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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
4
The piece highlights house managers as part of the war effort with over 11,000,000 women enlisting to support soldiers by choosing food wisely. It emphasizes sending wheat, meat, fats, and sugar to Europe while conserving scarce supplies at home and ensuring all meals serve the war goal.
Government to sell nitrate of soda at actual cost to farmers in Indiana county via county agent BE Ish and local committee. Nitrate bought through War Industrial Board under Food Control Act, 100000 tons total, freight and fertilizer tag fees extra. Applications by February 4 to county agent. deposits required after notice. pro rata allotment if oversubscribed.
Frank Kelly and Cleya Sheaffer were business visitors in Indiana on Saturday. Miss Carrie Sharp returned home after several weeks in Kellysburg. Mrs. Steele Kerr and daughter Anny Ellen along with Mrs. B I Miller were Indiana shoppers on Friday. Red Grass members rode to the Kunkle home for sewing with several local ladies present. Minnie Gibson visited Virginia Miller on Saturday. Grace Allshouse stayed with her parents Friday and Saturday. Lawrence Robinson of Hilltop visited Monday. The Woode couple returned from weeks in New York state. J E Leng wired for electric lights. Ty H E Dunn moved to the Carnahan home. Barr of Indiana visited his ill mother last week. Quarantine lifted except for a whooping cough case. Raymond Walker of Camp Lee, Va, on a short furlough. Mrs Mizabeth Bee and Mrs H B Karr attended a surprise party for sister Mrs Mary J Lowry. about 30 guests attended.
Jesse Doubt and his wife and son of Tarentum visited friends here last week. Mildred Moore was at Punxautawney on Wednesday. Several ladies from this vicinity attended a quilting at Goodheart Walker's on Wednesday.
Mrs D J Barnard and J W Hayes improve after illnesses while Mrs B H McGaughey stays home. Mrs Warnest Beck and two children from New Kensington visit her parents Mr and Mrs W T Burns. Tyan and Frank Kirk work at Sagamore. Evangelist A J Bellman of New York State leads the Rich Hill Methodist Episcopal revival with Rev William N Osgood, continuing through February 17.
The Brest-Litovsk peace talks with Teutonic allies halt again and Trotzky reportedly returns to Petrograd. Foreign observers sense a final rupture amid neutral market cues. Russians dissolve the constituent assembly after Bolshevik gains, while front fighting remains subdued. British Turkish naval clash at Dardanelles ends with sunk cruiser and beached battleship. two monitors lost.
At Port Mlorence on Lake Victoria Nyanza a drydock carved from solid rock by locals who had little prior serious work stands 250 feet long 48 feet wide and 14 feet deep 3700 feet above sea level about three times Lake Chautauqua's altitude.
The Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety warns that about 706,000 seamen and soldiers must obtain War Risk Insurance promptly or risk losing Uncle Sam’s aid for dependents. Entry by October 15, 1917, must secure coverage by February 12, with a 120 day window from service start. premiums are low, for instance a 10 000 policy costs 4.60 monthly, with disability benefits of 67.40 monthly for 20 years. application blanks available through commanding officers or unit insurance officers. J Blair Sutton, Executive Secretary Indiana, Pa.
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