News in Brief

New York, 1895

The Oyster Bay excise board granted one hundred licenses.

The old Cristodoro mansion at Maspeth was formally opened Friday as a home for the blind.

The excise board of Hempstead met at Rockville Centre Monday and granted 100 licenses.

The Long Island railroad extension from Port Jefferson to Wading river was completed Friday.

The property of the Amityville agricultural association will be sold at auction to satisfy judgments June 19.

A new lodge of I. O. O. F. was instituted at Stony Brook on Tuesday. About twenty-five members took the degrees.

George Sammis, proprietor of the Sammis hotel, Hempstead, died Sunday after a brief illness of heart trouble and rheumatism.

Appollos Sweezey, the oldest resident of Patchogue, died on Monday morning. Mr. Sweezey was born at Middle Island Aug. 1, 1804.

Mrs. Max Wolf died suddenly at her home in East Patchogue on Tuesday. It is supposed that a blood vessel in her head burst.

The state board of railroad commissioners, in the matter of the removal of the Long Island railroad station at Glen Cove, have refused permission to change the location.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 8.

Note: I had an earlier article about "the oldest resident," spelled above "Appollos Sweezey" as the newspaper has it. His name is likely spelled Apollos Swezey. The earlier article had his last name Swezey and the first name "Appolos," different from here. He is mentioned at this link at Ancestry as "Apollos Swezey." Here's the link for the earlier article I had, when he was baptized. I suppose there are other possibilities, such as Sweazy and Sweazey.