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The Messenger Wishes AU a Merry Christmas
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER. NASSAU COUNTY
Vol 3, Number 22
Every Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. DEC. 23, 1910
$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cento
Merrick
To all of our readers we wish a Mer¬ ry Merry Christmas and many returns of the season.
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, Christmas Day. at 7:30 aod 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Cele¬ bration of the Holy Communion at the early service and celebration, morning prayer and sermon at the sermon at the 11 o'clock service. The Sunday School meets in the Parish House at 10 a. m. There will be no lesson but the rector will give a talk upon the "Christmas Heart." There will be singing of carols under the direction of Mr. F. W. Settle. Monday, St Ste¬ phen's Day, there will be a celebration of the Holy C'ommunion at T.30 a. m. The Woman's Auxiliary meets in the Parish House on Thursdays at 2.30 p. m. A cordial invitation is extended to all the ladies to unite with this or¬ ganization. The Junior Auxiliary will not meet until the first Saturday in 1911. Choir practice in the Parish House on Saturday evening at 8 p.* m.. Prof. S. Reed Spencer, choirmaster and organist.
Miss Katherine Fairfax, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton R. Fairfax, who occupied "Sunnycroft" during the summer, was operated upon at the New Yo.'k Hospital on Saturday for appendicitis. All of Miss Fairfax's friends here will be glad to know that the operation was very successful and that the patient is so far convalescent that ber physician promises she may spend Christmas at home.
Rodman Rowe one of the members of the Merrick basketball team has been suffering from bronchia] trouble for tbe last two weeks and in conse¬ quence has been confined to his home. *'*Rod" contracted the trouble at the Smithville South game. He will be about again in a day or so.
Mrs. Frank S. Miller suffered the fracture of a rib on the left side in a fall sustained by slipping upon the ice on the stoop of her home Wednesday week. Mrs. Miller was fortunate to escape more serious injury: as painful as the nresent one is, she is able to be about the house.
Mrs. L. B. Corliea left on Thursday to spend the rest of the old year and the beginning of the new with her brother and his family, the Rev. Frank Draper, rector of All Siunts' Memorial, New Milford, Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Spear will spend Chriatmas with relatives in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Doane will pass the holiday in Brooklyn.
The Merrick Gun ciub will hold a clay pigeon «hoot at the usual place on Monday afternoon at 2:30.
The Christmas celebration of the Merrick Sunday School will be held in the Parish House on Wednesday even¬ ing at 7.30. There will be a Christ¬ mas tree and it is hoped that good old Santa Claus.will find it convenient to be present There will be recitations, aonga and carols by the school. All those who are to take part in the ex¬ ercises are requested to meet in tbe Parish House tomorrow, Saturday, at 2:30 p. m. on and Tuesday immediate¬ ly at the close of school.
Mr. John Swan is again a gup.'^t at the Hotel Merrick.
Judges Loose Higher Pay By 292 Votes
Constitutional Amendment  Beaten
By Narrow Margin—Palisadei
Pare Wins By Big Majority
By the narrow margin of 292 votes, ; the constitutional amendment increas- : ing the salaries of the Judges of the i Court of Appeals was defeated at the last election and the proposition creat-1 ing the Palisades Park was carried by 68,370 votes, according to the canvass | of the election returns which has been I completed by the State Board of Can-1 vassers. The canvass shows the fol-1 lowing:
Court of Appeals Constitutional! Amendment—For 332,300; 'against! 332,592; majority against 292. I
Palisades Park proposition — For 349,281; against 285,910; majority in favor 63,870. \
The canvass of the vote on State : ofilicers shows the following: |
Governor—Henry L. Stimson (Rep.), 622,299; John A. Dix. (Demo.) 689,- 700; Dix's plurality, 67,408.
