South Side Messenger 19110106

              Robberies at Ljmbrook Planning Pretty Park at Freeport
Miss Sproule Dies at Mineola Hospital
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SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL  PAPER. NASSAU   COUNTY
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Vol 3, Number 24
Merrick
, Services at the Church of th^? Re¬ deemer    Sundaj.    the   firat  aft^r   the
Fpipbany, at 7:80 and 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. "m. Celebration of the Holy Communion at the early senice and morning prayer and sermon at the aec-
Every Friday
Down in the Southwest
Fourth Letter of a Series by E<l|itor
M. J. Brown of Little Valley,
N. v., on Cliff Dwellers
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE. N. Y., FRIDAY. JAN. 6, 1911
$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cent*
Freeport
False Tax Arguments
Bellmore
A  n.      XT ii.     • J-       •PI     o     .1   (•• 1    m n I !• I Sinple copies of the   Messenger  can
Arthur  Noaworthv  .s   now   residing, The Soutb Side Observer Publishes  be had at William   Wolfe'adrug  store in hia new home on Lena avenue. I     ¦«•   t      i-      ri • •
nlis-Leading Comparisons in an
Smithville South
With this letter 1 will conclude the end service. The Sunday School meets ^ "^''^ ^'^^I'^r descriptions, and then to builder, in Parish House at 10 a. m. Woman's "'^'e*" places, and some of the places, Auxiliary meets regularly in the Parish P^op'^ and things to come I think you House on Thursday afternoons at 2:30. j wi'I find equally interesting. Any Merricic lady who is not already a | About in the center of this long clitt memberof this society will receive a :'^ " s*:"'^ stairway, with a kiva at the cordial welcome to its membership if j f""'- And I must tell you of the kiva ¦he  will  only let her desire to join be j ^^'''^''e we go up.
known. The Boys' Club meets on The best desription of it would be Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 5. The|0"s "* ou^ cesspools—a well perhaps Junior Auxiliary will welcome any I ten feet across and twenty feet deep, girl at ita meetings on Saturdays at i ^'^^''"o^ ^'''^'"'^g ^'nce washed away 2:30 p  m. ^ ^^^ ^^^ '^°'^ partially filled up, but the
I Smithsonian   people have ex5avated it
The Messenger acknowledges with thanks a very pjfttty calendar from William   G.   Miller,    contractor    and
School  opened Wednesday  after the Christmas vacation.
Co., of Rockville Centre.
"Attempt  to   Prove Our Statements Wrong
i^jind from Anderson Bloomer, newsdeal- I er, at 5 cefits per copy.
Last Thursday and   Friday, two  of
our   local   sports, Walter  Frisch  and
jf ; Coles Merritt,   went on a hunting  trip
to Roiikonkoma and broup-ht back with
Contractor  C.   H.   Russell   dug   the; them,   or  at least part of the way, 27
cellar for a house which will   be  built; rabbits and 19 quails, they having sold
;by  Adee Wood. 01. Oak street next to i their catch on thevay home.
Thefollowing  article is published in   Mr. Chapman's residence.     , I     ,,,. .      ,   ,     ,
the   local topics column of the  Nassau -   I     The  regular meeting and election of
County   Review this week, and is pub-1     There   is   more  sickness   among our j oncers of the Ladies'Auxiliary of the
Robert J. Murray   has  resigned   his i Hshed by permission: I residents at this season of the year than i ^-S. A. C, was held at the Club House
latest po'iHon with Doubleday, Page & I has   ever   been   known   before.    Both | Tuesday    afternoon.      The    following
Co., and has   secured a job as foreman I     Some  of my new   readers  may   not' u^g. s]<„u   and Rhame are busy all the j "^cers   were   elected:   Mrs.    Charles
with the Rockville   Centre  Publishing i understand  why ! sometimes  refer to^j^g   making  calls.    Among those   ill j Schoen, pres.; Mrs. George Siler,   let
; the South Side   Observer, a newspaper i (-|,jg ^^^1; are: Mrs. A. J. Russell  Mr. 'vice; Mrs. George Baldwin,  2nd  vice; in a neighboring village, in the manner; ^^fj jyj^g   jj   f   WiUmarlh, Miss Mattie I Bessie Schnieder. set., re-elected; Mrs.
