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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1944
Page
5
Tonight at 7 o'clock in the basement of Emmanuel Episcopal Church Corry hosts the first weekly Junior High School program. The Cong, M.G.A. offers many games for students, with personal record marking to prevent loss. Committees will form as经验 grows, giving students direct planning input.
Last evening the Women s Missionary meeting held a family night scene with Marshall Sherwood leading and organizing the program. Group singing featured Miss Erma Gilson and Miss Patty Campbell singing There s A Song In The Air and Jesus Come. Mrs Hugh Mosher read Christmas Eve And The Bus Is Late. Opal Triscuit played Joy To The World and Star Of The East on accordion. Christmas cookies candy tea and coffee served. tables decorated with Christmas trimmings.
A Wednesday gathering at Miss Shirley Dickinson's West Wayne street home marked a birthday observance for Mrs. Robert Hunt. Five hundred prizes went to Mrs. Hari Paulson and Mrs. Hunt, who received gifts. A dessert luncheon followed. The next meeting is set for December 27 at Mrs. Wilbur Whitehead's Essex street home.
The Kiwanis Club held its annual Christmas party at the Ritz Restaurant with 35 couples attending. HL Lybn Rive and the A Capella Choir performed, Mrs Philip Zalzneck played piano, and carols plus regular favorites delighted guests. Prizes were awarded during bingo, and officer installation named Robert Bumbiugh president, Walter Auer vice president, and G Carl Wengert secretary-treasurer.
Last night the Messiah choir held a party after rehearsal for the upcoming church performance this Sunday. Thirty members presented Mrs Bess Carlisch and H Lynn Rice with a Christmas gift from the group. Refreshments of ice cream cake and coffee were served. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Carlyle Neckers and their son from Clymer.
A Corry Lodge of Moose meeting reentered forty new members into the order last evening in West Washington street quarters. The degree team was delayed by traffic, but Governor Worth Hammond and lodge officers conducted the exercises. A social supper followed as about a hundred fifty Couly lodge members attended the event.
The Rebekah Helping Hand met yesterday at 2:30 at Rebekah Hall with fifteen members. President Mrs Ronald Carter led plans for a Christmas party for Helping Hand and lodge members on December 19 at the hall, followed by a social. Rosemay Dewey arrived yesterday from Indinas Estate Teachers College to spend the holidays with her parents Mr and Mrs R S Dewey.
Young host John David Shotebarger marked his eighth birthday with a home party yesterday. C W Shotebarger showed movie cartoons, followed by a munch and ice cream. Guests included Nila June Davis Donna May Crowell Donna Sherwood Sally Joyce Ruffner Billy Brown Bill Storer Don Wood Dick Staples Mary Shotzbarger and the birthday boy received gifts.
The St Edward's P T A met with a small group and president Mrs Thomas Burkhart presiding. They planned a Christmas treat for five school children to be given December 21 in the morning and discussed purchasing a T B bond.
Mrs E L Morrow of Norch Center entertained her bridge club at home last evening with contract bridge and prizes won by Mrs C W Jones and Mrs J H McCracken. Delights included refreshments. Next meeting set for December 21 at Mrs Horton Davis on West Congress Street.
The possibility of a nationwide Montgomery Ward walkout hovered over the Christmas shopping season as WLS demanded Ward comply with wartime WLB orders from 1943 and 1944. Samuel Wolthok of the Retail Emploees Union said the group is ready for an economic showdown with Ward in about 500 stores and plants.
In Harrisburg Rep. Herbert P. Sorg says the GOP House will lean on individual loyalty to retain a 105 vote majority for key bills in the 1949 session. He urges members to attend all sessions, noting 92 of 108 were present for the party vote despite severe travel conditions from snow.
A daughter was born last evening to Mu and Mrs Paul Meerdink of 555 East Main Street at Cory Hospital.
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