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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1934
Page
8
Harrisburg reports indicate nearly every county will be represented in the state finals in Harrisburg on April 4 as part of Pennsylvania Education Week centennial observances. County superintendents will select each county's best speller with preliminaries and a county final, using words drawn from metropolitan daily papers.
The Masume Temple assembly hall overflowed for Corry City Chapter Eastern Star benefit card party. Thirty eight tables hosted contract and auction bridge with funds raised for the chapter. Honors awarded to Mrs Harriet Clough Mrs W Jones Mrs W A Steen Mrs M L Brown and Morris Chapin for contract and to Mrs Mary Murray Mrs Edward Jerome Mrs Wickwir k and Dr A G Rees for auction. Mrs P G Wood received the special gift. A committee led by M Guy Atbey arranged the event and a served dessert course ended a pleasant evening.
United Press reviews span several spring releases. Jamies Hilton’s Without Armor follows a war correspondent into Siberia and a doomed romance with Countess Adraxine, while George Seldes’s Vatican history offers unprejudiced insight into Church operations, Mussolini ties and censorship. Charles L Clifford’s Too Many Boats adds post at a Philippine army post intrigue, and Anthony Adverse publisher Farrar & Rinehart return Hervey Allen war memoirs Toward the Flame. Nolte memoirs in Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres gain new edition notes by Burton Rascoe.
Evening classes are canceled tonight and Friday due to the Milk Fund entertainment at the Junior High. Advanced shorthand shifts to 8 pm Monday, bookkeeping to 8 instead of 7, and beginning classes move to Tuesday at 8 o'clock. In Worcester, Massachusetts William Bancroft touts his horn yoke oxen Diamond and Spark as a field power, claiming it gives the oxen strength like a tractor.
A Detroit reader testimonial praises Thompson's Barosma Tablets as the best remedy for bladder weakness. The ad claims cleansing the kidneys removes poisons from the blood and prevents sideache and bladder trouble, listing a 50 cent price at drug stores and urging quick use.
A Catholic laymen’s meeting to plan Boy Scout activities in the Erie diocese will be held tonight at the Lawrence Hotel. Rev Walter J Conway will host with representatives from Bradford Ol City DuBois Warren Sharon attending along with regional and deputy regional Boy Scout officials. The diocesan lay committee led by Rt Rev John Mark Gannon will be present.
In western Pennsylvania thousands of game birds are buried under heavy snow and face starvation. Dr. Samuel H Williams of the state board of game commissioners urges statewide feeding expeditions. Organize efforts, distribute grain and seeds on ground cleared of snow, and notify the commission for acknowledgement.
Erie March 1 Roy Holmes 40 North Girard stands trial in Ashtabula County court at Jefferson accused of aiding in the embezzlement of Williamsfield township school funds. State alleges Holmes helped former clerk D R Morse siphon nearly 5000 dollars. Morse already sentenced to one to 21 years. Witnesses include bank records of 1987 and 1993 checks to Holmes and Williamsfield school board members.
Malaria bearing mosquitoes seldom travel more than a mile from Memphis, according to the city health department.
Corry will host the Highland Towns Association of Erie county for a dinner meeting at the Hotel Corry next Monday at 6 30. Delegations will arrive from St Inboro Union City Mil Village and other towns. The program includes talks by Fr Lou Rodgers and Chief Brown. Loveland will emcee. Music by the Perry orchestra. President J J Desmond will preside. Tickets are on sale and local members are urged to attend.
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