The News of Queens

C. Mortimer Wiske has been appointed chorister of the Reformed church.

Mrs. Margaret Murphy, of Creed avenue, is visiting friends in Brooklyn.

The hook and ladder company at their recent reception and ball cleared $50.

An entertainment for the benefit of the Guild will be given at the Lyceum this evening.

Edward Loeffler, Jr., residing on Hillside avenue, had his face frozen while sleighing on Friday.

Rodman brothers have eight coops of fancy fowl on exhibition at the Poultry Show at Madison Square Garden, New York.

The ladies of St. Joseph's Episcopal church will produce Mrs. Jarley's wax works at the Lyceum on the evening of February 22.

The old Morrell Way place, consisting of dwelling and 25 acres of land on the Jericho turnpike, opposite Callister's shop, was sold by the owners, John Callister and John C. Hendrickson, on Tuesday to New York parties for $13,000. Mr. Harmon, who at present lives on the place, will move to Jamaica.

The heavy rainfall on Saturday did much damage by flooding cellars and washing out the roadways. At the residence of Schenck Bergen, on the Hempstead road, the water in the cellar rose to the kitchen floor and flooded the kitchen. At the residence of Mrs. Corser, on the Hempstead road, the water flooded the cellar to the depth of five feet. In low places the roads were impassable until late in the afternoon.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 1, 1895, p. 12.