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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1938
Page
8
A stream of dreamlike passages recounts a summer city scene with traffic, police, and pedestrians fading into the imagined afterlife. The narrator notes a heavenly newspaper replacing earthly papers and reflects on home town news, then shifts to a long set of local social notices from Cleveland area residents, church gatherings, and community events.
Mrs Theodore H Schneider Mrs Helen Buckinger and Mr and Mrs John A Stahl of Detroit Mich are listed with other local residents in Valley City society notes. Carl Richter and Myra Gts Kneh appear among naming families and children in this segment.
Rev Davids, minister of the Congregational church, is expected to return home to take charge of regular Sunday services. The piece notes recent family time in Minnesota and highlights a community gathering hosted by Mrs Millie Arndt in her home with guests, a floral crown queen, a bountiful meal, and a short program featuring songs, readings, and letters from vacationing relatives.
Members of Amherst AMHERST parish and friends gathered at Beaver Park Friday evening for a farewell party honoring Charles Meek who leaves Sept. 6 to teach music at Women's State College in Milledgeville Georgia. After soft baseball a wiener roast and hamburgers, about forty attended.
By Mrs B A Jenne a community notice describes an Eastern Star picnic at Verrmilian on the Lake with a tureen supper at six. It also notes the Methodist church organizations will host their annual chicken supper at the church parlors on Thursday evening September 1.
Mrs Wilma Paulson of Church street hosted the R U Club on Thursday evening with Humbury as the entertainment and prizes won by Mrs Mildred Strauss and Miss Doris Koepp. The hostess served a luncheon to several members including Mrs John Koepp, Mrs Thomas Bruce, Mrs Esther Shand, Mrs Mildred Strauss, Miss Doris Koepp and herself. Plans were made for a theater party September a. Congregational church will hold no worship or Sunday School this last Question Sunday.
The fragment records a social gathering with Mrs Gus Gareal attending a September meet at a location tied to Ashlang Ban day. It mentions Mrs De Richard Gut, Dell Richards, Thoa, Rev Wells, G Po Garver, Mrs Marshall My Adon, and McAdon, with guests invited and changes to Sunday attendance due to crowding at Sullivan school builds.
Keaserh Kedur Mable of Ashland visits Sellivan relatives as Harry Freymin of Parma attends events with Mrs Carrie Preyman and family. In Ashland 4-H contests Franklin club members, Polk defeats Sullivan 4-0 in a preliminary 4-H ball game, and many locals host relatives and celebrate reunions and showers across Ashland, Sullivan, Elyria, Wooster, and Danville as families travel and visit through Labor Day weekend.
West Ridge residents and families hosted and visited relatives across Ohio and Michigan. gatherings included Elyria and Vermilion reunions, a Camp Crag trip, Simms family events, and Carlisle A C ball team honoring Robert Penfound on his twenty first birthday.
Mrs Gilbert Minnich of Elyria visits the Minnich Ladies Aid picnic held at Mrs J H Penfound's home. Twenty guests shared a tureen dinner at 4 PM after a business meeting. 4 H club lawn party planned for Friday at Marion Grohe's home. West Ridge W C T U meets at Mrs Penfound's home Thursday afternoon. Leif Eldred attends Lorain County Fair clam bake at Merchants Hall on the fairground Tuesday evening.
South Ridge notes a busy week with church services led by Rev Myron Fowell of Worcester and a Ladies Aid gathering in Clenniew Grove. Violet Schroeder and Russell Spiegelberg wed at the South Ridge parsonage, with a motor trip to follow. Funeral services for Mary Eppley drew many mourners, and several locals attend fairs, family visits, and meals at dinner gatherings.
An editorial warns readers to beware of quacks and panaceas, noting credulity and the urge to seek quick remedies. It discusses procrastination on health, misinterpreting symptoms, and the patience of regular physicians who diagnose gradually. The passage includes notices of local gatherings and visiting families in Port Clinton Oak Harbor Olmsted Falls and Emilia with several names and dates.
