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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1909
Page
5
Visitors from Dubois and Pittsburgh fill the week with calls to relatives while townsfolk report open lodge ceremonies, renewals and a variety of minor incidents. Scattered social visits, medical updates, a minor mining accident, job moves, and a school victory round out a busy period.
A jumble of brief items from Rochester Mills, Pine Flats, and nearby towns notes visits, arrivals, and departures. Names include Mrs. Bruce George, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rowley, and Miss Ella Dety. events mention a lawn fete at the M B church and a death in the Shankle family.
John Smyers and Olive Buterbaugh left for a few days with relatives in Pittsburgh. Miss Sadie Rice of Marion Center visited relatives and friends here last week. Mia, Charles Sheestey and children of Glassport are visiting at Salem Bheenley. At the social Tuesday night, $18 was cleared. Rose Stonsbraker. Spent Sabbath at her home here. Bylvester Thomas called on friends Sunday.
Community notes report visits and greetings across towns. Families travel to Seattle for exposition events while others visit relatives in Leechburg and Tarentum. Local infrastructure concerns include a dangerous covered bridge closed for repair or replacement.
Josephine Walsh and family visit friends in Cleveland as trolley tracks near completion. J u Purcell takes a coke company post near Uniontown. Mrs Purcell to join soon. Mrs Rows and daughter visit R L James in New Kensington. Mrs Durkin hosts Mrs Irwin of Scotdale. Numerous student names listed for Diamondville and Greenville rooms. board to elect upper and lower room teachers later. Festival planned at Mitchells Mills with Sunday school picnic on August 7. Ridgeview camp meeting attendees. Chester Long visited Our town.
Miss Gatl'crit s of Washington visiting friends in town. W M Uber and J Snyder of Canoe Ridge county seat visitors. Joseph Thompson and family from Pittsburg visit Thompson's mother. Miss Marie Johns of Wilkinsburg visits sister Mrs Moorhead. Dr Charlee M St Clair and Dr Fred W St Clair of Latrobe as Indiana visitors. Mrs C B Larimer and daughter of Bellefonte guests of sister Mrs M A McGinnis. Mrs C R Lininger of Bellevue guest of parents A T Moorhead. Attorney D H Tomb leaves town for Buffalo and Detroit on two week business. John Fsteying with daughter Helen to New York City for furniture exposition. John W Beatty with family from Wilkinsburg guests of H M Lowry. Samuel Fleming of Chambersville visits brother Thomas Fleming on Fair Grounds. Mrs Seward Davidson and two children return to Johnstown. A B Galley awarded contract for additions to Nan tyella Twin Rocks schools and new Belsano building. Mrs Mary Hancock of West Lebanon and sister Mrs Blake return from Kansas trip. They visit Mrs David Myers of Columbus. Mr Hancock and daughters stop at Galesburg on return. Harvey Hancock and Bon of Mrs Hancock. Mrs Matilda Guista of Sheld a visits daughter Mrs Emma Jobe of Water street. Mrs Jackson Rupert of Shelaatca accompanies Mrs Guista, nearly 80 but in good health. Alex M Stewart and Harry Laughs in Chautangua.
Mrs Fraik Fowler visits her daughter Mrs A Gi Rankin in Blairsville while Miss Mary Bee visits sister Mrs W B Dodsch of Water street. G W Stratum and Mrs Fred Jones of Pinxsutawney visit their parents H M Lydick and wife in town, spending the first of the week with relatives in Lovejoy.
Nine estates divided with bequests to heirs including W R Conner farm of 65 acres in Washington township for 600 paid over six years to three daughters, Katherine Grove to a Chamberaville house and lot, and several other wills dated 1892 to 1909 naming executors and heirs among Millen Harman Williams and Brandon with farms, cash shares, and specific legacies. A Rayne township school board meeting invites bids for roofing and painting, desks and teacher elections, plus local notices and social events.
A purser recalls a notorious theft on the Ruritania voyage where items bearing the ship’s name vanished. A stewardess reports Lady Blank stole two silver inkwells, prompting the captain to confiscate one and warn that scandal must be avoided while high seas mischief is blamed on a notorious souvenir thief.
A quotation from Success Magazine renders a prayer describing the land of Canada as barren of milk and honey and lamenting Ireland. The speaker asks God to place Scots in parliament and rulers while condemning Ireland, ending with an emphatic Amen.
The passage notes how coastal and island communities use self referential terms for their broader land. Isle of Wight residents say going to England for their own fragment of the kingdom, Cornish crossers of the Tamar say going to England, Balkan peoples speak of going to Europe, Britons feel both in and of the continent, a Scottish minister referenced Cum brae and Brit. and Ireland, and Massachusetts residents say going down east to Maine.
A London bishop Dr Creighton claims insomnia never troubles him and explains his cure. If he feels drowsy he writes a sermon and wakes in minutes, while reading a sermon makes him sleep. Lord Rosebery notes he prefers sleeplessness to reading sermons. Also notices include reductions in screen doors by Indiana Hardware and a Lydick reunion in Marlon Center on August 26, plus a Sabbath School convention in Salteburg, Pa on September 13-14.
The article outlines Moskingum College offerings including classical scientific and philosophical studies, with a preparatory department and a 1st grade light school. It notes 172 pupils enrolled this term and details new laboratory facilities, student capacity about 470, and reasonable expenses as the institution opens Hoyt Hall. Catalogs available from Charles Montgomery and others.
Congressman J N Langham announces pension approvals in the district for numerous veterans including John Graham Hast Brady Samuel Mun shower George Depp Edward Mc Intire Daniel Helges John C Doran Amos Heinderleiter William Hill Josiah D Wigte Gawin A McLain Benjamin Gitthuyser and others with monthly amounts ranging from 12 to 20 dollars. The names cover towns such as Indiana Brockwayville Punxsutawney Croft and Croft area communities.
Fragmentary OCR item lists names and amounts including Anns B Maer widow Adda G Otterman and John W Otterman in Hor City with monetary figures 412.00 and 12 dollars. The text reads as a damaged notice or notice-like fragment with unclear context and multiple names.
In Kittanning Pennsylvania on July 16 Sheriff Chambers Frick climbed a cherry tree to reach Mrs K Crawford in Butt Yard when serving a divorced subpoena. She did not respond to the sheriffs request to come down, so he ascended to the top of the tree and delivered the writ.
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