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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1928
Page
1
County Board of Elections reports no independent candidates filed for county offices. Seventeen petitions were submitted to place Judge Florence Ellen on the statewide independent list for November elections. Judge Olea’s term expires this year.
The Ohio River searches for Captainimer Fancher, 57, of the Betsy Ann, who vanished after his license trouble and a past brush with a rival steamboat. Clothing found in his stateroom. he was last seen near a river race where the Curtis Greene won.
The iOP Executive Committee elected Atty. Frank Stetson of Elrria as chairman, Mrs. Fred Scke of Lorain as vice chairman, and J. N. Stone of Berlin as secretary and treasurer at the board elections office meeting of the county Republican central committee.
The Board of County Commissioners granted parole for John Lampman of Cleveland after a county jail stay. He had been fined on a liquor assessment but paid the fine and expressed a long record of clean conduct with a local trucking company. The parole occurred during a Labor Day celebration.
The Oberlin Drum Corps won first place in the Class A competition held at Medina. Berlin and Cuyahoga Falls of Glenville competed, with Mason and Akron also entering. the Mason corps took the prize in Class A.
Democrats from five counties plan an Al Smith camp at Vermilion on the Lake on July 16. Democratic officials announced today. The principal speaker will be Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky. National chairman Raskob to be asked to lead the meeting.
Columbus Sept 3 A special grand jury will be convened to investigate election fraud in Cuyahoga County. Attorney General Edward Turner is to conduct the probes, following a request from the Cleveland Bar Association. Governor Donahey is away for the weekend.
President Coolidge will give a radio address for Herbert Hoover and the Republican ticket, likely Sept 24, to kick off 45 nights of speaking. Walter Newton arranged the broadcast. Hoover will amplify his platform on prohibition tariffs labor and foreign policy. Hoover will also farewell former Commerce Dept. employees at a hotel dinner tonight, not touching on the campaign.
In Columbus Ohio on a September night prominent Republicans John C Speaks and Judge Robert H Day of the Ohio supreme court urged the party women to engage actively in the campaign. Mrs Hugh Clark Steubenville national committeewoman urged Republican women to participate, highlighting prohibition as the main issue of the presidential race.
At two this morning a car driven by Geerse Vergith of Lagrange veered off West River Street hitting a fence and smashing the Banick home and garage. The front of the car and a garage wheel were damaged. Vergith pleaded guilty to speeding and was fined plus costs. no injuries reported. John Banick described the family’s fright at the impact.
The Elyria service director received a late night letter from Dallas Texas seeking guidance on welded steel pipe versus cast iron in large mains. Dallas plans a waterworks upgrade worth about a million dollars and wants Elyria’s experience with welded steel pipe. Elyria currently uses lockbar steel but no welded steel mains. The director will reply promptly.
City traffic officer Lloyd Sweet arrested Margaret Green of Vermilion for speeding on Lodi street. She was fined five dollars and costs after being booked at headquarters for going a few miles per hour over the limit. The officer noted she is the first woman driver he has arrested, but doubts she will be the last.
Three appeared in police court this morning to receive fines for speeding as the police drive against fast drivers continues. H. W. Stegman of South Middle avenue, Russell Bean of West avenue, and Harold Maschka of Amherst were fined for speeding on East avenue, West avenue, and Lodi street respectively with fines of 5 and 2 dollars and costs noted.
President Coolidge will radio a five day Radio Nights program in support of Herbert Hoover. September 14 marks a 45 night program from Hoover’s backers. Governor Smith keeps up campaign resumption talks as Hoover prepares a farewell Commerce Dept address not touching politics. Senator Robinson counters in Chattanooga and Knoxville speeches asserting prohibition will be enforced amid campaign chatter.
Elyria High School staff faces confusion as three new Smiths join the male faculty. Albert T. Smith Albert L. Smith and Carl Lutherow are mixed in duties with Albert L. assisting as firstweight coach and Albert T. listed on the teaching roster while Superintendent Mason notes the muddle in the education department and clothing.
Albany archives report Governor Alfred F. Smith selecting a golden brown derby as a campaign symbol for his presidential bid. The piece notes the derby’s color and romance mirror his East Side roots and historic rhetoric, with extemporaneous addresses aboard a luxurious train car. Major Walker of New York criticizes mail circulation of what he calls salacious anti Catholic church publications targeting Smith.
Sherman Williams, a Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland Bus Co. driver, is held on $196 bond after being charged with assault and battery. He allegedly struck Mrs Hines with a rock and battered George Hines with a monkey wrench on the Oberlin Elyria road. Williams appeared before Justice J. George for a preliminary hearing set for next week with witnesses to testify.
The Lorain County Dry Federation Executive Board met Friday evening at Elvira Block HQ with 33 committee members from 14 townships. Nellie M. Hill was chosen permanent chairwoman, Ida Wingard elected secretary, J. D. Yocom named Oberlin area chair, and D. W. Rogers named Lorain area chair. Fundraising plans were set to support the campaign.
September 5 Stage opens with Classes B and C from Roosevelts Field heading to Alines Field Los Angeles. Fog delays Class B, first plane leaves 11 27 a m, 20 B planes started at 7 15 a m. First stop McKeesport Pa then Columbus, Terre Haute overnight. Other updates report Rowland and Dake in Class A at Abilene Texas then Midland.
Oberlin officials visited Elstia to discuss a planned Vermilion River preserve north of Henrietta for camping hunting and fishing for college men. The site would include huts picnics and a swimming hole with 36 to 50 residents per dormitory groupings under a new college housing system. Road access and township funding were debated as necessary improvements.
A San Antonio based committee of the American Legion reports securing 1500 dollars to support the 2nd Bugle Corps of the Filia gost, with plans to send members to a national convention in October and to camp in Texas. Funds remain to cover travel and preparations as part of the Legion’s efforts.
The Ely Memorial committee will call a meeting soon and announce plans. Bluepants of Ely Park have been sent to sculptors nationwide who will submit sketches in September. A selection committee will pick the memorial type once sketches are received, with a separate panel handling funding.
Elyria school board discussed relocating and expanding due to Abbey road district growth. A building fund of over 6101,000 will keep annual allocations near 525,000, avoiding new taxes. Three years ago 525,000 yearly was set aside to fund future construction without bond issues. The board expects at least one new school within a year as reserves grow.
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