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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1937
Page
7
Lorain County reports 53 deaths in March with ages split across many elderly brackets and more female fatalities. Births totaled 45, including 21 girls and 24 boys, Amherst leading with nine newborns. Heart and circulatory diseases were the top cause, followed by respiratory diseases and cerebral hemorrhage.
John Gecelovsky of Bell avenue received a building permit from Building Inspector Hart Dickason to construct a two story frame house at 1022 Bell avenue. The 24 by 26 foot foundation will include six rooms and a bath with a garage, estimated at 3150 dollars.
Rev. Thomas Hughes of the LaPorte Methodist Episcopal Church will speak at the Elmira Rotary Club meeting at noon Tuesday at the Elks Restaurant. Howard Morgan is program chairman and William Gollmar heads the local committee. Several members plan to attend the district conference in Youngstown on May 6 and 7.
Lorain County school superintendents and principals will meet at the Elks Restaurant Wednesday night to discuss a proposed code of ethics for teachers. The discussion will be led by M. L. Royer of Columbia Township, P. M. Wallace of Henrietta, and Kenneth Lower of Grafton Township principals.
Frank Miller aged 55 of Elm Street was fined 1 and costs on a intoxication charge after arraignment before Mayor Don A. Baird in police court this morning. Miller was arrested about 2 45 am Sunday at Broad Street and West Avenue.
William Struck of 248 Ohio Street was fined $2 and costs after arraignment before Mayor Don A. Baird on a reckless driving charge. He was arrested Thursday evening for speeding on Cleveland Street in police court today.
Elyria and Brownhelm high school seniors dominate Lorain County test results with nine top scorers. Scores from Columbus show the upper quarter of 31 county participants, including ties for eighth place. Winners advance to statewide competition for Ohio college scholarships pending cross county comparison.
Steve Kudrin sues Joseph Macaki for 96 dollars over board. Ruth Gage granted divorce from Otto Gage for gross neglect and cruelty, restores maiden name Ruth McGinnis. Grace Bruce seeks divorce from John Bruce after 1932 marriage with two children. Beulah Aukerman seeks divorce from Ira Aukerman. Walter Gern seeks divorce from Christine Gern. Albert Farr fined seven dollars forty six cents for driving with one headlight on Route 29.
Bishop Joseph Schrembs announces Cleveland diocese Eucharistic Congress to align with Corpus Christi. It begins May 26 with a night of Holy Hours, includes a midnight Mass, priests and religious meetings, a Pontifical Mass Thursday at 10, and a solemn Blessed Sacrament procession with further details to follow.
Jim Garber reports to police his Elgin bicycle stolen from his home on Friday evening. The cream and white bike valued at $20 was taken from 252 Hamilton Street.
April 19 to 21 list shows Women's Progressive Club Miss Katherine Higgins guest speaker plus Methodist Service Guild covered dish supper with Miss Juanita Schramm speaker. Other gatherings include N T T M Club dinner and bridge, Monday Night Club at Hi O Hi Tea Rooms, Martel Club Tuesday, Oberlin History Department guest speaker Professor Jameson on France policy, American Legion auxiliary, Young Women's Civic League, Ladies Aid Society Baptist church, Knights of Pythias, Merry Wives at Mrs Weeks home.
Thursday April 22 events include the Youngs Men's Club regular meeting at the Oberlin Tavern and entertainment by Mr and Mrs H A Broadwell for the Kouple Klub on Union Street. Friday April 23 schedules include the Oberlin Stamp Club at 7 30 pm in city hall council room and the Pythian Sister Temple regular meeting at the K P Hall.
Mr and Mrs Robert Lyman and Mr and Mrs Ralph Lyman attended a Saturday party at the Hallauer home in Elyria where announced the marriage of Harriet Hallauer to Paul Talarski. The couple wed on February 14.
Mr and Mrs Harley Edwards and Patsy of Lakewood and Mr and Mrs W L Williams of Elyria were Sunday guests of A B Chesbro in North Pleasant street. Miss Eleanor Jackson underwent an appendicitis operation at Elyria Memorial Hospital where she trains as a nurse. Parmele of Toledo visited his sister Mrs W E Rogers on South Main street. Mr and Mrs John Sennhenn of Vermilion were Sunday guests of Shirley Jackson and family. Miss Marguerite Lyman, Dover schools teacher, is ill at her East Lorain street home.
Mrs. J. E. Rosecrans and Dr. Young spent the weekend visiting her parents on North Pleasant Street. They returned to their home Sunday after spending Saturday with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Champney returned Thursday to their Oberlin home after a winter in Delray Beach Florida. En route they visited R. W. Jewell and family in Birmingham Alabama and stopped in Delaware Ohio to pick up their daughter Sylvia for a weekend visit.
