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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1930
Page
2
A health official urges strict personal hygiene at home and in public to prevent disease. He notes progress in sanitation and emphasizes individuals should use their own towels and drinking glasses, cleaning and disposing of them after limited use to curb contagious illness.
The Red Cross plans five regional conferences in Pennsylvania in coming weeks starting at Oil City on September 26. National officials and delegates will discuss home front work with neighboring chapter representatives. Delegates from the southwestern section will attend Pittsburgh on October 20, State College on October 21 covers the central section, and Lancaster hosts the southeastern meeting on October 22 with speakers including J B. Gwin and Mr Hunt and McClintock.
Potatoes face high prices this fall and winter as September 1 estimates show a U S crop down by twenty million bushels from last year and fifty million below the five year average. Indiana County growers using modern methods may yield one third to one half the crop but with good quality and storage. Maine reports eight million bushels lost to blight. October 1 estimates likely lower than September 1 due to continuing drought.
A compilation of local notes lists numerous visitors, callers, and residents from Blatraville, Heilwood, Stayrford, Pitcairn, Vandergrift, Detroit, and Philadelphia. Highlights include dog license totals by County Treasurer Elmer W. Allicon, and residents visiting Indiana fair or traveling to Canton and Ohio towns.
A poem about rain reviving the land and a woman sensing life as rain falls. In a separate note, Evangelistic services led by Rev. B. F. Waltz begin next Monday at 7:30 PM at the Purchase Line Church of the Brethren, continuing for two weeks with public invitation.
Native of Indiana County and former Indiana schools superintendent, Prof. Frank Ernest Work will serve as American Advisor to the Ethiopian Department of Education in Addis Ababa. He will begin duties in October for a one to three year term, taking a leave from Muskingum College where he has taught since 1922. The emperor Haile Selassie I inaugurated development programs including a public school system, and Work’s appointment marks a notable honor for the college and Abyssinia.
Officials report a Producers Cooperative Commission Association meeting to outline financing methods for feeders and loans through the National Feeder and Finance Corporation. The event, part of the Indiana Fair, will discuss operations and answer questions for local livestock feeders and dealers.
A reflection on insincerity and the impact of adult behavior on children. The piece recounts cases where adults say one thing to friends and another behind their backs, teaching children to mimic such duplicity. It cites two mothers overheard by their children and warns that children learn by example.
Mrs. J C Reese of East Palestine Ohio, sister of Mrs. Anderson of West Philadelphia, recently returned from France where she visited Private Jack Reese's grave. Reese, 18, of Company K 122nd Infantry, died August 24 1918 after volunteering to carry a message under heavy shellfire in Fismes near Rheims. He urged aid for two wounded comrades before he fell.
Blairsville resident Wesley C. Weyant is in serious condition at Indiana 28 hospital after a Monday car crash on the B P highway between Indiana and Home. A high speed attempt to light a cigarette while driving caused the Nash roadster to crash into a guard fence. Weyant was thrown through the windshield. injuries include a torn left cheek jaw fracture and multiple teeth knocked out along with lacerations and contusions. His condition was listed as favorable today. The driver, W E Lintner, also of Blairsville, was en route from Home. A separate item notes a Weiner Roast at the Raymond Nicolas home near Crete hosted by Crete United Presbyterian Church with proceeds for the church. all are welcome.
The Cookport Fair will run September 25 to 27 with improved access due to a new concrete road from Commodore to Cookport. Livestock and farm products will be judged Friday by H C McWilliams, county agent of Cambria, and Katherine Reitz will judge home economics exhibits. Barns whitewashing is encouraged to boost dairy receipts, with farmer groups coordinating spray work using a high pressure sprayer. A potato strain demonstration at the County Home will be dug and weighed Monday at 1:00 PM, inviting interested growers to view the results and witness certified seed strains from local farms compared with other varieties.
Two colts earn medals for gains at the Indiana County Agricultural Extension Association event. Ed Hughmani’s yearling colt led with a 717 pound gain from 463 to 1180 pounds between Sept 12 1929 and Sept 11 1930 and will receive a gold medal. W H George’s Homer City entrant posted a 683 pound gain. Simpson’s colt earned a silver medal. Entries must gain 600 pounds for gold or silver, 400 for bronze, and weigh-ins run through October 1 with weigh dates, sire and dam names, and birth date to the County Agents office.
A carload of South Dakota Colts to be sold Thursday September 18 at 1 PM at Archie Nichol farm one and a half miles from Indiana on the Clymer road. Colts are good and heavy aged one to five years in colors black grey sorrel bay. Also some good young males. Terms announced sale day. Ed Rosborough.
HH. L. Stephens executor of Elizabeth Smith decedent seeks court order on October 13 1920 to sell at private sale to Sam Nobl for 1000 to satisfy debts. Describes 23 acre Cherryhill Township parcel with two story frame house and barn, coal rights and mining damages reserved, per deed 1903. Estate action filed with Orphans Court of Indiana County.
Notice is hereby given that by October 1, 1930 applicants must file to be examined in Pittsburgh on December 2 and 3 for admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court and to the bars of Common Pleas and Orphans Courts of Indiana County. Registered law student David Till of 4 South Seventh Street Indiana Pa studied at Duquesne University Law School and under William S Mere Esq Indiana Pa. September 17, 1080-4te.
The auditor appointed by the Orphans Court of Indiana County will settle and report distributions of money held by I J Lenee as executor of Annie Jordan's estate in Mahoning Township. He will attend at Room 217 Indiana Theater Building Indiana, Pa on October 22 1930 at 10:00 AM for interested persons to be heard. The L Gessler Auditor September 17 1930-31e
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