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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
5
The New Castle Citizens band has 26 members with Ernest McCreary as solo cornet and director. The lineup includes Reuben Smith Peter Agan W Waddington W Heckert and others across cornet clarinet piccolo alto tenor trombone baritone bass tuba and drums as they practice weekly and broaden their repertoire.
Mr and Mrs M C Hogue observed their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at home in Energy. Relatives and friends attended from many households, with about 60 neighborhood visitors in the evening. The couple, parents of seven with several grandchildren, hosted a dinner and games as congratulations poured in from numerous friends and relatives.
Miss McKnight of Hickory Township recently discharged from the hospital was taken home Saturday morning in White's ambulance. She is much improved and on the mend.
Temperance supporters in Greenville organize a large Monday parade with school children to participate and a water wagon featured as a highlight of the event.
Across the country major games loom as Navy meets Carlisle in Annapolis and Princeton seeks to topple Yale’s schedule. West Point, Harvard, Brown, and Chicago vie for key wins while Yale prepares for Brown with uncertain lineup and a focus on improving for next week.
W J Bryan visits Indiana for 19 speeches denouncing Andrew Carnegie John D Rockefeller Elihu Root and President Roosevelt. He accuses Carnegie of backing Taft Homestead tragedy and says voters will reject his views Root defended Boss Tweed and taft would enforce laws Rockefeller supports Taft and Roosevelt seeks to elect his chosen Republican nominee amid predatory wealth opposition.
Adlai Stevenson at 73 began his final day of campaigning in Chicago. He pressed his program of meetings despite near exhaustion after yesterday’s strain against Governor Charles S. Deneen. Friends warned him to ease, but Stevenson insisted on continuing.
Norman E. Mack says reports from the midwest to the coast indicate a Bryan landslide and predicts over 300 electoral votes with Bryan and Chanler carrying New York by 50 000 to 60 000. Frank H. Hitchcock counters that Taft will win 325 electoral votes and the north, Indiana and Nebraska will favor Republicans.
The Count of Turin brother of the Duke of Abruzzi will travel with 70 mules from the Guiana coast through the Congo to Lake Victoria Nyanza and on to the Indian Ocean. The voyage, expected to last at least three months, sparks debate over his engagement to Princess Patricia.
Tammany Hall workers disrupt Republican parades with banners showing Bryan and Kern and slogans about jobs. Democratic campaign literature rains down on marchers causing clashes with spectators. Hamburg American liner Kaiserin Augusta Victoria sails to New York with 1,057 steerage aliens.
Berlin October 31 Four days before the reichstag convenes Emperor William faced a crisis as Chancellor Von Buelow offered his resignation over an unauthorized London Telegraph interview. The piece credited the Kaiser with Great Britain's Boer war plans, provoking outrage and ending in a bid to replace Von Buelow with Prince Max Egon Furstenberg.
C C. H. Akens declares no knowledge of funds to defeat George Weingartner and notes Republican edge in the district. He states he is a congressional candidate, hopes for strong support in Lawrence County, and asks Republicans to mark their ballots accordingly.
The Pittsburg Press received a copy of a Rockefeller statement mailed from New York in envelopes of the Staats-Zeitung. The document, distributed under Herman Ridder as Democratic national committee treasurer, is seen as evidence that the committee knew of the scheme and had its machinery ready to act.
The piece recalls Hallowe en and its vigil days in England and Scotland dating back centuries. Medival belief linked imps and fairies to the date and households lit bonfires as a folk practice, noting modern customs have shifted the day's purpose.
An effort will be made to have the new gymnasium hall in the Fleckenstein block ready for use next week so gym classes can be started in the new quarters at once. The gym will be prepared for basketball and regular use.
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