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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
2
The Indiana Progress, Moehead area, editors A Ralph Moorilead, announces obituaries and card notices while detailing subscription rates and payment terms. The paper emphasizes cash payment and domestic address for notices.
A brief notice explains delays in delivering Wha Progress due to railway congestion and wartime strain. Publishers apologize for inconveniences and urge readers to be patient while systems adjust and complaints are prepared.
Dan Radford a thirty year scammer schemes to invest his family's future in Liberty Bonds as a safe final plan. Billings urges restraint and warns against market timing while stressing par value and government protection. Elin Irwin to conduct a summer school at Shelocta starting April late.
A frontier tale from a Chicago Tribune piece recounts a homesteader seeking a wife, aided by camp cook and wife who invite a city woman to a Sunday dinner. The plan leads to a staged courtship, a marriage, and a later visible life together, amid social pressures and rustic improvised matchmaking.
A correspondent notes strange wartime medical cases including a former soldier treated for seizure like symptoms with a tailored drug regime and improvised doses. The piece shifts to commerce, reporting Purchase Foreign Hides Sole outlining Rome meetings, naming Commnodatore Gonnire Mulfetone of Naples as president and the Splendid Hotel in Rome as the association seat.
Mr Pratt of Pittsburg preached here Sunday. The annual meeting of the Elders Ridge and West Lebanon Telephone Co. was held here Thursday. Dr Harmon of West Lebanon examined students at the feeder and vocational schools Thursday and Friday. Marion Center High School will play the Vocational School next Friday. Miss Rowe visited James Townsend. Mrs Kimmel with Prof Warner. Burial of Biwht Gayley of Brookville will be Tuesday here. The corn judging team attended the Pennsylvania Farm Products Show at Harrisburg Tuesday to Thursday. Two sled leads joined the Vocational School basketball team at Saltsburg Friday. Ridge won 25-17 in the last quarter. Lineup lists Elders Ridge and Salisbury players with fouls. Referee Stayer.
North Point Aubrey Melflenry and family visit grandparents Mr. and Mrs. B Melfen ry. Mrs. Willcomb of Walier visits aunt Mrs. Gus Dodson who is very ill. Mrs. Thornmire of Ohio weekends with Jesse licks family. Kathryn Langer ill, convalescent. John Postlewait of Walier guests Abram Hicks. Kerr in Butler on business. Richard Dodson ill with pneumonia improving. Mrs. Arthur Reap on silk list. Abram Hicks fell on ice, broken finger, recovering. Virginia Colwell sick with cold. Craig Lingerfelter and Samuel Beck with Colwell. Mrs. Van Stear of Punxsutawney visiting her parents. Boyd Hicks visiting Preston Hicks in Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stear Punxsutawney shoppers. Ralph and Ray Hicks visit grandparents Abe Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Foster ill. Alma Stear guest of Mrs. Wm. Drummond. Will Weaver of Nebraska visits Lingerfelter. Mrs. John Neal Punxsutawney shopper. Pearl Fulton accepts hardware clerk position Ridge Supply Co. Mrs. Clark Coleman Ballure visitor. sien Dibie of J. & M. Junction spends Wednesday in Iselin.
The mines were idle Thursday and Saturday due to scarce railroad cars. Miss Clara Hine visited Miss Elizabeth Learn. C Coleman, an Indiana business visitor, was in town. Vera Randall, Indiana public school teacher, spent the weekend with her parents. Henry Alden of the U S Navy visited Iselin. Harry Coleman attended the pie social at Kennedy's school. A Red Cross meeting in Iselin hall elected officers and outlined future work with several good addresses. Benevolent women discuss knitting and expanding local volunteer efforts.
Fred W. Henry of Cockport Pa urges buyers to place orders for a car of Hes se's Brand Vertilizer for spring crops to ship February 25 and a car of Bar Corn for immediate shipment to Stafford Pa. with a February 15 deadline to avoid price increases and no storage space. January 30, 1918.
Anthony and Kline of Electa, Pa advertise purchase of ear corn to be shipped to Shelocta along with Schumacher feed. They seek hay and straw for immediate shipment and request cash or note payment by February 16 due to a firm member's military service. January 16 notice.
Auditors notice from the Orphans Court of Indiana County announces the appointment of an auditor to retire adjust and report distributions of money in the hands of Savings and Trust Company of Indiana Pa executor of the estate of A Cunningham deceased. The auditor will attend at room 811 Savings and Trust Building Indiana Pa on Tuesday February 26 1918 at 10 00 p m for interested parties to attend if they see proper.
Frigid conditions halt classes as Miss Hine cannot clear the heavy snow. Socials and visits fill the week with community events, illnesses, and family gatherings. Notables include Red Cross pie social attendees Clara Gemmell and Vada Watt, and several locals with rheumatism pneumonia and other ailments.
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