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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1901
Page
5
Ambiguous notice from a local firm regarding a contract dispute with a tile company. The report mentions orders, production capacity, and potential rent and property arrangements. Names and dates are unclear due to damaged text, but reference to a railroad-related dispute appears.
The court granted a continuance of works bonds injunctions to the next term. Among the top attorneys, efforts focus on examining the court order to identify actions pend ing in the papers. Reports describe schemes where sharpers approach farmers, drive to victims’ homes, and pose as attorneys to press settlements.
Local items from Elyria and Lorain County note visitors, social events, and church meetings. Mentions include Mrs. James Cobb of Lorain visiting Elyria friends, Masons services, and a Lorain Baptist convention near Wellington. A serious accidental shooting in Perrysville is reported, along with a prison escape mishap in Akron. An Akron lad’s communion theft causes alert. News covers bids, rail work, and civic notes from Elyria and surrounding communities.
The Moore-Everett syndicate nears control of the Cleveland, Lorain and Western Railway, claiming ownership of a vast trolley system from Warren to Port Huron. Negotiations with the O. KE. & W. appear advanced, while a C E & W representative disputes imminent consolidation. The Pomeroys expand holdings, forming an extensive feeder network as the Everetts face doubt.
Rev W Endley at the First M E Church preached a forceful sermon on the Seventh Commandment linking divorce records and scandals to social harm. He urged a strict standard for both partners in adultery, argued matrimony is essential for society, and criticized divorce laws as too lenient.
The Elyria township board of education met in the city council chamber Monday and elected teachers for sub districts including Musa Ida Phipps Estella Phipps Kate Neuter Bessie Coniam Mary Maddock and Tina Steim. Textbooks were adopted with Overton's physiology and McMasters geographies chosen. Bills were paid and directors drew salaries of $2 each for their work.
The body of Elton North of Huntington township was found last Saturday in the barn of James McClare near New London in Huron county. North had left home five weeks earlier on a drunken spree and his whereabouts were unknown until the death notice arrived. The coroner viewed the remains and ruled acute alcoholism as the cause. The body was taken to Huntington township for burial.
The town sees golfers near the south school field and east of Elyria’s gymnasium scene, with L D Boulton Howestreet and others among early enthusiasts. Foreclosure cases surface as Solomon Mendelson seeks to marshal liens on a West and Lodi meat market property, asserting priority to cover a one year note dated 1901 and claiming mechanic’s liens to protect his interest.
Mrs Katherine Schafer wife of George Schafer of Carlisle died Sunday night at 1 o clock from a complication of diseases. Funeral will be held at the home four or five miles southwest of Elyria Wednesday at 6 o clock a.m. Interment in Elmwood cemetery Lorain where the Schafer family formerly lived. A husband and several children survive.
Mr. G Grundy plans to start Lottie G 2:2934 by Phylie a son of Patton in the Northeast Ohio Circuit races this season. Mel Pound Elyria horseman buys a well bred mare by Charles Derby out of Ida Woods dam of Owyhee 2:11 and Babe Marion 2:171g, naming her Berby Simmons. Wellington Stock Farm sells a team of its own breeding to a Wellington purchaser for $700. Treasurer-Elect Harris of Wellington was in town Tuesday.
Rev W H Scott once pastor at Disciple church Yeaton Center in this county and now preaching in Marshalltown Iowa was seriously injured in a June runaway. Thrown from the buggy he suffered a broken right arm a badly jammed shoulder and other severe injuries but is reported doing well with full recovery expected.
An advertisement urges readers to view Brasa and Iron Beds and a selection of PORCH GOODS including refrigerators with a special discount. The copy emphasizes elegance and invites customers to visit the store for Porch Goods and furniture deals.
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