Lieutenant Governor, Edward Schoe- neck (Hep.), 632,746; Thomas F. Con¬ way (Demo.), 665,630; Conway's plurality, 29,884. j
Secretary     of    State—Samuel    S. i Koenig (Rep.),   649,006: Edward  La- zansky (Demo.), 650,879;   Lazansky's plurality, 1,873. I
Comptroller -James Thompson,Rep., | 643,403;    William    Sohmer    (Dem.) 661,811, Sohmer's plurality, 18.408.
Treasurer—Thomas F. Fennel 1 (Rep.), 643,761; John J. Kennedy (Demo.), 662,093; Kennedy's pluraf- ity, 18,832. Attorney General—Edward R. O'Mal- ley (Rep.), 650,312, Thomas Carmody (Demo.), 664,763; Carmondy's plural¬ ity, 4,461.
State Engineer—Frank M. Williams (Rep.), 643,384; John A. Bensell (Demo.), 661,450; Bensell's plurality, 18,066.
Freeport
Bdlmore
Why City Defeated Suits
The  South Side  Messenger Com¬ pany wishes each and every one of its readers a very Christmas
Handsome  Souvenir given  free  forjJtf»tice  Putnam's  ReaSOns for De¬ ciding Against Parties Suing for Damages for Lou of Water
Christmas and New Year's  with every
gurchase   at  Jacobson's   Family Shoe tore—81 So. Main St.. Freeport     2t
Merry
Sermons appropriate lor Christmas will be preached by the pastor  in  the Bellmore Methodist  Episcopal  Church   ! at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.    Christ- Send in your  donation  to  help  Vil-: mas music will also be rendered by the lage  Trustee  Charlie  Sigmond  in bis  choir morning and  evening.    All  are plans for the poor children of our midst i invited.    Sabbath School at 2:30 p. m.
on Sunday afternoon,   Christmas  day. ^   „     ,       ZT": „
The more hfl^ts the  more  people  he f- .0" Sunday, Christmas Day   the ser- can make happy. ' ^''<^^'' '" St. Matthias   Church,   Smith-
-'  I ville South, will begin at 3 o'clock,   p.
The Freeport Club announces a holi-! '"•    ^he semon by the priest in charwe.
costs awarded to ttM city, and fta eoor tentions that the failure of crops In Long Island farms is attributable! "^to the lack of rainfall, and to the fact that in its absence farmers have re¬ sorted to the use of fertilizers, which have produced unnatural soil eondi- tions which have become more harnftll The stubborn fight which the city is iir market gardening than the methods making to prove that the   Department j fqrmerly aoopted for ordinary fanning,
the court finds are strongly  supported by the evidence.—Times.
of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity does not seriously affect the lands of Long Island farmers through the main¬ tenance of pumping stations and infil¬ tration galleries operated in Nassau County for the purposes of securing water for the Borough of Brooklyn, another victory was gained when Jus¬ tice  Harrington   Putnam  of the   Su-
day dance to be held at the Club House next Friday evening, Dec. 30. Tbe masquerade held last month was most successful, and the entertainment com¬ mittee hopes the subscribers to that dance, with their frienda, will be pres ent on this occasion ar: Mrs. Chas. P, ick   C. S. Knowles.   Mrs.   Timothy R. i oa^u
Cutler,   Mrs.   Henry  L. Maxson   and ]        ' 	
Mrs. Gilbert A. Smith. :     ..gj,,.. Schwicker, who ha. been em
I ployed by C. H. Russell for some time The Board of Education at a meeting I has secured a position with  the  L.   I.
the Rev. E. N. Hollings, will be on the ] Preme Court gave an exhaustive opin- doctrine     of     the    Incarnation.    On I >on in the suits of nine claimants  who Thursday night the Sunday School ser-  demanded       damages        aggregating vice and Christmas tree festival will be  $190,732.01, as reported last week, held, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. The  trial  of  the   cases   lasted  six
  ^. \ weeks, and in order to give the farmers
Christmas exercises   of  the   Metho-! every opportunity to present their evi
n.    ine patronesses ; ^j^^ Sunday School will be held in   the  dence fully. Justice Putnam sat every t-ono, Mrs.   ^recier-|^^|jj.^jj ^j^rfyggjjgy g^gj^j^g    December ' day during that  period  of  time  from
I 9:30 a. m. until 10:30 p. m
i Justice Putnam's opinion states that ingenious arguments were offered by the plaintiff's counsel to show that great   havoc  had   been   worked    upon
held Monday night, decided to name the Archer Street school. School No. 8, the Lincoln School.
