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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
4
County town society notes Thanksgiving time with numerous visits. Families from Greensburg Barnesboro Punxsutawney Spangler Indiana Tyrone and Apollo share meals and greetings. chatter about health, shopping trips, and church activities fills the page with local names and places.
Joseph Blatt is sick. Mary Sides and Helen Martin returned home from Derry. Calvin Joiner family moved to Grisemere. Tyan Meekins bought a Ford touring car. Many residents plan winter in Florida. H. B. Williams visits Punxsutawney and Johnstown. Blair Hamilton visited Indiana on business. Penn Public Service power line nears completion. W. T. U. Thanksgiving service well attended. Mrs. Margaret Stephens visited from Wilkinsburg for Thanksgiving. Grace Williams and Blanche Stephens visited. Rev. Phelps to preach at Baptist. Thelma Myers guest of Sara Roberts. Baptism at Barnesboro. Mr. and Mrs. Tate moved to Johnstown for work. Helen Lunn visiting Johnstown. Mrs. Fred Goundsman and daughter visited A. Trinkley. Harry Young of Johnstown visiting aunt Henrietta Parry. Samuel Baker and Harry Houck hunting in the area. Carrie Roberts a Stafford caller. Blair Davis family from Pittsburgh returned after week at BG Davis home. Wnda Stephens visited Indiana. William Roberts an Indiana caller. Jessa and Sara Parry at Miss Elmwood’s. Chester Stephens a Clymer caller. Prof. D. D. Patterson at Shenshure institute. Wil a Magle and Sara Bayley Johnstown visitors. Frank Williams sold his team to Meade Douglass. Archie Iepine from Hellwood to Midland. In McAnulty and wife called Sunday. Harold Hagley is sick. Claston Dougliss takes his place as Pine township Leader until recovery. Mrs. Alex Yarnell returned from East Ridge visiting her daughter.
Thanksgiving tales and social notes from Armagh abound with visits, hunts, school events, and church plans. Local families including Meekins, Russell, Keating, Bouchers, and Patchin are mentioned alongside school activities, weddings, and a major pork harvest. The community prepares for a Baptist church Christmas event while tributes and baptisms thread through a busy week.
A two day teachers institute at Pickering Run school house on December 8 and 9 features evening sessions with topics on Progressive Movements in Education community spirit and signs of the times. Friday program includes Welcome Address by Hanneh Streams and speakers Mary Gali Mayme Barr Vada Walker Joseph E H Weaver Florence Black Rose Neal Ernest Work Boyd Snyder Ela Mauk Harry Crawford and Rev C L Nevins. Saturday morning devotional Sixercities by Rev R J Roberts addresses Reading in the Primary Grades and Country School Problems. Saturday afternoon covers The Growing Teacher Can the Farmer Afford Better Schools and The Neglected Quarter with Florence Black Vada Walker Mary Gaul and other participants. Attendance urged for teachers and citizens with a question box and encouraged participation.
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