for¬ merly owned by Robert E. and Harry L. Hobbs. has been sold to Miss May Miller of Columbus Ave^
To-morrow night at "Jake's" a shad and lobster supper. All hands get to¬ gether.
BALDWIN
Prof,   and  Mrs,   Shubert  have    re¬ turned from a  visit to Sag Harbor.
St., New York,   with the owner,   and a relative, D. B. Adams, on board, and ion Men's Meeting at 4 in  the  Metho- . driven by the  chaffeur, Percy Watson,
un¬
to work and raised a fund sufficient to purchase a high grade time piece that the Supervisor will treasure as long as he  lives.    On  the  case  is    inscribed
Dr. M. J. Jackson has returned to his  home here for the Summer.
F. W. Hoppen has moved to the for¬ mer residence of S. Coykendal on Har¬ rison Ave.
J. H. Wallace of New York Jias moved into J. H. Patten's house on Harrison Ave. "
Gustave Corretto is erecting a house on Seaman Ave.
Miss Hattie Johnson is entertain¬ ing her cousin Miss May Vought.
dist Church.    Y. P. S. C.  E.   at  6.45.1 gtruck voune Raloh Pettit of the vil    * -    a   ¦   1   ,?.„" ^^Hf o*°'   °^. Midweek service Friday at  8 o'clock. {fagrwho was ri&^ ^••««P«'-^'   ^
Mr.   Waren  Abbott's  new   butcher shop on Lincoln Ave. was burned down ,,„ ,       r,   . ,    ^        o, .      , Tuesday night about   12 o'clock.    The
 Presented to Smith Cox,   Supervisor, building  was unoccupied.    As   usual lof the Town  of Hempstead,   by   his|^y^ flpg jj^yg qujgijjy rggponjed to the
A cordial welcome for all at every ser- i ^^s shaken up and bruised.    Dr. Wit- ^'ce. I nier treated him and he was sent home.
': alarm, and did splendid workin saving ; other buildings nearby.
Mr. Uhe has rented the house former-
15d09." Mr. Cox, in accepting the gift, made _,,       .     , I     r..    ^u        •  I a neat speech, but he didn't say much, , .    .-    ^      , ..
The wheel was a wreck after the acci-! ^^j. ^^ ^^g overcome, but those present i ly owned and occupied by Mr. Crandell,
know and understood. which he  has recently  purchased, to
Mr. Velsor of Richmond Hill.
The Wide Awake Engine Co. gave a ! dent.    In trying to avoid running down dinner at the  Benson  Hous? Tuesday j the  boy the machine  collided with a
night.    Lobaters a  la Smith weret he phone pole which was damaged and also | Coming Speaking Contest'    The attendance"a^d~ services at the main edible.    About forty-six enjoyed  the automobile had its amps, guards      „,,.   ^   f       , . .      ,. ,j     ^    V, •      ""^"^^^e *na services aime
the spread and eXtaSrproWdS iand   wheels put out of   commission.'Jhe first speakmg contest held under ; Episcopal Church is ve^ by professional talent. i The owner niid  for the doctor's ser- i the auspices of  the  Nassau    County j The congregation is growing  and  Mr.
i The owner paid  for the doctor's ser-, _^.     ^, -   , .      .        . ^.        .,,..,-, i t^ •    ..l-   -•• ..      •-      i, i-f vj I vices and a new wheel was ordered  by i f^i^f i^Peaking Association will beheld j Fair, the mi nis^ej;, is well liftted.
The Barnacle Fishing Club of Brook¬ lyn, twenty three in all, sailed irom Capt. John Whaley's dock Sunday on the boat "Pioneer", Capt. Wilfred  M.
him  for I made.
the  lad.      No  arrests  were
this 1
Francis Finlay of New  York was in
town  Monday  with a view  to investi-,  ^ — -
Smith at the helm. When they reached; gating the oyater industry.   He claims i each  schoool  will  be represented by
in Sigmond's new Opera House in village, April 30.
There are four High Schools in the association, Hempstead, Huntington, Rockvi le Centre and   Freeport   and
Point   Breeze   they   unlimbered    the 1 to have discovered a treatment for oys-1 two contestants, a boy  and girl, tackle and bait whiCh was  warranted i ters which will remove from them any |    The association   has   offered
double  X  with three stars  and threw !
Conrad Gaenger has his steam launch and fishing tackle all in order; we are beginning to feel sorry for the fish, however they have a fighting chance as the bay is large.
