Among the Churches

New York, 1895

Doings of the Various Religious Bodies Throughout the Island

Edward J. Coles, of Hempstead, has been awarded the contract to build a Catholic church at Northport at a cost of $15,000. The size is 40x104 ft.

The contract for building an extension to Bethany Congregational church at East Rockaway has been awarded to William Curtis, who will commence work at once. The extension will be 20 feet wide and 25 feet long and will be placed on the north end of the building.

The trustees of the Methodist church at Bayside have adopted a strange means of cutting down the current expenses, which they say are too heavy, by deciding to do away with the parsonage, for which they pay a rental of $800 a year. In order to do this they want a minister without the encumbrance of a wife and family.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 12, 1895, p. 2.