Pennsylvania Bells Ring Out Health and Joy at Seal Sale
The 1937 thirty first Christmas Seal Sale in Pennsylvania features the Bell Ringer and a tale of historic bells. The article muses on bells as links between the animate and inanimate, recounts legends from Berks and Lancaster counties, and lists kinds of bells tied to local memory. It frames the sale as a cheerful force against tuberculosis and a boost for health and happiness statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Harry W. Stiege
Charming Forge
Berks County
Michael Quigley
Piedmont
Irda
Nesta
Charles 8
Mulger
Lansdowne
Lancaster County
Huntingdon County
Jane McGuire
Concatoga
Fram Colbertson
Lycoming County
Hell
Fort Benry
Berka County
Stockade
Hhodepy
Pirin Mountains
Salonika
Grand &J. Bernard
Swiss Alps
Dag
Barrie
Grand St. Hernard Pass
China
Paris
General Lafayette
Juniata Croming Hotel
Picardy
Frenchville
Clearfield County
Friends of Health and Human Happiness
Penn Mountain 4-H Club Round-Up Banquet Highlights
The Penn Mountain 4-H Potato and Capon Club hosted a banquet at Belle Mere north of Blairsville with Kiwanis members. Members presented capons or potatoes to sponsors, 4-H exhibits of capons and potatoes were judged, and ribbon awards were given based on scores amid low yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn Mountain
4-H
Blairsville Kiwanle Club
Belle Mere
Blairs‘ville
William Penn Highway
Kiwanis
J. F. Kelm
Pennsylvania State College
Harry Kauffman
Cappy Club
Randall Campbell, Jr
John Graff
John Cyrus Smith
Edgar Moorhead
Robert Moorhead
Home 4 H Club Guests of Local Kiwanis Dinner
More than 120 attended the Kiwanis Club dinner at Zion Lutheran church as Home community 4 H Capon and Potato Club members and parents were guests. Blue ribbon recipients included Junior and Wm G Buchanan, Isobel Lambing, Mona Walker, Dorothy Wallace, Betty Walker, Jim Washington, Marjorie Gumbert. Red ribbons went to Anne Lambing, Marjorie Wallace, David Kinter, Dorothy Finley, Ruth Kinter, Doris Island, Margaret Wyncoop, Phyllis Cleland. The two top exhibits were Mona Walker and Jim Washington. progress noted in a $5.50 reader invitation from Pittsburgh Gazette readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Zion Lutheran Church
Capon and
Potato Club
Kiwanians
Capon Club
Junior Buchanan
G. Buchanan
Isobel Lambing
Anne Lambing
Marjorie Wallace
David Kinter
Junior Finley
Mona Walker
Dorothy Wallace
Betty, Walker
Jim Washington
Marjorie Gumbert
Dorothy Finley
Ruth Kinter
Doris Lesland
Margaret Wyncoop
Phyllis Cleland
Pittsburgh Post
R. D
Aged Elderton Resident Fatally Injured in Barn Fall
Newton Rosborough aged 82 died Sunday morning after a skull fracture from a fall in his Elderton barn on Saturday afternoon. An elder of Elderton Presbyterian Church for 60 years he left a widow Mia Mertie Rosborough and two brothers James and Edwin. Funeral at Elderton Presbyterian Church at 2 PM with burial in Elderton cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elderton
Newton Rosborough
Charles
Wlizabeth (Fralley) Rosborough
Uncle Newt
Rosborough
Armstrong County
Elderton Presbyterian Church
Mia. Mertie (Calhoun) Rosborough
James Rosborough
Walier
Edwin Rogborough
John 4. Walker
Elderton Cemetery
4-H club activities at Indiana county show
At the Harrisburg Pennsylva n ia Farm Show meeting President Dr Wilbur Black presided and introduced Eugene Pounds as agricultural committee chairman. 4-H club members received ribbons while J W Warner spoke on 4-H work. Poultry specialist Harry H Kauffman discussed turkey history and judged capon exhibits. C B Washington thanked Kiwanis and invited families to a 1938 corn roast. A film by Warner displayed 4-H activities in Purchase Line Elders Ridge and Ox Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Wilbur Black
Eugene Pounds
B. IO. Buchhelt
Pounds
J. W. Warner
Indiana County
Carl Wallace
Warner
Harry H.kauffman
Penn State
New York City
C. B. Washington
Kiwanis
Purchase Line
Elders Ridge
Ox Hill
Growth of Farm Extension Work in Pennsylvania
Agricultural extension work in Pennsylvania has aided farm progress with 14 years producing 815 ton litters from swine, 18 years of wool grading handling 8,453,603 pounds, and 8,000 plus cows on test. 4-H enrollment rose from 9,000 to over 19,000. 65 bull associations in 28 counties own 205 bulls. Spraying and bee-keeping boosts yield and pollination, with 1173 herds over 3000 pounds butterfat, 97.9 percent clean apples from fully sprayed orchards, and beekeepers gathering 54,000 pounds honey valued at 9480 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Asys County
