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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1894
Page
4
Indiana Progress prints the 1894 state ticket including Hastings Lyon Mylin Latta Grow Huff with a warning about elevated rhetoric amid labor unrest. It cautions citizens to be thoughtful loyal to law and warns that federal authority will suppress insurrection if needed.
Citizens urged to support the President and uphold law, opposing labor clashes and calls for division. The piece criticizes Pullman and stresses voting the straight Republican ticket, while noting unrest among Democrats and calls for unity within the party amid internal conflicts.
Immigration fell nearly in half during the last fiscal year’s eleven months compared with the same period a year earlier. The drive cites hard times and world spread warnings via letters urging funds, while criticizing Democratic leaders for allied efforts to revive restrictive Chicago platform doctrines in statutes.
The piece argues that wool production rose 80 million pounds from 1891 to 1893 but dropped by 108 million by 1894 due to free trade policies. It notes wool prices at 16 cents and predicts long-term harm to farmers, plus mentions beet sugar growth under the tariff and a call for farmer unity ahead of elections. The Greensburg Tribune quotation underscores farmer political power.
Smicksburg I O O F Lodge 891 adopted memorial resolutions for brother A J Crissman on Friday July 6 1894 praising his faithful service and urging mourning decorum. They expressed sympathy to his family and ordered the lodge room draped for thirty days and mourning badges worn by members.
The Souvenir Book of the Twenty Eighth G A R Encampment to be held in Pittsburg September 10 to 14 is in press under the printing committee. It will be a 160 page magazine style work weighing 120000 pounds of paper, with 100000 copies printed and sold at ten cents each. It contains the official program, roster of posts, reunions, parade route, orders, war-time Pittsburg views, city history, and G A R history.
Company A Gist Regiment P V will hold its thirteenth annual reunion and thirty third anniversary of entering service at Smicksburg Indiana County Penna on Tuesday August 21 1894 All members urged to attend A committee of arrangements and program are Capt D A Lukehart Sergt J C Armor J M Chambers Peter Keal and A streams by order of W A S Work President O A Ellis Cor See
The new Commissioners' clerk James A. Crossman is commended for completing a large backlog of clerical work since last October. He is described as a quick capable man with good business qualifications and strong personal integrity, serving the county's interests and his own rights.
Communion services will be held in the Presbyterian church on next Sabbath. The old tannery building on West Philadelphia street is being torn down this week. Rev. J. M. Jones will preach in the Homewood Presbyterian church at East End Pittsburgh on next Sabbath. A child of James Spicher died last Friday. remains interred at Shiloh church graveyard. Connellsville Mountain Laundry advertises quality work. Ira Myers, at the Indiana House, is agent with many local customers. Holmes Brothers finished timber cutting for A. W. Contract in Cherryhill and will run their steam separator. Johnston Moorhead brought eleven head of fat cattle to Indiana, shipped to Brown Brothers in Blairsville. Blairsville residents may enjoy the beef from a farm with cool springs and clean pastures.
A Hawthorn select school reception at Prof. J. H. Peterman’s home on July 3 included ice cream, cake, and music. About fifty attendees, led by Jas. Cathcart, presented lamps and jewelry to the teacher as thanks. Unclaimed letters list for Indi ana, Pa., dated July 10, 1804, follows.
The Non Partisan W C T A plans a coffee and chicken free booth at the fair to store fruit for winter and invites inquiries for rental. Contact Mrs E P Hildebrand or Mrs Lizzie Sutton, Indiana Pa. Dates July 3 to 10. Includes listings of livestock from Salford Lansdale West Philadelphia Palm Morristown Man.
Dr. I. N. Ketler, president of Grove City College, will preach at the Presbyterian church in Jacksonville on the morning of next Sabbath July 15 and at Bethel church in the afternoon. He will also speak to the youth at Jacksonville Saturday evening and at Bethel Sabbath evening.
Rising Sun Council No 74 of Liberty will host a lawn party at Persterebel Point on Wednesday evening July 18. The menu includes chicken and pies plus ice cream cake peaches lemonade bananas and other seasonal delicacies.
Thomas D. Dias of Seward Pennsylvania formerly with Co D 11th Pennsylvania Infantry receives an $8 monthly pension increase approved through the agency of Frank Donahugh.
Rev Hay of the Lutheran church will preach in the barn of Climton McKee in Rayne township on the coming Sabbath afternoon at four o'clock.
A 1804 letter from Junction City Lane county Oregon describes fertile soils, hop production, and a single family’s harvest yields. It notes soil, wheat, oats, barley and potatoes, and praises local hospitality. The author covers political campaigns in Eugene, party cooperation, and a railroad journey toward Oregon’s southern valleys and Shasta country.
Mrs Sera Houston of near Purchase Line died at the home of M B Wynensp in Cherryhall on Menieg morn ing aged 32. She was one of the oldest residents in the county and was to be buried in Cherryhill vale on Tuesday.
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