Violinist Alvin Bemis Delights Elyria Audience
Alvin Bemis presented an exacting violin program at the Congregational church in Elyria. The audience welcomed the performance with enthusiasm and praised his Mozart, modern pieces, and Bruch G minor concerto. Accompanist Gladya Locke complemented the recital, with ADA H. REEFY noting Bemis’s growing technique and expressive power.
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Alvin Bemis
Congregational Church
Bemis
Igu
Bruch
Elyria
Ada H. Reefy
Annual Inspection of Elyria Chapter No 165 Eastern Star
Elyria Chapter No 165 Order of the Eastern Star held its annual inspection led by Worthy Grand Matron Mrs. Olga Gasier of Cleveland at the Masonic hall. A 360-guest dinner followed, with compliments to the gowned order and thanks to Mrs. S J George and Mrs. Nellie Gill for presentations. Attendance included guests from Cleveland and many nearby towns. the event was praised as the most successful since the chapter’s origin.
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Elyria
Order of the Eastern Star
Olga Gasier
Cleveland
Masonic Hall
Floria
S. Is. George
Nellie Gill
J. A. Hewitt
S. J. George
Ohio
Elnore Frohman
Sandusky
LaGrange
Wellington
Litchfield
Amherst
Lorain
Conneaut
Painsville
Friendship Club Elects Officers at YWCA Meeting
The Senior Friendship club met at the YWCA gymnasium with about seventy girls. President Doris Todd and other officers were elected for the coming year. Supper followed, with meetings set for the second and fourth Fridays. The next gathering will be a Senior Farewell May morning breakfast.
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Doris Todd
Alice Milliken
Eva Osborne
Deraldine Halpin
Geraldine Smith
Denny Todd
School Girls Enjoy House Party at Miss Risk’s Home
Elyria graduating class girls from Elyria High attend a birthday and slumber party hosted by Miss Ruth Risk on Cleveland road. Guests arrived to a warm welcome and supper, then played games and danced into the night. Miss Risk received gifts from attendees including an out of town guest Ruth Grunbacher.
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Elyria
Elyria High
Ruth Risk
Cleveland Road
Hazel Penfound
Eva Anderson
Naomi Hauelsen
Dorothy Ridgeway
Lorene Marsh
Margaret Hewett
Mildred Fauver
Ruth Schneider
Ruth Grunbacher
Cleveland
Pre Nuptial Party Honors Clark Street Bride to Be
Miss Alice Wilson hosted a pre nuptial gathering on Clark Street in honor of Miles Estelle Resar, a June bride. The decorated rooms featured snowballs and two dolls, bride and groom, while music and gifts marked the evening.
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Elyrya
Alice Wilson
Clark Street
Miles Estelle Resar
Dunham Recital Delights Vermilion Audience
A Vermilion recital by Mrs. P Dunham drew large crowds in Elyria area. The first performance overflowed the theater, prompting a second show which also garnered enthusiastic praise. Miss Thelma Bentley and Thelma and Eleanor Bianchat of Vermilion and Miss Maxine Dunham of Elyria performed graceful solo acts.
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Elyria
Vermillion
P. Dunham
Thelma Bentley
Thelma
Eleanor Bianchat
Maxine Dunham
Circus Day in Dixie end piece for Masonic Minstrels
Elyria notes a successful After-piece titled Circus Day in Dixie for the Masonic Minstrel Show. The act opens with a moonlit plantation and cotton fields, then moves to a southern circus parade. Lawrence Webber and Paul Reynolds perform songs with a chorus of plantation hands.
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Elyria
Dixie
Lawrence Webber
Paul Reynolds
Walther League Anniversary Observed in Elyria
St. John's Young Ladies and the Columbia club join in marking the Walther league twenty eighth anniversary. Services Sunday at 10 in St. John's church feature English worship as young church members lead a joyous event.
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Elyria
St. John's Young Ladies
Columbia Club
Walther League
St. John's Church
Meeting and church services fill Saturday and Sunday
Saturday features the Girl Reserves at the Y W C A at 2 pm Grace Dodge Day at the Y W C A. Sunday includes vesper services at the Y W C A at 4 pm and Senior and Intermediate Endeavor at the First Congregational Church at 6 pm with topics and leaders. Special Memorial services are held at St John s Lutheran church for Martin Luther.
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Grace Dodge
Home Berry Omelet and Classic French Dressing
A recipe segment describes preparing a berry omelet with a sugar syrup, folding in whites and yolks, and finishing with berries. It also provides a simple French dressing: olive oil onion juice vinegar salt and pepper mixed by shaking. It notes serving suggestions and utensil needs.
Surprise Birthday Party for May Nevins in Elyria
Fourteen friends surprised May Nevins at her Princeton Avenue home for her eleventh birthday. Guests included Helen Adams Bern a Barber Lucile Burns June Flascher Gertude Jaster Gertude Stevens Norman Basinger Gaylord Doane Ronald Dunn Howard Martin Paul Mortimer Leon Nevins Robert Welty. Refreshments followed games and songs at the piano.
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Miss May Nevins
Elyria
Miss May Nevina
Princeton Avenue
Plano
May Nevins
Helen Adams
Berna Barber Lucile Burns
June Flascher
Gertrude Jaster
Gertrude Stevens
Norman Basinger
Gaylord Doane
Ronald Dunn
Howard Martin
Paul Mortimer
Leon Nevins
Robert Welty
Longtime Public School Teacher Mrs Symons Retires
SYLYRIA Over two hundred friends and pupils gathered at the technical high school to honor Eleanor Symons retiring after forty four years in public education. Speakers praised her loyalty to students and work ethic while gifts were exchanged and a reception followed in the McKinley school auditorium.
