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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1929
Page
8
Wellington February 22 at the F O E meeting plans formed for the lodge twelfth birthday party to be celebrated in March. A theatre party and George White's Scandals will be enjoyed with a dinner in Cleveland. Committees will be appointed at the next meeting. Thursday evening a class was initiated into the lodge.
A H West of Elyria, lieutenant governor of Kiwanis seventh division, will address the weekly Kiwanis meeting next Thursday. Earlier, Hiwanians heard Alfred C. P. Li of New York University give a talk on The Chinese Puzzle outlining China's political challenges and evolving customs.
Local comedians Sutlis and Page will present The Gloom Busters at the Elyria YMCA on February 28. In March they perform at the Spencer Methodist Brotherhood meeting on March 6 and at Marian Steam Shovel Co. banquet in Marian on March 14.
Wellington Sorosis members held their annual winter picnic at the home of Mrs. L. G. Bradstock on Tuesday afternoon, sharing refreshments and fellowship in a cozy social gathering.
Wellington high celebrated last night in the Oberlin gym as the locals triumphed 27 to 25 over Amherst. They advance to face the Avon Lake and Henriette winner, awaiting the next round.
Miss Mae Johnson of Michigan will assume kindergarten duties in local schools starting Monday. She is an Oberlin College and Oberlin Kindergarten graduate and has spent the winter with her mother on Forrest Street. Miss Cecil Gray, longtime kindergarten teacher, moves to the second grade replacing Mrs. Sponseller who resigned to join her husband in Toledo.
Sorosis extends an invitation to Voshans Afternoon club members for a bridge party at Mrs. William Wadsworth's home on March 5.
Fred Proxman of Norwalk phoned his aunt Mrs. Mary Roser on Tuesday. Marcy Powell of Ohio State University is home over the weekend. Master Teddy Jones, son of Mr and Mrs A B Jones, has been at the past several days. H E Evans was stricken suddenly ill last evening. Dan Grissinger, badly burned at Sterling on Monday, returned to work today. A large crowd attended the basketball tournament at Oberlin last evening. A dance will be held in Fagle’s hall Friday evening. Mrs Irvin D Norris of Lakewood has spent the week with her daughter Mrs E L Sarick. Mrs Joe Beal is on the sick list.
WASHINGTON, Feb 22. The need for strong tariff protection on farm crops grows as farm leaders push to make high tariffs a permanent pillar of agricultural policy. They argue protection will stabilize prices, despite criticisms that tariffs fail for corn, wheat, cotton, and hogs. Hoover’s stance favors agriculture, though an Argentina visit sparked rumors he advised hog production for U.S. meat demand. Farm groups warn the fight will continue in Congress as bankers and industry interests shape tariff politics.
Radio listings detail five programs across networks including Edwin Franko Goldman's concert band on WIZ and NDC at 6:66 p.m. EST, Symphony Orchestra under Nikolai for WEAF and NBC at 9:60 p.m. EST, Old Time Melodrama on WIZ and NDC at 11:00 p.m. EST, P T Rolfe and Dance Orchestra on WEAF and NBC, and Who Light Overa Hour on WHO Des Moines at 1:00 p.m. BST.
Congress is expected to vote on the naval appropriations bill. George Washington's farewell address is read in session by Senator Reed of Missouri. House and public lands committee routine business noted. House reads Washington's farewell address. Committees Judiciary Military Affairs Ways and Means Banking and Currency meet. Floor routine business reported.
The nut hatch is described as a tree creeping bird found across both the New World and Old World regions, indicating a wide geographic distribution and a common presence in multiple ecosystems.
A fragment notes a connection between a so called beer baron and Al Capone in mass production. It ponders that foreign nations could adopt American methods and threaten home markets. It suggests farm leaders should set tariff schedules promptly.
Washington notes recall the American Colonization Society formed in 1816 to relocate freemen of color to Africa. Once praised, it remains a living, controversial effort tied to the slavery question. Henry Clay led its start in December 1831 with support from Madison Monroe Jefferson and Jackson, promising a yearly transport plan and costs.
The excerpt recounts early efforts tied to the American Colonization Society, noting key figures, the Liberia site purchase, and the voyage of Samuel Mills and Ebenezer Burgess. It details the Alligator voyage, land purchase for 300 dollars in goods, the ensuing conflicts with colonists and Ashmun disasters, plus domestic suspicions from both South and North about emancipationist aims and motives behind freeing and relocating black Americans.
A historical note recounts AmericanColonization Society efforts ending in 1892 with 154 emigrants sent to Monrovia. It cites British opposition led by Daniel O Connell, a Pennsylvania Avenue office building, and current leadership including James B Reynolds, vice president and former assistant secretary of the treasury, with ongoing education work for Liberia’s Negro population.
Klamath Falls Oregon cattle operators report rising losses from motorized rustlers in Klamath and Lane counties. They call for legislative help, urging strict beer sale laws to curb illicit meat handling and theft by swift truck-rustling methods.
An English inventor introduces a detachable motor designed to speed canal traffic. The device can be removed or attached in minutes and possesses power sufficient to tow three fully loaded barges, promising greater efficiency on inland waterways.
Paris reports M. Edouard Herriot former French premier has written a dramatic fantasy imagining Napoleon ruling an American kingdom if he had chosen to emigrate to the United States in 1815. The play envisions Napoleon as monarch over a vast Atlantic empire from the Cape of Good Hope to the Falklands with Madison era America under his influence. In fact Napoleon chose exile aboard the Bellerophon to Saint Helena after rejecting a Danish offer to reach America.
Sweden's first woman electrical engineer Greta Westberg of Stockholm has joined the Stockholm Electric Power Company after receiving her degree. Her two brothers also graduated as civil engineers at the same time, marking a family of engineers in Stockholm.
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