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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1940
Page
3
Column sketches by Charles Driscoll recount Manhattan scenes from dining designs and Fifth Avenue buses to Will Rogers memories and Neil Vanderbilt’s wartime resilience. The piece blends city lore, celebrity ties, dog talk, and wartime nostalgia with observations on parks, clubs, trains, and evolving transport.
The Home Economics Group of Lake Avenue met at Lake Avenue School on Monday afternoon for a final gathering with fair attendance. Miss Frances Eckert demonstrated Clothing Accessories and spoke on the topic. Mrs Leslie Gould and Mrs Rose Cromling served as councilors in charge. The Elyria Township Mothersingers met at Mrs Winfield Scotts home Monday evening with eight members present and a general practice followed by refreshments. The next meeting will be at Mrs Maynard Huene’s home on Monday.
The North Elyria Grange group gathered at Mr and Mrs Henry Hishek’s home on Tuesday for a social evening with no business agenda. Guests included members and their husbands, with an oyster supper served. The next meeting will be March 19 at 1100 AM at Mrs Edith Muller’s home for an all day session and tureen dinner.
In South Amherst on March 8 the St Johns Evangelical Church hosted a Womans Guild birthday dinner for sixty guests with a two course meal and green and white decor. A program featured Wel come, poetry, a Europe on Four Wheels talk, and gifts to attendees. church services and notices from local denominations followed, including firemen meeting news and a Methodist Sunday service speaker from Oberlin.
Boston will install an equestrian statue of Paul Revere after Cyrus Dallin won a $27,500 bronze contract backed by Mayor Tobin and the George Robert White Fund. The piece, once rejected as impractical, is praised by the sculptor for a new horse to rider proportion theory and honors the Midnight Ride legend near the Old North Church.
Avon Lake gathers for a Book Review by Mrs Harry Giles on March 12 at 2 PM at the Congregational Church to discuss Country Lawyer by Bellamy Part ridge. Other items list Sunday School, church services, council meeting, Women’s League activities, a card party, PTA, and local visits.
Mrs Marie Miller of Wellington was a Tuesday afternoon dinner guest of Mr and Mrs T G Wusan, according to a short society item.
Avon M E Church led by Pastor L E Adams held Morning Worship at 1040 AM with sermon Pilate and the King. Epworth League met 630 PM. Virgil Geren pastor of Bible School 945 AM. Morning Worship 11 AM sermon The Joy of Christian Giving. Evening Service at 8 o clock The Four Sore Judgments. Tea at Miss Waldred Miksanek home for birthday. eight guests attended then theatre in Elyria. Mr and Mrs R A Mittlestead returned from Texas trip. Ladies Aid of Baptist Church entertained Mrs Will Barr with fourty attending. progressive supper planned for Friday March 15.
The Reformed church Ladies Aid will meet at Mrs. Jacob Swanger’s Birmingham home on Thursday March 14 with hostesses Mrs. Theodore Bucher and Mrs. Charles Latteman. The PTA meeting at the school building on March 14 features a pupil program directed by Mrs. Gannett. Nearby family visits include Cleveland’s Wallace Wood and son Jimmy at Mrs. Lola Court’s home, and other locals visiting relatives in Lakewood Berlin Heights and Berea.
Funeral services were held Sunday for Lewis Webber who died Wednesday at his home one mile south of Birmingham. Relatives and friends attended from Wellington Elyria Lorain Wakeman Schumm and Marion Indiana Rev F W Loose Lutheran pastor of Lorain officiated Burial was in Birmingham cemetery. Edward Bentz returned home after a week at the Marine Hospital Cleveland for treatment. Mrs B Schoepfle and daughter Alice of Parma visited Mrs Marion Bates. Mr and Mrs Charles Griffen and son Donald hosted relatives in Strongsville. Glen Berkmeyer on sick list. Mrs D H Ferguson of Willard visited Marion Bates. Mr and Mrs Carl Spaulding spent time with L A Hite of Lakewood and later with Ralph Baetz and son of Lakewood. The public is invited to attend. Alumni meeting South Amherst Alumni Association will meet at the school Monday evening for a business session.
Local residents and relatives share a Sunday network across Oberlin Elyria and nearby towns. Guests include Mrs Mary Becker Mrs Dorothy Snyder and Naomi Snyder at various homes. Albert Schneider Berea and Marian Hall from Lakeside Hospital are noted visitors.
Eaton notes announce the annual Father Son banquet set for Friday evening March 15 at the church chaired by N J Hoskin. Church Council to hold Easter week meetings and plans new arrangements, including alternating Father Son and Mother Daughter banquets this year. Mrs Russell Carpenter hosts Ladies Aid at her Columbia home on Thursday March 1 for dinner. Ernest Smith and sons Richard and George are ill with influenza. Mr and Mrs A B Martin have —
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