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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1936
Page
12
A. M. Rady and William Whiton of Ohio Fuel Gas Co. received safety certificates for perfect driving in the companys safety campaign. The awards recognize no accident records for one year, part of a program begun four years ago. additional honors were given to those with two or more years of safe driving.
Spiney Webber, bus driver for West Penn Forwarding Company, returns to work after a near fatal gas incident last Saturday. En route from Detroit to Wellington to pick up drivers, Webber stopped near Rainbow Gardens at Fremont to wait for a second driver, Mr Coffey. Coffey honked and passed without response, later noticing Webber was still in danger.
Coffey quickly investigated after a man named Webber sat unresponsive with the bus doors locked and the engine running. He broke a window to enter, freed Webber, and rushed him to Fremont hospital where physicians said the man was beyond help, dying within minutes.
Misses Margaret and Jeannette Warner opened their home Monday night to the Friendship Guild of the Congregational church for a regular meeting. Mrs. G B Warner and Mrs. W L Wadsworth assisted. After a brief business session planning the Vesper service for Sunday January 24 at 4 pm, Mr and Mrs R L Baird of Oberlin spoke. The couple presented a nature talk with slides, showing birds, freaks, and various animals. Refreshments were served by the hostesses.
English teacher and Hi Times faculty advisor Hiss Mary Kelly has started another production for the Hi Times play to be presented March 13.
Morgan Dirlam Post of the American Legion met Tuesday night at 8 p m in the Post rooms. Applications for continuous membership were filed and plans laid for the Early Bird party at The Hedges in La Porte on Thursday night. Pass to the party was a 1936 paid up Legion membership. Refreshments followed the meeting.
Buckeye Stages introduced two changes Monday night with Greyhound buses to Akron at 6 45 p m and to Pittsburgh at 6 52 p m and Thursday changes take effect. The Elyria route via Penfield LaGrange and Grafton is discontinued while Columbus bound buses depart at 8 00 a m 12 15 p m and 6 00 p m and Lorain bound at 10 42 a m 2 53 p m and 8 43 p m with the 6 45 p m service discontinued.
Past Matrons and Patrons Association of Temple Chapter O E S hosts a 6 30 pm covered-dish supper with social time led by Sara Curtice Edward Wells and Dr and Mrs E Grose. Ladies Aid of M E church hosts Thursday afternoon with entertainment card party and oyster supper and prizes. Lillywood Rebekah lodge installs officers for 1936 tonight. Wellington Garden club meets Tuesday night with Ben Abram for officer elections. Kiwanis club meets Thursday at noon.
A special Monday night meeting of the Board of Public Affairs approved the purchase of two new combustion engine stokers at an equipped cost of 85000 dollars. The board expects to reduce coal consumption by about 30 percent.
Mrs Hester Powers hosts her sister Mrs Mary Oney and others amid bouts of influenza. Oberlin guests include Mrs Bert Locke and others visiting Mrs Mary Fo. Wellington teacher Miss Mabel Clark ill with quinty at Carroll Wight home. Nancy Lois West improving after pneumonia scare. Dolores Carmen three injured leg. Harold Kepler family relocated to 345 Prospect from South Street. Leonard Oman released from Falls Clinic after injuries from wreck near town and returned to Detroit. Dr W H Landgrebe attends Cleveland Osteopathic surgical clinic. Mrs J N Reinhart of Toledo visits her mother Mrs Nona Wyant. Mrs Jack Bressler improving from pneumonia in Carson Iowa.
Amherst P T A meeting heard Mrs F W Loose of Lorain chair the Hygiene division of the Red Cross discuss forming a hygiene class. Mayor C E Cooper spoke on Boys I Have Known. Rev Fr Mulroy spoke on Boys and Girls of Adolescent Age. Rev Fr James Smith addressed Adolescent Children. Next meeting February 11 with Mgr Dr Hagen as speaker.
Frank Mason acted as Installing officer at the Hickory Tree Grange installation held in the grange hall Tuesday evening. Officers installed included Master Oliver Kolbe Overseer Kenneth Alexander Lecturer William Edwards Chaplain Marian Knittle Steward Fred Schaub Gatekeeper Nelson Date. Harvey Wentling was obligated in the first and second degrees. The next meeting will be held January 28.
