Spring meetings and events fill local notices
Soil conservation meeting for Corryard farmers at the Municipal Building this evening. Anniversary of the Lusitania sinking noted 1915. Rusty Reuben Radio Band to perform next Tuesday at White Swan ballroom Wrightsville with round and square dance and floor show. Expenditure figures include Pennsylvania and Texas exhibits for upcoming openings. Pennzoil exhibit planned in OK City. Rex theatre drew crowds. Petticoat Fever boosted receipts. State tax and oil production figures cited. WPA and unemployment debate airs on WJZ. Frank Gary Cooper marks 85th birthday. Wattsburg seniors present Mary Gold to raise funds for wiring. Forest fire risk noted with dry wool conditions. Erie County taxes Exemption plea by American Legion Dinner C. Carrier Post. Route 20 resurfacing planned. Police arrest at Washington Lunch. Federal Power Commission hearing delayed to May 15 on Clarion River projects.
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Corry
Rusty Reuben
White Swan
Wrightsville
Pair Sentenced to Two Years in Venango County
Franklin May 7 Three principals arrested in raids on houses on tr ie Street last February were sentenced to terms in the Allegheny County workhouse and the Venango County jail when they were arraigned at sentence court yesterday. Sentences also were meted out to others convicted or who pleaded guilty at the April term of Quarter Sessions Court. Lessie Jones was convicted of selling untaxed liquor and pleaded guilty to keeping a disorderly house and was sentenced to a total of two years in the workhouse and fined 400 and costs. Richard Jones pleaded guilty to keeping a disorderly house and was sentenced to one year in the county jail and fined 100 and costs. A similar sentence was imposed on Gertrude Steiner. Edward Shut Unger pleaded guilty to driving an automobile after his license was revoked and received one year in the county jail and a fine of 75 and costs. He was paroled on a similar charge last November, and Judge Lee J. McCracken revoked this parole in imposing a new sentence. Perry Gilmore of Irwin township brought into court to be re-sentenced after being convicted of procuring arson was sentenced to serve from four years in the Western penitentiary. Huxpert Marl Mongomery of Van and R. Sandrock of Venus were sentenced to three to 80 days in the county jail and fined 78 and costs each on charges of driving while under the influence of liquor. Harmful bomb sent Curley Boston May 7 Governor James M. Curley who received an apparently harmless bomb by mail Tuesday said today he had been informed that similar bombs addressed to him had been intercepted at the Burling-ton Avenue sub-postal station.
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Franklin
Trie Street
Allegheny County
Venango County
Lessie Jones
Richard Jones
Gertrude Steiner
Edward Shut Unger
Lee JA. McCracken
Perry Gilmore
Irwin Township
Western
Huxpert Marl Mongomery
Van
Sandrock
Venus
WPA Payroll Figures Hit High in Pennsylvania
State WPA payrolls reached 4 878 601 23 for the week ending May 1 21 State WPA Chief Edward N Jones reports total wage disbursements since the start of the program at 81 732 601 23 Employment rose to 252 503 on 3621 projects with 24 566 workers on 1181 completed projects New pay scale raises wages May 1 with 50 cents minimum for unskilled and 7 65 72 cents hourly for semi skilled skilled and technical workers In twelve counties project workers will earn 48 40 09 rate Vacancies totaled 2 808 as resignations since September reached 48 557
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Worksrogress Administration
Pennsylvania
WPA
Edward N. Jones
Jones
State Federation of Labor
Greene
Bedford
Walton
Potter
Tiege
Cameron
Sullivan
Forest
Clarion
Juniata
Perry
Pike
Card Party Planned by American Legion Auxiliary Authors
Lloyd Stone chairs a committee of ladies planning a card party at the Brick House Monday at 8 pm. The event benefits the Legion Home and features a five hundred auction and contract bridge. Awards will be given and the refreshment committee of Mrs. J. J. Neylon and Mrs. Frank Gravino will serve lunch. reservations with Mrs. Stowe.
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Whren
Lloyd Stone
Cnairman
American iLegion Auxiliary
Brick House
Legion Home
J. J. Neylon
Frank Gravino
Stowe
Alleged bootlegger fined over $500 in Smethport
Howard M. Kilmer of Bradford paid 580.70 on liquor law violations in Smethport. Federal agents had seized 100 gallons of alcohol from him in Bradford on April 28. Kilmer pleaded guilty before Judge Charles G. Hubbard and was fined 300 with 58.70 costs, or three months in jail. he paid the fine.
