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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1928
Page
2
Rules for camping water safety warn against typhoid risk from remote camps. Health officials urge testing water, boiling, iodine treatment, proper waste disposal, and leaving sites clean. Emphasizes vigilance on back to nature trips.
The Brushvalley Literary Society announces its Friday evening program at the Community Building. Highlights include songs, recitations by Myra McCrea and Anna McCrea, monologues by Mary Coup and Mary Coup, solos by Donald Davis, a pantomime by Elizabeth Altemus, and a joke class led by Gilbert McCrea.
T R Williams of Green township was fined 30 dollars and costs on harboring three dogs with no license. County Game Warden Litzinger led the information after spotting dogs without tags near a farm. Later a State Department of Animal Industry officer found the dogs wearing licenses. The dogs were in a coal mine and the licenses had been secured on a prior visit. Ohio Couple Injured Here. Mr and Mrs M C Ingram of Ohio injured in collision with a traffic signal at Water and Fifth streets early this morning. Mr Ingram was unable to see until within a few feet.
Obituary notices report Mrs Phebe Van Leer of Rayne Township died May 26 in Kittanning with services May 24 at Rayne Presbyterian Church. Also listed are Benton Waltemire 59 of near Penn Run. Mrs Joseph George. Mrs J B Montgomery. William H George 78 of New Florence. infant Wilton Franklin Stiles. local graduates receiving Bulova watches. and Indiana banks adopting 8 am opening hours through September 29.
A bolt of lightning ripped through the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Schrock in Punxsutawney Saturday morning. The roof, windows, plaster, fixtures, and clapboards were wrecked while a rear tree split and glass embedded in the bark. The family of five slept upstairs. Mrs. Schrock woke to find her bed displaced and a piece of ceiling lath in her hand. It was described as the most complete lightning wrecking in the area.
Mrs. Sarah Martin of Apollo, aged 98, attended the funeral of her son Albert J. Martin, who died at his home in Apollo. Albert, in his seventy ninth year as a young man studied at Elderton Academy and taught in South Bend township and Shady Plain, later living in Apollo and working long in the steel mills.
Diplomas were presented to 125 graduates at Indiana High School graduation exercises in the school auditorium on Friday evening. Dr J Adam Puffer delivered the address. Mary Caroline Duncan gave the salutatory and Martha Priscilla Reed the salutatory. Dr J G Pinkerton offered the invocation. A violin quartet performed before the address by Philip Ruuzo Betty Lilis Sarah Reed and Mary Stewart.
Community notices detail upcoming church services and local visits. Emma Jean Miller has returned home after high school in Indiana. Mr and Mrs Jay Alers and family spent Sunday with Ross and Akey. Mrs Sell with brother in Advance. Albert Miller visited friends near Clymer. Elda McCurdy attended Indiana high school commencement. Children prepare for Children’s Day at Crooked Creek Baptist near Chambersville with an evening program.
Chattanooga based Presbyterian missionary Dr. Douglas McCallie recounts two incidents in Korea where his bald head saved him from violence. In the first, a mob seeking a Japanese killer mocked him and spared his life. In the second, he dodged a fight by removing his hat and baffling native attackers with his hairless head.
Workmen in four local quarries unearthed a 16 foot skeleton identified by the British Museum as a three eyed plesiosaurus from the Szurd family. The intact find, one of a kind in head attached, dates from 100000 to 200000 years ago. Professor Swinton notes heads are often missing.
Scientific use of modern techniques and materials revives St Mark's Venice St Pauls London and Mainz Cathedral Crumbling walls repaired to restore safety and usefulness Italian engineers cite concrete filled vault crack as key to stability Built after 1068 St Mark's faced with marble endured stress overloads and repairs conclude the vaulted structure is now sound
In Alamogordo New Mexico small rock cut cisterns in the Sacramento mountains were found by Forest Ranger W G Woods. Ingeniously placed to catch mountain rain they hold five to ten gallons each and are covered by flat rocks to hide them and keep debris out.
BLACKLICK Mrs Cunningham of Armagh spent Saturday at Joseph Shrom's home. The Presbyterian Sunday School rehearses for Children's Day. Mrs G Dunning hosted the Shadies' Fancy Work Club Thursday. Mrs C O Smith left for Scranton to attend Rebekah Assembly as lodge delegate. Margia Nell Shrom returned from Armagh visit. Miss Elizabeth Stoneback visited from Indiana Friday. J J Spackman spent Decoration Day in Clearfield county. Miss Frances Smith visited Indiana Friday. M D Smith fished Thursday. Dorothy Robertson, Margaret Davis, Mary Jane Dixon, Henrietta Pixon and Frances Smith attended a Young People's conference in Indiana Saturday. Betty Jane Smith visits cousins the Millers in Homer City. Westminster Guild girls picnicked near Campbells Mills Friday. Miss Henrietta Dixon and Mr and Mrs John Geary were Thursday callers in Blairsville. Mr and Mrs R Trexler attended commencement in Dubois Friday evening. Mrs Susan Dixon recovering from tonsillitis.
Plum Creek Valley residents host and visit across families from Jamison Rankin and Potts clans. Indiana callers frequently drop by while trips to Kellysburg and Indiana surface. weekend visits, Sunday school events, and family visits feature among the notices.
Elgingville Savings and Trust Company seeks court order for private sale of minors interests in lots nineteen and twenty in Blairsville Borough Indiana County. Guardian of Thomas Asper and minors Joseph Asper and Edna Asper to petition on July 2, 1938 at 10 a.m. for authority to sell.
The Ritz Theatre presents Legion of the Condemned with Gary Cooper and Fay Wray on June 6 and 7, American Beauty with Billie Dove on June 7 to 9, and What Price Glory with Dolores Del Rio Victor M Laglen and Edmund Lowe on June 11 to 13. Public sale notices list items at A. H. Wilhelm deceased Creekside Pa on June 9 1928 at 1 PM led by auctioneer David Bethel. Hawthorn School reunion set for June 21 at Indiana County Fair Grounds invites teachers and pupils with a refreshment booth. Hazlett family reunion scheduled for June 9 at Fairy Grounds invites all members and friends.
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