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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1940
Page
5
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A garbled text fragment mentions a person likely named Lewie and a novelist. It hints at a travel stroll and improvised remarks, but the passage is incomplete with unclear context and few identifiable facts.
Representatives from Lieut Archie W Thompson Post No 264 attended the Northwest County VFW Council meeting in Oil City. Delegates came from Warren, Erie, Bradford, Kane, Tionesta, Meadville, Smethport, Clarion and Corry. Thomas Martin of Oil City was named district deputy chief of Sinn. The next Northwest County Council session will be in Corry on October 6.
After Coty Grange No 55 regular meeting Saturday evening, the first and second degrees were conferred on a class of candidates. A program of ground singing recitals by Teon VanTassel and music by Warner Swanson plus a social hour followed.
A family picnic at Chautauqua Lake honored Eli Ames on his birthday. Fourteen to sixteen family members enjoyed a warm afternoon with a picnic dinner and a joyful day.
A large notice reports the wedding of Bertha B Widmeyer of this city to Charles K Willis of Corry on Sunday at the Methodist church in Olean New York. The ceremony occurred at 5 PM with Rev Ralph Findley officiating and only immediate families present. Attendants included Westley Willis and another Willis family member both of this city. Several local residents and guests from Coudersport Jamestown and Buffalo joined for the event or visited nearby. numerous trips and visits around New York and Canada are noted among relatives and friends. The notice also lists motor trips and visits by relatives and friends across the region.
Old First Night spotlights Chautauqua week August events including Old First Night Ministerial Conference and regional choral festival. Opera Faust and The Devil and Daniel Webster to be staged at Norton Hall. Interdenominational sermon by Dr. Oscar T. Olson. soloists Harriet Henders and Georges Miquelle with the symphony orchestra. Other lectures, optometric day events, and YMCA programs fill the schedule with notable guests Dr. Ewing Adams and Miss Julia Malouskova among speakers.
Madame Elsa Schiaparelli arrives in the United States amid nerves over American fashion openings, signaling a shift from Paris to New York as designers weigh her influence. She plans a lecture tour and twenty original designs, while Parisian houses assess how her presence will reshape style and potential business ties.
A daughter arrived Sunday morning at Corry hospital to Mr and Mrs Clifford Rounds of Spring Creek, the mother formerly Blete Lamb. A daughter weighing 10 oz was born last evening to Mr and Mrs Willie Gould of Summer Street, the mother formerly Vivian Plum.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Seamens entertained at an open house Saturday evening at their Fourth Avenue home to honor house guests Mr and Mrs Burton Hammond of Rochester New York who left for home Sunday. Mrs Seamens served refreshments at the close of the evening.
Members of Troop No. 5 of the Junior C D A are spending the week at Canadohta Lake camping at Maveresan Beach. Chaperone is counsellor Miss Mary Mc Evoy. Attendees include Mary Gertrude Hannan Jean Foster Phyllis Hoenes Mary Ann Sullivan Theresa Roach Mary Jean Sullivan Mary Ann Gonsole Kathleen Mc Graw and Margaret Paver Me. and Mrs Ernest Johnson. Mrs Emmy Olson and Miss Garol Wilson of Youngstown Ohio visited in the city Sunday at the home of R. Lawrence Dawison. Mrs D. A. Roschie and daughter Bila Belle have returned from visits in Buffalo New York.
Doris Carbaugh and George A McQuiston wed yesterday at the First Huptit church parsonage in Randolph New York with attendants Clair Starts and Mrs McQuiston. The groom works for Crawford MWoody Co in Corry and the couple will reside there. Several local residents noted visits and travels including Hazel Hendrickson in TiTusville and Adjutant and Mrs B C Jones in Rochester and Conneaut Lake.
Mr and Mrs John Casay were honored on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with a surprise party hosted by their daughter Betty on Friday evening. Guests included Mr and Mrs George Stanford Mrs George Stanford Jr Mr and Mrs Arthur Eckantin Mrs Paul Shields Mr and Mrs John Schaub Miss Eula Taylor Mrs C FP McCray Miss Adele McCray and Mrs Kelly Hoffman. The couple received a purse of money and ice cream and cake were served.
Corry pastor Guedo Abrams of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church performed a marriage ceremony Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Propersh in Oil City. The couple, Marie Leona Propersh and Ralph Jak Bittenbender, are Oil City residents. A welding dinner followed for forty guests. The newlyweds plan a northern wedding trip and will reside at 317 Washington Avenue, Oil City.
Betty Crocken suggests a dessert shift from summer fruit pies to a toasted coconut butterscotch cake with a caramel filling. The recipe sequence includes making the filling first, chilling, then baking a two-layer cake and finishing with a brown sugar boiled icing and toasted coconut.
Victoria Z Downer and Earl R Sryant of Union City wed on the fiftieth anniversary collision of the groom’s grandparents Mr and Mrs Elmer VanTassel at Chesan Beach Canadohta Lake. Ceremony by Rev M M Clark Townville attended by the VanTassels. 79 guests. They plan to reside on South Street Union City with the groom employed at J P Kamerer Lumber.
Russell R. Earhart of Sylvania Ohio, a former Otterbein College field secretary, rekindled his pencil-collecting hobby four years ago and now possesses nearly every type of pencil.
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