Mrs. Sam Powers of Gary Indiana visited Mrs. Jennie Powers and family on West Lorain Street with Mrs. McVay and her son and daughter from Lorain.
Mrs. O A Stanfield is reported to be improving from an illness at her home on Groveland street.
Phyllis Ann, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Younglass of North Pleasant, is seriously ill at Allen Hospital. Albert Kruepper and Franklin Sanders of Elyria visited their aunt Mrs W E Rogers of South Main on Saturday evening.
Mrs Edna Mack remains confined to her home on Groveland street due to illness, with family noting limited mobility and care arrangements ongoing.
Dale C. Houser, 47, died at his home on Grant Street after a three week illness. Born December 18, 1889 in Meadville, Pa., he lived in Elyria 21 years and was foreman at General Industries. Survived by wife Peggy R. Houser, children Jack, Patricia, and Mrs. Ted Prindle, and sister Mrs. Ralph Kauffman. Services Tuesday at 2:00 at his home with Rev. G. A. Brown. burial in Birmingham Cemetery.
Mrs. R. S. Young of New Concord has been spending the past period in that city. Her activities and exact dates are not fully recorded in the surviving notes.
St. Joseph's Amherst reports the Tackawitha choir rehearsal at 7 15 pm. An important National Council of Catholic Women meeting at St Vitus Hall Lorain Tuesday plans the Eucharistic Congress for Lorain May 26 and 27. Rev Daley Elyria heads the Lorain Deanery with Rev James H Smith assisting publicity. Altar Rosary hosts a two for a nickel bingo at the school hall Tuesday. Mrs Olivia Wiegand extends hospitality to St Ann Circle three Thursday. St Ann Circle one roast beef dinner at the school hall next Sunday 12 to 5 pm. Brotherhood to hold a six thirty dinner at church parlors for members and friends.
The Senior League meeting is delayed this week due to other activities. Kings Daughters class will attend Evangelical young ladies' classes at St John church Lorain Tuesday evening. Circle three of the Women's Union hosts Wednesday at Mrs. Jacob Herbsts. Circle one meets Thursday at Mrs. Rudolph Berger's. Choir rehearsal remains at 7:30 Friday.
The Barber couple from Michigan arrive Saturday to serve as supply pastors and stay at the Grugel residence on Washington avenue. Mrs. Glenn M. Horst leaves her substitute post for New Philadelphia this day. Crusaders hold a prayer meeting at Miss Constance Kreeger’s Cleveland avenue home. Ladies’ prayer meeting is at Mrs. L. F. Kreeger’s Cleveland avenue home Tuesday afternoon. Weekly praise and prayer service at 7 50 Wednesday evening. Youth service at 7 30 Friday evening. Teachers and officers monthly meeting at Hazel Street home of Mr. and Mrs. George Garther.
The official board meeting is at the church tonight at 7 30. Mrs Joseph Baxter hosts the Ladies Aid at her East street home Wednesday afternoon. The Bible Study and prayer service meet Thursday evening at Mrs Ruby Guilds Park avenue home. On Saturday May 1 the pro-
Reverend Williams will entertain Oberlin Theological Seminary students at the church parlors Thursday afternoon and evening. A 4 p m speaker and a six o'clock supper by church ladies are planned. A communion service will close the evening. Adult Young People meet Friday at Mrs Vincent Naller’s Lincoln home. Bible Study Class not meeting this week.
The Sunday School teachers converge at the church parlors tonight. The Men's Club holds its regular meeting there Tuesday evening featuring an illustrated lecture on Colored Missions in Piney Woods Mississippi and a history of the school and its work.
Evangélical churches marked Missionary Field Day with a Sunday morning service led by Rev. M. A. Hayes who exchanged pulpits with Rev. Victor Peterson of Emmanuel Evangelical church Lorain. A midweek prayer service is set for 7 45 Wednesday evening at the Lorain church.
Mrs Coleman, Lorain, was admitted Sunday and gave birth to a baby boy. Discharges include Mrs Wilford and baby boy from Tenney Avenue and Mrs Henry Dock from Spring Street.
Miss Zita Lahiff returns from Miami Beach to resume nursing duties at Watkins Glenn Sanatorium. Bluffton College men Geoffrey Monger and Willam Tisdale spent the weekend at home. Mr and Mrs John McMullen and daughter Mary of Cleveland visited the Lahiff household. Miss Alpha Hazel and Mrs Wilmah Egeland visited Cleveland Saturday. Mrs A J Bauer is ill at her Lincoln Street home. Miss Margaret Berger resumes duties at Penfield High School after weekend at Franklin Avenue home. Rev Glenn M Horst of New Philadelphia was an Amherst visitor today.
