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VOL. 1, NUMBER 37~Ten Pages.
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FREEPORT AND BELLMORE.; K. Y., FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1909
rREEPORT
Ijfr. and Mrs. Charles A. Sigmond retnmed from a four weeks' trip to Bermuda, Monday.        .^ ,'
! Counsellor James Jeffrey of Brook¬ lyn has moved with his family to Mil¬ ler Ave.
IP We have had our attention called te the numerous squads of dogs of doubt¬ ful ancestry that infest the village highways and by-ways and now that we think of it, would suggest that these peats be done away with and thus rid the villag^e of a nuisance. Th^e dogs are not in any sense O. K. They are K 9 and also N. G.
In the Freeport Baptist ^Church (Stanley W. Roberts, minister) there will be public worship of God Sunday at 10.30 a. m, and 7.80 p. m. Even¬ ing theme, "A Scene on the Via Dolo¬ rosa." A reception to now members and the Ordinance of Communion will be observed at the evening service; Bible School at 2.30; Y. P. S. C. E. meeting at 6.45; C. E. aocial Thurs¬ day evening at 8; mid-week service- Friday at 8 p. m. Everyone is most cordially invited to all services.
fhe members and  friends of  Free-; port Council, No. 67, Jr. O. U. A. M., ; had a fine time Wednesday evening at their new hall.    It was the occasion of an  entei tainment  tendered  to the la- '
  dies and   to  celebrate  the  thirteenth
Three hundred and tifty   people  paid i anniversary of the  Council.    The   hall admission to the skating rink  Monday ; ^,^^ flUed to overflowing.   thPir  being ' night.    Thursday afternoons there will  about 500 present. ,
be skating   for  ladies    and    children j     j^e  following  prograni    wa.s    ren-
""'y-   dered:    Address   of    welcome.    Past
A third district alarm called the Councilor Walter B. Cozzens;overture, Fire Department out this morning at' piano, Mr. Phillips; address. D. S. C. a quarter of eight. Hunting for es-| Tunison; humorous songs, Dan W. caping gas with a lighted match Quinn of NewfYork: humorous stories causel the firS, at J. Venditt'a,   21   E. ; and recital, Mr. Colgan; .selections  on
SEAFORD
BALDWIN
Rev. James Coote, a former rastor, will preach Sunday at the M. E. Church in place of the regular pastor.
The Seaford H. & L. & E. Co. ^*ii hold their monthly meeting at their Fire House on Waverly Ave., April 5.
The  Ladies' Aid    Society    of   the |    The Arrow Athletic Club held  their Methodist Church gave a supper and gecond   annual   dinner   at Pearsall's fancy article sale at the parsonage Fri- Ugij t^jg ^eek. day Eve, March 26.    There were fifty I
suppers served and about $20.00 clear-'    Florence  Story   has recovered   from ed. I her recent illness.
PRICE, 6 CENTS
No Secret Dives for Them
People of Oyster Bay and Hempstead Will Stick te
License-How the Towns Would Suffer
Morally and Financially
Edith Whealey is able to walk again
A large crowd  attended  the  dance
in  the  Y    MI    C.HaH Wednesday]  ftl^^havin'r an  acddent" which^^ft evening, March  31.    This dance  wasj^^^ with a broken ankle, given by the Unity Pleasure Club. |
The decision of the Board of  Educa-L Gf^'iKe  Zollenhofer has returned   to tion of this di.strict  is  awaited  wtih |   ^'"^'"•
much interest on  the  ciuestion  of en-      t    „^,  ou j   /    i      i.      i     -u-v
11*•    rn ,e    1       ¦    ¦    1     f  t-u'i,    Joseph bherwood, (a deputy  .sheriff) gaging Mis.s Telford, principal  of  the '^^1^^^^.^^^^  ^^ .     . . h   j- /
In two of three towns of Nassau Coun';y, those of Oyster Bay and Hempstead, a vote on the question of local option will be taken on Tuesday next.
revenue which he vvould have to give it before he could do a legitimate busi¬ ness.
NO DROUGHT AT SEA CLIFF One village in this county, Sea Cliff,
It
under-
school tor another year,    xo in   uimct-i „ „ „ ., ., .,      ,,       ,      ..        .,,
i.    1 iu i. .LL       •    -    1 1. 1   J   .<•    'a week if the other denutie.s will agree
stood that the principal has asked  for,',   j   ..
