Jamaica Brevities

New York, 1895

Mr. Cowenhoven of Lincoln avenue is having a two-story extension built to his residence.

Louie, the seven year old son of S. Foppiani, of Fulton street, died on Sunday from membraneous croup.

Michael J. Carter, who recently purchased Odd Fellows' Hall on Washington street, is having repairs made to the building.

Ground has been broken for the erection of a pretty dwelling for Miss Belle Jackson, on the corner of Highland and Herriman avenues.

Counselor Henry A. Monfort on Tuesday filed his bill of costs for $501 against the town of Jamaica in the recent condemnation proceedings for land for the improvement of the Town Hall site.

Adolph Herzog has rented the store on the corner of Fulton and North Washington streets now occupied by Edward Johanknecht, and will remove his segar and sporting goods business there on May 1st. Mr. Johanknecht is going into the wholesale beef business at Patchogue.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 8.