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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1871
Page
5
Local notes report crop prospects and frosts harming peaches, new advertisements, school attendance concerns, and public works. Entertainment includes G W Dale and J Sippy at Clarissa Hall. Banking, commerce, and politics reference deposits, vegetables from Philadelphia, and a contested 1870 primary claim.
In the second week, court verdicts favored plaintiffs in multiple cases including John Quigley for users and Arida Thomas for $73,798. Johnston Davis for $260. Daft confessed judgment. Andrew Campbell and others for $135.65. Azariah Danham for $1,410.19. Micheal Stiles for plaintiff. Roads were ordered opened in Banks, Green, Grant, Centre, Armstrong, Young townships and Smicksburg borough. Viewers appointed to assess petitions for several road projects and private routes through various lands.
After adjournment on a Friday in Indiana County a meeting of the Bar and officers of the Court organized with Wm. M. Stewart in the chair and Jos. M. Thompson as secretary. A three member committee drafted resolutions expressing thanks to Hon. James Campbell for able faithful and impartial service during the last two weeks of the Court.
Corcrnt.-Prof. Gray and class will hold a concert in Jacksonville U. P. Church Thursday May 4 at seven o'clock. Featuring vocal and instrumental music. The programme lists selections themed on wedding anniversaries and milestone anniversaries such as silver thirtieth and diamond.
The week included officers installed for IGO of OF No. 436 with D D G M McClusky presiding Holy Week and Easter observed by Episcopalians. A fire scare at Mrs Peters near-miss. lesson on keeping matches away from children. Last Thursday T R Hosark and Flora Morford wed at Paul Graft’s, then boarded westward for Pittsburgh. James Shields named mason foreman on the West Penn division. Blairsville Academy Summer session opens the 20th. Aurora displays noted. temperance debates rise amid local religious concerns.
A collage of endorsements on advertising praises its power, citing Horace Greeley and P. T. Barnum, along with local merchants Nesbit & Lewis and J. C. Moorhead. The notice also advertises seed, tobacco, doors and sash, lumber, nails, plastering lath, fish, ham and other goods, urging buyers to visit various shops for cash bargains.
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