Normal 10 The Front for a Week
Commencement week events at the Normal Conservatory of Music include two recitals by pupils, a baccalaureate sermon by Dr. McGee Waters, alumni and faculty gatherings, a Senior play Claymates, and the Alumni Banquet and Dance led by Justice John P. Elkin. Commencement exercises are scheduled for Wednesday morning in Chapel, with Fifth Street opening plans announced and viewers appointed to assess damages and benefits.
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Conservatory of Music
Julia Starr Preston
Conservatory
Edna Allyn Cogswell
Presbyterian Church
McGee Waters
Brooklyn
Dick Guy
Pittsburg Collegians
Dick McCullough
Clarence Smith
Railroad Avenue
I¢ia
YW. G. de Mille
Charles M. Miller
John D. Martz
Mabel Dickie Smith
Misa Blanche St. Clair
Indiana
Martz
John P. Elkin
Aoanta
Harry W. Earhart
Thomas Sutton
A. C. Gordon
Pittsburg
Tonat
James E. Ament
William Williams
Johnstown
Edna Anna Hoodie
Fifth Street
Behool Street
Locust Street
Gaid Street
New Pastor Installed at Jacksonville Presbyterian Church
Representatives from Indiana two United Presbyterian congregations travel Tuesday to the Conemaugh Presbytery meeting in Jacksonville for the installation of Rev. W. S. Warnock as pastor. Rev. H. A. Kelsey presides and preaches, with addresses by Rev. D. E. McGill and Rev. E. L. Ralston. Rev. W. T. Warnock succeeds Rev. A. J. Calvin, who resigned four years ago leaving the Jacksonville church without a regular pastor. Also notes a local drug ad for Foley's Kidney Remedy.
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Indiana
United Presbyterian
Conemaugh
United Presbyterian Church
Jacksonville
W. S. Warnock
H. A. Kelsey
Altoona
D. E. McGill
Homer City
E. L. Ralston
West Union
W. T. Warnock
A.J. Calvin
Calvin
Interesting Trips For the Visitors In Indiana Town
During commencement week visitors are guided to North Sixth street and other streets with trolley lines, parked streets, fine homes, and a crimson hedge. Highlights include White's woods and Schryock Hill plant on the old Water Works lot, a stroll to Hauxhurst, and a trolley route past rail cuts to the house. People note Savings & Trust five story building base, Court House repairs, re painted dome, and clock with a new green cage.
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Indiana
North Sixth Street
Robert E. Young
White’s Woods
Schryock Hill Stone Company
Hauxhurst’s
Cara
Clymer
Ernest
Josephine
Savings & Trust
Million Dollar Suit Filed Over Coal Veins
Mrs Annie Ott of Paint township filed trespass against Berwind White Coal Company seeking 1071914 in damages. She claims the company bought the B vein of coal beneath her ten acre farm but removed coal from the G vein willfully. Treble damages demanded. Removal of the C vein allegedly damaged surface strata and land value due to negligence.
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Somerset
Annie Ott
Paint Township
Berwind-White Coal Company
Dont Spank Your Children and Easy Talk Soap Ad
A quirky note on a boy who expects a Monday spanking while his tired mother washes. The item pitches Easy Talk Soap as saving time, then lists an Episcopal church menu for June 28. It mentions George W Platz era meat market and J M Guthrie’s cattle, plus a Boomerang game and Red Seal Flour.
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Indiana
George W. Platz
Era Meat Market
J. M. Guthrie
Choice Cattle
Death Toll at Miners Disaster Rises in Spangler
Frank Delegram, 28, unmarried, died in Miners Hospital Spangler, raising Wednesday disaster deaths to 18. Pasquilla Battista remains critical. John Kessler worsens at home. Explosion cause disputed. inspectors split on gas, dust, or gas and dust. Telegram's body moved to Twin Rocks. Company F ratings slide amid officer changes and rebuilt plans for July inspection at Somerset.
