Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The News of Richmond Hill

New York, 1895

Miss Kitty Piercy of Lefferts' avenue is spending the winter with friends in Brooklyn.

Henry Stage of Chester Park is building a cottage on his property on Orchard street.

C. H. Jordan has been appointed trustee of the village of Richmond Hill in the place of A. G. Wheeler, deceased.

Allan B. Mills, Harry Webb, Harry Folks and William Furnell, of the National Guard, have been on duty with their regiments in Brooklyn during the past week.

A number of residents of Richmond Hill will give a subscription masquerade ball at Association Hall on the 29th. Over two hundred invitations have been issued. It promises to be the society event of the season.

Henry Mallard, employed as a collector for the Prudential life insurance company was held up by two highwaymen on Hillside avenue near the railroad bridge at Hayestown on Friday evening. He was relieved of about $35. The thieves escaped.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Jan. 25, 1895, p. 12.

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