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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1941
Page
2
A reader note mentions a first game free in Bingo tonight at 8:00 with a door prize of 6920. The fragment references cautions about responsibility for others' bills and notes vendor names Barnes & Carrig and Tanston's offering products like footwear and texproof floors.
City and Vicinity lists groceries and services with 19 to 25 cent items, local business ads, and community notes. It reports the death of Anthony Dolan in Maine at 25 after diabetes, an accident in New Albany, and various local events, sales and society notices, including dances, plant sales, and a marriage in Titusville.
Harrisburg May 2 state reports show April supply in Pennsylvania at 59 percent of normal, the lowest since 1923 except for April 1, 1923, while demand runs at 94 percent. Compared with last year, supply dropped from 90 percent to 59 and demand rose from 84 to 94 percent, marking a sharp reversal since April 1940.
In Chester, May 9, Lilue and Guy seven year old Des Iipfire rescue his two year old Alfred Earl from a burning barn. A crude torch lit by the boy to feed kitchen fires ignited the barn at Guy Farm five miles west of town. Alfred Guy saw the smoke, reached Scene and burned while trying to break the flames from his sons. Five year old Robert Guy leaped to safety from a window as flames consumed the building. Titusville's defense training program starts June 2 and runs through July 1.
May 2 Kane borough awaits a jury verdict in a $10,000 suit over a hand injury from Miss Helen Johnson of Wainst alleging damages after an incident near North Proley street. Attorney P. J. Woods and Joseph Willson argued the case with Judge Hubbard chairing. Trial began after testimony and was expected to resume within hours.
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