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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1935
Page
7
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices from Blairsville and surrounding townships detail Blair Vincent Strong and others, including their ages, residences, service details, cemeteries, and surviving family. Also noted are prior burials of William Enterline and Charles Wolfenden, with burial places and family links.
Funeral services for Mrs. C. M. Bothel near Creekside followed by burial in United Presbyterian cemetery. Also notices for Mrs. Milton Boyer, Hugh Morrison Smith, John L. Wilson, Georgie Helen Craft, John F. Mermer, and Mrs. Sarah Knoll with brief burial and survivor details in Armstrong and Indiana counties.
The American Red Cross says the year ending June 30, 1935, saw more disasters and aid given than any peace time period. 128 domestic disasters affected 37 states and 858 counties, helping 110,000 people. Funds supported relief in the Philippines, Poland, and other foreign crises, with February to June the peak tornado months.
A brief look at the thermometer's evolution from Galileo's glass tube to the Fahrenheit scale and the centigrade system. It traces early ideas, debates over the zero and boiling points, and the cross national collaboration that shaped a tool influencing daily life, markets, and comfort.
In a dramatic scene at a mansion patio Barry Winslow, blamed by Caroline Maraden for his chronic lateness, pleads for another chance while reporters crowd the couple. A life saving blood transfusion to a stranger becomes the backdrop as they finally slip away to wed, amid publicity.
Harrisburg urges careful behavior by hunters and campers to prevent forest fires as hunting opens and autumn fire season begins. Chief forest fire warden George H. Wirt warns fires can be started by careless matches tobacco and campfires. He stresses unloading guns is safer than careless acts. A Williamsport boy brings a rattlesnake to a camping party, prompting a quick, safe response.
In Perry New York an unprotected flock of wild birds enters a sleeping porch through an open door. A beaver gnaws off the wooden leg of Herman Strutter. Strutter found chips in his bed and teeth marks on the artificial leg. The tale recalls the State Game Commission’s old guard of 48 wardens, now mostly retired or dead, with three still in service: Baum, Fretz, and Wood.
The article states that a hunter must hold a valid Pennsylvania hunters license to hunt or pursue any wild birds or animals, including groundhogs foxes crows hawks or other unprotected species, under state law. It emphasizes license necessity for all hunting activities.
The clipping warns of unprotected animals and unsafe picnicking practices in the woods. It notes fires from glass left by leaves and mentions Uniontown golfers pondering a poor score after Frank Smith of Wheeling offered a bet following a sighting of six deer on the links.
A county group formed a unit of the Indiana County Game and Fish Association shielding wild birds. The notice warns that all wild birds not classified as game are protected at all times and urges hunters to verify legal game before shooting and avoid firing at movement or noise.
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