Revival Services Draw Wide Attendance at Stakes Church
Deadwaters notes show Rev Sex ton of Indiana assisting Rev Richards during revival at Stakes church while locals visit relatives and travel between Johnstown and nearby towns. Families including Moose, Empfield, Henry, Lyster, Stake, McFecaters and Artemus are listed with weekend and prior visits. A burlesque joke ends the clipping with a line about prices and turning it down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stakes Church
Sexton
Indiana
Richards
Ruth
Glen Moose
Amanda Moose
William Empfield
Emma Henry
Johnstown
Norris Lyster
Max
Nolo
Albert Stake
Clarence McFecaters
Billie Artemus
Derry
Millia Murdick
Stella Moose
Glenn and
Huth Moose
Weddings of a Week Libengood Ridenour and Others
A sequence of wedding notices from Saltsburg to Indiana and Clymer details marriages of Libengood Ridenour Roberson Steffy and other couples. Grooms are miners or farmers. brides come from Springdale West Point and Cherry Tree with local families named. The events occur in December with venue notes and officiants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Libengood-Ridenour
Samuel J. Libengood
Olive C. Ridenour
Saltsburg
Rey
IF. Theodore Miner
Methodist Parsonage
Clarence Libengood
Bert Elwood
Springdale
Amy Roberson
Henry Aford
Amy
Rosa Roberson
Ernest
Juling G. Kendrick
Samuel Amy
Washington, D.C
Frank Roberson
West Point
Tenn
Plenty Of Time Christmas W L Gaston
A long, humorous vignette about the Mackey family during Christmas season with clocks as gifts and a clock salesman thwarted by a neighbor, followed by short county news items on bids for a new bridge, rabbit shipments, and a light humorous exchange at a wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hey
Mackey
Mackeys
Aid Society
Mrs. Mackey
Mr. Mackey
Western Newspaper Union
Allegheny County Firma
Welsh Construction Co
Pittsburgh
Buena Vista
Blacklick Creek
Brush Valley
East Wheatfield
State Highway Department
Williamson Construction O
Turtle Creek
North Mahoning Township
Highway Department
Saltsburg Writer Honors Elders Ridge Pioneers
Mrs. Mary Watson Bell of Saltsburg recalls the early Elders Ridge community. She details memories of Donaldson and Wider families, Smiths, Ewings, McMeans, Wrays, and others, recounting church founding, hospitality, stores, farming, and social life as part of the centennial celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saltsburg
Mary Watson Bell
Widery Ridge
Bell
A. T. Bell
Washington Presbyterian Church
Rayne Township
First
Riders Ridge Presbyterian Church
Saltsburg Press
Becaues
Pittsburgh
Noble
Elders Ridge
Amos and
Andy
Ira Wray
Albert Smith
Whiskey Run
W.C.T.U
Gifford Pinchot
Blairsville
Saints
Mr. Donaldson
Donaldson Ridge
Dr. Donaldson
Elders
Paxtang
Harrisburg
Robert Wider
Julia
Hannah
Ewing
Grandma Ewing Satyrwall
John Ewing
Donaldson
Watts
John
M¢Means
Grandmother McMeans
Robert
Sally
Billy
Peggy
Hugh Ewing
Sally McMeans
Hughie
Billys
Peggys
Mrs. McMeans
Hiders Ridge
Smiths
James Smith
Squire Smith
Squire Jimmie Smith
Jake Smith
Robert Smith
Christmas Week Cards and Local Happenings
Helen Huston spends the holiday at home while Indiana shoppers include William Newlin and family and Zenas Hines family. A Laurel Swamp school Christmas program was held Tuesday afternoon amid local notes of a deer in Zenas Hines orchard last Sunday. The district reports Marie Adams and Gladys Smith visiting for Christmas week and Jennie Stephens calling on Mrs Belle Stephen. I N Butterbaugh shows slight improvement from illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Huston
William Newlin
Mary Stephen
Zenas Hines
F. B. Smith
Indiana
Jess Dick
Laurel Swamp
Marie Adams
Gladys Smith
Jennie Stephens
Belle Stephen
I.N. Butterbaugh
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frank J, Neff
WM. T. Neff
Massachusetta ‘Mutual Life Insurance Company
Apabiee
Lya
LA Mantia
Philadelphia Street
Indiana, Pa
Parnell, Cowher & CO
General Insurance
Pennsylvania
THE
Indiana Floral Company
Philadelphia
Walker Steffy Charles Luther Walker
R.D
Mary Ruth Stelly
I. SM. Offut
Harry Walker
Frank Steffy
Commodore
Stahl-Gibson
Alvie Wilmer Stahl
Christtie Lucille Gibson
Cherry Tree
Clymer
Edward J. Barber
William P. Stahl
Lincoln Gibson
John Yingling
Clarence William John
Garfield
Emma J. Yingling
Bolvar
Stegister
W. Ralph Cummings
Court House
Scott-Houck
Robert S. Scott
Dora May’ Houck
Squire Christopher Butterworth
Amos Houck
John Scott
Dick McNutt
Lynn David Dick
Blacklick
Nancy Jane McNutt
Homer City
Chas.e. Held
Charles L. Dick
W. E. McNutt
First United Presbyterian Church
George D. Leydie
Wayne Venue
Betty
Leydie
Anna Mary Nicely
J. F. Nicely
South Sixth Street
Jack C. Danks
Presbyterian Church
Miss Nicely
Indiana High School
Danks
Johnatown
Charles Held
Calvin S. Kuntkjo
Otis Lookard
Harry E. Kerr
Homer City Lions Club
Voiture Local
Memorial Hall
John F. Johnston
Chef de Train
Lisle Filekinger
Commissaire Intendant
Dale Timberlake
Corndent
C. €. MelLain
Cheminots Locax
Steele H. Glark
John Erickson
Crond
Lis
W.l.gaston
Missouri
Louis Litzinger
Tarman
Syracuse
State Game Commission
Ile
Alice
Smith
John Smith
Mr. Smith
Hoods
Hines
Henrys
Hendersons
Manners
Townsends
Rosensteels
Watsons
Troutman’s
Citizen’s National Bank
Kenwood
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