A special election will be held on Tuesday February 11 in Amherst and the township to decide a three quarter mill levy for hospitaliza tion. Funds from the levy will be disbursed through the township trustees.
Special revival services led by Rev B H Ryan will be held each evening at the local Methodist church with Mrs Durrell Battles in attendance. Mrs Lena Dibble hosted the Luncheon Bridge club at her home this afternoon, with a 1 o'clock luncheon followed by bridge. Lettie Hawk has returned from a three week visit to Sandusky with her grandson Sheldon Rowland and family.
This week ends with a Sunday afternoon sermon at three o clock by Rev. Ryan at the Home for the Aged in Elyria. Amherst and South Amherst M. E. church choirs will provide special music including a vocal duet by Miss Nina Harris and Elmer Harris and a vocal solo by Mrs. B I Ryan. Members of both churches urged to attend.
The Concordia Club of St Paul Lutheran church held a regular meeting in the church parlors with good attendance. The evening opened with routine business, followed by a social hour. Refreshments were served later by hostess Miss Natalie Schoenfeld.
Stone City Chapter of Eastern Stars meets at the Masonic Hall in regular session with good attendance hoped. Four Square Church praise and prayer service is at Pythian Hall at 7 30 p m. Cottage prayer at First Evangelical at Elyria Avenue 7 30 p m hosted by Mr and Mrs Edwin Hasenpflug. A brief Sunday School workers meeting follows.
The ladies prayer gathering met Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Carl Beetler on Middle Street with twelve members present. Mrs Jacob Muth led the session. Next Tuesday’s meeting will be at Mrs. F Gould’s home on Jackson Street.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Henry of Pearl Street are the parents of a baby girl born at the hospital on Tuesday. Miss Bessie Billiard of Elyria visits Mrs Jennie Kiser on Cleveland Avenue. Miss Helen Roemer spent Tuesday evening with Lorain friends. Mrs Herman Kreeger and daughter Goldie spent Tuesday in Cleveland. Mrs Jennie Kiser and son Burton were Cleveland visitors Tuesday.
Sheffield Lake Village Council held its regular meeting last week and appointed committees for year Finance Joseph Kensik Todd Morgan and Paul Smith Buildings and lands C C Monroe Wilbur Osborne and Odd Morgan Streets and drains Wilbur Osborne Todd Morgan and C Monroe Fire Joseph Kensik Todd Morgan and Wilbur Osborne Printing and sanitation Lloyd Huebner Joseph Kensik and Paul Smith Paul Smith resigned as deputy marshal and applications were accepted from Walter Young H J Miller and Charles Brough Gene Archer rehired as fire truck driver.
A Friday afternoon gathering at the Gulf Road school house featured Miss Alice Bird county extension agent presenting towel and sheeting samples. The Brookside Boys basketball team was listed to play St. Mary's in Lorain Friday evening and Brighton on Saturday evening January 18, with the next home game to follow.
Walter Boyd suffered a fall on the ice last week breaking two ribs. Lloyd Foskett of East Cleveland visited over the weekend with his cousins Mr and Mrs P Lo Chambers and family. Miss Lois Youézy was honored at a fifteenth birthday party hosted by her aunt Mrs Rabunge of West View with ice cream and cake.
The coming marriage of Miss Ruth Root of North Ridge to Howard Hammer of Lorain was announced after a party hosted by Mrs Root. The ceremony is planned for February 8 at the Root home with Reverend Creetus A. Dowell presiding at 3:30 PM. Attendants will be Miss Katherine Root and Dominic Amato.
In Columbus, Ohio on January 15, sparrows continue to trouble the state capital. Night watchmen battle the noisy birds by striking stone columns with nightsticks or clapping, a method that only provides temporary relief as the sparrows quickly return to roost in the porticoes above the grate house.
Fatigued driving caused or contributed to 41 accidents on state highways outside cities in November. Passenger cars were involved in 25 crashes and trucks in 16. The incidents resulted in three deaths and 24 injuries, with total losses around 10 dollars in hundreds of thousands in property damage.
A scattered report notes four accidents caused by sleeping or fatigue across Greene, Tuscarawas, Morrow and others. Incidents occurred in Belmont, Butler, Ashland, Crawford, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Stark and Delaware counties among many others, with no clear pattern linking morals and politics.
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