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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1941
Page
25
The eighty ninth Westminster College class graduated Monday afternoon June 9 on the campus lawn in New Wilmington. The setting featured Old Main as backdrop and a sunlit canopy of maples for a perfect day with a large crowd.
The On to Altoona club will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in the Elks home located at 15 West Home Street.
Rev. C. L. Alexander of 325 Locust Street has been called to fill the vacant pastorate at First Baptist church in Wampum. He formerly led the Union Baptist church here and has been presiding at Wampum since Dr. L. L. Matthews resigned last December. The Wampum congregation will worship with Mt. Olive Baptist church in East Palestine Ohio Sunday at 3 p.m., while Rev. J. Pp. Jasper serves as pastor.
Members of the Court of Calant No. 127 will elect officers at 8 oclock tonight in the regular meeting.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Second Baptist Church will gather Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Mabel Gardner on Duquesne Avenue.
The Church of God in Christ at 1123 Moravia Street will host a benefit rally on Thursday June 12. Elder S Threats the pastor will speak along with Elder C T Toombs of Aliquippa. Toombs will be joined by his choir and the Morning Daughters quartet. The program starts at 8 o clock.
The Young Matrons club of the Second Baptist church will gather at Emma Taylor's Green Street home this evening at 7 30 for a regular meeting.
Forty first anniversary services at Bethel A M E church continue Wednesday evening June 11 with Dr. Robert Meade Patterson of Central Presbyterian church as speaker. Bethel choir provides music. No service tonight due to reception for St Luke's A M E Zion pastor Rev N L Meeks.
Members of the Good Neighbor Missionaries are scheduled to meet with Mrs EF Mauldin of 931 Moravia Street on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Girl Scouts of Troop 10 held a regular meeting Monday in their club rooms. Preliminary picnic plans were discussed and will be completed next Monday. Miss Mary Bowman visited. Scribe Delores Knobloch. A reflection on following one natural bent cautions against crooked paths.
William Semler was named president of the New Castle Exchange club at a Castleton dinner meeting on Monday evening. He succeeds Lee Christy on July 1. Elected officials include J. K. Atkinson vice president, J. Foster secretary, Harold Gerst treasurer, and members Lee Christy Joe Alexander Samuel Taylor W. G. Thomas E. E. Brown Louis Teddy. Louis Teddy gave an entertainment talk, and William Millsom invited the club to his Youngstown road home next week. Summer meetings are set for the first Monday in July and August.
Erie Pa June 10 Doctors treat Stella Kuzmicki a 23 year old mother wounded after attempting suicide then police say she admitted killing her two and a half month old daughter Joann Marie after her estranged husband visited her parents home 18 miles south of Erie.
Seymour Mendelssohn of Reading will speak at a joint meeting of New Castle Bnai Brith and AZA members in Cosmo club quarters North Mercer Street Thursday June 12 at 9 PM. Bnai Brith members report at 8 for a brief business meeting. The program includes a report from the grand lodge Atlantic City and Flag Day plans.
An army bomber missing since Sunday with six aboard was sighted from the air eight miles east of Lyman Wyoming. Capt Eddie Brooks reported the bomber appeared intact with no sign of life. The plane departed Salt Lake City for Chicago on Sunday afternoon.
London reports the Dutch warship Van Kingsbergen intercepted the French steamer Arica of 5390 tons after previously stopping the Winnipeg with 200 Germans en route from Dakar to Martinique. No further details were provided.
Clare B. Book president elect of New Castle Rotary will fly to the Rotary International convention in Denver next week. He succeeds Huston Rhoads in July and will join J. Lee McFate district 175 governor in Colorado. New Castle Rotarians and wives plan a golf tournament strawberry festival at the Field Club on Wednesday, June 18.
Admission and discharge details list patients at New Castle and Ellwood City hospitals. Several individuals flagged as admitted or discharged with addresses on Perry street Ellwood City Sutton street Bethel Elmira and other streets feature in the notes. Several entries note tonsil operations and routine admissions among local residents.
The text lists residents and addresses including Pollock avenue, Bes semer, and Moore avenue with tonsil operations. Names include Yolando Viggiano, Henry Taylor, Beverly Hanna, Ardys Gustafson and daughter, John Sovring, Mrs. Mary Cleaveland, Mrs. Betty Remaley and son, Mrs. Clara Whiteman, plus a Midlands address R. F D. 1.
Medical Society of Pennsylvania reviews sun exposure guidelines. Do not sleep on the beach in direct sun. Avoid strong liquor with sun exposure and stay temperate. Wet skin means avoid sun. Do not sunbathe bareheaded in strong light. Reading or cards in sun harms eyes. Perfume on skin can trigger inflammation. Do not sun after strenuous activity. Blondes and redheads burn easily. heliophobes blister rather than tan.
Jarius Roush of Selinsgrove, Pa., aged 98, who fought at Vicksburg and witnessed General Lee surrender at Appomattox, died today two years short of a hoped 100. A Snyder County native, he served two enlistments in the Union army and was a sergeant, Company I, 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers at discharge in 1865.
Members of the Highland WC T U will gather at the home of Mrs Leonard Kistart on Park Avenue Wednesday afternoon at two o clock for a meeting.
Richard Whittaker, son of Mr and Mrs Clyde M Whittaker of Englewood avenue, fractured the thumb of his right hand in a collision with another mushball player during a Monday game. He was treated at Jamesson Memorial Hospital.
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