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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1939
Page
14
The report covers multiple Elyria area gatherings including the Employed Young Women’s League lecture by Mrs Wenner on etiquette, a Galaxy club gathering at Mrs Ericsson’s Lakewood home with bridge results, and town group meetings planning Halloween activities and guest speakers. It notes birthdays honored at Elyria Home for the Aged dinner, an upcoming homecoming, and club discussions on attendance and social conduct.
Mrs Richard Timms hosted a Tuesday meeting of the North Side Guild of St Andrews Episcopal Church on Ohio Street. Twelve members attended including Mrs Bigler of Michigan. Chairman Mrs Kieth Clotz led the session, with future plans a rummage sale and a prettily appointed tea table. Miss Louise Baker of Harrison Street will entertain the next Guild gathering.
The record lists individuals from Lorain and nearby areas in paired license entries. Names include Joseph Polgar, Julia Pagncs, William H Mills, Betty Mope Stephen son, J Kromray, Edith Compana, Frederick Gaiwaki, Pauline Novak, Crartes B. Nott, Ethea E. Trifidetti, Albert Vollrath, and Stella Loose, with ages and occupations such as service station attendant, steel worker, farmer, truck driver, painter, and the towns Lorain LaGrange Ridgeville Miami.
Roosevelt Girl Reserves held elections in the kindergarten room with Florence Kaminski as president and Dorothy Skriletz as vice president. Other officers included Mary Petrus secretary Georgetta Tomp son treasurer Eleanor Potyok reporter and Dorothy Skirlett historian. Plans were made for a hare and hound hike at Elywoods and a Halloween party, with the meeting closing after the song Follow the Gleam.
At Elnora Farkes home the Chiquita club organized a Halloween party for October 27 and chose Mystery Sisters. The group will save tax stamps for the Oberlin Children's Home. An anniversary dinner is set for October 19 at Marny's. Bingo prizes went to Betty Karlow and Dolores Coven. A club meeting is planned for October 24 at the Coven residence on Furnace Street.
A senior class sponsored series titled News Notes opens Thursday October 12 with Fall frolics presented by Stage Arts Studio Elyria featuring specialty numbers toe and tap dancing chorus work acrobatic feats and individual songs. The piece is an abbreviated version of Elyria Day at the New York World’s Fair and proved popular enough to warrant a second program next year. Also notes list local visits and moves including Mr and Mrs Kenneth Crowell Meadville Pa with relatives in town, Dr and Mrs B W Baker hosting Polly, John Nagy moving to Elyria, Haskin family visit in Salem, Ed Crapp changing garages and installing Eaton telephone service. The U S Camera Annual reports annual sales around 25000 copies.
Mrs Mervin Schubert with guests from Evansville Indiana visited the Udvary and Hen son households in Lorain on Friday. Mrs Minnie Brucker and Amherst family were supper guests of the Bruckers on Sunday. Mr Nelson Bechtel visited his mother Mrs Annie Alsop in South Amherst on Sunday.
A Paris jury of men and women posed questions to candidates for Chief of Passive Defense Squad Certificates. The report notes a separate figure that the Latin American market was valued at a quarter billion dollars to Germany last year.
A note on the word expurgete tracing its Latin roots to a sense of making something pure. It explains the term’s linguistic lineage and basic meaning without broader context.
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