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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1939
Page
8
Showery weather permitting a Carry High band concert is set for City Park at 7 30 this evening. The blustery notes follow a string of civic events and local updates across the community.
Harrisburg reports show that in 1928 most women sent by courts to Pennsylvania county prisons were for larceny, with 102 convicted as such. The study notes age patterns, racial breakdown, and regional sums, listing counties with lower or higher female confinement.
Wednesday Clean Up Day at Spartansburg urges residents to place rubbish at the curb in solid containers for free collection. Only one trip will be made along the street and all items should be out by 7 4. The Sparta High Junior Class rehearses for the play Barley is Bed Barley to Rise to be shown Friday evening May 12 at Sparta Grange hall with a large cast listed.
Counties Porter Schuylkill Susquehanna Tioga Union Wayne Wyoming showed possible commitments to the State Industrial Home for Women at Muncy, with Muncy reports not yet analyzed. Philadelphia led with 214 commitments, Allegheny 72, Beaver 24, Dauphin 23, Lancaster 13, Washington 12, Blair Lehigh 10, Cumberland Lackawanna 7, Chester Northumberland 7, Luzerne 4, Erie Lawrence Westmoreland 3 each, Armstrong Lycoming Somerset 2 each, and single commitments in Butler Cambria Carbon Clarion Crawford Delaware Franklin Greene McKean Mifflin Monroe Venango Warren.
Funeral services are conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of Mrs. Harley Marsh at 240 Johnson Street in memory of John A Munsee aged 88. Rev E Ray Harris of the United Brethren in Christchurch officiated. Interment followed in Watts Urls cemetery.
Services were held this afternoon at 2 o clock at the home of Mrs Bertha Kuertian 149 East 21st street Erie in memory of her grandmother Mrs Ellen Peet 90 widow of the late David Peet and formerly of Corry who died Sunday after a yearlong illness Rev Wayne Furman pastor of Simpson M B church Erie officiated Interment was in the Pine Grove cemetery She was a longtime Corry resident before moving to Erie last year survived by daughter Mrs Clara Middleton of Union and two grandchildren Mrs Bertha Kaneman Eric and David Middleton New York City
Local men corral coyotes in a roundup styled after old horseback drives, spurring concern that the coyote population is being hunted in the Merced region. Authorities have not yet issued formal statements on the effort or its legality.
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