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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
6
Pickford stars in Pollyanna as a story of gladness amid hard times. The feature is billed as entertaining yet uplifting, offering a sermon like message that even when conditions are bad things could be worse. The producer expects strong patron response as the country seeks mood lifting.
The Strand opens Sunday with Theda Bara in Cleopatra presented by Fox Film. The production features Egyptian sets and a massive army spectacle with three thousand horses. Bara wears fifty costumes and portrays her famed siren persona in dramatic scenes.
The Colonial presents The Woman Gives beginning Sunday describing a drama where Miss Talmadge plays Sasa Sanderson as she persuades a wife to help save her husband from dissipation. The wife rejects the idea and favors spending the hereafter with friends.
Melvin Kelsay was killed instantly yesterday afternoon when struck by eastbound passenger train No. 46 at the Big Four crossing in Wellington. A decoration day attendee and longtime resident, he lived with Mrs. O M Lashells on Prospect Street.
The Delaware legislature held a final session as the women’s suffrage federal amendment debate lingered in the house committee. Both chambers passed adjournment resolutions, with two thirds voting needed to advance the measure. anti suffragists say support has waned since defeat in the lower house prior.
At the Prucha home in Ogerlin Iowa on Tuesday evening at 6 o clock Miss Elwin Esther Prucha became the bride of Wilford Rhodes Gaines. Rev N Van der Pyle officiated in the presence of family and friends.
The bride wore white silk poplin and carried toses and sweet peas. Mr Gaines works for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Louisville, Kentucky. Mrs Gaines was a dietitian at Deaconess Hospital. They will reside in Louisville and have many friends’ best wishes.
About fifty boys and girls from Lorain County Sunday Schools attended the annual conference at Elyria First Congregational Church with the theme Dare Greatly. Officers elected for the year include Presidents Dorothy Bell and Robert Stubbs, vice presidents Irene Warner and Maurice Laddrick, and secretaries Ruth Jones and Leroy Reisinger.
An old classified notice advertises the Velvet Edger concept from Chas. F. Guth in the Bank Building Barber Shop. The ad mentions dull blades and 20 regrets, inviting readers to bring razors for re-edging and asks them to call phone 2296. It also references a baseball score by innings.
Two trucks and two tanks en route from Cleveland to Michigan stopped to camp on North Main Street in Oberlin Tuesday afternoon. The guns, covered with canvas to resemble landscape colors, were bound for the U. S. Proving Grounds in Lansing for experimental heavy artillery use. Entertained guesses filled the street as residents watched the unusual convoy pass.
An 19th century style advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic and alterative. It claims to purify the blood, improve digestion, feed the blood, and restore vigor. The copy touts a free booklet and trial pills available from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
Elyria Columbia Club and Young Ladies Society joined in a Dr Walther Day program honoring the Lutheran youth leader. The event featured songs and solos by local musicians, and talks by Rev. Meld of Lima and A Hillier on league activities across Ohio.
Miss Jeanette Dempey of Cleveland reports a neck enlargement since age fifteen improved by Sorbol Quadruple after three weeks of use. She cites relief from headaches and no return of swelling, urging others to seek information from Crandall Drug Store or Sorbol Company.
Norwalk reports Adna Glette was placed in a padded cell at Guarty Jail after an earlier disturbance at his former location, with word received today.
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