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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1906
Page
6
The Maheri movement prompts the town to finance a park extension and improve public areas. Merchants pledge yard cleanups, streets are repaved, flower beds planted, and walls in the station enhance traveler comfort with prints from Germany. The town grows toward city-like order through art driven reforms.
A Saturday evening gathering at Miss Emma Abramoska’s Lake Avenue home hosted about 39 guests. The event featured piano music by Lillian Bronker and singing by Abralin and Erney Polas, with hearty choruses and refreshments as guests enjoyed games and conversation.
Oberlin visitors include Elwood Austin and teachers Alta Blood and Bertha Match at the Van Deusen home. Flossie Ritzentaler returns to Kipton with parents while Mrs Isabelle Sigsworth suffers illness under Dr Miller care. Grady attends Oberlin School of Telegraph. Thomas Dunn of Wakeman visits Kipton. A P Twining suffers a lame back. Leo Reynolds works at LS and M 8 ticket office for a few days. Weeks and Lucas visit Oberlin.
A longtime Lorain County resident Mrs Eliza beth Hoadley died Sunday at 82 at her daughter Mrs Es cott s home on the state road Her funeral was well attended and the remains were laid to rest in North Murray Ridge Cemetery She was highly respected by many acquaintances.
The Ohio House fees and salaries sub committee completed its county salary bill setting scales for auditor treasurer probate judge and other officers by population. Pay scales range from 75 to 175 per 1000 for various offices with reductions for sheriffs clerks and recorders and a 19 percent fee on collected sums. The measure targets new terms and extensions while excluding current officeholders.
A federal grand jury in Lorain returned findings in several cases. Edna Morehouse is charged with using the mails to defraud. The panel also indicted Conneaut bankers on multiple counts in connection with their failed bank.
Boston detectives and Washington secret service pursue an Italian suspect who allegedly stole the Roosevelt wedding gown patterns. A letter to The Education of Mr Fipp manager claims Pasquale Passo took patterns from William Strong & Co. Paterson New Jersey. authorities say he is under watch and to be arrested soon.
Lorain visitors stay with Slanter and Culbertson families in Laporte while Gibbs and Powers families host relatives. Hobson, M. E. church plans a Valentine social at K. O. U. M. hall. Local residents travel for work in Cleveland and Norwalk as Kodol ad appears among community notices.
The Merry Makers Dancing club of Lorain invites the Merry Twelve of this city to their dance tomorrow evening in Alten ball. Many residents attend social events, with judging noting the festive masquerade at Roller Tink and prizes awarded.
Columbus reports a reform bill led by Mr Hunt to curb campaign graft. The measure requires candidates and committees to file oath-backed, itemized expense reports, bans gifts from supporters, and threatens perjury prosecutions for false expenditure reports. A primary election bill also to be introduced, shifting nominations to all parties at a September primary.
The Wednesday Evening Card Club met at Mrs. L. B. Taylor's Hast Bridge street home. Five tables played eight games with prizes to H. A. Daniels for gentlemen and Miss H. Griffin for ladies. Refreshments followed. next gathering set for Miss Minnie Schneurer's residence on Second street.
Edwin Price a 45 year old steel worker died of cancer of the stomach at Lorain hospital after boarding at the Pioneer Hotel in South Lorain He formerly lived in Braddock Pa where his wife and two grown children reside The last line advertises Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar a cough syrup sold by druggists highlighting its claimed benefits for children
R C Ward announces run for sheriff of Lorain County subject to the Republican County Convention on February 12. He states his candidacy is contingent on convention decision and naming of the party.
Attorney Henry Dolan of Dayton spent a day in Lorain researching the reputation of Dr C Haugh. The plan is to show why he should be committed to the asylum. Haugh was arrested for the murder of his parents last November and faces a February 19 hearing. Dolan will defend him and investigations extend to Sandusky and Tiffin.
Mrs Ethel Clark of Richwood files in common pleas court an $8000 damages suit against C G Johnson agent for the Erie railroad at Richwood for breach of promise. Old time cough syrups advertised and promoted alongside medical tonics and cautions about indigestion remedies appear in the same column.
The notice promotes a free six month trial of My Magazine Investing For Profit aimed at men who invest any money. It claims readers can learn to grow small sums into fortunes, reveals banker profits, and promises to send the issue free upon request. Also includes a Washington report that Representative Nicholas Longworth improves after tonaritis and dines with colleagues.
W H Barton a Creston O native and employee of Spring River Power Co. was killed while soldering a joint near Prosperity when he touched a live feed wire. He was unmarried and his parents reside in Creston.
The Postoffice Department states the fifty largest offices in the United States earned 7,118,680 in January 1906, up from 6,260,360 in January 1905, a nearly 14 percent increase. A Want Column is suggested for readers.
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