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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1939
Page
11
The diary recalls John Hess selling a new car with non skid tires after talk of icy crashes. A gallon of syrup from Louisiana Secretary of Agriculture is shared with neighbors. Dr. Albert Pegues and Mike Hughes are mentioned, with Killer Monk the police dog referenced in a fragmentary note.
Wiliam E Ashbolt, Lorain county representative in the Ohio General Assembly, confined to St Joseph's hospital at Lorain, was appointed chairman of the enrollment committee and named a member of the commerce and transportation and the finance committees. The House adjourned after bills to reenact cigaret and liquid fuel taxes for the State School Foundation system, extending taxes to March 31 1941, will likely go to the taxation committee early next week after Governor-elect Bricker's inaugural ceremonies.
Captain Kidd faces potential police action after a court ordered muzzle for his dog following a minor clash with a paper delivery boy. Mike Hughes notes public rebukes for allowing the mastiff to roam unrestrained, while the dog is kept muzzled by order of Judge Boote.
In a talky column the writer notes the Dutch Treat Club lacks a fixed president. Kelland decamped to Arizona. Ray Van Din and Harry Hansen share duties. A flurry of writers, actors, and artists meet weekly, with heckling tolerated. Jack Raper recalls a 35 year run and sudden friend Jane Omansky’s death. The piece also reports a harsh New York winter with severe colds and pneumonia risks, plus Ethel Hood’s sculpture exhibit and Maur ee Evans’s Broadway fame.
Jess Gallagher Ohio regional representative of the American Federation of Labor will speak at Elyria Central Labor Union third educational meeting at the YMCA at 730. A display of union labels will be shown and the talk will argue that many products carry the union label, countering the belief that only a few goods are union made.
The Elyria Ministerial Association will meet Tuesday morning January 10 in the office of the First Congregational Church. Dr William M Auld is the president of this group for the year 1939.
A maid who served Cr71.10s Dick many years ago marks her ninety fifth birthday. The event reflects long service and ties to the era described in local records.
More than 320 horses in four Lorain County townships have received botfly control in a county program now under way. Wellington La Grange Camden Brighton have completed treatment, with Russia Eaton and Rochester still active. Treatments are by Lorain County veterinarians. Fewer horses are being treated this year than last year when the program began. over 4000 horses were treated countywide, and botfly infestation was notably lower. Some owners noted reduced roundworm infestation in younger horses, though the therapy aimed at botflies only.
Dean Mathews of the University of Chicago warns at a Pasadena meeting that religious liberty a written constitution and written guarantees between nations are America’s top three contributions while noting threats to these ideals. Guadedloupe imposes a tax on empty wooden barrels entering the country.
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