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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1931
Page
3
Lexington Kentucky October 9 A morning fire destroyed the grandstand judges stand and betting sheds of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association track. Loss was estimated at 75000. The track was the oldest trotting facility west of the Alleghenies.
Amherst Ohio October meeting of the Sorosis Club was held at the home of E. G. Pletch on Cleveland Ave with Miss Margaret Rice as assistant hostess. The evening opened with the regular business session led by president Mrs. C. C. Kern. A tentative program was outlined for future events.
Mrs. R L May chairs the program committee and 15 members respond to roll on Modern Invention. Papers on Gandhi and The Religions of India are read. A book review on Seed is given. A luncheon follows with many named attendees. Church Night at First Evangelical honors elderly members, Leadership Training starts, and midweek service moves to Wednesday. Eagles Auxiliary meets with social hour. Ambitious town events include A H S band rehearsal and drum major selection. Amherst groups plan October meeting at St Josephs hall. Leimbach funeral rites set for Brownhelm burial. Circle No 2 hosts St Anne’s Society meeting at Mrs Finnegan’s.
A London store executive estimates that the average woman spends one sixth of her life shopping and suggests men would need all their time to do the same amount of work, highlighting gendered labor perceptions in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette note.
A writer recalls the link between bird imagery and stupidity, noting that the old fool or jester wore a peacock feather in his cap. The quip traces to days when feathered plumage signified folly and mockery.
Amherst High Sophomore class selected purple and gold as colors at a Thursday meeting led by Donald Fullmer. Dues were set. Separately, about 30 students and faculty will visit Oberlin for High School Day including tea, visits, a football game and a dance with scholarship exams possible. Other items include plans for an Armistice Day program led by Miss Marion Steele and Supt. Powers, a Junior class meeting about dues, and a choir rehearsal at St. Peter's Evangelical Church at 7:30 p.m.
The text discusses the English provincialism so long as an adopted American greeting. It cites J Redding Ware and his Passing of the English of the Victorian Era. It notes the claim that so long originated in Whitechapel London as a corruption of the Jewish selah and spread across England.
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