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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1891
Page
5
Long Indeana County fragment lists a Republican League Club meeting on Friday August 26, social notices, riding and farming ads, school and church events, travelers, sales, and upcoming performances at Library Hall with varied local names and places.
Local correspondence from Shelocta Indiana and surrounding areas reports visitors from Pittsburg Blairsville Greensburg and Johnstown. Camp meetings and church events, a glass works opening, a plant receiver dispute, a catfish supper for thirteen, a deadly diphtheria death, vandalized ovens, a Harvest Home picnic, a marriage, a near accident, and ongoing town developments in housing and utilities.
Mrs Robert Faux is very ill. Nebo church welcomed many new members last Sabbath under Pastor Rev Webb. The oats is about all cat and there remains a lingering note of weather and crops in the community.
The third annual O Y P convention of Conemaugh presbytery met August 19 20 1891 at West Fairfield. Sessions opened with devotional exercises led by A P Gideon and Rev R A Jamison presided in Brownlee absence. Papers on church work prayer meetings and mission activity were read. Apollo chosen for next meeting site with Q A Hamil as delegate to general convention.
The Cunningham family held a seventy third birthday event at Mr. Hugh Cunningham’s home in Young township. A feast was served and eighty six guests attended. The brothers sisters grandchildren and great grandchildren organized gifts including an upholstered rocking chair for Mr Cunningham and a similar chair for his wife. The gathering featured music socializing and a late second meal before departure with wishes for guidance in life.
Dr W E Matthews and Dr H Tomb from Johnstown arrived by noon train to study a local typhoid outbreak. They found nine malignant cases linked to Shelsey Spring water which contaminated six nearby wells during wet weather. Water samples to be tested, with sewerage improvements urged.
Fire gutted the Kellysburg Woolen Mill known as McElhose Mill on the morning of the 28th, with a heavy loss of $5000 and no insurance. Tremendous quantities of custom work, flannels, cloths, and yarns were at risk, and the blaze is believed to have started in the furnace in the engine room from waste ignition.
Jacob Steel, Pennsylvania’s oldest man, died the evening of the 24th from injuries after a porch fall. Born October 19, 1783, in Springhill Township Fayette County, he lived near Masontown most of his life and remained a Democrat from Jefferson’s era to Pattison’s final ballot.
A reader praises Indiana Normal College as the most pleasant and home-like place, noting a campus with flowers and trees and more than seven hundred students residing there. The ad mentions Olive Blossom as a remedy for female weaknesses and offers a sample of ten days treatment from Daugherty Bros. druggists.
An obituary reports the death of a Johnstown resident on August 20 due to dysentery. Born August 11 1833 on the McLain farm south of town, he married Jane Reynolds in 1865 and had five children, all living except one daughter. He lived on the old homestead, moved to Johnstown two years ago, and was described as refined and devoted. The community offers condolences to the bereaved family.
Miss Ella Gallaher sixteen seventeen year old daughter of Wm Gallaher of Greene township died at Salisburg after a visit with relatives. She fell ill with bilious fever and typhoid after staying at the home of George Arma. Remains were taken home near Taylorsville and the funeral was held Sunday. In a separate case E G Orr sued Potia Bros for damages after a runaway incident near Plumville. The jury ruled for Orr.
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