The News of Queens

New York, 1895

Ex-Justice Bokee has recovered from his attack of grip.

Mrs. M. Murphy, of Creed avenue, is again confined to her home by sickness.

The hook and ladder company held their annual ball at the Lyceum last evening. There was a good attendance.

Charles B. Suydam has gone into partnership with his brother in the gentlemen's furnishing goods business in New York.

Thomas Callister is building at his wagon factory a moving van for Peter Walter & Son, of Rockville Centre, to cost $700.

Alexander Hendrickson and Charles DeBevoise, of the Springfield road, both of whom have been seriously ill with pneumonia, are recovering.

The new series of rifle matches which commenced at the Athletic grounds Saturday evening will be continued every Saturday afternoon and evening, concluding with an all day shoot on Washington's birthday, open to all.

The Penochle club held a meeting at Barb's Hotel Thursday evening, and completed arrangements for holding their first annual ball on February 25th. The ball promises to be one of the grandest affairs of the kind ever given in Queens.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.