Excellent Speakers Set for Indiana County Sabbath School Meet
A group of outstanding Sabbath School workers will headline the 88th Indiana County Sabbath School Association convention to be held September 20 and 21 at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana. Rev. Harry C. Munro of Chicago will direct the adult rally, Rev. Harry Thomas Stock of Boston will lead the young peoples rally, and Miss Hazel A. Lewis of St. Louis will supervise children’s activities during day sessions. Rev. Warren Griffiths of Hullwood City will speak on both days, as the executive committee builds a program aimed at inspiration and interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry ©. Munro
Chicago
Harry Stock
Boston
Hazel A. Lewis
St. Louis
Indiana County Sabbath School Association
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Indiana
Wallace ©. Chapman
Harry C.munro
International Council of Religious Education
Presbyterian Church
Harry Thomas Stock
Young Peoples Division
Young Peoples
Methodist ‘Episcopal Church
American Sabbath School
Warren Griffiths
Hilwood City
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association
Sabbath School District Opposes Opening Liquor Stores
At a Mahoning United Presbyterian church meeting the Young People Council District No 1 Indiana County Sabbath School Association voted unanimously to protest the opening of one man liquor stores or any liquor stores in East West North and South Mahoning townships and the boroughs of Plumville Marion Center and Smickburg. The protest will be filed with the State Liquor Control Board in Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Peoples Council of District No. 1
Indiana County Sabbath School Association
Mahoning United Presbyterian Church
State Liquor Control Board
Harrisburg
State forest nurseries close spring seedling shipment tally
Harrisburg July 81 The Department of Forests and Waters closed the books on the spring shipment from four state nurseries. A total of 8 026 687 trees were shipped, valued at 18 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Harrisburg
Department of Forests and Waters
Hospital Patient Thomas Lowther Under Observation
Thomas 8 Lowther of South Seventh Street is an Indiana hospital patient under observation for complications after carbuncle removal on his neck several weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas 8. Lowther
South Seventh Street
Indiana Hospital
Marriage Licenses and Oddities From a Fragmented List
Readable items show marriage licenses and scattered names across places like Clarksburg Teelin and Shelocta along with remarks on American needs. The fragment mentions Eugene Elliott Hellwood Lindsay Hellwood John J Thompson Alma Inez Delponte Teelin Henry J Hinterleltner Indiana Mary Evelyn Armstrong Indiana and others amid musings on cars and church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Elliott
Hellwood
Jesale Lindsay
John J. Thompson
Clarksburg
Alma
Inez Delponte
Teelin
Henry J
Hinterleltner
Indiana
Mary Evelyn Armstrong
Harold & Fitzgerald
Butler Trudelie Fettermann
Hillsdale
Frederick William Youni
Shelocta
Olive Estella Shaffer
Shelocta Frenuk Kasick
Aultman
Mary Lisicky Bialieville
Real estate transfers across Indiana County several parcels
A list of real estate transfers records titles changing hands in Indiana County. Jean I. Green to Lily Ruth Pond for half interest in 157 acres in North Mahoning. Reed Exs. to Reeger for 129 acres in East Wheatfield. Nisewonger to H V Herlinger for 67 acres in Montgomery. First National Bank to William Growden for a house and lot in Indians. DeGaetano to Fer rara for 186 acres in Canoes. Bowser to Carlyle Fee for a house and lot in White. Fee to Bowser for $1. Adama to Home Building and Loan Association for a Blairsville tract. Hallie Hold to Matilda Good for 2 Jota in Marion Center. Treasurer Allison to Indiana County Commissioners for 6 acres in Banks. Commissioners to Ford McManus for 6 acres in Banks. Sarver to EB Ewing for 3.28 acres in Burrell. Cunningham to Joe Kubala for 2 tracts in Young township. Tyger to Indiana County Building and Loan for 2 lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean I. Green
Lily Ruth
R.B. Bowser
Carlyle Fee
White Township
R. Carlyle Fee
