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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1929
Page
6
The September enrollment in Elyria public schools rose to 5062 students from 4672 last year. Grade schools account for 3560 and the high school 1442. attendance rates reached 98.2 in grade schools and 98.1 in the high school. Perfect attendance hit 3762 compared with 3317 last September, while tardiness fell to 207 from 240 and truancy to 12 from 13.
The Garford School led with 99 percent attendance while 28 rooms posted 98 percent or higher and no tardiness in a month except one kindergarten. Allen School topped for punctuality with one tardy per 45 students, and the high school followed with one per 30. McKinley, Jefferson, Garford, Franklin, Ely, Washington, Roosevelt, and Hamilton showed varying ratios. One room earned a quarter holiday for high attendance or no tardiness, with additional holidays granted after another quarter day or at semester end. Three-wheel motorcycles were a feature of Oslo’s show.
New Pistons and Rings will restore that new car feeling to your motor. The expense is more than justified by the improved performance. See us about the cost. Address Service Phone 2051 728 W. Broad St.
The Ohio Society in New York met today to discuss the old cowbell affair. Mrs Irvin Bastian of Clyde Ohio surrendered the family heirloom as part of the proceedings. The notice highlights a ceremonial call to order and the society’s activities.
Historic notes trace an Ohio cowbell used to call meetings near Broadway, tied to John Heter who brought it from Baden in 1735 as a religious exile. The article recounts Alfred Jacoby, born in an abandoned stage coach station in 1857, now a Fresno engineer living in a growing city with extensive vineyard land and irrigation reaches.
Brussels October 14 Americans displayed vertical striped flags for the first time at the dedication of the memorial bridge over the Scheldt Eyre. Members of the 37th Ohio Division AFL PL Five flags appeared in Eyre, all homemade by a Eyne housewife who made them for herself and neighbors. In Kansas Sabetha a merchant offered a 55 pound watermelon to anyone who could carry it home without setting it down, won by Rev A L Hope after an eight block walk.
A new Western Presbyterian Church will be built here replacing the old structure sponsored by President Franklin Pierce. The previous church in which President Ulysses S. Grant often worshipped is to be replaced and should not be confused with Lincoln’s New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
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