Local visitors host Thanksgiving ahead in Indiana
A long list of personal visits is noted with Misa Maud Duncan visiting family in Derry and many others from Pittsburgh to Latrobe and Punxsutawney spending Thanksgiving with relatives. The Indiana tuberculosis exhibit opens December 1 to 7, showcasing Mont Alto Sanatorium, state laboratory work, and health campaigns led by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon.
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State Department of Health
Indiana
Commonwealth
Samuel G. Dixon
Pennsylvania
W. C. Miller
Mont Alto
South Mountain
Cumberland Valley
Cane
State Laboratory
Philadelphia
Miller
Department of Health Engineers
Department of Health
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Papal dispensation and farm institutes noted in Indiana area
The text records a papal dispensation absolving Catholics from Friday abstinence on December 8 the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It also lists Farmers Institutes at Bear Run Banks Covede Chambersville and Eldersville with speaker C George of West Lebanon and dates in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndiana
Regis Canevin
Pittsburgh
Farmers’ Institutes
Farmers’ Institute of the Reason
Bear Run
Banks Township
Covede
Chambersville
Eldersvidge
C. George
West Lebanon
Women Hunters Fined in Covode County
The arrest of two western women for hunting last week led Troop D of the State Constabulary to detain Mrs. Demille and Miss Demille. Justice of the Peace J. L. McAllister fined each $20 and costs. their guns were confiscated. Neither woman is a professional hunter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covode
J. Demilla
Datail
Five Properties Sold at Sheriff Sale Friday
Crowds gathered as sheriff’s sales Friday listed multiple properties. First National Bank of Indiana bought parcels from Sarah June and J M Cunningham for 1850 700 50 and 1200 dollars. other parcels included in White township West Mahoning Green townships and Blacklick with varied buyers and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armstrong
White Township
Sarah June
J. M. Cunningham
First National Bank of Indiana
Indiana, & Iy
Cunninghal
Mary
Mahoniniz Township
Algler Weaver
Blacklick Township
Dmory Kinneer
Sqinay Graff
Plumvitentional Bank
Raffelo Borillani
Post Office Changes In Rural Areas Reported
Rostoret discontinued and the post office at Tanoma replaced by rural delivery from Clymer. Wheatheld and Vine ton areas see carrier service extended. residents advised to use rural routes for mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanoma
Clymer
Wheatheld
Vine Tondals
School Board Reorganizes and Cuts Directors in Tatiana Borough
The Tatiana Borough School Board reorganized naming W. S. Daugherty as president and J. Taylor Bell as secretary with James R. Daugherty as treasurer. Directors reduced from 12 to 7, elected by wards replaced, school tax timing shifted to spring, and the year ends July 1. The seven directors are Daugherty Cunningham Bell Griffith Meade Marshall Allison Fry. A stock option plan emerges as Indiana Provision Company stock is targeted for sale to Hoag of Johnstown, with a merger in progress to consolidate utilities and lower costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tatiana
Daugherty
J. Taylor Bell
Oliver Fry
James R. Daugherty
Indena
W. 8. Daugharty
Samuel Cunningham
T. Bell
H. P. Grifith
G. Meade Marshall
Qimer Allison
Blairsville
Naga
Tdhinn Bond
Provision Company
F. B. Hoag
Johnstown
H. H. Weaver
Citizens Light and Power Co
Indiana
Indiana Provision Company
Ernest Stewart
Boag
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
N Progress
Ught
Hoo
Indiina
Citizens’ Heat & Power Co
Y M A entertainments announce winter attractions
The Y M A entertainment committee plans a winter season with acts by germain the wizard magician on Jan 16, Katty Boy Choir of South America on Feb 2 led by J H Balmer and Miss Disse Clark, and the International Operatic Company on March 11. Tickets are $1.00 with 10 cents extra for reserved seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mi & A. Entertainments
Germain
Winard and
Rince
Katty Boy Choir
South America
Kaft Boys
J. H. Balmer
Disse Clark
Hay
Courly
America
International Operatic Company
Tudtana, Y Sha-entertainment Committee
Indiana
President Taft Trusts Message Draws Senate Interest
Washington December 6 The presidents message to Congress on trusts drew unusual attention from senators and representatives who read the document and sought to learn proposed legislation to curb trusts and reform government. The scene featured a brisk distribution of copies and a notable bustle as members awaited details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Congress
Western Union Changes Quarter o In all towns
Western Union moves its local office within the United States to the Farmers' Bank building this week. The Bell Telephone Company and Western Union Telegraph Company will share space, with Miss Angley remaining at the desk. The office has long been in the Depoalt Bank building and will now occupy the new quarters, a change that will feel odd to town business men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union
United States
Bell Telephone Campany
Western Union Ance
Farmers’ Bank
Bell Compas
Miss Angley
Depoalt Bank
McNamara Sentenced In State Prison Case
A man named McNamara received life imprisonment in a state penitentiary after a court decision. His brother, implicated in the same case, was also punished with a lengthy term. Several related events unfolded in Los Angeles, including trials and bail actions. the exact dates and some details remain unclear.
