The News of Richmond Hill

New York, 1895

Mrs. Jeremiah Briggs is confined to her home with the grip.

O. W. Graves is in Chicago on business connected with his firm.

Charles Burden, of Chestnut street, is confined to his home with the grip.

Charles B. Phelps, of Hamilton avenue, started for Cincinnati, O., on Saturday.

Miss Mary J. Crowell, of Jefferson avenue, who has been seriously ill, is now regaining her health.

C. L. Purdy will shortly commence the erection of a cottage on Park avenue, opposite the railroad station.

William Kessler has made a score of 235 on the bowling alleys at Association Hall. It is the best score ever made on the alleys.

Mrs. M. A. Kimball, who has been staying with friends in Brooklyn, has returned to Richmond Hill and is stopping with Mrs. Hatfield.

The masquerade ball of the Young Men's Association, which was to have been held on Tuesday evening, has been postponed until February 14.

Joel Fowler & Brother will, as soon as the weather permits, commence the erection of two cottages on their property on Jefferson avenue, to cost $3,000 each.

The illustrated lecture on India, by A. H. Mowbray, for the benefit of the parish house of the Church of the Resurrection, has been postponed until February 26.

The Myrtle avenue dummy line resumed operations between Ridgewood and Richmond Hill on Saturday. The conductors and brakemen, with but one exception, are new men.

Messrs. Haugaard & Fowler have sold to Mr. Brower, of New York, three lots on the corner of Stewart and Jefferson avenues, and he has contracted to build a cottage on the lots for $4,000.

Mrs. Ida V. B. Vanderhoff, aged 98 years, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Sutphin, on Myrtle avenue last Sunday. Her death was hastened by a fall which she had three weeks ago, fracturing her hip. Her funeral took place from the residence of her son in Brooklyn on Wednesday.

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