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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
9
The newly organized City Duckpin league announces a full 18 week schedule with games between U S S O Collegians Imperials Fellows Car Service Unions and others. Opening week dates to be set at Saturday night meeting.
Akron club president H H Gibbs refuses to discuss future plans saying he has nothing to say though speculation grows about Akron entering another league or dissolving the team if the O P league dissolves. Other clubs plan to reorganize.
The Masons routed the Moose Club bowling team last night on Fellowship alleys. They posted 911 in game one, won the second, and finished 813 in the final game while Moose scored 854. Total Masons 2 611 to Moose 2 374.
Matheny again led scoring at Fellowship bowling lanes with a 234 high for the week and prize money. Hildebrand topped duckpins with 123, while other patrons posted solid scores at the same bowling center.
A sequence of scheduled games from April with matchups including Car Service against Nineteenth Week Collegians vs Fellows U S S O against Twentieth Week Unions vs Imperials and Fellows against Collegians across April dates April 15 19 20 22 26 27 29. The notes include repeated references to Fellows Collegians and U S S O across specified Thursdays Mondays and Tuesdays.
New Castle bowling team defeated the Chauffeurs two games to one at home. First game totals show New Castle 831 to Chauffeurs 810, second game Chauffeurs won 793 to 725, and third game New Castle prevailed 848 to 802 for a 2 1 win in the three game set.
A roundup of residents and guests visiting nearby towns on Wednesday and Tuesday. Names include J A Rape in New Castle, Carl Rodgers to Grove City, Miss Ella Neil in New Castle, and many others visiting friends and conducting business in New Castle, Youngstown, Beaver Falls, Mahoningtown, and Pittsburg area.
News of the American Japanese agreement signed prompts great acclaim in Tokyo. Newspapers across Japan congratulate both governments and herald the pact.
The opera Madam Butterfly will be heard at the opera house on December 9. Puccini faced harsh early reviews but corrected the score through months of work and the work became a major success. Adelaide Norwood or Louie Collier will lead the cast with A. J. Benedict arranging the local appearance of the six car loads of scenery and 200 people, at a local cost of 1200 dollars.
The Warren post office reports eight months of last year brought in about $31 000, this year $62 000. Last month receipts reached $14 000, a record not matched by any surrounding city and Warren outdoing Erie in activity.
Coliseum reopens under Sam Hanauer of Beaver Falls with a varied vaudeville bill. Hose and Rose headline a sensational act. Mrs Rose is crowned world champion lady rifle shot. The Cascade offers ventriloquist Harry Stoulton and other big acts plus new motion pictures. Kinzie Higgins stars in the drama with Marian Sherwood as his wife, and W J Thorne adds a breezy western turn. Seats now selling.
The New Brunswick Times reports on Lem B. Parker’s play Married for Money or The Old Wife and the New Wife, staged at the opera house with matinee and evening performances. Described as a modern drama with intense situations, it compares to Paid in Full and Lion and the Mouse and aims for popular priced houses.
A Clyde Fitch comedy shown at the opera house drew a good audience last night. The piece is lively with scarcely a dull moment though the three lead actresses overacted while the supporting cast offered stronger work.
A meeting of the City Duck pin league is planned at Fellowship bowling alleys at 8 o'clock next Saturday evening. The session will address season opening matters and every team should be represented.
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