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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1938
Page
3
A brief notice records a local event bridge phrase about a tax discussion today. It highlights community attention and a forthcoming meeting time, with no personal names or specific places provided in the readable text.
The Tri-Hi held its regular meeting Friday with Zoe Williams reading scripture and Sarah Jacquith leading prayer. Officers elected include Katherine rrisket as vice president, Dorothy Miller as secretary and treasurer. A senior committee was formed to select a president while fresh gossip and school events filled the rest of the column with updates on marbles, a road map to Cambridge Springs, roof-top antics, and various social visits.
Former electricity magnate Samuel Insull lands in Baltimore returning from exile after the 1929 crash. He avoids journalists and photographers, declining to speak as he reenters the country where he once built a vast utility empire.
Corry Golden Rule Club merchants announce a big 79 cent sale on Thursday. The event, part of a recurring last Thursday promotion, features specials listed on pages 10 and 11. Buyers are urged to read the paper and bring it on shopping day as the merchants expand bargains and savings for Cony and vicinity.
Gubernatorial candidate Charles J. Margiotti arrives in Erie Friday morning from Harrisburg and tours Meadville Franklin Oil City Titusville Corry and Union City before returning to Erie for a mass meeting at the Erie county courthouse. Campaign manager Charles J. Dutton and attendees plan a 6:30 p.m. dinner at the Lawrence Hotel with friends and prominent figures.
Police said Derl Hess Jr a 22 year old honor student from Sunbury Pa committed death by his own action by sealing himself in a closet at his fraternity house and mixing chemicals that formed a toxic gas. Fraternity brothers found his body in the Phi Mu Delta house closet with glass flasks nearby containing chemicals that formed poison.
In Darlington Wisconsin Joseph Lynn son of Mr and Mrs P J McDonald wore the same baptismal dress used by his family for 42 baptisms over 65 years. The gown was made by his mother and creator.
Attorney J O Hertzler of Erie will address the Corry Men’s Bible Class at the regular meeting next Sunday May 1. He plans a fine message for the class which closes its season on Sunday May 8 with a Mother's Day program inviting mothers to attend. Dr Hjalmar Swanson pastor of First Lutheran James Town spoke at the prior meeting with a lucid exposition of several Bible passages.
Emi Opava, the first flutist in the Minneapolis Symphony and the youngest at any major symphony, learned his craft as a child using river willows and began training around age ten in Minneapolis.
A Wayne township farmer reports open winter damaged meadows due to lack of snow and cool weather. He says roots nipped by light snow will reduce hay yield, seeding advances, frost may slow growth, oats planting underway, outdoor work on schedule, corn and potatoes planned by mid May, and high seed prices a problem.
April 26 report notes that in listing nearly 1000 properties for the June 6 city treasurer sale two owners allegedly paid taxes and interest to a former owner who did not settle the tax. The taxes had not been paid for years, risking sale unless errors are corrected or back taxes paid. Finance Director Watson says city would still hold properties for back taxes if charges are true.
April 26. Twenty one regular employees of the H F Watson Paper Mills at 143 East 16th street were barred from work for allegedly failing to keep up union dues to the International Brotherhood of Papermakers. Six officers were assigned to the plant to maintain order though no trouble occurred. Management planned to study the situation before acting.
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