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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1934
Page
2
Publisher C A Rowley recounts a 17 000 mile Russian tour in diary form. The 196 page book Russia A Century Upside Down presents daily observations from a journalist view of daily life, laws, churches, unemployment, recreation, and mass production efforts.
The Woman's League meets at the Congregational church Tuesday January 9 for an all day event with a noon pot luck dinner. Members bring a dime calendar and clothing for missionary box. The P T A Home Economics class meets at 2 pm Thursday in the school cafeteria with Miss Alice Bird giving a dessert demonstration. The P T A Bridge Class convenes Thursday evening at the school with Ralph Morrison as instructor.
Mr and Mrs Charles Horwedel with Mr and Mrs John Frey departed Monday morning for Florida by automobile.
Mr and Mrs Frank Smith and Miss Betsy Stan of Cleveland were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Carl Pedersen. Lawrence Kavanaugh of the local high school played cello in the Lorain County orchestra in Cleveland Friday evening on WHK. Ed Green a former Avon Lake man died in Cleveland and was buried in Lake Cemetery Saturday afternoon. Miss Rosalind Mitchell was a Sunday supper guest of Miss Rosemary Spaetzel.
Report notes principal exports include cotton cloths and ducks sent to the Philippines. Details about quantities or dates are not provided in the fragment.
Local paper lists contact details for Mrs B A Jenne at 615 Cleveland Street and delivery service inquiries. Central Book Store on Church Street is also mentioned with phone numbers for reader assistance.
Mary Doyle hosts Circle 1 of St Ann society on Elyria avenue tonight Circle 3 hosted by Mrs Kornath at East Quarries Fr James Eischen teaches religious instruction at 7 30 pm at the school hall Parent Teacher Association meeting scheduled for 2 30 pm Tuesday at the parochial school Altar Rosary Society annual meeting at 8 pm Wednesday in the school hall Study group officers meet at 8 Park avenue Thursday to plan the January 15 general meeting Mite society serves Sun at 6 30 pm at the M E church parlors Public School PTA meeting to be held in the school auditorium with a fine program.
The January meeting of the Senior League is at the church parlors with Young People’s League of St John Evangelical church as special guests. An Intermediate League session follows Tuesday evening with social hour after the business session. The annual congressional meeting is Wednesday evening with a fellowship supper at six and an election of officers. The King’s Daughters class is entertained Thursday at Woodhill Drive. Choir rehearsal is set for Friday at 7 30.
The church held its annual meeting on Sunday afternoon with elections for three year terms for elders William Dahl George Koepke and Louis Streicher who was re elected as trustee. A call extension to replace Rev Abram who left for a Fort Wayne suburb was discussed and a call to Rev Bosse of the Carolinas was decided. Sunday School teachers meet at 7 30 this evening and Concordia Club gathers at 7 30 Tuesday at the church parlors.
An open Wesleyan club meeting will be held at the church parlors Wednesday evening with Dr. Clarence T. Craig of Oceana Theological Seminary as speaker on The Man with the Hoe. Wellington musicians will render special numbers and the public is invited. Hostesses for the Missionary Society are Mrs. H. A. Standen and Mrs. Gus P. Zileh at Mrs. Standen’s Cleveland avenue home Friday afternoon.
The Ladies Society will meet at the church parlors Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Philip Braun and Mrs Mathew Lawless as hostesses. The annual congregational meeting will be held at the church at seven o clock Wednesday.
The mid week prayer service is at the home of Mr and Mrs Conrad Zilch on Park Avenue Wednesday evening. The church council monthly meeting is held in connection. Circle 2 of the Ladies Aid meets at Mrs George Holstein on South Main Street Thursday afternoon. The weekly choir rehearsal is at the church Friday at seven o clock.
Aged Brownhelm resident Mrs Hattie Standen, 80, died Friday at her Foster Park Road home. Survived by son E H Standen and nine grandchildren. husband died 16 years ago. Funeral from Baker Funeral Home at 2 PM Tuesday with Rev R E Albright officiating. Burial in Brownhelm Cemetery.
The regular meeting of the auxiliary of Elmer Johnson post No 118 American Legion will be held Tuesday evening at the legion rooms. Plans changed to accommodate increased membership.
