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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1937
Page
5
Eighteen members met at Mrs. R. J. Fogle to hear Mrs. Hugh O’Hare discuss Willy Years In Metropolitan Opera. After business, the hostess served a satay lunch and Miss Elizabeth Rannay will host next at East Main Street.
A proposed bill drafted by the Taxpayers Morum of Pennsylvania seeks to abolish 2,600 tax collectors and place all lineal taxes outside cities under county treasurers. Reps Paul Moomaw and J P Moran introduced the measure, reviving a 1935 plan that placed local taxes in fifth class cities under county tax collection.
Local social notes list residents traveling for work and visiting relatives in Warren Jamestown Cleveland and Erie. Names include Lyle Thomas Misa Eu Hart Agnes Burkett Ray Potwin Walter Bertram Honor Maloney Ruth Raymond Jane Raymond and many others with brief movements and visit details.
Funeral services for Mrs. W P Foster were held Monday afternoon at 2 at One Methodist Episcopal Church following services at the late home 702 North Center Street. The pastor Rev Perry F Haines officiated with Mrs Haines singing Safe in the Arms of Jesus. Interment was in Pine Grove cemetery. Hearses were Justin Butters Russell Briggs Ozar Weitz John Mitchell Hubert Heerlen G T Bergman. Attending from the city were Mr and Mrs Charles Sternberg office Mr and Mrs C H Milling and son Mrs Louis Johnson and Mr Amil Johnson of War ten Pa.
The Readers met at the home of Mrs. FE Whit on West Church Street with Mrs. 1B E Love absent. A jewelry discussion and a letter from Vis C Cronin were read while Beulah Ramlj and Lilian Brown joined as new members. The next meeting with Mrs Pred U Sullivan is slated for Monday, Feb. 8.
Mrs M Costello, widow of Michael Costello, died at 88 at 8240 Hilltop Street after a period of illness. She leaves a husband, a daughter, and several brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 PM at Bracken-Keating Funeral Chapel with burial in Beaverdam cemetery.
United Press reported a missing person case in Willow Springs Missouri where a man and a woman are believed kidnapped and a $5,000 ransom is demanded. Federal agents are on the case, with arrests anticipated as investigators pursue clues. Fire threats in Paducah Kentucky targeted unoccupied homes in a residential area near the Ohio River, prompting city lockdowns and alarm.
Trustees of the Elliptist church seek permission to use a portion of Second Avenue and West Pleasant Street for construction of a new church. Architect Earl Morrison designs plan. council grants use of fifteen feet on Second Avenue and sidewalk along West Pleasant Street with a $8000 filing and safety measures. Director Dike to confer with trustees to draft improvements.
The papal household reports a festive candle presentation during the purification day rites. Flo Mangia, a member of the papal household, is noted in connection with the ceremony as part of the day’s traditional observance.
Frank J. Lyons prominent Warren County attorney and longtime Elks leader died this morning in Philadelphia. He served as local lodge president, Northwest district head, and State B’nai B’rith affilations leader, with a thirty year law practice. Survived by widow Benth Lyons, mother, two brothers Edwin N. Lyons of Philadelphia and Karl M. Lyons of Warren, and several patriotic lodge members. Funeral at St Joseph’s Church in Warren.
A fragmentary copy notes starlings invading Fort Worth Texas with scattered references to plague imagery and local observers. The readable bits mention Nessine and four references, but details are unclear due to damaged OCR and missing dates or events.
New York February 2 United Press reports General Motors declared a 25 cent dividend, a token move amid plant stoppages from ongoing strikes. Wall Street had expected more, with investors unsure of the strike’s ultimate cost to stockholders and potential recovery after operations resume. Rumors persist of U S Steel financing improvements to pay preferred stock, while market watchers debate further gains, possible pullbacks, and level bids around 100.
New York reports GM gained on late highs after a court injunction barred evictions of sit down strikers at Flint’s Fisher Rally plants in Michigan. Chrysler and GM led the buying with news tickets. market activity mixed as a broad list of corporations showed varied moves.
Springrt sld Mass Feb 2 Gmair investigated to pay a possible ose in the kidnapping slayer of 1W-year-old Charles Matt son of Taetma Wash Thibber tye used in the Mattson Kulm notes has been racath table Ro FH Smithy Danufacturing Ge hers according in investigation. Near the company's plant last June a man giving a Tacoma address was arrested on a charge of impersonating a federal officer U S Marshal John J Murphy reported.
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