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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
5
A bustling update column records social calls, meetings, and events across several towns. It notes semi annual gatherings, a charity supper, church services, and civic activity including school improvements, political candidacy, and business trips. A mix of arrivals, departures, injuries, and local entertainment paints a vivid slice of life.
The man who grew the champion ear at the National Corn Show in Omaha will send his best ear to the Pennsylvania show in Harrisburg January 26 to 29. Pennsylvania growers should send ten ears of their best corn to W. H. Moody, Cheatnut Street Hall, Harrisburg, to compete for nine silver cups and part of 465 cash prizes offered by the Pennsylvania Live Stock Breeders Association. There are no entry fees.
Readable fragments indicate Ning Fee and Pe Aocial will perform at Crose Regds school, with stelline hee and pie ola on Friday night. Details are unclear due to damaged text. The item reads as a local school event notice with performers and a Friday evening date.
O A Campbell, principal of Jerhpath school, will conduct a ten week select school at Armagh starting Monday April 10. This will be the 18th annual session at Armagh, with strong attendance expected and a record of quality training by Campbell. Public sale of 75 head of horses to be held in Indiana Pa on January 28 1909, including draft and farm horses, drivers, and mares. Terms cash or bankable notes. Also news that John C G Hotham Jr rents Idaho flouring mill, which has been repaired and cleaned and is in excellent condition.
A public sale at Lewis Wheeler’s Grandview farm one mile south of Court House is set for Saturday January 23 at 1 pm. Items include a team of work horses a bay horse and two yearlings a Jersey bull two heifers Berkshire sow and boar eight cows farming machinery and other articles. A second sale at J B Lamer on Giles Gibson farm in Cherryhill township begins the same day and time with team work horses grain drill plows bobsleds buggy harness wagon binder and household goods plus potatoes grain and other articles. In other news Growing Better With Age notes a Parkwood resident renewing his Progress subscription. A Pie Social is planned at James Fleming schoolhouse Friday evening with a plea for base pies. Samuel Leasure of Clymer visited the county seat Saturday.
Warter Worth Bailey and Edward Fromer Bailey, proprietors of the Johnstown Daily Democrat, purchase the Main street property at 391 348 Main Street to become a permanent home by April 1. The site fronts Main Street and backs to an alley, near theaters, City Hall, railroad station, hotels, and major stores, with planned improvements like tiled floors and a glass front. The Democrat emphasizes its Associated Press affiliation and notes annual rates of 30 dollars for the daily and 1 dollar for the weekly.
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