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.