Pinchot asks big sum for state budget
Governor Gifford Pinchot told a joint session of the Senate and House that the two year budget requires 425,251 in total expenditures with 159,174,528 tied to the general fund. He noted a potential 33,380,000 drop in general fund receipts due to tax cuts and slower business, but urged no new taxes and no increase in the tax burden while taking over 20,000 miles of township roads.
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Gifford Pinchot
Senate
House of the
Assembly
Boy Scouts to Celebrate Twenty First Anniversary Rally
Indiana County Council Boy Scouts stage a county wide rally at Indiana Armory on Friday February 20 at 7 45 PM climaxing a week of district rallies and court of honor ceremonies February 9 Rossiter February 10 Punxsutawney February 11 Clymer and Homer City February 19 Indiana A Troop Flag will be awarded for perfect attendance Finals include Semaphore Signalling Compass First Aid Knot tying and Five by Friction with roving cup and medals for top finishers.
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Armory
Indiana County Council
Boy Scouts
Scout Movement
United States
Indiana Armory
Rossiter
Punxsutawney
Clymer
Homer City
Indiana
Many Pupies Receive Schick Test Monday Tuesday
School children across Indiana counties underwent diphtheria immunization as 347 pupils received Schick tests and 221 toxin antitoxin injections. Rural schools begin immunizations led by state nurses Twila Bottenhorn and Alice Graffius, with the Schick test to follow six months later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Twila Bottenhorn
Alice Graffius
Tax Appeals Underway Across Several Townships
County commissioners began the triennial tax appeal hearings in Armagh East Wheatfield Buffington Brushvalley and West Wheatfield townships with limited protests. About 165 East Wheatfield residents attended and 20 Buffington taxpayers filed appeals. The county values are projected to be 53 to 54 million dollars this year up from last year 355 million including occupations. The road bond levy stands at 185 thousand dollars annually, with current millage at seven and a half mills split between general and poor funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Buffington Township
Brushvalley
West Wheatfield Township
School Pupils Contribute Generously to Charities
Central Charities Association praises county pupils for substantial food and clothing donations on January 28. Some trucks were hindered by bad roads but the effort exceeded expectations, including two coats marked We are twins for needy twin girls. Local officials and donors thanked for coordinating the county-wide relief drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Organization
Central Charities Association
Charities Association
Charley Association
Jas. F. Chapman
Hoss & DeGaetano
Two County Men Die in Butler Car Crash Victims Named
Charles Gaydosh aged 35 of Commodore died in an Indiana hospital after injuries from a Friday crash near Butler. Michael Gresko aged 58 of Stafford died in Butler hospital days later. A four year old son John Gaydosh sustained injuries but is improving. Three other occupants had minor injuries. Gaydosh had worked as a miner and left a wife and son, his parents, a sister and brothers in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Bterford
Commodore
Charles Gaydosh
Indiana Hospital
Butler
Michael Gresko
Stafford
Butler-New Castle
Butler Hospital
John Gaydosh
Gaydosh
Mary Cap
Youngstown
Michael
Clymer
George
Emeigh Run
John
Cleveland
Airport Beacons Move Toward Official County Rating
The Chamber of Commerce executive committee urged continued work with airport officials to secure official rating for the Indiana Airport. Boundary rights remain to be acquired, with three blinker beacons to be powered by new lines, costing about 5000 dollars. Strongstown beacon already lights nightly for night flyers. A water supply upgrade and aid for King Leather Goods plant recovery were also discussed, plus a garnishee bill to be sent to the State Legislature. Local traffic concerns were reviewed. The second item reports Barnett Light, 29, of Johnstown, died from a fractured skull after falling at the Rager lodging house in Blairsville. Funeral held in Johnstown. burial in Geistown Jewish cemetery.
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Indiana
Chamber of Commerce
Associated Gas and Electric Co
Airways Division
Department of Commerce
Washington, D.C
Shaffer Knob
Yellow Creek
John B.kennedy
Kent
Strongstown
Clymer Water Service Co
George Musk
King Leather Goods Mfg. Co
Barnett Light
Johnstown
Mercy
Maude Burr Empield
Maude Barr Empfield
Blairsville
Leacher
Washington, D. C
Nr. BE
Myrta (Barr) Wipfield
Blalravilla
Spcurity Department
Presbyterian Church
Beatrice Biss
Trnttsville
C. W. Thick
Punxsutawney
H. E. Sullivan
Pittsburgh
Educating Abyssinia's Crown Prince by Indiana Professor
Prof Ernest Work of Muskingum College in New Concord Indiana selected to educate Abyssinia Emperor Haile Selassie’s 14 year old son Crown Prince Asfawu Wassen. He will also lead education for the realm under a salary of 4000 dollars annually. He already teaches ten million illiterate Abyssinians and now directs national education. Harrisburg notes a beehive and raccoon home share a single dead tree in Sallad asburg. John Elkin Sunderlin of Clymer and Vadua LaRue Barr of Stafford announce their December 18 1930 marriage in Cumberland Maryland. They plan to reside in Clymer where he works for Hiram Swanks Long Brick Company.
