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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1934
Page
4
Plans for the county wide Four-H Club Picnic were called off by Miss Allee Bird county agricultural extension agent. The event is replaced by a county farmers picnic sponsored by Lorain County Farm Bureau Lorain County Granges and Four-H Clubs to be held on a date not yet set.
Fourteen youths from Lorain County will attend the Young People's Institute at Camp Crag in Medina County, opening tomorrow and closing Thursday. Delegates include five from Carlisle Township and four from Elyria Township, with Stan y Hopkins from Eaton Township as the lone boy. Miss Edith Gleason of Elyria will serve as camp nurse. county agents will hold a conference on young people's work on the final day.
CELINA OH July 14 One man was killed and four people seriously injured in a three car collision at the intersection of US Route 127 and Ohio Route 54. Cloyd Donovan 45 was killed outright. The injured include Thelma Murphy 22 with a paralyzed back, Mrs Cloyd Donovan 45 with a crushed jaw and chest and a fractured arm, Ambrose Stanley 25 with a pelvis and lower spine fracture, Mrs Ambrose Stanley with scratches and bruises, and Irvin Snyder driver of a sedan who was uninjured. The Dayton car struck a Lima car driven by Mrs Orpha Copersmith who suffered a broken shoulder and bruised legs. Collision threw the Dayton car.
A Dayton party driving to the Chicago World's Fair collided at Mercer while another car was struck. A child in the other vehicle suffered facial injuries as a result of the crash.
Two persons received minor injuries in a Route 18 collision about 30 minutes before. Mrs W P Murdock of Se uickley Pa and her son Porter suffered cuts and bruises. Mr Murdock escaped injury. Truck driver John Miller of Cuya hoga Falls remained uninjured. Deputy sheriffs Ed Monroe and Joe Woodings investigated the crash.
Charles Lent, the Ely Park custodian, reported that yesterday afternoon an unidentified woman tripped over a hitching strap tied to a highway route sign on the east side of the park. The strap crossed the narrow sidewalk and held an old horse hitched to two buggies.
Czebak of Lorain freed from the county jail a week before completing a 30 day sentence due to an infected hand. He and Stanley Hriber were fined 59 dollars and costs for assault and battery after harming Miss Maudelene Johnson, 16, on Lodi street last May. Dr. G E French, county jail physician, approved the release for hospital care. Czebak paid the fine and costs.
A. Brown of Elyria pleads not guilty to charges by Merritt Hahn of Elyria alleging fraudulent conversion of an air compressor valued at 60 dollars, secured by a chattel mortgage. Justice Joseph Petro will study the case with Brown under a 200 dollar bond set after arraignment.
Arnold Bucholz reports theft of several expensive parts from a Turz saw at his property on Grafton road near Grafton. Deputy sheriffs investigated the theft and commenced inquiry into the incident.
Chester Hoffner of Elyria pleaded guilty before Justice James Lilley to using Kranse Plates from another machine. He was fined 25 dollars with 20 dollars suspended and costs.
The sheriff's department investigated a $20 theft from Mrs Balzer's Quarry street home. Divorce granted for Larverne Schawer from Donald Schauer on gross neglect and wilful absence. Eleanor Looks files for divorce from George Looks on gross neglect and drunkenness. Union Joint Stock Land Bank sues Edward DeChann et al for 6651. Foreclosure sought on Avon Lake property. A H Maguins sues Harry Gough and trustees for foreclosure to satisfy a $1154 judgment.
Obituaries from Lorain County list Mrs Elizabeth Foster of Elyria died at home on Friday July 13 at 11 15 P M born Avon June 3 1869 she leaves husband two daughters Catherine Lila and Mrs Herbert Zeigman one son Robert J and grandchildren all of Elyria also three sisters and two brothers. Funeral at St Marys Church with burial in St Marys Cemetery. Also noted are the deaths of John C Koepke at Kingsley Corners Grafton July 13 at 4 00 P M born in Germany 1859 survived by widow two sons Edward and George three daughters and numerous grandchildren. Body to be moved from Taylor Funeral Home. services Tuesday at 1 40 P M and burial at Valley City cemetery. Rufus B Rhinehart longtime Elyrian died this morning at 6 o'clock in Springfield Ohio with funeral Monday 2 P M in Springfield and burial there. Hugh Ward 73 of near LaGrange died Friday at 9 30 P M after a year illness he came to Lorain County 40 years ago from New York state survived by wife Emma four sons and six grandchildren two sisters and a brother. Funeral Monday 9 A M at Immaculate Church Grafton and burial at St Marys Cemetery Grafton.
