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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
2
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a great kidney remedy addressing kidney and urinary issues. It claims the kidneys purify blood and that restoring kidney health benefits the entire body, offering samples and pamphlets by mail from Binghamton New York.
Pride of New Castle and John F Ward lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Plate Workers announce special meetings next Saturday to discuss resolutions for the May Youngstown convention. Secretary-Treasurer Williams must receive changes by March 10. Also report bridge repairs on Moravia street and city employment plans to spur street work if mills stay closed.
The Beaver Falls News reports President Strawhecker of Wampum Street Railway demands a perpetual franchise from town council. He claims bonds cannot be sold with a 40-year term and warns construction hinges on a permanent grant. If granted, he pledges 100 tax annually plus 1000 per thousand population growth.
The court confirmed widows appraisements as read by Clerk Charles H. Andrews. Annie Roberts retains 216.67 in personal property with 83.33 of real estate. Mary J. McGowan keeps 252.81 of personal property and 47.19 of real estate. Edith Brothers retains 500 in personal property. Elizabeth Pfeffer keeps 160 in personal property and 140 of real estate. Ida B. Hazlett retains 215 in personal property and 85 of real estate.
The Union National Bank of Pittsburg files suit to recover 14200 from J S Elder S L Riddle John M Davis EB M Peters and J F Elder administrator of S R Elder deceased The note dated January 15 1907 for 15000 payable to the bank was endorsed by the makers and United States Furnace and Foundry company and discounted by the bank A payment of 800 was made November 9 the suit seeks the balance with interest.
Advertises Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea and tablets as a cure for sickness, claiming to strengthen men, women, and children after long suffering and failed cures. Ends with attribution to J. C. Wallace.
The Ellwood City light plant has begun operation after two days of high tension work by G. BE. Seiler and a crew. Through a contract with the Pennsylvania Power Company, the borough’s plant is now supplying power to the city. Equipment was old and repairs included overhauling the boiler, fixing burst pipes, and installing a feed water pump.
An explosion of a five foot diameter hot metal saw at the Shelby Tube company Standard works yesterday afternoon narrowly missed several workers. One man was slightly injured by a leg wound from a flying piece of the saw. The blast sent metal fragments across most of the shop as workers stood nearby during a billet cutting.
George T. Weingartner visited Ellwood to campaign for the state senate nomination. Friends greeted him with smiles as he touted his record from the previous session of the state directors and discussed his political work.
Members of the Uniform Bank and other Knights of Pythias from Ellwood will attend memorial services in New Castle next Sunday. The party will include over 60 members with special arrangements planned for their participation.
The Methodist Episcopal church choir was entertained Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Johnson on Fifth street. The event was social with a modest musical program and a fine luncheon.
A vintage endorsement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard cure for female ailments. It claims to help with displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroid tumors, irregularities, pain, backache, and nervous distress. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Mass.
A. Roelofs of the Pittsburg firm said the burn site will host a rebuilt power plant with greater capacity. The fire wiped out the plant and damaged water turbines requiring near total rebuilding. Equipment lost as scrap. new plant will cost far more than the old structure.
Ellwood mills and shops relying on Pennsylvania Water Co. are out of service after a shutdown at 6 p.m. due to insufficient pumping capacity. The water company plans to use an auxiliary plant powered by Shelby Tube Co. Standard works tonight, but full supply may take several days.
Chairman W J Kirk announces standing committees for the year. He avoids any panel with Councilman McCarthy, includes Lennigan and Grandy on most panels, with members Evans, Wehr, Thompson and others across rules finance fire and water police and printing buildings scales records light and gas street and sewers railroads and electric.
Judge Porter approves the report of viewers in Ellwood City splitting the borough into three wards. South of the B&O tracks and west of Sixth Street becomes Ward One, south of the tracks and east of Sixth Street becomes Ward Two, and north of the tracks becomes Ward Three. Viewers: P. K. Fike, Charles Warnock, George W. Clutton.
Pittsburg visitors include H. S. Klatt in Pittsburg on business and George W. Hartman of McKeesport. Isaac Newton visited New Castle yesterday. Miss Nellie Brown from Pittsburg stayed with Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Morrow. J. T. Glenn and others from New Castle were in town on business. Mrs. F. H. Douthitt hosted tea Tuesday. Nurse Nannie Hamilton visits Butler. Mary Evans sisters return from Beaver Falls. Calvin Patterson hospitalized at Mercer in weakened condition. Household goods for sale at 301 Crescent avenue.
Sharon board of trade pressed a campaign to lure the National Cash Register company of Dayton to Sharon. A reliable source says a move from Dayton is seriously contemplated, though not yet confirmed.
The grand jury found true bills in three additional indictments charging unlawful receipting for taxes. The targets include Nick Vuko vich for larceny by bailee, S. A. Levine for larceny by bailee, Pasquale Colluccio for perjury, Jack Stewart and Ella Stewart for selling liquor without a license, E. B. Locke for receiving and receipting for taxes without a written order, and Samuel Leonardo Jr. and Sr. for selling liquor without a license. Not all indictments were true bills in every case. Roy O'Donnell faced a non true bill for larceny.
Tickets for The Japanese Girl by the Queen Esther Circle of First Methodist will be sold at Pearce and Quig's, with about 400 already claimed. Sales run daily from noon to five, and the Greer music hall seats are expected to sell out by March 10.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a painless at home remedy for piles avoids surgery and doctors bills. A free trial package by mail is offered from Pyramid Drug Co. in Marshall Michigan with a full sized box available at 50 cents upon request.
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