Wantagh
Now is the time to subscribe to the South Side Messenger for 1911. One dollar a year, less than two cents a week. Harry Braithwaite is' our regu-* larly accredited agent and will be glad to receive your subscriptions.
Christmas services will be held in the Memorial Church next Sunday morning and evening with preaching by the pastor. Rev. 'Thomas S. Braith¬ waite. Special music by the choir and solo by Miss Laura Cowles. All are cordially invited to these services.
Handsome Souvenir given fiue I'or Christmas and New Year n with every purchase at Jacobson'-^ Family Shoe Store—81 So. Main St., Freeport.      2t.
Merrick defeated the fast Hempstead High School baskechall team in the Parish House on Friday night last by a score of 42 to 35. In the first half Hempstead carried Merrick complete¬ ly off its feet to the surprise of all present In spite of the chagrin of a acore of 21 to 12 in favor of Hemp¬ stead in the first half, there was only admiration felt for the good work of the visitors. In the last half Merrick breezed around like a young whirlwind let loose and would not be denied. The players with their baskets scored as follows: Hempstead, Daniels, r. ;'., 8; McKay, 1. f.. 3; Kolar, &, 1; Vly- men, r. g., 4; Smith, I. g., 1. One foul was called-in the game and that on Merrick. McKay threw the basket Merrick, Mulcahy, r. f., 7; Colvin, I. f., 4: H. Muller, c, 10; Verity, r. c, 0; Burns and Herbert Muller. I. g., 0. H. Muller, c, 10; Verity, r. c, 0; Uums and Herbert Muller, I. g.. 0, Mr. Bolroes Narwood was the referee, gtTing Al satisfaction to both sides. There waa a good and enthusiaatlc at>
We are sorry to hear that Mr. and Mrs. Theodore McCluskey lost a young daughter named Gertrude on Monday last. The child died of diphtheria at the home in Jerusalem and we under- "t-i (I there are other members of the f.iu,ily ill of the same disease.
Kev. Thomas S. Braithwaite has had ar. iiftack of grip.
.\i>As Stella hailing has gone to ber hoi,? in Noitheiii New York State for ch Christmas holidays, while Miss t"'! r'-i .t^ Gee. the other lady teacher in the piitilic school, will spend her vaca- M<ii) here. Ine school will be closed lUHil January 3rd.
On a'.'Ciiunt of the Christmas exerci¬ ses there will be no Christian Endeavor meeting this week. There will be a choir rehearsal in the church Friday night.
The Willing Vorkers will bold a re¬ ception on Wednesday evening, Decem¬ ber 28th, in the Firemen's Hall.
Eldridge Homan of Baldwin was found  early  Thursday   morning  in  a , ^ .
snow drift at the corner of Church and  ^'¦' ^^ ^ <=«"t« P^'" '=°Py- Smith  streets  with   his   face  cut and covered  with blood, by Oflficer George Boyden, sr., on his way bome  about  1 o'clock.
