Farm Families In 55 Counties Gain State Aid
Harrisburg Jan 3 Farm families in 55 Pennsylvania counties are assisted by the Resettlement Administration to become self supporting About 850 families have received loans for livestock tools and home needs Applications are being accepted daily to prepare farm and home management plans before spring work begins Loans require a sound repayment plan Most beneficiaries are part time farmers with income from industry facing reduced employment The program aims to help families avoid relief while not subsidizing commercial agriculture Also noted is the Farm Debt Adjustment Section aiding debtors and creditors to settle obligations locally
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvanis
W. R. Whitacre
Whitacre
State Farm Debt Council
Resettlement Administration
Wm. H. Bishop
State Theatre
Locust St
Barton E. Low
Hunting
R. F. Mollenauer
Post Office
Greensburg
Greensburg. WW. J. Bashoie, Emergency Relief Once, Butler, Carl Ifverson
Clearfield
F. Watts
Wilkes-Barre
U B Church Ladies Meet at Beaverdam Thursday
Beaverdam June 7. Local notes record Mrs Ed Bloss visiting. multiple small gatherings, New Year days, and community events. Residents and visitors from Corry Wattsburg Erie and Jamestown appear. United Brethren prayer meeting planned. quilt event at noon accompaniment. Justice of the Peace oath ceremony noted for Gerald Bagley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle Cummings
W. H. Cumming
Charles Swan
Villa Farnham
Clarence Bisbee
Wattsburg
Carl Gates
Corry
Cawrenes Watrous
Bert Watrous
S.R. Lyons
Virgil Tarbell
Erie
Robert Mulvin
M. L. Breed
Fred Shannon
Tom Fullom
Jack Swan
Alton Messenger
George Williams
Arthur Tubbs
Wiie
Merle
Wayne Township
Lee Proctor
Lawrence Watrous
Proctorville
Gerald Bagley
Earl Runer
Harry Bacon
Baldwin Flats
Crowe's
Beaverdam
Nelson Wil- Hansa
Marland Higley
Mary Ann
J. A. Higley
Villa Farnam
W. H. Cummings
Herman Reuben
Walter Proctor
Floyd Marsh
Carl Proctor
H. D. Whitney
Paul Smith
R. Lyons
Oral ‘Tompkins
Wm Akem
Corry Grange
Sutunday
Homer Proctor
Gerry
Charles Lindquist
Jamestown
Pawl Smith
Morence Pond
Holly of
Annie MacDonnel
Mary Conway
Leon Proctor
Ardis
Charles Houge
Betty Knickerbocker
J. A. Higtey
Myr
Ralph Knickerbocker
Magsville
The
United Brethren Church
Charlea Hofige
Stanley
Taft Williams
Wattsbury
Louise
Ruth Smith
Gerald Baglty
Escaping Prisoner Hero Poco Honored by County Jail Escape
A prisoner escaped from his cell at Wir County Jail and fled to a nearby area before returning to confinement. A sighting was reported near the county gold house at midnight, as officers pursued the man who briefly became a local hero after his daring breakout.
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Pocohontas, Ta
Wir
County
Unionite Held for Next Court
In Erie, after a hearing, eighteen year old Erie girl testified and Sam Ross of Union City was bound over to the February grand jury on a pandering charge. The court cleared spectators as sordid details were shared and Ross, a former inmate with two federal prison terms, faced the case while the girl’s safety was kept confidential for fear of harm. Ross was released on $2,000 bail, and police continue investigation. West Newbury study shows town population at lowest in a century, from 1,448 in 1830 to only 27 more residents today.
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Erie
Jan
Sam Ross
Unon City
Justice of the Peace
Walter B. Goodwin
Weseyville
Ross
West
Newbury
Mass
Wade
Warn Against Germ Danger in Use of Phones
Harrisburg reports Dr. Paul A. Rothfuss warns the public about germ contamination from phone mouthpieces. He urges lifting lips away, speaking clearly, and avoiding close contact with mouthpieces on public telephones to lower cold transmission risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rothfuss
Harrisburg
Paul A. Rothfuss
School costs to be discussed in 1937 session
A group of legislators including two from Erie county plans to renew efforts to revive the commonwealths public school system and cut local expenditures. The House-Senate committee of ten appointed to study school costs meets in Philadelphia. Erie county members Assemblyman J Van Allsburg and State Senator Joseph F Ziesentielin join the review of economies through consolidation and stricter state supervision of small districts with a $10 000 fund.
