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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
11
In days past the front porch marked gentility with rockers and turkey red textiles, a sign of status as houses expanded and leisure grew. It served to observe neighbors until cars and noise pushed porches to privacy, yielding to rear spaces where gardens and outdoor living areas now define the front.
Rochester plans a major Fourth of July Home-Coming with a grand parade at 10 a.m. from the school grounds featuring comical makeups floats livestock machinery and autos. Lunch and refreshments will be on the grounds and afternoon sports will entertain. Also note a wedding report for Miss Phideia Trinne and Mr H H Smyth June 20 in Detroit and a birthday tribute to Jewett.
Mr and Mrs Gloyd Handley Elyria host a family birthday gathering with relatives from Charles Parker Albert and Mellitt in attendance. Harmonial Society sews for the Snyder family who lost loved ones. Summer school and reunion news, plus a roundup of local visits and dinners across Elyria and nearby towns.
The Brunswick Valley City club was entertained at Mr Ustrow's home in Brunswick on Friday noon. Prizes were awarded in a bridge game and several hosts and guests were listed. Local families, visitors from Cleveland and Ohio State students attended, with mentions of health, births, moves, and a grass fire incident.
The harmful effect of noise on the human mechanism is no longer a matter of guesswork. Scientific tests prove excess noise reduces energy and speed. Acoustic treatment cut errors by 42 percent in a telegraph office, and similar measures improved output and efficiency in other offices.
La Grange features social notes on Miss Phyllis Rawson and Miss Georgianna Skinners and obituaries for Mrs Airdie Alien-White of Elyria and Hugh Kane of Woelsington. The La Grange cemetery burial for Airdie Alien-White follows services in Elyria, with two sons surviving. Other items note hospital updates, visits, travel to Mansfield and Graf ton, a Kent family reunion, and local social events including a band concert intermission at the Tugsel restaurant.
Sunday callers arrived at the George Mack home. Rev. Kitter was away on a fishing trip in northern Michigan. Rev. and Mrs. Wilbur Gruenwald returned from their vacation. Miss Hertha Schaeffer of Youngstown visited sister Mrs. Earl Arick. Miss Helen Staskoff attended the Great Lakes Exposition opening ceremonies Saturday.
A feature on Nance O Neill, famed Danish born actress and widow of Alfred Bligman, now living in New York since 1950. The piece traces her stage career from the Alcazar stock company to Weber and Fields, her London season, and star turns in Magda and The Jewels, with notes on her shift toward comedy and her collection of Chinese art. Born Oakland October 8, her career spans theater and early cinema before settling in New York.
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