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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1903
Page
5
Fragmentary note cites population figures with growth figures near 190 due to migration. Mentions counts around 144,008 and statements of numbers exceeding 200,000 in context of Utah area growth figures. No clear dates or sources identified.
The M E Aid ao city will meet at Mrs Bendell's home on Wednesday January 21. the church ladies will furnish supper. Mrs Snyder visited her son in Springfield Ohio. Grant Sprague of Elyria visited Mr and Mrs Crane. Mr Dix fell and broke his leg. Dr Lindsay attended and he was taken home north of Elyria. Boots and family and Frank Wolcott shopped in Cleveland. Ice house construction continues. Kenneth Law sick with pneumonia. several weddings expected soon. George Richmond, former Lorain Street Railways meter man, injured. left foot and leg hurt. Miss Wilcox fell on ice. sister M Wilcox traveling to Cleveland to help. Kenseth Law improving. Levi Johnson's child very ill. Miss R Mennel traveling from Los Angeles. visiting Ohio and then Kansas. Ice house being built near cheese factory. Everett of Trumble County visited Mrs Stargitt. Biggs attended brother John's funeral in Elyria. Hastings Post 207 and Hastings Relief Corps 150 officers elected. installation completed with decorations. After services, refreshments served. Hastings captain in poor condition. A child quips about heaven and dinner. Rev Zougah's 5th anniversary celebrated at Baptist church with 60+ attendance from Oberlin, Elyria, Sheffield. dinner served. Chicken pie dinner at town hall January 22 by Baptist ladies. proceeds for church. Claude Hudson sick. Rev Hodder preached at Lormy Sunday. Miss M Tijberg moved from Greenwich. James Fields in Elyria. home over Sunday. Farmers Institute at Ridgeville January 21 and 23.
Mr H Berry left Tuesday for Penn where he expects to spend the winter. Mr Fos of Wooster was in town Saturday. Mr J Bulgez has moved to Cleveland. Mr Richards and bride have moved in M Kelsey house. Miss M Whitney of Clarksville is in town again. Mr J Wheeler was in Ashland this week. Mr and Mrs H Cole were guests of friends in Orange this week. Mr and Mrs Deshames of Cleveland are spending the winter with their daughter Mrs E Kelsey. Miss J Sage is sick. Mr M R Sage was in LaGrange and Spencer last week. Mr Omrod of Spencer was in town. Miss L Knap spent Sunday in Wellington.
Rochester area notes report Mrs J M Chamberlain and daughter visiting in Rochester. Miss Mary Ward dies at home in Rochester. funeral held at ME church. Various local engagements include revival meetings at ME church, illustrated talk In His Steps by C Sheldon at Congregational church January 17, and sermons by Rev Newton Moore. Local residents ill or away include Roy Brown in LaGrange and Mr A Kelly, with long note on Gramma Currier’s death at 99 years 10 months.
Brownhelm residents and others visit relatives during holidays. Various local people and families are mentioned visiting Rochester, Nickel Plate, Fallon, Go., Ada, and Ashtabula. School board discusses wood contracts for the coming year. A Baptist church supper is planned. A group from Elyria joins a Ridgeville outing despite cold. Michigan University alumni banquet set for February 8 in Cleveland. Elyria attendees urged to RSVP.
The funeral of Edna Crehore who died January 8 was held at the Sheffield Congregational church last Saturday. Rev A E Thompson of Lorain gave a touching sermon as Lorain high school classmates sent 48 roses to mark her bright life. Each class member placed a garnation on the coffin and tributes spoke of peaceful rest beyond the winter.
Pittsfield Mrs H Beesing visited Elyria late this week. Miss G Wares returns from Wood County. Mrs Dan Caley visited Elyria Saturday. Nina Root studies at Oberlin Conservatory again this term. Mrs Abbie Edmonds visits daughter Mrs F West. Miss H McRoberte returns to Lakewood. Mr A Whitney in Lakewood.
Lake Avenue North notes list visits among residents. Mies Baker spent Monday with J Schmitkon family while Maris Schmitkons recover from illness. L Cook and E Cotton hosted on Sunday. H Standen with her mother Mrs Cook on Saturday. Misa Miflerbee returned from Morwalk. F Jackgon visited D Stan den on Sunday. Reva Collier is quite sick. Whittman is laid up with a broken ankle. Mrs Taft visited Mrs Baldwin. Mrs Cook went to Lake Breeze Boundary in the evening to tend her sick mother.
To music lovers The Brothers and Sons Co of Cleveland invites readers to request a free piano catalog. The notice promotes their long-standing reliability and suggests the catalog contains attractive offers for prospective buyers.