Mr. Harry Seabdz?, our post master, four! was taken  very  ill on Tuesday morn-
poisonous matter which  makes them j prizes in gold, two of $20 each for the i mg.
plenty of Capt Smith's fish enticing j objectionable to some people. In re- i best in declamation and recitation and compound on the water and started jg^rd to this, he communicated with j two of $10 each for second best, in to catch flounders. In three hours j the food experts at Washington and I It is understood that each of the four they had 450 pounds of floundering i t^e following letter was received by I schools is training a targe class in flounders on board. One fisherman was ; ^^ pinlay from Dr. Wiley, the chief i school songs and yells, who will not discovered  m  tfae bow pulling  em  m | f^^^ gj^g^jj ^f t|,e^ ^11: ' only enliven  the entertainment with
with hia bare hands and was sternly or-} j^^ Francis Finlay, New York, N. Y.  ¦ their —?— dered  to desist,   said  methods  being |     q^^j. gjj._ supremacy in that line,
not according to Walton. The bunch | i jj^ye read with rauch interest your '¦ This event is looked forward to by got back to Brooklyn without having j letter in regard to the treatment of i the Schools and th)ir friends as the to psy the trolley company anything j oysters which you have originated. ! crowning combat of the scbool year, for excess baggage. (This im the i -rjjg money voted by Congress for, The sittings are all numbered and first fishing story of the season, and the aupport of this Bureau is appropri- {divided into four sections, one for cach whenever possible the Messenger will j ^ted for specific purposes and we have I scheol represented, endeavor to get affidavits to support j no fumts at our dispoaal which could i Three of the boxes are reserved and its fishing stories.    Ed.) I be used for the purpose of investigat-j can  be secured by a family or party.
-    ¦       - j ing the matter in which you are inter- \ The boxes will seat 10 people and are
Next Sunday, Low  Sunday,   in  the 1 ested, or for developing your process. Episcopal Chuich, the services will  be! Respectfully,
Holy  Communion  at 8 a. m. and Sun- j (Signed)    H. W. Wiley, Chief.
day Scbool at 9.30 a.  m..  Holy Com-      Mr.   Finlay's addreSs ia 3088   3rd munion 10.30 a. ro., evensong  7.30 p.   Ave., New York.   He is receiving rec-
(^nition from the New dailies in  this
matter.
m. At the moming and evening ser¬ vices tbe Elaster mosic will be re¬ peated.
The "Band Boys" will give tbeir dance Monday night at ^amander Hall.
Several new adveo'tiaements in Ev¬ erybody's Column this week to which attention ia called.
Do Yeu WanlJto Buy or Sell? Uso Cvorybotfy'p Column.
Miss Martha Miller has returned from the bedside of a sick mother, who i'^ improving. Her scholars and the school are glad to seeder back again.
_   ^ Our Mayor is growing fat and   jolly,
music, but struggle for j The office ait lightly upon his shoulders. We noticed that the "Stroller" had something to say about "Saucy Roose¬ velt." Our village is nice and clean. She Ib courted by two lusty big fellows, Hempstead and Freeport, who like old Joe Bagstock is "Devilish Shy.'' But Miss Roosevelt is coy and saucy too. , If either of these two fellows, want her they n;iujt measure up to her standard.
They are both doonted to disappear when she folds her arms aronnd them. She will swallow both and look for more, the saucy thing.
A vaudeville abow, reception and dance is to be given by the Board of Trade Friday evening, April 23. Ad- misson 25 cents. This entertainment •may be postponed however if it is found that tiie abow to be given by the firemai comes on tbe aame date. The announcement will appear again*
$10 each.
Every sitting except the boxes are fifty cents eacb. The seats are on sale in stores and at the High Schools in the reapective villages represented.
Those in charge of iihe preparation of the contestants say tbat this will be one of the most instructive and in¬ tereating events held on th^ Island.
Tbere are good speakers in ^h school in the association and not a little goud hatured rivalry exista.
For You—Evonrbody'o Cofumn.
I MwH^intho MoMon-orl"
Miss Glenna Potter is visiting Charlotte Southard.
Miss
A Jig-Saw Puzzle Party was given Miss Margaret Opperman at her home on Grand Ave. this week. The follow¬ ing were some of the puzzle solvers: Miss Bessie Edgar, Miss Kitty Johnson, Miss May Vought, Frank Cotte jr., Harry Miller, Fred B. Smith, Raymond Smith.
. Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Hervey were Mrs. James Maguire and daughter Gertrude of Far Rockaway and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goff of Manhattan.
Otto Payne has secured a month's pass to the Skating Rink in Freeport as a result of his excellent skating ability.
