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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1943
Page
4
Vague sports note hints at Yankees standing in the American League and a possible clash with the Cardinals. Fragmentary text suggests past performance and upcoming games but no clear events or outcomes.
Mrs Elwyn McCray hosted at her sister Mrs Wallace McElroy s North Center home to honor Sandra Fae Kebler on her second birthday yesterday afternoon. Valetine s Day decor and a party favor for each guest marked the event. Refreshments included ice cream birthday cake and milk with guests Janet Rae Muckinhaupt Sandra Cochran Roger Sheehan Beverly
and Bobby Horstorff, Dicky Pitts, Paul Wanthuis, Janine Nichols, Bobby Bill, Suzanne and Sally Fol lett, Roberta McCray and their mothers, and Mrs. Ida Skellie, Lit tle Sansa Fae received a number of the gifts honoring the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Ganster, Miss Norma Ganster and T. Seamens, of Meadyilla, were week-end guests of Mb. and Mrs. Arden Rockafellow and family of East Church street. Mrs. Arthur Horiman of Butler is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hasbrouck for a few days.
Radio schedule lists NBC and CBS daytime and evening programs including Shores of Tripoli at 8 30pm with Margaret Spears, Don Voorhees, and various features like Fireside Vox Pop Gildersleeve and Bulldog Drummond.
Walter McElay hosted a dinner at his North Center Street home honoring Gilbert Hoffman of Lawrence Park who is leaving soon for training with the Flying Cadets at Miami Beach Florida. Guests included Mr. and Mrs Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs Albert Mann of North East, Mr. and Mrs Elwyn McCray and Mrs Skellie.
About 250000 people live on Martinique a Caribbean island covering 485 square miles. The figure highlights the island’s dense population and small area.
Miss Mary Gravina hosted a Park District era gathering at her West Church Street home. Guests included Mrs Ward Baumbach and Mrs James Foley along with several Misses Amelia Jackson Marie DeMauri Rosalie Hopkins Rose Jackson Katherine Anh Meade Pauline Berner Frances Feeney Elune Patterson. They enjoyed an evening of bingo and cards. Amelia Jackson and Rosalie Hopkins won awards. Mrs Baumbach received gifts and a pink and blue salad lunch was served as the hostess arranged the table decorations.
The Methodist church in Union City united Mrs Eliza beth Holler Litz and Freeman L Millspaw Saturday at 730 pm. The couple used a ceremony, the bride wore a gold dress with black accessories, white carnations in her bouquet, and attendees included Mrs Richards Morton of Corry and Mrs Paul Millspaw of Union City. A wedding supper followed at the Millspaw home and the pair will reside in Union City where both work at Aero Supply Mix Co Inc.
Sunday afternoon’s community sing at the Senior High school auditorium featured a dramatic war sketch portraying how the next generation might see the present conflict. The program opened with an assembled chorus directed by H Lynn Rice, with Mrs Rice as accompanist, then a Red Cross Blood Donor Service feature followed by Walter H Scott, chairman of the City Defense Council, who spoke about plans to erect a memorial hall for Corry boys in the armed forces. The play was written and staged by TF Lowe Edwards from the Junior High faculty, with actors including Charles Monroe and Maude Barnes. The program included vocal numbers, poems and music selections, and a tableau presented by the Junior High group, interspersed with violin, trumpet, and other musical numbers. a large audience attended under the Victory Speakers Bureau auspices.
Don Lundy hosted a small gathering at his home Saturday evening to honor Miss Mary Jean Mooney who leaves for nurse training in Pittsburgh and Olin Bracken Jr who will begin military service soon. Guests included Helen Molk Ross Perry Pat Kinney Olga Dubrosky Barbara Ann Keppel Paul Weber Bob Cogswell Jim Tandy and Pete Duprasky who received gifts from friends.
A series of birth notices from Corry and surrounding towns report newborn sons and daughters born Sunday and yesterday morning at local hospitals. Recipients include Donal and wife in Clymer, Wilbur and wife on East Main Street, John and wife, Sheehan, at 981 Spring Street, Roger Fenno of Union City, Archie Willis of East Washington Street, and Sgt Joi Burke and wife formerly of Cony now in Butler Pennsylvania.
Mr and Mrs G A Larson hosted a double birthday dinner at their Jamestown home on Thayer Street for Egal Watt and Katherine J Watt. About twenty attended the noon meal with five hundred played later, prizes won by Mrs Whitcomb and Dick Lindgren. Gifts were given to the honorees. Mrs Weil was honored again when Mr and Mrs Lincoln Tarson hosted a buffet luncheon in Jamestown with twelve guests including J Jackson Wall who joined his mother. Mrs Wall received a silver set from the group.
President Franklin D Roosevelt completed the Casablanca mission trip by train and air, returning to Washington after seven days since Casablanca ended. He is the first U.S. president to fly overseas during wartime, and he met Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in Natal to discuss survival of the Americas and future safety. The journey included Natal Trinidad and Miami so a special train could carry him to the capital.
Fragmentary notice mentions beer, men, and a service call with names like Rees and Whitey. No clear event, date, or location available to confirm details.
A veteran coach and medicine expert, nicknamed Shay, will join the Bears as part of George Halas’s staff. The appointment, described as a career milestone, places the experienced coach alongside Halas’s brother and owner in shaping the team’s direction.
Fragmentary text mentions Friday events at a county arena with players and a sirgin. The fragment references March 1 as a related date and an aid figure, but details are unclear and names are obscured.
Fragmentary text mentions a pitcher from Boston and references past season feats including homers. The readable parts are unclear and names or dates are not fully recoverable.
A fractured OCR fragment hints at names and events involving a bank and internet service. The legible pieces reference a drop and possible connection to a First Star Bank, with partial names emerging amid the garbled text.
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