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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1924
Page
8
West Ridge community notes cover a WCTU meeting at Mrs. J H Penfound home with devotionals a business session and program. Several local residents attend church and social events including visits, illnesses cold fronts and family news from Elyria and nearby towns.
Fragmentary OCR shows a school or church program including phrases like Fasey and Milton Fionics purchase and a Sunday morning scriptural reading. Mentions Ida and Elsie Delefield performing Bater Morning, with garbled place names and items suggesting a local event notice or program page.
The passage records a sequence of community events with numerous names and places. Eaton owns a Ford, families like the Neems and Mildred attend Bante church services in Columba, and various relatives travel from Cleveland Battle Creek and other towns to visit over Easter and Sundays.
Various brief items mention Mrs Mar a senior providing harp music at the Christian church in Kipton April 28. John Brooder spent Easter in Cleveland. Andrew Lee of Wakeman visited his mother Mrs Frances Lea. Mrs Eda Betts attended the Mothers and Daughters banquet for Merle Wakeman. Caria Was born to Mr and Mrs ter in Sand Jacobs. family notes include Reverend and Ber at home in ereop.
The ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a non calomel vegetable laxative for constipation and torpid liver. It claims no griping, soothing bowel action, and help for dark tongue bad breath dull tired feeling headaches and constipation with one or two tablets at bedtime. Thousands use them nightly.
Town Line North reports a flurry of visits as residents hosted and visited neighbors in events at the East Shore South Ridge and West Ridge locales. Multiple families, clubs, and guests including the Dellefield and Ernst households shared meals and fellowship over the weekend.
Avril and E O G Bower of Akron attended a noon gathering at the Bower home. The Parent Teachers held a district meeting with Superintendent Scale and Masters sharing insights. Local church services were well attended and families visited over Sunday, with multiple households listed as guests.
A schoolhouse in district No. 4 hosts a Parent-Teacher Association meeting on Thursday evening, April 24 with a 4 program by scholars. Community members attend Easter family visits, illness updates, and local social events as residents share news from Galion to Elyria and Wellington.
Birmingham M E church members share Easter visits as families from Oberlin Amherst and Cleveland travel to attend services. Local residents report farmers sowing oats and several neighbors visiting relatives, with multiple Easter Sunday gatherings and dinners across the area.
Frank Hornyak formerly of Elyria Ohio has qualified as a marksman in the Marine Corps by hitting bullseyes at ranges from 2nd to 5 yards during target practice at Key West Florida. The April target bulletin notes that Marines shoot annually for qualification and earn a badge indicating their skill. Hornyak, son of Michael Hornyak of Irondale Burleytia, joined the Marines in Cleveland in March 1923 and is stationed at Key West guarding the naval station.
In Charleston West Virginia a man and a woman convicted in a conspiracy to violate federal law were sentenced by Judge George W McClintie to two years in prison and fined 1000 each. The woman will serve at Essex County Penitentiary North Caldwell New Jersey Cabell at the federal prison in Atlanta. The note adds that the largest lumber yard in the world is in Chicago.
April listings from Cleveland market show butter cheese poultry and eggs alongside produce like strawberries beans cabbage and potatoes. Prices appear per pound per crate or per dozen with readings for onions tomatoes and guard items among mixed commodities.
New York stock market opened with gains in several issues though rails were uneven. DuPont rose to 119 1 4, Baldwin to 109 3 8, Studebaker and American Can up modestly, Maxwell Motor and Moon Motor advanced. Oils firm with California Oil up to 56 3, New York Central slipped to 101 1 2, Union Pacific steady, Wabash preferred rose. Cleveland livestock and Chicago grain figures noted. J J joins C H Merthe Co as Ready To Wear buyer and manager in Massillon connection.
Internal pile cause identified by Dr Leonhardt with surgical options noted. Hemrold tablet prescribed as a harmless remedy promising money back if it fails. Advertisement urges consulting Phillips or any good donorist for Hem rold.
Numbered statements praise public duty and non partisan stance. The group endorses the governor nominee from their county due to his long fight for principles. They extend sympathy to vice president Mrs. Jaycox and thank Elyria Union for hospitality aiding the meeting.
Lorain April 23. Solicit or Wesley Grills traveled to Columbus for a hearing before the Public Utility Commission about the order granting the old Cleveland & Western Co. a franchise to the newly formed company. The case involves the franchise granted July. Arrests and parole news follow. Mrs Anns Blazar 2836 Oakwood avenue was arrested for illegal possession of liquor and will be tried this afternoon. Harriet Micoli a paroled girl must return to Delaware reform school for further discipline after misbehavior.
The Chronicle Telegram and Grand Theatre present an Own Your Home campaign in Elyria from May through May 1 featuring a major educational film. The National Educational Film Company produced a mammoth feature Own Your Home which will be shown at the Grand Theatre with praise from leading critics.
Paull Ondeka 23 a coal miner and Ethel W Va and May Hornyak 16 waitress Lorain. Rev Kolla Andrew Czipsus 45 laborer and Terez Kavacs a Lorain.
An old advertisement promotes McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets as a pleasant tasting alternative to cod liver oil for thin weak children. It claims rapid flesh gain after sickness and potential rickets relief, with a 60 tablet bottle priced at 60 cents and sales through Phillips Crandall and Ebert Drug Stores.
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