THE EAST H AM PTON STAR, FRIDAY, M ARCH 14, 1919

BRIEF NOTES FROM AMAGANSETTThe sick in our midst are gradually

improving.

Mrs. Wm. T. Lusty is visiting with relatives at Port Washington.

There were no services at the Pres­byterian church last Sunday.

Harry Lester arrived at Camp M erritt last week from overseas.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W m. Jenkins on Thursday, Feb. 28.

The child born to Mr. and M r^ Frank Lester last week Tuesday died the same day.

Frank W ier has been acting as as­sistant at the Amagansett post office during this week.

Ensign Frank Edwards visited with his parents, Captain and Mrs. J. S. Edwards over Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. James King, and fam ily have moved from Montauk road, Amagansett, to Babylon.

Wm. E. Cartwright has purchased a Ford, as he is in the employ o f Capt. Frank Parsons at Montauk.

Fred Payne, who has been sta­tioned at Texas, has arrived at the home o f his parents at East Side.

Captain Frank Tuthill, o f East Marion, visited with the Rackett fam ily last week Friday and Satur­day.

Wm. Barker arrived home from Camp Upton last week Wednesday, havuig been mustered out o f the ser­vice.

Mrs. Rackett and Mrs. Barnes have been trying to fill Mrs. Horton’s place in the library while she is at Albany. (

Mrs. Knowles Smith and children, o f Montauk, recently visited with Mr. and Mrs. George Smith in this village.

Wm. Hand and Kenneth Miller Ijave obtained positions at the new firm that is to start up at the Green- port shipyard.

Miss Isadore Edwards has been ill at. the home o f her grandmother, Mrs. Isadore King, at her home on the Montauk road.

Wm. Terry, real estate agent, has rented E. W. Babcock’s bungalow at “ Towink” on Gardiner’s bay, to E.A. Anderson, o f New York City. Mr.

Lewis Case, son o f Mrs. Bertha Case M iller, called his mother by phone last Tuesday, telling her o f his safe arrival in the United States from overseas.

Mrs. Byron Barnes and daughter, and father, John Bell, are expectnig to go to Bellefonte, Pa., to vis it with Mrs. Evelyn Bell, mother o f Mr. Bell, starting Sunday.

Mrs, Herbert M iller, who is spend­ing the winter in the city, where Mr. M iller is engaged in work, was suc­cessfully operated upon fo r appendi­citis during the past week.

Jack Ciochetti, o f the U. S. S. L e ­viathan, spent Saturday and Sunday visiting in our village. He has made twelve trips across and is expecting to go across again, probably the last o f this week.

Mrs. W. A . Benjamin was a dele­gate to the Red Cross conference held at the ball room o f the Pennsyl­vania Hotel last week Saturday. A decidedly interesting program was presented to about 1700 delegates.

Charlie Niehmyer, who lived in a little house on Nathan M iller’s place died in the Southampton hospital last week, o f pneumonia. He was buried at Oak Grove cemetery, Am a­gansett. He was a native o f Ger­many.

Captain and Mrs. Frank Parsons returned to Montauk last week Tues­day a fter a visit with their son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Par­sons, who have gone to Chicago, Mr. Parsons being stationed at a Great Lake station.

Miss Dorothy Horton, who .is in training fo r nursing, was operated upon at Albany last Monday. Mrs. Charles Horton went to Albany last Saturday to be near her daughter. Miss Horton is recovering as rapidly as could be expected.

Mrs. CyM. Bennett is at home with her sister, Mrs. Charles Mulford, a f­ter a visit to the city and also to East Marion, where she and her sis­ter, Mrs. Thomas Garret, o f New York, have been visiting with Mrs. Charles Mallison fo r a short period.

Daniel Leek has accepted a posi­tion at Kingston, N. Y ., as manager o f a large and flourishing form own­ed by a gentleman from New York City. It is an up-to-date farm with fifty head o f cattle, and equipped with all the most modern machipery.

There has been no school in our village during the past week.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hadel on Sunday, March 2nd.

Capt. S. S. Edwards has gone to H alifax to bring back the steamer H. N. Edwards.

Earl Gardell, who has been quite ill at the Broad V iew estate, is mak> ing progress toward recovery.

Frank Tuthill, o f East Marion, and his cousin, Mrs. C. W. Rackett,-vis­ited at Springs last week Saturday.

Real Estate Agen t Terry had three parties from the city the first o f the week looking fo r houses to rent fo r the summer.

F loyd Hamilton is engaged to work at the Levering estate fo r the coming summer, as assistant garden­er, as last summer.

Mr. and Mrs. D. W . John, o f New York City, made a hurry call at our village last Tuesday afternoon. Mr. John started on his southern trip Wednesday.