A critique of quack remedies that promise swift cures with glowing claims. It notes how intelligent people fall for ineffective treatments and traces the long history of healing rituals from ancient to modern prescriptions, highlighting the persistent allure and showmanship of so called remedies.
The piece laments persistent old beliefs such as henbane as a sleep aid and the continued sale of patent cures. It notes gullible crowds at street presentations, a star map charlatan touting destinies, and outlines quack techniques of fear, appeal to health, and swift persuasion, underscoring public credulity.
Wellington area youth council met at Grafton High School Monday. A box social was held as a special feature. Two delegates were chosen for the Youth Conference at Ohio State University in Columbus, September 12 to 18: Maude Hose of LaGrange and William Barber of Wellington. Annap. Attending outing noted: Mrs. Mervin Schubert and Vera Mae Schubert joined Women’s Union circles of St Peter’s Church in Amherst at Castade Park.
Mrs Harvey hosted the Sunshine Sunday School class at her Elyria home Friday evening. The regular business session was held followed by a social hour. Bunco provided entertainment with prizes going to Mrs Clarence Hale in first place, Mrs Corwin Burrer in second, and Miss Margaret Macis winning consolation.
The Dor Icans of OberlinRoad Four-H Club finished their season with a final meeting at the Rothwells and will exhibit at the County Pair. Dorothy Hobbs, a Dainty Cooks Four-H member, is among six regional girls selected to compete for honors at the State Fair next week with her demonstration on favors.
Iris Podyr, Virginia, Ame la Newman and Rudolph Newman came home Wednesday from the Janine Four-H Club camp at Camp Crag in Medina County. Miss Caton Fleed also returned from Senior Camp where she stayed to counsel Junior campers. Dorothy Hobbs and Mary Baret Hurst attended the Youth Conference near Akron at Camp Manatee. County Cooperative Youths Council met at Grafton High School Monday night, with a box social and a pot luck lunch at the church.
Trustees of Carlisle Township urge residents with Oberlin telephone access to contact the Oberlin fire department at seven in case of fire. They report all necessary arrangements with the fire department. Various local residents and visitors are listed in a series of short notes from Oberlin and surrounding communities including moves, visits, and vacations.
John Kern and sister Helen visited at niece Mrs. Wesley Miller's home. Mrs. Charles Brooks hosted Rich ard's ninth birthday with eight friends. Mr and Mrs Gar McRoberta visited O H McRoberts in Belden. East Oberlin church women held a successful bake sale raising a tidy sum.
Amherst residents Belden Mr and Mrs George Walker visited Merle Lehman and their son George Walker Jr spent time with cousin Sonny Lehman. Belden Jolly Jos 4 H Club earned an A for their Wellington Fair booth. Other local visits included Phillips and Wise families with relatives in Cleveland and Lorain. Harlie Mennell from Whittier Cal visited the Leb man home.
School opens September 6 with Kenneth Lower as principal and W Lee Prior as coach. Teachers include Ruth Milazovsky, Neilsen, Clark, Pal mer, Brades, Roberta Freeland, Helen Ginn. Juvenile Grange entries, 4-H winner Neil Wise at Wellington Fair, and visits by the Stricklands and Mennell are noted.
Local notices record visits and greetings among residents. Rev Ralph Obitts of Denver Bible Institute conducts midweek prayers in Camden while Wilbur Davidson of Washington visits his parents in Elyria. Several guests from Marblehead Cleveland Chicago and Michigan stayed with relatives as families host gatherings. A Tuesday evening visitor to the Perkins home and Emily Bartholomews stay in Berky are noted.
Vincent and Donna Jean Imertz and Marian Mertz spent a week with their grandmother in North Fairfield Ohio. Rosetta Padley of Elyria visited Miss Jessie Saylor and families in Elyria while others toured the Nut and Sol factory in West Cleveland. Mrs J G Morris visited Elyria, and a Friday picnic in Methodist Church parlors hosted about thirty attendees from Avon Lorain Gwil road Elyria and Vincent with a may forthcoming church offering.
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