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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
5
In a humorous column, Statistical Sam tallies U S dish rags and tea towels, estimating over 15 million families and more than 15 million square yards. He sketches giant tents and sails from the rags, adding quips about circus size, New York sleeping rooms, and even wind catchers for ships.
Resolution by the Ministerial Association of New Castle follows a laymen led push against evils. Ministers agree to speak on card playing at one service this Sunday and plan further concerted action against other harms to religion and the community.
Harry T. Lee of Sheridan avenue, long an American Express agent, has accepted a book keeper position at the National Bank of Lawrence county. He will replace Miss Margaret Butz who resigns to marry Charles F. Montgomery. Miss Butz has been at the bank for four to five years and is congratulated by friends. Miss Hazel Smith leaves for Fredonia Pa to spend the summer.
The Christchurch Presbyterian church in Chicago will add a courting room to its institutional annex. Led by Rev. J. E. Snyder the space will feature cosy corners screens and lighting to serve the churchs young members and provide a place for courting within the church facilities alongside reading rooms gymnasiums and rest rooms for the congregation.
Chicago reports the Republican national convention gathering pace as 220 delegate contests loom. By week’s end residential candidates will move in and campaigns stir. Fairbanks and Hughes offices set up, Taft supporters to energize by evening. Taft team led by Taft, Vorey and Hitchcock to manage from June 6 with Canon boom linked to McKinley trail.
About 200 St. Mary's parishioners prepare for confirmation on Sunday June 21 with Bishop Regis Canevin of the Pittsburgh diocese presiding. He will likely oversee St. Mary's School commencement exercises at the opera house on Tuesday June 30.
The organization of the Lawrence county school boards from 26 districts will convene this afternoon and evening to formalize countywide organization. Final results will take about a month due to slow return of numbers to County Superintendent W. Lee Gilmore.
The John B. Haley drug store at Mill and North street was sold on a landlord's warrant. Fixtures went to Knox Long & Morehead, cash register to William Smith, and drugs to Attorney Thomas Dickey for a client. Proceeds totaled 858 dollars. Miss Jessie Wilson travels to Indianapolis then Denver with parents for summer.
Memorial day services were held at the Presbyterian church with Hon J A Gardner Rev Shape and choir assisting. After services old soldiers and Knights of Maccabees decorated graves. Pulaski defeated West Side B B C of New Castle 12 to 8 at the fairgrounds with Woods Davis Baldwin Ayers as batteries.
The Pittsburg Gazette Times on Monday June 1 shows a picture of the Western University of Pennsylvania law department graduating class. M. L. Rabinovitz of this city is named as a member. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Menrie Thomas Morris street, a son.
Per Cent. Discarded undergarments. 50 Discarded bed linen. 14 Discarded table linen. 11 Discarded tea-towels. 7 Discarded salt sacks. 6 Discarded flour sacks. a Miscellaneous.
The American Automobile Association led a preliminary survey by Naudeen and Dr. Jones with David Jameson’s touring car to route the Glidden auto tour through Cambridge Springs Meadville Mercer New Castle and Allegheny. Distances were 120 6-10 miles from Cambridge Springs to Pittsburgh 63 5-10 miles to New Castle and 62 6-10 miles to Allegheny city hall.
Classifieds list a six room house for rent on Shaw street with hall bath gas and finished attic. Also seeks a housekeeper and a family horse with buggy and harness for sale and other help wanted notices.
West side W. C. T. U. visits Greenwood Oak Park Graceland Zelienople cemeteries to place flowers on graves. Painstaking list honors ten deceased members at Greenwood and others at Oak Park Graceland and Zelienople.
Mrs Olive E Sutherland 59 wife of Ralph Sutherland died Saturday afternoon in Shenango Valley hospital of cancer. She had been active at home earlier in the week after an operation. Surviving are her husband and three sisters Mrs A O Kincaid Mrs R codes and Mrs Dol mer all of this city. Funeral today from 507 North Cedar Street with interment at Valley View.
Revival meetings will be held all week at the Wesleyan Methodist church on Lyndal street with Rev. L. H. McLeister as pastor and Elder Sarah E. Shultz of Falconer New York as evangelist. Meetings start each evening at 7 45 o'clock.
New York June 1 Gravesend race track will host the Brooklyn handicap a $25 000 feature race Ten horses make one of the smallest fields in memory Celt is the favorite as race goers flock to the track for the rich event.
Alfred Jackson reports his North Mercer Street home entered and clothing stolen. Police investigate. Beech Hargis, on trial for his father James Hargis’s murder, attempted suicide in his cell last night.
A musician recalls organ blowers who varied with the music from gentle to frenzied. He notes vanity grows as reporters nicknamed the assistant Bellows and compares his dramatic effort to Paderewski or Sousa.
A sneak thief steals a grip at a Los Angeles railroad station. Two miners pursue, only to find the case held an enormous live rattlesnake. Police and miners worry about danger, while no trace of the thief or snake is found.
In Prof. Drummond's late Edinburgh natural science class humor shaped lessons. Dr T Hunter Boyd notes his habit of playful nudges toward natural ness. A rumored absence for a sister's wedding led to a labeled geological specimen read as "Drummond's wedding cake" and the professor quietly appreciated the joke.
A brief Latin proverb about invention and improvement notes that the value lies in ideas rather than mere repetition of existing work. It emphasizes creativity over copying.
The Philippines possess roughly 200 miles of rail lines. The measure highlights the expanding but limited railway network in the country.
Baron Edmondo mayor des Planches recalls Verdi’s Paris debut of Aida and the Legion of Honor rosette moment. Verdi, moved by emotion, fumbles the badge as a penknife fixes it. Afterward he muses about his wife’s reaction to the coat’s hole and his unsure future.
A quotation attributed to William Alien White emphasizes turning aspiration into a proven reality through faith, sacrifice, and resolve, framing aspiration as a verified fact rather than a mere dream.
A Nashville American critique argues the wiser path is improving business conditions so more shirts can be bought. The line questions politicking and urges practical economic progress over partisan debate.
The document notes a Christian church at Glastonbury in A D 300 and St Martin's Canterbury built about A D 597, indicating early Christian foundations in England with dated church construction milestones.
A wry line from the New York Press notes that enduring a wife’s meals with praise is easier than facing her tears if one pretends to dislike them.
A rubber tree four feet in diameter yields 20 gallons of sap, making 40 pounds of dry india rubber.
Oil more economical claim notes that ninety three percent of the theoretical heat of coal is wasted and only fifty percent of that oil is utilized.
A panel from 1380 depicts Geoffrey Chaucer, identified as the oldest known English portrait. The artifact marks early medieval art and literary figure representation in visual form.
The report notes 600 deaths annually in London from hunger and destitution, highlighting persistent poverty despite city conditions and ongoing hardship faced by residents.
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