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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1931
Page
5
Mrs I W Willett of South Center street skated at Findley Lake roller rink yesterday afternoon and fell injuring her right arm. X ray was planned today to determine fracture. Mr and Mrs Roy Gilliam and Mrs Gilliam’s parents have moved to Pittsburgh for their future home.
Personal mentions list residents and visitors from Corry with trips to Meadville Sheffield Albion Erie and Findley Lake. Individuals include Mrs Bess Naylor G N Whitman Miss Mildred Vanik and many others visiting relatives or on vacations. Several city residents plan trips to Akron Ithaca Bristol Findley Lake and Pittsburgh for short stays or extended visits.
In Pittsburgh, three men Brace Faring, Sam Larlin, Joseph R. Day, and Howard Smith were held on $3,000 bond each after a raid by six federal prohibition agents recovered more than $26,000 in beer and whisky from a liquor Laden truck at a North Side garage. Two trucks, 46 barrels of beer and 8 178 points of whisky were seized. The men await U S commissioner hearing on possession of liquor.
The W C T U met Thursday afternoon August 1 at Mrs Emma Heath’s Park Street home with sixteen members and six visitors including four from Union City. President Mrs Harriet Durham led with a song, prayers and a devotional, noting relief work and calls.
Believe body washed ashore at Jones Beach yesterday belonged to Joseph F. Grater, a supreme court justice who vanished a year ago. In Cadiz Ohio arson charges were filed against eight striking miners after Walter Junecitch confessed to burning Kenwood Stellar and Witch Hazel mine buildings, with three arrests made for arson at a Kenwood barn.
State troopers hunted a liquor bandit who robbed the Lycoming Trust Company's Washington and Franklin branch in Williamsport Pa of 1500 dollars. The thief, armed, demanded cash at the teller window then fled in a waiting automobile as staff were out for lunch. The bandit seized tens and fives totaling 1500 dollars. The incident occurred in a residential section and involved a young woman cashier who tried to reach the check before the robber withdrew it.
Three men were killed in Pittsburgh today. Joseph Lentine, 36, a county employee paroled from Western Penitentiary, shot under Greenfield Bridge. Tom Sacco, 44, a Sewickley gardener, shot in the rear of Sewickley Cemetery while en route to work at Stewart Brown’s estate. Sylvester Meder, 19, beaten to death after taunts about his clothing and an oriental silk handkerchief.
Washington August reports a labor standstill as workers refuse to let the 101 Ranch Wild West Show move until back pay totaling over 22000 is settled. Atene grounds guard and local laborers resisted efforts to dismantle tents and relocate the show to Oklahoma amid a pay dispute.
Three bandits entered the True Line Company office, forced fifteen employees to the wall, seized about $3,000 in payroll, and fled to the street in an automobile. Police pursued but details for the chase were not disclosed.
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