Fitting Tribute to Nation's Dead in Indiana Memorial Day Observances
Memorial Day ceremonies across Indiana county will honor Civil War veterans with parades and services. Surviving veterans William B. Stahl Ana W. Scott 90 will attend. Findley Carney and Aaron Kanarr 98 and 90 will not attend. Local speakers include Attorney Gilbert G. Parnell James W. Mack Jr. Rev. Hank and Prof. James F. Chapman. Ceremonies occur in Saltsburg Marion Center Blairsville Harmony Grove Armagh and nearby towns with Legion and Woman's Relief Corps coordination.
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Indiana
William B. Stahl
Town
Grand Army of the Republic
Ana W. Scott
Findley Carney
White Township
Aaron Kanarr
A. 4 Bummell
Cherry Tree
Edward O'Neill
Diamondville
Hphriam Stuller
Stafford
John Sebring
W. S. Shields
Marion Center
Gilbert
Parnell
Saltsbury
O'Slock
American Legion Post
Soldiers Monument
Holgewood
George Rowe
Pittsburgh
Woman’s Relief Corps
James F. Chapman
Gilgal Church
Church
James W. Mack, Jr
Harmony Grove Lutheran Church
Washington Township
United Presbyterian
Joseph D. Piper
Allegheny
Methodist Church
Blairaville
Armagh
American Legion Post No
Blairsville
Hank
James Stewart Starts Hollywood Moving Picture Work
James Stewart son of Mr and Mrs Alex M Stewart of North Seventh Street arrived in Hollywood on Tuesday to begin a ten week contract with a leading moving picture company.
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James Stewart
Alex M. Stewart
North Seventh Street
Hollywood
County Commissioner H A Ralvigh to Resume Duties
County Commissioner H A Ralvigh of Gipsy is recovering from illness and expects to return to official duties soon. He was at his desk several hours on Tuesday. Charles R McCullough of town announces his candidacy for County Commissioner on the Republican ticket at the fair primary election.
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H. A. Ralvigh
H. A. Raleigh
Mr. Ralrigh
Charles R. McCullough
Town
Memorial Day Speaker Captain Morris Portrait of a Public Service Career
Captain Walter E. Morris will deliver the Memorial Day principal address at Memorial Park on Thursday May 30 at 11 00. Born near Punxsutawney in June 1891 he trained in Punxsutawney Oregon State College and the University of Michigan Law School. He served as Jefferson County district attorney for three terms and held multiple wartime and National Guard roles including Judge Advocate and commanding officer of Troop F 104th Cavalry.
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Walter E. Morris
Memorial Park
Punxsutawney
Oregon State College
University of Michigan
Pennsylvania
Morris
Jefferson County
Fort Ogelthorpe
54Th U.S. Infantry
54Th Infantry
France
Vosges
Mense- Argonne
United States
28Th Division
104Th Cavalry
Pennsylvania National Guard
Real estate transfers and marriage licenses listed in county records
Real estate transfers include Heilman to Raleigh for two lots in Montgomery township at 3000 dollars and many other deeds across townships for small sums. Marriage licenses list numerous couples across townships and towns, including Reed and Perse, Cochrane and Weiss, Trzeciak and Ziemianski, Henderson and Lower, Brodka and Curtisville, and several others in Indiana and surrounding areas.
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William H. Reed
Graceton
Louise H. Perse
Blatraville
Jesse Allen Cochrane
Punxsutawney
Mabel Martha Weiss
Sheroda
Frank Trzeciak
Foster Helen Ziemianski
East Vandergrift
C. L. Henderson
Tyrone Nora R. Lower
Tyrone Hunter Girl
Ashington
Edna L. Silvis
South Bend
Walter Brodka
Curtisville
Bisia Walter
Merle Carney
Indiana
Ode
William Weska
Mary Slater
Homer G, Harris
Margaret Leone
Arl Beckley
Stella Mi
Augustyn
Herbert Miller
Esther Hawk
Detroit
Rossiter North
John Boyle Charged With Driving While Intoxicated
John Boyle of Indiana is jailed on a count of operating a motor vehicle under the influence. Borough officers arrested him Tuesday night. he is the seventh drunken driving arrest in 12 days, signaling a rising problem for local police.
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John Boyle
Indiana
Boyle
Indiana County High Schools Honor 209 Graduates
Indiana High School held commencement exercises for 209 graduates in the school auditorium on Tuesday night. Supt. Norman C. Koontz awarded diplomas and lauded retiring instructors Miss Crissie Cameron and Miss Carrie Geaster and cafeteria head Mrs. Lottie Stewart. The program featured a history of the American high school from 1636 to 1935, papers on education, and musical selections by the High School Orchestra under Prof. Harry Canfield.
