Jamaica Brevities

New York, 1895

The Social Seventeen will give a dance at the Opera House on the evening of March 20.

James F. Archer is being urged by his friends to run this spring for the office of collector of village taxes.

The next meeting of the Athenaeum association will be held at Union Hall on Thursday next, at 3.45 o'clock. A number of new members were enrolled at the last meeting.

Abraham Wright, of the Jamaica beef company, has purchased of William Hardenbrook the new cottage on the west side of Hardenbrook avenue, between Fulton street and Shelton avenue, for $6,500.

Waite S. E. Ludlum, a respected resident of the village, died at his home on Union Hall street, yesterday morning. Deceased was in the 80th year of his age. He was a trustee of the Presbyterian church.

Mrs. E. B. Moore, of New York avenue, who was taken to the Poughkeepsie insane asylum February 22, died in that institution on Saturday. Her funeral took place on Tuesday, the Rev. William Bottome officiating. The interment was in Greenwood cemetery.

The Good Government association of the town of Jamaica held a meeting at the Town Hall Wednesday evening and adopted a constitution. They will meet next week to organize and make up a ticket for town officers to be voted for at the next spring election.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 8, 1895, p. 8.