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...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...
...years of Prohibition, Drys balefully predicted that drunken drivers would henceforth make highways avenues of death. First straw in the wind tickled many a Dry last week when statistics revealing a nationwide increase in drunken drivers were released in Washington by Dr. Theron Wendell Kilmer, police surgeon of Hempstead, L. I. To the convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs Dr. Kilmer reported that tipsy driving cases had jumped 479% in Los Angeles; 380% in Cincinnati; 300% in Philadelphia; 122% in New Orleans. Among States, little Rhode Island showed the biggest increase (100%), Connecticut the smallest...
...Marylanders who had not enough ministers. Presbyterianism had been recognized, under the Act of Religious Toleration, as a sect against which no derogatory remarks were to be made. Up & down the seaboard there were scattered churches of ''Dissenters." none of them orthodox. (Two are still extant, in Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I., the former being the first U. S. church to bear the name Presbyterian.) Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches. In Philadelphia in 1692 he preached the first Presbyterian sermon that city had heard. Later he organized the first U. S. Presbytery...
Ever since Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont left it in 1917 to build a medieval castle at Sands Point (now inhabited by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst), and later to go abroad and die, her old estate near Hempstead, L. I. has been on the downgrade. It was sold to Cold Stream Corp., which converted part of it into a golf club not too choosey about its membership. Last week a plaintiff with a debt against Cold Stream Corp. asked that a receiver be appointed for the property. The appointee was one Felix A. Duffy, secretary to Nassau County...
...Convention was held at Amherst last year, with D. L. Moore '33 as the Harvard delegate. Moore read two poems by Anna Hempstead. Marget Clark, last year's delegate from Radcliffe, read three selections by R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English: "In the Tidal Marsh," "Ironwood," and "The Platitude...