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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1935
Page
3
A shorthand record shows a regular city council meeting and a Golden Rule Club sale planned for Thursday April 25. The report mentions W Dingle of Union City named appraiser for a local farm loan association and notes growing loan activity in the area.
State Commander John Dwight Sullivan urged adherence to the American Legion constitution over Communist tenets during the Chautauqua county Legion annual dinner at Hotel Jamestown. Some 300 Legion members and auxiliaries gathered for a banquet with notable officials including Mrs. Allen Hathaway and Dwight C. Dale.
Invitations sent to 110 post offices in Western Pennsylvania invite all mail carriers and postal workers to a convention in Cambridge on April 13. More than 300 are expected to attend, with a letter carriers parade led by Pittsburgh carrier's 40 piece band. Fred L. Douglas will speak as chairman of the executive committee of the National Association of Letter Carriers. Life Begins at 85 in Fiddletown Cal. William Brown, 25 years postmaster, resigns to pursue gold mine development in El Dorado county.
Four trapped women and two young girls died after a kerosene fire ignited in a farm home near South Dayton. Mrs Elizabeth Rugg, 60, and her daughter-in-law Mrs Clarabelle Rugg, 28, along with Violet Rugg, 7, and Audrey Rugg, 4, perished. Laura Moyer, 21, sister of Mrs Clarabelle Rugg, burned but survived. Mrs Clarabelle Rugg attempted to revive the fire with kerosene splashed on the stove. Neighbors arrived as flames engulfed the room.
Franklin report says Arthur Sutherland formerly of Franklin and a female companion were arrested in Titusville on a Mann Act warrant. They were found in a stolen car bearing dealer plates from Hit Motor Co. Sutherland and the woman, who claimed to be Mrs. Arthis Sutherland, were taken to Franklin and then Warren, Ohio. The incident prompted police inquiries across Titusville Oil City and Franklin.
Erie April 14 a wallet found at Henly Gas Station after a hold up at 10 p m led to the arrest of Francis Bush twenty two of 1143 East 19th Street as the alleged bandit He allegedly struck the attendant and fled in a car after cashing a check escorting the wallet to police contained a Hammermill Paper Company pay slip and Bushs home address He denies the robbery and investigators recount the incident at the gas station and the wallet seizure in WilliamsTown Virginia an egg with three yolks laid by a hen is described in a separate local note noting the unusual egg size and weight
Frank G. Chapman brother of State Senator Leroy E. Chapman and former Warren highway superintendent was appointed to a $1800 a year post in the Auditor General's department. He had been dismissed from the highway job hours after his brother voted against Pinchot administration nominees. Senator Chapman accused the acting governor Cornelia Bryce Pinchot of ordering the dismissal on the senate floor.
A visitor to Chesterfield factories praises the milder taste and invites others to tour Liggett & Myers plants in Richmond Virginia Durham North Carolina and San Francisco California to see clean airy surroundings spotless uniforms modern machinery and careful inspection of Chesterfield cigarettes with minimal human handling.
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