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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1925
Page
3
The Indiana Progress, Indiana Pa, lists obituary notices and subscription terms. Payment is required in advance at BEYHN CENTS line with cash accompanying communications. Subscriptions cover four months at three dollars, with deadlines on the Wednesday, March 11, 1925.
The Punxsutawney Spirit reports Highway Commissioner Wright will keep the B P Highway designation for the route through Bradford Ridgway Du Bois Punxsutawney Indiana Blairville and Greensburg to Pittsburgh. A proposed B P Short Route via Brockwayville Brookville New Bethlehem and Kittanning was rejected. Transylvania Highway is a suggested name for the DuBois to Johnstown segment via Grampian and Mahaffey. Also described is a Presbyterian church program featuring John M Leech Men’s Organized Bible Class and a lecture by Harry C Ostrander titled Around the World in Ninety Minutes on March 16 at 8 o clock with 25 cent admission.
Pomona Grange will meet Thursday March 26 in the social room of the Lutheran church. Dr R J Watts of Pennsylvania State College will keynote with an afternoon program on Pennsylvania Agriculture, followed by motion pictures. The afternoon session is open to the public with reels including Penn State activities.
Thomas of town shows friends a ten prong elk head presented by Senator John Fisher. The hunt occurred last September in Jackson Hole Wyoming during a two week trip with James L. Strehell of Shoshone. They camped cooked and rode the mountains to reach no man’s land fifty miles from a railroad, then shipped the head to a taxidermist.
The sixty fifth annual statement shows 3 860 009 000 outstanding insurance and 1924 as a record year with over 621 000 000 in new policies. More than 100 000 000 was repaid to policyholders as assets reach 7256 000 000. Edward A Woods Company of Pittsburgh aided the year’s record, placing over 48 000 000 in new insurance. Indiana agents include 8 W Guthrie Beryl L Seanor and W D Guthrie. Armstrong Grange No 1645 lays out March 18 program at Parkwood with music recitations debates and orations.
Mrs Scott Lowman of Blairsville visited Saltsburg while Rev George Ryall returned from Washington DC. Local church activities included baptisms at the Presbyterian church and a Tom Thumb wedding by the Saltsburg Chapter Order of the Eastern Star. Proceeds benefit the chapter. Ed Ewing moved his shagelore to a former pastor building. G A Smith of Pittsburgh heads the meat market in Burnett store. Miss Edna Clare and Miss Katharine Baylis visited Greensburg. Mrs William Hart and daughter visited Pittsburgh relatives. J K Moore recovered from illness and was out. Daughters of Rebekah served a successful cafeteria supper in the IOOF hall drawing many visitors. Olive Ewing attended Pittsburgh. Saltsburg defeated Indiana in basketball. home team won. Mr and Mrs M T Young visited Avonmore. Mr and Mrs W S Thornhurst of Dormont visits. Mrs Marthe Forbes and daughter Martha returned home from hospital. Samuel Robinson visited Pittsburgh. Nine young men joined I O O F lodge Friday. Miss Willa Burkett of Blakeville visited. Lest We Forget moving picture by Anti-Saloon League shown at Presbyterian church with no admission. Miss Margaret Jackson of Ligonier spent weekend with her parents. Kiski school boys gave a street demonstration led by their instructors, some clothed in bathrobes. appearance hazing-like though not disclosed. Melia Rupert returned from New Kensington.
San Pedro California reports the former royal clipper Gullia once built for a Spanish king sank off the northern California coast after a tale of romance and adventure. The vessel later served English merchants and war ventures before becoming a rum runner named Gullia. Stranded with coal scarce, the crew scuttled the ship near Baja California. all hands were rescued by a passing vessel and taken to San Francisco.
Postwar travel costs ease for Britons as December first brings five year passports for 7s 6d and optional ten year extensions. Visas are unnecessary for many continental destinations, while Americans face $10 passports valid a year and visa fees per country, a burden seen as retaliation.
A parliamentary debate on agriculture cites a laboratory finding that a single wheat seed can yield about 500000 grains in a year and a half. Deputies discuss a return to farming, rural decline, and rising bread prices amid a national wheat shortage.
One of the latest relics received by the state department of archives is a wooden sack from a door of Liefret house, used by Andrew Jackson when he visited Tennessee. The Disinuke place at Hadley's Bend is being razed for a Du Pont silk fibre plant, and the item will join the new state museum's Wir Memorial building.
Wildlife reports indicate hundreds of native elk, protected by the National Park Service, were killed by hunters in the recent season. About 250 elk escaped Yellowstone boundaries and were slaughtered as they roamed nearby.
Blairsville resident C F Murray and several others are listed as Indiana visitors and local business travelers. Notes include fishing for farm sales, Pie social in Penn Run, hunting licenses totals, and personal notices about families moving, visits, and a hospital appropriation in Indiana.
Obituary notices list Mrs Margaret Black of Clarksburg, John Loughry of Blairsville, Charles Sink of Erie, Mrs Filomeno DeMeo of Rossiter, Mrs Jennie Warner Graham of New Alexandria, and infant Robert Dixon Colling. Also two auction notices for George Stephens and Simon B Henry with dates and items. The entries note ages, family survivors, religious affiliations, and burial details.
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