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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
2
Community snippets recount hospital stays and visits across Oberlin Elyria and nearby towns. Names include Lange Cook Turnbull Frye Bechtel Spiegelberg Ernst and several families visiting relatives in Lorain Kenton and Berlin Heights with Labor Day travels noted. School opens with twelve pupils and Evangelical League hosts events with post convention reports and a birthday cake centerpiece.
Moss Shirley Baus of the Mother's Helpers 4 H Club earned a B second premium for her lunch set, apron, and towel projects at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus.
Relatives gathered Monday evening at Frank Bechtel’s home to celebrate Miss Mary Bechtel’s birthday anniversary. The event featured social time and contests with several honors awarded to participants.
Mrs. Robert E. Lee and Mrs. Edward Lee hosted today September 7 for Group IV of the LaPorte Ladies' Aid Society. Luncheon was served at 12 30 P M by the young women, with Mrs Archie Welton as Group IV chairperson.
Rev and Mrs Thomas Hughes will host the General Aid of LaPorte at the Columbia Town Hall on Wednesday September 13. Members bring a tureen sandwiches and own table service. Election of officers will be held with Ava Pitkin chairing the nominating committee assisted by Mrs Lynne Hamlin and Mrs Archie Welton. The program will be Vacation Echoes with members sharing camping trips from the summer.
Rev Thomas Hughes of LaPorte Methodist Church spoke Sunday at 11 15 urging parishioners to follow Stephens example and act bravely in adversity He will attend a Lakeside Ohio conference this week with Lay Delegate Miss Ava Pitkin slated to attend the Lakeside session on Wednesday
Mrs Henry Rausher was guest of honor at a September gathering of 45 East Carlisle Mother singer members and friends at East Carlisle School. Hostesses included Mrs Frank Harrison and others with prizes awarded for contests and marbles in a jar. Several out of town visitors and family members joined the event amid fresh flowers and baked treats.
The article explains radium’s limited profitability yet rising humanitarian emphasis, detailing its extraction from uranium and other ores, the slow Curie-era process, and the plan for a new million-dollar plant in Port Hope. It notes the extreme rarity of radium, its long-term usefulness, and the elaborate, guarded production steps before encasing in glass needles and lead cartridges for medical use.
Oakdale residents and friends gathered for a homecoming of old ties as Edwin Hardy returned from Detroit to visit family before Labor Day. The group, including the Hardys and Browns, toured Mineral City and Cedar Falls then traced a trip to New Straitsville, Ash Cave, and other sights in southern Ohio. Other seaside travelers visited relatives in southern Ohio, then enjoyed a Michigan weekend making stops from Mt. Pleasant to Bay City and Detroit before returning Tuesday night.
HE press has given space to radium as a possible cancer cure. It recalls Madame Curie and the search for an adequate supply of radium. A Canadian mine at Great Bear Lake yields raw material pitenblende. A modern sub Arctic mining community operates daily year round except one day. Local social notes cover visits and Labor Day gatherings across Akron Medina and Wellington regions.
Modern machinery increases radium extraction at Eldorado Gold Mines Limited in Canada. Logs gave way to air service for supplies and diesel tugs move ore to chemicals. About one hundred tons of pitchblende daily, reduced to two tons after refining. aim is fiftyfold output growth as facilities scale toward full production.
The Banner church group from Rochester will hold a hamburgery at Westlake Park Wellington next Tuesday evening. The Mizpah class plans a regular class party and wiener roast at the same park on Thursday afternoon of next week.
Rev Howard H Patrick delivered his farewell sermon at Rochester Methodist Church on Sunday morning with over 100 attending. A baptismal service occurred then and several worshippers from Clarksfield and Rochester traveled to Lake Erie for another baptism. Special music featured a junior choir number and a solo by Mrs Dell Richards with Mrs George Davidson on piano.
Airs Margaret Alcox led a well attended Marionette Show at Town Hall on Friday afternoon with music drama and crafts. Circle No 4 Harmony Society served lunch while a July 4 Homecoming photo from Akron will be shown Friday night. Several locals travel to events and many neighbors visit, with health updates and attendances noted.
A village council and the township trustees each held regular sessions Monday night in the town hall. Jack Hodgkin and Viola LaVon wed at the State Fair on Monday, shocking relatives. Jack farms for his father and plans to live with his in-laws for a period.
