The News of Richmond Hill

New York, 1895

Miss Lily Collingshaw of Beech street is visiting friends in Brooklyn.

Joel Fowler has been elected president of the board of education in the place of Alrick H. Man, resigned.

Leonard Rouff, Jr., has commenced the erection of two buildings on the corner of the Brooklyn and Jamaica road and Beech street.

Toe entertainment given Friday evening by the Boys' naval brigade of the Congregational church will be repeated this evening.

Mrs. Charles Bufleb died at her home on the corner of the Brooklyn and Jamaica road and Curtis avenue on Monday night from cancer of the stomach.

The clericus, composed of Episcopal clergymen of Queens and Suffolk counties held their monthly meeting at the rectory of the Church of the Resurrection yesterday.

Andrew Johnson of Hayestown, arrested on complaint of Hannah Sullivan, who charged him with slandering her, was tried yesterday before Justice Hendrickson, convicted of a misdemeanor and sent to the county jail for 30 days.

Richmond Hill during the past month has been over doing itself socially. The masquerade ball at Association Hall on Thursday evening given by the S. C. C., was largely attended and in every way a success. Tuesday evening, the entertainment committee of the Richmond Hill association gave a social at the hall. The Shakesperian reading given at the residence of Mrs. A. H. Man was well attended and highly appreciated. Last evening the King's Daughters connected with the Church of the Resurrection gave a book party at the residence of Mrs. J. Coulson on Myrtle avenue. Monday evening, the 25th, Arthur Mowbray will deliver an illustrated lecture on India at Association Hall for the benefit of the parish house of the Church of the Resurrection. This evening the lady members of the Richmond Hill association will celebrate Washington's birthday by an entertainment and dance at Association Hall.

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