Past Presidents Hear Summary of Elyria Chamber Accomplishments
The Elyria Chamber of Commerce past presidents luncheon reviewed strong progress across industry and civic work. Secretary Luethi highlighted forty-five plants operating at high capacity, substantial new floor space, and idle space repurposed, boosting payroll toward a peak with figures around eleven million dollars for 1934.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Elyria
Frank E. Stevens
Harry W. Luethi
Luethi
Elyria Chamber of Commerce
Western Automatic Machine Screw Company
Fox Furnace Company
Elyria Foundry Company
Timms Spring Company
Electro-Alloys
Couch-Uthe Company
Whidden Manufacturing Company
General Industries
Elyria Plating Corporation
Perry-Fay Company
Gilkison Manufacturing Com
Education official to visit Lorain County schools
Howard Hamlin, supervisor of health and narcotics education for the State Department of Education, will spend two weeks visiting Lorain County village and rural schools starting October 16. He will spend nine school days in the county, announced by C. A. Gibbons, county school superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Hamlin
State Department of Education
Lorain County
C. A. Gibbons
Hamlin
Oberlin Fall program planned for Phillis Wheatley Center
Oberlin Ohio announces the opening of the Fall season at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center on October 2 featuring Homemaking Club for Girls Community Chorus Little Theatre and more with an employment service and volunteer needs. WPA leaders James Wood Grady Robinson and Mrs Opal Gaines helped run a successful summer program. district leaders Mrs Fred Sheldon and district secretaries present the plans and a church luncheon follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Oberlin Phillis Wheatley Community Center
WPA
James Wood
Grady Robinson
Opal Gaines
Lorain County
Woman's Home Missionary Society Meets in Oberlin
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Norwalk District will hold an all-day meeting at the First Methodist church in Oberlin on Thursday September 28. The program starts at 9 30 a m and concludes about 4 30 p m Mrs Clarence Beazel is president of the local group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
C. T. Craig
Oberlin
Williams
Methodist Church
Norman Smith
Fred Sheldon
Elyria
Temple Aide
Rust Methodist Church
Oberlin Stamp Club
Hal
C. H. Yeaton
William Stewart
Lakewood
E. Myers
Clara Pickering
St. Cloud
Florida
S. G. Clifton
King Street
Clark Davis
Binghampton
N. Y
W. A. Williams
Spring Street
George Lyman
Saginaw
Michigan
E. M. Lyman
North Pleasant Street
Harvey Pratt
North Main Street
Allen Hospital
Helen Cameron
Galion
Galion Corps
Cameron
Woman's Home Missionary Society of
Norwalk
First Methodist
Clarence Beazel
Death Record Carrie A Sheppard 8
Carrie A Sheppard aged 8 died at 3 15 am at her aunt’s home in Elyria after a week long illness She was born July 10 1833 in Zanesville Ohio widow of Benjamin Sheppard and lived in Elyria nine years Survived by nieces and nephews Body to Sudro Curtis Funeral Home Funeral announcements later Burial in Woodlaws Cemetery Zanesville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie A. Sheppard
Claude Hoy
Frank Court
Mra Sheppard
Benjamin Sheppard
Zaneavibe
Ohio
Elyria
Sudro- Curtis Funeral
Woodlaws
Zanesville
Funeral services for Henry Miller at Lakeside Avenue home
Henry Miller 81 died Monday at his LoRain home 150 Lakeside Avenue. Funeral at 2 PM tomorrow from his residence with Rev Hubert Cobb of Delaware Avenue Methodist Church. Burial Elmwood Cemetery. Miller lifelong resident and retired National Tube Company employee. Survived by widow two sons a daughter a sister and two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry MilLer
Lakeside Avenue
Lorain
Hubert Cobb
Delaware Avenue
Legion Believes Congress Should Remain In Session
The American Legion Foreign Relations Committee urged indefinite congressional session during the current crisis and neutrality in the European war. President Roosevelt and Congress should prevent involvement while arming forces to uphold neutrality, with changes possible as world conditions shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Legion Foreign Relations Committee
Legion
Ray Murphy
New York City
Congress
Roosevelt
American Legion
Two Minor Traffic Accidents Reported
Two minor traffic accidents were reported by police yesterday afternoon on Broad street at Cedar street. L H Bowlus of Dover backed into Alice Blaine of 516 East avenue, damaging Bowlus and Blaine's cars. Richard Fell of 419 Oxford avenue and Norman Goodman of 717 Washington avenue were also involved in a three car collision. Fell hit a vehicle stopped ahead, Goodman then hit Fell from behind, and the front driver fled the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H Bowlus
Dover
Alice Blaine
East Avenue
Bowlus
Broad Street
Richard Fell
Oxford Avenue
Norman Goodman
Washington Avenue
Cedar Street
Fell
Goodman
Fells
Farmers To Elect Committeemen In Lorain County
Election of community committeemen to represent Lorain County farmers in the 1940 Agricultural Conservation program is under way with 18 election meetings scheduled. Farmers in each community will elect a chairman, vice chairman, a committee member, two alternates, a delegate to the county convention, and an alternate delegate. The county meeting will be October 13 at the Lorain County Agricultural Adjustment Association offices on Second Street. The first two community meetings were held last night at Eaton and Brighton. Remaining dates include Tonight Brownshelm and Pittsfield Town Halls, Sept 29 Camden Town Hall and Wellington Rural Electric Cooperative office, October 2 Lake Avenue School for Elyria Township and Avon Town Hall for Avon and Avon Lake, October 3 Carlisle Town Hall, October 4 Columbia and Huntington Town Halls, October 5 La Grange Town Hall, Henrietta School, and Rochester Town Hall, October 6 Ridgeville and Amherst Town Halls, October 9 Sheffield Town Hall and Russia Grange Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Lo- Tain
