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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1901
Page
4
The article discusses summer recreation choices from quiet retreats to active outings, mentions the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and notes Salvation Army ice aid in Pittsburg. It includes social events at homes on Wayne and Ninth streets, and church service plans for Rayne township and town congregations in August.
Indiana Post No 28 G A B will occupy quarters at Broadway school building Greveland Ohio during September encampment. Attendance expected large. post members urged to notify committee. Jurors selected for September term by J Scott McGahey and Jackson McMillen Ambrose. list published in this week’s Progress.
A week’s worthy nuptials unfold in Blairsville and Blairville with several marriages including William Carleton McKee of New York and Nancy P Shepley, Edward Kilgore and Marie Wagle, John Kinsley and Ellen Hughes, James Overdorff and Verna Palmer, and Frank McGaughey and Nettie Snyder, plus real estate transfers listing numerous property deeds and prices across Pine White and Indiana areas.
Kellysburg shut out Greenville 4 to 0 in a fast one hour and twenty five minute game at Kellysburg. Both pitchers McCreight and McElboes were strong, while Kellysburg’s infield made no errors and Lightcap delivered a two base hit. Batteries Kellysburg McElhoes Adams Greenville McCreight Gamble.
In Cherryhill township more than 100 neighbors gathered at Mrs Polly Hadden's home to celebrate her eighty six years. A noon dinner followed by afternoon speeches from Rev. W J Sproull and Miss Maria Stephens and music by the Hoffman band marked the celebration. Mrs Hadden received gifts. an old arnica salve anecdote and local ads accompany the write up. Election of W C T U officers and delegates to a regional institute is announced for August with dates and locations. Also a note advertising blacksmithing training and local business names.
Miss Miriam Cameron visits Pittaburg friends while J W Harbison and Ernest Stewart attend Sabbath and Pittaburg events. Mrs Samuel Nicholson visits her mother in town. many others travel to Atlantic City Buffalo Blairsville and Carmarthens. Local residents guest or host relatives in Johnstown Marion Center Grisemore Lilly Edensburg Oakland Oakland avenue. Several officials and families attend weddings expositions and church events with Mrs Elkin and Dr Hunter visiting elsewhere.
A week at the Pan-American Exposition and home via Albany and New York City is planned. Ruth Tiffany and two Nichol sisters with Emma Munshower of White township depart for Dunkirk to join Pittsburg ladies for weeks, with Buffalo and Chautauqua on the schedule. James Anderson of North Eighth street grows an abundantly fruitful Abundance plum. Mrs. W. P. Griffin of Chicago, guest of her father Lewia Wissinger, returns home with sister Lena after a stay in White township.
Lists of grand jurors drawn for the September 1901 term across Blairsville Center Cherrytree Grant Indiana Jacksonville Mahoning and surrounding townships with first and second week panels and numerous names. The document also notes a lengthy will of John Clyde filed in East Mahoning, detailing bequests to relatives and land distribution, dated 1896.
Executive Committee of the Indiana County Soldiers' Association will meet at M. B. Kline’s office in Indiana on Monday August 5 at 1 p m to conduct reunion related business. Attendees urged. list includes John Weir Martin Kier J M Hazlett Jacob Shank M H Fails S Kennedy Alex Work G A McLain J M Marshall ex-officio and J M Mass Hatu secretary.
An old advertisement touts cataract removal as the sole remedy for lens opacity, performed painlessly with eye drops. It cites Dr. Sadler of Pittsburgh, claiming 116 of 120 successes and refunds if instructions fail, offering pamphlets and references from Johns Town Pennsylvania.
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