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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
8
The local market shows spinach at 10 cents a pound and beets at 6 cents a bunch. Other vegetables, citrus-like items, and wholesale to retail meat quotes from Wright's market fill the page with prices for beef, lamb, hogs, poultry, geese, and various fish and grains.
Twenty five members and friends of the Westside Womans Christian Temperance Union met Friday afternoon at Mrs. James Hammond’s West North Street home. Sewing and music by Miss Letita Johns and Evangeline Sebring followed a brief business session noting Edenburg convention report and a June 9 Flower Day tribute to Shenango Valley hospital. Refreshments were served with several hostesses listed.
Lawrence County L. T. L. Alumni will hold a meeting at Debra Mae Sankey's home at 123 North Mercer Street Monday evening at 8 o'clock. All officers and members are urged to be present for important business.
New Castle friends learn with regret of the death Friday morning June 5 of Mary Elisabeth Fullhart, the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles E Fullhart of Tidio ute Pennsylvania, at the family home from meningitis. The child was born May 12.
In 1913 she was one year and 24 days old and known locally as Mrs. Fullhart. Friends remember her by the former name Miss Gertrude Dowler and note she formerly resided here.
The funeral for Miss Annie G Park was held Friday at Edenburg Methodist Episcopal Church with many friends, Rev. D R Dunn presiding. Interment followed in the Park family private cemetery. pallbearers were Walter Raub, Paul Raub, James Reeble, Ray Biddle, Wilbur Mccullough, and Benjamin Parish.
Edward Clark and Henry DeArman are listed as sick while David Ritchie and others have recovered. Several residents travel, visit Detroit or Middletown, and guests arrive from Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Nashville. Notable moves include Rev. Clifford Joshua moving in with David Rees and Miss Harriet Quinn returning home for the summer.
The Women’s Foreign Missionary society of Epworth Methodist church met at Mrs. L. D. Nelson’s home on Florence avenue with devotionals a leaflet on large giving and a branch report quiz led by various members. Plans were made for a July picnic and a social hour followed supper. Separately the Rebekah chapter of First U P Church met at Miss Nancy McCreary’s home with a book study and talks on summer missions. Delegates Florence Kelly Mayme Santum and Grace Smith were named to attend the Presbyterian convention next Friday.
Mrs. Frank M. Jones and Mrs. W. J. Caulfield attended the P. H. C. Inner Circle No. 23 meeting at Beaver Falls Friday evening. A banquet followed the initiations. The Second U. P. Church Young Women’s Missionary society will meet Monday at 7 30 to conduct important business.
Euclid Avenue Methodist Church schedules Sunday school at 2 30 pm preaching at 3 30 pm and a special evening service at 8 pm. Mr Leslie will speak. D R Dunn is the pastor.
At the home of Mrs. Jeanette Johnson 8 Long Avenue on June 5 a social for Harry Miller of New York visiting his mother Mrs. Rachel Miller of Wood Street featured a buffet lunch hosted by Mrs. Johnson with assistance from Mrs. Rowena Watkins and Mrs. Minerva Tilghman. Guests included Mrs. Laura Brooks Smith Miss Kathryn Sheldon Mrs. Mabel McMillan Mrs. Mary Shacklin Retta Ward Nellie Whitbeck Harvey Moore Thos. Ward Eng. Rufus Tilghman Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Hence Duffin Howard Miller Earl Johnson Master Walter Smith and George Finch. Mr. Miller planned a two week visit.
Mrs Elizabeth Lee of Croton Avenue will entertain the Paul Laurence Dunbar Reading Circle at supper at the park Monday evening at 7 30 o clock. Experiments are under way in India for cooling buildings by forcing currents of air through hollow walls with electric fans.
Mrs. E. O. Fankhauser of Crawford terrace hosts a luncheon at the Tea Cup Inn on Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Charles Criss of Pittsburg and Mrs. Harry Fankhauser of Wheeling West Virginia.
The City of New Castle filed a claim for 22.93 with interest and costs for sewer and water work on property in the Third ward. The notice requires defense affidavits within fifteen days or judgment may be entered and the property sold to recover the amount. The document records the lien and court details in Lawrence county.
Abram Fletcher and heirs are served with a writ in a lien case filed April 6 1909 in Lawrence county for 12 14 labor and material charges including laying 14 feet of 4 inch sewer pipe and a 14 inch bend plus a water service and supervision total 12 14 against a Fifth Ward property fronting Pollock avenue 50 feet by 132 feet. If no defense affidavit is filed within 15 days judgment may be entered and the property sold to recover the amount. Witness William F E Porter president of the court dated April 2 1914. Sheriff Carl S Johansen attest.
Miss Sara Sankey of Wallace Avenue leaves next Friday for Bloomington to attend the wedding of Miss Rachel Mammen, with whom she attended Goucher College in Baltimore. She will visit friends in Indianapolis and then go to Cincinnati to stay with her brother Howard Sankey and family before returning.
The second in a weekly series at the Country Club drew a pleasant crowd on Friday night. Guests enjoyed a social dinner beforehand and the evening remained enjoyable throughout.
A 1914 financial filing shows liabilities and capital for a Pennsylvania trust company including deposits and trust funds. It also records a court hearing date for Jacob F. Perelman trading as New Castle Loan Co seeking a money lending license, with July 6, 1914 hearing scheduled in Lawrence County.
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