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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1941
Page
8
The Corry churches announce a busy week with multiple congregations listing long sermon schedules and community activities. Christian Alliance, First Baptist, St Pauls Lutheran, and St Thomas C Church detail worship times, Sunday School, testimonies, evangelistic services, and midweek prayer meetings led by pastors and lay leaders.
The First Methodist Church at Pleasant and South Center Street lists Sunday School at 9:43 with Ralph S. Dewey as superintendent, 11:00 Morning Worship with sermon A Vision A Voice and A Volunteer, 4:30 Evening Service sermon Confessing Christ, choir music, and Epworth League for youth. A dinner and social for Corry Methodist Men's Brotherhood is invited for Monday at 6:15 with Rev. Ralph Binchey as speaker. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 and choir rehearsal Friday 7:00.
Rev. J Alleh Waugaman presides at Spartansburg Baptist Church with Bible School at 10:00 A.M. glasses for all ages, morning worship at 1:00 P.M. Young People's at 4:00 P.M. Evening Gospel Service follows.
A reader listing multiple churches in Corry with addresses and affiliations. Churches named include Bethel Tabernacle First Church of Christ Scientist Emmanuel Episcopal Ananias? Center Street Pret Rapids Church and others. Also referenced are United Brethren in Christ and Seventh Day Adventist, St. Elizabeth's and St. Thomas churches among many locations near West Washington Street and Center Street.
Local church notice lists services led by Rev. H Ray Marry aigator and Rev. Eugene Donelson with sermons on The Power of the Upward Look and Love's Desperation. Radio broadcast on WITN at 8 each Sunday morning. Activities include choir, Moody correspondence class, Boy Scout meeting, cottage prayer, Bible study, and women's aid, plus Adventist and Nazarene notices and area church events.
An Ansubiatnd Press dispatch from Washington reports the army and navy expect to award contracts within the next day or two for a chain of eight naval military and air bases. The bases cover western Caribbean and Pacific rim areas to shield the Panama Canal and adjacent regions, with surveys and engineering nearly complete and site agreements with London and local authorities finalized.
Five inch snowfall over five hours blanketed rural roads in Kane and surrounding areas, closing highways at times but opening later as snow plows and cinders worked. Temperatures hovered in the 20s to near 30, with heavy drifting and hazardous travel conditions reported Friday.
William Jones of Girard pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and battery in Erie. Judge J Met Evans sentenced him to one and a half to three years in the Western penitentiary for attacking Edward Shafer at the county home near Girard on January 11. The warrant was sworn by Clyde Doolittle, superintendent of the institution, citing Jones's prior criminal record.
Partially completed Soviet census data shows eight percent of citizens over nine are literate, up forty percent since 1926. Eight point two eight percent have secondary schooling and zero point six four percent hold university training. illiteracy aimed to vanish by end of January per the second five year plan.
Bethel Tablenoun 36 Hash Church Street lists pastors Leon Penn and Charles Rice with morning worship and evangelistic services at 11:00 A.M. Beaverdam WU Church under Rev. Charles A. Rice shows Sunday school at 9:00 or 10:00 A.M., preaching at 11:00 A.M., and midweek prayer and choir rehersal. Elgin Methodist Church services and Sunday School times are noted, plus McGray’s Chapel with various spellings and supervision.
Mary North 95 widow of Joni North and Erie social figure died of pneumonia at her daughter’s home on Schley Street. She came to Erie at age two and leaves twelve daughters, several sons in law, eleven grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Funeral services set for Monday at 8:30 a.m. at Mrs. Flanagan’s home and 9 a.m. at St Patrick Church with burial in Trinity Cemetery.
An Erie county jury has begun deliberations on Elsnor Sproul s damage claim against Ralph B McCray over an auto crash March 5 1999 six miles west of Erie on Lake Road The 18 year old Meadville resident is represented by former district attorneys Movtlingr E Graham and Stuart Culbertson with defense counsel John Brooks Francis B Quinn and Roger Brown present for the defendant
The Continental Congress proposed a flag in 1777 but no all American flag graced the Capitol until 1866. Before that English made cloth appears in use.
Bear Lake notes report a Red Cross sewing session led by Mrs Low with Mir D D Balcom on Greeley Street. Members crafted a children’s dress and other items, while town residents attended funerals, visited relatives, and joined community events at Panam and nearby towns. Families move, visits span Buffalo, Jamestown, Warren, and Youngsville, with church and school activities noted.
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