Homer News Items Touch on Visitors and Local Plans
Thomas Philips welcomes a baby girl while Mrs. Ed Hill from Bisksville and G H Gromley from Hillsdale visit Homer. Visitors include W Harper of Ashland and Indiana residents Ease Swartz Jane Coy Mullen Mack Wiley St Clair. A beveling and silvering plant may rise at the old creamery to produce French plate mirrors. A Presbyterian church school entertainment impressed, with Jane Coy salutatory and L B Roberts valedictory and diplomas by J F Barclay. class average above ninety two percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Gromley
Hillsdale
W. Harper
Ashland
Ohio
Homer
Ease Swartz
Indiana
Gertie Kelley
Alice Mullen
Olive Mack
Jane Coy
Jane Wiley
Margaret St. Clair
Blairsville
Presbyterian Church
Roberts
J. F. Barclay
Revival Services Continue as Local Notices Pile Up
Community updates include ongoing revival services, sickness lists, and residents visiting or moving through Deckers Point Kimmel Cockport and Young township. A Christian Endeavor society forms while an Evangelical church plans a youth group. a public school closes after a day of speeches and recitations.
Local notes and visits in a small town
A child of John Nichol has been sick for some time. M C Butterbaugh was in Indiana on business Monday. Carrie A Houk visits her sister Minnie at Barnesboro. James Lacy mining coal for John Huston. Prof B L Barr, Utah, will occupy the boarding house next week. Mrs William Rankin visiting has son Fed at Elsinville Intersection and daughter Mrs D H Tomb of Indiana Pa. Trustees repair the academy and boarding hall for the summer term. Deckers Point. Frank Barr is sick. Jacob Barker improving. Mr Comzmed Sylvis still very low. Mrs Patterson of Pittsburgh in town. Henry Able lost a valuable horse last week. George Sylvia from Pittsburgh nursing his father. Shiloh Baptist church meeting is odd in peog peer. C G Farman store section closed Saturday. Thomes Barker of Big Run in our village Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat McGranor
Deckers Point
John D. Martin
Kimmel
George M. Buterbaugh
Cockport
Robert Williams
Christian Endeavor Society
Sterling Mine No
A. BR. Houk
E. C. Johnston
Mr. Elder
J. N. Elder
Charlie Myers
John Matthews
John P. Findley
Thomas Griffith
Griffith
Indiana
Ihe
M. C. Butterbaugh
Carrie A. Houk
Minnie
Bamesboro
James Lacy
John Huston
8. L. Barr
Utah
Bearding
William Rankin
Elsimville
D. H. Tomb
Trudees
Deckers
Frank Barr
Jacob Barker
Comzmed Sylvis
Patterson
Pittsburg
Henry Able
George Sylvia
Shiloh
Coxey
Harry Richardson
Abram Ross
Ambrose
John Snyder
Thomas Jefferies
Punxsutawney
L. Horn
Bedford County
Judge White
J. S. Nesbit
John McGaughey
Robert G. Mack
David DB. Mack
Daniel Woods
Thomas Maher
West Wheatfield
Hugh ‘Mack
George Mack
Eest Whestfield Township
Local Notes and Moves in Our Neighborhood
Mr Warren Furman moves to Deckers Point into Mrs Riddle's house. John Schrecongost visits from Nolo. Students seek boarding as summer school starts. Infant of Mr and Mrs Webb Stiteler dies. Mrs Joe Robinson visits friends in Armstrong county this week. Milt Lewis injured lifting last week. Mrs Glenn returns from Plumville. Mrs Adam Black visits daughter Mrs O B Gahagan of Punxsutawney. Candidates McGaughey and Seanor in town last week. Gus Dodson recovering from church teardown injury. Angus Lakehart moves from H Lewis house to Mrs L Elkin. Elmore Lewis moves into Lukehart house. George Stear and Walter Black at Milton, Armstrong county. horses frightened but no injuries. Grammar department closes Friday. primary Monday. Schools report success. Miss Black to Indiana with parents. Condron stays to run summer school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Furman
Deckers Point
Mrs. Riddle
John Schrecongost
Nolo
Webb Stiteler
Joe Robinson
Armstrong County
Milt Lewis
Glenn
Plumville
Adam Black
Gahagan
Punxsutawney
McGaughey
Seanor
Miss Black
Indiana
Condron
Local notes and community updates from town life
Thursday school closes and Elderton select school to open April 9 for eleven weeks. Residents move, renovate, and prepare for spring. gas and oil tests by Carnegie Gas Company nearby. Local candidates and visitors seen in town, including Judge White and Col. Nesbit. Legacy matters and family relocations feature among the town news.