The   K.   K.   K. met at the home Miss Cora Ellison this week.
of
New officers were elected Tuesday night at the fire headquarters as fol¬ lows: Frank Gately, Tiustee; Presi¬ dent, A. Schoenbaechler; V. Pres., E. B. Mulliner; recording sec, Wm. P. Carl; financial sec, Wm. Gailiard; treas., Wm. Wolf; dep't clerk, Chester A. Smith; chief, Frank B. Cotte sr.; ass't chief, George Jones; foreman hook and ladder company, Francis Gately;, ass't foreman, Henry Heben- stfjeit jr,.; hoae company, foreman, Mervin Prince; ass't foreman, Harry Valebtine.
The election of officers of the Ladies' Aid Society took place thia week at the chapel. Mrs. E. T. Southard, Preai¬ dent: Mrs. R. H. Homan, sec'y; Mrs. Joseph R. Sherwood, treaaurer.
Thieves helped themselves to about $16 from the aafe in the R. B. station Friday momihng. They left do clues and no arrests have been made.
Baldwin Field Club has disbanded for the Sammer.
EvofylMMly's Cohimn.   Pogo4.
ArHcIe on the Lutheran Church
By Rev. Geo. C. Loos
Two weeks ago Lutheran Sunday School and church services were begun in Freeport, and a new element added to the local spiritual forces. It was not, however, with any idea of merely adding one to the number of oongfrega- tiona that this work was begun, nor of increasing the much-divided state bf Christianity here and elsewhere, qor yet of interfering with the work ^of other denominations among their own people. The reason fbr establishing this congregation lies in the fact that a canvas of the district has revealed the presence of many who have been reared in Lutheran homes and confirmed in the Lutheran Church, and who there gave their irrevocable, unbreakable and life¬ long promise to remain true to the teachings of the Bible as interpeted by the Lutheran Church, and who thus, by every moral right, belong to that denomination.
These people, having given their promise, and realizing that it is the most binding and sacred promise, with¬ out exception, which a human being can make, are desirous of organizing a con¬ gregation of their own faith, in which alone they can adequately keep that promise, and it is the eminently proper purpose of the Lutheran Church au¬ thorities to establish such a congrega¬ tion in this community.
The pastor in charge. Rev. George C. Loos, was sent here by the Superinten¬ dent of Missons of the General Council to inspect and canvas the field. It is his purpose to gather into a congrega¬ tion as many Lutherans and hitherto unchurched as can be influenced for re¬ ligion and spirituality and thus, instead of merely adding another congregation or perhaps weakening those already existing the result aimed at is to reach, affect and gather those who might possibly not have been otherwise in¬ fluenced, thereby actually strengthen¬ ing instead of weakening the religious forces of Freeport.
While the history and tenets of the Lutheran Church are generally well- known, it may not be amiss, in this connection, to give a very few of the facts.
The Lutheran Church is the largest Protestant body in the world, number¬ ing more than seventy-one million com¬ municants, approximately double the combined membership of all other Protestant communions. In point of constitution, and the formal and de¬ tailed statement of its teachings, it is the oldest existing Christian body, its Angsburg Confession having been de¬ livered to the world in 1530. nearly a score of years before any other Chris¬ tian body, Protestant or Catholic, made a similiar proclamation.
While, owing to the difficulties of the language question, it may be regarded as one of the youngest and least known in America, it already stands third in the Protestant ranks of this country, numbering two million communicants. In Greater New York alone there are four hundred and fifty thousand Lutherans, many of whom, sadly enough, are not connected with congregations.
The foundation principles of the de nomination, as set forth in the Angs¬ burg Confession, rest aquarely on the Word of God, without addition or reser¬ vation,'fihd'it is a historical fact that heresy trials are almost unknown among Lutheran pastors. While the detailed statements of the Angsburg Confession might take too much space if enumerated here, it may be said that the two basic doctrines of the Luther¬ an Church are, first: the absolute su¬ premacy of the Bible, as the Word of God, by which all teachers and doc¬ trines must be judged and teated, and second, justification by faith alone, free pardon for sins repented and confessed without any works or merits of the be¬ liever. The Lutheran pulpifs of America, without exception, preach the anciently believed truths of God's Word, uninfluenced by negative criti¬ cism or the denial of Biblical miracles. There is not a Lutheran pastor of all the 8200 in the United States wbo doubts, or hesitates to declare, the mi¬ raculous birth of Christ or His real resurrection from the dead.
The services of the newly estab¬ lished Freeport Lutheran Church will be held a': 9.45 each Sunday moming for the Sunday School, and at 11 for congregational worship, in the old Opera Hall, 28 South Main Street, un¬ til such time as the increasing congre¬ gation and the developing work enable the introduction of evening and mid¬ week services, and the full equipment, and wor^ip of an organized church. The number of those discovered thas far leads to the belief tbat tbis wisiied for consummation will not long, . be postponed, and tiie co-operation of all those interested in this movement i« earnestly solicited.