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Indiana High School
di Plomas
Norman C. Koontz
Koontz
Crissie Cameron
Carrie Geaster
Indiana
Lottie Stewart
George Blair Gould
Vernon Arthur Zeitler
Missy Ella Elizabeth Shaffer
Geraldine Lucile Rising
High School
Paul Robert Johnson
High School of Tomorrow
Mary Riva Handler
Reed
Shirey
Evangelical Church
Harry Canfield
Twelfth annual commencement of Armagh High School
The twelfth annual commencement was held in the high school auditorium on Tuesday evening with a two act play The Rainbow Trail. Thirty one seniors received diplomas in the largest class in school history. The graduating list includes Jane Hutchison and many others. The Rev Harry Smith conducted the baccalaureate, and the class depart for a Washington educational tour.
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Armagh High School
Jane Hutchison
Evelyn Bracken
Margie Bracken
Willard Bracken
Robert Brown
Eugene Butts
Frank Peters
Helen Slaughterbeck
Matilda Stewart
Marlind Stiles
David Thomas
Freida Trimm
Billie Trimm
Lula Wagner
Georgetta Woods
Eugene Yarnell
Dorothy Young
Harry Smith
Seward
Washington
Despondent Girl Takes Her Life In Philadelphia Home
Eleanor Sue Hazlett twenty year old roomer in the Zeigler residence on Philadelphia and First Streets died by hanging with a bath towel from a door hinge in her room early Sunday. A broken romance is alleged to have driven her to suicide. She was born in Indiana in March 1915 and is survived by parents two brothers a sister and a brother in law. Funeral arrangements were announced for Rosamoyne with burial at Georgeville cemetery.
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Eleanor Sue Hazlett
Oliver Zeigler
Philadelphia
First Sts
Miss Hazlett
Zeigler
A. W
Lula
Warden) Hazlett
Indiana
Vernon
Arthur
Rodger Hazlett
Paul Parks
David Wells
Rosamoyne
W. Stewart Humphries
The
Christian Church
Georgeville Cemetery
Homer City Man Mike Bracken Jr Drowns Fishing
Funeral services were held for Mike Bracken Jr aged 24 who drowned April 20 in the St Clair river Detroit Michigan. The body was recovered last Wednesday after he fell from a boat while fishing with two friends. He had lived in Detroit and worked for General Motors. He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Mike Bracken of Homer City and seven sisters.
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Homer City
St. Bernard Cemetery
Mike Bracken, Jr
St. Clair River
Detroit
Mich
General Motors Company
Mike Bracken
Commencement success and alumni interest at Indiana State Teachers College
Weather and strong alumni turnout marked this year's commencement season at Indiana State Teachers College with nearly 1,000 former students attending alumni day. Other items include Jas T. Smith appointed court tipstaff by Judge Langham, post office windows to close at 6 PM daily starting June 1, Luxenberg jewelry gift to graduates, eighth grade students from Cambria County visiting Indiana, and reckless auto drivers in Los Angeles tagged as traffic violators.
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State Teachers College
Indiana State Teachers College
Jas.t. Smith
Langham
Jas, T. Smith
Indiana
J. N. Langham
Jas. M. Williams
M. H. Wilson
Postoffice
Old Home Week Celebration at Cherry Tree Tun 10 15
Historic Cherry Tree town hosts a week long Old Home Week starting Monday with a mummers parade and events by American Legion Post and Volunteer Firemen’s Association. Highlights include baby and pet parades, a mutt contest, drum corps prizes, old timers reunion, railroader’s day, and a coronation finale.
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American Legion Aid Miremen
Cherry Tree American Legion Post
Kiremen's Association
Idddfas
Cherry Tree Civic Club
Court of St. James
Good Will
Legion Home
Cherry Tree
American Medical Association
Krause
Former Indiana youth killed in auto accident
John Paul Emerson aged 24, a Pitt Medical School senior and son of Rev. O. B. Emerson of Pittsburgh, died in a Thursday night car wreck with two fellow Pitt students. He graduated Indiana High School and planned to enter St John’s Hospital Northside, Pittsburgh as an intern after Pitt graduation on June 5. He belonged to the Benjamin Franklin Chapter Order of DeMolay.
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John Paul Emerson
Pitt Medical School
O. B. Emerson
Pittsburgh
Methodist Holocopal Church of Indiana
Pitt
Paul
Indiana High School
St. John's Hospital
Northaltle
Ordination of Rev Paul Carson by Presbytery
Harry Carson witnessed the ordination of his youngest son Rev Paul B Carson at Universal United Presbyterian Church. Paul, a Pittsburgh Xenia Theological Seminary graduate, was ordained by a Westmoreland Presbytery commission with Dr Guy Wallace presiding. Paul will serve another year, and Harry, a ruling elder from White Township, sat with the commission during the service.
