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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1912
Page
3
Community club meeting postponed due to weather while local merchants advertise a major clearance sale at Lindaley’s Pharmacy and Downey’s Drug Store. Notices include updated officer installations, harness maintenance, and a tragic sled accident in Holt County with one fatality.
Report states Norbert Borkingen, American merchant, shot Saturday by a milliner, is out of danger though bullet remains in body and not yet removed. Dispatch from Pekin notes Russia pressuring China to recognize Mongolia's independence with Russian troops reportedly moving toward Mongolia.
The Maccabee lodge held its installation of officers last evening followed by a social with refreshments. New officers include Past Commander Frank Fuller Commander O S Schrock Lieut Com A B Pettit Revard Keeper F E Westley Chaplain D Roachie Sergeant John Stufflebeam Master at Arms W I Donoghue Master Guard R Rickerson Wesley Pearce Senator C Ly Wilson Picket W P Westlay Trustee three years J N Marks Member Board of Control Wu i Young.
A severe blizzard struck midnight bringing record cold and drifting snow. Trains ran late and streetcars failed to move while several schools closed and poultry shipments suffered in open cars.
Fire at Weinberg Brooks home on West Northampton street in Easton Pa caused 1800 damage early this morning. Eight persons narrowly escaped suffocation as flames spread to a adjoining building where second and third floor families slept. Firemen carried victims down ladders and they appeared in nightwear walking barefoot through the snow to a neighbor’s house.
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