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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1920
Page
7
A group of cowboys near a ranch pursue a gray wolf that had been spotted behind rocks. After a tense chase around boulders and ditches, the wolf is caught and brought toward the ranch. The story then shifts to a reminder of the boys who failed to lasso animals and face a Goat and Pig cooking for punishment.
Riverview Park hosts roller skating races with famed champion Réland Cloni rumored to hold six straight distance records. Event slated for nine o'clock features notable skaters including Hogie Cal and Jackie Clark from the Middle West scene.
Rev W A Taghange, a student at Louisville Baptist Theological Seminary, was to begin as pastor of La Grange Baptist Church on August 1 but asked for release to pursue further studies. The church considers other candidates. Rev C W Stitt, former pastor, is supplying at Roatoke Alabama due to Mrs Stitt’s family health.
A Lorain firm is among several companies announced as incorporated in Columbus today. The brief list names the entities and notes the formal filing of incorporation documents with state authorities.
A brief excerpt notes $100,000 involving The Hody and Tulea Co. Lorain and names John Be Tulea and Rose Tulea. A prison visitor questions a poor man about why he is there. the reply jokes the trouble was always the bridegroom during weddings.
Oberlin College raises yearlong tuition to 150 dollars from 135 with charges for courses by actual enrollment. Board in college halls rises to eight dollars weekly. dorms range from 1.50 to 3.40 weekly. Conservatory tuition also up. The college plans limited building and expects record or near record enrollment, with more than 1,700 expected.
Charles K. Whitney spent Monday in Cleveland and returned Tuesday morning. W. P. Carruthers and his family drove to Cleveland and Lorain Sunday. Theodore Baird left Oberlin Saturday for his home in Youngstown. Dr. Vernon Richardson arrived Sunday from Indianapolis where he bought a Mormon car and drove it home.
The opening on Wall Street was confused with many major shares slipping while a drop in sterling and weak foreign news pressured markets. By noon rails led a rally as railroad stocks rose one to two and a half points amid short covering and renewed buying.
Chicago reports a rush selling that drove wheat futures down as much as 13 1 2 cents after open. December and March prices fluctuated from $2.16 to $2.27 before easing. Corn and oats followed wheat trends with initial gains fading, while hog values supported provisions amid overall market neglect.
A 60 pound king catfish, four feet twelve inches long, was landed by state game protectors in the Scioto river at Portsmouth and brought to the London hatchery for display at the state fair in Columbus.
In Saratoga Springs the Democratic sub committee debates a beer plank endorsing the 1920 beer bill. A 41 to 9 vote favors the plank but many delegates oppose. Major Lunn plans to protest to block county roll calls. The ticket aims to nominate Alfred E. Smith for governor with Harry C. Walker for U S Senate amid calls for national Prohibition enforcement.
United States Senator Thomas P. Gore trailed Democrat Scott Ferris for the senatorial nomination after statewide primary returns from 1,138 of 2,708 precincts. Ferris led with 61,597 votes to Gore's 38,572, as rural districts were still to report.
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