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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1939
Page
11
The Elks hall hosts a Sadie Hawkins Day Dance on Friday November 3 with the Y Industrial Club sponsoring. The event mirrors Dog Patch tradition including hillbilly decorations and a women robber dance, but music comes from Ad Mueller and his Oberlin College orchestra, not hillbilly.
Jimmie Fidler reports Hollywood embraces a revival of slapstick as studios prep new and classic gag filled films. Fox previews Hollywood Cavalcade and lines up a feature feast while RKO and others push pastry fueled comedy to lure audiences for six months.
A collage of studio gossip and star notes on Ann Sheridan Rita Johnson Alice Brady Brenda Joyce and George Brent. Comments on Bing Crosby Jeanette MacDonald and Dick Powell plus Warner Brothers adding an Indien sequence to Errol Flynn’s Virginia City for his friend Howard Hill.
A reflective piece traces childhood scenes from past eras. It recalls bedtime routines marked by clocks not broadcasts, fashion, policing of modesty, home comforts, and early Spring symbols like the organ grinder and the robin as the season arrives.
A collage of show business quips and backstage gossip touches on steam shovel myths, forest mortgages, campaign costs, Dietrich glow ups, Technicolor lighting costs, John Howard in Detroit, and final scenes for Another Thin Man. It also notes Orson Welles Heart of Darkness buzz and Cecil B. DeMille Par amount rehearsals plus Eddie Anderson practice banter.
October notices list meetings at the town hall including Boy Scout Troop 137 and the board of Recreation Center. The Ladies Dime Society hosts a semi annual dinner at Congregational church parlors. Townsend Club No 1 meets Thursday evening. A fish fry at Nativity Church Friday begins at 5 pm. Ruth Van Wagnan, NYA supervisor, visits October 30 for job openings. Village Council met with routine business and favorable committee reports.
Wellington students join Lorain County peers for a holiday as the Northern Ohio Teachers Association convenes in Cleveland for a day long session. Local football plans note coach Leo Grimes will lead Vermilion High to a Thursday 3 30 pm game.
Wellington Kiwanis Club has secured Charles H. Plattenburg of Columbus as speaker for Thursday noon luncheon. Plattenburg represents the Ohio Emergency Committee and will discuss the proposed Bigelow amendments to the Ohio Constitution.
Henrietta Mrs. Richard Sanders accompanied Mrs. Almon Brosicker of Rugby and Mrs. Belle S Brosicker of South Amherst to Conneaut Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Engie and son Elyria were weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Currier. Mrs Chauncey Currier and daughters Madge and Ruth were
Mrs S H Hummell acted as gracious hostess as 17 members met October 23. Airs Martin Hopkins of Cleveland spoke on Books That You Might Have Missed in Your Summer Reading. Guests included Miss Pennington and Miss Newcomber, with plans to dine at the Clisby home and later a September 30 appointment noted with Mrs. William Bennett.
The note lists several clubs and hosts including Mrs. Leo Hopkins and Mrs. Mar Elizabeth McConnell with a Hallowe en party, Wellington Grangers at their hall, Entre Nous club hosted by Mrs Violet Curiice, Elias Cooper Junior club Hallowe en party, Hamlin Women's Relief Coins tea at Mrs Maude Sheller, Sunnysiders Hustlers and Outdoor clubs with Lillian Davis, Past Nobie Grend Association of Lilywood Rebekah lodge with Mrs Van Carmen, and St Patricks annual turkey dinner at Herrick auditorium next Sunday feeding 300 to 400 people with prizes.
Mrs Roy McCormick attends a series of May lectures by John Thompson, published under Schirmney Music Co. The Cleveland event features Thompson, a noted authority on teaching piano to children, at May Company Auditorium.
The Norwalk District Methodist church Booth Festival will be held at New London on November 3. All residents with fruit or other items for the event are asked to deliver them to the church by Friday.
Members of the Wellington Odd Fellows lodge enjoyed an oyster supper at their lodge rooms last night. Regular business followed the meeting.
An indictment of penal systems embittering homeless youth is presented in the play Dust Be My Destiny, opening Thursday at the Capitol Theatre.
The film tells how a handful of American officers led Filipinos against a Moro chieftain. Charles Heidrich and family attended the funeral of Mrs. Anna Bristol at Axtel Tuesday afternoon.
West River Road items note visits and gatherings. George Langton and Homer Hurlbut stayed with Columbus relatives. Edna MacDowell of Elyria visited. Margaret Bybee of Columbus visited family in Columbus. The Roberts and Hurd families traveled, and Rose Hurd joined a Sunday visit. J G Morris called on Irma Griffin at Memorial Hospital.
An advertisement promotes Peterson's Ointment as a quick relief for itchy eczema pimples red blotches and external skin irritations. It claims prompt itching relief improves skin feel and appearance and soothes tired feet with cracks between toes. Priced 35 cents at all druggists with money back if not delighted.
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