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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1920
Page
1
Reports from Berlin describe a riot in Upper Silesia where French troops and civilians clashed, resulting in seven deaths and 26 wounded. Inter-allied negotiations focus on disarmament as tensions rise amid Polish and Bolshevik movements and shifting troop positions near Danzig and Thorn.
Nashville Aug 18 Ratification of the Federal Suffrage amendment completed today with favorable action by the Tennessee House 49 to 47 and Senate 25 to 4. Speaker Walker shifted his vote to secure a 50 to 46 margin. Action enables 20,000,000 women to vote in November unless the Tennessee Assembly rescinds. Governor Roberts pressed for ratification while suffrage leaders planned moves to delay.
Miss Hilda Freda Schroeder, 17, daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Schroeder of 207 Glencourt career, died Tuesday evening at Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at two o'clock from the parents home, Rev Wool Burner officiating. Burial in Ridgelawn Cemetery. Survived by her parents and two brothers George and Claude Schroeder.
Flora Guz of this city filed a damage suit today against Flora Kello claiming unkind remarks and an immoral accusation were made about her in the presence of several people on July 8. The suit asks $1000 in damages.
About six Boy Scouts from Ashtabula hiked from that city to the Ht Training Camp in session at Belifontaine. They stopped for supper in Elyria at the local Y M C A after traveling sixty miles of the intended 209 miles. The group hopes to cover the distance at about twenty miles daily, averaging over five miles an hour. They carried a message from J J Munday to Senator Harding and signatures from mayors and Y M C A secretaries of towns along the route. The delegation is led by the Ashtabula M. Boy's secretary and funded by the Ashtabula Association.
Lewis Baker 34 real estate Tiffin wed Corinne Bayless 19 Kipton. Russell Walker 23 machinist wed Eimba Struck 17 Elyria. John McDonald 22 shop fitter wed Rose Gossman 20 clerk. Lo rain Otto Carlsen 21 machinist Lo Tol wed Thelma Cleaver 19 Brownkem.
Elyria's annual report shows total water consumption at 741,162,750 gallons with daily use of 2,030,533 gallons. Based on 24,500 residents, per person use averaged 83 gallons daily, and 435 gallons per consumer, with supply cost $64 per million gallons and total cost $105 per million including expenditures and bond interest. The city has 70.9 miles of mains, 377 hydrants, and 4,673 meters, 199 added last year.
Elyria volunteers lead a Lorain County Firemen's convention procession with bands and historic engines from Cleveland era. Officers elected include Hatt of Lorain as president and Gr overin of Medina as vice president. Four thousand visitors fill the business district as the parade showcases the old hand pumping engine and bands from Lorain Elyria Amherst and Wellington.
Dunbar's Royal Dragoons entertained two large audiences at Chautauqua yesterday afternoon and evening with a varied program of popular and humorous music and encores. A three act play It Pays to Advertise will be presented, described as a purely American comedy intended to please audiences.
In New York Aug 1 engineers testing mud from the site of the old canal near the sub treasury building reported tiny gold flakes. Tests suggested genuine gold but not pyrite. theory pointed to a remnant from the historic canal or navy yard nearby.
Steve Nagi of Lorain slept through a bed fire in room 232 at the Andwur hotel when an electric light bulb melted and ignited the mattress corner. Firemen Captain Art Drage and James Lysaght answered a silent alarm as smoke filled corridors. Nagi was moved to another room after protesting awakening.
Bessie B Wood of Lorain files for divorce from Charles Wood citing extreme cruelty and neglect. She alleges intoxication and abuse to her and family, including a fight with her husband and father in which a child was dropped. She left after four years and claims failure to support herself and children.
Foreign residents at Western Heights receive the first shipment of California grapes. The consignment totals five car loads with a value around $15,000 and a purchase cost of about $150 per ton. The grapes will be used to make wine under a tone.
Boston and Cleveland mourn Ray Chapman as crowds gather to honor the late star. Umpires Evans and Donovan accuse Carl Mays of roughing balls to gain hits, noting rule changes now curb such pitches. Chapman's death followed a head injury from a pitched ball. his wife Kathleen Daly, manager Tris Speaker, and Joe Wood accompany his body.
City Solicitor Baird and Lorain attorneys discussed settlements for waterworks appropriation cases on a compromisal basis. Baird said all but three were settled and he expected the rest to follow, with one case against the Knox estate still requiring settlement or trial. A jury, after waiting, approved a verdict prepared for the original case.
Lorain County Republicans from 76 precincts will meet in Court Room No. 1 at the county courthouse next Tuesday at 2 PM to elect officers and form the county executive committee. Lynn Bowman was named chairman at last night's local meeting, with Charles Heilman and Kenneth Craig nominated to represent Lorain on the county Republican executive committee.
Toledo August 18 The Toledo Street car question known as a political football enters a new phase as a service at cost franchise is completed and to be submitted to council next Monday night If approved by council the ordinance will go to a November vote The franchise follows a previous rejection of the municipal ownership ordinance.
Hospital notes list admissions including Mrs. Fred Brown Oscar Kopenhafer Robert Fontaine Minnie Petrie Mrs Matt Stanko and others. Discharges include Oscar Kopenhafer P Perkins and F O Updyke. Cedar street crossing closed for repair on New York Central line. Police Chief KE J Stankard and former chief A A King attend Ohio Police Chiefs Convention in Newark.
Mrs. Steve Fillman of 343 West River Street pleaded guilty to manufacturing whiskey before Mayor Asaph Jones and was fined 300 dollars plus costs. Her husband and John Vinton, a boarder, were freed for insufficient evidence. Police raided a West River Street premise and confiscated raisins mash and whiskey. The mash was dumped later as officials investigated a bizarre scene at the dump.
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