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SIDE MESSENGER
For the
South Side of
Long Island
A reliable means of commtinicatid^ between the villages of Rock- ville Centre, Baldwin, Freeport^ tRoosevelt, iMerrick, Bellmore, Smithville South, Wantagh, Seajfib^d, Massapequa and Amity ville.
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VOL. 1, NUMBER 32
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE. Ni Y„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1909
PEICE, 6 CENTS
FREEPORT
Work on the new skating rijik which isador Mayer is putting up at 84 So. Main St. has been started and Contrac¬ tor Edward Trayer. who haa the work in charge for the concrete and electri¬ cal installations, will place a concrete foundation nine feet high and one foot thick. Size is 68x80. The building is to be one story with a hip roof. The baiiding will be lighted with electricity throughout. It is jast back of the wholesale liquor house of Mayer Bros.
Clarence E. Jones, recently connected with a lumber and hardware company in this village, will shortly establish himself in the hardware business at Main St. and Merrick Road.
New Projfd o( Interest
to Freeport People
Permission  hae been received from the City of New York, who own  the strip of land which parallels the north side of the railroad tntcks through thaj village  to improve and beautify it, by | munion, 9.00 a. m.
Besides the J. O. U. A. M. and John Otten himself, some of the new ten¬ ants in the Otten Bldg. are Pettit and Lamb, Sidney Swezey, Smith & Levy, Archer B. Wallace and C. H. Crain (store).
H. R. Zeiner expects to commence the erection shortly of a ten-room resi¬ dence on his property at New York and Seaman Aves.
Holy Communion and Sendon,   Feb. 28. March 7 and 21, 10,39^. m.
Matins.   Litany  andT^ermon,  other Sundys, 10.30 a. m.
Evensong and sermon, 7.30 p. m. Holy Day
Annunciation, March 25, Holy  Com-
making there a park with walks, trees, shrubbery and flowers. Already wme money has been subscribed for this pur¬ pose, which is commendable and worthy of support of the public spirited citizens of Freeport. This will add greatly to the improvement of this spot and to the village and also give a good impres sion of the village to p'lople coming here or paming through on trains. At present it is atiything but a beauty spot.    We hope to see it made attract-
Week Days Wednesdays, Litany, 10.00 a. m. Thursdays,   Evensong  and  Sermon, 8,00 p. m.
Fridays, Evensong, 6.00 p. m.
Palm Sunday, April 4 Holy  Communion  and  Blessing   of Palms,   8.00 a. m.
Holy Communion and Sermon,   10.30 a. m.
Evensong and Sermon, 7.30 p. m.
Holy Week Holy Communion, daily except  Fri-
ive and kspt so.     The  present  inten
;ion is to park as stated above, all that j day, 9.00 a. m.
strip of land owned by the  city  along I     Litany, Wednesday. 10.00 a. m.
the   tracks  from   Main  St.   to  Long      Evensong,    Monday,    Tuesday
Beach Ave.    The work will  be under i Wednesday. 5.00 p. m.
and
the personal supervision of Mr. Sig¬ mond, tD whom moneys for the carry¬ ing on of thia work should be sent. The name of each subscriber and the amount given will be published as soon as received. The following have sub¬ scribed sums as state herewith:
Thursday, March 4, at 8 p. m., the Rev. Robert Rogers of the Church of the Good Shephard will preach at the Episcopal Church. Every Thursday during Lent there will be special preachers at this church whose namea will be published the issue preceding their date here.
Charles A. Sigmond
.John J. Randall
Jere Brown
Elvin N. Edwards
H. P. Libby
S. F. Pearsali
$50.00
50.00
25,00
10,00
10.00
5.00
Evensong, Thursday, 8,00 p. m. I Good Friday, April 9
!     Matins and ante-Communion, 9.00 a. ]m.
I     Children's    Service   and    Address, 110.00 a. m.
i     Passion Service, 12.00 m. to 3.00  p. ; m.
Evensong and Sermon. 8.00 p. rn. Easter, April 11
Holy Communion, 7,00 a. m.
Holy Communion and Sjermon. 10.30 a. ra.
