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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1930
Page
3
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Oil City reports completion of over 80000 dollar telephone system improvements by Petroleum Telephone Co led by W S Paca. Local lines now connect with new long distance routes to Franklin. Cables were rerouted along the Hill road with new poles to carry Bell and Petroleum lines and railroad wires. Conduit upgrades link with Main Street extension plans and cables cross French Creek to Zit. The new line between Oil City and Franklin is in use though old cable removal may be delayed by heavy snowfall.
Samuel Kramer, described as an international lawyer, argues war debts bankrupt civilization as nations carry wartime losses. He urges cancellation of debts led by the United States, warning dire consequences if unresolved. He remains cautiously optimistic debtors may eventually pay. Bonaventure College suffered a second destructive fire, destroying a large grain barn and injuring several students. origin undetermined, fire department aided Allegany volunteers. property loss estimated at $25,000.
Complaints by Fifth Ward taxpayers led county commissioners to cut $2,500,000 from valuations in Lant wart. The 39 percent reduction targets all properties in the ward, after assessor Frank Wagner had set at 40 percent. Taxpayers who protested appeared before commissioners. the five percent cut will affect every property in the ward.
Marie Adelaide Willcox Gauffreau a Corry resident since 1867 died Wednesday after a long illness at 1:00 p m at 327 South Center street She was born Sept 24 1849 in Blodgett Mills New York married Marcellin Gauffreau of Brooklyn N Y A son Glen and daughter Louisa survive with one granddaughter Dorothy Gauffreau She outlived both parents and was last of the Willcox and Wallcox families.
An enjoyable evening featured bridge and five hundred at the Pythian Hall with awards to Miss Beatrice Daugherty Jr George Roof for bridge and Mrs. John Slattery Mrs Raleigh Wagner Bea Munn and James Blakeslee for five hundred. Sandwiches coffee and fancy desserts served by a hostess group. Funeral services for a local resident will be held from the Willcox Home Saturday at 2:30 with Rev A L Warren officiating. Burial in Pine Grove cemetery. Friends invited. flowers omitted.
Delegates at the eastern division DAR conference unanimously urged passage of a teachers' oath bill by state legislatures. They argued loyalty tests threaten many loyal teachers, may bar skilled foreign instructors, and that classroom disloyalty would be handled case by case. The stance questions broad loyalty tests for educators.
In LOOK AND LEARN 1 the questions ask world population a famed general with an early bathtub a Yucatan border country three principal gases in air and the Arctic peoples. Yesterday’s answers include General James Wolfe the Pyrenees border in Spain and France about the feet Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Crescent City.
An 1915 advertisement proclaims Leonard Williams and M. Dy detail a normal weight for men aged 45 to 49 as 5 ft 7 in and 156 pounds with clothing included. It promotes the Kruschen Method for fat loss, advising four weeks of diet changes and a daily Kruschen Salt dose, and directs readers to Keister's Drug Store for purchase.
A lawyer collected a claim at 812 percent and sent the owner 239. The problem asks for the claim amount and his commission. The yesterday’s problem answer is 224 and 288. An explanation uses fraction steps with 7 9 and 512. Also note Joseph W. Bart of Oil City named VP of the Pennsylvania Association of Insurance Agents at the Harrisburg meeting.
Death notices report Myron Beckwith died in Torrance California on October 12. Funeral services were held there on October 14. He is survived by his widow and a daughter Oma, 17. The Beckwith family long resided in Columbus Ohio. Mrs J McInyre of Erie arrived today to visit relatives.
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