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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1932
Page
4
Community plans a sewing event at the church on Friday May 13 with tasks to do and a noon dinner served. Also Emmanuel Guild meets Thursday at 2:20 PM in Parish Hall with refreshments and important business urged. local ads note oxford shoes for sale at 1.95 a pair.
City and Vicinity announces early seed peas 2 lbs for 35c and Campbell's beans three cans for 19c. Meadville water supply extended by sinking a well near existing wells. Local notices include shop ads, a fatality in South Bradford, and various community events.
United Press reports that Senate and House leaders met in a Senate cloakroom and agreed to expedite essential pending legislation to adjourn Congress by June 19 without returning after the Chicago conventions. Speaker Garner and House Minority Leader Snetl met with the Senate party leaders and vowed a heroic effort to adjourn, said Senate Majority Leader Watson.
The Cunard liner Berengaria grounded momentarily while entering Southampton waters but was refloated and docked. Passengers from New York included the American women’s golf team for matches with Great Britain plus notable figures such as Mrs Glenna Collet, Miss Maureen Orcutt, Mrs Leona Preasier Cieney, Miss Marion Hollins, Mrs Harley Higbee, Miss Virginia Van Wle, and actor George Arliss. The golfers said they knew of the grounding after docking and displayed a white rabbit given by the Southern Women’s Golf Association. Miss Hollins praised the team as perhaps the best yet sent to England.
A federal suit seeks one million dollars from Lawrence P. Fisher, Cadillac Motor Car chief and GM vice president, claiming payment for valuable paintings. Howard Young Cullieries Inc. filed the action in Detroit on May 11.
A delegation of fifteen to twenty men from First Presbyterian Church Corry plans to attend the Erie Presbytery rally at Cambridge Springs next Sunday. The event aims to discuss forming a men`s league with sessions at 2 PM and 7 PM. Speakers include Dr. John McDowell, Rev. McDonald, and President Ketler, with attendees from every Erie Presbytery city.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid society will hold its May meeting in church parlors Friday afternoon May 13. After devotional and business, it will become a reunion birthday party with a late supper. Six members have birthdays this month and the senior guest is Mrs Margaret Clark who turns ninety four on May 24. All members are urged to attend and bring a ladle and an item for the circulating basket. This is the last meeting of the season before summer vacation. The June meeting will be at Whittlesey Cottage Findley Lake.
Governor Pinchot appoints George Kime of Ridgway to the Valley Forge Park commission and HH Denniey of Corydon Waren county, as trustees. Kime replaces Edward F P Beale of Strafford while Duntley replaces Raymond H Brown of Brookville. Beale and Brown’s terms expired.
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