Rprownhelm
Pittsfield
Camden Town Hall
Wellington Rural Electric Co-operative
Lake Avenue
Elyria Township
Avon Town Hall
Avon
Avon Lake
Amherst Town Halls
Sheffield Town Hall
Russia Grange Hall
Grafton Man Enters Not Guilty Plea
Glenn I. Baker of Grafton pleaded not guilty before Joseph Q. Petro to a driving while intoxicated charge. He was arrested at 2 A.M. on Broad Street by Lieut. Patrick Crehan and Patrosman James. Baker was held on a 200 bond for a hearing set at 3 P.M. October 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn I. Baker
Grafton
Joseph Q. Petro
Broad Street
Patrick Crehan
Patrosman
James Baker
Fisk Reelected Supt of First Methodist Sunday School
Leonard Fisk was reelected general superintendent of the First Methodist Church Sunday School for another year. The board noted definite advances under his leadership. Rally Day was announced for next Sunday along with the election of officers and teachers for the coming year across all departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Fisk
First Methodist Church
B. J. Ohlemacher
W. O. McClellan
George King
Esther Seekins
Chester Sprague
John Mowry
Thomas Reese
No. Merthe
R. A. Petersen
Willard Hicks
Lee Weichel
R. M. Puder
Walter Peak
Marjorie Wibber
William Meinke
Barbara Jennings
Mary Cordrey
C. V. Beazell
D A. Burr
Stone
Arthur Sherman
Floyd Rhodes
O. J. Brown
E.S. Smith
Claude Birch
B. I. Ohlemacher
Vera Brown
Winifred Eschtruth
Leonard Fowls
Lucile Buswell
Phyllis Powell
Carol Ann Peak
Neil Haas
Edward Bembower
Bob Vanek
Marian Holmes
Lois Nevins
H. R. Huston
George Chamberlain
Edwin Kirby
Helen Osborn
E. E. Holmes
C. B. Simkins
F. L. Hicks
C. M. Ackerman
Champney
William Griffin
William Kirby
Lloyd Smith
B. H. Long
W. C. Fowls
Wiliam Meinke
H. V. Johnson
Willian Griffin
Victorine Sears
Marie Jensen
Home Department
George Haines
Russell Francis
Warsaw Offer to Surrender Reported by Nazi Telegraph
London dispatches say Warsaw, already bombed and burned into an inferno, offered to surrender according to Nazis. An exchange telegraph report at noon noted defenders still fighting in the Polish capital as fires spread aided by rain. The timing of the surrender offer versus the German claim remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Warsaw
Exchange Telegraph
Exchange Telegraph Dispatch
Berlin
Spencer Couple To Celebrate Their Golden Wedding
Mr and Mrs Frank Reisinger of Spencer will observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Sunday October 1 at the home of their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Raymond Reisinger of New Oberlin A family dinner will be served at noon and open house will be held for friends from two to five o clock and from seven to nine in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Reisinger
Spencer Wil
Raymond Reisinger
New Oberlin
Arsenic Widow Convicted for Second Time This Week
Philadelphia reports that Grace Giovanetti, 45, was found guilty of first degree murder with a death penalty recommendation in the arsenic deaths linked to a mass crime network. The verdict follows a previous 1935 case against her first husband Pietro Pirelli, with another arsenic widow, Josephine Romauldo, also condemned last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Grace Giovanetti
Pietro Pirelli
Josephine Romauldo
FourYearOld Girl Fractures Arm in Playful Accident
Janet Hastings four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Merie Hastings of LaGrange sustained a double fracture of her left arm after falling from a truck while playing with three year old Doris Ann Walker at the Walker residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Hastings
Merie Hastings
LaGrange
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Doris Ann Walker
Walker
Court action and local incidents reported
Rose M Sherer filed suit to partition property in Amherst. Rawson Colley reported a bicycle theft at Oberlin. Deputy sheriffs returned George Kinsley from Woodruff WV to answer a non support indictment. Police seek Richard Blair, 14, who allegedly took a car between 2 and 5 am and disappeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose M. Sherer
Amherst
Charles J. Plato
George Kinsley
Woodruff
W. Va
Sheriffs Department
Richard Blair
Shirley Mokarem
Columbia Township
Sheriff's Department
Elyria Police to Ride in Amherst 125th Parade
Elyria Police will join Amherst's 125th anniversary parade at 5 p.m. today with a motorcycle squad. Police Chief E. J. Stankard said eight to ten officers will participate if weather permits. A deputy detachment from Sheriff Carl R. Finegan's department will also assist the parade committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Amhersts
E. J. Stankard
Elyria Department
Carl R. Finegan
Three Universities Receive Will Rogers Scholarships
Will Rogers Memorial Scholarship Fund allocates 210000 to three state universities. UCLA, Oklahoma, and Texas receive 125000, 125000, and 60000 respectively. UCLA funds support handicapped scholarships, college expenses, a graduate fellowship, a teachers scholarship, and a medical fund for medicine and aids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Will Rogers
