News of Hollis

New York, 1895

Frank W. Denton, who met with an accident a short time since, is recovering.

A business meeting of Columbia hose company was held Wednesday in the truck house.

Louts Loeban has taken charge of the Wheeler place and is about to erect two large greenhouses.

The King's daughters of the Methodist church have begun rehearsing for an "Old Folks" concert to be given in the near future.

The members of St. Mary's guild will hold a cake sale at the residence of Mrs. C. D. Pennington on Saturday from two to five o'clock.

The King's daughters of the Methodist church held a pleasant sociable at the residence of Mrs. E. J. Johnson on Wednesday evening.

The young people's prayer meeting held in the Methodist church Sunday evening at 6.45, will hereafter be in charge of this new society.

R Beebe, Jr., has exchanged his dwelling house for R. C. Livingston's grocery store. He took charge of the store on Monday with S. H. Durland as clerk.

Friday evening a party of young people met at the house of Mrs. E. J. Johnson to form an Epworth League chapter. Rev. T. F. Clark was elected president; E. J. Johnson, first vice president; Mrs. E. F. Weeks, second vice president; Miss B. R. Terry, third vice president; Mrs. E J. Johnson, fourth vice president; V. T. Kinner, secretary, and A. S. Plimpton, treasurer.

A meeting of the voters of Union Free school district No. 2 will be held to-morrow at 8 o'clock, P. M., in the school house for the purpose of voting upon the appropriation of a sum not to exceed $20,000 with which to purchase a new school site and erect and furnish a new school building. Also to select a site for the new school building, and authorize the sale of the present site and buildings, that the proceeds may be divided between the two portions of the former district.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 12.