Coram P^O.-Store Tea Party of Middle Island
Lake Resident,
Residents In "Gay Nineties " Roselle, Placed
. Burglar Believed
To Be Captured
Ii $2,500 Bail
Davoe, of New Orleans, Said
To Have Confessed
Awaits Action of the Federal
Grand Jury
Now Being Held in Mineola Jail on
Counterfeit Bill Said to Have Been
Charge of Breaking Into Syosset
Passed at Selden Gas Station , Led
Drug Store Saturday
To His Arrest
Caught in the act of robbing
a drug store in Syosset Saturday, John Davoe, aged 22
years, later confessed, it is
said, to the burglary of the
Coram postoffice and general
store two weeks ago Sunday
morning. The full confession
is alleged to have been made
to State Trooper Conrad Van
Alen and ¦ Nassau County po' lice.
Davoe gave his address as 235
Beauregard avenu e, New Orleans,
La., and said he had been unemployed
for five years and during that time
had been traveling, about the country,, entering stores, it is said , when
iii need of money or food. He is
now iodged in the Mineola j ail awaiting the action of the grand jury.
The Coram postoffice and store,
operated by Leo P. Burns , was broken
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State Game Farm, ML I.
To Be W.P.A. Project
$168,475 for Street Improvements at
Port Jefferson, Similar to Those at
Patchogue, Also Approved
HPHE State Game farm at Middle
* Island is included in the W. P. A.
project s which have been recently approved and $24,-123.64. is to, be appropriated for its improvement.
A second maj or Brookhaven town
project providing for the improvement of several streets in Port Jefferson at a cost of $168,475 has just
been approved by the W. P. A., announcement of this being made Monday. The proje ct was .submitted by
the Town board on August 16, the
plans having been rprepared by Leigh
Robartes; of Port Jefferson. The original estimate of the cost was about
$190,000. The appropriation for the
Patchogue project was $187,000.
The plans call for storm sewers,
curbs and gutters and necessary resurfacing on Reeves road , High
street, Maiden Jane, Old Post road ,
Division street, Jones avenue; Barnum avenue, Oak street, and Randall
avenue. In addition they provide for
a storm sewer on Myrtle avenue and
curb and gutters on East Broadway.
About two miles of curb and gutter
are included and three-quarters of a
mile of storm sewer.
It is understood this project will
give employment to more than 100
men for several months, and this
one, plus the : big project now in
progress in P'atchogpe, the one in
Moriches and the machinery shed at
Coram will probably absorb most
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By Bert Carey
¦
"TH E accompanying photograph ,
* taken in 1896 by the late Mrs.
Edward . Pfeiffer , of Middle Island ,
shows a group of well known residents of the mid-island section of
Brookhaven town. It was snapped by
flashlight, in the residence then occupied by Edgar Swezey, Middle
Country road , now occupied by Charles Miller. The late Mrs. Edward
Pfeiffer , who was Miss Lizzie Swezey
before her marriage to the proprietor
of Middle Island's general store, took
up photography as a" hobby and not
only snapped pictures at night by
means of a flashlight but developed
the plates and printed her own pictures.
.
The Mid-Island Mail obtained possession of this remarkable photo from
Mr. Pfeiffer , who may be seen seated
in the front row on the right side of
his present wife, the former Miss
Flora Swezey, (pouring tea ) at whose
home the gathering was held. He
married Miss Swezey, his third wife,
following the death of the second
Mrs. Pfeiffer. Despite the passage
of 39 years since the picture was taken, old mid-islanders upon being
shown it readily recognized and named the 11 persons in it.
"I don 't know," said one old timer,
"but what such simple home gatherings were not more beneficial to the
youths of the day than our jazz age
forms of entertainment."
Those in the photo are: Rear- row,
left to right—Joachim Swezey, George
Pressor , Miss Nellie Davis (Mrs. Jo( Continued on page 10)
Republican Candidates
Dined at Ronkonkoma
T AST Thursday night was Islip
•*¦—- night at Lake Ronkonkoma. In
fact, tho scene at Jack Brown's bore
every evidence of a political rally except for the absence of the familiar
campaign signs bearing tbe likenesses of tho candidates. The occasion
was j a dinner tendered the successful
Islip Town Republican candi«Iatcs.
