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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1930
Page
4
Belle Fourche S D December report by aerial sportsman Clyde Ice details a plane battle with a coyote over the Dakota prairie. Ice and a gunner fought the animal after it attacked during ascent, with Ice striking it and both men suffering injuries before landing for treatment.
259 quarts of whiskey seized and two men arrested in Newark. Louis Mills of Kansas City Missouri and another man were detained as authorities described the operation as part of a crackdown on illegal liquor. Further details of charges and proceedings were not immediately available.
George Rogaliner of Cleveland and an associate were arrested after police seized an automobile carrying 259 quarts of whiskey. Authorities connect them to a larger liquor disposal ring. the whiskey was reportedly en route from St. Louis to Cleveland for holiday trade.
Avenue Elyria reports that Contiensé Gram, living on avenue in Elyria, was nominated for governor of Ohio by the Socialist Labor Party. The brief notice identifies Gram as the party’s nominee and notes the local nomination event.
In Lorain County many items include census figures, school plans, park expansions, and local governance. The 1950 census outputs show Elyria and Lorain County populations rising, with 109131 residents in the county, and Elyria's 1930 count noted at 25604. Other notes cover the sanitation site near Amherst, Willlis Overland shutdown, floodlight stadium project, and a women juror panel trial.
June notes the death of Paul MacEachron near Oberlin, while Elyria High School granted 166 diplomas at June commencement and highlighted the school charter centenary. Oberlin College awarded 43 diplomas, Rockefeller funded a new building, and civic updates covered council growth, parks, and hospital and library dedications as Lorain County navigated postwar growth with elections, budgets, and community events.
Five hundred YMCA guest passes are now being distributed to Elyna Y M C A members for January. Members may present the passes to nonmember friends to use facilities including game room gymnasium swimming pool shower baths and reading room plus any special privileges offered during the month.
In Amherst Ohio on December 30 the Primary department of St. Peter's Evangelical Sunday school held a Christmas party at church parlors with 58 children and guests. Hostesses distributed candy boxes and later served games and refreshments in a festive afternoon.
The Sunday school class of the First Evangelical Church, led by Henry Miller, gathered at Nelson Zilch’s Park Avenue residence last evening for a business session, social hour, and luncheon. Delegates F R Powers and Lylah Walker joined fellow educators Agnes Walker Lamony Green from Cleveland area in Columbus for Ohio State Teachers Association sessions. A separate item notes a family Christmas gathering hosted by Mrs. August Stone on Elm Street with gifts and dinner for relatives from Cleveland and Smoky Mountains.
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