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Newspaper
Clearfield Weekly Progress
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1914
Page
5
A terse arrivals column notes Frank Shoff of Burnside visited town and Grace Leedom improves after weeks ill. Many locals from DuBois to Curwensville transact business, attend luncheons, or travel to Akron and State College.
Tuesday May 5 updates list residents and visitors with illnesses and travel. Names include Miss Lethe Graham of Shawville ill at Clearfield hospital and Milton Alcorn of DuBois in town as juror while campaigning for assemblyman. Also notes guests, registrations, and local business in Dimeling and surrounding towns.
May 4 reports court attendance by V Raffeny of Grampian and J J Pallum of DuBois. Visitors to Panx saawney and town include R Breth, W L Wright, Frezk W Porter, and George A Lukehar. Social visits note Miss Bess Porter with guest Miss Hoover and Miss Kathrine Ivory with Ruth Glick visiting Mrs Krouse.
Wednesday May 6 reports show Sargent PB Graffius becoming physical director of Tyrone Y M C A. Rebecca Smith visits Chambersburg with sister Margaret while John and Margaret Kinsel visit mother on West Side. Various locals including Guerney Hile Ferguson Township director and Prof James M Rowles appear at county superintendent election events.
A series of residents from Houtzdale Westover Irvona Cooper township Coalport Osceola Madera Sabula Smoke Run Heatzdale and Curwensville attended to business in the county seat yesterday. Notables included William Pollock Joseph Huber Julius Yiebahm and A C Bowser among others.
Thursday May 7 reports guests and travelers in the area. S J Miller of Madera visited, Mr and Mrs George R Bigler with daughter Katharine left for tours of Philadelphia New York and Boston. Mrs Hurxthal W Smith ill at Locust Street home. W H H Patterson Esq visited Center County to manage political matters. Morris Overly of East End visited Philipsburg, H Gogden departed for Olive Hill Kentucky on business. Miss Alice Mossop visiting Philadelphia. Mrs Clark Flegal guest of Lock Haven friends. Mrs Leonard Radebauch visiting Miss Ada Norris at her home. Mr and Mrs W L Doane drove to Strong Sunday with Miss Ella Smith of Clearfield. Miss Elsie Wilt of Daisy Street ill.
Local items report G M Leech leaving for Monument Pennsylvania and Floy Stranford visiting Philipsburg. Mentions house moves, car fever, and a town dance. Church Sunday school attendance tallies, Mothers Day upcoming, and civic cleaning reminders. Senator McQuown seeds, Harbison Walker baseball plan, and land sale by W G Henderson with mine ties and props noted.
Miss Belle Potter, 14, of Reedsville, reportedly drank carbolic acid in her brother Kay Potter’s home after riding with a suitor who had wed another. Investigators cite a prior concussion from a Woodland road buggy accident as a possible mind affecting factor. She died at 2:40 PM. Survived by sisters and a brother. father lives in the west.
Bids opened for state road projects include a $12,000 award to George J. Thompson & Co. for a South Second Street stretch. Curwensville Construction Co. lands a $25,100 bid to build a mile of highway in Curwensville. Marriage licenses issued to William S. Barr and Mary E. Conway. Calamela Pasquale and Alonsea Leonaida. Jaysh Mandell and Mary Sulik.
Preparations are nearly complete for an elaborate commencement week at Penn State with a large alumni headquarters tent on campus. Governor Tener will deliver the address to the graduating class, and Rev. N B Jennings will preach the baccalaureate sermon on June 7. The week features the dedication of a new horticulture building and a dedicatory organ recital funded by the graduating class, plus a public welcome for the class of 1864.
The notice records a marriage license issued to Guseppi Fontino and Mary Pres tino, both of Chester Hill, indicating the couple’s legal union in the local district.
At noon Thursday representatives for the Brotherhood of Railroad Employes spoke at Altoona shop gates urging a strike, but only confusion followed and by 1 pm all workers returned to their duties. General Superintendent G W Creighton denied concessions to Federated Union officers and said repairs would be handled as before.
A Brone Lexhorn hen in Thomas Hoover's pen at 419 Spruce Street laid an unusual egg last week. The object resembled a double jointed peanut bent in the middle with one side turned, about a half inch thick at the wide end and tapering to a sharp point. Neighbors say no more remarkable egg has been laid by a hen.
Governor Goethals directs plans to run a Panama railroad steamer and a cargo steamer through the canal within ten days with War Secretary Garrison’s approval. Work concentrates on the Cucaracha slide to deepen water, aiming to permit a 10,000 ton freight steamer. The canal will open to traffic as dredging fronts progress.
This morning King Shaw shot and killed a dog on the West Side said to belong to Mrs. Russell. Believed rabid, the animal fled toward the river where a second shot finished it. The dog had been fighting another dog and authorities fear another rabies outbreak.
Mare A Meeabam of DuBuis and Lillian M Bailey of Sabla appear in a compiled roster alongside Andrew Dudar and Nary Bobba of Ramey, Harry H and Addleman, Fannie Brown of Curwenaville, Charles Futeaki and Sophia Mergay of Clearfield in a multi residency record.
A Clearfield laundry payroll cash box containing $260 vanished during a noon break in. The theft occurred while workers, including roomkeeper Mrs Siggins, were away for lunch. Police suspect a familiar insider or observer outside the busy Third Street business. The box was hidden under a flesh and later found missing.
Clearfield county school directors held a meeting to ballot candidates for county public school superintendent. Nominees included Weisgarber Winburne McCracken Sandy Township Eisenhart Morrisdale Humphrey Gramian. Weisgarber led through multiple ballots and won on the fifth with 184 votes. Clement Dale announced candidacy for Centre County judge. Clearfield to host Wilson circus Friday May 13.
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