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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1903
Page
5
The county diary records telegraph lines damaged by Thursday winds with several poles blown down. Parsons shipped 340 lambs to Buffalo. M Parsons returned home. Various residents attended games in Cleveland and visits to Lorain Elyria and Wellington. Births, moves, illnesses, and social visits fill the week with church and school updates and local travel notes.
The Belden Everetts show ran for three nights with Mrs Burrer and Charlie Schwarz among prize winners. Local residents aided LaGrange in a donation for Mr and Mrs Hillbury Monday evening. A warm sugar social occurred in MB church Thursday. Several residents traveled to Elyria and nearby towns for visits and events. May 6 admission was 20 cents for an entertainment in town hall.
Carlisle report notes a horse death during field work, Miss Lacy Wheeler on leave visiting friends, Mr. Carrier from Lorain offering piano and organ tuning services, Mrs. Lantsberry injured by a nail, W Prindies sale sparsely attended due to bad weather. Frank Swartz builds a bank barn and a marriage of W Macquire to Miss Louise Deidrick at Elyria is recorded. Freeman and Starr push for electric line right of way with many signs collected. Violet,
Rochester community page records obituaries visits and family news including Wm Rowland nephew of EB Rowland death in Colorado funeral at E Rowland home. Mrs E Bishop returns from Cleveland to stay with daughter Mrs O A Ashoraf. school travels of Misses E sad E Taylor to Wellington. social visits of Mrs LD Munson with sister Mrs Kolb of Cleveland and Kellogg family from Norwalk. Miss M Knapp at Elyria. minor accident when Walter Chapin shot in hand loading a revolver. gatherings at Mrs S Crapp home and Mr Barnes 76th birthday. C B society reorganized with Mr Twining of Brighton addressing. property transfers involving Mr Frank Dagnan and Ransford house. Maple guest at Lakewood. OW Werner with G Fields. Miss Lora Peck sick. Mrs Chas Ammon of Elyria visits Heiding and family. township teachers to meet May 6 at Ridgeville Center with speakers from Oberlin. all invited.
Locals recall last Friday’s film show at the school house with better content than attendance. Visitors included Miss A Kriel of Bryan Ohio and Miss M Stegrist of Paterson New Jersey visiting friends, while Mrs W Behinke hosted relatives from LaGrange and Lake Breeze. Also noted were Mrs Webb and daughters from Cleveland visiting Mrs L Coox, and Miss Firestone finishing a term of school.
Pittsfield and Elyria residents are cited visiting family in Elyria Medina and Penfield. Mrs B Botts of Penfield was here Friday. The Medina Congregational church conference met in town last week. District 5 scholars and parents surprised their teacher Mr W Gifford with a ring in appreciation of his work.
North Ridgeville residents report Anson Owens returning from Canon Ohio after a visit with his son. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs J Pratt on April 29. Soldier Aleck McNeal buried at Ridgeville Cemetery. Rev 7 O Treat of Cleveland visited town. President King of Oberlin College expected to speak at the convention next Saturday evening. The annual BS meeting to be held at the parsonage on Wednesday May 6 with invitation to all.
Brownhelm Mrs Ph Strans of Cleveland stayed with Mrs J H Brandon. Albert Knerim and Adam Northime visited Columbus Sunday. Mrs James Harris and children visited her mother in Nickel Plate. Oscar Perry died Sunday after a long illness. Funeral Wednesday at 1 pm led by Rev Harding. Christian Endeavor at U H church Sunday evening at 7. everyone invited.
Oberlin was heavily defeated by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor by 12 to 1. Reed, Oberlin’s third baseman, drove in five Michigan runs while Oberlin’s team showed overconfidence and was outplayed at every point. Kenyon had defeated Oberlin a week prior.
The piece lists the country newspaper as a library and more, a mirror of life. It highlights its range from poetry to obituaries, sermons to sales, noting its value and faults in a single daisy chain of roles.
The start date for the half hour service on the C and S W Ry has moved from May 1 to May 8 due to a delayed power generator arrival. Trains will run every half hour between Oberlin and Cleveland and hourly between Wellington and Norwalk starting May 8.
The L D Times-Herald notes about one hundred Italian workers arrived Friday and Saturday, lodging in vacant spaces around Clark Street as beds of straw were improvised. The square house at Clark foot, once home to L B Robbins, sheltered about sixty on Saturday and Sunday.
The ice cream soda trust raised prices to 10 cents at Canton but has now been disrupted. Most fountain owners increased prices weeks ago, allowing 5 cent shops to grab business. The trust lowered prices back toward the old rate as soda water returns to widespread sale.
George Onster Donley 23 machinist and Anna Bargatt 19 clerk both of Lorain seek marriage licenses. Gnistya Vigngevie 2 laborer and Sara Govaden 21 domestic of Lorain seek licenses with Philip Faber 22 porter and Mary Gray 27 cook both of Lorain. George W Standen guardian for Fora Standen minor filed a petition to sell lands to pay debts.
