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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1931
Page
6
Erie county commissioners vote to lease two additional vote machines at 125 dollars each, placing one per district per party slate. The cost will be added to a 46,000 bond issue and applied to the precinct ballot list next year, amid protests over paper ballots.
In Warren on August 14, contractor S. J. Groves and Sons says heavy rain and wet conditions stall the Kinzuaroa road project. About 50 percent of time has been lost since May, delaying the September 1 completion. four weeks of dry weather could finish the work.
Funeral services for Michael Pokosh of Sample Flats were held at nine this morning at St Elizabeth's Church. Rev V J Reiser led a requiem mass with the church choir. Many friends and relatives attended. Interment followed at St Elizabeth's Cemetery with pallbearers Stanley Wasper Andy Meketa Joe Malicle Stanley Kalindsii Join Chonma and Marl Neilson.
Trial testimony reveals a group including Oliver Blackstone Smith and Wheatley plotting and carrying out a brutal sequence. Confessions describe robbery, kidnapping of girls, multiple shootings, beating, and burning a car with bodies after killing Wheatley and others.
The Damons held their tenth annual reunion August 12 at the Smith home with about forty relatives. Officers were re-elected then a noon dinner and a program followed, including songs by the Smith sons and a talk by Arnold D. Brown of Cincinnati. Relatives came from Cincinnati Bemus Point McKean Spartansboro Spring Creek and Corry. An invitation was accepted to meet August 1922 in Spring Creek.
Theodore Hanson a long time resident of Marvindale was found dead in a barn hanging by a rope from the rafters. Acting Coroner W A Ostrander ruled death a suicide. Hanson, born 1886, was an oil field worker and farmer regarded as an industrious community member.
A young Benjamin Disraeli and his family joined the Church of England after his father, once sympathetic to Judaism, believed the time was right to embrace the Christian faith. The move occurred when Disraeli was about twelve or thirteen and was marked by their confirmation.
Richard Olson, 21, son of Meant-Girs Olson, was kicked by a horse on his father’s Starbrick county farm while stooping to pick up a chain. He suffered a badly fractured skull and was taken to Warren General Hospital with critical condition after the incident yesterday.
Irving and Harry Brady, Akron truck brothers, narrowly escaped serious harm when their truck caught fire on the open road near Somerfield. Irving leaped from the burning vehicle with Harry as flames sprayed from the fuel tank and the gasoline exploded. Damage totaled the truck and trailer and disabled telegraph lines along the road.
Franklin Aug 14 Governor Alfifa Bil Murray of Oba joma won approval from the Central Pennsylvania Producers Association conservation board by telegram for shutting down wells in the Okishonte oil fields to curb production and lift prices. Eighteen board members led by David B. McCalmont met in Franklin and voted to continue the 30 percent reduction program amid banker support. The motion to approve Governor Murray's action passed, and the full board plans a Pittsburgh session later this month.
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