Children's    Service    and    Address, 110.80 p. m.
Evensong and Sermon, 7,30 p. m.
G,   H.   Crane  •vill  shortly open his! delicatessen  store   in   the  new  Otten j
Building. _    _   . |    The  two  flats and lone store being
j erected on Isf^^Main St., opposite  Ran- Dr. W. G. Smith, Dputist. «1 W. Mer- idall Avenue,   are about finished.    Nei- '^e'^'^re''resi6e7cr:t \ ™^ ^^''' ^'-P^'^^^ ;^'-^ «^-«-       '^ i -" «— *« the builder.
following  Saturday  at the home    ofl    ^he anntal primary of the  Petiple'sj    George Howard feandall has the con'- Mrs. E.   B. Lent, 93 So.   Long  Beach! Party  was held   Wednesday evening, Ave. I and notwithstanding the stormy weath¬
er over 300 votes were cast.    The  fol
The Altar Gulid of the Church ofthe Transfiguration will hold a  cake  sale • each Saturday during Lent. To-morrow ^ho  sslc  will Mrs. Charles Milbank, '211 Pine St; the;
tract to build a  two-story  brick  store and office building for Henry Gobetz on So. Main Street, adjoining his building Mr. and Mrs, George Conklin  enter- ; FowTng Tfficerr ofuTe^primarrweVe j recently purchased at that place. tained  a number of their friends at | chosen:    Chairman,   William S. Hall; their home on N, Ocean Ave.   Tuesday j secretaries.   Sylvester P. Shea  and S. night.    They played cards and wound i F. Pearsali; tellers, Walter B. Cozzens up with  refreshtnents.    About  fifteen ! and James A, Stiles, in all were preaent. j     The vote resulted as follows:
For President. D. Morriaon 314. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas  Chilton  gave      For Trustees, (two) Franklin Bedell a party Monday night for the daughter ! 315. Chas. A. Sigmond 305. pthel at Iheir residence on Bergen   PI. j     For treasurer, Wallace R. Post   135, About twenty in all were there to  en-| John E. Golding 123, Walter C. Rhodes joy   the  fun  and  the youngsters  juat j 67.
atopped  short  of  tearing the place to \     For collector, D. Frank Seaman 186, pieces. ' E. A. Dorlon 116.
There was no opposition for presi- ; dent and trusteea, and according to the j vote Wallace Post and D. Frank Sea- j mafl were named for treasurer and col¬ lector respectively.
ROOSEVELT
Monday afternoon thli wagon of E. V. Hingle waa run into by ,the automo¬ bile of John R. Carpenter of Jamaica. Joe Carrington. who was driving the wagon, waa thrown against the fence in front of the residence of B. J. Rhodes. Young Carrington was car¬ ried home and Dr. Carman called in but found no bones broken.
There waa a big crowd at the Sig¬ mond Friday night. The event being the vaudeville and dance of the Catho¬ lic Club of Freeport.' Despite the in¬ clement weather a crowd which all but
The 22,
The people of this nlace were sur¬ prised to hear of the marriage of Miss Mabel E. Burhans of Hunter, N. Y., to Archie R. Smith of this place. irwarerp;cte7that there would be\<^^^r^e married Monday. Feb filled the floor space got there good and i ^ jgrger fight for the various offices but ^^ "oDOKen, JN, J. early and enjoyed everything from start I instead the opposition circulated peti- to finish. There were a number of | Hons. which explained why they were professional  vaudeville   acts    on  the ] „qj. (,„j ^.q yo^e;
stage, secured for the night by mana- j "Independent nominations for the ger Sigmond, and these were foUowec ; following village offices have been by the dance. Professor Harry R. i made, and will be filed in due course Zeiner and his orchestra tuned up their | ^j^j, the Village Clerk, aa provided by instruments and started off with a live-  ^^^.
For    President,    R.    A.    Mansfield Hobbs;    For    Trustees,     Charles    F, 	
Schneiker and  Alexander C.   Acker- i     . , j    i.i.    j j  i.u        i.
