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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1935
Page
5
Personal mentions list Miss Doris Hinty visiting Philadelphia relatives for two weeks and returning to Corry. Several residents and visitors travel for boxing events, family visits, business trips, and short stays in nearby towns, with names and hometowns noted.
United Press reports Harrisburg November 19 that the War Department announces Major Coleman B Mark of Harrisburg named superintendent of the state military reservations at Mt Gretna and Indian Gap, succeeding Lieut Col William Hicks who held the post 16 years. Mark, relieved from active duty in the 17th Army, previously worked as a maintenance engineer for the State Department of Health. He was educated at Bullit School Lebanon American School of Lingering and Johns Hopkins University. Since 1923 he has been with the Pennsylvania National Guard and led sanitary engineering work at both reservations.
Preparations underway for a baked ham dinner at St Pauls Lutheran Church on Friday evening starting at 5 80 o clock. Mrs Hillstrom, chairwoman, with Mrs Widdahl Mrs Nagel and Mrs Hawkins lead the event. Public invited to partake. proceeds for the Ladies Aid Society treasury for the church.
The Montreal police leadership under Assistant Director Cristles Barnes has ordered a comprehensive effort to reduce the force. The move aims to trim personnel and expenses while maintaining essential public safety and response capacity.
The Corry Busidebs and Professional Women's Club held a November social dinner at Miss Gertrude Wield’s home on West South Street with 23 members attending. The group announced Playa Doolittle won turkey and Myrtle Skinner won chicken in a recent club contest and distributed the first issue of Chit-Chat, their new bulletin.
A vintage note extols Vicks VapoRub as a safe external cold treatment for children. It touts two action paths through skin and inhaled vapors, helps loosen phlegm and ease breathing, and claims clinical testing and widespread home use with the plan included in each package.
The Corry Lodge of Elk members plan an official visit for state and district officers on Thursday evening at the club home. L. D. Gent district deputy from Branidin Frank Lyons president of the state association Warren and Wilbur D. Baird president of the northwest district Pennsylvania Elks Greenville will be entertained. A class of candidates will be stated at the meeting and a program arranged. A buffet lunch will close the evening with a large attendance urged.
In Erie on November 19, Bernard Cochran WPA director faced a question on racial segregation. A survey of seventy men on a highway project by George Wuenschel found 69 preferred to remain in a unit rather than be segregated.
A Concord Ridge Ladies Aid meeting notes at Mrs Grace with all day session and meal, while Dr Edith MacBride Doster warns that automania threatens 25000 yearly deaths and many injuries. She urges driver responsibility and public cooperation to reduce highway fatalities.
In high mountain isolation the Abbe Bergere hosts a revelatory gathering with Bannister Toole and others. Talk centers on Sire’s drive to reclaim a deep parched valley, the lost river, and control of land once granted by Genghis Khan, with Whipple’s possible discoveries of water or minerals as motive.
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