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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1930
Page
7
Plumville residents report guests from Pittsburgh Punxsutawney and Indiana with Sabbath visits and hospital news. Quilting projects by M BE church and Missionary Society completed for local ladies. Local church services and upcoming events noted along with several illnesses and family visits.
Preaching services are set for the next Sabbath at 2 30 PM and Sunday school at 1 30 PM. Mr and Mrs Archle Rising and family spent the weekend with friends here. Mrs McCurdy visited Mrs Bila Warner of Shelocta last Tuesday. Mrs Penman of Manor visited daughter Mrs J W Cunning ham last week. Wida McCurdy missed last week of school due to neuralgia. Mr and Mrs Walter Rising and three children spent the late week in the Rising and Car bon homes. Mrs T H Sharp and family and Mrs Devlin called on the McCurdy home Tuesday evening. Sara Jane Sell and Myrtle May McCurdy attended a party at Hider ton high school Monday night. Mr and Mrs Ross and Mr and Mrs Akey visited friends in Indiana Sabbath afternoon. Raymond and Ethelt note a joke about a wheel nut causing accidents.
Elderton hosted a cooking class led by Miss Bess Owen at Mrs. J W Cribbs home. Ladies Aid groups from U P and Lutheran churches held quilting and meetings at local homes. Rural Valley beat Elderton in a two game basketball series, one at home and one in Rural Valley. Local families from Warren Tarentum Wilkinsburg Vandergrift and Pittsburgh visited over the weekend and St Patrick’s party was held at Hiterton high school.
PLUM CREEK VALLEY. Families visited and welcomed guests over the weekend and Sunday. Names mentioned include Bell of Pittsburgh with Thelma Bell of Saltsburg. Hazelton Gemmel of Kent with Mrs Gemmel's father J. C. Myers. George Johnson and Pearl Wandercrift at W. C. Jamison's home. J. W. Rankin and family from Indiana. Joe Potts and Mae visiting Har ry Mitchell of Plumville. Alice visiting Cherry Tree. Ben and George Thompson families from Indiana. Mrs. J. M. Rankin with D. R. Hill. Dale Prothero of Home with her mother. Floyd McMillen and two children with Mrs. George McMillen at Jamison's. Harry Craft at Ira Wadding funeral in Marion Center. Blaine Anderson and J. C. Myers Indiana callers. Clark Davis and family Indiana visitors.
Maple Grove residents and relatives visit Akron Ohio and nearby towns. Names such as Albert Coy Forrest Coy and many others are noted visiting relatives callers and weekend gatherings. Multiple visits from Bowers Wolfe Waltemire Sloppy Holmes and various families referenced across Penn Run Manor Blanch and Big Bend areas.
About 500 people visited the milk show at the Indiana Theatre today with two o'clock judging by D. H. Bailey of Penn State. Exhibitors from Indiana and surrounding towns submitted Holstein Jersey Guernsey and mixed breeds. The list includes Mrs. John Cook Indiana R6 Quarnsey and many others from Indiana, Creekside, Saltsburg, Marion Center, Homer City, Smicksburg, and surrounding communities.
L. T. Denniston and J. C. Pepper of Penn State are slated to speak on potato diseases and spraying and on potato insects and their control, respectively, outlining disease management and pest control strategies.
The Potato Growers Day will be held Friday March 21 at the Lutheran church with exhibits of potato machinery and sprayers on the street and sessions in the church basement. A noon cafeteria lunch requires advance reservations at the County Agent's office. Speakers include Miles Horst of Pennsylvania Farmer and R A Blasingame of Penn State on new developments in potato machinery.
Over one hundred twenty five farmers attended tour farm management meetings in Smicksburg Gaibleton Brushyalley and Huff. Earl Moffitt of the State College Extension highlighted cow and hen break even costs, urged farm accounts, and stressed milk weighing. The second item notes statewide beekeeping inspections under the 1928 State Bee Law to curb disease, with about 100 prosecutions last year.
The State Board of Game Commissioners reports that the Crow destroys nesting birds and young game mammals if other food is scarce. Crows prefer small rodents frogs snakes snails insects and vegetable matter. In winter they damage game birds and mammals and may be killed to protect them.
Mr and Mrs John R McIntire and daughter Hazel visit near Jacksonville. Annie Thompson returns from Youngstown Ohio after winter with cousins Mr and Mrs R M Thompson. Mrs Iddo Lewis of Marchand in Washington DC to testify for the Dry cause at Prohibition hearings. Auguste McKee and T B Elder visit Connellsville where Elder, a State Motor Patrolman, is recovering from injuries. S A Ackerson of Blacklick township Indiana visitors report 700 attendees at his farm sale. expect to move to Denver Colorado soon.
A series of wedding announcements from Wellsburg to Mercer features Mary Etta Miller and James C. Liebold of Robinson wed in Wellsburg on September 11 1925. Also noted are Clarence E Rankin and Grace Leona Orner in Nanty Glo, Clyde Dick and Virginia McNaughton in Cumberland Md, Stanley Stahl and Leda Douglass in Ebensburg Uniontown, William Betchel and Veda Martin in Saltsburg, Paul Jacobs and Helen Blain Tomlin in Ernest, Leon Veitch and Gertrude Hartman in New Kensington Apollo, and Ellsworth Hilty and Olive Stump in Mercer.
At the New Century Club regular meeting in the community hall on Monday evening Rev Father Brady assistant rector of St Bernard Catholic church shared his impressions of Ireland his homeland. The talk formed the highlight of the St Patrick Day program enjoyed by club women and guests. William Miller celebrated his 16th birthday with a tendered dinner at the Miller home in East Oak Brest, joined by family and guests Stanley Enterline and Jamce Sutton. He my clutch certainly is weak the girl replied bo I notice Spunk
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