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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1931
Page
5
County treasurer N. D. Backus starts a new two year term on Tuesday after Labor Day. He plans salary adjustments across his office, with an overall decrease around $100 while some positions gain and others lose based on merit.
Mary, age 38 per register as 58 by County Jailor Clarence Walkden, was admitted by deputies who taunted Walkden. She is held on a vagrancy charge in Oberlin after county officials offered commitment to the county home, which she refused, opting for a jail sentence. Fined $19 plus costs, about 12 days in jail if unable to pay.
Captain and Mrs A E Avery are to be welcomed as heads of Salvation Army work in Elyria with their first official city service in the Salvation Army Hall at 574 Broad Street. The public program features songs by Capt and Mrs Avery following the 2 p.m. Sunday School. They come from Sandusky where they also served Salvation Army work.
Northern Ohio Catholics planned a huge Sunday rally at Cleveland Stadium under Holy Name Society auspices. About 100000 worshippers from 204 parishes were to attend with trains from Akron Ton, Youngstown, Barberton, Massillon, Lorain and other northeastern points.
Word has been received of the death of Mrs Mary L Robertson aged 76 wife of Charles C Robertson of Toledo She taught at an eighth grade and later in high school a resident of Seventh Street Her husband a retired New York Central engineer survives Funeral services take place in Toledo this afternoon.
Cleveland Q Sept 5 police fear a dynamite attack marks a racket campaign to intimidate grocers. Reports say a gang demanded payment for protection or exclusive supplies from a gang operated wholesale, reaching Central police in recent days.
Vehicles owned by William Wangler of Bellevue and Mrs. May Leis of Vermilion collided on Broad Street yesterday when Mrs. Leis began moving her car from the curb. Minor damage reported. A separate incident left a Fender damaged on Fred Burks’s car at 248 Marseilles Avenue after a truck driven by William Wack backed into it on Olive Street. Fire crews extinguished an awning fire at the Inskeep Shop on Court Street caused by a cigarette. No other damage noted.
Mayor James A. Hewitt urges the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to require mesh screens on the left side of buses passing through or operating in Ohio. The proposal follows a recent accident in which two youths injured when a car side-swiped a bus. Hewitt notes interstate buses cannot be regulated and calls for state action.
Edbtia school students will experience a half day during the second week of the 1431-32 school year to allow attendance at the Lorain County Fair. The board of education approved the half day at a special meeting on Friday evening with the exact date to be set for either Tuesday September 15 or Wednesday September 16, per Superintendent R C Masten.
The Chicago school system faces a funding shortfall as the board cannot pay back wages for summer and fall assignments totaling across the district. No money exists to cover back wages or next week’s labor, with October tax receipts seen as the first potential payment source, contingent on property tax collections.
At Moundsville West Virginia guard shot and killed 32 year old Wilfred Morgan as he tried to escape solitary confinement. Five shots fired as Morgan, serving a 1922 Fremont commitment, made his third break attempt. Warden Scroggins orders investigation.
Safety Director Edwin D. Barry ordered barring radio sets from Central police station and 18 precinct stations in Cleveland on September 5. Officers lose access to football games, the World Series, and dance orchestras as the city tightens controls on staff entertainment.
Mra Dwight Flory, 43, of Ansconia Conn, suffered a fractured right arm and Mrs John Smith of Connecticut sustained minor bruises when a car carrying them was struck by a Ford driven by August Golde of Lakewood. The collision occurred on Cleveland Street as the vehicle skidded on wet rails. Responding police said the injured were taken to Memorial Hospital.
William Masterton 69 of Dev on Courts is in serious condition at St John’s hospital Cleveland after a Southwestern bus collided with an auto on Cliton Boulevard. Fellow passengers Elyria and Everett Knowles 23 were uninjured except Masterton who suffered facial head lacerations and possible skull fracture. Bus owner Willis Bhinsley of Elyria is named.
Alfst ats and Slerman Duvall pleaded not guilty to liquor possession after arraignment before Mayor A Hewitt. They were held under $40 bail for trial Wednesday. Police found a five gallon can of alleged whisky in a car linked to Cleveland bootlegging. An accomplice fled as officers pursued, and Brown and Miller waited for the car before it stopped.
In Clarksboro Virginia Hoodlums burned a fence surrounding a foreseen crime scene. Police report three women buried after a murder tied to bluebeard, with observers paying twenty cents to glimpse the scene. Authorities found no crowd at the jail and say a high wooden barrier blocked access while the garage area was saturated with kerosene and set afire.
Bertha Trelka sues Theodore Hruschak for 5000 alleging August 6 assault and battery. First Savings and Loan sues Walter Hadaway for 2471 and Mila Ward et al for 3531 on notes. Foreclosure sought on Carl lisle twp and Elyria property. Clara Mc Daniel seeks divorce from Lewis McDaniel married July 31. Union Joint Stock Bank of Detroit sues Mary E Starkey and Ira Starkey for 3095 on note. Moore Brothers Concrete Block Co sues Chester Wysnynski for 578 and Gaetamo Alexsandro for 456 for materials. Fanny Greer sues Clinton for 2950 and Peter Greer for 359 for damages from a February 27, 1929 collision. Martin Dindrich, 45, returned from Milan, Ohio to answer non-support charge. Heta to be arraigned today. Stanley Mezurek, 42, sentenced to 60 days and fined 10 for assault and battery on Wilma and Celja.
Oberlin Ohio September report says the Oberlin School of Commerce will reopen its fall term Tuesday with expectations of a smaller enrollment than last year due to a weak business mood. Over forty students from last year return for second year secretarial and administrative courses as locals and delegations visit for rooms. Regular enrollment begins Wednesday at 8:30 after Monday and Tuesday enrollment office hours.
A lengthy roster lists mayors clerks treasurers trustees and constables across many townships including Black River Avon Walage Carlisle Columbia Eaton Gratton LaGrange Oberlin Penfield Pittsfield Ridgeville Rochester Shattfield Sheffield South Amherst and others with names such as Rudolph Kieu William Franklin Jr Julius Forthofer and M. W. McQueen. The fragmentary notice outlines official positions in each area and includes boards of education and justice of the peace as part of the civic roll.
An overnight forest fire menaced a logging town near Cochrane with crews from nearby towns rushing to aid. The fire burned through timber holdings as winds fanned the blaze, severing eight miles of line near Mare. Twenty eight loggers were believed safe after being trapped. emergency crews worked as transportation and gas supplies were disrupted by the flames.
Readable market notes detail receipts and price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, with Chicago cash quotations for butter eggs poultry and produce. It records fluctuating beef and pork markets, lambs dairy and grain futures, and wholesale commodity prices across multiple regions, brands, and grades.
The Mercantile State bank, twice robbed by modern gangsters, decides to wind up its affairs and pay off all accounts. Cashier John Pugliese cites robbery as a reason for halting banking, ending the institution's operations in Philadelphia. In Urbana, Ohio, the city council asks Ohio Fuel Gas to cut rates to aid business conditions, though no specific reduction is set.
Residents shared an evening with neighbors on Whit Street as Eliza Langton returned from Columbus while other locals hosted guests from Cleveland and Chicago. Attendees included Mr and Mrs J Karman and Mr and Mrs Langton with several young folks, gift showers, and a Willing Workers class meeting at the M E B church. Marian Knapp arrived from Olmstead Falls to visit Frances Stinebring.
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