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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1931
Page
3
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Bradford, Pa. November 17 Regulation shows a shortage over $105,000 in the accounts of Webster G. Drew, former city treasurer. J W Brown reports $50,000 from bonds used as surety and $7,500 from brokerage accounts. After bonding and stock recoveries, net shortage to city around $48,000. Drew also accused of $122,000 shortage as school treasurer with 25 cited instances of misused funds dating from 1928 to June 22 last.
US industries increasingly establish branches in Canada following tariffs. Dispatches note over a hundred new Canadian plants opened in 14 months, with firms like International Harvester and Westinghouse resuming work in Hamilton. Factories run two shifts in Guelph as GM Ford Studebaker and Chrysler plan to expand, while railway orders rise in Sydney and Sault Ste Marie. Canadians report improved trade balance with the United States despite Hawley Smoot tariff.
Washington notes on John N Garner as a likely House speaker in December, with readers debating the scope of his upcoming duties. The piece describes Garner’s public accessibility, personal appearance, and the looming checks from President Hoover and a potentially narrow party majority.
English instruction notes common misuses and mispronunciations. The article presents guidance on words like apprehend and simile, with examples and advice to expand vocabulary through daily study. It promotes using a word three times to claim mastery and encourages recognizing fear when apprehending danger.
Marquis de Lafayette laid the cornerstone. The Alaskan trade passes through Seattle. A precinct is the smallest political division of a county or a city. A gallon of water weighs 8.18 pounds. Thebes houses Egypt’s most famous ruins.
Dr Clendening presents exercises to improve sitting posture for students and sedentary workers. It covers spinal alignment, pelvis and hip movement, and muscle engagement with several routines performed on a table edge or chair to build a straight, supported posture.
On Center street crossing North Corry a cutter drawn by a horse was struck by Buffalo Division train No 62. Gilbert Crook aged 80 of Donation Hill died instantly. the cutter demolished, Crook hurled to the roadbed, horse uninjured.
Jim and Joe start 480 miles apart and meet after six hours. Jim’s speed exceeds Joe’s by 15 miles per hour. Determine each man’s rate.
Forty four members gathered Monday afternoon at Mrs. G F Cronin’s North Center street home for a Head ers club study session. Mrs. Alice Sandburg led the program with papers on Millett and Carol and readings on artists Inness and Joshi. Next meeting set for November 22 with Mrs A O Sandburg Weight Street. Two hundred seventeen Buffalo division Pennsylvania Railroad workers attended a safety meeting at the City YMCA Monday evening.
John Champion, a Black man, will stand trial again in Supreme Court on December 8 before Justice George A. Lark for the May 21 shooting death of Percy Hatchet in Champion’s home. The prior jurors deadlocked at the June term after hours of deliberation, with most favoring acquittal.Hatchet, with a criminal record in the county and South, had allegedly made improper advances to Champion’s wife, and on the day of the shooting Hatchet allegedly threatened Champion, who claims self defense.
Ripley November 17 James Thompson 25 cvape picker and former sailor is alleged to have stabbed three men and fled under darkness after a quarrel over grape picking with Verle Fimmerman and Alphonse Sciacca at Ralph Day’s Ripley farm. Paul Brown 30 lies in critical condition at Hamet Hospital Erie Pa. Police comb the 100 screw of wood near the barn where the affray occurred.
Rev. John Dembinski pastor of St Casimer Roman Catholic Church Erie died Monday from injuries suffered in a Wednesday automobile accident. His brother Rev. Peter Dembinski of the Church of the Assumption Sykesville Pa will celebrate solemn requiem mass at the funeral Friday. Born in Poland he studied at St Bonaventure College and seminary Allegany NY and was ordained in Buffalo in 1908.
Seventeen members of the Mentor Club gathered Monday evening at Mrs. H. D. Wilcox's East Main Street home for a brief business session led by president Mrs. Clara Hillsteam. Reading of current events by Mrs. Elinor Griswold pleased all, with Miss Elizabeth Ranney presenting papers on Education and Character Building and Mrs. Wave Perkins discussing primary reading methods. Refreshments of sandwiches were served by the hostess.
Ola visa of Hasson Heights was rushed to Oil City hospital after 10:20 AM Monday with burns to hands and face from hot tar spilled on him atop a ladder. Karlie, a worker for Franklin firms Houser and Gyder, slipped while carrying tar, causing the spill. Adjournment noted to meet December 7 at Maple Avenue home of Mrs. Florence Paulson.
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