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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
5
Local notes from Park Wood report visits by S H Shirey to Newville and social calls in Scottdale Wilkinsburg and Punxsutawney scenes. Posts, weddings planned, babies born, and various relatives visiting towns like Trade City Indiana Seward and Blairsville with many brief social updates.
Smicesburg reports visits from Apollo and Wilkinsburg residents including Dan Fetters and Mrs. Crandall while Miss Dorothea Dickson visits Homer City. In Heshbon Mr. Wagner opens a new general store and a public sale is listed in Blacklick Township with details of livestock and farm equipment.
Luther M. Clark, 65, of Cherrytree, died Thursday at 4 40 p m while visiting Dr and Mrs George Martin in Conemaugh after an attack of nervous prostration. He had long entered ill health but was not considered gravely ill. Born in York county he moved to the county at age five and worked in mercantile and lumber businesses, running a successful store until death. Survived by wife Elmire Hazlett and children A B Clark Hastings Mrs J C Miller Jeanne tte Mrs George Martin Conemaugh Blanche Sibyl and Dollie at home. Funeral at his late home on Sabbath afternoon conducted by Revs Roberts and Sagarts with interment in Irvin cemetery near Cherrytree.
The full corps of teachers at Glen Campbell school has been completed. Principal L Barr guides the faculty with assistant W H McQuilken. The first intermediate posts are held by Jess Fleming and Ida G Murray supervises the second. First primary teacher is Iva Houston, with Carrie Black in the second primary.
Wagner Bros of Heshbon win the contract to erect a large meat shop there. Upon completion the market will stock a choice line of smoked and fresh meats. A competent man will run it until next spring when A W Campbell will take charge.
Miss Bess Cooper resigns as teacher at Thompson school to accept a position with the King Richard son Book Company. The item notes a line of ladies shoes priced at two dollars, followed by a cryptic line.
A brief price list shows butter and eggs by the dozen, potatoes and beans by the bushel, cabbage by the pound, and onions by the bag. Prices listed per unit appear in a short reader notice, reflecting common grocery costs of the period.
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