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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1935
Page
3
Reports show country wide retail sales for early November totaling 22,467 thousand, nearly double the prior year. The Rex theatre hosted Shipmates Forever with high praise while tuberculosis daily deaths in Pennsylvania alarm officials.
Estimates on city needs for 1936 will be asked of council within the next week as officials study the potential tax levy and budget. A draft appropriation ordinance is to be presented for initial consideration, with first readings possible December 2.
Harrisburg reports a wide state round up of violators of the four percent amusement tax. Revenue officials will target operators with permits who fail to file returns, with penalties up to 10 percent from June 22 and fines up to 300 dollars plus six months imprisonment. The investigation covers tap rooms bagatelle halls pool and billiard venues clubs bowling alleys and boxing or wrestling events.
City Council lacks authority to act on a petition by three property owners on Johnston Street seeking extension of city water lines. Petition signatures include Harry Rithemouse, J F Anderson, and H 4 Marsh. City powerless to compel line extension. solicitor suggests amicable agreement between Corry Water Company and petitioners with no city objection if a deal can be reached.
Er ieite Thomas Thornton, 59, of West 1th Street, died at St Vincent's Hospital from a fractured skull, broken ribs and internal injuries after being hit by a car driven by Jack Sterner of Plum Street at 16th and Liberty streets. Sterner, 27, said Thornton stepped into the path of the car from the Liberty street yard. Thornton was unconscious on admission.
The past week in the interest of the Abbott Dairies, Howard Davis, George Price and Robert Damon were business visitors in Warren Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Deming of Erie spent Sunday with the former's sister, Mrs. A. L. Matteson. Mrs. Sheldon Clough returned home from a ten days visit in New York City with relatives and friends. She was accompanied by her father, AL G. Pierce, who will make an indefinite visit at his daughter's home. Miss Charlotte McKelvey attended a bridge party given by Miss Virginia Ball at her home in Corry Saturday evening.
The city agrees to store the Warren County plow in the First Ward fire station in exchange for plowing city streets including North Center Street East Columbus Avenue and East Main Street during winter. Mayor Miller and officials discuss cooperation, noting past refusals and potential delays if storage is not provided. The contract was approved unanimously, with Charles A. Shuss departing for Jamestown on business.
The City Council last night rejected two compromise offers of 900 to settle claims by Fred A. Delo that pavement work on Northwest Street caused damage to his property at West Pleasant and Northwest. Delo says heavy rain runoff floods his first floor. attorneys were hired to seek viewers.
City assesses valuation totaling 4 739 725 with ward breakdowns: First 622 080 Second 1 251 600 Third 1 214 325 Fourth 951 215. Tax revision report approved last night and certified to City Treasurer as submitted by Assessor B McCray. Value up about 2 500 from 1935 figures.
Mrs. Frank Austin of Corry, vice chair of the Erie County GOP, will open the 13th annual Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women conven tion in Harrisburg today. National chairman Henry P. Fletcher and State Supreme Court justice George Maxey will speak Thursday. Several state senators and other dignitaries including Catherine Curtis of New York and Mrs. Hannah Durham of Allentown are slated to speak, with a Young Republican conference planned.
Henry Huddleston Rogers was exonerated by a Chester county grand jury after a weeklong inquiry into the death of Evelyn Hoey, a radio singer found shot at Rogers’s Indian Run farmhouse two months prior. The jury ruled Hoey killed herself, dismissing earlier speculation of foul play and criticizing some coroner’s jury involvement with reporters. The report notes witnesses were extensive. no third parties found responsible. For sale 2000 feet secondhand cage grain yellow pine flooring and two by fours at 504 Wright Street. lost dog on West Washington Street, black, white and two months old, contact 817 West Washington Street.
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