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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1935
Page
8
Maple Grove and nearby communities report visits and social calls. Families including Adama, Nippes, Stephens, Sleppy, Jacobs, Brown, Coy, Robertson, and others circulated through homes in Nanty Glo, Blairsville, Kenwood, Penn Run, Strongstown, Belsano, Deckers Point, Indiana, and Alverda during the week and weekend.
Mrs Maude Brown and her son Waldo were Sunday callers at the Sleppy home, visiting and spending time with family.
Community diary entries recount visits and calls among residents of Watsons Ridge Peelor District Parkwood and surrounding areas. Names include Wallace McComb Hine Ewing Barclay Coleman Hood Cunningham Hirick Smock Henderson Cribbs Foreman and Cribbs with multiple short gatherings and Easter vacation activities. Community members travel from Vandergrift Hastings New Kensington and Indiana to visit families and attend get togethers.
In a quiet residential block a man and a servant woman plot a theft of seven hundred dollars from a bank. After a tense parting the man is ambushed by a partner who seizes the envelope, leaving him injured and without the gift tie for the planned marriage. The episode ends with a streetlight confrontation and a missing envelope.
Oldest resident Mrs J C Cuddy shows slight improvement and Rev Fairman to lead communion on May 5. Visitors include Sylvester Campbell and family from Cleveland and guests at McLean and Cuddy homes. Fractions of local families Byron Frick and others from Indiana, J W Cuddy home hosts Clair Cuddy Frank Cuddy and more.
Sabbath school at ten and preaching on April 28. Local preparatory services led by Rev. Boston of Creekside. Nurses Hobaugh Voyten and McGinley from Indiana Hospital visited W. B. McGinley’s family. News of births, travels, and Easter vacations of Barkley, Palla, Leard, Ewing, and Blairsville and Blairsville area students.
Viola Betty and Dorie Dixon visited the Lee girls Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs J S Marshall and Samuel Patterson were business callers in Saltsburg Saturday. Mr and Mrs J S Kennedy and children Harrison Wise and Donald Neal were Indiana visitors Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Charles McMillen moved to their new home in Corapolis on Tuesday. Their son Paul remained with Mr and Mrs J L Diven to finish school and take the eighth grade examination Saturday. Mr and Mrs Snyder and children of Wilkinsburg spent several days this week in their summer home near town. Mrs J Is Diven attended the funeral of Mrs Dorothy Munshower in Blairsville Friday afternoon. Luella Long spent Easter with her parents in Tunnelton.
Olivet Mrs Ross Wilson and daughter Phyllis of West Lebanon spent Friday with J and Ewley's. Mr and Mrs Roscoe McConnell were in Kittanning on Saturday. Erskine Long and family of Pittsburgh visited Mr and Mrs I M Long on Easter Sunday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Wilson and family of Imperial spent the weekend with Mrs Alma Wilson. Mr and Mrs George McLaughlin are proud grandparents of a little granddaughter Dona Lee born to Mr and Mrs Frank Thompson on April 11. Mr and Mrs Elijah Shearer of West Lebanon and Mr and Mrs Lester Shearer of this place were in Baltaburg on Friday.
CHERRYHILL Mr and Mrs Ralph Muffley of Maryland spent the weekend at Heilwood and vicinity. Mr and Mrs Shelton Shultz Eastered at the home of Mr and Mrs O D Askina Slickville. George Lunn and Jean, Tommy and Hary Lunn visited the F C Ganoe home at Colyer. Mr and Mrs Robert Judy and Misa Sara Whittaker Hellwood shopped at Indiana Friday. Mr and Mrs John Engle and son Wesley and daughter Twila callers at Brush Valley Sunday.
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