Workhouse sentence for fatal road accident case details
Fatally injured Elsie Margretta Leamer a 16 year old Green Township High School junior died after being struck by a truck driven by James Gibson in Cockport Route 843. Gibson 25 Indiana pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 to 20 months in the Allegheny County Workhouse plus a $100 fine and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gibson
Indiana
H. & Creps
Allegheny County
Costa
Gibson
Elsie Margretta Leamer
Green Township
Cockport
Edwin M. Clark
Thomas
Barber
Bagio Bertorello
Homer City
Creps
Nathan Jennings, Jr
Nesto
Cherry Alley
Peeler District Guests Shower Newlyweds in Indiana
Nearly 70 residents of the Peeler district in Armstrong township surprised Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham with a wedding shower at the groom's parents home on March 12. After lunch, the couple opened gifts and guests departed late, wishing the couple happiness. The couple will reside at 203 South Fourteenth Street, Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peeler
Armstrong Township
John Cunningham
J. Wilbur Cunningham
John
Genevieve
Mrs. Cunningham
South Fourteenth St
Indiana
Armagh High School Presents Weekly Musical Program
Armagh High School hosts a musical program this week in the school auditorium under Prof Zener. The program features instrumental and vocal numbers with solos and quartets, plus added features. More than 1200 tickets have been sold for the series, which began Monday and ends Thursday with the presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armagh High School
Zener
Local College Sends Delegates to Harrisburg Conference
Miss Martha Paulson and Mine Elizabeth Shaffer of Indiana and Mina Helen Clawson of Heshbon will form part of the Indiana State Teachers delegation to the Intercollegiate Conference in Harrisburg from April 8 to 10. Other members include W. Ardell Haines Myrtle Miller Jean Brynon Dorothy Clawson Hardy Finn Joseph Jones Kal Wan Vozer Mildred Lock Chester Shaffer and Catherine Segel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Martha Paulson
Elizabeth Shaffer
Indiana
Mina Helen Clawson
Heshbon
Indiana State Teachers
Alege
W. Ardell Haines
Myrtle Miller
Jean Brynon
Dorothy Clawson
Hardy Finn
Joseph Jones
Kal- Wan Vozer
Mildred Lock
Chester Shaffer
Catherine Segel
Hartnett Radio Store Moves to 837 Philadelphia Street
Ba J Hartnett, a well known radio dealer, relocates to 837 Philadelphia Street and invites the public to inspect his modern store showing a complete line of new model radios and equipment with prompt service on public sale bills at The Progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ba. J. Hartnett Radio
Phila, St
Real estate transfers listed with prices across townships
Transfers show multiple parcels including Burrell Indiana Brushvalley White Conemaugh and South Mahoning townships. Names include Theodore Lyda Keziah Wastam Clarence Williams Eva Rhea and others with prices from one dollar to several thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Heckman
David Weamer
Indiana
Roof
Agnes J. Adame
White Township
Keziah Wastam
Walker Walls
Green Township
Naomi Helen Dearmy
Mack
Brushvalley
Harry ‘Letrux Hood
Orval Kipp
Clarence A. Williams
George K. Williams
Florence R. Kring
Luther 8. Williams
Martin Ober
Sanford Deabenderfer
Eva BH. Rhea
James
Palmer
Conemaugh Township
Eleanor Sidlovaki
Joseph Urban
South Mahoning Township
Claude W. Gaston
Olle M. Gaston
Canoe Township
Minnie C. Weiss
W. H. Flesher
Marion Center
Patrick H. Altimus
Alvin Davis
Strongstown
Lions To Don Aprons And Paint Easter Eggs
Orders issued to Lions members present at the club meeting to report armed with aprons at the Methodist Episcopal church to decorate about 80 dozen rabbit eggs for the first annual Lions Easter Egg Hunt on Round Top hill Friday at 3:00 P.M. Weather permitting, a large turnout of children is expected with special prizes. Archdeacon Eastment and Mrs Hastment to observe two 50 year events in Indiana on Easter Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Church
Round Top Hill
Archdeacon
F. T. Eastment
Indiana
Elizabeth Stewart
North Eleventh Street
Saltsburg
G. A. Masterson
of! City
Garetha, Jr
West School Street
William Bennett
Town
Florida
Robert T. Marlin
South Eleventh Street
Big Son
Lloyd Marlin
Detroit
Mich
Rachael Rankin
Shelocta
Elizabeth Campbell
West Lebanon
J. A. Fleming
Bess Cunningham
Cleveland
D. A. Cunningham
Wayne Avenue
Nesbit Ralston
Indiana Hospital
Wilkinsburg
B. J. Hill
Ben, Jr
Waterstreet
William Hii
Reynoldsville
Paul Gerhard
Blairaville
Harry Garman
Hazel
T. G.burhenn
Jeannette
John M., Daugherty
Church Street
Wilda McCracken
Charles Hall
Joseph McGuire
C. L. Stiver
William Silvis
Stiver
Progress
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
W. B. Milliken
Homer City
Milliken
Jennie Lowman
Hey
Samuel W. Shane
First United Presbyterian Church of
Chambersville
Linolleum
Rockwell Bros. & Co
Wellsville
N. Y
Armatrong School
Lancaster
O. C. Lydie
Clifford
Plumville
Buelah
Bernice
Nurses’ Training School
JH. C. Johnston
Biderton
W. Y. Russell
