Local notes from nea Belsano and nearby towns
Last week travelers pass through nea Belsano including Mr Spicher en route from Dixonville with horses and flitting. Dunkard love feast set for June 27 at their church. WOH Goren opens wool factory with active spindles. Askins brothers head to Pittsburg for work in the nones. Deny Kimimei horse buyers remove twenty horses for Ebensburg. J M Frock plans an office move to aid contributors. Dickie of Blacklick stops en route to Pine township to visit debtors. Isaac Griffith of Kinter House seen heading toward Green township. The season’s heaviest rain fell last Wednesday with hail, damaging newly planted corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Spicher
Nea Belsano
Dixonville
Woh
Goren
John
Joseph Askins
Wesley Askins
Pittsburg
Deny & Kimimei
Ebensburg
J. M. Frock
Dickie
Homer City
Blacklick
Pine Township
Isaac Griffith
Kinter
Tadiana
Green Township
Local notes briefly cover residents and dealings in town
J. M. Strong loses a valuable horse last week. Miss Mabel Marsh visits Samuel Kerr’s family. Miss Bertha Grow visits Butte Duncan in Wintondale. John A. Macon gains £2 per week pension. Geo Davis and Bell Hill enjoy a couple of days in Johnstown. Mr and Mrs William Hill and others guest in Johnstown. Mrs J B Graham and son Earl stay with J D Gibson in Cherryhill. Thomas Hoffman from Wintondale tangled with a buck on J W Duncan’s farm. Rosy McCreery returns from Buffington township. A Graham fireman guest of parents in Brush Valley. George Findley to locate a mill on Elza Fetterman place. J G McCreery holds timber cutting contract. Mrs J B Lydie and Mrs Helen Condron own timber along Blacklick creek. Lydie visits last week to tend timber. Lime and coal found in paying quantities. timber likely to be sold while miners operate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Marsh
Samuel Kerr
Bertha Grow
Butte Duncan
Wintondale
John A. Macon
Geo. Davis
Bell Hill
Johnstown
William Hill
Cherryhill
Thomas Hoffman
J. W. Duncan
Rosy McCreery
Wm. Davis
Buffington Township
Graham
Cramer
Brushvalley
George Findley
Elza Fetterman Place
J. G. McCreery
J. B. Lydie
Helen Condron
Coalport
Blacklick Creek
Lydie
Local Tidbits From The Sabbath and Nearby Towns
B T Thompson returned from Normal for the Sabbath. Harry Thompson of Plumville visited in town Friday. Samuel Lightcap near Washington church suffers rheumatism. John Pearce now in Blairsville spent Sabbath with family. Rev A T Bell assisted at Dayton communion services. Israel Moore of Weiss Moore made a business trip to Glen Campbell. J A Condron moved his house and plans a newer one on the site. Kellysburg youths and ladies fished along Little Mahoning. fish disposed on return. Prof Alton Lindsey plans an entertaining night next Friday. M G Brumbaugh of Huntingdon College praises his impersonations and appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. T. Thompson
Harry Thompson
Plumville
Samuel Lightcap
Near Washington Church
John Pearce
Blairsville
Rev
A. T. Bell
McIntyre
Dayton
Israel Moore
Weiss & Moore
Glen Campbell
J. A. Condron
Condron
Kellysburg
Little Mahoning
Alton Lindsey
M. G. Brumbaugh
Huntingdon College
Saye
Thornton
John Woodruff
Philadelphia
Dr. Yeagley
Johnstown
Robert Holmes
Local notes roundup from Cookport township and area
Edward Geis welcomes a daughter as Mina Alexander and sister visit Ohio. School directors monitor for youth at Half while Jacob Mack nears completion on barn stonework. Assessor Walback collects names for children age five to thirteen. Chicago visitor Frank Brendlinger meets parents, rheumatic-sore Joseph Brendlinger recovers, W B Wagner finishes lumber work totaling 4000 ties and 161000 feet of cards. Sol Buterbaugh of Barnesboro visits Cookport. Missella Marshall and others stay with Austin family. Summer show term marks five weeks. 33 pupils attend. Kickapoo Medicine Co sells in Cookport over two weeks. Warner the lightning rod man expects several long jobs locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Geis
Mina Alexander
Ohio
Jacob Mack
David Mack
Clyde
Armagh
Joseph Walback
John Cable
India
A. M. Walback
Frank Brendlinger
Chicago
Jacob Brendlinger
Joseph
Sol. Buterbaugh
Barnesboro
Cookport
Missella Marshall
Twolick
Austin
Millie
Tidy Hines
Mitchells Mills
Killen
Represcion Dyes Agite
Aviva
Po Warner
Will