Clarence Bassett, youngest son of W illiam and Agnes (M ille r ) Bassett, died Monday morning. H e was ten years old and was always a delicate child, but during the past year bad been in usual health. His funeral services were held Thursday. The Rev. Clarence Scoville officiated. Burial was at Oak Grove.

The fo llow ing item from Halifax, N. S., appears in an exchange: “ The sale by the Canadian Government to Hayes & Anderton, o f New York, of seven Canadian patrol boats which were stationed off this port during the war, is announced. They are the steamers, W illiam B. Murray, Amagansett, Herbert N. Edwards, Martin J. Marran, Rollin E. Mason, Rowland H. W ilcox and Leander Wilcox.

The Amagansett Red Cross socie­ty remembers with gratitude the im­mense amount o f labor that one of the summer colony at the W ind Mill cottage devoted to make the Red Cross benefit concert such a success last September, and has heard with sorrow o f the death o f Mrs. Downs, o f Cincinnati, W jfe o f J. E. Downs, who managed Mme. Calloway-John’s delightful concert and helped to make it such a financial success. Mrs. Downs died o f influenza.

A N N IE T U T H IL L GOSMAN

Annie Tuthill Gosman, youngest daughter o f Robert and Elizabeth Gosman, entered into life eternal last Saturday, March 8, 1919, aged twen­ty-three.

Annie Gosman was bom a t Wad­ing River, Nov. 9th, 1895, and moved to our village with her parents about eighteen years ago, being at that time about five years old. She was a verjr sweet and pleasant child in all her ways and by her attractive manner and nearly perfect disposi­tion was quickly loved by her neigh­bors and friends in her new home.

Early in her young life , while yet a mere child, she joined the Am agan­sett Presbyterian church, and became an earnest and devoted member. La­ter she was ever a fa ith fu l teacher in our Sunday school and at the time o f her death, she was president o f the young women’s church society, called the Alpha Gamma. The Girl Scouts requested her to be their captain about two ytars ago, and ever since, with all her duties, she had religiously saved out Wednesday evening o f each week fo r their es­pecial night. During the past year, although working as assistant post master, she was a member o f the Red Cross and one o f the leaders o f the Patriotic League, in fact, was one o f a committee o f fou r who were planning to hold a social evening at the home o f her sister last Tuesday night.

The funeral, which was private, was held at the home o f her sister, where she passed away, but all o f her young friends and fe llow workers lavishly remembered her with beauti­fu l floral tributes.

A t Oak Grove, where her mortal remains were laid to rest, a bevy of her g irl friends grouped around her open grave and tenderly but falter- ingly, sang a verse o f “ Nearer my God to Thee,” and then cast a car­nation on her bier. Our pastor, the Rev. Clarence Scoville, assisted by the Rev. M. Ryan, had charge o f the services.

Besides her parents, she is surviv­ed by a maternal grandmother, two sisters, Mrs. Wm. Griffing, and Mrs. E. V. Parsons, and a brother, Robert.

HUNS’ DRESS HELM ETS

The “ dress helmets” sent by Louis Thayer, who is with the army o f oc­cupation in Germany, have been loaned by Postmaster Baker to the Amagansett Free Library. These are the patent leather and aluminum helmets manufactured especially fo r the officers o f the victorious German troops to wear when they were to celebrate their capture o f the city o f Paris.

J A C O B S -B ID D IS

A very pretty wedding took place last Monday evening at St. Andrew ’s rectory, Sag Harbor, when Miss Marie Elizabeth Biddis became the bride o f Charles Conklin Jacobs, who is stationed at Montauk. The bride was becomingly attired in a dress o f blue chiffon over gold cloth, and wore a picture hat o f gold lace. The bri­dal bouquet was o f white carnations. The groom wore the uniform o f the U. S. navy. Mrs. Henrison, o f Am a­gansett, attended the bride, and Geo. Biddis, brother o f the bride, acted as best man. A fte r the ceremony a dainty luncheon was served at the home o f the bride. The table was beautifully decorated with the na­tional colors and emblems o f the navy, in honor o f the groom. Am ong the guests were Mrs. Henrison and Mrs. N. Petty , o f Am agansett

SPRNGS

Mrs. Mary A . Smith spent last week with Mrs. Nat. S. M iller.

Merton H. Edwards recently pur­chased a truck from I. Y . Halsey.

Mrs. Ltfis Talmage and Miss Jen­nie M iller visited friends in the city recently.

Miss Lois Talm age,of East Hamp­ton, visited w ith R. G. Foster recent­ly-

The fishermen are catching large quantities o f flat fish. The fish are bringing a, good price.

Several penple attended the musi­cal entertainment at Clinton Hall on Tuesday evening o f this week.

Miss Edith Reeve returned to her duties at Jamaica Tuesday, a fter spending several days with her moth­er in this place.

