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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
2
Local brief mentions a sausage and pork joint roast, Smucker’s apple butter sale, and Woolworth style notices. Mentions Emporium Easter egg hunt with 1,460 eggs and a Fried Williams event organizer. Also cites police routine prints, car crash near Sheffield, and memorials, with various ads and upcoming local hearings and sales across multiple towns.
A jumble of local items notes Mrs Frances Pang a high school faculty member at Corry hospital with good condition today, a bedroom wallpaper sale at Holly's, obituaries for Cait War vataran and George Hatine, election plans for two races, a May school election, window shade estimates, special agent E J Spears of the U S justice department, Mequville tonight, Easter nine days away, cleaning services offer, and remarks by Rev Father Moore linking war to propaganda and national business.
Mr W By Ganmell from Pennsylvania State College extension leads two meetings in Erie County next week on sheep management including drenching docking and castration. Attendees will learn handling tips and solutions to common problems. Meetings are Tuesday April 4 at Frank Close Farm Fairview 10:00 a.m. and Tuesday April 4 at Brady Skelton Farm Edinboro 1:00 p.m.
Rev E L Wagner of St Pauls Lutheran preached on Shall I Crucify Jesus at the noon Lenten service for Jamestown and Falconer churches. Rev Gordon Bergin presided, Philip Sheppstedt gave an organ recital, and noon services are planned at Holy Trinity church next week. Yesterday’s service featured Rev Hjalmar Swangon of First Lutheran as speaker at the same venue.
Alvin Percy Kane of Fairview, 18, was sentenced by President Judge Jilles Kitts to one to two years in the Western penitentiary and then paroled to Probation Officer Hadid Dundon and Glenn Manchester of Fairview. He pleaded guilty to breaking into George Garver’s home in Fairview on January 28 1998 and taking $26.04 in articles. Manchester said Kane will be employed again. Judge Kitts warned of severe punishment for further crimes.
An old classified style ad promotes Thompson's Barosma Compound Tablets to relieve mysterious pains by cleansing and stimulating the kidneys. It claims quick relief from backache and urges demand for genuine tablets, priced at 50 cents at local drug stores.
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