Hilliard Boulevard fate delayed by county board
Lorain County commissioners postponed final decision on the proposed 100 foot Hilliard Boulevard from Elyria to the Cuyahoga county line until Tuesday April 20 to secure adequate legislation from Elyria and Avon Village and to obtain legal guidance. At the first hearing 19 praised the project and one opposed it while Elyria and Avon Village have agreed to dedicate the right of way. Mayor James A Hewitt opened the session urging either a new road or widening Center Ridge road as the latter would cost more. right of way signed by 90 percent of owners in seven and a half miles. County officials planned to clarify legal steps with Prosecutor Don Myers since the road traverses two municipalities.
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Board of County Commissioners
Elyria
Cuyahoga County
Avon Village
Ccommissioners Office
James A. Hewitt
Lorain County Hilliard Road Committee
Hewitt
Center Ridge
Don Myers
Wainwright the Wing ing Florist of Elyria
Paul Wainwright, Elyria’s singing florist, rose to foreman in Cleveland after leading the Hecock Floral Company’s cut flower store in Lorain. He began in Elyria at 20, then returned in 1920 to run his own business. Married with two sons, he lives at 128 Courtland Street. music fuels his famed title.
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Paul Wainwright
Elyria
Lorain
Hecock Floral Company
Cleveland
Wainwright
Hecock Company
Courtland Street
Winging Florist
Two Men Fined For Petit Larceny In Elyria
Two Berea foundry workers Tremen Lee Nontell age 21 of West View and Harold Smith of Elyria pleaded guilty to petit larceny in a Elyria police court before Mayor James A. Hewitt. They admitted to taking over seventy five dollars worth of men’s haberdashery and clothes using a shoplifting scheme. Nontell was fined thirty five dollars plus costs and Smith twenty five dollars plus costs. Stolen articles were recovered.
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Lee Nontell
West View
Harold Smith
Elyria
James A. Hewitt
Nontell
Smith
Berea
Lorain
Canoe Gift Opens Cascade Park to Elyria Youths
Recalling past days, Cascade Park gains a lagoon canoe courtesy of Peerless Oil to serve Elyria youths after Charles Tucker’s childhood swims stirred park memories. Carl Muller, park board member, notes Tucker’s influence as the project launches with Tucker now engaged by Peerless Oil.
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Elyria 'Y.m. C. A
Cascade Park
Cascade
Elyria
Charles Tucker
Carl Muller
City Park Board
Charles
Tucker
Peerless Oil Company
Muller
Judges Named For C Of C Election In City
Four judges were named by E. J. Fellow secretary of the Chamber of Commerce to oversee the election of a new board of directors. The panel includes C. Li. Sotherden H. A. Baker Artemas Beebe and G. J. Sartor. Ballots must be in by 3 p m Friday and about 250 to 300 members were expected to vote with roughly 220 received by noon. Fifteen directors will be chosen from 30 nominees submitted by members.
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Chamber of Commerce
E. J. Fellow
C. Li. Sotherden
H. A. Baker
Artemas Beebe
G. J. Sartor
Fellow
Chamber
Senate approves Grafton Farm development bill
Columbus March 28 The Senate passed a bill by Senator Maude Waitt to let the state Welfare Department develop the Graf ton state farm as a branch of the Mansfield reformatory. Originated for a feeble minded institution but water supply proved inadequate. The measure goes to the House.
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Columbus
Senate
Maude Waitt
Cleveland
State Department of Welfare
Grafton
Mansfield Reformatory
Elderly man killed by automobile in South Bloomfield
Mack Stewart aged 70 from Pickaway County was struck and killed near South Bloomfield Ohio by a car driven by W D Michaels of Chillicothe. Michaels was exonerated in the investigation.
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Bloomfield
Ohio
Mack Stewart
Pickaway County Infirmary
Here
W. D. Michaels
Chillicothe
Michaels
Austrians Never Took the War Seriously Says Capt Watzel
Capt Ernest Watzel, ex Austrian army flame thrower, tells Elyria Kiwanis the war began as a “pig” war and that only 17 percent of the Austrian army remained loyal. He recalls straw sleeping privates, low officer loyalty, and argues flame throwing was a humane yet effective offensive weapon with modest casualties of 2 6 12 percent.
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Ernest Watzel
Elyria Kiwanis Club
Watzel
America
University of Zurich
Cleveland
Paul R. Guthrie
United States Army
Lamont stresses solid business despite stock slump
Washington March 28 Fortified by sound underlying conditions business in general has nothing to fear from a severe stock market slump Secretary of Commerce Robert P Lamont said. He argued every indicator favors business and a recession in stocks will not derail commercial and industrial prosperity noting 1929 may be as prosperous as 1928. Lamont added big business is not borrowing heavily and that stock market dislocation cannot interfere with progress, citing 95 percent steel output and a 50 percent rise in passenger car production with trucks up 100 percent.
