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Supervisor Cox^s Christmas. Present-^axes ZlM^er Cent Lowe^
City Wins Water Suits
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER. NASSAU COUNTY
Vol 3; Number 21
—»— -
Merrick
Every Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. DEC. 16, 1910
$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cento
Ban on Longer Piers Will I Open Montauk Port
Freeport
Bellmore
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, thft fourth in Advent, as usual at 7 :30 and 11 a. m. and 7 :30 j-^^^^ Department Won't Permit Fur- scores at Gere's bowling' aiioys,"36'a'nd': Church Saturday from 2 to 6 p. m.
"""¦' "" ^' !»..:„ _.-_.^ Friday and Satur-{ The Democratic primary will be held
There will be five prizes awarded to The Ladies' Aid Society will hold a the five men bowling; (he five highest Bread and Cake sale in Presbyterian
The Musty and Distant Past
Smithville South
p. m. Celebration of the Holy Com inunion at the early service and morn¬ ing prayer and s^rmon at the 11 o'clock -service. The Sunday School meets in the Parish House at 10 a. m. The practice of the Christmas carols is un¬ der the direction of Mr. F. W. Settle. The Woman's Auxiliary meets weekly
ther Encoachment on North River Channel
The request of J. Pierpont Morgan, made in the interests of the White Star and other great steamship lines,
in the Parish House on Thursdays at I f''T''xT''"""°!i.'°'^"^''''^" ^''^''' ^'T 2:80 p. m. The Junior Auxiliary I'"*^« ^orth River will not be granted, meets on Saturdays at 2:80 p. m. All , ^^^ "cent cdilision of two big ocean who are to take part in the exercises !!'""« '^*'''« bacljing out of their berths of the 28th, except the little tots of ""P''^«f^^, the War Department and j Miss Lina Miller's class, are requested h"'^';^^ largely in the decision to stop - ^ ' any further narrowing of the river.
Representative Cocks of the First New York District has obtained the in¬ sertion in the River and Harbor bill, on Tuesday evening for the purpose of i *° ^^f^P^''^'^ *°^'»y' an amendment making greens for the Christmas dec-! P''"^'^"?^ ^9^ a survey of Fort Pond orations of the church. The "Rector's ' ^"^ ,«'* «. ^'^^.°' ascertaining its Party" as usual at these binding j <=«P«^'''"e« f"''^'"^'^'"K'«'¦«« vessels
38 N. Main street, day evenin s. On there wili bean open game of duck ^ pins for prizps. Last week the follow-' ing were the winners: J. W. Vancott, I 205; Eiwin Florenza. 208; E. T. ! Smith, 200; Edwin Crausfield, 195; William Florenza, 188; Duck pins,; Peter Smifh, 113; George Florenza, | 112. !
Monday evening ' Saturday night at Firemen's hall.
The sting of defeat lasts longer than _ , , __ in- I f ^ *^* smart of victory. The Ladies'
Puzzles of Mystery and Kuins Left Auxiliary basketball team was defeat-
for the White Man to Solve i «<^ ^'^^^'^v evening by the s. s. A. c.
' pick-uos.
After a few dajs illnesa at his home in Baldwin, "Doc' Wolfe, the drug¬ gist, opened his store Saturday morn¬ ing. He has changed his hours in the store: from 8 a. m. to 8:15 p. m.
in the Pye Canyon
By M. J. Browm E4it«»r LttUValleT, N.Y. Hub
James Moore and family have moved from their old Homestead here to their new home at Bellmore. Mr. Moore purchased one of the new houses from A. Palermo.
to meetin the Parish House tomorrow ! afternoon, Saturday, at 2:30. A gen- \ eral invitation is extended to all who ! will attend to meet in the Parish Hou'e
The
'ternity i week.
Democratic primary for the District will be held at Fra- Hall Saturday evening this
The South Side Messenger has been appjinted the official Republican paper of Nassau County, to publish official notices of the State and County for 1911.
beea, will be held on Wednesday night.
The monthly meeting of the Citizens' League of Merrick, Keed Widmer, ^president, will be held in the fire hall on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
—New York Worl
Baldwin
The Willing Workers of Freeport will ho'd a sale of fancy articles and i candy at one of Mr. Fulton's new stores [on Merrick Road, near Chuich street, ! on the afternoon of Saturday, Decem¬ ber 17th.
Miss Ruth Kent, vtrho is teaching in St. .Faith's school, Manhattan, was at tier home here from Saturday until Monday.
The sad news was telegraphed to W. C. Mepham, the principal of the local school, on Monday of the death of his father near Rochester, N. Y. No de¬ tails were sent. We met Mr. Mepham upon his visits here to his son and were much impressed by his good nature and cheeriness. Mr. Mepham was deaf but
For more than a miio the white cliff homes of our first Americans rise up from the level to a height of from 200 The young men of the village have j to 600 feet, and so close together ,are organized an athletic club and have ' they but a thin space of the soft rW ! the'home'orMr and'^'Mrs. Calcagnino their weekly meetings at Firemen s separates them. I Tuesday evening and they say Alfred
Hall, where plenty of amusement will i It is a strange sight for we foreign- .jugj gtu^ij to that king table as if he be afforded all who wish to join the ers we Columbus Americans who ^gg gj^tj^g on a bottle of glue.
cub. A meeting was held Tuesday don't know our country. | -
night when officers were elected. | Hundreds of years ago, no doubt
! thousands of years ago, these cliffs Last Friday afternoon Miss Carrie; stood perpendicular, but time and B. Fish and Miss Bessie Sprague, I e-rosian of wind and rain have crumbled , teachers in the public school, treated : and broken down the rocks, and where We understand that the flagpole the children of their classes to a sleigh | four and five stories of human homes , that has been so long patiently waiting ride in one of Russell's sleighs, which ^ were once chiseled, now in many places : in front of the school house is to be waa great amusement for the young- but two and three stories stand the ] raised in the near future.
crumbling rock and the wash pf a''- '
cumulations from above having buried Merrick defeated the S. S. A. C. the lower or ground floor rooms. lightweight basket ball team at the
When these cliff homes were dug , club house Friday evening by a score there was no iron in New Mexico. 1 of 16 to 15.