Parents of 21 month old Robert Connor report a mysterious registered letter that seemingly confirms the baby was kidnapped. Federal agents maintained control at the Connor home where the blonde child in pink rompers vanished Thursday evening, and they reviewed the available clues and testimony.
Miss Eleanor Wilkins daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Hatch Wilkins married Glen C Turner of Claremont California in a garden ceremony at the Wilkins home on Forest street Oberlin. Dr James A Richards pastor of the First Church officiated with a Mendelssohn march and Lohengrin procession music. The bride wore white satin with Alencon lace and a tulle veil of orange blossoms. Mass Virginia Turrell of Smithtown Long Island was maid of honor. Adeline and Catherine Hell of Hanover Mass were bridesmaids. Robert H Wilkins brother of the bride was best man. The couple will reside in Claremont California. FORMER OBERLIN MAN DIES IN INDIANA. Word has been received of the
The Clay family long time Oberlin residents lost NXA Clay at Mentone Indiana on July 8. The Clay domicile was on South Main Street and their daughter Ning graduated from Oberlin College.
The Oberlin Summer Band concert on campus West College Street ends the business week with a full program including Silver Cord and Columbus. Harold M Bachman previously led the Mullion Dollar Band in Berea and Kent. Reverend E E Barnhart of Columbus will preach at the First Baptist Sunday services. Mrs Carl Dudley leaves for Lincoln Nebraska to visit a sister. Professor Bruce Benjamin, Oberlin Conservatory faculty, moves to New York with his mother. Byron Shaffstall and wife lease a gas station near Norwalk and relocate.
Elyria residents line up for NBC radio auditions next Thursday and Friday at the Capitol Theatre. Entries rise to 39 as of today with last minute registrations before midnight Monday. Contestants include Singers players and instrumentalists led by judges from WTAM and Channel WIAMs Young Artists series.
Employees of the Western Automatic Machine Scrawl Company and families will gather at Crystal Beach Park Saturday for the annual company picnic. B C Franklin is picnic chairman with an executive committee including A B Cochran and F H Bryant.
Elyria Rotary Club plans next week's meeting at the Elk's Club under C A McMillen. The program includes golf tournament plans, with two inter city events at Lakewood on July 18 and Elyria on August 1, plus a Rotary Kiwanis match.
Contracts covering 367 acres of corn and 18 percent of county corn acreage were sent to Washington. E H Fallmer, Eaton Township chair, said 151 Lorain County farms signed under the federal farm adjustment plan. First installment checks for corn and hog reductions are due in three to four weeks, with about sixty Ohio counties to submit contracts by July end. Only Erie County has paid its first installment totaling 28,627.05 dollars.
Market notes from Chicago and Toledo list extensive price quotes for meats poultry produce and grains. Receipts show steady or mixed demand with no egg sales, while live poultry and duck figures detail hens leghorns rockers colored and turkeys with varied per unit prices. Wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds are quoted alongside flour and feed values, with brief regional notes on potatoes and apples and seasonal cargo remarks.
Hitler gives official tally of the Night of the Long Knives killings stating thirteen storm troopers and civilians killed in arrest, three SS bodyguards shot, five civilians executed, eighteen storm troop officers, thirty one minor leaders and privates, and three more shot as plotters. He also outlines his view of Hindenburg as chief and the Reichswehr as the army of the nation.
Fines of £5 and costs were imposed by Mayor W H Vanoster this morning on Peter Henderson Slim Pomeroy and Joseph Kaylor for intoxication. All three were arrested by police yesterday and committed to jail upon failure to pay the fine.
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