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EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1951 NUMBER 19VOLUME LXVIMARRIED Mrs. Ada Penney Miller,

92, Daughter of Whaling Captain, Dies Feb. 5

Mrs. Ada Penney Miller, widow of Samuel R. Miller, died Monday night at her home on Mill Hill Lane after a four weeks’ illness.

Mrs. Miller was born April 6, 1858, the daughter of Captain John Pen­ney and Clara Miller Penney. Though born at Springs, Mrs. M il­ler spent most of her life in East Hampton. She and her mother liv­ing here while her father went on whaling voyages out of Sag Harbor.

Seventy years ago she married Mr. Miller and went to live at the old Miller homestead opposite Town Pond, which after the death of her husband was sold to Aymar Embury.

Mrs. Miller like her father, who also lived until more than ninety, was gifted with a wonderful memo­ry and a keen sense of humor, was interested in everything going on around her and bright and cheerful almost until the last.

In 1913 Mrs. Miller had a serious illness, which made necessary a series of operations, from the effects of which she had hardly recovered when we entered the first world war, and in spite of her frail health, she faithfully worked at the Red Cross rooms all through the war.

She was also deeply religious and a faithful member of the Presby­terian Church, seldom missing a service as long as she was able to go.

Mrs. Miller is survived by her two devoted daughters, the Misses Grace and Maude Miller.

Services were held at her late residence at two o'clock this after­noon. Rev. Paul Bahner officiating. Burial was in the old South End Cemetery.

Frank H. Tillinghast, 85, Early E. H. Dairyman, Dies Monday, February 12

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, 18G5, 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. He was an active member of the Presby­terian Church, of which he was for many years an elder and trustee.

On December 2, 1902 Mr. Tilling­hast married Miss May Hudson, who died in 1944. Surviving are two sons and two daughters, Frank Jr., Edward, Miss Carryl Tillinghast and Mrs. Charles Keyes and five grand­children, all of East Hampton, one sister, Mrs. E. T. Dayton of East Hampton and two brothers, Edmund S. Tillinghast of Hibbing, Minn., and Harry H. Tillinghast of Kings Point, L. I.

The funeral service was held at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon at the house, Rev. Paul T. Bahner officiat­ing. Burial was at the South End Cemetery. Pallbearers were Ken­neth Hedges, N. N. Tiffany, Philip Collins, Frank Eldredge, Ernest M il­ler and Eugene E. Lester.

The craftsmanship of the recently organized Guild Hall class in set construction will be on view this week-end when the indigo blue flats which form the walls of an old antique shop in London will act as the setting for the three act mys­tery, “The Shop at Sly Corners” be­ing presented at 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings (Feb. 16, 17) at Guild Hall by the Guild Hall Players.

The set, with its secret panel and odd corners, is designed to establish a complimentary background and set the mood for the plot which re­volves around blackmail and murder as the crafty shopkeeper (John Les­ter) attempts to keep his daughter (Miss Mary Burns) from learning of his undercover activities and crim­inal past.

Responsible for the set are Frank Dayton, who has been teaching the class in^set designing and construc­tion for the past six weeks, and the members of his class— Mr. and Mrs. Gus Freytag, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Tilley, Miss Muriel Lee Porter, War­ren Freytag, Charles Hall, Roy Han­sen, Edwin Sherrill and Robert Reu- tershan. Mr. Dayton not only has in­structed this class, but has made a scale model of the Guild Hall stage and future lessons call for the de­signing and building of model sets and special units, such as doorways and staircases, to be used with the scale model.

Will Set Up Card Index System for Local Needs, Many Signers Needed

The East Hampton Community Council, at its meeting held Monday night in the St. Luke’s Parish House, discussed a project for typing blood donors throughout East Hampton township, to be immediately avail­able in case of emergency.