,     ^ large crowd  attended  the enter-
We are glad to note that Mrs. E. D. Seabury, who has been ill with la grippe, is slowly improving, al.so Mr. J. A, Seaman, who has been ill the past month.
A number of young people had a very pleasant time at the birthday party of Austin Wood at his home on Washington Ave.
ly two step and in no time at all the floor was filled with the boys and girls. The writer   of  this article,   at  that
affair,  saw  more ways of dancing the  nj^^.  For Treasurer, John E. Golding: L  . .*4.uaiv,ui,      ata
"barn dance" than he ever imagined for Collector, George B. Paterson; to i t«'"":'ent^o«,.the Alpha Hook and Lad- exwted and when he selected a real be regularly balloted for at the annual j ^fr Co. at Fireman s Hall Monday eve- pretty girl for the "Nantucket" he was election for the Village of Freeport  to i "'"K-    Dancing  was enjoyed  until  a
not prepared    for the  intricacies of  ^g j,eld Tuesday, March 16, 1909, 1 '"'^ """'•     ,    	
that dance to finally place her aa thfti it has therefore bean decided not toj Qn Tuesday evening a number of partner of the editor of a newspaper^.participate in the Primary, known as [ frje^ds enjoyed a very pleasant evening published West of Freeport.    In future  ^^le  People's  Primary, believing  that j^j guppgr at the  home  of  Mrs.   W.
there is no necesssity for primaries in  Chapman on Whitehouse Ave.
village  elections, and  no proviaion   in j 	
the law for the same.
Committee on Nominations,
Citizen's Party."
there wiil be one dance passed up by this human scribbling machine. It was late when everybody started for home. Caterer Crain, a newcomer in Freeport, \ served the supper on the stage and his ; introduction to Freeport was worthy of 1 hie beat effort in his line. Would like , to tell more about this interesting j event, but it is hard to forget that j "Nantucket" affair,
The engagement is announced of Miss Julia Wild of this place to Mr. Sutter of Hempstead, N. Y.
Mrs. Coons' little girl was sbrious- ly burned by up-setting i kettle of boil- ling water.    She is slowly  improving.
The Eastern Petrolithic Company has lately been formed with headquarters at Freeport, for the construction of an improved kind of oiled roads, known as Petrolithic.   These roads are tamped i ternoon  at
Freeport Baptist Church, (Stanley W. Roberts, minister), Piiblic worship of God Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and  7.30
p. m.; evening sermon theme, "What i Mrs. Mary E. Whitehouse died atthe do we mean by the Kingdom of God?" I home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bible school at 2,30, Y. P. C. E, meet- j Faath, Saturday night. She was 67 ing at 6.45. mid-week service Friday [years of age and was bom in Balti- evening at eight o'clock.    Sunday  af- j more, Md.    She  was married to John
3.45  in  this Church the
solid with u special roller, from a mix- union Men'^s Meetings of the Methodist, ture of the natural soil and a heavy as- Presbyterian and Baptist Churches will phaltum of tar. They bid fair to be be held. This meeting will beof great very popular, especially for real estate [ interest to all men.
developments—as it  is claimed   that | 	
they can be constructed at a very  low | cost, and will prevent the growth of
weeds. The roads have the appearance of asphalt and promise well for auto¬ mobile traffic, as they are claimed to be absolutely dustless and very resilient. Those particularly interested in tbe Company are Alvin G. Smith. J, Huy¬ ler Ellison. A. B, Malcomson, A. S, kal«Hmi8on, all of Freeport, and A, G. Patterson of Hempstead, Tfae bead- •quarters are located at 37 Railroad Ave., Freeport.
Adv»rtls« Column.
It  In    Ev«nrbo4y*t
A special meeting of the South Shore Yacht Club wiih be held Monday, March lat, at the Benson House at 8 p. m.
The following services will be held at the Church of the Transfiguration during Lent, 1909, Rev, Pelham St, George Bissell. M. A,. A. K. C. Priest-in-charge:
Sundays
Holy Communion, except Feb. 28, 8.00 a. m. ~^
Do You Want to Buy or Soil? Uoo Everybotfy^o Colunnn.
BEUMORE
BALDWIN
bors and friends.
