Strent Railway Expands With New Cars and Line Upgrades
Indiana County street railway shows bold expansion plans with three modern passenger cars costing 60 000 to serve the Blairsville line. The company also outlines extensive track and road bed work along the Indiana Blairsville route including a new line toward the fairgrounds and improvements to Wayne avenue and Carter avenue to ease congestion. Track realignments along the state road total five locations costing about 50 000 with new spikes bolts ties and overhead. A major change moves 600 feet of track away from the hill edge near Blairsville after an 18 foot hill cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County Street Railways Company
Blairsville
Seventh Street
Fair Grounds
Carter Avenue
Wayne Avenue
Indiana
Pennsylvania Railroad
Justorth
Three Dead In Johnstown Riot Reported In Pennsylvania
Johnstown police and state troopers responded to a riot in Rosedale a colored section near coke ovens. Three detectives and a colored man were killed. three officers were gravely wounded, and fifteen colored men were arrested. A roadside ambush interrupted investigators as shots fired from a shack killed two, with two more officers wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Rosedale
Eellepem Steel Corporation
John A. James
Joseph Abraham
Robert Young
Jobstown
Otto Fisk
Williams Wender
Joseph Gracen
Iink
Young
Purchase Line Visits and Sickness List
Mrs. Melvin Payne and Wilda Napp visit friends in Akron Ohio. Chester Ferrier and Wesley Myers are on the sick list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purchase Line
Melvin Payne
Wilda Napp
Akron
O. Chester Ferrier
Wesley Myers
Japan Earthquake Death Toll Soars Over Two Hundred Thousand
The quake, fire, and tsunami devastated Tokyo and Yokohama and nearby regions. Estimates place 200,000 to 320,000 lives lost as island portions vanished and new land emerged. Fires, changing rivers, and erupting volcanoes intensified the disaster as relief ships from multiple nations speed aid. American ambassador Cyrus Woods and the Yokohama consul Max Kirjassoff are reported missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Tokio
Yokohama
Cyrus J. Woods
Hare
Max D. Kirjassoff
Social Notes From Bowder Town and Nearby Communities
Mr and Mrs C A Conner hosted Sunday guests Mr and Mrs Harman Irwin and family of Bowder town Miss Virginia Heilman, visiting with her parents Mr and Mrs E Heilman, has returned to Jeannette for school Mrs Walter Fee and child of Glen Campbell visit her parents Mr and Mrs W M Churchill Mr and Mrs D W Gromley of Marion Center spent Sunday with Mrs Nora Fuller There will be preaching in the Wesleyan Methodist church Sunday evening at 730.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Conner
Nora Fuller
Wesleyan Methodist Church
County Boy Scouts Hold Pleasing Event at Dinner
Indiana County Council of the Boy Scouts hosted a dinner at Hotel Indiana with ten districts represented. Vernon F. Taylor presided while addresses were given by Fred Vinton George Feit Rev N L Hunter Rev F W Hinitt Rev J B Baker and Elder Peeler. William Beck received a gold watch chain and knife for leading the band to a fine musical standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana County
F. W. Hinitt
3. B. Baker
Town
Peeler
William Beck
Missionary Women Entertain Atwood Meeting Aug 30
The Women s Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian church at Atwood entertained the Beracha and Plumcreek Societies on August 30. Visiting societies delivered an instructive program with devotional exercises papers and talks on mission work recitations and singing. Rev Buckhalter urged a definite aim for advancing missionary work. About eighty people enjoyed a bountiful lunch provided by the Atwood congregation after the program and renewed old friendships and made new ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Missionary Society
United Presbyterian Church
Atwood
Beracha
Plumcreek
Buckhalter
Atood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Victor
Griffith Ellis
Edie Be
First National Bank of
Plumville Pa
Vesta
Phila
D. J. Means
Prop
Nixon Avenue
Vesta Battery
Prom
Glasser
Silas C
Philadelphia Street
Indiana, Pa
Globe-Wernicke
Strent Railway CO
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Virginia Gray
Wslamsport
Thomas Gray
Lycoming Coun
A. Mitchell Palmer
Groton
Conn
A. Mitchell Potter
Wilson
Margaret Fallon Burr
John B. Burrall
New York
Rockford
Samuel R. Guard
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Foderation
Tokio and
Yokohama Ato
Hillsdale
BOY Scouts
Brody Bros
Troutman’s
Nema
Bell
Fall
Troutman
Quality and Service
Hose
Lafayette
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