Sewickley Herald

              The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
- VOL- 50, No. 47	SEWICKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1902 IN TWO SECTIONS - Price Ten Cents
Edgeworth Man Beaten And Robbed
Santa To Visit Sewickley December 8,15 and 22
Golden Tree Added To Street Decorations This Year By Board of Trade
Santa is coming to town. He will arrive at the decorated park at Beaver and Broad Streets, Sewickley, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 8th, with a bulging bag of gifts for all the children of the Valley. Again,1 this year, he will be in his attractive cottage which was purchased last year to keep Santa and his' elves and die visiting children, out of the cold weather and snow, if any...
Santa will be in his cottage from 11 to 3 p.m. on December 8, 15 and 22nd, at the invitation of the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade. The park again has been decorated with the traditional choir singers, the working elves and winking lights. The Borough has decorated the town tree in the park. This year, an additional tree has been set up in the park on .the Ohio River Boulevard. Strung-on die flagpole, the-tree is green and aluminum'in the daylight and.glows with golden light after dark.
In addition to all this, the Board of Trade, members are ordering $1,000 in gift certificates good for Christmas presents in. th e participating stores.
All a shopper has to do is to sign his name and address or coupons supplied by the stojes, No purchase ' is’ needed and the merchants Urge local residents to shop early and often, shopping: Sewickley first, in order to . win one .of the valuable prizes.-
The winners of the prizes will be determined at drawings to be held at noon on each of the three Saturdays at Beaver and. Broad Streets. Christmas Gift shopping will be much easier, simpler and more satisfying for those who use the Special Gift Guide published In the November 29th Herald. The merchants have gone all out this year to supply better values for local shoppers this Christmas.
Police And Borough Employees Xmas Fund
Following a .custom of many years, the Herald will receive voluntary contributions from the people of Sewickley for the Sewickley Police Christmas Fund and Borough Employees’ Christmas Fund. Checks may be made out to the Sewickley ^Borough and mailed to the Herald.
The funds collected by the Herald are divided equally among day and night officers as well, as the various members of the borough crews, some of whom are not seen at Christmas time during the daylight hours.
TOOLS STOLEN FROM PARKED CAR
Police were informed on November 10th, that tools had been stolen from the car of John Adams, 940 Beaver Street, on October 10th.
Prowler Suspect Fined $21 By 'Squire
Melvin J. Etters, Glen Willard, was fined $21 on charges of disorderly conduct by ’Squire Cronin at a hearing on Saturday, November 17th. He had been arrested by the'night officers who had.staked out his parked car after receiving a call from Mrs. Joseph Jackson, Sri, 312 Thom Street, Mrs. Jackson said that someone had just run across her property and jumped onto a bank. The officers noticed Mr. Etters’ car parked nearby and waited for his return.
To TurnOff Sewage
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Delinquents Water
Edgeworth Municipal Authority Applies For $66,000 Federal Tax Grant
Edgeworth Municipal Authority, at its regular meeting'Monday, December 3, passed a resolution to shut off water to properties.delinquent in sewage charges; approved the application for a Federal aid grant of $66,000 on a matching-fund basis for improvement of the water system; approved a budget of $137,620 for next year and approved plans for the water system at .Quaker. Village Shopping Center in Leetsdale. ■	>
Solicitor Carl Kerchner had attended the Leetsdale Authority meeting earlier in the evening and reported that the Leetsdale Authority would continue to sue householders before a justice of the peace for old sewage bills. Starting with the October billing, Leetsdale wants Edgeworth to turn of water to those properties whose owners have* not paid their «sewage bills. The property owners will be given the usual time to pay the bill, then be sent a delinquent notice and the property posted for a time before the water is shut off. Hardship cases will be considered carefully, Mr. Kerchner reported. He added that according to law, the Authority cannot refuse to turn off the water and the law had been tested in a lower court.