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Harry Carson
H. Carlyle Carson
Hampton United Presbyterian Church
Allegheny
Universal United Presbyterian Church
Paul
Carson
Pittsburgh-Xeonia Theological Seminary
Westmoreland Presbytery
Guy Wallace
Braddock
Universal Church
White Township
First United Presbyterian Church
Town
Three Sets of Twins Graduate at Clairsville High School
Clairsville High School graduates include three sets of twins: Mack and Jack Gerard, 17, children of I M Gerard. Vance and Care Ferguson, 17, children of I A Berguson. Joann and Ray Cover, 17, children of Frank Cover.
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Clairsville High School
Mack
Jack Gerard
I. M. Gerard
Vance
Care
Hou Ferguson
I. A. Berguson
Joann Cover
Ray Cover
Franki
Cover
Readers celebrate long dedication to Progress weekly
Mrs Mollin Streams of Marlon Canter renews a subscription reporting she has read the Progress for over 50 years. Sylvester Griffith is named auditor of Plumville borough by M Langham to fill the vacancy from Clyde Brant's death. A farm relief crisis is criticized as harsh on a Congressman from Loday Ig who recalls decades of free garden seeds used to stall issues.
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Marlon Canter
Progress
Sylvester Griffith
Planvitte
Plumville
M. Langham
Clyde Brant
Lfe
Loday Ig
Highway Dept Plans Treks Along Two Main Highways
Harrisburg May 28 Warren Van Dyke secretary of highways will work with the Soil Erosion Service to plant along Indiana county highways as part of a national erosion control program. Route 119 between Indiana and Punxsutawney and Route 422 between Indiana and Kittanning to see black locust seedlings and other species tested for erosion prevention and reduced maintenance costs.
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Harrisburg
Lune
Warren van Dyke
Soil Erosion Service
United States Department I. of Agriculture
Indiana County
Indiana
Punxsutawney
Kittanning
Highway Department
Weddings of a Week Miss Margaret Kring Weds Homer Harris
Miss Margaret Leone Kring daughter of Frank Kring married Homer Glenn Harris son of Mr and Mrs B F Harris of Homer City in a noon ceremony at the Kring home Indiana pastor Rev Samuel W Shane presided Mrs Mark Hasinger played the prelude and a medley of airs. The couple plan an eastern wedding trip and temporary residence at 210 Church Street Homer City.
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Margaret ‘Leone Kring
Frank Kring
Homer Glenn Harris
B. F. Harris
Homer City
Samuel W. Shane
Second United Presbyterian Church
Indiana
Waa
Briercliff
Virgil Grumbling
Johanna
Mark Hasinger
Kring
Rustic Lodge
Haring
Church Street
Indiana High School
Indiana State Teachers College
Ping Township
Hellwood
Wgh
Washington and Jefferson College
Kappa Sigma
Marria
Mahoning Supply Company
Tomer City
BB. F. Harriy
Martha
Betty Harris
Groom
Virgil Griumbling
Meilwood
County's Oldest Lady Celebrates 103rd Birthday
Mrs. Sarah Ann Good, 103, said to be the county’s oldest woman, marks her birthday in Washington township near Willet after a long life in Green township and Spangler. She reared 12 children and five more from a previous marriage, with 32 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, and a great great grandson. Her family includes daughter Mrs. Henry, daughter Mrs. Drucilla Lowmaster, and son T. Bert Good. She cannot read but remains alert and suffers no major health issues for her age.
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Ilale
Sarah Ann Good
E. H. Henry
Washington Township
McDowell
Green Township
Jacob Good
Spangler
Henry
Willet
Drucilla Lowmaster
T. Bert Good
Fort Howard
New State Superintendent of Public Instruction Named
Governor Earle announced the appointment of Dr. Lester Kelly Ade of New Haven Conn as Superintendent of Public Instruction for a four year term to succeed Dr James N Rule. Dr Ade is president of the State Normal School at New Haven and former Lycoming County superintendent. He hails from Trout Run near Williamsport.
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Lester K. Ade
N Haven
Conn
de. Jas. N. Rule
Earle
Lester Kelly Ade
New Haven
James N. Rule
Ade
State Normal School
Lycoming County
West Chester State Teachers College
Trout Run
Williamsport
Dispatch Congratulates Blatraville Dispatch on Historical Number
The Progress extends congratulations to The Blatraville Dispatch for its Historical Number issued on Tuesday. The edition marks 110 years for Blatraville borough and highlights county information with many pictures and strong editorial and mechanical quality.
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Blatraville
iBlatraville
Injured Man Kollar Harris Hit by Car in Simcoe Borough
Kollar M Harris, 50, of Simcoe, was struck by a car driven by Romayne Mel Laughlin on Wayne Avenue in Indiana Borough. Judge Langham denied bail for Tony Cagzato and remanded him to jail, with Malt Liquor license for North Side Garden revoked.
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Tony Cagzato
J. N. Langham
Tony Carvalo
sCagzato
ON City
Kellar M. Harris
Simcoe
Indiana
Paliia
Isadore Martella
Romayne Mel Laughlin
Wayne Avenue
North Side Garden
J. N. Langeham
Clara Tomaselli
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