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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1916
Page
5
W. O. Smith announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for Representative in Congress. He argues for free-for-all races, reviews experience, and pledges honest service, citing policies on labor defense currency and river improvement as district priorities.
The Mauk family held their 46th annual gathering at Mauk Bras home in Rochester Mills on Christmas day with 70 pounds of chicken eaten at the dinner. Officers elected were DLN. Mauk of Montana as president J. G. Mauk of Rochester Mills as vice president Ella Mauk of Marton Center as secretary. Personal greetings were read from Dallas Mauk of Montana and Fred Mauk of Michigan. An obituary style memorial for Homer El Scin appeared dated April 5, 1916.
The county corn growers club will continue into summer 1916 with a business like plan. Contestants must keep expense records, value fodder at 2.00 and corn at 1.085 per hundred pounds, and all prizes total 60 dollars with 10 percent reserved for state college attendance. Rules cover eligibility up to age 20, plot size, seed corn, reporting, weighing, and judging on December 12 by two judges. Banquet will close the Corn Show. enrollment open by mail to the county superintendent.
In Blairsville a second floor stove fire at a North Liberty Street double house caused significant damage to the Grinders’ end and prompted a prompt response by the volunteer fire company. Irrank Grinder, an Austrian worker at Tittle’s Foundry, lived there with a large family and had no insurance. The piece also covers local civic matters including the new borough council, construction by Gil Overdoré for the Pennsylvania Railroad, land deals by Westinghouse with Hill heirs for sand beds, and notes on local societies, school officials, births and deaths, and various visits and illnesses across Blairsville and nearby Jacksonville with incidental church, institute, and civic activity.
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