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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1926
Page
9
The Daughters of Scotland met at Wurst Hall for regular business. Bake sale reports were shared, one new member joined, and refreshments were served after the meeting.
The LaPorte Ladies Aid Society hosted the South Amherst Churches Congregational and Methodist ladies at LaPorte church Thursday afternoon. Devotionals led by Mrs C F L Pitkin, welcome by Miss May Robeon, and a program directed by Mrs Arthur Diram featured piano by Mrs Josie Counts and Miss Mildred Alexander, readings by Eleanor Hobson Phylis Rhodes and Doris Jackson, songs by Lena Jam and Mrs Mary Miller, with 25 guests later joining in refreshments. A separate note records a Vermilion-on-the-Lake YWCA Cum-A-Lot Club picnic with 35 members and guests, buffet supper at seven, then dancing, bridge, and swimming, chaperoned by Mr and Mrs Cratsen of Third Street.
Elyrians Effie Sharp Eleanor and Helen Parsch and Lottie Mathison of Elyria join a group of twenty two travelers sailing from Hoboken on the S. S Walendam. They will tour Europe including London Oxford Brussels Switzerland Italy Venice Florence Nice Paris and stay in Boulogne New York August thirteenth. Chaperone Alla Bowler of Boston leads the party.
Friends gathered at Furnace Street to celebrate Handbeys birthday anniversary with gifts and social chat. Dorcas Society met at Mrs Wicker’s Beverly Court home for an afternoon of sociability and fancy work followed by refreshments. St Johns Lutheran Ladies Aid met in Third Street School Auditorium for a semimonthly quilting session and refreshments, with next meeting planned at the homes of Mrs Gutzman and Mrs Frank Spehr.
Mrs. Snyder hosted the Lucky Links Club at Grace Court yesterday afternoon. Five hundred was played with scores led by Mrs. Snyder first, Mrs. Hamilton second, Mrs. George Innes third, and Mrs. Paul Hubbell consolation. Next meeting will be a Vermilion on the Lake party next Thursday. Hospital notices list multiple discharges and admissions across local streets and addresses.
Circle No 4 of the Methodist Episcopal church was entertained yesterday at Mrs Ada Helmbachs home on Fourth street. About thirty members and six children attended with Reverend Edwin Kirby and his sister as guests. The business session planned the district ministerial conference in Elyria starting September 21. A social hour followed and the circle adjourned to meet again September 9.
The item lists numerous social movements and gatherings including Mrs J Kirkbride and daughter Frances traveling by steamship Sea Bee to Chicago for the Eucharistic Congress, Emil Johnson hosting visitors, and several locals like Leland Law, Harris, Wall, Aust, and Park hosting or attending events. Also notes the death of Mrs N Lehmann in Cincinnati and various dances and visits to Vermilion-on-the-Lake and Vermilan.
Wainwright the Florist at East Market advertises Cosmos and Ca lendula in Friday and Saturday sale at 10 cents per dozen.
Green and White colors featured as Western Reserve University held commencement exercises yesterday. Harry was among graduates. Homer Langton and James Barns family news note attendances and travel. Charity Hospital patient Helen Crowe resumes home, while local families return from Columbus commencements and Vermilion event dances.
The narrative recalls a sentinel’s call Halt Who Goes There at a late war post and a cook applicant judged by Durins wife as untidy. A magistrate questions Mary Moselle over repeated theft convictions while a note on German wireless telephone use hints at rapid communication for travelers on thirty six express trains.
The report lists Ralph and Warner Stowell visiting Island Lake Camp at Curtins Michigan for the summer under Ceath H Pl Armitage, with others like Mr and Mrs S Heatherington of Louisville, and A M Boyer planning trips to Birmingham and Florence Georgia. A Cleveland Heights school group and local families plan summer and weekend visits, including a Lansing parade and a Cascade Park LCBA event on June 27 from two to six.
Voluntary firemen are urged to attend a meeting scheduled for Friday night June 18. Signatory H L A Beaver requests full participation.
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