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Smethport
Howard M. Kilmer
Bradford
Kilmer
Charles G. Hubbard
Young Man Held As Police Hunt For Girl
Lillian Morrison, 15, of 212 Wh, 24th Street, disappeared from home a week ago. William Bartlett, 21, of 117 East Leth Street, was held on serious charges after police arrested him on a warrant. Bartlett admitted being with the girl in the past two weeks and asked for a chance to search the city for her. Policemen Harold Raymer and George Wolfenden made the arrest at 16th and Holland Streets. The Morrison family father, James Morrison, pressed the charges. The case remains under police investigation.
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Lillian Morrison
24Th Street
William Bartlett
East Leth Street
Thie County
James Morrison
Morrison
Harold Raymer
George Wolfenden
Bartlett
16Th
Holland Streets
Lyle Orr
French Creek Road Straightening Approved in Accordance
French Creek New York May 7 The French Creek Mack's Corners road will be straightened following the latest survey. The town board decided the change serves the public interest. The route runs in a straight line from near the brick schoolhouse west of Url Smith's store to the Roy Davis residence.
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French Creek
N. Y
Mack's Comers
Url Smith
Roy Davis
New Era Club Plans for Rummage Sale
Twenty two members of the New Era Club and four guests met at Miss Winifred MacLees home Wednesday evening. Plans were laid for a rummage sale to be held May 15 and 16. Dishcloths were distributed for sale by members. Devo tions led by Miss Helen Fordyce. Mrs Gilbert L Boyd reported on the Erie Presbyterian meeting in Warren. Mrs W C Cox and Mrs Robert Dole spoke on the magazine Five Continents. Games and contests, led by Miss Ethel Beckwith, were enjoyed. awards went to Mrs S Wallace and Miss Hazel Merker. Tea, cream and cake were served by the hosts.
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New Era Ci
Winifred MacLees
Lab
Devo- Honals
Helen Fordyce
Gilbert L. Boyd
Erie Presbyterian
Warren
W. C. Cox
Robert Dole
T He Magazine
Ethel Beckwith
S. Wallace
Hazel Merker
Annual Meeting of Cemetery Assn May 11
All Pine Grove Cemetery Association members are urged to attend the annual meeting at the Bracken-Keating office Monday evening May 11 at 7 o'clock. Fifteen directors will be elected and other business transacted. An organization meeting will follow the election. James Gilliand plans to introduce a chivalry ordinance in Honolulu requiring firms employing women to supply seals for signing by the hostesses.
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Cemetery Ass'n
Te Pine Grove Cemetery Association
Bracken-Keating Company
At & O
Fire destroys factory and homes in Manheim
United Press reports a fire sweeping Manheim caused extensive damage including a three story sawdust factory, four houses gutted and four more damaged. Firemen from Manheim and three other Lancaster County towns battled the blaze with losses estimated above twenty thousand dollars.
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United Press
Manheim
Lancaster County
State stands high in eradication work Harrisburg May 1 1914
Pennsylvania ranked fifth among states in cattle tested for bovine brucellosis. Secretary J Hansell French announced the state was seventh in number of herds tested with 51 03 cows tested across 5104 herds in March 1914. Only 425 reactors were reported.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Uhereulogis
J. Hansell French
Seretary of Agriculture
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Corryard
Iexpenditures
Pennzoil Company
OK City
Rex Theatre
Secretary of Revenue
John B. Kelly
State Department of Labor and Industry
Lawrence Westbrook
WJZ
America
Frank
Gary Cooper
Wattsburg High School
Mary Gold
Greenhall
Weed and Yaple
Erie County
Dinner C. Carrier
American Legion
North Center Street
North Hast
State Highway Department
Ross Mead
Washington
Federal Power Commission
Clarion River Power Company
Curley
Boston
James M. Curley
Burlington Avenue
W.P.A
French Creek Road
Chapin’s
Joncaire
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
NEW Era Club
Hestess
G. L. Boyd
Margarine
Jack Frost
Valley Fancy
Mission
TAN Roy Pork
Emipornia bArroErr
College Inn
Silver King Pow Food
Sunkist
Catafornia
Tony Bright
Ellen Clare
Pure Concord
Creece
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