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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1936
Page
2
The notice lists cash in advance terms for subscriptions in Indiana County with prices for one year six months and three months, detailing prepaid rates and payment method despite incomplete OCR.
The ticket features ALF M LANDON for president with FRANK KNOX as vice president and FRANK PINOLA as state treasurer, along with E ARTHUR SWEENEY for auditor general and WALTER E MORRIS representing Congress.
Walter Cunningham of Brush valley is county seat caller. Nellie Nealer visits Agnes Holland in Laughlintown. Numerous locals and visitors travel to Cleveland Great Lakes Exposition, Atlantic City, and Canada. Mentions of scholarships, military service, and church leaders accompany a parade of social calls and small trips across Indiana and surrounding towns.
The Ritz Theatre screens Earthworm Tractors a Joe E Brown comedy with June Travis Carol Hughes and Jane Withers among the cast. Also showing Little Miss Nobody with Jane Withers and an early turkey dinner mishap scene. Suzy starring Jean Harlow with Franchot Tone and Cary Grant opens August 13.
Indiana residents Paul B. Hasinger and Gladys Lenora Ott McCreight wed at St Bernard RC church in a Monday ceremony. They plan a motor tour through New England, then live at 99 Wayne Avenue after October 1. Also wed were H. Harmon Porter and Margaret Irene Wells in Marion Center with a Harmon music by Anna Mahon Loughry. The couples head to new homes after their ceremonies.
Blairsville school board elected Elizabeth Vorlage and Twila Riter to fill two teaching vacancies at Blairsville Grade School. Vorlage replaces Miss Nellie Henry who resigned and Riter takes over for Mrs. Mary Shields Mountain. Substitute teachers include Dorothy Noel, Dorothy Campbell, and Martha Diven. Margaret Haines was named substitute high school instructor. A Cumberland Maryland marriage license was issued to Alfons Dome nick and Margaret Shandick of Lucerne Mines. Eleanor Stewart of School Street visits Dorothy Hall of Pittsburgh.
An Indiana County potato growers tour and meeting is set for Monday August 10 starting at 9:00 A.M. at Bert Blakley farm near Parkwood with stops at Irvin Behm and Clark Pollock farms to view seed sources fields and storage cellars. Lunch on Pollock lawn precedes a discussion of Pennsylvania potato marketing plans led by Walter Bishop Miles Horet E B Bower Dr E L Nixon L T Denniston A E Windish and a demonstration of a new rubber roller potato cleaner and grader by Harry Stockdale.
The program for the Myers Literary Society at the Myers schoolhouse in Center township lists Friday evening activities. Participants include Helen F abin Aileen Stewart Stella Zorak Hazel McIntyre Stella Kauffman Mrs Robert Nebrig Freda Stewart Jake class Robert Nebrig Glenn Winsheimer Darwin Stewart Geo Latimer Mrs Fitzgerald Naomi Stewart Marybelle Allison Goldie McHenry Virginia Colgan Wilda Davis Munte Max Glenn McCall and others. A debate prompt Your Opinion of the amount of work a Farm Woman should do Outside the House is led by Mrs Glenn Winsheimer Fred Nehrig Mrs Darwin Stewart Roy Winsheimer Jake class Clair Kauffman John McIntyre Mr Wiley Howard Nehrig Green Brothers and concludes with a closing song.
Eleven day retreat at Camp Willam Penn runs August 17 to 34 under the Young People's Concert of District V Indiana County Sabbath School Association. Faculty and committee aim for the biggest, best session yet. For information and registration blanks contact Miss Gertrude Emigh, R.D.2, Penn Run.
Walter B.Nissley told Rotary Club Pennsylvania ranks high as a garden state and third in canning vegetables. Lancaster tobacco land shifts to tomatoes and beans while Heinz and Campbell Soup are major buyers. He warned that canning vegetables will be scarce and expensive this fall and winter due to dry weather and below normal supply.
In White township Indiana county 1936 barley yield from Eugene Pounds farm near Lester Ray hit 44 bushels per acre on 2.5 acres with 110 bushels threshed for Wisconsin 38 barley. Alfalfa stand was excellent. seed treated to prevent smut. 300 pounds per acre 16 percent phosphate applied. barley drilled April 12 with ten bushels seed. Progress and Pittsburgh Peat Gazette to KR readers $5.50.
An auditor appointed by the Orphans Court of Indiana County will attend to settlement of money in the hands of Mair Chiuwson, executor of Alicia M Clawson of Blacklick Township. Hearing at Brown Building Blairsville on August 27, 1930, 10:40 AM for interested parties. Signed AUD L. GESSLER, July 20, 1930.
Jesse VP Long and W C Chapman attorneys issue notice of letters testamentary for the estate of stearge IL Bell late of North Mahony Township deceased. creditors are asked to present authenticated claims for beneficence and those indebted must make prompt payment.
A historical notice explains the classified column rates for Wanted Lost For Sale and For Rent notices. It details charges: one cent per word for insertions of 25 words or more and 25 cents for shorter notices. It notes each initial or number counts as a word and instructs sending the word count with payment to cover insertions. The policy states accounts cannot be opened for partial amounts.
Farm of 78 acres near South Bend with 40x40 frame barn and frame houses. Land suitable for tractor work, close to cement road and Pinchot road with a gas well producing royalty. Spring water, lumber on property valued at 600 to 700 dollars. Sheriff sale taken, price 2500 with terms of cash down and balance on kind terms. Interested parties may write or see W. L. George in Apollo, Pa.
Letters testamentary issued for the estate of Mrs Mary Houck late of Green Towne Ship Indiana County Pa. Executors Budd Stanley Houck Barnesboro Pa and Robert Spaf Houck Clymer Pa request creditors to present claims for settlement and debtors to make prompt payment July 10 1996.
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