Saturday evening while Wallace Post was in the village a few of his friends called at his home on Wallace street and surprised Mrs, Frank Snedeker and then  awaited the home  coming of Mr.
Miss Julia Kent who has been spend- i and placed   therein a ladder.    We des. ing her vacation of two weeks here   at i i:ended   and   there  found the only fire-1 post and agreeably surprised him also. her home on Kirkwood avenue returned i place, or rather the  ruins of one   that   Dominoes and music were the principal to  her  work   in   St. Gabriel's   School   'a to be found in the whole   cliff   ciry.   ff„.r„j, of amusement, together with re- near. Peekskill, N. Y., on  Wednesday.   The floor is cement and in front of the   fteshments   served by the ladies.    All
  I fireplace   are two rows of holes   in the , participated   in   the   departure  of the
Mr. George Wright has been confined ' floor  six on a side  and the   walls   are : old Year and a very hearty greeting to | oriirtVon "to"mat'ter"Drinted'over  the   strPPt to hia home since Christmas, under the  full of niches, each seeming to conform   the New Year objection   to matter  printed  over  the  street.
• '    -  - , uie mew icdr. • headline of a paper printed in Freeport 	
A lamp on the front porch of Robert r. Willmarth's house on Grand avenue
that I do.    Perhaps the following arti-1 Willmarth and Anderson Bloomer, cle will explain the reason for my con-'  .
tempt  for  that   part  of'the   editorial force which is so sm ,11 or ignorant  as i to write such an article as the enclosed, | which appeared in their last issue:
"The dissemination of lies, pure and j simple, is not the mi.ssion of the rews-1 Mrs. William E. Parkinson and son] paper, as tha Observer understands the ; of Now York City are spending a few j matter.    For   that  reason   it files   an | days with Mrs. A. J.   Russell   on   Oak I
Kenneth Tillotson has secured'a po- sittiun with Nelson Ashdown at Free- port, where he is learning the elec¬ trician's trade.
C. A. Wood, treas., re-elected, and Miss Sadie Wood, chairlady of Work Committee.
Last Wednesday night the social pinochle club wag held at the home of Mrs. James Moore at Bellmore.
Last Thursday afternoon the Ladies' Exchange met at the home of Miss Sadie Wood.
care of Dr. Rhaine with  an  attack offwith the similar places on the opposite 1 grip following upon a threathened case I side.
of pneumonia.
On the 13th of January at the Parish House all those interested in basket¬ ball, will be afforded an opportunity of witnessing a game between the St. Paul team of Inwood and the local b«ys.
Mr. Hill and family have left Bay- hampton Park and taken up their resi
Want sound, white, glistening teeth?   which   reads as follows :- Smith & Bedell's ad in this   issue tells I Cox's Christmas present-
j how to make sure of them.
It
This  kiva is supposed to have  been
the   secret   room where the   religious
and   ceremonial rites of these  strange
people  were   perfoimed,   and a  room
where but a few of the  clifT  dwellers'
feet ever trod.
