125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, December 14
The Ladies' Village Improvement society will give an entertainment in Clinton Hall on Tuesday evening, December 18, the general admission being twenty-five cents. The program will consist of songs and recitations and a roaring farce entitled "The Advertising Girls." Music will be furnished by the East Hampton orchestra. The committee promises a full return for the price of admission.
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Remember, reader, this is the season to emphasize the Scripture quotation: "Peace on earth, good will to men."
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Every citizen who has the welfare of East Hampton at heart regrets the wild and exaggerated reports that have been going about New York for the past month concerning East Hampton's alleged typhoid epidemic. We believe it is not generally denied that there have been a number of typhoid cases in this place during the past summer and fall, as there have been in a great many other places all over the country.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, December 11
The Star will this year issue its annual Christmas Number next Friday. The issue will be replete with special articles appropriate for the season. The Christmas programs of the several churches in the town will be printed in full. Each pastor of the village churches is asked to have his contributions in early.
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Last Monday evening, about thirty officers and members of Edwin C. Halsey Post, American Legion, were given a turkey dinner at the Oaks Inn, by I.Y. Halsey, retiring commander of the Post.
During Commander Halsey's term of office, the Post engaged in several noteworthy causes. This Post had the honor of being one of the very first posts in the State to meet its quota of $2,000 for the Veterans' Widows' and Orphans' Fund, for which it was cited by national headquarters. Another noteworthy accomplishment was the cleaning up of the North End Cemetery, straightening the stones, building a new fence and having it painted at a cost of about $500.
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"Mr. Bob," a two-act comedy, will be presented by the senior class of the East Hampton High School, at the auditorium, on Saturday evening, December 19, at 8:20 o'clock.
Those who will take part are Lewis Easer, Herbert Mulford, Charles Frazee, Evelyn Olsen, Marion Lawrence, Blanche Collins and Elinor Payne.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, December 14
Mayor Judson Banister left East Hampton Tuesday morning for Albany, N.Y., where he is attending the 1950 Conference on Local Government. Mayor Banister returned last Thursday from Washington, D.C., where he represented East Hampton at two important national conferences.
He attended the American Municipal Congress held at the Hotel Statler from Dec. 4 to 6. He had dinner with the Mayors of St. Louis and Seattle; and a group of the Mayors was to have been addressed at luncheon by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, but due to the critical war situation, his speech was cancelled.
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Plans for the Guild Hall New Year's Eve Party were formulated Monday evening, December 11, at a meeting of members called by Ralph C. Frood, Chairman of the Winter Committee.
A. Victor Amman and Ivan Topping are co-chairmen of the supper committee.
A novel decorating scheme is being worked out by Co-chairmen James Amaden and Dr. Albert Pontick. Entertainment, in keeping with the theme, will be planned by Mrs. Stephen Marley and Mrs. Warren Whipple. A dance orchestra is being organized by Kenneth Stowell.
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There is a special showing at the Irving Garage this week of the 1951 Nash Rambler custom convertible. The Rambler is described as an "all-purpose, all-weather car," priced below the lowest of today's American built, 5-passenger custom convertibles and including at no extra cost about $300 worth of such custom appointments as: an electrically operated top, Weather Eye conditioned air heater, radio, one-piece windshield, direction signals, chrome wheel discs, electric clock, special custom upholstery, foam rubber cushions and other custom car features.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, December 11
The East Hampton Town Board withheld decision after a public hearing last Friday on whether to extend the Planning Board's site-plan-review control to Montauk's central business district — map 174, which has hitherto been exempt.
Officials speaking for the Town maintained that review of the site plans, which must be approved before a building permit is issued in commercial and industrial districts, was "a service" offered by the Town planner.
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East Hampton Town's planning and zoning committee decided Monday morning that the Town should stick with the minimum standards of the Federal flood insurance program concerning future ground-floor elevations of structures in coastal areas rather than take its planner's advice on making the requirement more stringent along the ocean.
Meeting to work out proposed changes in the Town zoning ordinance necessary to conform with Federal Flood Insurance Administration regulations were committee members and four additional engineers: Darrell Weaver of Walbridge Inc., recently defeated Republican candidate for Town Highway Superintendent, and Beecher Greenman, George Michos, and Robert Grover, all of the Town's hired engineering firm, Greenman-Pedersen.
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Garret Tinsman's "An Afternoon with Dylan Thomas" will be presented at Guild Hall Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Mr. Tinsman's presentation is a characterization of the brilliant and tortured Welsh poet best known for "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night," "Fern Hill," and "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
Dylan Thomas died in New York in 1953, at 39, shortly after completing a series of reading tours for the script and initial production of his play for voices, "Under Milk Wood."
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, December 14
"You are going to be suburban — no doubt about that," Lee E. Koppelman, the planning consultant revising the East Hampton Town comprehensive plan, said during a recent review of land use and demographics here for the town board.
Precipitating East Hampton's "transformation from a bucolic set of human settlements into a typical suburban sprawl" will be an influx of new homeowners that would double the population. As they settle in, the number of their cars — up to three per family — will multiply even faster than the number of households.
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One after another, the farmers who crowded Southampton Town Hall on Friday told the town board that they were doing a pretty good job of preserving the land themselves, and, if the town wanted to protect more of it, it had better be ready to pay a fair price and spread the burden of reducing development pressure among all property owners.
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For everyone, but especially those who work in toy stores, the holidays are a time of extremes. Great expectations and cruel disappointments go hand in hand in the toy business come Christmas time, when even Santa's helpers with corporate backing can't make some wishes come true.
"If they're asking me for a PlayStation 2, I've got to tell them there's nothing I can do," said Chris Javier, an assistant manager at Kay Bee Toys, a chain store in Bridgehampton Commons.
Sony's PlayStation 2, for those who haven't heard, is said to be the latest and greatest home video game system on the market.
