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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1938
Page
13
News From Correspondents notes the K of P Lodge regu lar session with strong attendance and installs new officers led by Deputy W. H. Walters. An open meeting is set for Monday January 27 at the school auditorium with Supt. Brane of the Pythian Children’s Home to present pictures of home activities.
Local social rounds detailing visits and gatherings. Families mentioned include Breisch Elmes Hurst Peck and Wolff, with travels to Detroit Cleveland Painesville and numerous local activities. Events include New Year celebrations watch parties and a funeral in North Monroeville with many attendees.
Rochester notes detail visits and gatherings across families in Detroit Pittsfield Elyria and Lorain. Notable entries include Phidelia Smith visiting Lesley Tripp and Frank Clifford relatives sending fruit from Litchfield and multiple dinner guests at the Storrow home. A serenade to the newlyweds Harold Ringler few days after choir practice and illness convalescence of E D Thompson are noted along with moves of Earl Schick family to New London and Glen Zeigler’s hospital return and ongoing care.
West Ridge residents hosted and visited kin Sunday with numerous calls across Pittsfield Elyria Lorain and nearby towns. Families including Eldreds Hart Penfound and Schaible hosted and visited relatives while other members traveled to Amherst Bellevue and Wellington for gatherings and errands.
Vincent Fete guest Bruce McGuire of Johnstown Pa has vacationed with Ned and Parker family in West River Road. Army member stationed at Fort Massilon Virginia departs soon after a 27 day stay. A party in his honor featured prizes for Loretta Lewis Marian Mertz Stanley Karzmarec and Bruce McGuire.
Clarksfield Grange held an all day meeting at their hall on Saturday with a pot luck dinner. Epworth League members met at Louise and Doris Burrows home Sunday with 13 present. Mrs. Effie Goodman to entertain Butler Road Club on January 20. John Sharp and family visited William and Mrs. Bailey for Sunday dinner. E S Hubbard in poor health.
Mrs John Bins will relate Eaton travel stories for the program hour of the Ladies Society meeting at the home of Mrs Charles Box on Thursday January thirteenth. Roll call asks members to provide current events. Serving as hostesses are Mrs Carlton Blaine Mrs Charles Tompkins Mrs Ellsworth Hawke Mrs A D Stocking and Mrs Robert Grills.
The Grange plans an oyster supper for the ladies during the social hour at the January 12 meeting. Installation of officers will also take place.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Carpenter left Sunday for Pittsfield Ill after holidays here. Miss Geneva Swan of Wooster visited her parents the Swans. Miss Kathern Arias was guest of Delmar Huttman in Elyria. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Hawke visited the Brummenschenkels in Lebanon. Eric Cowley bought the family homestead. Arthur Cowley lives there. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Crowell from Meadville visited relatives. Kenneth attended a Worthington Company hardware convention in Cleveland. Jan 2 was a birthday dinner for his parents. Miss Joan Hillman from Lorain stayed with her uncle Roy Ward. Harold Rice moved to Chicago with Neisner Bros. Mr and Mrs Irving Mohler were New Year dinner guests in Elyria. Mr and Mrs B A Martin and others were New Year supper guests of Mr and Mrs John Leach. Cleveland visitors stayed with Mr and Mrs Hugh Peachey.
Oberlin Road items record Ralph Mc Roberts and Kenneth Nason enrolling for an Ohio State University short course in animal husbandry. Mrs H H Edmonds joined relatives to Lansing Michigan for a funeral. Numerous local families are listed as recent visitors and hosts across Elyria Amherst and nearby towns.
Mrs Metta Pierd reports a safe arrival at St Cloud Florida and plans a brief stay before continuing south. Mr and Mrs Fred Hawk and son Howard of Shelby visited Gar McRoberts’s home. Rev Earl Brown left for East Oberlin church duties, having helped there previously. Mrs Wesley Miller attended luncheons hosted by Mrs Elsie Sparks on Amherst Grant Street Elyria and by Mrs Hilda Carlston on Harvard Avenue Elyria. Neighbors, including Mrs Lloyd Ashby and Mrs Simeon Nash, hosted and visited in Oberlin. Local year totals show three marriages, three births, and five deaths in the past year.
