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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
3
The Avon Baptist Church Ladies Aid held its regular May meeting at Mrs. Albert Chester's home. President Mrs. E Webb announced committee appointments for the year and plans for definite missionary work.
The Avon High seniors finalize a Sunday trip to Put-in-Bay and Kelly’s Island set for May 29. Brief notes record Mrs Buell and children Thom as Nancy and Harold enjoying a Amherst picnic supper on Wednesday, and visits by Mrs Roy Knight of Lorain to the Baptist church Ladies Aid, plus Ira Gough attending Elyria’s 1st Congregational Church Upper Room class gathering.
The Lake Avenue Adult Bible Class met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reno Collier on Tuesday evening with sixteen members present. Otto Jabbusch presided. entertainment was by R. E. Taylor and John Hogan Sr. A Lorain County Elyria Township question bee followed. The next gathering is set for June 22 at the Hogan home with Mrs. R. E. Taylor as co-hostess.
The Shining Thimble 4-H Club postponed its May 24 meeting due to the schoolhouse basement condition. The next meeting is rescheduled for March 31.
Avon Lake High School Alumni Association hosts a party dance in the auditorium on Saturday evening May 28 inviting all 1988 seniors current faculty and former faculty. A large turnout of alumni and former staff is expected.
Mrs Foster Schenck entertained 17 ladies at a Tuesday luncheon at her home. Bunco was played during the social event.
A Sunday afternoon program by the Senior P C U featured a trio clarinets and saxophones by Iva May Jean Lord and George O Brian a sax solo by George O Brian a Junior Choir song This is My Fathers House a soprano jazz solo Miss Betty Delic a trumpet solo Jack Eldridge a bass solo Willard Krausse modern poetry reading Miss Carol Frocrick a soprano solo Mrs William Biddulph and Sanc Tus sung by the U P Choir under Willard Krausse A Curtain Club play For He Had Great Possessions presented by the Parma Presbyterian Church cast incl Darwin Vow Samuel Davidson Johanna Lynn Slaby Zakket Wilbur Pickard Nason Fred Wetzel Bar Timaeus Virginia Mitchell Asmath Jean Reilly Hadassah Doris Grant Leah Edith Miller Miriam and Tommy Kelsey Azor
Huntington guests Marion Crile and Mrs Nile Thudhum attended the funeral of their cousin Mrs Floyd Long in Kent on Monday afternoon. Mrs Johnson Crile returned home Monday evening after spending a week in Kent where she was affected by the illness and death of her niece Mrs Floyd.
Town social life is highlighted with Mrs Irene Rouds and Mrs Lee Springer hosting Barrett Chanel Ladies Aid, and Mrs Marie Puder hosting Clarksfield Ladies Aid. Numerous visits from Cleveland Norwalk Elyria and Vermilion residents, school picnic, and a forthcoming Sth grade commencement.
Robert Denham La Grange was toasted by relatives on Sunday for his eighty sixth birthday with a delicious dinner. Guests included Miss Matthews of Wauseon Mr and Mrs Nelson Yost and sons Glenn and Edgar and Edgar's friend from Litchfield. Yost Sr Donald Yost of Cleveland Will Bridget family and Bridgett family from Elyria.
Sunday with Mr and Mrs C H Opfer and Miss Jean Louise Adams at a Spring formal in Vermilion on the Lake. Miss Maria Wolcott finishes school at Marengo and stays with her parents. New superintendent Carl W Martin to study in Columbus. Jeannette Bomgardner at home in Lakewood after high school. Edward Pierce and George Foster paint the Kelner farm. Frances Knowes visits Girard. Phyllis Forbush hosts a social at her Church Street home. Adventist church fire damaged but neighbors and fire department prevent larger loss. Dorothy Parsons plans a western summer trip and OSU course. Greenon Methodist Aid Society meeting postponed. Carrie Quizo of Cleveland visits. Local families attend funeral of Charlie Smith in Ridgeville.
Erhart Frhart Frank Fries enjoyed a large birthday gathering with relatives arriving from Cleveland Medina and Oberlin. Attendees included Mr and Mrs William Curtiss Mr and Mrs Leonard Emrhein and son Billy Mr and Mrs Jim Cooner and daughter Rita Mr and Mrs Ed Fries Mr and Mrs Howard Heller and son Junior and many others. A picnic supper was served amid visits from family friends including Ruth Miller Fritz Loder and Joe Dowdell.