R. B. Bowser
Catherine Adama
Home Buiding and Loan Association
Blairsville
Hallie E. Hold
Matilda A. Good
Marion Center
Elmer W. Allison
Indiana ‘County
Banks Township
Commissioners
Indiana County
Ford McManus
Enoch T. Sarver
EB. R. Ewing
Burrell Township
Almarinda Cunningham
Joe Kubala
Young Township
Mary C. Tyger
Indiana County Building and Loan Association
Miss Araminta McLane Dies During East Liverpool Visit
Miss Araminta McLane formerly librarians at Local College and Indiana State Teachers College, served 40 years, died suddenly Tuesday while visiting her sister Misa Josle E. McLane in East Liverpool Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Araminta McLane
East Liverpool
McKeesport
Indiana State Teachers College
Misa Josle E. McLane
Livestock Killed by Lightning During Storm
Ebby Smith, a Pine Township farmer, loses several head of livestock to lightning as they sheltered under a tree during a Sunday electrical storm. Will Camp of Cooks Forest and Mr. and Mrs Waldron with son Billy of South Seventh Street plan a two week camping trip at Cooks Forest starting early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hbby Smith
Pine Township
Ebby Smith
Cooks Forest
Indiana Marine Charles Regan Died in China
Charles Edward Regan 26 of Indiana died in Taung Tao China on Friday July 26 from pneumonia aboard the Hospital Relief Ship Canopus. Enlisted Aug 15 1927 he served in medical service. Funeral with full military honors at Arlington. He leaves parents Martin and Mrs Regan two brothers Joseph and Paul a sister Mary Margaret. Father is assistant superintendent at Prudential Life in Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Edward Regan
Martin J. Regan
South Fifth Street
United States Marines
Taung Tao
China
Charles
U. 8
Canopus
Paul P. Regan
United States
Ranger
Paul
California
Arlington Cemetery
Joseph Regan
Mary Margaret Regan
Regan
Prudential Life, Insurance Co
Indiana
Severe wind and rain storm damages Indiana Sunday
A severe wind and rain storm struck Indiana and surrounding areas shortly before noon on Sunday. The wind felled telephone poles and trees and leveled corn fields and gardens while heavy rain washed rural roads and gardens and swelled local streams to record spring and summer levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Fulton Appointed Assistant Pastor at East Liberty Church
Rev. Charles W. Fulton of Beav er has been appointed assistant orator of East Liberty Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh after preaching at First United Presbyterian Indiana. He graduated this year from Pittsburgh Xenia Theological Seminary and served as supply pastor there this summer. Four youths from Indiana and Homer City were held for court on charges of stealing cars and joyriding, with the four detained for further proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Fulton
East Liberty Presbyterian Church
Beaver
First United Presbyterian Church
Pittsburgh
Fulton
Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary
First United Presbyterian Church of Indiana
Indiana
Homer City
Kelly and
Allen
College Art Instructor Accepts North Carolina Post
Gregory D. Ivy, art instructor at Indiana State Teachers College, has resigned to become art director at the University of North Carolina Women's College in Greensboro. He will relocate this week. Tea makes a good base for punch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Gregory D. Ivy
Indiana State Teachers College
University of North Carolina Women's College
Greensboro
N. C
Head-On Crashes Highlight Grim Highway Toll
A stark Reader's Digest account describes straight stretches as death traps where careless driving and high speed prepare gruesome, multi-car pileups. Troopers recall five-car wrecks with seven killed on the scene and additional fatalities later, painting a vivid, brutal picture of carnage and personal tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astor Flats
Albany Post Road
New York
C. Furnas
Reader's Digest
Furnas
Personal BREVITIES list of Indiana residents travels
