News of Hollis

New York, 1895

Mrs. D. H. Carpentar has been visiting friends in Huntington.

While skating E. D. Silbley fell, receiving severe flesh wounds in his face.

Richard Loeben, of the Wheeler Place, had the misfortune to cut his foot with an ax.

Services were held in St. Gabriel's Episcopal church Wednesday morning, it being Ash Wednesday.

The euchre club of Jamaica was entertained at the residence of Mrs. A. J. DeBevoise, on Wednesday evening.

Miss Sadie Romeon, of Brooklyn, a former resident of Hollis, has been the guest of Miss Mamie De Bevoise this week.

Frederick W. Dunton, who broke his left shoulder two weeks ago, by falling from his water tower, has so far recovered as to be able to go out and attend to business.

At the school meeting in the school house last Saturday evening, it was decided to erect a new school house at a cost of twenty thousand dollars on a site a short distance north of the Plank Road, near the Stockholm farm.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 8.

Note: Carpentar and Silbley were spelled that way in the original article. De Bevoise was spelled as two words like that and also once as a single word, hyphenated at the end of a line.