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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1923
Page
6
Elders Ridge and nearby towns report visits and calls by Dr. Nancy Craighead and family. a new son born to Rey and Mrs J C Howenstein. Rev D Wheter Craighead visiting Strausburg. families including Meade Lowman and Mrs. Chase visiting, and multiple trips to Indiana and Barnesboro. News details health updates, school picnic plans, and local social visits through the week.
Mrs Rebecca Wilson visits with daughter Mrs Hoppin Gardner at Milton Center for weeks. New restaurant man H D Lias arrives from Rural Valley. Beryl Perry returns from Vandergrift to stay here. Mrs James Painter visits her parents at Smicksburg. Dilla Walker and Edna from Indiana tour town. Byron Stewart and family from Youngstown visit sister Cora Stewart. Chas Wilson and family from Fayfal enjoy vacation with relatives. Dr D Andrews remains ill. Ira Stewart and daughter Helen of Altoona visit sister Mrs Stewart. Richard Bell of Pittsburgh vacationing near Dayton visits grandmother Mrs C G Marshall. M Wyncoop and family from Pittsburgh visit Marshall family. Sara Lewis of Smicksburg visits grandmother Mrs Saara DeLancey. Main street piling eases dust in town.
Mrs. Murl Sheesley and Rev W T Wieaver with families visit neighbors on Sunday. Della Burkett and Lizzie Sheesley travel to Indiana Friday. Rev H C Saum returns to Pinevale after years in India and preaches, recalling his 27-year-ago sermon. Local residents greet him, with schoolmates Hazel Brown and Ova Vree land home for the week.
Mr and Mrs Walter Mumau visited Clymer on Saturday. Mr and Mrs William Stonebraker and children and Mr and Mrs Murray McQuown and children of Deckers Point spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ted McQuown. Mrs Samuel Burkett visited Indiana on Friday. Mr and Mrs Ben Napp visited Mr and Mrs George Nupp on Sunday.
In South Bend the two bridge floors were replanked by R. A. Silvis and assistants. Local residents sent greetings for a newborn daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boyer. Various visitors and neighbors frequent the area, with updates on health, travel, and social events. The Smith reunion is set for August 18 at Smith Sugar Grove near Girty to Elderton. Preaching at the Reformed church is scheduled for Sunday at 10:30 AM.
Glen Campbell and others visit relatives across Williamsburg and Altoona. Numerous families from Harrisburg Pittsburgh Dilltown and DuBois enjoyed visits with kin noted in this Indiana area social column. Ellsworth Adams arrives as newborn son to Sanford Adams family. Viola Wolfe becomes Mrs. Sanford Adams.
Clarksburg items report Charles Schultz breaking an arm last week while cranking a Ford. Mrs Metzler and her son from Young township visited. Charlie Hart of near Derry called on grandmother Hazlett. Clark Clawson and son Chester visited with friends. Mr and Mrs William Brown and family from Dayton were guests of CG Walker and Paul Linsenbigler. Mrs J R Hamilton spent Monday with her brother H M Lowman after visiting Mr Hamilton and family. The Hakman family from Munhall stayed with their aunt Mrs Margaret Black and traveled to Blairsville Conemaugh and Johnstown. Mr and Mrs Wolf and children are doing light housekeeping at S M Cunningham’s home. Mr Wolfe is working on the new road. Rev R M Offut of Indiana and the pastor swapped pulpits. Offut preached here while Fraser preached at Rural Valley.
McCrory five and ten cent stores head John G. McCrory toured local farms over the weekend. Mrs Letitia Myers spent the past week with Indiana relatives. The Sunday schools young people's division held a weiner roast Tuesday night at the community building. Mrs A C Davis and daughter Eleanor of Newark Delaware returned home Sunday from a visit with M C Stewart.
IDAHG Mr and Mrs Lysle Meyers and son stay in Sharpsburg at Bleakney orchard near Hiterton for months. Mr and Mrs W B H Fryer and Mrs Bertha George of Apollo visit their sister Mrs W P George who is ill. Hay Meyer and son from California spent Sunday with parents Mr and Mrs W W Barr. Mrs Marvin Silvis and family return home after two weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs Harry Dillinger of Homer City.
The Grow Bennett School District plans a reunion for former residents teachers and pupils at the Bennett school house in Buffington township on Thursday August 16. Also announced are the Sprankle family reunion at Walnut Grove August 9 with music and games and the fourth annual Dick reunion at J M Dick farm near Clymer on August 4. A postmaster exam in Chambersville is scheduled for August 18 with the Indiana test site on that date and a 1620 salary last year for the Chambersville office.
Mr and Mrs Mack Buterbaugh and children spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ray Buterbaugh Mrs William Lewis of Vandergrift visited her sister Miss Nolan Fuller Charles Engle and son Carl and Miss Anna Brandt spent Sunday with friends in Delmont Mr and Mrs Rowland Claypool and son Richard Mr and Mrs John Rankin of Pittsburgh spent Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs A C Rankin John Giles of Starford visiting his sister Mrs Andy Wauchisen Mr and Mrs Lutman and children of Starford spent Sunday with Mrs Anna Goss Anna Margaret Fuller visiting aunt Mrs William Lewis at Vandergrift W M Churchill is running a new Chevrolet Mr and Mrs W M Bowers visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs Roy Kidd at Glen Campbell Harry Rowley spent Sunday with Mr and Mrsohn Nicholson near Cockport Mr and Mrs S C Daugherty and Preaching in the Wesleyan Methodist church Sunday evening at 7 30 Indiana on Sunday afternoon
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