Indiana notes list numerous residents visiting relatives in McKeesport Detroit Philadelphia Baltimore and beyond. Names include Mrs Walter Whitmyre G T Buchanan Meade Overdorff Mina Elsie Crandall Lillian Troutman Ethel Craig Jane Daugherty John M Getty and many others with trips to Chautauqua New York Philadelphia Atlantic City Racine and Ocean City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Whitmyre
Town
McKeesport
Mis
G. T. Buchanan
Meade Overdorff
Chautauqua
N. Y
Jessie Pruner
Mina Elsie Crandall
Detroit
Mich
Marie Beard
Betty Hughes
Portage
Mas
Robert M. Ewing
John Whitehouse
Pittsburgh
Indiana
Lillian Troutman
Montclair
N. J
Ethel Craig
East Locust Street
George Fisher
Washington Street
I. W. Fleming
Richard
J. Merle Fleming
Point Marton
Helen Fleming
Grant St
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Richard Madden
Thirteenth Street
Lincoln
Neb
Mary Rankin
Miller
Rebecca Miller
Plumville
Elizabeth McGaughey
West Philadelphia
W. H. Cribba
Blairaville
Myrtle Longwill
Rachel
Harry McQuown
Charlotte
N. C
William Smathers
Somerset
Smathers
Holt Hugas
M. B. Church
New England States
Tweet Burnhem
Jeannette
John M. Daugherty
Church Street
Seward Davison
Johnstown
Rebecca Davison
A. E. Fairbanks
John M
W. H. Smith
Canoe Township
Jennie Ackerman
Lilian McLean
Indiana State Teachers College
Europe
James F., Chapman
Harriet
South Seventh Street
New York
Boston
New England
Jack
Charles F. Pauch
South Third Street
Indiana Hospital
Virgil Cosby
Joyce Ann
Oneonta
J. B. Miller
Norman Koontz
Joseph Lambert
James McKelvey
Russel Beamer
Elders Ridge
Restoale
Ontario
M. Johnson
Anna Taylor
Thomas Smyth
Washington St
Cooks Forest
John L. Getty
Lawrence Getty
Youngstown
Ocean City
Raymond Beck
San Diego
Calif
Yellowstone National Park
Boulder Dam
Ernest Stewart
Truck death of William J Payne spurs coroner probe
Coroner's jury in Lockport recommends further investigation of William J Payne Jr driver after his father William J Payne 65 fell from a moving truck on a West Wheatfield dirt road. The machine left the road and plunged into a ditch, neck fracture fatal. Funeral noted for Windber resident Mrs Charles Weir 65 with extended family listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coroner
William J. Payne
Lockport
William J. Payne, Jr
Climax
West Wheatfield Township
New Florence
Moorhead nominates for District Attorney on Republican ticket
Attorney J Reppell Moorhead announces candidacy for District Attorney. A lifelong Indiana resident and county pioneer descendant, he graduated from Muskingum College and Pitt Law School. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Indiana County Courts, he has pursued law in Indiana with strong Republican ties and community involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Reppell Moorhead
Indiana
Muskingum College
Law School
Pittsburgh University
Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania
Aspiring Auditor Howard R. Myers Seeks Republican Nomination
Howard R. Myers of Armstrong township announces his bid for County Auditor on the Republican ticket in the upcoming Primary. A lifelong resident and prominent farmer, he is a graduate of Indiana State Teachers College and active in public affairs, with business experience supporters say equips him for efficient office administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard R. Myers
Armstrong Township
Mr. Myers
Indiana State Teachers College
Albert Mercer Injured in Fall At Ritz Theatre
Albert Mercer a 34 year old caretaker of the Ritz Theatre and resident of Washington street sustained severe shock and bruises after a fall from a tall stepladder while watering plants outside the foyer. He was taken to Indiang hospital where x rays showed no fractures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Mercer
Ritz Theatre
Washington Street
Indiang Hospital
County Receives 25140 From Band Relief Fund
Indiana county will receive 25140 of the 3085000 allocated to counties for the next two years. Nearby allocations include Cambria 66406 and Jefferson 23716.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Cambria
Jefferson
Rosensteel Seeks County Commissioner Seat in Wall Primary
Lloyd C. Rosensteel of Young Township announces candidacy for County Commissioner on the Republican ticket at the Wall primary election. He joins the race as a local incumbent challenger aiming to win the party nomination and continue public service in the county government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd .C. Rosensteel