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Frank Delegram
Spangler
Pasquilla Battista
John Kessler
Wehrum
D. RK. Blower
Telegram
Weddings Highlight Multiple Local Matches and Matches
Miss Lillian Reid and A B Claypoole wed in Sharpsville in a quiet ceremony due to the groom’s mother's death. Attendants Maude Reid and Ralph Claypoole. Honeymoon in Lewisburg. they’ll be at home in Saltsburg after June 26. Additional marriages listed include Hannah Tyson to Charles McKinney in Blairsville and Joshua Churchfield to Martha Johnston in Loyalhanna. Various other local weddings noted with dates and officiants.
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Lillian Reid
Vandergrift
A. B. Claypoole
Saltsburg
H. Grimwood
Sharpsville
Rev. H. Grimwood
Zella Holcombe
Misa Maude Reid
Ralph O. Claypoole
Lewisburg
Mr. Claypoole
Bucknell University
Claypoole
H. M. Smith
Delmont
Joshua Churchfield
Martha J.johnston
Loyalhanna Township
Weathmoreland County
Churchfield
Points On People Headline Local Social Notes
R B Stewart of Rossiter and Rosa Hill of Vandergrift visit here over the Sabbath. Misa Grace Kimmell of Shelocta is Indiana visitor. Dr R F McHenry of Heilwood visits Indiana. Samuel Taylor Blairsville spends day with gravely ill James McNeal. Miss Martha Graff East Water street re elected Homer City schools teacher. Mrs Charles Howser returns from Philadelphia funeral of brother. Miss Sarah Gibson attends Mask and Wig event in Punxsutawney. Mrs Mary Clark and Miss Alice Green of Bridgetown Me visit Sarah Young. Undertaker John S Ross of Rochester Mills and William Hazlett pitcher on Georgeville team visit Gazette. J M Cunningham and Miss Mary Cunningham visit Edmund Kuhns Turtle Creek. Mabel Brown improves from scarlet fever. Dr Esther Marbourg of Johnstown with C W C Nippa family near Blacklick. Elizabeth Lowman Johnstown teacher spends month with uncle Dr J H Dick Lawrence Kan. Elmer E Conrath family of Johnstown visiting Jonathan Learn family Eleventh street. Mr Conrath editor of Johnstown Tribune. Mrs Conrath and daughter stay several weeks.
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Elizabeth Lowman
Johnatown
McLain Lowman
Eleventh Street
J. H. Dick
Lawrence
Kan
Elmer E. Conrath
Johnstown
Jonathan Learn
Mr. Conrath
Johnstown Tribune
Mrs. Conrath
Farmers Wives Rebel Against Threshing Dinners
In central Indiana farmers wives rise in protest against large dinners for threshing hands. Thresher owners face refusals to contract as wives organize and threshing men are told to provide their own meals. The movement spreads, signaling end of the big threshing dinner era.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Wreck Girders For Ohio Bridge
Wreckers damaged thirty thousand dollars worth of bridge girders at Wheeling Junction Steubenville Ohio at 4 AM. Nitroglycerine set off by stop clock caused five explosions waking residents and shattering glass. Seaboard Construction Co. blamed for employing non union workers triggering the attack. Girders to be repaired at Steelton works.
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Steubenville
Wheeling Junction
Seaboard Construction Co
Two Michigan Graduates Earn Degrees in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor June 26 news notes that among 120 Pennsylvania attendees at the University of Michigan ceremony this week thirty-two earned degrees. Two graduates hailed from Indiana County Arthur Jasper Russell of Indiana earned a Bachelor of Law and Wilmer H Hood of Marion Center a Bachelor of Arts.
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
Pennsylvania
University of Michigan
Indiana County
Arthur Jasper Russell
Indiana
Wilmer H. Hood
Marion Center
Blairsville Opens New Ball Park With 7 0 Victory
Blairsville Firemen debuted at their new ball park on Thursday defeating Greensburg 7 to 0. A large crowd attended with a parade and band concert before the game. Burgess M E Brown delivered a speech and threw the first ball. Wilkinson R Brown George and Bunny Marshall led Blairsville with the stick.
