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Newspaper
Mckean Democrat
Location
Smethport, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
7
Port Allegany reports shoplifters stole goods worth hundreds of dollars last Thursday from The Beera Store J. J. Waltar and Oscar Farm. Three well dressed women used distraction tactics to pilfer items including a $295 dress from Beera Store and a $326 dress from Walter store before fleeing in a car. No arrests or trace have been found.
The State Highway Department announced the designation of six arterial routes after January 1, covering about 1250 miles. The routes listed include the Lincoln Highway, Lackawanna Trail, Susquehanna Trail, Lakes-to-Sea Highway from Harrisburg to Erie, William Penn Highway from the West Virginia line to Franklin, and the Yellowstone Trail, with additional main routes to be set as through traffic roads later in the year.
Potter Journal reports Judge Heck celebrated deer slivers and a distant monarch of the forest appeared near the Andresen place on Kettler Creek. His new rifle delivered a long shot that killed the deer, described with tone of triumph as the judge bore the red deer homeward. Kane Republican details J O Tisher losing two fingers at Corduroy well while disconnecting drilling rods. The accident occurred about a mile above Corduroy, fifteen miles south of Kane, as the threads striped and gear caused fingers to be pinched between elevator and rod edge.
Bradford Erne Priding Ella Jack and Carl K. Dresser wed in a Tuesday afternoon ceremony in the Florentine room at Park Lane New York officiated by Dr Thomas Guthrie Sovers. Attendants Mr and Mrs Wehard Dresser of Bradford attended with a celebratory dinner to follow at the Florentine room before the couple’s return to Tulsa Oklahoma.
The Potter County courthouse bids farewell to veteran janitor August Crosse after 36 years of faithful service. Ill health forced him to step away, but he briefly returned to town to hand over keys, earning wide regard for tireless work ethic and reliability.
Potter County deer hunting season closes with a reported 350 buck deer killed, the highest in years. The Kane business man John Wesley, 70, died of heart failure while checking lease activities near Kane, with Coroner Thomas Clay Frehner stating no inquest is needed.
An auto collision in Larabee involved two young men from Phicotville. The vehicle struck a bunk and wrecked near a Pennsylvania strand road at night. Both occupants escaped serious injury, with the windshield shattered and occupants unharmed.
Sloan and Zook, prominent producers, reportedly purchased the Joseph Hoycher lease at State Line for 6 barrels daily. Purchase price around 3490,nnn, described as one of the region's largest property deals in months. Also reported: A J Dovelaix and partner bought Salisbury lease of Currea at Big Shanty. terms not stated. Eldred Slavin buys Eldred 5 and 10 cent store stock. deal tied to a Buffalo syndicate, details sparse.
Congressman J Mitchell Chase of Clearfield enjoys new committee slots on World War Veterans Pensions Immigration and Naturalization and War Claims Committees. The Committee on Committees praised his WWII service as favorable for work on these committees.
In Jamestown area a man named Albert Hoch drove to a Warren army offices at 12 44 am and offered to marry a couple on the spot. Louis Evenna, 32, and Anna Kathryn Jeforda, 21, asked to wed immediately with a local clerk in attendance. The ceremony reportedly occurred after police arranged a quick civil rite.
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