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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1928
Page
8
The Senate debates tax reduction while a cub-committee investigates government affairs. An eight to four vote on the investigation is noted. In the House, Gerald emergency officers push a repeat bill. The harbors and naval affairs panels address Great Lakes channels and naval stations involving $13,000,000.
May weekend visits and Sunday gatherings highlight parishioner and family events across Ridgeville and Cleveland. Guests include Mr H Rat, Mr and Mrs Archer Shaw, Mr and Mrs Z A Stacey, Mrs Gertrude Dean, Mr and Mrs P Ames, Mr and Mrs Chas Ames, Mr and Mrs C W Y Jr, Mrs E Knowles, and Mrs L Brickman with illness concerns noted for a relative in Cleveland.
Household hints describe Spanish Stew as a one dish dinner baked in a casserole with beef, vegetables, and thickened tomato sauce. French Style Peas are simmered with butter, onion, lettuce heart, and herb bouquet, then served over the lettuce.
Cut table oilcloth into square pieces about 24 inches. Sew rings on each corner using discarded curtain pole rings. Hang by the four corners in wardrobes. For repairs it takes only a moment to fetch the exact piece. Keep one for woolens and one for cotton.
Lorain harbor updates and a string of visits as Mrs. Martha Moore visited her daughter in Elyria last week. Mrs. Len Delayed celebrated a birthday at Fields, with Ridgeville and Elyria friends joining. Various gatherings include Cleveland Road guests, P T A officers elected, and family visits to Wilmington and New London.
The roster lists officers with Mr. E. M. Knowles as president, Mrs. M. Evans as vice president, Mrs. J. Ely as secretary, and Mrs. C. Spicer as treasurer, detailing the organization’s leadership.
In August days and threshers looming, 643 farm mothers in 16 Ohio counties joined 1927 county camps for rural women. With extension support they rested in tents for three nights two days, cooked and cleaned little, and enjoyed recreation. The initiative aims for more camps this year with similar rites and freedom from daily chores.
The passage describes a 1928 camp experience with activities like baseball, croquet, swimming, hikes, and reading. Women organized camps with county extension agents, while husbands and sons handled cooking and food prep in advance for threshing season.
Washington reports a 100 percent rise in women college presidents over 12 years. The U S Bureau of Education lists 57 women leading colleges and universities in 1928, up from 24 a dozen years earlier, with many eastern colleges now headed by women. The directory also notes seven women as state superintendents, 40 as city superintendents, and around 900 as county or district superintendents. county level women leaders have doubled, and only one state lacks a woman school executive.
There is one woman head of a division of the bureau of education, one who heads a law school and one school of medicine. While many theology dentistry pharmacy and veterinary medicine schools have women on their faculties none has a woman as chief executive.
In Paris France a new College Occitan at Cautelnaudary in the south will teach a group of provincial tongues including the regional patois. The program aims to preserve local dialects and linguistic heritage through formal instruction in the Occitan language family.
The French government, aiming to unify the people, tried to stamp out regional dialects while many now argue that teaching a tongue unique to a region keeps youths at home and fosters local patriotism.
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