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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1960
Page
4
Hal Boyle lists humorous scenarios you rarely witness such as a kid tossing a snowball at a man in a silk top hat a business executive working 15 or 16 hours a day and a talking dog that speaks a non rhyming word. The piece playfully catalogs desires and ironies across professions and situations.
Beaverdam Mennont Church on Corry Pa presents a full Sunday program led by Rev Richard Hostetler with 10 am Sunday School overseen by Vernon and Maynard Troyer. worship at 11 am featuring a sermon titled Sau in Distress and the Mennonite Hour at 1 pm followed by an evening service including a joint meeting with UB Church and a film Workers Together With God. Weekday events run Mon Wed 7 pm Save Our Saviour visitation, and Thu 8 pm Bible Study and Prayer.
A 1908 Corry Journal column criticizes federal aid for bridges and programs, arguing government profits and waste plague national governance. It urges Americans to self help, noting taxpayers fund pork barrel projects while lobbyists overwhelm legislators. The piece questions Uncle Sam’s purpose and suggests renaming him George to reflect task shifting.
Clarence O Olson aged 56, a passenger on a Santa Fe train near Bakersfield, California, was killed in a collision with a crude oil tanker. Olson had been visiting Fresno friends and was en route by bus after the crash. Fourteen others died and many were injured. A Wisconsin Ripon movement in 1854 later inspired the Republican Party.
Washington reports the Supreme Court granted a petition by the Minersville school board to review a lower court ruling upholding a school regulation requiring teachers and pupils to salute the American flag at daily exercises. Nearby, highway crews repaired holes on North Center street after recent weather. A gasoline fire at Kendall Service Station started by a visitor match damaged an ornamental tree and scorched the station door.
Forty years ago on March 4 1920 Corry Jamestown Manufacturing Corporation started operations and plans to raise its workforce from fifteen to one hundred as demand grows. The Raymonds organize a baseball team and buy new uniforms. William Defler narrowly escaped injury after being struck by a pusher engine on West Wayne Street crossing. Lyle A Thomas fell from a step ladder at work yesterday and broke a bone in his left wrist.
Erie detectives and the district attorney investigate the death of Anna Pearl Jones Mc Williams a 40 year old woman. An autopsy at St Vincent Hospital revealed a brain concussion rather than natural causes prompting questions from the daughter and leading to the husband David Mc Williams being questioned by police. The coroner had initially ruled natural causes before the autopsy findings.
A community notice lists services and activities for First Church of Christ Scientist Presbyterian Evangelical United Brethren Church and surrounding groups. It names sermon topics, class times, youth activities, choir rehearsals, and meeting details at multiple local churches and associated organizations in Corry.
Mr Curiosity wonders about the small thing in the grass and whether to eat or play with it. He learns that his human master uses curiosity to think beyond mere hunger or amusement and to seek deeper meaning. The church can aid by offering a program for spiritual and material life, using church attendance as a place to learn, rest, and renew.
Corner East Washington Street and Maple Avenue ev Earl C Docherty leads Sunday School at 9 45 a m and church at 11 00 a m Sermon The Affirmations of Jesus Part VII I Am The Resurrection and The Life Evening Worship at 7 30 p m Alliance Youth Fellowship at 6 45 p m Prayer meetings Wednesday 10 30 a m Mid Week Prayer and Bible study 7 30 p m Radio broadcast on WOTR Wednesdays Thursdays and Fridays at 9 15 a m Saturday Men s prayer meeting at 8 00 p m
The Essex Street Nazarenes list morning and evening services led by Rev Paul Bowlby including 9 00 a m showers 10 45 a m morning worship sermon on The Prayer For Entire Sanctification and 7 00 p m young peoples meeting with The Sonwinners secret Evangelistic service at 1 45 p m. Saint Thomas the Apostle B C Church on West Washington Street notes Sunday Masses at 6 00 8 00 9 00 and 11 00 a m with weekday Masses 7 00 and 6 30 a m and holy day Masses at 6 00 8 00 and 9 00 a m.
A condensed view of services and meetings for First Baptist Church St Elizabeths Emmanuel Episcopal Corry Assembly of God and related parish events on West Pleasant Street Center Streets and surrounding avenues. It lists service times sermons prayer meetings youth groups and choir rehearsals including Holy Communion mass and parish workshops with weekly and monthly notices.
Sunday services listed for Clymer Methodist Church and Curting Wheelock Congregations. Clymer Methodist offers Sunday School at 2 p.m. and Morning Worship at 3 p.m. plus a Prayer Hour Wednesday evening. Wheelock Church hosts Sunday evening service at 8 p.m. led by Rev. Richard Miller with a sermon titled The World's Greatest Need. Liberia subject mentioned.
North Center Street Albert B. Neil pastor holds Sabbath School at 10:00 a m and Divine Worship at 11:40 a m Services also on Wednesday at 8:00 p m Sabbath services on North Clymer EuE Church led by Rev Burkett with morning worship at 9:00 a m Sunday School at 4 00 p m Youth meeting Thursday at 7:00 p m midweek prayer service at 8:10 p m
The issue lists services and activities across several churches. First Methodist and First Presbyterian present sermons titled First Adam Bin and The Pearl Of Great Price, with youth meets and study sessions through the week. St Pauls Lutheran, The Salvation Army, and others outline Bible studies, choir rehearsals, catechetical class, youth groups, and revival services with times, locations, and leaders.
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