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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1896
Page
5
Smicksburg notes Mr T J Silvis represents the place on the JutY this week. Several residents dine with friends in Punxsutawney and Apollo. A new telephone line between Smicksburg and Dayton nears completion with possible Indiana line connections. West Lebanon updates include Harbison recovery, Littell family visits, and recent school board elections.
Dr. Walker and guests visit Dayton while Pittsburg friends Messrs Roberts Caldwell Samuel Jaxon plan to move horses to Pittsburg market next week. About 125 neighbors attend Mrs Rebecca Couch's 46th birthday with baskets and a noon dinner. A cook stove is presented as a gift. Speeches by Rev Gumbert Thomas Hart and R A Harbison conclude the afternoon.
Wm Rankin recovering from a hand injury. H H Houk Linus Buterbaugh travel to Glen Campbell for masonry and plastering. Buterbaughs repair painting. Litt Houk remodels store and dwelling. Jacob Fyock repaints home. Notables attend Bethel Baptist Sabbath School convention near Ebensburg. Maggie Allison visits Cherrytree. Gamble Bros repair mill. Dr J B Kinter visits from East Liverpool. Prof Lindsey entertains a large crowd. Railroad workers visit town. road construction eyed. Dr W E Dodson returns from Philadelphia. Town endures a severe hail storm, hailstones half an inch. Lewis Cov improves slowly. G W Strong visits Tyrone. Constable Malla Houston grows cabbage. Mrs Gilson visits Strongsown. E W Griffith from Indiana discusses Detrick Fertilizer. Squire Hastie recovering. Beulah Long of Spangler visiting. S T Gilson sells Champion harvesting machines. Mr Matthew Nay injured in wagon incident. Dr St Clair aids. Anname: some young folks fished. Sunday services postponed to June 21. Rev Hunisian of Mercersburg preaches at Moachuach Sublwth. Mr Mrs Hindseon Gronbling of Morrelville spend Sabbath night here.
A group of young folks will attend the Epworth League convention in Blairs ville this week. Delegates include Miss Mary Shaffer and Miss Gertrude Pittman. Mrs. John Tomlinson of DuBois spent last week at Grove Chapel. Children’s Day was observed at Grove Chapel last Sabbath. Mr. Frank McKee and wife will move to the John Dearmin farm below Indiana. Miss Mabel Watts of Plumville visited Leora Harman. Mr. James McKee of Cherrytree and Miss Lizzie Ray of Blairsville vacationed at Henry Ray’s near Grove Chapel. Samuel Kaufman of Whitestown is selling exceptionally fine strawberries, fresh from the vines. A promotional paragraph extols Shaker Digestive Cordial as a cure for indigestion with a 10 cent trial bottle offered to druggists.
Lost ring with many small keys between Nixon building and post office. Reward offered if found and left at the Progress office. Dr Agnew's Cure for the Heart promises relief in organic or sympathetic heart disease in 30 minutes. Palpitations shortness of breath and related symptoms treated. Sold by S G Hartman.
Edward W. Bok urges husbands to insure and arrange affairs so dependents are not left destitute. The note promotes Equitable Life and quotes Guthrie, Indiana Pa, with policy illustrations and low rates. Also announces reduced Washington DC rail fares for Y P S C E convention and side trips, July 7–15, 1996, plus a public sale notice for Daniel Swearingen farm in Brushvalley Township, Indiana County, Pa.
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