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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1930
Page
3
Members held a brief business session last evening and outlined plans for the Christmas party to be held December 22 at the club. Tickets for the puppet show at the Senior High on December 19 were distributed among members and other business was transacted. The next meeting is Tuesday evening to complete Christmas party plans.
Summary of 1910 items: engineers survey a new road to Findley Lake from the piste line. Wayne township commissioners urged action. Leonard H. Pasqualicchio named Italian consular agent in Wice. fire at Sands' livery stable barn narrowly contained. Hotel Jerome planned as a ten story iron and brick building at Tenth and Peach for $400,000. Climax Mfg Co. shipping a fifty-ton locomotive to Moore and West Virginia. Rev. Thomas Surtees improving after illness. Clifford Hammond promoting Corsy Department store. Everett and Belter from P R R detective force visit from Eife on business. Ben Starr to Spring Creek to set monuments.
Radio listings outline Thursday schedule with programs from Voice of Columbus WEAR NBC WABC CBS networks. Prime time features include Areairthday party and Melody moments, plus Victor Herbert's opera and Paul Whiteman's orchestra with time slots around 8 to 10 p.m. on WABC WJZ NBC networks.
Twelve ladies met at the Library for the Historical Circle weekly session despite bad weather. Mrs. Burlingame presided in Mrs Youne absence. Clara Osborne arranged the program featuring Pioneer Ancestors and papers on American Shrines and a Century of Dress with illustrations provided by Miss Emma Crook. Mrs Houghton described dress evolution. Mrs Wilcox spoke on Know the Americas.
A reflective Thanksgiving piece notes prosperity, lower prices, and fewer divorces as economic optimism grows. It mentions Einstein visiting and morals improving with better times, while also highlighting autos safety truths and a drive for licensed drivers and vehicle checks. It then discusses cheap money, wartime debt, and the desire for lower loan rates to support homes and business.
Answers list includes Mrs. W H Felton of Georgia, the reichsmark, a distorted image description, Georges Bizet, and the phrase it 18.2 British fortress.
Mrs. B. Slater a 44 year old resident of Stantboro Mercer died after her clothing caught fire from a gas grate at her home. She crawled to the door and collapsed on the porch wrapped in flames as a bystander doctor extinguished the blaze. She died several hours later from injuries.
Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 2 o clock for Duane Rasey a well known young man who died after a few days illness of pneumonia and influenza. The rites were held at his late home on West Wayne street with Rev F E Reagie officiating. The body was escorted to Spartanburg for interment in Rose Hill cemetery. Attending the service were Fred Deschamp Frank Mulligan Burdette Giffora Wranye Foreman Cleo Haight and Robert Smith. Out of town attendees included Mr and Mrs Charles Rasey and family of Erie and Mr and Mrs Bert Stockton of Columbus.
John DeVita and James Valenti were arrested near Ham burg on the Buffalo-Drie Road early Monday. State troopers found 95 gallons of alcohol in DeVita's car. They were released on $1,000 bail each by United States Commissioner Newell H. Timmerman. Mrs. Wl. Keister and others left today for Galeton to visit relatives over Thanksgiving.
A vintage column by W L Gordon teaches vocabulary with daily word focus. Today's pick Repartee means a clever ready witty reply used to strike a quick, sharp retort.
James C McElroy aged eighty three dies in Erie after two years illness. Survived by widow three daughters Mrs Avery Sharon Mrs Kees and Mrs Clyde Peeled of Greenville and two sons Clifford and Roan McElroy of Corry. Body to Alexander and Company Funeral Parlors. Funeral Friday at 2 pm from the late home 11 Euclid Street with interment at Pine Grove.
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