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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1931
Page
13
A February report shows 77 176 eggs laid by 7 116 hens across Lorain County, averaging 10.84 eggs per bird. Top producers include Felix Anderson with 3161 eggs, 3 161 per bird, across 150 White Leghorns, and several flocks exceeding standard averages.
A Tuesday start outlines a vegetable gardening program in Lorain County with Ohio State University advisors returning to confer with county agents. Plans focus on improving community gardening, testing tomato samples from farms, and involving local gardeners. efforts include public cards and coordination with Marion university personnel.
Wilford's Hatchery in Lorain county earned accreditation from the Ohio Poultry Improvement Association. Harvey M and Walter E Wilford, formerly of Hallworthy Hatchery, manage the modern plant with 60 000 egg incubators and 7 000 breeding capacity. The operation includes a 1 000 layer poultry farm breeding Leghorns and 42 flocks under OAIP supervision.
Lorain county farm women in the home beautification project will gather Monday afternoon March 30 at the YMCA. County agent Miss Bird announced the program focuses on flowers shrubs and home beauty. OSU floriculture specialist Prof Irwin Klein will lead May 12 sessions with Victor Ries also visiting for rock garden discussions. enrollments have risen to 243 new participants.
Rural Thespians from Lorain County will meet in the directors room of the Elyria Savings and Trust Company Thursday. Ohio State University specialist R B Tom will help plan an exchange of plays among six local groups including Oberlin Grange Penfield Grange Eaton Grange Eaton PTA Carlisle Grange and Columbia Grange. After the conference Tom and Horton Alger will visit Columbia Hall to discuss stage arrangements and he will address Grange masters and lecturers in the evening.
Taxation will be the main topic at the Camden Farm Bureau meeting next Tuesday night at the Kipton school. The subject is under discussion by many township farm bureau organizations across the county.
A series of farm and community meetings are listed across Lorain County towns from March 20 to March 27. Activities include first aid gatherings at private homes in Avon and Telegraph Road, Camden Township Farm Bureau at Kipton school, and a Rural Dramatic meeting in Elyria. Grange sessions are noted in Ridgeville Eaton Hickory Tree Ripton and Oberlin with demonstrations for sheep growers by Ohio State University specialist Larrie Kauffman, plus farm visits to Nash in Russia Township and Walter Day in Brighton Township.
County agricultural extension agents from Lorain and other north eastern Ohio counties will convene in Cleveland over Thursday through Saturday to plan Four H club work. Miss Alice Bird, Lorain county agent for girls Four H, will represent the county. Discussions cover clothing club on Thursday, food clubs on Friday, and home furnishing clubs on Saturday, with Lorain to conduct these clubs this summer. A Lorain county series of meetings will follow, starting April 4 at Ridgeville led by advisor Mrs. Frank Mason.
More than 700 county women are enrolled or have completed the county agricultural extension service first aid project. The final group will begin next Tuesday at a Camden Farm Women's Club meeting announced by Miss More. Each group holds two meetings. several have not yet held their second, while Camden has not yet held its first.
Horton B. Alger reports February totals for 28 flocks in Lorain County Poultry Accounts Project. 46 667 eggs were laid with an average of 11.77 per bird, below the February standard of 13 but above last month. Elmer French led with 16.62 eggs per bird. Kellogg 15.1. Brewley and Son 16.09. Thierre 15.02 eggs.
In Birmingham County, the W C T U meeting scheduled for Sunday was postponed due to illness and bad weather. The next meeting is set for Wednesday afternoon March 25, 1931, at the Birmingham M. J. Church parlors. Briefs note Mr. and Mrs. C W Lawrence.
Local names from Vermilion Lorain and nearby towns appear in a crowded weekend notes column. People visited, hosted guests, and attended events, with several residents traveling to Norwalk, Sandusky, and La Grange for games and gatherings. A former resident, Mrs. Herman Hebern, died in Norwalk after years away. The Birmingham firemen won the class B Sandusky tournament title after a string of wins.
North Olmsted C March 19 The Boys and Girls Glee Clubs of North Olmsted High school are preparing an operetta Once In A Blue Moon which will be staged at the high school auditorium in the near future. Birthday surprise party Eleanor Kinkelaar celebrated birthday with eight friends at her home on Friday March 13 with a six o clock dinner and many gifts.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Elkins of Lorain road marked their thirty second wedding anniversary with a dinner organized by daughters Mrs Earl Playford and Mrs Laman Quick. The event featured sixteen guests and a center bouquet of sweet peas.
Miss Caroline Spiegelberg of Cleveland spent the weekend with her brother Lewis Spiegelberg and family. Mrs. E C Schubert and son Oliver are at home ill. Mrs. William Hess visited her brother William Battenhouse in Zanesville who is 11. Mrs Anna Burham and son Elsworth and Miss Betty Felty of Cleveland Heights with Mr and Mrs Charles Eidam and daughter Kathleen Miss Falls and Mrs Kathryn Schubert visited Mr and Mrs J H Delefield. Sunday afternoon Miss Irma Spiegelberg was guest of cousin Miss Miriam Fowl.
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