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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1936
Page
11
County agricultural extension agent C. J. Hummel noted a potential frost impact on late garden crops, estimating only a few still in ground may be damaged. He cited late bean plantings by a handful of farmers taking a risk for an early harvest as frost approached. Earlier light frosts caused little damage and are expected to ease digging conditions for Delpi potatoes still green.
Hallowe en festivities were enjoyed by 29 couples last night at the Y Indus Club's annual party at Camp Iss See Kes on the Vermilion river. Games occupied most of the evening and a luncheon followed. The club announced its next meeting will be at 7 p m next Monday and a bowling tournament will follow.
A reader from Columbia Station Ohio writes to the Voice Of The People column praising past items and offering a brief reflection on virtue and expression. The letter cites scriptural lines about aiding the fatherless and widows and warns words once spoken cannot be recalled.
Stanley Trembeski was fined 35 and costs after arraignment before Major Don A. Baird for disorderly conduct following a Broad Street arrest last night. John Potlack received a 1 fine plus costs for intoxication after an arrest on Jefferson Street. Sam DeFazio was fined 2 plus costs for reckless driving on an offense from Sunday.
Rev. P Raymond Powers at the First M E Church Preaching Mission urged the influence of women in shaping national issues and votes. He warned that women’s pursuit of rapid success could threaten motherhood and the home, calling for church leadership in moral reform.
Jack Dickason son of City Building Inspector Hart Dickason is recovering in a Louisville hospital from an emergency appendectomy. He recently graduated from Ohio State University and enrolled as a medical student at the University of Louisville. The note ends with a quote attributed to Isaac Newton about loving and constantly thinking of discoveries.
Word arrived that Mrs. Mamie Rentzer died Monday at her daughter Gladys Trope’s home in East Cleveland after a three month illness. She was sixty three and lived on a farm north of Oberlin before moving to Cleveland. She was the eldest daughter of the late Frank Parsons of Russia township and is survived by her son Harlan of Rochester New York, three grandchildren, and sisters Mrs. Elia Cox of Cuyahoga Falls, Mrs. H G Kelly, and Mrs. H P Sandrock of Oberlin. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 PM at G W Edick Funeral Home, 1877 East 82nd Street, Cleveland.
Mrs Frank Felkner and Miss Mary White led a Hallowe'en party for the Oberlin Business and Professional Women's club at Felkner's East College home. Twenty-one members attended in costume, with prizes won by Miss Mabel Wade, Mrs Ada Cook and Mrs Mar Chesbro. Refreshments followed late. The next meeting, a Thanksgiving party, will be held on November wa r.
The Scerosis group met yesterday afternoon at Mrs. C T Craig’s Forest Street home. Principal speaker Mrs F W Tobin gave a review of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.
A Townsend plan rally will be held Friday evening October 39 at 7 45 in the Oberlin high school auditorium. Major Comings presides and Rev William Smith gives the invocation. Speakers include Raymond J Jefferies among others.
Elyria Lodge No. 103 I O O F held its annual homecoming in the temple on Tuesday evening with a large attendance. Attorney Howard R. Butler introduced Mayor D A Baird who praised city departments and urged citizen cooperation for a safer, better Elyria.
Members of the Senior Hi Y club and their guests will attend a Halloween party at Camp Iss See Kes on the Vermilion River tonight. It is the club’s first social event of the 1936 37 season with a planned program of entertainment and refreshments.
A miniature pioneer village built from match sticks by boys in YMCA summer classes is on display at the Elyria Savings and Trust Company. The group spent weeks constructing houses blockhouses and other features reflecting early western settlement life.
Parke Summer, Townsend congressional candidate, will discuss the economics of the Townsend Plan during a town meeting. The event features Maxi mus, who will also speak on the plan at the Townsend venue.
Mrs. B. F. Tennes welcomed the Literature Department of the Oberlin Women's club yesterday at her residence on North Professor street. Mrs. K. L. Cowdery spoke on French Poetry of the 18th Century in the afternoon program.
The Brotherhood class at the First Methodist church held a Monday evening meeting at the church to elect officers for the coming year. Joe E. Collins was chosen president while A. F. Champney was named secretary treasurer. Fred Brandt heads the social committee and Thomas Corlett leads the flower committee. A social time followed the business session.
Miss Mary 5B. Ervin of Xenia dedicates the week of October 25 30 to temperance education in schools nationwide. She will address Oberlin High School Thursday morning and speak at Pleasant Street and Prospect schools with session times listed.
The Oberlin Women’s club will meet Friday October 30 at 3 p.m. at 3 Fast College street, at the homes of Miss Ella J. Pope and Mrs. W G Maherr. Mrs LE Burger will speak in place of Dr. Robert N. Montgomery of Muskingum College who is unable to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Wilcox of Elm Street are spending two weeks in Connecticut and other East locations. The Rev. L. E. Daniels left Monday for Gambier to deliver his annual five semester lectures on Church Music at Bexley Hall, Kenton College. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Burgner of East College Street visited New Concord for the weekend with President and Mrs. Robert Montgomery of Muskingum College. Miss Dorothy Barer, Oberlin High School teacher, spent the weekend at her Columbus home.