Mrs Marilla Dirlam of Sullivan dies at her Sullivan home on Sunday morning the day of her sister’s birthday. She leaves husband Orrin a sister Mrs Mary Leng and a niece Mrs Dora Spangler. She belonged to Sullivan Congregational church and the Order of Eastern Star. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 from Sullivan Congregational church with Rev Davis officiating. Burial in Sullivan cemetery.
Maria Luke Leemhuis 77 died at her son Rollin Leemhuis home after a several month illness. Born November 7 1859 in North East Pennsylvania she moved from Erie to Elyria. Survived by two sons Walter of Erie and Rollin of Elyria and other relatives. Funeral services planned in Erie with burial in North East Pennsylvania.
Madhock and park officials describe a mystery as a bear escaped its fenced enclosure again. Fire crews arrived with long ladders ropes pikes and roofers rope to recapture the animal while Matt Wilford notes the high spike topped bars should prevent escape.
Lorain County high schoolers face cutbacks as only 30 spots will be sent to the Kent district contest on May 1. After a tie in algebra for second place, June Draga Amherst remains the sole contestant in that event while Raymond Petty Henrietta and Vivian Horwedel Avon Lake contest for the second spot. An additional elimination is expected from the math test with a wide first second gap, per county superintendent C A Gibbons. Last year two representatives per subject were allowed across 15 subjects, enabling a 30 member team.
Bears gifted by the Elyria Kiwanis Club from Manitoba last fall replaced two that died. The smaller one shed hair initially but now sports a full coat, following a change in diet. One may have climbed atop the bear house and escaped near the fence joint, contending with spikes.
More than 30 persons will receive citizenship certificates May tenth at the Elyria High School auditorium. John Kolopus, chairman of the Legion Americanization committee, announced the program which includes Judge Arthur Day of Cleveland as speaker and a sequence of ceremonies starting at eight o clock. An informal dinner for Judge Day at the Elks club follows at 6 30 p m.
The Philadelphia Phillies opened the 193 baseball season in victory with Morris Arnovich belting a 11th inning homer to give the Quakers a 2 to 1 win over the Boston Bees in Boston.
Leonard Moody was elected president and Leroy Moody secretary of the Elyria High School National Honor Society chapter. Thomas Stephens is vice president and Gordon Holton treasurer. all four officers are seniors and will serve only a few weeks before June graduation. The Moody brothers are sons of Mrs. E. L. Moody of 921 Park Avenue.
Returning home at 2 a.m. occupants of a third floor Endley Block apartment found themselves locked out. Firemen used a ladder to reach a window and unlocked the door from inside.
Market reports show unsettled prices across vegetables poultry and eggs with firmer hogs and lambs. Grain futures list No 2 red wheat at 1.38 to 1.59 and corn at 1.31 to 1.32 while Florida Hastings potatoes bid 6.00 to 6.25 per barrel.
Receipts 1200 with steady market. Choice steers around 1100 lbs quoted at 11.00 to 12.50, good to choice 11.00, medium 9.00 to 10.00, common 7.50 to 6.50. Cows 6.00 to 7.00, butcher stock 9.50 to 10.50. Valves receipts show market steady with choice to prime 10.35 to 11.50 and good to choice 3.00 to 10.50.
He denounces both Communism and Fascism and warns that dictatorships abolish unions. The speaker calls for obedience to union rules, higher wages to boost purchasing power, and enforcement of the right to organize. He cites sweatshops and child labor in nearby cities and notes progress in Elyria’s organizing drive. He criticizes stool pigeons and urges employers to share a fair path.
Albert Balock, president of the Central Labor Union, presided at the meeting. He introduced the speakers and the organization committee headed by Alva Kemp, along with a number of guests. The registration opens at 4 30 p m next Friday.
Elyria Lawyers Club hears Harry Moehlman, a common pleas court shorthand reporter, speak at noon on personal observations and shortcuts to save clients money by improving trial records. Joseph Q. Petro, club president, introduces Moehlman.
Lorain County officials plan to plant four trees and several shrubs around the year old $2,500 dog kennel to provide shade and improve surroundings. Commissioner John E. Davidson said he will choose locations on the south and west sides.
Lorain County girls from Ohio State University will be heard on a radio program tonight. Fifteen of the university Four-H Club members perform vocal and instrumental music and discuss club work at the university on station WOSU Columbus. Participants include Duruthy Lottman Elyria secretary Margaret Parkler North Ridgeville and Mildred Bartter Columbia Station. The program airs at 7:30 p m.
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