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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1934
Page
2
Dr Theodore B Appel urges parents to enforce nine hours sleep for early teens and eight hours for older youths to prevent insomnia and maintain vitality. He warns against self drugging for sleep and recommends professional treatment for persistent insomnia. The article also lists new Republican county committee members with their addresses across 78 districts.
A new Ethyl gasoline mixing plant began operation at the storage station of Standard Oil Co. south of Indiana. The project cost an estimated twenty to twenty five thousand dollars and employed twelve men for two months. The unit supplements a smaller plant and will operate daily to meet rising demand. About 20 railroad tank cars are filled and distributed daily from the Twollck plant.
Harrisburg May 30 The State Department of Justice has ruled on barbed wire fences along public roads. The decision states it is legal to build a barbed wire fence beside a public road.
A primary list shows one committeeman and one committeewoman elected in each of Indiana county's 78 districts on May 13, 1934. Names span Armagh to White, with entries for Glen Campbell, Blairs, Homer City, Indiana districts and many others, including both party positions and residences.
Offers for Indiana County readers list multiple publications with annual prices. Includes McCall's Magazine and Poultry Tribune plans, plus add on options for readers outside Indiana County and contact details for order submissions in Indiana Penna. The notice names several individuals and towns such as West Lebanon Salisburg and R.D.1 as references for ordering.
Harrisburg announces the 1934 Official Map of Pennsylvania by the Department of Highways. The map, larger than prior tourist editions, features an accordion fold, buff background, and a new base by the department. It adds township roads, metro sketches for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, an outline mileage view, state warning signs, and a Capitol view on the cover.
Harry A. Stonebraker, 62, a White Township farmer, is hospitalized at Indiana Hospital with lacerations to the back and right side after a car driven by J R Walter of Duquesne struck his corn planter on the Saltsburg road three miles from Indiana. Stonebraker was thrown into a ditch as the planter overturned. Walter’s occupants were uninjured. Stonebraker’s condition was listed as satisfactory at noon Thursday.
Brushvalley 4-H Potato Club reconstituted with Paul Overdort elected president and twenty-one members. Officers include Joe George vice president Helen George secretary Dorothy Shaffer reporter and Charles Overdorf game leader. Members plant two bushel seed potatoes and plan monthly meetings. Next meeting set for June 4 to discuss sending delegates to Camp Wesco near Ligonier. County Agent Warner notes boys camp June 21 to 25 and girls camp June 26 to 29. Leadership training camp spans four days for southwestern Pennsylvania 4-H clubs at Camp Wesco eight miles south of Ligonier. Club led by H Cunningham plans fall exhibition at Brush Valley Community Fair around early October.
The Seventy third Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association will be held in Indiana on October 10 11 and 12. The three day rally includes afternoon instruction in five to six sections and evening talks by noted ministers and educators. Over fifteen hundred delegates are registered with three thousand expected in attendance. Six Indiana churches will host events. Second performance of the Great European Passion Play follows Friday evening at the Fair Grounds, proceeds aiding the underprivileged child fund. tickets via Passion Play headquarters Savings and Trust Building or call 136.
A fragmented poem contrasts Union Blue and Confederate Gray across fields of memory. The verses describe graves “under the sod and the dew” awaiting judgment, with imagery of laurels and willows and mourning figures placing flowers for fallen friends.
Charles Meyers 45 of Altoona alias Lawrence Meyers and Charles Widdowson pleaded guilty to six forgery related charges. He received a two to five year sentence at the Allegheny Workhouse by Judge J N Langham and was taken to custody by Sheriff Eugene Wilson and Deputy Elmer Borland. Meyers forged checks across several towns and was ordered to restitution. He was arrested at Mrs. Dollie Treese’s Hillsdale home after a confrontation with two constables and is linked to flight by Mrs. Erma Grace May, a Treese daughter, who is a fugitive from justice.
White township taxpayers met in the Court House to rescind the 1934 road levy, lowering from nine to six mills. A second meeting later reinstated the nine mill rate, requested by road supervisors Aaron Craven and William Metz with a taxpayer committee. Tax collector Mrs. E H Groft had been told to collect the nine mill rate.
Classified style notice advertising for sale and farm items including seed mixes and supplies. Mentions Lewis Free Store address and various crop seeds with pricing details and ordering instructions for insertions.
B. Pierce and John L. Getty serve as county solicitors, taking the roles in the local legal office and guiding enforcement actions, investigations, and public prosecutions within the county.
Petition filed May 28 1934 in Court of Common Pleas Indiana County by the Commissioners seeking private sale to Victor Coal & Coke Co for 8863.27 with annual installments and six percent interest. List of coal tracts and parcels in Green Township and Dixonville including nineteen houses and lots. Hearing set for June 11 1934 at 10:00 oclock in Indiana Pa. sale contingent on court approval and completion of terms. Commissioner long prothonotary notice dated May 30 1934.
Notice is hereby given that an application will be made to the Governor of the Commonwealth for Pennsylvania by W R Thomas bg Jan Mier Harry Leech Dick Stephens Clyde Hell and others on the 1st day of June 1934 under the act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of cooperative agricultural associations not having capital stock for the charter of Indiana County Sheep and Wool Cooperative Association The purpose is to buy and sell agricultural products take title to products and act as agent for members and patrons and provide related services including purchase of living for or sale of supplies and equipment May 40, 1064 date.
A business corporation named PRINN-INDIANA seeks approval to engage in brewing and selling beverages, hops and ingredients, and to manufacture soft drinks and ice. The articles of incorporation conform to the Business Corporation Law, approved May 5, 1099, with the application to be reviewed on the Wednesday, the 4th day of June.
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