Jamaica Brevities

New York, 1895

George L. Powell has purchased the shop and lot of the late Henry Marvin, on Puntine street, for $925.

You can get Conklin's Wild Cherry Cough Balm at Peck's Hall of Pharmacy and Rodger's Red Cross Pharmacy.

Dr. Flynn has purchased from the Wooley estate a strip of land 40x150 feet, on Hardenbrook avenue, for $1,400.

J. W. Walters and family, of Union Hall street, have taken up their residence in Brooklyn for the remainder of the winter.

The next meeting of the women interested in the building of a lyceum will be held at Union Hall Seminary on Friday, Feb. 8, at 3 o'clock.

Isaac B. Remsen has had a large force of men the past two days cutting and housing ice from Beaver pond. The ice is between 8 and 9 inches thick.

The bazaar which will be opened by the ladies of the Reformed church on the 21st and 22nd, will prove a splendid affair. There will be things to please all tastes and supply all needs.

Richard Rhodes, an esteemed resident of the village of Jamaica, died at his home on Union avenue Tuesday night from rheumatism of the heart, aged 84 years. He leaves one son, Richard W. Rhodes.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 12.