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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1956
Page
4
A long reprint warns of Labor Day traffic danger as millions take to highways. It notes 25 million cars and 65 million riders, with hospitals on alert and police stations positioned on dangerous routes. The piece frames the holiday period as a grim game of chance.
Lt Isaiah Heckman of Bloomsburg died yesterday in Millville at age 96. He survived by three sisters aged 99 83 and 90. His only brother died months ago at 86 and his mother had died at 100 in 1932.
A list of nearby church services and schedules across town including Beek T Lines Lyle Bemis Mrs Fred Bowes and Rev Frederic Bowes at various congregations, mass times, Sunday schools, and midweek meetings. Also notes former VP Reid MacDonald in Cleveland obituary notice.
Yesterday memories celebrate Corry chosen as site for a 1937 conference and hail Rev H Ray Harris return hero. A freak tornado dam ages thousands across six blocks with damage to buildings and trees. Two Corry students Ruth Johnson and George Nagel will join Taylor University in the fall. 40 years ago notes report Wells Fargo opens Camp Stewart office on the Mexican border and the death of James Donoghue aged 22. Dr Mears returns from Philadelphia.
One man, Chester A. Gardner, completed his last run on the Pennsylvania Railroad Northern Express through Cory between Erie and Renovo after a 50 year career. Born in Godard Point in 1891, he joined the PRR in Erie as fireman in 1904 and became engineer in 1916. Gardner and his wife reside in Erie with their son Miles D. and two grandsons Mark and Michael. He died yesterday after a heart attack.
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