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Sylyria
Heror
Eleanor Symons
Technical High School
Symons
NcKinley
Mayor Jones
F. M. Shelton
F. M. Stevens
Board of Education
William Graves Sharp
Madame Bartlett
W. G Sharp
Parent-Teacher’s Association
Madame Partlett
Hank Hands
Twin babies born to Harwood couple Mr and Mrs Robert Taylor
Mr and Mrs Robert Taylor of Harwood avenue welcomed twins born May 18. Both mother and babies are reported doing well.
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Robert Taylor
Harwood Avenue
Timely Hints to Home Gardeners
Elyria urges every family to garden as a pleasant profitable patriotic endeavor. Proper soil and attentive care make gardening a source of fresh vegetables, healthful exercise, and family pride. Even children can grow produce, turning spare time into useful harvests.
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Elyria
Washington, D. C
Martin to Face Gunboat Smith in West Virginia Bout
Bob Martin heavyweight champion of the A E F and West Virginia has agreed to meet Gunboat Smith in a ten round mill in Huntington West Virginia on May 30.
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Huntington
W. Va
Bob Martin
A E. F
Pride of West Virginia
Brownhelm Grange plans soldier and veteran decorations
Brownhelm Grange No. 1431 met with a good turnout and voted to decorate soldiers and veterans for a May program. A speaker from Lorain was invited and the Brownhelm band will provide music. Alward Vrank and Jacob Arndt were pledged and will be initiated next meeting. The next gathering is set for Wednesday evening June 1.
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Brownhelm Grange
Granvers
Fred
Lorain
Brownhélm
Alward Vaiek
Jacob Arnd
Grla
Grange
Pythian Sisters
Lorain Temple No
Pythian Temple
Knights
American Golfers Sweep Britons In Four Sumes
America’s crack amateur golf team swept the British squad in the four sums. Quimet and Guilford defeated Tolle and Holderness, three and two. Hunter and Platt beat De Montmorency and Wethered, two up. Wright and Fownes defeated Aylmer and Arnour four and two.
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London
Mays
America
Quimet
Guilford
Tolle
Holderness
Hunter
Platt
de Montmorency
Wethered Ore
Wright
Fownes
Aylmer
Arnour
Abandon Playground Plans in Bellaire Area
Floral playgrounds to be discontinued due to lack of interest. Officials cited waning use and limited community input as the reason for ending the project.
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Bellaire
Lorain Friendship Club Hosts and Game Winners
The Friendship club met with Mrs. Hartman of Broadway as hostess. Eight games of progressive pedro were played with prizes to Mrs. Hartman Mrs. McFarland Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fuhrman. A dainty lunch followed. The Friday Afternoon club, hosted by Mrs. Barker, played eight games of five hundred and enjoyed a 6:30 dinner amid spring flowers.
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Hartman
Friendship Club
Lorain
Women's Relief Corps to Meet Next Wednesday
Lorain report says the Women's Relief Corps will hold a meeting next Wednesday to plan Memorial Day activities. All members are urged to attend due to important discussions planned.
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Lorain
Women’s Relief Corps
H O T Club Fetes Husbands at Informal Lorain Dance
The H O T club women hosted a casual dance at the H and R pavilion last night with fifty couples in attendance and dainty refreshments served. Rimbaughs orchestra provided music while Mrs Eleanor Dezner of 308 West 18th street traveled to New York City to visit her sister Mrs W W Argow. A daughter was announced for Rev and Mrs W W Argow formerly pastor of Lorain's First Baptist Church. William Gardner and daughter Maybelle with Ruth Murray left for Perry to visit relatives. Lee Barber, Oberlin student, appears in the Lorain note omitted end.
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Eleanor Dezner
West 18Th Street
New York City
W. W. Argow
Argow
First Baptist Church
William Gardner
Maybelle
Misa Ruth Murray
Perry
Weekend Visits Noted for Local Residents
A fragment notes that Mias Gertrude Goldberg of Washington Avenue is spending the weekend in Cleveland with friends while another resident is visiting relatives on 9th Street.
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9Th Street
Mias Gertrude Goldberg
Washington Avenue
Cleveland
Veterans to Put on Stunts Memorial Day
In Lorain the Veterans of Foreign Wars plan Memorial Day events at Lincoln Park on Monday May 9 featuring a baseball game between their team and the American Legion. A large crowd attended the south end schools festival at the high school auditorium with an all south end grammar school orchestra and the Lowell school's Yo Gate of Dreams playset. the festival was described as the most successful yet with bigger crowds and a more ambitious program.
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Lorain
Lincoln Park
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
South End
Garfield
Lowell
Circassian Walnut Used in Clara Kimball Young Film
The first Circassian walnut carload from Russia since the war was used in The Forbidden Woman starring Clara Kimball Young. The picture will be shown at the American starting Sunday.
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Russia
Clara Kimball Young
Lara Kimball Young
Conway Tearle
Master Stanton Williams
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E Lyria Society
Dunham
Walther
Women's Civic Club
Mra
Frank Stevens
Herman Stevens
Women’s Civic Club
Mra. FE. L. Bennett
Second Street
B. F Schmidt
East River Street
Breen
Richard Benjamin
Schmidt
Marri
Dorothy Thompson
Met
Babe
Margaret Snyder
Ld. Street
Wooster
Wooster College
Chere
Allen W. Coven
Miss Bortz
Unday
Martin
Brownhelm
Frank Carruthers
Golf Ilustrated
InterestioMal News Service
Lorain Society
Mrs. Barker
Willard
F.S. Aust & Bro
Broad St
Blaris
Willard Batteries
Lee Barber
Ober
South End School
Pocahontas
Sedalia
Kentucky
Virginia
Murbach
Office Burr's Jewelry Store
Elyria, Ohio
Diane Sorel
Miss Young
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