Drought Ends With Early Morning Rain Today
Historic notes mark drought ending rainfall across the area as of this June 25 entry. A 16 year old anniversary recalls a local honor roll dedication in 1944. The 1929 plan to extend Allegheny County into Greater Pittsburgh failed at a special election. A historic transatlantic news transmission records an airborne journalist in New Brunswick, New Jersey reaching London via airplane.
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South New Castle
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
New Brunswick
N. J
London
Atlantic
Plain Grove Grange Activities and Upcoming Contests
Plain Grove grange met with John Hoye in charge as many offices were filled by substitutes due to play practice. A baking contest was announced to send winning items to Pomona Grange. a driver’s contest for boys ages 16 to 20 was planned. Members shared favorite Mower and read poems, with a lunch served by the social committee.
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Plain Grove Grange
John Hoye
Home Economics Committee
Pomona Grange
Mary Burns
Pearl Patterson
Earla Eppinger
Ruth Gardner
Centennial Fete is Tourist Lure
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania summer celebrations drawing visitors and natives with borough and county anniversaries centennials sesquicentennials plus pageants parades church services homecomings queen contests auto races and vivid costumes. The Department of Commerce lists events from June 13 to July 34 including Royersford Latrobe Somerset Cambria Leetsdale Fort Necessity Uniontown Potter County and Saxton Liberty celebrations.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Commerce
Keystone State
Somerset
Cambria County
Leetsdale
Fort Necessity
Uniontown
Potter County
Department of Commerce
Department
Pl a in Grove Church Notes United Presbyterian Schedule
Sunday school 10:00 a.m. and morning worship 11:00 a.m. Rev B M Wallace pastor. Betty Book president. Presbyterian Sunday school 10:00 a.m. Robert Burns superintendent. Rev George R Barnhart pastor. Women’s Missionary Society met at Clara Seth home with Sarah Brown leader. Horizons Near and Far discussed. Memory dreams reviewed. Life missions to Pakistan India North Sudan Egypt Ethiopia cited. Vida McNulty led youth visions North and South Sudan. Margaret Peebles temperance notes. Vida McNulty presided. Meeting closed with Lord’s Prayer. Young Adult Class party noted.
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United Presbyterian Church
B. M. Wallace
Y.P.C.U
Betty Book
Presbyterian Church
Robert Burns
George R. Barnhart
Women’s Missionary Society
Women's Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church
Clara Seth
Sarah Brown
Susie Wallace
Pakistan
India
North Sudan
Egypt
Ethiopia
Claribe
North
South Sudan
Vida McNulty
Margaret Peebles
Army Air Force Enlistments Rise to New High This Month
Four Army and Air Force men were announced as new enlistees by local recruiter Sfc. D. R. Carlton, bringing June's total to a high mark in years. Among the recruits are Thomas W. Eggleston of 508 West North street and Ernest A. Teaso of 225 West Lincoln avenue, both from New Castle, plus Michael Venditto of 805 South Jefferson street. James H. Barnhart of RD 2 Lowellville, Ohio, completes the group as the fourth enlistee in the Air Force.
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Air Force
Sfc
D. R. Carlton
New Castle
Thomas W. Eggleston
West
North Street
Ernest A. Teaso
Lincoln Avenue
Michael Venditto
Jefferson Street
James H. Barnhart
Lowellville
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Wesley Brown
Wendell McKissick
Edna Brown
Barbara Schrantz
Donald Shoaf
U. S. Air Force
Joseph Shoaf
Camp Kilmar
Frankfurt
Germany
Camp Lambec
Myrna McKissick
Carol McKissick
Peggy Shoaf
Plain Grove
Luella Johnson
Harold Johnson
Fort Knox
Kentucky
George Wagner
Clairton
Paul Shoaf
Davenport
Hollywood
Calif
Herbert Wallace
Wallace
Merril Shoaf
Joe Shoaf
Robert Peebles
Fred Hays
Slippery Rock Road
Frank Brown
Robert Brown
United Presbyterian Sunday School
Frank Della Penna
Holyoke, Mass
Goodrich
B. F. Goodrich
N. Mercer St
First Unitarian Church
Shaker Heights
Silverman’s Economy Shoe Shop
Corella
Silverman
State Capital Savings & Loan Ass'n
W.E. Watkins
New Castle, Pa
Jack Gerson
King of Diamonds
Summer Saving
Circle OF Light
Samy
Featiee
Wim AD
Weeny
Woowell
Argus
Earnen
OEM & Pencil
O'Niter
Pullman
Ronson
Allewene
Shever
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