Woodhaven and Ozone Park News

New York, 1895

The infant child of Joseph Tack died from pneumonia.

Highway Commissioner Wolff lost one of his best horses Sunday night from pneumonia.

Louis Eldridge has been confined to the house for the past week with a severe attack of the grip.

There are quite a number of cases of grip around Woodhaven and Ozone Park, and the doctors are kept busy.

Brooklyn Hills has taken on a city appearance with 75 naphtha lamps burning. They are a decided improvement. The residents will no longer need dark lanterns to find the way home.

Henry Seuhr, of South Woodhaven, had a valuable cow poisoned Sunday night by Paris green. The poison is believed to have been given to the animal by one of Seuhr's farm hands, and he has been arrested.

Complaint has been made to the board of health that parties are dumping refuse from the gas house at East New York on the Ryder farm at South Woodhaven close to the new school house. The school trustees made the complaint. The town clerk notified the executor to abate the nuisance at once.

The big factory resumed work Monday morning, with about one half the usual force. The company has adopted a new rule. It is that preference of position be given to people who live in the town. Quite a number of men have been discharged who live in East New York. A reduction of wages has taken place of about ten per cent.

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