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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1961
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR items reference pies and sanquets with partial contact numbers and dated listings. Details are incomplete but indicate a small ad or notice section mentioning food items and inquiries.
Mrs. Fred Mixer was chosen as delegate to attend the Northwest district meeting of The Lady Franklin Rebekah Lodge to be held in Sharon on May. The group met at the IOOF hall on North Center Street with Vice Grand Mrs. Wallace Mick presiding. Invitations were extended for a session in Erie on May 5 to help select a student for exchange. A canner was planned for May 17 at the IOOF hall, and the picnic committee was to meet in Lake City on May 6. Belden, Florence Iver, and Ethel Matthews served refreshments. The next session is set for May 16.
The Corry Memorial Hospital Auxiliary variety show on April 24 yielded more than $800 in profit. Co chairs Gertrude White and Holland Morgan led the production with Mrs. Glenn Palmer directing. Ticket yield winner team Lester Danner and Hazel Duffy sold 208 tickets and will dine June 5 in the hospital dining room. Other sellers included Mary Higgins 131, William Leaby and Gene Maloney 95, Aaron Oberman 80, James Sinare and Charles Williams 78, and W. Baccus and Mary DeLury 74.
A five-table Howell game was held yesterday afternoon for the weekly sessions of the Women’s Afternoon Duplicate Bridge Association. Average score 54. Winners: E E Hawkins and Vanssens with J Kinley 68. F H Bartholome and W Myers 63%. H J Wilcox and G Lane 86%. Mrs Myers is taking reservations for next week’s regular game.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Hudson were honored by 250 guests at First Baptist Church in observance of their 50th wedding anniversary held Saturday afternoon April 22. The celebration was hosted by their children and included floral tributes, a buffet, and a guest book. The couple married April 19, 1911, in Jamestown.
The Methodist Junior Choir Soky Wiener Roast and Junior choir entertained at Nichols Lodge with Cant group performances. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKnight served as chaperones for the young participants.
Mrs Frank Baker heads Epsilon Phi Beta Sigma Phi at her Random Road home with 12 members present. Officers were installed and more will be named May 16 at Mrs Richard Mason's Raymond Avenue home. Founders Day dinner April 29 in Erie featured officer installation for all Erie chapters.
Mrs Thames Pierotti was elected president of the 3 Beta Phi chapter of the Bete Stema Phi sorority last evening at the home of Mrs Robert Eddy in Bish Irving Kent. Officers elected include vice president Mrs Raymond Brynt, secretary Mrs Frank Wise, and treasurer Mrs Ernest Blin Mon sen. The group joined the Sisters cut the Swish with the Ep ysilon Phi chapter. A program by Mrs Betty Pratt covered Prayer Praise and Meditation from Written in Our Hearts. A dinner for new Exemplar members is set for May 16 at Deer Head Inn followed by an Exemplar degree at Mrs Robert Curtis’s home.
A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Frederick Wise of R D 3 Centerville at Memorial Hospital in May. A son born today at Corry Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Donald R Stamibro of 983 North Center Street. A daughter born last night at Corry Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs John J Bogniak of R D 1 Corry and Mrs Chester A Czech of 220 Worth Street this morning.
The Rev. Clifard J. Parsons, a British missionary with twenty years in Angola, warned a British Baptist convention that a "spirit of hatred" is sweeping the territory. He cited mass killings and mutilations by Portuguese security forces and Africans on a vast scale amid the racial strife in Portuguese West Africa.
Mrs Joan Brigham was bun nyed at a stork shower given by Mrs LaVerne McEldowney and Mr Eugene Davin on Monday evenings. The event took place at the home of Mrs Davis of Mead hanes with Indy bakery employees as guests. Prizes were won by Mrs Pred Clark and door prize to Mrs Lewis Hale. Gifts were opened and a yellow and green decor theme carried through the party with desserts, cookies, and mint favors.
Spartansburg Community Fair Association schedules a meeting at 8 30 p m in the Grange hall Spartansburg on Thursday May 4 urged attendance from all interested persons. A separate brief notes a Brooklyn corset shop robbery with seven women and two men forced to strip during a $1 150 theft.
Bear Lake area notices list weekend visits and family gatherings with Morton and Penn Morton relations in Clarendon. Attendees from the area joined the Erie District tally at Edwards Chapel Friday evening. Gertrude Newhouse is hospitalized at Corry Memorial Hospital. The Women’s Society of World Service meets Thursday at the church for 11 days, sewing quilts. Ray Carrier and family from Cambridge Springs visited Corry relatives. Families of Hunt road residents and Leon Cable’s relatives were noted visiting Batavia and other kin. Ed Cornell and Joe Hudson family visitors observed, and Elwood Cornell visited his brother Lynn Cornell and daughters Thursday.
Miss Gloria Barton, a one year old brown-eyed strawberry blond, was named the 1961 82 queen of Iwanta State University. Isi Barton, a junior from Union New Jersey, was crowned last night by outgoing queen Constance Adler of Altoona during ceremonies closing spring week at the university.
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