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Newspaper
Clearfield Weekly Progress
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
2
The community gears up for a Saturday celebration in Clearfield with the fire department leading events. Decorations fill the streets as crowds gather at the driving park for athletic contests after morning ceremonies. Committees, merchants, and professionals back the festival, inviting all to attend with family and picnics, planning a grand roast pig feast and other amusements.
In Los Angeles a new American opera, aiming to stand apart from European traditions, is highlighted as potentially a major success. Under Alfred Fouryear, Wagnerian opera director at the Metropolitan, the production is slated for prominence with anticipated strong audience response.
A National Geographic piece by Jacob F. Conner compares Trojan walls and Homeric warfare to modern battles near Gallipoli. It notes Ilium’s ruins, the Hill of Ilium, and the Simois and Scamander rivers altered by time, while reflecting on heroic memory, war's impersonal modernity, and enduring echoes of ancient Troy.
Washington lawyer and others held for court on conspiracy and felonious assault charges in a plot to kill Frank Schneider the millionaire candy man and father in law of Forney. Bail not settled. William Bowers arrested in Washington DC linked to the scheme. Forney promised four thousand to two co conspirators when Schneider was killed.
Weather bureau predicts fair conditions for the Fourth of July in all regions except Oregon which may see light showers. Weekly forecast calls for showers in the North Atlantic and Middle Atlantic states with warmer periods and general cooling trends in the Great Lakes area. Calvin Cole, 17, son of R. E. Cole, has been discharged from the hospital after surgery for bone access and shows marked improvement.
An agrarian notice describes the 18 year cicada brood returning near Georgia areas. It warns of minor actual damage by females, cites control methods, including collecting cicadas in bags or umbrellas at dusk, pruning worst damaged limbs, sealing wounds with grafting wax or soap, and promoting rapid healing with cultivation and fertilizers.
The Grampian area notes a birth for Mr and Mrs Cylée Witliams on June 21. Mr and Mrs Joe Spencer of Du Bois visited relatives on Tuesday. Mrs Mary Ronsall spent a couple of days early this week in DuBois visiting. Miss Blanche Bennet of Astoria visited William Pantas. Miss Mildred Helper spent Sunday at William Thorp's. American Marwelk-whe in Akron, Ohio for the past natives at Repburnias, expected to stay about a month.
A fragmented jumble reports visits and social events including Mrs Samuels visiting her daughter Mrs Garfukie, a July picnic in Avondale Park, and notes on a wedding trip and a local home. Mixed in are garbled banking pages for the Clearfield and County National Banks with lists of officers and figures, plus a separate note about a teachers employment agency in Minnesota.
Boston officials reveal a group led by Prof. George H. Barton will sail to the Hawaiian Islands today to explore war mountains. The expedition aims to return in September with plans for the ascent and study of peaks and natural features.
The young ladies of Clause No 4 Lutheran Sunday School plan a bake and fruit sale in the room of the Penn Public Service Company on Saturday afternoon at four o clock. Funds support the church activities.
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