They were scooped out by hand by This was the first time tbe home theae pre-historic people, carved out i team had a chance to find out what
A progressive pinochle was held at
; Robert Willmarth has taken posses- ! sion of the Smithville South Road house formerly lUn by C. W. Buck. '
sters.
William Byrnes is confined to his home this week suffering with a blight attack of pneumonia.
¦ : The children and teachers of the pub-
A special meeting of the Firemen's , lie schools are preparing for appropri- was
The
Mrs. Stauf's.
At the December meeting of the Woman's Advance Club with Mias Stootboff last Thursday, a very interest
ing program was rendered, incuding | ^a^jyal Committee was held last I ate Christmas exercises, which will be i by pieces of volcanic glass that they ; thjy were good for when up against the study topic, "History of America;" !'pburaday evening. held in the school house a week from traveled many miles to the Jeniez : the real thing, and they surejy did prove
current topics and music, followed by j ij,e reports of the various commit-' Friday, to which everybody is cordially (pronounce it Hamez) mountains to , themselves a good and well matched refreshments. One new member | tees were read and the reports showed I invited to attend. ! find. | team for their opponents; they kept
joined. The next meeting will be with : that $2045.42 had been netted from ! From the wash at the foot of the the large number of spectators present
i Mrs. Mott. jthe carnival and convention event. ^^ ^^^ Presbyterian Church next; cliffs I picked up several fine speci-; busy guessing whose game it was; ail
_. ^^^ ^^^^j (rroas receipts for the con- Sunday evening there will be preaching I mens of theae glass tools, thick and as j through the game it looked like even
meeting of the Ladies'Aid is i^j^tion were $3532.10 and the dis- ^y the ..astor. Rev. R. M. Jones; also j hard as a beer bottle, and as surely j moneys .
poatponed until Dec. 20, to be held at | jjm.ggj^gj,t8 were $2408.28, leaving a Sunday School in the afternoon. The ! glass aa if blown in Pittaburg. With; The most intereating part of the con-
""" °'-""- balance of $1123.82. "The' groa.s re- children are preparing for Chriatmas I these fragments that the mountains test was the way Wilbur Hubbell
exercises, promising a good program, [vomited up, theae little cliff men bur-1 guarded his opponent. Michael Mul- i Tne date of these services will be an- ! rowed out their homes. \ cahy, derrick's manager and star play-
nounced next week. ' The formation of the rock is soft—; er, keeping him away from the ball
well, simply ashes^—and I took a knife '¦ and only allowing him to get three Don't forget the masquerade and blade and soon made an excavation; goals; during these tussles Mulcahy civic ball next Wednesday evening, the I that would hold my fist. But these [ had five fouls and Hubbell three called 21st, at Firemen's Hall to be given by j nien did not have knives or any metal- ^ on them by Referee Johnspn. the Bellmore Social Club, which should I ]jc substances, and I do not wonder j Amos Baldwin was the star of the A communication waa read from the i''^ ° P'^^^""* "^°'''' ^^"*^some prizes j their homes were not made larger when i evening and cauaed a broad smile to community in their loss. They left on j "'""*'""""'" I11I1II11__ | American Vitagraph Comi any stating ' ^'"'^^ ^*^^" the lady and gentleman ; they had only these fragments of glass appear on Capt. Schnieder's and Lieu-
Monday afternoon for Rochester. Thei The Democratic primary to be held that the pictured taken of the conven-j*PP«^'"'"K m the^at coatume. , to dig them with. ; tenant Friach's face by throwing six
funeral waa on Wednesday. In con-j gaturdav niirht in the fire house ia the I tion and parade will be releaaed on 1 Handsome" Souvenir given free fori, I commenced on the ground level : field goals and one foul scoring 13
(what IS now the ground) and went pointa out of the 15, while tbe captain.
I »« T>u J r.1 L i iceipts for the carnival were $1866.95,
i Mrs. Rhoda Glovgr has gone to i Ti. j- u * * »njc oc i
in II 4 J I 1 ... with disbursements at $945.35 leaving
the fact of his not hearing the replies I Brooklyn to spend several weeks wi h ! ^ ^^,^^^^ j^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ g^
of othera never led him to forego his ^^'^,."°"' " % '"^}''^ ^^^ '"" K"'" A feature of the report on finances own greetings. Those who know tell | ^""^^^ Carol na for the winter. i was that on the gran-" stand. That
U8 that not only did he look good--we j j^^ ^^^ ^rs. Henry Brower and j 'his structure was not much of a money all aaw that but that he was aa good i ^^^jly j^jt Wedneadav mo.nin«r fur ! "naker for the department is ahown by
, , , , ,, .. i_ J , . i lamiij i^jii. .TcJneaday moining fori , . . ..„ ;„
he looked. Mr. Mepham and hia Mansfield, North Carolina, where they I ^he net gam- $3 10.
family have the deep sympathy of the
will spend the winter.
j The Democratic primary, to be held
i Saturday night in the fire house ia the | t'on and parade will be releaaed on i Handsome* Souvenir given free sequence of Mr. Mepham'a absence the i cause of much discussion around the ' January 24 of next year, and that they | Christmas and New Year's with every
school here has been closed until the ! 27 th.
I villaKe. F. B. Cotte and J. B. Faron j turned out fine.
