Terms of subscription amid 1928 rates noted
A brief notice lists subscription terms including one year two dollars nine months six months and three months with a date of Wednesday September 26 1928.
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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1923
Page
3
A brief notice lists subscription terms including one year two dollars nine months six months and three months with a date of Wednesday September 26 1928.
More than 500 attendees from all sections joined the Indiana county Sunday school convention despite bad roads and weather. Notable figures included Dr. Isaac T. Headland, Dr. John K. McClurkin, Walter Myers, and Prof. J. H. Dickagan, with Mrs. Margaret L. String presenting children’s division sessions. The meeting elected officers for the next year and set Indiana as the site for the next convention.
The article recounts Wheeling frontier history centering on Fort Henry. It notes figures like Ebenezer Zone Daniel Boone and Simon Girty. It describes the 1777 siege attempt using a makeshift wooden cannon that failed, followed by reinforcements led by Major McCullough and the lifting of the siege.
The May 20 1928 will of Jacob F Bence of Rayne township leaves 500 to his widow for life, with other Bence heirs receiving 300 300 400 500 and 100 to Oliver Wilmer Leroy Irvin and Effle. Remainder to Emery, with Irvin named executor. Separate items note William Grosse devise to widow Anna Grosse executrix May 16 1913, Thomas Bothell real estate to widow with heirs later paying daughter 500, Clarence Bothell farm implements, and Pettigrew children dividing Armatrong estate per will April 21 1522. Jane Brown widow receives estate per July 37 1923 will. Pallone inherits Mary Strachan estate per April 35 1923 will. Provisions state if property sold proceeds to heirs.
Mrs Esther Warner hosted a visit by Miss Esther Warner in Indiana on Friday. Mr and Mrs Paul Fleming returned to their Oklahoma home after spending a short time with relatives at this place.
Poultry tips urge kerosene and linseed oil mix to rid körds of mites and advise early frost protection for tomatoes peppers and eggplants. Apples should be graded and cidered, hogs not fed until corn is ready, and manure kept moving to fields. Forestry note highlights idle land planting, timber profits, and 23 demonstration plots with 65 000 trees in Pennsylvania.
Indiana county poultrymen prepare for winter housing with cleaning and disinfection of old houses, proper timing for pullets entering laying houses, ventilation, space per bird, and avoiding crowding. Nearby events include the Wilgus Berkshire show at Blose schoolhouse with judging by Dr. Hayner, plus a Chester White litter from Fred Brothers weighing 2230 pounds at six months. A thanks note expresses gratitude for sympathy after a death. A newspaper subscription offer promotes The Progress, Gazette Times, and The National Stockman and Farmer for six fifty.
A series of marriages reported from Indiana and surrounding towns includes Williams Berkeybile in Al yerda with Mary Marguerite Berkeybile of Conemaugh, Baxter Brickel and Imogene Brickell in Clymer, Rosa Lockard and Raymond Guthrie in Duquesne, Mears Edwards near Clymer, Watkins Pennington in CommodeRe, Spence Peace in Cumberland, Cochran Watt in West Mahoning, Remaley Ludington in Dixonville, and a note of thanks from the Hughes family for sympathy after a death on September 23, 1923.
Letters of administration on the estates of Jenule M or Mary Jane France West Lebanon and Renj W Catto West Wheatfield and Tames KW Miller Cherry Tree Pa granted to undersigned claimants must present claims for settlement debts to pay promptly Ernest Stewart attorney Frank Cable WoT Camdi and Helen St Miller administrators Cherry Tree Pa date September 12 235.
Orphan court filings show private sale orders for trusts in Indiana County Pennsylvania. Guardian J M Johnston seeks authorization to sell for 206256 to Mrs Sara Marin and 333.33 to Mrs Ida Cochrin, detailing two parcels in North Rossiter and Center Township with coal and mineral rights reserved. ISSUED by Savings & Trust Company of Indiana and by guardians for minor heirs, with dates 1923 and 2022.
FOR SALE One 14 80 Eagle tractor and one 24 42 Huber Separator with hand feed and wind stacker. Machinery in possession of J L Wiggins Parkwood Pa. See at site. Low price to quick buyer. Tractors threshers huskers silo fillers hay presses saw mills used and new. Inquire price and catalogue B D Reet Machinery Co 809 West North Ave Pittsburgh Pa 38 2tp.
Legal notices from Indiana County show RB Walker Smith attorney issuing subpoenas in two divorce actions Wilda Q Lowe v Luther Martin Lowe and Tenninge EB Ore v Margaret Orr. Both cite the first Monday of November 1923 for appearances and show officials J N Langham Henry judges and R Richards sheriff.
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