J. W. Warner
Bull Association
Daughters of Bull Association
Extension Service
Weddings of a Week in Indiana Area Churches
A sequence of marriage notices from Indiana area churches details weddings of Harriet Sarah Chapman and Jacob Kenneth Nicely in Zion Lutheran, plus other couples including Grove Chatham Clair Chatham and Iva M. Chatham, Clyde Stiver and Bertha Smith, Edward M. McClure and Imogene Fleming, John Lipnicky and Ethel Buchanan, Dergear Draper and Elizabeth Isabella Mehaffie, Draper Yuues, and Raymond H. Chrisman and Mabel Leoma George, with variety of attestants and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure-Fleming
Edward M. McClure
Imogene Margaret Fleming
Indiana
R. D
Pittsburgh
Frederick A. Atkinson
H. B. McClure
Oride
Perry Fleming
Draper Yuues Bjallen Dergear
Cramer
Mias
Elizabeth Isabella Mehaffie
Huff
Seward
Harry E. Smith
Bruce Blattenberger
Andrew Byron Mehaffle
New Florence
Raymond H. Chrisman
Mabel Leoma George
Mra
Mary A. George
Ridge Avenue
Homer City
Edgar B. Hanks
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Jeannatte
Miner's 7YearOld Victim Beaten and Robbed Near Blairville
George Lucas aged seven living alone at a shanty near Penn View Summit six miles east of Blairville was beaten and robbed of 22 dollars by two masked men late Thursday night. He was awakened and opened the door, then assaulted and left, later treated for bruises at Blairville. The robbers escaped in a car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miner
George ‘Lucas
Penn View Summit
Blairaville
Lucas
Blairsville
Hospital costs improve patient outcomes over time
Article notes modern hospital care speeds recovery and lowers patient costs since 1917 for appendicitis, with X rays and lab tests aiding diagnosis. Cites John Brown and son Tom, showing shorter stays and lower expense today. Includes governor appointment of H B George to Jay D Hill’s vacancy and snippets of jokes and ads from The Progress and Pittsburgh Pest Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
Tom Brown
Cherry Tree social notes from Cherry Tree and nearby towns
Mrs. 8 L Irwin called in Burnside on Friday. Johnstown shoppers included Clyde Bee family and Mrs Harland Bee. Mrs Norman Ruby returned to Youngstown Ohio after weeks with the Johnsons. Miss Martha Barnes visited Hillsdale Saturday. Clair Sebring Clyde Bee couples attended Glen Campbell Baptist chicken supper. Rev M T Tyson drove to Johnstown Monday. Mrs Kenneth Beck and three children of Barnesboro visited her parents. Dunlaps hosted Cherry Tree football team at a Thursday chicken dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Bee
Bob
Harland Bee
Johnstown
Norman Ruby
Youngstown
Leslie Johnson
Martha Barnes
Hillsdale
Clair Sebring
M. T. Tyson
Evangelical Church
Kenneth Beck
Barnesboro
Roy Brilkarthers
R. H. Dunlap
Cherry Tree
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry W. Shoemaker
James Buchanan
Jimmy
Bella
Penn Mountain 4-H Club
Dale Grumbling
Kenneth Grumbling
Sloan Cornell
Elsie Cornell
Junior Davis
Harold Davis
Marion Libsngood
Town
Miles Margretta L. Berner
Eugene W. Nicely
Indiana High School
Indiana State Teachers College
Clearfield
Jacob F. Nicely
Indiana High Schools
Tri-State College
Angola
Ind
Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation
South Seventh Street
Grove Chatham Clair
Mt. Airy
Philadelphia
Edgewood
Clyde Stiver
Rochester Mills
Bertha Smith
Cloe
Cumberland
H. Hall Sharp
Tra A. Smith
Punxsutawney High School
Fox
Oscar Stiver
Rochester Milla
Clearfield ‘Bituminous Coal Corporation
Rossiter
Lipnicky-Buchanan
John Lipnicky
Dixonville
Ethel Buchanan
Clymer
Commodore
Norman Keith
William Lipnicky
Bert Buchanan
Wmattenberger
Mehaffie
Chrisman George
Guna
Pilgrim Fathers
Indiana, PA
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
H. G. Fritz
Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital
H. B. George
Jay D. Hill
Hiram B. George
George H. Carle
Farmer Waton
Farmer Eaton
Skjold
the Progress and
Pittsburgh Pest- Gazette
Luxenberg
Fine Watches
Elgins
Hamiltons
Bulovas
Walthams
Westfields
Luxenberg’s
Tudiana
8. L. Irwin
Burnside
G. W. Graff
Meats Groceries Delicatessen
North Sixth Street
Branda
Indiana Motor CO
Buick Sales & Service
North Highth Street
C. Murphy Co
Phila. St
Indiana, Ps
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