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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1908
Page
8
Health committee faces decision on garbage removal contract after only one bid. Apdegraph, current contractor, requests changes including citizen supplied cans and a guaranteed $150 incineration fee regardless of his trucks. Committee will review the bid areas and terms.
Nesquehoning Pennsylvania reports the new breaker of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company in Panther Creek valley began operations Monday. It employs 800 men and boys, marking a major industrial expansion in the region.
Millinery shop S S B Kennelly Co announces openings on Tuesday and Wednesday September 29 30 at 68 West Washington street. Local shoppers invited to view new hats and styles.
Hazel Dell overseers filed a court petition to compel Lewis Patterson to reimburse about 60 for the cost of keeping his 12 year old son Harry. The boy, ordered neglected by juvenile court on July 6 1908, has repeatedly run away to Ellwood Wampum and other towns, with a possible move to Morganza.
Temperance supporters celebrate in Warren County Ohio as official returns show about 6 000 votes cast with the wets defeated by 129 and twenty one saloons affected. A parade of five hundred children with banners and temperance songs filled the streets while women handed out free refreshments and inspected districts suspected of liquor sales or vote buying.
Evidence in the Tony Di Augustine murder case has been sent to the Italian city where Dominic Russo was captured. He faces trial under Italian law as prosecutors push the case across borders.
Erie reports a 60 inch intake main finished allowing lake water from a mile out in Lake Erie to circulate through city mains. The project hailed as a major engineering feat in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Laborer George Domensky of Youngstown S&T plant suffered a crushed foot on Sunday.
At a New Castle grocers meeting led by Secretary Squire Edward O'Brien, Mr. Farr defended trading stamps as a legitimate advertising tool. He faced strong questioning from merchants about contracts with Sperry & Hutchinson, impact on cash customers, and alleged pressure from Pittsburgh interests. The group voted to reject adopting stamps.
The new blast furnaces of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube company will be blown in Thursday next, marking a significant upgrade in the steelworks capacity and production start date.
B H store presents a wide display of lace and drapery fabrics and ready made curtains. Prices range from 50 cents to 10 dollars a pair with items including Nottingham and Newport curtains and Madras options. An array of drapery materials and samples accompanies the sale.
Basement store offers a large east basement assortment with deeply discounted prices on dark outing flannels 5c yard fleece and cedar cream flannels 5c yard unbleached canton flannel 5c 6c 8c blankets 45c to 2.00 per pair and wool blankets 2.75 to 8.50 per pair robes calico covers 75c to 1.50.
On the 10c table readers will find bread and butter plates with small floral decorations cups and saucers cream pitchers sauce dishes bowls and many other pieces of China displayed as exceptional values.
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