1             e    t           dl. A-       to do the same,
an advance of palary.    She, according i
to the ta.x payers in the district, is one
A great deal of time, energy and has an ordinance which prohibits the money was expended in getting the sale of liquor within village limits, necessary signatures for the petition Do the Sea Cliff people go dry? Hard- which places the question of local op- ly. Some of them have in their homes tion on the ballot. Duting the past the liquor which they have the right to ten years, in the town of Oyster  Bt^, ; drink if they so desire.    Some of them
do patrol duty one night^gyg energy has been expended in effort  keep it at their clubs.
Merrick Road, but it was put  out fore the firemen arrived.
JJJjWe cannot say too much in favor  of
the  proposed  new   hospital    for    the
southside.    It ia a nece,ssity and  will,
when established, fill a long-felt want.
When the Nassau Hospital at  Mineola  of the order
be- ' bells and mandolin. Miss Dasja Harmon: ¦ humorous songs and stories, Dan W. Quinn: "American Patrol," piano, Mr. Phillips; sketch, "A Severe Lesson," Miss Harmon and Mr. Colgan; humor¬ ous songs. Dan W. Quinn, concluding with aome interesting illustrated views by Bro.   .fa.«,   N.   Walker
of the best teachers i"hat has had charge of thc .school for some years, and it is lioped that she will be retain¬ ed. \
Mrs. Hattie .Strang ami family  have
I inoved the Brooklyn.
J. L. Fisher is suffering from a i en knee-cap.
)rok-
Mr.   .M.   Connelly  and  a friend  of      r,, „  ^^   ,        .    . ,,     , , T\,   , ,v       ,,     ,,,    . Edw. Goodnough   is  now   occuDving
Brooklyn, vi.sited Mrs. D.   Waring  on'..   , „      u     ¦ ...    . -^   i^
4.1.   M      • I  r»    J Tl      1 his house on Harrison Avenue,
the Mernck Road over Tuesday.
tOk regulate the liquor traffic than was expended during these two or three weeks to get the local option question to a vote. And there are people in the Town of Oyster Bay and in the Town of Hempstead who do not hesi¬ tate to .say that if those who are mak¬ ing  the  fight  for local option   turned
But even those who neither have it at home or at the club need not go dry if they "know the ropes." There is a considerable anjount of liquor sold at Sea Cliff all the time, but the village gets no revenue from it. So flagrant is this violation of the liquor law in the "no-license" town that one  illicit
required funds to help it out of a fi¬ nancial trouble southside folks Tielped in every way with benefits, euchres, and other aft'airs which materially helped the fund and now that  there
of Brooklyn.
Much credit is due the committee, of which Walter Cozzens was chairman and John Dunbar treasurer, who have labored  hard  the  last  three   or  four
their attention to regulation and  gave | seller  actually rendered to a  customer
it the same amount of work that  they : a  bill   for the  liquor which had  lieen
are giving to Prohibition, or what ap- j furnished to him during a certain  per-
Prof. Shubert is entertaining friends | preaches  it,   no vote  on local   option  iod.    That bill was  documentary  evi-
from Comell. ' would be necessary. I dence of the systematic violation ofthe
 '7- .     All   through  the, County of  Nassau j law  which  says  .Sea  Cliff .shall    not
The propositions to be voted upon at j excepting in one small spot, the village i sell liquor.    The lawbreaker took risks, the  coming election were discussed  at! of Sea Cliff, one mile square, licensed  but still is unpunished.
saloons are in operation.    In the  main !     Prohibition which does not  prohibit, their proprietors run their buainess  in | local option which takes away a man's
a project underfoot to establish an ; weeks in preparation for this event. institution of this kind In Freeport we i The reat o| the committee were Step- hope there will be no efforUspared tP.! hen W,- Hunt, Frank.S. -Snedekar and jJW^«ji?jaocesa:dfit.«ni*fe^t6 of tWefKiiphVrd Miller. All ladies present  --     . .  - ..... souvenir,    a
new hospitui is in the Woodcieft sec¬ tion and the location is good. The doc¬ tors who are named as incorporators are Dr. Fletcher, Freeport, Dr. Over¬ ton, Patchogue; Dr. Savage. Islip, and Dr. Hewlett, Babylon. Other physi¬ cians equally interested are  Dr.   Den-
were presented with small silk flag.
