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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1937
Page
6
Progress Trespass Notices cover the Trespass Theft and Property Damage Acts and warn against trespassing and theft when posted on property. Price six notices for 25 cents on heavy paper or three notices for 25 cents on muslin. Mail available for 3 cents postage. Address The Indiana Progress Indiana Pa.
The Atlantic City Auditorium houses the world’s largest pipe organ with 32,882 tubes. Louis Wear, Beaton organist of Massachusetts, has just completed a claim of constructing the world’s smallest organ measuring 14 inches wide and 8 inches high.
The piece contrasts American optimism with foreign pessimism, praising self reliance and government restraint. It cites Edison and Luther Burbank as exemplars and argues the frontier now is the realm of personal courage and enterprise.
Weekend social round in Marion Center includes Miss Catharine Holt of Indiana State Teachers College visiting her parents the Holt family, Mrs. A J Cope and son Arthur from Punxsutawney visiting Mrs. E C Jeffries, and Miss Laura Frederick hosting a visit from Indiana. Other notes mention W C Work family travel, sympathy for a death in the Miller family, John Long moving to Clymer, temperance lectures by Rev. Campbell of Pittsburgh, and various town visits by local residents including Earl Kuntz and families from Oneida and Latrobe.
Alverda residents report visits from John Stokes and family of Portage and Andy Seaman of Heilwood. Elliott family stayed with relatives in Akron. Gordon and Waxler visited Indiana. Donohue moved to Patton. Yeager visiting sister in Phoenix. Esgro visiting Cleveland. Tusnak accepts job in Munhall. Ed Davis and family visiting from Cicero. Lovazzarri visiting Pittsburgh. Triber from Renton weekend visit. Leone and Muto from Ambridge visited Alma Vater. Ebensburg fair drew many locals. Carlson family leaving for Worcester to settle. An oak grows from a petrified redwood trunk in Sonoma County, California, puzzling naturalists.
In a lodge tale set in New England, Roscoe Dix is famed for always being wrong. Friends recount his failed careers and bad judgments until he unexpectedly lands a weather job on a radio broadcast. The punchline notes his reverse decisions often prove right because the weather shifts unpredictably.
Sunday school and church events mark a busy period with Ernest Parks family hosting in Cincinnati and Saltsburg visitors. Numerous local families hosted and visited, attendance at W O W in Pittsburgh, Olivet school opening with Miss Kunkle, and several trips to Dayton and Harrisburg.
Mrs J L Caldwell and daughter of Armagh returned home after a week with Mrs Sarah Humer of Altoona. Mr and Mrs R O Trexler attended the Pittsburgh Chicago game in Pittsburgh. Miss Dillie M Cunningham serves as juror in Indiana court this week. Royden Taylor Barbara Prothero and Mrs Learn of Indiana were Sunday guests of Armagh friends.
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