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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1920
Page
5
East Wheatfield column reports pastor O B Rodkey returning from Buckhannon after rural pastor training. Martha Tomb back from Epworth League Institute with 700 attendees at Pittsburgh conference. tragedy as a McKees Rocks woman died of pneumonia after drowning resuscitation. Other items include visits, trips, entertainments, church events, meetings, and a mining accident injuring Mr Johns in Armerford.
The column catalogs local social news from Rochester Mills and nearby towns. It lists visits by residents to relatives, attendance at funerals including Clark Baun at Pine Church, pastoral changes, lectures by Dr J Linwood Isenberg, and various family gatherings and weekend trips among families such as Raleighs, Shanks, Richardsons, Weavers, Bauns, Mauk, and Smiths. It records church events, Sunday school presences, and community speakers, with many names and places like Idamar, DuBois, Norristown, Glade Run, Plumcreek, and Elderton.
Public notice from July 1920 lists banks and county officers in Indiana County reporting unclaimed funds under acts of 1915 and 1917. It warns owners or beneficiaries to claim amounts to avoid escheat, naming Blairsville National Bank and other institutions along with listed owners and unknowns.
W H Pierce and family of Pitcairn visited Mr and Mrs Paul Adams Sunday. Arthur Lewis and Cora Underwood spent weekend with La Trobe and Loudsville friends. Miss Peart Overdorffing visiting in Johnstown. Dorothy Little and sister Nellie Foster spent Wednesday with Claghorn friends. Merle Engle and family called on C A Underwood Sunday. George and B F Underwood celebrated birthdays with relatives at their old homestead. Lizzie Mack nursing a foot injury from a spike. Clair Leasure and family of Clymet called on IH James Sunday. Miss Weber Leasure of Deckers Point visiting with Roy Douglass and family. Henry of Cockport spent week with Paul Wilt. Mrs Lynn Widdowson and son of Plymer called Monday. Mrs Id Widdowson of Indiana guest at brother O W Barber Monday. Stork brought a baby boy to John Langham’s home. Chuck Ballington of Clymer and Old Leasure visited Warnesboro Sunday. Mrs Maggia Whitlowson and Mrs John Minto and Mrs Harry Wissinger visited uncle Nelson Widdowson near Dixonville Thursday. Pine Flats: Wm Craft family of Shanktown spent Sunday with J G Davis. Paul Wilt of Millville visited J Williams. Grace Williams of Indiana and Marenrel Slater of Pittsburgh visitors all week at Judson Parry’s. Raymond Lockard guest of Gilbert Douglass Sunday. Rev C E B Parker visiting in area. Grace Williams guest of Sara Stephens Sunday.
J C Ogden of Ebensburg sells a fine registered Guerne sey bull to Willsdals man J M McMalen near Hillsale. The purchase advances local cattle stock with a notable pedigree.
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