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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1947
Page
3
A stove fire intended to prepare a wedding anniversary party gutted the home, driving Mr and Mrs Egil Strahon and their 19 year old grandson to the rain. They escaped upstairs amid dense smoke and aided by firemen who confined the blaze to prevent spread to nearby structures.
A fire Thursday afternoon destroyed the home of Mr and Mrs Hunter at the Tidoute lease site on McGraw road in Tidioute. The Hunters and their three children escaped with no belongings saved as neighbors and relatives began aid efforts. The blaze started in a clothes closet while the husband was at work and the wife was in the barn. a 47 year old boy inside got out safely.
A Falconer village house owned by Frit Balder burned yesterday afternoon when an oil cook stove flared, destroying the Kimball Stand home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Balder and their three sons. Loss is about 6,000 with partial insurance on the house. furniture insurance status unclear. Mrs. Balder, alone at the time, tried to signal passing motorists but failed. no phones in the area.
A new series of prenatal classes sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and the Chamber of Commerce starts in February at the Municipal Building. Six 50 minute lectures are led by a trained Public Health Nurse, Fridays on the second floor with no charge and approved by the Corry Medical Society and the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Also included are treasury figures for January 29 showing receipts of 112,043,889.20 and expenditures of 43,495,793.67, balance 84,325,848,117.99.
Janet Platt of Corry visited Mr and Mrs Milton Blakeslee and daughter Dora Lee in Spartansburg. James Sheldon of Waterford and clan joined Mr and Mrs William Vanderhoof and others for Robert Sheldon Sr birthday dinner. Robert Sheldon Jr and family appeared, with little Robert staying on to visit grandparents. Nearby, Hassie Robinson and daughter visited Mrs Mary Trage, Sgt Paul Northrop returned home after discharge, and Bere Abraham left Corry Hospital for home.
Morning and evening worship schedules listed for Baptist and Evangelical United Brethren churches with multiple pastors. Regional Sunday School times named. News notes welcome three new students Donna, Norma, and Inez McKain, plus ailing Doris Nichols. Junior class plans for spring play and athletic association committees for basketball concessions discussed.
Default judgments were entered in Erie county court against 17 residents to collect assessments tied to the Keystone Indemnity Exchange liquidation. The insurer dissolved in 1929 and policyholders were ordered to pay one annual deposit premium per policy. over a hundred similar suits have been filed in the county.
In Sparta gym on Friday at 7 30 p m the Sparta girls meet Corry girls in the preliminary, followed by Sparta varsity facing the Alumni. A Wednesday morning high school screening showed three short educational films.
Construction bids are invited by the State Highway Department for a new highway from Wilcox nine miles south of Kane to Lantz Corners nine miles east of Kane. The route will cut Kane off from Route 319 and remove about nine miles from the Buffalo Pittsburgh trail, shifting traffic away from Kane. The plan promises a shorter link to Pittsburgh, with Route 219 currently longer than the Route 68 shortcut by about forty miles, and the new road will save nine miles on Wilcox Buffalo traffic.
The text notes travelers through Bee on Route 219 would abandon the Hi Way here to take Route 68. A projected shortcut would follow the Wilcox secondary route from Halsey mill, cut left to Lantz Corners, and continue on Route 6 and 219 at that point.
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