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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1929
Page
4
The Kane-Sheffield bus line plans to add a twenty passenger palace car, built by the White Company of Cleveland, to its fleet within days. The car has arrived and will operate once Newsise plates are obtained in Fall Wninge.
Pittsburgh mother faces magistrate over her son's drunken abuse. Jasper Drake birthday gathering honors Mrs Drake in Concord. Opportunity Club bake sale at Dean Hardware. Baptist Church meeting and Roy Ward of Jamestown to speak. Greenville bugle and drum corps win $110 award at Titusville fair. Meadleville school enrollment figures update. Willard portable school enrollment noted. engagements and weddings announced in Gary and Erie. Golden Bantam corn price listed. Findley Lake cottage wedding postponed due to weather. local coal yard advertises fuels. thefts of automobiles and large oriental mug heist reported. bake sale at Ames Drug Store. Ridgway boy custody case. moths roach insect control invention promo.
Several items describe court charges for possessing and transporting ligo, a severe traffic collision near Waterford injuring Jim Oliver, and a fatality at St Vincent's hospital. Other notes cover a local jail, a contract for oil supply company offices, and social events at Mindley Lake. An obituary for Mrs Robin Smith recalls her life in Corey and family.
The Ladies Aid Society of St Paul’s Taitheran church hosted Mrs Henry Keenpol and Mrs Hawkins at a Matt Street home. Plans were made for a Friday September 20 church supper in the parish rooms and a bake sale on October first at Lanston’s store. The meeting honored the memory of Mrs Mary Unser, youngest and faithful worker, and new members Miss Anderson and Mrs Jatra joined the society.
A Corry City Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held a supper and meeting last evening at the Masonia Temple dining hall. Plans were discussed for a fall bazaar and the Wimodansis Club announced a gathering next Thursday at Mrs. Wesley Howard's cottage on Pindley Lake. A note mentions several farm properties for sale by John H. Clmushi.
Two escaped prisoners, Farley Jennings of Philadelphia and John Williams of Erie County, fled Rockview penitentiary during a work detail. Guards hunted the mountains and valleys around Bellefonte, Pa, as authorities issued alerts for the two Negro fugitives. Williams is serving seven and a half to fifteen years for burglary and receiving stolen goods, Jennings one and a half to three years for larceny.
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