Youngtownship
Wall
George Jerko Runs for County District Attorney
George Jerko announced his candidacy for District Attorney on the Democratic ticket at the September primary. Hiram B George of South Third Street announced his candidacy for County Auditor at the September primary election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jerko
George Jerko Hay
H. B. George
Hiram B. George
South Third Street
Hay
Legislature Reforms School Tax Load With State Aid Bills
Gov Barle signs three 1936 measures to shift school costs to the state. Senate bills allocate 900 dollars of teacher salaries paid by state and 25 million dollars for elementary funding, via an income tax framework. Debates focus on easing real estate taxes and municipal strains while outlining exemptions and deductions for low income groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barle
J. T. Stewart
Commonwealth
Department of Public Instruction
County People Will Pick Apples In the State of Washington
Mr and Mrs H M Travis with their daughter and son in law and grandchildren travel from Dayton R D to Manson Washington near Lake Chelan They plan a six week 3000 mile orchard tour arriving in September to pick apples on Flossie Mecklings farm and visit several national parks en route West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Travis
Clay Settle
Gerald and
Barrey
Dayton
R&d
Manson, Wash
Lake Schelan
Washington
Flossie Meckling
Travis
James Stewart Cast in Punxsutawney Screening
Indiana residents traveled to Punxsutawney last week to see The Murder Man at a local theatre. James Stewart, son of Mr and Mrs Alex M Stewart of North Seventh Street, appeared among the cast with Spencer Tracy and Virginia Bruce mentioned in the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Punxsutwney
James Stewart
Alex M. Stewart
North Seventh Street
Lasl
Spencer Tracy
Virginia Bruce
Faculty members sail West Indies cruise from New York
Wilber Emmert and T. C. Chew of the Indiana State Teachers College faculty plan a 25 day West Indies cruise departing New York on Friday. The large freighter will carry only 12 passengers on each voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilber Emmert
T. C. Chew
Indiana State Teachers College
Cail
New York
West Indies
Walter KH Scholes Named Director at First National Bank
Walter BE Scholes of South Ley Street, comptroller at Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co., was elected a director of the First National Bank at a recent board meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Kh, Scholes
The
First National Bank
Walter BE. Scholes
South Leylenth Street
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co
August County Reunions Highlight Diverse Family Gatherings
The July and August reunions report from Dick and Shields lineages with 125 to 160 attendees. Highlights include speeches by Rev. John Dick and local descendents, plus plans for future events at Taylorsville and Campbells Mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shields
Taylorsville
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. C0. Chapman
Sabbath School
State Liquor Control
America
Harry C. Munro
Charles FE. Regan
Marines
Pan Regan
Alto A Marine
PATHE
Son
Vietin
West Wheatheld Township
Charles Weir
Windber Presbyterian Church
Richland
Windser
Carrie M. Bell
Olivesburg
Jefferson County
Nellie Miller
Harry Weaver
Paul Weir
F. S. Calhoun
Earl Pfeffer
Harry Lewis
M. Bell
Joseph Bell
Windher
L. C. Rosensteel
State of
Sail On
County
Erings
James Dick
Fair Grounds
John Dick
Slater
Margaret Dick
Little York
Julia Dick
Wilkinsburg
Janet Love Wagner
Nettle Leiper
Beaver Falls
WN. Leiper
Iowa City
Eleanor Maharry
Harriet Dick Alexander
Blacklick
Myrtle Dick Robinson
Alice Kathryn Gaffney
Youngwood
Whelgon H. Phillips
Greensburg
Maud Dick Galbreath
Jeannetta Dick Heacox
Campbells Mill
GC. W. Cochran
Apollo
Weston FP
Medford
Ore
William Shields
O. W. Shields
Livermore, RD
J. Mark Shielde
Livermore
R.D
Green Township
Old Temple of Learning
William R Calhoun
W.N. Templeton
Clymer
Stewart-Campbell
Grisemore
Heilwood
Huey-Smith
Woodlawn Park
Chas. Williams
Ployd J. Reed
Barnesboro
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