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Ernest Work
Indiana
Abyssinia
F. Ernest Work
Muskingum College
NewConcord, C
Asfawu Wassen
Work
Muskingum
John Elkin Sunderlin
Clymer
Vadua LaRue Barr
Stafford
Cumberland
J. B. Price
Methodist Episcopal Church
Sunderlin
Hiram Swanks’ Long Brick Company
Indiana Visitors Fill Local Notes With Names And Dates
A busy column lists Jay Frens of Punxsutawney and Walter King of Brick Church as Indiana callers. Dozens of residents including Bert Toof, John Cramer, Earl Long, Walter Black, Grant Smith, and many others are noted among the Indiana visitors, shoppers, and callers at the county seat. A daughter was born to Seward Bence and his wife in Clymer at the Indiana Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Frens
Punxsutawney
Indiana
Bert Toof
Morganza
Walter King
Brick Church
Clark Neal
Clymer
John Cramer
Rayne Township
Tuiliana
William H. McCann
Home
W. L. Overdorff
Brushyalley
J. T. Gibson
Sheloca
Charles L. Sutton
Brushvalley Township
Earl Long
Willinabure
Walter Black
Smicksburg
Grant Smith
Montgomery Townsip
L. Calhoun
Armstrong Township
Dick Duncan
Hedlwood
T. Powers
Charles Richards
Blairsville
J. M. Hamilton
South Mahon Ing Township
A. Co Lias
Rural Valley
Frank Hazlett
Meade
South Mahoning Township
Indiade
Frank Gardner
Charles Schrode
Glen Campbell
B. F. Donahey
North Tenth Street
Harrisburg
Wilgon Fiscus
Cleveland
Mary Figens
West Church Street
William Ruddock
Town
Philadelphia
George W. Treece
Arcadia
Hilbert Fyock
Rochester Mills
George S. Musk
Meredith
N.H
J. Garfield Jones
Frances Walsh
Allegheny College
Meadville
M. J. Walsh
J. T- Butler
Coratopolis
Donald Moorhead
East Locust Street
Canoe Township
Adam States
Greer Gaston
Board of
Road Supervisors
G. B. Daugherty
Squire Frank Kerr
Marion Center
R.D
Daugherty
Will Wilson
Mary Alice
Wiliam Carson Wilson
Avonmore
Nellie Dunmire
Pittsburgh
Bert Dunmire
Leroy Cunningham
Scranton
Doyle Hart
Stork
Progress Office
Johnston
J. B. Deyarmin
Gon. Blair
Brushvalley
Blair
McFarland
Brashvalley Township
Armagh
State Teachers College
Clymer Pauly
Seward Bence
Indiana Hospital
Agricultural Meats Announced For February Month
County agricultural program outlines February events with dairy and fruit and vegetable school sessions. J. W. Warner on leave. R. We. Carter takes over extension duties. emphasis on soybeans Russets and dairy feeding meetings across six county sites. Poultry tour February 23 to visit farms near Salitsburg and others.
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R. 3
Carter
J. W. Warner
State College
W. K. Nissley
J. A. Ruel
W.T. Honerey
L. ‘Denniston
RK. H. Olmstead
Penn State
Brush Valley
William Heimberger
Salitsburg
Pennsylvania State College
Potato Growers Association
Warner
R. We. Carter
Susquehanna County
Butler County
Commodore Farmers Co operative Sees 156 Members
Commodore Farmers Co operative Association Inc plans its regular meeting at the Commodore school house on Tuesday evening February 10. Formed in April 1929 with 16 charter members, it has distributed carloads of feed monthly since May 1929 except one. From July 1980 two carloads were received, one at Commodore and one at Cherry Tree, with drought increasing January stock needs. Officers include H. W. Mumili president Clyde Houck vice president H. A. Lydick secretary treasurer and J J McCune and H A Lechner other directors. 5 L Fyock and son J L Fyock are official purchasing agents and distributors for 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Inc
Commodore
Association
H. W. Mumili
Clyde Houck
H. A. Lydick
H. A. Lechner
J. J. McCune
Double Wedding in Johnstown for Young Sisters
Miss Lulu Almeda Young and Miss Marie Elma Young of Dilltown wed in Roxbury M H church parsonage Johnstown on January 29 in a joint ceremony led by Rev. John T. Davis. Lulu married Thomas Ramage of Dilltown. Marie wed Leroy Francis McFeaters of Armagh.
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Johnstown
Lulu Almeda Young
Marie Elma Young
Josiah Henry Young
Dilltown
Roxbury
M. H
John T. Davis
Ulu Almeda
Thomas Ramage
Dogs Kill Sheep Near Salisburg Reach Alarming Loss
Monday morning two dogs attacked James Keeley s sheep near Salisburg and killed one. A passerby motorist drove off the dogs which then vanished before a weapon could be used. Nearby, Co B Henry McIntyre lost three sheep to a dog recently and the owner settled with Mr Henry after the dog was killed. State livestock value pegged at 142 351 000 by the Federal State Crop Reporting Service as of January 1 in Harrisburg.
