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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1934
Page
8
Local column notes the city council’s ongoing debate over ordinances, upcoming car inspections, and parking changes. It mentions Rose campaigning for the GOP, a python found by students, a veterans exhibit, and plans for a vocational school. It also covers city boosts, voter drives, a mayoral health rumor, and cultural notes from Corry.
Harrisburg will host the sixteenth annual convention of the Pennsylvania National Guard Association October 5 and 6 led by Colonel Eric Fisher Wood. Officers and line troops will debate administrative and federal allowances while the closed conference allows officers to critique policy without disciplinary risk. Second Lieutenant Frederic C. Wheeler discusses the Guard officer’s job, with other papers and sessions led by Captains Tschudin Cockefair Schwalm and Weaver. Nugget: a miner finds a gold nugget worth about 1019 in Oregon.
A vaudeville act known as the one legged dancer arrives at the Rex Friday presenting Harmonica Baskals. The performance includes a safety oriented routine for schoolchildren stressing careful street crossing and awareness. Absent councils are not subject to that fine in the case of special meetings.
The Pennsylvania Health Department reports the first half of 1933 shows a birth rate of 10 per thousand, a notable decline from 1932 and 1931. Despite fewer births, marriages rose in 1933, suggesting a possible temporary uptick in births later. Overall mortality edged higher with measles, typhoid, whooping cough, and septicemia increasing, while pulmonary pneumonia and nephritis declined versus earlier periods.
Ministers and lay leaders from northwestern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio plan the Erie conference fall gathering at St Matthew's Lutheran church October 3 and 4. A Sunday school convention on October 3 precedes the conference with Dr Charles P Wiles speaking. Activities include devotions, a brotherhood dinner, a pageant The Apportionment Dollar, and a stewardship round table. Mrs Harmon and daughter Jacquelyn visit Niagara Falls during the event.
At a recent Corry Teachers Association meeting officers for the coming year were named president H. J. Sheen vice president Miss Helen Johnson secretary W. W. Myers and treasurer Mrs. Marie Brooks The group plans to attend the Northwestern zone meeting of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association in Oil City on October 18 with several members serving in the program Also Miss Jeannetts Colegrove left for Cooperstown New York to visit Miss Sarai Flanders for a week starting today.
Erie Sept 21 authorities seized a $7,000 alcohol distillery in a two story residence at 2008 West 32nd street. Charles Torrillo, named as cooker of the 100-gallon still, was arrested in the basement. The raid yielded 100 gallons of alcohol, 400 gallons of mash, three cement vats, copper tanks, and a removal of over 1,001 gallons of alcohol shortly before the raid. Torrillo faced charges of manufacturing untaxed liquor and possessing an unregistered still, bond set at $1,500. He later appeared before a U S commissioner on further charges and was held under $1,000 bond.
Clyde Whitmore, 50, died at Warren General Hospital after sustaining severe burns from an oil-fed blast at a home near Tidioute on September 9. Myre Whitmore aided him and suffered lesser burns as the fire consumed the residence and most contents.
Mrs. Mary Ann Sutton, wife of Jol Sherlools, died at her home in French Creek Tuesday at noon after two years illness. Aged seventy five, she leaves a husband two sons Herman Stockton Spartansburg and George Stockton Corry two daughters Mrs Charles Rik ers Corry and Mrs Hart L Hommedien Ashtabula Ohio one sister Mrs Howard Sample Ashville N Y and one brother Louis Sutton Pittsfield Pa ten grandchildren Funeral Friday at 1 pm at the home with interment Rose Hill cemetery Spartanburg.
A horse show and judging contest linked to the Roundup of the Gold will occur at Mettel Colt Club’s farm near Pollock's Bridge Mill Village on Saturday October 6. Weighing and judging of Gold Medal Colt entries begin at 10 a.m. with 18 members and 1924 foals eligible. Local Bank sponsors awards. R N Gridley directs judging.
Fragmentary inscription on Fourviere hill at Lyon reportedly mentions a Roman amphitheater and persecution era figures. The deciphered text references Mares Aurelin and a massacre context, with uncertain names and place readings. Further study is needed to confirm identity and date.
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