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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1917
Page
7
County Town News reports a box and pie social organized by the Boy Scouts in the Mc Connaughey building on Friday night, February 2. Local residents from Punxsutawney to Indiana and nearby areas are noted in social visits, hospitalities, and community movements, including mine and rail activity updates.
Mrs L E Lakehart recovers from bronchitis. R Levison sells his store and plans to move to Jeannette. Mrs M G C Wyncoop and Rebecca Morrow visit Mrs A M Morrow of DuBois with Lynn Means guest of Thomas Olsen’s family. Samuel Olsen admitted to Adrian hospital for appendectomy. Wm Fleming visiting daughter Mrs H M Zimmerman. Elizabeth Zimmerman has slight paralysis. G I Shaffer, recently home from West Penn hospital, shows improvement. Mr and Mrs H Thompson of Indiana visit Alex Thompson’s family. Thompson to return home, Mrs Thompson to stay awhile. D W Donds buys a music box. W C T U to meet at Miss Cora Stewart’s on Feb 7 with devotional by Mrs Van Horn, roll call, scriptures, songs, and program topics.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health details the heat retaining properties of softer blankets over army blankets, recommending lighter multiple coverings in hospitals. It includes blanket specifications, embroidery, and production notes, plus a discussion on egg production costs and a warning about glanders as an incurable disease affecting animals and humans with transmission via shared objects.
Local notes report Elizabeth and Mabel Frederick visiting Richmond. Burt Kinter and Robert Hazlett appeared as business callers in Indiana. Guy Kimes, employed in Punxsutawney, spent Sunday at home. Mrs. Sharp Whitaker and Mrs. Lowman Neal visited March. Lee Van Worn from Plumville spent Sabbath with parents here. Dala Sprankle, employed at Butler, is visiting nearby. Revival services begin tonight at the M. B. church. A health piece by Samuel G. Dixon follows amid a discussion of blankets in US army hospitals.
The notice lists letters testamentary or administration for multiple estates including John Ti Merten Attorney, W J Johnston, Jacob Evegwine, with executors or administrators named and requests creditors to present claims and debtors to make payment. Names include Veter Houck, Washington Township, Indiana, and Longwise.
Fragmented notice requests those with claims in Tiginville to present details and settle debts. References individuals aged, date lines and a Dayton, Virginia address appear, indicating a legal settlement process and payment obligations.
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