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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1937
Page
20
Directory lists multiple area churches with pastors and service times. North Ridgeville, Henrietta M E, LaPorte, Columbia Methodist, Penfield Junction Baptist and Birmingham M E are shown with details like Sunday School schedules, morning services, Epworth Leagues, and choir or musical notes.
Wellington residents filled the park and public square for the seventh weekly concert by the Wellington band directed by Clyde Soldel with Wilma Brewer and Sara Baxter featured. Elsewhere paving on Herrick avenue East finished at a cost of 1500 dollars. Grange night planned for September. weed-cutting ordinance enforced with fines up to 265 dollars. Kiwanis talk by Corwin H. Swan. Wellington Day at Great Lakes Exposition set for August 4. Kiwanis district meet in Toledo later. firemen reception planned. local news notes: ton sils removed, grandchild visiting, and a Wellington Foundry picnic at Brookside Park with games and prizes.
Dreamed comments on the sun day school lesson describe God guiding the Children of Israel from Egypt by a pillar of cloud and fire. The text notes Pharoah in pursuit, the sea and mountain barrier, and Moses carrying Joseph’s bones as Israel travels in faith toward a wilderness march to mold them into a unified, obedient people.
Lola Larkin, a popular English star for Broadway revue, faces a marriage clash with Winfield Balcom as his senator father disapproves. Meanwhile Norman Standish, newly married in Australia, returns with his wife Cora Deering and secretly encounters Lola, sparking a triangle that Martha Carter must untangle.
Notes from a Sunday school lesson discuss faith and prayer, God guiding today, and the Israelites staying firm amid fear. It cites Pharaoh’s pursuit, Moses leadership, and the need for surrender to divine will. Includes a book review of Mead and Merrill on denominations and a Haiti 1937 coffee crop forecast of 68,000,000 pounds.
Funeral services for Mrs Sophia Branson were held Sunday at 2:00 PM at the W J Krebs home. She leaves six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Rev Karl Darkey led the service. pallbearers were Carl Myers Maurice Zimmerman Glen Richmond Chris Sorenson Jack Greetham and Branson Nichols. Interment followed at Rochester Center cemetery with relatives from Cleveland Akron Lorain Lodi Mansfield River Corners Spencer and Wellington in attendance.
The boys 4-H club met at the hall Monday evening with leader Howard Andrews. Members spent the time working on their books. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday evening August 9.
Mrs Edith Brinker and Mr and Mrs R R Hartman plus the Misses Lucita and Clara Allis of Chatham were Monday visitors. Mr and Mrs Milo Grineaul of Chatham were evening callers of Mr and Mrs Earl Stont. Mrs Ralph Bowman and George Bowman were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs George Easterbrook in Cleveland. Mr and Mrs Earl Stentz and sons visited Mrs Edith Brinker Tuesday evening.
Mrs Earl Stentz entertained at dinner honoring the birthday anniversary of Mrs Archie Packard of Chatham. Guests included Mrs Earnest Clapp and Mrs Edith Brinker of Chatham. Other local notes mention visits and meetings across Amherst South and Middle Ridge as families attended local events and reunions. A note from Worcester, Massachusetts reports a diamond ring lost 20 years ago by Mrs Annette Perkins found while picking raspberries. In Toledo, the University of Toledo offers a course in juvenile delinquency for the summer session as golf enthusiasm grows in England.
South Ridge Miss Margaret Mason who represented the Sunday School at the Linwood Park convention will give a report after Sunday School on Sunday morning August 1. Mr and Mrs George Rouitie entertained Sunday evening guests. Mr and Mrs Henry Ficht and family of Cleveland along with Mrs Elizabeth Madill of Lorain and Mr and Mrs Martin Sprin were noted guests.
Kansas farmers are enjoying the biggest cash income since 1929 from a wheat crop just harvested. Secretary J C Mohler estimates the crop at 150000000 bushels with an average farmer price near 1 dollar per bushel. He notes widespread business benefits and rapid telephone traffic in wheat towns.
Rev. Thomas Hughes will preach on The Present Day Spiritual Temper at the Methodist church next Sunday morning. Mis sion Day will feature special Sunday school numbers. Columbia baseball hosts St Adelbert's of Berea Sunday at 2 30 p m. Acme Grange meets August 8 at the town hall. Activities include visits, teas, showers, 4 H club meetings, and local social plans.
Over thirty residents attended a Mallett Creek Grange campfire at the Chamberlain farm in Medina as 4-H members staged a Ella parody and Paul Wainwright led a male quartet in songs. Mr. and Mrs. Max Hitchcock hosted dinner with relatives from Ridgeville Toledo Amherst and Cleveland. Mrs Mayme Geiger visited Mrs Charles Mills. Edwin Bud Kitner spent a week with his mother in Pittsburgh.
New Oberlin and nearby residents are listed visiting friends and relatives across Oberlin Bellevue Medina Vermilion Grafton and Avon. Schmitz family illness in Avon prompts travel while Jean Klippo and Miss Dorothy Carlin visit kin. London reports ship breakers and scrap metal traders forming an international ring amid rising demand from war scare and rearmament programs.
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