Greensburg
George McCune
Bertha Kingsley
Blairsville
Johington
The
John H.truby
State College
Truby
David J. Fiscus
East Water Street
Inarie
Commercial National Bank
Bradford
State Banking Department
A. Hartung
Sheraden Methodist Church
Pittsburgh
WJAS
Crowe
Hartung
T. W. Knox
Gon. George
Aliquippa
Mr. Knox
Smithport
Banks ‘Township
Allquippa
Miymma Coy
Corodée
David Coy
J. W. Slutton
College Avenue
Santa Barbara
Wil. Thompson
Indiana Post Office
Horse Demonstration and Field Day Near Plumville
A horse demonstration field day is planned at Curt McMillen’s farm one mile east of Plumville on the concrete road. It will be held Wednesday afternoon March 31 at 1 30 P M. Local farmers will exhibit horses and C A Burge of Penn State will lead a multiple horse demonstration. Russell Crago of Virginia Farm Livermore will present a fitting and showing horses demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plumville
Curt McMillen
C. A. Burge
Penn State
Russell Crago
Virginia Farma
Livermore
Ala
J. S. Mack
Homer City
Brushvalley
W. W. Simonds
Warner
Mack
Irvin Shafter
Penitentiary Term Given to County Robbery Suspect
Clarion County Judge Harry M. Rimer sentenced Alfred Smith of Indiana County to one to three years in Western Penitentiary on a robbery charge. Two co defendants indicted for the Shippenville station hold up in June 1936 were acquitted. Judge Crepe spoke at the Rotary Club on bench observations over 16 months, noting juvenile cases as the toughest issue for a judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarion County
Harry M. Rimer
Alfred Smith
Indiana County
Western Penitentiary
Smith
Shippenville
Crepe
Rotary
H. B. Creps
Rotary Club
Health Institute to be held here on April 8
A Health Institute sponsored by the Indiana County Medical Auxiliary will be held in the Indiana High School auditorium on Thursday April 8 starting at 10:00 am. Specialists will address both morning and afternoon sessions and a luncheon is offered at 12:30 for reservations by April 6 to Mrs. J W Campbell. The program lists talks on syphilis diabetes and heart conditions with musical and gymnastic segments by local students and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County Medical Auxiliary
Indiana High School
J. W. Campbell
Fifth Street
Indiana
A. H. Stewart
W. H. Guy
University of Pittsburgh
Muale
W. H. Anderson
Johnstown
Thomas Manley
Tarentum
Thomas Smythe
Bortz
Greeneburg
Seek 7000 to lure Syntron to Homer City territory
Indiana and Homer City Chambers of Commerce join civic groups and citizens to lure Syntron Company of Pittsburgh to Homer City. A $7000 fund is needed to move equipment from Pittsburgh and occupy half of the old Prairie State Incubator plant. Syntron, in operation 12 years, would employ about 80 people and advance regional industry. A committee visited the plant and forecasts a favorable relocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Homer City
Syntron Company of
Pittsburgh
Prairie State
Syntron
Marriage Licenses List Includes Dozens of Couples
A compilation of marriage licenses lists numerous couples paired with their towns such as McKees Rocks Rural Valley Indiana Blairsville and Marion Center. Names include Gillis Munshower Evelyn Carson Leroy Wolf Dorothy M Stephens and Mary H McKinney among others with various districts and counties reflected. The list ends with a note on the Riflemen Defeated Rossiter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillis Munshower
Evelyn Carson
Leroy
Wolf Dorothy M. Stephens
Stafford Perry M. Wengel
McKees Rocks
Mary H. McKinney
Rural Valley
Frank ‘Howard Stull
Armstrong Co
Wilma M. Bowser
Armstrong Two
Clair Devere ‘Thompson
Commodore Oda Lois McCullough
Indiana
Sandy Canty
Johnstown
Ruby Gibson
Blairsville
Cyrus
Hill Strongstown
Aliee Ducilla McCoy
Clymer
Clarence Arthur Spicher
Pittsburgh
Florence M. Harnett
Heshbon Julian Daniel Gaydos
Marion Center
Olive L. Westover
Blacklick
Alverda
Bed Bugs Blamed for Blairsville Fire Disaster
In Derry township near Blairsville a log house owned and occupied by Mrs. Harry Roth burned when her two daughters while searching for bed bugs accidentally started a fire with matches. The eight-room dwelling and contents were destroyed and three miles was run to reach a telephone for help. Insurance on the home and contents was $3,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derry Township
Blairaville
Harry Roth
Aames
Game Commission to Extend Farm Game Program
The Pennsylvania Game Commission plans a broad expansion of farm game areas to create small refuges and safety zones around farms. The program aims to boost habitat, protect farms, and foster hunter farmer cooperation while opening remaining lands to public hunting. A ten year tenure on cooperating farms will establish protected refuges with feeding and nesting sites, surrounded by fencing and posted safety zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Game Commission
Rural Chorus Festival at State College June 10 1937
