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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
3
A mutilated passage references Mexico retroactivity and proposed confiscation, mentioning Obregon era officials and a treaty context. The garbled text also alludes to an examination and a high Kentucky official, with an unclear incident involving swallowing and a bean.
A fragmentary page recalls various shops and items including dry goods costs from Isher Bros and George V. Bakery. References to Altman & Aksa, J F street sales, a silver locket, and a plains of bakery products indicate a bustling day with multiple merchants such as C Allen & Brown and Royal Merchants offering savings and electric services.
Across Cleveland Toledo and Chicago reports show cattle and hogs moving slowly with mixed prices while grain futures edge higher on wheat and corn. Chicago wheat gains buoy sentiment amid crop data. cash grain prices vary by grade, with oats and lard futures quoted.
The New York stock market opened irregular with United States Steel up 1-4 to 14 1-3, Bethlem B down 4 3-4, American Sugar sliding 6S 3-4, Sears Roebuck 2-4 lower. Reading opened 13 lower at 66 12, Northern Pacific up 5-8 to 73 5-8 as Tobacco Products fell 1-2e to 60 1-2 before bouncing to 61 1-2. Famous Players gained 1 while Studebaker edged up to 72 1-2.
Gronks Schmauch of Amherst pleaded guilty to wife desertion. He was sentenced to seven months in the Toledo workhouse after arrest in Michigan and return for trial before Judge Redington.
Mrs Harmon Kuss a Cleveland historian was in town on Wednesday. Mrs Kate Merthe and daughter Margaret are visiting Lucy Horn. Carl Walters of Cleveland spent yesterday in town. Viola Weiss and Miss Cameron were in Cleveland on Wednesday. James Henry arrived today from Detroit. Adelbert Hauser and William Bodman are Cleveland visitors today.
At the Ohio State Fair the Department of Poultry Husbandry will demonstrate a poultry sex determinator device claiming to reveal chick sex by handling the device over different birds. Experts call the machine a fake and warn buyers often accept dubious guarantees of guaranteed sex in chick shipments.
Admissions include Mrs J Trinter Vermilion Vera Mariett R F D No 3 West River Street Robert Anderson Elyria Y M C A Laura Reese Ridgeville Mrs Lucy Schubert R F D No 2 Oberlin Discharges include Mrs Emma Saucer Valley City Mrs B W Galloway RK F D No 2 Henry Phillipe Lake Agency.
Miss Gladva Irene Sperry returns home after visiting West Park Collinwood and Cleveland. Leonard Terry leaves for Philadelphia to join Western Electric Company. Miss Jean Brown returns home after attending Miss Lucy Forbes wedding. Several residents travel or host visitors and plan meetings. S B A meeting set for Friday at 7 45 with prize ticket at door.
Charles Schelder reports from Cab the Take and Mimnessta with Art Réems that he and Réems had a fruitful trip. They photographed northern pike and pickerel catches while Adams records a 15 pound 34.25 inch largest fish.
The College of Music at Oxford announces Miss Tomson will supervise grades and direct high school choruses and orchestra. She has trained at Oxford, Cincinnati, and Cornell, with work under Jeasie L. Gayner and others, plus recent leadership of Mississippi Normal College music in Hattiesburg. The text notes rising school age to eighteen may boost attendance and business course enrollment. In Hammond Indiana, Sept 1 an Indiana labor federation urges President Harding to remove Baldwin Felts detectives from West Virginia, fully backing miners’ actions.
A veteran drinker named ALEike Kline was arrested for intoxication after a chaotic afternoon. Police report he clung to a kewpie doll found in his pocket as witnesses described Mike as very drunk.
Mildred and Audrey Ruth will stay with Mr and Mrs Henr Kolbe of Amherst during their parents absence. Mr and Mrs A McPherson will occupy the farm until the Ruth return. John Butler sold his farm to Carl Hasenflut and an auction will be held later by John Butler. Mr and Mrs George Aschenach of Elyria spent Sunday with them and Mrs Ed Cook. Mrs Joan Shotten and family visited with Mr and Mrs Shotten of Lakewood. Howard Greening has taken Kenneth Guilds place at William Guilds store. E L Streator and Clark Hixson families visited Elyria Tuesday.
Saturday and Sunday visits fill Baker’s Crossing as Miss Signa Giar and Miss Gladys Hewitt attend events. Neighbors and relatives including the Schurdells, Rickies, Bakers, Wilcoxes, Labories, Knapps, Dirlams, Polleys, and Grants share calls, readings, and Sunday trips to Norwalk and Lodi.
A squad of police responded last evening to quiet a disturbance at 1148 Highland. The scene was brought under control and bars were dispersed as the disturbance persisted in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Wee Lian C. Werner of Camden New Jersey credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing back pains nervous spells and fainting fits enabling her to work and have a healthy baby girl. She urges others to consult the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts for health guidance.
Reports describe heavy fighting along the Logan county line as 4000 to 5000 miners rally from the New River and Kanawha counties. Forces exchange fire with Brownings and Maxims, using dugouts, rocks, and sniper tactics in a rugged border area near the Bene border. Gas alleges to be deployed but not cause lasting injuries.
The chemical warfare service has shipped to West Virginia a large number of 125-pound tear gas bombs. These bombs are poisonous and will be used in aerial attacks on armed forces, temporarily incapacitating any person within 300 yards of release.
The marriage licenses list Wibert Day age 22 and Edith M Prebie age 21 both of Lorain. Reverend A. A. Hunter of Amherst performed the ceremony.
Oberlin resident L. E. Burgner spoke during the State Convention of Insurance Agents of The Great American Company. The session runs Tuesday to Friday with about two hundred in attendance. Burgner spoke on Wednesday and returned to Oberlin Thursday morning.
Oberlin obituary for Myron Wellman aged 67 recounts his birth in Henrietta on November 28 1853 and life in Hays Kansas Topeka Ohio and Oberlin where he cared for the Carnegie Library until health forced retirement Aug 12 His widow Lenora and five children Walter Stella Geneva Maud Otis survive along with two sisters Funeral at his home next Sunday at 1 0 PM with Evergreen Cemetery South Amherst burial.
A young colored lad with a history of trouble stole a pony after beating and intimidating its owner. He attempted to appropriate the animal for his own use and threatened the owner when spoken to. The incident occurred near the golf links as described in the report.
Mrs and Mrs Norman move from 169 North Professor to 136 North Professor. Mrs Everitt Barhams Were land spends week with relatives. Mr and Mrs J D Yocom return from three weeks away. Neighbors host G D Haubberd welcome home party at J D Yocum’s Woodlawn home with thirty five attendees. Harry Parsons moves Matthew Smith Co store goods from Amherst to Oberlin. Dr A B Everitt visits Oberlin with daughter Mrs McAllister. M J Watson travels east for illness in daughter Mrs Glen Mollyneaux. Women’s Home Missionary Society hosts program at First Methodist church parlor followed by refreshments.
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