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Newspaper
Clearfield Weekly Progress
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1914
Page
3
The Booster Choir of about 175 children boosted a temperance meeting in Osceola with singing and a call for a Dry Town. Rev. Johnson preached on the Atonement and urged personal repentance, leading 26 more to Christ as the Johnson Weaver evangelistic campaign neared its four week end with about 500 converts.
Emerson K Shope of Clearfield wed Stella A Murray of Shaw Ville in a ring ceremony at the Lutheran parsonage officiated by Rev Allenbach. The couple will reside at 408 West Front Street Clearfield. Mrs Sherman Fisher and two children Bertha and John from Jersey Shore visited Ada Young on River Street, and Nes Sherman enjoyed her first Clearfield stay.
Woodland claims two tight baseball games against Hays Station with Snyder and McClure on the mound for Woodland and Bowes and Richards for Hays Station. The first contest ends 8 to 9 with Woodland scoring late, while the afternoon game features solid defense and timely hitting as Woodland edges Hays Station 9 to 2.
Elizabeth McClelland widow of John McClelland died this morning at Franklin Pennsylvania. The remains will be brought to Clearfield on Thursday July 2 at 420 PM for brief services in the Episcopal church. She was well known there and many friends mourn her loss.
Stoneville celebrated a successful festival with a large turnout and everyone heading home before the rain. In local news, Stoneville’s baseball team beat Wallaceton 6 to 2, led by William Cooper’s notable first inning homer near Clearfield.
Women from Clearfield Carwensville Philipsburg Houtzdale Ramey Sandy Ridge and other towns arrive by special train met by Osceola band. Rev Johnson leads a procession to a packed tabernacle where W C T U members sing and a sermon urges pure godly living. About 12 women pledge to live Christian lives as 500 women in white carry Bibles through town.
R E Johnson, formerly a representative of the American Type Founders, takes charge of the Progress this week from Pittsburgh. Harry A Reed resigns after leading since the paper’s incorporation in 1913, plans to devote full time to short stories and remain in Clearfield. Johnson, married with two daughters, will move his family here when a suitable house is found.
Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania promotes a Safety First campaign with the Get the Habit slogan. It distributed a celluloid pocket calendar to all company vehicle drivers, listing cautions about intersections crowds brakes watch for children and lawful horn use. It urges courtesy and safety to protect life and limb.
Judge Bell orders Daniel Shope of Winburne to pay court costs and 3.50 weekly support to his wife and child, furnish 500 security, and face jail if he fails to comply. The ruling acts as a warning to wife deserters who ignore court orders and may lead to penal institution if needed.
The Pennsylvania State campaign notes at Harrisburg in June show a $5000 anonymous donation via state president Mrs. Frank M. Roessing. Other June gifts of 750 800 230 and 300 from county groups plus a 400 donation from the College Equal Suffrage League led by Miss Maude Bassett Gorham of Swarthmore College, with many smaller sums also reported.
Slippery Rock Pa June 25 commencement drew many alumni and friends. Salutatorian was Miss Jessie Virtue of Guys Mills and valedictorian was Miss Lu Delta Hainer of Lexington Ohio.
The town council enacts an ordinance requiring all public billiard rooms pool rooms bowling alleys and shooting galleries in the Borough of Clearfield to close from twelve noon to six oclock each morning with penalties for violations. Violators face fines from five to fifty dollars and possible county jail time up to thirty days if unable to pay. Approved and enacted April 15 1914 by Chief Burgess Hobart Callahan and officials.
Examinations for teachers will be held in Irvona Grampian Gilingham Du Bois Osceolas Ansonville Earthaus Labthersburg Morrisdale Clearfield with exams at 9 am across July dates. Applicants must be 18 and of good moral character and those with provisional certificates and two successful terms may enter the professional exam with required averages.
In Carlisle Cumberland county Washington party committee elected Harry Hertzler chairman Chas Hurst and M F Hummel secretaries Frank B Sellers treasurer and George Meteces Boys to head the executive committee Congressman at Large Arthur R Rupley denounced the Republican party Penroseism and blind watchful waiting of the Democrats He predicted no Pennsylvania congressmen would be defeated this fall and criticized traitors supplying artificial low mood and a subsidized press.
A notices lists Children's day exercises at 3 P M with choruses solos recitations and select readings led by Mrs Anna B Carl Supt Regular services at 745 P M with preaching by Rev A Q Norton titled Whosoever Will Let Him Come located at Allen A Church Merrill street with pastor Rev A Q Norton.
The ordinance authorizes a public sewer laid out and built on Spruce Street in the ward of the boroughs of Ct Pennsylvania to extend toward Lawrence township and Marshall Street to Susquel not less than twelve feet from Fourth Street. Costs to be assessed back to abutting real estate as provided by law. Also authorizes the utilities committee to lay out build and continue the borough of Clearfield. Attest Clark of Cowneil. Also notes Mr and Mrs Fred Flegal visiting Mr Flegal's parents in Oona.
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