Mr. and Mrs, George A
Bellmore, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1909,     |    The  masque ball of the  Salamander Editor South Side Messenger: i H. and L, Co. at Oceanside drew a big
Dear Sir:  crowd who enjoyed every minute of
We desire to express through the j the evening's fun. Some very excel- columns of your valuable paper our lent costumes were worn. Waldau thanka and gratitude for the many acts Bros- of Amityvilie furnished the of kindness extended  to us during our  music.
recent bereavement by our good neigh-,     ^^^^^^ ^^ XiTgelus  sold  his  fruit
„   .,       i store on Grand Ave., to Antonio  Sor-
'"'    ¦     I rentino who will conduct a first class
Charles Johnson, builder, has the con-1 establishment,	
tract for a residence to be built on Oak a large number of our citizens will Street, near Bellmore Ave, D, Waller | go to the inauguration at Washington of Brooklyn is tke ^wner.        ' | in March with the Republican  County
.,      ^   . .   ..    . ,,, ! Committee.    John G, Lusch, Peter A,
Mrs. Teckla Morton, well-known on ^ress, Walter Raynor. Charles Smith, tha professional stage, wa-. a guest of jj, H. Sherwood and others from her brother, Harry Johnson, over Sun-  ^ere will be in the line of march.
day.   	
^ , ,,,-,.       I    The   Thursday   night   dances   with
One event that we would liketl to : ^^^ „g^ featurea are now being held have^had a report on was the dance of I j^ ^^e big hall owned by T.   W.   Pear-
the Smithville South Athletic Associa tidn in Firemen's Hall. Our cor¬ respondent had such a good time that the Messenger was forgotten. Any way it was a success and that's about all we can say about it at this late date.
This may sound like an old, old stcwy, but the committee in charge of installing the heating plant on the Bellmore Ave. Church are now waiting for the contractor to start in, af^er that wd expect to see this church in at^least as flourishing a condition as the M. E. Church on the Merrick Road.
A number of Smithville South and BeUmore folkis attended the Catholic Cliib Ball in Freeport Friday.
Overjn Freeport the idea seeras pre- vBknfc"fbat the n^w, trolley, from, Am¬ ityvilie to the City is a sure thing. If it goes through through her^ is via Belltagh Ave. pass¬ ing Valentine's corner and Schneider's grocery, and ao on through Seaman Ave. Freeport.
Whitehouse about fifty years ago, and for many years roade their home at Melville. She has been an active church worker, until sickness forced her to give up active work. She ia sui^yived by her husband and six child ren, John Whitehouse jr., of Spring field. Mass,; Charles Whitehouse of Hempstead. Mrs, Charles Turner of Freeport and Mrs, Joseph Faath. Miss Mary Whitehouse and Arthur White- house, all of this place. The funeral service took place at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Faath. Taesday even¬ ing, |lev. W. A, Richard, pastor of the Freepori Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a member, officiating. On Wednesday morning the remains were taicen to Melville, wbere services were held.
sail.
Mrs. Caroline Scott of Jeraey City was a guest of her son, A. H. Scott, last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs, Louis Jandorff of Man¬ hattan were guasts of Mrs, Chas. S. Hewey, Millburn Ave., Washington's Birthday.
Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Goff of Brooklyn were visiting Mrs, Chas, Hewey Mon¬ day.
The Baldwin Civic Club held its reg¬ ular monthly meeting Wednesday night at Seaman's Hall,
Wilfred Southard was at home from Saturday to Tuesday. He is a student at Cornell.
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George Hebenstreit was given a its present route birthday surprise the 17th by about twenty of his friends. Each one re¬ ceived a souvenir friendship cup from Mrs, Hebenstreit, mother of the sur¬ prised one, who was nineteen years old : that day.
