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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1945
Page
2
Elyria Fire Department reports 16 car fires in seven months highlighting fire risks in private automobiles. Chief Bates urges carrying extinguishers and lists five safety steps for roadside fires, including turning off ignition and fighting from outside the car.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered radio show and artist names such as WTAM 1100 8.00 and Evening Prelude 45 plus performers Nina Rubinoff Gordon Jenkins Ken Dembey Murray Young Chuck Foster and Chet Rats. Content is disjointed with no coherent event or narrative.
Mrs Betty Louise Marke Shepard of Wellington learns from Captain Kirsch that her husband Earle Sidney Shepard is buried in American Military Cemetery at Foses Belgium. He rests in Plot E Row 2 Grave 40 with memorial tokens from the Bird Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. Also noted are family obituaries and local society items including a Mt Healthy death and a new birth in Akron.
Cousin Cpl. Harold Bonewit now in the European Theater is the son of Mrs. Shepard. Sgt. Floyd Luedemann, wounded in Germany, has received a medical discharge at Camp Atterbury Indiana and is Mrs. Charles Shep ard’s nephew who visits the Shepard home. From Wellington, 4‑H Club members and two Huntington youths head to Camp Crag Medina County July 25 29 with Mrs. Charles S Church and other leaders. Briefs mention Captain Orving Olsen Dayton visiting family in Barker Street and local gatherings in Lakewood Cleveland and Jackson Michigan. Cuba starts new schools and irrigation, Traq operates two oxygen plants and a carbondioxide facility, London restores statues.
Tonight in North Ridgeville the Grange meets at 8 90 p m in the Grange hall with World Series game pictures shown and business to follow Public is invited In Eaton a volunteer firemen meeting is set for 8 p m in the town hall Avon church night at 7 15 p m La Grange Old Glory Grange meets at 8 p m W S C S groups meet on Case road and at Mrs Fishburn s home In North Ridgeville no Red Cross meetings until September L B S meets with Mrs Joe Lyons at 1 30 p m in Case road others include Ladies Aid groups in Eaton Spencer and LaGrange plus Group 2 at Mrs La Verne Ward and Group No 4 at noon with Mrs Hugh Reisinger
A slate of candidates for South Amherst village offices was added to the petitions filed with the board of elections for the November election. The slate lists Frank Powers for mayor Harold Allsop clerk incumbent Allen Thompson transfer incumbent and council members Steve Vilago Harmon Mathes John Megeysi Lewis Haywood Alfred Flowers and Martha Kilmer F R Cautle Elyria. A candidate for trustee of Elyria township filed with no petition yesterday. Three Amherst Village Board of Education members Eurl E Cotton Fred Hogie and Edward Menz filed petitions for reelection. Resolutions request submission of school levies to voters in November. Brighton School District seeks renewal of a three mill levy for three years for current expenses Russia School District seeks renewal of a one mill levy for five years for current expenses Amherst Village School District seeks renewal of a three mill levy for five years for current operation and asks approval of a two tenths mill levy for recreation. Avon village council meets at the town hall at 8 pm.
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