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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1936
Page
2
Local notices show subscription rates for Indiana County residents and outsiders. One year costs 1.50, six months 16, three months 50 for residents. outsiders pay one year six months and three months rates as listed.
The 1936 State Farm Show opens Monday and runs to Friday with a grand champion 4-H Club baby beef award. Purebred swine sales and fat lamb and steer auctions are planned, plus daily evening entertainment in the show building auditorium. Vocational schools, 4‑H programs, a state horseshoe contest, and a Harrisburg Horse Show are featured, with 23 competitive departments and $37,800 in premiums.
Armstrong Grange No 1645 installed its new officers on Wednesday evening January 8 at Parkwood Schoolhouse. Howard Parks led the ceremony with help from Marshall L. F. Robinson, Re galia Bearer Matron Fleming, and Emblem Bearer Matron Mahan of Success Grange. Officers include Lawrence Bell Master and others such as W. L. Brown Overseer, Blanche Craig Lecturer, Ethel Mull Secretary, Dorothy Shirey Flora, and Annabel Craig Pomona. The gathering ended with a lunch served by grange ladies, despite rain and icy roads.
Judge E B Creps appoints J B Ewing of Conemaugh township to fill the vacancy on the Board of County Commissioners left by the resignation of Leys Houck of Rayne township. The appointment expands the county governing body amid leadership changes.
A three day Ritz Theatre engagement opens with Dorothy Jarvis, heiress turned dancer, in Magnificent Obsession alongside Irena Dunne and Robert Taylor, touted as a major 1930s screen romance. Whipsaw starring Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy also screens, with a Grafton set Ah Wilderness! and a record number of marriage licenses reported during filming.
Jalon Paul Boyte of State Teachers College spoke to Lions on Monday about the Italian Ethiopian situation. He focused on physical and geographical factors rather than politics, contending Ethiopia's material assets are overestimated and Italy could only gain prestige or a stepping stone for expansion.
At the Mrs John Cook farm two miles from Camp Rest a While Center township on the alag road Wednesday January 22 at 12 00 o clock sharp the following personal property Two Young Milk Cows Lot of Turkeys Chickens and Ducks Lot of Household Goods including Blue Velour Living Room Suit Bedroom Suit Extras Couch Davenport Stands Rocking Chairs Porch Furniture Buffet Two Dining Room Tables Kitchen Table and Chairs Rugs and Linoleum Pictures Two Radios electric and battery Coal Range Gas Range Dishes Crocks 160 egg Incubator Cultivator Sulky Plow Two Lawn Mowers and more items to numerous to mention Lot of Wheat Corn and Oats by the bushel Sale to be held rain or shine Terms made known on day of sale Mrs John Cook Owner R W George Auctioneer The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette to R D readers 6 50.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Stafford Catholic Church and interment followed at St Bernard cemetery for Matthew Gollas of Commodore aged 40. He was killed Thursday when fallen coal crushed him at the Commodore mines of Clearfield Coal Corporation where he worked as a coal cutter after removing mine posts to ease cutting. His son escaped injury. He leaves a widow and nine children.
Temperance Education Day will be observed Thursday at 7:30 PM in the W C T U hall. A panel discussion led by Emmert of State Teachers College with Milas Collins, Koouts, Miss Margaret Lowman, and Gilbert Wolfenden will address temperance education. All county members and friends are urged to attend.
The narrator recalls a Wednesday Churchill Downs race where Red Ike, a man with a red feather, obsesses over the chestnut filly Jolo from Great Guns. Jolo fights through the field, winning by a slim margin as Red Ike erupts with joy, tears, and bets, while bystanders react in chaos and celebration.
In 2011 Pat Lynch rode a wild steer in north western Colorado. The rope caught on a pinon tree at the rim and broke. Lynch landed on a shelf and reached a ledge below the canyon wall. He slid to safety among ancient cliff ruins as explorers later mapped Yampa Canyon National Monument.
Wells of Home visited town on business last week. J D Loughry couple called on friends Friday evening. Miss Mary Lou Weaver from Indiana visited Mrs L V Kinter recently. Mrs C M Hastings hosted by Ada B Kinter in Cherry Hill. Mary Wetzel visited son Wm S Wetzel south of town. Myrl Stewart from East Mahoning township attended Friday. Pearl Learn from near Home visited town recently. Mr and Mrs Charles Wetzel recovering from influenza.
Funeral services for Mrs. A M Hall were conducted at her home on Sunday followed by interment in Atwood cemetery. She died Thursday at her Atwood residence. Surviving children include Mrs. Mary Johnson of Atwood Charles Denton and John at home Mrs. Samuel Duff of Sagamore William Hall of Rural Valley Mrs Flora Burchfield of Louisville C Mrs H M Markle of Irk and Mrs William Cuddy of Pittsburgh.
The annual stockholders meeting of the Indiana County Building and Loan Association is set for Tuesday January 21 at 7:00 PM at the office Room 200 Indiana Theatre Building. The agenda includes electing three directors and general affairs of the association. Secretary M C Gordon dated January 16 1938. Plabies subpoena in divorce.
Mie underasigned auditor appointed by the Orphans' Court of Indiana County to settle and report distribution of money held by Walter Bayer as Executor of the estate of Alice Bayer late of Clymer Borough deceased will attend at Room 406 Savings and Trust Building Indiana, Pa on January 38, 1030 at 10:00 A.M. where all interested persons may attend. M. Pedo Auditor. Tao 1, 1996-31¢
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