Farm program aims to speed up farmer payments
Erie County Agricultural Conservation Committee reports plans to speed payments under the 1938 Farm Program. Secretary Wallace says efforts will push payments to farmers in volume this summer and fall, aiming for larger, earlier disbursements to aid agriculture and the economy. Participating farmers with questions should contact the county office at 308 Security Peoples Bank Building, Erie, Pa.
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State Agricultural Conservation Committee
Erie County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Wallace
County Agricultural Conservation
County Agricultural Conservation Office
Security Peoples Bank
Erie
Corry Grocers May Take Part in Believe It or Not Contest
Corry grocers and their employees are invited to submit Believe It or Not letters for a chance to win 100 dollars per entry, a fully paid trip to New York, and a July 19 broadcast appearance on Bob Ripley’s program. Entries must arrive by July 12 to Ripley, New York City.
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New York
Boob Ripley's Post
Bob Ripley
Italion Wtam
Bell
Wille
America
Ripley
New York City
General Folds
Park Avenue
Groove
Ourchrset
Installation of Officers for Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion
Mrs. Mary Sturray was installed as president for the coming year with officers including Mrs. Victor Onn first vice president and Mrs. Frank Schrader second vice president. Carries routine business, picnic planning, visitors noted, and a joint social with refreshments and cards. A white porcupine, rare in the area, was captured near Stockholm Me on the railroad section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Sturray
Ladies Auxiliary of
The
American Legion
Victor Onn
Frank Schrader
J. J. Neylon
Lloyd Stowe
Len Brown
A.L. Cartburg
Stephen Brooks
Carrie Stern
Meadville
Corey
Mendville
Laura Henle
Pomona
Calif
Union City
Neylon
George Andrus
Murray
Stockholm
Drowning Fatality in Clearfield County July 9
Clearfield County records its first swimming death of the year as Blair Peoples Jr eight drowns in Clearfield Creek near his home. Authorities report the incident and note the boy’s father is an unemployed minor.
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Clearfield
Clearfield County
Blair Peoples, Jr
Clearfeld
Bear Lake Women’s Club Meeting Ties to Local Parade
Bear Lake July events center on evangelistic meetings led by Rev Sylvester Sanford and a young folks parade with dolls banners and decorated carts. Residents and visitors from Jamestown Linesville and Corry joined afternoon gatherings at Manwaring Hall and Tubular Lake outings while the Women’s Club hosted a June 20 meeting with new officers planning a active year.
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Bear Lake
R. D, Ives
Shirley
Rey
Erie
Roger Morey
Sylvester Sanford
Hazel Belcom
Bulesm
Hazel
Morey
el Frantz
Jim
Manwaring’s
Findley Lake
Lawrence Risley
George Smith
Ivan Hawking
Jamestown
Jilly On
Lake
N Erie
Fred Blucher
Betty
Linesville
W. H. Evans
Mary Wilson
Ray Wilson
Mill Village
Sted
Merritt Smith
Harold Ayers
Albany
Ayera
Ute
J. Carr
Lyle Carter
Mars
Mrr
G.G Carter
Facily
Merle Connell
Lock Haven
Ellwood Connell
Celeron
Leon Cable
Famly
Bila Strong
Chautauqua Lake
Minnie Price
Bred Wilson
Wilson Hill
Ralph Martin
Car
Kenneth Martin
Luke Collins
Ray
Little Valley
N. Y
Harry Wilsted
Newport News
Tred Blucher
Linesvide
Dorr Clark
Corry
Pete Christensen
Clumbus
Ivan
Hayling
Emily
Lia Hawkins
L. W. Whiteley
Corr
R MecBlaney
Ar Franklin
E. 5
Frantz
116 Miles Farm to Mart Roads to Be Improved
Secretary of Highways announces a Federal aid plan to improve 110.74 miles of farm to market roads in Pennsylvania. The 1938 39 Secondary program costs about 2.08 million dollars with equal state and federal funding, covering 47 projects across at least 84 counties. If continued, Pennsylvania would gain a coordinated secondary roads network comparable to the main system.
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Roy E. Brownmiller
Aarrisbuirg
Washington
Pennsylvania
Gift To Man and Tree Hunger in Reading Scene
A short quotation collection features poems by Edgar Guest and Mrs. Leda St John from Reading. It includes Petrified Forest and The Legend of the Gift of Trees with Mrs Addingle.
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Momters
Edgar Guest
Leda St. John
Reading
Frantz
Addningle
Mariner's School at Sea Operated by Commonwealth
Dr Len er K Ade, superintendent of public instruction, announced that the schoolship Annapolis serves as a seagoing school operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for youths from state counties. Some 220 applicants aged 17 to 20 sought admission this year, with 42 graduates last year finding immediate employment aboard merchant vessels. The Annapolis, a sea-going vessel, covered 9284 miles on its last cruise, visiting Azores England and Denmark, spending sixty days at sea and thirty in ports.
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Harrisburg
Lener K. Ade
Publis Instructln
Annapolis
Commonwealth of Sennaylventa
Voolley
Merchant ‘Marine
Randidates
Wurty
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Azores
Sngland
Denmark
Thirty Lays
Warren woman dies aboard liner en route to Sweden
Mira Hulda Johnson of 2101 Pennsylvania Ave East died aboard the S S Gripsholm while en route to Sweden for a long anticipated visit with relatives. She was the wife of Jacob “Jack” Johnson proprietor of the Allegheny Hotel in Glade and left Warren on June 29 with two daughters Elva of Erie and Dilon of Toledo Ohio. The party sailed from New York on Friday July 1 intending to visit her native land at month’s end.
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Warren
Mira
Hulda Johnson
Pennsylvania Avenue
East
Gripsholm
Sweden
Johnson
Jacob
Jack” Johnson
Allegheny Hotel
Glade
Mr. Johnson
Daughers
Elva
Erie
Dilon
Toledo
Warren Jine
New York
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Cronin
Eves
Roosevelt
Palit
Roiip
Corry Grocers
Woman's Club
Wewmer Federey
Jeposte Inaurands ‘Corporation
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School At Sea
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Cide Ave
Sun Tan
Hobson's Mosquito Cream
Ae Reeses
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