He was brought to his senses and taken to the court room on Railroad avenue, where Lieutenant Elmer Ray¬ nor  washed  the  face and found a bad
R. R, at Long Island City  as checker ; Long Ibland farmers since the installa- in the express yards. L*'°"  °'  ^^^ city's water securing de-
  '    1 vices in Long Island.    After referring
Single copies of the Messenger can ; at length to the evidence which the city be had at William Wolfe's drug store | offerred through its engineers, who and from Anderson Bloomer, news deal-I testified that the falling off of  crops,
ft j injuries to  trees  and   loss  of surface
I water shown by differences of streams
A  young daughter arrived  at   the  and  the  lowering of farm wells, were
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B.   Hunt not attributable alone to the  operation
last we^k and "Kip" is busy receiving I of  the  city's  pumping   station,   the
congratulations. court comments upon this kind of  liti-
 "¦—• I gation as follows:
A regular meeting of Advance H., [ "The testimony of farmers engaged L. & Eng. Co. was  held  last  Monday i in market gardening discloses an artifi-
was bandaged and Homan sent  to  his home. •
laceration  over  the  right eye  which i®^^"'"^'*''®"'^°"^''^®"''''® ^"^'"®*''**^ I'^'*'^*""'''^'''" ^"®'°''^^'"^'^"'^  ®°"'® ' 'transacted.    A committee of five  was j times excessive use of  fertilizers,   re¬
appointed to arrange for a dance to be] Suiting in a crop productiin beyond hela in the hall some time next month, i the normal. The alleged shortages and At the next meeting, the first Monday j resultant losses set forth as damaged in January, the newly elected officers j figures were mostly after-thoughts, not will take charge of their respective duties.
Smithville South
The Independent Willing Worken will hold a Christmas social at the home of Mrs. Eugene Lattimer on Belltagh avenue next Wednesday even¬ ing. Mrs. Lattimer will entertain the Workers with a supper at the conclu¬ sion of which there will be an inter¬ change of presents by the members.
Adolph  Frisch  has  the contract to renovate  the  interior   of R. T. Will¬ marth's   hotel,    formerly    the    Buck , place.
The schools will close at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon for the Christmas holidays and will re-open on Wednes¬ day, January 4.
Election of officers will be held in | The masquerade and civic ball at Freeport Lodge, I. O. 0. F., Monday I Firemen's Hall Wednesday evening by evening. The following nominations h*'® ^^'^'""'"^ Social Club was a decided have been made: Noble Grand, James | success, the hall being well filled with W, Cheshire; Vice Grand. Stephen w. |y°""g People who enjoy the popular Hunt; Reco-ding Secretary,   Miles  s. I Pastime of dancing.    Quite  a  numoer
Rhodes; Financial Secretary, Archer B. Wallace; Treasurer, Sylvester P. Shea.
Woman's Relief -Corps No. 139, do¬ nated to the Old Veterans' Home at Oxford, 25 handkerchiefs for the old men, 21 aprons for the old ladies; also a box of oranges for tbe Christmas tree.
On  account   of   complaints    about throwing snowballs at the Grove Street School,     an    officer    was     stationed there to keep the boys under reasonable ! restrictions. !
were marked and tome very nice cos- toumes were seen. The two handsome prizes awarded to those appearing in the best costume were won by two young men from Hicksville, whose names we were unable to ascertain.
After the unmasking and prizes had been given out. Mole's orchestra played the supper march and everybot^- get- busy and partook of the good things that had been prepared for them. The dance concluded at a late hour. The club will probably be heard from again in the near future.
The three young Freeport men who started South in the auxiliary yacht Rae are having an exciting voyage, according to reports arriving here. The owner of the boat, Oscar Rhodes, received word Monday that the Rae had gone aground off Lewes, Del., on the morning of December 16. Life savers from the Assateague  Life Saving Sta
The Christmas exercises in the school this afternoon (Friday) w£re neatly rendered by the children. Several Christmas presents were given out and the trustees presented each child with an orange and a neat box of chocolate bon-bons. School will open again on January 2, 1911,
Our captain of sports of the S. S. A. C. is well pleased with his basket ball teams, as each one of them, the 136 lb. team and the 165 lb., scored a victory in the past week. Last Thursday night the lightweights defeated the Copiagues with a score of '6 to 11; while there were twenty-two fouls called, this was a clean and scientific game. The visiting team took thelrv^ defeat in good humor and invited our boys to give them a call later at Co¬ piague.