The Community Council is seek­ing to establish a permanent and comprehensible list o f p o ss ib le blood-donors, together with their blood-types in order that all pos­sible requirements by people living in East Hampton may be met by voluntary donations of blood by East Hampton donors. A r ra n g e m e n ts have been made for technical service for doing the typing locally, in groups of as many as thirty at one time. Cards are available from the Council, for signature by persons willing to be typed. The files will be kept with the Council, and will not be given to anyone outside. Each person typed will be furnished with a card indicating his or her blood type. It is intended that blood ob­tained from these donors will be used only to the extent of needs for East Hampton Township residents.

Several public-spirited and gener­ous persons have been called upon quite often, within the past few years, to donate blood when an emergency such as an accident or grave illness occurs. The Commun­ity Council wishes to spare the few who have done so much, from be­ing further imposed upon; if this community service could be spread out among a larger number who are typed and available, it would be a burden to nobody. Anyone’s fami­ly may need a blood donor at any time, and it would be a great time- saver if many people of each blood- type could be looked up in a card index. The call may come for pri­vate needs, it may come for disaster in time of war. During World War II hundreds of local people gladly gave blood as a war service. No plans are being made at the present time for Red Cross blood collection here for military use.

Rev. Samuel Davis is president of the Community Council; Mrs. C. C. Edwards .vice-president; Mrs. Chas. Peele, Secretary; Mrs. Daniel Tuck­er, financial secretary, and Rev. Nat R. Griswold, treasurer.

The Right Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, retired Protestant Bishop of Long Island, died at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., on Mon­day, February 12. His age was 84. He went to Palm Beach six weeks ago, as had been his custom for sev­eral winters. He was stricken with virus pneumonia two weeks ago. His wife, the former Sarah McK. Hardwick, was with him.

Dr. Stires was born at Norfolk, Va., on May 20, I860, son of Van Renssalaer Stires and Lettie Mil- more Stires. A fter being graduated from the University of Virginia in 1888 he studied from 1889 to 1891 at the Episcopal Theological Semin­ary of Virginia.

In 1892 he was ordained a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. A fter serving as rector of West Point, Va., he became rector of the Church of the Good Sheperd at Augusta, Ga., in 1893, and from then until 1901 he was rector of Grace Church, Chicago.

He had been rector of St. Thomas’ Church for almost twenty-five years when he was elected Bishop of Long Island on May 26, 1925. On Nov. 24, that year, he was consecrated.

After his retirement in February, 1942, as Bishop of Long Island, he was succeeded by the Very Rev. James P. De Wolfe. Since then he had occasionally preached in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and in St. Thomas’ and St. Bartholo­mew’s Churches. He delivered the sermon on Christmas Day, 1947, in St. Bartholomew’s.

Beside his wife, he is survived by four sons, the Rev. Ernest Van Rens­selaer Stires of Lake George, N. Y.; Hardwick Stires of New Yt^rk, A r ­thur McK. Stires of Lake George and Milmore Stires of Garden City, L. I.; a sister, Mrs. J. E. R. Carpen­ter of New York and fourteen grand­children.

Bishop Stires will be remembered coming here to conduct the Epis­copal conventions at the old Maid­stone Inn while Bishop of Long Island.

Short Skit by Montauk Air Force; Dancing; Awarding of Prizes

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. Everyone is cordially invited. There will be no tickets, but members of the committee for the polio drive will be at the door to receive dona­tions. The polio committee is head­ed by Director William H. Strong, Mrs. P. C. Schenck and Kenneth E. Davis, co-chairmen; also William C. Morgan Kenneth Hedges, Herbert L. Mulford, Clarence King, Richard Gilmartin, Richard White, Albert Hand, J. Wilmer Schellinger.

A short skit will be put on in the Guild Hall theater by Pvt. 1st Cl. Robert Mansfield of the A ir Corps; he is Special Service Director for the camp at Montauk.

Mayor Judson L. Banister will draw the tickets for the prizes— a television set, plastic seat covers, and a vacuum cleaner.

