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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1930
Page
4
A round of small town events is noted with shop visits and social calls. Residents such as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dilts of Georgeville and Mrs. Lottie McEwen of Rural Valley are mentioned, while funeral attendance for Maud Runyan in Vandergrift is recorded. Carl Axbergh relocates his garage business to Smethport.
The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette announce a joint sales deal for 1930. The two papers cost six dollars to subscribers or residents in towns without a Post Gazette agent. Orders should be sent to The Indiana Progress in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Mr and Mrs Guy Hunter and children Lila and Dorothy traveled to Cresson on Sunday. Residents visited Carrolltown and Bakers town Thursday. H R Bee spent Sunday at Harry Seger’s near Rossiter. Worth Tonkin was in Indiana Monday. J E Wooster and two children stayed with relatives in Earthna. Daisy Ross studied in Edgewood near Pittsburgh. H T Jamison and three children from Penn Run visited Clyde Bee. Geo Frampton returned home after weeks in Johnstown. Cherry Tree high school football team lost 19-6 to Yeagertown at Yeagertown. R O Lytle and family drove to Harrisburg. Ella Patterson and Rose Ross, Indiana State Teachers College students, spent weekend at home. S G Bee shopped in Johnstown Friday. A Halloween party was held at the Milo Schmouder home Monday night.
Smyrna residents hosted and visited relatives from Chicago Indiana and Punxsutawney including Mrs Robt Johnston and son Walter Blair Johnston and wife. they toured Niagara Falls Buffalo and Lake Erie. Frank Taz lefts farm gas well discovery reported. Mrs W R Hamilton attends institute in Indiana while Alda Waddell and George spend the week with George Kinnan in Plumville.
Indiana Adult Poultry Record Club heard H. H. Kauffman describe a bronchitis like epidemic affecting flocks, with mortality under five percent. Treatments include cod liver oil, spray with B-K solution, carbona dusting, creosote fumes or pine tar, and careful ventilation. Honor roll flocks listed with hens and eggs per hen figures from September.
The Whoopee production blends Goldwyn Ziegfeld staff and Thornton Freeland in charge. Sally Morgan loves Wanenis while her father arranges marriage to the Sheriff. A comic chase, disguises, and a surprise reveal hinge a dramatic escape to an Indian reservation. Henry, Sally, andVanenis face fate, romance, and a white baby twist reshapes loyalties. An auto tour to Pittsburgh planned for Oct 30 showcases markets and the Heinz plant along with the Potato and Apple Show. Indiana county voices shine at potato judging with 4-H teams attending.
The Wilgus Pig Club Show marked the eleventh annual event for the state’s oldest Boys and Girls Pig Club, reportedly the oldest 4-H club in Pennsylvania. Pure bred Berkshires were shown weighing pigs on June 12, with prizes funded by First National Bank of Glen Campbell and Savings & Trust Company of Indiana. O. S. Gorman Jr. led in gilt class and barrow class winners were announced with multiple prizes.
Announcement of the marriage between Hermonia Kutler of New Kensington and Gilbert Smeltzer of Avonmore. They wed in Cumberland Maryland on September 1. Card of thanks from H D Tomb and family Dilltown for sympathy after bereavement. Quote about doubt and truth appears in the clipping.
Belgrade reports a workman's widow sues the Post Office claiming delay in notifying her husband of a lottery prize led to his suicide. She asserts poverty and unemployment drove him to end his life. 15 minutes earlier news could have changed the outcome.
The three month old baby girl of an Armenian couple here speaks distinctly, using about 85 words in the last three weeks. Soviet language specialists have visited to study the phenomenon.
In a peaceful sheep herding scene Arthur Willams suffered a broken arm after being struck by a golf ball. The accident interrupted routine work and highlighted the unexpected dangers nearby recreational activity poses to rural trades.
Two young girls were brought before a municipal police magistrate charged with reciprocal biting on a Paris boulevard. When separated they were in a clinch with one biting the other's nose and the other throttling her opponent.
The Savan 4-H Potato Club with twenty members visited Punxsutawney Rotary Club guest sponsors. They swam at the Y M C A and toured stores, then enjoyed dinner led by Rotary president Walter Morrin. Awards based on yield, exhibit, and record were presented by J. W. Warner with cash prizes from Savings & Trust Co. of Indiana.
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