Brushvalley News Highlights Local Visits and Incidents
Roy Baker of Campbells Mills hosts J T Donahey and son who went to Johnstown. Rev Teasdale from Indiana preached in the Baptist church. Epworth League marked its seventh anniversary at the M E Church. Homes damaged by sparks and bucket fall. Mrs McMullen slightly hurt. Saw mill fire near Andrew Gibson & Son. part of carriage burned. Community members, travelers, and church events populate a busy week in Brushvalley and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Davis
Sabath
Presbyterian Church
Robertson
Emmonson
Zeb Gonner
Claridge
Colorado
Margaret. Lydick
Mahaffey
W. Dickie Ray
Indiana
George Anderson
Greensburg
James Brown
Elk County
Bryson
Dr. Ehrenfeld
Rankin Fairman
Dixmont
T. B. Clark
Masters Daugherty
D. B. Taylor
Andrew Gibson
Local notes from Barnesboro and surrounding area
Visits and family news fill the week with Carrie Houk and Mrs. Butterbaugh in health updates. Residents report small injuries, arrivals, and departures including Post setting misfortune and a new buggy purchase. A forest fire alarm was quickly contained with help from local volunteers.
Nebrask a cyclone reports unverified toll and relief drive
Faris City Neb May 20 unverified reports claim a cyclone on the Pawnee reservation killed about 40 with many injured. Communication is disrupted by high water and wrecked wires, delaying confirmation. A mass meeting organized a relief fund for the immediate locality as authorities seek accurate totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faris Crry
Neb
Pawnee
The Grim Reaper. Mrs. Margaret M Farland Moorhead
Mrs Margaret M Farland Moorhead died May 14 1296 at her daughter's Denver home aged 69 years 3 months 29 days She was the widow of Dr J M Moorhead and mother of seven including W A and Theo P Moorhead and Agnes M Bishop Her faith and character were noted with family laying her to rest in Guilford Mo beside her husband and son Harry
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret M'Farland Moorhead
Margaret M. Moorhead
A. D. Bishop
Denver
Col
Wm. McFarland
Young Township
J. M. Moorhead
The
Progres
Harry
Multiple Obituaries From Rayne and Cambria Townships
Miss Dessie Kinter, 19, daughter of Mrs Oliver Pettit near Garbleton, Rayne township, died Friday of consumption. Funeral services were Sunday by Rev Tomlinson of Grove Chapel, with interment at Bethel Lutheran church graveyard. Mrs Lucinda Bell of Conemaugh township died Friday, about 69, long invalid, husband critically ill. Four children survive. member of Ebenezer Presbyterian church. Funeral Sunday by Dr D J Irwin, remains at church graveyard. Mrs John Blickenderfer of Belsano died Thursday of paralysis. attacked previous day. Interment at German Baptist church graveyard near Belsano. Mr Andrew J Cook Jr of Green township died Monday of spinal disease, 45. lifelong invalid. Wife, three daughters, and one son survive. funeral today by Rev Burrows, interment at Salem church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dessie Kinter
Oliver Pettit
Garbleton
Rayne Township
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Tanoma
Tomlinson
Grove Chapel
Bethel Lutheran Church
Lucinda Bell
William Bell
Conemaugh Township
John Blickenderfer
Belsano
Cambria County
Andrew J. Cook, Jr
Green Township
Burrows
Salem Church
Chambersburg Encampment Excursion Rates Published
G A R Pennsylvania announces reduced excursion fares for the annual department encampment in Chambersburg from May 30 to June 8 with return by June 8. Special one and a half cent per mile routes via Gettysburg available on select days. Also ads services for night soil, farm land sales in South Dakota, and a Chicago home for sale with details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambersburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Department of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Choice farming lands along railway line in South Dakota
Lands along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway are now available on reasonable terms. Prospects are bright with a sure harvest this year. Thousands of acres across more than 20 counties lie unoccupied and open for settlement. For details contact H F Hunter immigration agent, 295 Dearborn Street, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
South Dakota
