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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1948
Page
4
The Spencer Womans Mission Group held an all day meeting at the Baptist church parlors on Thursday with a covered dish dinner at noon. Miss Donna Belle Thompson led devotions and the president presided over the business session.
The Spencer 4-H club ordered 3,000 pine trees for Spencer Community Park and set August 31 as the next meeting deadline. Mary Martha Society members attended a Wellington picnic. kits were packed for overseas shipment. Local families and visitors are listed with weekend and vacation visits across area towns.
Sullivan 4-H club met at Ben Kel key’s home on Wednesday evening with good attendance. Circle number one of the Christian church held an all day meeting at Mrs Nettie Sprague’s home, with a tureen lunch at noon. Plans were laid for a chicken dinner at the Slower show. Division Turnnper three gathered at Mrs Mary Sheels’s home on Thursday afternoon with Wanda Ssope as leader. August 19.
Local Oberlin area churches list services at First Methodist First Church Grace Lutheran Mount Zion Baptist Sacred Heart and Pittsfield Congregational with times and speakers. Reading club at the library closes at 5 pm. weekend guests and students noted. barbecue and carnival planned tonight at Mason's Home 107 South Park Street from 6 pm to midnight with public invitation.
Washington writer Frederick C. Othman muses on a world arsenic surplus. He notes Sweden holds hundreds of thousands of tons, unused and dangerous, with limited legal uses and no easy way to destroy it. He jokes about potential buyers and the impracticalities of disposal.
In Atlanta E C Arthur who runs a candy and cigarette stand in the old post office for 15 years grows used to theft. A thief pockets 66 in checks and money while he answers a call. He preserves a coin tray at home and jokes with customers about fake coins and genuine value. He smiles and says the customer is always right.
The note describes a virus disease in pecans known as bunch disease or Witch's broom. It advises cutting out all infected portions and, if a limb is diseased at the end, cutting it back to the base and destroying with fire. Spraying cannot control the virus and New Zealand faces labor shortages.
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