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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1935
Page
5
The county commissioners fixed the 1935 tax levy at 10 mills a two mill cut from 1934, aiming to save taxpayers about $80,000. The 1936 levy sets seven mills for sinking fund and three for general fund, with 65 percent collection expected for 1935. The total 1935 budget is about $569,972.86 including $250,726 sinking fund, $95,765.87 poor fund, and $213,480.99 general fund.
L B Decker of the Pennsylvania State Police conducted a test of a short wave police radio for the Sheriff’s Office in the Court House Indiana. The aim is to link the sheriff offices with State Police HQ in Harrisburg, WPSP, with hourly contact and planned statewide installation after tests in western counties. The project is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Sheriffs Association.
H Wallace Thomas of town and chairman of the Republican County Committee was named an Inspector for the Public Service Commission with headquarters in Indiana The appointment is not administrative and he will visit Pittsburgh for two weeks of instruction before establishing his base there Mrs Harry W Fee is bequeathed 14000 by the will of Mrs Lottie Greeley of Pittsburgh who died recently Greeley was a native of this county and sister to Mrs Fee’s mother Her remains were brought here by Mr and Mrs Fee and interred in Greenwood cemetery
M C Gordon was elected secretary of the Indiana Building and Loan Association for the coming year following the annual meeting held here recently. He succeeds F McClure, who had held the office for several years. Mr Gordon assumes his new duties in February.
Miss Cora Withington, once a Los Angeles teacher and Indiana State Normal School alumna, is presented with The Talking Book by her former classmates. Funds from the class of 99, Indiana, supported by Mrs Mab Dickie Smith, finance the device to aid reading for the blind.
The record lists forty eight grand jurors for the first Monday in March 1995, with names from multiple townships including Pine Two Boston Rev J K Creekalda Campbell Cyrus Buffington and others. It also covers traverse jurors for the third Monday in March 1935 with extensive names such as Ansley Frank Ashbaugh Blairsville and Indiana.
Attorney Robert M. Fisher fa in Harrisburg on business Mrs B F Clark sails Friday on a West Indies tour J H Luxenberg local jeweler pending Florida Mrs James Speedy of Oak street spent last week with Punxsutawney relatives Mr and Mrs Merle Pease of North Fourth street weekend in Penfield Mr and Mrs Frank Douglass Ninth street two weeks in Florida others visit Indiana and around town with relatives and subscriptions to The Progress renewed by multiple residents
County Democrats from all sections met in Indiana on Saturday to form the Democratic Club of Indiana County. Thomas Pealer was elected president with officers including B C Buchhett, James Lyons, Thomas Duncan, Rev Charles Held, and Harry W Fee. Fee announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for County Judge at the September primary, as party registration nears 9,700 and is expected to rise.
William H. Van Winkle, 32, of New Kensington, died in a Indiana hospital from internal injuries after his car crashed into a concrete bridge at South Bend on January 6. High brother Rev Charles Van Winkle and Robert Zimmerman, both injured, were in the car and hospitalized in good condition. The group was en route to Indiana where Van Winkle was to preach in the Christian church.
Herbert N. Prugh, 65, lifelong Elderton resident, was killed when a tree limb struck him as he and his son cut wood on the Prugh farm near Elderton. Funeral in Elderton Presbyterian Church followed by burial in Elderton cemetery. He leaves a widow and children Lloyd Prugh, Mrs. Lawrence Shaeffer, and John A. Prugh.
The second President's Birthday Ball will be held in the State Armory this evening with events similar to those in other parts of the country. Seventy percent of the net receipts stay in Indlang county to aid crippled children’s treatment. William Laney of Philadelphia street spent several days in Pittsburgh last week.
Rev Al di Pfohl was elected director and chairman, with HW Hinterlettner as director and first vice chairman, Norman Koonty as second vice chairman, and Mra J R Forrester as secretary at the Indiana County Chapter annual meeting held with the Indiana Rotary Club. Three new directors joined, including Mrs J Roy Maloney, Mrs Paul Gill, and L McMillen. The report by executive secretary Evelyn Armstrong stressed membership as the lifeblood and dues funding its activities.
An overheated living room grate caused a fire that gutted the Walker home on Oakland avenue, destroying most of the interior and contents. Firefighters fought flames in freezing weather after the couple left for church rehearsals. Estimated loss about 4060 dollars. This follows a prior serious loss to the same family thirty years earlier in a freight wreck.
Funeral services were held today in Camer ons Bottom for Zeke Yankovich 22 of Heilwood who died in Indiana hospital from injuries suffered January 2 in Russell Coal Company mines near Clymer. He was crushed between a mine train and coal rib. infection from the crushed thigh caused his death. He leaves a widow two young children his parents and a brother and sister.
County farmers are invited to three corn hog reduction meetings announced for Blairsville Indiana and Marion Center. The Farmers Co operative Association will hold its annual meeting at Plumereck Church near Whlerton on Saturday February 2. Morning sessions cover business reports and afs ers while women attend a session on Home Conveniences led by Miss Helen Ann Thomas. Discussions include marketing potatoes 1935 prospects by Albert Riggle prediction of fruit crops by Claude Verger and dairy problems by G Kimmel. A 40 cent noon dinner is planned followed by J G Steele presenting a talk on the Local Soil Erosion Project at 1:00 PM.
William McMillen transfers 107 acres in Washington to E G McMillen for one dollar. Numerous adjacent deeds list buyers and prices, including Blanche Clark, Samuel Conrad, and others. A Marchand wedding features Byron Campbell and Margaret Morgan with Joseph Varner, a Civil War veteran, and his wife as attendees and grandparents to the bride.
Mrs Maggie Berkey farm of 715 acres near Lewisville in Conemaugh township was sold on Thursday to Truby Beers of Bairdstown. The sale was handled by Charles P Cramer of Blairsville as representative of E A Strout Realty Agency. Mr Beers is an experienced farmer. The late Mr Berkey had died years ago and Mrs Berkey is over 75 and currently living in Johnstown.
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