Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Concert of War Songs

New York, 1895

The boy choir of Grace Protestant Episcopal church in Jamaica will give a concert of war songs in the Town Hall on the evening of Decoration Day. The program will be very entertaining. Jamaica Post will be present.


Presbyterian School Anniversary

The twenty-first anniversary of the Sunday school of the Presbyterian church, Jamaica, was held Sunday evening and the church was well filled. The pastor, the Rev. J. Howard Hobbs, made an address, and Secretary Benjamin W. Vandervoort submitted his report. The school numbers 331 members. Mrs. J. S. Ostrander of Brooklyn gave the principal address of the evening. The music was conducted by Charles J. Coleman. The Reformed church united with the Presbyterians on this occasion.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 3, 1895, p. 8.

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