Mrs Arthur Haury hosts family dinner after granddaughter Diane Haury joins the church class at St Marys Church Elyria Sunday.
The Pittsfield Peppy Panhandlers will meet at Mrs. Stanley Pitts home on Tuesday May 31. Tureen dine will be served at noon and an exchange of Travorite recipes follows in the afternoon. All are welcome to attend.
Relatives and friends attended the Sedgeman Funeral Parlors service held Wednesday afternoon for Mrs Lucy Turner. Pallbearers from Pittsfield were Joe and Mc Rinler Davies George and A L Waite Vern Norton and Wil Davies of Wellington. Interment followed at Pittsfield South Cemetery with Rev Sutton of the Community Church officiating.
Mr and Mrs Earl Heiden hosted a birthday dinner Friday evening for their nephew LeRoy Mull eighth birthday. Eight place settings graced a yellow and white decorated table with a cake bearing eight candles. Guests presented gifts to the celebrant in a festive family gathering.
Rochester residents report Charles Ringler injured last week while riding auto bumpers to pass sheep in the road he slipped and the wheel ran over his leg bruising him severely. A. W. Robinson hosted dinner for his sister and husband Frank Clifford and later toured Fay Robinson’s barn site. Creda Parker graduates Nova High School with family present. Lorain County Epworth League rally attended by Kathryn, Viola Snyder, Anna Jewett, Lawrence Jewett and Robert Thompson. The village schools near close this week with promotion slips and grade cards to be issued Friday. Local Baptist Laymen’s Witness League met in Wellington Friday night. George Zeigler family visited Frank Clifford. Brighton high school graduates from Rochester include Viola Williams, Helen Crittenden, Kathryn Snyder, William Davidson, Josephine Stocking and Eileen Casseli.
Sheffield June Chambers has been out of school for several weeks with a severe cold and remains confined to bed. Mr and Mrs Karl Thoma and daughters of Avon Lake visited Monday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Lee Johnson and family. Mrs Virgil Jacobs of Alliance, after a month with her sister Mrs Herbert Chambers and family, returned home Sunday.
A large crowd attended the Litchfield Baptist church baccalaureate Sunday with Rev. L P F Juell speaking on What Is Your Name. Music by the girls glee club. Mrs Homan on organ. Readers Circle moves to Mrs Oberlitner Thursday. Ladies Aid hosts Mrs Stanley Biggs Wednesday June 1. Many locals attended Lod hospital annex dedication and remodel.
Linwood hosts a high school camp with an excellent faculty and a six person church delegation limit. Early registration costs 13 dollars, rising to 114 after June 17. dates are June 16 to 20. Venison at Granville Ohio hosts a second session for young adults July 10 to 17, with a 1208 dollar fee.
Mrs Lawrence Jackson and son returned from Lochnos hospital Thursday. Cleveland residents and Lima visitors joined the extended Jackson and Scudder households. Royal School closed Friday with a morning sports program and a noon Town Hall picnic followed by a ball game. Numerous local families hosted and visited kin from Cleveland, Medina, Barberton, Elyria, and Pawnee.
Mrs Shea and family of Cleveland and Mrs Arthur Kegsler at Lodi hospital are reported a little improved. Miss Ruth Swanker a LeHoy school teacher entertained all school teachers at her home Monday evening for a six o clock dinner.
Spencer group led by Mesdame Robert Hardie and Alvin Neidhardt and 32 members attended a May meeting on a Wednesday evening with Mrs. Harry Hange. After a busy work session a social hour followed and President Mrs. Harry Greetham called a business meeting. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Arthur Rice Mrs. Myron Bradley and Mrs. Charles Feller.
Mrs Walter Rook hosted Jolly Rook ies M E Aid with good attendance and a dish lunch. Mrs Kenneth Croskly hosted the Woman's Home Missionary Society with a noon tureen dinner and a later business meeting. Several local families moved or visited, including Weidrick buying Edith Auble’s property, McCourt renovations, and Sanford P Ripp announcing the birth of Sanford Thomas.
The Hi Y bar invited Fine Arts girls to a wiener roast at Chance Creek on Thursday. Local attendees included Loretta Webber Marguerite Hurst Elmer Brown and Corrine Steinman and son Dickie of Toledo. Visitors stayed with Finis Brown.
