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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1936
Page
3
The notice details a Monday regu lw aneeing night for City Council delayed due to the Lahore Day conflet and a later Tuesday scheduling. It mentions related local political shifts and the ongoing administrative actions by the board of commissioners.
President Roosevelt may return directly to Washington from Spa City instead of Hyde Park due to potential risk from the burning of the destroyer Jane Josh. He travels toward Des Moines for a Midwest meet with Gov Landon and other governors while remaining in touch with Washington via special lines. He attended the funeral of George Dern in Salt Lake City and may delay his planned radio address until back in Washington.
Cleveland Sept 2 Wholesome prices of pressed lamb declined 72 to 1 per cent in August from July levels. The Institute of American Meat Packers reports lower wholesale prices for beef and fresh pork. Heavy live stock marketing in August showed 40 to 80 percent more than a year ago, though below normal. Brothers John and Peter Pierowicz pleaded guilty to breaking and entering railroad cars. Peter was sent to Morgana reform school, while John’s sentence was held due to gunshot wounds from a police shooting.
Erie County Pomona Grange sessions at Union City Grange No. 99 on September 9 and 10 feature leaders H B Dorsett J P McCord and Howard G Eisaman. The two day program includes a sketch Uncle Hiram’s Cold a session on agriculture and school curriculum plus a mixed chorus contest and conferring of fifth degree.
Police investigate a crude attack at Bob Keppel beer parlor on East Main street around 2 20 am. A bottle was hurled through the door shattering a large pane of glass and the assailant fled before officers could reach the scene.
Franklin city council adopted a resolution to petition Venango County commissioners to place a liquor referendum on the November ballot. The measure asks voters if licenses and sale of liquor should be permitted in Franklin, spurred by a petition of 367 signatures presented by Mrs Eliza Feth Stawaet.
Miniature auto racing returns to Wattsburg fair grounds next Sunday at 2 30 pm. An eight event program is planned with entries from several well known dirt track drivers. Speeds are expected on the half mile dirt track as racing action unfolds.
The Pomona Grange Homeconomics Committee leads a memorial service with noon recess and 1 30 p.m. afternoon session. Singing by the grange echoes from Maryland. Attendees heard Mid-Atlantic Lecturers Conference reports at College Paris Massachusetts. W B Dovsett, past master of Pennsylvania State Grange, gave address. Reading and adoption of resolutions followed by closing ceremony and a tableau Prosperity Through Cooperation at Lake Shore Grange. Oscar J Eyivkin Pomona Master LaVerta Tinney Pomona Leader.
Qorle Sept 2. Police nabbed a stylish woman after she passed worthless checks at multiple stores. A $16.15 purchase at Testl-Fyeenman Cotore and a $7 purchase at Franklin Furniture were tied to forged names Geo B Barrett and Marge Barrett. The suspect, about 21 with a missing tooth, fled after a clerk noticed the bloodless check. Another man and woman used fake Ohio Mutual Life Insurance Co. names to pass a $32 check downtown. A $20 check bore the name J C Rickert.
Sept 2 Harrisburg report indicates the department of public instruction cooperates with local districts to broaden teaching methods. In mural areas schools will blend traditional textbooks with objects, agencies, activities and life surroundings of pupils to enhance learning through local community aspects.
Mrs. Wesley Willis of Corey D. 5 sustained a fractured wrist and multiple bruises when a Chevrolet Velar operated by her husband overturned at the Third Avenue and Hickory Street intersection after being struck by a Ward pickup truck. The Chevrolet was badly damaged while the lab was lightly damaged. Mrs Willis received treatment at Warren General Hospital and was later released to home.
Harrisburg reports state appropriations due to school districts have been paid except 1,824,288 still owed for teachers salaries. The budget control division is compiling estimates to cover expenditures for the current fiscal year ending May 31, 1937. A reunion of former students teachers and patrons of the Rose mural school in Augusta Kansas is planned for September 13.
Franklin September 2 A clever ruse by two suspects led to a $18 cash box theft at a shoe store. An accomplice distracted staff while a caller lured the proprietor to another store, the thief entered vacant premises and grabbed the money. Police traced the call to a pay station but could not identify the caller.
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