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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1941
Page
2
A fragmented postwar style notice mentions an array of local items from medical salves to antiseptics, with a brief advisory on first aid for cuts and burns. It also notes ad hoc classifieds for housing, a church gathering, Christmas shopping, travel wings, and a deer collision incident, plus local sales and entertainment events.
A Warren area page lists grocery deals from Wilcox Grocery with butter, pork sausage, lettuce, and ham. notes service since 1902 and a violinist Charles Andalora from Jamestown performing with the Buffalo Philharmonic at Kleinhans Hall. local Elks meeting. October welfare payments totaling 38,078 dollars and comparisons to September. injuries from an auto strike in Oil City. plans to form a Chamber of Commerce in Conneaut Lake. church events, hunting news, and Christmas savings clubs. Also reports on deaths, coroner verdicts, prisoners from White Hill, and local road incidents.
The dispute centers on a union shop and the authority of UMW leaders. U.S. Steel favors other White House backed methods while Roosevelt faces pressure to act. Sympathy strikes spread to commercial mines, with expectations of full shutdowns in western Pennsylvania by week’s end.
Mrs. Jerome Slear of Lansdale says her husband Jerome Slear, missing since 1939 after a trucking trip, is alive in Mexicali. A penny postcard from the wreck site describes a truck trailer accident, memory gaps, and a recovering health, with sentiment of return.
Six persons were hurt when a car overturned after failing to negotiate a curve at Gorman's corners between Wattsburg and Union City shortly after midnight Wednesday. The injured, taken to Union City hospital then Erie, include Francis Fortune driver 40 Freeh Street with a fractured leg Ellen Selwig 88th and Towntine Road Jack Mosher 19 1003 Parade Street Albert Belko Erie and Norme Fuchs Brie all sustaining lacerations and bruises.
The Rev George D Strom prom director at Missionary Training Institute will speak at Missionary Alliance shured East Washington Maple Friday night November 2 at 745. He presents colored motion pictures showing the Institute site and activities and excerpts from foreign mission fields with music by Lawrence Park and Arbuckle youths.
Funeral services for Mrs Glenn N Wood were held at the First Presbyterian church in Greenville with committal at Park Lawn cemetery Jamestown Pa. Her body lay in state at the Greenville church until afternoon services led by Rev Boyd and Rev Jones. Attending from out of town were Norman and Cynthia Wood of Franklin Miss Ethel Wood of Cleveland Mrs Mary Dickson of Ridgway and others. Bearers were former Greenville classmates. Members of Orry Chapter Eastern Star attended. Mrs Wood, stricken with infantile paralysis in 1939, had lived in an iron lung until her death Sunday morning.
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