A t the time o f w riting Eldred Bet- kin is seriously ill at the home o f his grandmother, Mrs. W . Betkin, with diphtheria. The whole fam ily is un­der quarantine.

The farmers o f this place are mak­ing great preparations already, some­thing which is very unusual fo r so early in the season. P. Koppleman has planted his peas.

The many friends o f Miss Eleanor K ing gave her a surprise party at her home on Thursday evening, the occasion being her birthday. Games w ere played and refreshments were served, and a very pleasant evening was spent by all.

HAS GOOD WGRD FOR SNAKE

New Ycrker Points Out How Unpopu­lar 'Reptile A ids the Farmer in

Growing Crops. y

The pretensions of the snake, as a domestic animal of great value, were advanced by Allen B. Williams, presi­dent o f the Reptile Society of Amer­ica, at New York.

The society, o f which Mr. Williams Is the head, middle and end, has un­dertaken a campaign of education on behalf o f the snake, claiming that as a destroyer o f rodents and other small pests on the form he Is the friend and .benefactor of man. For the polson- bearlng snakes Mr. Williams holds no brief and concedes the necessity for their obliteration from the earth; but of the nonpolsonous ones he had this to say at the banquet while you could have heard a pin drop:

“To the lay mind, the idea of the black or the garter or any one of a thousand varieties of harmless snakes being of any service to mankind may appear preposterous and unworthy of discussion. But the facts are other­wise. The snake has a very Impor tant bearing on the question o f food production, a matter which, even since the signing o f the armistice, grows more Important daily. The snake Is the great small-pest destroyer of the American farm. Every person who kills n nonpolsonous snake might Just as well destroy one hundred times the snake’s weight in wheat.”

Mr. Williams proposes that the value of the snake be taught hereafter In the farm schools and agricultural colleges and says he Intends to become the edi­tor o f a publication devoted to snake Conservation and culture. He advo­cated the Introduction of a small snake or two Into every household In the land, saying that the snake, contrary to popular belief, made an ideal house­hold pet, and in the course of every year represented many times over a saving of his weight In mousetraps.

Mystery Port.A mystery pdrt on the east coast of

England was one o f the wonders of ths war. Its o im t Is now revealed as Rlchboroufh, near Sandwich. Her* there Is a wide stretch o f marshland I surrounding the mouth of the River 1 Stour, and upon this has been built j a town covering considerably over two 1 thousand acres. From this place one I and a quarter tons of stores have been 1 sent to the western front alone. This 1 great new port Is Just outside Sand- j wlch, one o f the old Cinque ports fa- mous In the days of Queen Elizabeth, j The ancient town, where a few years ago the grass was growing la the streets has taken on a new lease of life.

Uplift Thrown Down.George Cohan told at the Players’

club a story about elevating the stage."An actor In a fur coat," he begun

“said to me the other day:“ ‘For uplift, George. I once played

lbsen’6 Master Builder to the Bullfrog miners.'

" ‘Humph,' said I. ‘Did you have a long run?’

“ ‘You bet we did I’ said he. ‘About four miles.’ ”

Pioneer In Her Profession.The first woman physician In the

United States was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who received the degree of M. D. at Geneva, N. Y., 70 years ago. Miss Blackwell was a native of Bristol. England, but came to the United States in her youth. When she was 21 she determined to become a physician, but her application for admission was refused by nearly all o f the leading medical colleges of the United States and Canada. A little medical college In Geneva, how­ever, accepted her. and she became one of the most brilliant students of the institution. She suffered, how­ever, from social ostracism in the town, as the Geneva hostesses regard­ed her either as insane or wicked. Miss Blackwell, after finishing her course, attended medical colleges in Europe and practiced in several con­tinental hospitals. She then returned to New York, where she opened an Infirmary fo r women and children and organized a woman’s medical college.

Three Kinds of Stonea.This happened near Bedford and in

the county * which sends away such beautiful limestone. The teacher was giving a geography lesson; She began with shale, told or the way in which It was obtained, Of Its uses and showed a piece to the children. “ Name several different kinds of stone, Fred,” she said.

Fred rose with alacrity. “ Whet­stones, grindstones and tombstones,’ ’ be answered.— Indianapolis News.

Nicholas M iller, an aged resident o f Riverhead, who lived on the Old Quogue road, across the river, died

I last week, aged seventy-three years. \ H e is survived by his widow and sev- | eral children. Funeral services w ere ! conducted Saturday aftrnoon by the i Rev. Mr. Schwartz, o f the Lutheran I church.

C AR D OF T H A N K S

W e wish to make gratefu l ac­knowledgement to all fo r their kind­ness and sympathy to us during our recent bereavement.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gosman and Fam ily

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