New Books On Shelves Of Public Library
Public library adds many new fiction and non fiction titles with numerous authors including Margery Allingham Charlotte Armstrong Harriette Arnow and John Masters. Non fiction selections include Freud Lindbergh Whitehead Trueblood and Wright with guides on science design and education.
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M&si Public Library
Catherine H. Kiernan
Margery Allingham
Charlotte Armstrong
Harriette Arnow
Sara /Ware Bassett
Forrester Blake
Catherine Blanton
Duren Theodore Bonnet
Anthony Boucner
Howard Breslin
Roman Wall
Bry Her
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Grayson
Leslie Charteris
Ruth Chatterton
Donald Barr Cardsey
Manning Coles
James Fenimore Cooper
Julia Davis
Loyal Davis
Thomas B. Dewey
Denise Egerton
Engle and Martin
William Faulkner
Inglis Fletcher
Forester
Ernest K Gann
Noelle
Gerson
the Gordons
Samuel Grafton
Alice Walworth Graham
Winston Graham
Robert Graves
Dolores Hitchens
Evan Hunter
Storm Jameson
Elizabeth Jenkins
Robineau
Kathleen Moore Knight
Philip MacDonald
Paris
Peggy Mann
Willis Wayde
John P. Marquand
Catherine Marshall
Edison Marshall
F van Wyck Mason
Tangier
van Wyck Mason
Andre
Soubiran
Blizzard
Phil Stong
Caten
John Stepad Strange
Delaware
David Taylor
Elswyth Thane
Roanoke
Dona Tracy
Laurens van der Post
Caarka Memorial
Wallice Ware
Iris
Jerome Weidman
Benton's Row
Frank Yerby
Contracts Awarded By Servlin Brothers Valley Board
The Servlin Brothers valley joint school board awarded a coal contract to Hummel Coal Co ID Berlin at 4.85 per ton and authorized Penn Typewriter Exchange to service high school typewriters. It approved a Reel Type Jacobsen Model 30 mower from Berlin Hardware and named First National Bank of Berlin as 1955 56 funds depository.
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Servlin Brothers Valley Joint School Board
Hummel Coal Company
ID. 4
Berlin
Penn Typewriter Exchange of
Johnstown
Berlin Hardware Company
First National Bank
Brothersvalley Tonship
Wimodausis Lodge Plans Picnic at Casebeer Hall
Wimodausis lodge held a meeting in 1.0.C.F. hall with Mrs Mae Hauger as noble grand. The annual picnic is set for June 22 at 6 30 p m at Casebeer community hall with Odd Fellows members and families invited. About 50 members attended and refreshments were served.
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Wimodausis Lodge
Mae Hauger
Noble Grand
Casebeer
Odd Fellows Lodge
Print Lists and Titles in a Dense Bibliography Page
A long catalog of books and authors is presented in a single list. It names numerous titles and writers across history from biographies to travelogues, plays, and reference works, with little narrative.
Silbaugh and District Personal News Highlights Nearby Visits
Local society notes list weekend visitors and gatherings across Silbaugh Fort Hill Listonburg and nearby towns. Akron and Baltimore guests join ongoing family events as W.S.C.S. meet at Ezra Tressler’s and a birthday dinner is hosted for Mrs. Smith.
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Silbaugh
Stanley Reeves
Akron
Ohio
Roy Becket
Fort Hill
Lonnie Croscomm
Listonburg
Fern Tressler
Moss Hawk
Daniel Chidester
George
Ronnie
Jimmy Chidester
Confluence
R.D
Francis Yeager
Butchie
Barbara Ann
Baltimore
Glen Bird
Bird Home
Calvin Tressler
Phyllis
Raymond
Paul
Harry Zimmerman
Near Silbauugh
Ray Jackson
Tommy Joe Jackson
Dilimer
John
Orvis Platter
Platter
Dutch Livengood
Hanover
Theodore McClintock
Francis Younger
Nancy
Near Silbaugh
Scott McClintock
Tommy Ashman
Johnstown
Ida Sypolt
Pittsburgh
Harry Becket
Mes
Smith
C. T. Smith
Forbes Board Names Two New Teachers and Officials
The Forbes joint school district elected two new teachers at a Thursday board meeting in Kantner high school. Nina Horne will teach art succeeding Lois Lowry, and June Swank will teach history succeeding Margaret O Roark. Milton Spangler was named treasurer, First National Bank Stoystown designated depository, Wilbert H Beachy Jr. solicitor. A $273,210 budget was approved and desks were ordered from Sterling Office Supply Johnstown.
