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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
8
Arrangements for Aviation Day at Cheutaiqua are complete with a full program of actual air rights demonstrations and exhibits. Wilksly and other aviation notables will highlight the event.
Gil Dodds holder of the Sullivan Award and famed amateur athlete will visit Corry on August 2 to speak at a young people's rally. The event, part of a Christ For America crusade, will be at the High School auditorium starting at 3. All seats are free and open to all ages and creeds. Horace P. Dean will direct the tour, with Rev Francis Whiteman coordinating Corry arrangements and several local churches uniting for the rally.
A large gathering of about three hundred friends and relatives attended the funeral of John Crowell 15 son of Mr and Mrs James Crowell Beaverdam. The services were at the parents home at 2 pm with Rev George Mulvin of Beaverdam Church and assisted by Pastor J Hal Smith. Burial was in Beaverdam Cemetery with committal by Rev Mr Malgin and prayer by Rev Mrs Smith. Crowell died Sunday evening at Canadohta Lake. many attendees were from the youth's senior high school community.
Spartansburg residents enjoyed a busy week of hospitality as Alan Stewart and family and several others visited Mrs. Carre Taylor for her upcoming 60th birthday. The Friendly Bunch and 600 Club held gatherings at Mrs. Ernest Platt and Mrs. Rowley hosted plans for a July 12 dinner in Columbus. Numerous relatives and friends from Meadville Erie and townships shared meals, cards, and conversations, with travel to Cleveland Tucson and Indiana Gap noted. Church notes mention midweek services and prayer meetings.
Miss Adele Trimble a former Cory resident died Saturday at Fairview. Services were held Wednesday at Bracken-Kealing Funeral Home at two oclock with Rev G L Boyd officiating. Burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. Relatives and local friends attended along with a Brokenstraw Valley Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution delegation. Visitors from Union City included Mrs Lillian Osborne James Fawn and Mr and Mrs P Kine.
Erie July 6 The county home near Girard faces a planned repair program totaling about 25 000 dollars to be funded in the next year’s budget. Commissioner Thomas Schaper said delaying repairs would be foolhardy and a start must be made. Gutters porches and paint needs were identified by an investigation led by Schaper with Commissioners Darling and Flatley.
Robert W Waite two year old son of Mr and Mrs Maurice Waite of South Stockton N Y, drowned at Chautauqua Lake during a family reunion. The boy was playing near a cottage dock and apparently fell into shallow water. Coroner Samuel T Bowers judged accidental death after the child received oxygen for over an hour before being pronounced dead at Jamestown General Hospital.
Celoron Park announces a free Corry Day program next Sunday with Chief White Cloud and Princess Juanita performing a world championship whip cracking act. The park reports improvements for the season and invites picnic parties to stay all day with baskets. Coupons in the Journal offer reduced rates on meals and concessions. Brazil holds about 22 percent of the world’s iron reserves.
Associated Press reports that Arch M. Wooley, 53, shot his wife during a Chestnut street argument and then killed himself about a mile away. Coroner Luther J. King called it a murder suicide. The couple had been married 14 months and separated months earlier.
In Meadville a special session court sentenced Albert T. Knapp near Corry to two to four years in the penitentiary for larceny and receiving stolen goods. He had been on parole from Western Penitentiary when the theft occurred. Two other youths, Thomas Anderson and Mergin Process of Centerville, were fined $100 each and sent to Camp Hill Industrial School for two definite terms for burglary and larceny.
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