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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1900
Page
4
The Indiana Progress a historic local newspaper page announces pricing terms 1 00 a year in advance and 1 25 if not paid within the year with editor details Moorhead Son and location Sopiana Pa plus notice of communications and poetry charges reflect early 20th century publishing notes.
A 1901 column reflects on Thanksgiving as a national observance, urging thankfulness for the nation’s blessings. It notes the centennial-like outlook, calls for charity to the less fortunate, and hints at political chatter surrounding Pennsylvania figures Quay and insurgents. It also mentions local farming progress, a barn project by Archibald Nichol, a millinery sale by M A Anderson, and community notes including Rev W C Jones resigning, a new store in Penn Run, and a Longmont typhoid recovery of W J Short’s wife.
Numerous brief notices list residents and visitors in town, including Misa Ruth Adair in Johnstown, Dr. Griffith Morgan visiting family, Miss H. P. Stewart returning from Johnstown, and others from Chambersburg to Greensburg. The notes cover travel, hosting relatives, and local social activity with mentions of occupations and temporary stays.
Death notices from Smicksburg Rochester Mills New Florence and Bolivar report deaths from illness and old age. E D Shaffer 70 survived by widow and three children. services held by Rev Bergen at Smicksburg Lutheran cemetery. Infant Rath dies at 18 months of spinal meningitis. John Horrell dies in Pueblo aged 25. interment at Fort Palmer. Mrs Henry Howard dies after typhoid fever. burial at Fairview cemetery. Funeral rites led by local pastors. interments in respective cemeteries.
Education notices announce two teachers institutes on December 8 1900 in Green township Taylorsville and Kellar Schoolhouse. Taylorsville topics cover mental versus moral training school family pupil assistance live teacher imagination correlation of studies and teacher contact with residents. Kellar program opens at 1 pm with sessions on busy work in primary grammar teaching the three Gs in the schoolroom parental or teacher influence and more. invites extended to citizens teachers and directors.
A series of marriage notices from the region lists McCauley Snyder in Ponxtontawney with 30 guests, Bell Nealior in White township, Stumpf Starry in Blairsville, Loutsenhizer Steele in Pitcairn, Watkins Evans in Glen Campbell, Williams West in Glen Campbell, Sullivan Hilty in Newrytown, and Mrs. Alice Davies heading to Pittsburg.
A Pennsylvania reader urges local option and female suffrage as a model. The letter cites New Jersey legislation proposing municipal votes on liquor licenses every three years, with ballots For or Against licenses and a three year license window if approved. It requests publication to mobilize support and directs attention to petition text from the New Jersey Local Option Company.
The Markets section lists grain prices for wheat corn oats and hay along with dairy butter eggs and cheese prices and poultry rates. It cites No 2 red wheat 69 70 cents and various corn oats and hay figures, with butter eggs cheese and live and dressed poultry priced by grade and weight.
Society items note a charity social by the Christian Endeavor Society of Kellys burg at the town hall on Thanksgiving evening. St Bernard Catholic church held a dime social in their hall Monday. An ice cream festival and box social arrive at Reider schoolhouse Friday night November 30 1900 to aid the school library. Ladies Aid of Presby terian church hosts a reception for Rev Dr and Mrs Swartz Crawford next Monday at 7 30 pm. Y M C A and Y W A of Normal stage an entertainment tonight at 8 pm in Normal chapel with Reveries of a Bachelor and Living Pictures. Ad mission 15 cents.
For sale a five roomed house with one and one half acres of ground on East Oak Street First Ward near the Catholic cemetery The property includes a pantry two porches a good well on the porch a stable for four horses a coal wash and root house under one roof and several outbuildings A large paved garden fifty fruit trees including cherries apples pears plums and peaches Sold through G W Gilbert real estate agent Also mentions a lost arrow head pin reward and local notices about moving pictures and a church supper at Christ Episcopal church next Tuesday at 5 o clock.
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