West Ridge reports a quiet morning as the schoolhouse remained closed and the telegraph line uncertain in winter. Residents note visitors including Mrs. A Squire, Mr. F Grills, and Mr. and Mrs. CG Drneendshi with local travelers via Elyria and Most Russia. Florence Pops returned from Elyria, and Mrs. Pope uses crutches to move about.
Mrs J Smith is very sick with heart disease. Emerson Broughton from Cleveland grew ill on Sunday while visiting grandparents. James Coughlan injured his hip when his load of hay caused a fall. no bones broken, but muscles bruised. Reno Smith remains sick. Miss G Lang visited Miss N Lanteberry. Electric road prospects between Elyria LaGrange Dover and Avon excite farmers. Community supports the project for better communication and business.
A local note lists a social oyster capper at Twin Backs on Wednesday evening. The entry mentions a small fire incident at Roy Sheldon’s chimney, no damage, plus various local people and visits including Mrs. J Oryle, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Boice, Mrs. Chapman, David Hall, H Finkel starting work for Mr Yoxhammer, and several weekend visits. It concludes with "Millionaires In the Militia" noting Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Rogers Winthrop in the Twelfth New York regiment, valued at 7.5 million and 26 million respectively, who sleep on cots and eat from tin.
Edna Creshore aged 18 died at the family residence in Sheffield on Thursday morning at four o'clock from heart failure brought on by a long course of typhoid fever. The remaining five family members are also ill with the same disease.
Beginning January first the O Rg and W has carried mail between Oberlin and Norwalk, serving Birmingham Florence Berlin Heights and Berlinville twice daily each way. This ensures the continued star route between Wakeman and Birmingham, opened in 1863 and run since.
The Board of Penitentiary Managers parole Harris Goldberg who was received November 21 1901 from Lorain County to serve three years for buying and selling stolen property. Goldberg will return to Lorain County where he formerly resided.
A report of diphtheria at the Old Ladies Home is denied. The illness is traced to Mrs. Dietrich of 444 East Sqund Street, who has the disease and lived at the home’s former site. No contagious diseases remain at the West Ave home.
Probate Court judge Hinman finds Irvin Gillet of Wellington insane and orders transfer to Toledo state hospital for treatment and confinement.
State Game Warden Porterfield gears up for a spring crackdown on Lake Erie fishermen illegally taking fish. He says he is gathering evidence and will act in the fall with state power.
Natural gas from East Ohio Gas has been introduced into Cleveland causing problems in Akron this winter. The gas has failed two or three times with reports of breaks or leaks in the main pipe.
The Elyria lodge Tribe of Ben Hur installed their officers on Friday night. HOD Wheeler is chief with W F Knapp past chief Elia G Cross seriba Mrs Clara Hill judge Mrs W P Knapp keaper of tribute Mrs Maggie Thorp teacher Mr Wilson captain Thomas Babcock guide. The lodge is growing rapidly and flourishing.
Major Dan Ransdell and Gen. Hooker are described as well supplied with gloves in a humorous note about exchanging odd gloves after loss in wartime. The article then notes that 172 species of blind creatures are known to science, with many more discovered in caves.
A New Yorker recalls plans to write about places to go broke in towns. He describes San Francisco as a place where leaving is hard, with mountains to cross and costly train rides. The narrator recounts a dining misadventure at the Palace cafe and a long-ago encounter with a former acquaintance who repaid a $200 debt with two $100 notes, underscoring how San Francisco tops the list of broke-in-town stories.
A sale of the New Castle Traction Electric and Gas properties to the Pennsylvania and Mahoning Valley Railroad Co yields a profit reported by Senator Quay his son Richard BR and ex Senator Don Cameron. They had acquired the properties for about $1,000,000 and the deeds show cash consideration of $1,297,500 with a mortgage of $3,697,500 attached.
The piece lauds women who challenged unfit male politicians in a southern state and a western congressman, praising their firm stance for pure representation. It argues no woman overstepped her role and condemns chronic complainers while endorsing reformist action by women.
A Country Life in America note describes mud daubers as solitary wasps that construct inch long cells in attics and closets. They fill each cell with about 18 asphyxiated spiders, lay an egg, and the larva consumes the prey before spinning a cocoon and emerging with steel blue wings.
A long feature describes a flea circus performing in Germany. Fleas walk tight ropes draw chariots ride, and dance after careful training using fine spider thread harnesses. It notes the effort cost thousands of dollars and years of patient labor to achieve the astonishing acts.
Princess Brenda flees court life and meets a grave fool in the forest reading The Art of Love. Their cautious bond grows as she learns from him, but she departs as his pain remains, leaving a last, poignant farewell.
George Cairacross of Barville Virginia long reputed poor was found dead in his chair after forty years as a hermit. Neighbors discovered over 900 in cash in a dented shoe plus a CD for 1000, 50 in bills and other small sums. Bank books show deposits in Syracuse Utica and Cortland banks.
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