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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
3
A 1936 Christmas season note describes warmer weather on a midweek night. Snow remains but a glazed ice and pelmetrians presence create hazardous walking in the business section as residents note slick conditions and caution.
Salvation Army presents a Christmas program next Saturday at 7 40 pm with songs recitations duets and scenes displayed in classrooms and windows on the north side inviting local residents to view the artistic work The program features students and several named participants with titles such as The Snow Man Joy to the World Silent Night In a Lowly Manger and We Love To Think among others and concludes with Come Let Us Adore Him and a final recitation Welcome Ward Satterjee
Real estate transfers include Mrs Ira Gilson Maple Avenue Blaine Kincaid Mott Street Miss Margaret Morgan and Mr and Mrs Hawley Staples Bond Street all to Henry Bachemer. Other items note Hudson Motors retail site value surpassing 109000 on December 17 1926 vs 78 745 in 1925. the week ended December 12 saw record activity since June.
County Commissioners Thomas W. Flatley and Eton Blair denied plans for sweeping staff changes before the new year. They rejected Major William Supplee’s recommendation to reduce janitorial staff and opposed firing workers. The board also discussed possibilities of outsourcing court house cleaning but with no immediate action.
Young people of the West Spring Creek church presented an enthusiastic program last evening. The feature was a pageant with Wilson Armitage Casulus Armitage and Otto Belen as the wise men. Afterward each received a candy box and gifts were distributed. The meeting closed with Christmas songs led by Mr and Mrs Lloyd Thomis.
The Junior Welfare League hosts a semi formal Christmas dancing party at the Elks Club Friday evening. Miss Virginia Edson chairs the organizing committee, with a plan for a well attended and enjoyable event lasting until 1 o'clock.
The annual Christmas exercises at Bethel Tabernacle were held last evening and much enjoyed. The program of songs recitations and exercises by the Sumay School children provided a pleasant entertainment for a large crowd. Rev. Glen Tones is the pastor. Singers include Orva Meredith Gladys Hotchkiss Florence Hotchkiss Katherine Wells Meredit Wells Virginia Mulligan Mary Robbins.
Rev L Wagner outlines Christmas morning service at St Pauls Lutheran Church with carols Silent Night Holy Night O Little Town of Bethlehem Joy to the World and congregational hymns. The choir and soloists perform with saxophone and cornet. Rev BL Warner delivers the Christmas message. The program also includes an offertory prayer and recessional Hark the Herald Angels Sing. The note adds a non sequitur about Edmond Cartwright’s power loom.
A burglar alarm disrupted a theft at Brie Grocery Store. Feliman, a 28 year old ex convict, gained entry through the roof and was captured by patrolmen in the store, then taken to the city jail. Police found a revolver, shells, and a blackjack at his home.
Christmas program at the Christian and Missionary Alliance church drew a large audience last evening. Thirty young people presented the main piece How Christmas Sets the Whole World Singing with recitations songs violin and pageant numbers. After the entertainment teachers distributed can and the superintendent urged continued Sunday School attendance.
An Erie adventurer, Kathryn Wingerter’s husband, is reportedly held captive in Stanfu in a walled Chinese city. His mother, wife, and two children are believed in Nanking preparing to return. Wingerter, long in China, previously managed Newark airport and served two terms in the Marine Corps.
An advertisement promotes Lebanon Heal Tablets claimed to treat stomach and tower parts of the body with symptoms like loss of appetite inflammation biliousness and chronic headache. It urges readers to obtain a medicine box from their local drugstore, highlighting a gentler herbal formula with no salts and no harsh purgatives.
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