A fter that, everyone is invited to adjourn to the Thomas Moran Gallery, to enjoy square dancing or­ganized by the Square Dancing Club of which Frank Dayton is President; this club has kindly consented to cooperate with the Polio Fund com­mittee. There will be some exhibi­tion square dances, and some gen­eral dancing. Charles Mansir, George Simons and some other especially gifted “ callers'’ w ill take charge. Other special entertainment features are planned. One of these is an old-1 fashioned waltz, led o ff by Mr. and Mrs. William Conrad.

It is hoped that the affair will be a great success, so that the annual drive to combat the dread disease may come to a triumphant finish.

The former Miss Frances Griffing who was married lo William P. Bain Jr. Sunday, February 4 in the Presbyterian Church.

McConnell Photo

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 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. Also included is a two-page map of Long Island, with a half page map of Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau where the greatest growth and changes have occurred since the Long Is­land feature article in the National Geographic, April 1939.

While emphasizing the remarkable growth and resulting changes which have been taking place on Long Is­land during the past 10 years, Mr. Walker ranges over all the four counties of Long Island telling a most readable story of Long Island’s progress through Indian and Colon­ial days to the present, with its amazing developments^ in public transportation, public and private construction of great variety, indus­trial growth and accompanying edu­cational and recreational expansion. The text and the photographs tell a fascinating story of this unique Island which has had a phenomenal increase in population since 1940 of 604,637, bringing the total popula­tion of its four Counties (Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk) to 5.204,659 or 35% of the population of the State of New York.

The Long Island Association co­operated with the Geographic rep­resentatives in preparation of the Long Island pictorial story. Meade C. Dobson, Managing Director and John D. Whitmore, Executive Sec­retary, escorted them throughout, over and around The Island by au­to,-plane, helicopter and by boat. Some East Hampton pictures are included.

MRS. LOUIS CICERO

Mrs. Anne Cicero died in the Southampton Hospital on Friday, Feb. 9 after an illness of four weeks. She had been a resident of East Hampton for 45 years.

Mrs. Cicero was born June 9, 1875 in Genoa, Italy, the daughter of Charles and Antoinette Passomonte. She was married to Louis Cicero, who died in 1935, in Italy, in 1895.

She is survived by a son Joseph and five daughters; Josephine Ci­cero, Mrs. Rose Ordean Jones of East Portland, Me.; Mrs. Joseph Fusco of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. Peter Nasca of Hornell, N. Y., and Miss Lillian Cicero. Also a sister, Mrs. Tony Rose of East Hampton, a brother, Paul Passomonte of Mt. Morris, N. Y., and a sister who lives in Italy.

Mrs. Cicero was a member of St. Philomena’s Church, joining about 1907, and a member of St. Francis Society of Buffalo, N. Y.

Requiem Mass was celebrated by Rev. Francis Brennan Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 10 a.m. at St, Philomena’s Church. Burial was in St. Philo­mena’s Cemetery.

"Our Heritage In Music”G. H. Music Club Study

A study of “ Our Heritage In Mu­sic,” under the direction of Ken­neth Stowell, will continue at the next meeting of the Guild Hall Mu­sic Club on Monday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. in Guild Hall.

Mr. Stowell plans to discuss harp­sichord music, play records to illus­trate; and also will discuss the com­poser Bach and play some of his music. The group w ill continue to study musical types such as pure, program and descriptive music. Early choral forms w ill also be cov­ered.

In the near future, the Club, of which Stephen Marley is president, plans to present a special* evening of “ live entertainment” featuring pianist, Joan Rothman Brill (Mrs. Robert Brill). Feature of her pro­gram will be the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s First Concerto. Gen­evieve Green (Mrs. Fay Greene) w ill play second piano.

HERM AN H. HANSENHerman H. Hansen, a long time

resident of East Hampton and for­mer representative of John Wana- maker when deliveries were made in different villages by horse and wagon, died Wednesday afternoon at Central Islip.

