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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1924
Page
6
Oberlin plans a large pine tree on the college campus to be lit next week for a student sing before holiday leave. The seasonal events begin with this lighting and will continue with community rings and carol services later in the week. The tree will likely be lit nightly through the Christmas vacation until after New Year.
Four men G Percival Haskell 25 Victor Obenhaus 25 Roberts Rugh 26 and Arnold Zurcher 24 will be Oberlin candidates for the fifteenth Ohio Rhodes scholarship awarded by the state committee Saturday afternoon December 13. In the Pennsylvania competi
The article lists recipients including Joseph Ashley Leon Lewandoski Francis Hutchins and Clifford Blair as Oberlin representatives. Scholarships cover three years at Oxford University England about 1700 dollars a year plus travel and continental study benefits and broader contacts through the League for Industrial Democracy. Blanchard will lecture in Sturges Hall and Finney Chapel Tuesday and in Sociology classes, with Professor Newell R. Simms hosting.
In Oberlin on December 13 the Auxiliary elected officers led by President Lois Cummings and First Vice President Munger. Other posts included Second Vice President Spiter, Secretary Estella Cook, Treasurer Blackmer, Sergeant-at-Arms Mary Worcester, and Historian Harley.
Professor C. W. Savage of Oberlin College will address the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Conference in Philadelphia on the administration of intercollegiate athletics. Oberlin teams will host visiting basketball squads with a social hour at 10 p.m. after the games, as announced by Paul Blanchard, field secretary.
The Harry H. Smith Co. showcases an extra large assortment of wheel goods including bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, wagons and doll carts. They feature Fairy vehicles from Colson Co Elyria Ohio and stock only products from first class firms.
Hospital report notes mother and child doing fine after delivery on Thursday December 11. Ewers attended sister in law Mrs. Geo Sharer’s funeral in Cleveland. Miss Luella Sandrock visited Elyria. Grafton Grange to hold Christmas program December 18 with a short play music and prizes. Grafton High School girls and boys basketball reorganized. captains named. Supt Redmond arranged gym use with Belden Board of Education. Stace Makubaski and family welcome a baby girl born December 5. Local entertainments at home in Cleveland and Chicago trips mentioned. Real estate transfers include Nellie Gilmore to Leonard Kulas and William Stegman to William Grills.
A series of property transfers and trustees ads list sales in Lorain and Elyria. Buyers include Fred Roehl Agnes Newland Vincenti Batwinski Joseph Regler and others with parcels on Elm Sheffield Original Lorain plat and Cascade Street. Prices span from $1,000 to $6,000 with parcels such as lot 24, lot 25, and part of lot 11 block 15 in Bra man tr.
Since moving from Standard Hardware to Middle Avenue next to the Masonic Temple Crawford Products has added a substantial bicycle stock. The shop now features velocipedes tricycles scooters and wheel toy vehicles with a display sure to attract many boys and girls in Elyria.
A. M. Hannaford of the Elyria Hardware Company notes the store’s complete supply and display of Reindeer Bicycles for boys and girls. He cites Elyria’s athletic youths as examples of the fitness benefits from riding bicycles.
The City Hardware Co shows a wide display of bicycles tricycles velocipedes and other wheeled gifts aimed at children for Christmas while acknowledging a broad customer base including parents and buyers of hardware.
In Grafton on December 13, Mrs. Adolph Schweizer and her family, who left Württemberg on Thanksgiving, reached Mrs. Schweizer's sister Mrs. Jake Schwerer's home. Local events included visits by Mrs. Harold Gehringer and daughter from Cleveland, a $66 bazaar and dinner at the M E church, and a W C T U meeting at Mrs. W E Baker's home with seven attendees. Mrs. Mary Coon is recovering from hospital surgery.
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