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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1938
Page
9
A garbled OCR note mentions a Pittsburgh context with players Joy Butler and Shuroh. It references a local game or town event with unclear details and misread numbers, suggesting a brief sports item from the Burgh area.
A brief notice states that GH announces a gross amount of 160 dollars. No further context or dates are provided in readable text.
Erie County Pomona Grange No 4 and Eric Croels Grange No 997 to meet at Wellsburg on June 9 and 10. Program includes opening sessions, readings, talks on public morals and road side marketing, a youth banquet, musical entertainments, a memorial service, and a closing tableau. Attendance expected from Corry Grange.
Westminster College will confer honorary degrees on five candidates on Monday June 6 in New Wilmington Massachusetts. The list includes Walter Bolling Areyle No Yo Ray Bar D. Millaps and Rose ’20 among others.
Three men and a boy drowned Tuesday in the Allegheny River near Hag Station north of East Brady when a motor boat overturned. Fishermen and divers, including Walker Robinson, recovered or searched the scene as firemen from East Brady Kittanning and nearby towns joined the more than 100 residents in the hunt. The dead were Wilbur Cousins of Butler and Price and his son Jack Price of Chicora. Cousins and the Prices were staying at a summer cottage.
John L. Lambie once a waiter for the Time club was found dead early Tuesday a half mile west of Irving after a likely hit-and-run on the highway. Coroner Blood said death was probably instantaneous from a crushed head and police seek to trace his movements before the fatality. Lambie had letters indicating recent work and a wife in Denver California. State police are investigating and contacting relatives.
State Library and Museum in Harrisburg offer extensive resources for students researchers and citizens. The library houses over 260000 books on history biography literature science and government while the museum preserves Indian artifacts and state relief objects. Public instruction reports 80000 newspaper volumes including some dating to the American Revolution with lending available to all residents through reference bureaus and a law book collection. The document division archives state and federal publications and county records as well as military and graveyard documents. An extension department operates traveling libraries to extend access across the state. The museum's 9000 Indian artifacts grow through ongoing acquisitions reflecting Pennsylvania’s colonial era and beyond. Old exhibits have been renovated and expanded to showcase the state’s origin growth and contributions to arts and sciences, according to Ade.
A committee under Dr Lester K Ade Superintendent of Public Instruction set October 4 and 5 for the 1938 Education Congress after wide inquiry. The group found the first week of October best for attendance as schools were organized and under way guiding districts with crucial problems. Open wreathenallo favored the October dates for the congress.
High Band plans first outdoor concert of the season in City Park next Monday evening. Carlton Chaffee, band director, will lead the Corry Mish school band in a one hour program starting at 7:15 after assembling at the high school at 7. The concert will feature popular numbers from recent offerings and is billed as one of the finest scholastic band concerts in the city. Programs to be announced later this week.
Rev A A Bird, 60 year old Penfield minister, survived a broken neck after a Wire accident that injured him and his wife three months ago. He recovered after a month in Clearfield hospital and resumed preaching, while also enjoying his 67th consecutive fishing season in Wilson Run. Bird served 51 years in the ministry across towns including Houlzdale Altoona Wilens Townsanburs Big Run Waterford and Penfield.
A pair of peregrine falcons from the hawk family returned to their Sun Life Building perch in Montreal after nesting there last summer. Their return has stirred bird lovers and property stakeholders in the city.
Director of Public Safety Richard Rossbacher urged public cooperation in observing parking regulations after street painting. Councilman Rosshadher called on pedestrians to stay within lanes at crossings near National Bank and Clinton Street. New crosswalks on North Center Street aim to curb jaywalking and accidents while two pedestrian lanes slightly reduce curb parking at Center and Clinton intersections.
Erie newsboys walked out in protest over a price rise on Tuesday, refusing to sell papers at two plants while deliveries to homes continued. Civ circulation managers said the strike did not affect home delivery and aimed only at selling in front of the plants. On two occasions the youths entered downtown newsdealers, took papers, ripped them up, and threw them in the streets, prompting trucks to resupply stores.
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