Jamestown to vote on huge bond issue
Jamestown voters will face a December school bond election to authorize about 760000 for school construction. The plan adds a junior high school, replaces several facilities, adds a Fairmont Avenue extension, and purchases multiple sites for future buildings. The board approved the proposal at a two hour meeting.
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Jamestown
Board of Education
Camp and Hebner Streets
Highth Street
Washington Junior High
Buffalo Street
Cole Avene
Forest Avenue
Death Claims Aged Corry Resident
Francis Marion Robins died at his Lemont Street home Friday afternoon after a lingering illness. The body lies at Davison Funeral Home until Sunday afternoon services at Columbus Community Church at 2. Burial follows in West Lawn Cemetery. Survived by seven daughters and one son, with relatives living in Montrose, Canada Buffalo, Pasadena, Eric, Jamestown, Spring Creek, and others. Friends may view the body at Davison Funeral Home before 1 PM Sunday.
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Francis Marion
Robi
Lem
Davison
Columbus Community Church
J. Faghmey
West Lawn
Columbus
Robins
Corry
Erie County
Olmstead
Montrese
Canada
SM Powers
Buffalo
P. T. Miles
Pasadena
Calif
Nellie Robins
Eric
Jones
Whitemore
A. D. Grifin
Jamestown
Ernest Robbins
Spring Creel
Adl
Davison Funeral Home
Jamestown Bus Line Approved for Regional Route Extension
The Public Service Commission approved West Ridge Transportation Company petition for extending its motor bus line from Jamestown to Westfield Mayville Lakewood and the hamlets of Barcelona and Panama under a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
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Alwaya
Public Service Commission
West Ridge Transportation Company
Jamestown
Chautauqua County
Westfield
Mayville
Lakewood
Barcelona
Panama
Mysterious Plane in Niagara Falls Yard Appeals for Help
A resident in Niagara Falls reported a plane that has sat in his yard for 80 days and believes it was stolen. He asked the National Aeronautical Association for aid in locating the owner and returning the aircraft.
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National Aeronautical Association
Niagara Falls
Quarantine in Erie as Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Rise
Chief Sanitary Inspector George Fleming reports twenty further quarantine cases in Erie, evenly split between scarlet fever and diphtheria, adding to sixteen already housed at the old municipal hospital on Ross street. Evidence shows scarlet fever more common on the west side while diphtheria is stronger on the east, with seven cases of each disease noted on respective sides and three on the opposite.
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Erie
George Fleming
Old Municipal Hospital
Ross Street
State Street
Halloween Party at Harding School
Yesterday Harding School hosted a Halloween celebration with a daytime fire safety parade for children and prize boxes of candies. In the evening parents and friends gathered in costumes to play old time games, enjoy refreshments, and extend a pleasant event for Harding Home and School.
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Harding School
Grice
C. Christensen
G. T. Dahl
H. T. Dahlstrand
Harding
Pope Officiates at Marriage of Niece
In Rome on October 30 Miss Louise Ratti, niece of Pope Pius XI, was married by the Pope in the Matilde chapel at the Vatican. The ceremony was attended by parents, relatives, and close friends of the Ratti and Persichetti families. Marquis Eduardo Persichetti, secretary with the Nicaraguan Legation to the Vatican, stood as a guest.
Aged Ripley Woman Held for Booze Selling
Jamestown October 30 elderly woman Myra Phetteplace of Ripley sits in U S Commissioner Bootey's court on bootlegging charge. Held for Buffalo District Court November 9 in $1,000 bail. Witnesses claim she sold liquor and had a corn mash fireless cooker. Floyd Markham also held on liquor possession and sale charges.
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Jamestown
Hale
United States
Edward R. Bootey
Myra Phetteplace
Ripley
United States District Court At
Buffalo
Henry C. Williamson
Westfield
Phetteplate
William King
Phetteplace
King
Forest Park
Bootey
Floyd Markham
Ripley Farmer
Grand Jury
Markham
Williamson
Brokers Held For Court In Embezzlement Case
J Howard Smiley and Edgar V Tunskell, former partners of the defunct brokerage J Howard Smiley & Co, were bound over to the November term on embezzlement charges filed by creditor W O Milton for 15200. Bail set at 34500 each. The firm failed last April with liabilities around 370000. Efforts aim to settle before trial.
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United Press Franklin
J. Howard Smiley
Edgar V. Tunskell
J. Howard Smiley & Co
W. 0
Milton
Smiley
Pinchot to curb election frauds in state
Harrisburg Oct 20 Governor Gifford Pinchot says the state will use every means to prevent and punish election frauds this year in response to a letter from Democratic senatorial candidate William B Wilson asking for proactive steps.
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United Press
Harrisburg
Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot
William B. Wilson
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