Major Christophel and family have taken possession of the house on Mer¬ rick avenue, formerly belonging to W. H. Dowling. Mrs. Dowling, who has been convalescing from an attack of
are running against each other for the | The treasurer waa instructed to draw \ Store--81 So. Main St., Freeport.
offiice of Committeeman. | a check payable to the Freeport Fire!- ^" , «—"^
Department for the amount of j RockviUe CeUtre
purchase at Jacobaon's Family Shoe i down the lane, crawling into almoat i who succeeded Willie Kraft in the sec-
2t.
j Otto Payne will apend several days ¦ $2045.42, to be paid over at a meeting I next week in Clinton and Sunnyaide, to be called by the Chiei.the following 1 N. J., with frienda and relatives. ! Wednesday evening, Dec. 14.
i I Following is the summary of the
pneumonia, was so far recovered as to I John G. Lusch has returned home ; various funds
be able to be removed to Flatbush on ! from his western business trip. ' CONVENTION FUND
Monday. I I Receipts:
I Handsome Souvenir given free for i Department, advanced \
Mr. and Mra. E. C. Cammann, hav-1 Christmas and New Year's with every Subscriptions ing returned from Cuba where straw i gurchase at Jacobson's Family Shoe '
tore—81 So. Main St., Freeport. 2t.
Chriatmas in the Rockville Centre Preabyterian Church for 1910. "The Firat Christmaa Story" will be told in word and song and picture next Sunday evening. The pastor. Rev. A. H. Ren-
every home, and I will nevpr forget the i ond half made the other two points, impreaaions of awe and myatery they i After the game both aides were con-, gave me. . gratulated for their clean and skillful
The firat room, the living room, of playing and were then seated to a table almost every cliff home is the same, ! of hot coffee and home-made cake, and inside they vary only in the number : furnished by the Ladi^' Auxiliary, of additions carved out, and I suppose i after lunch John Busch, one of the club these were regulated by the size of the ! members, favored them with dance family and the amount of glass on j music on the piano and they danced un¬ hand. Almost every room has one ex-; til midnight. The following is the
hats were in vogue, oropped down j from -Manhattan on Wedneaday to see I how their home here waa enduring zero | weather.
Lynbrook
!Tag Day
I Nugent, M. P. show ! Stone, M. P. show i Advertising Program ; Grand Stand
Ground was broken Saturday for the j Charles Weis. for whom the authori- new house to be built for Mr. Schuyler I ties have been looking since the arrest
Cammann on Merrick the lake, east.
Road adjoining
At the annual meeting of the Men's Club held in the Parish House on Tues¬ day evening the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: A. An¬ thony, Pres. ; Capt. D. Lawson, Vicp Pres. ; James Mulcahy, Sec.; William H. Littebrandt, Treas.; Membership committee, A. Hewlett, George Mul¬ ler, R. Kent; Houae Committee, H Narwood, H. Goud, H. Colvin. The President is to appoint a comm'tt.i' on Social Service to act in conjurjction with the central committee of the Dio¬ cese of Lung laland. Two new mem¬ bers were elected to.membertihip; John Wallmuller and Harry Verity.
Total net receipts Disbursements: .Stationery Postage Badgea Muaic
ot Frederick Reising at hia reaidence
over a week ago, gave himaelf up to
.'u- ,ce Edward T. Neu, at Lynbrook,
: iaie Saturday night. Weis gave a
I rather plain statement of the facts in ¦ _. , . £,. , .
..• -iU i.i. « u 1 Salaries, Stenographer, etc,
connection with the case of burglary " ^..' ^ *^ , -^ ^
that 1^ held against Reising, and inti-
mytt'd n; a manner that there are quite
a number of othp: people interested in
the case. Further than thia he would
make no statement but intimated that
if he is held and convicted, there will
Lie others implicated. At that time
Weis imas,i:.('d that he would only be
wanted as a witness in the Reiaing
case, but when informed by Juatice
Neu that he would hold him, Weia, on
a similar charge of burglary, Weis at j once became uncommunicative, and I waa later remanded to the county jail ' to await his examination, which will
be held on the Same day as that of I Reising, Friday, December 23rd.
Decorations
Vaudeville Show for Delegates
Prizes
Reception
Department returned of amount
advanced Miscellaneous Items
50 00 ' '^'^' *'" S'^® "" illustrated service at j cavation leading from it, but very few \ official acore: 1745.80 i*^^^^^'''"^^^'^^''^®- About thirty pic-: of them are high enough for one to ;
87 01 i ^"'¦^^ "'" ^^^'^^ '" telling the wonder- j stand erect or long enough to lie down, i S s A C 79.20 ! ^"' ^^°^y °^ *^^ incarnation of the Son ; The Indian farmer, who has custody 1 Appelor r f -.26. lO '^^ ^°^- At the morning service the , over tne Puye cliffa, aaid that thia one j Bajdwin' I f 322.17 ! pastor will take for his theme, "Chriat- j common side room aeema to have been j Kraft c' 3jq! mas Joy," a preparatory thought. j a grave, and that when a member of ¦ gmith, r. g.
1 ¦ 1 the family died he was put in this | Hubbell, 1. g.
Have you cleaned off the snow from j little round room, in a sitting poaition, Schnieder c ' in front of your property? If not, do i and then the room walled up and plaat-j '
ao at once, and thereby add to the com- i ered over. He said that excavations j Mp_-ipi, fort of your fellow citizen. I in many of the rooms had proved this j Mnelle
_ . and many skeletona had been found, „ .' .'
