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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1916
Page
2
The Indiana Progress issue lists editor and proprietors MOORTEAD A RALPH MOORHEAD, announces publication as second class matter, and outlines subscription terms and payment rules. It notes reserves for October 25, 1905 and lists payment rates and advance cash requirement.
Indiana Pa March 13 2016 Republican County Committee announces candidates on the Republican ticket for the Gen eral Primary Election to be held Tuesday May 16 1916. Congress Nathan L Strong and Wilbur P Graff are named with several supporters from Punxsutawney Brookville Blairsville Indiana and other towns. State Senatorial and Assembly hopefuls including Wilmer H Wood M C G Watson John W Morrow and others are listed with counties Indiana Armstrong Clarion Jefferson.
A party praise piece endorses Hon Wilmer St Wood for a second term in the Legislature. It highlights his early life, education at Our State Normal School and the University of Michigan, and his 1915 term record on key committees. It credits him with supporting Child labor laws and Compensation Acts and securing funds for normal schools and a focal hospital. It also notes his efforts toward legislative reapportionment and confidence from county Republicans.
The Clymer Christian church Sabbath school held a Sunday attendance contest between men and women. The rule required 160 or more in attendance to win. the women achieved 102 while the men had 101. The women celebrate, while the men vow to keep recruiting as Pastor Thomas Hughes leads and M. James serves as superintendent.
District No 5s Blairavilla Methodist Sunday school leads in attendance about 325 aiming for 400 under Supt C T McGarvey. District Exec Committee met April 3 to plan the district convention at Flairsville and district officers will meet April 22 to plan the Jones convention. District No 2 reports flag sponsorship and OA BC banner wins at conventions 1913 14 with four AB C classes and three Sec Divs organized.
Smith presides over the district while Mr. F. B. Comp is superintendent of C. A. B. GC work as districts prepare summer convention plans. Officers are urged to publish programs promptly. A tip on stone cherries proposes using a steel writing pen as a scoop to remove pits without bruising the fruit, from Woman's Home Companion.
Vegetable plants for sale including cabbage tomatoes peppers celery and cauliflower. Plants are hardened transplants and ready for orders. Indiana Floral Co invites written or phone orders. Literary Society program details list numerous speakers performers and debates with local contributors and events.
County notes recount Indiana shopping trips by Mrs Hubbard and daughter Laur, Miss Hannah Chariton returning home from Roxster after months with Mrs Fred Mancork, and various visits by residents to Indiana and nearby towns. Several locals, including George Snitch and U. S. Andrews, are noted with family visitations, travel to Altoona for Naval Academy exams, and a home project by J. T. Hubbard.
Long list of names and events from Reynoldsville to McKeesport, with visits by Mrs. Lawrence Strong and other relatives. Mentions of hospital, social gatherings at the Clymer hotel, engraver training in Bowman, and church services in Deckers Point and McKissen Valley. Several residents move, visit, or host events, with scattered local engagement details and parish notes.
A jumble of names and passages notes residents and guests in multiple towns. Adam Greenawig, John Cunningham, Myra Tra, and others are mentioned among varied visits and local gatherings.
A humorous verse urges balancing play and work with fiddling as a mood booster. It cites Nero fiddling during Rome’s fire and promotes applying effort, then taking rest, noting some misinterpret work by others while celebrating the fiddler’s spirit.
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