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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1936
Page
2
Thousands of Sunday school teachers have adopted this as the regular text for weekly instruction, citing its international reach and uniform nature. The adoption signals broad use across churches and regions seeking standardized material for teaching.
Mrs. W D Gates of Philadelphia street visits in Washington D C for two weeks. Mrs F B Stevenson and son Burton visit at the home of her brother Harry MacMurtrie in Philadelphia. Miss Sarah Wiley elected Latrobe High School instructor, formerly a commercial teacher at Otto Township. Harry Carson and family return from a motor trip to Omaha and Marion visiting relatives. Miss Estella L Moulton renews The Progress subscription as birthday gift to Mrs Ruth Tiffany Bainum of Maryville Missouri. Mrs Murray Geesey and Mrs Royden White motor to Harrisburg for the weekend with Mrs Gladys Root visiting her parents in East Philadelphia street. Families attend the Lydie reunion at Appleman’s Grove honoring Mrs Mary Ross Lydie, with Ross descendants from Indiana, Blairsville, Vandergrift, Apollo and Youngwood.
The Gibson reunion will be at Camp Rest south of Indiana on Saturday in August with basket dinner and program. The Reed clan reunion occurs at Cockport community building on Labor Day September 7 with music and activities. Anthony school reunion set for Saturday September 4 at Armstrong township school grounds. attendees urged to bring a basket. Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette readers pay $5.50.
The Ritz Theatre opens a three day run for To Mary With Love featuring Myrna Loy as Warner Baxter’s love interest. Also on the slate are Sing Baby Sing on Aug 31 to Sept 1, Girls Dormitory Sept 2 and 3, and Rhythm on the Range Sept 4 and 6 with Bing Crosby and Bob Burns in lead roles along with Martha Raye.
The Indiana curb market demonstrates over eighteen years that local marketing of home grown fruits and vegetables benefits producers and consumers. Forty farmers offered about thirty kinds of produce. Municipal market houses in towns like Meadville Williamsport Lancaster and Harrisburg prove viability and suggest Indiana should consider a similar market to cover operating costs with a small rental fee.
Reggie McWhortle watches Annie Laurie amid a pirate catnip ring run by Eliot Dobbs. Cats go missing then converge on Dobbs’s lair, where crates of cats and bootlegging exposures unfold. Police recover cats and arrest the thieves.
University of Michigan psychologist Dr. N R F Maier reports adult rats show stronger reasoning in a problem where separate learned pathway parts must be combined, scoring 60 percent above chance. In tests with 39 children aged 3.5 to 8, a similar setup aimed to locate when children first show the ability to reason by linking separate experiences.
Robert Johnston Akey of Livermore died Monday at Torrance State Hospital from complications. Aged 71, he suffered flood losses in March that worsened his condition. Born in Armstrong county, he later lived in Indiana county before moving to Livermore where he worked as a painter and paper hanger. Survived by his widow and four sons, and brothers and sisters Miller Akey Jennie Brandon Margaret Graden and Henry Akey. Funeral services will be at Robinson Funeral Home on North Seventh, with interment in Oakland cemetery.
The undersigner an author appointed by the Orphans Court of Indiana County will attend to duties of his appointment at the office of Peeler Felt Savings and Trust Company Building Ivndiana Pa on Tuesday September 2 1936 at 10 00 A M to settle adjust and report distribution of money in the hands of Joseph J Mehn Administrator of the estate of Phillip L Rehn deceased West Wheatfield Township All persons interested may attend Peeler Fell Attorneys Executor notice Letters testamentary on the estate of M Edith Adamson deceased have been granted to John D Adamson executor Those having claims against the estate are to present authenticated claims and those indebted to the estate are to pay promptly
DL H Miller attorney notices executrix Silas Blakley estate claimants to present claims and debtors to pay. Farmers Bank & Trust seeks court permission for private sale of W P Travis estate land in White Township Indiana County to Wommell Basimnowlde and Mary K. Alase for $8,000 cash plus $3,000 due on delivery. coal and mining rights reserved. sale August 12 1896. no objections.
The notice describes pricing for Wanted Lost For Sale and For Rent notices in this column. Rates are one cent per word for 25 words or more, and 25 cents for shorter notices. Each initial or number counts as a word. Submit word count with the copy and pay in advance. accounts cannot be opened for small amounts.
Help wanted notice seeks a middle aged or elderly woman to work in a farm home. Applicants should send current location and details to Progress, Indiana, Pa. The ad requests prompt response and provides the mailing address for submissions.
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