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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1936
Page
7
Miss Alice Bird, county extension agent, spoke to Oberlin High School girls about the lasting benefits of home economics training. She said cooking sewing dress sense and homemaking skills prepare girls for life and attractive homes. The Future Home Makers' Club sponsored the assembly.
Elyria Y M C A will start a gym class for men on Friday night. Physical director Carl Wagner announced the program will cover apparatus work with demonstrations on New Year’s Day and later progress toward the Y M C A circus. Instruction by Wagner James White A Nelson and staff aims to build fundamentals before advancing to complex apparatus skills.
Election board officials note many booth workers in Ebria and vi einitr have not claimed their November 30 checks. Elyria Elyria township and Carlisle township workers are urged to contact the county treasurer to collect their payments promptly.
Lorain County Senior Club members will begin preparations for their annual election of officers at a Wednesday meeting hosted by Alber ta Eddy in LaPorte. A nominating committee will select candidates, elections occur next month, and new officers assume duties at year start.
County commissioners announced the office will close tomorrow after noon for services for Frank E. Elsenberger a 24 year clerk who died Saturday of heart failure. Services set for 2 p.m. at the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Officials will consider clerkship applications on Wednesday after receiving a score of submissions.
Fannie Magee died at her home 223 Fourth Street Saturday after a lingering illness born in Wickliffe Ohio March 4 2392 Funeral services will be Tuesday morning from the Tasser Funeral Home with Rev Ralph W Neischbourne officiating Burial will be in Ridgewood Cemetery.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Wallace Walden of Oberlin at 55 and John Lear, Avon Lake pioneer councilman, at 84. Walden died Saturday at his home with services planned at Sedgeman Funeral Parlor and burial at Westview cemetery. Lear died November 14 after a brief illness. survived by his wife and children, with funeral at Holy Trinity Catholic Church and burial at Holy Trinity cemetery.
Fred A Black 65 of 115 South Minh Street Wellington died Sunday at 1 29 PM in New London Hospital after several months illness. Born in Mordova Ohio he moved to Rochester 35 years ago and served as mail carrier for thirty years. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs R V Snider Elyria and Mrs W W Hyde Wellington one son Robert Black Elyria one brother Rar Black Elyria seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services Wednesday at Hyde home Wellington at 10 AM and at Robert Wheeler White House Ohio at 2 PM conducted by Rev Newton Moore of Brighton. Burial at White House.
Henry B Webester of Toledo Ohio died Sunday at 6 54 AM at his daughter Jennie McCreary's home after six weeks of illness. Born February 29 1848 in Carlisle he later lived in LaGrange and Elvira before joining his daughter G Nichels until her death. He leaves wife Charlotte five children Grover and three daughters Grace Lorenzen Chattie Bunzer and others plus many grandchildren and a brother Iram Webester of Robertson Tennessee. Burial is planned in LaGrange.
George Masser 74 of Elyria slipped and fell about 6 p m yesterday dislocating his right shoulder. He received treatment at Elyria Memorial Hospital. The article mentions Scotland has lakes Awe Shin Tay and Ness.
Oberlin By Mrs Esther Wood sée N Professor Street Phone 23253 For refinery service calls Allan Harts Phone 4071
Monday November 16 Oberlin clubs, churches and individuals announce meetings and social events. PTA at Prospect School auditorium. Women’s Progressive gathering at Mrs Loren Thomas’s Lovust Street home. numerous sessions of clubs, reading groups, and fraternal orders scheduled across Oberlin with speakers, dinners, and bridge games. Local residents include Miss Tie Teude Chenery as speaker and various guests from Elyria and Cleveland.
Akron news reports a one cent hike in milk price to 12 cents a quart and seven cents a pint. An arbitration board had previously awarded 3,0006 producers in the Akron area a 37 cents per hundred pounds increase in Class 1 raw milk. An eight cent increase had been allowed on Oct. 25.
William H. Hilliar a longtime circus press agent and magazine publisher shot himself Sunday behind his Cincinnati home after asking a taxicab driver to wait. Hilliar had world travel, represented major carnivals and distributions, and once managed a flea circus. He prized a photo with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.
Actress Sullasan marries Leland Hasward of Theatricat agency in New York. The ceremony at St Padgis Methodist followed a motor trip to Newport Romo with friends. the couple returned to New York for Miss Sullasan to continue in Stage Door.
County commissioners urged New York Central Railroad to install flasher signals at the Maddock road crossing to protect school buses after Rev. Father Joseph R. Buescher of Ridgeville alerted the board to a near collision last week.
Charges of permitting gambling were preferred Saturday night against Mr. and Mrs. Steve Heili of West River Street after patrolmen found men playing cards around a table with $1.20 on the table. $1.20 and some cards were confiscated. They are to be arraigned Wednesday.
The Lorain County All Breed Dog Club will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. BD B. Jenkings at 21 Lake Avenue on Thursday evening November 19 at 7 59 p.m. All members should attend and bring guests. Prospective members are invited. Mrs J B Jenkins is secretary.
A short circuit in wiring ignited gasoline from a flooded carburetor and slightly damaged Edwin Wolk Ph D Amherst auto parked at 170 Oak Street Saturday night. Fire departmentHuse Company One reported the fire confined to gasoline and wiring insulation.
