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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1939
Page
2
Rinson price list and airline morale from Texas to Oil City. Local accidents include a boy injuring a hand at a power saw and a woman struck by a car, with hospital details. Community items cover church meetings, gardening, public notices, police probes, festival wrapups, and civic appointments across Oil City and nearby towns.
World renowned baritone Lawrence Tibbet t captivated a vast crowd at Chautauqua Saturday evening. About 45 000 music lovers filled the amphitheatre and surrounding grounds to hear his varied program from classical to popular tunes. Stewart Wille accompanied, delivering a strong intermission set. The capacity crowd marked the largest amphitheatre attendance in years as the 1939 Chautauqua season closed.
The Warner family gathering at the old homestead near Hamlet drew participants including R. D. Crowell family and Corry residents. Attendees listed span Corry Wattsburg Elgin and surrounding areas as kin from Reuben Warner line join reunion events. The Taylor reunion met at Corry with sixty relatives present and elected officers for the first annual gathering. The next Taylor reunion is set for the last Sunday in August 1940 at Union City.
Mrs. Prank O Chapin, 69, longtime Union City resident, died Saturday after two weeks of heart illness. She attended the Methodist Episcopal church and is survived by husband Frank G Chapin, three sons Arthur Norris Chapin and Morris Chapin, two daughters Mrs Robert Faulkner and Mrs John Morgan, two sisters, three brothers, and two grandchildren. Private funeral at 2 pm Tuesday from the home 31 First Ave Union City, burial in Yerereene Cemetery. Chapin store on North Center Street to remain closed until Wednesday morning.
William T. Dawson died at his Corry home this afternoon at 2 30 pm after a lingering illness. He had been in poor health for three years and critical in the last weeks. Survived by his widow and four daughters including Elizabeth Dawson at home, two grandchildren Robert and Jon Dawson, and nieces and a nephew. A fuller obituary and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
George C Abbott aged 87 of Busta was struck down Sunday morning at General Hospital. A resident of Busl near Sherman Bay for fifteen years he is survived by a nephew George Abbott of Wrightsville and two nieces Miss Arpin Allen and Mie Samgobes of Ninbe. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 oclock from his nephew's home with burial at Wrightsville.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania Emil Powley a WEA worker from near Smithton faced a cruelty to children hearing after being accused of chaining his nine year old daughter to a kitchen table to keep her at home. The report also notes a series of local items including Dunkirk plant additions valued at seventy thousand dollars a Jamestown testimonial dinner for Solicitor General Robert H Jackson a Jamestown boy named Leroy Gelder 3 narrowly escaping injury on a bridge and a Jamestown youth James Nocero 6% saying he was robbed and assaulted receiving 45 dollars.
Edith Chadwick 77 widow of Edward Chadwick former Corry resident died Saturday afternoon at a home in Erie. Survived by son John of Fort Wayne Indiana a grandson Edward Delaverne of Erie and sister Flora Conkle of Tidfoure. Funeral service Tuesday at 11 AM EST with Rev C A Blackmore at Edward C Habley funeral home in Erie. Interment in Pine Grove cemetery Corry.
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