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Washington
Robert P. Lamont
Lamont
Woman Killed In Clyde Blast Shock Hits Foundry
Clyde, Ohio authorities probe a deadly blast at the Clyde casting foundry that killed Mrs. William Snyder, 63, and seriously burned Mrs. Ralph Pegrin, with 49 other workers endangered as they escaped injuries.
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Clyde, C
Clyde Casting
Lves
William Snyder
Ralph Pegrin
Oberlin Road Youth Held In Theft Of Auto
George Ross reported his Ford roadster stolen yesterday noon. A Cleveland traffic officer recovered the car at a filling station and arrested seven teen aged Frank Kristocsik of Oberlin road on auto stealing charges. He will be turned over to juvenile authorities. Kristocsik is on parole from a reformatory.
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Oberlin Road
George Ross
Floral Court
Ross
Cleveland
Frank Kristocsik
BE. J. Stankard
Kristocsik
Governor Huey Long Says He Has Nothing to Say
Baton Rouge March 28. Gov Huey P Long repeated I have nothing to say when asked about a rumor he would resign during impeachment proceedings. He declined to confirm or deny the suggestion and comment that the rumor itself was fine.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Long
Bell Ringer of the Skies Returns to Lancaster
Lancaster residents report the famous bell ringer buzzard returning a month early. The large black bird flies near town with a sheep bell tied around its neck, its origin for the tinkling accessory remains unexplained.
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Lancaster
Pittsfield Tops County School Attendance Fourth Period
Attendance reports show Pittsfield Number Six leading county schools with 99.5 percent, up 13 points from the prior period, while Pittsfield Number Seven falls to 97 percent. Russia Township District Three ranks near top at 99.8 percent, and East Carlisle records the lowest at 86.7 percent.
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Pittsfield Township
Pittsfield
Russia Township
East Carlisle
Avon
Avon Lake
Brighton
Brownheim
Camden
Highland
Vincent
Columbian Township
Eaton Township
Belden
Grafton
Henrietta
Huntington
Penfield
Ridgeville
Fields
Brookside
South Amherst
Middle Ridge
South Ridge
West Ridge
Murray Ridge
Campbell
Gulf Road
Maplewood
Markley
Lake Avenue
Carlisle Center
Rochester
Russia
Lorain City Sued Over Road Repair Bills
Harry and Norman Glover, road contractors, won a verdict of about $1,041 against the City of Lorain in common pleas court. They claimed to have used 196 tons of resurfacing materials for repairing East Erie Avenue in 1927 and said the city withheld $441 of what they admit they owed pending the outcome.
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Lorain
Harry
Norman Glover
City of
Common Pleas
East Erie Avenue
Loraine
Drag Ponds in Search for Missing Boy Edwin Cox
Kent March 28 Police dragged ponds near Kent as Edwin Cox a nine year old third grade pupil at Kent State Training School remained missing past twenty hours after leaving school with Harold Hall a fellow student The Hall boy said Edwin accepted a ride from a sundry truck driver who was later questioned by Acting Chief James L Moors The driver claimed he was in Akron at the time of the disappearance
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Kent
Edwin Cox
James L. Moors
Edwin
Kent State Training School
Harold Hall
Moors
Akron
67 Arrested In Steubenville Raids
Steubenville authorities and county officials arrested 67 persons in last night and today raids on alleged vice resorts. Federal and local sweeps continued with 46 additional warrants served as 12 resorts were raided in the first hour under Sheriff William Yost and Police Chief Ross Cunninghams.
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Steubenville
William Yost
Ross Cunningham
Jesse George
Amanda Strayer
Bluffton College Receives $100,000 Library Gift
Bluffton College president Dr. H. S. Mosiman announced a $100,000 donation from R. Muselman of Biglerville Pa for a library building. plans will be drawn soon and construction to start this spring.
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Bluffton, C
8S. K. Mosiman
Bluffton College
H. Muselman
Biglerville
Mosman
Elyria Boys On Way Home From National YMCA Trip
Thirty Elyria youths returning from the national YMCA trip wired from Annapolis Maryland that they left Washington this morning and are en route home. The itinerary included Baltimore Gettysburg and Waynesboro Pennsylvania with a planned overnight stop in Waynesboro to study Civil War sites and history.
