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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1936
Page
11
The column explains how the retina’s exact placement affects vision and notes advances in restoring this tiny eye disc. It highlights the role of eye surgeons and the collaborative input from brain specialists and neurologists in sight restoration.
A discussion highlights optical engineers as essential to vision conservation and restoration. Modern instruments measure progressive optic diseases, glaucoma risk, and brain eye function. Early detection via precise tools can save sight, with squint correction relying on advanced development.
Eye coordination relies on synchronized sensory and motor impulses. When eye malformation occurs stretching or strengthening muscles, optical instruments now train defective eyes to see. Early treatment, especially in children, offers hopeful recovery under proper care from Dr Chrisman via this column.
Wakeman notes report Margaret Fay ill with intestinal influenza. Grange and Order of the Eastern Star held meetings. St Marys Church youth group sponsors a February 19 dance at Town Hall. Eugene Holmes attends Miami University this term. Local breeders association gathering at Wooster. Mrs Blaine Hurst and Richard Ross visited Lakewood and Cleveland respectively. Rough Riders win basketball at Townsend and Milan. Sermon by Rev Eastman previews a lecture series.
Profiles recall Arturo Toscanini as the world's greatest conductor, set to retire in spring at age sixty nine. He will leave the United States after decades with the New York Philharmonic, recalling moments from 1908 Wagner rehearsals to 1926 founding fame with the Philharmonic.
During Lent season ending at Haster Wake Man High School students Josephine Murray Mary Ellen Daugherty Alice Watson Albert Peabody Pauline Crause Eileen Murray Laura Wessell Dorothy Opfer Clinton Bement Jr Ruth Wilkins Eleanor Sharp La Verne Busek and Henry Wasnnak plan to compete in the statewide contest sponsored by six Scripps Howard papers in Ohio The Cleveland Press is sponsor in their district The topic is Should a One House Legislature be Adopted by Ohio Mrs C K Clark Sr will entertain the Garden Club at her River Street home Feb 19 Mrs 8 Clark Sr assisted hostess to Mrs C K Fauver of Oberlin for guest night at the D A R meeting Feb 14
Mrs J C Parsons entertained the Book Club at her home with a roll call poem by Longfellow. Mrs B Filkins read a paper on Birth of Shipbuilding and Mrs P D Cooley reviewed an article on prominent statesmen and writers graduating from the University of Maine. Mrs Gerald Ross performed music and several contests were offered by the hostess. Refreshments were served to guests Mrs Cole and Mrs Flew.
The notice reports the engagement or forthcoming marriage of Robert Seybert son of Mr and Mrs J J Seybert of Elyria formerly Wakeman to Elaine Palmer daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Palmer of Elyria. The ceremony is to be in December at the First Methodist Church with Dr BE Bond officiating.
Neighbors held a farewell party Friday night at the Mastines home. Refreshments were served. Attending were Mrs Jolmes and family, C A Barnes, the Rev and Mrs Winters, Eletha Steele, Elbert French, Helen Brucker, Mr and Mrs Elton Huitrar and daughters, Mr and Mrs Winthrop French and sons, Mr and Mrs Judson Stryker and family, and Mr and Mrs Charles Todd of Wakeman with Mr. and Mrs Guy Granger of Nor walk.
Mr and Mrs David Kilgore of Elyria called on Mr and Mrs Louis Zimmerman Saturday morning. Florence Kilgore of Elyria.
Classic beauty column urges teens to improve skin with cleanliness and diet. It advises avoiding sweets, eating fruit and vegetables, drinking water, and resting, plus regular cleansing, brushing, and careful extractions for blackheads around the nose. It promotes a complexion brush and a soap promotion while warning of acne if neglected.
Lake Avenue Ohio February 19 The P T A will hold a party in the Lake Avenue school house Friday February twenty first A Major Bowes Amateur Hour and fish pond are to be held There will be refreshment Public invited Plans are being made for a paper and magazine sale to raise funds for the P T A
Mrs. Harvey Green of Adelbert Street is confined to her home with a severe cold. Mr. and Mrs James Arnold of Elyria, with daughter Rose and son Jimmie, visited Mr. Arnold’s home. Rose and Jimmie stayed with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. George Blauvelt who had Sara Lou Fisher of Lorain as an overnight guest. Miss Helen Houk of Younes town visiting brother John Houk and wife on Lake Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Miles Reynolds of Elyria were guests of Mrs. John Houk on Sunday. Bible study set at the Hog an residence on Lake Avenue Tuesday evening with Earl R. Peck teaching. Young folks. Choir practice scheduled at the Hog an residence.
