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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1950
Page
7
Mrs. Minda LaDow, 119 Kaiser Court, observed her ninety eighth birthday last August and says extreme old age robs sight and hearing yet grants time to ponder the things that matter. She notes aging frees thought on priorities while remaining mentally sharp despite physical decline.
Mrs LaDow, born August 28 1851 in Brighton, reflects philosophically on the life hereafter comparing it to a child’s birth and a period of preparation. She seeks a Heaven of loving sharing, not gold streets, and reads little now due to sight loss while continuing to craft via tatting crochet and verses dictated to daughter Maude Wells.
The record recounts Mrs. LaDow aging about 19 at a teachers institute in Elyria where residents housed the staff. She later married Robert LaDow, moved through Brighton and Fostoria, raised two children Maude and a son who died early, and cared for her mother as blindness and hearing loss progressed.
Police report shows February 1949 in Elyria had one fatal auto pedestrian accident and nine injury crashes. There were 80 property damage autos, up eight from last February, and no fatalities in auto crashes this year or last. One auto pedestrian crash caused personal injury, same as 1949. juvenile pedestrian crashes causing injuries totaled three.
In Preston Georgia a man named Charlie Christian had a bullet removed from his foot that had been there for 49 years. A surgeon performed the operation and Christian smiled at the relief, expressing regret only about activities he can no longer enjoy due to the old injury.
Police recovered the body of William D. Stewart, 31, from Barren River after his auto went over a 50-foot cliff and settled, with Stewart pinned inside. A second body may have fallen from the wreckage as divers continued the search. Patrolman Odie Stinson said Stewart had been in the water three or four days. Elbert Cowles reported trees torn down near the river scene.
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