South Side Messenger 19101104

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Vote Early Next Tuesday So All Can Vote
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, NASSAU COUNTY
Vol 3, Number 15
Every Friday
I Looking Out  for Elec¬ tion Floaters
Nassau Republicans Believe Colon¬ izers Are Buiy in Some Diitricts in the TowA of Hempstead
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. NOV. 4, 1910
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Merrick
Services at the Church of thp Re¬ deemer Sunday, the twenty-fourth af¬ ter Trinity, at 7:30 and 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Telebration of the Holy Communion at the early service and Litany and Holy Communion at the aecond service. The Sunday School meetii in the Pariflh Huose at 10 a. m. That Nassau County this election The Woman'8 Auxiliary meets on Fri- ghall not be overrun by outside "float- day afternoons at 2:30. Any lady of era," imports for the purpose of vot- Mernck will be welcomed to its mem-ijnjj illeRally. is the clotermination of bcrship. The Junior Auxiliary meets the Republican (bounty Committee, and on Saturday afternoons at 2:30. Thelgt a meeting held in Mineola Monday offering on Sunday wall be for the jt wa.n decided to employ counsel and work of the Altar Society.
Mr. Charles N. Kent resigned his position last week with the Public Service Commission in New York to accept an offer from the Edison Port¬ land Cement Company. Mr. Kent is spending the week at the factory of the company in Easton. Penn., ac¬ quainting himself with some of the business but after thin week he will be associated with the New York oflice in outside work.
detectives in every voting district of the county for the purpose of arrest¬ ing violators of the election laws.
A preliminary canvass has been made, and it has been found that there are in every election district names ro- corded on the register whose residence and location in that district cannot be found.
This is especially true in the Nine¬ teenth Di.stBjct, which is Oceanside , the Eighteenth District, Cedarhurst ; the Fifteenth District, which   includes
.,.     . ,.       ,,  . , i-      -1     ¦    Lynbrook, and liie   S<'venteenth  Dist-
Mias Aline ll;iines whose    fami v   is    •   .       u- u •   -i      in    i      n •   ti ,„ ,, KT   A-    !•    .1       -   . ^ net, which IS I'loral Park, all in Hemp-
at relham,  N. \ ., for the winter spent .,     ¦,  ,.„„.„ 1    . 1 -.1     .. /•.     rs   stead  town,
ast    week    Jiore    with   Mrs.   CD.       * •  >        ,• i. 11 rr      i
A special meeting was held Tuesday
of the Repuhliciin C'oiinty Committee, and strenuous measures will be tuKcn to suppress the evil.
The Town ('oinmi ttoe at a meeting held Monday eveninj,' ailopteil the fol¬ lowing resolution;
Whereas, Iiifmination hiis been re- Oii' station agent, S. J. Rubin suf- ceived by the Republican Town Corn- fered a painful ace dent la"t week in mittee of the town of Hempstead to loadiiiga trunk. The trunk came down the effect that illegal registration has upon his little finn.T which was so bad- '"'^^" '''^^^ '" several election districts ly crushed that Dr. Newton, who was ,'" t^t' town of Hempstead, and, consulted, feared that it mitrht retpiire       Whereas, It is believed that  an   or-
Harvey.
Special attention is called to the change of thi.' hour of the evening ser¬ vice at the t'htirch of the Redeemer for the winter months 7:.'i() instead of 8 o'clock.
amimtatioi),   biU now he feels    that he may he able to save it.
Mrs. W. .7. Kenny left .Morriek oii Monday, where she has been staying at the  Hotel Merrick, to   remain in New
ganizLod attempt will he made on Elec¬ tion Day to vote persons who are not legal residents of the town of Hemp¬ stead or entitled to vote therein; there¬ fore, he it Resolved,   That this committee  cir-
HENRY L  STIMSON, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR  GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK STATE.
York for a few (lays and   then go on to j dilate   notice   throughout   the town of Mount Clemens,   Mich., for the L,eiiefit'*lJenipstead that any attempt at illegal
of the baths.
The regular monthly mectintr of the Men's Club will beheld in the Parish House on Monday at 8:;!0 |i. m. instead of onTuesday a.s usuiil, which i.s a lioli- day.
Master   Herbert   Mul agreeably     surpriseil   oi
"    was   most Hallowe'en
I voting will be prosecutoil to the full extent of the law.
