County fair rolls on with record attendance and events
Marty Alexander notes a birthday as Ghalitauqua County Fairsi Dynklin reports record attendance at the four year delayed fair. The lineup includes big midway attractions, show openings, and extended shows through today. Also, 13 tons of 1947 license tags arrive at Mayville courthouse, while a Jamestown man’s lost wallet and $90 are recovered from a parcel found in Shanghai. The week’s notices cover seed dates, Hessian fly rise, school lunch costs, and a busy weather outlook.
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Paul Olson
Jamestown
Buffelo
Shanghai
China
Albert Weeks Hurt In Crash Near Jamestown
Albert E Weeks 62 of R D 2 North Glymer formerly of Corry is in General Hospital with a fractured jaw facial lacerations and other injuries after his car left Route 17 and crashed into a maple tree near the Erle viaduct. Hospital attendants said injuries were painful but not serious and an investigation had not yet been made. Reports say the car skidded 200 feet from the highway, tore up a fence and sign, then struck the tree after veering into a cow pasture. The tie rod failed or detached during the crash.
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Jamestown
Albert E. Weeks
R. D
North Glymer
Corry
General Hospital
Erle Viaduct
Route 17
Uat
Methodists Approve Budget for Erie Year Meeting
Approximately 800 delegates at the Erie Methodist Conference approved a $242,850 budget for the coming year. The figure rises $3,470 from the previous year and funds salary increases for raters and district superintendents. Minimum pay for ministers rises to 200 to 1,900 with supply pastors at 1,850. four Walstreet superintendents are boosted to 9,400.
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Mnadville
Erie Methodist Conference
Methodist Young Fellowship
Collective Bargaining Origins and Early U.S. Spread
The term collective bargaining first appeared in London in 1800 by Beatrice Webb and was soon popularized in the United States by Samuel Gompers of the AFL.
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London
Beatrice Webb
Samuel Campers
The
APL
Veteran Navy veteran loses foot in Erie railroad accident
Vincent L. Kress a 21 year old Navy veteran is hospitalized at Hamot after a railroad yard accident in which his left foot was crushed beneath a moving locomotive. He attempted to board the loco in East Lake yards at the foot of German street at 2 30 a m and his foot was amputated. His condition today is good.
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Erte
Vincent L. Kress
Hamat Hospital
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Young Kress
East Lake
German Street
Aptitude Tests Surge As Firms Require Screening
The Corry United States Employment Service office reported August aptitude examinations at 472, up from 94 in July. Two large area plants have mandated testing for all prospective employees, with a third firm planning to adopt the preliminaries, boosting expected total tests this month. Firms say scores help better place workers in suitable jobs.
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Corry
United States Employment Service
Week's New JuYMER Highlights Local Social News
The paper notes Mrs. Earl Reid suffered a stroke last week and is bedbound, with friends wishing for a speedy recovery. Local clubs plan meetings, visitors from Hubbard Erie and Buffalo join family get togethers, air race attendance from Clymer, and residents head to Cleveland for races. Several residents are mentioned about visits, moves, and hospital recovery, including James Beckerink returning home after blood poisoning treatment.
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Juymer
Earl
Reid
Ladies, Mission and Aid Society
Edgar Teculver
Ernest Hinsdale
Hubbard
Mary Nywelde
Aki Cherry
Vickey
Buitslo
Siler
Nywelde
Pauline
Dorothy Bedkerik
Harry
Duink-at-Oil
Merton Querreveld
Maynard Wallace
Glen ‘Warnshits
Earl Duink
Carl Daile ‘Tui
Gail Thompson
George Christerwen
Donald Arnink
Hazel Ben‘hink
Virginia Tewinkle
James Beckerink
Conry Hospital
William Ruff
Lloyd Saunders
Centerville
William Setchell
Tenpas
Harmmond
Corry
South
Local Moves And School Opening In Youngsville
Edna Wassink prepares to move from Columbus road and J W Legters house changes hands with Campbell from Findley Lake moving in. Donald Spitzer visits from Allegheny College. Newhouse family to Little Valley for teaching. Irene Tonlef travels to Cortland to teach. Wilcox family returns from Ossining. Irene Neckers joins. Casler hosts birthday dinner for Mrs. Guy Johnson with guests from Irvington New Jersey New York and Los Angeles. Youngsville borough opens with five to six hundred pupils in attendance with the first and second grades each over 40 pupils.
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Columbus Road
Edna Wassink
Campbell
Findley Lake
J. W. Legters
Wassink
Donald Spitzer
Allegheny—College
C. E. Spitzer
Thornton Newhouse
Teralyn
Tor Little Valley
Iva J. Neckers
Wilcox
L. A. Maton
Marienville
Frank Casler
J. B. Gook
Guy Johnson
A. Lyle Johnson
Irvington
J. Allan Johnson
New York
J. B. Cook
Los Angeles
Guy C. Johnson
Panama
Youngsville
Democratic Platform Advocates Broad Liberal Agenda
The state committee adopted a 21 point platform pledging a fair soldiers bonus and aimed at broadening workmen's compensation and lowering taxes. The document condemns Communism and attacks the McCarron bill’s decentralization of industry while opposing the St Lawrence waterway and socialized medicine.
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Democratic Party
State Committee
Republican Party
McCarron
Pennsylvania
St. Lawrence
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American Cancer Society
Reading
Moshow
Fred M. Glass
Capital Airlines
PCA
Air ‘Transport ‘Association
Cruss
United States
Canada
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Algonquin Parl
Sisvire Mille
Ontario
Smoke Lake
Highland Inn
Crule
Frank H. Walken
FR. 9
Port Credit
Onijato
Pittsburgh
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Warren
Sunray Electric
Olin Capwell
Love Capwell
Prendergast Point
Snyder Girele
Fourth Ward
Flanigan
Earnest of
Spartansburg
Sam Baumgartner
Baumgartner
Harnest
Niles Beck
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Richard Halfast
Cory Auto Supply
East Main Street
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Albert Weeks
North Clymer
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Keystone Restaurant
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Hickok
Emai
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Chevrolet
Thomas Motor Co
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William T. Nichols
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Franklin Street
Jessup & Turner
Corry and
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