Amateur Theatricals Given

New York, 1895

The News of Richmond Hill

W. J. Coulson is visiting friends in Toronto, Canada.

Mrs. Meyler of Harlem has moved into the Hartley cottage on Hillside avenue.

Gustav Baur has moved into his new house on the corner of Stuart and Jefferson avenues.

John R. Seaman of Rockaway Beach has moved into the cottage owned by Joel Fowler on Briggs avenue.

Rev. Joshua Kimber moved to his new cottage on the corner of Hillside and Division avenues on Monday.

The Democratic club of the Third district are holding weekly meetings and organizing for the fall campaign.

Mr. and Mrs. Drucklieb, of Hillside avenue, sailed for Europe last week. They expect to be absent about a year.

The Richmond Hill Council, R. A., has been organized with forty members. It is expected that the officers will be installed next week.

At the afternoon service at the Church of the Resurrection on Sunday, papers on the "Resurrection" were read by Miss Bertha Pederson and Harold S. Blanchford.

The grade map for the village of Richmond Hill has been completed. The matter of macadamizing the streets and flagging the sidewalks is now being agitated.

The amateur theatricals given at Association Hall on Saturday evening under the management of Mrs. Africk H. Man for the benefit of the parish house of the Church of the Resurrection netted $150.

The new building for a dwelling and bakery in course of erection by Mr. Kuhn of Brooklyn, on the corner of Atlantic and Stoothoff avenues, is in frame and is to be ready for occupancy by the middle of June.

The Brooklyn City railroad company are erecting iron poles on Myrtle avenue for a second cable for the trolley road. The company expect to have the cars running from Ridgewood to Richmond Hill by May 30.

During the past week Joel Fowler & Brother have rented the cottage on the corner of Central avenue and Maple street to H. D. Fraser of New York City, and the Stuart cottage on the corner of Elm and Orchard streets to H. DeFriest of New York City, and have sold to Christian Locher a lot on the corner of Atlantic and Stoothoff avenues for $500, two lots on Wood's addition to Morris Park to Philip Wieser for $500, and a house and lot on Jefferson avenue to W. Ring of Brooklyn for $4,000.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 3, 1895, p. 8.