Have yen paid your achool taxea yet? ' not mummies, either in a sitting posi- w , '. ' ' . 107.50 I You have only until Saturday next to j tion on the floor, with back to the rock, | Colvin ^l' ^ 101.00 \ pay them with the additional one per or in many cases, forward on the floor ; y«_jtv' r ff 47.75 i cent for collection. After Saturday i of tlfe cave, faces down. So I take it ^' ' '''
1st half G. F.
2nd half G. F.
$2314.08;
$118,601
62.00 j
317.70 I
200.00'
Ist half
G. F.
X
X 0
XX 000
X 00
2nd half
G. F.
0
XX
X 00
„ „ , Concessions
Merrick 16 and Smithville 15 was
the merry tune to which our baaketball ' team opened its season at Smithville
on Friday night last. The closeness of
the score made for much excitement. - ,, ..^ , .^1.
Both teams showed fast work at times, ] *« ^^^ *='*y ^°^ the winter.
tjhougthsMerrick was somewhat handi- \ At the annual meeting of Rescue gapped by the smoothness of a dancing ' Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, the
floor for which it was not prepared. | following officers wer3 elected for the
70.56 five per cent will be added.
33.85;
! Under the auspices of Sincerity As- 60.00 isociation a masque ball will be held in 80.55'Pariah Hall on Tueaday evening, De-
j cember 20th.
Total net disbursements $1189.511
The Degree of Friendship will be
Balance, net proceeds $1124.57 : conferred on several candidates by CARNIVAL FUND. j Rockville Centre bodge. No. 279, I. O.
Receipts: jQ. F., on Wednesday evening, Decem-
King & Queen Voting Contest $830.69 1 ber 2l8t. 336.53
that these second rooms, chiseled out, plastered and left open, were graves waiting for some one to die, and when they died, the corpse was walled in, and another grave dug—to be in re^di-
Referee, John Johnson; timekeeper, : Charles A. Wood; scorer, R. E. Hil- I ton; X counts 2 points or^field goal; a I counts 1 point or foul goal; ocoonts i foul play.
ness that the funeral ceremonies might | gend ut $1 and get the MesMnger till not hitch. And yet, as I will tell you Jan. 1, 1912. The new.ie.t paper ia later, there is a burial ground on tbe j the town. meaaa where hundreds of skeletons lie. i
Every home is plastered; coveiied j A big crowd attended the chufch fair
with cement, and aome have many ^ «"<i supper givea by the Ladies' Aid
coatings. That ia they are plastered ; Society of the Eaatmeadow Church at
about half way up the walla, and you : ^^^ ^lub House Wednesday evening in
The announcement haa been matie of can plainly aee where the plaster ends, i «P't« °^ ^^^ ^ad traveling. A nice
Total net receipts Disbursements:
H. H. Tilford and family have moved | Electric Light
Balance, net proceeds Grand Net proceeds
Wide Awake Engine Company ia Some of the speed which Merrick's ensuing year: Foreman, Harold Blake;; Pif^"'"S to entertain the children
practice has promised will probably be Assistant Foreman, Samuel Jackson;, Christmas Day afternoon at ^^^ fire Lancdon of Freenort at the
more in evidence on its own rougher , Chester Talfor, Secretary; A. Clifford I house comer Church and Pine streets, to Israel x^angdon, ot freeport, at the floor tonight when they will play ; Smith. Assistant Secretary; Edward I "'^'^"'^"'K *» t"®"" "^ual custom. Hempstead. The men new on the team | W. Valentine; Trustees, August this year showed up well for a first ap. | Gaeclke, William Ronalds and H. O. pearance. Colvin was easily the star Vail. of the game, shooting several clever i
baskets from difficult points. Harry Muller of last year's team played at centre and tired out two men. His op¬ ponents had to work very hard indeed to prevent his scoring. "Jimmy" Mulcahy the veteran, playing forward with Rodman Rowe, performed with bis usual brilliancy. "Rod"^and Harry Verity played weH tbroogh showing a little nerTousneaa at times. Atter the
(cootinued on, page 4)
$1167.22 ' the man-iege of Mias Florence Grain, i and where the smoke commences. You ! number of donations were received and
j daughter o! Mrs. Martha Grain, to Mr. 1 can hardly stand erect in the highest disposed of ana a large sum of money
245.62! George Franklin Vanderveer, which : part of the oval rooms, ao it aeems I - *' "-
— : was solemnized at the parsonage of the \ that the walls were plastered only so
921.60'Presbyterian Church, Maple avenue, i high up as would dirty a shirt waist
2046.17 !on Wednesday evening laat, the Rev. ! when Mrs. Cliff Dweller waa sitting on
A. H. Rennie officiating. I the floor with her back to the wall. j
! In one room I took my knife and cut I The residence of William G. Van
Miss Vivian- Lena Frost was married I through seven layers of plaster, one Weyman was totally destroyed by fire
--, laid over the other, and each strata j early Wednesday morning last. By
parsonage of St. Mark's M. E. Church j "'^"'y distinguishable. Whether these hard work the firemen were enabled to
on Thursday last, the Rev. W. G. ! !^y*" "ere put on once a year or once ; ggye the adjoining building.
„.., ... ^. r.. . iGifHn ofRciatinir | in a hundred years I can only guess.
Village Trustee Charlea A Sigmond ^'W" otnciat.nfr , ^^ ^^^^ ^^.^^ ^^ ^^^^^ y^go ^^^^
Monday evening entertained tbe gen-1 ,^ ^ ... . 1 are varioua aixcR ut nir-h«B mt ini-r.
