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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
3
The Chronicle Telegram Y M C A announces a May 15 to 27 Learn to Swim campaign in Elyria open to all ages. Enroll on May 8 9 10 with free instruction and a 10 cent diploma fee. Beginners must swim 60 feet and advanced swimmers 100 yards plus dives.
A young robber held up a Fremont gasoline station, stole an auto from John Shamp, and fled at high speed. He wrecked a stolen car in Perrysburg and escaped on foot with $33.65. Deputy Reimer and highway patrol joined a chase on U S Route 20. It was the station’s second such holdup in 11 days.
Doctors promoteDr Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe vegetable remedy to stimulate bile flow and aid digestion for constipation and sluggish bile. The ad claims tablets relieve morning malaise and improve elimination with a price of 15¢, 50¢, or 60s in drugstores.
Sixteen Elyria High School students rehearse the senior class play You Cant Take It With You directed by Miss Nina Baker. The Pulitzer Prize comedy features Thomas Gardner as the grandfather and a large ensemble including Shirley Altfeld, Joan Bauer, Richard Baumhardt, Paul Gardner, Jean Crisp, Douglas Birch, Harold Dahnke, La Vaughn Sareight, William Powell, Peter Smith, Martha Klyop, Paul Eckler, James Ferriman, Leonard Dunford, and Rita Halpin in diverse roles.
Edward Merves files in common pleas court to stop awarding Lorain bathhouse concessions to Peter Steris claiming Steris bids are not the best. Four bids were received April 7 with Chester Merves offering 710 for Lakeview and 90 for Century Park versus Steris 620 and 80 respectively for two year contracts. One park commissioner allegedly stands to profit if Steris wins.
Members of the Amherst High speech department directed by Miss Margaret Rice staged the three act comedy Charm School by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton at Town Hall auditorium. The cast featured Austin Bevans Richard Griffin David MacKenzie and others with students from Fairview school and a function with a high school jazz orchestra and various musical numbers. The play will be presented again this evening.
A Town Hall council room gathering at 7 30 this evening will cover Old Home Week committee plans. The Eagle auxiliary holds a regular session, Amherst Hi drama class performs Charm School in Town Hall Auditorium, and Rittman school band under Frederick Ebbs leads Friday 2 15 p m assembly. St Peter Evangelical choir rehearses at 7 30 this evening.
Funeral services for Mrs. O. Paddock, who died at her North Prospect home, will be held Friday at 9:00 p.m. at Sedgeman Funeral parlors. Rev. R. K. Wells of Cleveland will conduct the service. Interment will be in Dover Cemetery.
Circle six of the Women’s Union met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. A C Schibley and Mrs. Arthur Bergeszazy assisting. Devotions were led by Mrs. Earl White and the poem Mother Love was read by Mrs. Walter Miller. May meeting planned at Mrs. Walter Miller’s home. Mrs. Donald Rumsey appointed devotion chairman. Oasis from Reader’s Digest read by Mrs. Walter Mischka. The afternoon featured needle work and a dessert was served to several members.
The Oberlin Stamp club will hold an open meeting Friday evening at City Hall for buying selling and exchanging stamps. The public is cordially invited.
Mrs. Clarence F Swift returns to Oberlin after five months with daughters in Washington Bronxville and Lancaster to attend Plymouth Church’s 75th anniversary in Lansing Michigan. Miss Edith Stanley Oberlin College registrar attends national registrar convention in New York City this week.
Members of the East Carlisle Community Club schedule an April 28 social with an officer nominating meeting and discussion of two new projects. The evening includes modern and old time dancing and a box social with ladies bringing lunch to be auctioned.
White, Mrs. Donald Rumsey, Mrs. Walter Mischka and the hostesses form the prominent social group highlighted in the society notes.
Lorain County Federation of Democratic Women held a Wednesday luncheon at Avon Congregational Church with attendees including Mrs E C Stiwald Mrs James Henry Mrs Wilmah Egeland Mrs Charles Henry Mrs Louis Lieb Mrs Harry Wolf Mrs Joseph Henry and Miss Kate Lawless An announcement for the regional conference in Columbus May 10 11 12 was made Speakers James Farley and Mrs Frances Perkins were listed with Mrs Lagton and Mrs Struthers named as delegates.
Mrs Adrian Mather leaves Lorain with her newborn son after hospital discharge.
The local Congregational church sent delegates Mrs. William Baird Mrs. Jay Gillette Mrs. James Miller Mrs. George Carter and Mrs. C A Alexander to the Medina Association of Congregational Churches meeting held Wednesday in Lodi Ohio.
Governor John W. Bricker said he will attend the New York World's Fair on June 16 for Ohio Day as part of official duties. He also voiced a wish for a San Francisco pleasure trip if allowed by Legislature and duties, and denied arranging meetings with political leaders.
Word reached Amherst relatives of the sudden death of John T. Hoffman at his Hudson Michigan home Wednesday afternoon. Funeral rites will be held at the late home Saturday afternoon. Hoffman was a brother in law of Mrs. A. J. Jenne and had visited here several times.
Known as Old Man Fang, a 72 year old man with a long white beard has become a notable guerrilla leader in Onhwei Province China. He commands about 4000 soldiers shaping local resistance efforts.
Rain on the Hungarian plains carried gray dust from Arabia, while Lithuania observed a minute of silence at noon for Vilna, the ancient capital, captured by Polish troops in 1920.
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