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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1925
Page
42
A letter argues against red ink blotter listings for habitual offenders. It notes Day Sergeant Frank M. Jones’ records show one man arrested twenty one times in two years and others with fifteen ten eight or five arrests. The piece attributes repeated offenses to alcohol and ongoing police lockups.
Miss Irene Harry and Mable Harry spent the weekend with their aunt Mrs. Fern Simpson of Masury. Mr. and Mrs. Irie Wylie of Ellwood City were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bauder. Miss Doris Eppenger stayed with Miss Alice Boak of Coitsville. Roy Wylam returned from a hunting trip. Mrs. B R McKean and children Donald and Helen are in Youngstown. Mrs. Arthur Konkle visited sister Miss Dorothy Dagan on Sunday. Mrs. T E Shields was called to
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New Castle residents and visitors are noted in a string of social items. Mrs. James McNabb and Mrs. Reemer McCartey of Youngstown visited relatives while Mrs. Ellen Coulter hosted family. Several New Castle shoppers and guests from Geneva and Cousintown appear, alongside remodelings and household moves.
About twelve hundred bushels of Lawrence County apples are stored at the Lawrence Ice and Storage Company on West Grant street. Local growers Wesley Shaffer and Rankin Johnson placed them in the plant. They will be sold to local merchants throughout the winter with daily withdrawals increasing before Christmas. This year’s stock is much smaller than last year when nearly four thousand bushels were stored.
The Democratic party in the Senate launches its campaign to take ownership of the world court adherence proposal. Senator Robinson of Arkansas sponsored a resolution to strip secrecy from last March’s executive session where agreement to take up the world court on December 17 was reached. The measure passed without debate, surprising Republicans and giving Democrats control over the plan’s narrative.
New Castle stores plan a limited Christmas outreach with few calendars. Real estate firms banks and clothing houses will offer large wall calendars while foreign stores and some drugstores stock calendar almanacs for rural customers. Christmas trinkets fade into timely advertising novelties as calendars disappear.
The senior high school annual Christmas play features The Goose Hangs High with cast from the dramatics class. The program combines classroom work, orchestra performances, chorus songs, and interpretative dance to illustrate school activities beyond sports.
The New Castle School Board granted permission for the Alumni Dinner for the football team to be held in Franklin Junior High School gymnasium on Friday evening December 11. They approved spending 90 for manure and lime to improve the football gridiron at Franklin field. Bids were ordered for 160 tablet arm desks and 12 teachers desks for new classrooms under Franklin Stadium.
New Castle will take no active part in Good Roads Week activities January 11 to 16, despite the national push. B. N. Hanlon of the local Motor Club notes the town now has concrete highways in most directions, with only a few secondary roads left to finish. He recalls six to eight years ago when residents labored to repair dirt stretches, but says enthusiasm for hands-on work isn’t needed as the system approaches full improvement.
Report from Pulaski school notes 32 enrolled with 5 students neither tardy nor absent. Novembr list includes 10 students with several repeated names. School statistics show 96 percent boys and 95 percent girls attendance. Mrs Ayers hosted Linger Awhile club with Mr and Mrs J F Myers hosting next. guests included multiple local families. Illnesses, visits, and upcoming chicken supper planned by Methodist church officials at Presbyterian church dining room on December 10.
New Castle schools averaged 95 percent attendance for November, with Terrace Avenue leading at 98 percent, Lawrence at 97 percent, and McGill School at 91 percent, per Dr. Ben G. Graham's board presentation.
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