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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1935
Page
3
Narrative fragment reports a vanished person named Phillip L and mentions a Baptist connection with a score or count. Details are incomplete, but the note indicates a disappearance and involved individuals tied to NDS WICES. Further readable facts are limited.
Wil lam Budd of 228 Willow Street Wesleyville suffers delusions after each death in his family. He imagines himself an international banker and that his car crashes and kills a woman, prompting bad checks like a $100 payment from Miss Daley Kimmel. Budd, released from an asylum in New Jersey, says he has amnesia about the checks and recalls nothing of the incidents.
ERIB June 19. City and county authorities resumed investigation into incendiary fires along the waterfront including the $400,000 blaze at the Anchor Line warehouse sheds at Holland street. The probe now includes false fire alarms. District Attorney Mortimer Graham and Police Chief George Christoph have conferred recently. New angles are being explored and arrests may be impending. Captain Paul Barclay of the Pennsylvania Railroad police has joined the probe.
Firemen of the city will visit Pope's Grove Sunday for a picnic hosted by the Stanford Hose Company. About 10 members are expected to attend with a feast, marshal ball games, cards and other recreation planned for the smoke eaters’ day out.
Harrisburg June 49 1935 The Pennsylvania judgeship race begins with petitions for primaries on September 17 and the Democratic state committee naming Barnes for Supreme Court and Myers for Superior Court. They also outline general county judicial races while praising Gov Farley and Democratic lawmakers.
A large Nash refrigerator trailer owned by Spector Refrigerator Co. of Missouri left the highway near the Nist filling station on the B P highway near Wilcox. The truck portion was recovered and towed to a Kane garage. Three men aboard escaped injury. cause unknown at the time.
Terry Dailey of Erie, a prominent baseball umpire who has umpired many games in the city, was given a job in the Erie park bureau as an laborer at 40 cents an hour yesterday.
Laurel, the state flower of Pennsylvania, begins to bloom across central counties and state forest districts. Reports from Dr James F Bogareng deputy secretary note full bloom within a week with laurel seen in Logan Pou Moshannon Bald Eagle Mont Alto Michaux and Buchanan forests and in the Delaware State Forest region including the Pocono Mountains. Roads and CCC improvements open new vistas for visitors to view the bloom. The mountain laurel was adopted as the state flower on May 5 1883.
A new bulletin from the Department of Forests and Waters details experiments since 1930 showing how other tree species are replacing the chestnut. Largely conducted in the Mont Alto region with broader testing, the bulletin numbers 04 and outlines conclusions on substitution, including applicability across the state.
Jarriburg June 19 A new public school year for 1924 38 begins on Monday July 1 Dr Lenter K Ads superintendent of public instruction announced Under school law each new year starts July 1 School boards must furnish tax duplicates and warrants by that date and apply for transportation appropriations Also in fourth class districts boards meet auditors by July 1 or within five days and complete audits within thirty days Audits copies filed with county courts summaries advertised in county papers Second and third class districts begin audits July 2 with thirty day completion Textbooks census of children six to sixteen due by September 1
Franklin June 1 nine-year old Paul Gauvel rescued his 12-year-old brother Lawrence Cauvel from drowning at Sugarcreek mouth. The boys visiting grandparents My and Mrs C F Koeller. Lawrence Jr fell into hot water twenty feet from shore and Paul plunged in to save him. Pete Persing heard the cries and aided in reviving the prostrate boy after a half hour of efforts.
John Clerke of Buffalo was fined 10 days jail for petty larceny after allegedly stealing $2 from Mary Baugher’s pocketbook at the Elm Street Restaurant. He could not post 25 or costs at the hearing before Alderman Morris Goldstein. Clerke was held by Mrs. Baugher until authorities arrived following the theft incident.
Erie June 18 coroner juries ruled two deaths accidental. Joseph Sus 50 of Hammett was killed when struck by an auto driven by Earl W Goodenow 87 of 448 W 19th St. Goodenow absolved of blame. Sus had just alighted from a car and walked toward his home. Robert Mason 60 of 855 1st Ave died after stumbling over a line into a trench near an automatic digging apparatus. witnesses said he tripped on a sewer line and death was unavoidable.
Three boys ran a shoplifting spree in West Plains taking beads lipstick Hashlights a pipe fingernail Mille socks a harmonica toothbrushes and sundry other articles. They were caught with pockets stuffed with the pilfered items and the spree highlighted the value of varied stolen goods to young thieves.
Harrisburg reports Major Nicholas Biddle announces that 38 798 acres were added to state game lands in the year ending May 31 across 41 purchases in 25 counties. The total state game lands now total 4 465 874 acres in 484 counties, purchased from the sportsmen’s fund over fifteen years at 1 674 708 dollars.
Patchen Brie, a revenue agent on the state liquor control board, was temporarily suspended during an investigation into a Vandergrift raid. Today officials reported he has been vindicated and charges dropped. Also noted: Pittsburgh actor Skippy died after a brief period of illness following a career in high school theatre.
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