But the most  wonderful of all is the
stairway   that  leads to the top of   the | ^,  .
clilTs.    Here one gets some idea^of the : ^
dence in Brooklyn, expecting to retarn j ages these people lived here and of the i "i
here in March. j multitude   which   used   this   path, for '
_., ~, .,    {human feet have worn the solid rock to
The    new   company   known   as   the L ^     j, ^^ ^^^j^^ j^^j,        „^ ^^^^
/""k- S^m ^l^\    1"p^"1^   Company | ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^.^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^^ .^ ^^(^^
of which Mr. Richard P.   Kent  is   the i j.. „   „ft „„ „;,.•„     * fk„ „„. „    *u
. .,, •»     «:        •    T        I the soft composition of the caves, then
secretary wil  open   its ofnces   in Long  .        u   .„     _, *•       e ,.u
T 1     1/--i ..u u   i    iu    you   have some' conception of the  age, 	
Island City near the   approach   to   the   „„j .,„   ,„ „:.„„*„ „,,i„*:       i \    m. ^       j •      ^.u
r\ u u D -J n/i    J       4.U   land the density of porujlation.    In one      There  was   not  a  dry   eye   in    the
Queensborough Bridge on Monday,  the'   ,„„„  „ „„ n;;„ „„fu „ =  v,„   t^u •   u *  *u     ki v      ¦! i
ofK TUoro ia .J i.r,.„o fi^i.i ^f ^^»,.o place across this path a stone has fall-i nurse s home of the Nassau Hospital »th. mere is a large neiu ot opeia-! ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^|^^^ ^^ remove it these ! this morning while the Rev. H. A. Lol- tion for such a company as this and we 1 ,.^n„ „„„„,..„ „,.„„  „,„,i „j „ „_-t  ii-     lu   -c ¦ ^     •  -^      * ««¦      .
heartily «ish our fellowtownsman j ''"'^ ""^^ °^ *^^ "^'''^^ '"""^^'^ "^^"^ '*• '''"' ^^^ Episcopal minister of Mineola, large   success   in   his   connection with j
-"Supervisor -Taxes twen¬
ty per cent lower"— 'TheObserver wiJl in some way fell from its fastenings take but one example to show the du- j about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning and plicity of the newspaper and the man ' exploded, which soon set fire to the behind the scene. A piece of property j woodwork. The blaze was discovered in this town was assessed last year i by Mrs. Willmarth, who qu'ckly ex- $550. This year the assessment was I tinguisned the same before it gained The  annual   dinner of the   Freeport  raised to $1400.    Tlie school taxes last j msch headway,
will   beheld   Thursday evening, j year on the property   were   about $12, I 	
Jan. 26.    Members may secure tickets j and   this  year  they   were  $16, an in-1     Samuel Self has sold his former res- chairman of committee,   Mr. W. j crease  of just 33 1-3  per cent.    Now j idence on Grand avenue, owned by  B.
why  wouldn't it  be a good  thing for |T.   Thorn,   to  Mrs.   Mary   Wolfe,   of
Prof, E. S. Tebbutt's music pupils will give a recital at Brooklyn Hall to¬ morrow, Saturday, afternoon, at 3:15.
D. Finch.
Seaman Davison, who was taken to Mineola Hospital last Friday, suffering from pneumonia, is improving.
Athletic News. Got the following from the captain of the S. S. A. C, wiiu oaya he ia at loss to know why the Merrick Basket Ball Team will not give us a come back. Having played this team two games and the standing being 1 to 1, would like very much to have the rub¬ ber, the first game being played at the Club House with a score of 16-16 in favor of Merrick. We gave them a square deal, treated them like gentle¬ men and when they departed they ap¬ parently seemed well satisfied. On the 23rd of last month our team visited them  at Merrick, defeating  them  by
the project. Mr. John D. Crimmins i and Judge Morgan J, O'Brien are on i the Board of Directors. I
Members of the Sunday School are I weuring about a little pin marked I "Church of the Redeemer." These j pins are a part of the .system which j was inaugurated in the school last I Sunday. The pins which are now worn j are worn in virtue  of  membership   in
spectacles on his nose,   and  compares I last year's tax bill with the bill of this i
and on its surface the trail was but j was conducting the funeral services half as deep. I took a limb and raised over the remains of Marion E. Sproule, one side of it and underneath was the who was formerly a nurse at the hos- old foot-worn path. pital.    Miss   Sproule   was a martwr to, ,        •„ . ^ ^.- -,
And on each side of the path at the I duty and her death was a source of j y^^""' he will begin to say things, and i^feep and difficult places are hand i great grief to the hospital authorities. ^^^7, w'" .'1''*^^ »^ "'J *=°"'P^""^"*«[y holds, where these people helped to | Some weeks ago two children were ' *° ™'"- ^'"I^",^"^; ""° *"^ ["^" '^"° pull themselves up, little niches worn brought to this institution ¦ suffering i'^^^^. "1^"'P"'*'^^'I **^f ^^^ budget so smooth by the human hand, as the solid | from scarlet fever.    Miss Sproule was j *"^* '' '^ higher than last year.
