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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1924
Page
5
A special committee backs an architect's $1,000,000 proposal to add a huge tower to the Columbus Capitol, increasing office space and creating the first skyscraper Capitol in Ohio this fall.
Local notes from Avon dated May 31 list visits and gatherings. Residents including Clyde Nye, M. A. Webber, and Miss Margaret Hoffman travel between Cleveland and nearby towns. Families such as the Potters, Goughs, and Pickerings host or visit relatives. The school commencement at Avon High was held at St Marys hall.
A montage of church notices lists First Baptist Second Street and Middle Avenue with combined Bible school and morning service at 10:45 led by Dr. John Wesley Lea and a 7:30 evening service. Methodist Episcopal Third and Court with 10:45 morning service, Epworth League at 6, and 7:30 p.m. sermons. United Presbyterian East Avenue and Second Street announces adult Bible class and combined morning service, with evening sermon on service. Also listed are Second Congregational in Gates School, Salvation Army at 574 Broad Street with weekly activities, St John’s Lutheran Broad Street and West Avenue with mixed services, Grace Lutheran Corner Princeton and East River, First Congregational Corner Court and Second, First Spiritualist Church, Second M E Church, St Andrews Episcopal Corner Middle and Third, and Pilgrim Community Garford School reminding of June 8 Children’s Day plans.
Multiple congregations announce midweek and Sunday services. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST lists denouncement of necromancy topics and readings, opening hours for the reading room. INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS meet for Bible study and a 8 p m discourse. ST PAULS EVANGELICAL offers morning services in German, no evening service, and Lake Avenue Sunday School at 9 30. LA PORTE M E CHURCH holds Sunday school at 10 and public worship at 11. MT ZION BAPTIST on Pine Street schedules morning and evening services plus Women’s auxiliary. CHURCH OF CHRIST on Second and Chapel presents morning sermon Things Fundamental and evening lesson The Saving Christ.
In Esthonia on the Baltic, Mrs Elinor Hun ergon, English teacher in a high school, leads YWCA work countrywide. Three races German Russian and Esthonist each speak their own language and have separate schools yet YWCA brings girls of these nationalities together in work and play.
North Ridgeville Congregational led by Rev. Edward C Young holds Sunday school at 10 15 am with Memorial Day address by Pastor Kanni and junior choir meeting at 3 15 pm. St Peter’s Catholic offers first mass 8 15 am high mass 10 15 am with sermons children instructions benediction and baptism after service.
Betty Coleburne, 15, of Winthrop Massachusetts, dived into heavy tide to rescue a man and his daughter. Reports say local officials consider awarding her a medal for the brave act amid dangerous conditions.
The passage notes a family outing at Lakewood last Sunday with Mr and Mrs and their daughter visiting Cleveland. Mentioned are Mrs John M Alten and Mrs Lieber as relatives or hosts. The fragment hints at a social gathering within a Cleveland area context.
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