Getts 10 More Years In Indiana County Primary
In a hot Republican primary in Indiana County the judicial race saw Judge White renominated with 1 979 votes, Cunningham 1 539, Telford 1 067, Taylor 344, Banks 199. Nesbit ran unopposed for Congress. Seanor was renominated for Assembly with 2 240 votes, McGaughey 2 058, Morrow 2 010, Hosack 1 615, Hill 1 449. Langham won Jury Commissioner with 1 426, Helman 838, Antheny 596, McGaughey 548, McGuire 387, Lydie 266. McGregor and Creps were chosen as State Delegates.
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Cunningham
Telford
Taylor
Banks
Nesbit
Seanor
MacGaughey
Laugham
McGregor and Creps
Judge White
Indiana County
White
Congress
Assembly
Messrs
McGaughey
Merrow
Hosack
Hill
John McGaughey
Morrow
J. L. Langham
M. C. Baterbaugh
Wolkman
Narrow Escape As Runaway Horse Frightens Two Ladies
Mrs H L Wagner and Miss Emma W near Clyde were driving when their horse suddenly bolted. Mrs Wagner threw her baby to the roadside bank and leaped from the buggy while Miss Wagner clung to the horse. The buggy was wrecked but both women and the child escaped serious injury.
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H. L. Wagner
Emma W
Clyde
Lady Rides To Pittsburg Then Walks Home Sixty Miles
Mrs Emma Gauchie of Clyde traveled by horseback to Pittsburg starting Monday noon and reached at midnight covering sixty miles. Friday morning she walked back the full distance arriving home at midnight. Also, D W Simpson had a bicycle mishap near Burnside tumbling twenty five feet with no injuries. A spark from a engine set woods near Glen Campbell ablaze. flames fought by over a hundred with no property loss. Warfield of Lafayette College to deliver baccalaureate sermon at Normal chapel July 1.
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Emma Gauchie
Clyde
Pittsburg
City
Ganchie
Pitteburg
D. W. Simpson
Burnside
Mr. Simpson
Glen Campbell
Warfield
LaFayette College
Normal Chapel
Talmage's Church Burned In Brooklyn Sunday Fire
The Tabernacle in Brooklyn burned during Sunday services as fire broke out near the organ pipes and spread in ten minutes. Hotel Regent also burned, with total losses estimated at 850000 for the hotel and contents and 500000 for the church. Dr DeWitt Talmage blamed electric lights and electricity for the blaze, noting a prior Sunday destruction. Preparations for a new church will begin immediately.
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Tabernacle
Brooklyn
DeWitt Talmage
Regent
Talmage
Schermerhorn Street
Blairsville Wins Whitney Glass Works Plant Locating
Blairsville raises a 12000 cash bonus to secure the Whitney Glass Company from Philadelphia. The plant will locate in Blairsville, providing employment for many locals after weeks of hustling led by the Blairsville Evening Courier. The PROGRESS sends congratulations.
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Blairsville
Whitney Glass Company
Philadelphia
Barn Fire Destroys Wagoner Property in Brushvalley
Campbell Wagoner’s barn in Brushvalley township burned Thursday evening between eight and nine. He had just left the barn and no light existed when the blaze was found. the origin remains a mystery. Several tons of hay and farming implements were lost. Insurance valued at 800 for the barn and 200 for the contents, total loss about 1800.
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Brushvalley Township
Campbell Wagoner
Wagner
Married at Kel l ysburg in quiet Tuesday ceremony
Dr E Sloan of Johnstown wed Martha H McElhoes eldest daughter of R N McElhoes at the Commissioner's home near Kellysburg on Tuesday afternoon. The couple will reside in Johnstown after a short honeymoon trip by train.
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R. N. McElhoes
Kellysburg
E. Sloan
Johnstown
Martha H. McElhoes
A Most Successful School Year Closes
The Indiana public schools will close on Thursday with no commencement exercises this year. Misses Mary Grouse and Lillian Armstrong will be awarded diplomas. The West Indiana public schools close tomorrow and Friday evening features a program in Library Hall. A North Point family reports a son killed two large snakes and a copperhead in one day on the Joseph Howard farm. County officials at Bolivar approve the Conemaugh bridge reconstruction. George Galentine and Q S Ellis, recently jailed, are released. Lutheran church Christian Endeavor to host a bouquet social Thursday at 7:30 PM. Communion services to be held in the chapel.