rociv   was   cut deep by   bare or mocca-1 the attendant nurse and became infect-1     Now isn't this   mean,   contemptible? : Street last week sined feet. * jedwith   the  disease.    The   efforts   of  They   know   that   Supervisor   Cox has I too.
It is estimated  by   the   Smithsonian i Dr. Cleghorn to save her life were  un-i nothing  to do with school   taxes: that |
eyes to a good deal that   passes  under j visit  you.    It   is  such   items of news
their noses.    You can, of course,   fool I that makes the local page of your home
some of the people once in a while, but! paper interesting.
when the taxpayer sits down, puts his j
Annual January Sale at Barasch's Dept. Store, 65 S. Main St., Freeport, will begin Jan. 7th, 1911. Double stamps given every day of this sale, on every purchase of ^Oc or more. It
A young son arrived at the home  of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Drake on   Linden
It was a ten-poiinder
the  school.    A continuous   attendance i People that 10,000 people   lived on the   availing,   and yesterday Miss  Sproule j these depend entirely upon local condi-1     The New York  Telephone Company of   13   Sundays  entitles to an advance : face of this one cliff and that the popu- | passed away.    She was nineteen years : tions; they also know that as 1 showed j has placed large new poles along   Bed pin  of   bronze    and    so    on    through j'ation of the adjoining cliffs and on the  of age and a brilliant future as a nurs6i»J\ readers  six   weeks   ago   the town ' ford   avenue perioods    of    13   Sundays   until    gun
far - north    as     Dr. messas was fully 1,000,000 people. : was  assured her.    She is survived   by i taxes this year will be 20 per cent low-1 Skou's,   who  now   has  a  connection.
We  climbed   the   cliff,   putting our  a widowed mother who is also a nurse. ' er tihan   they were last  year.    If they ; The company will also jrlin   poles along patent   leathers in the deep worn foot-   The   interment   will   be  at the family i do   not   correct this article can you be ; Grand Avenue to Bellipore Avenue.
path and our gloved  hands in the hand , plot in   Elmont   Cemetery-Wednes-| b'amed for thinking that they will tell.  r-
holds, and gained the top.    And   what   day's Times. ! the   truth   or falsehood as   suits  their j     A large and enthusiuatic meeting  of i ^"'T ".'ran
a sight! !     News  of   Misa   Sproule's death was i purpose  best in their  atiempts lo dis-1 Advance Hook, Ladder ind Engine Co. '
._ _      There in the bright sunshine lay the  received with sadness here in Freeport I credit Supervisor Cox, and if I have so i was held Thursday evening at the  fire
Ihe  rector  has   announced I''U'ns of a great  communial   dwelling, • especially by the younger  people   con-! Proven by their own writing ia it right | hall, when   the  newly-elected    oflicera
metal, silver and gold pins have been earned. ^All the pins belong to the Sunday School up to the gold pin and are returned before an advance pin is given. The gold pin becomes the personal   property of him or   her  who
eiarns it.                 , „ . -    - -       .... , . l-        u <>
that  all   who   attend 44 Sundays from | one building that  once sheltered   1200  nected with the school.    Miss  Sproule I to believe anything they say?
