125 Years Ago 1901
From The East Hampton Star, February 15
The Quintette assembled at Miss Elsie Tillinghast's last Friday evening for progressive euchre. The lady's prize, a silver buttonhook, was won by Miss Nellie Lawrence; the gentleman's prize, a handsome pack of cards, was awarded to Mr. John King, of Bridgehampton. Consolation prizes were given to Miss Elsie Tillinghast and to Mr. Harry Conklin, of Southampton.
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C.E.C. Homan writes us from New York that he has just closed a deal by which he has sold for E.D. Terbell the lot lying between his house and the residence of Mrs. Simeon Draper, on Ocean avenue, to D.E. Bull, of New York City. This is thought by many to be one of the finest building sites in East Hampton.
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100 Years Ago 1926
From The East Hampton Star, February 12
"A rare real estate investment," is the catch line in a half page advertisement in the real estate section of this issue, in which Strong Bros., licensed brokers, announce the marketing of lots at Munchogue Park, Montauk. The sale of this property, comprising about thirty acres and situated in the very heart of the Fisher development, by the members of Munchogue Club to W.F.E. White, was reported exclusively in last week's issue of the Star. It was one of the largest and most important deals reported this month. The club property brought $120,000.
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Leonard Edwards, manager of Edwards Theatre, informs the Star that the contract for the new $125,000 Edwards theatre building was let Tuesday to Isaac Hopper & Sons of New York.
The building will be two stories high and made of concrete. There will be three stores on the Main street and five offices on the second floor. The seating capacity of the theatre will be 1,000. The theatre will be scientifically ventilated and furnished with all modern equipment.
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Relief is in sight for owners of radio receiving sets, who have had to contend with great interference caused by the Navy's radio compass stations on Long Island which now operate with spark transmitters. The Navy Department has informed Congressman Robert L. Bacon, who urged a correction of the present unsatisfactory conditions, that a 200-watt vacuum transmitter will be installed on Fire Island and also at Amagansett.
75 Years Ago 1951
From The East Hampton Star, February 15
The East Hampton committee for the 1951 fund to combat poliomyelitis is sponsoring a benefit at Guild Hall on Friday evening, Feb. 23, at eight o'clock; it will include a play, drawing for the prizes now on display in the S. Stanlea shop window, square dancing, and round dancing. There will be no tickets, but members of the committee for the polio drive will be at the door to receive donations.
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In the death of Frank H. Tillinghast, East Hampton has lost one of its oldest and most respected citizens. Mr. Tillinghast died Monday night at the Southampton Hospital, where he had been taken that day, after sustaining injuries from a fall at his home. Though ill for many months he had been able to walk around his room until he met with the accident.
Born August 9, 1865, the son of Henry and Eliza Edwards Tillinghast, he had lived practically all his life in the old homestead on Woods Lane, where for years he has operated a large dairy farm.
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The March issue of National Geographic magazine now being distributed to more than 2,000,000 subscribers contains a 47-page illustrated article on Long Island, according to an announcement by the Long Island Association. "Long Island Outgrows the Country" is the title of the leading article by Howell Walker. It is illustrated with 47 photographs of which 34 are in color and 13 in black and white. Most of these photographs are by National Geographic photographer B. Anthony Stewart, who with Mr. Walker spent five weeks on Long Island last summer.
50 Years Ago 1976
From The East Hampton Star, February 12
A 20-year project in Brookhaven to harness methane gas from its 70-acre dump, which was filled two years ago, represents one response of officials in a Long Island town to the profit that lies waiting in garbage. By piping methane for use by the Long Island Lighting Company out of this landfill site, Brookhaven officials estimate the town will reap $136,000 in profits.
Former Councilman Richard White, who directed East Hampton Town's program to reclaim glass, metal, and paper from the Springs-Fireplace and Montauk dumps, expressed similar optimism about that program's moneymaking potential.
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The Town Trustees, custodians of East Hampton's waters for three centuries, were asked Tuesday to approve an enterprise which several spectators at their three-hour meeting acclaimed as "the future," but which the Town's baymen, who have been shellfishing in its waters for nearly as long, protested as setting "a dangerous precedent."
Dr. Robert Valenti, an ichthyologist (fish-ologist) at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory in Montauk, had asked the Trustees' permission to moor cages for five years in a 600-by-300-foot area on the east side of Napeague Harbor. In these cages, a new company he heads, which has no connection with the Lab, would raise striped bass and northern blowfish between April and December for commercial sale.
25 Years Ago 2001
From The East Hampton Star, February 15
Hildreth's, one of America's oldest department stores, will open a branch in East Hampton in about a year if its fifth-generation owner, Henry Hildreth, gets the nod from village officials.
Mr. Hildreth confirmed Tuesday that he had reached agreement with Buzz Chew on a price — "certainly over $1 million" was all he would say — for the 1.5-acre 109 Pantigo Road property where Mr. Chew has run a General Motors dealership since buying it from Lester Motors 20 years ago.
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The East Hampton Town Board, often at loggerheads over the smallest of issues, found itself doing some soul-searching as it discussed on Tuesday a way to put to rest a simmering dispute between the town's anti-bias task force and local Boy Scout troops. Councilman Pete Hammerle, saying it was time for "closure," asked the board to support a resolution condemning the national Boy Scout organization's policy of not allowing gay individuals to serve as scout leaders. He added that the resolution would not mention East Hampton troops.
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The Architecture and Design Forum will team up with L.I. Shines, the consumer education program of the Long Island Solar Roofs Initiative, to present the program "Building Green" on Sunday.
The roundtable program, which promises to be a lively discussion of the aesthetics and practical issues of alternative energy sources and building green, begins at 4 p.m. at St. Ann's Parish Hall in Bridgehampton.
