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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1938
Page
3
Corry and surrounding area headlines mix weather notes with local politics and business. Reports cite Auburn Automobile losses for 1937, WPA rolls at 3,098,908 last week, and Public Works Administration project spending near 1.3 billion dollars. A marriage license was filed in Erie County, and school commissions look to rural zoning. Community events include a Golden Rule Club dinner and a Republican rally at Lakeside Hotel.
The Billy Simpson Post VFW drum corps from Erie won the national drill and drum corps title at a national convention in Columbus. Scoring 86.7 under regulation, they defeated Adrian Michigan, earning about 500 dollars in prize money and qualification for next year’s Los Angeles meet. Capt. Edward Schmelzer leads the drill, Joseph Woerhner conducts the music, and the unit has operated for about seven years.
Twelve year old Irene Giriez was formally charged with murder in Washington Pennsylvania after authorities say she killed her father with a rifle for mistreating her mother. The information was filed before Alderman Harvey H. Stuart by county detective William B. McBride. A hearing date was not set and the child was sent to the juvenile detention home.
Mrs Ayron Hodge of Elgin visited Friday with Mrs Clarence Slye. Numerous local families, including the Slyes, Pitt, Lindberg, Follett, and Williams households, hosted or joined gatherings and Sunday dinners. Several readers attended reunions and sub district meetings, with neighbors traveling to Spartansburg, Wattsburg, and Beaver Camp for meals and social events.
Attorney Sobel was presented with a new automobile by fellow attorneys to mark his driving anniversary of admission to the bar and eight years as president of the Erie County Bar Association. The gesture came amid tributes at an Erie County Bar Association picnic in the picnic grove of the Bnai Brith Home for Children.
Safety Director Joseph C. Martin announced plans to ask Erie City Council to create a centralized purchasing office in the 1980 budget. The move, backed by City Controller Alfred Leehne, aims to bulk buy materials and gasoline for city departments, lowering costs despite political risks.
A sledge team of five Eskimo dogs can travel 60 miles a day for several days.
Warren county WPA projects funded highway improvements from June 1936 to June 1938. Franklin B. Brown, county highway superintendent, reports about $860,000 allocated for labor and an additional $100,000 for materials and supervision by the state highway department.
A Kane beer truck carrying 126 cases plunged over a 25 foot embankment into the Piney reservoir on the Clarion river near Clarion. Driver Tony Leone and passengers Tony Leone and Howard Ashbaugh escaped with minor injuries as the vehicle rolled four times and landed on an old road bed submerged by high water.
Harry I. Poller a Sheffield goods-jobber and township supervisor, is in critical condition after a Wednesday accident in Four Mile valley. He fell eight feet from a felled tree onto an axe, piercing his side and diaphragm. Dale Werrick summoned aid. Poller was rushed to Kane hospital in a deteriorating truck that wrecked after tipping into water.
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