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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1936
Page
3
A farm girl recalls a comic and perilous sequence in which gnats swarming her potato patch lead to a circling plane landing near her field. A pilot named Oscar emerges from the aircraft, and villagers pursue a kidnapped boy hidden in a gulch cabin. She jokes about flirting with the pilot while the gang is captured.
The Zuider Zee has been closed since 1988 by a massive 20 mile long dike 34 feet above sea level, enabling rapid reclamation of about 250000 acres in Holland. The first 50000 acres are largely cultivated with three villages, roads, rail and bike paths built, and 27000 acres converted to agriculture after initial pasture.
Uniontown area social news reports Miss Lillian Beringer with sisters at a Sabbath School meeting in Cockport. Out of town callers include Allan Pounds and family and visitors to the W M S institute at the Evangelical church in Indiana. Sunday visits feature the Beringer and Cable families, plus neighbors from Cherry Tree and Wintondale. Revival services continue at Pine Grove Church of God led by Rev Patterson.
Rochester Mills and vicinity residents visit and travel with many callers and guests. Families including Hipps Dodson Pardee Henry Cochran and others attend gatherings, business calls, and church society sessions while schools close the term with teachers Ralph Oberlin and Lula Braughter.
A jumble of community news and familiar names from Blacklick and Blairsville including visits by Dutra and Campbell families, church events at Presbyterian and Methodist places, Legion medals for Inez Spearman and Evans Garspbell, hospital visits, and school closings. The piece also notes fund-raising, shopper trips, and a bloated list of residents visiting, traveling, or attending services with occasional humor from a Candidate dialogue.
Washington Township social life fills the week with visits from Hart Blystone Punxsutawney and many Indiana callers plus Easter gatherings. Farmers plow忙, Five Points Sunvel closing Thursday, and local church and school events noted among arranging households and hospital visits.
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