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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1937
Page
3
Overcast and cooler weather frames a busy week with a NYSE&G bond redemption for first mortgage bonds due in 1862. Interior redecorating underway at Citizens National Bank, and assorted local notices span licenses, scholarships, and county government actions amid a bustling paper.
The annual meeting of the Corry Hoypl vl Association stockholders will be held in the library basement on Wednesday evening June 16 at 8 o'clock. Stockholders will elect a board of directors and address any business before the session. A short session of the present board will precede to wrap up the year's affairs.
Ridgway June 1 Ayers a 40 year old father of seven held in the county jail on charges of attempting to extort cash from Dr. W A Switzer of Ridgway. He mailed two letters threatening bodily harm unless payment was made with one sent from Bradford and the other from Salamanca. G men in Pittsburgh lodged the information and Ayers will be taken there to answer the charge. Ayers lived in Ridgeway with his wife and seven children and worked for a Bramford roofing firm.
Harrisburg dispatch reports the Pennsylvania House Welfare Committee, under Democratic pressure, voted 18 to 6 to report favorably amendments to the relief consolidation bill. The measure would abolish 374 local poor boards and transfer duties to county unit boards under a new state department of public assistance, with Governor Earle and supporters confident for passage amid a bitter, pivotal fight.
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