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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1935
Page
8
Wellington social items recount juvenile Grange program with Blanche Mohrman as chair and prize winners, plus Banastow Missionary Society outing at Mrs Jeannette Keyser’s home and a postnuptial grocery shower for Mrs Ethel Gates Cole. Also noted are church society meetings, officer elections, a Missionary Pageant, and an upcoming August break with plans for joint Endeavor activities.
Lee Whitright outlined county relief work to the Kiwanis Club and answered questions. Rev W H Baker led a Sunday school study series for July and August at the Congregational church. Several residents and visitors from Akron Lorain Detroit and Cleveland are noted visiting Elyria, with family and travel details and ongoing church programs and a women’s group planning to attend a Cleveland convention.
Lima Locomotive Works will build five passenger engines for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, assuring work for about 200 men for at least three months. The $500,000 order, with delivery by November, follows idle time at the plant. Findlay adds that a $20,000 advance from the August estate tax settlement funds salaries for the last month of the school term.
Sheriff McKeever ordered a band of gypsies from Champaign County after John Swisher reported four women and one man stole a purse with 20 dollars from his pocket. Swisher said the group stopped at his home to borrow twine before the theft occurred.
In Tacoma on July 12 the defense pressed for Margaret Thu lin Waley to gain release amid fears her life would be endangered by fugitive kidnapper William Mahan. Waley’s husband Harmon Waley will testify to corroborate her claim she was coerced into participating after threats, as the defense seeks acquittal in the $209,000 Weyerhaeuser kidnapping plot.
A large crowd attended the North Olmsted 4th of July celebration with a Lorain Pennzoils vs North Olmsted ball game ending 8 to 4 in favor of the locals, horseshoe pitching, a display by Frank Jackson of Blue Mound Kansas, and a chicken supper for the team and wives at Mike's Place hosted by the Pennzonis. Bertha Gould was ill during the past week. Mrs Bertha Donaldson attended a funeral with her brother Richard Salisbury from Reading, Pa. Emerson Tellman and others visited from Michigan. Edward Crowell’s Nova Scotia brother visited. Jean Lord underwent an appendix operation at Berea Hospital.
A three act comedy is being given this week Wednesday and Thursday at the Parish House by Jack Eldridge Beach Berger Ashley Bardwell Betty Pomeroy Eleanor Kinkelar Laura Stenz Betty Bardwell Helen Limpert Bob Decker Harry Hird and the young people of the Universalist church. The North Olmsted Bittner ball game Sunday was a 6 6 tie in the sixth inning halted by rain. The Congregational Sunday School young married peoples class will not meet during July and August. The North group of the Congregational Ladies Aid meets July 11 with Mrs Emory Stroud Center Ridgs DONALDSON FUNERAL Mrs Bertha Donaldson wife of James Donaldson died Tuesday July 2 a lifelong North Olmsted resident and mother of three with grandchildren The funeral was at the home Lorain road Rev J W Kuyper officiating Burial at Butternut Ridge cemetery Relatives later attended Mrs Merwin Lord funeral in Elyria A man seriously injured in an auto accident near the F G Robb home two weeks ago died in Berea Hospital Monday never regaining consciousness.
Members of the W. S. and P. 4-H Club gathered at Melvin Kolbe’s home for a regular meeting with fourteen in attendance. Baseball and a brief business session preceded a study period and recreation games led by Frank Herrmann. The next meeting is set for July 16 with advisor N W Bechtel.
Members and guests gathered for an afternoon of recreation featuring baseball and various games. The event concluded with a Wiener roast and eighteen attendees enjoyed the pleasant diversions.
Mr and Mrs Chas Coward and son Hoyle spent the Fourth of July at Chippewa Lake. Various guests including Miss Wilda Morgan of Wellington and Miss Mabel Freyman of Cleveland visited the Coward and Conard homes. Dorothy Diedrick underwent a tonal operation and is at Dr Reutter’s. Judge and Mrs Walters of Van Wert visited the E R Allen home. Families from Elyria and Mansfield joined gatherings with the Freyman, Ballon, and Gleason households.
South Dakota claims bragging rights in bluegrass as a four foot tall plant near a local farm reaches 50 inches under rye atop. In New Richmond on July 12 Louis Beiser, 12, drowned in the Ohio River yesterday.
Robert Bodine 13 son of John Bodine of Kenton drowned swimming in Lake Idlewood last night. Findlay firefighters attempted rescue using an inhalator.
COLUMBUS July 13 Willis McDaniel 19 Hyatts shot himself in a rooming house after failing to find work. ZANESVILLE July 12 Emma Carolus 18 died of heart trouble after learning of a friend's drowse ing. Haven Newcor 15 drowned in Muskinegum River.
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