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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1935
Page
3
A jumble of items notes a postponed board meeting, car sales figures, theatre party plans for 260 needy children, and a Rex theatre program with a Christmas dinner. It also reports weather outlook, bond issues in Butler area, hospital updates, and liquor board projections for next week.
Harrisburg action reports substantial progress in marketing graded Pennsylvania potatoes. Growers in key counties form cooperative grading groups to boost local demand for high quality produce. Grading demonstrations led by extension specialists aid meeting market grade standards, with pooling crops to reduce costs and ensure uniform quality for major outlets. Graded sales paid growers 10 to 30 cents more per hundredweight than partly traded stock.
Two new WPA projects will start soon in Columbus township Warren county announced district WPA offices. One project employs fifty men on a federal aid highway program five miles east of Columbus on U S Route 6. The second project with eighteen men covers painting and repairing eight Columbus township schools. Men transfer from the Columbus street project and the West Spring Creek highway job, both completed.
Christmas season notes from Bear Lake area schools highlight an operetta The Christmas Time performed by grade pupils in the high school auditorium and a Panama bound student group. Local families share visits, illness recovery at Corry hospital, and recent church and club events. Community members travel for holiday events and attend Midweek prayer and Townsend meetings.
Harry L. Pennell, a 24 year old from Merville Pennsylvania, confessed to fatally shooting a man near Marionville during opening day deer season. Judge DV Arvind, in Tonesta County Criminal Court, withheld sentence until December. Pennell was arrested last Sunday by state troopers after the body was found near the shooting scene.
Erie December 21 Mayor James P Rossite was unanimously elected chairman of the committee of arrangements for the Jackson Day dinner to be held at the Lawrence hotel Wednesday January 8 one of the nation wide dinners in honor of President Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson first Democratic president Arthur Colegrave was unanimously chosen honorary chairman The selections were made at a meeting of Democratic men and women of the town and surrounding towns representing the various Democratic auxiliary organizations held Thursday night in Room 621 Commerce bldg
Delaware? no. The article reports that Pennsylvania has averaged one motor vehicle death every ten minutes for ten months, with a daily death toll prompting the governor's highway safety council to target zero fatalities by 1883. It notes broad support from city, county, and law enforcement leaders and a call for stronger enforcement of existing laws to reduce crashes and injuries.
In Tampa Florida six policemen face charges over the fatal flogging of Joseph Shoemaxer. Judge Harry N. Sandler to hold an immediate hearing after a Superior Court order. The move comes as the Florida Supreme Court issued the order yesterday.
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