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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
5
W H Smith once of Mahoningtown and president of the Mahoningtown bank now works in the newspaper business in St Paul Minnesota. He plans to live in Minneapolis while affiliated with St Paul operations and friends cheer his success.
New Year day services will fill the day at First Baptist with six city churches sharing programs. Sunrise noon and evening meetings last 90 minutes each, featuring addresses, music, and prayer. Notable speakers include Rev. Herbert Dyke Rev. W F. John Rev. Scott Hershey Rev. E E Rigley and Rev. George Jefferies with A Martin Graham and Robert Aiken delivering retrospective talks.
Forecast for January predicts blizzards and cold waves with warm spells. The advisory urges fortifying the system against exposure and suggests Father John's Medicine as a remedy to warm, strengthen, and resist illness.
The Iron Trade Review notes a holiday lull in iron and steel buying but says consumers stay in touch with market movements and expect a moderate spring trade. Tariff revision rumors add uncertainty, while interest grows in foreign material and English pig iron and German rods and slabs as buyers seek value in a world trade low.
Chicago judge Foster denies Annie Glassberg’s plea to remarry a man earning six dollars weekly. He opposes promoting marriages to evade poverty and notes large poor families as the core misery, urging judicious consideration over hasty unions.
Evangelistic services by Rev. Conn, a noted evangelist, are held at Wampum Presbyterian Church. Meetings start at 7:30 PM each evening and will continue for some time, depending on the progress of the workers.
The Fifth ward will divide into the Fifth and Eighth wards with no voting precinct bans in February. First and Fourth precincts move to the Eighth ward while the Second and Third join the Fifth ward. Precinct boundaries follow streets and river: Neshannock Creek Shenango River South Mill Street Long Avenue Division Street Pennsylvania Avenue Arlington Avenue and city lines.
Will Hazlett of Grant street has left Love and Megown for a new post in Carnegie Steel laboratories. He began his duties Tuesday morning. Miss Daisy Bannon hosted a small party on East Low avenue with games, music, and light refreshments. Joe Morrison of South Mercer street, a Carnegie Steel employee, will visit relatives in Buffalo for 10 days to two weeks and spend a week in Syracuse before returning.
A force of men has been at work for several days stringing wire and placing poles for the new illuminating system of the Pennsylvania railroad near South Mill Street and the Pennsylvania tracks.
Street Commissioner Jud Barteaux finished cleaning South Mill street from the Ne shannock creek bridge to Long avenue. The thoroughfare is now in the best possible condition for its entire distance.
John Ray of Sutton Street resigned after several months at the New Castle plant of Carnegie Steel. He has moved to Pittsburg and accepted a good position there.
A southbound street car on the Mahoningtown line collided with a coal wagon on South Mill street near Sutton. The wagon sustained slight damage in the incident. An unusually large slip occurred at the Carnegie Steel McKinley furnace, blowing ashes over the Fifth ward. A son was born Monday to Mr and Mrs B J Hoover of Charter street.
A stream of social notes lists Miss Alma Marks and many residents visiting or returning from places such as Sutton Sharon Pittsburg Youngstown Cleveland Monaca Wampum and Butler. Individuals like M P Llewellyn Joe Thompson John Lowther Edna Burke and Grace Burns are noted for illnesses visits and relocations.
A local listing shows tailored suit prices at 15.00 18.50 20.00 and 22.50. The ad highlights multiple price points for men’s formal wear with emphasis on affordable options.
Among colored diamonds the ruby red tint is the rarest. It notes that only one such diamond was known to exist years ago and it remains solitary in its grandeur.
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