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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
2
An article urges attention to backache in women as a sign of feminine weakness. It links symptoms like nervousness headaches and loins pains to a health issue and promotes a single remedy to restore normal feminine function.
Mrs Will Young of Rockland Maine and Mrs Augustus Lyon of East Earl report relief from backaches pains and insomnia after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the product as a thirty year standard remedy for female ills including displacements inflammation and irregularities.
Two more Ohio counties voted dry on Friday raising the weekly total to 19 dry counties with none wet. In Columbiana county saloonists push a local option fight as East Liverpool and Wellsville go dry. Brown and Perry counties also voted dry, tallying widespread saloon closures and about 500 saloons shut this week. A Defiance county clash looms Monday amid brewery and steel beer case interests, while Greene and Huron counties see further option activity with Xenia and Norwalk as focal points.
Judge Porter travels to Butler Friday to hear a bill in equity brought by Butler Water Co against oil producers over the Connoquenessing watershed. The case was briefly restrained in 1905 from pumping salt water into creeks. He will also hear the county commissioners versus Thomas Alexander regarding a 2 1 2 percent commission on 125000 for courthouse remodeling and whether the treasurer is entitled to it.
Deputy Attorney General Caldwell, in an opinion to Secretary McAfee, says parties must nominate at the uniform primaries if entitled to a ticket and cannot later use nomination papers to fill a post after a vacancy. The ruling affects Prohibition and Socialist nominees like Jacob D. Utech in the Sixth Allegheny district.
Paxton Kerr Fike of New Castle Mercer offered Senator Wright 3500 dollars through Clawson to buy the Amberson corner on the Diamond. Wright declined saying he would consider the matter later.
E H Moore chairman of the Democratic county committee rushed to his offices at the federal building in Youngstown Thursday night as a fire threatened the structure. He succeeded in removing a large consignment of Bryan buttons before the flames could reach them.
Ellwood City prepares to form a local Y M C A with state organizer F. E. Buckalew backing. R. G. Brown reports plans to meet Attorney J. W. Humphrey next Tuesday to discuss site, hall, gym equipment, and growth of the movement. John Spica’s accidental pocket fire prompts caution with matches.
The high school boys from Butler and the rival town meet for a signal and trick play contest. Both teams are said to be well drilled and the matchup promises an exciting game.
W. J. Kirk appeared in New Castle yesterday. M. D. McCarthy and S. A. Roeloff were in Pittsburg yesterday. Mrs. F. C. Johnston returned from a Pittsburg visit. Mrs. J. H. Bittner and her son Merrill left for Greenville to visit her mother for a few days.
Four Newark men William Losey David Lowry William Metz and William Silvernail arrested in New York after an early morning crash in Brooklyn killed Edward Ryan a Brooklyn printer and left Josephine Wagner with a fractured skull. Police detained the auto and its occupants at Oak Street station for questioning.
Mrs. P. H. Mader of New Castle Pennsylvania testifies that three family members used Doan's Kidney Pills with strong results. She notes her husband suffered back pain and kidney issues before relief, and both she and their son also found the remedy satisfactory. Sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co New York sole agents for the United States.
Ellwood City will hold a special session Monday night to approve the First street paving contract and finalize a water ordinance. The ordinance awaits payment and contract allotment details before signing by Chairman W J Kirk and the burgess. Regular meeting discussed bills but took no official action.
The great mass meeting of Republicans will be held in Pittsburg on October 16 and attract strong adherents from our town. Vice President Fairbanks will speak, joined by other leading Republicans. A crowd is expected and the railroad plans a special train through Agent W. J. Kirk to run on that day.
The speedy Wabash squads meet the New Castle heavies on the local grounds with strong chances to win. Wabash fields a snappy team and expects to finish most of the season ahead through good play and teamwork.
Friends report Mrs W J Kirk has improved in health after an operation at Shenango Hospital and will be able to come home tomorrow as she continues to gain strength for the journey home.
Sled riding began early this season as several town children took the first ride of the week on frost coated grass hillsides. The youngsters enjoyed many rides during the morning hours.
Edmund Vance Cooke, a popular magazine poet, will give readings of Impertinent Poems at the First Baptist church next Tuesday evening. Dodge Publishing Co. is sole publisher of the volume. The critic notes the poems speak plainly about everyday life with sound sense and blunt directness, making them likely to be read more often than prose works. Notable pieces include Are You You, Bubble-Flies, How Did You Die, Desire, Diagnosis, Don't You, Failure, Humbler Heroes, The Price, What Are You Doing, You Too.
Letters testamentary in the estate of Samuel J. Lusk of Wilmington township awarded to Brooks Broadbent. In James H. Smith estate, letters granted to Frank Smith and Clara Gregory. Administration letters for Victor Blanck estate awarded to J. D. Springer. Elsie Wallace estate letters granted to Chester W. Wallace. Letters testamentary for George Wangler estate granted to William Graham.
Public sale by George Lechner at the Fallis farm known as the Ira Cunningham farm on the old Pittsburg road two miles northeast of Wampum. Thursday October 8 at 9 o clock listing twenty head of cattle four cows four head of horses pigs farm machinery wagons harness hay and grain and many other items too numerous to mention.
Pennsylvania railroad officials plan a pay as you enter system to curb ticket selling by dishonest employees. Detected abuses by Pennsylvania detectives prompted the shift, with conductors currently collecting tickets at journey end and some agents directing tickets to be left before New York to avoid auditing.
Mercer county authorities fear the almshouse lacks space with 175 inmates, up from last year, and an influx is expected as cold weather arrives. They plan to repair and furnish the fourth story for emergency use.
The Greenville baseball team meets the Spirellas of Meadville in the season finale today. A special train will carry the rooters to the game.
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