Recent Beaver Dam wedding shower and local notices
Hazel Marsh hosted a kitchen shower for Mrs. William Lord of Union City with guests from Union City Elm Proctorville and Corry. Funeral services were held in Beaverdam cemetery for Pred Peterson of Union City. Northwestern Electric Power Board officials moved Major Leland Culbertson of Meadville to a farewell banquet at Riverside Hotel in Cambridge Springs. The 4 H Merry Mixers Club met at Mrs. Ivan Miller’s home with Miss Richards Erie explaining this summer’s project. Numerous local visits and gatherings are noted among families in Union City Spartansburg Erie and surrounding areas.
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Beaverdam
Dime 18
Pred Peterson
Union City
Iasi
Into
Northwestern Jital “Electrification Association
Leland Culbertson
Meadville
Riverside
Cambridge Springs
Major Culbertson
Day Proctor
Proctor
R. E A
Ivan Miller
Miss Richards
Erie
Jesmone Swan
June Jones
Charlotte Marsh
Georgia Mulgin
Cranesville
Florence Fond
Corry
Annie McDonsell
Merle Cummings
Gon Charlie
Mari A
Pittsburgh
Uffdtown
Carol Firth
Khiar Skith
Spartansbury
Norman Maynard
Leo Jones
Edward Totman
Cash Smith
Walter Proctor
Virail ‘Terbell
Wild Howitt
Lynn Sill
Glenn Stead
Spartansburg
Charles Swan
Julius Paykoy
Waterford
Herbert, Shreves
Leonard Davis
Robert Mitchell
Davis
Billy
St. Vincent's Hospital
Harley Marsh
Spencer ‘Thompson
Cory
Floyd Marsh
Glenn Summierton
Bumajo
N.Y
Merrit Bowen
Martha Proctor
Polly Miller
Sharpsville
Georgia Malvin
S. R. Lyons
Paul Wille
Teepleville
Wal Yer Proctor
W. H. Cummings
R. Lyons
Pomona Grange
Wattsburg
Clarence Slye
Rexford LeBaron
Shreves Ridge
Hywel Marsh
Evelyn Tarbell
Proctorsville
Harold Shanton
Merle Tarbell
Merrill Bowen
Charlotte Skiff
Spartans Ture
Normen Maynard
Ruscelling
Hazel Marsh
Huth’Smith
Mildred Prebble
Lionise Smith
Medeline Prebble
Celler
Salvage drive uncovers old rubber caches
In a nearby mining community a salvage drive reveals a pile of abandoned rubber from Heliteman Manufacturing. Men, women and children guard the heap as bins of salvaged rubber fetch one cent a pound and attract an army of prospectors.
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Associated Presa Shamoein
Heliteman Manufactring Company
Philadelphia
Woman Killed as Car Overturns Near Bruin
Virginia Herrick, 22, of Bruin died when the automobile she rode in overturned on Route 68 between Bruin and Parkers Landing. Two Bruin women, Mary Jarvin and Masine Skinner, were injured but not seriously. Driver Robert Hagan and passenger Kenneth Johns, both of Parker, were uninjured. Police report the car drifted off the road, hit a telephone pole, then overturned.
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Virginia Herrick
Parkers Landing
Oil City
Bruin
Virginia B. Hetrick
Mary Jarvin
Masine Skinner
Jarvin
Major Elmer Kincaid Arrives in Europe
Cablegram confirms Major Elmer J. Kincaid Jr. has safely arrived in Europe with US forces. The item notes the convoy's large contingent and references the famous World War I “Big Bertha” cannon as a historical contrast.
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Elmer Kincaid
Europe
Bime
O. Sayguis
Uriweeter Street
Elmer J. Kinchid, Jr
Bertha
Priedrich Altroops
Big Bertha
New Furlough Plan Follows Big July Call
Union City June 19 The Erie Induction Station will delay switching to the 14 day automatic furlough plan until July 16. Greensburg Philadelphia stations began this week while Harrisburg Pittsburgh and Allentown switch July 1) Wilkes Barre and Altoona wait until July 15. The new plan guarantees a 14 day furlough for all civilians accepted at induction centers, with Army paying homeward travel and return trips. Inductees may decline furlough and go directly to a reception center.
