Local Society Calendar and Community Notices in Meadville Area
The Spencer Community Literary Society met at the schoolhouse with smaller attendance. Plans for an August play were discussed and entertainments included readings and harmonica solos. A dance at Spar tansburg featured rhythm and a 40 cent couple dance fee. Various local notices cover races, club meetings, school matters, a public sale, and a coroner’s inquiry into a fatal car crash.
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Literary Society
Spencer
Sanden
Walker
Avan
Firemen’s Hall
Spartansburg
Ellen Smith
Meadville
Avi~ Ultix
Dayton
W. M.A
U. By Church
William Halfast
Marion Street
G. C. Murphy Co
Jasper Drake
Concordiat
Drake
W.¢. Cox
Ronnie
Carl
Mildred Decker
Decker
Howard Blanchard
Jessie la Machio
Dorothy Akam
Bernice McIntyre
Martha
Tusper Drake
Removal sought of Butler county prison head over brutality
Butler Pa August 7 United Press says District Attorney Edgar H Negley demanded county supervisors clear up their mass by removing Superintendent Bred Moroth accused of brutal treatment of aged inmates at the poor farm. He criticized a welfare department probe and urged insiders to replace the brutal official rather than call in outsiders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Butler
Aig
Edgar H. Negley
Bred Moroth
State Welfare Department
Negley
Pay Teachers in Chicago to Receive Back Wages
Chicago school teachers number 14,000 and have faced low pay. Within two weeks they will receive more than 25 million dollars, and for the first time in four years their paychecks will be up to date.
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Chicago
Police Lieutenant Held After Alleged Assault in Burglary Case
Sharpsburg Pa Aug 7 Police Lieutenant Chester Zygella was ordered held for county action after alleged assault of Frank De Santis a beer wholesaler whose nephew James Repino is recovering from a revolver wound in a burglary incident De Santis says Zygella assaulted him after remarking that Repino was shot by a drunken man and fled the scene
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Sharpsburg
Chester Zygella
Aldermin
Verona
Frank de Santis
Beeiewer
de Santis
Zygelly
James Repino
Allotment for Docks Washington Approved
General Douglas MacArthur acting secretary of war allotted 616000 for operating the Emsworth and Dashields locks and dams on the Ohio River during the game year. A surprise farewell party honored F. M. Duke at the Veterans' Home with about forty Post members present as he left for a position in the Philadelphia Navy yards and received gifts.
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Washington
Douglas McArthur
Emsworth and
Dashield
Ohio River
F. M. Duke
Veterans’ Home
Duke
Philadelphia Navy Yards
Yank word origin linked to concealment of fighting machine
The term Yank originated in December 181% as a wind to hide the design of an experimental fighting machine secretly built in Eneidad. After the machine’s first unveiling in Geld the name was retained.
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Eneidad
Disqualification Shifts Victory in Air Race Drama
Miss Helen Richey of McKeesport Pa co holders of the women endurance flying record was declared winner of a 50 mile air race sponsored by the Women’s National Aviation Association at Vandalia Ohio on Sunday The decision followed a complaint by Miss Annette Gipson of Garden City New York who charged rival Migs Gardner with cutting in at a pylon during the final stretch The contest committee lifted Gardner from winner to runner up and awarded the prize to Richey. In Pittsburgh Pa an Arkansas mother Carrie May Goodle 80 and her six year old son Rex of Siloam Springs died when their auto driven by Rex Goodle Sr 80 collided with another car and overturned at a busy intersection of Routes 61 and 31 in Forward Township. David L Fiske 94 of Grafton Mass remains active in his insurance business.
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Will J. Wilcox
H.C. Wasson
Meadvike
Buiffalo
Sivent
Erie
iLey McAles
Johonenburg
W. E. Heckendom
McAleese
Irvine
Biddle
Re B. Davis
Wayne Street
Mildred
Paterson
Blaine
Agatha
Pierre
WKEW
W. G. Strable
Rudolph Melzer
Melzer
Byron Runyan
Albion
Carpenter
Anliago
Jim Garcia
Mortimer Tr. Graham
Search
Runyan
Garcia
Jamestown
Caquin-Snyser
North Main Street
Éderal Sayings and Loan Association
Homie
Erie County
Capitol
Leo R. Horstman
Federal Bureau
Horstman
Ford
Sharon
Merser
Jennie Cook
East
East Pleasant Streets
Corrinne Dean
Smith-Wilkes Hall
Charitaliqua
Bird and Tree
Alva Bilson
Lillian Barnes
Juwits King
King
Kay Gregg
Burnasite
Bradford
City Hall
William 7. Pier
Ray J. Conner
May Conover
Wena Club
Union City
Tyayton
Helen ‘Richey
McKeesport
National Aviation Association
Vandalia
Sundy
M. Gardner
Petrayed
Annette Gipson
Garden City
Gipson
Migs Gardier
United Press
Pittsburgh
Carrie May Goodé
Rex
Siloam Springs
Ark
Rex Goodle
Goodle
Nellie
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Palmolive
Camay Lifebuoy Sweetheart
Twory
Med
Lava
Woodbury’s Fairy
Hehe Eeaten
CERTO
Wing Willi Star Stores
ME. M. Sororrty
Bethy Wilcox
T He Wei
Jane Haymond
Martha Brockmann
J. Wilsim
Sacundevenne
Corry Hospital
Lasuit Extension School
Titusville
Water Hill
Pikasville
Crawford County
Stuart A
Tamestown
Tvo
Coupersman Lincolnr
Zal’s
North Corry
Powell Motor CO
Corry, Pa
Butler CO
Flays County
ROOT
Crescent
Root’s Furniture
South Center Street
Corry
Pean
Mildred Triscuit
Katherine Buck
Har
Grafton
Mass
David L. Fiske
Busines
Mickey and
Hisma
E. E. Guignon
Youtela
Jenny
E. E. Guignon’s
DCI
North Center St
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