last   Sunday   to   Advent   Sunday,   the {People, a human  beehive of   the  days   was a member of the class of  1910   of
Sunday   nearest   November   30,   19il, I before   history.    Ages ago  this   house ; Freeport High School and was a  pupil
will   receive  one  of   the gold pins  at j f^" into ruins, but it has been carefully ; nurse at the   Hospital.    The  members
Christmas   time.    The    class    having | excavated   and   cleared   away, and the ; of  her  class   sent  a  handsome  floral
the largest per cent of   attendance  for ; first  story   and its walls now   stand as , piece to the funeral
this  newspaper and the man  behind it} Smithville   South,   who  will have   the to tell the truth occasionally,   juat for j same renovated soon
a change, or if the   truth is too strong i 	
for them, keep their mouths shut. Of I We want to know when you have 10 to 8, they havMng their own referee, course being the oflficial paper of the ' friends to eat "chicken dinner" or to | bouse manager, their own court and county,   compels   them   to  shut   their | visit you.    It is such   items of news to   their home people for apectatora.
^ The  Messenger  Merrick  correspon¬
dent tells us it was foot ball and apolo¬ gized  for hia  home  team,   with  the usual  cry  of    "self-defense."     Now tl en if these boya can't be protected at home we are very aorry for them  and give them a special invitation to visit us again, so they can have a chance  to play a good,   clean game when under good management, and have a referee i who   will  not allow roughness or foul- I playing,   without  calling  them or-dis- i qualifying the   players   in   accordance I with the basket ball  rules.    We have I so far played the CopaigueSj^ Almont F, ! C.   of  Amityvilie,"   the   Lindenhurata i and  the  Merricks  and tli^ later ia the ' only  one  with  a kick and a "no come j back."
I On all games at the Club Houae.wi i allow the visiting teams, an umpire, scorer and timekeeper to act with ours, ow unnecessary roughness, football playing, fighting, etc, from the players. Nor do we allow the spectators to call our visitors, fanners, etc., while playing, and we would tike to be treated the same when we go away from home.
Unclaimed Letters
(Freeport Post Office)
the month of December and therefore entitleud to hold the silk American flag of the school for January was Miss Mary Kent's. The names of Miss Kent's boys who attained 84 per cent in attendance are Herbert Seaman, Chaa. Meckling, Joe Birch, Chas. Car¬ man, Frank Colvin, Arthur Otto, Floyd Verity, Lorenzo Carman, George Her¬ man.
took office. Peter Johnson the newly- j elected    foreman,   very ably  presided
over the meeting and made an elabor- ; ate speech before entering upon the I duties   connected   with   the  offices for
,T    , .      ,  ,~7I      ,    iv    * 11 1911.    To show  hia earneat  endeavor
Unclaimed  letters for the fol owing   -    i. ... ,    .
i„„ I ji.-j..4.uin in^  for the auccess of the company   during
reminds one of!     Peter Freyman, of 746  McDonough   are   advertised   at the  Freeport Post;^^^  y^^^_   j^^   j„i,^^„  has offered I our  modern   stockyards-an encloaure  street,   Brook yn,   a plumber's   helper Otbce: cut   into   small   pens   or rooms—each  employed by the New York^ Telephone !     Bates, 1-
they did when built. The   great  building
H.
Company,   fell from a pole at the  cor¬ ner of Ocean avenue and Merrick Road
room   about   5x10 feet, and'Oach   com- jmunicating  with   the   other by a door
i about three feet high by eighteen inch- 'ast Thursday afternoon and had three j es wide—just one great beehive with '"''^^ and his collar bone broken. He I I no outside entrances. And over one of i was taken to bis boarding place and a these doors a piece of cedar wood waa I pbsician summoned, who recommended j placed at the time of the building, as a j ^'s removal to the hoapital, and he was ; If you don't know enough to go  out ! frame to support the 'dobe blocks, and i taken there thefiame afternaon. .
