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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1936
Page
8
A rattling taxi nears the Yugoslav Austrian border carrying Tantali and the Weasel in a wedding gown. An attempted crossing ends with an arrest and the Weasel shot, revealing a robbery plot and police praise from Belgrade.
Montreal Herald reports that Malaya army ants move with military precision. Scouts recon bends, then a ball of ants the size of a coconut rolls into the water, is swept across, collapses on the far shore, and soldiers ashore reform ranks to continue the march.
The article notes that fine artificial pearls were first produced in western Europe in 1050 by Jacquin, la Parla, marking an early achievement in gem imitation.
A Sunday school lesson on Luke 11 1 13 outlines Jesus teaching on prayer. It emphasizes right relationship with God as Father and the right attitude, spirit, and perseverance in prayer. The piece stresses dependence forgiveness holiness and intercession and ends with the promise of God answering prayers and receiving the Holy Spirit.
A philosophical excerpt contrasts inner life with external forces. It cites Amiel on being slave to surroundings and a weathercock to the air, and Schiller on mercy embracing both friend and foe as freely as the sun’s beams.
Reverend and Mrs Garland and son Paul visited Rossiter to call on parish members. Various locals, including M Lewis, R H Knox, W D Garland, and W C Roderus, traveled to Indiana and nearby towns. Mrs Kirkpatrick and daughters joined relatives in Clarion, and several shoppers and visitors were seen in Punxsutawney and Heilwood with updates on ill health for H B Steffey.
John Lowry Norsker visits family and mother Minnie Clark. Rhoda Fisher stays with Mr and Mrs Luther Sutton. Talmage Bates moves to the Lakehart house with daughter Mary Elien visiting from Pitts burgh. Ronald Johnston from Ohio Northern University at home. Terrence Shields and Burleson Johnston visit Tyrone. Bert Allshouse calls on friends. Norman Little and family with the Dixson girls Vanetta Kline Jessie Johnston and John Nesbit attend Bell Grange social. Wm Lukehart and family visit Hillsdale. Geo Hopkins visits Mrs Byers. Sara Nesbit visiting sister Louise in Pittsburgh. Byron Browne visits near Atwood with Mrs Brown’s parents. Mrs Weasel spends Monday at Indianapolis with her sister.
Dilltown I M Wires and wife made a business trip to New York City recently. Blaine Slick and wife and Ray Walker of Punxsutawney were callers in the Elkin home Saturday evening. W.G. Stewart and wife were Indiana callers one day last week. Dewey McCune employed at South Fork spent the weekend at his home. W F Elkin wife and son Cortlandt were Johnstown visitors on Saturday. Assistant County Superintendent Winger of Indiana was in town last week. Mrs John Boston is a patient in the Indiana hospital suffering with pneumonia. Bill Stewart and wife were serenaded at the bride's home since Saturday evening. Mrs Shaw of Irvona was guest of her daughter Arla Pax and family last week. Matilda Stewart, attending Indiana Teachers College, visited her home over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs T C Hood and Mrs Foster Smock and son Arthur visited New Kensington relatives. J G Henderson visited Mrs Shankis. George Meyers of Greensburg stayed with the Hines. Walter Ewing hosted and was visited by Helen Shearer and Mrs Foster Smock. Mrs Donald Ewing stayed several days at Walters. Two Cornell scientists report cabbage and turnip juices kill germs.
Dallas teams rush to finish the Texas Centennial Exposition with about six thousand workers on round-the-clock shifts. The city state and federal buildings rise, with more than eighty exhibitors contracted, including Ford, General Electric, DuPont, Gulf Refining, Harley-Davidson, Nabisco? (entire list), and hundreds of firms lining up for display space in the June 6 to November 29 showcase.
The Eben ezer church elders and trustees held a Monday afternoon business meeting. Roy Ewing and family visited the Elmer Ewing home near Blairsville Tuesday evening and returned home with Gladys Ewine. Eleven missionary women held an all-day quilting at Mrs J L Diven's home. The quilt, owned by Mrs W F Barkley, is finished. Bernice Dixon is staying in Blairsville for work. Mrs Dwight Barkley and her sons from Livermore visited the W F Barkley home Thursday evening. Wendell Good and family were at Charles Good's funeral Friday. Mr and Mrs W G Layden, who spent three months with their daughter Mrs Win Leard of Beaver Falls, returned home Sunday. Mr and Mrs W B McGinley and Donald Neal visited ill Mrs C S Neal at M L Black’s home in Smicksburg Sunday. George Hughes and family visited Mr and Mrs Wendell Good Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Wing, newlyweds, appeared at Ebenezer on Sunday. Miss Riter of Alatraville, a No 7 school teacher, spent the weekend with Wm Gordon and family. Wells Cunningham of Coneomaugh church attended Ebenezer services Sunday.
A quirky political dispatch notes rising tensions as unusual items like applesauce baloney and banana oil accompany discussions of drought and gravsloppers guiding events. It cites more than 17 000 people driven from South Dakota since 1930.
Mrs Edith Engle remains confined indoors after an illness but is improving. An all day quilting session was held at Mrs Annie Richardson's by the United Presbyterian Missionary Society with nineteen attendees. Local residents and visitors, including Gayland Moore from Marion Center and Leroy Spon family from Indiana, stopped by for calls and errands over the weekend.
Clarksburg residents and families share reports of visits and travels. Mrs. Chas Fart and Vaughn of Derry visited Mrs. Hart's sister Mrs. Carria Erick. Mrs. Av R. Jewell returned home after caring for sister Mrs. Geo Gallagher. Carolyn Marshall and families visited, and new grandson greeted at Worland home. Hospital updates include C Coleman critically ill near town and M Zerfous undergoing major operation in Latrobe. Mrs. Wm Hullenbaugh spent time at Salisbury extension with friends. Geneve Morris of town and Chas Fulton of Indiana announce marriage. Slugh Hood tours Allentown weekend. Ward Fulton of Frederick Md visiting relatives and staying with her father S. Coleman at Indiana hospital.
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