Community notices from Penn Run area
Our schools close next Friday. Services will be held at this place Sunday April 8 at 7 30 p m Emerson Carney of Penn Run spent last Sabbath with friends at this place Mr Joseph Davis of this place left for Pittsburg where he will visit friends Mr Will Huston and his sister Misa Lizzie of Kenwood visited Miss Emma Rodkey last Wednesday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson Carney
Penn Run
Joseph Davis
Pittsburg
Will Huston
Misa Lizzie
Kenwood
Emma Rodkey
Shoshone Falls Free Side Trip Offer and Pur chase Line School Opens
Shoshone Falls, rival to Niagara, offers a free round trip from Shoshone station to Great Shoshone Falls for ticket holders between the Missouri River of Denver and Portland via Union Pacific. The twentieth annual term of the Purchase Line Summer School opens April 6, 1804, for twelve weeks with Prof L Barr as principal. Estes Park, Colo., a mountain paradise, features Blue Lakes and Palisade Park attracting hikers and invalids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shoshone (Station
Great Shoshone Falls
Missouri River
Denver
Portland
Union Pacific
Purchase Line
L. Barr
Estes Park
Colo
Bine Lakes
Mountain Craig
Palisade Park
Foothill
New Carpets and Wall Paper at Wilsons
Local ads list discounts on carpets gingham muslin and scrim at Cunningham s and McMaster s with fresh fish at Philadelphia street shops J B Hinds markets oranges at Johnston s and druggists Miller Blairsville offer calendars range across West Indiana First and Church streets are repeatedly named for groceries seeds and clothing Prompted by the era s retail touts the column also notes a horse pacer sale in Blairsville and a wedding in Kellysburg with a bereavement card accompanying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Cunningham’s
McMaster’s
Philadelphia
V M. Cunningham’s
Congress
V. M. Cunningham’s
J. B. Hinds
S. F. Warner
J. A. Johnston’s
First and
Church Streets
Miller
Colgate
Blairsville
J. A.johnston’s
West Church Street
Miller’s
Wilson’s
J. A. Johnston
Peterman & Work
Indiana
Miller’s Popular
W. R. Loughry& Co’s
Mack & Ray
J. T. Boucher’s
Times
First
H. D. Condron
Smicksburg
W. R. Loughry & Co’s
Warner
Choice Family Groceries
J. A. Johnston's
Marriage Licenses and local notices in Indiana county
A mixed page lists marriage licenses in West Indiana and nearby townships including Rayne Mahoning Grant Blairsville and Kittanning. It also reports safety notes about summer electrical storms with a local lightning rod contractor, jail inmates’ tobacco appeal to commissioners, a new house moving method by B Brooks of Indiana Pa, a lost ladies’ silver watch, curtain cleaning by Henry Hall Agency, ads for G F Houk Purchase Line, and regional travel notes about Middle Park Calo and a bargain cigar offer from Stumpf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Homer City
Thomas Philips
Ed Hill
Bisksville
Barnesboro
Spekce
J. C. Connor
A.C. Davis
Altoona
H. W. Fee
Kent
Daniel Miller
Mise Ida Overdorff
Young Township
Evangelical Church
Florence Truby
Washington, D. C
Cramer
John Nichol
Elderton
Warvey Rankin
Jackson House
Peter Young
Philip Cravner
Carnegie Gas Company
A. C. Rowe
Elderton Select School
C. B. DeLancey
Rochester Mills
Clyde
Mitchells Millis
Niagara
Eates Park
Lion
Florida
West
MecMaster’s
Philadelphia Street
D.e.thompson
J.C. Carpenter
Cockumbia
Tenn
H. F. Timberlake
Fir Grounds
A. T. Bell
Kellysburg
Joseph Cummins
West Indiana
Mary Amanda Mack
White City
Pee Boars A Wat Hla
W. R., Loughry & CO
Indiana, PA
Ing
Broadhead Dress Goods
John Kelly
Jos. Cummins
Nannie
Bell
Thos. Heberling
Caroline Wise
M. J. Wetzel
Lavina E. Filler
J. W. Starry
Harriet N. Caldwell
J. A. Hazlett
Lizzie Cunningham
C. King
A. St
Rayne Township
Mahoning Township
Grant Township
Jacksonville
Kenttes Young Township
Kittanning
B. Brooks
R. F. Walker
West Philadelphia
Proc- Bess
Henry Hall
G. F. Houk
The
Procless
Middle Park, Calo
Middle Park
Calo
Stumpf
George Town
Cele
Penn
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Victor Roller
David Ellis & Sons
Work & Young’s
Pennington
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