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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1916
Page
7
Bolivar and Indiana County residents share Christmas visits with relatives and friends in Blairsville Plumville and Pittsburg. locals report injuries at the Marshall Foundry and several travel and social updates including Mrs Hagerman winning a poultry show prize and Sarah Beatty receiving a miniature automobile.
Obituary notes include Sara Patch of Wilkinsburg and Findley Patch, G A R post namesake, with burial. William Jellison, 88, Civil War veteran, died at Bairdstown. interment in Blairsville. Earl Brubaker infant. Isaac Hill died Greensburg. several local survivors listed. Blairsville Poultry Show draws 550+ fowls. visitors from New York, Pittsburgh and local towns. Union evangelical meetings planned for January. Iselin water system in use. schools to get bubbler fountains. Several local residents travel, visit and work changes noted across Blairsville and Iselin communities.
Washington Township reports year end greetings and holiday visits. Miss Orpha Streams of Indiana Normal School vacations with her parents, D. D. Cumming and Julu. A. J. McCausland brings home Christmas with Isaac Prick family at Atwood. Several locals, including Cavins, Wells, and Elkin relatives, exchange calls and gifts during the holiday period.
Chiropractic claims a drugless method removes disease cause by realigning the spine to harmonize body systems. It describes pain as the nerves crying distress and argues that alleviating nerve pressure restores normal vital flow, reduces inflammation, and fosters healing by rebuilding healthy cells.
Miss Lauretta Walls and Claude Mogel spent Christmas with relatives in Wells and Wandercrift area. Nelson Warden left for New Kensington to work. Others, including Miss Madeline Wells and Cy Diliz, moved or visited family in Plumville, Indiana, Williamsport, and Arcadia as holiday gatherings continued across households.
Rev J A Gaul holds pres tracted meetings at an appointment near Indians. Misses Dorothy Knox Stuth Ly dick Fay McQuown, high school students at Plaimville, spend holidays at their homes. Celia Hadden returns from Monessen guest of Mrs Mangus Sprankle. Mrs Wlora Abntes plans to visit Saturday with daughters for the winter. Henry Coy visits daughter Mrs Frank Greestrom. Mrs Gearhart recently mobile. Blair Beck and wife visit Pittsburgh.
Lewisville resident Maud Beeger visited friends in Homer City. Mrs. G J Bills of Salinburg was weekend guest of her niece and nephew Mr and Mrs J D Deginney. Webster Lee of Blairsville spent Christmas with the Mleming family. Raymond Mleming a student at Indiana Normal and Frank Burkley of State College are home for vacation. Mrs PY Hood Aletha and Arthur Hood of Elders Ridge spent Christmas with the Marshalls.
Georgeville residents William Frederick Mix and daughter Mable were in Plumville last week. Misses Reug and Vera Johnston visited friends in Sagamore. Veert Kinter, Jon Means and B. W. Van Horn attended a directors convention in Indiana, Mexico. Mary Johnston is visiting friends in Sitchmound.
Local residents share visits and guest notes from Lucerne to Kiports and Punxsutawney. Christmas entertainment successes, church events, sick lists, and family gatherings are listed along with an advertisement offering work in Indiana County. Includes names like Mildred Kinter Vernie VanHorn and James Leasure among others.
A reflective piece contrasting the doctor’s method with a patient’s self treatment. It describes both sides: the physician’s procedural questions and the patient’s quick prescriptions, and the difficulty of timely medical care versus patient habits and the expectation for swift cures.
Homer McManus of Marion Center meets his father Simon Blystone of Whitesburg after a quarter century apart. Born near Phumville 28 years ago, Homer was raised by his adoptive parents Mr and Mrs Lilac McManus. After discovering his adoption twelve years ago, Homer located Blystone and two brothers, Joseph and Roy, leading to a holiday reunion with his father.
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