Last Tuesday night the heavyweights under toe manage ' ent of Lieutenant Frisch, defeated their oil rivals, the Lindenhursts, with a score of 47 to 9. This was the first game of tbe season for these boys and it certainly was a corker. With John Doty, who meas¬ ures 6 ft. 7 in in his stocking feet, pkaying center, and R. E. Hilton, our old favorite playing forward, 1t was simply a game of Doty reaching it at center, and then passing it to Hilton and then in the basket Out of the 47 points, Mr. Hilton scored 41, making 20 field goals and one foul goal.
Capt. Schnieder has arranged for two games for the lightweights,tonigfat i with the Merricks at Merrick and next
Alfred Seaman has moved, with his family, from East Rockaway to Farm¬ ingdale village, Lawrence farm, Mon¬ day.
The Gun Club will hold a claypigeo* shoot on Monday morning. It is hoped that there will be a good number prea¬ ent, being the last shoot in the year.
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A sleigh ride was held last Friday night when a number of young people rode to Hicksville and spent (bis I even¬ ing in dancing and returning after a very pleasant time.
A euchre was held last Monday night in the Firemen's HalL Mr. Schorr won the prise for tbe men and Mrs. Clinton Place won the lady's prise.
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F. M. Wood is erecting  a  new  cot
tage on his property on Wilson avenue! evaporation which prevail on Long IsL tion aided Captain Frederick Hunt and i and will erect two more there in the j and. It was also established that tree his sailors, Herman Gould   and  Irving  Spring. growth  is  so dependent upon rainfall
Ellison, in getting  her afloat,   and shfi "T7~..       ..      ,.: that the rings on the trunk ^ded each
continued on her way   accor4ing to the      James Moore and family  of Smith-1 y^„ ^ill be relatively narrower in the report undamaged. f vil'e South have moved into their  new | geasons  of small rainfall; at   least   if
The Rae was  forced to seek   harbor | home  on Centre avenue which they re on   account   of   the last  heavy   snow I cently purchased from A. Palermo, storm   and her continued delays make! 	
estimated at the time,   but  calculated after the harvest returns had been bal¬ anced  against  the  long struggle and otlay of successive market garden sea¬ sons.    As they reviewed the  period of about five years since the water s>stem was operated, they were ready  to find in the operations of the city a case for j Thursday night with the Almont A. C. their  losses.    The figures of receipts i of Amityvilie at the club house, and  incomes  since 1905 are  made  up I     The following is the official score: mostly of  local   transient memoranda! Lightweight—136 lb. Class
from wagon sales at Wallabout Market with the outlays from some receipted bills. The standard of normal potato yield claimed by many plaintiffs is 90 to 100 barrels per acre, whicn with a light, sandy soil, is obviously high and a~ difficult average to be maintained. Granting, however, tbat farming oper¬ ations of the plaintiffs do show deficient yields in 1908 a direct cause is a phe¬ nomenally low rainfall of that season, only 34.44 inches and said to be the lowest since 1864. Another reason wby the plaintiff's naturally recall bet¬ ter crops before tne installation of the city's water system is, that the aver¬ age yearly rainfall of 1900 to 1904, in¬ clusive is 43.82 inches, while the last five years, 1906 tO 1909, show/about 41.64, a surprising difference qf 7.18 inches—enough to account tdt tbe large losses in vegetation in the lands exposed to the summer  conditions of
the date of her arrival at Norfolk, Va., uncertain.
A. Palermo's new house on Crescent Lawn is completed and ready for occu¬ pancy.
Friday afternoon the Freeport Fire Department had a new call, 62, for a blaze  at  Sackman's  on   Pine   street.
The firemen  responded quickly  but when they arrived they found the barn !     ^be Ladies' Aid Society of the Pres- on the premises all ablaze.    They soon   byterian Church held a bread and cake had two streams of water on the bum-1 ^^^^ ;„ tha^church last Saturday after- mg structure and  put out the blate,, jj^^j, with the building about half destroyed. I ' . ;
The property is occupied by Charles Sackman and family, but no one in the house knew of the blaze until a pass¬ erby called their attention to it The damage was estimated at about $360. The orgin of the fire is unknown.
