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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1911
Page
4
The brief items reference HR INDIANA PROGRESS as a long-standing county paper with scattered names such as MOOREMEAD and MOORMEAD, and fragmented notices including obituaries and communications. It notes publication on Wednesdays and provides advertising terms, though the fragmentary text limits specifics.
Notice to readers on subscription renewals clarifies that all Progress subscriptions expire on the first of a month with the pink tab showing the year. Obituaries report the deaths of William L. Sloniger in Dayton and Mrs. GB Harrington in Ernest with funeral plans and interment at St Bernard's cemetery.
John Mitchell ex President of the United Mine Workers of America will lecture in Library Hall Indiana April 18 as a benefit event for the Y M C A. The Indiana county audience and nearby communities will hear the prominent labor leader who commands respect from both capital and labor.
Corporal Bob McKee of Feveport, editor of the Freeport Journal, recalls Major Beale and wife in Washington for the close of Congress. He quotes Beale calling Congress a waste of time with ill advised bills and says Beale and the district had two capable representives but are ready to let the other man lead. Nearby St Patrick's Day festivities in Sintekaburg feature a potato race winner Leslie Coleman and a large, well attended supper. A Lutheran ham and egg supper is planned, and Prof J N K Hickman of the Normal School spoke on Forestry to the New Century Club.
A long, graphic column describes George Sheyter's attempted suicide by stepping in front of a car near a lake, amid a broader editorial on unemployment, hunger, and self-destruction in cities like Chicago. It compares charitable efforts with lavish New Year celebrations and urges readers to send neighborhood news. It also notes local injuries, farming tips, and notices on taxes and household goods.
A Republican candidate for Sheriff announces his bid in Indiana County. he cites Deputy Sheriff duties but pledges impartial service if elected. Also covered are social events from Blacklick township in which a group of young people enjoyed music and storytelling at Mrs. Huston’s home, a birthday surprise for Mrs. Ira R. Baker in Blairsville with many attendees and gifts, and a local ad offering Wood's Groveine for cleaning kid gloves with a note about a cashier canceling an ad in Homer City Pa dated March 20, 1911.
A bedtime fable tells how a bean, straw, and coal escape burning beans and travel, only to meet a brook and misadventure. The three are scorched and drowned, leaving the bean with a black mark sewn by a passing taker, explaining why beans have black marks.
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