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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1947
Page
2
Laura Lyke, 10 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Prayton Lyke of Howard, N ., underwent a tonaillostomy at the local hospital. Her condition is reported as good. The child is a niece of Dr Ry X Williams.
Mrs Charles Blakeslee underwent a tonsillectomy at Corry Hospital this morning with a satisfactory condition. Several patients were discharged, including Mrs Ora Bown Harold Mitchell Janet Nichols and others. The body of Philip Edward Kropowski a 23 year old sailor was recovered from the Union Dock slip in Ashtabula Harbor after a drowning attempt. A Hanover Green PA man died swimming across the slip to the Steamer James Laughlin. J Clair Cowles of Snyder Circle underwent emergency appendectomy at Corry Hospital yesterday evening and is now listed as favorable.
Local notices cover factory news, divorce petitions, new appliances, gas line completion, church and school updates, August salon staffing, and public service ads across Franklin Jamestown and Titusville. Highlights include uncontested divorces, a GE washer launch, a 16 050 foot gas line completion, school budget increases, and August beauty appointments.
A mixed Readable clipping notes a home property auction at 1317 Liberty Street owned by Mrs George K Mottet ab 1913 including a apartment doubt service station and large arage to Homer thbs of Stoneboro Was made today A 15 year old Olean arm worker James R Vroman was fatally injured when a mower was struck by a truck on Buffalo road south of Franklinville Oil City A dairy herd from Venango County tops butterfat with 69 8 pounds from 1860 pounds milk in July test Enrollments in Erie public schools kindergarten expected to reach 1300 up five percent from 1948 Fish fry Wednesdays 5 to 11 at Cabins In The Pines Route 6 Dairy farm buildings at Everslade Heaven Castle destroyed by fire loss about 60000 owned by Fred Taylor.
Mrs J A McLaughlin’s Beauty Shoppe will be closed August 15 to 25. Also notes of local hospital admissions and general community notices including restaurant hours and legal action in county court. Includes products for sale and local business ads.
Harrisburg reports eighty one infantile paralysis cases in Pennsylvania so far this year, up from 68 at the same point in 1946. The State Health Department says the outlook remains favorable compared with recent polio outbreaks. York County leads with 15 cases, exceeding previous years.
The Army announced three American soldiers were sentenced to life imprisonment by court martial after being convicted of kidnapping and raping two Japanese women in Yokohama.
Philadelphia officials report turning over evidence to District Attorney Franklin Barr after a two hour conference with Attorney General T McKeen Chidsey. The governor said irregularities in the Pennsylvania Workmen's Insurance Fund defrauded the commonwealth of at least 10 000. Two Philadelphia adjustors resigned and two were suspended. Tartagena Mm Colombia withstood many bitter selges.
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