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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1937
Page
8
A 1910s style kitchen column offers springtime entertaining ideas for brides. It features Hot Mushroom Sandwiches with butter sautéed mushrooms and a creamy chicken sauce built from canned Chicken Soup with Rice, plus a Molded Grapefruit and Pecan Salad finished with pink pear hearts.
The earliest known medical man is Jan Petersen a barber from Alfordorf identified as the first surgeon on the South River or Delaware in Pennsylvania beginning July 10 1638. He served at Fort Nassau near present Gloucester or Fort Christina near Wilmington. The Welsh and Swedes contributed physicians to Philadelphia before English arrivals. Pennsylvania now has over 13009 doctors and more than 1.5 million patients treated annually with hospitals offering x rays radium serums medicines and surgery where philanthropy funds a large portion of care.
Cherryhill residents Mr and Mrs Floyd Rhine and son visited Indiana on Friday. Adortha Hartman from Cockport spent the weekend with Miss Twila Engle. Mrs A H Williams and son Harry and R W Korman were Altoona callers. Misses Jana and Margaret Williams and Harvey Steffey shopped in Indiana Friday. Carl Gance of Hellwood and Clair Edwards of Ebensburg were weekend visitors. A number from the vicinity attended the IPTA at Heilwood Wednesday evening. A reflective comment questions government worth relative to cost.
A playful spring dessert combines sponge cake rounds with a green fondant glaze and a fluffy topping. Whipped cream folded with strained apricots and lemon juice chills to set, then served atop the cake rounds with coconut.
STRONGSTOWN residents and visitors are noted in a series of social happenings. Mr and Mrs W G Troxell and son Billy called on Johnstown friends Friday evening. Miss Ethel Young from Penn Run visits Aunt Elizabeth Troxell. Local quilting event held by Ladies Aid at Mrs Albert Hughes home.
In Clarksburg Rev Kearney preached at the Presbyterian church on Sabbath. Rev King of Ellwood City will preach next Sabbath as a candidate. Miss Fern Lowman of Westminister College visited home folks and was joined by Miss Austin and Miss Kinkaid, plus several Hite and Ritz family members during a weekend. Fishermen from the area enjoyed Monday at Logansport with many relatives. The Woodrow family moved to the J A Compton house. Local residents joined a No 3 School picnic, while Mrs Fryer remains on the sick list and county visitors stopped by the courthouse.
The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette offer subscriptions to residents of Indiana county at 5.50 dollars per year and 6.00 dollars per year for out-of-county residents. The notice outlines annual rates and eligibility for readers in the specified regions.
Local residents from Mount Union Indiana and Armstrong County share Sunday visits and family moments. Numerous trips include the Elgin and Claypool families in Brick Church and Echo visiting kin, with hospital stays and church services noted.
Marion Center and Homer City residents visited relatives and attended church events. Local births, visitors from Indiana, and travels to Johnstown and Pittsburgh appear alongside acknowledgments of a recent bereavement for Mrs Hazel Gaston Miller.
Mrs H R Sbhubert returns home after a week with relatives in Lock Haven. Couples from Punxsutawney, Mahaffey, Barnesboro, and Indiana visit and shop in town. Visitors include Miss Kate Jenney from Torrance and Cr W Sebring with daughter Juanita. A tip notes removing vegetable staining from hands with a raw potato slice.
The report lists church events and social visits. Shelocta Sunday School is at 9:45 a.m. with preaching at 11. Various out of town visitors and local relatives are noted, with several families named and a bed confinement for Mrs. Ella Warner.
A poet sent an effusion titled Why Do I Live to a literary review. The editor’s note says You live because you didn't dare bring it In yourself. Also a quip on meat and bread reflects low mood in a Brooklyn Central dispatch.
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