Golden Rule Day sale and spring events headline local notices
Spring promotions announce a Golden Rule Day sale and a sequence of town events. Music by The Wood Hicks and Keystonians at Wrightsville and White Swan dances draw crowds. Brotherhood meeting at First M. Church invites all. A Pennsylvania highway plan advances in Harrisburg. Police training school use proposed. Founders Day at Allegheny College. Circus and potato crop notes. Erie bar association seeks free legal aid offices. Roosevelt adds agencies to New Deal setup. Civilian Conservation Corps recruits sent to Camp Meade. Indoor fair at Pacah Hall concludes with expected large turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood Hicks
Wrightsville
White Swan Dance Hall
Youth Charged With Receiving Stolen Goods in Oil City
Ploy Rumnion, 21, Oil City, on trial before a Quarter Sessions jury charged with receiving stolen goods tied to a December theft at the Penn-Drake service station on East Second Street. Co-defendants John Amietek and Edward Strakle pleaded guilty to larceny of tires and inner tubes. Lester Sterling of Petroleum Center also faced charges after pleading guilty April 12 and being sentenced to two years in the Allegheny County Workhouse. Police testimony linked Rumnion to the theft with recovered items found in his home and car boot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mranklin
Rumnion
Oil City
John Amietek
Edward Strakle
Penn-Drake
East Second Street
Runnion
Women raise funds for Warren Hospital Ball
Mrs Walter Heasley, president of the Warren General Hospital Women's Auxiliary, says contributions for the benefit ball fund are still arriving and an unofficial total today is about $1,000. The second annual ball Monday at the Woman's Club drew a good crowd, with Doc Jordan's orchestra providing music and a capable committee overseeing bridge games in the parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Hospital
Warren
Walter Heasley
Warren General Hospital
Woman's Club
Doc Jordan
CCC youths arrive at St. Marys to enter camp
Seventy men from the Philadelphia and Baltimore districts arrived in St. Marys on a flyer yesterday morning and were taken by trucks to camp at Straight. They will join the Conservation forest unit there, with officers and men restricted to camp quarters until May 1 to acclimate new arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Marys
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Oer
Straight
Conservation Forest
Hirt to become Erie's president judge in January
Erie April 24 Judge William K. Hirt will advance to president judge succeeding A. B. Rossiter as the youngest to hold the post. The Erie County bar backed him with a petition urging him to stay on in 1932. Born May 13 1881 in Erie he attended Princeton and began law practice in 1908. A Republican and Luther Memorial church member he is known for calm steady rulings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
William KE. Hirt
A. 2
Rossiter
Erie County Bar Association
Judge Hirt
Eneite
Charles B End
Mary Melher Wirt
Princeton University
Henry E. Fist
John S. Billing
Erie County
William C. Sproal
Edward L. Whittelsey
Luther Memorial Church
Hirt
Paiva
Wirt
Ridgway Police Chief May Be Asked to Quit
Ridgway April 21 At a special Ridgway Town meeting committee members spent over an hour in executive session over alleged charges against Chief James Leyer Reports say Leyer will be asked to resign by May 1 though he insists he did nothing wrong and plans to stay on until removed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idgamay
Ridgway
Colin Oi
James ¥. Leyer
Leyes
Leye
McKean County Sheriff Under 3 Year Parole
SMEPHPORT April 24 Sheri Fred Ludwick of McKean county was free on $1,000 bond to answer two charges after being paroled for three years on malfeasance in office. The sheriff, who pleaded no defense to six indictments, faced further action as Judge Hubbard ordered DA to investigate two charges and a June 8 court date was set. Ludwick, president of the Sheriffs Association, had earlier been fined $800 and jailed six months, but the sentence was set aside after court review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smephport
Sheri Fred ‘T Ludwick
McKean
Estorion
Junge Charles G. Hubbard
Hubbard
Ludwick
District Attorney
L Caue
Sali
Sugar Grove Man Hangs Self In Barn
In Warren county sugar grove township Willard T. Brown aged 70 was found dead in the barn on Brown Hill farm about 2:30 yesterday afternoon. Coroner E Lowrey said Brown died by his own action using hay rope from a beam after jumping from a hay loft. He was found with his feet five feet from the floor and had likely been dead five or six hours. His wife had become alarmed when he did not return home for supper. He had not complained of illness and was not known to be despondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Willard T. Brown
Warren County
Brown Hill
Sugar Grove Township
E. Lowrey
Brown
Qater
Ness
Church Fair Draws Crowd At Emmanuel Episcopal Church
A parish fair and bazaar at the Parish Mall sponsored by Emmanuel Episcopal Church attracted a large crowd last evening. Entertainment included games bingo fortune telling a fish pond and a cabaret home. Performers included Elaine and Aquina St Pierre Mrs Harold Jewell James Sullivan Phyllis Lyons. The Ames broadcasting program was a feature and Lillian Guild served refreshments. Emmanuel Guild ran booths and concessions. The event closes this evening with a capacity crowd expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Elaine
Aquina St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wrovernment’s
Usen
Nter St, Worth
United States
Chevrolet Motor Company
Maren
W. ©. Holler
View
Mandy
P. S. Neigh
D. D
Union, City
Harrisburg
Roy W W. Schreiner
Dauphin
Pennsylvania
Hershey
America
Allegheny College
Meadville
Lehigh
Lancaster
York Counties
Charles Northrop
Cory
Curry and Columbus Traction Company
Pasadan
Calif
Carl Denkman
el Paso
Tex
Punxsutawney
Denkman
I. P. Denik
Rock Island
Lillian Pantall
Punssutawney
Roosevelt
DAT
WAI
New York Stock Exchange
Civilian Conservation Corps
Camp Meade
Mil
Venango
Forest
Clarion Counties
Franklin
Clarion County
Forest County
Pacah Hall
Venango County
CCC
Will
U.P. Rossiter
William E. Hirt
Mckean County
Bissell
Royal Electric Cleaners
Root’s Furniture Store
South Center Street
Nate Ae
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor
Detroit
Michigan
Meac Teres
Master de Luxe
Thomas Motor Company
Clinton Street
Corry, Pa
Sugar Grove
Electric
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!