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Forbes Joint School
Kantner High School
Nina Horne
Geistown
Lois Lowry
Joanstown
Horne
State Teachers College
Edinboro
June Swank
Hooversville
Margaret O’roark
Stoystown
Milton Spangler
Quemahoning Township
First National Bank
Atoms for Peace Pacts Signed With Switzerland and Denmark
Washington states the United States signed atoms for peace agreements with Switzerland and Denmark. The report also notes a birthday of Mrs. Missouri Smith and lists attendees in a local ceremony at Fort Hill route and Confluence. A separate church meeting at St Pauls Lutheran in Confluence planned a charitable box for Hollidaysburg Old Folks home founder's day with a social lunch.
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Washington
U. S
Switzerland
Denmark
Missouri Smith
Harry Smith
Confluence
William Frazee
Dumas
Harry Davis
Commodorte Tressler
Lloyd Bender
Fort Hill
Lois Jean
Roberta Shoemaker
Lake Milton
Ohio
Smith
Sunshine Circle
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Paul Matthews
Mabel Smith
Anna Platter
Louise Matthews
Hollidaysburg Old Folks Home
Club News at Somerset and Old Baer’s House
Mrs. Robert Davis hosted the N F club at Somerset Country club Friday evening with bridge and refreshments. The Friday Afternoon club met at the Old Baers House at noon with Miss Eleanor P Kooser as hostess, members spending the afternoon playing bridge.
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Robert Davis
N.F
Somerset Country Club
Old Baers Aouse
Eleanor P. Kooser
Playground Program 10 Includes Flower Show
Community playground schedules a week of activities led by George O. Pfrogner. Monday features bowling, Tuesday bottle cap throw, Wednesday a flower show with children's bouquet awards, Thursday marble drops, and Friday running races.
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George O. Pfrogner
Windber Rotary Anns Hold Luncheon Meeting
More than 40 Windber Rotary Anns attended a dinner at Von Lunens in Geistown. Mrs Josephine Klemstine presented a report on Rotary International golden anniversary events in Chicago in May 2011. Games were played and prizes awarded.
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Windler Rotary Anns
von’ Lunen
Geistown
Rotary International
Chicago
Josephine Klemstine
Easy Sew Pattern 7096 Maternity Top and Skirt
Two main parts make this easy sew top with an adjustable open front for a perfect fit during the waiting period. Pattern 7096 fits Misses sizes Small to Large and includes tissue, transfer, and state size details with mailing instructions and a call to order the 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue.
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Somerset American
Household Arts Dept
P. O
Old
Chelsea Station
New
Eisenhower seeks one million for Big Four conference
President Eisenhower asked Congress for one million dollars to cover U.S. costs of the forthcoming Big Four conference. The request was announced in Washington on June 10.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
U. S
Attorney Coffroth Addresses Confluence Club
The Women’s Civic club of Confluence met with nineteen members and three guests present. President Mrs Samuel Black led the meeting. Attorney Charles H Coffroth of Somerset spoke on Wills and a budget for 1955 56 was approved with funds to buy two more park refuse cans.
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Women's Civic Club of
Confluence
Joseph R. Edwards
Samuel Black
Marjorie Frantz
Edwards
Charles H. Coffroth
Somerset
Wills
Paul Kieffer
Gaye Elected President of Windber Lions Club
Glenn Gaye was elected president of the Windber Lions Club at a New Palace hotel dinner meeting, succeeding William J. Burkey. Other officers include Dr. John H. Bell as first vice president and Walter Smith Jr as second vice president, with a slate of treasurer, secretary, tail twisters, and directors for two and one year terms.
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Glenn Gaye
Windber Lions Club
New Palace Hotel
William J. Burkey
John H. Bell
Walter Smith, Jr
Merle K. Heckler
Joseph H. Sheriff
James E. Senior
Andrew F. Verna
Michael Hakucha
John Ziants
Wesley Fyfe
Ray Weaver
William H. Weaver
Clarence Manges
Walter Ream
Edwin M. Barefoot
Homer Mazer to Head Berlin Fair Association
Homer F. Maser of Somerset was elected president of the Berlin Community Fair association at a meeting in Berlin High School. Maser is a vocational agriculture instructor at the school. The fair is planned for September 9 with farm products, commercial and handicraft exhibits. Other officers elected are John F. Hay as vice president Harry Hillegas as secretary and Mrs. Floyd Hoffman as treasurer. The group will meet next on July 11.
