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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1934
Page
4
A speaker recounts a pleasant dental visit interrupted by another dentist working on the same patient. A summer boarder questions why an old hog keeps entering rooms. Willie explains the hog is drawn to the heated room during winter.
A Lewisville bulletin notes a Sabbath service at ten oclock with a following preaching on December 23, and a Friday evening singing at the home of Mr and Mrs J L Diven. It also lists social visits and church meetings including Ebenezer missionary members at Livermore, and various residents visiting Indiana and nearby towns.
Maple Grove and nearby towns show a flurry of social visits. Forrest Day entertained in Indiana, while Kirkpatrick and son Wade from Mineral Point were guests at the Sloppy home. Multiple locals, including the Browns, Jacobs, Fair family, and Detwiler relatives, visited Indiana or Penn Run on weekends and weekdays.
Thelma Bair of Olivet spent Thursday with Annabel Ewing. T C Hood and Arthur Smock attended Indiana and Armstrong county rural dramatic plays in Indiana Saturday. R Hine and daughter Martha along with Dick Ramage Charles Parnett and Mrs Walter Ewing joined a Christmas tableau at the First United Presbyterian church in Indiana Sunday evening. Howard Ewing of Saltsburg visited R Hine’s home Friday. Mrs S R Hine and Mrs Walter Ewing attended a cooking demonstration at Mrs Bayard Gray’s home Monday afternoon. Mrs Walter Ewing and daughter Annabel also went to the Christian Helpers class meeting at Genevieve Manners’ home Thursday evening.
Mrs C H Smith visits in Indiana while Alvin Hicock stays with friends in Wilgus. Pearl Smith, employed in Indiana, spends the weekend with her mother here. Local youths gather in Barnesboro for Sunday, with Dan Smith Hari Smith Clair Smith Johnny Kerr and Alvin present. Hi tock enjoys days hunting in the mountains and reports a joyful time. Charlie Gromley owns a new car Roy Smith spends the weekend at home in Wilgus.
Mrs Win Bennett hosted the Tablea Aid Society at her home. Justice of the Peace W G Troxell and Richard Troxell visited Thursday evening. Mabel Dearmy on the sick list. Mrs Albert Hughes served as juror last week. Dr M M Palmer of Homer City called during A Christmas program planned for Sunday evening December 23 at M B church. Mr Frank Stough and Toni Bracken families visited Johnstown and Belsano residents visited Harry Dearmy home.
The piece notes Christmas and Bethlehem appear as town names in many states, with Santa Claus, Indiana, uniquely hosting a post office. At Christmas, Santa Claus post office handles thousands of letters from citizens seeking mail with the Santaclaus postmark, often addressed to children, boosting seasonal business.
The Yule-Log lighting during the town’s Christmas Eve celebration triggers Jack and Dora to recall past picnics and carved initials DL JB in a wooded site. Dora sobs in a parked car. Jack consoles her as they consider renewing their initials on a new tree, recalling earlier joyful and complex times.
An attractive Christmas plate with homemade cookies makes a nice gift. Use a large square of holiday paper in coordinating colors, gather into a frilled top, and decorate with mistletoe, gold or silver leaves, or a contrasting bow.
The Christmas breakfast custom has grown over the years from visitors dropping in after gifts to a broader family gathering. Hosts now plan for an indeterminate number of guests, with coffee pot refills and invitations to join the family at the table.
The Country Home praises December for its unique charity and the way Christmas elevates and ennobles home life. It extols December as a delightful month that endures snow and sleet, yet shines because Christmas is a guiding, diarchic day.
A compact reflection on Christmas memories tied to customs scents weather and decorations creating warm lasting nostalgia. The piece highlights how scents like pine and spice mingle with festive decor and weather to evoke universal holiday feelings.
Mrs Hattie Campbell and others visit Jersey Shore while Mr Jones and son travel to see the writer’s daughter in Johnstown. Numerous locals shop in Johnstown and Indiana, with many calls in surrounding towns. The high school basketball teams travel to Bolivar and lose. Kate Janney returns home from Huntingdon. A British textile firm announces a method to prevent wrinkles in cotton and silk fabrics.
A recent Currys church service featured Rev. Whitacre of Ohio, a candidate for a position, delivering an inspiring sermon last Sunday. Next Sunday services follow at 2 30 p.m. A birth is reported in the Indiana hospital with John Franklin Fleming named. Local residents visit and neighbors share news of travel and misfortune including a truck wreck and a house fire loss.
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