The News of Queens

New York, 1895

Mrs. J. R. Darling is visiting friends at Bayport.

The new St. Joseph's church will be dedicated the first Sunday in April.

The social club held their final dance at the Lyceum on Wednesday evening.

William Flattish was initiated as a member of the Legion of Honor on Monday evening.

Irving J. Kelsey has taken the agency for Queens and vicinity for the Columbia, Crescent, Hartford and Fulton bicycles.

Joseph Scheidel will shortly commence to build on his property on the Hempstead road a factory for the manufacture of segars.

George P. Schnurr, formerly of the firm of Husson & Schnurr, has purchased the store business of J. V. Baylis at Floral Park.

Religious services are held at the Creedmoor mission every Sunday afternoon. They are attended by persons of all denominations.

James Frost, arrested on a charge of larceny, was taken to Bayside on Monday and arraigned before Justice McKnight, who held him for the grand jury.

An attempt was made Sunday morning to break into the residence of William Travis, on the plank road. The burglar alarm awakened the family and the intruders fled.

The state authorities will soon commence improvements on the rifle range at Creedmoor. The grounds will be in first class condition when the marksmanship competition opens on Decoration Day.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 15, 1895, p. 8.