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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1898
Page
1
Mapiz Feb 27 reports Spain pushing naval construction and armament while a Madrid press wave blames US for prolonging Cuba war. A Havana bound Detroit voyage raises war readiness concerns. Congress debates 1500 more sailors and $20 million for ships as Dalley arrives with Mirex explosive. urgency mounts across the nations.
In New York Miss Frances Willard the temperance leader died recently. A Sabbath memorial in the M E church united all denominations with readings papers and tributes by Mrs. Lewis Hay Rev J Day Brownlee Miss Jennie Mitchell Miss Jane Leonard Dr David Hall and Mrs Eva G Thompson.
The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad plans western extension through Mahoning County. The company pays for farmland rights, with several thousand dollars disbursed this week. Sheriff T.S. Neal receives payment for his North Mahoning farm, valued at $1,000. Mrs. Martin Coup of Braadvalley Township suffered a fractured leg after a yard slip last week.
William M Singerly died suddenly at his Philadelphia home from heart disease after a brief illness. He built the Philadelphia Record into a 190,000 circulation paper and funded its building. Samuel Myers, longtime resident and shoemaker, died at his East Philadelphia Street home, aged 100? years? He served as janitor of the Lutheran church and leaves a son Henry. Jacob Wineman, Homer City’s oldest resident, died after pneumonia. funeral held at United Presbyterian Church with interment in Greenwood cemetery.
Mrs. Mary A Van Horn died at DuBois on February 22 aged about 51 years widow of Isaiah Van Horn. Survived by four daughters and one son Mrs Stuckell Lydie Deckers Point Mrs Andrew McGaughey Ambrose Mrs Wm Lydick Mitchells Mills John A DuBois Mrs Rose A Hutsler West Virginia burial in Mahoning church cemetery East Mahoning township. Wilson Goss of Montgomery township died at his daughter's Glen Campbell home from kidney trouble and dropsy survived by wife three sons and three daughters services at 3 pm interment Hillsdale. Mrs Alice Hine McCarty wife of Prof W B McCarthy Huntingdon Pa died recently. Company D Blairsville inspected proud showing with Company F and D Fifth regiment. Thieves stole a quarter beef from Mrs Samuel Job Water Street. Rev Slater Blairsville Lutheran pastor resigns to lead Martinsburg congregation.
Despite rough February weather crowds attended the three county farmers institutes led by the State Board of Agriculture. Sessions at Rochester Mills Kellysburg and Armagh featured lectures by J A Fries J B Johnston Gabriel Heister and J C Milliken on topics like commercial fertilizers vs barnyard manure and lime sheep husbandry and keeping farm boys at home. The program included school agriculture discussions and road improvement talks, with later continuation noted on the eighth page.
Miss Maria Craighead visits Pittsburg friends while Miss Marie Altman visits Vandergrift relatives. Various local residents travel to Pittsburg, Indiana, Philadelphia, Greensburg, Freeport, and Irwin for visits, work, or court, with notes on attendance at schools, inspections, and local events.
Weddings of week feature several nuptials with local families. J Frank Gibson and Della J Speedy wed at Rayne township home with reception at Creekside and many neighbors attending. E N Simpson and Cora Barclay to marry that evening. Wingert Hogue and Anderson Patterson also tied the knot in nearby towns.
Indiana Normal Alumni gathered at Capitol Hotel in Johnstown for the fourth annual Conemaugh Valley alumni banquet. Officers elected: President J. M. Berkey, Vice President Thomas J. Stell, Secretary Matilda Krebs, Treasurer Nellie Goodell. all officers are Johnstown teachers. Toasts led by retiring president P W A Cochran included "The Normal School" and "What the Alumni Expects of the Normal." Also notes on the will of the late Joan Hood with legacies to relatives and a 1896 codicil revoking some bequests.
A string of society entries from A. M. Hammers, Misses Thompson, Miss Helen Elkin, Mrs. G. H. Ogden, and Miss Laura B. Overly mark evenings of entertainments, decorations, and a china display. Frank Doberneck reports owning 30 Belgian rabbits and plans to breed them locally. A new liquor license applicant, David I. Smith, filed at the Henderson House.
A miner named David Bee died after a draw slate collapsed at the Thomas Barrett coal bank two miles southeast of Rochester Mills on Saturday. His son, nearby in the mine, helped rescue the body before Bee died at home within an hour. Bee, 54, left a large family dependent on him and was buried at Rochester Mills after funeral services. The article also notes local home construction plans and community notices.
A pension of three dollars per month is granted to William D. Romback of Salisbury. William Phillips of Homer City receives an increase from eight to ten dollars. The widow of James Daugherty of Elders Ridge is granted twelve dollars per month. Congressman Robbins filed an application to increase Henry Schnetberg of this place to twelve dollars per month. Major Penny of Pittsburg, with his clerk, inspected Company F in Library Hall Thursday evening. Col. Burchfield of Altoona Maj. Kennedy of Blairsville Capt. Smith and Lieut Wiggins of Company D attended and praised the regiment’s appearance.
Constable Ja cob Wettling jailed J A Clawson of Armstrong township on a bigamy charge filed by his wife. Clawson and his wife had been separated for years but not divorced, and he has since married another woman. Arthur Lewis from White township, a Morganza reformatory inmate, was brought here ill in health. He is 13 and a consump tion victim. J H Engle bought 30 acres of timber from Archibald Nichol of White township for 1500 dollars. his men work this week. Jay D Fleming, formerly in E A Pennington's tailoring shop, will open a new shop in Fleming & Thomas's shoe store. Deckers Point correspondent notes Thompson & Newpher orchestra owns a violin made in 1713.
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