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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1931
Page
4
Emmi Carroll entertained Victory Ladies yesterday at her home on East Pleasant street. The gathering featured visiting and cards, followed by a formal dinner for eight. Next meeting to be a picnic with location to be announced.
In a home on Park Street Misses and Mrs. GB Keys hosted twenty relatives and friends for Clifford McElroy’s birthday anniversary. A 6 o clock chicken dinner followed by games and music entertained guests, and gifts were given to the honoree. Also noted are local ads for groceries, building supplies, and a public accident report on a broken leg near Meadville.
Teachers Colleges will offer credit courses in the use of visual materials in instruction during the coming summer session. Courses cover minimum standard apparatus and equipment and techniques for using school journeys, objects, models, and pictorial materials, in response to demands from teachers and administrators.
A compact local page lists a car service ad at Central Service Station on East South Street and various social notes. Hubert Bracken hosts a Findley Lake gathering this afternoon with a picnic, boating and other outdoor activities. Roboth celebrates a birthday. An All Penn gas sale is advertised at Cohen's Filling Stations. Community notices include a jumble of names, a March 13 meeting invitation, rent listing for 310 W Church, Baptist Church Philathen Class gathering at 520 Grand Street, and William Hanson of Mast Irving Street transferred to Corry Hospital for medical treatment.
Two men were killed when their car was struck by a Wabash passenger train at a crossing near Butler Indiana. Victims were W S H Weaver and Milton W Carey. both listed as teachers from Ashtabula Ohio. Rent receipts found in pockets indicated Ashtabula, Ohio addresses. Investigators believe confusion after crossing the tracks of the New York Central parallel to the Wabash led to the accident.
Amelia Earhart Putnam, noted transcontinental flyer, prepared to resume toward Reno for repairs after her aircraft suffered damage in a forced landing here. In Shippensburg Pennsylvania Colonel George H Stewart, 93, farm owner and brother of the late justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, died at his home late last night.
United Press reports Mrs Anne Urquhart Stillman finalized divorce from James A Stillman and wed Fowler McCormick son of El McCormick of Chicago and Rockefeller heir. The arc of infidelity accusations and reconciliations culminated in the filing of divorce in New City and Poughkeepsie after a long court battle.
A young army flier survived a 1400 foot free fall after his parachute fouled the plane. Lieutenant Shaubel in a second plane lowered a knife to free him and the student later landed in a cornfield. The man was told he failed his exam and must retake it. A baby was born yesterday afternoon to Mr and Mrs Majorima Stout of East Columbus Avenue at Corry Hospital.
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