BELLMORE
The W. W. of the Y. M. I. C. held their annual election of officers Tues¬ day, March 23, in the W. M. I. C. Hall. The  following officers  were   elected:
Mrs.   G.   L.   Weeks,   Pres.;  Mrs.   D. , .,    ^. ,   _, ,  „     ,        . ,. Waripg, Vice-Pres.; Mrs. L. Ketcham, i t^*^ ^'^^^ ^lub Monday mght. Treas.;  Mrs.   N.   T.   ^ith.   Sec.    Aj 11/AliTAPU
meeting was held Mar. 30 for..the pur-: <        WAll I AUll
pose of admitting some new membera. I J _, .
._  ;    '5bjPsivth sermon Tin the series  —     ^. .,,     ^ ^, _,
Mi>s. Ed. Yfrliy «'very sttk v^ith -Messages of the Christ" will be ! opt»'»" will not suppress them. There pneumonia at her home on the Merrick ¦ preached next Sn-dav evening in the ' ^""^ P'^'^^^ which, if closed up by local Road. Memorial Church.    Topic "True King-1 «P^'«"'   will  remain closed and   their
liness."    The  sermon  will  be appro-jOwn^rs  will go mto other branches  of priate to Palm Sunday.    The pastor's' business, but there are  others  which, theme   in  the  morning  will be  "The Expansion of Christianity."
a way which is not a detriment to the communities. There are places which would be-better '.luppressed—but  local
MERRICK
.Sacramental   service  at  the  M.   E.
Church, next Sunday evening.   Preach-
ton of Freeport; Dr. Rhame, Wantagh; | ing by Rev, Bourguard  of  Stockholm.
Dr.J Jaques,   Lynbrook;  Dr.   Carman, j N. J.
Freeport; Dr.s. Manning  and  DeLano, Rockville   Centre; Dr. Foster,  Valley i Stream and from   Far  Rockaway  Dr. j Slocum.    Undoubtedly  much   of   the; .success  of  this  project will be due to the efforts of the ladies,   who  always come to the front to help out in  public \ matters of this kind.     We  understand the opening of the Hospital  will  take ; place in the very near future and con¬ siderable money has already been pledg¬ ed to support the  Southside   Hospital Incorporated.
C. A. Burt of Michigan has pur¬ chased tho Harry McoCrd property on the Merrick Road and has taken (losses- sion this week.
The report of the wedding of Miss Abbie Bowne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bowne, to Ernest Sorrenson, which took place March 12th in New York has reached us. The young couple are residing in the city. Mrs. Sorrenson is known as one of the most popular young ladies of the village and , her many friends wish her much hap- i fhe entertainment and  dance  Mon-  piness.
day  night  under the  auspic es of the       „ ,  ,, , „„.
T^'   .? e T-u   I-      4.    rt   *      •* Harse  and  Company    have    moved i
Daughters of  Liberty  at    Fraternity „,.       ,   , ^   ¦     if   -        *.   c- ^t- ¦
HaU was a distinct success     The nlav   ^^^^^ upholstering business to h reeport. ..^u ^   a a»«»nct success,    ilie play , j       , .j, ^ carefully taken
The Country Cousin'    brought roars , ^' \
of laughter and Miss Ethel Carman  of ^"'¦^ ^^-  .	
Baldwin, was a decidedly interesting Sundny night Rev. James Hall : cousin. The re«t of the entertainment | christened the famous Bopp youngster consisted of "Tabitha's Love Affairs" and his legal tille is now Gustav [ and several solos, duets and recita- Christian Frederick Bopp. Mr. and i tions. Dancing closed the festivities. ' Mrs. J. Chris. Mitchell of New York i The affair was a success in every I are its god-parents. Monday night ^ way. , the long looked for blow-out in  the '¦
•nu   T^      Ut..      s! r -u    1.       Il child's  honor took  place at  Brown's I
The Daughters of Liberty will move ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^
their place of meeting  to the  Otten , .^^^..^^  ^^ ^^^   ^^  ^^j^^^ provided]
without showing any favoritism. There : ; was enough champagne drunk to float Mitchell W. Smith,  aged  45 years,   one of Emeigh's coal boats, and  that's \ died at hia home on Smith St.   Monday 1 going some.    The editor and  his  saw night.    His death was  caused  by  tu¬ berculosis.    H»  was  a  Mason  and  a member of  the  Odd  Fellows.    He is survived by his wife and one son.    Fu¬ neral Thursday and  interment  in   Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Church services Sunday, Palm   Sun- : day, at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p.   m.    Holy i I Communion, Litany and Sermon at the '¦ morning service.    The rector's su
will be   "The  Leadership of  Chr..,„.      , . .,      .     ¦     » ,i .
