Gordon Society Wins Contest Over Brushvalley at Palmer
The Gordon Literary Society defeated Brushvalley by one point in a three hour contest at Palmer theater Thursday evening. Judges Mrs George Bayha Mrs Chas Wippes and Prof A W Campbell presided. The debate on whether labor unions are detrimental to laboring men drew strong interest with Gordon affirming and Brushvalley negative. final scores 7 to 17 in favor of Gordon.
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Gordon Literary Society
Blacklick
Brushvalley Society
Palmer Theater
W. BP. McCrea
Gordon Society
George Bayha
Chas, Wippes
A. W. Campbell
Brushvall Ay Society
Arg
Bag
Moush Kills Giant Cat in Heroic Mouse Tale
In a Brooklyn scene, a small mouse provokes a Persian cat into a fatal choke. The mouse escapes, the cat lunges and dies as it swallows its pursuer, ending a fierce yet bizarre hunt. Neighborhood residents recount the strange dramatic ending.
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Anna Kieckhoffer
Wills filed list several Indiana estates and executors
In filings from Indiana, multiple wills name executors and beneficiaries. Annie Ralston bequeaths her Indiana estate to daughters Laura Livingston Helen Ralston and Hazel Zamboni with Livingston and Zamboni as executrices. J A Whiteman’s estate left to his wife and a sole beneficiary. Margaret Woodward leaves all to sister Mary Liz Smith as executrix. Rebecca Wolf’s estate goes to son Ralph with Ralph as executor. Margaret Barr’s husband John P Barr estate listed. Ferrier couple left life estate to widow with children to inherit. joint executors named. W W Irvin leaves all to son Edward with widow supported and others receiving yearly sums. Howard Irwin named executor.
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Annie Ralston
Indiana
Laura E. Livingston
Helen Ly. Rallston
Hazel Zamboni
Zamboni
Livingston
Mame
Whiteman
J. A. Whiteman
Punxsutawney
Margaret P. Woodward
Mary Liz Smith
Ida M. Sickenberger
Rebecca J. Wolf
Ralph
Margaret E. Barr
John P. Barr
Blairsville
A. ©. Ferrier
Sarah J. Ferrier
Mary
Charles Ferrier
W. W. Irvin
Hillsdale
Edward Irvin
Nancy Jane Irwin
Sherman
James
Samuel
Irwin
Mary Kime
May Brady
Amanda Dalrymple
Melda Heidinger
Howard Irwin
Local residents gather for visits and events week noted
Clymer C Long and family spent Sunday at Johnstown. Elaine Knupp and Adelaide Wolfe are visiting aunt Mrs. Irvin Myers. H R Figart and sons will give a musical at Church of Christ August 18 at 8 00. Mrs J R Manley and Dorothy at J R Figart. H H Hetrick moved into McFarland house. Sebring family attended camp meeting near Smithport. David Clemenson and family from Cleveland visiting relatives. Harry Stonebraker called on relatives. Mrs Thomas Good and daughter visiting Butler. Sarah Long from Indiana weekend at home. Scotch picnic at Sunset Park attended by locals. Mrs Samuel Leasure from Millville spent Thursday with friends. Elisabeth Patterson of Idamar visited sister Mrs Earl Oakes. Mrs T McCarthy of Indiana called on friends. If you need farm help this fall try Progress classified ad. The cost is small and you will likely get just what you want in return.
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C. Long
Johnstown
Elaine Knupp
Purchase Line
Adelaide Wolfe
Nicholtown
Irvin Myers
H.R
Dorothy
J. R. Figart
H. H. Hetrick
H. H. McFarland
Sebring
Rueeting
Smithport
David Clemenson
Cleveland
Ohio
Harry Stonebraker
Indiana
Thomas Good
Butler
Sarah Long
Sunset Park
Samuel Leasure
Millville
Friends Era
Eliabeth Patterson
Idamar
Earl Oakes
T. McCarthy
Smyrna Social and Literary Notes Include Visits and Program
Smyrna notices list visitors from Baxter Washington D C and Ohio and others calling on local families. The Smyrna Literary Society meets with songs recitations debates and readings led by Ethel McGee Kathryn Griffith Velma Johnston Mildred North and others.
