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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1918
Page
2
A wartime notice urges 13 million men to register on September 12 and warns of arrest for evasion. It extols duty and readiness for training, honors soldiers like Jack, Kent, and Oli, and calls readers to vote and support America. Includes local notices on Camp Lee training and condolences from Colver and Indiana county.
The Progress trims pages and type to meet a 15 percent paper reduction. Officials urge readers to support wartime measures and patriotism as rules prohibit extra copies, preads, holiday editions, and contests. Registration Day on September 12 aims to boost enlistment for a 4,000,000 strong American army in France.
Miss Mary King of Ghureh street visited friends in Philadelphia this week. William Sheesley and A. W. Craft of Rochester Mills were callers in Indiana on Thursday. M Low Anthony of Railroad avenue returned to Wilkinsburg where she teaches. Dr. Stanley Brallier of Conemaugh visits his sister Mrs RR Z Young. Murriel and Nan Neil of San Francisco visit their brother G. C. Neil in Jacksonville. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Taggart and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taggart of Wilkinsburg visited Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Targart on North Ninth street over Sunday. Mrs. S. M. Clinneon of Parkwood reports son Private John G. Clawson in New York and sailing for France soon. Mrs. Gustin Moorhead and daughter Phyllis return to Wilkinsburg where she teaches. Miss Havel St. Clair, visiting his parents on North Ninth street, returns to Caldwell New Jersey to teach. Jay TM Wigard of Battery 1 Fourth Trench Motor Battalion in training at Camp Wustis VA spent the week with his parents near Jossmoyne. Miss M Eleanor Maust, daughter of Imury Faust, returned from Washington DC and heads to Franklin to teach. School term nine months begun September 3. James Hall and daughters Merle and Vincent Mack, Robinson, Indiana visitors, bid farewell to Merle Mack drafted for Camp Lee, Va. Albert Wissell, native of the town and nephew of Godfrey Marshall, died of wounds in France on August 12. formerly employed in Alaska, then moved to join U.S. Infantry.
A deep well drilled by Locust Gap and Klupmont Water Co at Ashland cut through flinty rock to reveal a subterranean cavern or waterway. Soundings show water depth well beyond prior estimates. The report notes bids and plans for a new building tied to the issue, with details from company president Williams and secretary Wilson.
County Commissioners will open proposals for a road project and sealer work at noon on September 14. The notice requests bidders to send cash with copy and to count words for insertion payments. The commission may reject all bids and reserves authority to adjust terms.
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