In the evening the subject will be" The  j^"J *"« //¦«"'  ^he   book of Proverbs Triumphal    Entry."    Sunday    School  Th«"™«"t.hly business meeting will   be meets in the Parish House at 10. a. m.
] if derived of the chance to do a   legiti
! mate business will do an unlawful one,
i and  their evil influence over the  com-
The Christian Endeavor Societv will! munity   will   be ten times as great as
L:^!  hold  a meeting in   the  church  Friday  it was  when  they did an open and li-  he-nust do  it  in   a  place  whi ri ''  night.    The topic will be "Life lesson.?! censed business. know, and to which you and the
,.„:     fm. tT,A  frmr. >h,.   hnnk nf Prnvp.rh« " i THR SKORRT KVH,. of the law  havc access,   where
The lesson topics are "The Great Con¬ fession of Faith," Matt. 16: 13-26; "The Transfiguration," I-uke 9: 28-.36. Examination in the Sunday School will be held on April 18th.
We saw some good "Resolves" the other day from which we have culled a few and give  them   to  our readers.
THE SECRET EVIL Ask any physician which is the most held  at the close of the meeting. ; insidious kind of that most dreaded  of
This society will hold a sale of home- all diseases, the cancer, «ind he will made cake and pies at the parsonage | tell you that it is the internal cancer, un  Saturday  afternoon before Easter, j the    one  which  the  eye cannot  see.
thinking thev will appreciate them  as  be  held  at  the  end  of the entertain much  as  we did.    "To    learn    from  ment.
as we everyone," "To believe in myself and the powers with which I am entrust¬ ed," "To try Co make conversation more useful, and therefore to store ray mind with facts, but to guard against a wish to .shine,"   "To  try  to
despise the principle of the day  'every,   , ,    ,       ,      „       tiu o    r»    •i.u
man his own trumpeter' and to feel it » <=!«c'^' .'^J^en Rev. Thomas S. Braith- a degradation to speak of my own do- w«>t« ^T'" P^^*/*' on The way of the ings. as a poor braggart," "To watch ; Cross, being the seventh Lenten .ser- over a growing habit  of  uncharitable I mon.
judgment." Henry J. Smith, who has  somewhat
The "services during Holy Week  are recovered from a stroke, is now stay-
which the  remedy  cannot touch,   and which  the    knife   seldom  can reach. ! The growth   on  the  surface   can   be j treated and uprooted.    It  is the bid- hold an  enter-; den cancer which saps the vitality and A  dance  will j the life and which always proves fatal. ;     So  it  is with what the  temperance ! people call the "liquor evil."    The se- i cret places are the  ones that demora- On   April  tenth   the   Wantagh Gun j ij^e    society.    The   evil   which  it  is
It is hoped that enough money will be realized at this time to make the last payment on the piano.
The brass band will tainment on April 14.
Club  will  hold a shoot on the grounds at Fussell's farm.
I     A service will be held in the Memor- j ial  Church  on Good   Friday  at  eight
Building,   Monday,  April   5th. have taken a three years' lease.
Wednesday night was a busy one so¬ cially in town. The Jr. 0. U. A. M., No. 57, had an anniversary entertain¬ ment in their r loms in the Otten Bldg. The Mail and Express Club gave its aecond social and dance, the Freeport Club hada euchre and a  show  at  the
Sigmond/   It was take your choice and } who aspires to the oflfice of Constable
all were well attended. ] on the Democratic ticket, several others
" —  "' j and the Bopp youngsters.    Next morn-
Freeport Council No. 5jj;, Jr. O. U. j j^g Q^^s Bopp sr. put his hat on with a A. M., held a clasa initiation Friday j ghoe horn. It was a great nigbt for evening in the new lodge rooms,   when j ^^e bunch.
