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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1929
Page
12
The Volant cattle show progresses with judging underway as exhibitors present stock. Officials from agriculture departments invite participants and onlookers to attend the proceedings and observe the judging criteria.
The city orders payment of damages tied to opening Leisure Avenue Mercer Street. Audie Williams and Soldier White are mentioned in connection with the payment action and immediacy of this duty. The record refers to seven damage days allocated for settlement.
City councilmen planned a tour of Poplar Street to assess street conditions after attorney Hugus Yee argued for his client a resident whose property is unstable. Property owners disagreed on repairs while council promised to review the thoroughfare’s grade issues and funding.
In a city hall meeting Councilman Clayton H Reeves argued removing the Rosena dam would invite trash and proposed an 84 inch bypass pipe to convey high water around the dam. Other council members questioned feasibility and police protective assurances as Engineer Miller estimated removal costs around 1000 dollars. Burns urged formal plans and Reeves pressed for pipe plans, signaling a vote likely when plans are ready.
Harrisburg June 28 Governor John Fisher announced the reappointment of the boards of trustees for eight state teachers colleges and two other institutions. Reappointed were trustees at Kutztown East Stroudsburg Bloomsburg Shippensburg Lock Haven Indiana Slippery Rock and Edinboro. Cheyney training school for teachers and the Mt Airy home for training in speech of deaf children also saw reappointments.
Minneapolis hosts the 1934 national open at Interlachen Country Club marking a major regional milestone. The event signals the first blue ribbon competition in this part of the United States, with key agents on the ticket committee including W. Stone and L. end L. Ell freight agent.
International dispatch notes Lucian, called Polish John, last of the Flathead Gang of payroll robbers, to be extradited from Detroit to Somerset County. He is tied to the Central City Bank hold up and payroll guard killing, and Fertak lists him among confessions detailing the gang’s crimes.
In Pittsburgh on January 29 a man testified before a U S Commissioner after being charged with conspiring to pass a counterfeit twenty dollar bill at a liquor purchase. Government witnesses linked Yonish to the note while he claimed the bank supplied the money. The hearing was continued for more evidence.
Lena Patsy admitted in West Pittsare and Violet Olson discharged in Devon Pa. Frank Loudon RK D 2. James Pherson on Wildwood Avenue.
John Sabo, 22, of Akron, was scheduled for the electric chair at Ohio State Penitentiary but was commuted to life imprisonment today by an executive order of Governor Byers Cooper. The clemency action was announced on June 24.
Johnstown police sought the gunman who wounded 23 year old Garneling Mooney and his companion when parked beside another car on a side road. Mooney was shot above the fence and in the left arm and drove to Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Fragmentary notes list Paul Mills and John Babrock among scout troops, with references to Troop 31 and Troop 51. A meeting of a council convened by a Contra faction appears, plus approval of a contralto or conduit.
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