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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1920
Page
29
Ellwood City residents urge a larger night time fire force after Sundays blaze gutted the Kraus block and killed seven. The loss highlights the difficulty in securing quick experienced help at night and the need for immediate, skilled volunteers.
In Ellwood City Pennsylvania on June 28 a second kindergarten class opened in the basement of the Presbyterian church as the United Presbyterian class proved too large. More pupils arrive daily and Miss Dorothy McKim will teach the new class.
An advertisement promotes Dr Leonhard's Hemroid as an internal cure for piles. It claims the doctor found the cause and offers a money back guarantee through McKeeps Rate Drug Store and other druggists.
Thousands use a simple home treatment for catarrh and colds. Mix three quarters of an ounce of mentholated arline with boiled water in a pint bottle, gargle, and snuff or spray the liquid into the nostrils twice daily to keep nasal passages and throat clean and healthy against germs.
A Muncie Indiana man testifies Bio-feren Tablets restored his health after nervous, run down symptoms. The ad promotes two tablets after meals and one at night, promising improvement within seven days and offering a refund if claims prove false. Local druggists stock the remedy.
Ellwood City reports the Orange Lodges of Butler Ambridge Wurtemburg Sharon New Castle and Ellwood will picnic at Idora Park Youngstown on July 10 A special train will operate from Ellwood City via the P L E R R stopping at West Ellwood Junction Wampum and New Castle Junction The group will depart Ellwood at 9 35 A M A brief street parade in Youngstown led by Youngstown Lodge No 155 and the Bagpipe band will follow.
The Machine Gun platoon plans a drill tonight at the Shelby auditorium with all members urged to attend. Equipment including machine guns, Dodge trucks, uniforms, and canteens is expected to arrive soon as the unit joins Beaver Falls and Pennsylvania National Guard Tuesday evening. Several army officers will oversee the ceremony and officers may be appointed then. In a separate incident, a burglary occurred during Sunday morning’s Kraus building fire at J Wilcoff’s fashion shop theft of valuable jewels left no clues for police.
Ellwood City residents debate Sunday fire response and prevention measures. Citizens fault delayed discovery, crowd control, and ladder training. They urge immediate steps to remove handicaps and prevent future disasters.
Ellwood City pa June 28 the second match of the Ellwood Rifle Club slow fire squatting position was held Saturday evening Anderson and Richardson led Blair who had headed the high score list totals to date Anderson 394 Richardson 359 Blair 350 Main 336 Rhodes 311 Melzer 271 Hazen 269 MacMunn 255 Fetterman 202 third match of the series will be held Thursday night July 1
Two people were injured when a car driven by I Fehl of Evans City struck a Harmony line car. Mrs Eva Fehl 35 was rushed to Butler County General Hospital while Miss Catherine Iffp 19 suffered minor lacerations and was returned home.
The small son of Ben G Swick who underwent an appendicitis operation at the local hospital is much improved and his condition is now better.
The T R A Y Club will meet tomorrow night at the home of Mrs Carl Scheidemantle on Franklin Avenue for a social gathering and planned activities.
Bellwood City June 25 Ellwood City Ladies Loyal Orange will hold a special meeting in the hall of the First National Bank Building on Wednesday evening June 30. Both degrees of the order will be conferred on a class of thirty candidates with visitors from Pittsburgh Butler New Castle and other places. Arrangements are made for the annual Idora Park picnic in Youngstown on July 10. Refreshments will be served after the initiatory work.
L O L No 136 and No 156 will hold their regular weekly meeting in the Bank Building hall on Thursday July 1 A class of candidates will be initiated in the First Degree and the committee on arrangements for the annual picnic will report on progress made
Ellwood City welcomes Kathaleen Boyle daughter of Mr and Mrs P J Boyle to join the Ellwood Hospital as a nurse. She is a Providence Hospital Beaver Falls graduate and will assist with hospital work here.
Alvin D. Thomas of 7th Street will depart this week for seasonal work in Kansas wheat fields for the summer. He plans to return after the harvest season ends.
Widdy O Neill and Harold Cavert motored to Beaver Falls Saturday. Mrs Frank Shaffer and son spent the weekend with her parents at New Wilmington. F C Cheers of New Wilmington was a business caller here Saturday. R B Anawalt and wife motored to Beaver Falls yesterday. Miss Grace Strutt of Beaver Falls was a caller in this place Saturday. Miss Della Reynolds of Rochester is the guest of Mrs Luella Clarke of 4th street. Hubert Rodgers and Sam Rice were recent Heaver Falls visitors. A B E Butler Ludwig Rossman and M J Kraus were callers in New Castle Saturday. J E Brown of Slippery Rock was an Ellwood visitor Saturday. H Cunningham was a recent business visitor in Pittsburgh. H L Clarke was a business caller in New Castle Saturday. Mrs J E Butler and Mrs Harvey Treese of Holidaysburg were weekend guests of R B Butler.
The Bureau of Standards reports that submerged submarines can receive radio signals with a single coil attached to the hull and can transmit twelve miles. This enables ship submarine recognition signals and acts as a direction finder capable of long distance reception, now adopted by the navy on larger subs.
New York reports say American labor unions support Near East relief with broad backing. Buffalo and New Orleans federations raise funds and levy member assessments, with colored unions among early adopters. Labor leaders nationwide pledge similar aid to national and state headquarters. A Scotland wedding tradition favours December 31 to start married life with the new year.
In Cove Oregon Bishop J. M. Mitchell joins local farmers in battling grasshoppers overrunning grain fields. Pests cleared twenty acres on the L. B. Carter farm in one day as the insects spread toward the ditch and eggs hatch behind the workers. County agent Paul Spillman of Union County was asked to lead efforts to destroy the eggs.
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