the following at the supper table: Mr and Mrs. Gustav Bopp and young  Gus, of     course;     ex-Senator     "Diamond Charlie" Smith and wife, Mr. and Mrs. ; Nich Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Peter John- : son, Peter Kress, the popular  Baldwin butcher and the only bachelor present, | xMr. and Mrs.. Charles Russell, (Charlie | brought his well-known laugh with him, Mr.  and Mra. Harry Zeiner, John  and \ Mrs. Adel and the little Adel,  Michael Pfiefer,   Mr.   apd  Mrs. A. L.   Brown, i "Hapmy"  Jimbonway, Mr.   and Mrs. , Charlks Lawmaster, Adolph Frisch  jr.
as follows: Wednesday, April 7, evening prayer at 8 p. m., with Kev. J. H. W. Fortescue-Cole of Seaford m.. Holy Communion; Good Friday, 10.30 a. m., morning prayer, litany, sermon; Saturday, Easter even, 5 p. a visiting preacher; Thursday. 8 p. m., evening prayer.
ing with his son Francis  in  Freeport.
Dr. W. G. Smith, Dentist, 61 W. Mer¬ rick Road, Freeport; 'Phoue 8o.R.       tf
Fred W. Hoppen, formerly of Brook¬ lyn,  but now a resident of this place, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred  Hoppen was  married last Wednesday  evening Mr,   R. P.   Kent and family will re-1 to Miss Ethel  Florence  Armstrong  of turn to Merrick on the 14th. 53rd St., Brooklyn.   The marriage took
—  I place  at  the  residence of the   bride.
A Rockville Centre broker reports i Miss Gertrude Hoppen. sister of the the sale of E. P. Jennings' home in } groom, was bridesmaid and Frederick this village to Wm. Dowling of Brook-j Smith best man. The young couple Iny. It is understood that Mr. Dow-i have gone to Florida for their honey- ling will occupy this Summer. moon trip and on their return will  re-
  , sido  in   Baldwin   where  Mr.   Hoppen
The   Boya'    League  will    hold    its i owns a house.
monthly business meeting at the Pnr- j ish House on Tuesday afternoon at I 3.30. i
Young  Brothers  are tearing  down their coal bin to build a larger one.
claimed is done by the open saloon, will be increased tenfold if the legiti¬ mate saloon or hotel gives place to the secret haunt of the illicit liquor seller
license, but winks at another n^n'a illicit selling, neither of theae fur¬ nishes a'satisfactory answer to the question "What shall be done to regu¬ late the liquor traffic?"
Have you a son growing up in this county? The people who are working for local option will tell you that he must be protected. But it is your own privilege to decide whether it will be better to have conditions so that, if your son is determined to take a drink, hich you officers every¬ body who wants to come along can see him; or whether he shall take his chance of having his life blighted and his character ruined in the .secret dives. A HEAYV BURDEN TO
TAXPAYERS
So much for the moral aspect of the situation. The other, and one of equal importance is that of the financial part of the problem.
If Oyster Bay Township goes "dry" $23,000 will be added to the tax liat of the town. The deduction of the licenae money from the town receipts means the raising of more money to pay the town expenses, which must be paid by raising the assessed valuation.
Hempstead's taxes will be raised $32,534.13 to meet the deficiency, the
And tbis is exactly what will happen if | name rule that applies to Oyster Bay the attempt to il legalize the sale of j also applies to the Town of Hempatead liquor, and to make it impossible for and if local option should be carried saloon keeper to obtain a license, is j the liquor tax will be wiped out and successful. I the taxpayers will have to make up the
Not only will the evil be greater i decfiiency. but the county and the towns will be i If local option is carried the state less able to fight it. No man can get also will be compelled to raise by as- a license to sell liquor in this county un- j sessment on the two towns the sum of less he puts up the price of the license. $56,451.00 towards paying the State The money so put up amounts to many expenses and which is now not levied thousands of dollars yearly and   it is on these towna.
used for public purposes.    Local  op-      TAKE YOUR CHOICE, VOTERS! tion would deprive the county and '»wn      The whole question has resolved  it- of this money, and the man who cannot. self into whether the people of Nassau keep a saloon now, because ho has  not Oounty want liquor traflRc regulation.
the necensary money to put up for a licenae, would go into the businesa "on the sly" and so deprive the town ofthe
morality and less taxes, or local option with immorality and illicit traffic and thousands of dollars added to taxation.
