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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1907
Page
8
Rural news notes include a chicken pie supper a 25 cent meal and 10 cent supper. Wellington hosts card party results and community dinners. local events feature school baseball football concerts and a masquerade ball at the town hall. Fry road and Main Street items mention visitors and local business openings and repairs.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will host an old fashioned spelling school at Dover town Hall Friday evening with ice cream cake and strawberries served. Local residents, including G Kluver and John Mitchell, are noted as ill with pneumonia and neuralgia respectively. Funeral services were held for Thomas Cahoon at his Franklin Avenue home with burial at Lakeside cemetery.
Miss Eric McKibben of Cleveland visits Mrs. Lindsay. Funeral services for Mr. DeFluter of Elyria planned at Adventist church Tuesday. Fred Hornby injured in a train accident at Grafton with severe injuries. Lorain County Sunday School association to meet May 15 at the Baptist church with dinner and suppers served, program arranged by Ladies Aid societies.
North Russia residents A E Schubert and family spent Sunday in Pitts. Ed Schramm and Wr. Schubert visited Oberlin while Charles Hasenfline entertained relatives from Murray Ridge. Nash, Ison, and Valney of Chestnut Ridge visited Simon Nash. Parsons visited relatives in Amherst. Lucy Berg of Oberlin stayed with Ed Berg. Henry Bassett and others visited Murrey Ridge relatives. Berg and Hoch families traveled to Elyria for Patterson exam.
Adam Angersbach tapped his sugar bush for the season’s second run, Raymond Tees of Elyria visited, and the Page family accompanied by the McDowells saw relatives. The Henrietta team plans a game with Brownhelm High next Saturday as Mrs. Margaret Blanchard of Shelburne is mentioned in local notes.
Mrs George Brown hosts and Byron Wellman visits. neighbors and friends travel between Elyria Oberlin Milan and Cleveland. Guests include Miss Galliher from Oberlin College and extended family of Coates and Reumier with gatherings at diverse homes.
Mrs Charles Ely of Elgrim visited Grafton Friday. Miss Rose Smith attended her father's funeral at LaPorte Sunday. Mrs Burden died Friday April 18 after illness. funeral Monday at Catholic church. Mrs Luellen Blantern died en route to Cleveland operation. cremation. Misses Evi and Melva Gott of LaGrange visited Mrs Saxton. Mr Richie of Toledo stayed with A P Jordan family. Mrs Davies and wife from Cleveland visited Williams family. Hastings and daughter of Cleveland attended Mrs Harden's funeral.
Rev Hatfield preached two sermons on Sunday with themes The Help of God a Continuing Power and A Portrait of a Good Man. Miss D Henry, supervisor at a Detroit hospital, visited home. Sue traveled from Cleveland to Detroit by boat. Alma Briges visited Vermilion with Rev Merrell's family. Dr Stahl lost a fine horse last week and bought another. Guy Donaldson learns carpentry in Elyria and Helen Schindler prepares for an Elyria musical recital. Gas wells fail and some show salt water. Memorial address by Rev Hatfield at the Congregational church.
A cordial invitation to all in La Grange is extended for May 26. The column lists residents visiting, guests, moves, and social calls from Cleveland, Elyria, Oberlin, Wellington, and Wakeman. It notes the funeral of Mr. Rooney of Camden township and honors his life as a diligent farmer and respected neighbor.
The West Ridge community held Arbor Day with tree planting and exercises at the school last Friday. Social events included Mr Casse to conduct services next Saturday and Sunday evenings at the school house. Several local residents and visitors from Elyria Oberlin and Lorain were noted at homes and gatherings this weekend.
Miss Mattie Hall closed her school in Avon on Saturday and returned to Huntington. Joseph Walker visited friends in Cleveland last week. Mrs. S. L. Barnadollar of Cleveland guests of sister Mrs. Thas Cox. John Bazer is reported ill. Mrs. Jessie Parker and Miss Eunice Dunstan of Lorain visited Avon friends. Miss Ethel Backe and Mr. Fred Peake wed at Baptist Church South Lorain. Mildred and Jillian Wagner suffer from measles. Mr and Mrs. Martin Schumaker of Cleveland visiting George Deehant.
Rochester news recounts visits and illnesses with names like Mrs W Dudley and Mrs Rose Becker. Highlights include church events, WCTU meeting, travel to Cleveland and New London, a hospital operation for Mrs Gordon, Boxwell exam attendees, and Burdock Blood Bitters as a advertised tonic.
A birth is recorded for a son to Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Davidson on April 23. John Roaney, born in Camden township Lorain county Ohio, died April 16 1907 at the old home.
John A Sperry a Roxbury painter shot and killed his wife Mary then fatally shot himself. The tragedy occurred at their home in Roxbury Massachusetts.
Atlantic City reports the fishing schooner Charles W Parker with Capt Lawson and 11 crew ran ashore on the Inlet bar Tuesday. All aboard escaped in dories through the surf. The incident left the vessel a total wreck and the men reached shore safely. In Madrid the ministry of marine confirms plague raging at Cartagena with 300 hospitalizations.
The Hub Store advertises a closing out sale of the Traxler piano business at cost with three pianos already sold. Mr Traxler will stay in the piano trade but not in a store, so fixtures are also for sale. Sheet music priced as low as six cents. store open evenings until 9.
The funeral of Mrs. John Ulmschneider of Elyria drew a large circle of friends. Various local updates follow including health improvements of E. E. Root, Mr. Schmitz's confinement, Chas. Beckwith's construction, visits from Geo. Ridgeway and family, Mrs. F. J. Rollin’s trip to Manchester Iowa, and the upcoming marriage of Mabel Ensign to George Paddock on April 24. An accident involving John Rothgery Jr. is noted with expected days at home. Delegates Wimpenny chosen for the Lewland conference. An ad promotes Kodol for Dyspepsia with a druggist guarantee.
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