Church fund raffle disrupted by ticket theft
A sneak thief stole 75 tickets for a church fundraiser chow dinner in Erie, forcing a recall of sold tickets and printing of replacements. Details hint at local notices including rug cleaning and garden items, with vendors such as H. L. Rowe and B. W. Stennett & Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie Church
T He
E. R. Kinley
East South Street
H. L. Rowe
Ryass Jardiniers
B. W. Stennett & Son
Corty
Local News Briefs and Advertisements Digest
Bananas and groceries advertise 20¢ a dozen bananas and 55¢ splint baskets, with pickling cucumbers and Corry butter offered. Will J. Wilcox delivers. Warren East Side residents report porch plant thefts, notably begonias, with police notified after incidents on Jackson Avenue and near Glenwood and Buchanan. Singer Sewing Machine Store moves to 148 North Center Street Corry offering repairs and hemming. two canvassers wanted. Meadville residents Ralph Vage and H F Hitchcock injured in a late night Ford rollover near French Town. state highway patrol investigating. Allie Four silk gloves on sale in two lots at Stennett & Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
Will J. Wilcox
Warren
East Side
B. L. Ferry
Penneylvania Avenue
Glenwood
Buchanan Streets
Morris
Jackson Avenue
Singer Sewing Machine
North Center Street
C. 3
McMaster
Mgr.eiegt
Ralph Vage
H. F. Hitchcock
Meadville
French Town
State Highway Patrol
AllieFour
Aupilst
B. W. Stennett & Son
Ice Cream Socials and Local Notices Fill Busy Page
A dense notice column lists an August 23 ice cream social at the V F W Home and a series of small notices from Warren and surrounding towns. Items include sales pitches for portraits, a planned Motor Lighthouse Company service station at Pennsylvan ia and Conewango, local court actions, hospital updates, a radio broadcast of Governor Al Smith, and community events such as a chicken dinner benefiting Concord Ridge Ladies Aid and a beauty pageant at State Park. Also listed are births, fishing and hunting news, and a canine bite report on an East Main Street youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Motor Lighthouse Company
Pennsylvania
Conewango Avenue
Avenues
T. L. Hampson
James L. Chapman
Bruce S. Knabenshue
Fourth Avenue
Brooks
Healy
Sars
al Smith
WLEW
Oil City
John Mohr
Frank O'Day
Quitter Sessions Court
Clifton’ Springs
H. N. Fleming
Brierea
Erie
Augusta Brown Pleming
Karists
Spencer Hospital
Meadville
Margaret Frost
Nettie Phince
Frank R. Prost
Pittsburgh
Contisat Lake Park
Shulles O'Pimmons
Kelly's
Golden Links
Harold Dietzel
West Broderick Street
Boyd Spencer
Mra
Harold Deitzel
West Frederick Street
Concord Ridge
Mary Culver
Milton Thomas
Mary Curtis
Elton Darrow
George Marsh
Jasper Drake
Harry Kimmy
Vera Lyman
East Main Street
McCoy's Tablets Promoted As Fast Weight Gainers
An old advertisement touts McCoy's Tablets as a guaranteed flesh builder for underweight men and women. It promises a 5 pound gain or money back after buying four 60 cent boxes or two 1 dollar boxes, with the product sold by N. F. Ames Co and other drug stores nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCoy
N. F. Ames
America
Bridge Party Fine Success at St Thomas Church Lawn
The Ladies of St Thomas Church hosted a garden bridge party on the church lawn on W Washington Street. Thirty tables for 500 and bridge were set, with Mrs Helen O Leary and Mrs Francis Slattery winning in bridge and Mrs Josephine Shea Dempsey and Miss Katherine Hines in five hundred. About 85 dollars was raised, Miss Emily Fahy led the committee, and Miss Harriet Wise of Bradford attended from out of town, marking one of the season’s most enjoyable events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of
Ladies of St Thomas Church
W. Washington Street
Helen O'Leary
Francis Slattery
Midge
Josephine Shea Dempsey
Mise Katherine Hines
Emily Fahy
Wilf
Wich
Harriet Wise
Bradford
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Wing-Willi Stores
Libby
First Ave
N. Genter St
Tou
Willi
the Fair Store
ST. Pierre & Smith
S. Center St
Your Sun
J. A. Lanston
N. Center St
V. F. W. Home
Monkoe
Corry Sinspites
New York Site
Board of Game Commissioners of
Keystone
New
Superior Dry Cle
Stennett & Son
Merle Coons
Spring Creek
Corry “Hospital
Rimmage Sale
Elia King
Findley
Clark Fiers
Tadio
Chicago
Dutis
Fiers
New Theatre
Hera
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambrose Larsen
Wurlizer Organ Studio
Wright Whitlock
George H. Clark
Land
Grace Episcopal Church of
Kenneth Graham
Alice Annette
W. Stennett & Son
Monarch
Frank A. Wilcox
E. Main St
Heroes of the Air
New Colonial Theatre
Peach Street
Paramount Picture
Paiges
Dttter Daily
Snox
Knox
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