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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
4
Voter action and local notices dominate this digest from Homer City and surrounding towns. Names of residents, visiting relatives, and business trips fill the column, with mentions of skating rinks, farm sales, new construction by Standard Oil, and various social visits. The piece reads as a broad community roundup with numerous short items and casual remarks.
Unclear fragments show residents Elsie McLelator Dora Barber and others traveling to Ohio Pennsylvania and eastern cities. The piece mentions a birth at Frank Gromley s and social gathering at Petey Welgs Raynes Un Mize Ella Lydick visiting Mrs Bhank Starford Penn Run and a gathering at a Biake church with local workers and friends.
A report details boardinghouse conditions, meals, and daily routines on the isthmus. It notes good boards, fresh food, and routine quinine usage, plus a laundry and commissary system offering room delivery and advance pay. Social life is limited outside clubhouses. many men pass time with reading and music awaiting return to the States.
A series of social mentions recount visits by Mrs By0 Mook in Clymer to her parents, Sara Aah traveling to Frlonde for a convention in Ourhegie Hall, AG Slnger family visiting Janes Householder, and Q Rushvalley notes. High Robertson smiles over a birth announced as a boy. Protracted M H meetings ongoing in Mechanicaburg.
The Marion Center National Bank has operated two and a half years with resources of 292 812 75 dollars and a surplus of 21 272 18 dollars. The bank notes rising business volume and emphasizes service and security for depositors. Open a checking account or time deposit with us. 986 Marion Center National Bank.
Ordinance authorizes grading curbing and paving of Seventh Street between Water and Philadelphia streets in Indiana Pennsylvania. It sets plans by the Borough Engineer and method of cost recovery via two thirds of the expense charged to abutting real estate, to be published in the Progress weekly for two weeks.
Ordinance No 169 authorizes grading, carting and paving Eleventh Street between Philadelphia and Church streets in Indiana Borough Pa with cost provisions. It notes Seventh Street segment under 1000 feet links already paved streets and outlines plans by the Borough Engineer and clerkly publishing steps.
An Indiana youth writes from La Boca Panama about joining the Panama Canal project. He describes travel from New York to Colon, the Isthmus crossing, Panama City life and sanitation under U S jurisdiction, housing for bachelors and married quarters, climate, flora and fauna, and daily routines while awaiting assignments at Ta Boca and the canal site.
Exposed at public sale on Monday March 20 1908 at 2:00 pm is a 90 acre tract in Washing ton township Indiana county with a frame dwelling, barn and out-buildings, coal underlay, bounded by Fulton Miller Calvin Wallace heirs John Trugal heirs and David Martin. terms one-half cash and balance in one year secured by mortgage. Sale conducted by John H. Pierce executor of Margaret Pearce deceased. Also notices seeking reps for Indiana Cobalt Silver Mining Ltd with references required and auctions for rental and sale listings including a four room unit near Rose building and several properties near Twolick station and Lucerns coal mine with stables and improvements.
The bank states it welcomes a goodly number of small depositors and assures they receive the same courteous and painstaking care as the larger accounts, emphasizing equal treatment for all customers.
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