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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1925
Page
35
London dispatch reports Locarno treaty signature clearing path for talks on relaxing Versailles constraints. Germany proposes Dawes plan bonds secured by rail to fund reparations and seeks relief from occupation mandates and troop levels to ease life in occupied zones.
The Kings Daughters of the First M. E. church held their monthly business meeting in the church parlors. They arranged a public supper for December 19 in the church dining rooms and planned Christmas gifts and charities. A program on Lemosy led by Mrs. Shields and others was well received. The January meeting will be at the Deaconess Home on Phillips Street with a tureen luncheon.
Admitted Donald Ray Jessup R D 1 Frederick Alexander Superior street Hillis Seamons Vog an street. Discharged Charles Miller. Farmers are not the only ones who make their living from the soil. Consider the laundry.
A promotional note claims a few doses of Hill's stop a cold in 24 hours. It advertises fever and grippe relief, headache cessation, improved digestion, and overall system tone without common treatment side effects. It urges immediate use and authentic Hill's by all druggists.
Mrs Mary E Rea was chosen president of the ladies auxiliary to the Daniel Leasure camp United Spanish American War Veterans at the annual officers election in the American Legion home. Other officers include Mrs Clara Hurlevous senior vice president Mrs Edna Vaughan junior vice president Mrs Ida Suber chaplain and Mrs Martha Carr conductor. Dorothy Fulton inside guard and Dorothy Flansburg outside guard also named. A later appointment will fill unfilled posts and a poppy day dinner is set for Saturday December 5 at 6 PM in the region home. The next meeting is December 15 with a Christmas box and small gift request for members.
An old sale notice lists H. S. Wampole items including a shaving brush and rubber set discounted to 79 cents with other prices shown up to $1.00. The fragment indicates a promotional price page typical of department store flyers.
Bethlehem council orders an ordinance fixing the mayor’s salary at 5000 and councilmen at 3000 and first reading a bill to appoint a secretary to the mayor at 3000. The action follows a petition from citizens and faces opposition over city finances.
Clair Corbin 24 of Alexandria was shot by an unseen hunter while deer hunting in Huntingdon county. He dragged himself more than a mile to a rowboat on the Raystown branch of the Juniata river, reached a point in front of his home, then died after neighbors answered his calls and took him inside.
A morning roof fire at L. Pascarella's property on 81615 South Jefferson Street caused an estimated loss of about 25 dollars. The blaze started around 11 o'clock, and the cause is undetermined. Firemen responded to alarm box 54.
The Dorcas class of Central Christian Sunday School will meet Thursday evening at Mrs Marie Moore’s Highland Avenue home. Election of officers will be a feature of the gathering.
The Phantom of the Opera has sold eight thousand admissions in two days at The Liberty Theatre New Castle with three showings daily including matinee and two evening performances. Lon Chaney stars in this film sensation with a ten piece orchestra providing a special score at each performance. No price changes have been announced.
In White Plains New York on December 2 1929 former judge Isaac N Mills addressing the jury in the Rhinelander marriage annulment trial lashed Alice Jones Rhinelander as a quadroon bride of Leonard Kip Rhinelander calling the case a matter of life and death and urging the jury to bury him if he remains bound to the wife.
Harrisburg Pa Dec 2 reports from state game commission sections show 41 deer killed on opening day. Two of the fatalities were illegal under state law.
The meeting set for Monday at the new Neshannock school near Walma has been postponed to Thursday evening. New directors R. W. Dinsmore and W. B. McQuiston will be sworn in and assume duties at the gathering.
The New Castle school board hired two teachers Tuesday evening to replace resignations by Miss Lillian Russell and Miss Cornelia Gilkey who left for positions at Lock Haven Normal School. New hires are Miss Elma Wolford, Thiel College graduate, and Miss Doris Davidson, University of Pittsburgh graduate.
The meeting of the Neshannock township school board is scheduled to convene. Directors will discuss district matters and potential agenda items for the upcoming school year.
Pennsylvania railroad officials consider transferring Ft. Wayne repair shops to Columbus to cut costs. The 250 workers at Ft. Wayne were furloughed, with the transfer offering them new opportunities to work in Columbus if approved.
Central Christian church will host a Christmas dramatization The Birds with about 15 participants directed by Mrs Dean McCall. The choir led by chorister William Richards will sing The Light of the World on the Sunday before Christmas. Choir practice is set for Friday December 4. Rev M Madeline Southard of Winfield Kansas was reelected president of the International Association of Women Preachers. Miss Eleanor Mitchell, an English girl, recently won the European speed typing championship with 812 touches or 129 words a minute.
Investigations are under way into two fires in Stroudsburg area with an estimated total loss of 25,000 dollars. Pond Lodge at Saysl ersburg was destroyed with losses around 10,000 dollars. The Pocono farm house in Pike county also burned for about 75,000 dollars. Both sites were summer resorts.
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