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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1939
Page
9
Hollywood notes war reshaping cinema toward comedies and musicals. Producers seek slapstick antidote to grim war news while stars face personal turmoil. Jimmie Fidler surveys trends, naming Crawford Dietrich and others as shifting toward lighter fare.
The listing shows WHA 11390 schedule with programs including Jack Little Baseball Resu Easy Aces Mr Keen Norm Cloutier Fact Finder Human Needs Falter Levin Will Osborne Sport Slant Horace Heidt Werld Vewan Lou Breege Shinny Enns all subject to change.
Avon Lake scientist meeting at the school at 8 P M. Grafton Homemakers Club meets with Mrs Marie Fiedens Wednesday afternoon. Grafton St Johns Ladies Aid meets Tuesday evening with Mrs Henry Krause. Henrietta P T A meets at the school at 8 P M. La Grange Gleaners Class meets with Mrs Paul Nichols at 8 P.M New London Leroy Chapter.
Cesar Romero, a New Yorker turned dancer, will play a hard-riding son of the old West. George Montgomery, tall and raised in Montana cattle country, will portray the Englishman in the same film. Montgomery has spent most of his life in the saddle and shares a wry Hollywood joke about chorus girls and money.
82 of the OES meets at the Masonic Temple in New London at 8 PM. New London Lodge 615 I O O F convenes at the Odd Fellow Temple at 8 PM. North Olmsted Grange meets at the town hall at 730 PM and 830 PM. Fields Ladies Aid gathers with Mrs. Arthur Smyth Wednesday afternoon. Lagrange Baptist Missionary Society holds all day meeting at Rev and Mrs Henry Cruver home with a pot luck dinner.
Local clubs schedule meetings and events across Avon Lake and surrounding towns, with luncheons, card games, and club programs at various halls and homes. Notable entries include the Avon Lake Pinochle Club, Townsend Club at Park Hall, and Circle No 3 Ladies Aid at 1130 A.M. in Lagrange.
The Rivoli Theatre begins its new season with Lady of the Tropics starring Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr. The film debuts Thursday with the pair delivering a tropical romance in a lush setting.
The annual Community Flower Show will be held at the North Elyria Grange Hall on Griswold Road Friday at 8 00 p m with Mrs Albert King in charge. Prizes will be awarded for best blooms across many varieties including asters cosmos dahlias chrysanthemums zinnias and more plus best mixed bouquets. 4 H clubs and children’s flowers will be exhibited by young arrangers. Visitors are invited and details available from Mrs King.
George Raft and Claire Trevor star alongside Dick Foran in the comedy crime caper I Stole a Million opening Thursday at the Capitol Theatre with a promising crowd turnout expected.
The Wakeman Flower Show held at Grange Hall on Friday afternoon and evening September 8 announced winners across categories. Top honors went to Mrs F E Rice with multiple first prizes in table bouquets and cacti, while Barbara Nan Bailes led in children’s flowers and several other residents like Mrs C H Pierce and Mrs Gerald Ross earned multiple firsts.
Wellington listing shows contact Cora M. Shepard at 523 Barker with phone 8 and delivery service by Junior Grissinger in Courtland with phone 156-8. The brief appears as a classified ad style notice for local delivery.
Sep 13 18 Wellington listings show Silent Circle of King's Daughters meet at 8 PM Mrs Arnold Kipphinger on Courtland street. Chapel services begin 7 30 PM at First Congregational with a youth conference at 8. Elias Cooper Junior Club at 3 30 PM in A R hall. Baptist Missionary Society all day near Henrietta Hill. Prayer at 7 30 PM Methodist. Sunday school board 8 00 PM. Sep 14 Kiwanis luncheon at noon. Bus inspections for multiple districts in Wellington. Sep 15 Hamlin Woman's Relief Corps dine with Henry Lincoln Corps at Oberlin. Eagles clambake listed.
One hundred twenty five workmen labor on the Hertick avenue East WPA paving project with dual end work and brick removal in progress at the west end. Prize winners listed include several First prizes for Button Zinnias Delphiniums Cosmos Ast is Ageretum Snapdragon Nasturtium and many others with recipients named such as Mrs Perry Hoover Mrs Carl Ketchum Mrs F E Rice Mrs E Wolven Mrs Barbara Bailey Mrs Martha Ross and more.
End of the street marks the start of preliminary storm sewer work. Fifteen trees will be removed mainly from the north side but only after undergrounding telephone and telegraph wires and transferring electric wires to the south side. Trees will be removed only as necessary.
First to twelfth grade counts total 728 with 16 more students than last year on the same date. At the September board meeting five teachers saw $50 yearly raises for attending Summer schools, namely Adler, Davis, Mor Kan, Phelps, and Grimes. Junior High principal Huntridge received a $100 raise outside the schedule for added responsibilities.
Marriage notices friends announce the wedding of Miss Katrena Darby a former Wellington teacher to Elton Pretty of Manowa Ohio. The ceremony occurred at the Methodist church in Carrollton at noon on Tuesday September 5.
The Ever Ready class of the Methodist Sunday School elected officers for the coming conference year. Giles Anderson is president, Mrs. Gertrude Manning vice president, Mrs. Ruth Kirkpatrick secretary, and Mrs. Bertha Perkins treasurer. Mrs Charles Barnes was chosen teacher. Mrs Franklin Parker was transferred from the Clinic to Oberlin hospital Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs John Betchberger of Sandusky were Sunday guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. John Ruhl and family. Dr. and Mrs Charles W. Recar, Mrs Margaret Reardon and Mrs E Johnston heard Dr. Savage at the 10th street Brethren church in Ashland, Tuesday. Miss Jane Wise of Elyria will be a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs E C Wise. Mrs Cora Ensign of Elyria, mother of Mrs. Wise, has been a guest in the same home. Mr. and Mrs J. T. Duff attended a reception for beginners at Baldwin-Wallace college Sunday. Their son Phillip entered the college on Tuesday morning. Miss Anna Buswell entered as a freshman at this college. Seven Wellington students entered Oberlin School of Commerce this fall: Yvonne Zu brick, Elfie Olsen, Pauline Powell, Jane Snyder, Nick Obring, Robert Sutliff and Glen Buswell. Mrs Eldon McEndree of here is substituting for Miss Nellie Jack-
Mr and Mrs Irwin Davidson celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary at their Huntington farm home with about 70 friends and relatives. They have lived on the same farm all their lives. Davidson, 72, and his wife, 70, have one son Floyd who lives in Knoxville Tennessee. He runs a threshing machine business for 52 years. Guests came from Akron Wadsworth Detroit West Salem Red Haw Nankin Sullivan Wellington Elyria Spencer Oberlin Huntington and more. A picnic dinner was served. Mrs Davidson did all house and farm work without hired help.
The report mentions a Penfield student seriously injured in an auto accident. Mr and Mrs Homer Holland visit St. Louis with Mr and Mrs Walter Wilcox. Mrs Marjorie Kinney from Ann Arbor stays with Mrs Grace Roedel and friends. Mrs Theodore Warner and family return from Mount Gretna. Mrs George Hawk is seriously ill. F and A M lodge met in regular session Monday night.
Reverend Lonzo S. Green is returned to Wellington Methodist church for another conference year. Reverend John Koontz is transferred from Spencer Methodist church to the Port Clinton church.
Plymouth distributor at 728 West Broad advertises the new 1940 Plymouth with showroom display at Deetz.
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