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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1938
Page
9
Loran County rural and village schools will observe a first holiday after opening with School Day at the Lorain County Fair on September 9. The 1938 39 calendar lists holidays vacations grading periods and exams with school opening September 6 and teacher meetings on Labor Day.
LaGrange community church notes cover Wednesday August 10 all day meeting hosted by Mrs Ford Gott with Mrs Sylester Jackson aiding. A potluck dinner Thursday noon. Week’s prayer service led by Res Walker Barndollar of New Boston Ohio. Friday August 12 hosts Mr and Mrs Irving Walker entertain Baptist teachers and officers. Various brief reports mention visits, picnics, vacations and school bus staff changes across local families and nearby towns.
Residents report five white cranes at the Wellington reservoir with sightings by W. B. Homer who believes they hatched nearby this spring. Route 18 resurfacing near Wellington restricts traffic, while a five mile stretch on Route 58 to the state game farm is also resurfaced. News notes cover Legion and Odd Fellows meetings, summer courses at Kent Normal, local employments, hospital operations, births, and upcoming softball games involving Allis-Chalmers and local teams.
Rev Thomas Hughes pastor of LaPorte ME Church will speak on The Pillar of Truth with subtitle The Holy Catholic Church a study in our Affirmation of Faith Special music includes a tenor solo by the pastor Service convenes at 11 00 preceded by Sunday School at 9 15 under C F Whines Sunday School superintendent Numerous personals list guests and visits among local families from Elyria Akron Dayton and Cleveland with church events at Cascade Park and a La Porte Church hamburger roast at Cascade Park August 14.
Kipton AY E Perking and daughter Fran cis attended the funeral at Rochester Methodist church on Sunday afternoon. Mrs Grace Waugh Overholt, formerly Kipton resident now in Point Pleasant WV, called on Wilson Waterhouse last Friday. Elizabeth Geist is confined to bed with rheumatism. Mr and Mrs L F Whitney and Reva Nell of Fremont spent the weekend with their daughter Mrs Robert Elbert. Mr and Mrs W F Betts entertained Mr and Mrs F A Perkins and Mrs Anna Carpenter at Sunday dinner. Mr and Mrs Eldon Radcliffe and family of New London were afternoon visitors at the same home.
At a Crusaders meeting at Peter Becher’s Tenney Avenue home two officers stepped down. New roles include Mass Marge Becher as president and Mrs Jance Bruce as treasurer. Club plans a Crusader rally in Conneaut and a social gathering with about 17 attendees.
The Amherst Fire department will entertain the North Central Firemens Association in Amherst August 18. They are also planning the annual picnic at Brandts Park August 21. Mr and Mrs F O Fleming are visiting Dr and Mrs John Fleming in Marshfield Wisconsin. Mrs A G Roemer and daughter Charlotte of Lorain were Amherst visitors last evening. Charles Good 15 reported 311 at his home on Cleveland Avenue. Mrs Adam Lephosit was a Cleveland visitor Wednesday afternoon.
Grafton residents Mr and Mrs Emil Jelinek of Cleveland visited Mr and Mrs Charles Castle while Miss Josephine Yaryecka of Kip ton spent a weekend with Mr and Mrs Lee Boise. Mr and Mrs Freemont Davis of Elshia and Mr and Mrs Everett Hastings of New Oberlin also spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Don Swartz. Leon Smoma of Detroit visited the John Anderson home and Mrs Smoma and children returned home after weeks there.
Sunday evening callers at the Killsgéer home included Mr and Mrs Ted Harper of Amherst and Mr and Mrs William Evans and daughter Tane of North Canton. Mrs Claud Woolridge of New Oberlin and her sister from Plymouth called at the John Edmonds home. Friday Homer Hawk of Wellington was a supper guest at the Gar McRoberts home, and Saturday night entertaining guests.
Charles Whitehead traveling from California to visit relatives in Pennsylvania stopped for gas in Wellington and learned his brother George Whitehead, long thought dead in a typhoid epidemic, was alive on a nearby farm. The men reunited after 45 years of separation, while a mistaken death notice had circulated.
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