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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1928
Page
7
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Columbus notes that commencement will be held Friday May 25 at the church with diplomas awarded to Vera Aiken Mildred Harwood Paul Cordia Bessie Buccuy Helen Mead and John Matako. The school closes May 28 and the alumni banquet is May 29. Mother’s Day service honored Mrs M Savage and Mrs Lydia Stranigan y as oldest mother and mother of many children.
About sixty members of the Pythian Sisters enjoyed a delightful banquet and evening at Marowbeu Hall with Mrs Jennie McCandless of Pennsylvania presiding. Kramer’s orchestra provided music during a two hour dinner, several Sisters from Warren and nearby towns attended, and Mrs McCandless received two gifts. The general business meeting followed the dinner.
County commissioners announced early summer work on a four mile peninsula road expansion. The plan, presented by Highway Supervisor Thomas Frame, seeks $75,000 in bond money for a new road on state route 88 near Wuttaburg, joining the present peninsula road to be built under state guidance. Harvey Watts, county councilor, objected to signing vouchers for funds not within county confines.
An Erie Pennsylvania engineer on the Renovo and Erie division said he stopped passenger train 8970 near Jackson to avoid striking a herd of cattle driven across the tracks by a farmer woman living nearby. He reported also nearly missing three deer as he approached Garland while westbound.
Monroe County grand jury last night returned a joint indictment for grand larceny in the first degree against George Dennis 24 and Michael Hyansek 17 both of Jamestown for allegedly stealing a $60 sedan the property of George Priel of Pittford on January 1 Dennis and Hyansek were arrested April 6 and have been held at the county jail awaiting arraignment in county court tomorrow.
An advertisement extols the cure Allenevic Number 2 for rheumatic pain. It promises fast relief with hourly dosing and urges customers to insist on the genuine product from Thomas Downey or reputable chemists. Substitutes are warned against and the ad claims wide recognition across the coast.
TAMSTOWN May 17 Charles I Fenton 22 of West Baden was seriously injured last night when pitched from a circus wagon he rode with his wife to the railroad yard. He suffered fractured ribs and a punctured lung and was in critical condition at Jamestown General Hospital. He had been riding during a wagon move to the railroad yards when a wagon tongue broke causing the vehicle to collide with a curve and push him to the pavement between two wagons.
Frederick C Field, a longtime Corry native, died at his Jamestown home aged 82. He operated a blacksmith shop before moving to Jamestown and later worked with Garber Carpet Cleaning with his son Richard Field. Survived by widow Mrs Binehe Field, three sons Richard Q Field LaVienne Wy and Herbert Ly Meld, daughter Gertrude Field, sister Mrs Carrie M Howard of Buffalo, eight grandchildren. Funeral from late home in Jamestown at 2:30.
A telegram read in the Senate campaign investigation claims a national alliance existed between William S. Vare and the Philadelphia Democratic group. Lewis Cassidey testified he did not know Cassidey and could not confirm the charge, while Sedgwick Kissler, a Philadelphia contender for national committeeman, said he knew of no alliance.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad declines to join New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads in lowering coal freight rates from the Pittsburgh district to the Great Lakes northwest. Earlier reports noted a 20 cent per ton reduction agreed by presidents of the three northern lines in Washington days earlier.
In the car Vee sits beside a troubled figure in a melodramatic panel. The strip hints at romance and comic mishap as a bank scene appears, with terse captioning and dash of humor typical of the era.
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