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Indiana Public Schools
Mary Grouse
Lillian Armstrong
West Indiana
Josiah Neil
North Point
Joseph Howard
Christian Endeavor Society of the
Lutheran Church
Watchman Needed At Depot To Prevent Runaways
Citizens urge railroad company to provide a watchman after schedule changes bring afternoon freight trains and throngs of farmers with teams to the depot. Repeated car shuffles and near accidents on Philadelphia street worry locals, who fear a fatal runaway without guard presence.
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Philadelphia
Doctor Captures Four Foot Spoon Fish on Nineveh Bridge
Dr. G. W. Miller of Mechanicsburg, visiting Nineveh, spotted a large spoon fish in the Conemaugh River. He caught a four foot ten inch, twenty eight pound specimen, brought its head home, which measured two feet fifteen inches and weighed seven pounds. The mouth opened eight inches.
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G. W. Miller
Mechanicsburg
Nineveh
Old Nineveh
Thieves Enter Blairsville Grocer Store Night Robbery
Thieves gained entrance to F. M. Graff’s Blairsville wareroom through a rear window on Sabbath night and carried away groceries. Three kegs of white lead were taken but dropped near the building. no clue to the thieves.
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F. M. Graff
Blairsville
Flag to be Presented to Arm strong Township School
Shelocta Council No 431 Jr O U A M will present a flag to Anthony school in Armstrong township at two o'clock on Decoration Day Wednesday May 30 The Sabbath school room of the M E church is being papered this week The floor will be recarpeted and when completed will be one of the neatest inviting rooms in town The Kings Daughters of the M E church will hold a garden party at the home of J S Hilberry of East Water Street on Thursday evening next week Dr D J Waller of the Normal will deliver at DecBeach on]
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Shelocta Council
U.A. M
Anthony
Armstrong Township
M. E. Church
Kings Daughters of the
M. E.church
J. S. Hilberry
East Water Street
Cockport
Jlaberah
Beili
AH Honda PS Ee Ewes
Deserving Case of Ill Soldier William McGinity
William McGinity of West Oak Street lies seriously ill with stomach cancer and faces possible poverty without private aid from his soldier friends and neighbors. A veteran of Company F, 206th Regiment, Penn’a Volunteers, he has had a pension pending for four years, with medical and lay evidence submitted but no encouragement received, a situation seen as deserving of pension department recognition. The prognosis is hopeless, and muster to the final roll call looms.
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William McGinity
West Oak Street
McGinnty
206Th Regiment
Penn
New Bridge, Repairs Planned in Rayne Township Area
County commissioners announce summer bridge work in the northern county. An extension of sixty feet will be added to the Good's Mill bridge in West Mahoning township and the Hoover bridge abutment will be repaired. A new bridge will be built across Pineran near Home in Rayne township. Masonry work contracts will be let in a few days.
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Rayne
Good’s Mill
West Mahoning Township
Hoover Bridge
Same
Pineran
The True Soldier feature in Blairsville District League
An Epworth District League program June 6 to 8 includes a national character event. Rev Lynch, aging 78, presides as district superintendent. Chaplain McQuire and Rev W W Hall will address veterans, Sons of Veterans, and Jr. U O. U. A. M. members. Themed "The True Soldier" with planned music.
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Epworth
Blairsville
Lynch
Amce
McQuire
Rev. W. W. Hall
Sons of Veterans
Fifth Anniversary Programs at Blacklick M E Church
The Epworth League of the Blacklick M E Church observed their fifth anniversary with an appropriate exercise on Sab bath. A choir of forty provided fine music while ca ssus declamations and addresses aided the program, making it engaging.