Mr. Hansen was born in Germany, October 17, 1862. He was married to Christina Arnold who died in 1919. He is survived by a daughter, Alma Rosetti of Maidstone Park with whom he had been living for a number of years; two sons, Harry of Sag Harbor and Charles of Hart­ford, Conn.; seven grandchildren and live great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at Yardley’s Funeral Home on Friday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

ENGAGEMENTMr. and Mrs. Herbert McGuire of

East Hampton, announce the en­gagement of their daughter, Mar­garet Mary to Robert V. Hayes, son of Mrs. Margaret Hayes, and the late Charles Hayes of Syracuse, N. Y.

The bride-elect was graduated from East Hampton High School, at tended Central City Business Insti­tute, Syracuse, and is now employed by the Air-Borne Radar Division of General Electric Co., Syracuse.

Mr. Hayes was graduated from Syracuse University and is now serving as an instructor, at the F il­ter Station, Syracuse.

An early spring wedding is plan­ned.

BELL - BATESMr. and Mrs. A lfred W. Bates of

Aina, Me., announce the marriage of their daughter, Patricia Bushnell Bates, to Pfc. Craig T. Bell, U.S.M.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Bell

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of East Hampton.The marriage took place at 9:00

p.m. on January 30 at the new Post Chapel, Parris Island, S. C., and was performed by Chaplain Captain Reigner. The bridegroom is stationed at Parris Island.

Mrs. Willard C. Bell was matron of honor and Pfc. William Ates was best man.

The couple are residing at Beau­fort, S. C., for the present.

ENGAGEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. D^vid Hayse Mat­son, of Reforma 965, Mexico, D. F., have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Sally Ann Matson, to James Cook Edwards, son of Mrs. James A. Edwards, of 930 Park Avenue, New York, and the late Mr. Edwards. The wed­ding will take place in Mexico City in April.

Miss Matson is a graduate of Ward College of Buenos Aires, A r ­gentina, and attended Hollins Col­lege. She is a member of the Jun­ior League of Mexico City.

Mr. Edwards is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fran­cis Cook and Mr. and Mrs. James M. Edwards, of New York. He at­tended Deerfield Academy and Yale University, class of ’45, where he was a member o f Fence Club and Eilhu. He served as a field artillery officer in the Pacific, and then attended C o lu m b ia Law School. He is a member of the Yale and Union Clubs, and is with Douglas T. Johnson & Co.

Mrs. James A. Edwards and her son have long summered here, and are building a new home in the Hook Pond Corporation prop­erty.

Kenneth Stowell Speaks At Mother's Club Meeting

The Mothers’ Club, o f which Mrs. Kennell I. Schenck is president, held its monthly meeting last Thursday night at the East Hampton High School, with a very good attendance. Due to Mrs. Schenck’s illness, Mrs. Harold Taylor, the vice president, presided.

Kenneth Stowell, director of music in the High School, was guest speak­er. He showed a *very interesting sound reel which he had made two years ago with the assistance of Mrs. Betty Barlow Schulte, then assistant music director at the school; it showed the basic principles of mu­sic as carried out in the school. The pictures began with one of the ocean at East Hampton, and the High School band. There were pic­tures and description of each instru­ment, Mr. Stowell’s voice giving the commentary accompanying the col­ored slides of orchestra members playing the instruments.

It was very much enjoyed.

Guild Hall Jr. Members Party Wed., February 21

A party for Guild Hall junior members of tfie 5th and 6th grade group is being planned for Wednes­day, Feb. 21 from 7 to 9 p.m. by a group of Amagansett parents. Mrs. Clement Eichhorn and Mrs. Ken­d a l Leek are chairmen of arrange­ments.

The committee is planning a var­ied program of games and dancing including a grand march, bean bag race, square dancing and singing of rounds. Special feature of the eve­ning w ill be a short program of magic.

Assisting the chairmen are: Mmes. Herbert Mulford Jr., Carol Adams, Earl Finch, Stuart Vorpahl and Jojin Erickson.

A party for the junior high group is being planned for Saturday, Feb. 24 by Mrs. Jed Browne, chairman.

