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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1933
Page
3
Kipton hosts Jim Armitage and his Minstrel Follies Monday night January 30 in the school auditorium. Elyria Kiwanis Club presents the act with a high school chorus ten piece orchestra and other features. Local residents share social visits in the day’s notes.
The document notes mounds in the United States from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, across the Mississippi valley in Arkansas and Kansas, and in the Ohio basin. It also mentions similar structures extending into Mexico, Central and South America.
Elyria clinic advertises rapid treatment for piles fissure fistula colitis and varicose veins with no time lost from work. Dr F M Sponseller based in Elyria Ohio lists contact hours and Saturday availability.
The Brighton Farmers Institute met January 20 and 21 in the Brighton School auditorium with a large crowd. State speakers Mrs Neal Wyatt Kyle and Vernon E Crouse addressed attendees while music by the Brighton Junior and Senior Orchestra and various glee clubs provided entertainment. Prizes were awarded for posters crafts and bread and a quilt shown by Mrs Manette Kenney. Proceeds benefited the Institute.
Mr. Ferrell ex convict will give his life story at Brighton M E church Friday evening January 27 with no admission. Mr and Mrs F H McClellan were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs O R McCullough. Mrs Mary Goss and Mrs Don Goss were in Ashland on business Thursday. Mrs Charles Gill and daughter Mrs Charles Lampen visited relatives in Cuyahoga Falls Sunday. Mrs Mary Foa of Wellington J W Green and Miss Etha Burge were guests at the Orlee Pennell home in Shiloh Sunday. Harold Mardy returned Friday after two weeks with relatives in Sac City Iowa. Mrs Warner Merril and daughter of Camden spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Vern Hales. Mrs Albert Langdon, long ill, slowly improving. D A Baird and father Bidwell Baird of Elyria were Sunday afternoon visitors at the A K Baird home. Mr and Mrs M G Baylor spent the weekend with their parents in Ashland. Brighton trustees traveled to Elyria on business Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Delefield and families attended a Murray Ridge PTA meeting Friday evening. Various local residents visited relatives in Lorain and with the Spiegelberg family over the weekend. The Mackerts attended the funeral of their uncle C Bott in Lorain and visited Mrs. Elizabeth Mackert.
Mrs. Fred Schaub hosted the Rowena Circle gathering Tuesday afternoon with eleven members and two guests. After the business session the group enjoyed needlework and refreshments.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Drusendahl of West Ridge Friday evening for members and their families.
Various Pendletons and neighbors from Elyria Parma Cleveland and South Amherst spent weekends calling on relatives and hosting guests. Substitutes and illnesses are noted with Mrs Milton Schlechter and Miss Hines both mentioned in light social exchanges.
Mrs John Cook and son attended dinner with Mr and Mrs T M Baldwin. Neighborhood visitors included Mrs Carrie Bradley and Mrs E O Sprague from Amherst. Loretta Lewis marked thirteenth birthday with sixteen guests playing Ping Pong and Table Tennis. Numerous calls and visits followed through Sunday with relatives from Elyria Norwalk Murray Ridge Avon Lake Lorain and nearby towns.
In Russia township on Sunday evening Mrs. Kathryn Salot and Kathleen Hawkins along with Albert Phillips of Detroit visited Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Belefield. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. French of North Olmsted and Oliver Schubert attended a League meeting at the MBE church in Elyria, where Oliver participated in the program.
Numerous Sunday and weekend visits among local families including the Lewises Cooper Heckel Dute Penson Morris and Jones households. Frank Eschtruth Arthur Eschtruth and Alta Myers guests of Julius Dute. community events include Methodist church Ladies Aid Society meeting January 25 and a Progressive Class Sunday School social January 26 with Bible Class participation.
Sunday services at the Methodist church featured Reverend F A Ashburn delivering a Mark 2:1 sermon on Jesus healing the palsied man. Announcements included a Ladies Aid Society gathering January 24 and a church play January 27 hosted by division two. The Sunday School, led by John Harnish senior, opened with There is a Fountain Filled With Blood and closed with Face to Face.
Fox Club members met in Columbia on Saturday night. North Olmsted guests Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weimer dined with P W Heineman. Cleveland visitors Bernard Cutting called in the afternoon. Several residents visited friends and attended church services in Cleveland and Elyria. The Producers Milk Co. meeting in Cleveland reported profits and re elected officers with twenty shippers dropping out.
Miss Geneva Henry of Elyria and Frank Snyder of Oberlin visited Mrs. Belle Bailey in Grafton last Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jackson of LaPorte joined. Clifford Schultz visited Vermilion and Elyria homes with C. H. Schultz and called at Wm. Wicks in Elyria.
Bailey discusses Mort plan at school meeting sponsored by the PTA held Thursday evening. A four reel comedy The Longest Gangplank in the World showed a trip from New York to Paris. Freshman Class served refreshments.
