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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1892
Page
5
The October 26 1862 issue highlights Tuesday races at the fair ground with promises of excitement and specials from W M Cunningham including shoes jackets and fabrics. Local notes cover typhoid cases weather commerce and social events amid memorials, marriages, and obituaries.
Mrs. Harrison wife of President Harrison died at the White House last Tuesday at 1 40 am. She faced death with Christian resignation and her last days were relatively painless. Religious services will be held in the White House Wednesday morning, then the body will be taken to Indianapolis for burial at Crown Hill on Thursday. The nation extends sympathy. Also reported: George Meade, once a wagon driver, is linked to forged notes and theft of a forty dollar gun, arrested after a woods discovery. Joseph R Brown of Spruce died of paralysis at Parkwood after a week visiting. buried at Salem church, Green township, with seven children and a wife left.
Columbus Day celebrations filled West Indiana Public School with recitations songs and addresses. Students and citizens joined in a solemn program capped by tributes to Columbus and patriotic songs. An afternoon of entertainment followed with plans for a Tuesday track race by top horses Monroe Brister and Frank Dorch with gate receipts shared by the Agricultural society. Admission 25 cents.
Over sixty representatives from counties attend the Farmers State Institute session with Hon. R. E. Pattison Governor and Dr. G. W. Atherton among the notable attendees. The gathering runs Thursday with an interesting prepared program today and Thursday evening.
A Saturday football game between the Normal and Western University clubs drew keen interest. The University team proved heavier, winning 6 to 0 while Normal’s Campbell Feits Dyers and Fiscus earned credit. Normal next faces East End Gyms in Pittsburg at home.
Mr. G. W. Kelly of Shelocta sustained serious injuries when horses at a coal bank bolted after loading. The lines tangled around his body, pulling him under the wagon and trampling him. He is reported to be improving.
Gettysburg Council No. 469 Jr. O U A M organized observances in Hillsdale. Seven Montgomery township schools participated. A grand parade led by the Gettysburg brass band proceeded to the schoolhouse for exercises. Prof. Peeler delivered an address.
Langham completed inspections of Willett Advance West Lebanon Eldersridge Washington Salinburg Clarksburg Ebenezer Kent Crete and Smathers. His work strengthens county mail service and earns him many friends. Allison and Mary Tiffany to wed at bride’s parents home on Seventh Street with Dr Hall officiating. They will honeymoon at the lakes.
A telegram from Dr William McChesney, now by his father's side in Chicago, reports the father is seriously ill with faint hopes for recovery. Mrs McChesney, who died there last week, is embalmed and placed in a vault until Mr McChesney is brought home.
Detroit based epician M B Hirschfield now at the Indiana house invites readers to call for eye examinations. The notice targets those with weak vision nearsighted farsighted stigmatism and aging difficulty reading at night offering screenings and glasses.
A man believed dead was found by boys in White's woods on Friday. Coroner Miller learned he was alive, suffering from a severe drunken episode. Separate items note a fishing party at Wincheimer's dam and an optician offering home visits for glasses.
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces that on November first freight rates between Indiana and the west will match Blairsville levels, with local rate reductions placing Indiana on the Pittsburg basis for local points. Rates to points east of Blairsville will not exceed Pittsburg charges. Special livestock trains run Monday and Wednesday nights. Citizens are urged to support growing local freight business.
Report recalls a Saturday incident when strangers in the woods fired recklessly near Mr Patch and his three sons on the public road in Burrell township, prompting legal action and calls to end such dangerous conduct.
On October 20, 1892, James Fenton Esq. joined Mr John Fettens and Miss Katie Clark, both residents of Burrell township, in marriage.
Mr. 8. T. Swartz of Onberg fell from a water tank last Saturday and broke both bones of his left arm below the elbow.
The auditor appointed by the Orphans Court of Indiana county will attend at his Indiana office on Tuesday October 18 1892 at 1 o clock pm to discharge duties for the estate of John Lucas deceased all interested parties may attend if they see proper E WALKER SMT SH Auditor Rept 22 Specialist
The Jr U A M marked Columbus Day by placing flags over public schools an act praised as patriotic and beneficial. The event followed by speeches and a season of lectures at Library hall featuring Nella Brown-Pond, Chas Kellogg, Adelaide Chester, and Lida J. Low. Also public notices on farms for sale in Indiana County and medical adverts urge Chamberlain’s remedies for croup and diarrhea.
Quotations corrected weekly by D. C. Mack list prices for Butter eggs lard tallow soap beeswax ham country sides shoulders geese clover seed timothy seed and more with entries in pounds and per cent.
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