Eleven Houses Burned in Beyer Fire Near Plumville
A mysterious origin fire in Beyer Indiana County destroyed eleven dwellings near Plumville late at night. High winds and close spacing allowed flames to sweep across the street. nine homes on one side and two on the other burned. Damage around 25000 with little insurance, residents left homeless. Indiana Fire Company arrived after the blaze had been checked by vacant lots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beyer
Plumville
L.trunzo
Homer City
Indiana Fire Company
Number 1
John M. Daugherty
Indiana Boys
Nine Months Term Ends At Center Township School No 10
The Center township No 10 school closed May 28 with exercises and a picnic led by Miss Alma Rugh before district patrons. Belle Fennell, daughter of Mr and Mrs H Fennell of town, underwent an operation for appendicitis at a local hospital on Saturday and is recovering well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Township
Alma Rugh
Indiana Gil
Belle Fennell
Ut H. Fennell
Portrait photograph of George Richard Clawson in Homer City
A reproduction photograph features George Richard Clawson son of Mr and Mrs George Clawson of Homer City R D 2. The image was taken at Douglass Studio on Philadelphia Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Richard Clawson
George Clawson
Homer City
R. D
Douglass Studio
Philadelphia Street
Eighteen Graduates From Armagh High School
County Superintendent James F. Chapman will present diplomas to 18 graduates at Armagh-East Wheatfield Township High School commencement in Armagh M. H. church. The class trip includes Harrisburg Gettysburg and Washington DC with two faculty members accompanying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Washington
James F. Chapman
Armagh-East
Wheatfield Township
Armagh M. H. Church
Luabor’s Gate
J. W. Davis
Gon
Gettysburgh
Washington, DC
William Penn
Lin~coln
Mabel A. McAchren
Henry Marlin
Tinkcom
Carrie Johnston Hutchison
Marion W. Campbell
Mary Jane McAchren
June Eva Cramer
Mary C. ‘Findley
K. Dean Lynn
Namecy T Elizabeth Tomb
Glenford D. Gordon
Anna L. Franklin
David E. Felton
Helen C. Stephens
Ward i A. Mack
Nora Grace Wadsworth
Margaret Clare Findley
Eee Ha R. McFeaters
Russel J. Davis
Sudden death of contractor Michael Bennett at home
Michael Bennett, 76, senior partner of M. Bennett & Son contractors and road builders, died suddenly at his South Sixteenth Street home Wednesday night at 11 oclock. He was in his usual health before being stricken with heart trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Bennett
M. Bennett & Son
Focal Contractors
South Sixt Street
Graduation Exercises At State Normal In Ritz Theatre
Graduation exercises for Indiana State Normal school drew many out of town visitors to the Ritz theatre for a week of ceremonies. Reverend Francis Irving of Irvington delivered the Sunday sermon, the Choral Club led by Prof John Neff gave a praise service, Class Day events filled Monday, Emerson Collins of Williamsport spoke at Tuesday's commencement, and a faculty reception preceded the final dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ritz
Indiana State Normal School
Indiana
Francis Irving
Irvington-on-the-Hudson
Ritz Theatre
John Neff
Emerson Collins
Williamsport
Indiana High School Commencement and Picnic Report
Indiana schools closed with Class Day exercises Monday evening and the commencement ceremony Sunday night in the auditorium. Dr F W Hinitt pastor of the Presbyterian church delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the senior class. The annual picnic was held at Campbell's Mills today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W.hinitt
The
Presbyterian Church
Indiana High School
Campbell's Mills Toay
Weddings Report From Creekside and Nearby Towns
A sequence of small town wedding notices includes Ida M. Kettering and Horace Adamson uniting at Grace Lutheran Morrellville with a reception at 196 Barron Avenue. Agnes Booth and Raymond Moorhead marry at a private home ceremony, planning residence in DuBois. Blairsville pairing Ellwood Reth Dale Ellwood and Helen Reth are wed at Hebron Lutheran parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kidwood
Dale Ellwood
Blairsville
Helen 2
Derry
Township
Blairaville
R. R. Clancy
Hebron Lutheran Church
Indiana Visitors and Local Arrivals In Homer City
A crowded note of personal brevities lists Indiana visitors and local callers including Mr. and Mrs. John Cochran moving to Homer City, J. R. Johnston and relatives in the county, and multiple families from White, Brushvalley, and Creekside visiting or traveling through. Several engagements, graduation plans, and social visits are noted along with pension changes for Robert F. Johnston and a Memorial Day gathering of Nannie M. Lewis’s family reaching about 40 members.
