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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1939
Page
8
Plans are complete for the 17th Western Automatic Machine Screw Co picnic at Chippewa Lake Park on Saturday August 12. A special train will depart the plant at 8 45 AM to start the day. The afternoon program begins at 1 38 PM with races and contests for children and adults, offering prizes like gloves, coats, skates, and shirts.
Events include a 50 yard free throw for ladies with first prize a house coat and second prize a purse. Men 100 yard dashes offer prizes of pajamas and socks for different age groups. An egg throwing contest awards cigars to winners. A ladies three legged race and a tug of war between Plant and Screw Plant conclude the program with cigars as prizes.
August 9 caucus at the town hall named village officials for the November election. Jacob Kolb chaired with Allen Thompson as clerk. Nominations include mayor Henry Garland and Albert Schneidler, clerk Harold Allsop and Eugene Woods, treasurer Allan Thompson, council John Duncan Isaac Thompson Jacob Kolb N. G. Townsend E. G. Kalmeyer Robert Allsop Lewis Haywood R. R. Johanson Ford Moser Albert Farey Fred Bartlome and Fred Jassar, marshal Frank Powers and Ray Jones, school board Paul Mori John Gauman Harold Moore and Mrs Clinton Kilmer.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Allsop and daughter Patty travel with Mrs Clifford to their home in Los Angeles California after a stay with relatives here Mrs Anna Allsop mother of the former accompanies them for an indefinite visit.
A village picnic planned by the Old Schoolmates Club will be held on the town hall lawn Sunday afternoon and evening with committee duties including refreshments. Property transfers notice lists multiple Lorain County parcels from August 3 to 5 1939 involving numerous buyers and estates across Elyria Oberlin Lorain Sheffield Lake and Avon Lake. A basket supper and entertainment follow with parish Ladies' Altar Society and South Amherst Townsend Club coordinating activities.
The piece argues that non intervention risks U S self denial to vital war resources, noting Latin America supplies tin manganese chromium bauxite and tungsten. A South America survey says these materials are strategic and Latin America is not blockaded, while foreign governments shield their corporate interests. It also cites US reliance on Latin American imports and the need to protect strategic positions amid global tension. Also listed are land transfers including Dorothy Peters to Clyde Peters and other Elyria properties.
A Foreign Policy survey notes bilateral trade and war fears push Latin America toward self sufficiency. It argues that major raw materials and meat exports remain available to foreign buyers, with U S efforts to steer Latin states toward noncompetitive products and regional expansion, aiming to curb European influence and bolster wartime readiness. It questions reliance on Far East rubber and favors developing Brazilian rubber to reduce global risk.
The Methodist Ladies Aid and Foreign Missionary Society will meet Thursday August 10 with hostesses Mrs. George McConnell and Mr and Mrs Herman Worcester. Attendees include daughter Mrs Ruth Green and Mr and Mrs Charles Weber of Wellington who joined the Worcester reunion at Columbia Center on Sunday.
Mrs Harold Brandt Mrs James McConnell Mrs Arthur Whitney and Mrs Eva Piper entertained Friday at the Piper home for their niece Mary Elizabeth Whitney of Wellington Thirty five guests attended including out of town visitors Mrs Glen Piper North Canton and Isabelle and Laura McConnell Gifts for the kitchen were given to the bride elect and the Whitney McConnell wedding is planned for August 11.
The Young People’s League held a winner roast and beach party at Vermilion-on-the-Lake on Thursday evening. Robert Pickworth escaped injury after a barn roof fall when a ladder failed at the Crosier farm. Kenneth Worcester takes a two week vacation from Oberlin’s People's Banking. He plans a trip to northern Michigan and Saulte Saint Marie. Mrs. E J Darby of Birmingham visited Mrs. Ada Sherburne on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. James Davidson hosted dinner Sunday for the latter’s sister and family, and meddlement. Senators cut funds for war stockpile construction, while White House debates world power politics, stirring public sentiment over China and Czechoslovakia.
William Milla of Litchfield Minnesota, a former resident here, is visiting his daughter Mrs L A Moherman of Higha. The T G T entertained their mothers at a pot luck dinner on Thursday at the home of Mrs Mauby O Neal in Oberlin.
Avon August 9 The Loyal Youth class of the Baptist Sunday School will hold their monthly party at Metropolitan Park Friday evening August 11.
Mr and Mrs Ira Gough and guests attended a Tuesday evening gathering with the Goughs and Harold Agate Ray McNeil and Ed Curtiss all of Elyria. Elsie Jensen returned home Sunday after visiting relatives in Cleveland. Mr and Mrs J B Adams and daughter Gwendolyn attended a party Saturday at the home of Mr and Mrs Alvin Walker in Elyria honoring their sons.
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