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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1938
Page
3
From gas system output rising 1.6 percent to police seeking a Buffalo missing youth, the week saw varied activity. Rail and automotive data show gains while a break-in at W. Ts Want Store failed to yield merchandise. Production forecasts and counterfeit bills surface amid weather shifts and safety inspections.
The article notes a moon eclipse on November 7 with Earth's shadow crossing the moon in the late afternoon. It begins at 12 45 p.m. EST, with the initial phase partly visible in Washington and the final stages visible across North America except the far west and northwest regions.
Erie publisher and former state official Colegrove arrived from down state and will stay in Erie County through next Tuesday’s election. He predicts a Democratic sweep from county to federal races, including Earle for Senate and Jones for governor, with a strong Erie County majority and a win for Fitzgerald over Rogers in the district. He will remain on the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission through 1940.
Corry Council No. 425 Knights of Columbus will send a delegation to a FiIe Sunday meeting at 2:30 PM in Erie. Most Rev. John Mark Gannon bishop of the Erie diocese will address the gathering with a message of vital importance. Officers from districts four through twenty-six will attend. Carl Sullivan is noted as grand knight of Corry Council.
A. W. Peterson, 13, of South Bend, was held for November grand jury action on a hit-skip driving charge after police and a gas station attendant tracked his four door sedan on Toile 5 near North Hast. Preliminary hearing before Peace Justice Fred Steinford at Kearsarge Thursday afternoon set bond at $1,000.
Peter Liesko and John Payne, both of R D North Girard, were sentenced to 125 days in Erie county prison for shooting a doe out of season near Rainhorn on Tuesday. The sentence replaced a 100 fine and costs after state patrolman Mathias and Wesleyville constable Walters investigated with gloves and car evidence leading to confessions. Eb ert Fiesler of R D 1 North Girard was arrested in connection but discharged by Judge Goodwin.
Robinson Junior High students in Toledo are being trained to transcribe texts into Braille with instruction from Red Cross volunteers guiding the program for blind readers.
A Erie family of five, Clarence Ahenger 43, Mrs Stalls Ahenger and three children Botty 12 James 10 Martha Anne 6, were poisoned after eating chili con carne at home on a Thursday evening. They were taken to St Vincent's Hospital for observation and treatment, with two adults and two children hospitalized, while one child remained under care the next day. The chili is suspected to be tainted. Robert Ahenger 17 also ate but did not fall ill.
Private funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 1 4 from the Bracken Keating chapel for Mrs Harry Marl who died Wednesday at the family home on Mast Wayng Street Reverend William J Kuhn of Emmanuel Boernpal church officiated James Sullivan with Dempsey provided music singing Night Dear Interment was in Lowville cemetery Bearers listed include Boyis Capwell George Naele Walter G Arnold Frederic Kinley Myre Reynolds and Aver t Jacobs Out of town relatives attending included Mrs Ho Brimigan Harbor Creek Henry Fiesante Cleveland and Layce Brimigan and Theorire Brimigan Wattsburg Clyde Curtis Florence Evans North Mast R D 5
Pittsburgh November 5 1930 Mrs Guffey sister of Senator Guffey charged at a political speech that election of the Republican ticket on November 8 will leave Pennsylvania open to a general sales tax. She said James and his GOP colleagues favor a tax on everything bought from bread to overcoats asserting the rich avoid sales tax by shopping elsewhere.
Pennsylvania's highway program under the Taft administration reports 7,400 miles of new roads by year end. The record includes concrete and other pavements, widened roads, and 2,207 bridges built with state, WPA, and contract efforts. Total costs for 1935-37 reach 199,407,4. million, with 77.5 million budgeted for the current year. The department emphasizes safety gains and tax relief from road work, noting large local aid and all-weather surface expansions in second class townships and substantial state returns to counties from gasoline taxes.
ERIE Nov 5 A new industry to employ over 20 people within a year will start at the H N Thayer Capra Works 212 E 18th street. The Playtime Products Co contracts to purchase the plant and will manufacture children toys travelages and beds for children. The deal hinges on paying 1907 1908 taxes in full and final purchase cleared.
A judge sentenced Caldwell to five months for destroying evidence after a man named Dan Wilson reportedly swallowed a forged check that could not be used in the prosecution. The incident led to the conviction for destroying evidence.
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