Borough Council cuts tax millage and eyes new housing plan
At the March session the Indiana borough cut the 1931 tax rate to ten mills with eight to the General Fund and two to the Sinking Fund. M Bennett & Sons proposed erecting 15 modern houses on Hast Water Street and asked for Street severance from First to Third Streets. Special policemen were appointed and bids for new uniforms planned. Numerous property transfers and school board actions accompany the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Bennett & Son
East Water Street
Indiana
Board of Education
M. Bennett & Sons
Hast Water Street
Dast Water Street
George F. Marlin
Frank McGregor
Roy Douglass
Frank Cain
County Adult Division Conference Field Friday
County pastors superintendents and delegates will attend two sessions at What Presbyterian church town this Friday with a 2 30 pm start and 7 30 pm evening program following 6 pm fellowship dinner. State leader H C Cridland will conduct both sessions and Rev John J McIlvaine will speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
What Presbyterian Church
H. C. Cridland
Pittsburgh
John J. McIlvaine
First United Presbyterian Church
Town
B. F. Bieber
Zion Lutheran Church
Indiana
George Lindsay
Home Department
D. W. Douds
W. Guthrie
J. Stanley Harker
President County Sunday School Association
Christ
J. J. McIlvaine
Indiana to Have Big Fourth of July Celebration
Indiana Post No 141 American Legion announces a large Independence Day event on Saturday July 4 1931 at the Fair Grounds. A morning parade three horse races 400 purses each a Guard Mount drill by Co F 110th Infantry National Guards of Pennsylvania with the Indiana Municipal Band providing music and a drum corps competition worth 1000 to 1500 in prizes culminates with a fireworks display in the evening. Countywide participation urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Fair Grounds
Indiana Post
No. 141
American Legion
Co. F
110Th Infantry
National Guards of Pennsylvania
Legion
Radio Refrigerator Expert Joins Majestic Sales in Streams
William C Hoover of Kittanning arrives to direct Majestic radios and electric refrigerators sales in Streams. Hoover has long been with Hamburg Bros., maker of Majestic products, and knows the line well. Final transfer arrangements from Kittanning were completed by William Boate, Majestic supervisor for the Pittsburgh and Wheeling district. Streams will handle after sale service personally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win
C. Hoover
Kittanning
Majestic Products
William C. Hoover
Majestic Radios
Majestic Electric
Hoover
Hamburg Bros
Majestic
Mr. Hoover
Indiana Territory
William Boate
Pittschurgh
Wheeling
Streams
Blessing Heads County Camp Veterans of Foreign Wars
A. F. Blessing was elected commander as Indiana County Camp Veterans of Foreign Wars was installed in Memorial Hall with 81 charter members. County Comptroller Robert G. Woodside of Allegheny installed the officers. Johnstown Veterans Band and a Somerset County delegation attended, ending with lunch for about 150. A Motor Trip to the Middle West followed, as Mr and Mrs E B Kelly left for Nebraska for three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Blessing
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Indiana
Memorial Hall
Robert G. Woodside
Allegheny County
Johnstown
Middlewest
E. B. Kelly
Chastnut Street
Nebraska
Dedication of New Arts Building at State Teachers College
A three day dedication for the new Arts Building at the State Teachers College is planned for March 13 and 14. The program includes a 2:00 p.m. Friday dedication with Dr. C. R. Foster presiding, an invocation by Rev. J J McIlvaine, and a dedicatory address by Dr. J N Rule. Departments of Commerce Fine Arts and Home Economics will host banquets and conferences, with lectures by J Q Malott, Dr B G Blackstone, Miss Mary Edna Flegal, Dr Max Schoen, C Valentine Kirby, Arthur R. Young, and others. The building, three stories plus basement, houses kiln and pottery rooms and sits east of the main entrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Teachers College
