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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
6
Hearings for liquor licenses in the county proceed with twelve of twenty one applications presented. W A Swift of Creekside faces charges for selling to minors and intoxicated men as remonstrances against most applicants surface, with two unopposed.
State Senator Wilbur P. Graff of Blairsville receives chairs and assignments at Harrisburg including Appropriations Banks Building and Loan Corporations Exposition at Fairs Finance Public Health and Sanitation Public Printing Public Roads and Highways. Assemblyman Wilmer Wood is named to Corporations Game Judiciary General Legislative Appointment and Ways and Means in five key House committees.
Stockholders of Ebenezer Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Indiana county from Conemaugh, Young and Blacklid townships met at the Kennedy school house in Young township. Reports from secretary and treasurer showed a gratifying condition with prospects for a prosperous year. Child found dead in bed beside its mother in Rochester Mills, infant son of Mr and Mrs Ray Burd.
Indiana State Normal manager John K E Smith unveils the schedule opening April 28 at home versus Pitt Freshmen. The annual Kishki game set for Memorial Day at Normal grounds with a return at Saltsburg June 9. Schedule lists dates opponents and venues across April to June including Duquesne California Normal St Vincent College and Pittsburg Collegians.
Zion Lutheran church members plan a Christian Endeavor Week starting Tuesday Jan 30 with local addresses by Western Pennsylvania leaders. Each evening features a song service, prayers, and multiple speakers including Rev Gearhart and Rev McLaughlin, with Mizpah Benediction and varying choirs.
Readers are urged to place orders for the low-rate combination of The Progress and Pittsburg Gazette Vines by January 20 with delivery in Pittsburg, as the special price of 2.78 ends February 1 and after that date costs rise. Orders arriving after January 30 will not qualify for the reduced rate. The notice also references a price of 3.75 after the deadline. An appointment notice for Earl T. Buterbaugh as a federal service commissioner is included, along with local notes on a trapped wildcat exhibited in Indiana and justice updates on reprieves for Ernest Haines and Ward Mottern. Additional items cover marriage licenses and local names.
The record outlines 1913 1916 and 1901 wills involving Peter Houck Catherine Houck in Cherry Hill Township Clark Pollock A M Pollock East Mahoning Brushy alley and Julia L Craighead Pittsburgh residents. Executors named include John Agron Frederick Lowry Pollock and Mary Craighead with bequests to Ella Loughry Frank Pollock Samuel G Wilbeck and Julia H Craighead.
A string of marriage notices from the county presents Jonn Lb DeSantis and Lucy Mary Pizzica wed at the bride’s parents home on Maple Street as they begin a eastern wedding trip and plan to reside here. Carl Griffith and Olive Risinger unite in Homer City. Arthur Weaver and Stella George marry in Plumville. other couples include Harry H Blayerstick and Helen Wieneke, Lyda Davidson and Mary Davidson in Cumberland Md. mentions a five ounce monster egg from a Weghorn hen and local egg prices. captains named for Indiana State Normal baseball and football teams. a windstorm damages a silo on William J Rising’s farm in Armstrong township. local resident updates on Carl Barr’s illness and family.
A long list of brief notes from Marion Center and nearby towns. Names include J. 4 Devila near Shelocta, G. W. Peiffer Sagamore, Misa Belle Weiss Garbreton, Mrs. David Blair Pittsburg visitor, A. A. Isley Blairsville, and many more. The notes tally callers, visitors, business at the county seat, and travels to Indiana. Also mentions school closures in Marion Center due to diphtheria and related fumigation of churches.
Varney BF Pasion Bays Philadelphia Sheeet Meeperty sells for 520,000. Vernon F. Paylor, coal operator of Kiana, buys 724 Philadelphia Street for 520,000 as investment through ALAL and dt. 9. The 42x120 ft lot holds a three story building and rear marble shop, with Dinsmore Bros Wayne Rige Co and Outing Club on floors. Other listings include sale of Indiana real estate rising in value, and homes on Chiavelynd Railroad avenue and Church Street with possessions set for April 1 and 7.
The Marion Center Co operative Creamery numbers show 47 771 pounds of butter produced in under nine months with sales totaling 16 212 dollars. Butter prices ranged from 2 to 92 cents per pound and a six percent dividend was paid to stockholders. Officers elected include President J. L. Bence Vice President S. Wetzell Secretary I. C Universimanager WW West Treasurer U Wark. Directory members include S. Wetwell W S Brown II 12 Bene BO Vier W West Pred Waeitwhauy Jo Lilgleteap.
The Ridge Yocational schools send a team to Harrisburg to compete with other schools in a corn judging contest. Students, led by Prof. Juli W. Warner, travel by car fare funded by Savings and Loan Co. and local supporters.
Recent death notices list Ratu Pheri of Youngstown area and Logan Wart of Hear Wiaitsville among others. Reports mention cause as illness or accident, with interment planned at Oak Tul cemetery and multiple family connections across Blairsville Blairsville Greensburg and Pittsburgh.
Deeds filed in the county register transfer eleven tracts and two others totaling many acres in Young township to Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg coal interests, boosting ownership of the Igholins by large coal operators. Purchases include 1460 acres joining the Laxman field and a recent $25,777.84 tract in Union Township. Additional transfers involve M. Dick, J. Marsh, A. Simpson and others, signaling a broader expansion in the local coal sector. Jol M Wilson and Stacy Salina’s family depart for California, with a farewell supper in the Presbyterian church.
Thirty dwellings will be built by a contractor from Johnstown at Claghorn near Heshbon on the Vinton Culliary Company plant. The contract was awarded last week and work will start as weather allows with completion expected next spring. Three mining shafts are to be driven and the operation is to employ a large number of miners in the county.
Kusho Spagsnull of Cressside was found dead near a mine tipple with seven gunshot wounds, a prosecutor in the Creekside stabbing case. Revenge is suspected. Nesy Lucerne of Creekside reports no clue to the killer as funeral rites proceed. Brother of Prof. M Gordon, Iurry E Gordon of Johnstown, died at Natrona while employed there.
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