Council of Women's Clubs

New York, 1895

First Meeting' of Long Island Women's Clubs and Societies.

The advisory committee of the Long Island council met Monday at Mrs. Charles Kirby's, Jamaica, to fix a program for two sessions. Council will take place in Jamaica May 3. The morning will be devoted to the reading of club reports. The afternoon session will be filled by addresses by Mrs. J. C. Croley, Mrs. Helen H. Backus, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, Mrs. William Tod Helmuth. The executive committee of the New York State federation will hold a session in Jamaica on the same day.


Town Board Meeting

The town board of Jamaica held a meeting at the Town Hall on Monday. Supervisor Everitt presided. Justice Lester was absent through illness. The board decided to sell at auction on April 15th, the buildings on the Herzog, Denton and Everitt properties, lately purchased by the town or Town Hall purposes. The town clerk was appointed a committee of one to arrange with an auctioneer to sell the property.

The petition of residents of Hollis for 100 lights in a portion of school district No. 2, at a cost not to exceed $21 per year for each light, was granted, and the contract for furnishing the lights was awarded to the New York & New Jersey Globe Gas Light Company, at $21 a light per year, lights to be of 18 candle power.

The town clerk was directed to notify the highway commissioners to make a report of their receipts and expenditures for the year as required by law.

The following bills were ordered paid: Hugh J. Swift, services as constable, $55.20; Jamaica gas light company, gas furnished Town Hall from February 25th to March 27th, $39.75; James P. Clark, services as excise commissioner, $33; N. F. Waters, stationery for election purposes, $13.17; Samuel Searing, carpenter work in Town Hall, $16.85.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 5, 1895, p. 8.