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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1891
Page
5
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The column notes a wreck train visit on Monday, plus local notes from Indiana, Blairsville, Greensburg and Gettysburg. It lists residents visiting relatives, sales at stores, improvements, weather, crops and a running thread of community events, schools, and local commerce.
On Tuesday morning at 9 o clock over five hundred residents rode a special train to Idlewild for a church gathering. Despite bad weather the turnout exceeded expectations and arrived around 11. The group enjoyed dinner, later sunny skies, muddy grounds, and a long afternoon with trips to Ligonier and fellow picnickers. Addresses, songs, and cheerful scenes marked the day as they prepared for the return journey.
Local items recount visits by Dr Miller and lawyer Stoan, Florida and Indiana residents in town, religious meetings in Snyder's station, and plans to move the postal office. News includes a child’s death, arrests for drunken driving, a stroke for Hon. John Bruce, and various family and community updates with regional firms and churches.
The W C F U of Dizonville mourns Mrs Martha Eleanor Campbell wife of Rev P B Campbell pastor of Westminister Methodist Dixonville. She died July 23 1891 after a life of church service temperance leadership and family devotion. Also included are stock shipments and West Indiana electric light election results.
The heaviest rain in memory drenched the region Thursday evening, lifting streams to torrents and flooding the main river below town. Crops washed away and fences and bridges torn down. A wheat field near Smickaburg was swept away. A committee formed by J B Stampé Indiana O A Ellis Marion Center W L Buchanan Dixville and G W Brady Ambrose plans a Soldiers reunion at Iediang on Friday July 21 and will report to Captain Jacob Crepe.
The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last issue: names not provided. This item records a routine civic notice of marriages licensed locally. It notes new legal documents allowing couples to wed and serves as a public record for residents.
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