Daily Times (Beaver, PA)
September 23, 1910
Bracelets For His Wife
Yesterday afternoon Joseph Sheffler, of Fourth Avenue, Beaver Falls, had a pair of handcuffs and demonstrated to his wife how they worked by putting them on her wrists and snapping them shut. He then discovered that he had no key to unlock them and Mrs. Sheffler had to wear the cuffs for two hours until Police Officer Kaercher returned from Beaver with a key.
Freedom Man Dies At Pittburg
Word received in Beaver announced the death of Benjamin Frank Badders, aged sixty-one years, toll collector of the Jack's Run high bridge, at his home in Pittsburg. The deceased was born in Beaver County and during the Civil War he taught school at Freedom. He had lived in Pittsburg for the past twenty years. A widow and several children survive. Death was due to acute indigestion.
Business Site Sold
SAID SHAHEEN AND BROTHER PURCHASE BUILDING IN WHICH THE "PALACE OF SWEETS" IS LOCATED AT ROCHESTER.
An important realty deal was closed at Rochester today, whereby the two story brick business block in lower Brighton Avenue, owned by Frank Wilson, of Clarksburg, W.VA., formerly of Freedom, was sold to Said Shaheen & Bro., Assyrinns, of Rochester. The consideration price was $12,000.00.
The building which was erected nearly four years ago, is occupied on the first floor by S.J. Zacharias, who conducts "The Palace of Sweets" and the second floor by Dr. H. Olson osteopath, an office and residence.
The building was purchased as an investment and the present occupants will continue to occupy the same. The location is one of the best in Rochester.
The sale was made through Newton J. Dowell's local real estate agency.
Beaver Girl Highly Honored By Royalty
GRAND DUKE OF MECKLENBURG HIGH HONORS
MEDALLION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES PRESENTED TO MISS FLORENCE WICKHAM, OF BEAVER AS A TRIBUTE TO HER SINGING.
PRINCIPAL SINGER AT ROYAL CONCERT
Grand Duke Presents Medallion After Appearance at Concert at Schewerin-Meckenburg Attended Only by Royalty.
Miss Florence Wickham, of Beaver, a member of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company has had special honors conferred on her while abroad this year. At Schewerin-Mecklenburg, Germany, she sang before an audience composed of the nobility. As an appreciation of her remarkable talent the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg conferred on her the medallion of Arts and Sciences. The honor is the highest within the gift of the Grand Duke, and is conferred only on the very greatest talent in the particular lines favored. That Mis Wickham should receive the medallion is a marked tribute to her singing.
Miss Wickham is now in England and expects to arrive in New York not later than October 13. On her arrival she will hasten to her home in Beaver to spend a few days.
During her studies abroad Miss Wickham sang before the Grand Duke and on her return to Germany this year she was the principal singer at the Royal Concert, attended only by the nobility, and it was after the concert that the medallion was conferred.
Miss Wickham is the daughter of the late Judge and Mrs.J. J. Wickham, of Wilson Avenue, Beaver, and her hundreds of friends here will learn of the honor bestowed upon her with much satisfaction as they know that the honor is one that is well deserved.
Miss Olive Lorraine Is Awarded Highest Honors In Three State Contest
Miss Olive Lorraine, of No. 919 third Avenue, Beaver Falls, won first honors in the oratorical contest held last evening at Rock Springs Pard, held in connection with the Tri-State Fair. Her oration was "The Spirit of American Patriotism". Pupils from public schools in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia competed for honors.
The judges were Superintendent C. Miller, Attorney, J.D. McDonnic, and A.E. McDonald, all of Chester W.Va.
Robert A. Douglass, of New Cumberland, W.Va. and Miss Lucille Mason, of Lisbon O., were awarded second and third honors respectively. The prize that goes with Miss Lorraine's victory amounts to nearly $300.
Autos Wrecked
Automobiles, one driven by John Snyder, of Beaver, and one by Allan Marshall, of Beaver Falls, collided at the intersection of Seventh street and Seventh Avenue, Beaver Falls, this afternoon at two O'clock.
