Voting Machines for Primary Decision in Erie County
Erie county officials debate use of voting machines for the spring primary. Commissioner Davis plans a resolution to buy 12 machines, seeking support amid mixed votes from the board. Commissioner MacLean back to the courthouse after absence aims to back the measure with two votes needed.
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Corey
Erie Styry
Erie County
Corry
Tite
Charles T. Davis
Board of County Commissioners
Davis
Daves
Witield
Iyasmuch
Commission Bugan
Ian MacLean
Court House
Abe
Warren Measles Epidemic Hits Wat tum High School
Warren March 18 The Wat tum school officials cope with a severe measles outbreak among high school pupils causing many to stay home. About 17 percent of the Friday session were absent and officials fear total cases may reach around three hundred before midweek. Homes are quarantined and two central rooms were sealed last week to contain the spread.
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Warren
Wattum
Scouts Rescue Injured Man Near Kane Cemetery
Louis Swanson, a stone mason, was found with a leg injury at Bridgeview Cemetery by Boy Scouts on a hike and carried to Kane Summit Hospital. Doctors say the leg is not fractured, though the injury worsened en route and he remains under care.
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Kane
Mar
Louis Swanson
Jews
Bridgeview
Mr. Jewett
Mr. Swanson
Mt. Jewell
Kane Summit
MacLean Returns to County Board Meeting After Hospital Stay
Commissioner MacLean attended the Board of County Commissioners meeting on March 1 after confinement at Mount Alto Hospital Washington, D. C., since the start of the year for wounds from World War. He felt improved but cannot yet obtain discharge and will return when physicians order.
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Eri
Mar
Aulan H. MacLean
Board of County Commissioners
Maclean
Mount Alla
Washington, D
Man Dies After Shack Fire Near Cobham Park Road
Burt Storum, 78, died at Warren General Hospital after a blaze destroyed his Cobham Park Road dwelling. He lived alone in the shack for years. Fire investigators suggest an oil-soaked stove explosion as the likely cause while Storum was building a fire. He is survived by sons Marshall and Marion, both of Warren.
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Ed Lowrey
W. B. Liltz
Mr. Storum
Marshall
Marion
Warren
Herman B. Getown
Herman Grown
Roscoe Knapp
Irene Peter
Pennsylvania
Stu ‘Wattren
Gertsch
Dea Fentonville
Gertsoh
Two Suicide Attempts Foiled in Erie Jail Ward
Erie Mar 18 Mike Delfin of this city twice attempted death by his own action last night. The first attempt was a hanging discovered and he was cut down and taken into custody by the police. Later in his cell he again tried to suspend himself from the bars but guards intervened and placed him under close watch.
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Erie
Mar
Mike Delfin
Init
Pla
Erie Company Suits Over Damages From Streetcar Crash
George and Ada Fell of Kelso Park sue Erie Railways and Scott Transportation in common pleas court seeking 15000 dollars after a street car collided with a Scott truck at Eighth and Sassafras. The wife would get 10000 for injuries to her spine. husband seeks 5000 for loss of her services. Additional lawsuits by Tracy J. Wilcox of Jamestown against B H Scott Transportation totaling 101000 dollars follow a January 4 drowning in Buffalo when a car hit a trailer truck and plunged into the Ohio Basin.
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Eri
Mar
George
Ada Fell
Kelso Park
Common Pleas
Erie Railways Company
Scott Transportation Company
W.E. Hirt
Scott Company
Eighth
Sassafras Streets
Jamestown
Tracy J. Wilcox
West Fifth Street
Sadie
Bernice
Buffalo
Wilcox
Ohio Basin
B. H. Scott Transportation Company
Erie
Padlock 8 Fraternal Clubs in Elk County
In Elk County eight fraternal clubs were ordered padlocked by Judge R. M. Gibson in federal court. The Eagles of St. Marys were permitted to reopen under bond, while Moose and Elks lodges in St. Marys Johnsburg and Du Bois were locked. The injunction blocks bar rooms and first floors of the affected buildings.
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Erie
Mar
Elk County
R. M. Gibson
Eagles' Cl
St. Mary's
Moose and Elks
Moose and
Rlk
Johnsburg
du Bois
Man accused of 200000 check kiting fraud in Erie case
Erie March 15 Before Judge Schoonmaker to federal court Monday afternoon the case of Robert P. Cann of Steneizoro charged with using the mails to defraud and violation of the national bank code opened as jurors were being chosen. Four counts allege Cann duped banks of about 200000 through check kiting impacting the First National Bank of Shamskin Jamestown National Bank Jamestown and the First National Bank of Hazleton. Cann was indicted in the September term last year and is free on heavy bail.
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Erie
Schoonmaker
Robert P. Canh
Steneizoro
Miles B. Kitts
Thomas W. Batter
Gibson
Cann
First National Bank of
Shams ‘Kin
Jamestown National Bank
Jamestown
Iby
Carrier Given Right To Bar Plane Deaths
Deputy Attorney General Harold D. Saylor ruled that insurers may insert a clause in accident and death policies exempting them from payment if the insured dies or is injured while riding in an aircraft. The opinion was furnished to State Insurance Commissioner Taggart in Harrisburg, March 18.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Harold D. Saylor
Taggart
Epworth League Hosts Saint Patrick's Party
The First Methodist Episcopal church youth group hosted a Saint Patrick's party in the church parlors last night for high school age members. A program of songs was directed by Rev P A Wimer, followed by refreshments prepared by a committee. The evening concluded with a final activity.
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First Methodist Episcopal Church
P. A. Wimer
Second Youth to Stand Trial in Paterson Murray Case
In New Castle Pennsylvania on March 18 the jury for Jesse Martin’s murder trial was to be chosen as court neared day one of his trial for the killing of Clark Rea of Nashannock township. Martin, with associates Charles Llewellyn William Grimm and Jack McDevitt, is tied to the January 15 Rea home robbery where Clark Rea was shot. Grimm got first degree murder with life. Llewellyn and McDevitt pleaded guilty to first degree murder with life terms. Local Epworth League gathering preceded court actions. The church improvement fund received another installment, completing the first-year pledge.
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United Press
New Castle
Jesse Martin
Clark Res
Nashannock
Martin
James A. Chambers
Charles Llewellyn
William Grimm
Jack McDevitt
Rea
Clark Rea
Grimm
Llewellyn
McDevitt
Epworth League
Church Improvement Fund
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Rogan
Chawford M- Wowk Co
BeLitt
Dean
M. H. Nelson
Seaford
Heywood-Wakefield CO
Heywood-Wakefield
R.E. Palmer Co
North Center Street
Burt Storum
Shack
Erie Company
E. H. Scott
Padlock
Cleveland
Ashtabula
Ridge
Hotel Corry
New Spring
Cretonnes
W. Park Place
Bourraise Lirg
John W. Lambing
Mutual
Westinghouse
Associated Gas and Electric System
Pennsylvania Electric Company
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Months
Fentonvyille
Russell
Lawrence K. Desheen
Philadelphia
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