Before the annual inspection of the F and A M lodge Lyndon Chapter members served a banquet at the Grange hall with blue streamers and miniature snowmen. Mrs. Andrew Rawson led decorations for 125 covers as Robert Burri of Cleveland acted as inspecting officer with many out of town visitors present.
Circle Number Four members will serve a pot luck dinner at the home of Mrs. R. B. Kelner on Thursday January 13. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Ed Stranahan of Berea and Mr and Mrs Herman Kruger plus Mr and Mrs Graley of Ridgeville. Willing Workers met with Mrs Judson Spicer. tureen dinner served. Weekly Bible Study at Baptist parsonage welcomes all. Gleaners Class and Aid Society programs for 1938 being prepared. Boy Scouts led by Clifford Brooks meet in the school house with John Wilcox as assistant. Mrs C B Rawson hosted Mrs Clarence Sage and Mrs Hurley Wheeler of Elyria for dinner. County P T A council meeting in Henrietta postponed local meeting. new date to be announced.
Wakeman area notes show visitors to former residents in Florence North Monroeville and Ripton. local divisions meet on River street. club officers elected at Division No 1 2 and 3 meetings. The Wakeman American Legion and VFW plan to present two silk flags to the Congregational church on January 16 with music sermon and tableau.
Lawrence Halladay resigned as Congregational Church treasurer and Sunday School superintendent after a Sunday service meeting. Helen Streett elected church treasurer and Margaret Round named assistant Sunday school superintendent. Halladay resigns due to moving to Lodi to make his home.
Mr and Mrs T H Case plan to leave for Miami Tuesday. Willits Leach set to depart for Florida Monday Jan 17. Margaret Round attended the Young People's State convention in Columbus. Mrs Sarah Baxter mourns friend Mrs Frye in Cleveland and plans funeral attendance. Mrs Mina Gott improves from illness. Alma Clifford helps with housework. Sunday visitors to Mrs Gott include Mr and Mrs Wm McEndree and Mrs John Welsh. Warren Taylor stationed at a marine training base in Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs C E Keyser and daughter dined with Dan Lloyd. Frances returned to Ohio State University after holidays. Clarence Clayford and family visit Helen Smith. Grace Palmer travels home to Cleveland. J Norbert Hood has tonsillectomy in Lodi hospital. G F Gribben visits Myrtle Garra and Frank Prescely in Lodi. Vernon Bowman and sons visit C L Bowman. F C Barlow travels to Lake Wales Fla after holidays in Kentucky. Miss Markley of Burbank, hired teacher, to begin next semester. Emma Eberle hosts corsetters from Cleveland, Wooster, Medina, Ashland for turkey dinner and meeting.
Social notes recount weekend visits and guests from Cleveland to Medina and Lorain. Erhart Heller and family hosted Howard Heller. Kerrigan and Fries families from Cleveland visited. Louise Bagent from Akron stayed overnight. Derek of Valley City joined Sunday dinner. Oscar Geopfert home welcomed Maxworths and baby. Roy Null returned to New London after weeks with Norris. Frank Smith and Ulrichs hosted gatherings. Bauer from Elyria and Hart Stewart's party plus Gilbert Gross from Medina visited. Ulbrichs listed on sick. Dowdel injured. Adaline Beache and daughter Eileen spent Saturday in Lorain. Hart Stewart party with Dean Regal and William Guest hosted oyster supper and card party.
Mrs Sarah Avery an 81 year old Pittsfield resident suffered a stroke at her daughter’s home Friday morning after breakfast. She was reportedly feeling well prior and planned to attend a social that evening. Her condition remained serious as relatives arrived from nearby towns.
Were notified of her illness, Scott Avery of Butler Pennsylvania called on Saturday evening. Robert Avery of Berea spent the weekend at home and Karl Avery of Indianapolis Indiana called on the telephone.
About 150 residents attended a Friday evening Get-Together program at the Methodist church. The event featured fine local talent and was followed by a fellowship hour with hot soup, pickles, wafers, doughnuts, and coffee served by Mrs. George Waite's Sunday School class.
