Commissioners urged to buy land for new court house
A representative group meeting with the county commissioners and solicitor in the Chamber of Commerce rooms urged immediate purchase of additional ground adjoining the current site for a new court house. Attendees included Rotary Kiwanis Lions Wolves clubs Veterans groups and the American Legion. The commissioners vowed to consider options while noting strong citizen support.
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Court House
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, and Wolves Clubs
Harry L. McBride
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Perry S. Gaston
American Legion
J. P. Lockhart
New Castle
Lawrence County
Rogers Sees Dry Hearings As Aid To Railroads
Special to The News from Beverly Hills California on March 7 reports Rogers arguing Washington hearings favor railroads and hotels. He claims the investigations will drag on weeks and bring many names into papers while noting Reed Smoot’s sugar tariff move as evidence of trading votes.
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Rogers
Beverly Hills
Cal
Gation
Washington
Reed Smoot
Local notes mix humor and springtime signs in Pa Newc brief
A Pa Newc column shares light amusements and seasonal tidbits a remark about burying faults in a friend s cemetery a nine year old at a beauty parlor observing a man getting a permanent a Bell anniversary note Lent dates gardening quirks and Easter prep with an upcoming merit badge expo and a grand plan for a mothers fathers and sons banquet continuing on Page Two
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pa Newc
Boy Scout
New Castle
Daily Weather Report Weather statistics summary
Weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 9 am shows a maximum temperature of 54 degrees, minimum of 26, precipitation of 0 inches, and a river stage of 7.9 feet with no change.
France pledges flood relief as southern devastation expands
Paris reports widespread damage from floods in the south causing more than 500 deaths and property losses likely over 40 million dollars. Premier Tardieu and President Doumergue head to affected regions as a 2 million dollar relief fund grows to meet needs. Boreaux narrowly escapes rising waters while over 40,000 people are left homeless.
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Mediterranean
Atlantic
Tardieu
Doumergue
Chamber of Deputies
Boreaux
Garonne
France
Proclamation for Charity Show in New Castle Cathedral
The mayor proclaims Saturday March eight a special day to buy tickets for a benefit performance at the Cathedral auditorium. Proceeds go to the Jameson Memorial hospital and tickets must be sold to ensure the success of the show.
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New Castle
Cathedral Auditorium
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Drug Store Thugs in Pittsburgh Make Off with $500
Three armed robbers in Pittsburgh held up two drugstores within an hour. They forced Harry Fowler to open the safe, taking $250 and five pints of whiskey, then rifled a second store's cash register for $300, leaving the bandits at large.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
Harry Fowler
R. L. Spence
Local Man Fred Burns Escapes Crawford County Jail
Sheriff Connell reports a Crawford county jail escape at about nine tonight. Fred Burns, a city resident, is described as five eleven, 150 to 155 pounds, wearing gray hat and overcoat with a blue suit, and slightly deaf. Police asked to be on the lookout.
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Connell
Crawford County
Fred Burns
Burns
Council Endorses Court-Cost Ordinance In City Hall
City council favors a bill by Genkinger regulating court fees paid to officers and witnesses in Lawrence County cases. Final action will follow printing. three members voted aye and two nay.
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City Hall
Genkinger
Lawrence County
Reeves
Treser
Gillespie
Burns
Bedford Church Considers Calling a Pastor
Rev. S. A. Kirkbride of the Presbyterian church will speak at Hopewell church on Sunday. An expression of congregational sentiment will be taken regarding a possible call for any minister heard so far.
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S. A. Kirkbride
Presbyterian Church
Hopewell
Enraged husband kills wife and doctor in South Bend
In South Bend Indiana Leo Daminski 26 confesses shooting his wife Clem entina 26 who was expecting and Dr J L Curtis 47 called to treat her. The doctor and wife were killed and Daminski was arrested after the killings and an ensuing confession.
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South Bend
Indiana
International News Service
Ind
Clementina Daminski
J. L. Curtis
Leo Daminski
Daminski
New Court House Recommendation From Grand Jury
The grand jury completed its labors with a tour of county buildings and urged a new building for all court and county purposes in the vicinity of the courthouse. Debates over site persisted while repairs to jury chairs and foot rests, and improvements to ventilating systems in the county jail were also urged.
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Grand Jury
Court House
Police Hear Of Two Accidents
Albert F Gebert driving a Huston Hardware truck on East Long avenue turned into Pollock avenue causing a collision with Raymond George's car on Wilmington road. George tried to veer away but could not avoid contact. Heasley and Rutter also collided at West Sycamore Way and North Jefferson street with both cars sustaining damage.
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Albert. F. Gebert
School Street
H. R. Huston Hardware Company
Long Avenue
Pollock Avenue
Raymond George
Wilmington Road
George
Andy H. Heasley
Brooklyn Avenue
Clark H. Rutter
Washington Street
West Sycamore Way
North
Jefferson Street
Mr. Heasley
Rutter
Two Bills Reported Favorably by Council Committee
Council met in the city building and considered two bills from committee. They were reported favorably. One appropriates 25000 from general revenue to the department of streets and improvements funded by the Penn Ohio Power curblight system. The other ordinance provides for paving Furnace Street.
