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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1892
Page
5
Indiana's town paper notes a forthcoming circus for the town, highlights local visits and business, mentions motor trips and farm news, and records memorial day plans, school events, public notices, and multiple personal updates across residents, churches, and stores.
Local items report hose trucks arriving, church refreshment, and a planned concert for the May 30 choir benefit. The Episcopalian festival raised $200, a glass works plant begins night operations, and encampments with the 5th regiment are arranged with Battery B of Pittsburg. Miss Aggie Simpson dies of pneumonia. Barnum’s show passes through. a mishap near Social Hall injures a showman. Burglars take $25. a Taylor family reunion entertains. A child breaks limbs in an accident. a vicious bull dog attack wounds J Jennings. the dog is killed. Sinver Wixe.
Daily new sounds arrive at stores as families like Kingan and McCricken cope with measles. Miss Nettle Frailey visits Elderton. Mrs Thompson and Mrs Haziett recover from illness. Grandmother Bowser plans summer in Pimnsville. Local clergy note services with Rev. Ewing and Rev. Hayes assisting. A literary society forms at the academy. Prof. Patterson highly regarded by pupils. John Jutman suffers a paralytic stroke. John Learn buys C. B. Fleming farm and plans to move.
Thursday evening the West Indiana Public Schools hold closing exercises in Library Hall. Darrell Thomas Louise Anthony Mary Denning and Ansie Lucas receive diplomas after completing the course. Graduates deliver essays and orations while younger pupils sing recitations. Admission is free. doors open at 7:30 and the program starts at 8:00.
The Indiana Baptist Association will hold its Fourth Semis Annual Sunday School Convention in Blairsville on June 14 and 15. Blairsville members plan a grand welcome and urge a large delegation. Excursion rates are being arranged for travel from June 14 to 16.
Memorial Day orators Rev C J Fell of Blairsville will travel to Allegheny City while Rev C L E Cartswright of Coopersdale and Judge White will go to Derry. Past Commander H K Sloan is bound for Richmond, Past Commander Jno Banks for Homer City, and Chaplain B B Hensh y to Cookport.
On Monday evening James Tinsley enjoyed his grape cider when his wife and child arrived at Constable Pringle's home seeking shelter after he drove her out again. No arrests have been made.
Obituary notices recall William Crawford of Water Street, a longtime hotelier and former Internal Revenue Collector under Cleveland, who died at 75. The piece also notes the deaths of David J. Blakley of Young Township and Jane Speedy of Church Street, with brief biographical details and church affiliations.
Advertises varied merchandise from groceries to clothing at A T Lowry Co Church street with notes on fresh produce from S M McMaster and Daugherty Bros. Mentions Down’s Elixir for consumption prevention and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for whooping cough with local availability and pricing. Includes horse sales at Red Stables and local brick works by Cunningham.
The Warren paper asserts John McNeel did not abuse the horse and was not arrested for cruelty. It quotes Mr. Jones of the Warren house bar noting the horse arrived at the stable in good condition and McNeel had it cared for while at Russell. The report disputes claims of mistreatment and police interference as a joke.
A quarrel erupted last Saturday night at a Fourth and Water street house split between Andy Atkins and Ann Lance on one side and Ed McNutt and family on the other. McNutt struck Ann Lance and she challenged him to a duel, defeating him with two black eyes. They appeared before Squire Marlin on Monday, who rejected the case.
The piece notes moving to Indiana with humor about local housewives baking gifts for editors in a wooden town. It reports Blairsville glass works plans including railroad siding, trestle and fill work, a facility 81 by 221 feet with basement, one story height, ready to operate by September 1, employing about 120 men.
Advertised letters remaining at the Indiana office include Ackerson Evans Gater Henderson Hughason Hoover Lestarjeite Moore Miller Peaterman Reed Stark Segar Thompson Walker Wall Hilleard Daugherty Galbreath Holland Holland Johnson Lucas Mikean Palmer Reeger Stall Sanden and others. call for pickup citing advertised status.
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