Tho attention of ShcrifT Foster and District Attorney C'llcs has been called to tho matter, anil tlie State Board of Elections notilird of th«' prospect of il¬ legal voting bring att<'mj]ted in tin- town.
The fact that thi' registration in tin- town of Hempstead this   year is  more
Freeport
Baldwin
when beiiif^ entieeii into the parlor of j than 2,001) greater than that of last his home he found gathered there year was not known to the Kejiulilican about twenty of his young friends, leaders, and prohaldy would not have The usual ganiej apfiropriate for the i received attention but for a boast to seniiCP were indulged in, followed by the effect tliin the \i)t>' in the town of .singing, ilanci..^;, ami refreshments. , Hempstead will hv the largest ever Among those present were the Misses, cast, and that the Democrats will carry Muller, Tween, Stout, Henner, Hill, the town. It is a coincidence that the Carman, Angoll, Sybil Beniier, Weber, ! lirst intimation of an abnormal increase Bartow, Thaun, Julia Burns and Kitty j in registration came from outside the and Margaret Mulcahy; the Messrs. county, and from a man who is known Gus and Marry Muller, and the"" Mas^to De elosoly identified with Tammany ters'liurns, George Mulcahy, Herbert' Hall. It was this nnui who was over- Seaman. AngeH, William "t^tto and heard to nnike the statement that Charles Carman. ¦' Ih'nipsteail will give ii Democratic ma-  -                             jiii'ity   and   will  cast the largest  vote
A large number of Merrickites were ever canvassed in the town, present on a paper of protest presented The tip was given State Committee- to tlie Water Board in session at Bell-, man Smith Co.x, who is also a member more on Wednesday against granting of the l{e[iublic:in Town Committee, to certain parties in Bellmore who de- and tFien an investigation of the regis- sire a Beliinore-Merrick franchise for tiation was begun, it was found that laying water mains in our streets, the in District No. 1 (d' Freeport there had right to the Merrick privileges. The been an imnease of 210 over the regi.s- Board took the papers presented and tration of 1909; in District No. !) reserved decision. A vote taken of (Oceanside), an increase of 148; in those present upon the matter showed District No. 17 (Floral Park and Gar- very few supporting the Bellmore den L'ity). an increase of 120, and in ¦proposition. District No. 8 (Cedarhurst   and   Law-
rence). there were 220 more registered
At a meeting of the Junior Auxili- than last year, ary on Saturday last to elect officers to An examination or dissection of the some e.xi8ting vacancies Miss Gertrude registration list in two of the districts Link was mad^ president. Miss Bessie named- Freeport, No, 4, and Ocean- Angell, vice president, and Miss Isabel side -showed that in the former there Weber, secretary. Miss Julia Burns were forty names on the list which is the treasurer. Miss Duncan visited were unfamiliar to the inspectors and the Auxiliary on Saturday and gave an to both the Republicans and the Demo- ' interesting and helpful talk upon the j cratic district captain ; nor could any Indians and the work done among them , other resident identify the owners of and upon prayer. the   names.    In   Oceanside  there are
sixty on the registration   who are   un- !
The hremen are arranging for anoth-  known to the residents there.    The in- er   entertainment   to  be   given in the crease of 220  in   the Cwlarhurst-Law-
hall on Thanksgiving night.    The same
rence    district is considered   most   re-
committee  js in   charge  as   conducted  ,„ark3ble,   for the  reason   that those
villages are what are   termed  summer places,    with  u population   of   house renters in the summer,   who  returned to their city homes early in September. It may and it may nut be significant, but   the   four   districts   in   which the hittehrandt, at the^^gg^^..^ increase is shown are   on  the n   Wednesday    and   ii„e of the trolleys running   into   Nas¬ sau County from   Brooklyn and Jamai¬ ca, and it would be an' easy matter for floaters   to go from one   district to an- other during the day in   bunches of six An fcpworth   League  Group  Rally lor ten and vote on the numes handed in will   be held   m  Bellmore  Methodist I to the inspt -tors on the registration. Episcopal   CtMirch on Thursday   even
Ing. November 17. A good program i« 5,^ „, „ ^j ^ ^^^ MM.«n««r till promised. The neighboriBg Leagues j„. 1, 1912, tS« b«wm«.» pi^er ia have all been invited to attbnd.
the last performance given in the hall Messrs. J. \V. Birch, Heed Midmerand Ernest Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. J, J. l.ittebrandt of Yonkers were visitors with tlieir son, Rev. William H. Hotel Merrick ( Thursday.
