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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1942
Page
5
Tips for keeping foods cold using crushed ice in a glass container, salt on grapefruit for enhanced flavor, lemon drops for tea, and pineapple in baking. Suggestions include adding maple syrup or honey to adjust sweetness, poultry seasoning in loaf, mustard on pot roast, and sugar in desserts. Notes portion meat planning with bone in veal at about one pound per person.
The Pennsylvania Electric Company hosted a farewell banquet at Mead Park for Henry Hicks who departs for the Army tomorrow. Eighteen guests enjoyed softball and other games and Hicks received a gift from the group.
Mrs John Lloyd hosted a birthday party for her daughter Carolyn Louise at their Shady avenue home yesterday afternoon. Guests enjoyed games and favors with books candy cake ice cream and sandwiches served later. Several local children attended including Anne Knowlon Dane Engle Nancy Dane Jimmie Ewe Putty Loyd Cero Meredith Joel Lloyd Laurel Briggs Anna Prank Gloria Prank and Robert Lloyd.
The annual Methodist Sunday School outing was held yesterday at Maroresan Beach Canadohta Lake with 120 members attending. Activities included shuffleboard swimming and boating. A six o'clock picnic dinner was served chaired by Ralph and Dewey with Mrs John Fuller leading the table committee.
Mrs A A Mercer was honored at a combined meeting of the Lutheran Missionary Society and Ladies Aid held at her cottage by Columbus Lake yesterday afternoon. A business session planned the Sunday School event for July 25 and postponed August’s meeting. A picnic dinner followed in the social hour.
William Hudson was toasted at a Ritz Restaurant dinner sponsored by the finishing department of Laymond Manufacturing Company. Ten attendees, including men and women employees, presented him with a gift as he leaves for the air corps Friday.
The Salvation Army Home League met in the Salvation Army hall last evening with about thirty members present. Musical solos and contests were enjoyed and a short business meeting was held. Refreshments were served and Teague will meet again next Wednesday.
Mrs Armour Hillstrom hosted a party for her children Mary Jane and David at Wright Street yesterday afternoon. Thirty-five children and their mothers attended and enjoyed swimming with Dixie Cups served.
A good crowd attended the ice cream social in Columbus hosted by the Columbus Library board. The event supported by a fundraising Sim will go to the library fund. Myg. Vernelia Page chaired the event with assistance from other library board officers.
Eyewitness accounts describe a deadly trolley collision near the rail line with passengers crushed beneath seats and blood everywhere. Ambulances evacuated the dead and injured for over an hour as Hubert Harte of Lansdale recalls the car stopping before the impact and his blackout after the crash.
Mrs William Johnson entertained her club at her East Irving street home last evening. Five hundred was played with prizes going to Mrs Jeannette Kebler Mrs Dorr Clark and Mrs Walter McElroy. Mrs Edward Jerome won the traveling prize. A next meeting is planned for next Wednesday at Mrs Jerome's home.
The Cootiettes met at the V.FW Home with fourteen members. New member Mrs Ployd Black joined. Mrs John Boland and Mrs Memie Amps were selected as delegates to the Supreme Search national encampment in Cincinnati Ohio scheduled for late August. The next Godletuns meeting is August 13 with a jarsen supper at 6:30 PM.
The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra launches the second week with Gershwin pieces and Shakespearean drama. The program features Oscar Waener and Wendell Diekel in piano works, plus Mischa Mischakoff as soloist in the Sunday concert broadcast on the Blue Network. A lineup includes lectures by Louis J Alber and Hawthorne Daniel, Good Templars observances, and a young people’s concert with James Melton.
For those with a needle the issue presents a simple boxy Josephine coat with large corduroy patches and bold stitching. The garment, stitched with coarse yarn, is described as versatile with countless uses.
A Townsend Club meeting notes a shift of the regional Townsend assembly from Harrisburg to Altoona. Dr Townsend will speak at Comeaut Park on Sunday August 23 as supporters claim broad state approval with opposition centered in the south.
The listing details NBC CBS and other network programs for the evening with talks by Defense Housing topics and public opinion. It concludes with a claim that Brigham Young Jr reportedly left 1,000,000 and had 19 wives and 57 children.
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