Christmas dance and holiday events fill Corry Union City area
Christmas shopping peaks as Union City holds a dance at the Akiyuhip Club on Friday December 28 conducted by Slaw jet and his band. Corry Public School pupils begin a two week holiday, toy drive for needy children, Golden Bulls Club sale coming next week, and the state education association meets in Harrisburg to discuss school problems. Depositors face 2 and 2 per cent rate cuts due to a federal order. Mildred Biler of Pittsburgh to broadcast Christmas program on KENTA. Minor car accident on East High Street in Jamestown area injures no one. Chautauqua County poultry and pet stock show set for January 14–19 in Jamestown. Freight trailer accident in Union City injures no one. Shortest day of the year noted by World Almanac. winter begins Saturday at 7 50 AM. Roy A Holmes conviction upheld. icy sidewalk fracture for Mrs. Quinlisk. Snow removal along North Center Street. Corry Christmas tree lighting Friday and daily through December 20. Rex theatre program with Sismere twins disappointing.
Christmas Entertainment At St Edward's Friday Night
St Edward's school presents a two part Christmas program in the parochial hall at 8 15 pm with a children’s recitation and a high school staged melodrama Rachel the Leper Maiden. The event features a large cast of students and music by Mrs Sullivan and Colletta Burkhardt.
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St. Edward's School
Rachel
Mary Jean Sullivan
Mary Anne Sullivan
Mary Migliaccio
Mary Kathryn O'Day
Frances Sonchik
Frances Hadcox
Anna Morris
Betty Lou Griffis
Dorothy Mixer
Mary Ondus
Patricia Rhynard
Dolores Riley
Mary Kathryn Miller
Margaret Sonchik
Jennie Pierre
Tad
Raymond Earry
Omer
Agnes Hadock
John Dempsey
Paul Dempsey
Mary Jester
Eileen Cragg
Donald Crag
Mary Smith
St. Joseph
John Malone
la Tiny Reynard
Naomi
Marguerite Zarbo
Judith
Gertrude Gaffney
Sarah
Dorothy Bensink
Walter Hyots
John Hadock
Robert
McGraw
Harold Walsh
Elizabeth Mixer
Levy
Walter Hopkins
Isaac
Ralph Flick
Levite
Theodore Sarmtel
Reuben
Willam Ruland
Simeon
Charles Costella
David
Alfred Morrison
Daniel
Quorbert Bachemer
Shepherds
Robert Swan
Martin Ressler
James Mead
Paul Pourney
Angel
Dorthy
Mary Elizabeth Hopkins
Wise Men
Robert Brigham
Angelo Zarhoy
Invisible Choir
Bertha Jackson
Mary Jackson
Marie Neylon
Charlotte Cournen
Frances Peterson
Josephine <Olanoski
John Jane
Catherine Aeek
Thomas Crane
Mary
Ethel Jackson
Rose Jackson
Agnes Xasver
Isabel Ondus
Helen Ruffner
Lowell Wiggers
Gerald Neylon
James Sullivans
Misa Colletta Burkhardt
Value of Penns Crop Shows Big Increase
Wheat prices rose 77 percent and rye 68 percent. Barley yield was the largest in history but 10 percent lower per hundredweight than 1982. Average yield reached 170 bushels per acre. Government contracts cut tobacco acreage this year. Apple growers reported a fairly large crop of high quality fruit though freezes reduced peach production to a record low. Pear and grape crops remained small for the third year.
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Pennsylvania
Gas Fumes Fatal to Two Painters in Jamestown
Jamestown report of December 20 states Oscar Gustafson aged 45 and Emil Johnson aged 40 died of asphyxiation from fumes from an open gas stove in Gustafson’s Crescent Street room. Mrs Hilda Stilwell the rooming-house proprietor found the two men seated, fully clothed, around 10:30 a.m. Coroner David Lincoln ruled accidental death by asphyxiation. Both were painters. three hot plate burners were burning with all windows and doors closed.