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Washington
Elyria
National Capital
Annapolis
Maryland
Baltimore
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Elyria Group
Waynesboro
Injured Tractor Driver At Local Steel Plant
Theodore Standen age 19 of 27 Samuel Street was injured at the Steel and Tubes Inc plant on Massey Road at 1 30 p m when he stepped from his tractor into a passing truck. He sustained contusions to his left leg and was taken to Memorial Hospital by ambulance before returning home after treatment.
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Theodore Standen
Samuel Street
Steel and Tubes, Inc
Massey Road
Standen
Memorial Hospital
Grass Fires Force Firemen After Alarm Lapse
After thirteen days without an alarm two grass fires broke out in the city. Fire crews battled a Glenwood street blaze and another at the end of Spruce street for about thirty minutes. Both fires were attributed to boys using matches.
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Central Fire Station
Glenwood Street
Spruce Street
Not Absent One Sunday In 23 Years
Mrs Edna Stauffer of Mansfield reports 23 years of uninterrupted Sunday School attendance at St John Evangelical Church Mansfield. She states the record can be verified by the Chronicle Telegram and local church records.
Farm leaders acquiesce on Hoover era relief bill
Congress moves toward a $300 million cooperative marketing measure amid quiet farm groups and Hoover administration signals. Hyde to present general views after vacation. industrial leaders invited to help but decline. House and Senate committees push hearings to finish quickly and pass a Hoover bill.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Senate
House
Arthur MM. Hyde
Senate Committee
Henry Ford
J. P. Morgan
William Higgins
Morgan
Europe
Paul M. Warburg
New York
Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Treasury
Mellon
Charles M. Schwab
McNary
Jensen Still In The Air Trying For New Record
Roosevelt Field reports trans pacific flyer Martin Jensen in Green Flash atop a solo endurance bid. With the craft near empty after 30 hours aloft, he must stay airborne at least six hours and twenty five minutes more to surpass Lieut Royal V. Thomas’s 35 hour 25 minute mark, while Motor Fuel Co offers $1,000 for every hour beyond 24.
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Roosevelt Field
Martin Jensen
Transet Pacific Flier
Royal V. Thomas
Jensen
Motor Fuel Company
Six Cars Derail Near North Charleston No One Hurt
Six Boston and Maine passenger cars derailed today near North Charleston, New Hampshire as a local train from Bellows Falls to Springfield left the rails. About 65 passengers were shaken but none injured. one sleeper car plunged down a bank near the derailment site. The incident caused minor disruption with no serious casualties.
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Bellows Falls
Boston and Maine
North Charleston
N. H
Montral
Springfield
Mass
Stimson To Take Par Uate Today
Secretary of State Frank Kellogg will relinquish his post to Henry L. Stimson today with Chief Justice Taft administering the oath at 4 p m Stimson begins duties when the department reopens Kellogg sails from New York for a European vacation before resuming law practice in St Paul
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Washington
Frank B. Kellogg
Henry L. Stimson
State Department
Taft
Stimson
Supreme Court
Kelloge
Kellogg
New York
St.aul
Congressman Denies Bringing Liquor From Panama
Congressman Morgan of Newark Ohio publicly denied reports that he tried to bring four bottles of liquor from Panama after an inspection trip in the Canal Zone. He said no liquor was taken or listed in the customs declaration and any medicine would come only by physician prescription. Treasury officials indicated no official report or planned investigation. House privilege at ports allows members of Congress freedom of baggage, and officials noted uncertainty about abuse of the privilege.
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Washington
Morgan
Newark
Ohio
Panama
Canal Zone
Treasury
Mellor
Measure Aimed at Shary Buyers Passes in Ohio
Columbus March 28 The Marshall bill to end salary burying in Ohio passed the house with a record vote and moves to Governor Cooper for signature. It sets a three percent monthly limit on interest for small loans, placing salary buyers on par with other lenders. Rep. Grant Ward charged a vicious lobby opposed the bill, threatening a roll call on amendments. No votes against it were recorded.
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Columbus
Marshall
Ohio
Cooper
Senate
House
Grant Ward
L. L. Marshell
Cleveland
Better Business Commission
Cincinnati
Toledo
Ward
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William A. Ely
Spring Valley Country Club
Jerry Ferguson
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Gallipolis
William E. Summers
Summers
San Francisco
Orient
James Summers
Bill
Austria
Kiwanis
Business Sound
May Queen
Randolph-Macon Women’s College
Lynchburg, Va
Lyla Brown
Burlington
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Clyde
Kent Lad
Elyria Boys
Paul
Lowman
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