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Erie, Jan
Erie County
General Assembly
House-Senaté
Philadelphia
Morthifast
Joseph Ft. Ziesentielin
Girard
Court action ends Edinboro building program
State Supreme Court invalidates the State Authority act halting Edinboro State Teachers College construction plans valued around $600,000. The project would have funded a new auditorium, power plant and renovation, employing about 20,000 workers annually and affecting a statewide teacher college program.
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Erie
Jon Se County
Melpal
Supreme Court
Cit
State Teachers’ College
Lapraye Munin
Liu Alate
Ap ‘Proxea
Ely
Kane Winter Resort Effort Under Way
Kane January launch to develop as a year round winter resort after a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Twenty eight members formed a sub committee led by George H Armarost to report next Monday on plans to receive excursionists. Robert Romich chaired the meeting in A B Cohns absence. A survey of ski and toboggan hills and skating ponds will run the intervening week. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad will be contacted about ski trains from Buffalo and Pittsburgh to Kane with the first excursion trains expected January 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kane
Jan
Chamber of Commerce
George H. Armarost
Robert Romich
Chamber of Commerce ‘Board of Directors
A. B. Cohn
Svea
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
5 000 Firms Win Safety Awards
Harrisburg January 8 The Department of Labor and Industry will soon send certificates honoring about 3 000 Pennsylvanians for safety during 1935. About half will receive certificates of honor for no accidents in the year and the rest will get certificates of merit for fewer accidents than the industry average. In the first eleven months there were 4 343 fewer industrial accidents than in the same period in 1984.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Department of Labor and Industry
Mey
Ralph M. Bashore
Aame
Slow Speed Season Opens for Motorist
Harrisburg officials urge extra caution as winter conditions raise crash risk. Secretary of Revenue John Kelly notes safe speeds vary with conditions and cannot be fixed universally. In general limits: 40 mph on highways, 10 mph near safety zones with boarding cars, 15 mph near schools during recess or opening hours, 20 mph at intersections. drivers should reduce further when vision is limited to 200 feet or less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
John Kelly
Secretary of Revenue
Greatey
PWA Accepts Bidders for Warren School
At the Warren borough school directors meeting Monday night at the high school the Public Works Administration approved the low bidders for the local building project. Contracts will be sent to winning firms for signatures and later to the school board. Bidders include A Wishart and Sons Company Sharon for general contracting and W M Clark and Company New Castle for heating and ventilating with plumbing by O Bestsley Inc Warren, and electrical by O Bestsley Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Clark, and Co
New Cattle
O. Bestsley, Inc
Warren Electrical
School Opens To Safeguard U S Tradition
William Kerr reports St Joseph's College in Philadelphia opened by the Jesuit order a school to teach the dangers of Communism. More than 1,100 students from diverse backgrounds enrolled as founders aim to spread the traditional American perspective nationwide. Father McKeon and President Thomas Higgins discuss the program and its purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Kerr
United Press
Philadoluphta
Tan
United States
St. Joseph's College
Philadelphia
Ricard M
Meleon
A, M
Thia
Father McKeon
Thomas J. Higgins S.J
Piles Quick Relief Offered With HIEM-ROLD Medicine
An old advertisement promotes HIEM-ROLD as a cure for protruding piles caused by poor lower bowel circulation. It claims the remedy relieves congestion, restores circulation, and strengthens affected parts, with a money back guarantee. Druggists offer the product nationwide with a stated safety promise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lt. Leonhardt
Hiem-Rold
Druggista Everywhere
Ibm-Rold
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U.B. Church
Grange
Unionite
Union City
Loblaw's
Slades Ammonia
Florida Oranges
Limburger
Edinboro
Kane' Winter Resort
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Sai A
Moore
Root’s Furniture Store
South Center Street
Penn
PWA
Warren Schoo
U.S
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