C. R. Foster
John J. McIlvaine
First United Presbyterian Church
J. Nrule
Department of Commerce
Department of Fine Arts
Department of Home Economics
G. G. Hill
Foster
J. QO. Malott
Washington, D.C
B. G. Blackstone
University of Iowa
Elmer G. Miller
Pittsburgh
John G. Kirk
Philadelphia
H. A. Andrus
Bloomsburg
Department For Fine Arts
Ior High School
Mary Edna Flegal
Max Schoen
Carnegie Institute of Technology
C. Valentine Kirby
State of
Pennsylvania
Teachers College of
Columbia University
Isabel Colling
Anna G. Green
Harrisburg
Emeline S. Whitcomb
United States Department of Interior
Agnes Tilson
Merrill-Pullmer School
Detroit
Mich
Parenthood
Indiana area Personal Briefs and notices across town
A long list of local social notes and calls from Indiana and surrounding townships. Visitors include Mr and Mrs John P Archibald of Mairsville guest in Indiana with friends D M Butterbaugh of Buffington township. Other entries cover trips to California and Philipsburg, hospital recoveries, theater purchases, and subscription renewals for The Progress. Also notes on Civil War veteran birthdays, local officials, and a California police blotter item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. Archibald
Mairsville
Indiana
D. M. Butterbaugh
Buffington Township
Glenn Tyger
Gipsy
Wiliza Tyger
Eequire BR. D. Carnahan
J. B. Ferguson
Saltsburg
M. D. Wayman
Lakeland
Florida
I. B. Longwill
North Highth Street
P. Frech
Mome
Progress
Frank Beck
North Sixth Street
California
Sylvester Burnheimer
Thomas J. Moorhead
Kenneth Moorhead
Johnstown
Moorhead
Stanley Elkin
Philipsburg
Youngstown
Johnston
HI. M. Travis
Dayton
R.D
Travis
Orange County
Orange County Peace Officers’ Association
Cal
J. M. Pifer
Anaheim
New York City
Joseph Trising
Rayna Township
Mr. Rising
Rayne Township
Gol. Butston
Pennsylvania Dog Licenses Reach Record High
Harrisburg reports from the bureau of animal industry show 508,081 dogs licensed outside Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Scranton in 1930, nearly matching the peak set in 1625. The livestock damage payments total 56,881.73 for 1922 to 1930, with sheep and poultry losses noted, alongside motor vehicle license tag renewals and 6,626 dog licenses issued in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Bureau of Animal Industry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Scraneton
County Offices Report Show 1930 Expenditures and Revenues
A historical financial summary lists 1930 county expenses across departments including the Wile lard Home and various officials. It details reimbursements, salaries, office costs, and fines from automobile violations totaling 28,868.76, with receivership of fees to the County Treasurer and shifts to a salary based Sheriff’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wile Lard
Register of Wills
Recorder of Deeds
Orphans’ Court
Orphans Court
Inces
Tobal
Dan Heroto
Yavar
Bhartivta Oupied Jeaving
Deaths of Mrs Douglass and Mrs Stickler in local notices
Obituary notices record the deaths of Mrs Elton Douglass 75 of Cherry Tree RD from pneumonia at Indiana Hospital with five days of illness and Mrs John Stickler 62 of Johnstown from Memorial Hospital born Homer City with multiple survivors. Funeral plans are listed for Streams Chapel and burial in Greenwood cemetery for Mrs Douglass. interment in Julina town for Mrs Stickler. A state nurse parent, H W Graffins, dies of pneumonia in Spangler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elton Douglass
Dilon Douglass
Thaddeus Douglass
Cherry Trea
R.D
Indiana Hospital
Oshia Tonkin
Home, RD
James
J. M. Glassford
Indiana
Nellie A. Glassford
Evan Davis
Pine Flats
Iy Uving
Streams Chapel
John 8. Scott
The
Baptist Church
Greenwood Cemetery
John Stickler
Johnstown
Homer City
Nora Devinney
Franklin
Henrietta Devinney
Earl
Gladys
Nelle Sipp
Harry Devinney
Des Moines S
Alice Graffins
H. W. Graffins
Alice Graffius
Spangler
Grand Jury Returns Eight True Bills in County Indictments
