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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1949
Page
3
Fragmentary text references inquests into a death, a 1944 wartime secretary, and a public notice style item. Names and exact details are unclear, but hints point to a local death investigation, a 1944 wartime context, and a document with collated information.
Fragmentary OCR notes a financial item mentioning a $20,000 amount and a rotary or Emerson context. Readable text limited, but indicates a money figure tied to a local organization or meeting, with no clear date or full description.
A medium sized barn on the Al Shay farm along the Panama Chautauqua road ten miles north of Panama burned Wednesday. Volunteer crews from Panama and Ashville fought the flames, preventing spread to a nearby house. No livestock or equipment were located. loss undetermined though the barn was partially insured.
Requiem mass in memory of Albert Catalfu was celebrated at St. Thomas Church this morning with prayer service at 9 a m at the Catalfu home. Rev John DeSanti officiated aided by Edward's Choir. Bearers were Joe Sam and Tony Catalfu. Burial in St Thomas Cemetery. Attending from away were Mr Mrs Joseph Catalfu and others from Buffalo and Boston.
A $15,000 blaze leveled the large barn on the James Stairs farm near Sleepy Hollow Confluence Pennsylvania, destroying hay and grain stored inside. Firemen faced delays due to heavy rain swelling Usurel Hill Creek and flooding the highway yesterday.
In Erie County Court four defendants pleaded to criminal charges. Harry Voorhis 19 pled guilty to auto theft and destroying gasoline at Peterson Paper Co on July 12 and was sentenced to an indefinite term at Camp Hill Reformatory with costs. Theodore J. Tilich Weselyville was fined 100 dollars and costs for drunk driving. Amos Diteni 36 R D 2 Erie was jailed 60 days plus costs for operating with a suspended license after a prior drunk conviction. Oliver B. Wright 20 Erie received one year for perjury and two counts of fraudulent conversion related to falsely accusing a theft to cover the sale of photographic supplies and a wrist watch sale.
Apple growers in the Martinsburg area brace for a record harvest with early fruit already arriving. Government reports project a national 128,000,000 bushel crop, about 40 percent above last year and above average. The Martinsburg region may outperform, with National Fruit Company expected to hire roughly 1,300 workers during the harvest season, while off season employment is near 200.
Ernest A Peck aged 88 and a Wattsburg resident died in his sleep at Wattsburg He was born June 27 1861 and was a farmer and carpenter He married Dessie Teed on February 25 1898 and is survived by his wife two daughters seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren plus other relatives Two sons and an infant daughter preceded him in death Funeral arrangements by Bracken Keating Company to be announced in Saturday Journal
Jamestown reports a 12 year old Findley Lake girl Lois Jenkins injured in a bicycle crash with internal injuries and brush burns. Charles Miller fifteen and Donald Miller eleven were hurt when their bike hit a rough gravel spot. both were treated at Jamestown General Hospital for arm, shoulder and facial injuries.
In Chicago on August 19 a barricaded man, Ernest Craig, 28, resisted 125 officers for three hours before authorities set fire to the home and fatally shot him as he escaped. A reported child injury preceded the siege, with extensive gunfire and tear gas used.
Chilean government used emergency powers to move three regiments into Santiago to quell rioting blamed on Communist influence. In two days of clashes amid a bus fare protest, several people were killed and about 300 injured. Finland granted women's full suffrage in 1906.
Local church notices list Rev. Jordan Cole of the World Sheistian Church inviting attendance at the Institute of World Missions in Chautauqua August 22 96 with speakers Dr Tako Matsumoto Hiroshima Japan and Dr Prank Laubieh Also noted are worship times and Sunday School details for West Spring Creek Bear Lake Evangelical United Brethren Church Abbe Reformed Spencer Community Church Wayne Valley Evangelical Beaverdam Monmothite Beaver Dam and Spartansburg Methodist Baptist and Gospel Tabernacle with service hours Sunday School and choir/pastor details for each location.
The item lists church schedules with morning services at 10:30 and 11, an evening service at 8:15, and a Sunday school at 10 with Rev. Oliver Thompson as pastor at Fairview Evangelical. It also mentions a weekly meeting at WAU and a Dutch tile used since the sixth century in Holland, plus ship news about Hawaii strikebound sugar cargo from New York.
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