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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1926
Page
10
John B. Smith aged 92 a Jefferson county settler and Smyrna area resident dies after a brief illness. Also noted are obituaries for Charles H Stahl of Saltsburg Jesse G Foust of Beaverdale Edwin Hysong of West Wheatfield Edwin Robinson Punxsutawney businessman wife Mrs W B Hull Irvin R McMasters former Indiana county treasurer. each entry lists age, residence, cause or circumstances, and survivors.
Mrs Samantha Lydick Wheeler aged 83 a respected Dixonville resident died at home Friday February 26. She was born in Green and married John Wheeler in 1863 who died December 23 1925. A lifelong Baptist, she leaves several children including Mrs Frank Hess John Wheeler Mrs Frank Burnheimer Mrs Hen Shank Mrs O J Long of Dixonville and Mrs Lewis Weiss of Parkwood plus others.
William H. Bowser of Forman North Dakota died March 1 in St Paul Minnesota at age 80. A former Wheatfield township resident he spent over forty years in the west. He married Agnes VanHorn of Armagh and left one son and three daughters. A Civil War veteran he once visited Gettysburg for a Grand Army gathering. Funeral services were at his Forman home conducted by the Methodist Episcopal pastor.
The notice states Mrs John Leasure of Marion Center Pennsylvania died July 4 1025. The verse features sentimental lines about rest and friendship and notes she is sadly missed by Mrs M A Low man and Mrs Gail Reithmiller with a March 10 1926 date.
The article marks fifty years since Bell’s telephone debut with a nationwide Bell System celebration. It notes 332 thousand Bell employees and thousands of others wearing commemorative buttons. It recalls Bell and Watson’s 1876 milestone, patent 174,405, and the transformation from experimental labs in Boston to a nationwide network. It cites growth to 16.7 million phones, 332,000 employed, and stock ownership by about half a million people across AT and T and Associated Companies.
The Wilkinsburg Junior High faculty records the death of Laura Belle Bruce a beloved colleague. They praise her personal charm sincerity and courage and express deepest sympathy to her family and friends while resolving to honor her memory.
In loving remembrance of Margaret Peddicord who died at nineteen on March 10 1926 one year ago We miss thee from our home and from thy place A shadow over our life is cast Our home is dark without thee Parents Mr and Mrs H G Peddicord Strongstown Pa
Public sale announced for Wilber F Lydie farm in Washington township near Washington church and state road Saturday March 20 at 12 30 PM. Auction lists four horses including a black seven years old and two bay mares ten years old one in foal a two year old sorrel filly and two fresh cows with two more in April plus yearling heifer. Also farm machinery and vehicles including Conklin wagons Milwaukee binder McCormick mower Osborne hay rake grain drill and corn workers, plows harrows sleds sleigh hogey harness cooking stove and heating stove. Also corn oats buckwheat potatoes hay and straw by the ton.
Multiple listings describe auctions at the Green township home of P B Decker with four horses cattle machinery and vehicles including 1925 cars, a Campbell farm sale on the Wm Penn highway featuring farm equipment and stock, and other beighley Beighley farm items. Auctioneers include W F Lydic Lewis Whitacre Campbell Cameron and J Southern.
Mr and Mrs E L Brawer of Creekside announce the arrival of a nine and a half pound baby girl named Betty LaRue Both mother and child are doing well and advancing nicely in the days following the birth
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