when it rains, you'll get wet if you that aupport atill standa through all I. At lateat repbrts Freyman is improv-1 stay  in  the Merrick station of the  L. i these ages, crumbling with dry rot, but j'"8- i
I. R. R. Zounds, but it the floor didn't'Surely wood yet. I broke off a piece j joggph D. Tunison, Deputy Stated leak what a bully swimming tank the |of this doorframe that some little man Councilor over Freeport Council No ! sAtion would make! With a few placed there long before Columbus B7jr. q. U. A. M., paid a visit to the | slight alterations Merrick might have found thia country, and I treaaure it j Council on last Friday evening Mr ¦ public hatha.    The company has ahown j with my other souvenira. j Tunison   waa     accompanied   by  Fast'
a disposition to provide better shelter. From the quantity of the ruins it ia ] Councilors Henry Kleist, Andrew Rup-! Some time ago they sent down a load ! pretty thoroughly eatablished that thia j p^jj g,,^ Drake of Franklin Council, i of ahinglea and lumber, but they placed ! building waa at leaat three atoriea j j^^ jg AW of the viaiting brothers' the load so far away, at least 100 feet, I high, one great enclosure around a ^^-^j^ intellfsting remarks to the mem down behind the freight house, that i court, and with one mam entrance, or hern. J^ even the best sprinter among us can- ¦ street, which ia clearly defined. In the not race from its shelter to an incom-i center, or court, are naany handsome ing train in time to catch it Twenty- '• stone relics, grinding stones, skinning five feet nearer and only the feeblest stones, pieces of pottery, and' many of our citizens would need to miss a' whose use one can only guess at but train. Someone with an imagination plainly fashioned for sltJme purpose, has suggested that the shingles might! And juat behind this ruin ia a burial be put upon the roof of the old build- ground, where during the past summer ing^. We wonder if that could be the j the Smithsonian people excavated 250 intention of the company. Sometimes | skeletons, and all kinds of trinkets and we think it is.    " | pottery buried with them.    The grave-
  I yard   ia but  partially   excavated   and
The  monthly  meeting of the Men's | hundreds of other ekeletons yet   sleep Club will be held in the  Parish   House | there.
The excavators did not do a very thorough job. Some of the skeletons they dug up are not complete—nor ever will be. I have a part of a rib and some fingers and hand bones. The cus¬ todian was not looking, and I was. F'rom   one of the caves   Mr.   Hoag
on Tuesday night at 8.30 o'clock.
Mr. and tin. Arthur Anthony spent Mew Years among the hills of New Jersey.
Bcnsselear, Fairfax waa the guest of
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bers.
invitationils extended to the of FraterAl Council, No. 1962, rcanuml^o be present at the mentjpd installation of olfi- WedTCsday evening, Jan. 11. p. m. in Mechanics' Hal!, cor¬ ner Church street and Railroad avenue. Orator Francis C. Morae has provid¬ ed ..n interesting program, consisting of instrumental music, male quartet, contralto solos, popular songs and a Scutch bagpiper.
The installing officer will be District Deputy Frank B. Hawkins of Hemp¬ stead and the manner in which he per¬ forms the duties of his ofSce is suffi¬ cient guarantee that the installation ceremonies will be interesting.
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Advartlajs  in
Evvry^;
ly's 0«lumn
Brown, Mrs, Walter
Blackman, Miss Seanton   ' .   Brower, Misa Agnea (3)
Chanlan, Mrs.
Colyer, Mrs, Mary
Connolly, Mrs. D.
Gold, Miss H.
Goodman, Mrs. Thomas
Herjen, Miaa Sophie
Horniko, Mrs. H. G.
Huntting, Miss Mary H.
Jacobson, From Garolnie
La Grosae, Mr. Joseph
Lambo, John R.
Montrose, Mrs. E. L.
