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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1935
Page
4
Ohio reports the peak of tax delinquency has passed with property owners owing about 119 million dollars in past due taxes. The state had 129 million the prior year and 118 million the year before, indicating only slight progress as counties collected roughly 10 million more than current levies.
Elyria shoppers are urged to begin Christmas gift buying locally to support area retailers. The notice highlights savings by purchasing at local stores and suggests early shopping to secure popular items.
Delinquency totals reach 119 million dollars for real estate and public utilities. The figures exclude unpaid special assessments for street and sewer improvements, which totaled nearly one million at mid 1935. Incomplete second half figures offer no clear reduction.
Brig Gen William K Taylor announces an educational program for illiterate CCC enrollees in the Fifth Corps area including Ohio and neighboring states. Of 41 000 Fifth Corps members, over 25 000 study in spare time while 1 245 illiterates in 42 456 CCC camps nationwide are learning to read and write. The report lists 13 promotions to educational advisers and names several Ohio college graduates among the advisers.
Wellington church calendar lists services for Methodist Episcopal First Congregational First Baptist Church of Christ and St Patrick s Catholic with times, subjects, choirs, and special Christmas carol services. Includes Epworth League activities and Bible study notes.
In Bradentown Florida Mrs Lena Starr Andrews and her husband Fred Andrews celebrate twenty five years as Wellington residents marked by friends sending cards. The couple built a long local life in Penfield, LaGrange and Wellington with business civic and church ties. They have three surviving children Keith Georgia and Robert. Mayme died in 1923 and two grandchildren Freddie White and David Andrews are mentioned.
The annual service occurs Sunday at 7 30 pm with 265 voices in a program directed by Dorothy Leinhard. School vocal groups provide music aided by several accompanists and Dr C W Recard and Rev L S Green give invocations and benediction.
Annual election of officers for the United Bible class of the Church of Christ at Yale party selects Mrs Ola Bishbaugh as president. Officers include Miss Kathryn Clara vice president Mrs William Street secretary Miss Kathryn Warner treasurer Betty Buck sick and shut-ins._group then shares a Christmas Carol light service with verses of scripture. Plans for a Bible study on the second Thursday each month beginning next year. Instead of a social time,
Wellington Garden Club members held their regular meeting at Miss Edith Robinson’s home Thursday evening. A happiness gathering followed a selected book review by Rev. William T. Moran on Life With Father. Refreshments were served by Miss Robinson with assistance from Miss Alice Andrus and Miss Cora Stolpman of Cleveland.
Members gathered in the Grange hall on Thursday evening to hear J Of Little John speak on the Revolving Plan of the Old Age Townsend Plan. A speaker is slated for the next meeting on Thursday evening December 26.
Mrs Myrtle Whiteside and Fred Markham united in marriage at Norwalk on Wednesday. The couple will reside in Norwalk where Markham is employed. Mrs Whiteside is mother of Harold Whiteside and Mrs Ethel White of this locality.
Forty men and four women of Wellington are employed on WPA projects here. Mrs A. W. Shields, assisted by Miss Mary Battles, Mrs. Charles Baum and Mrs. Harry Wagner.
The Brighton Community club meets with Mrs. Chas D. Murray on Thursday Dec 19 for an all day gathering. A covered dish dinner will be served at noon followed by a short business meeting and a Christmas party with a gift exchange.
Brighton P T A met in the high school auditorium with a large attendance to hear an amateur radar program featuring Rev Newton Moore and several performers. The Friendship Guild Christmas party was planned at the Shields home with a food drive for the needy. The Sorosis Club and Booster Club at Wellington High announced events and leadership. 180 enrolled in the Booster Club. Local 4 H clubs and Mete-N-Ete club plans were noted, along with visits to a patient in Falls Clinic.
A Christmas program of songs and messages marked the meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Micainnare society held in the community venue, featuring a blend of seasonal music and spiritual reflections.
A string of neighborhood social mentions covers calls and visits from Clara Merrill and others, including Mrs. Jean Hardy Maureen Jellison Marguerite Goodwin and many more. They describe barn dances, piano and violin, church events, weekend guests, and assorted home entertainments with names and places across Clarksfield Oberlin Wellington and nearby towns.
Mr and Mrs Roy Greene and family shopped in Elyria Saturday. The Brighton W C T U held a regular meeting at Mrs Will McKensie's home on Wednesday afternoon with 14 ladies present. The business meeting approved the exchange of gifts.
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