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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1938
Page
3
Walter J. Weight seeks to recover 200 dollars with 8 percent interest from 1954 against Carl A. Gerlach and unknown heirs deedholders in Sheffield Lake Lot 5y Block K The Sunset Country Club Allotment. Court demands answer by February 12, 1906. property may be ordered sold if unpaid.
Multiple Lorain County notices filed by Walter J Wright Treasurer in Common Pleas Court Case Nos T d 37 T 192 T 446 T 286 T 208 T 294 T 433 outline tax liens on parcels in Sheffield Lake and Sunset Country Club Allotment. Notices name defendants heirs assigns legatees and executors and seek first and best lien amounts with interest and potential court-ordered sale if unpaid. Also lists estate appointment notices for Elyria area decedents with various executors administrators and heirs.
Fragmented legal notices filed in Lorain County Common Pleas Court detail tax lien claims against various defendants including Catherine A Fay Margaret A J Lingple and Frances Darmstadt. Amounts range from 9.96 to 66.02 with interest rates up to 8 percent and properties described by Sublot and Lot numbers in Sheffield Lake and Border Cities Subdivisions. The notices warn of sale if amounts are not paid and list case numbers such as T-233 and I405 with dates in December 1930s to 1988.
Elizabeth Allen travels from New York to be secretary to Dr. John Morris near Beirut. She uncovers schemes by Morris and Prof Meres aided by Nurse Hilton to drive patient Michael Brown mad. Elizabeth, Stephen Payne, and Mary Morris hide in a cellar storeroom as Meres blocks their escape.
Dr Payne moves Elizabeth and companions to a fortified storeroom stocked with food and water as a siege looms. Nurse Hilton warns of plans to make Elizabeth disappear and Betty Ann Brown revived, tied to Professor Meres and Michael’s sister. A shout from outside interrupts the tense exchange.
Official text dated December 1 1937 records the start of a formal notice or filing item with a stamped date and minimal surrounding context. The fragment implies a legal or administrative filing, but concrete actions or parties are not specified in the accessible text.
Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes announced a go ahead for 61 public power projects after the Supreme Court upheld municipal power plants built with PWA funds. The ventures total about 146.92 million dollars in construction costs across 23 states, with 100 million man hours of labor expected to stimulate industry and curb unemployment as the court rejected challenges to PWA loans and grants to municipalities. Justice George Sutherland delivered the unanimous decision.
Municipal power systems push forward with fully authorized competition under the PWA program. Construction orders are being issued for several projects with costs listed: Ohio Wapakoneta $186,000 Columbus $1,125,200 Sandusky $1,515,000.
ZANESVILLE Dr. R E Wells 62 physician at Nashport near here died by self inflicted gunshot yesterday. CLEVELAND Jan 4 Lewis C Sando 47 carpenter fatally injured and two others slightly hurt when 75 foot Christmas tree toppled while being removed from Public Square. CLEVELAND Jan 4 Simon Verbitsky 54 helping neighbors move their piano was killed when the instrument fell on him.
New York columnist O C McIntyre recalls Gene Fowler and Charles MacArthur as top ex-newspapermen who thrived in Hollywood with daring stunts and sharp wit. He notes Fowler's roaming antics, Ferris-like conferences, and restless life between Fire Island and film studios. The piece also touches on Japanese plumage tricks, restaurant pricing, and early morning check audits by famed financiers.
The sprucest clerks in town work in Radio City haberdasheries linked to English shops. They know the latest fashions and how to wear them. In true British fashion the shops serve tea around six, a 15 minute customer period considered dull. Raw-ther.
Opened as the Roxy, the Century faced legal fights over its name and failed to attract steady audiences. It pursued costly productions like The Last Waltz and Virginia, the latter ending in a $175,000 loss. The building remains a problem and may be torn down for an office spire, a rare theater to outlive its jinx.
A local advert promotes luncheon entrees starting at 60 cents as part of a price craze to simplify menus. The note highlights a restaurant emphasizing affordable options and casual dining appeal.
The Annual meeting of the Lorain County National Farm Loan Association is set for Wednesday, January 12, 1938, at the Y M C A Building in Elyria Ohio, beginning at 10 30 A M. Five directors must be elected. The 1937 Farm Credit Law amendment calls for two directors to serve three years two for two years and the remainder for one year. Current directors are Glenn S Draper president Pittsfield Twp H T Brerley vice president Pittsfield Twp J R Lees Henrietta Twp Diedrick VonKamp Ridgeville Twp and Carl G Webber Brighton Twp. After election the board will organize for 1938.
Columbus Ohio January 4 Senate Commerce and Industry Committee recommended passage with minor amendments of the Steele Bill. The measure provides a graduated increase in the state's take from parimutual betting with proceeds directed to the poor relief fund.
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