Jesse H. Jones
University of California At
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas
Rogers
University of California
G. E. F. Shemwood
Senator Glass II Seriously Il
Washington Sept 27 Senator Carter Glass of Virginia was reported to be in serious condition with bronchitis, unchanged today. The former treasury secretary traveled to the Senate to support President Roosevelt’s embargo repeal stance, and is cared for by a private nurse at his hotel apartment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter Glass
Glass
Lightning forces Marion Harding to dismiss classes
A thunderstorm struck Marion Ohio today causing a lightning bolt to hit the Harding High School building at 6 30 AM. The bolt struck a chimney and ran down the wall causing about 1000 dollars in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Marion, O
Marion Harding High School
Bernard Leach pleads not guilty to reckless driving
Bernard Leach of 22 East Avenue entered a not guilty plea to a reckless driving charge filed by Wilbur Kreuger of Elyria R D 1. He was released on a 200 bond and scheduled for a 5 p.m. Saturday hearing with Justice Herbert C. Cummings. The charge stems from a Ridgeville traffic accident at 11 p.m. September 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Leach
East Avenue
Wilbur Kreuger
R. D
Elyria
Herbert C. Cummings
Ridgeville
New Garbage Grinding Method Emerges For Disposal
A relatively new method of garbage disposal uses grinding. Backlogs of airplane manufacturers on the Pacific Coast now told 100 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Educators Approve Plan For Student Safety Patrols
Lorain County village and rural schools moved to organize student safety patrols after a meeting led by Grafton superintendent Walter A. Jantz and Sheriff Carl Finegan. Several counties already ran patrols. further details will be set later amid upcoming school building dedications at South Amherst, Wellington, and Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County
Walter A. Jantz
Grafton
Vermilion-on-the-Lake
Carl Finegan
South Amherst
Wellington
E. N. Dietrich
Columbia
State Department of Education
Hallowe'en
Dr John M Vincent Elyria native dies in California
Dr John M Vincent born in Elyria and emeritus professor of European history at Johns Hopkins died in La Jolla California. He studied at Oberlin Berlin and Leipzig earning a Hopkins PhD in 1890 and taught there until 1925. He authored books on European government and supported local Elyria institutions. He was married to Ada Smith of Elyria and had cousins in Philadelphia and Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Jolla
California
John Martin Vincent
Elyrian
Johns Hopkins University
Vincent
Oberlin College
Berlin
Leipzig
Johns Hopkins
Second Street
Middle Avenue
Royal Historical Society
London
The
American Historical Association
Philadelphia
Denver
Britain forms three trust funds to cut national debt
A White Paper notes three long term funds to reduce Britain's national debt totaling about 8.4 million dollars. The National Fund started in 1927 with a 2.5 million dollar gift reportedly from Lord Baldwin. The Elsie Mackay Fund, created in 1929 by Lord Inchcape and family, stands at about 4.08 million dollars with a 20 year term. The John Buchanan Fund, set up in 1932 from John Buchanan's will, has a 50 year term and a nominal value of about 25,090 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
National Fund
Lord Baldwin
Elsie Mackay
Lord Inchcape
John Buchanan
Orange wealth grows with Tulare county citrus boom
In Porterville California a county assessment highlights a shift from 1 orange tree in 1858 to 3,750,000 citrus trees owned today. The piece frames orange farming as a major growth in Tulare county's agricultural landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porterville
Cal
Tulare
Widow presents 44 star flag from 1868 parade era
Mrs. Anna C. Wilson aged 101 in Warrensville, Pa, presented a 44 star flag she made in 1868 for Lycoming County Republicans to carry in election parades for General Ulysses S. Grant, as recorded by the historical society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrensville
Anna C. Wilson
Lycoming County
Ulysses S. Grant
Fruit and produce price list from market quotes
Quoted market prices for apples, cabbage, lettuce, mushrooms, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, squash, and more. Includes grains, flour, and hay by bags, quarters, or tons with varying baskets and pecks and notes on moaning sources. Prices span from 15 to 75 cents per unit, with several items like wheat and flour listed by grade and lot size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baskets
Hubbard
Elevator and track grain prices listed
Prices for wheat corn and oats shown in elevator and track listings. Wheat No 2 red 9512 944c on elevator. corn No 2 yellow 6042 6h14c. oats No 2 white 39 40c Rye No 2 63 64c. Track prices include Wheat No 1 red 9L 90%c and No 2 red SSt sotc. corn No yellow 5343 5624c and No 6s yellow 54134 504c. oats No 2 white séGStc No 3 white 34% o6c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheets Eilevator Co
Montana Milling Co
Timothy
Livestock Receipts and Prices Mixed Across Classes
Receipts and price ranges for cattle calves hogs and lambs show mixed activity. Cattle receipts 250 with categories from good cows to prime steers and feeders, hogs 1200 pounds with varied prices, calves 300 with prime to common grades, sheep and lambs 200 with steady demand and price spreads. Prices reflect weight bands and quality, with notable highs for choice steers and lambs.