Grand jury on Tuesday returns eight true bills including involuntary manslaughter against H A Kennedy of Clearfield for the death of William Thomas Ager, injured October 7, 1930, when struck by Kennedy’s automobile. Other indictments cover drunken driving, felonious assault, assault and battery, crime against morality, fraudulent conversion, and liquor law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Lewis
Iddo Lewis
Marehind
Marely
Jd. N. Langham
L. B. Miller
A. Kennedy
Clearfield
Willum
Steve ‘Torzok
Joe Torzok
John Yorzok
Jareéeny
Mes
Angeline DeSalle
Frank Torzok
Jol Matly
Amato Bufalini
Alpine Poetici
Survey of County Streams for Future Stocking
Dewey Sorenson of the Belle Fonte State Mish Hatchery and Louis Litzinger of town conducted a survey of the county’s streams on Wednesday and Thursday to select streams for stocking with fish. A complete record will be kept in Harrisburg as the State Fish Commission will now designate streams and direct stocking. Previously counties stocked streams via local applicants. About six streams have seen variable stocking under the old method. Litzinger reported streams are near normal flow again after a drought break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey Sorenson
Bellefonte
Louis Litzinger
Harrisburg
State Fish Commission
Litzinger
Rural Neighbors Attend Kittanning Meet Friday
Twenty four Pocahontas Gaimp Rural Neighbors of America members from this place attended the district convention in Kittanning Friday afternoon and evening. The Indiana delegation performed a ritualistic drill. Over 60 new initiates joined the order during the meeting, addressed by a state officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kittanning
Pocahontay Gaimp
America
Indiana
Bootlegging Declines Driven by Tough Business Climate
County observers report a sharp drop in bootleg liquor sales over six months due to weakened finances and general business conditions. Domestic home brew production has fallen about fifty percent from four years ago as spending tightens across households. Indiana travelers sail on a six week Mediterranean cruise aboard the Patria with Easter in Jerusalem on the itinerary, returning around May first. Grandparents John L Getty and wife welcome a new grandson born to son and daughter-in-law Dr and Mrs Lawrence H Getty in Youngstown Ohio. mother and baby both well at St Elizabeth hospital. The Gettys now have two sons. A humorous quip closes with the line about the dishes being washed by someone else.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
John M. Daugherty
Ernest Stewart
George T. Buchanan
Flo Mitchell
Agnes St.Clair
le Holy Land
Jerusalem
Stork
Gettys
John L. Getty
Hurch Street
Lawrence H. Getty
Youngstown
St. Hizabeth Hospital
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Sutton Miller Co
Carman Bruno
Tony Cashiere
Domenick Scagino
Conemaugh
E. Young
Indiana Co
Cherryhill
M. C., Watson
Clark & Watson
Banks
Harry H. Wetzel
Rayne
SS. Wetzel
William S. Wetzel
Ralph W. McCreary
McCreary Tire & Rubber Co
White
Herbert Brink
Mack
Brushyalley
East Wheatfield
Buffington
Buffington Townships
Campbell Deface
Bertha Bucci
Olof C. Patterson
Anna M. Crusan
Blacklick
Robert R. McLach
Helena
Gibson
Alton M. McGeary
Maytag Co
Plumville
William H. Gray
Mary Darling Gray
Brookville
Indiana County
Mr. Gray
Co. 1
105Th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Bulla Run
Chancellorsville
Pennsylvania Memorial Home
Gray Home
Peeler
House
J. Wider Peeler
House of Representatives
Warria- Wirg
Department of Internal Affairs
Endiguia
Maxine
Max Goheen
Coving
Calif
Goleen
Puuypht
Bureauy of Motor Vehicles
Comity
Elmer W. Allison
Cupid
Langham
Grand Jury
Tadana
Ife
Western Penitentiary
Trosnital
Marview
Huntingdon
George
Oidiana
Court of Com Peis
Oyer & Terminer
Claude E. Bath
Court of Common Pleas
Quarter Sessions
Court of Quarter Sessions
Runn
Neident
Venir
Anian
Shenlit
Sherif
Noticas
Coe
Ourcome
Fatat
HA. Kennedy
Rager
Josephine
Dda Lewis Foreman
Grandbury
LIBRY
Bsirveys
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