I    The Sigma Euchre Club met at  the ! home  of  Mjs.   Wilbur    Southard .on
Mr.   and  Mrs.   VV. F.   Hubbell  are
an exceedingly  large number of the
members were out.    A delegation from, . .     o.   •x.u -n     o    ^u
Vrifley   Stream   and    members from | keeping  house in   Smithville   South,
Hempstead and Lynbrook were present. | havmg rented  Mrs. Chisholm s  house
During   the   evening    Deputy   State ; «>" Newbridge Road-
Councilor J. D.  Tunison  arrived    un
Our boys disposed of the Lynbrook ! Juniors very handily in the Parish I House Tuesday night in the first bas- ' Thursday afternooii I ket-ball contest for the championship. ! The acore waa 16-33. Merrick playa ! in  Lynbrook  Saturday and the  third
game,   if it ie necessary to decide the
best two out of th'ee by anotber game.
will be payed on a neutral court.
expectedly with National Representa¬ tive Kleist. Mr. Tunison made a short addresa to the members before the in¬ itiation when five candidate'^ were duly inducted into the mysteries of the order.
"Bidding Jesus Welcome" will be the morning sermon theme of Hte Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey at the First Presbyterian Church. The even ng subject will be "The Diami^ of the Venturesome."
Adolph  Ftiach jr., has received J, romination  for Constable on thi ocratic ticket ^ _ '
To-morrow a meeting will be held at the M. E. Churclr to discuss jthe im¬ portant topic of the day, "Local Op¬ tion". Rev. M. Roberts and Counsel¬ lor Flint of Freeport, will speak, at 8 p. ra.
Wm. Fanshaw has rented bis house on Bellmore Ave. to a Mr. Gardiner from Brooklyn.
ickets are uut for the Men's Club entertainment in the Parish House on April 2l8t, when Misa Gay Zienola Mc> Claren presents "Pudd'n Head Wil¬ son."
An,entertainment and dance will be given'in Fire Hall on the 14tb, by some local talent. Tickets are 35 cents, in¬ cluding dancingi
Advertise Column.
It   in    Everbody'e
The regular monthly meeting of the Hook and Ladder Co. waa held in the Firemen'a Hall on Thursday evening, when reports were rendered of the re¬ sulta of the entertanment held in Feb¬ ruary, showing that the company net¬ ted quite a goodly sum.
Lutheran Services
Next Sunday moming Lutheran Sun¬ day School and Church Services wlil begin in the old Opera Halt, 28 S. Main St. by Rev. Geo. C. Loos, Field Missionary of New York. The Sunday Scbool service will be held at 9.45 and tbe church worahip at 11 o'clock. Ail LatheraoB and ^othem interested in
• -the work are cordially invited.
ROOSEVELT
Roosevelt has but one aaloon in its bordera and that ia an overflow from Hempstead, yet if this town goes dry aome have threatened to move to Maine. They must drink somewhere.
With aix teachers on our staff and a sevei^th in contemplation, it can be seen how Roosevelt is growing. It is only a few years since,the little red school house with only one teacher served this place. Even this produced lawyers, doctora and surveyors; with the educational,factors t^at we have to-day, we think we can see a few governors, a president and perhaps one or two Carrie Nationa.
The Kindergarten Department, Miaa Lundy, teacher, is one of the encourag¬ ing featurea of our i»chool, and is an interesting class-room.
Forty new houses are in course of construction, there Js no place busier with hammer and saw^ There are no men mdre enterprsiin;; than ^the busi¬ ness men of this place. A thousand iuhabitantis now live upon tht) driest
land on Long laland. Freeport and Hempatead are both looking towarda Roosevelt with longing eyes, they would each like a slice. Roosevelt is the center of both of these villages, and, gentlemen, if you will only behave yourselves, we may at some future time encompass you both.
The Board of Trade will hold a special meeting on April 6 at their hall. All members are requested to be present.
SMITHVILLE SOUTH
'l MIW It In the M«sseng«rl"
The ftillo>)^ing pupila were perfect in their school attendance during tbe month of March: Ist Grade—Frank Carpenter. George Mueller,; 2nd and 3rd Grades—Frank ' Baldwin, Milton Baldwin, Florence Baldwin, Irene Buck, Vemon Jeffrey, Jack .Murphy, Anna Odell, Herman Schon. Intej^ne- diate Edith Baldwin, Florence Gale, George ' Morrison, Cbas,.' Schoen. Grammar Dept Harold Baldwin, Wna. Mueller. Ethel Mueller, Mary Murphy, Foster Pettit, Kenneth Smith.
Do You Want to' Buy or Sell? Use Everybody's Coltimn.