Dixonville Saturday Social Notes and Visitors
Indiana callers gathered in Dixonville Saturday night including Mr and Mrs LW Jacoby Mr and Mrs Murray Con Rath Mr and Mrs Clarence Little and family and Mr and Mrs Floyd Lightner and family A Scotch picnic at Sunset drew a newsmaker Alf Gaston of Johnson spent the weekend with his family James Waddell and family of Indian Head visited relatives Sunday TD Tedder of Canada visited at W H Conner home Mr and Mrs DJ Allison of Taylorsville visited Dixonville Saturday night Mrs William Howells hosted a birthday party for Violet Friday Austin Slenker visited Commodore on Monday
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Indiana
LW. Jacoby
Murray Conrath
Clarence Little
Floyd Lightner
Alf Gaston
Johnson, N
James Waddell
Indian Head
TD. J. Tedder
Canada
W. H. Conner
D. J. Allison
Taylorsville
Dixonville
William Howells
Violet
Austin Slenker
East Run Community Notes From Ambitious Weekend Visits
East Run diary reports Rev and Mrs M M Smith visiting DuBois. Mrs M J McQuown and Virginia Bloyd of Indiana spent Monday with Mrs B L Mumau. The Langhams hosted the Barbour family and two children on Sunday. Daughertys hosted Farnsworth visitors. Cortland Smith vacationed with relatives in DuBois. Rickards hosted at Marion Center. J N Langham from Indiana called Friday. Elmer O Harrah, formerly in Akron, is home nearby. Kent residents include Harry Malloy from Akron visiting West Lebanon. W P Frye of the state highway department visited family. Mrs Edgar Comb of Pittsburgh visits Kent. Annie Carnahan Lulu Cumming and George Cumming visited Wm Frye. A Buick sedan driven by Harwick of Erie ran into a bank below Homer City Sunday. no injuries.
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M. M. Smith
M. J. McQuown
Virginia Bloyd
Indiana
B. L. Mumau
John Johnston
S. E. Lockhart
Rochester Mills
J. Thomas
Homer City
Farnsworth
Cortland Smith
DuBois
Clay Rickard
Marion Center
A. G. Rickard
J. N. Langham
Elmer O'Harrah
Akron, O
Kent Harry Malloy
Akron
West Lebanon
W. P. Frye
State Highway Department
Edgar Comb
Pittsburgh
Kent
Annie Carnahan
Lulu Cumming
George Cumming
Salvation Army Picnic For Poor Kids On Friday
The Salvation Army holds its annual all day picnic for the poor children and their mothers on Friday. A big noon dinner will start the day with races baseball and swimming planned for morning and afternoon. Prizes will be awarded and about 150 people are expected.
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Ofalvation Army
Salvation Army
Deaths and notices from Indiana county region
Obituary notes record the deaths of John T. Clawson 67 of Blacklick Township and Blanche Fields 38, plus Mary MacTavish and others in nearby towns. Also listed are wedding notices for Harriet Troope and Harold Frager Dunbar, and upcoming Grange leadership conference at Center Hall August 18 21 with local delegates. Updates on forest tree orders encourage early applications and planting suggestions for evergreen species.
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Grange Leadership Conference
Grange
State Grange of
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State College
Center Hall
State College
Pomona Grange
Smicksburg
H. M. Thompson
C. ©. Steele
State Department of Forestry
Lequlty
Indiana County
18 Heavy Draft Horses Shipped by Express
18 head of heavy draft horses shipped by express from Indiana to Sturgeon Lake Minnesota last week. Two men from the construction company and one from the express company accompanied the horses. Shipment was made in a special car with steel atalla and stock barn facilities. Local readers note the ad copy praising reliable results. Klansmen from the county attend the first national Klan convention in Washington with an estimated 200000 in the capital on Saturday. Fulmer reunion set for Solomon Fulmer farm near Garbleton on Saturday, August 15. friends and relatives invited.
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Express
Indiana
Sturgeon Lake
Mion
Johnston, Drake and
Piper
Elderton-Shelocta
Minn
Construction Company
Express Company
Brushvalley
Washington
Washington, D. C
National Capital
Fulmer
Solomon Fulmer
Garbleton
Personal Brevities Highlight Indiana Visits Across Town
Green township resident J B Siverd spent Friday on business in town. Many locals, including Charles Sutton and son Jay from Robingon, John W Smith of Young township, and H Muckle of Shelada RD, traveled to Indiana on various days for shopping and business. Other headlines note marriages, turtles at camp, barn fires, and the wedding of Rose Cost to B G May in Blairsville with plans to reside there.
Dwelling at Blacklick Burned Destroying Cravotta Home
A frame dwelling belonging to Charles Cravotta, a barber in Blacklick, burned down about 2 o clock Monday morning. Cravotta and his family were away in Dunlo at the time. Loss is estimated around 8000 dollars and partially covered by insurance.