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McNamarag
Low Angetey
Dee
Jamey M. McNamura Waa
Social events roll through town with dinners and dances
Dr and Mrs George H Simpson of Church street hosted a dinner and card evening. The Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club held a chicken and waffle gathering at Mrs Folin J Clements home. Over 100 couples attended the Thanksgiving dance at Lyric hall with Nirella's orchestra from Pittsburgh. Miller's orchestra of Kittanning played for a Hagies dance. Pupils of the Mission School under 14 enjoyed a chicken supper by the Young People's Christian Union. Normal school Thanksgiving dance attracted many alumni. Conservatory Orchestra provided music. Mrs Margaret Lydick on Elevnth street surprised for birthday with friends and refreshments. Mr and Mrs John Dodson hosted a party for daughter Marie's seventeenth birthday with lunch. Nancy Lowry's children returned home for Thanksgiving after 23 years. A large dinner followed with guests from multiple towns.
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Misa Maud Duncan
Derry
Thomas Hill
Leechburg
Sixth Set
Wear Mack
Windber
A. F. Parington
Mack
B. R. Lumsden
Sixth Street
Tamaqua
Misa Blanche St. Clair
Mt. Pleasant
Mra
John St. Clair
Philadelphia Street
Bess Cunningham
Wayne Avenue
Arthur Wilson
Pittsburgh
Grace Kells
Mary and
Mabel McCreight
School Street
Jennie Bootie
Johnstown
Sarah Howard
Philadelphia
Mabel Mackey
St. Louis
Ill
Murray TI. Guthrie
James D. Sansom
Thankeelving
James Work
Stewart
Hamill
F. Ernest Work
H. Collins Graham
Pittaburgh
Tey
Graham
May Elder
Apollo
Josephine Lowman
Leechbure
Argarat Minter
Mangaret
Reenten
Gua Taylor
Boas Taylor
Church Street
N. Hy Phillips
Boott
Aly
Lagt Verde
Eoie
My. Frenk Arhort
Union Station
M. M. Davis
Seventh, Street
Appia Alib F Georaaeliy
Ogee Jimadlon
George ‘T. Hamilton
Pith Street
Lesta Wieck
Morencel Han
Lalvohy Suheoly
Gus ‘Hood
Albert Gelat
Shely
Beeldas
Laurance
Vogel
See cQuown
Punxsutawney
Guy Grithart
Pitts
DFE
Mies
Grithart
Carpenter Avenue
George Graff
Martha Graif
Water Street
D. Lt. Clark
Con Sere
Copapliavilie
Euude
Ele Champrey
Fifth Street
Thailwal Ving
Walter Willams
Wilmerding
Williams
D. C. Mack
Philadelphia St
Jeannatte
Prothero
John F. Clements
Margaret Wilson
Alicea
Taylor
George H. Simpson
Bridge Club
Folin J. Clements
Nirella
Picttsburgh
Lyric Hall
Miller
Miller's Orchestra
Kittanning
Liks
Steelock
Hagies
Mission School
Young People's Christian Union
The
First United Presbytery
Normal School
Conservatory Orcheatra
Margaret Lydick
Eleventh Street
John Dodson
Marie
Thomas Greer
Frank Cochran
Margaret
Latrobe
Nancy Lowry
Waterstreet
Albert
Will
H. M. Lowry
Indiana
Howard J. Lowry
Los Angeles
Cal
R. Q. Daugherty
F. B. Tomb
Witkinsturg
Washington Township Teachers Institute at Cribels School
A December 1911 Teachers Institute will be held at Cribls School Washington township. The program includes devotional exercises welcome address responses and multiple lesson topics led by Lycurgus McGaughey May Bracken Irene Black and J. Wenderson. Speakers will discuss home cooperation school code discipline and education’s influence on character with a closing recitation and tag topics.
