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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1939
Page
2
Classified ad lists multiple used cars with prices and payments including 1987 Chevrolet and 1931 Franklin options. Mentions down payments of 191 to 155 dollars and monthly figures like 31 dollars for financing. Includes various models such as Chevrolet, Ford, Pontiac and Buick spanning late 1920s to 1930s.
Notices reveal insolvency ruling for Florence H. Wagner estate due to probable insolvency with claim filing deadline set to March 16 1939. Probate Court also schedules creditor claims and an April 15 1939 response deadline for Otto K Mischka executor in Hattie Frauenstein estate real estate sale proceedings with parcels in Elyria and Braman additions.
Henry McLemore describes a Hawaiian luau as a grand outdoor feast with many cooks and staff. He recalls fish courses including octopus and lomilomi salmon, roasted pigs in underground ovens, and the bustling, crowded scene under the banyan tree.
Tony Galento trounced Abe Feldman in the Burdine Stadium bout stopping the fight in the third round. Galento outweighed Feldman by 37 pounds and dominated with repeated knockdowns. Promoter Mike Jacobs and manager Joe Jacobs planned talks on a potential title shot against Joe Louis.
Ohio State basketball travels for a two game weekend road swing after Gil Mickelson returns from injury. Olsen expects Mickelson Daw son and Sattler to play heavy minutes against Wisconsin at Madison and Michigan at Ann Arbor as OSU fights to stay within reach of Indiana.
Oberlin College basketball hosts Western Reserve in Warner Gymnasium at 8 p.m. Saturday February 25 for the season closer. Reserve likely holds the edge after both teams endured rough campaigns. The Oberlin swimming team then heads east after a 40-35 win over Ohio Wesleyan at Crane Pool, with meets against Rochester and Allegheny slated in Meadville on February 24 and 25.
Descriptive prose recalls pig roasting in ti leaves, a burlap coat, and a ceremonial unveiling of the meat. Vegetables arrive next, including exotic items, accompanied by Okolehao beverage. The narrator ribbingly questions what this all has to do with enorte.
Eldotread Supply won two games against the Struck Furnitures in a St John s Lutheran Bowling League match at St John s school alleys. Walt Zander led with a 575 series for the victors.
Wooster survives a tough test from Heidelberg 50 to 44 to strengthen its hold on the Ohio Conference title. Dave Henderson led Wooster with 19 points as eight Heidelberg players kept it close, trailing by two at halftime. Mount Union visits Wooster Saturday as Ashland and Bowling Green also posted wins in regional play.
Standings remained unchanged as Third Floor and First Floor swept their matches at the K of Calleys. Mittler of First Floor posted a 605 series in the night session with the Third Floor also recording a strong showing.
Ohio scholastic results show Logan 27 over Nelsonville 26 and Washington c. H. 37 to London 17. Other matches include Chillicothe 2% to Hillsboro 20 and Cambridge 35 to Lancaster 32. College results list Wooster 50 over Heidelberg 44 and Kenyon 39 over Aqenone City 49.
Cincinnati Reds completed sales of Woody English a utility infielder to the Chicago Cubs and Al Glossop a second baseman from Syracuse to the New York Giants. English who lives in Newark Ohio was acquired by the Reds in mid season last year from Brooklyn but defied to report.
Four matches are on the schedule in the Elyria Ladies Bowling League at Elyria Recreation at eight o clock. Wykrent's Grille faces W. T. Grant Company City Loan meets Leo's Five Standard Cleaners takes Sears Roebuck Elyria Recreation meets Hilltop Tavern.
Holy Cross Eighth Grade routed Holy Cross Seventh Grade 51 to 0. St Agnes Eighth Grade beat St Marys Eighth Grade 16 to 6. St Marys Seventh Grade topped St Peters Eighth Grade 18 to 12. St Agnes Seventh Grade defeated St Peters Seventh Grade 16 to 6. Standouts included Gregorczyk Talarek and Noster with 17 14 and 14 points.
Lorain County farm groups will invite business and professional men to a March 8 dinner at Oberlin M E Church to discuss agriculture's link to all business. A State Agricultural Conservation Association speaker will outline the conservation program and its benefits to farmers and businesses.
John Tescula proprietor of a cafe in Brookfield township near the Ohio Pennsylvania line was kidnapped and robbed of 400 dollars today. Three men surrounded Tescula’s car after a bank run to cash checks for steel workers. Mrs Tescula fired from an upstairs bedroom as the robbers returned fire and shoved Tescula back into his car. Raymond Yanko the bartender fired a gun but the robbers fled west on Route 62 after the exchange.
Lima Ohio February 24 Joseph Reed aged 78 longtime officer and later clerk in the Lima Police Department died today He served 33 years including stint as a plainclothesman and most recently as a department clerk.
H. H. Kimmel of Lorain secretary of the Lorain County Milk Dealers Board asks Elyria housewives to return used milk bottles. In two weeks 50,000 bottles left circulation due to bad weather, adding to an annual loss of about 500,000 bottles.
Opera singer Marion Talley loses the first round of her bid to gain custody of daughter Susan Eckstrom. Supreme Court Justice Gerald Nolan dismisses the habeas corpus action for lack of jurisdiction against estranged husband Adolph Eckstrom and in laws Mr and Mrs Elmer W Nelson of Mamaroneck.
