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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1931
Page
7
A distressed Mary endures a tense confrontation with her former lover Dick and his involve Bonnie. Dick presses a vacation plan and hints at marriage while Mary contemplates leaving New York to gain space, aided by friend Willa who urges clarity and self preservation.
Belden notes report Wm Grabenstetter ill with influenza. Mrs Mary Killip and Mr Freda Shick visited Mrs Marvin Ryder in Granger. Reuben Law and children from Rocky River visited Wm Law. Clarence Wise visited his mother Mrs Pfeifer in Litchfield. Joseph Grabenstetter and Wm Law visited Pfeifer grandparents in Cleveland and Billy's grandparents Snyder. Callers at Wm Law home included Mr and Mrs.
Swaska of Cleveland and families from Brunswick Seville Elyria and Lakewood figure in a social notes column with many local callers visitors and birthday greetings. The piece catalogs numerous neighborly visits and engagements including Wis e Wise Reisinger Bechtel Delefield and other area residents with references to schools and local events.
Sunday school reported an average attendance of 85 during April. Invitations to the Northeast Ohio Conference at Huron on Tuesday May 5 and the Woman's Home Missionary Convention in Elyria May 5 and 6 were extended again.
Mrs. Kathryn McMillan of Lorain called on Mrs. S. C. Hurlbut and daughter Thursday evening. Many neighbors met at Markley school for rehearsals and a Friday evening community dance. A large crowd attended Seth Parker's Singing School and a Coleman and Burnett quartet show at Vincent school Friday. Local lodge events, health day preparations, and visits among residents fill the weekend notes. Ill health and hospital trips, theatre outings in Elyria, and family visits across Lorain and Amherst are also recorded in this community diary.
Mr and Mrs George Knittle attended a Pomona Grange meeting held at Henrietta on Saturday May 6.
Nine members of the choir performed at Sunday afternoon services held at the County Home, contributing vocal selections during the program.
L Kroebie attended the funeral of his cousin J Beetler in Canton on Saturday.
William Henson a student at Ohio State University spent the weekend with his mother Mrs Lillie Henson.
May 6 report lists regular M E church services with morning preaching at 10, Sunday school at 11, and an evening service at 7 15. Reverend Bryenton preached at both sessions. Mr Harnish serves as superintendent of the Sunday school.
City carrier No. 12 William J. Birckline, born in Elyria in 1299, has spent twelve years as a West Side mail carrier and is well respected in the community. Earl C. Cook, city carrier No. 6, a thirty year Elyria resident, has ten years in Post Office work, covering the area south of George Street to Stop 5 Gratton Road. Cook notes twenty six months of U S Navy service in World War I and values public service.
Stein and daughter and Mrs E Heibling visited Amherst friends. The M E Church Ladies Aid Society will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon May 7 in the church parlors. Mr and Mrs Donald Fitch and baby Edward Hildreth and Mrs C E McIntire called on Mr and Mrs F H Lewis Sunday evening. Mrs McIntire also visited Mrs C Ackerman family Sunday evening. About forty pupils from Marksey school attended the track meet in Amherst Saturday.
The Medici family, famed Italian financiers, pioneered lending on pledges. Their emblematic three balls, central to their heraldry, still decorates today’s pawnbroker shops, linking ancient finance to modern practice.
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