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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1929
Page
21
Columbus Feb 14 Aura and metropolitan members of the General Assembly clashed over the bill to add more common pleas judges. The measure aims to increase judicial posts. supporters urge faster case handling while opponents warn of funding and workload concerns across Columbus and surrounding districts.
An advertisement touts MELLO-GLO Face Powder as a beauty essential. It claims a French process helps it stay on and reduce shine while avoiding pastiness and irritation for a youthful bloom.
A grim note describes looming sickness or injury and rising doctor bills as a coal pile vanishes with two months left in winter. The landlord presses for rent while an accident followed by an insurance lapse yields a red hot stove incident.
The House defeated a bill by Rep. W W Weiler Warren to add one judge in Trumbull County and the Senate rejected a similar proposal by Sen. W V A Emmons Akron. Five related measures linger while rural lawmakers oppose most proposals. Rep. Ray C Carpenter Seneca led a faction against a governor appointment provision tied to the 1930 election. A bill by Rep L J Hoover Stark would make municipal officers liable for damages caused by negligence. Rep W C Wendt Columbus seeks life imprisonment for entering a bank to commit a felony. Rep H F Aurit Morrow would let motor bus firms run through service upon pre filed schedules. Rep G W Grant Crawford aims to direct county gas tax shares to townships for road upkeep. Rep George H Bellinger Akron introduces a congressional reapportionment resolution. House approves a measure by Rep John A Hadden Cleveland to let counties 50 000 residents or more copy records photographically. Senate sees a Nickles Tuscarawas bill to allow installment tax payments.
Elmer Whiting a twenty two year old convict long listed as dead after the Junction City dormitory fire on October 10 1928 is alive. He risked capture to visit his child wife Katherine Rucker in Colerain Belmont County and then vanished. Sheriff Moore notified Warden Thomas and the wife refused to reveal Whiting's hiding place. The couple had eloped and married in Marietta amid parental protest. Whiting had been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Twenty convicts were missing.
Columbus report notes the Ohio House unanimously sent the Sandusky Bay Bridge bill to the Senate. Rep Fred J Bing introduced it granting Sandusky Bridge Co authority to build the Cedar Point span, start work within two years, as a toll bridge under Public Utilities Commission oversight.
A junction cur fire caused initial reports that fourteen people perished, a figure later treated as uncertain. Whiting is named among the victims in early accounts, with emergency responders still confirming the final casualty toll.
Holstein cows led the January Wellington Cow Testing Association results with all top ten in milk production being Holsteins. Six were grade Holsteins and four registered. In butterfat, five of the top ten were registered Holsteins, with two grade Holsteins and two registered others. Virgil Weaver prepared the month report as tester for the association.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe alternative to calomel to cleanse the bowels and tone the liver. It claims benefits of beauty energy and health for 20 years, urging nightly use with prices 15 30 and 60 cents and listing druggists as sellers.
Readable dairy report highlights Grade Guernsey cow headed Hetnu butterfat with an average 61 percent and 67.2 pounds butterfat. Stubby a Grade Holstein belonging to Hawk and Hawley led milk production at 1,756.2 pounds and ranked fifth in butterfat with 66.1 pounds at 3.2 percent. George Bursley’s cow Number Two ranked second in both milk and butterfat at 16,510 pounds and 62.5 percent.
All of North and South America were once peopled with Mongo loid inhabitants who probably migrated from central Asia centuries before history began to record events.
For sale 0 shares of first preferred Colson stock. Phone contact 35882.
Theatres present First National’s Scarlet Seal with Richard Barthelmes score. Action spans a tocabaret scene in Apia and a mid Pacific rowboat, shifting to a mutinous ship. Strong imagery and sound effects promise vivid drama.
The passage notes opportunities for superb sound effects from guitar strums in a Samoan cabaret to a roaring sea storm and the ship’s explosion and sinking. Barthimesa leads the mutineers, supplying dramatic tension and action for the scene.
The Ohio State Horticultural Society becomes owner of a gavel carved from wood of an Ashland county apple tree planted long ago by Johnny Applessed. Thornburg of near Ashland presented the gavel to the society, the tree originally grown on Thornburg’s farm.
The Royal Neighbors hall hosts a card party at Cascade Pa pavilion on Thursday February 14 with Bob Veon and his eight vagabonds. Public invited for Friday February 15 at Pedro hall for further events.
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