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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1926
Page
11
A dusty county archive holds an old account book from Ridgeville area stores with prices from years past. Entries show whisky at 18 cents a gallon, tea and sugar costs, and barter exchanges like eggs and butter used for payment. Community notes mention Grange installation, local visits, and a lecture by Katherine Carroll Smith Company in early 1926.
Miss Miller and Harold Van Wagnen married by Rev. Holzworth at the South Ridges parsonage with only attendants Miss Luella Jones and Harry Stick present. The couple planned a short wedding trip through the east and noted a forthcoming fellowship supper at the Reformed Church on February 4 1926 with church members listed.
The Ballou family in Sullivan lost their home to a fire started by a defective flue on Saturday morning. Neighbors alerted the family but the blaze overwhelmed the house, with only a few clothes saved. Mrs Ballou suffered burns while trying to save items. Community efforts raised a new dwelling from a school house, and furniture donations followed as residents organized aid.
A crowded list of visits and family gatherings across Chestnut Ridge Oberlin Amherst Elyria and nearby towns. Residents such as Mr and Mrs Chas Nash Merrill Nash Lucy Grills Ed Schamm J Rothhart Alvah Gibson Clarence Albright and many others are cited visiting relatives attending recitals meetings or hosting relatives. The piece reads as a community diary with numerous Sunday dinners birthdays and local events noted.
New London reports Ruth Palmer spending a few days in Kenton Ohio as guest of Miss Margaret Gribble. Mrs Clarence Bracy of Norwalk visits sister Mrs Leo Morse. Martha Roasberry recovers from a week of illness. High School begins second semester with half year classes and a literary society split into Delta Oawega and Phi aiming for the year end banner. The fourth Lee- publication item continues.
Incomplete entries describe a patient at a facility moved home this week, Ethel Saakalt and Mrs. J H planning Florida travel, Jane Weed’s two week visit ending January 21, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles family at a Weldmap home with a man named Spencer tied to a unrelated incident.
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