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Salisburg
James Keeley
Co. B. Henry
McIntyre
Henry
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Federal
State
Grand and Traverse Jurors Drawn for March Court
The March juror list includes grand jurors from Conemaugh Blairsville Indiana and Washington regions led by Mrs. M. R. Arnold and John Burnheimer plus many others. Petit jurors and traverse jurors also named for reports in March with a wide slate across multiple townships and communities.
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M. R. Arnold
Conemaugh
John Burnheimer
Green
Charlies Bell
Washington
Marjorie Cummins
Homer City
Geo. M. Cribbs
Blairsville
Frank Cooper
Indiana
Gonrath
William Condron
W. Mahoning
Frank Mmeigh
Cherryhill
Laud Pry
Sevina Geesley
Cherryhilllatt
Petit Jurary
Aiea Allison
James Blakeley
Center
Gary Hranghier
Grant
J. Brentinger
Alice Trown
Hughie Boring
Buffington
Gertrude Butts
BE. Wheafield
Annie Lewis Bell
Burrell
Harvey Buchanan
Guy TL. Cramer
Blatraville
John Cramer
Rayne
Blair
Chureville
W. Faglett
Catherina Henderson
Jalraville
Albert Howell
Murrell
Robert Joinston
Glen Campbell
Kennel
Kerr
W. Mithoning
Fred Kear
White
W. F. Love
Blairavile
George Little
Edward Leckhart
Mahoning
North i
Tydie
Lyman Martin
Join Muller
John
Prank Linger
Cherrytree
Con Rice
Harry Risinger
John Siberts
Scott Smathers
Charles H. Stear
Harry A. Smith
Montgomery
J. E. Shields
Lanie Segar
Banka
Dora Trusal
India
John Voxel
Ted Williams
Blacklick
Pr. A. Weaver
Paul Waugaman
Hester Watson
Traverse
Albright, Sr
Gee
Allison, Jr
William Anthony
A. K. Tush
Young
Tl. Butler
Roy Buchanan
Bexsia Brilhart
Oren Burn
N. Mahoning
Gertrude Barclay
Minnie Beckers
George Baker
Merle Cameron
Banks
K. J. Custer
Luna Clements
Adam BH
Carney
Blairaville
Dale Crawford
Duncan
Kenneth Dick
W. Wheatfield
J. D. Dunlap
Hazel Pollock
Adam Rooks
Canoe
Howard Rainey
James Rising
Reyne
Mabel Rankin
A. P. Smith
Odell Shields
Charles Smith
L. R. Sowers
Thomas Stack
Glenn Smyers
James Taubler
Thomas A. Tyess
Rossiter Hardware Merchant Dies Suddenly in Home
The Roxister area mourns the sudden death of Dantel G. Tyger 67 a prominent hardware merchant and community leader who died at his home after a brief illness following a drive to Smyerstown He had operated Tyger Hardware Company in Rossiter with his son Laird for 17 years He left a widow Miss Mary Smith and children Mrs Ami Bowers Melgy and Laird Tyger Jr Mrs Thyra Jenkins and siblings Abe Tyger and Mrs Chrissa Witte Funeral services were held at Union Church Rossiter with interment in the local cemetery.
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Deal
Dantel G. Tyger
Roxafter
Smyerstown
Ife
Canoe Township
Johnstown
Rossiter
Laird
Tyger Hardware Company
Rossiter Presbyterian Church
Odd Fellows Lodge
Marys Smith
Jacob Smith
Almi Bowers, Melgsy
Laird Tyger
Trossitor
Thyra Jenkins
Josstown
Abe Tyger
Rochester Milly
Chrissa Witte
Samuel Findley
Armash
Samuel M. Findley
Hast Wheatfield
Herbert Raymond Findley
Cambria Township
Cambria County
George
Esther Findley
Helle (Hartman) Findley
Charles
Wintondale
Ray
Theron
Harvey Findley
Cramer
John Findley
J. C. Griffith
State Game Commission Urges War on Crow Flocks
Harrisburg officials of the State Game Commission urge an organized campaign against large crow flocks reported in geekong. They say crows have become a nuisance and now is the best time to reduce their numbers. Some readers remark that opportunity may imply easy money.
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State Game Commission
Harrisburg
Geekong
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Blacklick Township
Jackson Gibson
George Wainwright
Elmer
Alligon
Bumen Balash
Frank Kumicak
Milford J. Murray
Mary B. Martin
Charles H. Henry
W. G. Bracken
Irvin M. Bracken
Mary P. Scheffer
J. N. Langham
Mike Siniskey
William Duncan
William Palmer
Lula A. Young
Leroy F. McFeaters
Marie E. Young
Arthur T. Brumme
Barnesboro
Ruey V. Hollen
Frank EB
Anderson
Blairsville Lodge House
Watson B. McClarin
Salladasburg
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Farmers Co-Operative
Commodore Organization
Rossiter Merchant
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Tyger
Fovner County
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Anthony) Harmon
Blaabeth
Washington Township
Creekside
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Phoebe (Smail) Anthony
Marion Center Presbyterian Church
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Alex Graham
J. B. Anthony
Ira G. Anthony
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