The Leetsdale Authority is notifying landlords when tennants’ bills -become delinquent, as that was one- of the problems, tennants moving out and leaving sewage bills .unpaid. Another problem-is -two families in the same building being billed for two
minimums when the total of both is not as high as one minimum. Leetsdale Authority has agreed to reimburse Edgeworth Authority for loss of revenue, plus the costs of turning
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Louis Cohen In Hospital From Severe Beating
$400 In Cash and Valuable Diamond Bing Stolen By Two Masked Men
Louis Cohen, aged 72, of 401 Oliver Road, Edgeworth, was robbed of $400 cash, a valuable 2!& carat diamond ring, beaten and left tied and gagged overnight in his home early Sunday morning. Two masked men met him when he entered his house where he lives alone, at about 4:45 a.m. on Sunday. Calling him by name and using profanity, one of the men said, “we’re here to get your money.”	.
'They took his ring off his finger, leaving his hand badly bruised and took the $400 in cash he was carrying. Then they beat him, demanding more money, tied his hands and feet with clothes line and gagged him with adhesive tape. They placed him on a bed and kept beating him, trying to get him to reveal the location of more money.
- After failing to get him to give them more money, they left him bound and .gagged on the bed. He struggled to free himself and finally worked the gag loose, and called for help. His cries went unheard and unheeded until 9120 a.m. Sunday, when a next-door neighbor, Janet Jarvie, 403 Oliver Road, heard him'call for help when she’went to get her car out of the garage. She notified William Jaryie, who went next door, and found the front door open.
He entered the house and found Mr. Cohen sitting on -the side of the-bed. He freed him and called Edge-worth police, who rushed to the house and sent Mr. Cohen to Sewickley. Valley Hospital in Irvine’s ambulance, for treatment of Ins bruises. Edgeworth police found blood in the hall, the living room and in the bedroom, indicating that Mr. Cohen had been beaten in- several locations. The thugs-had entered the house by prying open a window on the Oliver Road side of the house with a screw driver. The intruders .didn’t ransack the house, just pulled out a couple of top drawers, evidently while waiting for Mr.
Cohen to return home.
County Detective Joseph Start was notified and, with Edgeworth police, questioned Mr. Cohen about the attack. Ho -was pretty badly beaten about the face, has a black eye and his wrists are raw and sore from the clothesline, but his general condition was reported as satisfactory on Tuesday morning.
SEWICKLEY VALLEY HOSPITAL
NEEDS YOUR BLOOD
Would you like to be a partner in a miracle?-You are when you donate your life-saving blood to the Blood Bank at Sewickley Valley Hospital. The need for all types of Blood is great and immediate. If you CAN, if you WILL give 30 minutes of your time,, one pint of your blood .-. . call Sewickley Valley Hospital, 741-6000, Extension 237 (or just ask for the Blood Bank). Make an appointment today to Give your-Blood that someone-else might live!
What’s Doin
THE RECENT BALMY WEATHER HAS HELPED change the landscape along Ohio River Boulevard, particularity in the Leetsdale stretch of the busy highway where the new Quaker Village Shopping Center is rising. Shooting for a March, 1963 Opening, tile center is being constructed by die Landau Bros. Building Company, the general contractors. The building area is reported to contain 96,200 square feet and the parking area Will accomodato 900 cars. Scheduled to be tenants of the Quaker
Village Shopping Center arc: W. T. Grant Co., Thorofare, A&P, Thrift Drug, Boron Oil, Western Pennsylvania National Bank, State Liquor Store, S&S Shoes, a U.S. Post Office, a dairy store, a barber shop, a beauty shop, Peter Pan Cleaners, a card and gift shop and Stangl’s Bakery. The center is located nexjt to Quaker Valley High School and across the boulevard from Leetsdale Auto Wrecking Co. The agent for the center is tire J. J. Gumberg Co. of Pittsburgh.
Sunday, December 9, 4 p.m. Program of Gospel Songs, conducted by visiting choirs, sponsored by the Buds of Promise, at St. Matthew’s A.M.E. Zion Church.	(Adv’t)
CHRISTMAS TREE SALE sponsored by Edgeworth Explorer Post #¿43 at the. Edgeworth School Field, December 15 through' 24. Weekdays, 6:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.j Saturdays, 10:00 A.M. - 9:30 P.M.
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Women’s Association of Shields Presbyterian Church monthly Luncheon Friday, December 14th, at the Church School -Building, 1 P.M. For Reservations call Miss Maude Seaman, 741-4272	(Adv’t)
CHILI DINNER at St. Matthew’s A.M.E. Zion Church on Saturday, December 8th at 1:00 P.M. Sponsored by The Junior Usher Board.
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