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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1935
Page
4
Anonymous offers a tongue in cheek verse urging others not to mourn after death. It warns against excessive mourning, pleads for practical acts like sharing jam and roses while alive, and requests a simple gesture such as pinning a flower on a button hole when the person is alive.
County potato growers meet to appoint Kinter and Leech as relief potato agents. Reported growers may sell 6 percent of their reported volume, others 6 percent of current stock. U S No 1 grade in 100 pound bags, inspections at Manners Exchange Indiana Pa. to Pittsburgh warehouse. Commission and hauling fees apply. Indiana County quota set at 4250 bushels with minimum 200 bushels per grower. Delivery deadlines and grading standards outlined. Prompt action required.
Fifty-one horse breeders attended the annual meeting and banquet at the Moore Hotel. Dr. J. J. Connolly was elected president with William H. George as vice president and R. H. Thompson as secretary treasurer. D. J. Fiscus reported on the county show, and F. A. Marshall spoke on horse promotion.
Thirty-six Jersey breeders from Clearfield Jefferson and Indiana counties met at Marion Center Presbyterian Church for a district dinner and meeting. Speakers urged forming Jersey calf clubs for youth and expanding Jersey herds via 4-H and milk product branding. Indiana County Jersey Cattle Club re organized electing Clyde Houck president and others as directors to plan calf clubs field days and related activities.
John R. Campbell of White Township was elected president at the annual luncheon in Indiana. John G. Henderson, Young Township, was named vice president and ER N. Lydick, Cherryhill Township, secretary treasurer. Directors include H. N. Travis, B. B. Crawford, and others. A field day and picnic were planned for August 20 in Conemaugh Township. The meeting covered Bangs disease testing progress, Guernsey milk branding, and cow testing services, with 75 breeders in the county and two testers from Indiana County.
An optimistic view holds that should the League of Nations ignite a war, the World Court would be able to stop it, reflecting faith in international law over conflict.
Cheery reminders cover brood mare care with balanced protein rich feeds, cleanliness of the brooder house, lime soil testing via county agents, pulp wood sales from farm woodlands, cabbage disease control with seed treatments, water supply for farms, and selecting a few well-placed plants for home grounds while noting good times come from prudent budgeting.
A reader from Indiana Penn a March 16 1936 letter questions a published report that Senator Ho ward B Bennett filed a bill to sell eggs by the pound not by the dozen The writer quotes a humorous remark about hens laying eggs and urges correction.
Actor Guy Kibbee recounts a chilling tale from Vermont with Evelynn Grey, a leading lady dying of tuberculosis who lingered at the theater. After a night of poker, the group saw a pale white figure in the aisle. Evelyn Grey was found dead in her dressing room the next morning, wearing the same gown.
Herbert Donald Kensinger and Ethel Naomi Steele wed in Rossiter on March 16. Robert Gail Hinton and Rosa Francis Miller wed in Robinson on March 12. John Gorgisa and Bertha Peretin wed in Clymer on March 16. Grooms work as a road worker, miner, and coal miner respectively.
A dialogue fragment asks about state factories for war implements. The reply notes one rolling pin factory and two flat-iron factories in the state. It then cites Napoleon Bonaparte retreating from Moscow in 1812 and a year for Uncle Sam in 1935.
Mr and Mrs W G Troxell and others visited in Indiana and Heilwood while guests and callers frequent nearby towns. Mrs Sara Peden of Johnstown visits the J F Ondrizek home as Ethel Detwiler spends time with Margaret Stephens of Ivison. Miscellany callers and shopping trips tie together a week of small town activity in Beleano Nanty Glo Glen Campbell and Buffington township communities.
Rev BE Edwards longtime pastor of Purchase Line Montgomery and Diamondville Church of the Brethren will enter a new field April 1. A farewell gathering is planned at the Purchase Line Community building on Wednesday evening March 27 with all congregations and friends invited and asked to bring lunch.
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