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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1935
Page
3
Local items report Mother's Day observances and a Board of Education meeting. William A. Van Vleet named Olds distributor for Corry area. Rex Theatre revives D W Griffith film The Birth of a Nation. Hudson Motor Car reports April sales peak. nurse graduates listed. stock market activity noted.
Margaret Brown of Dunedin Florida will wed Merrill Bolton Wilcox of Akron Ohio at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Rev G B Macnamara will conduct the ceremony with Miss Beas Merrick at the organ. The couple plans a South Carolina honeymoon and residence in Akron.
Ivan Radoonstoff of Seldovia plans a voyage in a 28 foot sloop built for a sail powered only by sails. The craft will carry supplies and equipment for the long trip to the South Sea Islands.
Meadow and pasture growth strengthens across Corry and nearby areas as May showers end drought fears. Farmers expect a bumper hay crop if frosts stay away, with oats planted earlier thriving and corn and potato acreage rising despite low tuber prices. Milk output per cow in Pennsylvania hits a peak for the season, while peaches lag.
Erie taxpayers led by John Zelazny, president of the Erie Improvement League, threaten to sue the city council in county court if it does not revoke a resolution recognizing nearly one million dollars in improvement bonds. He accuses land developers of creating the debts and pledges to hire lawyers or go to the people to back the action.
Erie school directors discussed selecting a successor to John Diehl after Vander Slice faced doubts about qualification. Reports say at least two of five members shifted votes and may back other candidates as Slice’s suitability is questioned.
Four members of the Kane family on Tionesta Avenue survived a lightning strike during a four hour storm. Jacob M. Fox his wife and two sons Lawrence and Lester were in the house when the bolt hit about six PM. Lawrence felt after effects reporting a bank injury while the house sustained considerable damage. City Solicitor Moware M. Murphy questioned who funds the repairs and who benefits from the outcome.
Gaetano Di Angi a 62 year old worker at Continental Rubber in Tr ie was found negligent by a coroner jury after an elevator accident that killed him. The verdict says he stepped on a moving elevator against rules on the second floor and the gate may have trapped his foot. No eyewitnesses existed and the death occurred Monday. He was crushed when freed from the shaft.
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