After a most exciting game the*"® various sizes 01 nicnes, cut into
Girls' Basketball Team of the S. S. H. j }f!\ ''»"¦ *"^ plastered. Some are
high up some on tlie floor level—all
zes. We can only won-
score of 8ito 7. | ubi »¦ meir uses biit no doubt they
eral committee of the recent carnival connection with the parade and
Arrangements are being made for,-- - - ^ „ j .. ^ j ^ ^1. »> n^ ¦ . 1 uiifu uu Home
the holding of a Christmas tree at For- tournament of the Southern New York j S- was defeated by the Bay Shore girls j ^ v bell's Mission. j Volunteer Firemen's Association, by I o" Saturday aftprnoon last by the close j ^^^ a "their m
giving them a supper and entertaining,
Through the efforts of the Civic As-] them at a theatre iu New York. ~
sociation the City of New York has i Among those in the party besides Mr. Are you using Red Cross stamps agreed to have sidewalks laid in front ¦ Sigmond were Clarence M. Van Riper, They only cost a cent apiece, and are of their property facing on the various I Chief ot the Department; William i to be used on every package and every
were the sideboards of those days, and receptacles for the family necessities. One in particular was just tbe size for a baby's bed, and perhaps it was. In one room, plainly discernable, was
was reslized. Mrs. Charles 0. Colvin was chairlady of the committee.
Valley Stream
It has been learned that the Rev. George T. Freeman, a former pastor o< Grace M. E. Church, died recently in Texas, to which place he went about three years ago in the hope of resbjr- ing his health.
etreeuof the village, and to make i Cornell, First Assistant Chief; Jamea i letter you send out. from now until | .. once the on«>nino. nf nn« «f
other imiurovementa to tbe same. This r. Smith, Second Assistant Chief; J. ! New Year's. The money is to ba used j ^^^^^. ^'^ *""=* "' opening of one ol -u XL-.,, iu- i-.j_:_ A :-t:—j_ 1 ' for exceptionally good work and ovory |
shows that tbe Civic Asoociation is!. certainly aecomplisbing something.
(continued on page 8)
little t)|it helps.
(continued on page 8)
John Karsch and Henry Ruppentbali left on Wednesday laat for Florida, where they anticipate spending the re¬ mainder of the Winter.
SmoA IM $1 and get tke Mess—gsr iffl Jaa. 1, 191Z The aewsiest paper is tlie t0wa.
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| FullText | Supervisor Cox^s Christmas. Present-^axes ZlM^er Cent Lowe^ City Wins Water Suits SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER OFFICIAL PAPER. NASSAU COUNTY Vol 3; Number 21 —»— - Merrick Every Friday FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. DEC. 16, 1910 $1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cento Ban on Longer Piers Will I Open Montauk Port Freeport Bellmore Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, thft fourth in Advent, as usual at 7 :30 and 11 a. m. and 7 :30 j-^^^^ Department Won't Permit Fur- scores at Gere's bowling' aiioys"36'a'nd': Church Saturday from 2 to 6 p. m. """¦' "" ^' !»..:„ _.-_.^ Friday and Satur-{ The Democratic primary will be held There will be five prizes awarded to The Ladies' Aid Society will hold a the five men bowling; (he five highest Bread and Cake sale in Presbyterian The Musty and Distant Past Smithville South p. m. Celebration of the Holy Com inunion at the early service and morn¬ ing prayer and s^rmon at the 11 o'clock -service. The Sunday School meets in the Parish House at 10 a. m. The practice of the Christmas carols is un¬ der the direction of Mr. F. W. Settle. The Woman's Auxiliary meets weekly ther Encoachment on North River Channel The request of J. Pierpont Morgan, made in the interests of the White Star and other great steamship lines, in the Parish House on Thursdays at I f''T''xT''"""°!i.'°'^"^''''^" ^''^''' ^'T 2:80 p. m. The Junior Auxiliary I'"*^« ^orth River will not be granted, meets on Saturdays at 2:80 p. m. All , ^^^ "cent cdilision of two big ocean who are to take part in the exercises !!'""« '^*'''« bacljing out of their berths of the 28th, except the little tots of ""P''^«f^^, the War Department and j Miss Lina Miller's class, are requested h"'^';^^ largely in the decision to stop - ^ ' any further narrowing of the river. Representative Cocks of the First New York District has obtained the in¬ sertion in the River and Harbor bill, on Tuesday evening for the purpose of i *° ^^f^P^''^'^ *°^'»y' an amendment making greens for the Christmas dec-! P''"^'^"?^ ^9^ a survey of Fort Pond orations of the church. The "Rector's ' ^"^ ,«'* «. ^'^^.°' ascertaining its Party" as usual at these binding j <=«P«^'''"e« f"''^'"^'^'"K'«'¦«« vessels 38 N. Main street, day evenin s. On there wili bean open game of duck ^ pins for prizps. Last week the follow-' ing were the winners: J. W. Vancott, I 205; Eiwin Florenza. 208; E. T. ! Smith, 200; Edwin Crausfield, 195; William Florenza, 188; Duck pins,; Peter Smifh, 113; George Florenza, 112. ! Monday evening ' Saturday night at Firemen's hall. The sting of defeat lasts longer than _ , , __ in- I f ^ *^* smart of victory. The Ladies' Puzzles of Mystery and Kuins Left Auxiliary basketball team was defeat- for the White Man to Solve i «<^ ^'^^^'^v evening by the s. s. A. c. ' pick-uos. After a few dajs illnesa at his home in Baldwin, "Doc' Wolfe, the drug¬ gist, opened his store Saturday morn¬ ing. He has changed his hours in the store: from 8 a. m. to 8:15 p. m. in the Pye Canyon By M. J. Browm E4it«»r LttUValleT, N.Y. Hub James Moore and family have moved from their old Homestead here to their new home at Bellmore. Mr. Moore purchased one of the new houses from A. Palermo. to meetin the Parish House tomorrow ! afternoon, Saturday, at 2:30. A gen- \ eral invitation is extended to all who ! will attend to meet in the Parish Hou'e The 'ternity i week. Democratic primary for the District will be held at Fra- Hall Saturday evening