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Jamestown
Oscar Gustafson
Emil Johnson
Gustafson
Crescent Street
Hilda S. Stilwell
Fred Stilwell
Rooming House
David Lincoln
Christmas Baskets For Needy Families Packed By Catholic Daughters
Christmas baskets for needy families were to be packed by the Catholic Daughters of America in the K of C rooms this afternoon. Members were urged to contribute, with baskets left at Mrs. P. G. Wood or Mrs. Mary Murray. Inclement weather reduced attendance at last night’s meeting, where Mary Murray served light refreshments.
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Catholic Daughters of America
Mary Murray
Christmas Exercises at Presbyterian Church Friday
Presbyterian Sunday School presents a Christmas program at the church Friday at 7 30 p m featuring recitations songs and a cantata Tell Us What Is Christmas The program opens with a prayer by Rev Gilbert L Boyd and includes performances by children and the Sunday School Choir with pieces such as Wondrous Story Merry Christmas Jolly Old Fellow Away in a Manger and Santa Claus plus a dialogue and the cantata Tell Us What Is Christ.
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Presbyterian Sunday School
Presbyterian Church
Gilbert L. Boyd
Donald Dickinson
Marilyn Wallace
Joan Petit
Santa
Burton Jourdet
Santa Claus
Nancy Cook
Margaret
Jean Spencer
Donald Cox
Veleda Barton
Carl Cox
Barbara Smith
Marilyn June Haight
Christise
Mary Jourdet
Hazel Knowlton
Erie to Fight Tax Decision Over 1933 Assessment
United to challenge Judge Copeland's ruling that would legalize Baldwin brothers real estate sales and destabilize city and school district finances. An appeal will be filed within days with arguments before the court of bane and then the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. City officials plan a formal council conference and expect the decision to threaten the tax system.
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ERIF
Wedness Way
Charles D. Copeland
Baldwin Brothers
Copeland
Bane
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Edward M. Murphy
Rossiter
A. J. Stewett
Thomas Mehaffey
Former Corry Resident Mary Gunthce Dies in Tiona
Mary V. Gunthce, wife of Michael Eastlee, died Tuesday morning at her home in Tiona after a long illness. Born July 30, 1869 in Corry, she was the daughter of Patrick Griffin and resided in Ti ona for forty five years. Survived by five sons James William of Tulsa Olde Ronald and Merle at home and Floyd of Pittsburgh. Also two brothers Daniel Griffin of Ripley and Thomas Grillo of Billings, Mont.
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Mary V. Gunthce
Michael Eastlee
Tiong
Bar Home
Jong
Decensed
Corry
Patrick Griffin
Tiona
Song
James
William
Tulsa
Olde
Ronald
Merle
Floyd
Pittsburgh
Daniel Griffin
Ripley
Thomas Grillo
Bililings, Mont
Fish Linked With Disappearance Of Boy
New York report states Albert Howard Fish, 64, identified at Tombs Prison as the man seen with a boy tied to the missing Billy Gaffney case. The Westchester grand jury indicted him for murder of 10-year-old Grace Budd, with link evidence from trolley motorman Joseph Meehan who identified him from a lineup of elderly prisoners.
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Sy United Pres
New York
Albert Howard Fish
Tombs Prison
Billy” Gaffney
Westchester
Grard
Bim
Grate Budd
Wish
Gaffney
Joseph Meehan
Dorcas Class Christmas Party Attended by Members
Members of the Dorcas class of the Duran City Methodist Episcopal Church gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Pruey Whitehead on Bun t Menkant Street for their annual Christmas party. After a brief business meeting led by President Miss Ruth Wetmore the program featured violin solos by Marie Bennett with Noor Johnson on piano vocal selections by Mrs Merrill Lillie and Mrs Brice Thomas, a reading on Christmas customs, and a gift exchange around a decorated tree. Hosts Mrs Whitehead and others served veal salad hot rolls Christman pudding and coffee to thirty one members and seven guests including Intus Hazel Hanly from Syracuse and a misplaced phrase about Irish in This Country.
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Te Duran City
Methodist Episcopal Church
Pruey Whitehead
Bunt Menkant Street
Mies Ruth Wetmore
Marie Bennett
Noor Johnson
Merrill Lillie
Brice Thoma
Ralph Dewey
Beatrice Shaffer
Lie Ule
Perry Haine
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Funders
Chautauqua County Poultry and Pel Association
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Union City
Roy A. Holmes
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New York Exchange
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