Dr Max Ekenberg of Gotha puré unveils a milk flour powder from skim milk that retains dairy properties, is fully soluble in water, resists souring and fermentation, and withstands weather. production costs about 27 cents per 106 quarts with a potential sale price around 13 cents per pound. The invention, showcased before the Swedish academy of agriculture, promises to greatly aid skim milk utilization and transport.
King Edward ordered no trains for ladies at court causing shock to dressmakers who profit from long court dresses. Influential courtiers urged change, trains were restored, but many women remained trainless. A special dispensation later allowed trainless attendees to the functions.
The Buffalo Commercial cites Italian philosopher Signor Vertiani proposing a ten point scale of envy among professions with architects at one and actors at ten. The piece also notes signals of envy in clergy medicine and theatre, a curious tale of light reviving 2000 year abandoned Laurim mines with poppies blooming, and a Japanese theater rule allowing spectators to stand with obstructed view. Smyrna named as Smyrna Ikey’s Smartest Town in Turkey surpassing Constantinople in trade as a wool and rug hub.
Marbleized notice invites summer lodgings and cottages for a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern resort guide. Agents collect rates capacity and access details, with blank forms via A. J. Smith Cleveland Ohio. March 28.
Thomas Folger became Mayor of Elyria and will send appointments to the Council as soon as made. The Board of Public Service will reorganize the city government. Dr. J Sampsell and Fred W Miller are named as board members. The new council meets tonight and several long serving officers retire. An application seeks a guardian for Anna Katz of Amherst.
SS Warren transfers to Virgil Burge covering 225 and 37 100 acres on the south side of east and west center roads in lots 15 14 and 16 tract 7 in Brighton township for 7426 dollars. Virgil Burge and wife to 8 Merrill part of lot 15 in Brighton 82500. Wm A Braman trustee to TH Haynes lots 263 and 2641 in Highland addition Lorain 500 dollars. Emory Gray and wife to Max Malterer lot 49 in original lot 98 in J B Vincents first allotment Lorain 900 dollars. Lovies H McCillom to Albert B Crisp patro of lots LQ and 12 in block 31 between branches of Black River 2900 dollars. Peter Buddinger to Peter Satler part of section 10 Avon township 1300 dollars. Peter Blass Mary Blasa and Peter Renter to Carl Schram lots 1% in Blass and Renters addition Lorain 200 dollars.
Members of Chevalier lodge No 216 K of P and lodge No 1038 EK of P will travel to Grafton Ohio on Wednesday evening May 6 1993. They will take either the 6 30 pm or 7 30 pm car. A large attendance is desired. Frank A Pierson 0 C
Columbus dispatch reports the Lake Erie and Pittsburg Ry Co of Lorain incorporated to build a steam line from Lorain to Youngstown passing through Lorain and several counties. Elyria Branch baseball team challenges any 14 year old squad in the county. Local social notes: Harris family card party, typhoid illness of L Davis, May 8 charity sale and opera house events, and community moves and funeral attendance.
New golf links north of town are ready for use and play is daily. Club membership is rapidly growing and plans call for a club house to be built on the grounds during the summer.
Figria High School defeated Elyria High School by a score of 18 to 13 on Saturday afternoon in a tight game. Umpire C Sese officiated the match.
The passage likens ascent and descent on a mountain to cycles of success and failure, arguing that steady success would dull character. It says facing failures shapes growth, while constant triumph would leave one undeveloped and gloomy without spring.
George Raymond, severely injured at the steel plant last week, died at Lorsin hospital on Monday night at two o’clock. Funeral arrangements are not yet set.
The advertisement touts Dr David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy with numerous patient testimonials from James Lettuce of Canm joharie New York and Dr W H Morse of Westfield New Jersey claiming cures for kidney bladder and related ailments. It markets a salt bath cream and pills available from the Dr Kennedy Corporation Rondout New York with sample bottles free by mail.
George Onward Record 2:234 is described as half brother to Star Onward 2:15 and linked to Lady Tennyson 2:1714 and Marie Studborn 2:2934. The note cites trials, offspring like Dandy Chimes and Nelly Mason with times around 2:00 to 2:30 and claims Omwunu as sire, listing numerous offspring and pedigrees. The ad claims extensive pedigree details and requests full pedigree certificates and terms on application from J L Edwards of Oberlin Ohio.
Public notice advertises the Barnard 20 Century Washing Machine as the world’s only automation that uses compressed air to wash fabrics from lace to carpets. It claims double the speed, easy operation for children, and lists Elyria Ohio users and agents in Lorain and surrounding towns. Manufactured by Topliff and Ely Company in Elyris.
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