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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1925
Page
11
Residents from Homer City Blairsville Vandergrift and Reading visit relatives and shop in Blairsville. Miss Violet Marshall from Montana, Delphine Brida, Wm Saxton of Scottdale and many families are mentioned with weekend visits and Sunday outings. Occasional hospital and theater attendance noted.
Mr and Mrs Frank Patrick have returned home from McDonald. Mrs Albert Wiggins is ill with pneumonia. Mrs Porter Calhoun and grandchildren Hazel and Billie visited her sister Mrs Abbie Fleming on Thursday. The Camp Fire Girls met at Frances Wiggins home Friday evening. Mr and Mrs William Beer were Indiana visitors on Saturday.
A broad selection of commodity prices from New York and Chicago markets appears. Potatoes sacked round whites range 1 to 1.15 per 100 pounds, onions 2.76 to 3.25, apples Baldwin 6 to 6.50 per barrel, wines 3.60 to 4 per box, butter 464c to 47e. Beef, veal, lamb, and pork values vary by grade and weight, with hogs top at 13.60 and feeder meats listed, wheat and corn futures shown for No. 2 hard winter, red and yellow corn, white oats, and Timothy prices across major cities.
A National Industrial Conference Board report based on industrial leader opinions forecasts steadier business in late 1925 with rising loan rates, some price declines in certain industries, and generally flat wages. It highlights four achievements for stability and warns agriculture’s depressed prices may impact industry. autos and electrical goods show mixed results with exports improving and capacity near full in some sectors. The note stresses conservatism in expansion and distribution shortening.
Local notes recount J N Blose visiting Indiana on Tuesday and Francis Fairman with Brice Peter making a business trip to Sheloc ta on Thursday. Numerous households hosted visitors from nearby towns and families, with gatherings, church services, and a birthday, plus road work and hospital visits described across the community.
Mr and Mrs G H Pett ed and son Tommy drove to Indiana Saturday J R Duncan did business there this past week J Blair Maitley has recovered enough to go out. Indiana shoppers included Mrs J A Donahue and daughter Laverne Lulu Muftfley Forth Lindsay Mrs Wan Nelson and Mrs A F Stewart William Penman and H B Ganoe visited Indiana Friday Sympathy goes to the Ott McCall family formerly of this place now in Stafford Mrs Win Muffley visiting her daughter Mrs Carl McCormick Homer City H M Henry and Mike Thomas are on the sick list M F Durkin Barnesboro transacted business here Thursday Presbyterian church Sunday exercises planned Watkins Indiana visited town Sunday Mrs A F Stewart resigned from post life to return home to Penn Run after May 1
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