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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1898
Page
5
Local correspondence notes marriages births and visits in Clyde Armagh and nearby Brushvalley and West Wheatfield. references include Henderson drill company preparations for service in Cuba, school officers election at Washington society and numerous village socials baptist meetings and church actions plus local trades moves and maple syrup season actions.
A Republican call urges voters to go to the polls Saturday and vote for two persons for the legislature. The record also notes multiple local visits and social rounds: Miss Pearl Napp teaching in Cambria County visited home over Sabbath. Samuel Griffith of Indiana with Miss Maude Wray visited relatives near Grisemore. Mr. W. A. Wiggins and Miss Jettie Baker of Pleasant Valley visited Mr. Frank Napp’s family. T. P. Stephens, Indiana grand jury foreman, returned home after weeks there. Mrs. William Williams recovering from illness. Miss Sarah Martin visited Martintown. Jennie Glenn visited Cookport. Olie Lutman spent Sabbath in Cookport. Will Huston of Kenwood visiting Martintown. Miss Margaret Williams attended an institute at No. last Saturday. Grisemore school exhibition a success.
Smicksburg reports social calls and visits from John P. Elkin and Rev C L Streamer family, with funeral attendance for Joseph F. Robinson. Also mentions Dr Beyer, J S Condron, and local entertainment success at McConnick ball. Deckers Point notes timber fire, sheriff sales, Indiana travel, and local visits. Home column covers school closure, literary society, oyster supper, and residents’ comings and goings. Conemaugh and Tanney entries log visits, lumber business, weddings, missions pie social, and local illness reports. Kenwood lists illnesses and local residents facing health issues.
Mr and Mrs Clement Henry and daughter Martha visit friends here. Miss Lizzie Smith recovers and plans a trip to Indiana then hospital. J M Glassford reports new goods and good business. Timber work by R L Holmes and Barney Henry. Social event at Thad Douglass home with refreshments and music. Fire damages hotel roof at the War Fry home. Nineveh ice house burns. Farm institute proceedings mention Miss Pearl Mack essay. School and teaching staff notes. Various local travels and church services. Public notices include a funeral sale and community activities across Elders Ridge, South Bend, and surrounding towns.
The article discusses La Grippe and its aftereffects such as debility and melancholy, noting no remedy beats Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It mentions B F Warner preparing for spring trade, wagon repairs at Isaac Beck's works, and upcoming church auction of the Baptist meeting house and shoe shop at Ninth and Church streets on March 26, 1898. Caldwell's advertises shirts, ties, and clothing.
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