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Washington Township
Cribls
Friends of Education
Lycurgus McGaughey Tople
Olive — Allshoune
May Bracken
Jessie Trnsal
Tople
Irene Black
Caplatta Wilson
Jacob Flanchiy
Toyic—Bywsy
Lubht Rankin
Bessie Lytle
Bianche Scaner
Topte
J. J. Wenderson
J. A. Elkin
D. W. Lecrone
L. M. McGayshay
Canotta Wilson
Trene Flude
Jessie Trusal
Jamon P. Chapman
Diakeho
Regine Kyvtte
J. Henderson
Jacob Flaming
P. Lytle
New Century Gish Meeting Opens Education Focus
The first December meeting of the Century Club on North Sixth Street featured an Education topic. Miss Jane B Leonard arranged the evening with papers on Vocational Education by Prof John Playe and Miss McGreleht. solos by Mel Parlin and Miss Cogswell. an address by Brof Work on the "Ruplological Erowd" and a closing piano solo, followed by refreshments.
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North Sixth Street
Chet Chie
Jane B. Leonard Rentee
Opyawd
Mise McGreleht
John Playe
Benatpal
Third Wand Pehiod
Mel Parlin
Intiana
Ppul
Ploves
Miss Cogswell
Piga for Corn Prize at Pittsburgh Winter Fair
Piga for Corn offers a prize of a pair of pure bred Chester White pigs to the exhibitor with the best thirty earn of corn at the January 15 20 Big Winter Fair in Pittsburgh. The event is hosted by the Pennsylvania Live Stock Breeders Association the Pennsylvania Dairy Union and the State Horticultural Association. The manager is Harman Jr at 1110 Shady Avenue Pittsburgh.
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Piga
My. i. F. Munce
Canonsburg
Chester
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Live Stock Reerders' Association
Pennsylvania Dairy Union
State Horticultural Association
Witte T. D. Harman, Jr
Shady Avenue
Town Council Sworn in for 144th Council Term
Newly sworn in members of the 144 Council face a late January start. A street project on Chast nob street between Taylor Alley and Fifth Street proceeds if weather permits. C. A. Malone, a Hollidaysburg contractor, defaulted on about 2000 dollars of work and the borough and Fidelity Trust Company settled for 1790 plus costs. Committees on securing a new state penitentiary for Cresgon retain John S. Misher of Indiana to assist. Through-train issues on the R, R & PL draw attention to Pishet’s role. mountain cottage lease at Cresson prompts site viewings for a possible side track. Warden John Franuies informs the committee he will review the Cresson matter carefully.
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Taylor Alley
Fifth Street
C. A. Malone
Hollidaysburg
Fidelity Teast Pid Cinantes Compans
Baltimeare
Wies Council
Conmilttes
Cresgon
John 8. Misher
Indiana
Ald
Mtr
Pishet
Pixsutawnaey
Wehram
Wrise Ki
Mountain Monee Cottage Lease
Cresson
I Brown
John Franuies
Marriages in Punxentawney and surrounding towns
The list records multiple wedding ceremonies from late November in Punxentawney McGoyaville Cherryhill and nearby towns. It cites couples including Miss Rinn Ritter and Mr Hitter in Philadelphia, Howard J Brown and Mary J Carney in Cherryhill, and Devinney Lyons, Sickenberger Weston, Work Gaston and others, with dates and officiating ministers.