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Blairsville
Talking Pictures a Great Hit at Star Theatre
Talking pictures at Star Theatre draw large audiences all next week. Fans will return tonight for the popular Two Orphans. The second feature is Hard to Beat, keeping patrons entertained with steady showings.
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Star Theatre
Washington visitors holidaying with Spokane friends
Washington residents in Spokane with attorney Johnston Campbell and his wife were guests of Mia W Adams of Oak Street. They visited Heshbon to see relatives after a Friday in Indiana. Maple sugar from Somerset County advertised by Hetrick & Wilson. Boomerangs promoted at McGinley’s Moaie Store with fishing poles at Indiana Electric.
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Washington
Johnston Campbell
Spokane
Waah
Indiana
Mia
W. W. Adams
Oak Street
Heshbon
Died While In A Field On His Farm
William Millen a veteran farmer from Shelocta was found dead in a field near his home on Friday morning about 8 o clock. He was over 70 and had started to take cows to pasture but did not return. Three sons and two daughters survive. Funeral arrangements not yet made. Justice Stayer, Jacksonville elder, dies at daughter’s home aged 80 from paralysis after two strokes. Funeral at his home and burial at Oakland cemetery. George R Betts head of Batty and Steitler stone masons of DuBois dies at his home on June 19. Haley Betts, his son, known for county stone work including the new County Home and Sagamore mining plant projects.
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William Millen
Shelocta
Millen
Justice Stayer
Jacksonville
Andrew Stewart
Stayer Sage
California
Oakland
George R. Betts
Batty & Steitler
DuBois
Infant of Mr and Mrs Thompson Died in June
Infant Mary Luella Thompson daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Thompson of Plumville died June 20. Interment was made at Beracha cemetery.
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Mary Luella
Robert Thompson
Plumville
Beracha Cemetery
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D. L. Moorhead, Lafayette Sutter, J. M. Cunningham
U. P
Bright
Foley
Court House Dome
Berwind-White
Episcopal Church
McGinley’s
Wenrum
Company F
ISLOW
Faith- Spangler Hospital
Fifth Regiment
Hugh §. Taylor
Hospital Corps
George B. Corbin
P. F. Garbrick
J. A. Woleslagie
G. J. McCune
A. G. Keime
L. A. Wheeler
H. W. Aikens
S. F. Statler
Koemer
Kittanning Company
Sixteenth Infantry
Matthew Bruce
South Sixth Street
Claypoole Reid
Tyson—McKinney
John T. Tyson
Hannah Myrtle Tyson
Charles Addison McKinney
J. T. Pender
Methodist Episcopal Church
Johnston
Glassford
Donahey
Sutton B. Glassford
Misa Avlerdi Donahey
Stafford
Wilkinsburg
Thuraday
M. M. Pattison
Petty Murray
John §. Petty
Belmont
Mamie M. Murray
F. S. Crawford
Freid—Smith
Felix Freil
Belle Smith
Gipsy
Clearfield
G. W. Enders
Boomerang
McGinley
Muse
R. B. Stewart
Rossiter
Rosa Hill
Misa Grace Kimmell
R. F. McHenry
Heilwood
Samuel Taylor
James McNeal
Martha Graff
East Waterstreet
Charles Howser
Philadelphia
Sarah Gibson
Mask and Wig Club
Punxsutawney
Mary Clark
Alice Green
Bridgetown, Me
Sarah Young
South Seventh Street
John S. Ross
Rochester Mills
William Hazlett
Georgeville
J. M. Cunningham
Mias
Mary Cunningham
Edmund Kuhns
Turtle Creek
Mabel Brown
C. J. Brown
Church Street
Esther Marbourg
C. W. C. Nippa
Stoneback
Blacklick
Boomerangs
McGinley's
Ohio Bridge
Arthur Russell
Wilmer Wood
Firemen
Greensburg
Talking Pictures
Somerset County
JE J. Fiscus
Imperial
Hetrick & Wilson
Indiana Electric
Andrew Nealer
Second Ward
Cheatnut Street
Widdowson
Wayne Avenue
Nealer
H. K. Ryman
E. S. Harper
Christ Episcopal Church
Christ Church
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