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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1932
Page
8
Spartansburg report covers visitors from Meadville Erie and Waterford, pancake supper details for Baptist church, church events, Anti-Saloon League talk, Ladies Aid meeting, Lincoln birthday program, Valentine’s Day French Club notes, and local names and activities.
A Readers club session at North Central Street Manilla featured fourteen members. Roll call offered Valentine sentiments. Mrs Ragan and Mrs Robins presented papers on the history of St Valentine’s Day and the Valentines Party Dress. Mrs Sandburg read a story The Valentines ox. Mrs Wimner read The Valentins and shared school memories. Mrs Robbins read a love letter from 1760. Regret noted that Mrs Ragan missed the event. Next hostess will be Mrs Robbins on East Smith Street.
The civic group will meet monthly with Spartansburg dues led by Dent as president and Vanger Bown as secretary. Naomi Snapp visits Lyric Murdock's home while the Energetic Class of the Baptist church plans a bake sale at Doher's store on February 17 at 10 30 a m. An avcard party will aid the unemployed in the Grange Hall Tuesday evening with sandwiches and coffee after games and comforter tickets for ten cents each.
City Council again postponed decisions on new street markers for three weeks. Mayor Starr presided as a representative from Warren Equipment of Geneva, Ohio outlined samples and pledged to submit a proposal at the March 1 meeting. Bids from firms will guide how many streets are marked this year, with a push for a unified marker along Center Street and key residential streets.
United Press reports in Wilmerding Pa on February 10 that an explosion triggered a blaze destroying three homes and damaging two others in Wall near Wilmerding. Damage estimated at 15000 dollars. Two children, Zora Tarinoh eight and Mildred six, were rescued from a smoke filled house by four youths. no injuries. Fire officers say the explosion occurred just before the fire. Homes owned by John Rose Elijah Hatchett Byron Deifipsey were destroyed. The Tarbach and nearby properties were damaged. Local fire departments assisted. fire brought under control after three hours. In a separate incident Warren Mike and Vera Wolstencroft, grandchildren of Clement and Mrs. Wolstencroft, were treated for minor injuries after a car ran off Roosevelt Highway to avoid children. Patrolman Harry J. Kenyon investigated. one boy Carl Dickerson crossed the road prompting the driver to swerve.
Fire destroyed one home and damaged another in Clarendon area over two days. Brest Lefford’s home on Brown Avenue suffered about 200 dollars in damage. Clarendon volunteers extinguished the blaze. Early Sunday, Arthur Girson family and guests from Jamestown watched their house on the Dutch Fall Road Jackson Run Highway burn, all occupants escaping with only their clothing as exposure from the cold affected some.
General Yang commands Chinese forces at Woosung as bombardment by Japanese ships and artillery presses. He notes repaired guns and readiness to meet infantry, while casualties and supplies remain undisclosed. Morale holds, dugouts shelter troops as Whangpoo river ships target fort.
Mrs. V J IseSuer of Burrusel street learns her father Hans Melberg of Jamestown died in Sweden on February 4. Funeral services were February 7 with burial in Sweden. Mr and Mrs Melberg left Jamestown January 18 for Sweden. he was 60 and survived by seven children and two sisters in Denmark.
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