Epworth  League   Rally
1 the tovrn.
A running race will be hold Sun¬ day on .Miiiii street ai.d Seaman avenue at l(l:4r) a. m. lie tween Tom CalVery and Louis Ferrara, iidth of Fieoport.
JORDAN WKHHER Kev. D. A. Jordan, for six years ])astor of the .\I. E. Church, and Mrs. Lucy Webber, of isTl Mudisf))i .-\ve., Manhattan, were married at the Dre- • vort Houpe, Brooklyn, J'huisday oven- ! ing, by Rev. Chas. S. Wing, Supt. of the Brooklyn Church Society. They are residing at tlie Jordan re.-iitlenee on Lena avenue.
¦      D. P>ank Dikeman, school    tax   col- ; lector, gives iK>tice tliaihehas received : the warrant for the collection of school taxes and began collection last Monday. ' He will receive the tax at one per cent to Dec. 5, and after tliat  date at 5 per cent.    Up  to Dec. ."1 his otiice   will be at the First National   Bank   and   from that   date   at 30   Conmiercial    street. The rate this year is .'?.88 per hundred, against $1.92 last year; as the   assess¬ ments   were   raised.j250 per cent   this means the tax last year on same ass^ss- n'enis would have been $.7t)S, or an ad¬ vance of 1.112 this year.
Louis Rovegno, who has been with his brother in the fruit store on Rail¬ road avenue, has gone to Saugerties, where he formerly resided. "Ijouie" has made many friends by his genial disposition anti interest in athletics, since he has been in Freeport, and his departure will be regretted, especially by the baseball fans who looked to him for first reports of National and Ameri¬ can League games.
County Scaler of Weights ami Meas¬ ures   Frank WocmI made a tour of   Val¬ ley   Stream and Lynbrook,  during  the latter part of last week and confiscated I 67 measures   of   various   kinds    while I making only eleven calls. '
Nearly all of them were of the Vh\- \ uid variety,_ and while many of them used for molasses, vinegar, etc., were found short, most of them wece seized as they were being used for the meas¬ uring of dry articles such as beans, peanuts and the like.
When asked why these people who have the short measures were not prosecuted, Mr, Wood stated to the re¬ porter that owing to the fact that he ! had not sealed all the weights and measures in the county that it was only fair that each and every one have ^ warning.
The Grand Jury iinll bring its reports in   this   week un   cases   investigated. Among   those   will  be reports on the i complaint of Dr, Kvans about the local I Board of  Health.    The  Grand   Jury j
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I'^rank Cotte and family moved into their new home on Rockwood Ave.
Adolph Sthreiber and family of Sea Grove Manor, have moved to Frcejiort, where they will reside on Ocean Ave.
A largo number of the High School |)upils and teachers, attired in sheets and pillow cases, tendered a surprise party to Miss Louise Byrne at her home on Grand avenue. After the hostess had somewhat recovered from her sur¬ prise, games and music helped to pass a very pleasant evening.
On Saturday evening the Milburn Literary Society celebi-ated their lath anniversary at the home of its presi¬ dent, Mrs. Charles H. Thomas, on Harrison Ave. An interesting feature of the meetjng was the reading of the year hy year history of the society since its organization in 1895.
The Pumpkin Heads of Baldwin will hold their annual dance in Salamander Hall, Oceanside, on Wednesday even¬ ing, Nov. 15. The committee consists [of Josh Hebenstreit, jr., Si Denton, jr., and Hiram Cotte. jr.
I The Epworth League of the M. E. [Church held a Hallowe'en social in the [church on Tuesday evening, which was ; i well attended by the members and I friends. The church was very taste- ; fully decorated with autumn leaves and j cornstalks. The evening was spent ! with several ghost stories, music, etc. One interesting feature, which attract- ' ed a large number of the young people was the "spook alley" which was hell I in the basement.