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Blacklick
Charles Cravotta
Cravotta
Dunlo
Creekside House Destroyed By Fire While Family Away
Creekside residence of Mr and Mrs Joseph Kevan at Creekside burned Saturday night while family was absent. Cause under investigation. Loss partly covered by insurance. Boarded with fragments of notes indicating fire origin not yet determined.
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Creekside
Joseph Kevan
Railroad Track Claimed Glen Campbell Man
James Bulloch, 70, of Glen Campbell, slept on a Pennsylvania railroad rail, and a train severed his head from his body Saturday night. Nearby observer Bnegt, near W Moran, saw him as he rounded a curve but could not stop the locomotive in time.
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James Bulloch
Glen Campbell
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bnegt
W. J. Moran
Bulloch
Weddings of a Week in local society notes
A series of local marriage announcements includes Eisenhart and Lumsden wedding at the Presbyterian church with a Detroit motor trip. Houck and Naff wed at Linden. Lightcap and Coursey unite near Marion Center and Salt Lake City. Rigg's Restaurant adds a new modern soda fountain. Cunningham welcomes a daughter weighing nine and a half pounds, both mother and child doing well.
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Eisenhart-Luasden
Jacob A. Eisenhart
J. Pranksenhart
Sprankley Milly
Mae Jean Lumsden
Mia
E.R. Lumsden
Town
I. W. Tinitt
Presbyterian Church
Coupse
Detroit
Rige
Tastalls
Earl Rigg
Rigg
Philadelphia
H. C. Cunningham
H. T. Cunningham
Indiana
BR. D
Indiana Bounty Claims Totaled 120 in July
In Indiana county July bounty records show 920 claims on two gray foxes and 44 weaners valued at 64 dollars. Across the state, 120 total bounty claims were filed for the same period.
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Indiana County
Dilemma the Result of Higher Education
A Palmer Hayseed visitor finds the farmer hobbling on crutches after a crash. Hayseed explains that his sons, a lawyer and a doctor, were sent to college, and the joke is that one wants to cure him while the other would sue the car owner for damages, breaking up the family.
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Palmer Hayseed
Old Hayseed
Britain’s Constitution The econstitution of Great Britain
The text outlines the constitution as an accumulation of statutes, customs and decisions. It cites Magna Charta of 1215 as a starting point, and highlights Petition of Rights, the Declaration of Rights, habeas corpus, Act of Settlement, franchise laws and government responsibilities. It notes royal gifts vary by value and ministerial advice governs acceptance.
Great Early Teacher Yoroaster Influenced Peraorian Beliefs
The fragment recounts Yoroaster as a major East teacher and founder of a Versian national religion, dating between 1000 N. C. and 00 B.C. It describes a duatism of power with light as good and darkness as evil, noting a shift toward worship of light through the gun as a source of all good.
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Yoroaster
N. C
B.C
Marion Center Visit By Wetzel Family
Lewis G. Wetzel wife and two children of Wilkinsburg visited his parents Mr and Mrs 8 8 Wetzel of town and other relatives in this section last week.
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Lewis G. Wetzel
Wilkinsburg
Mitchells Mills Community Notes of Visits and Moves
Mrs Clara Gibaon recovers from a sore foot. Pittsburgh visitors include Mrs Margaret Laudermilch and daughter visiting sisters Mrs Annie Johnston and Mrs Clara Gibaon. Indiana visitor Arthur Long, Ohio visitor Francis McCafferty. Clinton Ober relocates family to Hilltop area. Boucher moves from Fleming to Barnesboro. Edith James returns to Barnesboro. M B Rodkey and children visit Verona sisters. Margaret Washinder home fire damage. Local visitors to Frank Meeking home include Mildred Goodin, Clarence and Edward Boucher, Tad Kelly, Mrs Viola Kelly and Doyle, Havel Hines in Barnesboro. Children picking blackberries. C F Meekins family visit Willis Bathurst in Ben Avon. Jack Buterhaugh visits Purchase Ling family. Mabel Meekins celebrates ninth birthday August 4. Ton Johnston remodeling home. George Nichol of Virginia visiting Deb Kelly. Garden theft at Murray Condruts. Will Washinder buys a Ford roadster.