Valley City residents report trips to La Grange Chicago and Pontiac for visits with Gunkelman Krugman and Dean families. Garden and Emmanuel Church groups schedule meetings, a St Martin's chicken dinner, and a Dolch reunion. News covers school reopening, hospital stays, football trip, injuries, and local social visits.
Miss Elsie Beane daughter of Mr and Mrs Bert Goodman and Roger Wood son of Mrs Gertrude Wood of Spencer were wed at Zion's Lutheran church on Saturday at 2 PM Rev Albert Lamprecht officiated The bride wore white silk baby net and satin ribbon with a talisman rose gardenia and baby breath bonnet The wedding party attended the ceremony and a dinner followed at Westlake Hotel Rocky River The couple plans a honeymoon then will reside in Chatham Ohio
Mr and Mrs Edward Westcote of Baltimore visited over the weekend with Mrs Platz and Mr Platz. Janice Arick spent the past week visiting relatives as a relief from a painful backache.
Mrs Anns Schaeffer and grandmother attend A B C Club gathering at Mrs Harry Bauers home with Mrs Geo Wolfe and Mrs Richard Reutter assisting. High scores earned by Mrs Earl Arick Mrs Leonard King and Miss Maude Hauck. Brunswick Valley City Club hosted by Mrs Ralph Feuchter. William Huge on vacation from New York City visits his parents the Huges. Mrs William Reed of Mortel visits daughter Mrs George Wolfe. Mrs Roy Frisk hosts wiener roast for her son James 9th birthday. Mr and Mrs Carlton Good from Newark spend week with Mr and Mrs Guy Penick.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hubbard hosted La Grange High School 1890 graduates at their Elyria cottage on September 3. A large picnic followed a one o'clock meal. The gathering marks the largest LHS class and forty nine years of friendship with next year's reunion planned at the same site plus a fish fry.
Mrs. Lurancy Bauer hosted Wistaria club members in Cleveland with out of town guests from Cleveland and Canton. Luncheon served to twelve. Elyria’s Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sandrock and family joined supper guests Monday with Cleveland relatives. Several locals attended a Cleveland ball game Monday evening. Rev. Norman Weyrich and wife travel to Lakeside for the Methodist conference. No preaching next Sunday morning. Bill Spicer visits before returning to University of Cincinnati. Jean Miller’s knee injury confirmed by X ray. wearing a cast. Wilma Rockwood to teach a musical course in Risingsun schools. Jack Leiby returns to Parma after two weeks here. Sanders attend Manns reunion at Rice’s Dam. Sarah Spicer returns from Cleveland visiting relatives. Weyrich children plan weekend with Bernice Pierce in Strongsville. Mr and Mrs C G Rush and son …
Kenneth spent the week end with Rev. and Mrs. Burton Ryan of Vickery. Mrs. Rush will serve as a lay man delegate to the conference at Lakeside.
Miss Jeanne Wise visited Lakewood with cousin Miss Winifred VerSay and other locals were seen at homes of Mr and Mrs A L Wise Mr and Mrs Ben Smith and daughters from Mansfield called in and California visitors stayed with B T Nesbett and D G Reisinger George Beriswill and family joined by the Martins for Sunday visits Marjorie McGlish wed James Abbott in Cleveland and Marjorie Reisinger returns from California to teach at John Hay Senior High School Labor Day and Pinochle nights at the Grabenstetter home featured prizes for high scores and consolations next gathering planned also guests with the Grabenstetters included Albert Knell and Anthony Knell Mrs William Law visited Mrs Arthur Wagner in Lakewood on Wednesday and more neighbors called in over the week.
Mr and Mrs George E Eberling hosted the second in a series of benefit parties for St Peter's Catholic Church in North Ridgeville on August 31. Seventy eight attended as cards and Bingo provided entertainment. Lunch was served by the hostess and a committee including Mrs AJ Wearsch Rose Loescher Grega Kuchkenrider Carl Bommer Leo Pitts and Fred Bohrer. Donald Bohrer visited Cleveland relatives while Miss Boyle returned to Connecticut after six weeks with the Boyle family. Eskimos of Greenland store geese for winter food.
White Ribbon Remedy can be given secretly in coffee tea or milk and has done much to stop drunk enness. One Woman stopped a drunkard of 20 years with one box. The price is £2.90 and is for sale at Muirs Cut Rate Bowers and all drivin torres cadvit)
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