Woodhaven and Ozone Park News

New York, 1895

A top business wagon was stolen on Tuesday night from the carriage house of John W. Dayton.

John Croatman and ex-Postmaster E. H. McArthur are ill with pneumonia. Both are members of Ozone council, R. A.

Americus hook and ladder company are having their truck house repainted. When completed it will be an ornament to Ozone Park.

William A. Hadley, who succeeded Benjamin F. Everitt in the undertaking business at Ozone Park, has retired after an unsuccessful trial.

The artificial ice company lately started in Ozone Park have purchased two lots on Ocean avenue and will break ground shortly for a building.

Ozone Council, R. A., held an enjoyable meeting on Monday night at their lodge room. The council was entertained by Richard Griffiths with comic songs and by Brothers Brodel, Mosher and Hicks. One application for membership was received.

The tax-payers of school district No. 7 should get together and demand that the trustees of the schools put up matalic ceilings in place of patching up the rotten mortar ceilings that have fallen. It is dangerous for the children to sit in the school, as the ceilings are liable to come down at any moment.

Tuesday night about 11 o'clock, while Justice Lott was on his way home, he discovered a young woman at the Ozone Park depot surrounded by a lot of hodlums. Upon investigation he found the woman intoxicated and had her locked up. In the morning he gave her some good advice and discharged her.

The Rev. Frederick W. Cutler, former pastor of the Presbyterian church at Woodhaven, will deliver a lecture on Tuesday, the 26th, entitled "A Bachelor Abroad." Mr. Cutler has visited England, France, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and the Holy Land and will tell what he saw and did not see in the above places.

The congregation of the Congregational church was treated to a church musical last Sunday night by the choir under the direction of Chorister Charles Boyle. A short sermon was preached by the pastor, the Rev. Frank I. Wheat, and the balance of the evening was given to the musical. Chorister Charles Boyle will give an organ recital Saturday afternoon.

The funeral services of the Rev. Henry H. McFarland, who died on Thursday at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. J. Howard Hobbs, on Clinton avenue, Jamaica, were held in the Congregational church on Monday morning. The services were conducted by the Rev. T. B. McLeod, D. D., of Brooklyn; Rev. J. B. Clark D. D., of New York; Rev. Mr. Miles, of Brooklyn; Rev. Mr. Wheat and the Rev. William James. The interment was in Cypress Hills.

William G. Bennett, whose arrest here some weeks ago on a charge of bigamy was speedily followed by a conviction in the court of sessions, was sentenced Monday by Judge Garretson to two years and seven months in Sing Sing. In the summer of 1893 Bennett met Miss Alida Howard, a daughter of William B. Howard of Ozone Park, who was visiting friends in Albany. In December of that year the couple were married. They lived together in Brooklyn until January last, when another woman appeared and claimed Bennett as her husband. She said he had married her in 1891, but deserted her two months afterward.

The trial of Emanuel Miller, a hotel keeper of Ozone Park, on complaint of the Jamaica excise board for violation of the excise law, took place before Justice Seaman, at Valley Stream, on Thursday. The principal witness for the prosecution was Henry Camden, who testified that he had bought and drank whisky in Miller's place one day in November of last year. The witnesses in behalf of Miller, among them William Cunningham and Robert Scott, said they were present in the defendant's place when Camden came there. These witnesses swore that Miller kept a teapot on his back bar which contained beef tea, and that it was from this teapot that Camden poured his drink. The case was dismissed.

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