CATHERINE DEVINE TO WEDAnnouncement has been made by

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Devine of 965 Fifth Avenue, New York, and East Hampton, of the engagement of their daughter, Catherine Anne to Neil Anderson McConnell, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David H. McConnell of New York. The wed­ding w ill take place in the spring.

Miss Devine was graduated from the Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., and attended Finch Junior College. She was introduced to so­ciety in 1949.

Mr. McConnell was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and is a senior at Princeton University, where he is a member of Tiger Inn.

BIMINI BLUE MARLIN

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Ralph C. Frood, vice-chairman of bership committee, indicated an in- the Board of Trustees and chairman crease in the number of junior mem- of the Winter Committee met with bers this year. The figure to date is the Trustees and Advisory Trustees 230. The number of new adult mem- on Monday, Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. to dis- |bers who have joined since Septem- cuss the winter program now in ber 15 is 31.progress. j Mr. Frood also explained that,

The Board approved the winter with the consent of the Executive committee’s policy regarding the en- Committee, Guild Hall had advanced tertainment of Service Men station- to Guild Hall Players $350 to help ed in this area. Guild Hall has open- them to purchase a barn for storing ed all its member activities to a scenery and costumes. In return the limited number, free of charge, and Players have alloted to Guild Hall is also offering the use of the thea- storage space for a period of ten tre and galleries for Special Service years.shows and parties. The A ir Force The possibility of purchasing a is now using the theatre twice a Steinway grand piano suitable for month, once for presentation of a concert work, was discussed. Since one-act play using airmen and ci- the treasury is in no position to make vilians and once for a professional such a purchase at this time, it has show. been suggested that Guild Hall clubs

Reporting for the House and having particular interest in the ac- Grounds C o m m itte e , K e n n e th quisition of a new piano, sponsor Hedges, chairman, stated that the benefits for this purpose. Mrs. Rob- auxiliary exit lighting system for ert Brill and Mrs. Fay Greene have the theatre and a special fire exit offered to give a two-piano recital railing from the balcony in compli- for this purpose later in the spring, ance with the N ew York State Those present at the meeting were: Standard Building Code for Places Ralph C. Frood, Nelson C. Osborne, of Public Assembly, w ill be installed Mrs. Samuel Davis, Mrs. Valentine before the deadline, May 1. E. Macy, John B. Meeker, Kenneth

A report submitted by Mrs. Louis Hedges, Philip Dater and N. N. Tif- Vetault, Co-Chairman of the mem- fany.

GUESTS A T 1770 HOUSE

Recent guests at the 1770 House over the week-end were Mr. and Mrs. Martin Saportas, Mr. and Mrs.G. D. Tolson, Mark J. Millard and daughter Mrs. Hillyard, Brian Hay- hoe, Roger V. Atwood, Miss Marie Foley, Mr. and Mrs. William K. Beckers, Mrs. Frank E. Lehman, and Miss Lucy McCarthy, all of New York City. Also Lawrence B. Fair- hall of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis V. Farrar of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., andH. W. Nichols Jr. of Cincinnati, O. Mrs. Harriet D. W olfe of Putney, Vt., will be here for the remainder of the winter.

There w ill be a benefit basket­ball game for the National Heart Fund at the Southampton High School gym on Saturday, February 24 between the Bridgehampton W ild­cats and the West Hampton Hurri­canes. A preliminary game will start at 7:30.

CAPT. GEORGE VERITY, of Montauk. right, and Mate. Jim Reuier- shan of East Hampton, center, fishing Philip Cushing of Norwood, Mass., (guest at the Anchors Aweigh Hotel, Bimini) aboard the Ouphe II, caught the largest Blue Marlin of the year off Bimini in the Bahamas. The fish, weighing 314 pounds and caught on 24 thread line, was fought for 3 hours and 10 minutes before it was boated. Capi. Verily of the Mon­tauk Yacht Club Charter fleet is now with the Bimini Big Game Fishing Club which is the new southern station of the Montauk Yachl Club both of which are under the management of Roland F. McCann.

Photo by Helen Cottrell

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