Grafton Lodge I O F held its annual installation of officers at its hall on Friday evening with District Deputy Grand Master H W Patterson as installing officer. He was assisted by the staff from Mound Lodge of Lodi. Officers installed include Noble Grand Floyd Zacharias Vice Grand Ed Myers Recording Secretary Lloyd Yost Finance Secretary E C Toghill Treasurer J H Gorman R S N G C F Whit ney L SS N G Alea Schwed Conductors F Schwarer Elmer Tran R S S Russell Schwar er L SS James O Rourke O G H J Wilson I G Benjamin Hess Chaplain Geo H Frank RS V G Lloyd Bartlett LS V G Ed Wise. A luncheon followed.
The Latin Class of Grafton High School with teacher Miss Elma Williams met at Miss Ruth Bladowski’s home Thursday. Fifteen members attended and participated in Rome games and a Roman crossword puzzle, followed by a refreshing light supper.
Multiple local society notices list meetings and activities. Lyndon Chapter OBE S members attended in La Grange. Grafton Savings directors were re elected. Miss Alice Maple to lead Grafton Citizen office after Flora Monske resignation. Other social events and entertainments scheduled or held including missionary society meetings and club gatherings.
The Ladies' Altar Society met at Immaculate Conception church hall with president Mrs F Mandeville presiding and officers reelected. Elyria Red Cross director Mrs J A Knechtges named, while a string of guests from Cleveland Berea Marion and Elyria visited local residents over the weekend.
Mrs Krause presided as noble grand matron of a county event. Dr O'Brien and nurse Miss Sherrod administered diphtheria inoculations at the school while many residents and outsiders took Schick tests to check immunity.
Cleveland visitors included Miss Agnes Anderson at Atty. and Mrs. C. J. Maple’s home in Elyria and Mrs. Gertrude Welsh visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Knechtges. Mrs. Anna May of Cleveland stayed with her brother John Bardon. J R Knight visited relatives in Cleveland Sunday. A Anna Jean McCloskey hosted a birthday party with Misses Emily Knight and Louise Jakelsey and Vernon Phelps and Edwin Knechtges recognized. pink and white luncheon decor marked the event.
Morning services in Birmingham were well attended. Mrs Mayme Church performed a piano solo and Rev George T Hanna led responsive readings. The sermon from John 1 4 focused on The Light of Life with hymns including Safely Through Another Week and Just As I Am. Sunday School followed with strong attendance.
The Birmingham Women's Christian Temperance Union will meet at Mrs. George T. Hanna's home on Wednesday afternoon for the regular bi monthly business session.
Rev F L Hall of Cleveland, head of the Congregational Christian Churches of Ohio, will attend morning services at Florence on Sunday January 29 and deliver the sermon. At 2 30 p m, Rev George T Hanna and Rev F L Hall will meet local residents at Birmingham Church for a brief talk and musical numbers.
Susan E. Lawrence aged 72 years nine months and twenty days died at 11 00 PM Friday at her son Walter Lawrence s Townsend home She was long a Birmingham resident surviving husband J R Lawrence who died four years ago Her children Loren Eppler Walter Lawrence Marion Bates Fred Twinning Elmer Rickley and William Becker number thirty five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren Funeral services were held Monday at 2 00 PM from the Birmingham church and interment followed in Birmingham Cemetery.
Mrs Jessie Portman and daughter Carol along with Mrs Fred Koepke and daughter Dorothy were Elyria shoppers Saturday. Several residents visited relatives in nearby towns including Vermilion Lorain and Cleveland mentioning Miss Florence Prince Ober- Tin and Mr and Mrs Edwin Prince. Notable stops include Mr and Mrs Chester Harter of Elyria visiting D A Mordoff family Sunday and Donald Portman visiting Lorain friend David Neilson over the weekend.
The West Ridge W C T U plans to open its meeting promptly at 7 30 on Friday evening with Mr and Mrs H H Drasendaki hosting. The event was scheduled to meet with them.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Penfound and son Harlan called on Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith of Chestnut Ridge Sunday. Miss Edna Pallas attended the first wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kushinsky of Elyria on Sunday. Charles Fowl of Lorain called on J. H. Penfound Saturday after Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pallas and
Mr and Mrs John Anderson and son of Washington Pa were called to Chicago by the death of Andersons mother and stayed overnight with Lore Hurlburt before continuing to Waington. Mrs A K Jenne of Amherst visited the Hearne family. Keith Brown returned home after weeks with the Grobe family in South Ridge.
Members met with Mrs. N W Bechtel for a January session. Plans were made for an oyster supper at Mr and Mrs Henry Kolbe on February (date). Alice Bird from the County Extension Service spoke on clothing remodeling. Refreshments served to four guests and many members and guests from Elyria Lorain and nearby towns. The February meeting will be at Lorain resident Mrs Iva Haist. Mr and Mrs William Bechtel hosted dinner hosting M J Ludwig and family from Painesville plus John Bechtel from North Murray Ridge.
A series of social visits and gatherings around Elyria is noted with Edna and Margaret Walker at a funeral service for Mrs. Albert Walker and numerous guests from Cleveland Detroit and nearby areas attending dinners and outings. The column also recalls readers asking Sherlock Holmes about retirement and a gardener job.
The ad touts Olive Tablets as a safe pleasant laxative from Dr. Edwards. It says the sugar coated olive colored tablets soothe the bowels and liver without griping, promising quick improvement for dark mouths bad breath and fatigue.
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