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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1937
Page
7
The community celebrates the 100th anniversary of St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Elyria. The piece lauds a century of service devotion and spiritual guidance, contrasting past and present life while stressing the church’s enduring influence and plans for growth in the years ahead.
Secretary of Commerce Roper, speaking before thousands of Carolina farmers, urged limiting farm subsidies and warned against overuse of subsidies and superimposed controls. He advocated gradual move to production and distribution efficiency, cautioning tariffs and foreign competition.
A trade magazine notes the United States leads global soap consumption at 3 250 000 000 pounds yearly, about one third of world supply and 25 pounds per person. Denmark and the Netherlands follow, while India and China show far lower rates, and the piece jokes about changing bathing habits and soap as daily routine.
Today in history and anniversaries feature Hugo Lawson White Andrew Downing Elizabeth Comstock Roscoe Conkling Reuben Gaines Sir William Mackenzie Calvin Goddard Arthur Day Fanny Lea Zoe Akins Rudolph Forster with notes on their birthplaces roles and deaths plus a 1835 1867 1881 1910 1920 1936 timeline and a line about 37 000 maritime workers tying up Pacific ports and Roosevelt speech in New York.
October 31 1987 horoscope highlights restlessness and enthusiasm for those born today with schemes sometimes succeeding yet energy wasted on strife. Birthdays include Gertrude Atherton and Lynn P Talley. Also a note on U S car ownership: about two thirds have never bought a new car, 36 million owners, 9 million new buyers.
More than 700 men women and children attended Elyria Eagles Hall for the Fall and Winter parade of free events. Guests enjoyed dancing Monte Carlo and refreshments after a masked ball with top prizes awarded to Miss Sylvia Chervenia and David Nagle.
A meditation contrasts Peter and Paul on obedience to God over secular law, citing Chief Justice Hughes and Bishop Anderson. It argues moral allegiance to God can outweigh state duty when freedoms clash, noting martyrs as seeds of the church and prompting reflection on religious liberty and conscience.
Miss Edna Moore announces the week’s new non fiction titles at the E Yia Library. Books include Human Psychology by Stiles Zeppelin by Lehmann Productive Sheep Husbandry by Coffer Grow Them Indoors by Wood June Moon by Lardner The Crisis of Civilization by Belloc Remembering Laughter by Stegner On Borrowed Time by Watkin and others.
In Marseilles France archaeologist Henri Rolland reports the unearthing of foundations of an ancient fort thought to be a Greek Acropolis guarding the lower Rhone valley between the Berre Etang and Rhone Delta near tere.
Quanah Texas pioneers a cooperative movement with a functioning network including a filling station, lumber yard, feed store, farm implement store, grain elevator, and cream station, illustrating a regional shift toward shared resources.
Oberlin College graduate John Gurney, now with the Metropolitan Opera, is chosen by the audition jury to aim for national fame on the Sealtest third program. He will perform Verdi and Mussorgsky arias with the Sealtest orchestra led by Alexander SmalIens, backed by a 60-voice chorus and special soloist Velik.
Funeral services were held for Mrs Nettie Scarborough age 78 at the Nova M E church with Rev Norris In charge. Burial followed at Nashville cemetery. Rev Lucius Adams named to pastor Antioch M E church also serving Fletcher Chapel Green Briar and Moffet Chapel. Peter Standaher of Dillon Mont left for home after visiting at the William Obling home. Mr and Mrs C F Hanville and son Dan and Mr and Mrs Clyde Wertz visited Columbus with Miss Alberta Hanville now a student nurse at Children’s Hospital. Mr and Mrs Bud Norris of Cleveland spent the week with their parents Mr and Mrs W A Muche. Mrs Maggie Culbertson progress truncated.
A local resident has spent the past several months at the W. A. Mudhe home and has now returned to Elyria. Mr. and Mrs. Kent Rowland were overnight guests of relatives in Findlay recently.
Great Britain tops the list with seven longest daily non-stop runs on railways worldwide, all powered by steam. The leader is the Flying Scotsman, a 392.7 mile stretch by the London North Eastern Railway.
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