Endurance Driver to Attempt 100 Hour Nonstop Drive
Dare Devil Mathews Jr. will attempt a 100 hour nonstop drive without rest or solid food in a Chevrolet from Lorain jail to Glen Rogers Motors in Elyria. The event, starting 4 p.m Tuesday, aims to set a new endurance record, with his father Dare Devil Sr. among the few remaining old guards of the field. The test will use multiple sponsors and a strict diet of bread and milk, plus coffee, and will be timed by a Bulova watch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave-Devil Mathews, Jr
Dare Devil
Dare Devil Sr
Gles Rogers Motors, Inc
East Bridge Street
Lorain County
Middle Avenue
Clarence W. Dick
Mathews
Glen Rogers Motors
Hartington
West Va
Billy Jones
Canton
Young Mathews
Youngstown
Jones
Will
Oberlin Road
Hess and Hess
Hast Broad Street
Central Bakery
Bluebird
Bulava
Vic Silver
Fast Avenue
Sederis
Broad Street
Walton Ice Company
Goodrich Silvertown
Farm Implement Company
Billinghurst Hotel
Hotel Newell
Sears Roebuck Company
Bell Company
Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home
Wellington Village Hears Gas Rate Hopefuls and Oiling Gaps
Wellington July 25 village council votes 4 to 1 to table an ordinance raising gas rates after three years, citing Ohio Gas Co plans to set high rates. Residents on North Baker Street and East Wamston Street report insufficient street oiling. Mayor Lehman hears complaints. paving and sewer projects discussed as heavy truck damage worsens conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Franklin Mr. Jones
Clair Hill
Robert L. Walden
W. L MacDonald
Ohio Gas Co
Golans
Herrick Avenua East
Lehman
Columbus
Tom Lanadon
DeWolf
Local Notes and Church Notices From Wellington Area
Community items include WPA project update with 309 feet of Mall street sewer completed and a picnic trip organized by the Baptist Young People's Union to the Keyser home near Homerville. Franklin county events cover church services, 4-H club meetings, and local club entertainments with travel and health notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Mall Street
Pp. U
Baptist Young People’s Union
Lester Keyser
Homerville
Ethel Claesmith
Bea
Keyser
Warren Church
Sunnysiders
Hustlers
Elyria Kiwanis Club
Warren
Loramco
Methodist Church
Lonzon Green
Charles Barnes
Marning
Toan Minster
Michigam Congregational Church
Charles W. Recard
J. D. MacDermott
God
Church of Christ
James A. Brady
Oberlin
Baptist Church
John H
Pleasantville social notes hint at a busy Sunday
Pleasantville residents hosted and visited many relatives and friends across nearby towns. Guests coming and going included Herbert Phillips, Orvie Cowie, Katherine Jones of Cleveland, the Opfer family, the Behners, the Jones family, the Mohlers, the Freeses, and others from Elyria Medina Wellington Oberlin and LaGrange. The piece closes with a line about the Lost Cause and international friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasantville
Herbert Phillips
Orvie Cowie
Katherine Jones
Cleveland
Charles Opfer, Jr
LaGrange
Frank Jones
Willard Freese
J. C. Spieth
Medina
Wesley Tran
Mabelle
Mary Behner
Carrie Behner
Erwin Howard
Leland Howard
Rollin Mohler
Walter Cox
Wellington
Bert Hammond
Jim Gottro
Samuel Baldwin
Elyria
Bud Letsom
Frank Seckett
Penfield Social Round and Local Drowning Tragedy
Penfield hosts dinner guests including Mr and Mrs Howard Andrews and extended family from Berea and Toledo plus visitors from Wellington and Michgan. In Akron a nine year old boy, Mattuee Mattucci, drowned in the YMCA pool leaving ten siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. L. Luedemann
Floyd
Smithville
Mary McCoy
Ruth
Akron
Charles Shepard
Howard Andrews
Eavinlbg
Wiredl Waite
Berea
Mattuee
Ree Carla Mattucci
Youth Recovers After Train Fall Near Rome Ohio
In Columbus Ohio, 15 year old Thomas Horan of Provideses fell from a Penney freight train near Rome. He remained in a hospital here as Delbert T. Wilkins donated more than a pint of blood in a transfusion yesterday to aid his recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Thomas Horan
Rome
Patrodsman Delbert T. Wilkins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rue Hust
Kenneth Groxa
Fremont Sanitorium
Mary Pitts
Carpenter
Hamilton Street
Pessbew
Uli
Cora M. Shepard
Barker Bt
Ervice Casl— Dickson
Tony Marley
James Gates
John H. Green
First Baptist Church
Church of Christ, Baptist
Wellington Townsend Club
Grange Hall
Paul Oliford
Frank West
Sunnysiders—Hustlers
Mrs. C
Church
Kiwaniass
Robert Herrick
Taylor Street
Floyd Irish
John T. Duff
Pennsylvania
Washington
Pierre R. Smith
Elyria Savings Bank Bldg
Thieving Motors
Keyes
West Ave
Auto Service
Suette
Grunow
Broad Street Ideas
Masonic Temple
Middle Ave
Nelly Graf
Chronicle-Telegram
Penfield
Ralph Taylor
Michigan
Virgil Waite
Dorothy Metzer
Toledo
Mary Jane Brouse
Leora Yoxtheimer
Phyllis
Bobby Yoxtheimer
P. E. Davison
J. Thompson
Lodi Hospital
H. R. Rorick
Northern Savings & Loan Co
Federal Home Loan
Wasonic Temple
Elyria Dairies
Lilllz
Elyria Dairies Inc
Lake Avenue
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