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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1917
Page
3
The Indiana Progress advertises subscriptions and notices with rates and terms. It lists pricing for one year and short-term periods, notes card notices and poetry charges, and mentions editorial policies including advance payment and classified content features. The page vignette includes a date line and proprietor references.
The commission proposes a new county jail to save costs, install an instantaneous water heater, and set prisoner board at forty five cents per day. They urge Willard Home repairs to enable its use as part of the County Home and eventual industrial home for children. A drinking fountain with cooling is recommended for the Court House corridor. Sisters Neglected Teachers Miss Margaret Lockard and sister Mary Lockard, both teachers, have been re elected for another term.
The county conducts a thorough registration for federal draft, with the sheriff aided by police and constables. Exemptions handled by a three-step process: drawing names, medical fitness exams, and exemption appeals. Official totals list 6 781 registrants with district breakdowns across Blairsville, Brushvalley, Indiana, Jacksonville, Mahoning, and Wheatfield areas, noting two thirds may seek exemptions.
Agnes Prothero of Water street marked her birthday with a party at the Prothero home attended by thirty young friends. Louise Dickey of Sixth street celebrated with twenty five school friends at her home on Friday evening. Bolivar school announces new staff with Principal for high school and assistant principal and several teachers named for multiple rooms.
Creekside announces the selection of new educators for the upcoming term. Principal W. H. Mahan will oversee Room 3, Bessia Lytle takes Room 2, Mary Hopkins teaches Room 1, and Hazel Blepheng joins the staff in the Creekside faculty lineup.
Miss Maury Cooper was elected at a Clarksburg school board meeting. The schoolhouse will be papered and a new roof installed in the coming summer. Mission Sunday school plans Children’s Day exercises for June 17 at 3:00 p.m. at Second United Presbyterian Church with Rev. E. M. Gearhart speaking. A festival is set for June 20 at Ox Hill Grange Hall east of Plumville.
Miss Nellie Virginia McGregor daughter of Mr and Mrs C Me Gregor of North Sixth street graduated yesterday with honors from the Birmingham School for Girls in Birmingham Pa She was president of her class editor in chief of The Pine Needle and a prominent figure in school affairs Her ballad A Word to the Wise and the Class Poem appear in the senior annual which features portraits biographies and sketches of the fourteen graduates The year ends with a farewell poem and reflection on future duties and friendships
A sequence of local wedding notices from Jones Park and surrounding towns. Katherine Park and Madison Wilber Jones wed in June, with Jones employed as a Florence grocery bookkeeper and National Guards sergeant. Additional marriages include Loran Hickok and Minnie Wise, Harate Hileman and Nellie Glasgow, Arthur Bretto and Mary Jane Work, Frank Johnston and Laura Boyle, H B Frailey and Elizabeth Ebert, William Morris and Pearl Myran. The Junior Chautauqua promises a child friendly show, Good Fairy Thrift.
Cherryhill township school board meets at Venn Row on Saturday to appoint up to 7 teachers for the coming term and to solicit bids for coal, fuel, and cleaning services. A second meeting in South Mabuning town hall aims to select a principal for the spring term with provisional to permanent pay scales. bids for coal and kindling also invited. Additional gathering in Center township at Risinger school house on June 20 elects 30 teachers for a seven month term and calls for bids on coal, fuel, and cleaning services.
White Township School Board invites bids for floor laying in Food Lowry and St alr schools. Bids must include removal of Kent seats and reseating one. No common yellow pine allowed. Board may reject all bids. See LA M Brown or C A Nichols for details. Indiana WHITH TWH, SCHOOL BOARD. Burns WW, WMFI-Lte
Notice to the Governor of Pennsylvania of an application by FD Duntur George C Ness George W Baker and Carrie Duniver for a charter under the 1874 Act to form the By-Products Amorphous Coal Company for buying and selling coal mining and operating coal properties and products with rights and privileges as conferred by law. Solicitor Talyor, Indiana Pa, June 18, 1907. Also a classified offer from The Progress Indiana Pa seeking readers to mail for the 6th year anniversary edition.
Attorney Wallace Chapman notices a divorce case against Mike Rich by Frazer Rich in Indiana County with a court summons dated June 12 1917. Public notices proceed about North Mahoning Township Electric Company and West Mahoning Township Electric Company incorporations, hearings set for June 27 1917 in Harrisburg and Lartisbure with solicitor Jacob L Fisher.
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