W. E. Powell
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Ill
H. F. Hunter
Dearborn Street
Markle Jack to race season 1896 at Armagh road stables
The farmers' celebrated foal-getter Markle Jack will enter the 1896 season at the owner J. M. Markle's stables, three miles south of Indiana on the Armagh road. Insurance terms set at five dollars for a living sound and all-right colt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Markle Jack
Indiana
Armagh Road
Help Wanted to Distribute Soups and Extracts in Chicago
A reliable person is sought to distribute samples and canvass door to door for Vegetable Toilet Soups and pure Flavoring Extracts. Earn from 40 to 375 dollars a month. Apply Crofrs and Reed, Chicago, IL. 41.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crofrs & Reed
Chicago
Man's View Of Marriage Promises Hope For Women
A period piece advises that marriage harm is common from differing tastes and states many women suffer health issues. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure and urges readers to request his medical book Women and Her Diseases with stamps to learn cures from others who used it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Farmer's Handy Wagon Attracts Attention In Town
Mr Samuel Bell from near Chambersville bought two of The Farmer's Handy Wagons. The low four foot high wagon features two foot solid oak wheels and a six inch tire touted as the selling point. A new state law offers a one fourth road tax cut for broad tire wagons, boosting farm use. Weighing 700 pounds with a three ton capacity, it costs 35 dollars. Bell plans to test it and possibly introduce it countywide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Bell
Chambersville
Bell
Suffering women seek help from Dr Hartman in Columbus
A 19th century appeal offers free letters and remedies for female weakness from Dr Hartman of the Surgical Hotel, Columbus Ohio. It promotes Peruna as a favored prescription, cites a Holly Springs Mississippi testimonial, and promises a medical book from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company to readers who respond in summer months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartman
Surgical Hotel
Columbus
Ohio
Maggie Tanner
Holly Springs
Miss
Enyself
Pe Ru Na
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Furniture and Undertaker Goods on Sixth Street
We visit Indiana Pennsylvania where H H Steving Furniture Co offers the largest stock of furniture and undertaker goods in the county with prices advertised as very low. Also an ad promises wallpapering and ceiling border services by H K Appue with complete room packages and painting contracts available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixth Street
H. H. Steving Furniture Co
Jail
Indiana
H. K. Appue
Blairsville Optician to Visit Local Store in 1896
Blairsville notes announce optician Wehrle will visit R C Graff's jewelry store on June 9, 1896, to fit glasses for customers with eye defects. Also advertised are Green garden produce at McMaster's, soda water, the best fountain in town, Sharretts shoe sale, Misses and children's slippers, strawberries and ice cream at McMaster's, baby footwear, lunches at McMaster's dining parlors, and men and boys working shoes at Sharretts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMaster’s
Empfield
Sharretts
Philadelphia
Sharretits
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J. M. Strong
West Wheatfield
Dr. McMullen
Trade City
Oran Hadden
Covode
Abraham Tiger
Canoe Township
Samuel Walker
Punxsutawney
Frederick Walker
Wm. Fitzgerald
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Altoona
J. S
M. L. Beck
Samuel Beck
G. E. Simpson
T. S. Neal
Henry Rider
Martin & Rider
Wm. Sprankle
Charlie Neal
Bessie
Wm. McKalip
North Point
Crefeside
Carrie Houk
F. Butterbaugh
J. G. Conover
East Mahoning Baptist
D. H. Tomb
William Rankin
J. S. Miller
Bowen
Georgia Miller
D. R. Houk
Georgeville
John Grove
R. R. Hazlett
Smith
John Nichol
Guy Sickenburger
J. H. Butler
Annie
Miss Pearl Bush
James Nichol
Kenwood
Nebraska
Pawnee Reservation
Teys
Shairetts
the Grim Reaper
Andrew J. Cook
Pitcher’s Castoria
G. A.R
Elias Woods
John J. Sherman
Progress Office
J. M. Markle
Dr. Hartman
Cunningham’s
Wilson & Son
Dresden
Wilson &Son
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