Lorain County village and rural school officials will share personal experiences addressing school problems at The Gables for their monthly dinner meeting. Each will discuss a specific challenge encountered during their career and how it was solved. The program is organized by J. L. Oppelt Laurainge superintendent S. R. Zellers Penfield principal and Maynard Huese Lake Avenue principal.
Deputy sheriffs searched Saturday for four Gypsies, a man and three women, after George J. Miller of Chestnut Ridge reported a purse theft. The Quarters Loan Corporation sued F T B Hoff Jr for 4.8 foreclosing property in Lorain. Sidney Smith was granted divorce from Elizabeth Smith on cruelty grounds. Joan Vaprezsen, 32, was released after contempt of court for failure to pay alimony to Mary Vaprezsan.
Washington reports 240000 postal workers from 45000 post offices distributing Social Security blanks to 26200069 American workers. The day aims to deliver 3500000 pieces of federal mail to eligible industrial and commercial employees for monthly Treasury benefits upon retirement at 69. The effort sets a record for eight days, surpassing last spring's WWI bonus distribution.
Henry Friedman of Cleveland was fined 56 dollars and costs for possessing gambling paraphernalia including punch boards and prize leather jackets. Andrew Garsick, arrested with Friedman, had similar charges dismissed. Police saw the punch boards in their car on West Avenue last week.
Mayor D A Baird fined Richard B Lrons of Lorain for speeding 39 mph on Lodi street at 1 13 am and charging costs. Richard Van Horn of Lorain was fined for crashing a traffic light at West River and Lodi street and for driving without proper brakes after arrest at 9 pm yesterday.
Lake County dog warden reports 32 sheep killed and 15 injured in one flock last week. County agents note similar incidents in nearby districts as efforts to curb attacks continue.
A fragment describes a cigarette and a car turning a curve as police report details unfold. The text mentions Mrs Ethel Fees of 347 Seventh Street as part of the continuation.
A three county committee gathers at Miss Alice Bird's home to organize the annual mid winter party for Farm Women's Camp alumni from Lorain Medina and Cuyahoga counties. Members include Mrs. Lewis Jones Penfield Mrs. A J Carpenter Eaton Ava Househ Cleveland Laverne Cleveland Spencer and Louise Maier Cleveland. The party is set for December 14 with invitations to husbands and a possible venue shift to southeast Lorain County.
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co received approval from the state public utilities commission to file an agreed natural gas rate schedule for Ridgeville Spain country. The plan sets initial 309 cubic feet monthly at 20 cents per 130 cubic feet and 7 cents for the next tier with a $1 minimum. over six years rates rise to 32 cents per hundred with a $2 minimum.
In Hahntown Pennsylvania on November 15 five Gubanic siblings aged 71 11 5 13 and 6 perished in their second floor bedrooms as a blaze swept a family home. Neighbor Mike Warco raised the alarm. parents Mr and Mrs Gubanic survived with help from a son-in-law who carried Mrs Gubanic to safety.
Rep. John H. Hoeppel and his son Charles were denied reconsideration by the Supreme Court of their conviction on charges of conspiracy to sell a West Point appointment. The pair had sought to overturn the conviction and bring the case to a higher review.
Street reports a wrist injury after a collision with a car driven by Charles Fees and a machine driver by W L Parcell of 15 Sherman Street at Fifth Street Alley and West Avenue. Woodin and Holton damage in front of Horton's driveway at 1 30 a m. Police report a collision on Broad Street between Blaser and Dodsley. Mayola rear ended on Broad Street by Vass after Saturday incident. Deputy sheriffs log accidents at Rowe 20 Avon Belden Road and other city streets.
Cleveland livestock market reports steady demand with cattle receipts around 3,500 head. Prices show active trading for calves and sheep and lambs with calves down slightly and cattle firm on averages.
A compilation of farmers across states criticizes or supports the agricultural programs, with quotes from Raymond Cooper in New York to J A Book in Pennsylvania and Foster R Hardman in West Virginia. They argue for farmer control, educational soil conservation, and caution against revival of the AAA and production controls.
Major D. A. Baird suspended fines of 5 dollars and costs for intoxication in the cases of Elmer Wibber and Dave Forbes. Wibber was arrested yesterday and Forbes on Saturday.
A concise reflection states that what men believe about God directly influences how they treat their fellow humans, linking theology to daily ethical behavior and social life.
Los Angeles detectives prepared to search the Manhattan Beach estate of state of Gouverneur Morris for a 32 caliber lead slug linked to the death of Red Russell, 25, an automobile salesman, last Sept. 26. Investigators aim to trace the slug to its origin and check its trajectory against the man’s described position, while a young witness recalled seeing police extract a bullet from a swing frame and discard it as a .22 caliber.
CLATHE Kansas Nov 16 The engagement of Mary Pickford to Buddy Rogers will be announced Friday in Hollywood Judge Bert Rogers father of the star and orchestra leader said today He talked by long distance telephone to Miss Pickford and Rogers Mrs Rogers would go to Hollywood for the announcement Rogers recalled the call and Mary confirmed the impending nuptials He said he was not informed when Rogers would marry the former wife of Douglas Fairbanks
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