The Marshall machine was wrecked and Marshall slightly bruised, Mr. Snyder was uninjured as was his machine, with the exception of a rear wheel.
Ohio Man Buys Beaver County Fruit Farm
R.J. Miller of Steubenville, O., Purchases the Archer Fruit Farm Located Near Vanport.
S. H. Athn, the farm broker closed a deal yesterday whereby R. J. Miller, Of Steubenville, O., becomes the owner of the W. J. Archer fruit farm in Brighton township, one mile back of Vanport.
The farm contains about fifty acres and is improved with a brick house and has a fine orchard of about three thousand peach, pear and apple tree. The new owner is an expert fruit grower and will plant several thousand new trees next spring. He has been investigating the fruit growing sections of Westen Pennsylvania for several months and believes the country along the Dutch Ridge and Tuscarawas roads for ten miles back of Beaver, is ideal for peach orchards and thinks the Beaver Valley markets the best to be found anywhere.
Masons Entertained East Liverpool Lodge
Beaver Valley Lodge, No 478, Free and Accepted Masons, held a well attended meeting at their hall in the Reeves Block, Beaver Falls, last evening. Some thirty members of the order from East Liverpool were present and a number also from Beaver Valley towns. Refreshments were served.
New Company Takes Charge On October 1
INTER-BOROUGH ELECTRIC COMPANY EXPECTS TO TAKE OVER MANY PLANTS IN THE VALLEY THE FIRST OF THE MONTH
CABLE TO BE LAID UNDER OHIO RIVER TO TOWNS
Laying of the Cable Sanctioned by Government and Work is to Begin in a Few Days - Will Connect Ambridge and Woodlawn.
The Inter-Borough Electric Company, recently organized to take over the electric lighting privileges in many towns in the Valley, expects to assume control of the subsidary companies on October first.
The company is capitalized at $1,500,000 and will control the franchises in the following towns: Ambridge Borough Light Company, Sewickley Electric Company, Edgeworth Electric Company, Glen Osbourne Electric Company, Leetsdale Electric Company, Woodlawn Light, Heat and Power company, Sewickley Heights Electric Company, and the Sewickley Township Electric Company.
The headquarters of the new company will be at Ambridge, with general offices in the building formerly occupied by the Peoples National Bank.
It is planned to lay a cable across the Ohio river from Ambridge to Woodlawn, and Aliquippa in order to supply the towns on that side of the river. At a recent meeting of the Aliquippa council an ordinance was presented and referred to a committee, calling for the granting of the electric franchise to the Inter-Borough concern.
The cable is expected to arrive in a few days and is in itself quite a piece of work. It is 1,375 long and is what is known as a three phase cable.
Before it could be laid across the river a special permit had to be secured from the United States War Department, which was done about a week ago by Mr. VanHorn Ely, the president of the company. Before securing it plans had to be filed with the department. These showed that the cable is to cross the river about one hundred feet north of the Economy station and that a trench three feet deep is to be dug in the bottom of the river and the cable buried that depth.
Mr. Ely states that they expect to be supplying current to patrons in Woodlawn over this cable by the 1st of November and if a franchise is secured in Aliquippa, it will be extended there by the 15th.
Murdered Harry Paine Is Not A Rochester Man
A telegraphic message in the morning papers stated that Harry A. Paine, president of the Cigar Makers' Union, of Rochester, was found murdered at a point near Milwaukee, Wis. His head had been battered in with a crow bar.
There has been no Cigar Makers' Union in Rochester for several years and the only Harry Paine known here is one engaged as a glass worker, who is now located at Philadelphia. During the July shut down Paine returned to Rochester and stayed with his brother John, went to Chattanooga, Tenn., staying there only a short time and returning to Pittsburg, where John's wife joined them and they went to Philadelphia. Word received from there a week ago said that both John and Harry intended to go to work in the glass house at the place. Wesley Paine, a brother, resides at No. 528 East Jackson Street, Rochester, but when interviewed by a Times representative this morning, who called at the home, the family did not know anything about Harry, except that he was in Philadelphia and they do not think that it was he who was murdered.
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