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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1939
Page
8
A rambling feature recounts quirky rural life with hog farming tales in Pennsylvania, references to Uncle Oscar and a giant double furrow hog, hunting season curiosities, and a visit to Peter Pershing the trotting stallion near Wattsburg, all in a rustic, period voice.
Pennsylvania farmers completed soil-building practices under the 1938 Agricultural Conservation program, improving about 1 350 408 acres. Some 56 416 farmers received conservation payments totaling 3 565 223 dollars, with further payments pending to about 126 farmers. Wheat price adjustment payments to 20 693 farmers totaled 695 280 dollars, with up to 23 000 pending to about 1 000 producers. The program has expanded annually since 1988, now covering over 113 million acres of soil-building efforts and supporting stable food and fiber supplies for consumers.
On a hot day in Pasadena Superior Court Judge Frank C. Coller invited all present to remove coats. Not one man did. District Attorney David J. O'Leary quipped there seemed a lot of mussed shirts in court. The piece then shifts to a sale of young horses at G. J. Berteges farm, noting four year old colts and the love of horses by Berteges. Visitors are welcomed at the farm.
Derith announced the death of Samuel L Lines age 74 at the home of his step son Stanley Smith in Fairview Pa. He had heart disease and was born February 8 1865 in Centerville Pa. He lived in Corry years ago worked as a yard clerk for PRR and later at Erie Lighting retiring last May. He is survived by his wife Tessera two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be at Bethel Baptist Temple Erie on Sunday at 2 pm with Rev S Franklin Logsdon officiating. Interment Pine Grove cemetery Corry.
In Jamestown on October 4 an order by Buffalo Supreme Court Justice Alonzo G. Hinkley gave 11 year old Darwin Anderson permanent custody to his paternal grandparents Fabian and Dana Anderson. The boy testified he ran away from his parents and wished to live with the grandparents who had raised him. Emmett and Margaret Anderson faced habeas corpus proceedings over lack of notice and their employment difficulties.
Barre Massachusetts officials auctioned administration of poor relief in 1788. The town voted to sell the poor at public auction to the lowest bidder for one year, according to WPA Historical Records survey findings.
Jamestown police search for a masked gunman who held up a young couple, stripping clothes from the girl. Victims named Myrtle Daugherty Hawley, 21, of 499 Hazzard Street, and Dean Ones, 1343 East Second Street. The report mixes local crime with unrelated trivia about U S cities and a 1883 volcanic eruption.
Erie based announcement states M. Hy Jr is promoted to supervising agent and division operator for the Renovo division of the Pennsylvania railroad with headquarters in Union depot Erie. He succeeds A. D. Coleman who moves to freight and passenger agent at East Pittsburgh. Hugt previously supervised station service in Pittsburgh. Skeletal remains found at Mount Carmel Palestine in 1932 measure under six feet with brain capacities from 1,588 to 1,610 cubic centimeters.
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