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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1921
Page
5
Lorain February 14 The steel plant basketball league resumes the second half of its schedule on the C A floor with Wednesday night games. Mechanical battles Laboratory Open Hearth faces Accounting Coke Plant meets Machinists and Rolling Mills play Pipe Mills as a large crowd is expected.
Ridgeville Grange degree team and fifteen members visited Oberlin Grange on February 8 by invitation and conferred first and second degrees. Oberlin served dinner, then a program on wells. Ridgeville later hosted LaGrange Grange on February 15 with readings, vocal and violin solos, and a short play Old Maids Tea Party. Members plan an all-day meeting February 22 at 11:00 o'clock to discuss The New Grange Hall.
A vintage promotion urges readers to take Pepto Mangan to strengthen blood and resist germs. It touts the product as boosting vitality, lists liquid and tablet forms, and warns to buy only Gude’s Pepto Mangan. The ad is followed by a note on Michigan Agricultural College planning fifty “pugizeys” schools for farmers to learn crop costing and profitability.
Lorain amateur pocket billiards champion Ray Croyle announced to meet challengers after recent title win over Art Valentes at 100 to 71. He will host matches at Majestic parlors Tuesday through Thursday, then tour the county.
In New York on February 14 Earl Gaddock and Jim Landos face off at the 71st Regiment Armory for the world light heavyweight wrestling championship in a bout to a finish.
Frank David son visited his brother James in a Cleveland hospital on Tuesday Louis Myers of Oberlin visited town Monday night Mr and Mrs Lonnie Granger visited Palmesville on Wednesday Eliza Sigsworth visited Elyria on Wednesday Mrs Ray Ladow spent one day last week in Oberlin and Elyna Harry Hawk spent Wednesday in Wellington Mrs Frank Scott visited Mrs Mary Buckler of Oberlin on Thursday
Delaware M. E. faces First Baptist in the third round of the Senior Girls Church League. Games start at 6 30 pm at Lincoln gym with referee Walton presiding at a captain’s meeting beforehand. Attendance urged and representatives may attend.
Tests at Ohio Experiment Station show loganberry is unsuited for cultivation in Ohio. Plants grow abundantly in summer but die in winter with no fruit produced. Other berries named Evergreen blackberry Phenomenal and Mammoth are also unsuitable for culture in the region.
A brief nature note describes winter birds. The cardinal sings bright calls in February, with female and male distinct whistles. The brown creeper, a hardy winter bird, zigzags up bark while feeding on hidden grubs. Nuthatches frequent dooryards in winter, aiding tree health by eating eggs and insects.
Oberlin fends off Reserve 18 to 13 in a tough Ohio conference game. Cent er Wahl sinks nine points from the foul line, while Reserve’s only field goal comes from Brainerd as Berlin beats Reserve.
Miss Alta Mitchell, 18, Elyria High and Elyria Business College alumna, now attends Columbia University in New York City while serving in the Travelers Letters of Credit department at National City Bank of New York. Daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Mitchell of West Dover, she previously worked for Prosecuting Attorney Lawrence Webber and is highly regarded in social service at both institutions.
The passage describes chickadees in old orchard trees, their call Chickadee-dee-dee, and their foraging habits. They wedge nuts in bark crevices, hammer kernels with strong beaks, and feed on bugs. Docile and friendly, they can be tamed by kind treatment and often stay near homes in winter, raising large families up to twelve young per nest.
Siason's Blue Birds of Elyria defeated St Peters of Amherst 41 to 7 in a Saturday night, one sided game. Blue Birds kept a steady lead with field baskets by Mason, Smith, Fitch, and Lawrence as substitutes shuffled. Referee Wright officiated the somber matchup before a small crowd.
Clean nursery stock is essential when choosing trees for new orchards says Paul Thayer of the Ohio Experiment Station. Crown gall, woolly scales and San Jose scale are common pests on nursery stock. San Jose scale may be controlled by dipping tree tops in lime sulfur spray. Identify scale by pinhead sized circular dots on sunken bark. Woolly aphid shows swelling on roots. attacked roots resemble strings of heads. Trees with this infestation should be rejected. Crown gall forms tumors on roots with masses of fine fibrous roots.
White ash is a valuable commercial species in northern Ohio woodlands says the Ohio Experiment Station department of forestry. The tree regenerates readily from seeds. a few trees provide abundant seed for new growth. Farmers may plant ash or grow seedlings from collected seed in gardens to propagate white ash.
Top working cuts back the undesirable tree leaving small stubs which are split to insert scions from desirable trees. The union is covered with grafting wax and the scions should be taken from dormant trees. A bulletin on grafting and budding fruit trees is available from the Ohio Experiment Station in Wooster.
Elyria February 14. Surbaugh and Dounbrook will engage in a three cushion billiards contest at the Gala parlors Wednesday evening for the city championship. A large audience is expected to witness the match and Cowboy Elder and Ed Godfrey will decide which of the two is the better pool player for an equally interesting follow up.
Ohio Experiment notes challenge common beliefs on hatchability. Higher egg numbers do not hurt hatching ability, meat meal in rations has little impact, and more corn in a balanced mix improves hatch rates. Free-range flocks hatch better, confinement with deep litter still yields good hatches, and green feeds further boost hatchability.
Article cites Edmund Secrest of Ohio Experiment Station on eradicating weed trees to boost forest land value. Ironwood seeds crowd out commercial species. cleaning woodlots for firewood and selective harvest of gum and beech can raise merchantable yield. Also cites New York City public school enrollment figures.
The Canalos Brothers invite bowlers to drop in after dinner at their alley on 343 Broadway in Lorain, with alleys available every night for patrons seeking informal bowling.
A new legume, sweet clover, tested at the Ohio Experiment Station yielded 6 379 pounds of ordiled hay in 183 days per acre in 30 inch rows at 212 pounds per acre. The crop is viewed as emergency feed with good Ohio performance and potential seed improvement. Tests continue across the United States.
A new chemical, Para-dichloro-benzene, shows promise in destroying the peach tree borer in Ohio orchards. Entomologist H A Gossard of the Ohio Experiment Station notes initial U S Department of Agriculture work, with practical use possible at three quarters of an ounce on trees six years or older. Treating time is last week in August to September 10. younger trees are not safe. The chemical is produced from coal tar products.
Help wanted for Lorain Lorain Chronicle Telegram circulation routes. Apply to Circulation Manager at four corners over Western Union Telegraph office.
The weekly church league schedule lists games at YL MoCo with first match at 6:00 PM. Delaware M and St John Presbyterian host early games, followed by First Baptist and Second Congregational teams. Evening lineup includes St. John Presbyterian, Second Congregational, and Trinity Baptist fixtures.
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