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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1902
Page
4
A Republican voice argues voters should recall Democratic tariff reforms of 1892 and trust busts. It asserts Dingley era prosperity proves tariffs work, warns against changes while prosperity lasts, and questions Democratic positions on anti trust enforcement and mergers for state aims.
A east-of-town home hosted about fifty guests for a Holland dinner with decorated menus. Miss Edna Sansom entertained forty friends in honor of cousin Mary Sansom of Clarion. A moonlit picnic, a Lutheran festival fundraiser, and social gatherings followed, while a New York ad executive R R Remington died by suicide in Newport after a matrimonial dispute. A. E. Simons faced a peace charge in Buffington township with $500 bail. Complimentary tickets from local associations noted.
Local notices list numerous residents visiting, hosting, or traveling this week. Names include John Wilson Pittsburg Annie Miller Apollo Charles Lockard Pittsburg J. M. Dodson town and many others visiting relatives in Johnstown Latrobe Vandergrift Wilkinsburg and nearby towns.
Miss Lizzie Davies of Johnstown visits friends in town while Mrs. B H Lichteberger and others from town travel to Burnside and Indiana. Several residents from Johnstown and nearby townships are noted as visiting relatives, attending business, or returning home from trips to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. The list includes Jacob Cunningham and H M Elliott from Armagh, Ephraim Robinson of West Wheatfield, townsfolk visiting in Indiana, and departures to Effingham Kansas and Atlantic City.
Notices announce Rev W L Dixon of Pittsburg Christian Advocate and Rev J W Barnett of Columbus will preach in local churches next Sabbath morning and evening. Also a harvest picnic near Mechanicsburg set for August 23 with refreshments and dancing platform. sheep damage orders list multiple settlements and amounts from various parcels and guardianships.
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