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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1925
Page
1
The Grafton township school board announced the Belden centralized school may close February 1 unless a majority petition for a three mill levy is submitted to the county board. If approved, the levy would fund operation for the rest of the year.
A workman with an acetylene drill is believed to have caused an explosion at the Union Gas and Electric Company east end plant in Cincinnati. About 115 laborers were injured and many lives endangered as the blast rocked the facility Thursday morning.
In Norfolk the absent minded professor from comics becomes real as Immigration and city authorities identify an elderly Finn at the Union Mission as Professor Oxekula a Finnish geologist botanist and author who wandered from northern Finland last fall and now seeks return home with immigration help.
Syracuse dispatch reports Nettie F. Thompson 28 and Claude H. Baird 40, both of Peoria Illinois, were held on an open charge after being found together at the Washburn Motel Brewerton. They were questioned by District Attorney Frank P. Malpass. Thompson has three children and Baird has a wife and two children in Peoria.
Mrs Kathryn Wagner wife of the late George Wagner funeral director in AVOR at time of his death died in Dearborn Michigan several months after her husband The obituary notes George Wagner was an undertaker in AVOR at the time of his death.
Carlyle Holcomb a Church of Christ minister spoke to Knights and Ladies of the Ku Klux Klan at GAR Hall in Barber ton. Rev E F Troelmyer led songs and W C Moore presided as officials boasted of education board agreements and claimed the talk would be delivered in schools nationwide. Holcomb said America is Protestant and urged closing borders for ten years while praising the American school and Bible reading. He noted it was first time he was denied a schoolhouse speaking venue in Ohio.
Justice of the Peace A L Green of Ebenezer resigns and faces criminal charges after confessing to pocketing fees and bonds in liquor cases and accepting two 50 dollar bribes from the Keystone Club. He handed his resignation to Prosecuting Attorney Albert Scharrer in J S Clifton’s office, after it was demanded by Sheriff Howard F F Webster. Authorities estimate the wrongful fees may total 1500 dollars or more.
Mrs. William Graven Sharp announced the death of Phillip Adams Hill, husband of Margaret Sharp Hill. Married in the city on September 19, 1923, they lived in New York. Mr Hill died after being brought to his parents in Dedham, Massachusetts. details are sparse as Mrs Sharp departed for Dedham by late afternoon train.
The Woods family reported fifty five votes in the recent election. I W MacArthur of Cambridge had challenged that his mother had twenty one votes for President Coolidge. the Woods group, including eight daughters and seven sons, six sons in law, seven daughters in law, and twenty seven grandchildren, all cast ballots.
Josiah Kirby, held on a Los Angeles federal warrant for using malls in a defraud scheme and issuing false financial statements, is indicted by a Cleveland grand jury. J. R. Poland, former treasurer, is named. Authorities seek Kirby after a nationwide manhunt following his alleged Chicago sighting. Additional indictments against other company officials, and possibly a woman, are anticipated.
Thomas C. Price aged 64 years 2 months 7 days died Wednesday at the home of his son in law Tissington 240 West Bridge Street Elyria He survived by his wife three children Harold Cleveland Ray Detroit and Beatrice Sylvester Brooklyn two sisters three grandchildren and one great grandchild He was a former teacher in Erie and Seneca counties and recently worked in insurance Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 00 from Sudro Funeral Home Rev W L Burner officiating Burial in Ridgelawn Cemetery.
Katie Fejes of West River Street testified she married three times, her first and third husbands drunkards, the second husband died. she was granted a divorce on grounds of drunkenness and gross neglect. Remains of William Witter to arrive from Tampa for Medina funeral Friday at 2:30 p.m.
New Kiwanis president Attorney Robert H. Rice delivered a stirring inaugural address at the Y M C A luncheon outlining a yearly program with monthly objectives and an activities board. He urged member enlistment and a membership drive plus focus on city projects, parks, education, and charities. Dr. M A Abbe joined as a new member and Ralph Osborne received a traffic violators badge while C P Shively won the attendance prize.
Police Chief EB J Stankard warns parents after a 12 year old boy Donald Fields was injured when his towed sled struck a pole at the Fourth street alley. The accident prompted calls for safer coasting and parent cooperation.
Mayor George Hoffman attended the Ohio Municipal League gathering in Columbus this week and was honored with election as permanent secretary of the association. The event drew officials from multiple towns and cities.
Washington Jan 8 Ten million Chinese face starvation after Yellow River floods. A. B. Young of the China International Famine Relief Commission appeals to the American Red Cross and others for aid. He cites U.S. donor apathy and Tong War disruption hindering relief efforts.
Ambassadors Kellogg and Herrick and Colonel James A Logan observed the interallied reparations commission at its second plenary session in Paris. Official reports said talks between France's finance minister and Britain's chancellor of the exchequer on war debts were making no progress.
Mrs Anna Echo of 3250 Vine Avenue was discharged in municipal court on a liquor charge tied to December 22 after police used marked money to test sales. Johnny Wilson, a colored man, was implicated for attempting to buy liquor with the marked currency. he failed to appear in court and a warrant for contempt was issued.
The Carlisle special school district board meets tonight with Health Commissioner W A McIntosh and an Ohio Industrial Commission inspector to discuss improving five aging and overcrowded buildings. Officials note poor lighting heating and space at Cremont Grove LaPorte and Quarry schools and report district voters rejected a $75 000 bond for a centralized modern school.
George Wesley Bellows, 42, acclaimed American painter, died in a New York hospital today from acute appendicitis after an unsuccessful operation. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Bellows was recognized by critics as a leading figure in U S art.
Huntington township farmer George Smith, a strict prohibition believer, had his bout with alcohol and summoned an Ashland undertaker. Sheriff Underhill assisted, and Smith was fined five dollars plus costs totaling twelve dollars and thirty-two cents by Justice S. J. George and jailed for nonpayment.
Fred L. James, an employee of Ford Motor Company, was found dead in an Atlanta alley with his head split by an axe. Police say he died about four hours prior. A separate Maryland note reports arsenic poisoning symptoms prompting a police probe and an autopsy order for Wm. Merryman of Owings Mills.
In Lima Ohio on January 3 the Board of Commerce received assurances of a 1000000? allocation for an armory project. The meeting confirmed appropriation details and the town prepares for related construction and funding steps.
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