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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1895
Page
5
Local correspondence lists illnesses weddings and visits across Kent and Plumville. Notables include Miss Jennie Gilmour visiting home, Rev doak at Cramer, and John A Weemer returning from Baltimore medical college. Also mentions construction by Rex Mitchell and various social and church events with several residents ill or recovering.
Local visits from Latman Learn of Cockport and Parry family from Pine Flats. Public schools in Qur closed with an entertainment praising teachers and pupils. H. C. Conner and Dr. Miller to Philadelphia for treatment at Universal Hospital. Davis Learn reports a cow loss. Pearl Huston dies at five. Purchase Line summer school opens with 35 students. Prof. Barr praised as principal. J. C. Conner and intruder incident ends with warning. Property moves and contracts noted among local residents.
Rev Cogley leads a long meeting at the M E church. Salem Sheesley and M W Best were in town on Tuesday. Peter Reithmiller suffers from catarrh in the right hand. Burkett child who drank lye is improving and recovery hoped. Summer school opened Monday with bad weather causing absences. Over forty students enrolled. Prof Rank oversees the school.
Edgar Dickie purchases a bicycle. Several visitors from Indiana and Chambersville are in town visiting friends. Prof N G Rose and Dr Will Crawford stop by, and Geo Weston moves his family to Jefferson county. Mrs Sadie Stitcler opens spring millinery. A child falls from a second story window with minor injuries. Lou Silvis relocates a demolished house to build a blacksmith shop. D D Barrett sells mill interest to Amos Barrett who will run the mill. Even Lewis buys property in town. Mr Oberlin plans to move to Apollo. Various moves, building, and farming updates. a plow is damaged in a field. Samuel Marsh opens a River street grocery. Mackerel reports from the Conemaugh. Six local youths fined for Sunday fishing. fine set at 8.33 each.
W. W. Harbison visited Indiana on Monday. Sharpe Smith from Apollo was in Shelocta on Sabbath. D. N. Heffelfinger spent a few days at Derry Station. W. F. Walker and his wife were seen at the county seat on Monday.
Mr A W McCracken and wife were in Indiana on Monday. Mr Frank Edwards and son Mort made a business trip to Indiana on Saturday. Messrs James and Rob Henry of Pittsburg were Shelocta callers on Saturday. Mr Alex Crawford, long sick, is able to move about again. Mr Dick Fleming and wife of Emlenton visited their parents last week. Mrs Nora Pattison is on the sick list. E W Griffith of Indiana was a visitor on Saturday. Miss Louie Pattison is seriously ill with congestion of the lungs. G M Joiner is opening a store in the old Grange hall with a line of general merchandise. Our summer school is making great headway under Prof J T Stewart with over forty students enrolled. The best evaporated pears only 10e a pound at W M Cunningham's. Landreth's garden seeds at J S Nesbit's. Seed oats and corn at Checkered Front.
Carpets are cheaper than ever and sales hit a new peak as the store guarantees the lowest price for the same grade.
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