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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1937
Page
7
Unclear fragments suggest a feud or dispute stirring local interest with mentions of factions and possible clashes. No firm names, dates, or places are readable, but the tone hints at community tension and competing claims. Further readable details required for precise identification.
William Kenneth Schreck a Meadville High School junior and caddy at the Meadville Country Club died Saturday afternoon after he fell from a driveway into a rushing ditch. Firemen recovered his body after sections of the culvert were removed. Schreck, son of Mr and Mrs James Schreck, was en route home from the club when the accident occurred. The tragedy shocked caddies and residents who knew him.
The St Marys public high school board’s decision to dismiss Prof C. W. Vasbinder was sustained by Judge Barry Rumert in Clarion county court after hearings in St Marys. The board cited a shortage of 884.40 and advance ticket sales for the Senior Class play as reasons, with testimony from nearly thirty-five witnesses including senior class members.
Jamestown Sep 7 Prospects for a heated political battle between Mayor Samuel A Carlson and former Mayor Lebn P Roberts grew clear as Roberts announced his candidacy for office and Carlson signaled possible reelection. Roberts, former Jamestown mayor, resigned as sales manager of Jamestown Mutual Insurance to devote full time to the campaign ahead of election day.
Meadville suffered heavy rain Saturday afternoon with streets flooded cellars breached and downtown businesses damaged. The downpour began late Friday night and continued into the morning totaling over two inches of water from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. local time as urban areas faced water damage and disruption.
The text notes that glass lacks a single melting point and instead has a broad melting range. Ordinary glass begins around 900 degrees Fahrenheit and may extend to about 1,800 F, while silica glass shows a much higher range from 3,200 to 3,600 F.
Bear Lake schools opened for the year at Lottsville on Monday with Tunber UF students from the community attending the grades in high school. Several local residents and visitors from Jamestown and Gerry are noted among families and church attendees as the region resumes routines and holds late August social and family events.
Ridgway September 7 Eight persons were injured, four seriously, in a head-on collision on the Gulnsburg Ridgway highway about ten o clock Saturday morning. All were treated at Elk County General Hospital. Names and injuries include Mrs Bilis Ashhouwshu commound pgestine, George Willaphouse with a fractured rib, Mrs Percy Stanney Ashi with facial injuries, Perry Stanley assistant, Thomas Fines of Washington with facial lacerations, Jake Loris, Mrs Thoms Jones of Washington with facial injuries.
Eyewitness accounts and court records detail the case in Erie where a man, John Reinhold Jr., was robbed during a February term. The primary suspect, John Suck Cara, faced a bond appeal and a new trial, while his brother Alfred Calstrese remains hospitalized after surgery. Police statements tie the Calabrese family to the incidents and a related jail confession spurs further investigation by Alderman William Smith in Meadville.
Reading as a social note, Bors F Corhran of Westfield and J Spent Friday with their families in Yolingsville. The Ravens and Cohan families from Olvelan visited the Valastrath and Morey households, with Rev Roger D Morey and family also mentioned.
A garbled OCR page mixes loss ads reward requests and wanted to buy and sell items with livestock sales schedules. It includes a reward notice for a small suitcase on Scuta road near Sciota churel, a jeeped gun ad, livestock auction details, housing rentals, and a school district auditor’s report with tax figures and construction outlay. The jumble mentions Montague, Spartansburg, and journal offices, with various dates around 1987.
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