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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1932
Page
10
Reverend Lathrop Cooley delivers his sixty third anniversary sermon at the Disciple Church in Eaton on Sunday. He remains active in his eighties and annually travels to Eaton to address old pastorate friends. Lorain County proposes a juvenile reform school, but the Lorain school board wants Lorain County to implement it alone.
Severe weather caused thousands of dollars in damage with blown trees unroofed buildings and destroyed wires. Green Line service halted for two hours. Oberlin Odd Fellows building suffered heavy damage. Elyria to hold next Wednesday holiday for Merchants and Manufacturers picnic at Crystal Beach.
The Rochester Homecoming featured a morning parade with floats clowns horses and a comic fire department display followed by a basket lunch and evening entertainment. A ball game between married and single men ended with the married team winning. Prizes for races were donated by local merchants and organizers hope for a bigger event next year. Also notes Ames Iowa Agriculture College and a treaty of peace between the United States and Prussia dated July 11, 1799.
The Elyria Rotary Club endorsed a 354 000 bond issue to enlarge the Oberlin Chil dren's Home. Lorain Police Chief Walker placed uniformed officers at the Twenty first Street entrance to the B and Q yards to prevent crowds after stone throwing by striking shopmen or sympathizers as they entered the plant Sunday afternoon. Ohio Odd Fellows gathered in Elyria for the Grand Encampment of Ohio and the Council of Ohio Patriarchs Militant with 250 delegates. A feature will be a grand street parade Tuesday with hundreds of Odd Fellows marching.
Brief social notes from July 11 recount visits by local families to Akron, Amherst, Mentor Headlands, and Penfield Junction. Attendees include Fred Hermann family, N W Bechtel family, J R Mueller daughter Jean, Henry Kohbe family, M J Ludwig family, Richard Heacock family, Ralph Heacock daughter Wanda Mae, George Drew family, and Irma Sinko. Social gathering featured music and late refreshments.
Camilla Hoyt endures a tense art class scene as Peter Anson, the beloved star pupil, critiques her still life drawing. She wrestles with envy, attraction, and humiliation while navigating Professor Drake and Anson, then escapes into a sunlit campus, brimming with conflicting feelings and looming romantic tension.
Lorain and Mr and Mrs Harvey Heacock along with Harry Werner and Tom Ketch attended events here. Mrs Christena Alber funeral rites were held in Cleveland. Mr and Mrs Carl Menz and daughter Marie of Elyria visited the Bechtel home. Busy Bees 4 H club met at Robert Hall’s for their regular gathering. Wisconsin Archeological Society members found a prehistoric Indian village north of Merrimack with visible fireplace stones and Algonquian pottery fragments. Unusually low water in Lake
A 1932 McNaught Syndicate column by Edison Marshall and friends skims New York life from Grand Central to Great Neck. The narrator chronicles stations, socialites, theater, dining, and a gallery of figures, while noting gum on marble floors, gossip, and a playful obsession with language and slang.
Amherst Royal Neighbors met at Lucy Barnhart's home for routine work and refreshments. A picnic was planned for July 20 at Mrs Eugene Griffen's in Litchfield. A Bi Centennial program was rescheduled to Tuesday evening due to the Village Council meeting. An Auditing Committee will meet at Mrs Fazey's home Monday evening. The American Legion Auxiliary plans a town hall lawn picnic on Tuesday July 12 for members and families.
Invited. A basket lunch will be served at noon. Mrs. Eugene Griffen of Litchfield is spending the weekend at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Springer. Miss Eleanor Thompson returned home after a week’s vacation in New York City and other places of interest. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gibson were visitors in Elyria Friday evening.
Rochester notes a series of social visits including Mr. and Mrs. Williams and son Dick from Wellington and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Edwards and granddaughter Helena May Ernest of Wheeling visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller. Others stopping by include Cleveland and Elyria residents on the Fourth and during midweek from Akron and Wellington.
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