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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1920
Page
3
The Rialto theatre presents a reper of high class musical comedies during Labor Day week with matinee. The company features show girls and a chorus noted for beauty and charm, promising a complete change of play each night and a series of musical numbers designed to captivate audiences.
A Colonial Theatre production opens tomorrow titled The Walk Offs, a fashionable social satire set in New York and Virginia society. The story follows Ithleen Rutherford, a moneyless young woman, and her romance with a wealthy Southerner, contrasting modern love with rigid class norms. Written by Frederic and Fanion, directed by Oliver Morosca, the play boasts grand staging and a melodramatic clash of cultures.
Cago on September 4 reports say railroad workers alert district attorney to a planned sabotage campaign. Rail yards face theft of ties and equipment, violence against roving crews, and an atmosphere of fear as striking labor clashes unfold across Chicago and the Milwaukee and St Paul lines. Officials recount beatings, near misses, and damaged locomotives, with no fatalities recorded yet.
A premiere vaudeville styled program at Rialto theatre features Freud Whitfield and Mart Levanud in Amphi-Ville with special scenery. Kerr and Ensign violinists, Lucy Nn, The Model Baker’s act, Irene Edison in A Safety Dot, Raines and Navy, and Howard-Moore Lane add variety. Two reel Fox comedy and one reel News Weekly complete the bill at 2:30 pm and 6:15 pm showings.
The Lorain County Teachers Institute closed with resolutions praising city education support, ministers, instructors, officers, musicians and all contributors. They urged administrative and teaching efforts to raise Ohio to first educational status, support enrollment growth, and requested mailed general meeting details and daily program notices. Officers elected: President E Kerr Wellington, Secretary-Treasurer I J Vaughn Elyria, Executive Committee members Seale Oberlin Joseph Elyria Kaiser Lorain Powers Amherst Sigsworth Aron.
Louie China Young is announced as assistant Boys' Work Secretary of the local M C A. A former high school athlete, he joined the Navy during the war and recently returned from Russia after active service experiences.
In Nashville Tennessee Governor Roberts said a certified copy of the recent House journal noting an attempt to rescind ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was mailed to Secretary of State Colby in Washington. Opponents hope the action will be used as evidence in Supreme Court review, while suffragists say it does not affect Colby’s suffrage proclamation.
Report notes total money from all motor vehicles sold in 1919 topped the value of coal mined in America the previous year. In France gasoline stations are to be set up on Paris boulevards under city authorities direction.
Fire at a Ringewood spot of the BMT in New York caused 24 estimated injuries or losses. Striking Brooklyn transit workers pressed for higher wages and shop rules as officials and labor leaders debated, with a long, uncertain standoff ahead. Traffic on subway lines gradually recovered as talks continued.
Melton Phelps and John Pekras are charged with misusing funds. The article notes continued coverage on the train page. The plaintiff seeks an accurate account from George L. Nye and Charles Reisinger regarding the transaction details.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson donated a striking black velvet gown trimmed with electric blue silk to the U S National Museum. Worn at a Pan American ball in Washington before her marriage, the dress was altered several times since its first use. The First Lady told officials the gown had been remade over the years.
The filing alleges the defendants Melton Phelos and John Pekras sold or disposed of property or rights held by them or under their control and attempted to divert value to the pair. Phelos reportedly left Wy ria for Greece to visit his mother with whereabouts unknown. Local residents Mr and Mrs H C Johnson and son Phillip have returned from a New England tour. In 1919 US auto output reached 1,974,016 units, surpassing births by 629,024.
The Amherst Automatiser plant closed last evening and will reopen Tuesday morning on an eight hour day. Over half the workforce has been laid off, according to men seeking work at Elyria plants.
A fragment notes a Methodist church event at Weslovenisele Church with attendees Will hers and tareon slpper, scheduled for Tuesday. The readable text is incomplete but indicates a church gathering on a Tuesday.
September 1 at 6130 a. m. election of officers for the coming year will be held at this meeting followed by a gathering.
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