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D. &, Risinger
Homer City
G. &. Cush
Johnstown
Indiana
Learn and Family
John Cochran
Millwood
Homey City
S. C G. Hartman
Wooster
J.C. Smith
West Lebanon
W. A. Coleman
South Bend
J. MM. Brown
Ebensburg
J. Helman
R.D
TY. N. White
Edna
Anderson
Rayne Township
Iw. L. Overdorff
Russel and
Moyd
Eisie
Steln
Brushvalley
Milo M. Luther
J. T. Shaffer
D. J. ‘Riddle
West Wheatfield Township
inIndiana
John Sutton
Atlanta
Agnes Crossman
Johnson City
Tenn
Hk Park
N. C
W. Jewart and Sons
Jexsie
Avery
Glenn
Creekside
R. C
J. N. Bilder
School Street
Margaret Bracken
Grant Street
Jefferson Beatty
Isaac Mentch
Elizabeth H. Mentch
George Rdam
H. D. Ross
W. D. Bush
Washington Street
Rumbaugh
iHomer City
Washington, D
George Lewis
D. W. Lewis
New Kensington
Stephen Lewis
Edward Lewis
Harry
Laura Lewis
W. A. Baughman
Punxsutawney
George Warner
Harry Baughman
Panksutawney
Hirs
J. W. ¢Inner
Longtime Purchase Line resident Maggie Houk dies at 73
Mrs Maggie L Houk aged about 73 widow of the late D R Houk died at her home in Purchase Line Monday morning after a long illness She was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Frederick Buterbaugh of Grant township and a lifelong East Mahoning Baptist church member She leaves several children and siblings Funeral services will be held at her late home this afternoon and burial will be in East Mahoning cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie L. Mouk
Maggie L.houk
D. R. Houk
Purchase Line
Frederick Buterbaugh
Grant Township
East Mahoning
Mirs
J.S. Miller
Clymer
Mins
Leslie Pattison
Indiana
Charles Keating
Ernest Ward ‘Houk
Purchase ‘Line
M. A. Farns Iworth
Hast Run
E.C. Johnston
Curry Run
W. H. ‘Buterbaugh
Hillsdale
Samuel E. Buterbaugh
Brockport
Clark ‘Buterlaugh
George Napp
Deckers+Point
John Nupp
Melvin Payne
M. M.smith
East Mahoning Cemetery
Maw J
Duewla
Zeltw Wiunmel
Lewis
Mndiana
Meter Rummell
Cherry Tree
Reass
Dent
Laddiana
Methodist Apiscopal Church
OO. TN U
Luther
Jobei
Ralph Lewis
Witte Thi
Pittsburgh
Andrew O'flara
Coal Stan
Day Myars
Key, Co
Emerson
Keenwood Cemetery
Highway Completed Opens Link Between Wilcox and Kane
The Buffalo Pittsburgh Highway, born from a 1922 DuBois meeting and led by the Buffalo Pittsburgh Highway Association, reached completion when Milliron Construction poured the last concrete linking Wilcox and Kane. The section will open June 20. a Labor Day celebration in DuBois is planned for the 388 mile trunk line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uetsyeen Wilcox
Kane Pubois
DuBois
Buffalo
Fairy
Green Township High Commencement and Play 1926
The Green Township High senior class presents the play On Account of Polly on Saturday June 5 at 8 p.m. A baccalaureate sermon by Rev W Hinitt of Indiana Sunday June 6 at 3 p.m. Commencement Monday features Dr H J Whalen of Greensburg delivering Men and Women Who Win. Diplomas for 23 graduates to be presented by Supt James J Chapman. Admission charged for play. all programs at Green Township Community Building in Coalsport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green ‘Township
