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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1936
Page
5
The National Whirligig by Eay Tucker analyzes the Townsend inquiry, its impact on Democratic and Republican factions, and rumored moves shaping the 1936 presidential landscape. It details political bravado, committee maneuvers, and potential appointments amid Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition pressures.
State officials report 380 industrial fires caused by dust explosions over eight years in which 308 people died and property losses exceed 34.1 million dollars. The fires often ignite barns. Tecumseh residents seek 25 percent welfare cut. council grants due to local hardship. Japan reports several hundred annual family crisis cases.
Melda Harriss awaits a betrothal under a grape arbor as Bruce Lewis, her father Tim Barris’s chauffeur, fumbles a shy, stammering proposal delay during a Depression era courtship. Read as tension mounts over love, money, and a ring in a small town setting.
Avon edition reports the Morning Glory Club entertained by Mr and Mrs And Mittendorf at their home with prize winners Mrs Lawrence Heckel Mrs William Fisher and Mrs I J Weiler. Lunch followed. Two weeks hence the group will meet at Mr and Mrs Charles Wilford. Also noted is a Mother's Day service at the Baptist church in Steubenville by G Austin Kuhns and students followed by a church pot luck dinner before their return home. ATTEND WEDDING Mrs H Pickering Gordon Picker ing Marjorie Reisinger Mrs W Fisher Mrs Frank Picker ing Mrs Robert Picker ing and Mrs L Picker ing attended the wedding of Miss LaVern Reed and Pau Pope at the Congregational church in Lakewood Saturday afternoon. Mrs H Pickering Gordon and Marjorie Reisinger attended the reception at the bride’s parents home.
Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Wilson Jameson included Mrs Bertha Burrell of Elyria Mr and Mrs George Burrell of Cleveland and Mr and Mrs Len Mitchell and Lois Jane Duff of Avon Lake William Roby of Lorain visited Mr and Mrs Charles Wilford Mabel Lemon and John Shumway of Cleveland were visitors of Missing Warden Mr and Mrs C T Wilford and D A Phinney spent Sunday
South Amherst May 11 The last PTA meeting of the season will be held in the school auditorium Tuesday evening with a program including vocal solos by James M. Nicol tap dancing by Shirley Unger and a short play by Amherst High School speech class directed by Miss Margaret Rice. Officers will be elected and attendance is encouraged for children and interested adults. A prior Sunday school party at the Congregational church featured outdoor and indoor games for thirty-two guests. Firemen Meet A regular meeting of the Volunteer Firemen was held Friday evening at the fire station with routine business followed by a social hour and a fish fry. twenty members attended.
The Spencer Lutheran church dedicated a new Mr. Zioz structure with Dr. E M Poppin as speaker and Rev N F Milheim delivering the evening sermon. The week features multiple services and speakers, a public Memorial Day plan, birthday celebrations for local families, a Spencer Memorial Association meeting, and various community notices including lodge events and local visits.
Sunday afternoon guests at the Cleveland Yacht Club included Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pope and children from Lakewood. Also visiting were Mrs. Curde Nye and family, Mrs. James Durbin’s group, Oscar Harold’s kin, Alfred Barr from Connelsville, and Ira Gough’s family with Glenn Hubbard, plus Banks Patterson and children from Parma.
The author rebuts the lump-of-labor myth tied to the Baltimore address. He argues labor and production are not fixed and that unemployment and wages do not automatically worsen with more labor and machines. Real recovery requires lower costs, more production, and longer work hours, not higher taxes and prices. He urges readers to study basic economic principles and to seek practical steps rather than optimistic fantasies.
Numerous residents and visitors are listed with travels and calls across Elyria Cleveland and Medina. Names include Roy Frasklin Nora Egimn Celia Bishop Mary Van Valkenburze Verna Aukerman Dorothy Carey Otia Allen Edith Auble Jay Mantz Cecil Wolf George Bates and others as they visited relatives and spent time with families. Quarantines were lifted for Neal Rickets and W E Fusselmans.
Mrs Clare Weeds wife of Mrs Charles MacLaren has been ill and confined to her bed during the past week.
Besit Kerr, a British Columbia horticulturist on North Vancouver Island, experiments with tropical trees and bamboo to test his theory that bamboo can thrive in Canada. His garden features a half-store variety of tropical species flourishing around his home. A quoted man claims a prior judge warned him to obey, though the line is unclear.
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