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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1937
Page
4
Margery fears an intruder in her flat as she frets in the living room. A knock and a phone call bring a police visit and her husband Bill, who admits he followed to comfort her after their quarrel. She insists she is just nervous, while he props her up with reassurance.
Mrs. Robinson-Harrison of Cumberland England donates a remarkable platinum casket to Canterbury cathedral. It features the largest platinum piece ever worked, the first figures cast in platinum, and is studded with rare diamonds along its side.
Elmo Scott Watson traces how the term dixie originated from the Banque de Citoyenne notes known as dix and spread through the Mississippi steamboat era. He notes Emmett’s 1859 song and the Civil War era refrain for Dixie, ending with the tune’s lasting pull on a reunified nation.
Miss Helen Miller hosts a surprise birthday for Virginia Lee Fry at the Doss Page home. Pink and green decorations set a festive scene as gifts arrive and prizes go to Helen Johne, Vlora Mack, Anna Belle Hutchison, and Jack Doyle among many attendees from East Wheatfield and Somerset communities.
George Feit addressed the Rotary Club at the Indiana Hotel on Monday. He quoted George Washington and warned of dangers to liberty from centralized power, communism, and dictatorship, urging Americans to reread Washington's Farewell Address.
Four meetings of special interest to farmers and their wives are scheduled Thursday and Friday. Marl Moffitt will speak on Farm Management with valuable information. County Agent Warner will show pictures. H B Steele will discuss milk marketing at Clarksburg and Plumville. Cows are sacred in India, blocking traffic.
Auction includes cattle 24 head with several purebreds and helpers, hogs, sheep, farm implements, wagons, tractors, milking machines, milk cans, and household goods. Sale held March 4 1937 at 9 00 AM on Blaine Short farm near Indiana on Pinchot road. terms on day.
Dr. William B. McGrority of the Bureau of Animal Industry in Harrisburg reports to County Agent Warner that 211 herds with 1 784 cattle have been tested. He says April testing will cover about 800 more herds. Bangs Disease testing is also done by local and Federal veterinarians.
Uniontown residents visit relatives in Commodore Cherry Tree Barnesboro Wandercrift and Kinport with many called on friends. Evansdale and Indiana get mentions as weekend destinations while Evangelistic services continue at the Evangelical church and the Woman's Missionary Society plans a Thursday meeting.
A long list of visitors and family updates fills a Punxsutawney social page. Local residents including Shields, Lewis, Warner, Means, Paul, Kuntz, Miller, Dodd, Brewer, Waheb, Wolf, Sutter, Shaffer, and others spend weekends with relatives, celebrate birthdays, and report on illnesses and recoveries. Betty Wolf recovers from a concussion. Katherine Rippert remains ill.
Mrs. Don Shields and Mr and Mrs Lew Shields hosted Quay Shields son of S M Shields and Charles White during a weekend visit from the CCC camp at Home.
Rossmoyne C M Bell visited Indiana on Saturday as Misses June Nannie and Winifred Diltz of Fairmont W Va spent the weekend with their mother and sister Mrs Mary and Miss Mae Diltz. Mrs Maude Wells attended quilting at the homes of Mrs Norman Burkett and Mrs Glenn Steel last week. Elizabeth Elkin hosted her sons R Boyd Elkin and wife of Timblin and Paul Elkin wife and daughter Naomi of Indiana on Sunday. Roger Hazelett visited grandfather S W Hazlett and aunt Mrs J E Hazelett near Smickburg on Sunday. Matt Bersnyak, a young son of Joe, has scarlet fever. Guy Earnest Pearce and Leonard Elkin, with Leon ard Elkin, traveled to McGees Mills and returned with a hay baler bought by Pearce Bros. J W Irwin moved his saw mill to Owen Smith timber near Trade City to saw with Guy EB Pearce. Mr and Mrs William Johnston and children Hazel and Billie visited Mr and Mrs D C Wells and their parents Mr and Mrs Robert Johnston on Sunday. Elizabeth Hikin was a shopper in Punxsutawney on Saturday.
Smicksburg residents visit relatives in Indiana and Punxsutawney. Mrs Lula Stiteler and Angus Ritchie suffer barn porch and wagon shed damage from a wind storm Sunday night. Local callers include B B Crawford Maurice Stear Pauline Stiteler Loyd Cessna Chan Beck and Essie Weston with Plumville and Dry Knob connections. A Boston Evening Transcript quip notes a vacation and rent exchange.
Marion Center residents hosted visitors from Barnesboro and nearby towns while relatives and friends scattered across Pittsburgh and Denver. Charles Work, son of the late Ephraim Work, died in a Denver hospital. James L. Park, formerly of Marion Center, passed away in Pittsburgh. The Progress and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette subscriptions sold to local readers.
A playful exchange between MacThistle and Gorit centers on almost six dozen shoes thrown at a wedding. Gorit suggests opening the shoe cupboard to count them, implying a humorous mischief and a lively scene.
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