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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1919
Page
3
Fragmentary 1919 era notice from The Indiana Progress shows editorial staff Moorhead and Company with imprint Second Class Matter at Indiana Post Office. It lists pricing terms for obituaries cards of thanks and poetry at five cents per line, and cash in advance rules with durations from one to twelve months.
The National Tuberculosis Association and Red Cross coordinate the 1940 Christmas Seal drive selling envelopes to save mail labor. Local communities receive 91.7 percent of funds for anti tuberculosis programs while 8.3 percent supports the Red Cross.
Miss May Diltz returns home from a ten day visit in IuBois. Elkin and son visited Smicksburg on Sunday. J. L. Wells and E. Good were callers in Indiana Priday. Bigs Eya Brewer at Plumville high school spent Sunday at home. Boyd Elkin and Willa Tenniston of Marion Center visited locally. An eleven pound son Roy Wrederick born to Mr and Mrs d Wred Trewer of Punxsutawney Sunday morning, first child. Mrs Brewer formerly Jennie Wells of Plumville.
Kenwood W. II Tattle visited his mother near Pinmville during the week. Attendees at the Whi. Fails anniversary party included tarry Newl Quade Cunwngham and Roas Learn. Mrs Lysle Stewart returned home after Thanksgiving with her father near Wilders Ridge. The census notes that enumeration for the 1790 decennial took 18 months and the Census Bureau aims to complete nationwide enumeration in two to four weeks with figures in under three months. It also notes a bias toward ages ending in five and zero and efforts to correct this.
Mrs Kenan Stephens and children spent Whoreday with Mrs F C Ajond. Lloyd Burnheimer has returned home from a hunting trip. Susan Henry, who had been with her daughter Mrs W W Easton, returned to her Indiana home.
Deckers Point reports visiting relatives over Sunday with several local names. East Run mentions G P Ruftues as a business caller, and Aminda Langham at home. The McAnulty coal mine on court note operates after a shutdown. Community members host clubs and visit kin across multiple towns, with several households noted for hosting guests.
President Wilson endorses the 1919 Red Cross Christmas Seal drive and wishes success to the National Tuberculosis Association. The ten day sale began December 1, aiming to sell over 650 million seals to fund the association’s 1920 educational and preventive campaign. The president’s letter expresses interest in the association’s efforts to raise six and a half million dollars for state budgets. Also noted are census facts from the 1900 and 1910 censuses and Congress's 1920 census expansion to include forestry and forest products.
Indiana County Dairy Association members will meet Saturday afternoon at 2:00 PM in the Y M C A building. Officials J M Johnston as president and James W Wiggins as secretary announce the gathering. The note also references Census Bureau supplements and marshals’ roles in early censuses. The 1920 census is expected to show over 7 million farms valued at more than 40 billion dollars.
A charter notice announces an incorporation hearing before the Governor of Pennsylvania on January 6, 1920, for Claymbl Furniture Company to buy sell and deal in furniture carpets and house furnishings and to conduct undertaker embalmer and funeral director services with bonds secured by mortgage. Public sale terms include payments and a Bond and Mortgage on the premises, with D. Wachob named as administrator for the matter. Public financial accounts and local auditor statements are included.
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