The Societies of the Methodist Church will meet Thursday afternoon January 13 with Mrs. Loremma Whitney hosted by Mrs. Eva Piper. Other items note visits by local families and a funeral service for Mrs Harriett Zeer of Lakewood. The Ladies Society of the Community Church met at Mrs Roy Brasee’s home with a future meeting planned in Oberlin June 20 featuring a pot luck lunch.
At 2:30 Friday a Temperance Day Program will be held in the school auditorium. The speaker is Fred L. Crabb of Columbus, an attorney for the Anti Saloon League in Ohio for fifteen years and prohibition commissioner in Wyoming. W C T U meets with Charlton Friday at 2:00 P. M.
Sunday morning service saw the church officers for the coming year installed. Reuben Ober and family visited Fred Hill’s at Plymouth, former Sullivan township residents. Christian Church Missionary meeting at Miss Cora Chamberlain’s home featured devotionals by Mrs. Ernest Eaton with Brillhart in charge. Loomis hosted dinner for Gus Genoal and Mrs Genoal’s birthday. Ben Brouse of St Marys bought Frank Dennis’s property. Mrs Brouse is sister to George and Albert Jones. Morton Cole of Sullivan was not the car driver in the Wellington pole collision per The Chronicle-Telegram. D E Dudley and family hosted Sunday dinner in Elyria. Circle No 3 of the Christian Church met with Mrs Boyd Hawley. officers elected Pres Mrs Boyd Hawley, VP Mrs Lyle Farnsworth, Sec and Treas Mrs Ernest Haton. Carl Garrison and family plan to move to Elyria for a new job. Perry Sprinkle to operate the Garrison farm.
Elyria Townline notes report Mrs. Mason Smith of Elyria visiting. Further details are unreadable in the clipped text.
Mrs E C Schubert and family hosted and visited relatives across several towns. Frederick and Bruce Eppley, Oliver Schubert, and others joined gatherings with Mr and Mrs Lewis Schubert in Elyria, while Anna Burhaim and Elsworth from Cleveland Heights visited friends. Other couples and children shared greetings in Edison Highway, Berlin Heights, Lorain, and Cleveland, with Caroline Spiegelberg returning to Cleveland after a weekend visit.
Mrs Thomas Demaline and infant Thomas Robert born at Lakewood Hospital on December 30 returned home January 8 and stay with Clarence Demaline. August Kriebusch injured in a Ramms Corners collision remains in St Johns Hospital for about two weeks. Andrew Madson family moved from Lorain road to Mansfield Ohio. Charles Briggs returned from Houston Texas after visiting his son. Mrs Ellen Bidwell and Mrs Frank Decker attended a card club meeting January 6 at Mrs Kandston’s East 108th Cleveland home. Mr and Mrs Robert Shafter and Mrs Ed Styverson of Lakewood were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Roy Wershing on South Porter Road.
Funeral services for Walter Keyes were conducted Tuesday January 11 at Clifford Pease Funeral Home. Rev John Rutledge of Dover M E Church officiated and burial followed in Evergreen Cemetery. He was the husband of the late Penn y Elliott and father of Louis Decker Howard Walter Melvin and Ada.
South Amherst village council met at the town hall for the first meeting of the year. Mayor Henry Garland presided as committees were appointed and the budget submitted and accepted. All members were present: Harold Allsop, Allan Thompson, R Johnson, Frank Powers, John Durcan, N G Townsend, Albert Fazel, Robert Allsop, Fred Bartlome, Ferd Moser.
Mrs. W M Cook and Mrs Livyrd Jackson host Ladies Aid Society social in Methodist church parlors Thursday afternoon. Study Hour Club meets at Miss Margaret Histed's home Thursday evening. South Amherst basketball tees play Henrietta in Henrietta Friday and Oberlin Saturday at home. Public invited.
A regular meeting of the Ladies Altar Society will be held in Nativity church parlors Thursday afternoon. All members are urged to attend. Thursday evening the society will sponsor a card party with various games and prizes. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited.
The true fur seal, valued for sealskin, is identified as distinct from other seals by its external ears. The trait marks it as a separate species in early zoological descriptions.
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