William McGuire died suddenly at his home on La Grange road last evening at 7 06 He was born in La Grange August 3 1873 and was a farmer He was a member of St Marys church the Knights of Columbus and the Holy Name Society Surviving are his wife Louise and numerous nieces and nephews The funeral is Friday at 9 20 with Rev Fr James Daler officiating Burial will be in St Marrs cemetery
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Martin of 1206 Fourth Street who died yesterday morning will be held Thursday afternoon at 1 39 from the Sudro Curtis Funeral Home and at 2 00 from St Johns Lutheran church. Rev Armin Schroeder will officiate and burial will be in Ridgelawn.
Two hundred YMCA boys division memberships were reported last night as workers in the campaign made final reports. They expect more may join as winter weather slows outdoor activities, and hope to reach 504 members by year end.
Mrs. A Witt of 218 Eastern Heights Blvd reports to police that her car license YU725 was stolen from in front of Parma High School last evening while visiting with their son William a teacher there.
In Phoenix on October 28 Justice Charles R. Jones united Archie Lavar Jones and Ada Jones of Virden in marriage. S. M. witnesses were John B. Jones and Parly P. Jones.
Ohio Governor candidate and Attorney General John Bricker spoke to more than 1700 Oberlin students in Finney Chapel arguing against political interference in government and criticizing opposing tactics. He warned that national politics would unbalance duties with burdens and noted tax increases over his tenure. Daniel Morgan accompanied him from Cleveland.
A series of civil suits and a criminal arrest are reported. Claims include 350 dollars for an auto collision near Welliston, 1550 foreclosure in Lorain, 3125 rent dispute verdict for Vera Miller, and divorces or rent actions involving residents of Elyria Meister Road and Elyria area. An arrest for failure to pay court costs follows a support action in Sanduski.
Oberlin College political science professor J. D. Lewis told the Public Affairs Society that a sharp realignment of groups in the upcoming campaign is underway. He compared 1940 to 1896, noting labor and unemployed workers rally behind Roosevelt and potential shifts toward a labor or farmer labor party, while the Democratic party may remain a coalition. Lewis also tied party evolution to economic recovery, reemployment, and breaking the view that representing a specific economic group makes a party un American.
Emeritus geology and geography professor G H Hubbard is in Granville to lecture at Denison University. Tonight he discusses the Geography and Geology of the Gaspee before the Scientific Society of Denison and tomorrow lectures to geology students.
Twenty-five Lerain County farmers were named to a committee to promote a dairy feeding school opening next month under the county extension service. The group met at Pittsfield Town Hall to plan sessions, with Jack Nesbitt of Heard's Dairyman planned for visits. The school, to be at La Grange, will run November 12, 19, and December 3, 10, and 17, with Ohio State University extension specialist C. L. Blackman as instructor.
Beverly Monda Lenore Weidman and Charlotte Grier are among patients brought to Gates Hospital from a wide area after the active stage of infantile paralysis. They receive treatment as soon as the disease passes its active phase and cannot be moved during that period. The Warm water pool is a key part of the therapy at Gates Hospital.
Five Lorain County music teachers and supervisors were appointed to a committee to choose a seventh and eighth grade music book for county schools. Gerald M. Frank announced the panel with Miss Marjorie Howe as chairman and other members Miss Eva Featherston Miss Marie Rice Miss Marguerite Spelbrink and Miss Dorothy Leinhard.
Market news shows cattle and calves steady with varied prices across grades. Sheep and lambs rise modestly while hogs and stags move, grain futures list bids for wheat corn and oats in Toledo elevators and market notes.
The piece quotes Gov. Landon blasting the administration for patronage and political machine control. He vows a good old fashioned house cleaning, extension of the merit system, and a real reorganization to curb government abuse and save taxpayers money.
Elyria High School with more than 1 700 students can be emptied in two minutes and 20 seconds per Principal C P Shively after a fire drill last week.
Ridgeville Township and Columbia Township lists reveal candidates including N. J. Hoskins, Arthur Hawk, A. W. Palmer, J. H. Schuster, Clvrde Van Wormer, Ralph Ring, Otis Lyndes, and Ora Crocker as the appointed officials for the upcoming municipal determination.
A fragmented price sheet lists various vegetables and fruits with unit sizes and approximate costs. Items include apples in 15 basket lots, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cucumbers, grapes, lettuce, peppers, potatoes, spinach, squash, turnips, tomatoes, and more, with inconsistent OCR errors and units.
Quotations show hay and straw care furnished by the sheets Elevator No. 4 and Montana Melling Up. Corn wheat and oats priced by the bushel and ton with feeds and mill products listed. Prices: oats No. 3 yellow 42.3 to 45. corn No. 3 yellow 1.07 to 1.24. wheat No. 2 red 1.20 to 1.25. flour and meal rates vary with spring and standard grades. hay and straw by lot with several No. grades for timothy, mixed, clover, and alfalfa plus straw prices.
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