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From: jan johnston <>
Subject: [PALAWREN] Obits & News: Newcastle 1883
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 22:22:37 -0600

These are some society page snippets from the New Castle News Weekly Vol V
# 31 p 5 December 12 1883

Surnames included:

CRAWFORD - ABBOTT - MCCONAHY - RIPPLE - THOMAS - BROWNE - CALKINS - PHILLIPS


- The nallfeeders will give another dance on the 14th.

- The Masons will celebrate St. John's Day by giving a grand ball.

- A.L. Crawford's furnace in Terre Haute burned down Saturday night.

- The new addition to the Tube Works will be 46 x 114. The works are now
running with 40 hands.

-The Thoburn Missionary Society met at the residence of W.G. Abbott, on the
West Side, Monday night.

- A choice stock of ladies' and gents' gold watches and chains at
McConahy's. None but reliable goods offered.

-Youngstown Excursion Thursday, Dec. 20th, A. & P. Ry.; only 50 cents round
trip. Tickets good two days.

-James Ripple, aged 45, died Tuesday at his residence on the Lowell road,
near Edenburg. Funeral Wednesday afternoon.

-McConahy's stock of sterling silverware in odd case combinations; suitable
for wedding and Christmas presents, is more varied and extensive than ever
before.

-Ranny Thomas is going about on crutches on account of injuries received by
the falling of a scaffold on which he was working at Harmony.

[many more ads about McConahy's stock & the A & P Ry have not been
transcribed here]

- Dr. R.A. Browne, of the U.P. church is seriously ill and there were no
services in that church Sunday.

-The Woman's Chrisian Temperance Union will meet at the residence of Rev.
Calkins Friday afternoon.

- Rev, I.I. Phillips, of East Penbroke, N.Y., will preach in the First
Baptist church next Sunday Morning and evening.

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