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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1917
Page
2
The new dog law requires licensing for all dogs in towns and cities, bans night roaming, and imposes penalties for unlicensed dogs. Enforcers include county commissioners and the Secretary of Agriculture, with police officers authorized to seize and dispose of unclaimed dogs after ten days.
The Philomathean Literary Society at Brushvalley planned a December 29 program featuring songs like America and various recitations led by Ethel Sprinkle and Howard Cunningham, plus topics on shopping loitering and stores. Other events include a Gordon Society New Year’s Quartet program with recitations, readings, music by Vietrola, and a New Year’s resolutions dialogue led by Mra F O Shields and J O Shields.
Smicksburg Lodge 1 O O F passes resolutions in memory of A C Good who died December 6, 1917. The group notes his service as a co laborer and friend, expresses sympathy to the family, and directs copies into records and to The Indiana Progress. Committed by Adam Black A N Lukehart Ron Stumpt.
Mrs Clark Shields aged 65 and resident of Washington township for 45 years died at her home on December 12. She was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church of Plumville and mother of two, Nancy Jane Little and Jesse Richard Shields. Surviving sisters Nannie Henderson and Lina Peffer of Armstrong county and brother James Henderson remain.
Public sale will be held at the farm of W P Loring about one fourth mile east of Grove Chapel church in Rayne township on Thursday January 3 1918 at 1 o'clock PM. Items include a team of good horses about 1400 pounds two bays farm machinery vehicles hay grain and other articles.
Fragmentary verse laments returning to school, pleading with mother to let the speaker sleep. Dreamlike lines express weariness of the yearly routine and desire to avoid the looming day. Names, places, and dates are unclear due to garbled OCR but convey a childlike plea to postpone waking to face classes.
The speaker argues individuals must conserve wood and coal as heat shortages loom in war. He cites waste piles, ash heaps, and accessible wood near towns, urging households to screen ashes and store combustible materials, while highlighting institutional efforts to heat facilities amid winter. Prominent surgeon Joseph Colt Rieadgood will address Indiana hospital graduates on hospital functions.
An American colonel recalls a German shell at headquarters near the trenches and compares the labyrinthine trench system to a familiar Main Street. A chauffeur sports a tin hat and clings to his wheel as artillery alternates with counterfire. Soldiers describe death valleys, dugouts, and the playful yet deadly banter of life near No Man's Land as laundry and cats linger amid ruined villages.
Notice states executor Jay Sourwine seeks Orphans Court order on January 15 1918 to sell coal rights in a 50 acre Washington Township Indiana County PA tract to Consolidated Coal & Coke Co for 2000 dollars to pay debts. Sale includes all coal and mining rights with waiver of damages.
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