Rockaway's New Postmaster

New York, 1895

John R. Murray, of Rockaway Beach, was on Wednesday appointed postmaster to succeed Michael Holland. There were a number of candidates for the place.


Clare Takes Rossiter's Place

School Commissioner Clare, of College Point, has been appointed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Crooker, a trustee of the Jamaica Normal school to fill the place in the board made vacant by the resignation of E. V. W. Rossiter, of Flushing.


New Buildings at Flushing

The past year has been an exceptionally busy one in the way of building at Flushing. The records show that within twelve mouths fifty-two new buildings have been erected. The amount expended for improvements is about $300,000. This is nearly $100,000 more than was spent in 1893.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.