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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
2
Unknown intruders broke the rear floor lock to enter the traction company's freight depot on West Washington street during Wednesday night. They opened Agent Rodger's desk and scattered papers, but found no money. only flour packages remained as merchandise.
A strong response backed Rev. D. M. Cleland’s appeal to New Castle manufacturers to fund English classes on the third floor of the National Bank of Lawrence County building. Directors will consider the matter, with W. H. Grove from Home Trust likely to join payrolls to finance the effort. A free employment bureau now connects employers and students, and the schools anticipate steady growth and permanent operation.
A Fifth ward business men language class met at W H Davis store to study Italian. Dr. Raphael Crisci teaches a 20 lesson course with strong participation. Miss Gae McGraw returned from Cleveland visit.
A reader writes of acute nervous exhaustion from overwork and worry. After one week on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she began to improve and soon was fully restored, urging others to try the remedy.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills and has cured thousands of women troubled with irregularities, fibroid tumors, nervous prostration, and other ailments. Mrs. Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn, Massachusetts.
Rumors from Connellsville indicate rail groups along the Baltimore and Ohio seek to remove G L Potter third vice president after Thomas Fitzgerald resignation. Critics blasted his re trenchment and liquor policy saying it curtails personal liberty. Officials discuss safer passenger handling depots and a new Columbus County line. Changes include a three step access, painted danger lines, and warning signs. Also reports the B and O will raise rates to Philadelphia by about two dollars from New Castle and Pittsburgh, with stopovers added in Baltimore and Washington. The Pittsburg and Western line into Allegheny reopens for freight and passenger service after high water. Engineers survey a North line from East Brady linked to Western Allegheny extension.
McIntosh Hemphill and Company engine builders of Pittsburg donate an elaborate set of engine drawings to the Y M C A drawing class. The detailed blueprints mirror engines at the Shenango Valley Steel plant and will aid students taught by William Beatty, with classes held twice weekly.
The Mahoning Valley Street Car company will stop using coupon books for free transport to employees. Passes will be issued to eligible workers and will apply on all valley lines. Officials say coupon books cost time to handle and passes are more efficient.
On Friday February 21 I will beat the Highland stables to buy good and second hand horses weighing from nine to twelve hundred pounds. 15313 P. W. SPRINKEL. A little love a little wealth a little home for you and me. It is all I ask except good health Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. J. C. Wallace.
The 11 45 express on the B and O will not stop at Ellwood City despite town petitions from residents and merchants. Rail officials cite speed and schedule constraints, with Superintendent G L Peck yet to announce a decision. Ellwood, a major shipping point between Pittsburg and New Castle, gains little weight in scheduling.
United States Metal Recovery Co begins laying out the 27 acre site at Frisco station as engineers plan the factory layout. Officials from Pittsburg have urged earliest possible operations despite unsettled weather conditions.
The Episcopalian faith gains a foothold in Ellwood as a mission forms with local adherents and new Greenville arrivals. Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead reviews the plan while Shelby Tube Co signals future church sites and growth. About 40 congregants currently worship in nearby towns or at other churches.
The Leechburg Athletic Association five will present the stiffest challenge of the season to the local team Friday night. Clarke predicts a strong showing by the locals after watching the Leechburg contingent play, and a whitewash is to be avoided.
Co. E. Douglass closed a sale of the Opera House restaurant to C. L. Stafford. Douglass, postmaster at Koppel, had operated the Ellwood restaurant for over two years and will move from Ellwood to join the Koppel business. The restaurant will continue under existing management.
The Ellwood Book Club visited New Castle for a matinee of Lena Rivers with eight members in attendance. They will hold their usual book discussion and exchange at the next meeting.
The townsfolk greeted "Uncle" John Pitts of St. Jackson with a smile as he toured Ellwood City yesterday. He praised the town and said he plans to visit more, noting Ellwood looks good to him as he heads toward New Castle.
New York Central officials led by J B Yohe L A Robinson J A Atwood and J W Riley visited Ellwood yesterday to inspect local equipment and services. No plans for a new station were announced despite urgent local need while officials endured cold and cramped waiting room conditions.
A telegram announced the sudden death of Mrs. Wilson of Lewisburg Pa, sister of Jacob F. Corl. He and his brother Scott Cornl left for Lewisburg after receiving the telegram. No details were provided, but heart failure was suspected.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad ban on liquor for all employees stirs little reaction in Ellwood, where many workers are abstainers. Some residents note B and O and neighboring P and L E men are largely teetotal, and those upset by the order resent being labeled as drinkers.
An important Ellwood City Woman’s Christian Temperance Union gathering is set for Friday afternoon at the Methodist church. Full attendance is requested as significant business will be conducted.
The ad explains piles vary by stage from internal to external forms and claims Leonhardt’s Hem-Roid tablets address the root congestion. It touts a permanent cure with money back guarantee and lists prices and local distributors in New Castle and Buffalo.
Herman Helling was in Pittsburg on business yesterday. Mrs W J Kirk of Spring Avenue is visiting her sister at Sarentum for the week. W F Dufford of New Castile was in Ellwood on business yesterday. William Johnston and Philip Brown returned from a visit with friends in New Castle. Arthur Patterson of Mercer arrived to spend days with his ill brother C E Patterson of Fifth Street. Also noted are ads for expert house cleaning and wall paper cleaning and Fike's barber shop on Lawrence Avenue.
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