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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1930
Page
7
A steady stream of visits and movements highlights this period in Vandergrift and nearby towns. Misa Mabel Graden and Emma Matson spend time together. Blairsville and Apollo visitors drop by. farmers and workers move between farms, camps, and towns. Families, a few condolences, and a road project mark the community scene.
Ray Lowman hosted a kitchen shower for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wright Thursday night with many useful gifts and a pleasant gathering. Eugene Crawford and his mother stayed with Mrs. M. A. Spicer for the week. Roy Hollis fell from a roof while painting, fracturing a foot but recovering well. Rosy Butterbaugh visited friends nearby Sunday. A Hamilton reunion drew several locals on Saturday.
Maples Grove notes announce Blair Sleppy birth in Reading and visits by Mary Coy to her sister near New Florence. Many locals visit relatives and attend reunions, with travel to Pittsburgh and Punxsutawney. Merely dated social entries include illness, birthday celebrations, guests, and ongoing family movements.
Mr and Mrs C W Sebring and family return from a motor trip to Akron and Detroit. Clyde Bee and sons Robert and Jack visit Roy Bee in Stafford. Roy Brilhart and children Paul and Jean return from Detroit. Clyde Bailey of Pittsburgh visits mother Mrs Lillie Lemon. Elizabeth Dowler from Burnside visits G T Cameron home. Dr James Peterman business call in Baltimore. Clara McPherson visits Mahaffey. Amanda Kring remains ill. Anna Leach of Elizabeth town and W E Sheaffer family visit daughters H R and Clyde Bes. Florence Madden and Grace Harkness in hospital training at Baltimore return home. Frank Roger, employee at Duncansville, spends weekend with family. H R Bice visits aunt Mrs F M Harter in Mahaffey. Celia Mangus and sister visit Mrs W C Jameson. Mildred Harbridge and Louise Harbridge noted. Music chorus planned at Ambrose Sunday July 27 at 8 pm. Charley Bell visits his uncle Sam Bell. Mrs Harry Rankin and children visit in Ohio. Mrs Harry Mulligan and children in Coalport visit sister Mrs Joe Potts. James Elkin and family visit daughter Mrs George McMilleh in Indiana. Robert Mahan and son from Creekside call on friends. Harry Mitchell, Jon Potts, Blaine and Mae Potts visit Indiana. Eva Jamison visits Dubois. Paul Streams spends weekend with mother Mrs Molia Streams of Marion Center.
Obituary notices from Indiana County columns recount deaths of residents from Blairsville, Punxsutawney, and surrounding towns. The bereaved leave spouses, children, and siblings. services are led by local pastors, with interments at Blairsville, Blairsville, and Troutville cemeteries.
Obituaries report Hiram M. Westover aged 70 of Altoona died Sunday at home with relations in Barnesboro and Spangler. Abram H. Ellsworth, 67, of West Wheatfield township died after a long illness leaving a widow and son Lester. Interment followed in Bethel church cemetery near Clyde after services at the homes and churches.
Mae Hoffman aged 3, daughter of Norman and Alice Hoffman of Wintondale, died at Memorial hospital Johnstown at 2 pm Tuesday after being admitted at noon in serious condition. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
Multi millionaire Harry B Black, long bored by wealth, shot himself at his Long Island, New York estate. Friends noted he enjoyed immense luxuries but found no lasting interest in welfare causes or other pursuits. He died this week, leaving wealth without purpose and prompting reflections on happiness and fulfillment.
More than 100 members attended the fifth annual Waltermires reunion at W H Waltermire home in Cherryhill township. A noon dinner was served and enjoyed. The next gathering will be at Clair Waltermire’s near Kenwood on the third Saturday in July 1981.
In 1029 English tourists in Carrara found a pink tinted marble block from a cliff. It was taken to England and proved a new variety, leading to a profitable quarry. Two women crossing the Mojave in Southern California misidentified a fire as asphalt, discovering a thick asphalt deposit that yielded wealth for many.
Napoleon relied on warm scented baths to clear his mind before campaigns. He reportedly used multiple small, crude tubs before battles such as Austerlitz and Leipzig and even stopped thrice en route to Waterloo for hot soaks.
A lone traveler waits at a branch line station for the only train of the day. The engine and two dilapidated carriages arrive, and the passenger chooses the cleaner seat. After a long delay the train moves, an old conductor checks the ticket and declares extra fare for a first class car with a faulty window.
In early 1800s Vienna to London mission, Benjamin Bathurst faces peril after reaching the Austrian court. He disappears at the White Swan inn near Perlburg while guarded, leaving reports of a bloodstained cloak, a possible Count d Entraiques link, and a missing body. A rescued skeleton later found under a floor remains unidentified, making Bathurst’s disappearance a Napoleonic mystery.
Clarence and George Keene two brothers aged sixteen and nine saved all 40 000 copper cents from newspaper routes to buy a sedan from a Dayton Ohio dealer. They faced two toads who demanded the car in exchange for the pennies. The boys earned and traded every cent to acquire the vehicle.
In Rast Wheatfield township and nearby communities, several couples tied the knot between July 14 and July 18. McFenters and Mock wed at Roxbury Methodist Episcopal parsonage. Edwards and Dunwild die, Rummel and Lydle, and Cevengrox and Kelly joined in marriage in various local venues. Other nuptials include Flory and Dishong at Clymer MBH parsonage, and McKean and Howard wed in Clearfield.
Doctor Theodora J. Appel, Health Secretary, discusses the rise of hurried noon meals and bolting food, urging self restraint. She warns against rapid eating shortening life and stresses nutrition applies to all ages, not just children, noting that bolting leads to digestive harm and premature aging.
The Ritz Theatre will be closed from July 28 for a Liber Day observance. Performances include On Gay Markgot with Ramon Nevarre and The Girl Said Not with William Haines, slated around July 24-25-24 and July 2 events.
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