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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1937
Page
3
Readable fragments describe a wrecking incident on a city street dated November 9. No clear names, organizations, or outcomes are evident beyond the event being under legal review and tied to a local ordinance or enforcement action.
A community church dinner at Columbus Community church is set for 4:20 this evening. News items report a recent marriage in St Anne church between Rock Hart deputy county prothonotary and Misa Rana Fitzgerald of the county treasurer's office, noted as a local society highlight.
Harrisburg reports a new Western Pennsylvania Sanatorium at Butler will be a complete medical center. With Public Works Administrator Harold Ickes approved for federal aid, bids will be let soon for a 2,045,000 project on Robinson Farm Route 422 two miles west of Butler. The facility will serve 800 people with a five story main building, wings, children’s wing, nurses’ home, dormitories, power plant, water and sewage systems, and connecting tunnels, aiming to become a national model in tuberculosis care.
Dubois reports a man from Madisonviirg, Centre County, charged with killing a bear before legal hours. Game warden and police say the carcass appeared after 5 pm, despite claims of a 4 to 5 pm kill. Justice fines $103 and costs, and confiscates the bear carcass valued at about 30 cents per pound.
RIE Nov 29 Mrs Nellie M Munger director of the city streets and public improvements department is critically ill at home after a strenuous campaign for re election to the city council ending Nov 2 She was in her office until Nov 5 and has since been confined to her residence with an abdominal ailment developing into a serious condition.
Corry's new six room brick model home by the Hammond Elevator Co on Wright Street attracted 1670 visitors over Saturday and Sunday. Worth Hammond said the opening was a big success with steady crowds and strong interest from prospective buyers. Furniture will remain for two more days via Montgomery Ward, allowing late visitors to inspect the fully furnished home and meet cooperating dealers.
ERTS November 29 report says Erie City bought an $18,606 Seagraves fire truck from Columbus Olde. The unit was hauled by nine freight cars on the Nickel Plate line to the 7th and Holland siding and then moved to headquarters on West 12th Street between Peach and Sassafras streets.
The Board of Education will hold a reorganizational meeting next Monday December 6 with two newly elected directors Hon Cleve R Morton and Aumin Johnson scheduled to be sworn in. The present board met in executive session Saturday and will wind up remaining business before the new board takes office including selection of officers and committee assignments.
Two Lorain residents were hospitalized with serious injuries after a vehicle collision on Doty Hill, three miles west of Polk, Saturday morning. The injured are Samuel Davidson and William Holst, members of a party en route to a deer hunting camp in Forest County. The Holst car skidded on wet pavement, struck a divider, and ended in a ditch. Davidson and Holst were following.
In Harrisburg on November 29 state motor police commissioner P. NW. Foote restricted a recent order allowing red flag waving by trucking union pickets. He ordered police to arrest pickets who stop trucks with red banners for purposes other than danger warnings, calling such use a highway nuisance and noting other flags may be legally used.
Tiium reports a squirrel caused a short circuit cutting off electric lights for over an hour in a large Erie area. Traffic signals, telegraph service, and electric utilites failed across thousands of homes until workers traced the fault to a rodent.
The Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society and allied groups plan the eleventh annual campaign next spring under a slogan stressing that you means the individual family and the community. Posters and literature will convey this message to raise awareness and support for tuberculosis prevention and treatment efforts.
Corry officials expect to twin with a Swedish crown prince during his U.S. tour next summer. Rumors say Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden may stop in Pennsylvania with Warren County speculation about a reception committee and local youth involvement. The itinerary has Pennsylvania stops and could extend to Warren County.
Pharaohs ants, worse than native species, are believed to have originated in Egyptian tombs and were introduced to England via ships cargoes.
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