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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1902
Page
7
Farmers rest and workers in Buhl and nearby areas. Tradesmen and residents move between Grove City, Jackson Centre, Plaingrove, and Sharon. Local visits, illnesses, and weather impacts are noted alongside family updates and church work.
Samuel Young visits Eastbrook relatives while Mrs Ellis White on the sick list. Fox school to be taught by Bele Munnell in fall. Gas well drilling on John Browns farm East Side. Numerous social visits and theater attendance noted. Services at Neshannock U P church at 10 30 a m and 8 p m led by Rev Boyd. Kensington club reports a social with a fine supper hosted by Mrs Wm McCracken.
Miss Eva Dinsmore visits East Palestine and many locals host friends from Banbury to Butler. Travelers include Rev J W Birnley family from Grove City and Miss Abbie Sergeant returning from Greenville. Names: Dinsmore Minich McCune Wilson Edie Waddington McKnight Pontius. The column records summer visits across Mercer and Jefferson counties and Pittsburgh area residents staying with local families.
August 5 1902 Rose Point community notes list visits by M C Dick to a new baby girl, Bruce Stoner and George Cline visiting local families, Rev W Oris Fisher visiting relatives, Miss Jennie Fieldgrove visiting from Sheltons Nebraska, Latimer family six week Illinois Kansas trip, ice cream supper at Annable's, and guests R J Kildoo and Lyle Kennedy. Local residents William Kennedy of Cygnet Ohio on four week visit, Mrs William Reesman and son Howard return home from near Jacksville, plus local ad for Ackers Blood Elixir with pharmacy locations.
Frank Ford Chewton is very ill and several residents including M. Shallenberger and Mrs. Jacob Allen are listed as sick. Henry Morgan built a new grocery store, George Craven family plans to move to Wampum and run a restaurant, Joseph Stiglitz has built three houses and plans more. The August Chewton school directors met, and others visited relatives or called on friends.
The Hogue and Shaffer reunion will be held at Samuel Hogue's home on Thursday August 21. Friends and neighbors are cordially invited to meet with us.
Social visits mark the week with Miss Lizzie Young of Allegheny visiting her parents and Rev H S Boyd staying with the Allisons. Thomas Taylor shows improvement after illness. Mrs. Philip Frew and son Thomas visit Butler county kin. Henry Edwards dies near the area at age about 88. A Wabash railroad survey indicates a likely route. A musical and literary entertainment is planned at the M E church on Saturday August 8 with ice cream afterward. A lightning strike destroys Rob ert Jacksons large frame barn with grain and hay loss.
Eastbrook residents report visits from Mrs. Dr. Smith and Gala in town. Eleanor McGeehan and Anna Waddington are seen with friends in Moravia and at sisterly homes. A busy week includes trips to Grove City Pittsburg and Wilkinsburg and a large Epworth League gathering at the M E church.
Miss Margaret Clark visits in Lowell Ohio while Dr. Cotton and wife welcome a twelve pound baby. Mrs Riddle and two Nebraska sons visit near Leesburg. John Whetson of Lowell returns home after visiting. Mr and Mrs Schell visit Bethel relatives. Mrs Simpson and daughter visit Mrs Clingan in town.
Mrs. J. I. Taylor of New Castle and Lawrence Smith of the Seventh ward visited here over the Sabbath. Ed Mitchell and his wife of the Seventh ward called on friends here. The O Y P Co U of the Harbor church will hold an ice cream social Tuesday evening August 12 in the church basement.
On August 4 1902 Miss Tudtle Vangarder of New Castle visits Miss Grace Gardner and Miss Laura Humphrey visits Miss Melissa Pizor of Elliotts Mills for a few days. Mrs J B Pisor hosts friends from Plaingrove and Slippery Rock. Mrs Hannah Maxwell from near North Liberty visits relatives here. The funeral of Mrs Wm Clark of Slippery Rock passes to Zion Cemetery. Mr and Mrs Hugh Moore of North Liberty guests of Mrs Susan nah McNees family. Miss Alma Webber of Slippery Rock and Newton Riddle of Prospect call on Sabbath. Miss Mainwaring and niece Mary Mainwaring of New Kensington are guests of Rev G F Mainwaring. Rev Rowland of Denton Pa has been called to Zion Baptist church and will move here soon. Mr and Mrs W H Humphrey entertain local youth and visitors from Portersville at their home.
Mt Jackson report notes Miss Clennie Hopper entertained guests from Harbor and Scotland for an evening gathering. An elegant lunch was served and attendees included Mr and Mrs John Hopper Miss Pearl Shoaf Lizzie Mary and Viola Wallace Camilla Maitland Miss Wilson Mary and Rebecca McClelland Earl Mathews Charles Flynn John D and John W Pattison Tom and Will Wallace James Hawkens Burleigh Clark Clyde Mathews.
An entertainment and supper at the M E church of Momma on Friday evening August 8 1902 features Heckart's orchestra of New Castle. The debate asks if the press exerts greater moral influence than the pulpit with a train to New Castle at 10 45 p m. Reduced fare from New Castle. R M Leslie promotes the event.
A sale notice for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It claims a world wide reputation for cures and promotes safety and pleasant use. Available from Geo W Clutton at 10 Washington Street and John F Neely at Long Avenue and Jefferson Street.
Washington officials weigh if the proposed thirty five million dollar Cuban loan breaks the Platt Amendment and what remedy the United States would pursue. The piece notes Cuba’s revenue shortfalls, costs of governance, and possible American intervention if suasion fails.
Residents report nightly chicken thefts in the Fifth ward. A suspicious man was seen near William Harris on East Long Avenue and Richard Fishlocke woke to find intruders in a Lyndal street coop. Several fowls vanished. no suspects or clues identified yet.
In Utica New York on August 5 Major Ruber and a signal service balloon corps detachment under First Lieutenant Clifton and Sergeant Bledsoe from Fort Myer are stationed at Frankfort to supervise eleven captive hydrogen gas balloons. Prof Carl Myers is constructing them for a naval demonstration led by Rear Admiral Higgins with a squadron off the Atlantic coast late in August.
Alex Reis of 695 Hewitt street is believed to be sleeping to his death after two weeks of unresponsive slumber. The Cramp shipyards painter in Philadelphia suffered nervous prostration from hard work. Despite all medical efforts and fourteen days with no solid nourishment, physicians cannot wake him.
Judge Wallace fixed the time for the September term of the civil court. It will convene Monday the 22nd, three weeks after the opening of the regular criminal court term, which is expected to handle serious charges as defendants await plea.
A varnished floor finish called That Beautiful Glass is advertised as coming from Devoe Varnish. It costs five cents more per quart and is sold by Lawrence County Lumber Co.
Keystone Plow Co on Main Street, New Castle, offers repair service for over 500 common stove models including Home Comfort Steel Range.
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