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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1925
Page
5
A new group of boys aged 12 to 18 will attend a two week session at the Y M C A camp under Harry Day and assistant Jack Etter. They are to bring masquerade uniforms and musical instruments for a minstrel show, no circus. Baggage is due at the Y Monday with departure at 9 30 Tuesday morning.
International News Service reports Des Moines July 25 that a 30 year old statute requiring motorists to telephone ahead to warn horse owners of approaching traffic was repealed by the assembly. The finding prompted repeal as an outdated precaution amid general election context.
Shenango Pottery plant workers and families held its first annual outing at Cascade Park drawing about 2400 attendees. Events ran from morning to night with sports contests led by Jack Liversage and prizes for dozens of races and games. Winners included Howard Canavan, Joe Santilipo, Mary Padovano, Evelyn Daugherty, and Josephine Lom bardo among many others. The event is set to become an annual affair after the smooth debut.
Winning team led by Cy Lewalyn and El mer Robinson. Robison captains Tug of War with Jess Davis Emmett Wierton Howard Robinson and James Young. Fancy Divings see Tulie Minsky first Elizabeth Davis second. Men fancy diving won by Joe Smith with Nicholas Joseph second. 40 yard swims see Tillie Minsky and Flossie Gardner in girls race and Joe Smith with Nicholas Joseph in men. Prize Waltz claimed by Miss Kate Stewart and Edward Timmer.
Acting Governor Charles W Tobey and Attorney General Jeremy Waldron led the hunt for the killer of Miss Helen Gillis and her sister in Hudson New Hampshire. Rewards totaling 2590 dollars were offered as authorities focus on a degenerate suspect and police dog efforts were set to follow a trail from Hancock. Three men questioned at Hancock near the railroad station were not believed to be involved.
A Caplan home gathering hosted a bridge party for Dr and Mrs I J Kaplin of Chicago with forty guests. Prizes went to Mrs I I Kaplin Chicago Mrs Freidburg New York Mrs B Maxcus Beaver Falls Mrs M Edelman Bliwood and Mires A J Caplan Wampum and Mrs J Rodenbaugh New Castle. Robert Fenchel Beaver Falls and Thelma Dindinger Ellwood City noted as visitors. several local residents visited Pittsburgh and Kittanning.
Edward Ace and Lawrence Stewart both 18, residents of Argentine and Petrolia, were arrested by Constable George Rider on warrants from Justice W. R. Brown. They are charged with breaking and entering and larceny for allegedly stealing money, two suits of clothes, and a pair of shoes from Troutman and Allen of Concord township on July 17. They were committed to Butler jail to await trial in September.
Mr and Mrs Frank Dewberry of West Washington street thought all six children accompanied them on a fishing trip to Cambridge Springs. Frankie was absent until the car returned home to New Castle where he was found crying in the Ford. The family then finished a day of fishing at French Creek with no bites, noting fish stories of big catches are exaggerated.
Butler, Pa., July 26. Parents of Melvin Morgan, 16, appealed to West Virginia and Cumberland county authorities to refuse a license if the boy and Ruth Martin, 14, reach Wheeling seeking a marrying parson. The couple eloped in a car driven by a friend. no trace has been found since they ran away early Wednesday.
Miss Agnes Howell of West Pittsburg and Russell McClelland of Harlandsburg will represent Lawrence County Sabbath School associations at the International Summer Camp located in Shelby New Hampshire August 8 to 24. Howell attends Shelby camp and McClelland goes to Camp Ossites in New Hampshire. The programs known as Camps of American Youth provide facilities for training of young people. Both had attended camps last summer with Howell at Winnepesaukee and McClelland at Geneva on the Lake.
One hundred fifty individuals and corporations in the furniture business were named in indictments by a federal grand jury charging Sherman act violations. The group consists of dining room furniture makers as part of an investigation into an alleged furniture trust.
Boston horticultural experts hail a century plant in the Public Garden as the champion of the species. The plant, grown from a slip, has bloomed on its 35th birthday, breaking the prior blooming record by 65 years and rewarding municipal gardeners after 36 years in the garden.
Realty transfers list several transactions from John Kenst to Eleanor Needler in Edenburg for 150 dollars and Wileanor Needler to Robert Hammers for 176 dollars. Also S. Shafter to Jesse Moore in Nesshannock township for 1 dollar. Other transfers include Caroling Sutkowski to Francis Tilla in Nashannock township for 700 dollars Praneis Tillia to Stanislaw Sutkowski in Wayne township for 2 dollars McGain Realty Co to Teresa Travers in Union township for 1 dollar and Nunzia O Tousa Lo Vincent Ga with unclear details.
A series of property transactions across Ellwood City Union township and New Wilmington includes multiple $1 transfers among individuals and firms, with larger deals such as Shelby Land Co to Edward Rider in Wayne township for 5000 and 4250 dollars. Other entries note parcels in First, Third wards and Harlenaburg with minor sums.
In Harrisburg today the state supreme court received appeals including Lauris Lechner vs. State Workmen's Insurance Fund of Pennsylvania and Louis Lechner vs. Stanley M. Stader with Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York. Both appeals originate from Elk County Common Pleas Court.
Britain, Japan, and the United States have not agreed on all points for a joint note to China about anti foreign agitation. The foreign office said views on holding the customs and extraterritoriality conference have not been reconvened.
EGG HARBOR July 25 Be cause his wife chatted with the railroad crossing watchman Vandusky 30 is dead today by his own hand. He bound a clothes line around his neck and leapt from the second floor of his home after fearing his wife was in love with the watchman.
Kansas City July 25. John Reed, a pioneer of the oil industry and long time Standard Oil driver, retires at over 67 after more than 25 years with the company. He drove a tank wagon when gasoline and coal oil powered early transport. In 1920 the firm offered motor trucks to replace horses, Reed refused.
International News Service reports from Geneva that the United States is accused of permitting peonage in the Philippines. The charge was presented before the League of Nations slavery commission by English delegates Sir Frederick Lugard and Robert Grimshaw in a report today.
A note states duct services are planned at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on South Jefferson Street. Friends and attendees will be welcome at his service.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania on July 25, miner Cle nt Borlo aged 52 suffered a possible broken back after a fall of slate at the Delmont mine owned by Rev Abraham Moss of New York and operated by Pittsburgh Gori Co He was rushed to a hospital and listed in serious condition as of the evening service conducted by Rev Moss was planned for Sunday at eight o clock
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