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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
1
County Supt James F Chapman will organize a corn club for Indiana county youths under twenty. Contest rules cover plot size, seed choice, planting, records, measurement by disinterested parties, husking, weighing, and exhibit at the county institute with cash prizes and state college opportunities.
The Indiana County Hospital project will be built fireproof on the site south of town, following the original design but increasing the price by several thousand dollars. The extra cost will be covered by a philanthropist who will erect and equip the facility for the county, with bids to be invited from contractors soon.
Fourteen year old John Zeman Jr. fell while attempting to jump onto a motor truck at Pennsylvania station. He suffered a fractured pelvis and was transported to Indiana Hospital for treatment. The incident involved the rear wheel of the vehicle and underscores local workplace risks at a transit site.
Corporal Harry Carroll of the Indiana detail of the State Constabulary was shot in the right leg at Lucerne about 7:00 last night while on guard at No 2 mining entry. The bullet shattered the bone and he was rescued by two foreigners after a half hour. He underwent surgery to remove the bullet and is in Indiana hospital. Police believe the attack was part of a plan to end Carrolls career as an officer. Carroll helped arrest Harry Spence after the January 19 fatal shooting in Lucerne.
Two of four shot by Italian suspect Raffaele Anditormi died in Adrian Hospital Punxsutawney. Victims Mrs Consiglia Bisconti aged 21 and Joseph Maccabruno 19 were shot in the head. Bodies brought home. funeral in St Bernard's church. Authorities circulated a suspect description and earlier arrests proved unrelated.
Miss Clara Wherry of Indiana, formerly with First Presbyterian Church of Indiana, now works for the Home Mission Board among the Mountain Whites forty miles up the mountains from Asheville North Carolina. In a war letter she described the people's pitiable condition and appealed for local church aid, which has been forwarded. Her home is at Point Bend, and she had lived here several years before going south.
The Rev Charles H Prescott a former Indiana county Baptist minister died at his Tawas City Michigan home six weeks after his wife’s death The Prescott family is known locally from Indiana county where he served as an itinerant minister for years The son Allan Pransett runs lumber and mercantile business with his father Visitors from Grant township Blacklick and town are staying with Deputy Sheriff Harry Willans and Mr Roy Donahue this week
Reverend A T Bell of Blairsville was a Tadiuna caller on Friday Simeon Johns of Pine Plats was county seat visitor yesterday B Campbell and Thomas Dug an of town were Pittshore visitors yesterday in Mrs R J Porter of Church Street was the guest of Blairsville relatives yesterday William Brithart of Carpenter avenue was in Uniontown on business yesterday Mr and Mrs Charles Alter had all their guests on Sunday etc. (text truncated)
Mr and Mrs J B North of Homer City were surprised Monday night by friends for their first wedding anniversary. Guests presented leather chairs and refreshments were served. Mr North, formerly of Punxsutawney, became county supervisor at Lucerne six years ago. Numerous local residents and out of town guests attended including Mr and Mrs Heath Shields Swanson Purcell and Curry, along with names listed in the article.
Deeds recorded show multiple transfers including Robert A. Dinwiddie selling 51 acres in Green to Simeon Johns for 900 dollars and Margaret Palmer selling 88 acres in East Mahoning to Edward Pfeiffer for 1800. Other listed parcels involve Brushvalley, Clymer, Diamondville, Coneomaugh, Burrill, Center, Buffington, Montgomery, Cherry Tree, Washingon, Pine, and coal company dealings with sums ranging from 25 to 12579.60 dollars.
Thomas Sutton, treasurer of the First Presbyterian Sabbath school in Indiana, did not miss a Sabbath for 37 years until illness kept him away on January 19. He resumed duties last Sabbath, and also serves as president of the Indiana Normal school board of trustees with an attendance record nearly as strong. The Indiana Chamber of Commerce elected officers, including H. C. Christy as president and J. W. Sutton as treasurer, with an election board named. A trespass case in Dixonville and Cherry Tree railroad matters resulted in a verdict for the defendant, making the company liable for prosecution costs. Miss Ida Galley of Pittsburgh visited her parents on Oak Street.
A sequence of obituaries reports the deaths of Matthew Hamlin Alatthew Hanlon a longtime county resident at age 87 near Rochester Mill. James Ro Knabb a Penn Run landowner aged 74 dies following surgery. Frank G. Agey 31, a Spanish American War veteran from White Township, dies of Bright’s disease. Nancy Huey Smith 85 from Gipsy, widow of W. A. Smith, leaves 13 children and many grandchildren. Margaret Jane Keating three years old dies of scarlet fever at Purchase Line area. Margaret Weaver widow of Henry Weaver dies at 92 in South Mahoning township. Matilda Pounds 80 from Marion Center and John J. Rager 80 from Blairsville area also noted. Funeral services held with interments in local cemeteries.
Sabbath school convention of Indiana County District No 6 gathered in Homer City and Clymer with opening exercises in the United Presbyterian church. Rev. DeI Magill led praise and Rev. W C Wallace spoke on Good Citizenship. Forsythe and Burnworth addressed temperance and Sabbath school topics. session closed with addresses by Forsythe, Mahaffey and others. extensive program included Bible teaching, missions and temperance notes.
An interesting program is planned for the midwinter meeting of District No. 7 of the Indiana County Sabbath School Association to be held in the Lutheran church of Indiana on Thursday February 9. Morning and afternoon sessions include greetings addresses and discussions on church education and officer qualifications. An evening song service and address follow alongside social events and a dance by the Delphian Club with forty couples present. A reception is planned at the Gatty home Thursday after noon and further social events are announced by local M C A committees.
No charges were filed against sixteen license applicants and Judge Telford did not rule on any case during a rapid two hour and twenty five minute session. Licenses remain valid until February 16 and testimony covered petitions remonstrances and standard hearing practice. In a separate case landowners S L Robison and R E Robison won 2006 against Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg Railway for right of way through Armstrong township after viewers had set damages at 1125.
Esther Lipscher Spielberg, daughter of Emil Lipscher of Arcadia, obtained a divorce from Nicholas Spielberg, a former attorney of Somerset, on the charge he has eight other wives. Witness Dr. Henry J. Janlusz named nine wives, including Sarah Newman and Minnie Pelt, with Spielberg’s remark that he would marry Lipscher ninth despite existing marriages.
Mrs Belle Smathers Clark, shot by Harry Spence at a lodging house in Indiana on January 21, has shown marked improvement with no complications, now at Indiana hospital after surgery. Spence remains jailed with no motive stated, while Mrs Clark and her husband H S Clark of Du Hols are said to be separated.
Mrs. Ralph Smith of Blairsville may lose sight in her remaining eye following a Thursday accident at home. A fall against a chair shattered her spectacles and a glass fragment entered her right eye. She was taken to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment.
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