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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
9
A large audience welcomed Bessemer High choristers Monday evening for The Adoration a Christmas cantata the first of three holiday programs. The event featured Harold Swanson Lee McCombs and Dorothy Winland among performers with selections and religious readings.
Tuesday evening December 22 elementary grades presented a joint Christmas program in the high school auditorium. Wednesday afternoon exercises will close the year in the high school as a season’s commemoration. Vacation begins Thursday morning and continues until January 4.
The regular weekly gathering of all Activity clubs occurred this week with members confirming attendance and noting the usual agenda of planning events and coordinating schedules.
G E Nord visited New Castle on Saturday. Also noted were Louie Susany and William Percic as local acquaintances present during the outing.
Edward Sullivan aged 52 from Briggsville confessed to state troopers that he started a fire in the home of Mrs. John Gerren in Briggsville Columbia County on March 29 to hide thefts. He admitted stealing $4 from her pocket and set kerosene, saturating floor and stove, leading to the fatal blaze that killed the 85 year old woman.
The Christmas cantata The Holy Infant by Frederic Field Bullard will be presented Sabbath evening December 27 at 7 45 by the Highland United Presbyterian church choir directed by W W Campbell with Mrs Jessie N Reed at the organ Solos by Ruth Drescher Rebekah Crawford Glenn Reznor and Robert Taylor The program lists organ preludes and multiple solos and quartets with sacred selections from The Messiah by Handel plus an offertory and organ postlude.
Eugene A. De Lan of New Castle Pennsylvania has been issued a patent for an ornamental china plate design. He assigned the patent to Shenango Pottery Company and the seven year term begins now. The application was filed September 17 1925. Additionally Mike L Pascarello of New Brighton Beaver County and George W MacKenzie of Beaver also received patents for pottery mold and a liquid dispensing device respectively with filings in 1925 and 1924.
Promoters say bull fights will start January 1 in a newly built arena in Tampa's Spanish district and continue regularly thereafter. The item frames the unusual move as a burgeoning sport and notes the source is International News Service from December 24. The rest of the clipped page contains unrelated, witty notes about diaries and long hair.
A reflective note on how budding fortunes arise from having savings ready to seize opportunities, asserting that successful men typically prepared financially to act when chances appeared. The passage links thrift with prosperity and warns against unpreparedness.
In Pittsburgh on December 24 39 representatives of soft coal mines formed the Pittsburgh district Federated Miners' Association to oppose John L Lewis and resume work on 1917 scale William T Harris was named president and John L Hoffmann secretary The group cites a yearly business slump of 60060000 due to mine closures and aims to restart production under the older terms
The platform of the new federation calls for miners to return to work immediately at the 1917 wage scale and to adjust any differences with operators. Local social notes list visits and callers from New Wilmington New Castle Conneautville Mercer West Middlesex and Volant along with church group activities and a Christmas party hosted by the Search Light Bible class.
Chester police sergeant Charles Buscher awakened from a vivid dream at about 3 AM Tuesday and, fearing a gas danger to his family, warned them and checked the house. He then found a coal gas leak and alerted neighbors, preventing possible asphyxiation.
A man escaped from a gas-filled room on Third Street near Concord Avenue after a stove leaked gas from a kitchen fire. He woke choking and roused his wife, daughter, and a friend, opening windows to revive them while the others nearly suffocated. The incident stemmed from gas escaping the kitchen stove. A separate remark notes a man arguing with a waiter over burnt food.
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