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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1934
Page
8
Readers report occasional gas odor from furnaces. Odor stems from gases released when coal fires burn and from poor chimney draft. Increase interim draft during refueling, then reset. ensure chimney connections are tight. keep fire door closed while feeding fuel. remove insulating coating buildup by a hot coal fire.
The otter is a land animal by classification yet equally at home in water, skilled in diving and speed like the seal. It favors rivers over still lake waters, feeds on fish, and its fur rivaled only by beaver in value. It lives in bank burrows, breeds once yearly with two young, and slides down riverbanks for playful dives that often last hours before swimming away.
In the tropics the pitcher plant or nepenthes grows in warm forests. Its leaf tip coils to seize a host plant and then develops a pitcher vessel with a waxy inner surface. A honey-like lure attracts insects which slip on wax and drown in pitcher water, aided by downward spines and digestive glands.
A world famous Belgian scientist argues that an enormous atom explosion ten billion years ago created the universe. The event birthed stars, galaxies, and planets and began time and space, with expansion continuing until all matter dissolves. The theory allows for possible prior creations and future cycles beyond the current universe.
An astronomer argues the earth moon system does not circle the sun in a fixed ellipse. Instead the center of gravity oscillates around an ellipse, with the earth deviating up to 2,880 miles around the path and the moon range peaking near 280,000 miles outside at full moon.
A weather bureau note says abnormal weather tends to repeat in January February and June July. Records from several midwestern states show cold or stormy January often leads to cold and stormy February while hot or dry June tends to be followed by hot or dry July. August often mirrors July, and the sun cycle may cause a monthly weather rhythm.
A string of visits and travel notes from Du Bois and surrounding towns. Mr. and Mrs. C A Good and their daughter Leona paused in Pittsburgh to visit Mrs. Good’s parents Mr. and Mrs. T H Frantz. Mrs. Olay Brewer left for Indiana for her brother-in-law George Greiner’s illness. J D Lockhart and J W Irwin traveled to Indiana for business. Paul Blin visited his mother Elizabeth Tilkin in Indiana. Merle S Marshall toured Indiana. Local residents hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Howard Lockhart and Mr and Mrs Jay Irwin with children Louis John and Scott Marshall of near Plumville. Robert Elkin of Smicksburg is listed as sick.
Esther Green and children of Penn Run visit Mrs. Isaac Strong. Rev. Large and Ernest DeArmy attend Young People's Council in Penn Run. Indiana callers include Postmaster and Mrs. Wm Bennett and others. A baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stiles. Ladies Aid of M E church meets at Rev. P W Large's home. Deaths: Mrs. Sadie Stephens and Charles Judson.
A stream of names visits and calls in Indiana and Deckers Point, including James Miller, John Palmer, Norris Brown, and George Hamilton family. Hospital return for John Rishel after two weeks. Church services announced at Crooked Creek with Sunday school at 10. Dr. Mahan’s Pittsburgh family weekend retreat noted. A humorous exchange ends with a quip about governance by capable men and a witty reply from Miss Keen.
The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette announce a subscription offer for R. D. residents of Indiana County at 5.50 dollars per year. Out of county residents are asked to pay 6.00 dollars annually.
Mrs. Mary W. iWetzel visits sister Mrs. Flora Work Miller in Mercer while Mrs. Hallie Holt visits daughter in law Viola Holt in Indiana. Sabbath remarks draw attention to Sabbath Observation. A new baby, Charles Ralph, born to Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Deven of Montgomery Alabama, with mother Betty Piper nearby. Stork brings Alice Jane to Ellsworth Jeffries family on Christmas. Tourists share humor about Montana. Peelings preserved for custards and middlings use.
Mrs F M Ganoe and Mary and Norman Ganoe joined Indiana callers Saturday evening. George Huston Logan Parry and J C Kelly from Pine Flats came on Indiana business. Cherryhill visitors included Fred Ray and daughter Helen Terrence Shaffer Ira Myers and son Jay Wilbur Shank J P Luydick John Engle Wesley Engle and Twila Engle. Week of prayer services at Penn Ran Presbyterian church drew many locals. H P Young and Mrs M L Pyle visited Indiana on Wednesday. UK O Peterson and Missessie Phomag from Indiana visited friends Sunday. Mrs John Wagle and Catherine Jane visited friends in Indiana Wednesday.
Light shoes too discolored to clean for next summer can be worn this winter if dyed a darker color.
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