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Homer F. Maser
Somerset
Berlin Community Fair Association
Berlin High School
Mazer
John FE. Hay
Berlin
R. D
Harry Hillegas
Stoystown
Floyd Hoffman
Music Classes at Friedens High Move During Construction
Robert Griffith of the Somerset joint schools will teach instrumental music at Friedens high school building while construction continues. Classes will be held at Friedens grade building and begin June 13 for students from the Friedens and Listie area at the times previously announced.
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Robert Griffith
Somerset Joint Schools
Friedens High School
Friedens
Friedens and
Listie
Frost Victory Sustains Tory Ontario Majority
Premier Leslie Frost's Progressive Conservatives secure a smashing win in the Ontario provincial election. Every Communist candidate is defeated, giving the PCs a strong legislative majority.
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Frost Victor
Toronto
Leslie Frost
Progressive Conservatives
Ontario
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Joan Coyne MacLean
Herbert L. Marx, Jr
John Barnett
Anne Morrow Lindebersh
Sigmund Freud
Kaward R. Morrow
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Waitehead
Lawrence M. McCafferty
J. Strombeck
J. F. Strombeck
Genesis
Joseph Walker
F. B. Meyer
Elton ‘Trueblood
Evelyn Millis Duvall
John and
Dorothea Crawford
Abraham Lincoln
Roy P. Basler
America
Frances Cavanati
Michael W Straus
Bella V. Dodd
Trygve Toe
Eagleton and Swift
McCall's
Elton Trueblood
Theodor Gaster
Europe
Robert Meyers
Edith Raskin
Bill Geagan
Helen Martini
Ralph S. Palmer
John Pfeiffer
Jean Evans
Frank Ross, Jr
Hans Christian Adamson
Guy Murchie
Douglas Rolfe
Williams and Epstein
Tatsuo Isaimoto
Harry J. Whitcombe
Richard J. Neutra
Frank Loyd Wright
Elizabeth T. Halsey
Cambria Savings and Loan Assn
W. Main Somerset
Grant B. Miller
B-B Joint Board
Wimodausis
Paul J Sachs
Gilbert Chase
World Theatre In
Tom Prideaux
Bernice Hogan
Mutual
Khan
Wisner
Baltimore Orioles
Frederick Glieb
Abbott and
Bissell
Teichmann and Kaufman
John Patrick
Sam
Bella Spewack
Christopher Fry
Bernard M. Baruca
Everest
Earl Denman
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Haiti
Black Republic
Leiden Rodman
Russell Lynes
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Hermann Hagedorn
George Washington
John Terbel
Israel
Alfred M. Lilienthal
Pearl Harbor
Robert A. Theobald
Wallace Notestein
Yrjo Kokko
A. Hyatt Verrill
Thomas P. Abernethy
Robert Jungk
Harold L. Ickes
Asia
Carlos P. Romulo
Runyon and
Betvane
Fred Allen
Roald Amudsen
J. Alvin Kugelmass
Louis Armstrong
Jacqueline Cochran
Jin Cwiklinski
Fremont
Allan Nevins
Garbo
Joan Bainbridge
Stonewall
Burke Davis
Chiang Kai-Shek
Emily Hahn
Tony LeVier
Lincoln
Jim Bishop
Abraham Licoln
Carl Sandburg
Stan Musial
Gene School
Evening Star
Sean O'Casey
Nancy Mitford
Lillian Roth
Margaret Sanger
Lawrence Lader
al Schacht
Joan Sloan
van W
Clover Farm
Pamaras
Sucar BF
Edgewood Clover Farm Market
South Edgewood
Nick Costen
Somerset County
Costen Brothers
Bowen
Mrs
Bittrer
Turnpike
Hamburg
Forbes Board
Club News
Windber Rotary Anns
Greensburg
Homestead
Center Ave
By Wgice Broells
Coffroth
Confluence Club
Gaye
Windber Lions
Clus
Homer Mazer
Berlin Fair Association
Friedens High
Safe Deposit Box
Bank
Somerset Crust Company
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Parrc Ag
People's
Natl Bank
Lowks
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