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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
2
A 50 plus age health notice touts a vegetable remedy to cleanse the kidneys and relieve rheumatic and urinary trouble. A noted authority cites sixteen treated cases with one failure, recommending a mix of Compound Argon, Fluid Extract Dandelion, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparila taken after meals and before bed with ample water.
An important change at the New Castle Forge and Bolt Works sees James Donehue resign as sales manager after six years and Paul McBride named to the vacancy. Donehue heads to Chicago as western sales agent for Russell Burdell Ward Furniture Co. McBride is a New Castle native with prior work at Pennsylvania Engineering Works.
James Ferrell shows improvement after illness as residents heighten vigilance for chicken thieves. Tuesday thieves raided Tila Myers’s coop taking 34 chickens and six more were stolen from a nearby neighbor, prompting a cooperative search.
A sick roomer, W. B. Morrison, woke at 1 am to a burglar trying the rear door lock at Dr. D. D. Cunningham’s home on Seventh and Lawrence. The intruder fled when a floor board squeaked. the incident highlights calls for more police presence and better lighting late at night.
The Young Men's Hebrew Social club held a social dance at the Merchants and Manufacturers' club rooms on Wednesday night with over 40 couples. Guests traveled from Pittsburg, Kittanning, Beaver Falls, Youngstown and New Castle as the party lasted from 8 30 pm past midnight with refreshments at 10. The arrangements were managed by J Krouse, Philip Simon, Harry Schwartz, M Krouse, J L Caplan and Harry Keller.
The Second quarterly conference will be held at the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ellwood after the morning service. Dr. T N Boyle presiding elder of the Allegheny district will lead and preach in the morning. In the evening Rev A W Renton will deliver a sermon on The Higher Citizenship.
Claude C. Rose quits the justice of the peace contest to back John G. McKim at the primaries. Rose argues a split vote would hurt a clean ticket. McKim, Ellwood resident of over ten years, is praised as honest and a strong candidate with business and labor background.
At Shelby Tube works a traveling crane injured Austin Fleeger causing a fractured skull and body bruising. He narrowly escaped death as the crane trapped his head between the crane end and a standing car. Dr. E E Lamb attended and he was taken home.
A loud yelp drew crowds in Beaver county as husky hounds and two well dressed strangers spooked the local terrier Brindle the bully dog known to frighten smaller canines. Brindle dashed off at a 2:20 pace toward the wilds as the crowd headed to the opera house for Uncle Tom's Cabin performances tonight.
Beaver and surrounding towns send residents to Ellwood yesterday for routine visits and business. Notables include John Eaton J J Blatt W F Verock George Fisher Edward Roelofs J A Caplan E F Knobloch and others with several civic and social actions noted at Pittsburg New Castle Wampum Cleveland and Lawrence avenues.
A Wednesday night street altercation on Ellwood's main street led to a white man and a man of color trading blows after a dispute. After a bystander witnessed an exchange, the colored man struck with a brick. Captain Moon intervened and the colored man was jailed in New Castle the next afternoon.
The Alpha Literary society of Smiths Business College presents an evening program Friday at 8 oclock including piano solo by Miss E Beavon select reading by Miss O Hay vocal solo by Miss B Jenkins a debate on whether the world owes more to navigation than railways with Prof G E Lyon and Prof I L Smith as speakers a vocal solo by Miss B Powell a question box led by I L Smith recitation by Mr Rodgers a vocal solo by Miss H Rearke a clarinet solo by Prof V Bianchi and a final act Howler by Mr McComb.
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