Polly
Hinitt
Indiana
H. J. Whalen
Greensburg
James JF. Chapman
Grace Lene Donwhey
Elsie ‘Mae Ginter
Joseph T. Gresko
Anna M. Hudak
Elizabeth J. Kelly
Robert ©. Vink
Margaret Marie Learn
Bel Igabet Lyuick
Glara Magtilda Kidd
Ida Mary ‘McCyreary
Thomas A. Knapp
Tdith B. Russell
Olive M. Siverd
Marguerite Corrine’ Slovensky
Werence Iona Tnoyer
Hijlis Wilson
Green Township
Coalsport
Marion Center Graduates 26 Seniors This Thursday
A class of 26 seniors will graduate from Marion Center schools on Thursday evening. Elizabeth Blair, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Blair, and Norris McCoy, son of Mr and Mrs W M McCoy, were awarded American Legion scholarship medals for highest overall percentages in Honor, Courage, Scholarship, Leadership and Service at the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viventy-sixn
Marion Center
Hirabeth Blair
Norris McCoy
American Legion
Elizabeth Blair
James 8. Blair
W. M. McCoy
Town
Starford Boy Thomas Nupp Celebrates Sixteenth Birthday
In Starford Pa on May 18 Thomas Nupp turned sixteen. His parents Ti E Nupp and Mrs Nupp hosted a surprise with Green Township High School seniors chaperoned by Floyd and Mrs Deardorff. Teachers arrived at 8 00 to help. Games followed, lunch was served by Martha Martin, and a Wood's Federal Bakery cake featured. Gifts included an Elgin white gold swatch from his parents for the birthday and graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starford
Thomas Nupp
Ti. E. Nupp
Green’ Township High School
Floyd
Deardorff
Thomas
Martha Martin
Martintown
Wood
Federal Bakery
Indiana
Samuel M Nicholson Funeral for Samuel Moore Nicholson
Samuel Moore Nicholson aged 53 died unexpectedly from heart trouble at his Wilmington Delaware home on Monday evening May 31. Funeral services conducted at his mother's home 900 Water Street Friday at four o'clock by Rev Predveniele Hinitt interment in Oakland Cemetery. Nicholson was son of Martha Nicholson and late Captain Samuel Nicholson born in Indiana educated there and at Indiana State Normal School. He worked 33 years with Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana Wilkinsburg Johnstown and Wilmington where he was general material supervisor in the Stores Department for eight years. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and Wilmington Masonic Order. He is survived by his widow his mother and sister Miss Anna Nicholson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Stewart Beyer
W. &. Beyer
Dayton
West Mahoning Township
Adessa Good
D.C. Beyer
W. J. Beyer
W. J. Beyer, Who Resides On the Old Thomestead
Harry Beyer
Ella Lewis
Akron
J. BR. Barnard
Beyer
Pennsylvania
Smickshung M. EH
Jacob Fyock
Fyock
Cherryhill Township
Miami
David Fyock
Chennyhill Brethren Church
Elmer Fyock
Stella
Lawrence Ebey
Ohio
Tillie Bantlebaugh
Penn Run
Walter Myens
Buriar
Cherry‘hill Cemetery
Samuel M. Nicholson
Samuel Moore Nicholson
Wilmington
Del
Selvel
Sarah J. Nichol Ison
Water Street
Pred Veniele W. Hinitt
D. D
Wiesk
Johnstown
Wilkonington
Presbyterian Church
Masonic Order
Nicholson
Indiana
