Potatoes Show Draw Crowds at Hershey Field Days
Indiana county delegates attended the state Potato Growers field days at Hershey with 2000 watching machinery demonstrations including tractors plowing and diggers. Dr. Nixon showcased over 4000 potato varieties and announced a new Nittany potato improving table quality and pest resistance. Events included films, plus tours of ice palace and packaging operations. A bee re-queening and caponizing demonstration were announced for August 7 near Brushvalley and Taylorsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
Atate
Hershey
M. S. Hershey
Hershey Industrial School
Lowell Thomas
Orphan Boys
EB. L. Nixon
State College
Nixon
Pennsylvania
Nittany
Michigan
New York
Maine
Armstrong Township
Frank Paul
William Campbell
W. D. Mack
Stutzman
Robert Wagner
Bob
B. Stutzman
East Wheatfield
Doyle Stutzman
Guy Stutzman
William Gougenour
Brushvalley
A. B. Boy
Warren Buterbaugh
Wilson Glaseford
Cherryhill Township
H. 8. Lute
Green Township
H. W. Stonebraker
White Township
Harry McPhilimy
Edwin K. Warner
D. H. Ricks
J. W. Warner
R. V. McNutt
Warner
Poultry tour visits Butler County egg auction and farms
Forty five residents from Indiana and Armstrong counties joined a Friday poultry tour to Butler County led by assistant county agent D H Ricks. The group observed 370 cases of eggs sold in an hour, heard auction and egg grading explanations from R H McDougall and auctioneer Mr Smith, and visited Thomas Mackandson poultry farm and others.
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Indiana
Armstrong Counties
Butler County
D.H. Ricks
Butler
H. H. Kauffman
State College
R. H. McDougall
Mr. Smith
Mr. Frank
Thomas Mack Andson Poultry Farm
Don Yingling
Mr. Thiel
James K. McElhoes
Mary Catherine Allison
Clymer
Foster J. Parks
Paul Lowman
George Rose
Clarksburg
Merle Trayer
Mildred
Leroy, Delano
James Trayer
Rochester Mills
C. B. Neal
Carl Kramer
Samuel Gamble
Smickaburg
R.2
Hol. Reese
4-H Picnic at Indian Springs Plans Set for August 6
Indiana county 4-H clubs with members and parents will hold an annual picnic at Indian Springs Park starting 1 30 p m. Friday August 6. Activities include get acquainted and progressive games a swimming carnival a basket picnic dinner camp fire and stunts. Each club will perform a short skit or stunt. An auction sale at 6 30 p m. is a novelty feature.
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Indian Springs
Indiana County
Indian Springs Park
Jon
New Route 119 Section Opens at Blacklick Week End
Thousands of motorists used the new two and a half mile section of Route 119 linking Blacklick with the William Penn Highway. Opened Saturday, the modern concrete road eliminates dangerous grades and curves and costs $112,259.15. A further extension to Coral will follow after rail crossing talks. Also opening this week were the Campbelle Milla and Graffton bridges rebuilt after the 1936 flood. Lions Club set four September October events at the High School auditorium, including a mushball game with Clymer Girls and Kiwanis fifteenth anniversary observance with the Kiwanis Bulls Dogs and Sons. Field hockey remains popular among college and high school girls.
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Blacklick
William Penn Highway
Mile Hill
William Penn
Coral
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Campbella Milla
Graffton
Lions Club
Clymer -Girls
Clymer
Lions
Kiwanis Club
Ffteenth
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Bull Dogs
Indiana County Delegates to State Sabbath School Meet
Indiana County will send 560 delegates to the State Sabbath School convention opening in Hershey on October 13. The Indiana County convention to select local delegates is set for September 24 and 25. The diamond jubilee gathering will host over 7,000 leaders in Christian education with sessions in the Ice Palace and Hershey churches and theatres.
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Indiana County Sabbath School Association
State Association
Hershey
Indiana
Ice Palace
A. M. Henry
C. M. Whersole
Hummelstown
Churches of Hershey
Hershey Community Theatre
Little Theatre
America
Weddings Of A Week Walls Keating And Breakiron
A sequence of weddings and engagements is reported. Charles Ellsworth Walls and Queen Keating wed at a Home ceremony in East Philadelphia street, with Irene Keating and Forest Please present. Albert L Breakiron and Lucile Stahlman married at the Stahlman home, Pittsburgh. Verna Bennett and Joseph Spohn married in Indiana. Engagement announced: Miss Mary Lee Keith and David Payson Williams to wed in September. A greyhound can leap about 13 feet, horses about 25.
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Forest Please
Ekating
Walls
Philadelphia Street
Breakiron-Stahlman
Albert L. Breakiron
Harry O. Breakiron
Pittsburgh
Lucile Stablman
Harry A. Stahlman
Indiana
Stahlman
Cecelia L. Geary
Clifford Breakiron
Mary Lee Keith
Harrisburg
David Payson Williams
Latrobe
Miss Keith
John A. H. Keith
Goucher College
Wm. Penn High School
Keith
Indiana State Teacher College
Willams
Yale University
Prea‘ent
The
Vulcan Mold & Iron Company
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Farm Extension News
Agalstant
D. H. Ricka
R. L. Boucher
Taylorsville
Guernsey
Indiana County Guernsey Cattle Club
Reading
Norristown
Devon
Oxford
Lancaster
Carlisle
Chambersburg
Court House
Warnler
Oli Aio
R.W. Webbe & Co
Indiana, Pa
G. W. Meats DE
North Sixth Street
National Brands
Hess Brothers
South Seventh ‘Street
Fricks
Candy
Magna
James J. Walters
Geo. Cost’s Barber Shop
South Ninth Street
Willis & Henderson
Wayne Ave
Telephone
Long & Rim Insurance Agency
General Insurance
Luxenberg
United States
Stone Fur Co
New York City
Stone Fur Company
Troutman’s
Troutman
Patton
Plasco
Pittsburgh Paint
Indiana Hardware Company
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