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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1935
Page
3
Regular city council gathering discussed Anaconda Copper Mining activity and district industries with financials, plus a Wendbws 80 net per share outcome for Sep. The Erie County Health and Tuberculosis Association urged Christmas Seed Sale support to fund child health programs facing curtailment.
Harold H Howard from Corry has been promoted to plant manager of Chevrolet's new Baltimore plant after heading Flint operations for a year and a half. The Corry native is active in civic groups and social circles, and will assume duties next week after a farewell sequence in Flint.
In Harrisburg on November 16 more than 80 percent of applicants to be notified for exams by the State Liquor Control Board actually took the tests. Of 2440 applicants for 20 jobs, about 100 vacancies were available. 1878 were rejected and 2031 were told to report for examinations in nine cities. About 84 percent of admitted applicants reported for tests, totaling 1726. Names of top scorers were certified to the board within a week after exams. The breakdown of examinees by position includes 219 for messenger, plus counts for janitor, matron, watchman, elevator operator, chauffeur, and various clerical roles.
Police launched a search for Edward Star ton Ryan after his divorced wife Dorothy Ryan said he climbed a porch roof window, entered her room, forced her to dress their one month old baby, and drove away in his car with the child. The couple, divorced last June, had been living apart at the wife's mother's home.
Edinboro police report a series of malicious mischief acts at the Baptist church. Windows were damaged by limbs and stones, an apple was thrown, and cabbage strewn inside on three separate occasions within days. A boy's name is noted but not confirmed. further trouble will lead to prosecution.
Chief Ho-To-Pi the Indian tenor delivered a vivid concert at Senior High School auditorium under the Lillilg Guild, with Lillian Barnet as accompanist and Robert and Jean Wagner on marimba. The program featured interpretive Cheyenne and Zuni numbers, songs like Indian Love Call and By the Waters of Minnetonka, plus genteel preludes by Waller's orchestra.
Erie officials investigate the death of a street boy whose charred body was found in a rear shack on Sobieski Street. Coroner Stroble cites brain hemorrhage from likely head trauma and questions whether a falling timber caused it. Police questioned the boy's father as two suspects remained sought. The boy, member of the Dew Drop gang, was connected to a late night beer party and a midnight run in a vacant East Second Street house.
Deaths in a two week illness at a city hospital report the passing of a Sparta Township resident born March 14, 1861 in Charlotte Center. He moved to Spartansburg to live with his son after his wife’s death, survived by three sons: James T., George L., and J K Apthorp. Funeral arrangements set with Blood and Larson and Blood-Ler Funeral Home.
Mrs. Sarah Huston 72 a well known resident near Venus died at her home at 6 80 yesterday afternoon from burns suffered when her night clothes caught fire from the kitchen stove last Monday night Family said she arose about midnight and walked to the kitchen where her night garments ignited and she was enveloped in flames.
Harry Van Camp of Girard was re-elected president of the Erie County Supervisors and Auditors association at the 30th annual convention held at the Church of the Covenant. Officers and delegates to the next State convention were announced, naming R. W. Bond, William H. Leonard, Harry G. Evans, J. W. Orton and others.
Plymouth Massachusetts Patrolman Jacob Peck asked for a night off marking his 28th wedding anniversary. The request, the first since 1918, was granted reflecting a notable exception to a long standing policy.
Mrs. Crlia Tom sal Tomasik, 88 East 1th Street, Erie, was sentenced by Judge J Orin Waite to an indefinite term in the Industrial Home for Women at Mur ty Pa after arraignment on adultery charges. The case linked to her husband Joseph Tomasi, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a related fatal beating. Miss Helen Wherle of Erie visited Corty to spend the day with her violin pupils.
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