this The South Side Messenger has been appjinted the official Republican paper of Nassau County, to publish official notices of the State and County for 1911. beea, will be held on Wednesday night. The monthly meeting of the Citizens' League of Merrick, Keed Widmer, ^president, will be held in the fire hall on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. —New York Worl Baldwin The Willing Workers of Freeport will ho'd a sale of fancy articles and i candy at one of Mr. Fulton's new stores [on Merrick Road, near Chuich street, ! on the afternoon of Saturday, Decem¬ ber 17th. Miss Ruth Kent, vtrho is teaching in St. .Faith's school, Manhattan, was at tier home here from Saturday until Monday. The sad news was telegraphed to W. C. Mepham, the principal of the local school, on Monday of the death of his father near Rochester, N. Y. No de¬ tails were sent. We met Mr. Mepham upon his visits here to his son and were much impressed by his good nature and cheeriness. Mr. Mepham was deaf but For more than a miio the white cliff homes of our first Americans rise up from the level to a height of from 200 The young men of the village have j to 600 feet, and so close together ,are organized an athletic club and have ' they but a thin space of the soft rW ! the'home'orMr and'^'Mrs. Calcagnino their weekly meetings at Firemen s separates them. I Tuesday evening and they say Alfred Hall, where plenty of amusement will i It is a strange sight for we foreign- .jugj gtu^ij to that king table as if he be afforded all who wish to join the ers we Columbus Americans who ^gg gj^tj^g on a bottle of glue. cub. A meeting was held Tuesday don't know our country. - night when officers were elected. Hundreds of years ago, no doubt ! thousands of years ago, these cliffs Last Friday afternoon Miss Carrie; stood perpendicular, but time and B. Fish and Miss Bessie Sprague, I e-rosian of wind and rain have crumbled , teachers in the public school, treated : and broken down the rocks, and where We understand that the flagpole the children of their classes to a sleigh four and five stories of human homes , that has been so long patiently waiting ride in one of Russell's sleighs, which ^ were once chiseled, now in many places : in front of the school house is to be waa great amusement for the young- but two and three stories stand the ] raised in the near future. crumbling rock and the wash pf a''- ' cumulations from above having buried Merrick defeated the S. S. A. C. the lower or ground floor rooms. lightweight basket ball team at the When these cliff homes were dug , club house Friday evening by a score there was no iron in New Mexico. 1 of 16 to 15. They were scooped out by hand by This was the first time tbe home theae pre-historic people, carved out i team had a chance to find out what A progressive pinochle was held at ; Robert Willmarth has taken posses- ! sion of the Smithville South Road house formerly lUn by C. W. Buck. ' sters. William Byrnes is confined to his home this week suffering with a blight attack of pneumonia. ¦ : The children and teachers of the pub- A special meeting of the Firemen's , lie schools are preparing for appropri- was The Mrs. Stauf's. At the December meeting of the Woman's Advance Club with Mias Stootboff last Thursday, a very interest ing program was rendered, incuding ^a^jyal Committee was held last I ate Christmas exercises, which will be i by pieces of volcanic glass that they ; thjy were good for when up against the study topic, "History of America;" !'pburaday evening. held in the school house a week from traveled many miles to the Jeniez : the real thing, and they surejy did prove current topics and music, followed by j ij,e reports of the various commit-' Friday, to which everybody is cordially (pronounce it Hamez) mountains to , themselves a good and well matched refreshments. One new member tees were read and the reports showed I invited to attend. ! find. team for their opponents; they kept joined. The next meeting will be with : that $2045.42 had been netted from ! From the wash at the foot of the the large number of spectators present i Mrs. Mott. jthe carnival and convention event. ^^ ^^^ Presbyterian Church next; cliffs I picked up several fine speci-; busy guessing whose game it was; ail _. ^^^ ^^^^j (rroas receipts for the con- Sunday evening there will be preaching I mens of theae glass tools, thick and as j through the game it looked like even meeting of the Ladies'Aid is i^j^tion were $3532.10 and the dis- ^y the ..astor. Rev. R. M. Jones; also j hard as a beer bottle, and as surely j moneys . poatponed until Dec. 20, to be held at jjm.ggj^gj,t8 were $2408.28, leaving a Sunday School in the afternoon. The ! glass aa if blown in Pittaburg. With; The most intereating part of the con- """ °'-""- balance of $1123.82. "The' groa.s re- children are preparing for Chriatmas I these fragments that the mountains test was the way Wilbur Hubbell exercises, promising a good program, [vomited up, theae little cliff men bur-1 guarded his opponent. Michael Mul- i Tne date of these services will be an- ! rowed out their homes. \ cahy, derrick's manager and star play- nounced next week. ' The formation of the rock is soft—; er, keeping him away from the ball well, simply ashes^—and I took a knife '¦ and only allowing him to get three Don't forget the masquerade and blade and soon made an excavation; goals; during these tussles Mulcahy civic ball next Wednesday evening, the I that would hold my fist. But these [ had five fouls and Hubbell three called 21st, at Firemen's Hall to be given by j nien did not have knives or any metal- ^ on them by Referee Johnspn. the Bellmore Social Club, which should I ]jc substances, and I do not wonder j Amos Baldwin was the star of the A communication waa read from the i''^ ° P'^^^""* "^°'''' ^^"*^some prizes j their homes were not