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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1940
Page
14
A bake sale benefitting the Red Cross is set for Saturday at The Gas Office. The event invites community members to support relief efforts and enjoy homemade treats. Proceeds go to aid local and regional disaster response.
Hospitals admit Barbara Herman Patsy Chew Philip Waterman Mrs Milton Bishop Robert Anderson and others. Discharges include Roy Whitacre William Given John Hengesbaugh William Hand Virginia Hest and Browne Sadowski.
Tonight features the Senior Friendship club spring formal attended by Mrs. Pauline Slavin and St. Agnes Circle No. 4 on Grant Street. Galaxy hosted by Mrs. Don W. Myers with high scores by Mrs. Richard S. Horan and Winifred Seward, plus spring table decorations. In two weeks on June 11 Miss Seward hosts at the Graystone hotel. Hamilton school faculty guests enjoyed a buffet at 6:30 with bridge high scores for Elizabeth Thomas and Genevieve Kuchenrither among others.
Yesterday afternoon in the Armory Girl Scout Troop No 2 held a meeting with formation and membership card distribution. A surprise handkerchief shower honored Mrs Leber and a cake inscribed with her name was served with ice cream. Dorothy Bartter taught songs and Mrs Arthur Stewart led a first aid class. Plans for an overnight hike were set by seventh and eighth graders, while fifth and sixth graders plan a 6 am Saturday all day hike. A mother and daughter banquet committee will meet at Mrs Thompson’s East avenue home at 6:30 pm Monday.
The report lists license holders including Joseph Thome, 23, Avon township, steel fabricator, paired with Doris Farrand, 18, Elyria. Also noted are Jerry Consorte, 30, Cleveland, truck driver, with Ethel Berke, 29, Lorain. Charles Bors, 25, Sheffield, crane helper, with Helen Kerecz, 20, Lorain. Darwin Sharp, 35, Kipton, manager, with Aldine Palmer, 26, Wellington. Wilbur C. Ferrell, 26, Elyria, steel worker, with Roseana Padley, 24, Elyria. William T. McFadden, 20, Penfield township, farmer, with Lillian DeFields, 21, Penfield township.
Robert E. Lee an 18 year old inmate at the State Boys Industrial School was found guilty of second degree murder for the death of Axel Stromstead the school tailor. The verdict followed seven hours of deliberation by a common pleas jury. The incident occurred during an attempted escape from the institution last May 31.
Coralie Wayne travels to China to wed Dan Ryan but meets Naida Petrov and oilman Michael Marsden aboard a Yangtze voyage. After a tense confrontation in a locked linen room Coralie urges Marsden to marry in name only until home, while Dan accuses Marsden of real affection for Naida.
Receipts for the committee totaled $23,142.80 with expenditures of $21,821.77 leaving a balance of $1,321 against unpaid bills of $32,636 and an unpaid loan of $5,000. The piece notes Europe remains largely unmodernized despite recent progress, before mentioning a bomb.
A fragment notes an aircraft arriving near the main coal fields of France along its borders, with limited readable details about location or date. The brief hints at strategic significance but lacks concrete names or events.
The committee for Rep. Dudley A. White of Norwalk filed with the secretary of state detailing a failed campaign for U S Senator on the Republican ticket and a deficit of 6325 dollars. Paul M. White submitted the expense account after the dead- line.
Don Merthe directed Elyria High School pupils in an annual recital sponsored by Wagner Music. The program featured string ensembles, vocal duets and solos, piano pieces, and accordion and guitar numbers with multiple local performers and assistants including Gladys West Floyd Hayes Karl Kolinski and A B Sauer acting as MC.
O. Walker of Center Ridge reported damage to the right rear fender of his car while parked in a 20 minute zone on Broad Street today. The incident was reported to police.
A Japanese whaling fleet reports catching 26 whales on the first day of the current Antarctic season, signaling robust activity as harvesting continues in the Southern Ocean.
Adolph Guilmette of West Hiver street sues Elyria for 25000 claiming negligence after his son Robert 10 and companion Richard Miley 13 drowned July 1 1938 at Cascade Park bridge on Black River when high water swept them off. A third boy escaped and Robert carried Richard on his back before the tragedy.
Art Kolbe was arrested at the New York Central station at 9 56 p m yesterday and was fined 5 dollars plus costs by Mayor Joseph Q Petro today on a charge of intoxication.
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