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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1940
Page
2
The engineer John W Hilt of the New York Central train, who collided with the Commodore Vanderbilt at Wickliffe last January, has been removed from service. Assistant Superintendent J J Brawley said the engineer was withdrawn from service after a company investigation and formally dismissed February 3.
George Kul chydki Sr 63 of Farrell was struck by a car and hurled into a roadside ditch by WPA workers. Farm bureaus expand in Tompkins County New York with first returns on 1930 Farm Bureau memberships, marking the largest membership since 1921. Reruns from all counties expected by year end.
A Woarton Echo report from Wiarton Ontario touts a pig mother owned by George Hargrave of Egremont as Mother of the Year for bearing 43 piglets in less than 11 months. The pig produced 27, 14, and 12 piglets on January 26, July 8, and December 12, with all surviving except three and only three needing hand feeding.
The Economy League will publish a detailed two year analysis on local revenues and the growing stock of unpaid school taxes. Superintendent Ralph Dewey plans to present a two year financial and administrative forecast at Monday night’s board meeting. Immediate action on budget policies is anticipated to shape winter and spring discussions.
City and vicinity items report household goods pricing at Pure cane sugar 10 T6s.46c milk 4 cans 25c and other groceries. notes on a ward illness at Warren General Hospital, a Chamber of Commerce meeting about an industrial prospect from New Jersey, Valentine dance plans, police questioning in Butler, a obit for Ward B. Gulderteen of Russell, WPA street stone work in Ridaway streets, a Sterling milk ad, and a $50,000 hospital gift pledge toward a $135,000 fund for a new addition and improvements at Christian H. Buhl Hospital. Also listed are a truck fire in Russell, a new bus connection from Corry to Pittsburgh, upcoming meetings, a car showroom, and various local notices.
This year's first typhoid fever case was reported to the city health department. The victim is 16 Mrs. Janette Mead, 40, of 511 Parade Street, mother of two, per Dr. James R. Smith. She was stricken January 22 and admitted January 28 to St. Vincent Hospital. She was diagnosed with typhoid fever this week.
A Columbus meeting formed plans to raise funds for buying new fire hose and to station it with the city fire department. Petitions will circulate next week in Columbus township for public donations to equip hoses for local fires and aid to the Corty fire department. The group also aims to organize a Columbus Volunteer Fire Wate Ment to bolster protection and possibly field its own apparatus in the future.
Two New Orleans men have patented a time switch device to save on electricity and telephone bills. The unit uses two cylinders and a plunger with a thimble screw to adjust the descent time. It has been applied to switch off display window lighting and to disconnect telephony after a three minute idle period.
A fragment from a Jamestown era page notes Lanston's new games end old, Mrs. Henry Buhi of Uppland five improves after a serum, Mrs. Martha Jane Bridges observes her 96th birthday, and local notices include a flu season, a postmaster application wave, and a civil aviation hearing set for February 10 in Washington involving All-American Aviation with Jamestown among six routes.
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