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Union City
Erie
Board
L. H Burkhart
Greensburg
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Allentown
Wilkes-Barre
Altoona
Erle
Army
Joseph W. Brown to be buried Saturday
Deputy Coroner R Lawrence Davison announced burial arrangements for Joseph W. Doc Brown found dead at the European hotel. Interment is expected Saturday at St Pauls Lutheran cemetery with no services planned. no relatives located to assist or arrange.
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R. Lawrence Davison
Joseph W
Doc) Brown
St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
Brown
Wirom
Book Notes by Joan Seley on Masters and Others
The review column discusses Udgar Lee Masters The Sangamon and Warren Blea’s Fiddle Longspay, praising strong passages yet noting narrative clumsiness in Longspay. It also covers Quentin Reynolds Only The Stars Are Neutral and Oliver La Farge The Copper Pot, plus geopolitics works by Robert Strauss and assorted mystery titles by Carter Dickson and Francis Beeding.
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Joan Seley
Udgar Lee Masters
Farrar & Whinehart
State Highway Department
Iit
Higar Lee Masters
Spoon River
Itiuois
Sangamon
Tarver
Hoy
New Salem
Sangammon
Ivy Masters
Findle Longspuy
Warren Bleasoe
Little, Brown
Warrett Bledsoe
Mr. Bledsoe
Longspay
Purl
Louis Roederer
Quentin Reynolds
Random House
Olver la Farge
Maughton Mifflin
Oliver la Farge
Herman Ife
Comyplert
Persnettive Mimis
Nas
Priniter
Ton Ts
Hhode Island
Yatkes
Hayward
Rhode
New Orleans
Banke
Tom
Ton
Carter Dickson
Dickson
Morrow
Francis Beeding
Harpers
Ruth Aged Waller Teague
Corlland Fitzsimmons
Cape Cod
Percy Peacock
Professor Peacock
Mr. Fitzsimmons
Stooge
Prehotory
Particwar
Bear Creek namesake linked to Boone family legend
Bear Creek in North Carolina reportedly derives its name from Squire Boone and his son Daniel who, according to local lore, killed 94 bears there in the first winter they lived along the stream.
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Bear Creek
North Carolina
Squire Boone
Daniel
Quizzed in 1937 KinZur HoldUp
John Rice, 3, retuned from Rockview to face trial for the 1997 Erie marist hold-up on the Kaum Custer city road. Rice linked to the Paul Russell robbery. previously arrested for burglarizing a railroad station and sentenced in Elk County to 4 to 8 years. After five years he was recaptured and is jailed in McKean County.
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Elk County
Stephen Banks
Kate
Robert Bamer
Smethport
McKean County
Young Man Found Dead Near Sherman in Pasture
Leland Ploss, 24, lived on the Sherman Steadman road and was found dead in a pasture on the family farm after a Wednesday evening search. Coroner Samuel T. Bowers ruled coronary thrombosis as the cause. His father and younger brother were killed in a 3 years-old auto crash at the Sherman railroad crossing.
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Panama
Leland Ploss
Sherman-Steadman Road
Ploss
Samuel T. Bowers
Harley Ploss
Sherman Railroad
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Harbor Hall School
W. W. Conley
Christian and Missonary Alance Church of
Herbert Lindstrom
Barbary Thompson
O. A. Johnson
Plana
Conlay
Amy
Mead Park
Melvin Amy
Northwest Street
Rey. Forest Amy
Son Howard
New Richmond
Guy Amy
Rena Pettit
Rootville
Candice Thomas
Cecil
Lincolnville
Bert. Willis
Myra Wright
Martha Lamona
Shirley
Lottaville
Alvi
Mar- Jorlé
James
Virginia
Frederick Fisk
Charles Army
Joseph W. Brown
Blalin
Churchill
Reynolds
Midwell
Chutchill
Beaverbeouk
Harriman
Hopking
Robert Btrause-Mape
Putnam
David Lloyd George
Vieters
Robert
Strauss-Rupe
Ro Strauss-Hope
United Nations
Liz
Bet
NEW
Everett Nei
John Rice
Rockview
Sherman
Lippincotts
Eaton E. Goldthwaite
Duell, Sloan & Peurney
Aes
Evie
Pinkhams
We Bayers
Sac’ Freezone
Tbs
Epsom Salt
Phillips Fill
Magnesia
Dorn
Lapart Mineral Oil & Agar
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