made larger when i evening and cauaed a broad smile to community in their loss. They left on j "'""*'""""'" I11I1II11__ American Vitagraph Comi any stating ' ^'"'^^ ^*^^" the lady and gentleman ; they had only these fragments of glass appear on Capt. Schnieder's and Lieu- Monday afternoon for Rochester. Thei The Democratic primary to be held that the pictured taken of the conven-j*PP«^'"'"K m the^at coatume. , to dig them with. ; tenant Friach's face by throwing six funeral waa on Wednesday. In con-j gaturdav niirht in the fire house ia the I tion and parade will be releaaed on 1 Handsome" Souvenir given free fori, I commenced on the ground level : field goals and one foul scoring 13 (what IS now the ground) and went pointa out of the 15, while tbe captain. I »« T>u J r.1 L i iceipts for the carnival were $1866.95, i Mrs. Rhoda Glovgr has gone to i Ti. j- u * * »njc oc i in II 4 J I 1 ... with disbursements at $945.35 leaving the fact of his not hearing the replies I Brooklyn to spend several weeks wi h ! ^ ^^,^^^^ j^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ g^ of othera never led him to forego his ^^'^,."°"' " % '"^}''^ ^^^ '"" K"'" A feature of the report on finances own greetings. Those who know tell ^""^^^ Carol na for the winter. i was that on the gran-" stand. That U8 that not only did he look good--we j j^^ ^^^ ^rs. Henry Brower and j 'his structure was not much of a money all aaw that but that he was aa good i ^^^jly j^jt Wedneadav mo.nin«r fur ! "naker for the department is ahown by , , , , ,, .. i_ J , . i lamiij i^jii. .TcJneaday moining fori , . . ..„ ;„ he looked. Mr. Mepham and hia Mansfield, North Carolina, where they I ^he net gam- $3 10. family have the deep sympathy of the will spend the winter. j The Democratic primary, to be held i Saturday night in the fire house ia the t'on and parade will be releaaed on i Handsome* Souvenir given free sequence of Mr. Mepham'a absence the i cause of much discussion around the ' January 24 of next year, and that they Christmas and New Year's with every school here has been closed until the ! 27 th. I villaKe. F. B. Cotte and J. B. Faron j turned out fine. Major Christophel and family have taken possession of the house on Mer¬ rick avenue, formerly belonging to W. H. Dowling. Mrs. Dowling, who has been convalescing from an attack of are running against each other for the The treasurer waa instructed to draw \ Store--81 So. Main St., Freeport. offiice of Committeeman. a check payable to the Freeport Fire!- ^" , «—"^ Department for the amount of j RockviUe CeUtre purchase at Jacobaon's Family Shoe i down the lane, crawling into almoat i who succeeded Willie Kraft in the sec- 2t. j Otto Payne will apend several days ¦ $2045.42, to be paid over at a meeting I next week in Clinton and Sunnyaide, to be called by the Chiei.the following 1 N. J., with frienda and relatives. ! Wednesday evening, Dec. 14. i I Following is the summary of the pneumonia, was so far recovered as to I John G. Lusch has returned home ; various funds be able to be removed to Flatbush on ! from his western business trip. ' CONVENTION FUND Monday. I I Receipts: I Handsome Souvenir given free for i Department, advanced \ Mr. and Mra. E. C. Cammann, hav-1 Christmas and New Year's with every Subscriptions ing returned from Cuba where straw i gurchase at Jacobson's Family Shoe ' tore—81 So. Main St., Freeport. 2t. Chriatmas in the Rockville Centre Preabyterian Church for 1910. "The Firat Christmaa Story" will be told in word and song and picture next Sunday evening. The pastor. Rev. A. H. Ren- every home, and I will nevpr forget the i ond half made the other two points, impreaaions of awe and myatery they i After the game both aides were con-, gave me. . gratulated for their clean and skillful The firat room, the living room, of playing and were then seated to a table almost every cliff home is the same, ! of hot coffee and home-made cake, and inside they vary only in the number : furnished by the Ladi^' Auxiliary, of additions carved out, and I suppose i after lunch John Busch, one of the club these were regulated by the size of the ! members, favored them with dance family and the amount of glass on j music on the piano and they danced un¬ hand. Almost every room has one ex-; til midnight. The following is the hats were in vogue, oropped down j from -Manhattan on Wedneaday to see I how their home here waa enduring zero weather. Lynbrook !Tag Day I Nugent, M. P. show ! Stone, M. P. show i Advertising Program ; Grand Stand Ground was broken Saturday for the j Charles Weis. for whom the authori- new house to be built for Mr. Schuyler I ties have been looking since the arrest Cammann on Merrick the lake, east. Road adjoining At the annual meeting of the Men's Club held in the Parish House on Tues¬ day evening the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: A. An¬ thony, Pres. ; Capt. D. Lawson, Vicp Pres. ; James Mulcahy, Sec.; William H. Littebrandt, Treas.; Membership committee, A. Hewlett, George Mul¬ ler, R. Kent; Houae Committee, H Narwood, H. Goud, H. Colvin. The President is to appoint a comm'tt.i' on Social Service to act in conjurjction with the central committee of the Dio¬ cese of Lung laland. Two new mem¬ bers were elected to.membertihip; John Wallmuller and Harry Verity. Total net receipts Disbursements: .Stationery Postage Badgea Muaic ot Frederick Reising at hia reaidence over a week ago, gave himaelf up to .'u- ,ce Edward T. Neu, at Lynbrook, : iaie Saturday night. Weis gave a I rather plain statement of the facts in ¦ _. , . £,. , . ..• -iU i.i. « u 1 Salaries, Stenographer, etc, connection with the case of burglary " ^..' ^ *^ , -^ ^ that 1^ held against Reising, and inti- mytt'd n; a manner that there are quite a number of othp: people interested in the case. Further than thia he would make no statement but intimated that if he is held and convicted, there will Lie others implicated. At that time Weis imas,i:.