Norwood Hearn spent Saturday in Cleveland for a hockey game. Miss Martha Jaeger visited her mother in Lorain. Miss Caroline Kothe returned from Warren Ohio after vacation with the Hart family. Mr and Mrs R L Menz plus daughter Shirley Ann hosted Lorain callers. Mrs Theodore Henes is ill at home. Miss Mary Nord visited Bethlehem Pa with Betty Mohr. The Hart couple from Warren Ohio visited Henry Rothe. Mr and Mrs A Rosenkranz and daughter Ruth visited Lorain.
The Past Chiefs Club of the Pythian Sisters will be entertained tonight at Miss Edith Ehrman's home on Cornell Avenue. All members are urged to attend.
The January meeting of the Rososis Club will be held at Mrs. Walter Schulz’s Cleveland avenue home. Thursday evening hostesses include Mrs. C. C. Kern as assistant hostess.
The expression a nine days wonder is linked to children's fascination with the nine days' blindness of a newborn kitten. It notes historical curiosity and the growth of the idiom from a curious early observation.
The Hickory Tree Grange holds a regular meeting at the Grange Hall on Milan Avenue Tuesday evening. The main business will be the installation of officers followed by refreshments.
Mrs. Flemong Brainard and her baby boy were discharged on Saturday from the hospital. The family resides on Harris street, with Luther Koepke listed on Jackson street.
The Misses Olive and Edna Beller spent Saturday in Cleveland. Miss Molly Ludwig of Oberlin was a dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ludwig. Capt A T Patchett Mrs Beile Brosicker and son Almon were in Cleveland Saturday. Mr and Mrs A L Hall of Lakewood visited Amherst Sunday. Mr and Mrs B A Jenneapont spent Saturday afternoon in Cleveland. Clyde Nugent Jr has returned.
The piece describes stamp collections and hobbyist interest from the Newfoundland Government Post Office. It lists stamp print quantities for Century of Progress and Graf Zeppelin issues and notes a New Year visit by Vic Latto and S F Martin, editor of the Air Transport Label Catalogue, highlighting baggage label collecting and a rare Christmas flight label from Interstate Airlines. Lorain Ohio marks its 100th anniversary this year with future cachet updates.
City council authorizes the old fire station site on Lodi Street and East Bridge Street and approves increasing paid firefighters while reducing volunteer companies from 12 to seven men each. Col. X C Zimmerman arrives to inspect recruits for Company B as Elyria prepares to muster in the unit.
Flags on Elyria buildings and the public square were at half mast today as the city joined the nation in mourning Col. Theodore Roosevelt former president of the United States who died at his home this morning The Elyria War Council will meet Wednesday evening to consider converting the War Chest into a Community Chest for the city’s charitable institutions.
The temperature fell to ten below zero and lingered, freezing pipes citywide. Steam and electric rail traffic ran hours late. Coroner M. E. Perry handled seven cases in the year including fourteen auto deaths, six homicides, eighteen sudden deaths, seventeen non auto accidents, and one poison liquor death.
College officials announce the suspension of all extra activities until Wednesday as influenza cases rise among students. The decision aims to limit spread while campus health measures are reviewed.
Night schools for adults are conducted in six junior high schools with no fees. Courses cover gymnastics woodworking metalworking mechanical drawing dramatics German French Spanish mathematics English for all levels art sculpture cooking sewing and music.
In Melrose Massachusetts Earl H Boyce struck a woman with his car and the woman fled the scene instead of the driver. The unidentified pedestrian pushed away assisting children and insisted she was not hurt creating a surprising reversal of the usual hit and run sequence.
The Olympic Development League asks for a thorough impartial elk survey on the Olympic Peninsula before another open season. Peninsula hunting was resumed last fall after a long hiatus.
Dr Earl D Bond of the Mental Hygiene Institute warns at a PTA meeting that today’s abnormal conditions will imprint the rising generation. He says the effects will appear in mental traits long after physical hardships are forgotten.
Herbert S. Follansbee prominent Elyria businessman and industrial leader died Saturday afternoon. He lived in Elyria over 40 years and helped found Garford Bicycle Saddle works joining A L Garford and F N Smith in 1890 and later serving as vice president of Garford Manufacturing Company.
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