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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1919
Page
2
The Indiana Progress in Indiana Pa lists pricing for obituaries and poetry at five cents per line with cash required. Subscription rates are one year 1.50 eight months 1.00 six months 0.75 four months 0.59 three months 0.40. All papers cease after subscription expiry.
May Day in Indiana county ends without bloodshed due to diligent authorities and vigilant citizens. Reds reportedly planned armed protests and looting on May Day, but local forces mobilized to deter the so called social revolution. An obituary notes J. A. Armstrong of Montgomery township who died April 16 1919 after illness. Funeral was at Pine Grove chapel. Also notes Mechanicsburg Summer Normal opens May 18 with R O Lytle as instructor.
A Vermont note recounts the 1815 practice of warning out townsfolk deemed likely to become public charges. In St Johnsbury, Joseph Fairbanks and family refused to depart, later founding a scales industry and libraries. Barnet saw a widow warned in 1818. her children grew into professionals and notable figures, including a New York physician and a Buffalo lawyer.
Millville residents report visitors and travel across Indiana and nearby towns. Families including Widdowson, Leasure, Minty, and Minto share gatherings, boat and fishing trips, church events, and weekend visits to relatives in Clymer, Dixonville, Yellow Creek, and Vandergrift, with several locals attending sales and teaching assignments.
Indiana residents are invited to inspect a milk exhibit this week in the window of the Indiana Hardware Company. The show, by the Holstein Friesian Association and the Indiana County Farm Bureau, aims to teach valuable lessons about milk as food and its advantages over other foods. County Agent J. W. Warner urges breeders and the public to profit from the display. Stallions Gilson and King Glendower, both licensed, are on display at the owner’s premises and one may be sold.
ORD A Hollis of Clymor called on relatives Sunday Vera Mumau visited Mrs Myers family Sunday Starvey Widdowson a county seat visitor Wednesday Mr and Mrs Ted McQuown and two children Bernaun and Bernice and Mrs Adda Farnsworth visited in Arcadia Saturday Optometrist Optician Coming W Hoover will be in his office No 730 Philadelphia street Indiana May 8 and 4 dread the big public sale of horses mules harness and farm machinery at the Frank Towler farm near Penn Run next Saturday afternoon at 1 o clock Prospective teachers and others will find a good training school at the Penn Run Summer Normal which opens May 12 1941p
In Mapa county the Orphans Court will expose for sale on May 28 1919 at 10:00 A.M. the 24 acre 186 perches tract in Green Township. The parcel traces lines from Samuel Furman and Jord Misner bounds, with coal and mining rights reserved by Elizabeth Misner to Dr. Nic Taylor. Cash on confirmation. sale by Samuel Wurman executor. by order of the Orphans Court.
Buttington township school board seeks bids by May 24 1918 430 pm for coal houses roofing and painting at Ling Bennett Hye Barkley Redbank and Pincan schools. Wood framed coal houses 8 by 10 by 7 feet cedar shingles white lead and oil printing. Bids to include removing old roofing and specify material type and price. Board may reject any bid or item. A M Grapius secretary Wehrum Pa.
Ernest Stewart attorney notes that on May 26 1919 the Orphans Court will hear an application by Savings and Trust Company of Indiana PA guardian of William Hughes and Charity Hughes for private sale of seven eighths of minors undivided interest in land in Green Township Indiana County with coal rights reserved to Manor Real Estate Trust and others, action dated May 7 1919.
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