('d that he would only be wanted as a witness in the Reiaing case, but when informed by Juatice Neu that he would hold him, Weia, on a similar charge of burglary, Weis at j once became uncommunicative, and I waa later remanded to the county jail ' to await his examination, which will be held on the Same day as that of I Reising, Friday, December 23rd. Decorations Vaudeville Show for Delegates Prizes Reception Department returned of amount advanced Miscellaneous Items 50 00 ' '^'^' *'" S'^® "" illustrated service at j cavation leading from it, but very few \ official acore: 1745.80 i*^^^^^'''"^^^'^^''^®- About thirty pic-: of them are high enough for one to ; 87 01 i ^"'¦^^ "'" ^^^'^^ '" telling the wonder- j stand erect or long enough to lie down, i S s A C 79.20 ! ^"' ^^°^y °^ *^^ incarnation of the Son ; The Indian farmer, who has custody 1 Appelor r f -.26. lO '^^ ^°^- At the morning service the , over tne Puye cliffa, aaid that thia one j Bajdwin' I f 322.17 ! pastor will take for his theme, "Chriat- j common side room aeema to have been j Kraft c' 3jq! mas Joy" a preparatory thought. j a grave, and that when a member of ¦ gmith, r. g. 1 ¦ 1 the family died he was put in this Hubbell, 1. g. Have you cleaned off the snow from j little round room, in a sitting poaition, Schnieder c ' in front of your property? If not, do i and then the room walled up and plaat-j ' ao at once, and thereby add to the com- i ered over. He said that excavations j Mp_-ipi, fort of your fellow citizen. I in many of the rooms had proved this j Mnelle _ . and many skeletona had been found, „ .' .' Have yen paid your achool taxea yet? ' not mummies, either in a sitting posi- w , '. ' ' . 107.50 I You have only until Saturday next to j tion on the floor, with back to the rock, Colvin ^l' ^ 101.00 \ pay them with the additional one per or in many cases, forward on the floor ; y«_jtv' r ff 47.75 i cent for collection. After Saturday i of tlfe cave, faces down. So I take it ^' ' ''' 1st half G. F. 2nd half G. F. $2314.08; $118,601 62.00 j 317.70 I 200.00' Ist half G. F. X X 0 XX 000 X 00 2nd half G. F. 0 XX X 00 „ „ , Concessions Merrick 16 and Smithville 15 was the merry tune to which our baaketball ' team opened its season at Smithville on Friday night last. The closeness of the score made for much excitement. - ,, ..^ , .^1. Both teams showed fast work at times, ] *« ^^^ *='*y ^°^ the winter. tjhougthsMerrick was somewhat handi- \ At the annual meeting of Rescue gapped by the smoothness of a dancing ' Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, the floor for which it was not prepared. following officers wer3 elected for the 70.56 five per cent will be added. 33.85; ! Under the auspices of Sincerity As- 60.00 isociation a masque ball will be held in 80.55'Pariah Hall on Tueaday evening, De- j cember 20th. Total net disbursements $1189.511 The Degree of Friendship will be Balance, net proceeds $1124.57 : conferred on several candidates by CARNIVAL FUND. j Rockville Centre bodge. No. 279, I. O. Receipts: jQ. F., on Wednesday evening, Decem- King & Queen Voting Contest $830.69 1 ber 2l8t. 336.53 that these second rooms, chiseled out, plastered and left open, were graves waiting for some one to die, and when they died, the corpse was walled in, and another grave dug—to be in re^di- Referee, John Johnson; timekeeper, : Charles A. Wood; scorer, R. E. Hil- I ton; X counts 2 points or^field goal; a I counts 1 point or foul goal; ocoonts i foul play. ness that the funeral ceremonies might gend ut $1 and get the MesMnger till not hitch. And yet, as I will tell you Jan. 1, 1912. The new.ie.t paper ia later, there is a burial ground on tbe j the town. meaaa where hundreds of skeletons lie. i Every home is plastered; coveiied j A big crowd attended the chufch fair with cement, and aome have many ^ «" n^ ¦ . 1 uiifu uu Home the holding of a Christmas tree at For- tournament of the Southern New York j S- was defeated by the Bay Shore girls j ^ v bell's Mission. j Volunteer Firemen's Association, by I o" Saturday aftprnoon last by the close j ^^^ a "their m giving them a supper and entertaining, Through the efforts of the Civic As-] them at a theatre iu New York. ~ sociation the City of New York has i Among those in the party besides Mr. Are you using Red Cross stamps agreed to have sidewalks laid in front ¦ Sigmond were Clarence M. Van Riper, They only cost a cent apiece, and are of their property facing on the various I Chief ot the Department; William i to be used on every package and every were the sideboards of those days, and receptacles for the family necessities. One in particular was just tbe size for a baby's bed, and perhaps it was. In one room, plainly discernable, was was reslized. Mrs. Charles 0. Colvin was chairlady of the committee. Valley Stream It has been learned that the Rev. George T. Freeman, a former pastor o< Grace M. E. Church, died recently in Texas, to which place he went about three years ago in the hope of resbjr- ing his health. etreeuof the village, and to make i Cornell, First Assistant Chief; Jamea i letter you send out. from now until .. once the on«>nino. nf nn« «f other imiurovementa to tbe same. This r. Smith, Second Assistant Chief; J. ! New Year's. The money is to ba used j ^^^^^. ^'^ *""=* "' opening of one ol -u XL-.,, iu- i-.j_:_ A :-t:—j_ 1 ' for exceptionally good work and ovory shows that tbe Civic Asoociation is!. certainly aecomplisbing something. (continued on page 8) little t) it helps. (continued on page 8) John Karsch and Henry Ruppentbali left on Wednesday laat for Florida, where they anticipate spending the re¬ mainder of the Winter. SmoA IM $1 and get tke Mess—gsr iffl Jaa. 1, 191Z The aewsiest paper is tlie t0wa. |
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