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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1936
Page
9
Water department officials report many renters plan October moves to beat a $5 cash deposit requirement effective Oct 1. New rule requires either a $5 deposit or a property owner signature for service. If a meter is ordered before Oct 1, the deposit is avoided.
A burglar entered Anton Haralampous’s home at 18 West Avenue yesterday while the family was away. He helped himself to an icebox lunch, took £10 from a bank, and a 38 caliber Colt revolver from a drawer. The break in was found when the family returned about 20 p.m. The screen on a basement window and the side door were torn away. Officers Curtis Bamlin and C E Parker investigated.
Radio listings for WYAM 1076 show a dense schedule with many programs from 5:15 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. including 5:15 Joey Nash, 5:30 Jack Armstrong, 6:30 Sportsman, 7:15 Uncle Ezra, 9:00 Leo Spitainy, 10:45 Musical Clock, and 12:30 To be announced. Several bands, talks, and variety acts appear, with multiple repeats and hourly shifts across music, drama, and news segments. The entry reflects a typical broadcast day with frequent changes and extensive calendar items.
Frank M. Knox the Republican vice presidential candidate will campaign in Ohio starting Wednesday with stops in fifteen cities including Toledo Deshler Owawa Lima Sidney Proy Hamilton Cincinnati Blanchester Washington D C Columbus Newark Coshocton Steubenville and Akron A Chicago publisher will not speak in Toledo but proceed to Deshler for Knox schedule Major event is a Wednesday night rally in Cincinnati Thursday in Columbus and Friday in Akron Bricker the GOP gubernatorial candidate opens his week with a Sandusky address and joins Knox in Cincinnati Tuesday for a Hamilton county rally.
The city board of control authorized buying two pickup trucks for street and water departments after bid review. The Ford from J. R. Dali Motor Co. costs 370 with a 100 car trade in, net 474. The Dodge from Leo R Meier Motor Co. costs 525 with a 115 trade in, net 519. The Ford goes to streets and the Dodge to water meter work.
The George Perkins Post No. 347 American Legion will meet at Henry Pierce's home 1736 Middle Avenue at 7 50 P M Thursday October 1. Important business matters are to be discussed and all veterans are requested to be present.
Spencer seniors and families gathered as the Sunday School class of the M E Church met Friday to sew garments for Worthington Home children. A business session followed with lunch by the entertaining committee. planning for October sewing noted.
Orson Howe and children Gor don and Virgie Homerville were guests during the week in the same home, sharing time with local residents and visitors.
Wakeman Garden Club hosted by Mrs Milton Hurst on Sept 16 featured talks on iris use and new plant varieties plus a flower contest. School notes show enrollment 258 this year, high school 96, with a planned Oct 9 annual school fair and several students resuming or starting studies at Kent College Ursuline Academy Miami University Otterbein University and Ohio State.
In East Liverpool Ohio James Hargreaves 30 former city park superintendent and former volunteer fire department captain and florist was found dead in woods north of the city after a five day search exposure said to be the cause. He disappeared last Tuesday and was found by three boys.
Rev. F H Scholl studies at Oberitin School of Theorost. Communion and new member reception set for Sunday Oct 4 at the Congregational church with services at 10 o'clock. Miss Margaret Round, leader from Litchfield Congregational church, spoke at Penfield on her trip to Indianola Camp.
Mrs Mary Ober hosted a Camden shower for Mrs Georgia Clapp Squire of Penfield on her recent marriage to Robert Squire. Guests from Elyria Brighton Pittsfield La Grange Wellington and Penfield attended with gifts presented by nephews Buddy Cruthers and Jimmie Seeley. Pink and white decor and refreshments followed a guest book activity.
Saturday evening Miss Liza Mitchel a former teacher in Rochester was surprised at her home by fifth and sixth trade pupils guided by Mr and Mrs Richard Leach Virginia and Lois Leach. The party included Treva Ray Arlene Pelton Lillian Koketylo Bruce McRoberts Marshall Bligh and Leonard DeLong. Games contests and refreshments followed. Miss Mitchel received many pretty gifts.
SHORT ITEMS recount weekend visits moves and arrivals in Toledo Oberlin and surrounding areas. Families including Squire Herge McQueen Ezlin Starr Poultry Myers Winters parsonage and Park households are noted with travel visits and relocations. A cave collapse near Middletown claims Fred Fox and injures three others including his brother Paul and friends Harnes Henderson and Gordon Lawson.
Mrs. C S Clark Jr returns to Kemper Military School in Boonville Missouri for the new year. Mrs. C S Clark Sr attends a D A C luncheon at Norwalk Country Club.
In Findlay Ohio a coroner's inquest was set for Darrell Dyer 17 after his car struck and killed Mrs Sara Worcester 73. Eugene Ritchey 17 football player was charged with reckless driving after his car struck Patrolman John McCosh as he investigated the fatal crash.
Three New England youths aged 23 to 70, held for investigation after arrest at 2 am by H Barnard, owner of a used car lot near Oberlin. Barnard saw one flee the lot to a nearby car and alerted Oberlin police who sent the case to the sheriff. Two youths claimed Attleboro Massachusetts origin and the third from Rhode Island.
The senior class at Brookside High elected Clide Cumberland as president, Mary Sechkar as vice president, Clarence Bacher as secretary, and Mary Edna Cawler as treasurer. The junior class chose Kathleen Patek as president, Roy Logan as vice president, and Nichol as Rhadik as secretary and treasurer.
Mr and Mrs Lee Johnson and families of Gulf Road Earl Johnson and family of North Ridge and Clarence Brush and family of Chestnut Ridge spent Sunday at the Whiton home in Amherst for a woods picnic. Miss Neva Carrick visited grandparents Friday. Harold Hammer and wife welcomed a son at St Josephs hospital Lorain Saturday. Taft Chambers Carrick and Howard Carrick attended a Sunday evening program at Sun Set Memorial Park North Olmsted.
At the Capitol Theatre Joan Crawford headlines in The Gorgeous Hussy with five lead men Lionel Barrymore Robert Taylor Francho Tone Melvyn Douglas and James Stewart in supporting roles.
Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino head the cast of Yone Rainy Afternoon a gay Parisian romantic comedy now at the Rivoli Theatre. It is Mary Pickford and Jesse L. Lasky’s first produced picture.
Ohio brief items report elections within the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen with William Rasey as chairman and legislative representative, F. E. Nehrenz as vice chairman, and H. R. Knowles as secretary. An Ohio State Optometric Association conference is set for Oct 11–13 in Columbus with Dr. A. M. Skerrington as speaker. Col. C. O. Sherrill will present welfare agency survey findings at the 46th Ohio Welfare Conference in Toledo.
In Berlin on September 28, Lawrence Simpson, an American sailor, goes on trial for high treason charged with smuggling Communist propaganda. Co defendant Bruno Rienz testified Simpson delivered Communist literature and a party letter to a German organization, with 60,000 stickers and balloons intended to disseminate propaganda. The case proceeds before a five-judge people’s court.
Deaths rise to seven with two more fatalities, Arrio Raiskin en age 34 and Mrs Ith Lyons age 55, both from Franklin county. Fifty inmates ill as typhoid fever outbreak continues at Columbus State Hospital.
Multiple bankruptcy notices list adjudicated debtors in Elyria Ohio including Tony Manze Harold Packard Roy Abbey and David Beattie with first creditors meetings scheduled from October 1936 at Lorain County Savings and Trust Bldg Elyria Ohio. Also a legal notice seeks permission to sell real estate for The Ellenia Home for the Aged of the Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church with hearing October 29 1936.
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