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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
9
Frances Tregg Montgomery narrates Billy Jr leaving a reception and wandering hungry. A gang of boys season the scene with a St Bernard and a goat being teased. Billy uses stilts to escape, then leaps a fence as the dog breaks loose. The scene ends with a chase toward a race to be told in the next story.
Delegates of the Americana Guild of Organists at Oberlin elected Victor Baier of the Trinit y Church New York City as warden for 1821 and opened the third national convention with remarks by Dr Henry Churchill King president of Oberlin College. Prof Edward Dickinson Obest spoke on The Organist and Choirmaster in Religious Service. Ernest M Skinner of the Organ Builders Association discussed the Finney Chapel organ and recitals followed.
Delegates totaling about 100 gather at Oberlin College for a two day organ conference with talks on organ literature, examinations, improvisation, and recitals. Rev Nicholas Van der Pat led devotional services while concerts featured prominent organists from Carnegie Institute and Trinity Cathedral among others.
Orvill Jones died Saturday morning at Oberlin hospital after a life that began in Columbia City Indiana. He served as a sergeant in the army where he contracted tuberculosis and received a honorable discharge last November. He and Mrs. Jones moved from Ashtabula to the area. The Carl Wilson Locke post of the American Legion led brief services Sunday before his body was shipped to Fort Wayne for a military funeral Monday. Jones was employed by Federal Bakery Company and was held in high esteem by friends and neighbors. He leaves his widow and other family.
New York reports scientists will assist a housewife in brewing a perfect cup of coffee. Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Dr Samuel Prescott will lead a research project to study coffee properties and extraction methods.
The committee announces plans for funding a brewing investigation as experts clash on the best method. They blame kit ignorance for many poor cups while stopping the ongoing inquiry is suggested as a wartime loss metaphor. A dog and a girl remark on timing as Chronicle-Telegram column hints.
Raymond Jones dies Saturday in Oberlin with brief notice of the death appearing in local records. Funeral details are not provided in the fragment.
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