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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1915
Page
2
Local residents gather for church services as Rev. W C Wallace speaks. many visit Pittsburg and Indiana. Shippers expand wagon to rail freight at P R R station while town plans Odd Fellows hall masonry. Thanksgiving travels bring families to Kellysburg Windber Latrobe and Cleveland. new stork brings a nine pound boy to J R Geary home.
Mrs Hugh Hickox and son Kenneth returned home after visiting Mrs Ellis Smith of Wilkinsburg. John Fisher and Earl Reithmiller were Clymer visitors on Saturday. Mr Gill and Mr Benton of Pittsburgh spent the week with G McAfoos hunting. Thanksgiving visits noted among many families including Boucher, Kreps, and Rickard. Banquet guests from Marion Center, Lovejoy and Purchase Line, plus a hunting trip to the mountains. Olive Beatty returns from Uniontown to visit her parents.
Miss Ida Hiccough visits relatives while Grace Barr attends Cockport events. Olive Duterbaugh falls ill. Nora Wisher and Janet Stonebraker visit Janet Blazer. Mrs Ted McQuown hosts on Friday. Sharp Stonebraker Hins relocates to Clymer for work. Mrs Sammel Bush suffers diphtheria. Mr and Mrs James Edwards and family spend Thanksgiving with their slaughter, Mrs Marlin McAfoos.
Cottage prayer meetings were held at homes of M. I. church members preparing for Rev. Newell led meetings. Missionary Society members prepared a clothing barrel for a mission field. Union Thanksgiving services were held at U. P. church led by Rev. Newell. Residents shared Thanksgiving with relatives in Blairsville, Indiana, and Pittsburgh connections noted.
Hilltop hosts a December 3 society gathering using the prior meeting’s program as planned. Attendees were few due to muddy roads. Indiana caller N C Overdorff visited Saturday. Bennett visited Chas Hanna’s family. Billie Watt, teaching in Oak Ridge, Thanksgivinged with her father T M Watt, returning with brother William. Cora Wanna spent Saturday with Margaret Devinney. Prof Campbell visited Hilltop. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Carnahan moved to Vandergrift for employment. Bertha George, Hilltop teacher, Thanksgiving with her parents in Shelocta. Harry Robinson remained in Shelocta.
Mrs Olive Hamilton and daughter Marie of near Georgeville spent Saturday at Bert Lydie s. Miss Jessia Dunmire of Blairsville Miss Ella Ward of Linesville and Miss May Getty of Indiana visited their grandmother Mrs W T Long for several days. Misses Fley Cleora McMillen Omar near Indiana stayed with friends here. The Chambers and Jamison families joined relatives Thurs day, as Clyde McMillen law Indiana caller. Robert Orr left Monday for Ohio.
West Lebanon residents share obituaries and family news. William Lytle and Andrew Maddock families attended Louise Lytle’s funeral in Conemaugh Township last Tuesday. A baby girl arrived for W C Fulton’s household. Mrs Calhoun and son Carl visited from Indiana to St Coulter’s. J M Wrance and Iate Coulter also visited Indiana. Many locals attended Thomas Food's funeral at Wider’s Ridge Saturday. A Pulton and W W Coulter joined the young people’s meeting at Shelocta Sabbath evening. Rev O I Rodkey from Miderton was in town Monday. Charles Miller improved his home with a new paint job.
A local appeal promotes giving the Progress as a Christmas gift to those away from home. The weekly paper promises updates on Indiana county happenings and offers clubbing bargains in farm and city publications for women. Price listed at $1.50 per year.
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