The Hop kins family moved from Dover Center to the Robb house on Barton Road. Mrs. Max Kelso and baby Ann of Carlinville Illinois spent a week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. O A Risk on Lorain Road. The Neighborly Club of Center Ridge meets Wednesday with Mrs Charles Dyble. Mrs G E Stearns and Mrs Wayne Sibut visited Wellington to see Mrs Frank Chadwick who hosted them and stayed until Sunday. The North Lorain Road Congregational Church group will meet with Mrs Sterling Mills on Thursday May 26, and the West group with Mrs Anna Perkins for a covered dish noon luncheon. Emery Douttiel and Wayne Shhut were at the John Kelly and Eric Cowley homes in Eaton on Wednesday. Mrs Harry Wadsworth of Co-
A village drafts petitions for a future local option vote while one resident visits her sister Mrs. G. E. Stearny on Thursday.
The Brighton Community Club meeting planned for Thursday May 26 is postponed due to Brighton High School commencement. Mrs Linden Draper will host the rescheduled gathering at her home on Thursday June 9 with a covered dish lunch at noon. Members are asked to bring fancywork.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church met with Mrs. Frank McClellan on Thursday afternoon May 19. Seventeen members and one guest attended. After the business session a short program followed by a light lunch and social hour.
Mr and Mrs Bert Ewell hosted several guests including the latter s son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Howard Davis and their two sons Ronald and Richard from Akron. Mrs Effie Edwards of Wellington and Mr and Mrs E E Edwards attended the funeral of Mrs Fannie Sharp in Cleveland Tuesday of last week.
The Just Between You and Me Club gathered Monday evening at Mrs. Rhea Beesing’s home for a social needlework session. Mrs. Irma Gayeska will host the next meeting on June 13.
A flurry of Sunday calls and weekend visits linked residents from Garfield Heights to Elyria and Berea. Families including Emil Jelinek, J D Mennell, Lloyd Bartlett, H Biggs, Lee Cole, Bernard Wareham, E R Miller, and many others dropped in on relatives and friends across Ches terland LaGrange Burbank and Lakewood, sharing meals and gathering for quilting and dinners.
Mr and Mrs Guy Durkee hosted supper for guests including Mr and Mrs Alex Schwed and family. Fred Duscha and wife have moved into the dwelling previously occupied by Mr and Mrs Ed Myers.
South Ridge Church holds services Sunday May 29 with Sunday School at 10 and worship at 11 conducted by Pastor Rev R G Pferrer. Carlisle Grange members attend in a body. Pferrer also to conduct service at the County Home Sunday afternoon at 2.
The Quarterly Conference of Brownhelm Henrietta and South Ridge churches meets at Henrietta Evangelical Church on Friday evening this week with District Superintendent Rev C L Allen of Fremont in attendance.
Mr and Mrs George Knittle attended the funeral of Mrs Martin Huth in South Amherst. George Kunittle and Misses Marian Knittle and Marian Grobe also attended a Hickory Tree Grange meeting in Amherst Thursday evening. School will close Friday May 27 with a picnic in Clearview Grove sponsored by the Community Club.
Miss Mabel Dehn hosted a D. D. Club meeting with a business session and social hour. Members and guests celebrated May and June birthdays at a decorated table with a birthday cake. Patricia Fowl and Loig Sterrer led the singing. next meeting set for June 11 at a new date.
The South Ridge Woman's Missionary and Ladies Aid will host Henrietta Ladies' Aid on June 2 at Mrs C E Cook's home. Mrs August Smith led the Needle Guild meeting with sewing time and a future all day session at Mrs A J Haist's Linwood Park cottage in Ver Мил on the schedule.
Mrs Milton Schlechter and son Robert visited her sister in Henrietta on Friday. Emily McDonald of Elyria called on Frank and Mary Bechtel on Wednesday. George Knittle's family hosted visitors from Middle Ridge and Cleveland guests. Various neighbors hosted cousins, friends, and relatives in Elyria Amherst Rochester Pittsfield and Kelley’s Island throughout the week.
Vincent and Mrs. Alvie Spicer of LaGrange visited Mrs. Leonard Dean and her children. Miss Wilhelmine Myers of Elyria and William Morris spent Sunday with cousins Mr. and Mrs. John Gallagher of West Cleveland. The Senior and Junior Sewing Sallies 4-H clubs presented gifts to Miss Rebecca Rea Friday. Mrs. Chris Ackerman and Emma visited Mrs. David Howells in Lorain Saturday. W. E. Taft called on Mr. and Mrs. Summerly of Brownhelm and on Mrs. Taft's brother and family on Route 60 in Birmingham Sunday.
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