Last Saturday evening at the resi¬ dence of Mr. Charles H. Thomas the Milburn l/iterary Society celebrated its 15th anniversary. It was also a reun¬ ion mee/ting, some members coming quite a distance in order to attend. The house was attractively decoratetl. A program was renderetl and refresh¬ ments served. Mrs. Charles H. Thom¬ as is the present president of the Soci¬ ety and Miss Margaret B. Wheeler sec¬ retary and treasurer.
Miss Dorothea Southard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Southard gave a Hallowe'en party on Monday evening at her home on Lower Grand avenue. A number of young people were pres¬ ent and spent a jolly time.
These are days when  the complexion needs careful guarding.    Smith & Be¬ dell's  ad   in  this  issue   tells   how to , guard it most effectively. It
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Report
of Local Visiting' Committee
Bellmore
Single copies of the   Messenger can, I be had at William   Wolfe's drug store Showing  Work   of this Charitable and from Anderson Bloomer, news deal-
OrganizaHon Dnriirg the Pa.t    \''' "* ^ •=*"*' ^^^ '^
!    A large number  attended   the  Hal-
Year; AUo Quarterly Meeting
lowe'en social at the home «f |Mr8. David Seaman Tuesday evening under auspices of the Epworth League of the East Meadow M. E. Curhch.
QUARTERLY REPORT
The Local    Visiting  Committee  for Nassau   County met at Mineola on Oc- i Nov. 2, 1910.
toher 28, Mr. F. B]. Willits presiding, -j     Edit6r South Side Messsenger,
The Committee for Children reported Freeport, L. I. thirteen visits made to children board- : Dear Sir: Will you please publish ed in family houses in the Town of I in your paper on behalf of the family Hempstead. The reports were favor-j of David Bedell: Thanks to all friends able. One boy should receive treat-1 and neighbors for their.generous help ment from a physician. A boy who in our need and their sympathy in our had  been  considered unruly was  very I losS.
much   improved    and   doing   well   in \ Yours very truly,
8cho(d.    Otie   girl   had   been taken by 1 J. J. BEDELL.
relatives who will provide   for her and 	
one has been ado[)ted by the family; The open season for rabbits and quail with whom she was boarded. A visit j started Tuesday, Nov. 1. Rabbits are had been made to the Howard Orphan ' reported plentiful this season but quail Asylum where three children from are very scarce in this section of the .North Hempstead and one from Oyster Island. Hay   are   supported.    They   are   well ¦
clothed and fed and the school work re- ¦ Antonio Palermo has .<o|d his cottage markably good. A boy at Westbury on Crescent lawn to J. \V. Edwards of had been visited. St. Mark's avenue,   who will take pos-
Nassau   Hospital was visited on Oc- \ session   as soon as the new  building is tober 2(1.    During   the  three   months j completed, .¦^ince the last report   two  hundred and , "
sixty-four patients had been treated, i Kenneth Tillotsnn has secured a po- t'ighty-eight of them private patients. 1 s't'O" with the West Shore Railroad in Niiiety-eight were discharged cured New York City, with which company and   twenty-three   died.     Sixty-eight ^''e will learn the electrical trade.
The fire company was called out Thursday of last week, a fire having started in the chimney of Stanford Smith's house on Oak. street. The blaze was quickly extinguished before
bor which
wives   the  sandwiches, old   maids   the lemonade, and widows the   sweet pick-
most   men young   girl
operations were performed. The ca- , pacity of the hospital for emergency ' work was tested during the Vanderbilt
Cup   races,    eighteen  cases   being re¬ ceived   in twelve   hours.    During   the
three  months    covered   bv    the report,
eight  births   occurred.    A   niatcrnity  ^ny damage was do lie.
ward   seems to be one of the   needs of
the hospital.
The Hempstead   Almshouse was vis¬ ited on October 24.    The builrling was
in a clean and    orderly   condition,   the
beds   neat   and   bedding   clean.    The
luimlier  of  inmates   was   twenty-six.
There were confined to their   beds two
of   them   from    paralysis.    A colored
man is unable to move without crutch¬ es.    One man was disabled from a sore
foot and partial paralysis  and one   has
tuberculosis.     He has a sleeping room
by   himself.     Three   meals a day   are
given.    Reading   matter   is   supplied,
the   Republican    and   the Observer by
the  publishers and a daily   paper by a
gentleman in Hempstead.
A (juantity   of   magazines   taken by
life   is a picnic   in uru   the   judges.
