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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1925
Page
6
Mrs Ella M. Dilts and Mrs Georgi Hicks attended the western continental union convention in Blairsville last Thursday and Friday, according to local reports.
Daughters of the American Revolution opened the 1925 1926 year with Constitution Day at Memorial Hall Thursday. Large attendance and lively program greeted members as Regent Mrs Jesse W Cary welcomed the assemblage and outlined the coming year agenda. A roll call featured members giving Constitution facts.
A Wall Street Journal note from 1849 shows Cornelius Vanderbilt writing to a Kingston friend about plans and a flying machine. He imagines an early aviation era, traveling to California fast in a wagon-like craft, skipping long sea voyages, and reaching Sutter's gold diggings in days.
A Kansas City Star humorous sketch quotes an official declaring his plan to resign his post. He cites the office’s puny emulsion, fleas, an angry daily reader shooting, skunk incursions, and loud disturbances as reasons. He mentions a side of the office being entered with an axe and hints at the Ku Klux Klan plotting, prompting his step down.
Renowned explorer Fridtjof Nansen plans to return to the Nord pole country heading a German polar expedition. A dirigible of about 5,000,000 cubic feet will carry fifty crew members on a four week flight from the Murmansk coast to Alaska and back. Scientific aims include Arctic mapping, ocean soundings, and data collection with a 1927 start hoped.
In a New York Academy of Sciences gathering, Prof William Ogburn of Columbia outlined studies on how child position in the family may affect intelligence quotients, emotional stability, school achievement, and teacher estimates. Using 3000 names across artists scientists and generalists, he found oldest children often overrepresented in Who's Who, with youngest and intermediate ranks lagging. The data suggest oldest children may have higher measured intelligence in the sample.
Sting in St Edwards Harkness of New York congratulated on his million dollar Yale gift and quipped that philanthropists dislike praise as town tale turns on a Lady Bountiful joke. The butler’s retort about losing the goose that laid the golden eggs frames the local wit.
Everygirl magazine of Camp Wire Girls promotes y puy trips as a call to adventure. Girls borrow a cart and horse or rent one and follow the road, walking and riding, cooking over a campfire, sleeping under open skies or in a barn loft, bathing by a river, and climbing toward viewpoints at sunset in a caravan journey.
Lord Walfour opened the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with ceremony. Doctor Einstein has presented the original manuscripts of his work on relativity to the university library, and there is hope that a lucid explanation of the theory will not be a degree prerequisite.
Recent reports recount Charles Penrose a Canadian explorer killed by cannibals in New Guinea. The tragedy exposes authentic modern records of man eating tribes living deep in the forested interior where travelers fear to tread and neighboring tribes offer sparse information.
In Pasadena California K Fisher used a perfect police siren imitation to speed through streets. Traffic cops halted vehicles at every corner while he waved ahead. A motorcycle officer followed the convincing siren to investigate the scene.
Mr. and Mrs John Ludington and family visited relatives at Creekside on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Irvin Donahue rejoice over the arrival of a son. Mrs Wm Brady Jr visits her sister Mrs Carl Stamler at Rossiter. Mrs Hannah Harkins returns home after Bakerton work. Miss Helen Yambor leaves for Midway Kentucky to begin her third college year. Mr and Mrs Austin Slenker and family visit relatives at Barnesboro. C A Mahan was an Indiana call er recently. Mr and Mrs Earl Myers drive a new 1926 Essex. Mr and Mrs James Biss of near Hillsdale guest at D R Bolvin’s. Mr and Mrs D N Barber and daughter Alvera motored to Winter Park Florida for the winter. Miss Eudora Fero was an Indiana visitor.
The item lists residents and guests visiting in Cookport and nearby towns. Mr and Mrs Robert Phillips of DuBois and Mr and Mrs Harry Wenzel of Stafford attended Clarence Henry's. Elva Heed and Marion of St Petersburg, Amanda Johnson of Indiana called on friends. Harry Decker of Glen Campbell visited. Rev King delivered his first sermon. Harry Burkhart and son of Vandergrift stayed with M J Keating family. Paul Wilt and Tom Waldo painting. H R Spicher's family in Indiana. attendees at Ebensburg fair. A J Lydick visited by ME Lydick. Gyrus High and family of Johnstown at Lewia Henry's. Sara Huey visiting Indiana.
Smyrna Thorn Hamilton from British Columbia visits his parents in the area. Nelson Ruffner of Chicago visits his parents here. John Bell Lobaugh of Punxsutawney weekend with aunt Mrs. Margaret Nichol and family. Norman Burkett and Robert Johnston on a business trip to Homer City Thursday. Saul Lukehart and wife Martin of Dayton were guests of W. RK. Hall family on Sunday. Vernie Hall of Indiana was guest of her parents Sunday.
E L Bizwiler of Clearfield and Herbert Harbridge of DuBois, linesmen for the H and C Telephone Company, were seriously hurt Friday near Dixonville when a pole fell on them. Harbridge broke a leg and Bizwiler fractured an arm. They were taken to Dixonville hospital and are responding to treatment. Both suffered bruises and shock.
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