Lorain County Home Makers Chorus for 1939 held its first rehearsal with 30 singers led by Mrs. H. H. Gregg of the East Carlisle Mother Singers. The chorus plans its public debut at the April 11 Achievement Day program. next rehearsal is March 9.
L H Keller of Elyria Township was chosen president for the coming year. Peter Nissen of Avon was elected vice president and Theodore Peak named to a post. The announcement came today.
Former President Herbert Hoover likens intolerant ideologies to five horsemen of death and war as he urges support for the Presbyterian church’s $10,000,000 college fund. He addresses 700 church leaders in Pittsburgh endorsing Western Pennsylvania’s million dollar portion of the drive. He links social problems to shifts from village to mass production and to corporate legal rights and moral changes in industry.
A radiogram from Ray Moyer now in Peking and Mel Kennedy reports the Oberlin school expanding from Taiku to Chengtu in Szechwan with encouragement for support and hope for the future. Kennedy and Moyer travel toward the new location as Miss Charlotte Tinker plans to join Taiku later this spring. Carlson, son of Rev. and Mrs. Carlson of Portland, Oregon, is a Portland high school graduate noted for debate and Delta Sigma Rho membership.
A group of Oberlin College affiliates led by H H Kung and Herbert VanMater have moved Chinese school operations across China since 1997. The delegation, including 200 students and faculty, travelled 1300 miles mostly on foot, settling at Chengtu after crossing the Tsing Ling mountains. Kung, an Oberlin alum and former Premier, is among founders and presidents.
Lorain County farm women will select their 1939-40 extension program projects at the county home council meeting next Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Mrs. Ladé Remen’s home in Penfield. They will also plan the April 11 Achievement Day. Mrs. P. E. Portman will discuss Lorain County Achievement Days in a radio talk from WOSU Columbus at 8 45 p.m. next Monday. Her previous county arrangements for Achievement Day are noted.
Dean Webster G. Simon of Western Reserve University will speak on Mathetics as an Art at the Elyria Lawyers Club luncheon. The event is set for Saturday noon at the Grays tone Hotel with club president David P. Hyman chairing the meeting.
Ellen Johnson of Toledo Museum of Art presents "Swedish Art" in the Allen Art Building at 8 15 P M. Senior French Horn Recital by Marvin C Howe at Warner Hall 8 30 P M. Art Association meeting led by Mrs Arthur W Poister at Carnegie Library 8 30 P M. Topics cover national defense program implications.
At 1:00 P M the Public Affairs Society screens WPA and other government sound films with no admission charge at the Apollo Theatre. A basketball game between Oberlin and Western Reserve is listed for 8:00 P M.
Student classes at 9 45 A M Morning Worship at 11 A M College vesper service in Finney Chapel at 5 00 P M
Lenten devotional service at Fair child Chapel 7 30 A M assembly. Niebuhr lectures at Union Theological Seminary and The School of Theology with topics Contemporary History and Christianity and Democracy Alive. Evening program The Christian Alternative to War in King Bos worth Room 730 P M. Peace Society and Y M C A cooperate.
Douglas Kenney director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society presents classes on traditions common to England and America. English Folk Dance Classes run at Women’s Gym with sessions for College Women at 3:00 PM, College Men at 7:15 PM, and mixed sessions at 8:30 PM. Faculty seminars and a student recital occur in the College of Arts and Sciences at 7:15 PM, with The Conservatory of Music also at 7:15 PM.
The schedule includes a reading of the Freshman Honor lists in Fairchild Chapel with C F Wittke and Shailer Mathews leading. A Conference on Peace Education features Rev Theodore Mayer and others, followed by a Peace Round Table in the church and a senior recital in Warner Hall.
The intercollegiate debate between Oberlin and Wooster is set for 8:00 P M at the Carnegie Library. Students and faculty are invited to attend this scholarly contest featuring representatives from both colleges.
Friday events include Dr Harry N Holmes of the World Alliance speaking at Fairchild Chapel at 8 45 A M and Bosworth Hall at noon Shailer Mathews emeritus dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School speaks Dramatic Association presents Maxwell Andersons The Macque of Kings at Finney Chapel at 8 P M
A series of special Sunday evening Lenten services will be held at the First Church starting Sunday February 26 at 730 PM. Speakers include Professor ence H Hamilton Reverend Homer J Tucker Professor Clarence T Craig Professor Walter M Horton Professor Herbert C May and Reverend Clarke M Cochran. Hamiltons sermon title Beholding God.
At the Oberlin luncheon meeting the Oberlin Rotary club viewed motion pictures from John Manville Company about Home Insulation.
Miss Elien Johnson librarian at the Toledo Museum of Art will speak tonight at 8 15 in the Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Building on Swedish Art. The talk is open to the public.
Oberlin High School will participate in the sectional basketball tournament in Cleaview starting Thursday March 2. Coaches Boyd Robinson and Don Leahy will visit Clearview Monday to draw for opponents. The Oberlin Indians join Amherst and St. Marys Lorain as exempt villages in Lorain County and will face three Medina County teams and three from the Grafton sectional.
The Christmas club will meet for a one o'clock luncheon Monday at the home of Mrs Hattie Pursem on Woodland Avenue. The readable text also mentions Tosngtomme and other garbled words that cannot be reliably interpreted.
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