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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1934
Page
7
Readable extracts discuss thrift as saving and wise spending. School juniors plan a banquet and decorate for Thrift Week while contrasting spendthrift behavior with prudent saving, urging early money habits, and citing Benjamin Franklin and youth banking as examples.
Dancing classes draw students after school with Brice Smith substituting for Miss Blair. Seniors in Commercial course practice olive. Aero Supply Company staff featured, and MH Sheen’s office noted. Basketball girls seek a popular feeds event while The Corrian previews next week’s issue. Virginia Smith missed days due to illness. Dick Shop and Bob Orl visited Hamot Hospital. Chill aims to walk soon. Gertrude Reed, former student, visited. Easter plans see teachers traveling. many will be away. Several guests visited the school. Mary Nehil, Bile Meyhe, Chas Aner, Bernice Olds, Jeannette Calegrove among others. A group of boys including Dick Shop and John Wilcox will spend a week at Sam Sequoia on Lake Erie starting Monday 16.
Wednesday morning March 28, the Junior Class appoints members to the decoration and favor committee for the proms. Chairs Jack Bell Helen Rattbun Marjory McElroy Roy Reed Walter Gulick Carl Hixon Jane Maxwell. Bruce Dearing chairs the program committee with Helen Wajuski Robert Brockman Rita Waite Mary Sears. A correction notes Dick Lecksell of Pilais Royale Buffalo will provide dance music under Austin Wylie. A junior meeting March 29 selects banquet menu and decorator colors green white yellow. The banquet is at 6 pm at Hotel Corry followed by dancing in the high gym.
Corry High School students publish a note from the Times with advice for seniors on enjoying a proper vacation. They urge balancing leisure with rest, reading, and light duties, cautioning against excess play and promoting healthy sleep and diet to return ready for the new term.
A hazy column jokes about social conduct at a Prot church room, noting attire and dance lessons. It hints at upcoming Prom plans with sarcasm about Uptown styles, remarks on Phoebe and a playful verse about a poetry recital. The piece mentions Webster’s and a student orchestra from Buffalo providing music for the Junior Social Prom.
A 1924 HI Times snippet notes April 22 Junior Senior Prom plans in Parish Hall Findley Lake during Senior Week. Arbor Day activities involve seventh and eighth graders visiting the high school. Seniors host a party after which a small bill was issued. The issue features Dorr Barton as author, and a Who's Who including Frances Styrrs, the janitor, and Henry Duffy. Track season opens with planned meets against Warren, Oil City, Central, Franklin, Kay, and Union City. The Sealord troupe works on three plays directed by Morrow, Storrs, and Campbell. A comic piece mocks habits with lines about codfish halls. The weekly literary feature is An Experience as a Halt.
Corry high schools prepare for league debates with four rivals Meadville and Cocranton already participating. Franklin defeated Meadville, then Franklin beat Oil City. Corry enters the contest with the first debate set for the week of April Alt. Negative team members are Duane Fogle Richard Halfast and Orville Street with George Nagel as alternate. affirmative team members include Gordo Rehnberg Eleanor Speck and John Merrick with Raymond Sears as alternate. The topic: Government should own and operate all banking institutions in the United States.
A column of senior students in Room 7 and nearby halls notes Douglas Reynolds in the Tidustrial and H. A. M. Chile programs, Wilbur Rickers active in the High School Band, Eheanor Ross in the Commercial Course, Terrence Ruse in industrial studies, Doris Sanden in Glee Club, and a remark on a Pairview pupil visiting High School. Local school events include an Arbor Day program and plans for a Great Prom with advice to the lovelorn and a coroner anecdote about a death by own action.
After the vacation period the Student Council will direct efforts to raise money to ease the Athletic Association debt. Sweater gaps and candy idle revenue are planned main sources. The plan calls for strong student body and external participation to ensure success.
Chicago April 2 The new international balkline tournament resumes after a Sunday rest. Wille Hoppe of New York will duel Welker Cochran of San Francisco for the title and purse while Cochran partners with Bo Hagenlacher of Germany for first place. Kinney Matsuyemi of Japan faces Ore Morningstar of San Diego California in the afternoon session after two wins and two defeats the opening week. In Cleveland, Common Pleas Judge Samuel Sifert faced juror scrutiny as the jury commission screened 6 000 potential jurors for ten test periods.
The 78 year old Vauclain predicts a business rebound within a year as bond prices rise and locomotive orders grow. He cites locomotive building as a late-cycle indicator and asserts wages and prices won’t be set by government, noting prior depressions and the persistence of recovery through demand and employment.
Warren DeRossy and passenger trade Warstouse were united in marriage Saturday evening at the bride’s sister’s home, Rev. Garret Timmer officiating. The couple, attended by immediate family, will reside at 161 Maple Avenue. Miss Warnshouse wore a green velvet dress. decorations were yellow and white. Corry friends extend congratulations.
Corry Scouts of Troop Noy Ga Hoy Stouts travel to Camp Sequayah in Tae County Lake Erie for a week with a night at Camp Dawson on the Brokenstraw Creek. New member Robert Reynolds joined. tests passed include tenderfoot and first class. A new cub troop led by Robee Swanson formed as several boys joined. State of Oregon reports 110 autos, highway, State Police, and 125 state police vehicles.
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