Spent the week end with Evelyn Benson. Mr and Mrs George Pierce are moving to their Elyria apartment in April. Mr and Mrs Don Hastings and daughter are moving to their farm. Mr and Mrs Foisy and daughter of Cincinnati are visiting Mr and Mrs Roy Kenyon. Grace Peabody of Cleveland spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs Jeatrice Peabody. Mr and Mrs Rollin Peabody and Georgia Barnes of Cleveland were Sunday guests of relatives in town.
Elyria Automobile Club advocates the Legion of Safety to curb road accidents. About 400 drivers have joined by signing a pledge for careful driving, receiving windshield emblems. Harry W. Luethi of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce commends the effort to increase responsibility among pedestrians and motorists.
A mother notices her six year old Robert eats well one day and struggles the next. She refrains from scolding, gifts him for his good dinner, and the unexpected reward solidifies the improvement. The tale advises trying rewarding surprises to encourage habits.
Members of the 600 Club gathered at Mr and Mrs Reno Collier s Lake Avenue home last Saturday evening. Harold Starkey posted the high score and Henry Bislich took the consolation prize as guests enjoyed refreshments. The club plans to meet next at Mr and Mrs F Crosby s home on Saturday February 26.
The 874 Ohio Granges with the American Red Cross will launch a safety education campaign in farming communities to reduce home and farm accidents. Five lectures will cover falls burns shocks poisoning animal handling heat and mental hazards, aiming to cut America’s 34 500 annual home deaths and make agriculture safer. Lead organizers Walter F. Kirk and James L. Fieser urge broad participation to unite efforts and instill safety consciousness.
Ohio farmers survey national crop and livestock trends as of 1935 with cattle on feed up 41 percent from last year and lambs on feed down 5.4 percent. Southern vegetable acreages rise while pork, beef, and poultry markets shift. Ohio storage figures show corn and wheat above five year averages, oats national stock higher while Ohio stocks lower.
The Grange reports 107000 members were installed as officers nationwide last month, about one eighth of total membership. Founders specified 16 local station officers per unit, and many members serve on committees and in the lecture hour program for education and entertainment.
A statement argues that every man seeks the broadest and fullest exercise of his own faculties, emphasizing individual liberty and personal development as essential human aims. The piece frames freedom of thought and action as core to fulfillment and progress.
C W Ellenwood of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Wooster warns that extreme cold has injured apple trees and other fruit trees. He describes vertical trunk cracks, bark separation, crotch splitting and advises sealing cracks, walling bark, disinfecting crevices, bracing when needed, and conducting a tree by tree survey to assess damage.
C I Hummel reports two corn tests from Lorain County farms. Silage tests on R B Kelner farm La Grange show Woodburn for dry matter per acre at 90 tons. Clarage 4.82 tons. Lancaster Sure Crop 459 tons. Medina Price leads in dry matter per 100 pounds of plants but yields 4.10 tons per acre due to limited green matter. Eureka has the largest green matter yield at 17.50 but only 4.48 tons per acre. Hybrid tests across 11 farms show most locals below hybrids. one grower reports 126.6 bushels per acre for a hybrid, while the top local variety reaches 100.4 bushels.
Cooperative enthusiasts and farm bureau unit managers attend four weekly winter camps in February and March. About 160 cooperative managers and younger delegates will represent 60 counties across southern Ohio and Defiance College. Camps, first held last winter by the Ohio Farm Bureau, proved successful and may become a year round activity with sessions at Camp Manatee near Akron Defiance College and Camp Lazarus south of Delaware.
A national contest in food preparation will be conducted again this year for 550000 girls enrolled in Four-H Club work in the United States. The committee reports last year's results were satisfactory and awards are increased with college scholarships of 400, 300, and 200 dollars for national winners. Eight refrigerators will be awarded to sectional winners, trips to the National Four-H Club Congress in Chicago to state champions, and gold medals to county champions.
A historic note states that prior to the rise of Hitler one quarter of Germanys Jewish population had intermarried with Christians. The statement highlights intermarriage as a notable social pattern in late Imperial and Weimar periods impacting Jewish community life and assimilation debates.
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