The members of the department are proud of  the remark  made by one of
"Freeh"  eggs are the latest on the market—wonder what kind they are?
The Christmas exercises in the Pres¬ byterian Church will be held Monday night The children are busy practic¬ ing and a good program is promised.
Anna Thorogood,  colored,  aged 36
years,  died at Brooklyn .last week of
...,,. u    1-    J       ».       J-       ^  consumption."   She  was  brought here
the  ladies  who  lived in the adjacent  e.,„j„.. __j v ...--j .-.., 4-u^ ...i<.JLi —~.» • , .       ,. 1 J iL-x »!.   XT      I Sunday and buried in the colored ceme-
tery at North Bellmore.    She was well
known by the residents of that section.
house, when she stated that the New York Department could not have re¬ sponded in better style.
Opening a'manhole to get at the gas main of the Nassau A Suffolk Gaa Company, in Main street Mondsy morning and deae«oding into it vl^itfaout waiting fo^jhe gaa that bad   aeeumu-
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At the Democratic primary held Saturday for the Socond District the following were elected to the various offices: John J, Gangloff, president; William E. Bdwne, «ice president; A. H. Deap, aearetlwy^ JIL B. Fish, treas- :   (dtrnMsoed on pageXT
the deficiency comes in the growing months between April and October. Hnnce, the evidence as to the arrested growth, blight and decline of trees upon the plaintiff's farms does not necessarily point to any effects from defendant's pumping. Some of those trees showed evidence of scale and oth¬ er pests. None of these' appeared to have received the spraying and care of modem orchards."
Tl)^ estimates which the plaintiffs offered as to tbe diminution of stream flow in Long Island caused by the city's pumping, the court said were too vague to form a basis for judicial find¬ ings. The records of the city. Justice Putnam stated, showed clearly the ag¬ gregate quantities of water taken and of rainfall upon which a finding could be made.
"Puring the last five years," the court states, "tbe wliole rainfall over the trSLataiy watershed under invasti- gation was 811.6 billion gallons, of which the city took 80.5 billion, or on-^ ly 25.8 per cent" According to the consensus of authority going back to 1864, this proportion. Justice Putnam holds, cannot be called excessive, and be says that it does not appear that the Ukingof this water has harmed the plaintiffa.
In tbe diamiaaa] of all tbe complaints.
S. S. A. C.
Appier, r. f.
Baldwin, I. f.
Smith, r. g.
Hubbell, 1. g.
Schnieder, C.
Copiague
Lampagnoli, 1.
Austin, r. f.
Becker, 1. g.
H. Lampagnoli
Schyler, r. g.
Referee.  J.
Fred       Ohms
Wood;   scorer.
Dec. 15th.
1st half
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2nd half
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2nd half
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umpire.
timekeeper,    C.  A.
R.   E.   Hilton;   date.
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166 lb. Class
S. S. A. C.
Hilton, r. f.
Doty, c.
Frisch, r. g.
Seaman, 1. g.
Higgins. 1. f.
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Lindenhurst
Muller, c.
Beaver, 1. g.
1st half
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2nd half
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E. Haab, r. f.       x x o
C. Haab, 1. f.        x
Referee, J. A. Johnson; timekeepei^, C. A. Wood; scorer, H. Apeler.
X stands for field goals; a stands for foul-goal; o stands for foul play or two points or one point
Mr. and Mrs. William Kraft an^ nounce the engagement of their daugh¬ ter Ethel E. to Arthur W. Good of Merrick.
A reception and ball will be given by the Smithville Sooth H., L. ft Eng. Co. at fire headquarters, Saturday evening. Dee. Slat; committee gt arrangements, S. J. Thornton, F. Koenig, A. Calcagnino and F. L. Hack. This ia the third annoal New Tetar'a ball for them and they promise a good time to all; don't miss it
Mike eaya the nra is shining bright now BO soppoae I'll have to get op n get OOt agaia; dam «Im rbeomatiam.