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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1940
Page
2
Elaborate preparations are under way for five day jamborees hosted by Ridgway volunteers from Thursday August 29 through Labor Day. Busy local notices report arrests for bootlegging, hospital births, injuries from traffic accidents, and police shifting examination locations in Erie.
Forest County residents gathered for the annual Old Home Day event with estimates between two hundred and three hundred attendees. Other reports note deaths, injuries, and local incidents including a post office veteran Edward Williams and various accidents affecting Franklin and Erie-Wattsburg areas.
In Erie on August 14 the County Young Republicans met at the courthouse to outline creating 20 neighborhood Young Republican clubs across the city and county. Attorney Joseph Agresti, chair, said each executive committee member will lead one club in line with state committee principles. The plan aims to expand Young Republicans across the area and join the upcoming voter registration drive under county supervision.
William P. Mount a former Corry resident died suddenly at his State Line home from a heart attack. He had managed his brother Claire Mounts fruit farm and had lived in Alton Ohio for years. Survived by three sons Harold Norman and Alvin of Akron and one brother Jewell Mount of Corry. Funeral services to be held in Akron with burial there. Nearly all world automobile speed records were set at the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah.
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