Inacknibuah, Mrs. Ruth
Rush Misa Loretta
Spieos, Mr. James H.
Starn, Mr. Clarence
Thompson, Mias Bertha
Tsautwein, Mr. E. E.
Ulmer, Mias Ethel
Vanek, Frenk
Volf, A Ions
Valentine, Eddie (2)
Verity, Gibson
Velsor, 0. W.
Wlutson, Mias Hannah
Watson, Miss Helen Foreign
Pieknfose, Stanstevow
Syvertsen, H. Levrin
Jakobson, From Carolnie
ROBT. G. ANDERSON, P. M. Jan. 3, 1911
I cash   prize of $5  to the member who I bringa in the most new members during
Next Monday night Capt. Schnieder and Lieutenant Friaoh will settle a long diaputed argument at the Club House, the captain claiming hia lightweights are equal to the lieutenant's heavy¬ weights, while the lieutenant says he
j the year. This la an opportunity for j jg without a chance, but he is perfectly j the boya to wm the prize and get a lit- i willing to try them. The lightweights j tie ready cash, and also awell the mem- > have played aeveral games and have i bership roll. Following la a complete j been aucceasful in all but one. The jliat of officera and committees of the i <.heavys" have played but one game I company: Officers—Foreman, Peter |and don't know so much about them- ! Johnson; 1st Aast., Walter Frisch;; selves,; however, a good game can b» I 2nd Aast., ,William Valentine; 3rd ] witnessed next Monday night at the ! Asst.. Harry Merritt; Fin, Sec, Au-, ciub House. Don't miss it gustUmbauer; Rec. Sec, H. B, Val- Next Wednesday night the heavy- entine; Treas., Chas, W. Smith; | weights will play the Hempstead B. B. j Sergeant-at-Arms. Hatfield Smith.        | team at Hemptsead.
Board of Trustees—Charles H.  Rus- j .„ _ —-
Isell,   Alva  R.   Smith, Robert T. Wili-j    The  town   that   says,   "Oh, I don't marth, Edward S. Deubert, Albert  H. jknow, I con't   think it will  amount to
Owing to the financial difficultie;* of J. G. RobiiiS, promoter and practical¬ ly sole owner of the South Shore Trac-
tipn Company, which had a franchise to	
run a trolley  line  thro  Freeport  the ; Funiwal services "were company has been [Hit in the hands of' • receiver. ^
Dean.
Committees—Membership: E, S. Deubert, H. E. Merritt H. B. Valen¬ tine. Finance: Peter Johnson, Albert H. Dean, Charles W. Smith, House: C^B, H, Russell, August Umhauer, William Valentine,
E. S. Deubert was elected a com mittee to take charge of renting of hall. The committee in charge ox the dance to be held soun, haven't as yet decided upon the date to hold the affair. We hope to hear from this committtee soon,  so get busy boys.
Harrry Smith has secured a position at tlie Doubleday, Page A Co.'s print¬ ing establishment at Garden City.
Last week we announced the death of Frank Roberts' mother at her home in Amityvilie and this week it is our painful duty to report the death of hia father, which also occurmd at his '. home at Amityvilie Saturday morning, held  Monday.
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^uch," is neVer of much force. If you have no local pride, borrow some. Everyone is interested in an item of local news. If you know of any local happening that is not generally known communicate ttie fact to this office.
Mike saysi the water wagon is a thing of the past; why get aboard? New Years only comes once a year.
Tonight the club members will meet at the Club House; regular meeting.
We have wanted to hear Miss Gay Zenola Mac Laren before when she baa appeared at Merrick but the hour was such that it was impossible for as to arrive before the performance began, but now we see that the hoar is 8:80 which enables us to get there in good time. Miis MacLaren is truly a won¬ der. She will be in Merrick on Wednes¬ day evening the 18th. We want to see how "Hi" the old inhabitant, and "Watty" the tailor are taken off in "The Fortune Hunter.'' it