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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1940
Page
3
Brighton Clarksfield Rochester Methodist churches publish service times Sunday schools Epworth Leagues and evening services. Rev Harold Landon Rev R Morris Rev Thomas Hughes Rev H H Patrick listed with various worship and school times across Brighton Clarksfield Rochester venues.
Pastor Rev. K R Norris conducts morning worship at 9 43 with Sunday School following at 10 45.
A church page presents five study prompts about labor and satisfaction, searching for truth, pardon conditions, the word of God as rain, and the divergence of divine and human thoughts. Clericus adds a reflection on how mindset shapes life size and personal stature.
A Sunday School note discusses Isaiah 55 1 11 inviting the thirsty to God for salvation. It explains spiritual hunger as longing for divine blessing and urges seeking the Lord now with repentance faith and pardon. The piece notes God’s thoughts higher than ours and that His word fulfills His purposes. Cake and coffee were served to a long table listing many attendees and gifts for the honored couple Mr and Mrs Ackerman.
The Progressive class and Loyal Workers Auxiliary hosted a party at the Local Methodist church Saturday to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ackerman. Performances included guitar by June McGucken and Evelyn Kokotylo, harmonica by Mrs. John Harnish and J. G. Morris, piano by Mrs. Reese, and vocal solos by Mrs. Elmer Keller. A duet by Mrs. C. E McIntire and Mrs. E. Keller closed the program with When You and I Were Young Maggie. Refreshments of ice cream and...
The regular monthly Church Night was held Sunday evening at the Methodist church with Reverend Adams in charge. A. R. Webber of Elyria spoke on Faith using Baldwin Wallace College and Oberlin as illustrations. A duet was sung and several parishioners participated in musical offerings. Families from Mansfield Lorain and Toledo area visited, and the official board will meet May 1 at 8 PM in the church parlors.
A devotional fragment urges humble thoughts and bold spirit. It speaks of heedful prayer inviting wisdom and savoring divine blessings, urging the soul to find delight in God’s goodness.
Miss Gertrude Alflen of Cleveland Road attended the Golden Jubilee of the Catholic Ladies Benevolent Association in Cleveland. Services were led by Bishop McFadden at Shrine of St Paul. Dinner and celebration followed at Hotel Cleveland with speeches by Father Tracy and Father Johns. Troop 1 met at Town Hall for outdoor games and its business session.
Flag was given and the Group sang America after which the dues were collected. Plans for the May Festival progress and the P T A program. Participants in the play meet at Ann Wilbur's on Tuesday evening and the Sextette meets with Jean Andrews on Tuesday May 7 at 2:30. Miss W Jobson turned in a 4.50 check from the Sales Tax Stamp Commission to be given to the Town Hall curtain committee. Jobson, Taft and Mrs Andrews take the Leader's training course in Elyria on Tuesday afternoons under Miss Ann Keheler of Lorain.
The Boy Scouts with Afr. Custiss and Bill Muhar met Monday evening and opened in the usual form. They decided on their program for the PTA meeting in May.
The May 14 birthday party is postponed due to election booth committee workload. Monona Grange will hold a card party on Saturday May 4 at Acme Grange, and the next card party is set for May 11.
Mr and Mrs Earl Claibourne of Wilmington stayed overnight with Mr and Mrs Kenneth Johnson. The couples attended the Lorain County Insurance Association banquet at Elyria Country Club where Mr Claibourne, state agent for Illinois National Casualty Co, is a neighbor and friend of Dusty Miller the principal speaker.
A group of 20 friends gathered at Mrs Ford Gott’s home to honor Mrs Levitt Miller of Penfield for her birthday anniversary on a Tuesday afternoon. She received several gifts including a cake made by Mrs Maynard Hammer and light refreshments were served.
Circle Two of the Methodist Aid Society met Friday afternoon hosted by Mrs. N M Weyrich with thirteen attendees. Gifts were given to Rev and Mrs Weyrich for the pastor’s birthday.
Mrs Edgar Pearce opens a beauty parlor on West Main Street May 6. Many visits are noted including Stella Harrison in Oberlin with Adrian Buswel, and trips to Michigan. Neighbors host dinners in Elyria and Ashland while relatives in Berea Steubenville and Cleveland visit. Funeral of Edward Guthii held in Oberlin. burial at La Grange.
Fluntington and Huntington area residents Maurice Heston and Shirley visited cousins last Saturday and Sunday. Lloyd Meyer Carol and Warren Freymen of Sullivan stopped by the Crile Thudium home for Sunday supper. George Rease of Cleveland visited John Naeger’s home Tuesday. Viola Dirlam of New London stayed with O H Dirlam Friday night and Sunday. Leonard Terry and family Albert Reese and families and Mary Long of Elyria spent Sunday afternoon together.
At the Henry West home Mrs L D Gillette visited daughter Mrs Reynolds. Mr and Mrs A MicCoy traveled to Parkersburg West Virginia after their father’s death. Mrs Waldorf spent a week with her husband in Springfield. On Monday they visited their daughter Margaret Mae at Miami University in Oxford.
Wakeman Flora Pierce returns home after visits in Toledo. Beatrice Winnen attends a dinner dance at Hotel Statler in Cleveland. Mr and Mrs G B Haskins Jr and daughter Barbara visit Alliance parents. Seniors plan play The Merry Hares at the High School Auditorium May 3. Denmark in 1864 faced attack by Prussia and Austria, losing Schleswig Holstein.
Dover Center tables for 25 members and guests as Mrs Fay etta Simonds and June Traxler entertained at Traxler home. Bouquets decorated tables and luncheon was served. Pinochle was the afternoon diversion. Clinton Fauver and Kay visited Ashtabula to see Mr and Mrs Harold Lewis. Katherine Benham visited by Mrs Minerva Brant. Katherine Carroll of Detroit was guest of Mrs Helen Fauver.
Florence Grange sponsors Rural Life Sunday at the Florence church Sunday afternoon with a pot luck dinner followed by a meeting led by Pomona lecturer Mrs. Gus Umbaca of Sandusky and Pomona chaplain Mrs. Ada Jenkins of Berlin Heights. A special program is planned and Mr. Sanborn of Sandusky demonstrated at Mrs. Raymond Brundage’s home. Prizes included a silver pie server and silver salad set as refreshments were served to attendees including Mrs. Mermit Hunter.
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