Local Market Prices And Varieties For Poultry And Potatoes
The notice lists live poultry including hens over 4 pounds and heavy leghorns with prices around 12 to 18 cents per pound, various cocks and fancy muscovy birds, and markets for potatoes featuring Ohio cobblers, Chippewas, Russets, and Idaho long whites with prices ranging from 1.20 to 2.25 per 50 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jextra Arade
Ohio Cobbiers
Pennsylvania
Idaho
Susset Burbanks
Dr Kirby To Preach Funeral Sermon At Cambridge
Dr Edwin Kirby of this city and former Cambridge Methodist pastor is called to Cambridge to conduct the funeral service for William Rigby a longtime Methodist and coal industry leader who died in his 80s. Rigby began as a coal miner at eight, rose to lead a major coal company for 30 years, with his funeral set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Cambridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Kirby
Cambridge
Chestnut Ridge Man Fined For Intoxication
Charles Graham of Chestnut Ridge road was fined one dollar and costs for intoxication after arraignment before Mayor Joseph Q. Petro. He was arrested on Broad Street at 4 PM yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Graham
Chestnut Ridge Road
Joseph Q. Petro
Broad Street
Ruling Restores State Jobs To Two Employees
The Ohio Supreme Court reaffirmed a July ruling that provisional state employees cannot be discharged without charges filed, a decision likely nullified by a new civil service law. The ruling temporarily restores two dismissed workers, with implications for hundreds more and ongoing suits in Franklin County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
High Court
Bricker
State Department
State Civil Service Commission
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Civil Service Commission
Supreme Court
Monthly Birthday Dinner At Elyria Elks Lodge
Approximately 110 members attended the Elyria Elks Lodge monthly birthday dinner and business meeting last night with 40 at the dinner. Charles Leonard was honored guest. Future activities were announced. Bowling league opens Monday at 9 PM at Wykrent alleys on Lodi Street. Inspection date for the Elyria lodge is October 24, overseer Harold Rosenberg from Alliance will conduct. Several Elyria Elks plan to inspect the Norwalk lodge tomorrow night led by Jim Armitage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria Elks’ Lodge
Charles Leonard
J. M. Marshall
Bowling League
Wykrent
Lodi Street
Walter S. Kohn
Elyria Lodge
Harold Rosenberg
Alliance
Elyria Elks
Norwalk
Jim Armitage
Mayor Orders Fine After Public Drunk Arrest
C. W. Daniels of Seventh street was found asleep in his car at 9 50 P M yesterday parked at Middle avenue and Sixth street. He was arraigned on intoxication charges and fined 10 dollars plus costs by Mayor Joseph Q Petro today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Daniels
Seventh Street
Middle Avenue
Sixth Street
Daniels
Joseph Q. Petro
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chamber
Elyria Safety Council
Better Business Bureau
Cascade Park
Elvria
Dep't. of Education
Robert Herrick
Mrs
Esther Wood
Eagles
Afol G
OM Preedom Gas & Oi
Last
Phewe
Soc
Fisk
First Meth
Bulletin
Spencer
Kellogg's
Rawson Colley
Morgan Street
Senator Glass II
Sudro - Curtis
Dr. Vincent
Britain
NRAM
Toledo Erain Close
Cleveland Livestock
Cleveland Produce
Dr. Kirby
DR. Pennington
Elks
Guernsey
Babcock
Guy Durkee
Clayton H. Sooy
Lee Klinect
Stone’s Grill
Virginia
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