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Clara Gibaon
Margaret Dlaudermilch
Pittsburgh
Mra. Laudermilch
Annie Johnston
Arthur Long
Indiana
Francis McCafferty
Ohio
Clinton Ober
Dohns
Nicewonger
Hilltop
Boucher
Fleming
Barnesboro
Edith James
A. J. Sickenberger
Rodkey
Ruth
Bobby
Verona
Mr. Rodkey
Emmin
Mary Rodkey
Margaret
Washinder
Frank Meeking
Mildred Goodin
Clarence
Edward Boucher
Wandin
Tad Kelly
Spangler
Viola Kelly
Doyle
Clymer
Havel Hines
Bertha James
C.F. Meekins
Willis Bathurst
Ben Avon
Jack Buterhaugh
Purchase Ling
Hiram
Mabel Maekins
Aueust
Ton Johnston
George Nichol
Virginia
Deb Kelly
Murray Condruts
Will Washinder
Starford Faces Ford City Colored Team Saturday Game
Starford baseball team with only two losses this season plays Ford City colored team at Starford Saturday afternoon at 3 30. A pie social will follow in the evening. Starford beat West End of Punxsutawney 6 to 5 on Friday.
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Starford
Ford City
Amison
West End
Punxsutawney
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Moush
Try
Smyrna
Robert Clark
Robert
Baxter
Mary Hamilton
Steele
William Sink
East Plumville
W. R. Hall
George Hamilton
Amos Mabon
Greenville
Reba Neal
Jacksonville
Samuel Hazlett
Smyrna Literary Society
Ethel McGee
Kathryn Griffith
Dessie Hamilton
Velma Johnston
Mildred North
Guy Skinner
Lester Hamilton
Mae. North
Margaret Burkett
Walter Steele
Victor Emmon
Jake Class
Elmer Steele
Lester Johnston
John North
Society
Margaret Nichol
Frank Sayers Ord
Dravesburg
Nell Gertrude McMillen
McKeesport
Metro Budenho
Mary Boykyney
Andy J
Stahura Clymer
Mary Helen Tate
Jacob Higerhartman
Mae Jean Lumeden
Hana
State Highway Patrol
John T. Clawson
Township
Blacklick Township
J. T. Davis
E. B. Willams
Hopewell
James Harrison
Dunbar
Blanche
Blanche Fields
W. E. Fields
Indiana Hospital
Fields
W. E. Devinney
Vandergrift
Mildred
Edith
Jane Fields
Imperial
W. Va
Ohn B. Cotton
John B. Cotton
Dilltown
Dennis
Eveline
Jennie
Helene Cotton
Latra Cotton
Albert Cotton
John Gregory
Patton
Mary MacTavish
William MacTavish
Robert B MacTavish
Munhattey
George Peiffer
George Peffer
Orlando
Fla
Mr. Peffer
William
Couch William
Couch
Cloe
Elizabeth Nicodemus
Nicodemus
H. C. Hartman
Martinsburg
J. B. Siverd
Green Township
Charles W. Sutton
Jay
Robingon
John W. Smith
H. Muckle
Shelada
R. D
John Kettering
Tida
Blair F. Usher
Tunice
Betty Jane
Ambrose
William St. Clair
East
J. J. Fleming
Merle
Dale Fleming
Curry Run
Rosh Golden
John Fh. Lytle
Penn Run
H. 8. Wilson
Charly ‘Tree
Ugene Wilson
Clary Sloan
Clark Leydie
Virginia and
Clark
Tarentum
John Engle
Catherine
Wesley
Twila
J. N. Eldar
Church Street
Sarah H. Paul
W. P. George
John
C. H. Steving
John EB. Gibson
John, Jr
Betty Shea
Endington
D. C
H. B. Strong
Ralph White
Frank Moose
Stella
Gherryhill Township
Thomas Bradley
Ohio City
J. B. Ober
Gipsy
Bradley
Margretta Ober
Adam Snyder
South Sixth Street
Wilbur ¢ Lydick
Washington Church
Rose Cost
Erie
Mary HE. Cost
Rose M. Cost
B. G. May
Worie
Tuesaday
May
Blairaville
Murphy Department
Federal Bakary
James R. Daugherty
John M. Daugherty
Robert E. Young
Robert T. Marlin
S. Ren Pollock
Sturgeon Falls
Can
Latrobe and Greensburg
Lake Niplasing
Jefferson and Indiana Coal Company
Merchants’ Auxiliary
Indiana Chamber of Commerce
B. F. Ling
Armagh
Houck-Nett
Logan L. Houck
John TH. Houck
East Oakstreet
Beatrice Henrietta Naff
Harry Neff
Linden
Houck
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal and Tron Co
J. W. Herlinger
Indiana, Schools
Britain
Miderton
Tey
Itrom
Anderson
Demarest
Woodburn Granite Works
Barre
Church
Endiana
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