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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1934
Page
5
The Woman's Club card party for Tuesday evening October 26 has been postponed to Tuesday evening October 26 at the same venue. A rummage sale will be held at the club house on Saturday October 27 as previously announced.
Commandery No. 41 Knights Templar enjoyed a 6 30 p m dinner served by the Ladies Auxiliary. Twenty five covers were laid at a decorated table. After the chapter session the auxiliary provided entertainment with Hallowe en stunts and games for the Knights.
A stream of brief society notes records Miss Bess Wilson leaving for Brooklyn with Mrs Newton and Mrs Bley, Miss Dorothy Henry moving to Erie, and many other residents visiting relatives or traveling to cities like Kane, Buffalo, Warren, and Cleveland. The notices mention guests, hospital stays, business trips, and family visits, with multiple named locals and surrounding towns.
The National Junior Shakespeare Club, aided by local teachers, will form a Corry branch with Miss Betty Boy as organizer. It aims to educate grade and junior high students in expression, dramatics, and storytelling through simplified Shakespeare, leading to high school English prep. Clubs by grade will meet. contests and prizes will honor winners with diplomas in elementary dramatic art. The grand finale features students presenting Shakespearean characters.
An announced marriage joined Wenneth Laverne VanCise and Miss Anna Carolina Stengel on September 27 at the Zon Lutheran Church in New Haven Connecticut. The ceremony was conducted by Rev HL Tietjen with a church reception and family dinner that followed. The newlyweds reside at 329 Concord Street Corry and Whalley Avenue New Haven.
Residents along Lime Hill Road near Louisville report police guards at their homes after a kidnapping incident involving Mrs. Robinson. George Stoll of Stoll Oil Refinery says the family is solicitous about Mrs. Robinson’s welfare and guards will remain until the danger passes.
Mrs. O. P. Hat on presided at yesterday afternoon's Quaero Club session at her North Genten Street home. Three topics were studied: Wanted Good Sanitiaratans, Of All the Crust, and Solving the Mysteries of Textiles. Mrs H Wright Mrs A D Colegrove and Miss Marion J Skidmore led discussions. Next Tuesday's meeting will be at Miss Sarah Powell's home.
A reception will be held Friday at eight o clock in the church parlors for Rev Perry Haines and his family as he returns to the Corry pastorate for a third year. A program is planned and a general good time is anticipated with members and friends of the congregation invited.
New York October 17 United Press prices on the New York Stock Exchange moved forward early trading then turned dull and irregular. Silver shares dropped with US Smelting and American Smelting among the heavy losers. American Locomotive and General Electric showed modest gains. Closing prices list several equities and percentages, reflecting mixed activity across major issues. Butler Pa Chest Drive Over Top with $55 196 pledges, beating goal by 1800. ten county welfare groups share funds.
Susan Broderick, a pretty member of a poor aristocratic family, is torn between Wallace Stelien a banker and Allen Sholes the new roomer. Christmas at the Brodericks exposes snobbish aunts uncles and Anna the servant as Susan contemplates love and social climbing while Aunt Edna and Uncle Worthy safeguard their status. Susan envies Mary Cullen’s charm and longs to attract Allen Sholes at the Cullen gathering as a dunking party unfolds with family tensions and festive preparations.
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