Oil Operations in Volant Field
In Neshannock creek area Volant Field activity surges as McHilhaney drills No 3 joining six planned wells to a new power plant. Wells completed include Nos 1N Rice Hartley Cotton R B HM Mary Thorn and J J Ramsey. Company runs about sixty wells with roughly six thousand barrels daily. Sharon area expected to grow as gas and oil hub. A McMurray farm well near Sharpsville showed 400 psi and was bought by Standard Oil for 40000. Additional wells underway and Pittsburg investors show interest. A test well on R M South farm Jefferson Township resumes after past losses. Better luck anticipated.
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Neshannock Creek
Standard OM Company
Pittsburg
Bes
R. M. Soulth
Jefferson Township
Masury Brick Works To Resume Operations Soon
The brick works of Masury Q near Bharon will resume within two or three weeks, employing 100 men.
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Masury
Bharon
Portolese to face murder charge in Mercer case
Detective Kepner identifies Antonio Tarnatto as the crime victim and alleges Mika Portolese, jailed for extortion with the Black Hand, participated in the Middlesex area murder. Portolese faces possible extradition to Mercer County for trial following bank withdrawal and robbery motive.
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Ira V. Hep
Mercer
T. €. Cochran
Mika Portoleze
Black Hand Society
Middlesex
Efrect
Kepner
Antonio Tarnatto
Mercer County
Sui
E M Underwood Plans Fine Brick Block on North Street
Attorney BLM Underwood contemplates a fine brick block on his North Street lot between Mill Street and the post office. The current building will be torn down near year end or early spring 1903 to clear the site. Frontage is fifty feet with ground floor storerooms and upper stories. The new structure is to be a credit to the street.
Scandal Aired At Vanderbilts In New York
Alfred G. Vanderbilt’s alleged interest in a Spanish girl is cited as a cause of his separation from his wife. The unnamed woman lived in Rivieride Drive and figured in gossip linked to Brenchley and Dietrich Tich. Records suggest Vanderbilt bought a $10,000 car for the woman with Brenchley as agent. The affair resurfaced amid the forthcoming Glidys Vanderbilt marriage to Count Szech. Vanderbilt’s horse trainer Wilson was implicated in a separate episode involving Florence Schnock from Norfolk, who drove Vanderbilt’s horses in London.
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New York
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Harry Brenchley
Vanderbilt
Europe
Alfred
Thatrich
Glidys Vanderbilt
Szech‘onyd
Mr. Vanderbilt
Wilson
Florence Schnock
Norfolk, Va
London
Bridge Repairs Loom West Pittsburg Rail Revamp
Baltimore and Ohio bridge repairs near the West Pittsburg townsite will require a near total rebuild as timbers decay. E J Flynn, longtime Lake Vie station clerk and Ellwood Junction depot operator, accepts an agent post for Western Allegheny Railroad at Kaylor Junction, starting about April 4 after a salary raise. Services: West Phisbury Methodist church Sunday afternoon with Livingstone preaching. Byworth league to meet in the evening.
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Baltimore Id Ohio
West Pittsburg
E. J. Flynn
Center Avenue
Mery Clerk
Lake Vie
Lake Erie
Ellwood Junction
Western Allegheny Railroad
Kaylor Junction
Flynn
Western Allegheny
Vigan
Dutach
West Phisbury
Ternoon
Livingstone
Byworth League
Ray
Newport
Ani Social Committee
ISUPT W L GILMORE INSPECTED SCHOOLS IN TOWN
W Lea Glimore of Mahoningtown county superintendent of schools was in town on business Thursday. He met W M Crown of Taylor Township and visited West Pittsburg schools, touring each grade. A literary program at the Carsan school house Friday evening features music and readings.
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W. Lea Glimore
Mahoningtown
Geuperintendent
W. M. Crown
Board of Education
Taylor Towneship
West Pittsburg
Carsan
NOY TO GET MEDAL FOR YOUNGSTOWN WORKER BRAVERY
Patrick Hyland of Youngstown will not receive a Carnegie medal for his brave act. Witnesses to the deed could not be found, and the recognition remains unawarded.
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Noy
Patrick Hyland
Youngstown
Clark Inspect Visits Mercer to Probe Pigpen Drainage
Captain J. M. Clark of the state health department spent a day in Mercer investigating watershed tributaries of the Neshannock and Shenango rivers at Castle. The aim was to determine if farmers Sim Gibson Joan Nantley and Oliver Walker were allowing drainage from their pig pens into nearby waterways.
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J. M. Clark
State Health Department
Mercer
Neshannock
Shenango
Few Castle
Sim Gibson
Joan Nantley
Oliver Walker
Removal Notice Shifts Practice and Home to New Mill Street
Tranarly will move his dental office from 2% Pittyburg Street to 70 North Mill Street and relocate his residence to the same address, effective after April 1. Also notes prices for Strictly Fresh Eggs at 18¢ and references Enion Frott Market at 25 Phursburg Street.
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Tranarly
Pittyburg Street
North Mill Street
Enion Frott Market
Phursburg Street
Black Hand letter writer confesses in St Louis case
In St Louis on March 27 Joseph Louis Gullean alias Calton was arrested after seeking a package from Rochester connected to a Black Hand letter. He confessed to writing threats demanding money to two Rochester area victims in Heena N Y and Poughkeepsie N Y and planned to set up as a cobbler with a wife in Rochester.
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ST. Louis
Marth
Joseph Louis Gullean
Alian Calton
jOstice
Rochester
Java
Heeane
N.Y
Poughccepsle
Mss Dennly Louisigen
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Volant Field
E. M. Underwood
North Street
Vanderbilts
West Pittsburg News
B&g
R. R
Epworth League Social
RE. Pervisor
Blow. Cochran
New Castle
New Casilla
Henry Collins
Garland Corporation
Plitsburg
J. Armstrong
Plllsburg
Pressed Radiator Company
West Plusburg
Isupt
W. L. Gilmore
Charles Bonnon
John
Daiies C. Patterson
Wasi & Business
W. McMahan
West Pittabare
Toustmnacher
Rog
Charles Glasser
3Foragia
Bellevue
Joseph Richardson
Eleventh Street
Pinsburg
J. W. Burnett
Ara
Myron Heck
Lawsrenee Syvenus
Piso
Press
Clark
Ms. Watcnes and
Felanes
W. P. Hanna
Washington Street
George R. Kirkpatrigi
Will Ayeni
Socialist
Washington
Urat Borger
Kirkpittelet
Central Park
Lawrence Savings & Trust CO
New Castle, PA
Beat Iluminatad
R. L. Matthews Electric CO
Seventh Ward
Hoth
Clare P. Dushane
East Washington Street
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