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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1956
Page
5
A Mayville couple hosted a social at Lake Post My Chartuggia this summer. Attendees included Mr Joe Guile of Hutto and Mrs Jack Page with her dutchier, Mr and Mrs Twit Chamberfen of Amyematth Street, Dor Daye of Cory, and several others from nearby areas.
The Wickwire family gathered at Mead Park for a reunion on a Saturday in 1957. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Wickwire and numerous relatives, with a picnic dinner and games noted among the activities.
Armitage family gathering at Canadohta featured a sizable turnout with relatives from Corry Union City and nearby areas. A bountiful dinner followed a program honoring a long lineage including officers president Bill Colbie and secretary treasurer Mrs Herbert Laviland. a local historian served as jury and emcee.
Kiwanis Club met at noon yesterday in the Hotel Corry for a business session after a luncheon. President Howard Hatzelman outlined plans for a forthcoming chicken barbeque and next dinner in three weeks, with Division 1 of the district set to conduct the August 6 event and the visiting governor expected. In Santa Barbara a hospital case involved Mrs Finiet Cloweh and Earl R Butler explaining a two car collision amid police activity as a truck controlled traffic.
Warren County Pomona Grange No 10 will convene at 10 90 m Thursday at East Branch Grange Hall. Welcome address by Eis GC Roberts with response by David VanOrsdale and Mrs Flowle Schweitzer will lead programs plus a church devotion and medical program. Officers to be elected for two years. Evening session includes Fifth Degree and possible late class for Sixth Degree participation. East Branch Grange ladies to serve dinner and supper.
Mr and Mrs Donald Cady of North Center street hosted a Sunday Eldridge family reunion at their Union street home. About 20 relatives attended with guests from Jamestown Cassadaga Stockton Sherman and Clymer, sharing dinner and a social afternoon.
Mrs. Joseph McCray of R D 1 hosted a miscrtained birthday party yesterday for her son Rodney age seven. Sixteen boys attended with prizes won by Kenneth and Eugene McGhesney Danny McCray Larry Rose and Michael McGray. Favors included modeling clay and balloons. Refreshments of hot dogs cake ice cream and lemonade were served. Rodney received many gifts from guests.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 71, a central figure in the Thaw White murder saga, was reported to be holding her own yet in serious condition after a second hospitalization for a cerebral stroke. The 1906 case revolved around Harry K. Thaw shooting Stanford White in a jealous rage. Thaw was acquitted yet later ruled insane, dying in 1947. Also noted, there are about a half million Parent Teacher Societies members in Pennsylvania.
A domestic dispute at Winrock Farm atop Petit Jean Mountain erupts into a seven hour standoff as Barbara Rockefeller, ex-wife of a Rockefeller, claims she was held prisoner and assaulted by a Rockefeller employee. Sheriff Marlin Hawkins arrested Barbara and two friends amid conflicting statements from Ed Duniway, lawyer for the Rockefellers.
R Kent Hanson, longtime advertising representative for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, died yesterday in New York. He served as a Pittsburgh newspaper executive from 1927 to 1939 and previously held ad roles with the Philadelphia Dodger and several New York papers. The oblique closing line references a misprinted phrase.
The Northeast stays cool while other areas see rising temperatures and light rain. Readings ranged from the 40s to the upper 80s in Mt Washington New Hampshire and Phillipsburg Pennsylvania. Forecast calls for showers in the Great Lakes, balanced by mostly warm, dry conditions in the Northern Plains and Mid-Atlantic Coasts with unsettled weather in the Far Northwest and Southwest.
Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra plan divorce after a five year marriage. Gardner says a property settlement was signed in London and she will return to the United States in January to finalize the divorce. They wed in Philadelphia in 1951 and Gardner has spent much of the time abroad since October 1953.
Miss Hana A. Prindible aged 88 and her sister Loretta E. Prindible aged 75, both of Ebensburg Pennsylvania, were killed in a head-on collision eight miles south of Berkeley Springs West Virginia yesterday. A third sister Helen Prindible, 7, suffered multiple fractures.
Harrisburg August 30 31 or September 1 the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission set the opening date for an added 40 miles of the Northeastern Extension. Officials confirmed the schedule and urged travelers to expect smooth access during the launch period.
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