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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1922
Page
6
Advert reads sales or trade offers for red cockerels from a Rhode location near 27 S N Center Street Wel, with contact details and price terms. Includes mentions of bricks and cash options and potential trades for livestock.
Classified glimpses show several rental and job item leads. Furnished sleeping rooms listed near 135 Mott Street with inquiries about a garage. multiple ads seek help in farming, milling, bookkeeping and office work, plus a mortgage notice and an administrator’s sale at a local farm with detailed livestock and equipment for sale.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a book and a person named Lultheut and a wholesome companionship. It mentions a yodel, POWs, a stable, Lucia Vent, and a year ago. The readable lines are garbled and offer no clear events, places, or outcomes to determine a concrete news item.
In Dunkirk on December 26 a probate decision by County Surrogate Warner S. Rexford favored Miss Sarah Durand of Westfield in interpreting the will of Mrs. Marietta J Barney who died July 25 1821. Property valued around 25000 was at stake with Miss Barney’s son Frank dead a month after his mother and his heirs challenging the will’s provisions. Attorney Thomas P Heffernan argued the Durand clause intended partial bequest to Miss Barney. Ottaway and Munron opposed. A petition for construction was argued at Mayville and Rexford ruled for Miss Durand, with possible appeal.
A three year old Md child playing with matches set bed clothing ablaze in a dwelling owned by George Carroll on Oak Grove street. A railroad employee, unnamed, leapt from a train into the hotel and threw burning clothes from a window, likely saving the home of Guy Pall’s family from a serious fire yesterday afternoon around 8 15.
The tug Cornell and its eight crew remain untraced after four days. Cleveland vessel men suspect a fire on board, with no boiler explosion found by inspection. Air mail search orders were issued, as four tugs failed to locate any sign of the vessel on Lake Erie.
Jamestown report details Will J. Pike of Ashville who faced a weeklong drinking spree. He hanged himself in his barn using a rope and a ladder, leaving an empty liquor jug and a glass half full of whiskey at the scene. Authorities note the death followed heavy alcohol use.
United Press dispatch from Steubenville reports prohibition agent Charles Bliss, 45, found murdered in an alley early today. A telephone tip led Mayor and two officers to Bliss with a steel jacketed bullet in his heart and two more through his head and right hand. his own gun apparently used. Money missing. Bliss had earned many enemies enforcing prohibition law.
More than a hundred couples attended a dancing party at the Armory hosted by J. J Harden. Rathbun's orchestra provided music for the event, with dancing from 9 30 to 1 o'clock and guests reporting a very enjoyable time.
Oil Creek Road notes recount visits and holiday gatherings across Corry and Spring Creek. Names include L. D. Whiteley, M. A. Logan, May Whiteley, Ellen Kipp, Roy Lillie, Sarah Belknap, Sarah Mitchell, W. D. Mitchell, and Harold Armitage among relatives in Corry, Dunkirk, Warren, Eldred Center, and Titusville as families exchange Christmas greetings and celebrate birthdays.
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