Anna Nicholson
Thieves Blow Safe at Bon Ton Store
Professional yeggs forced entry through the left front door between 7 and 8:30 Sunday morning, blew the safe and filing case with nitro glycerin, escaped with Saturday's receipts. a hotel deskman and store employee described suspicious behavior and a pacing man seen near the Bon Ton, aiding police in identifying suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeges
Bon Ton Department
Harry McClurkin
McClurkin
Harry
Frank Webber
Hotel Moore
Frank White
The
Bon Ton
White
John Oates
George O'Connell
Samuel W. Rose
Greensburg
Rose
Indiana
O’connell
Goring
Moore
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Indiana County
Memorial Park
J. C. Pinkerton
First United Presbyterian Church
George J. Fell
Bent
Flander
E. M. Lydick
Mothers of Democracy
Pinkerton
Cliffside Park
Woman's Relief Corps
Clara Polvin
Flymm
Salvation Army
Lisle Walker
Carolyn Guthrie
S. W. Guthrie
Church Street
Edwin I. Ebberts
Guthrie
W. Hinitt
Wilson Guthrie
S. Wilson Guthrie
W. Guthrie
Hazel Smith
William T. Smith
That City
Vern and Bell
Armagh High School
State Normal
Adamson-Kettering
Ida M. Kettering
Albert G Kettering
Horace Adamson
Silas B. Adamson
Grace Lutheran Church
Morrellville
William S. Good
Lorena C. Clark
Adamson
St. John’s Lutheran
Sagamore
Moorhead Booth
Bethesda
Agnes Booth
Raymond J. Moorhead
Albert
Alpha Pi Sigma
Moorhead
Indiana High ‘School
Muskingum College
Department of Pennsylvania
United Spanish War Veterans
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Order of the Serpe
Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Armory
Tenth Infantry
Boy Scout
Soldiers’Orphans’ School
Scotland
Order of the Serpent
Indiana and Ritz
Fifth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infanty
George Richards
Oil City
C. T. Q.neill
Allentown
Edward Martin
Frank D. Beary
George Kemp
Philadelphia
Winfield Scott
Carmi Thompson
Cleveland
Richard Coulter
FE. CG. Shannon
Lancaster County
Colnel
111Th Infantry
Alfred G. Lloyd
Robert G.woodsidge
Robert S. Cam
War Department
Frederick C. Hill
Clinton, Ili
Brookville
Legion
Dan
J. Bahner
Brookville American
CG. W. Fork
Harry Stewart
H. A. Miller
Clarence Miller
Blainsville
Charles Gray
Russsell
Chambersville
Vis
J. R. Daugherty
Dorothy
Della
William W. Taylor
North Carolina
William Byvans Patterson
William Evans Patterson
Cameron
Farmington, Wash
EB. W. Parry
Pine Flats
Donald D. Patterson
Commodore
George W. Butler
Burrall Township
Butler
Blairavilla
Mira A. C. Carney
Roy Radcliffa
Florida
Loyal
Angelo Senett
Rossiter
Adrian Hospital
Leroy Steele
Samuel Cochran
Indiana Hospital
Lomer City
Oakland Cemetery
Washington Twp
George Hareman
Sara Brown
Ming ‘Lizabeth
Melvin
Alda Grace Brown
Emil Dagancope
Karl
Vera
Near Dragsvesburg
Sylvis Ross
Andy Kinter
Kinterbung
Me Tavish
Walter Petty
Harry Alexaider
North Mahoring
North Mahoning Township
Comintern
Coyode
Max Harwick
Machand
Ghanes Wingert
Trad City
A. G. Diltz
Cool Spring
Gonport
Paul Campbell
Carrlisle
Blair
Jana
Thurreday
L. W. Donshue G
Clara
Dixonyvia
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