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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1940
Page
8
A list of local churches in Corry announces their Sunday services and activities including morning worship at Methodist, First Baptist, Wayne U. B., Bethel Tabernacle, Church of the Nazarene, and Wel l ock Community Church. The notice highlights Sunday School times, sermons, youth meetings, prayer groups, and special rally plans for Labor Day at the Warren church, with open doors and invitations to all residents.
The Uhtsilda area church at corner E Washington and Maple invites all to Sunday 9:45 Sunday School led by Roy Mather, 11:00 Morning Worship on practical obedience, 6:20 Young People, 7:30 Evangelistic Service. Monday rally in Gospel Tent Arbuckle with speakers from Crawford and India. Midweek prayer at 7:45. St Pauls Lutheran also listed with 11:00 Worship and a 7:30 Boy Scout meeting.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church at North Center and West Smith streets announces Holy Communion and sermon on the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity at 11:00 A.M. Rev. William Kuhn presides. The fall opening of the church school is set for next Sunday.
Readable church directory listing multiple congregations with street intersections and avenues in the town. Churches named include Christian and Missionary Alliance United Brethren in Christ United Methodists Presbyterians Lutherans Seventh Day Adventist Episcopal and others with cross streets like East Main West Washington Pleasant Center and St Elizabeths.
Clergy and schedules for multiple churches on West Pleasant and Center streets. Items list Masses and Holy Hours at St Elizabeth’s, worship and education times at First Presbyterian, St Elizabeth's Catholic, Seventh Day Adventist, Elgin Methodist, Salvation Army, and Spartansburg Baptist. Also notes wheat consumption statistics for the year ending June 30 1999.
A special convocation of Pittsburgh Synod Lutherans will install Rev. H. Reed Shepfer as president of the United Lutheran Church in America Pittsburgh Synod. He succeeds Rev. Dr. Henry H. Bagger after ten years in office and will serve a full five year term from Edgewood, Pittsburgh.
In a Labor Day speech, Babson urges building trades to relax hour limits and resist wage hikes to accelerate defense work. He criticizes political maneuvering, bureaucratic bungling, and union rogues, warning that delays will mirror France and Germany’s fate. He cites a postwar Pacific trip where opportunities abound if costs stay controlled.
Erie County Pomona Grange No 4 meets at Edinboro with Edinboro Grange hosting September 4 and 5. The event features the theme An American First, a first session in the fifth degree, debates on white leghorns profitability, musical numbers, a pantomime I Am An American, talks by Prothonotary Lawrens Taylor and state lecturer Mrs Kathryn Gross, and closing God Bless America.
Union City residents were instructed to share in the estate of Payton, a resident of LeBoutown, who wed August 12, leaving an estimated $4,000 per a will in the court house. Bequests included $700 to a niece and $400 to Mrs. Etta Patten Cambridge Springs, with the remainder to be shared among named Cambridge Springs and Waterford residents. Lecturers and juvenile matrons will gather for the evening session at 6 o'clock with Pomona Grange conferring degrees, a tableau led by Mrs. Jackson Edinboro Grange, and a drill by Edinboro Crane’s first and second degree teams. The program features include a talk on women's status and agriculture, and resolutions and clan ceremonies to conclude.
Fragmentary notes report London raids and naval lessons, with scattered references to officials, jails, and highway work. Entries mention various radio programs and times, including NBC and CBS listings, and names such as Tommy Dorsey and Lanny Ross amid a jumble of station notes and schedules.
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