This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
4
Announce noted for December 17 Amver Tieanizeth annual meeting and December 23 Blue Moon Club Christmas Dance. Community event calendar lists meetings and festive dance as upcoming schedule items.
Ex ambassador William Sharp hosts about twenty longtime Elyria residents and business peers in a farewell gathering for A L Garford as he and his family prepare to winter in California. Speakers praise Garford as a civic leader, banker, and benefactor, recounting his rise from a farmer’s son to a prominent local figure.
A brief, incomplete line conveys a farewell or well wishes to Gariuré and family as guests depart. The fragment hints at a social event with warm regards and departed visitors, but lacks full context or clear actions.
Elyria celebrates Christmas across 86 schools with student performances, songs, and a Miles Standish pageant at the high school. Santa visits McKinley, Hamilton presents a Lands of Christmas pageant, and parochial schools plan early holiday programs. Elyria public schools finish their term before January third as Ohio Wesleyan students head home for holidays.
Elyria teachers from several districts will spend Christmas at their homes across the country. Miss Helen Todd goes to Chicago, Grace Willet to Plymouth, Grace Allen to Watertown New York, Plessie Klopfenstein to Orrville, Helen Color to Bellevue, Eleanor Carr to Kansas City, Wilhelmina Gebbert to Plymouth, and others to Dayton, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Johnstown, Salem, and Bronnhelm. Notable departures include Miss Doro thy West to Parry Ohio and Miss Nellie Wilserben to Hickville.
Mrs Bow Richard of Lorain County attended the Ohio Cancer Valion League meeting in Marion Ohio this week representing the western counties report shows officers elected for the league with Mrs Marion chosen as president and Mrs Alberta Moore from Dover as vice president among others including secretary treasurer and recording secretary from several counties.
Prof Maurice Koeysler of Oberlin will perform at Christmas Vespers with Emvira touric lovers in solo and obligato parts Sunday afternoon at First Congregational Church. Miss Hose Peterson and Mrs Augustus BP Terry assist. Full program listed in Saturday Chronicle-Telegram church page.
Mr and Mrs Edward K Minard depart for Cincinnati to visit Mrs Minards brother. Miss Clare Friday visits Miss Mary Adams in Elyria for the Oratorio at Finney Chapel. Alfred H Grant arrives from Exeter Academy NH to spend Christmas with his parents in Elyria. Miss Dorison Austin, dancing teacher in Knoxville TN, will return to Elyria for holidays with the Sins family. Eleanor Carr of Elyria High School returns from Nanaas City for vacation. Helen Marsh from Penn College anticipated to stay with grandmother Mrs Anna Faine Marsh. Katherine Tuck, WLOL A secretary, leaves for Williamsport PA for holiday with family. Mary Newland of YWCA will visit Cadiz OH. Miss Grace Cole returns to Akron for Christmas.
Note lists Bishop Anderson planning to visit the city and deliver an address on January ninth. Names and exact affiliations appear unclear but the event centers on a scheduled speech by the bishop.
In the auditorium of the First Methodist church Bishop Anderson presents a wonderful message. Those who heard him before await his next visit as he returns from abroad with firsthand insights into conditions in foreign lands.
The Spanish Club at Elyria High School elected officers at three meetings under Miss Carr. Noah Hays presid ed Effie Sharp
The Christaat vesper at the Young Women's Christian Association will be held in the gymnasium on Sunday afternoon, December 18, at 3 o'clock. The service will be a pageant featuring the property, the angels, shepherds, wise men, Mary and Joseph. The pageant itself will be staged by the Alumna Friendship Club with songs by the High School Friendship Club.
A charity tour by a gymnasium group will be held at the association parlor. An organization note invites members and their families to attend the Christmas service.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.