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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1925
Page
8
A Busy Sunday in Booth Bend with family visits and gatherings including Mise Garnet Devers hosting about forty at a Halloween masquerade party. Townsfolk note recent travels, a road boss appointment, school events, church revival plans, and local visitors from Indiana and Pittsburgh.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health weekly health talk by Dr William G. Turnbull urges readers to extend vacation benefits through daily walks and regular fresh-air outings. It cautions against returning immediately to sedentary office life and promotes a year round habit of movement and relaxation for both mental and physical well being.
Smicksburg and surrounding area residents are listed visiting relatives and attending gatherings. Names include Mr and Mrs Tom McCliney of Big Run, J T Hoover, Cal Good, Wilbur Brilhart and children Louise and Billie, Ada Gahagan, Mary Haskell, Robert McBrier, Jane Mogle, James Robinson, B F Jamison, A T Stear, C G Bond, J Schatner, A P Marshall, W K Good, M K Lewis, Robi Mikesell, and Dr B F Frasher with Min ish. Activities cover visits, quilting, and a hospital trip to Pittsburgh.
Pathfinder Magazine notes that the Rat year, the start of a 60 year cycle, heightens belief in evil spirits of the outcast dead. The revived Puo do rites involve village stages, puppets, cakes and offerings. Buddhist and Taoist priests join nightly processions amid costly celebrations.
Mrs John Park and daughter visit with Park siblings in Uadergrift. J %. Blystone and family, Howard McIntyre, and John Johnston households hosted relatives. Various locals, including Melvin Parks and Joseph Parks families, travel and call on friends across Elderton Atwood Vandergrift Saltsburg Greensburg.
A fragment reports a boy lived ten hours after injury. Mrs McQueeney, remembering Miss Gertrude Ruggles, tends to the child along with two young helpers who are recovering well.
Mrs Eva Alfison of Indiana called at the Farnsworth home about Lynn Hadden and family moving to Commodore. Mr and Mrs BH L Marman were business visitors in Barnesboro Saturday. Boyd Daugherty employed in Youngstown OH spent the weekend with his parents G W B Daugherty. Mrs M A Farnsworth visited relatives in Indiana and Homer City last week. Raymond Brown spent the weekend with friends in Rossiter. Mr and Mrs C P Ruffner of Tarentum spent this past week at A T Sterner and family.
Indiana visitors include Mr and Mrs Huge McAllister Mr and Mrs L H Peate son and Mrs Murray Conrath Mrs Mose Blakley and family from Indiana spent the weekend at Hugh McAlister’s home W H Brady Sr was a guest at D J Allison’s Taylors Iville home Miss J B Swisher returned home after time with her parents Mr and Mrs Kaminsky at Irvona Miss Estella Knupp and Mrs Geo G Wheeler from Purchase Line visited H W Keaver’s home Evangelistic meetings are being held at Purchase Line Brethren church Rev A C G Miller of Roaring Spring assists Rev C H Wake man in holding meetings this week Services expected to continue next week
Mrs. Charles Boswick of Trafford visits sister Mrs. R. C. Cessna. Mr. and Mrs. Colling Welch of Dallas stay with Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Clark. Aaron P. Clark plans a two week Cleveland trip. Rev J. B. Cleveland is seriously ill with heart trouble. Presbyterian worship shifts to Methodist for now. P. I. R. station relocates to the highway end of town with trains starting November 2.
The Federation of Bird Clubs of New England moves to protect the nearly extinct heath hens. About eight birds remain, with all on Martha's Vineyard. An island sanctuary will receive extra help to control ants and hawks, their main enemies, as nesting season begins and shooting or trapping is allowed on the state reservation and elsewhere on the island. A game warden will be posted September 1 through the hunting season.
J C Rose made a business trip to the county seat on Monday. Miss Olive Mirick in Columbia hospital at Wilkinsburg is improving. Billie Clark, formerly with pneumonia, shows signs of recovery. Ferguson family of Blairsville visited J S Ferguson. Mrs Leydick of Saltsburg visited her mother Mrs McPhilimy. Mr and Mrs Will Henry of McIntyre visited Mrs Henry's sister Mrs J M Hart. Miss Margaret Hart of Overbrook Kansas was here last week and went to Blairsville to visit friends. Seventeen ladies attended the Woman's Missionary Society meeting at Mrs William Pearce's home. Dean Clawson suffers pleurisy and cannot yet return to work. Real estate transfer: J M Hart to Mr and Mrs James Fife a Main Street residence. Mr and Mrs John Manners and William Palmer motored to near Kittanning to visit Manners' relatives. Household goods sale at the Hart home drew a good crowd. The Harts plan to leave soon in search of a drier climate.
Four large white pelican colonies nest on Annho island in Pyramid Lake Nevad a. The combined adult population now about 10000 yields fewer than 1000 fledglings per season due to human interference, natural enemies, and harsh conditions. Pelicans feed almost entirely on small coarse fishes like lake minnows carp and lake chubs with red suckers Sacramento perch and catfish as secondary staples.
The former Austrian minister in Berlin, Doctor Riedel, seeks a poste restante in private life rather than return home. Austria may withhold his pension if he does not follow diplomatic custom to depart his latest residence for at least a year after retirement.
An old rancher warns a passing motorist to avoid hitting his dog, vowing to shoot if harmed. The exchange is tense with the man insisting a dog is a dog and the other man threatening severe retaliation if the dog is hurt. The report appears from the Ilungia City Star.
The airplane, dubbed safest yet, was tried out in Fort Worth Texas by designer and builder L B Sanders. It is designed to land at very low speed a feature long sought by designers. The new model reaches a maximum speed of 85 miles an hour and is deemed sufficient for many uses.
The Long Fellows club forms in Marshfield Oregon to aid tall men. Proposed aims include longer beds in hotels longer berths in sleeping cars longer baths more comfortable theater seats and higher shop awnings to avoid head injury.
Uniontown Mr and Mrs James Langham and son Don visited Clearfield due to Mrs Lagnhams sister Mrs Bess Taylor ill. Miss Lillian Berringer works at William McQueeney home. Miss Cora King returned from Vandergrift visit with Bill King. Mr and Mrs S Berringer Greensburg visiting relatives. Stork delivered triplets to Mr and Mrs William McQueenay last Thursday morning, all boys.
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