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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1918
Page
7
Cherryhill Township high school students adopt a nine year old French war orphan Leonie Lonbet Chicou and enrolls as Red Cross members. Locals report influenza cases and flu related travel and illness across nearby towns with family visits, nursing care, and community relief efforts during the holiday period.
Roy Wineberg and George Richey moved to farms recently vacated by family members. School teacher Mary McIsanac hosted the third and fourth grades. Quarterly conference and communion were led by Rev. Steelay and Rev. Huenberger. Families, shoppers, and visitors from Punxsutawney and nearby towns are noted, including Christmas trips and varying local errands.
Miss Sara Stitt visits relatives in Heilwood. Mrs. George Hazlett visits Green township. Sara and Olie McMahan travel to Latrobe for work. Murray McQuown makes a Marion Center business trip. Red Cross Auxiliary forms with officers: President George Beer Vice President Mrs. John Fisher Secretary Miss Anna Rice Treasurer George Hazlett. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burkett visit Purchase Line. G A Palmer returns from Altoona and Williamsburg. Mrs. John McAdoo visits Mrs. Fisher in Indiana. Jesse Rice and family spend Friday at Stafford. Clark Sterner injured. Charley Abel’s pneumonia follows influenza at Jay Mimau mine.
Pleasant Valley residents and visitors are listed with a range of social activity. Uniontown’s Alex Beringer planned a Thursday call in this place, while Mrs Bert Lockard and Mrs EB Miller with children visited Cockport. Anna Butterbaugh visited Cookport, and Lockard siblings plus EA Lydie attended Baptist services there. Mrs Dessie Hines and family were ill with influenza, and the Christian Alliance planned a Christmas Eve entertainment at Carry Hill. Claud Weaver and Daniel Weston expect to return home for Christmas. Edith Smith and Helen Houston solicited for the Red Cross in Kenwood last week. Elders Ridge notes include visits by K A Hartman to Indiana, and David Rosensteel and Virtue Townsend on the Ridge.
Plumcreek township items note Miss Hsther Whenger's employment with Paul Kimmel family while Mrs. Duffman of Vandergrift died from influenza and others attend her funeral. Teachers misses Indiana visitors Virginia and Margaret Calhoun. Bertha Kimmel holidaying with Ankenys. Families of M. T. Kelly recovering from influenza. Myers family attend funeral in Missoula. Davis and Morrison visit Clark Davis. Profs Jones visiting kin while teaching in Virginia. Turkeys delivered to Indiana for Roscoe Mack. Zilla Houser returns to Indiana after four weeks home.
Private Jesse J. Long of Battery H 313th Field Artillery writes from Dun France about front line duty since September 25, firing last shot of his battery, Verdun to Argonne to Meuse sectors, witnessing prisoners, gas and shellfire, and hopes to return home as armistice ends.
Tolstoi narrates two pilgrims headed for Jerusalem. Elesol helps the hungry and sick, rebuilding life with daily duty. Yefim reaches holy spots yet misses the Holy Sepulchre, while Elesel bears a glow, showing that God bids all to duty and love until death.
Harold J. Shepstone recounts Bethlehem during Christmas observing the Latin Greek and Armenian ceremonies at the Church of the Nativity. Rival sects clash over cleaning rights prompting Turkish guards and Bethlehem authorities to enforce rules amid frequent tensions and a 1918 incident where soldiers quelled sectarian fighting in the sacred site.
The article describes Christmas practices in Russia France Norway Sweden and Germany. It notes January 6 gift day in Russia and France with the king or queen cake, early morning church services in Nordic countries, and festive customs like the yule log stockings for Santa in Holland. It mentions breading a stained pole and caroling as part of the Christian story.
Ulair Covode builds a new workshop for his machinery while neighbors host gatherings. Wyant and Mrs Beck return from Pearl gathering friends and relatives. Mina Pearl Shaffer recovers. Mr and Mrs Shields visit Bartholomew home. Shields attends to Bartholomew. Harbor Creek residents Mr and Mrs Nonomadue honeymooned with groom’s family. Net? plans homeward. Mrs Martin Mreyer visits Sutter. Wanhob family recover from flu. Marion Center couple Mr and Mrs Blair Gaul visit relations. Mrs C G Shields calls on sister-in-law Mrs S M Bhiglds.
Mrs rank Verringer and her son Duane visited friends in Union Town on Wednesday. Mrs Wilcott Laney stays in Barnesboro with her ill mother Mrs Yarnel. A hunting party including Mrs Rank Williams hunted four deer. Clayton Douglass of the American Expeditionary Force has returned home Friday.
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