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General Revenue
Department of Streets and Improvements
Penn-Ohio Power System
Furnace Street
Death notices for Fuller Glenn and Gibson in Pennsylvania
Death records list Cora Vashti Fuller 62 of New Wilmington PA Charles E Glenn 80 of Hoyt Apartment and Martha Minerva Gibson An cell 87 of 105 Richelieu Avenue all appearing in the local notices with ages and residences.
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Cora Vashti Fuller
New Wilmington
Charles E. Glenn
Hoyt
Martha Minerva Gibson
Ancell
Richelieu Avenue
Rum Runner Vessel Captured in Lake Erie
Lorain Ohio March 7 Coast guardsmen under Captain J T Hage Love from Buffalo opened fire on a large unarmed tug loaded with 1000 cases of liquor in Lake Erie near Lorain. The tug was seized and its two man crew captured. One wounded man named Fred Hentrie of Detroit is in Lorain hospital in critical condition with two back bullet wounds. his companion is jailed.
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International News Service
Lorain
J. T. Hagelove
Buffalo
Lake Erie
Here
Fred Hentrie
Detroit
Hentrie
Ellwood City Portersville Road Bid To Open March 27
Lawrence county advances to award a road contract from Ellwood City to Portersville with bids advertised for 36 235 feet of concrete pavement on Route 350 to be opened at ten o clock in the state highway department. The project links Ellwood City with the Perry highway and Butler road promising economic and traffic benefits for Perry Muddy Creek Wayne and Ellwood City residents.
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Lawrence County
Ellwood City
Portersville
State
Perry
Butler Road
New Castle
Perry Township
Muddy Creek Township
Portersville Bore
Butler County
Wayne
State Highway Department
Butler Men Face Serious Charges In Local Court
Butler men stand accused in a local courtroom with charges including aggravated offenses. Prosecutors allege multiple counts tied to incidents reported in the community. Defense lawyers pledge to contest all allegations and seek further clarification of the case details.
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Butler
Butler men charged with liquor DUI in Locust Grant accident
George Koerner Jr and Joseph P Lyda of Butler were arrested after an accident at Locust and Grant streets. They pled guilty to DUI charges and to permitting another to drive while under the influence. Bail set at 500 dollars each. They were jailed awaiting case disposition.
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George Koerner, Jr
Joseph P Lyda
Butler
Robert Letera
Locust
Grant Streets
Walter T. Hamilton
C. C Horner
Lawrence
Grant Street
Letera
Koerner
Lyda
Bingham Speaks To Sharon Rotary Club Meeting
W. R. Bingham district superintendent of Bell Telephone spoke to the Sharon Rotary Club on Thursday about the development of the telephone basin from its early days to the present. He noted the 50th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s discovery yesterday.
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W. R. Bingham
Bell Telephone Company
Sharon
Binham
Alecxander Graham Bel
Nurse Hurt By North Mill Street Trolley
Miss Carrie Reed a Hamilton area nurse was knocked down by a northbound street car on North Mill street in front of the Hamilton apartments. She was taken to Jameson Memorial hospital with severe bruises and shock but not in a critical condition, witnesses say she crossed from east to west near the apartment entrance as the car approached.
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Carrie Reed
Hamilton Apartments
North Mill Street
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Hamilton
John Kaufman
East Washington Street
Miss Reed
Red Hot Ashes Spark Alarm at Old Lawrence Laundry
Firemen responded to an alarm from Box 43 at 12 05 today to the old Lawrence Laundry building on South Croton Avenue. The owner Harry M Long was remodeling the first floor into a garage and using ashes to fill the cellar. improperly cooled ashes reignited after placement but caused no damage.
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Lawrence Launary
South Croton Avenue
Harry M. Long
Tornado Cuts Path Through Three States Killing and Wrecking Towns
A deadly tornado moving from Mississippi through Arkansas to Louisiana left six dead and over fifty injured. It devastated Sun Flower Bolivar and Humphreys counties in Mississippi and destroyed a small town near Kosciusko. Property losses exceed $200000.
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International News Service
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Sun Flower
Bolivar
Humphreys
J.Y. Adams
Kosciusko
Miss
Four Found Dead In Chicago Home
An inquest was ordered into the deaths of three men and a woman found asphyxiated in a Chicago two story cottage bedroom. Police say they had been drinking and were fully clothed, dead about two days, with gas escaping from a kitchen range burner after cooking caused the flame to go out. Identified victims include Edward Olson from Chippewa Falls Wisconsin,Nels C Pierson 40, and Mrs Andrina Larry.
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Ational News Service
Chicago
Edward Olson
Chippen
Falls
Wis
Nels C. Pierson
Andrina Larry
High School Players Present Mad Honeymoon Farce
Senior high school stage opens March 6 with The Mad Honeymoon a Barry Conners comedy farce. Peggy Colgate Nellie Brady and Wally Spencer Joseph Aiken scheme to elope amid a fake preacher goatee creeps and a county hotel plotline.
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Barry Conners
Peggy Colgate
Nellie Brady
Peggy
Wally Spencer
Joseph Aiken
Colgate
Digging for Tickets to Benefit the Stret Show
A lively appeal urges readers to donate tickets and funds to support a benefit minstrel show. The piece promises audience entertainment and laughs while directing donors to bring paper, silver, or copper as offerings to aid the sick.
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