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Hck M. E
Epworth League
M. E. Church of
Blacklick
Sebbath
Cassus
Galvin's Army Marching Through Blairsville
Reports say Galvin's Industrial Army will march from Blairsville toward Washington this week. The group is expected to arrive in Blairsville today and then proceed to the area, with the exact date not yet known. A separate note mentions a large seven and a half pound fish caught from Crooked Creek, likely escaped from a dam, and a local family trip to Albany, Kentucky for a church gathering.
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Galvin
Blairsville
Washington
Marriage of Harry McCreery and Zetta Work in West Indiana
Mr Harry McCreery of Graceton and Miss Zetta Work wed at Mrs Sarah St Clair home on First Street West Indiana at 7 20 this morning Rev M M Sweeny officiated McCreery oversees the McCreery coke works in Graceton and Miss Work has long lived with Mrs St Clair The couple left at 9 10 for Niagara Falls Buffalo and lakes and will reside with Mr St Clair until a new home is ready. They plan a baptismal service and sermons at local churches with the community church festival to raise funds for a new church building.
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Harry McCreery
Graceton
Zetta Work
Sarah St. Clair
First Street
West Indiana
M. M. Sweeny
McCreery
McCreery Coke Works
Migs Work
Hee
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Lakes
Mr. St Clair
Strikers Press Graceton Mines Amid Sheriff Patrols
Sheriff Mack leads six deputies to Graceton near Homer City to deter a planned strike at Indiana Coal Company mines and nearby McCreary Coal and Coke Works. Miners had arrived in squads, but deputies prevented forceful mine closures as strikers claimed peaceful aims while foreigners were noted among participants. The situation paused after daylong tension with talks planned at Senith Mite and elsewhere.
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Graceton
Homer City
Indiana Coal Company
Graeston
Leeburg
Avonmore
Maher & Co
Smith & Turner
Mack
McCreary Colle
Pregmams
McCreary Coal and Coke Company
Indisema
B. W. Simpson
Lewis
Hemes Bey
Senith Mite
Aimcolan
Coates
Gracetem
Aare -Onchy
Wen Bright
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Ran-Om
The
Whitney Glass Works
Dr. I. E. Sloan
Bolivar
Westmoreland
Indiana
Conemanagh
George Galentine
North Mahoning Township
Ellis
Green Township
Boquet Social
J. S. Nesbit
Armagh
SAT
E. Wachob
Feeeeere Burrell
Burrell
J. K. Pieree
Seesaw
T. C. Mogle
R. A. Young
HJ. H. Diven
Steeen Blacklick
A. T. Harbison
Buffington
Seers
Chas. Dixon
Brushvalley Shades
Seer Senneneual
Lowry Grow
D. A. Gorman
Conemaugh
YH. M. Sutter
Eee
L. Coleman
Ebeeeee Seeweeaes Center
H. J. McClelland
Harvey Brickley Wapeeweeeas Grant
D. R. Honk
Weerenenwemene
David Pollock
Weewee Glen Campbell
Vis. J. Smith
Theaneses Indiana
Indiana West
B. H. Lichte Weeeee
Jacksonville
R. E. Young
Mahoning East
AS. A Seeeee Peener Mahoning West
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J. M. Nickie Weeee
Mahoning North
R. Stear
Eoneune Seanee Mahoning South
Ceereeenneee
M. Weaver
Eaweee Wanes
McKee Davis
Marion Center
Montgomery Vy
D. E. McG
G. C. Getty
H. Trab ME
A. Rayne Eene
F. Craft
OPI Saltsburg
Terensansneaves
Samuel Woll
Shelocta
Edabicrapetead
Robert H. Wilson
Smicksburg
A. W. McCracken White
Clark Davis
Wemmeneenecoree Ene Wheatfield West
THC. Ene
A. M. Walback
N. McKelvey
Young
Sab
Conemaugh River
U.P. Church
D. J. ‘Waller
the True Soldier
Hugh Brady
Chambersville
Crooked Creek
St.Clair Thompson
Thomas Hart
J. D. Brownlee
A. T. Moorhead
Albany
Qve
United Ceprenes Church
Valentine
Samuel Kerr
B. B. Henahey
Kelley’s Station
Loyalbanna
Churghes
Tannelion
Ailla
D. L. Gimltz
Indians Baptist Church
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