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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1901
Page
5
Plumville residents report visits and moves as families attend meetings at Cribbs hall Sharpsburg and Kellysburg. Donations and entertainments include a musicale with the Plaraville brass band and Ambrose orchestra, a lecture by Rev D Percy French, and a Ladies Club gathering on Bryant. Multiple residents travel to Punxsutawney Bradford and Latrobe for work or funerals.
A vintage catalog-style advertisement touts Alco Brand clothing with suits from 10 to 15 dollars, shirts from 25c to 1.50, hats and caps, and spring wear for men, women, and children. It highlights in store tailoring, in-house carpet services, and closing sales on coats, overcoats, and dresses with strong emphasis on value and quality.
Local notes report Barnett moving to Warfeld this week and Misa Minnie Henderson at home with her parents. Rev McDowell preached an able sermon on Home Missionary Work at the Germany Lutheran church. The literary society prospers under new officers, with fines possible for disturbances. Garfield bakery thriving. brick works restarting with about a hundred workers returning to the yard and mines. Johnstown visitor James Mack called. Germany schoolhouse burnt a hole in the roof. Joseph Brendlinger family helped extinguish. In four weeks the hirehood kids lose sovereign rights over schooling. Indiana visitors J M Wakefield and Mrs Mary McLane. Pearl Lichengood visiting relatives. Emme Huston ill with heart trouble. Ray Lichtenfels secured railroad office job in Bolivar. Ernest Sutton left for Uniontown. Epidemic three-day measles. S M Lowman at Vandergrift. Wives and families visiting Indiana and Plumville area. Mrs Wm Fleming and son Ross with Indiana friends. Wiggins family visits Homer City. Mollie Lowry visiting Lizzie Wiggins. Mrs Campbell and daughter of Apollo visiting Amos Woods family. Emerson Club meetings held at Albert Wiggins home.
A discussion notes that thin pale anemic girls lack color and vitality and suggests fatty foods will enrich their blood restore health and strength. It asserts that most reject fat in their diet while claiming fat is safe and beneficial.
The passage explains Scott's Emulsions as a fatty food easier to digest than other fats and claims some people gain a pound daily while using it, suggesting it accompanies anemia and requires a certain amount of flesh for health.
Pine Flats reports revival meetings at the Disciple Church during Sabbath. Misses Gertrude and Emma Glass returned home to Bedford on Wednesday. Wm Morris undertook a business trip to Pittsburg last week. J H E Davidson visited Philadelphia part of last week. Bob McCoy traveled to Barnesboro Saturday. Robert Foulkes and son Clarence went to Cockport last Thursday. W J Sayers shows slow improvement from grip. Miss Rezza Lambing returned home to Manor from K M Hlwood’s. Frank Ryan visited Greenville over the Sabbath.
INDIANA and Blairsville area residents are noted visiting friends and family in Blairs ville Homer City Bolivar Latrobe and Tarentum. People mentioned include R W Wehrie Mrs Mary Berry Arthur Fleck and others with moves and family visits noted during the week in Blairsville and surrounding towns.
Mary Zener visited friends at DuBois. A sled load of married folks from near town visited 8. S. Wetzel of Marion Center last Friday. George Yoan and sister Mary of Trade City stayed with F. W. Peffer. Hicks and Orvas Hoffman, of Trade City, were in town on business. Town youths held a taffy pulling at the Marchand House Friday night. A wedding is reported in the near future. Jacob Zener moved to the Grazier farm in East Mahoning last week. Several attended the Li Cust institute last Saturday.
Notice listing filing and hearing requirements for tavern liquor licenses in Indiana County. Applications must be filed with the Clerk of the Court three weeks before the fourth Monday of March, with hearings on that Monday. Publications of applicants named in two Indiana newspapers are required. Fees apply. Names of merchants and hotels in Indiana, PA are presented along with Clerk W. B. Calhoun stamp. March 4, 1901.
An advertisement urges shoppers to plan ahead for carpet purchases. It touts Ingrai Carpets bought at a below regular price and says Wallace Dry Goods Company offers carpets, rugs, and matting at lower prices than competitors. It notes closeouts on dress goods and winter stock at bargain rates.
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