Every single victor in the town election was present except Supervisor
Warren Greenhalgh • who was unavoidably detained elsewhere.' Besides
enjoying one of Jack Brown's famous
steak dinners the visitors were entertained with a floor show.
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TONY GOES TO AID IL DUCE
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"Joe" Kirk , of Lake Ronkonkoma, is authority for the following story : While touring the
county during his recent unsuccessful campaign for County
Treasurer 1, he made a trip across
the Great South bay from Bay
Shore to Ocean Beach , having
heard there were several all-year
residents in the Fire Island
Beach settlement. Kirk met all
the potential voters, except one,
he was told. . This was an Italian shoemaker. When he called
at the shoemaker's store he was
greeted with a closed door and
the following sign in a window :
"Closed. Gone to Ethiopia.
Tony. "
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Charles Benjamin,
Well-known Resident
Of Ronkonkoma,, Dies
pHARLES BENJAMIN of Ronkon^-* koma, an engineer on the main
line of the Long Island railroad and
a trustee of the Lake Ronkonkoma
school district *for the .past year and
a half , died suddenly Monday of a
heart attack, Mr. Benjamin , who was
a man of genial .disposition with a
host of friends , had been in ailing
health for a number of years, but
his death was very sudden and came
as a great shock to his friends.
The deceased was about 50 years
old and had lived in Ronkonkoma for
15 or 20 years. He was elected trustee of the school district at one of
the largest school meetings ever held
in that district. His colleagues on
the school board are Justice William
Court and Frank Mooney. His hobby
was the breeding of bird dogs, especially pointers, and he was also fond
of hunting.
Mr. Benjamin leaves his widow,
the former Elizabeth Davis , and two
sons, "Charles, Jr., and Robert.
.Funeral services are bring held at
tho home on Union avenue,- Ronkonkoma this afternoon at three o'clock
and later at the Methodist church ,
the Rev. David K. Sloatman officiating.
Trapped by the state police
of the Ronkonkoma sub-station
after an intensive investigation , and subsequently identified by several of those whom
he had allegedly victimized ,
John Roselle, aged 33 years,
of Hawkins avenue , Lake Ron konkom a, was held in bail of
$2 ,500 to await the action o£
the Federal grand j ury when
he was arraigned in Brooklyn
Saturday before United States
Commissioner Edward E. Fay.
Held on the same charge along
with Roselle are Domenico
Molfett a of Jamaica and Anthony Lonardelli of Jamaica.
The arrest of Roselle, whom tho
police say has confessed to circulating a large number of counterfeit
$5 bills in this part of Suffolk county,
(Continued on page 12)
Icy Roads Cause
Several Accidents
Four People Are Injured In
This Section
Car Crashes Into Yaphank Gasoline
Station—Louis Sckwebes of Coram.
Skids on. Patchogue-Coram
Rontl
And Ic Cut and Bruised
p\UE to slippery roads as a result;
*-^ of the first .snowstorm of th t>
season , there were many accidentsreported Sunday , Most of them wero
minor cases of skidding cars, but four
.people were badly injured in accidents in this section , two cars were*
wrecked and a building at Yaphank
was damaged.
At Yaphank a heavy sedan , owned
and operated hy Rocco V. Divergio
of Long Islan d City, skidded off the
road at Swezey 's corner at the west
end of the village and ran through
the end of the gasoline service station operated by Mrs. Elizabeth Iverson. Bivergio was accompanied by
C, Passente and Jacob Lasaor , also
of Long Island City.
The three men wero on their way
to Masti c and had come south on the
Yaphank-Roeky Point road from tho
Middle Country road. The car failed,
to make the turn at Swezey's corner
and ran off the road and right
through one wall of the gas station
hefore it could be stopped. Deputy
Sheriff John E. Davis arrived on the
scene shortly.nfLer the accident which
happened at 7;80 a. m, '
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