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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1942
Page
6
A local church listings page invites the public to attend diverse services across Corry and nearby towns. The United Brethren, First Methodist, St Pauls Lutheran, Seventh Day Adventist, Nazarenes and others present sermons, Sunday Schools, youth groups, prayer meetings, and choirs with schedules and host churches in Corry Elgin Beaverdam and surrounding areas.
Rev W W Conley pastor invites all to evangelistic service at 8 00 PM as part of ongoing study of gods word at Spartansburg Gospel Tabernacle with growing congregation and evening program.
Readable fragments list churches in Corry including Bethel Tabernacle Church of the Nazarene First Baptist First Church of Christ Seventh Day Adventist Elizabeths Church St. Thomas Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran and Bulgation Army at various centers near West Pleasant Street Center Street and Park Street with references to Washington Avenue and Concord Street in Corry.
Christian and Missionary Alliance announces Sunday School at 11:00, morning service at 11, evening service at 6:30 with Rev. George Felmey as speaker, and weekday prayer meetings. Bethel Tabernacle lists Sunday School at 10, morning worship at 11, evangelistic service at 7:30, with midweek services to be announced. St Elizabeth’s RC details Sunday Masses at 8 and 10, first Fridays, catechism Saturdays, and devotions.
St Thomas church schedules annual Forty Hours devotions opening at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday April 19 and running through Tuesday evening with visiting priests assisting in the exercises. Also includes a myth about roosters crowing at sunrise to announce the sun.
The executive committee of the Chautauqua Institution approved a wartime program the morning session at eight. Improvements on the grounds like the new Sports Club building a sewer plant and library redecorating will be ready before the July 5 opening. Attending were Samuel M. Haulett Alert E. Skinner David J. Starr E Snell Hall Charles Woolridge Walter Roberts Ralph Norton and Arthur B Bestor with others including Wilson G. Price Gerald M. Lynch and Julia King. Finances were sound and wartime conditions may boost extended attendance this season.
Wilma Smith, Navajo daughter who spoke no English, graduated from the University of Arizona last year as the first Navaho woman to earn a degree from any college and the second Indian and Navajo to graduate from Arizona. She will teach on the high school staff at Ganado Mission, where she attended high school.
Erie plans mass registration of about 18 000 city and county men aged 45 to 61 on Monday April 2. Supt C Herman Grose says 20 schools plus the court house armory and Second National Bank building will be centers. Public schools close that day and teachers work three shifts to register up to 12 000 in one day. Washington and Hamilton schools added as centers in the Sixth Ward. Perry and Justims previously used. Full list of schools to be announced next week.
Sheriff Fred Lamberton announced the 225 Minute Men for War Service are complete. The group, largely drawn from the Crawford Erie State Police Association, are trained rifle shots ready for saboteur surveillance or enemy attack. An alarm drill will be held soon.
The report covers a Monday school board gathering led by Guy D. Proctor, canvassing farm homes for a war pledges drive, a unanimous State House vote on license plates, a mumps case quarantined, a burglary investigation with $12 stolen, real estate transfers, a missing child search, voter registration for May, a Girl Scout conference in Harrisburg, reckless driving charges in Garland, a stolen Torch car, flood updates, hospital improvements, and local police service rules for third class cities. It also notes a North East murder inquiry and Navy furlough homecoming plans.
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