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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1940
Page
2
Local shop ads list groceries and delivery, plus police reports on break ins at Ridgway Rifle Club grounds and state house shed tampering. NLRB urges Republic Steel back pay claims by July 1940. Community items include church meetings, school events, a fashion fix, and a fatality in Smethport. Town notices cover weather, entertainment, and upcoming local incidents.
United Press reports Nicholas Gosby, 49, a cabinet maker who killed the divorcee in whose home he lived, was sentenced to 18 years to life in western penitentiary yesterday by Judge J Frank Graff of Armstrong County.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2:45 at the Emarwavel Episcopal church for Mrs H A Frank a well known resident killed when struck by a train at Center Street crossing Rev William J Kuhn officiated bearers listed and burial at Ping Grove cemetery followed by relatives and friends traveling from Cleveland Cincinnati Erie Rochester and other towns to attend the services
Word arrived from Clymer New York of the sudden death of Rev Leonard J Legters evangelist preacher and Bible teacher age died while conducting services in California He lived in Chambersburg Pennsylvania He leaves wife son Rev Bernard Letters and a daughter plus several relatives and sisters in the vicinity Funeral plans were announced.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Mapes Durlin 79 wife of Dr Durlin Corry will be held Thursday at 2 PM from Nelson funeral home Erie In memory she was a member of First Methodist church Survived by husband a son Arthur Mapes three daughters Grace Livermore R B Black of Evie a sister Mrs W H Caster Corry and three grandchildren Also note Conneaut Lake Park plans a nationwide broadcast Friday from Hotel Conneaut featuring Thomas broadcasts.
Retired Methodist clergyman Rev Fimk Neigh, who served Union City from 1929, died at New Castle aged 74. He led churches in Randold Rivley Dunkirk Union City and Chau Taigue and headed the New Castle district 1923 to 1928. Funeral set for 2 p.m. tomorrow in New Castle. J J Amrews Relief Corps to host a tote dinner for Red Cross sewing at Mrs Rose Wesley’s Worth Street home Thursday.
Mrs Ada Peck 56 wife of Beri Peck died overnight from an acute heart attack. Final rites set for tomorrow at 2 PM from the home of Mr and Mrs Carlton Damcott in Clymer. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs Barél Jones Thermapolis Wye and Mrs Ivy Damealt Clymer a son Walter Gringe North Warren a brother Henry Birch Lake George Minn and three grandchildren.
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