Summer Vacation Comes

New York, 1895

The News of Queens.

The public school, will close to-day for the summer vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Lott returned home from their wedding tour on Tuesday.

A birthday party was given Miss Edith Booth Thursday evening. An enjoyable evening was spent by the young people.

C. Mortimer Wiske will give his operetta "The Picnic," at the Lyceum this evening for the benefit of the Ladies' Cooperative Guild.

An art exhibition and cake sale for the benefit of the building fund of St. Joseph's church was held in the Guild rooms of the Church on Wednesday evening.

The Queens field club and the Marcy athletic club of Brooklyn played a game of baseball on the athletic grounds on Saturday, the Field club winning by a score of 12 to 8.

Owing to a death in the family of one of his parishioners, the Rev. W. H. B. Allen, of Sea Cliff, was unable to carry out the arrangements which he had made with the Rev. Joseph Ivy, of Queens, for an exchange of pulpits on Sunday.

William H. Hoople, who for many years resided on the Hempstead road, died on Tuesday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff, at Hastings on Hudson, aged 90 years. He was for many years engaged in the leather business in New York. He leaves a large estate.

The Reformed church is in a prosperous state according to the report of the treasurer, John D. Ditmis. The receipts for the fiscal year were $4,389.52. The sum of $1,075.46 was expended for the chapel extension, and $750 for horse sheds, and after meeting all other expenses there is still a balance in the treasury. The contributions for benevolent purposes amounted to $258.99.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 8.