A young son arrived for Mr. and Mrs. William Byrnes on Monday at their home on Wilson avenue.
Dr. Skow,. our new physician, is be¬ ing kept busy these days and is gain¬ ing a reputation for himself whenever he is called upon.
William F. Jeffrey is again confined to his home at Oakfield Nursery.
. ,,             .     , Mr. and Mrs. Samuel   Kilpatrick   of
the  vK-^tiors were   gratefully   received c^^ona spent Sunday with   relatives in
with   the   remark   from the   helpless t],,g Yj]jg„p ones,   "They   help to pass   away   the
George Palermo, who has been work¬ ing in Canada all summer, was in town on Sunday. George is now living in New York where he is employed.
Harry Aweler has   secured a position printing
time."    Religious services are held on Sundays.
The Almshouse for North Hemp¬ stead and (Jyster Bay was visited by' five or six members of the Committee. . The  report  given was not very    satis- <
factory.    Several of  the   old    women ; at  Doubleday,   Page & Co. who   are   supposed t<j be  beyond   the i house at Garden City.
point of doing heavy   work were aomg j 	
their own washing  and one was scrub-:     Next Tuesday is Election Day.    Get
bing   the   floor.     The   house   laundry' out and vote  early.    The   polls in this
work is done by a very old man.  Three ^district are at L, R. Smith's old school
meals a day are given but two of them ; house    west   of  Schneider's  store   on
consists of bread   and   tea.    The   factlWantagh   road.    The    polls  open at 6
that  the  institution is as good    a^ has, o'clock   a. m. and remain open  until 5
been for forty years  seemed quite sat-'o'clock p. m.
isfactory to the Trustees, but not so to j — —
the   visiting   Committee.      Religious!    Ground   was broken this   week for a
services  are held   once a month in the ; new house on Bellmore avenue south of
summer. | the Benzer property. ^
The  jail   was   visited on October 13 ! and found clean and orderly.    The food      Mr.    Weiner is  having   an   electric being   prepared   seemed   good.      The i''g^t   plant   installed    in his  home on numbers of prisoners was fifty-one, five , "'"^"•^ avenue, of   them  women.     Three   men    were:
We are glad to learn that Prof. John H. Harrington is frequently conduct¬ ing a fire drill at the public school. This drill should be had two or three times   a week, so as to have the child-
    ren well trained in leaving the building
drunk ar^d    disorderlyr^Reh'gious 11"'°'''y   which is   necessary in case of
held for murder. A number were awaiting the action of the Grand Jury, and eleven were tramps. There seemed to be a number of young men among them. One of the women was held tor arson, one for assault and three for be ing
ifire
services are held on Sundays. 	
One family receiving   outside   relief I    mi.      j- 1 .
had been visited.     The woman is in ill      ^^^   J'l"^'?   ^^7',?*^   "^'f   ^^ '"*'¦
health.    The oldest son is working for I "'t'^'^J^ a   VI   ?^''^"'   **^*'' *^ y^""'
fairly   good   wages   and the  younger | **""  died at h.s home on   "        '        •
ones   sell   papers.    There   are   seven'
children in the family.
The  Committee for County  care
the   dependent   poor reported   seve
the Merrick j road last Wednesday night, were held j on Sunday at the Bellmore Methodist ^ j^j. Church, of which Mr. Bedell was a /eral' "'^'"'^*''"' '^^ f'*^v. Charles Cox, pastor.
conferences held, and while many fav¬ ored the County 'system, others wero opposed to it. The Committee was continued.
The Committee on Tuberculosis re¬ ported progress and was continued.
After a recess for the annual    meet¬ ing the Committee adjourned. ^ A. G. CORNWELL,  Sec.
ANNUAL REPORT
Again we are assefibled in annual meeting and our attQiMiun is directed to a year that is gone. It was a year of large poasibilities and gr«at   oppor-
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officiating. The services were largely attended, after whicn interment was at Greenfield Couietery, Hempstead. The deceased had resided in this sec¬ tion of the Island all his life and was well respected by all who knew him. He is survived by his wif i, two sons and four daughters. His wife was Miss Rusetta Jackson, at one time a resident of Brooklyn. The two sona are John J. and Selvenius, and the daughters are Mrs. Steuhen P. Clem- enta of this village, and Emma, Martha and Fannie.
The boys of the village   are arrang-
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