Memorial Day News From Local Families and Visitors
Local notices list Mr and Mrs R H Bates and companions in Pittsburgh for Memorial Day. Several callers and visitors are noted in Rossiter Windber Garrett Cresson and Garm anv with church activities and community events. A stage comic bit ends with a joke about a hero and villain delaying their duel for salary arrears.
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Cherry Tree
R. H. Bates
Naomi
Kent
Pittsburgh
Clyde Bee
Hahlin Bee
Rossiter
L. Irwin
Jones
Hope Ogden
Windber
W. B. Lowman
W. R. Kopp
Dixon- Wille
Garrett
Clyde Bea
Bobby
Jack
Stafford
C. C. George
Garman
Bernice Lowman
Barbara Krone
Cresson
J. P. McCurdy
Altoona
Jove
Dixonville Methodist Church hosts quarterly conference and visitors
The Dixonville Quarterly conference met at the Methodist Church over the weekend with preaching by Vice President P. B. Campbell. Indiana attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Gere Donahey and daughter Tene, Mr. and Mrs. William Scherr and son James, Mrs. Agnes Holt and son Charles, and others. Several locals reported trips and visits for Memorial and Decoration Day, with short notes on arrivals and family fliers.
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Methodist Church
P. B. Campbell
Indiana
Gere Donahey
Tene
William Scherr
James
Agnes Holt
Charles
Orren Wise
Roy Conrath
Frank Burnheimer
Ida
Emma Mumann
William H. Conner
Paul Hess
Edward Fisher
Lois Tampt
Bible School
Albert Longwill
L. W. Jacoby
McKeesport
Clark Sterner
Revloc
Old Roman Fountain Credited to Domitian
The Met Sudans fountain near the Colosseum is said to be the oldest in Rome, likely erected or embellished by Emperor Domitian. A bronze globe top released water through many small holes into a marble lined circular basin, and Seneca mentions the fountain in a letter about a noisy showman near it.
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Rome
Christian Science Monitor
Coliseum
Domitian
Seneca
Community Notes From Blacklick Township and Nearby Areas
Blacklick Township residents visit Plumville and Indiana, with families joining from T. M. Strong and William Howard for a Jersey picnic at Marion Center. Esther Lyons returns from Y. M. Strong's. Erma McCune home from Indiana high school. Ira Gibson hosts John Shannon and Thomas Mikesell visiting Blairsville. Scotty appears in police court with head bandages. the judge comments on the bandages being kept clean for later.
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J. M. Lydie
John
Plumville
Orr Lyons
Royden
Reed
Blacklick Township
Indiana
T. M. Strong
William Howard
Jersey
Marion Center
Esther Lyons
Y. M. Strong
Erma McCune
Indiana High School
Ira Gibson
John Shannon
Thomas Mikesell
Blairsville
Gretna Green Receding Romance of Olden Days
The surplus of English women has cut Gretna Green’s comeback hopes as romance fades. Once popular for clandestine marriages between 1754 and 1856, the town’s rush to marriage waned as daughters grew rarer and parents clashed with lovers. A famous painting shows passengers in a post chaise fleeing toward the boundary, a father’s pursuit in a ditch.
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Gretna Green
Scotland
England
Ancient topography maps trace roads to Elysian fields
Dr. F Wieder, lecturing to the Royal Dutch Geographical Society, traces road maps to mythic Elysium on ancient Nile based topography. He says Egyptians and Babylonians first map makers, cites a Berlin sarcophagus plan of Nubian mines on a 14th century BC papyrus and Babylonian clay road tablets as precursors to modern automobile maps.
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Elysian Fields
Nile Valley
Royal Dutch Geographical Society
F. ©. Wieder
Elysium
Old Empire
Egypt
Berlin
Careless Letter Writers Flood Postal Mail to Congress
An exchange laments how post office staff receive letters addressed to Mark Hanna Boise Penrose Uncle Joe Cannon and many state legislators. The piece notes confusion in forwarding to proper officials and mentions a kept membership roll to aid routing.
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Congress
Mark Hanna
Boise Penrose
Joe Cannon
House
Lexchange
Six year old Albert squeezes toothpaste at breakfast
A boy named Albert, six, amused himself by squeezing toothpaste from the tube. His mother warns him to take only a little. He asks how much TV can take. She says about as big as a hen. He continues, declaring the paste as big as a string bean.
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Albert
Farm 4-H and Vocational Students Attend State Encampments
Farm boys and girls active in 4-H and potato pig clubs will join Young Farmers week at State College June 12 to 15 with twelve delegates funded by the Savings and Trust Company of Indiana. County Agent J. W. Warner oversees the group while boys camp at the Armory and girls stay in chaperoned quarters. Additional delegates from Hiders Ridge Vocational School led by principal R. W. Beamer, plus junior leaders Charles Wetzel and Emlyn Smith, will attend leadership camps at State College June 11 to 15 and in Punxsutawney respectively, with expenses covered by local banks. Earl Glasser will represent Pennsylvania at the national 4-H encampment in Washington, D. C., funded by Indiana and Blairsville service clubs.
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Young Farmers
State College
the Savings and Trust Company of
Indiana
J. W. Warner
Hiders Ridge Vocational School
R. W. Beamer
Charles Wetzel
Marion Center Jersey Calf Club
Marion Center Bank
Emlyn Smith
Trade City Jersey Calf Club
Medieval Leather Found During London Construction Project
Workers uncover six century old leather scraps in a muddy dump while excavating for a new London building. The preserved pieces, believed from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, were still usable and used to repair shoes.
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London
Children under twenty one form nation’s youth share
The piece notes that 50.4 percent of the U S population is under twenty one and 87.4 percent of city residents are under twenty one, arguing the country and farming communities are the places to raise children and that farm-raised youths are vital to large communities.
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United States
Ciites
Cupper's Weekly
Spray Service Letter No 4 for Indiana County Apples
County Agent J W Warner mails Spray Service Letter No 4 to fruit growers with instructions for cluster apple spray at hazel nut size. Mix lime sulfur solution 214 gallons per 100, add arsenate of lead 3 pounds and nicotine one pint per 100 gallons. Canker worms, leaf loss, codling moth, seal oshares, aphis and red bug addressed. apply carefully to avoid foliage burn.
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Indiana County
J. W. Warner
Memorial Day Address and Parade at Smicksburg
W A Logan gave an excellent Memorial Day sermon at Smicksburg Lutheran Church after a parade led by William Beck and his Boy Scout Band of Indiana. An open air concert followed. The community expressed gratitude for the band’s services. A second scene shows Jones guiding a plumber through his hall before going downstairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smicksburg
Zeo
W. A. Logan
Smicksburg Lutheran Church
William Beck
Boy Scout Band of
Indiana
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Luxenberg
Simmons
Buchheit Bros
Indiana, Pa
Dixonville
Scotty
Big One
Troutman’s
Bell
PENNA
Troutman's Annual
Blanket Club
Ferma
Citizen’s National Bank
People’s Shoe Store
Philadelphia Street
W. P. Shepard
D.C
Woolworth's
Pennsylvania
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