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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1931
Page
5
Elyria merchants voted to keep 38 stores open on Wednesday afternoons and reserve a half holiday for staff. From July to August 12 stores will close for the half holiday while 38 others stay open. those staying open will grant staff a weekly half day off.
Elyria contractor Joan Halpin secured the bid to remodel two rooms on the courthouse third floor for the sanitary engineering department. The low bid of 563 pounds won over Engh bids, the highest at 812 dollars. Work should finish by May 25 to move the automobile license department from the Lorain County Bank building to the basement location formerly used by the sanitary engineer.
The Elsha Foremen's Club will hold a May 21 session at the Y M C A to discuss personnel topics. W O McClellan, secretary, announced Nelson Rupp, former White Motor Company personnel chief and now at Central United National Bank in Cleveland, will speak on The Foreman and His Personnel.
Bandits in Urbana IL rifled a confectionery wash register taking 20 dollars but left a two dollar bill a sign of superstition local police reported the odd detail noting even criminals cling to luck in small crimes.
Three additional Four-H Clubs for girls were formed in Lorain County on Thursday and Friday at Pittsfield and West Carlisle. Pittsfield’s Young Workers Clothing Club includes 11 members with Blanche Green as president and Winona Preston as vice president. Ida McConnell serves as secretary and treasurer, Rita Beard as recreation leader, and Mary Elizabeth Whitney as reporter, with Mrs. C. H. Gregg as adviser. At West Carlisle two clubs were named Jolly Hustlers Flower Club and Jolly Hustlers Clothing Club. The flower club has eight members led by Mildred Pallas as president and Lillian Eldred as secretary, with Leona Drusendahl as recreation leader and reporter. The clothing club counts 14 members with Leona Drusendahl as president, Thelma Wagner as secretary, Edna Lotteman as recreation leader, and Lois Eldred as reporter.
Franci Crowley, 20, called Two-Gun, wounded but alive, is arraigned on murder charges on a stretcher after a two hour gun battle that ended with police storming a city apartment. Rudolph Durniger confessed to Virginia Brannen’s murder. Helen Walsh and others were captured.
Butler Pennsylvania Miss Phoebe Perkins secretary to George McGill wealthy oil operator is bequeathed the greater part of his estate valued at one million dollars. McGill a pioneer in Pennsylvania oil developed the Speechley sand boosting the local industry. Perkins also to receive the McGill homestead in mains.
Mina using a sharp razor as her scalpel, Misa Helen Brundaze successfully operates on hens and chickens with perplexing ailments. most patients are crop bound. Cork is buoyant, but a cork sunk 209 feet cannot rise due to great ocean pressure. During a past eclipse, Chinese mandarins ordered drums to drive away the celestial dragon believed to swallow the sun.
Cleveland markets show mixed receipts with cattle holdovers steady and stockers lower, while vegetables and fruits list varied quotes. Potatoes price ranges include Green Mountains 40 to 255 per 320 lb sack, Idaho russet 2 to 15 per 100 lb, with many grains and florals priced per ton or barrel across wheat, corn, oats, hay, and flour.
Market News Service reports steep wholesale prices across several categories. Apples from New York and New Jersey, assorted asparagus and beans from Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois, and Florida, beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, and other produce shown in on track car lots with prices per crate, per dozen, or per hundredweight. Key items include U S apples at various inch sizes, Georgia asparagus bunches priced by size, Florida hampers beans, Louisiana wax beets, and California lettuce crates with quoted ranges.
Elvria post office interior redecoration starts under J F Johnson of Smythe and Company Washington D C contractors. Only Johnson will be an out of town supervisor on site. Project covers all rooms and offices on first floor and basement and should finish in about three weeks.
Receipts and prices for eggs poultry and produce including eggs at 4c to 4 1/2c, 23 005 crates firm, firsts 53 1 4c, stage pack firsts 17 1 4c. Poultry values show hens broilers roosters and turkeys with multiple price points. Potatoes wheat corn oats rye barley timothy clover seed prices listed, no red wheat 281 3c.
Nearly 150 attended the Alumni Association benefit bridge party at the school auditorium. Honors in bridge went to Mrs Mary Grendon and G P Martin. five hundred to Mrs H Truscello and Charles Anderson. pinochle to Mrs Katherine Kolbe and Vincent Malley. Door prize went to Mrs Jay Gillette. Refreshments followed as many out of town guests from Lorain Vermilion and nearby cities joined the event.
Discharged individuals include Mrs. Walter Schultz of Cleveland Avenue and Mrs. Eleanor Chartes along with Mrs. W. Jump of Ver MIlion.
Special Mother Day services will be held at St Peter's Evangelical church Sunday morning. Special music will be rendered by the choir and Mrs Amelia Humphrey of Elyria. A program will be featured in the Sunday school hour. A congregational meeting will be held at the close of services.
A Sunday morning program at the Congregational church will replace a sermon with talks on Mother in Art by Miss Ruth Cromwell, Mother in Religion by Ralph Eckert, and Mother in Music by Mrs. Hugh Gawn. Special music will be provided by both the adult and boys choirs under F R Powers.
The Aerue of Eagles and Auxiliary held a Mother Day program in the F. O. Hall last evening. It included prayers, a vocal duet by Miss Irma Mathes and Mrs. Henry Raesler with Miss Ruth Ehrman at the piano performing Silver Threads Among the Gold, remarks by Rev Eastman, a reading by Mrs Jacob Rosenkdanz, and bouquets for the oldest mothers Mrs Elizabeth Belden and Mrs Hammill, plus the oldest active member, with closing prayer by Rev Hastman.
Ir and Mrs Peter Theilen Mr and Mrs Mathew Pattenberg Beal City Michigan P I Schmutz Paul Theilen and Paul Yonkers Detroit Mich left for their respective homes after visiting Mr and Mrs George Bailey Elyria avenue Miss Marion Steele Middle Ridge will be hostess to the members of the Sorosis Club at her home Thursday evening May 14 Members planning to attend are requested to meet at the home of Xirg Clarence Kern Beavercourt at 739
In Bucyrus on May 9 an eight mile pursuit ended when police halted a rum running car loaded with 106 gallons of whisky. Officers Ghisp and Kennedy fired back as the suspects fled toward Columbus, abandoning the car in a field. License plates traced to Sandusky per Police Chief Trautman.
Frequent cases of card playing occurred in churches in olden days in the high or curtained family pews that were to be found in several parts of England.
In And About The Court House Lorain Hardware Company sued Sheffield Lake Board of Education for 524.07 for merchandised services. The Erie Finance Company filed against M C Goonell for 1925 on a promissory note. Ripton Bank sued Clarence Hand for 1488 on a promissory note. Foreclosure of Camden township property sought. Carey Company sued J A Schuster for 128 for roof repairs. Lucila Chaffee of Elyria granted a divorce from Richard for gross neglect and extreme cruelty by Judge W B Thompson.
A city committee discussed enlarging the group and enlisting real estate agents fire insurance men and property owners to cut fire hazards. They cited potential fire insurance rate reductions from such work and planned to cooperate with the Home Owners Bureau to adopt a city building code. The shift follows a Chamber of Commerce report on Elyria’s fire prevention contest standing and a National Board of Fire Underwriters rating showing risk of being moved to a lower class.
The incomes of wage earners in the United States are estimated as having been $9,000,000,000 lower in 1930 than in 1929.
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