Evening journal., 1914-01-29
NEWSY DOINCS
OF new CASTLE
Temple Club Will Entertain
Friends in Open House
Tonight
OPPOSITION TO WHARF
PURCHASE IS FADING
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Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW CASTLE, Jan. 29-The
Opera House will be aglow this even
ing. when the Temple Club will give
an entertainment for the members of
their families and guests. The enter
tainers will be troupe from Phila-
delphia and a genuine treat is prom
ised Edward W. Eagle has been
an extremely busy man attending to
all the arrangements.
Michael d. Cannon, OF the Guaran-
tee Roofing Company. has completed
the work of putting on Stag roofs on
a row OF twenty houses in Dobbins-
Vile. Mr.. Cannon signed the con-
tract yesterday for the work Of an
other row.
William McGrory, a graduate Of st.
Peters School, has obtained a posi-
tion in the Pennsylvania Railroad
Railroad Companys Offices in Will
mington as a stenographsr
Good news came to the idle steel
workers yesterday when wagon loads
OF patterns we're received
George w McGrory went to a Phil
adelphia hospital today to undergo an
operation for the removal OF a piece
OF decayed bone back Of his ear
A warrant was sworn out here yes
terday by william Dietz. for a young
man residing in Kent county Dietz
met the young man few days ago
and took him home with him. Dietz
had several boxes Of carpenter tools
packed to go down state to build a
wharf But his guest went home
rather suddenly and when Dietz went
TO ship the boxes of tools he discov-
cred one OF them was missing, as we'll
as a $40 overcoat Dietz found the
tools had been pawned in Wilmington.
AT its meeting on Tuesday evening,
City Council expected to give the third
reading TO the ordinance directing
the purchase of the Lea and Sons
Milling Company's wharf at the foot
Of Delaware street II is understood
that there will be delegations of tax
payers present In favor and opposing
the purchase of the wharf Advocates
of purchasing the wharf say that the
city should own the best wharf in the
city The taxpayers who intend op-
posing the passage Of the ordinance
say that the expenditure necessary to |
the rebuilding OF the wharf would be
too great.
One Of the industries needed In |
New Castle at the present time is one
that would employ girls. The Board |
Of Trade hopes to bring such an in
dustry here.
Former State Senator Artemus
Smith will address the Baracca class
on next Sunday afternoon. His sub
iect will be "Who is Your Neighbour"
Ira Lunt and Mrs. Ira Lunt, who
have their birthdays one day apart,
will celebrate tomorrow the eighty
third anniversary Of both. that being
the birthday of Mrs. Lunt
Collector Of the Port of Philadel-
phia, William II Berry, will speak to
the members OF the Baracca class OF
the Methodist Church on Sunday after.
noon. March
Three vacancies will be created on
Saturday, March Z. with the expira-
Aibh vi Ah' ltiNo OF WllldfO j. Fer
ris, John b. Manlove and Alexander
E. Goudiss OF the Board of Educa-
tion They will be candidates for re.
election
The following Boy Scouts have
passed the examinations and been
graded second class Boy Scouts Of this
state: John Sharpe. Warren Conner,
Edmo p. Newlove. Harry E. McLane,
David B Harrington. John G Leach.
Six others Will take the examination
on Monday night.
Probably in no city in the Union is
there a more harmonious spirit than
in New Castle, Three events were
scheduled for Thursday night Of next
week-a dinner OF the members OF
Company II, lecture by Historian
Alexander b. Cooper at the Presby-
terian Church and a men S mass meet
ing In the Methodist church. The lat
ter will be addressed by the Rev. u
Franklin Smiley, Of the West Presby-
terian Church, of Wilmington, on the
night set, but the other two have given
way. and the Presbyterians viii have
the lecture on the Tuesday following,
while the dinner of the militiamcn
l.. I.aNI