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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1934
Page
7
Alonzo Stuchell aged 82 dies near Greensburg after years of illness. Daugherty family notices detail prominent Masonic and church affiliations of Hart B Daugherty and Rogs B Daugherty and Indiana community ties. Funeral for Daugherty held in Indiana with burial at Greenwood cemetery. Stuchell's obituary lists extensive family survivors and local connections led by Greensburg and Indiana areas.
Funeral services in Smicksburg Lutheran church followed by burial in the church cemetery for Mrs Sarah Chapman Elkin known as Mrs Elkin a longtime resident of West Mahoning township. She died Friday in Chicago at age 82 years eight months and seven days. She was born in County Tyrone Ireland and moved to the United States at 18. Survivors include children Mrs John M Ruffner Home Mrs Edwin Patterson Trade City Mrs Thad McGregor Mrs Margaret Ruffner Charlies B Herbert B and Sherman J Elkin all of Chicago a brother William Chapman Pittsburgh and two sisters Mrs Ellabeck Detroit and Mrs Hurst Ireland. Ronald infant son of Mr and Mrs Harald Rittner died Friday near Flumville. The Rittners held services Friday with burial in Crooked Creek cemetery near Chamberaville.
Funeral services for Mrs Lucinda Snyder age 88 a former Marion Center and Indiana resident were held today in Punxsutawney followed by interment there. Born October 10 1846 in Mechanicsburg she married John Snyder 68 years ago who died in 1898. The family lived in Marion Center Indiana and Punxsutawney where Snyder Rack et store became Snyder Dept store. Surviving are two sons F O Snyder of Punxsutawney and Geary Snyder of Portland Oregon and a daughter Mrs Frank McCarley of Punxsutawney.
Obituaries detail David Feltshang 95 of Rayne township died Friday at daughter’s home near Marion Center. He was Civil War veteran, Bethel Presbyterian member, buried with War honors at Bethel Lutheran cemetery after service by Rev. Hildebrand. survived by three sons and a daughter. Also noted are Elijah J. Work of Compton California native of Marion Center area, with family and works history, burial in Greenwood Cemetery, and Mrs Edward Alsopp of Clymer 58, died in Clymer with funeral arrangements in Clymer and Greenwood cemeteries. Also Conrad Sleppy 66 of Pine township died Friday, interment at Spruch Grove Church Cemetery. farmer and blacksmith, survived by widow, daughter Cora, two sons, and brother John Sleppy.
William Lewis Marshall, 76, former Dayton postmaster, died in Grove City after a health issue. A Dayton district lifelong resident, he attended Glade Run Presbyterian Church where funeral services set for Thursday at 10 a.m. Survived by children Mrs J A Good Leechburg Oscar R Marshall Carlyilie Walter Marshall Mrs Co Shaffer Plumville John S Marshall Birdsboro Mrs R La Allen Bellmeads and Mrs R D Elkin Loop.
Lois Ann Johnson aged five, daughter of John and Lois Johnson, died at the parental home in Grantsburg Wisconsin on Thursday night. Her mother was born in Indiana and her father was a former Indiana High School faculty member. She is survived by her parents, a sister Jean Barr, and grandmother Mrs Harry W Harhart. Funeral services and interment were in Grantsburg.
Mrs Ernie Forester aged 52 native of Center township died September 3 at Leach Farm Sanitorium Allegheny county interment to follow in Monaca cemetery She is survived by two sons Glan and Earl of Steubenville Ohio and three brothers J M Davis Homer City W K Davis Center township and I J Davie Youngstown Ohio Also noted is a separate obituary for Mrs Mary McDowell Kelly aged 81 widow of Daniel Kelly resident of East Wheatfield township who died at Clyde home of daughter Mrs W J Brantlinger Surviving include three children F W Kelly Coneomaugh Mrs Nellie Schrum Robison and Mrs Brantlinger plus 17 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren Her husband died in March 1929 A daughter Mrs Gertrude Little died in August 1918.
Frank Hummel Raymer, 49, died Friday at his Cherry Tree home. Services Monday afternoon followed by interment in Clover Run cemetery. He was a miner, previously lived in Emeigh Run for 10 years, survived by widow and three daughters Marie Rhoda Wilda. The item also notes other local obituaries and notices, including Mrs. John M. Dodson and William L. Marshall, with brief family connections and locations, plus a miscellany of local anecdotes and jokes.
A settlement was reached in the larceny case against Frank B. Creek and Mabel Pearce. Several defendants pleaded guilty or were fined for offenses including operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and molesting morality statutes. Witness testimony preceded guilty pleas and sentences in a September session before Judge J. N. Langham.
Notice to readers outside Indiana County to add 50 to each chosen offer and address all orders to The Indiana Progress Indiana Penna.
News note announces The American Boy magazine price cut from two dollars to one year and three year rate from three fifty to two dollars. Editor Griffith Ogden Ellis highlights plans for new fiction, sports features, and travel stories with characters like Douglas Renfrew and Bonehead Jim Tierney. Local readers Mrs Elan Lutman and Miss Lille Lutman visit Cookport. Miss Lutman begins her tenth year as a teacher in Altoona. Mrs Bostic enrolls as a Progress reader.
National Housing Act funds are expected to lift electric refrigerator sales this fall as homeowners upgrade homes and build new, with 12,000,000 houses needing repair and 7,000,000 houses over 30 years old driving demand. Westinghouse reps say the program will help 4,000,000 unemployed in trades, spur overall trade, and push built-in electric kitchens growth.
At Memorial Hall the Indiana Post No. 141 American Legion elected officers for the coming year and reported a 10 percent membership gain. Named were Commander Clinton M. File and a slate including Paul Munshower Walter Black R. W. McCullough R. Penfield Richard W. Watson J J Mellvaine with an executive committee list and delegates to the county council. Alternate names also set.
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