County Agent J W Warner announces the fifth annual rural chorus festival at Pennsylvania State College on Farmdale Meld Day June 10. Open to rural organizations in open country and towns under 2500 population, with at least eight amateurs plus leader and pianist. The required selection Calm as the Night by Carl Bohm. Entries due by April 1, 1937 to the County Agricultural Extension Association office at Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Bohm
J. W. Warner
Pennsylvania State College
Hunges
P. T.A
County Agricultural Extension Association
Indiana
Indiana Man to Have Steel Mill Named for Billy Irvin
The United States Steel plant in Clairton Pennsylvania will be named after William A Irvin an Indiana native who rose from telegraph messenger to president of US Steel The new $45000000 strip sheet mill will be the most modern in the industry Irvin who began his career in Apollo and Vandergrift keeps close ties to Indiana his hometown and lifelong friends approve the tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clairton
United States Steel Corporation
William A. Irvin
Indiana
Great Steel Company
Billy” Irvin
Irvin
Kinki Valley
Apollo
Vandergrift
County jail inmate swallows false teeth during restraint
Indiana resident Clurry Lydick aged 60 from Lown Cherryhill township serving 30 days for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, swallowed a lower set of fake teeth in jail. He was moved to Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh for a bronchoscopic operation to remove a plate lodged in his esophagus once his condition improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Clurry Lydick
Lown
Cherryhill
Indiana Hospital
Uydick
Mercy Hospital
Girly Grange Meeting Program List and Pittsburgh Board Update
The program for Girly Grange to be held Tuesday evening March 30 includes songs a guest speaker J T Sheasley on home grounds garden thoughts and a planting game led by the lecturer with several recitations dialogues and a closing song. J L Peterman of Wayne Avenue attended a Pittsburgh board meeting for the Home for Aged and Infirm of the Odd Fellows where he was re elected to the board and represented Indiana Lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girly Grange
Neta
Muarch
Golden Harvest
Oficers
J. T. Sheasley
George Keolar
Rose Gardens
Todd Christy
Franklin Rupert
Fence Row
Lawrence Koppel
Johnny Appleased
Eleanor Klingonsmith
the Grange
Earl Walker
J. L. Peterman
Wayne Avenue
Pittsburgh
Home For Aged and Infirm of the
Odd Fellows
Grove City
Mr. Peterman
Indiana Lodge
Victim of Truck Train Crash Recovers at Indiana Hospital
Sherman Runyan, 57, a White township farmer and former Indiana resident, is recovering from multiple rib fractures and a deep chin gash after a truck bound for Chambersville was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train at Groft crossing. Teammate Thomas Bergman, 37, escaped with minor injuries. the horse transporting with them was killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Bunyan
Indiana
Groft
Chambersville
Baltimore & Ohio
Stunyan
Thomas H. Bergman
Floyd Fowler
Bergman
Runyan
Chambereville
Interesting Program Completed For Event to Be Held in Parkwood Schoolhouse
Armstrong Grange plans a Parkwood schoolhouse meeting on Wednesday evening March 31. The program includes a Grange roll call, literary items by Dor oly Craig Helen Craig Agnes Craig Lois Smith, short talks on Easter, recitations What Easter Means to Me The Legend of the Easter Lily With the Easterside, and musical numbers by Ethel Mull and Smith Family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkwood
Armstrong Grange
Grange
Doroly Craig
Helen Craig
Agnes Craig
Lois Smith
R. A. Fouts
R. B. Dible
Martha Blakley
Ethel Mull
Smith Family
Prolonged Drinking Spree Caused Two Miner Deaths
Two unemployed miners aged 64 died in a lonely Center township house after a weeks long drinking binge. Coroner John Woods found alcoholism as the cause following a post mortem. Louis Zuder died Wednesday evening and Joseph Popean Thursday morning at the Brady Miller farm. Remains were taken to Streams Funeral Home on Church Street. A foreign housemate reported heavy drinking for weeks. many empty whiskey bottles were found. No relatives claimed the bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Township
John Woods
Louis Zuder
Joseph Popean
Brady Miller
Zudor
Popcun
Streams Funeral
Church Street
Man Killed in Kentucky Mine Accident at Kent No 2
John Poylishen aged 46 of Mc Intyre was killed on a Tuesday afternoon when crushed between a car and coal rib at Kent No 2 mine in McIntyre. He leaves a wife residing in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MuIntyre
John Poylishen
McIntyre
Kent No. 2
Europe
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Peeler District
Armagh
Theodore Lyda
Walter J. Lyda
Burrell Township
L. Beolla Zeltler
Nicholas Pagano
First Ward
Robert 8
Troy
Lewistown
Phillipsburg
Hastment
Altoona
Raston
Syntron Co
Indiana Riflemen
Rossiter
Rosister
Rossiter Range
K. OH
Tot
Hoyt
Davidson
Eliott Bo
Hoover
Care
Bed Bugs
Moh
Nicholas Biddle
Pennsylvania Game Commission
J. S. Mack Farm
Rural Chorus
Sherman Runyan
Walter
Tommy
Miss
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