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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1930
Page
5
Local notes report family updates, injuries, social visits, and school events from Maple Grove and nearby towns. Highlights include a severe leg injury leading to amputation, community sympathy, holiday sales pitches, chicken pox illness, school play attendance, and shifts in daily life across families like Barber, Moorhead, and Detwiler, with scattered farming and church notices.
Mrs. Grant Fleming and her young daughter from Bradford visited relatives while Mr. Fleming hunted deer in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ramer and Mrs. W. C. Bleakney were business callers at Indiana on Wednesday. Beer mine layoffs affect local workers. Mrs. Jacob Miller nears recovery from a fall. Mr. Miller remains ill. Irvin Kelly of Vandergrift and his wife visited the Ramer home on Sunday. Mrs. J. B. Kimmel and husband went to Kittanning where he served as juror. Gene Rearick did saw work for J. N. Blose Tuesday. Mrs. James McFarland and brothers Wess and Cal Harklerhode move from near Rural Valley to gas town. Loyd Wingard bagged a fine buck on Armstrong place near Shelocta. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Aikens attended the funeral of their aunt Mrs. W. Calhoun in Livermore Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bleakney and children of Ohio spent the weekend here and in Shelocta. Subscriptions available for magazines at Hall's. Jokes note evolution gag.
The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette is an ideal newspaper combination for the coming year. The two papers cost only $6.00 to R F D subscribers or residents in towns without a Post Gazette agent. Send orders to The Indiana Progress, Indiana, Pa.
November testing covered 28 herds with 366 milking cows and 31 dry cows, total cows on teat 397. H. O. Kimmel led milk production at 974 lb per herd. Torrance State Hospital closely followed at 941 lb. Pollock topped butterfat at 43.6 lb, Wetzel second at 37.9 lb. Top individual cows for butterfat include County Home Gr.H 1992 lb milk 71.7 fat and Torrance State Hospital 2181 lb milk 61 fat.
The County Board of Viewers heard twenty petitions for damages from highway construction and for vacation of roads. Recommendations include various compensation grants, some petition refusals, and multiple road vacation recommendations across Marion Center, Buffington, Glen Campbell, Pine, Canoe, Mahoning, West and North Mahoning, Banks townships, and others. A birthday celebration and a humorous anecdote follow in the surrounding local items.
In November 16 herds were tested by Hugh Brown, totaling 202 cows on test with 175 milking and 27 dry. John F. Pounds of Indiana leads monthly milk with 933 avg. R B Miller of Shelocta follows at 893.57 avg and tops butterfat at 38.34 lbs. Pounds is second in butterfat at 33.5 lbs. Ten top cows listed with milk and fat weights for breeding records.
Santa Claus announces the 1930 Christmas Seal as a health gift funding year round tuberculosis prevention in Indiana County. Funds support open air classrooms health camps and hygiene education for children, with TB death rate declines noted especially among ages 15 to 19 and 20 to 24, urging use of seals on mail and packages.
Hundreds contribute to the Brookside Health Camp Christmas Seal Sale with $1335.20 raised in the first full week. The figure is over one third of the $4000 goal, compared with $1313.67 from the same period last year, from 1047 donors and many more expected. Officers urge prompt responses to reach $2000 by week’s end and celebrate timely participation.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes debate over hunting licenses equating their limits to marriage licenses. Critics argue the policy creates unnecessary restrictions, while supporters say it helps wildlife management and orderly hunting seasons amid rising interest.
Howard L McVicker aged 47 of Johnstown died in Battle Creek sanitarium after long illness leaving widow Margaret Campbell McVicker and son Billie. Also noted are Harry E Mitchell and Richard Sharp obituaries with brief family ties and Civil War service. Other notices cover John Herron Agnes H Thompson A M Hopkins Hazel Little Dan Casper Jr Francis Litzinger Valentine Flowers and local memorials with burial details.
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