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Brown
Carney
Ty Pent Ran
Warnesday
Howard J. Brown
Mary J. Carney
Cherryhill Township
William Sproull
State Nurses Examinations Pass List and Mine Disaster Report
The Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners published a list of nurses who passed the state exams and those exempt from testing who paid the registration fee. Named are Caroline T Fisher Beaver Falls Minnie Davis Carnelete Agnes Lenton DuBois Adelaide Campbell Gayton Ruby Wangly Hastings Johnstown Ednod Masters Mt. Plevenant Mabel Johnston Indiana and others. Outside PA, 28 nurses passed. The issue also notes a Mine disaster near Chambersville: Martin Saur, 44, was killed, with three brothers surviving. burial in Indiana Catholic Cemetery. A concert by Nora Conservatory of Music plus a recital segment is described with performances by Roberta Johnston Anna Pollock and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania State Board of Examiners
Caroline T Fisher
Beaver Falls
Minuieos M. Davis
Carneete
Agnes R. Lenton
DuBois
Adelaide W. Campbell
Roberta Johnston
Iadiana Hospital
Anna Pollock
May Graham
Ida Galley
Anne
Indiana
Ara
Pennsylvenie
Regent Deaths and Local Obituaries in Indiana County
Notices detail the deaths of Archibald Blair McAdoo of West beanon Indiana county with Civil War service and family survivors, plus obituaries for Lafferty of Braddock and Miss Mary Flecker of Mitchells Mills, with church, marriage, and farming ties noted alongside survivor lists and burial plans. The column records also include Mrs Zernial North of Aspinwall and North family relatives with details on churches and final rites.
Ministers Protest Against Shows on Wednesday Evenings
A large Ministers' Association of Tadlane meeting on December 4 adopted a resolution opposing Wednesday evening entertainment such as shows and dances. They urged prayer as the church’s heart and warned that such amusements conflict with sacred duties. The group called for church leaders and families to devote Wednesday evenings to worship and prayer, citing spiritual culture and fidelity to Jesus Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ministers’ Association of
Tadlane
God's Church
Tao
God
Jesus Christ
Ghrlyt
Tag
Christ
Qme
Jesun
Mintytars' Association
True Bill in Arson Case in Lodiuna Hearing
After day and a half of testimony a grand jury returns a true bill in the Godl of Malph Morrison and Sidney Mountain charged with arson. The rat case has attracted attention in Lodiuna due to the Promlugacs of the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godl
Malph Morrison
Sidney Mountain
Lodiuna
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Rinn—Ritter
Misa Paullie Rinn
Ann
Medea Chirurgeal College
Innipanelee
D. Z
Vinita
I Ming
Sonter—George
Willan Ty Conter
Mise Sugar George
Tossiter
Llue
John George
Wits Ite
Dough “Warden
Ehuireh
Stephens—Sproull
Willan Sproull
Penn Run
Wadnesday
Mariage
Milag Florence Sproul
Zetas Stephens
Sickenberger—Weston
Ulysses Us
Sickenberger
Arminia J. Weston
Mitchells Mills
Rey. J. R. Balnock
Wasleyan Methodiatchnnel
Ray—Williams, Rey
Samuel Shatter
Coral
Efutadal
George Ray
Ruth 9
Willams
Punxantawney
Carn
Minser—Snyder
Lev G. Minser
Idamar
Narah T. Snyder
Richmond
Robert C. Walmer
Richinona
Y. M.C. A. Concert
Nora Conservatory of Wight
Webay Ny
Waller
Sanne
Rire
Eitan Cogswell
Reguber
Vaasa
Jurnet-Watson
Thelulkowsky
Cette
Verdi
Wigalatte
Minker Arta
Copsey
Mossin
Elart Aut
Cogswell
Ik Lee
Martin Sanur
Truyslan
Sennex Coal Mining Co
Petyloge
Bard
McAdoo
Archibald Blair McAdoo
West Beanon
Indiana County
Hawis Dern
Wonathiornhand County
Fredn Saltsburg
Sedtal High
Blick Leg's Creek
Young Township
Elderaridge Academy
Hijersridge
Trntallion
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Plains
Catlat
West Luck- Moon
Sarah Ant Clowns
Roy
Anderson
Uniter Presbyterian
Fara
Ohler
S. B. Wigeins
Fandergritt
Den
William McAdoo
Oung Townehly
T. W. Carnahin
Parkwood
OL C. Comnman
John Braden McAdoo
Wii MccAdon
Wea Faron
Monongahela Valley
MecKensport
Braddowl
Flecker
Mary Flecker
Ellen
David R. Flecker
Fourth Street
John
Margaret Lely
Sam
Louis
Stasia
N. P. McNallis
St. Bernard’s Catholic Church
St. Bernard’s
Elks
Indiana Lodge No. 931
B. F. GO
W. B. Stehl
Anna May
Watson
Parker
Sopewell
Frank Marshall
William McMicheels
Hitler Peeler
Hsg
M. C. Watson
Woods M. Carr
Uniontown Lodge
Brotherhood
Me. Carr
Grove City College
JBAAC
Kettler
Grove City
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