Another railroad line through the vil-I , . ,77—r" , -, lage promised at once is the narrow ; W. F..Hubbell has been made fore- gauge line to be erected by the en-1 man for G. A. atone, painter and deco- gineers putting in the new pipe line | rator, of Freeport. for the city. It will parallel the rail- rj^^e Ladies' Aid Society of the Meth- road from Amityvilie to Valley ^jjjjgj Episcopal Church met at the par- Stream.                                           ! sonage, instead of the chapel,   because
The'Ladies' Aid Society of the Bell- ; ot the storm. Those who attendedin- moreM. E, Church will meet Thursday I spected the new range and admired March 4th at the residence of Mrs. J, ' plumber A. C. Schuman s selection of G,   Harrison: St. Mark's Ave. ! a boiler of gold.    The next meeting of
.   -      _ I the society will be March 9 with  Mra.
Kvery  effoit  is being made to have ! W. R. Hawkins, Millburn Ave. the  new   school  house    at. Smithville i     ^       Florence'Story   is confined  to South  ready   by   Monday  March   l«t. 1 ^^e house by illness.
Everything is ready with the exception , ¦'    '
of the wardrobes which have been  ex-.     ^^  Charlfes Lancier visited  friends pected for three weeks.    If the formal 1 ^gj-e on Monday, opening  does  not  take place  Monday;
we will announce it later. ,     ^    pleasant   afternoon     with    the
The new flag pole is ready and now | Woman's Advance Club was spent at for Old Glory to wave every day from j the horae of Mrs, Maier, Millburn it's peak. {Ave,, February 18.    Plans were made
Editor, The Messenger, i to further the Librpy  project,    Mrs.
P   _ gjr ; J. A. Schmidt gave selections oin piano.
The   following  may  be   interesting I     5T"'  ^T rT'¦^*? J^'^^'J-lf^ especially as it did  not appear last «"d Mrs, Rhoda Glover had an articles *". .     • on "The Humor of Lincoln."    Dainty
A supper and dance was given by I refreshments were served. . the Smithville South Athletic Club in the Firemen's Hall, Bellmore, on Wednesday evening, February 17, A feature of the occasion was the pres¬ entation of a flag and pennant to the club by the Ladies' Au.xiliary, The presentation was made by Rev, Thos. S. Braithwaite o'f Wantagh and re¬ ceived by the president of the club, Victor Johnson, who replied in a neat speech.
Yours truly,
H B ,
MERRICK
The Stroller's Coluiiin
Between Freeport innd Merrick on the Merrick Road Sunday afternoon I counted five automobiles on the side of the road broke down.
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, the first in Lent, at 11 a, m, and 7.30 p, m, Tbe rector' morning subject will be "Penitence^ Pardon and Peace," In the evening he will begin a series of talks continuing throughout the Sunday evenings in Lent upon the Episcopal Church—its Doctrine, Ministry, Discipline, Wor ship and Sacraments. Sunday Scho o session in the Parish House at 10 a' m. The lesson-subject will be the on*^ committed January 17, "His Miracle Among the Gentiles;'' Mark 7: 24-37. The examination of the School will take place the first Sunday in April.
On Wednesday afternoon at 4,00 a,m. Litany service with address by the rector will be held in the church and on Friday evening at 8, Evening Pray¬ er, with Dean John R. Moses of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, visiting preacher. The rector meets his class for study of the Prayer Book and its use in the Parish House every Wednes¬ day aftemoon during Lent at 3.30. All are cordially invited to attend this class.
In the Parish House on Friday af¬ temoons throughout Lent at 4.30, ^Ir. Fred Settle, choirmaster, wili be glad to meet all those of the village inter-'" ested in the study of church music. Our townspeople shoyld take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Church during this Lenten season.
Rev. F. M. Townley, former ret.tor of the Church of the Redeemer, but now of St. Bartholomew's, Brooklyn, was in town Wednesday looking over the site on Merrick Ave. near the bay jff}i)f0^he in|tW!jd8 soojp t9..^9Udjl< Sam¬ mer home. 	
Mrs. L. B. Corlies left town last week to be gone a month or more. Af¬ ter spending a fe^ days in Freeport and New York she will sojourn with her brother. Rev. Frank Draper, of New Milfora, Conn,
We are glad to announce that Mrs. Lawson, wife of Captain Lawson, who has been confined to her home for some weeks past with a general nervous breakdown, is on  the way to recovery.
