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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1935
Page
8
Two weeks remain before Labor Day with city council meetings tonight and registration due tomorrow. Wrightsville plate race features Corry versus Wrightsville in a Saturday baseball showcase, while roadwork on the Clymer-Sherman route continues.
August Music Week at Chautauqua features Mrs Franklin Delsno Roosevelt and Miss Josephine Roche with five symphony concerts under Albert Stoessel, two operas Maria Malibran and Barber of Seville, a new American opera, and Repertory Theatre drama Double Door. The First Lady to speak at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Roche outlines social security steps Saturday. Local season highlights include Juilliard and Metropolitan Opera artists in leading roles.
Guard units from Pennsylvania including Corry’s Company A start a two week training period at Indiantown Gap as 15 000 soldiers settle into routine army life. Morning instruction covers observation security reconnaissance and field firing while afternoon sessions rotate to tactics walk patrols and gas defense. Maryland troops with 176th field artillery join at Mt Gretna as training ramps up.
President Roosevelt will address the nation via radio at 9 p m Saturday (JST) in Milwaukee for the Young Democratic Clubs of America event. The United Press report from Washington notes the national address aims to rally support and outline policy directions.
The Department of Agriculture reports July 15 1935 prices across farm products with wheat at 76.4 cents per bushel corn 824 cents oats 32.2 cents cotton 11.9 cents apples 96.4 cents potatoes 52 cents and hay 8.83 dollars per ton. Farm purchasing power remains 81 cents per dollar and overall price parity remains distant. Maryland soldiers compose the 29th division.
Lieut. Col. Daw son Olmstead, a well known former Corry resident, was promoted to colonel as part of 4,855 Army promotions approved by the Senate and President. Olmstead, with extensive foreign service, has been stationed in Washington, D.C. for ten years. his wife Rose Heath and their daughter are visiting Corry. The August 1 promotions include hundreds of officers advancing across multiple ranks.
Sidney B. Wish, a well known Olean resident, fell from a North Street building roof to a paved driveway and died at Olean General Hospital minutes later. He fractured his skull and broke his neck as he tried to grab a tape and basket during the fall.
Francis Polley aged 24 of Ulenee and Clymer Bear Lake district died at Corry hospital on Sunday morning from complications after an appendectomy on July 17. Survived by widow Cora Graves Polley, two sons Charles Glen and John Howard, daughter Lois Jee, father Trinan Polley of Celoron, and grandmother Julia Sands. Funeral at United Brethren Shareh Bear wake with services Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. and burial in Bear Late Cemetery.
A primitive mystery play, believed to be miraculous, was performed in Elche to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, with the words and music attributed to a divine source.
Ottawa Aug 19 Foreign born settlers on relief in Canada may be barred from becoming naturalized. Secretary of State C H Cahan said applicants must prove they are self supporting and not receiving unemployment relief before approval. He noted nearly 9 000 citizenship applications under consideration.
Silas Overman of Red Brush Missouri recalls a remarkable event after fifty years in the same community. He watched a rabbit engage and shake a black snake in a 108 smooth and shale the reptile, an unusual sight described by the longtime resident.
Pindley C. Wilson of Milwood City was arrested on charges of transporting passengers from an unlicensed field at Emlenton. He piloted planes at Emilenton airport last Sunday when Homer Gardner, 89, of New Castle, crashed from 190 feet, injuring Clyde Fross, 18, of Parkers Landing. Fross remains in Oil City Hospital with a broken back and other injuries. Wilson pleaded utility and paid a $50 fine plus costs. Oil City Hospital reports are mixed. Gardner’s condition unchanged since admission open to further X rays.
Seven artesian wells about 125 feet deep supply water for the village of roughly 150 inhabitants. Juda is nestled among hills rising about 100 feet above the streets.
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