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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1937
Page
4
Children at Gates hospital for crippled youngsters are entertained this afternoon by the Beechnut circus. The complete show features clowns elephants and other acts. The circuit will be open to the public this afternoon in the business district.
In Fostoria Ohio on June 17 the Foundry Workers Union appealed to the National Labor Relations Board to uphold the results of a poll of Electric Auto-Lite Co Foundry employees over a jurisdictional dispute. Charles Thomas president of the union said a strike had been called by the CIO committee amid reports of pickets at closed plants for three days.
Three song hits and dazzling dance numbers headline the new musical comedy Turn Of the Moon now showing at the Capitol Theatre. The production features a lively chorus and bright routines sure to entertain patrons tonight and through the weekend.
William Gargan, popular motion picture actor, features in the next film shown at the Rivoli theater. The program promises breezy entertainment and local audience appeal as Gargan leads the cast in a light, upbeat drama.
A breezy new drama titled Breezing Home opens tomorrow at Rivoll Theatre. The production promises a lively preview of small-town life with a focus on family ties and resilience.
In Shreveport Louisiana a mobile dental clinic travels to Caddo parish public schools with a full time dentist funded by local public health agencies and a WPA nurse. The $4800 trailer includes a chair and sterilizing unit and serves students on site. Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt was impressed during her visit.
In St. Albans Vermont Paul Favreau, 23, uncovered a hollowed old family album beneath a stone. The center was removed to form a box filled with cotton and 142 glass stones later deemed glass by a jeweler. A second item notes Mrs. Margaret Bock, 31, recently completed elementary schooling to keep pace with her 11-year-old son, after having a "jumbled education" in Switzerland before age 17.
Radio guide lists shows across WTAMN WHK AM frequencies including Vladimir Brentier Organiste Koen Orch and Phyllis Ormsby News. Baseball Rec. F. Lewis Hall Orch. 200-Sperta Review Poetic Melodies and Dinner Dance. 7 PM show Boat, Rings and Major Bowes. Sports Parade News Manny Landers and more music variety across stations with multiple bands and entertainers.
A collection of brief vignettes including a hungry tramp mocked by a kind old lady who offers back lawn grass, a long word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a professor with a gutter limp, gun safety fatality stats, sound speed quirks with jokes, a car crash and a witty courtroom anecdote, and a child’s quip about an Angora cat following dental removal.
A clipped archival line notes a quaint sound and mentions the principal stationer's shop in a rural town, hinting at a scene of daily trade and local life. The fragmentary text centers on a town’s stationery shop and a pedestrian moment, with no clear event or outcome.
News from correspondents lists local meetings at Park Hall Litchfield chapter rooms and various churches and halls. Avon Lake Towns schedule Girl Scouts and Mothersingers gatherings while Columbia hosts 4-H Sewing and Rural Church League games. Sunday plans include Children’s Day services and a White reunion in Penfield.
Sheffield Buckeye Sewers 4 H club held a June meeting at Secretary Katherine Hammer of Abbey toad's home. The gathering featured a backward party with attendees wearing mixed outfits including a high heel on one foot and a long stocking on the other. Ali arrived via the back door and greeted everyone.
The meeting approved the new constitution after minor changes and appointed Lyle Yuulzy and Rose Marie Haglund to arrange tours of the American Lace Factory and Fay Stocking Factory in Elyria. Katherine Hammer and Betty Moon will represent the club in the County Demonstration Contest in Elyria in late July. Nine members and four guests attended.
Pittsfield observes Children’s Day at the Methodist church under direction of Misses Katherine and Margeret Lulxart. The program begins Sunday night June 20 at o’clock with a baptismal service by Rev. A Taylor. Rally day is in the morning at 11 o’clock with Sunday school. Miss Mabel Brown will present material for the primary class. Teachers Adma Sheffield and Mrs. Harold Brandt have messages for their classes. Rev. Taylor will deliver a Children’s Day sermon at 10 o’clock.
A mother daughter banquet will be held at the North Ridgeville Congregational church at 6 o'clock tomorrow. A program of singing and instrumental music and a feature by Mrs Eliis Irons will follow supper. The event is open to non members and interested mothers and daughters are welcome.
Miss Stella Buczek youngest daughter of Mrs. Sophia Arobey wed August Kirag of Camden in a Saturday ceremony at 10 30. Rev C C Clannon of Camden Baptiste Church officiated. The bridal party included Helen Bober of Lorain and Betty Shaver as bridesmaids. John Buczek served as the groom's attendant.
The Community Church of Pittsfield announces Family Day merging Children’s Day and Father’s Day. At 10:30 a.m. children lead Sunday School readings, 11:46 a.m. youths and fathers lead the service with choir and quartet music, followed by a potluck lunch outdoors, weather permitting. Evening joint program with the Methodist church invites all local families.
In Wakeman the annual Wakeman High School Alumni Banquet convened at the Congregational Church dining rooms drawing about 150 attendees. Dinnner served at 6 30 p m. Rev F E Eastman gave the Invocation. Speakers included Kenneth Buckley and R W Stratton of Norwalk. Gerald Ross presented a trophy built in a book case to the School. Officers elected for the coming year were President William Parsons Vice President Bertie Bella Barnes and Secretary Treasurer Louis Murray.
The wedding featured Harry Reshtal of Greenwich as usher. A reception followed for relatives and friends with dancing by Charner and Mazur's orchestra from Lorain. The couple left for Niagara Falls and other attractions and will reside in Lorain after their return.
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