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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1937
Page
5
A flurry of social events this fall honors brides to be as hostesses host and guests shower the betrothed with gifts. Miss Kriebel and Miss Morse head September wedding plans with multiple pre nuptial gatherings across Lorain Olmstead and nearby towns.
Edward N. Pape and Miss Janet Emerson of Cleveland are engaged. Parents Mr and Mrs Sam W Emerson of 2424 Coventry Road announce the betrothal. Pape, son of Mrs A E Pape, is a Elyria High School and Ohio Western Reserve University graduate. Emerson is a Hathaway Brown School graduate, Wellesley College alumna, and studied at Western Reserve University. The wedding is set for Thursday afternoon September ninth at the Emerson home.
Admissions include Mrs Warren Robinson at 269 Spruce Street and Helen Francis at 121 Waverly Street among others. Discharges note Mrs Cecil Bellinger with a baby boy and Gus England of Wakeman, along with several others from Olmsted Falls and Avon area.
Election of officers at the Sheffield Lake Social Club meeting last week results show Mrs Joby Crompp re-elected as president for a third year, with Mrs Edward Frieschlag as first vice president, Mrs Lloyd as second vice president, Mrs Walter Klaue as secretary, and Miss Grace Inalee re-elected treasurer.
Miss Mary Butler visited the McBeans in Harvard avenue for ten days and returned to Terre Haute Indiana. Mrs. John Bins hosts Mrs. Gertrude Emerson from Hyannis Massachusetts. Lifeguard Earl Chester at Cascade Park hospitalised for appendicitis and recovering well. Various locals attend Wellington Fair and visit relatives in Lorain. Miss Marilyn Smith visits the Keavle home. Married Miss South and Russel Burkhart held at the Pittsburgh home. W. F. Eldred and others return from Indiana trip. Limberlost cabins visited. Robertsons host from Toledo. births at Elyria Memorial Hospital including Greene and DeWald families. Conry passes nurses exam in Columbus. Philp Schultz returns from New York buying trip. Several families plan return from White Mountains vacation. Nell P Lawrence visiting Grove City. Nichols sisters and Georges Driscoll visit Lodi street and attend Great Lakes Exposition.
Calendar items list Grace Lutheran Youth Society beach party leaving church at 4:30. We-Kum-U-Kum hosts beach party at Lakeview Park. Silver Slipper meets with Mrs George Henry. Lorain Tri Sigma sorority with Jerry Feron on Ninth Street. Junior Protected Home Circle Wiener roast at Cascade at four o'clock. Townsend club hosts party. Clan Robertson No 242 Scottish Clans meeting. H P Chapman Camp Sons of Union Veterans and Auxiliary meet in Woodman Hall with bingo to follow.
Second Congregational church group met with Mrs Anna Kennedy to honor Mrs Clara Wolf on her birthday. Devotional led by Mrs Fred Ernshaw. twelve members plus guest Mrs Maude Eady attended. games awarded to Mrs Sam Urias and Mrs Gladys Bliss. luncheon with yari colored ornaments. next meeting moved to second Thursday hosted by Mrs Edna Manzelman on Woodland Avenue. delegates named for Grand Lodge in Dayton Ohio September 22 to 23.
A group of friends gathered last evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Clarence Schroeder on Cleveland street for their fifth wedding anniversary. Bridge was the diversion with first prize to Harold Seigmund and Mrs Milton Bishop. consolation to William Curtis and Mr Alien Sharkey. Prizes for honors went to Mrs William Curtis and Mrs Don Bush. small slam to Milton Bishop. A pink and green dessert display complemented the event as gifts were given to the honored couple by guests William Curtis Milton Bishop Donald Rush Harold Seigmund and Alice Shurkey.
A party on vacation paused their travel in Elyria as they journey through Pennsylvania and Ohio. The stop appears casual with no details on dates or destinations beyond the interim pause in Elyria.
A large group of former High School pupils and friends gathered at East Fifth Street to honor Corrine Rice an attorney in Chicago Illinois and former local faculty member. Guests included Miss H E McCloy who spoke of her career and her Supreme Court case win against a railroad.
Noble brands of St. Clair Rebekah Lodge visited Mrs. Milo Warner on Sixtenth Street Wednesday afternoon. Seventeen members attended with refreshments served by Mrs. Nellie Smith and Mrs. Helen Kelley after a brief business session.
A list of young workers and their partners from Lorain and Elyria appears, naming Merle Kriesen a 25 year old machine operator and Florence Mart 22, both of Lorain, with Donald Guiselman 26 a steel spiker and Lois Thompson 28 of Lorain. Franklin Sanders 24 Elyria machinist and Alice Glover 27 Lorain, plus Alex Kellerman 21 Elyria laborer and Hortense Rule 21 of 26 West River Street Elyria.
Miss Caroline Spesgelbers and Betty Gonder attended the Kolbe reunion. Oliver Schubert returned from a visit with Wayne Meinke in Elyria. Mrs BL Schubert joined a D CO Club meeting with Rene Strang on Edison Highway. Donald Delefield, Oliver Schubert, and others were guests at a Cleveland shower for Opal Crater ahead of her September 6 marriage. Dr E J Bond of Elyria visited the Schubert and Ernst families. Various calls to E Schubert, E Smith, Nellie Mathias, and L A Ernst were noted.
Mrs Mary Pfeil and grandson William Snyder visit Warren while Mr and Mrs William Schlieben of Lakewood call on Mr and Mrs Henry Droege Saturday. The Belden Belden area hosts visits from Akron Toledo Cleveland and Lakeside residents as supper guests join activities. The Belden Methodist Church official board meets at Rev George Beebe’s home Monday evening.
Shirley Walker of Abbey Road was named clerk and superintendent of Garfield Cemetery in Sheffield Village by cemetery trustees. She will succeed the late Shirley Garfield. Trustees listed as Walker Lloyd Huebner and R E Rue. Cemetery praised for WPA aided improvements. John Crompp elected and sworn in as president of Sheffield Lake Village council. Council approved oil for streets and a new fire station flag. Pipe to finish storm sewers on Idlewood and Kenilworth Avenues approved. Village clerk to arrange registration day for unregistered residents and to buy two tires for the village car.
Forty four members of the Buchs family gathered for the Henrietta Buchs reunion at Ruggles Grove. Officers for the coming year were elected with Oscar Schneider president and Ted Gilder Elyria vice president and Lawrence Buchs Elyria secretary. Relatives from Elyria Akron Oberlin and Alma Michigan attended and other local visitors joined in activities and church events through the week.
A lengthy local social list notes visits and hospitality across Waldron Michigan and nearby towns. Mrs Edith Nevingy hosts guests including Edna Unxer and Charley Pute family friends. Several other families and individuals are mentioned visiting, spending afternoons, or returning from trips in Oberlin Jennerow Amherst Elyria Lorain and Metamora areas.
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