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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1919
Page
5
County towns report a flurry of visits and callers from Blacklick Clymer Belsano Johnstown and Hill Top. Local residents greet friends and relatives while new arrivals move to farms and a farewell reception welcomes neighbors to the Trusal home. An explosion at Sheffler garage burned the proprietor’s face and hands and damaged a Saxon car.
Severely shocked Jno. Melosic of Lucerne Mines lies in an Indiana hospital after a pole fall brought contact with high tension electric wire. His left arm is badly burned and he was unconscious for several hours following the accident last week.
An improved shrapnel helmet adds a fringe of short chain links to catch splinters and debris while preserving vision. Popular Science Monthly notes the chain adaptation mirrors furnace protective devices used in industry. Senator Wilbur P Graff proposes a $859,718.41 appropriation for a Western State Hospital near Blairsville Intersection.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Miller and two children of Hastings spent the weekend in Pleasant Valley visiting friends. Mises Ollie and Helen Nichol visited Mrs. Paul Shank. Mrs. Arthur Lydie and her two sons James and Chester called on Mrs. Walter Meeking. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Stein visited W. M. Butarbaugh. Dorothy Nichol visited Lela Meekins of Cookport. Margaret Lockard, employed at Cookport, spent Sunday with her parents. W. S. Sweileer moved to a farm near Lovejoy. Ea Lydie of Lovejoy spent Sunday with Margaret and Samma Lockard.
Community notices list Easter services at Union church and the opening of the Penn Run and Mechanicsburg Summer Normals on May 12 for eight weeks. The Penn Run program, led by W. H. Beggs, offers tuition of eight to ten dollars. Various residents and visitors are named in local social notes from Indiana County communities.
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