Mra. Griffing, v/ho has been confined to her bed with rheumatic trouble and a complication of diseases, is slowly improving under the care of Dr. Wit¬ mer of Freeport.
Merrick lifts up its voice in la¬ mentation with its sister Long Island towns at the appearance of its station adorned with hideous frames for bill posting. Poor la. 1. R. R.! But who knows, perhaps this is a new means of income to the road to enable them to give us cheaper rates of trafific.
Who wants to buy a pony? Emest Miller has one on his hands, the result of a raffle at the Hotel Merrick. It's a trusty animal and warranted to stand without hitchin'.
SEAFORD
Ansel    Raynor    is completing double houee on Waverly Ave.
his
A new siding is being run from the railroad tracks so-ith to the line of the newpipe line to the city for the pur¬ pose of conveniently unloading the 72- inch pipe uHed in this conduit,
Tho Y. M, I, C, dance Monday night was welt attended, everybody reports having had a good time.
A meeting of tbe fire company is to bo h«;ld at the flre headquarters Mon¬ day night. The new rules and regula¬ tions are to be voted upon at this meeting.	
The death of the oldest son of Wm. Beniston occurred at noon Tuesday in his Brooklyn home. The young man was 23 years old and known here.
Contracts have been giv«n for tbe erection of several boat hoases un tfae creek south tif faere.
Washington's Birthday most all our citizens were wearing small hatchets. ¦ This is printed to oprrect the impres- Ision that they were'members of a Car- I rie Nation band of teetotalers. Just j simply in honor of the great G. Wash- ington. Madam Nation did not figure : at all.
! Lots of free lunch in Lynbrook this j week. Wonder if it is due to the poor { appetites of those attending the Bag I House ball,
] Over in Baldwin they know who I threw the over'alls in the chowder but i are wondering who threw the bricks I through the window of the Baldwin j Field Club Sunday night.
I Someone asked me if they w^re tak¬ ing the mud from Main St,, l''reeport, to make mud houses with on the beach. No, it's been walked in enough al¬ ready, 	
Who aaid Amos Pearsali of Baldwin pinched a pigeon from it's cooj^ the other night. Nothing in xhe rumor at all. besides Anios can prove an alibi.
The petite Pettit Building left ita bed and board on Monday and the fol¬ lowing day I saw Steve and his man at Miller Ave. and Atlantic. Freeport, triyng to recover it (wi^ shingles.)
I sow it fn tho Moooonrorl'
*l oowr it In tho fMoooonfori"
A good crowd attended the entertain¬ ment in Firemen's Hall Monday night. We wish we could designate the "show" but our reputation forveracity forbids. Needless to say, a stricter censorship wiil be exercised in the fu¬ ture. All men on entertainment com¬ mittees hereafter in Merrick will be from Missouri and they'll have to "show us." If any of the performers apply to the committee for endorse¬ ment, we judge from what we hear that there is apt to be a funeral.
Real   Estate Transfers
S, E, Wright to Frank Ashdown, Freeport; nom.
R, M, Lamb and ano. to A. B, Wal¬ lace, same; nom,
L, H, Green to E. A, Nevins, Hemp¬ stead ; nom.
Schwencke Land Co. to Joseph Marino. Bellmore; |189.
R. L. Burton to J, L. Phipps, Wood- mere ; nnm.
Same to W. W. Totten, same;  nom.
J. F. Schroeter to C, L, Schroeter. Franklin Square; "om.v^
Ocean Ry, Co. to ST^T. Munson, Rockville Centre; nom.
Louisa Bennett to E. B. Vanderveer, Baldwin; nom.
E. B. Vanderveer to D. J, ^ Brady, same; nom,
Schwencke Land Co. to Valentine Thim, Hempstead Manor; nom.
J. H. P. Vandewater and ano. to Russel Swacoat,  Cedarhurst; $600.
W. E- Philips to I. S. Fox. Frae¬ port; nom.   '
I.jOuis Zachronan to L, T^Wells. same; nom.
House ft Home Co. to W. A. Wolf, Floral Park; nom.
EvorylMdy'o Colui^in.  Fogo 4.