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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1939
Page
2
Friends gathered for a surprise housewarming and games night for Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Johns. Evelyn Brooks attended the event at the couple's home and received gifts.
A mosaic of brief items details variegated events from the region. Reports include a plane mishap near Larson airport injuring pilot B. R. Valentine, arrests and court actions, fire and water news, community meetings, school and club notices, and upcoming retail sales. Names such as Everett Dano and Joseph Burkhart appear amid notes on weather, car accidents, and local governance.
Funeral services for Mrs Kate Mount were held at the home of J B Mount on West Frederick Street at 2 20 PM Monday. The service featured hymns and remarks from Gilder L Boyd of the Baptist church with relatives and friends from Buffalo New Jersey Harrisburg Erle Bryn Mawr Alton Upper Mount Clair and Kane attending. Interment followed in Pine Grove cemetery with many flowers showing the esteem in which she was held.
The discovery of blood-stained cloth and several boards near the missing Viola Straub case prompts state police to intensify efforts. Other items include a man burned in a stove accident, a driver seeking license restoration, a farm fire near Arbuckle, and local notices about church, meeting, and court actions.
Alice Melaud twenty month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Benton Me Laud of Meadville is a patient at Spencer hospital Meadville with surface burns to head and arms after pulling a hot water spigot. The child was scalded. Fred Evans alias Fred Love of Meadville jailed nine months and fined twenty five dollars and costs after pleading guilty to writing fraudulent checks. Dr George Bills longtime Dunkirk physician died after a long illness serving as city health and school physician for over twenty five years and as surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad and hospital staff member for Brooks Memorial. Seven Oil City youths enlisted in the US Army women's corps enemy, one accepted last night at New Castle.
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