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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1938
Page
6
On June 9, 1893 the Ford's Theater floors collapsed during repair work at the site of Edin Booth's burial in Boston. A hundred men fell into the basement smashing chairs desks and file cases. Twenty two men were killed and sixty eight injured.
Community notices report Band Mothers' Club meeting at Scott's Store. Hon H H Cully of Cleveland visited. Dalton Ladies Chorus to sing at Orrville Lutheran Church. Kruschenske visited Claysville. Mrs Ida Schultz to spend winter in DeLand Florida. Edna May Poorman weekend in Wooster. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs John M McDowell in Massillon. UP SS cantata planned for Christmas. Powleys visited Dillonvale. Loyal You and I class plans Dec 17 party. Dr L L DeArment attended funeral in Conneaut Lake.
Miss Mildred Santschi and Miss Fay Pickens attended the annual O.S U. banquet in Wooster Friday evening. Born to Mr and Mrs Chester Ricket a son named Chester Jr at Wooster City Hospital on Tuesday Mrs Ricket formerly Miss Mary Buchwalter.
Mrs A R Keirn will host the Women's Missionary Society of the U P church Thursday at 2 o'clock. Mrs Rudy will lead the meeting.
Merle Talley comes back from a week long hunting trip in Pennsylvania with Roy Beals of Wooster. Each hunter bagged a deer. The Gazette thanks readers for a generous venison roast receipt.
At a Thursday assembly Rev. A J Sanders spoke on mission work in Japan and shared the life story of a native Christian evangelist. Supt. Ralph Hathaway read from Proverbs and the school orchestra performed two numbers.
Don and King the Wonderdogs owned by Dr. DeArment performed at the inter-city Rotary smoker last Thursday night. The program featured Billy Parsons a local tap dancer J C Wade of Akron and Engelharts orchestra. A buffet luncheon followed.
Mr. and Mrs F. E. Gibson and Mrs. Roxy Farmer hosted a Sunday dinner in Creston for guests including Burton Gibson and Miss Frances Gibson. Also attending were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richards and daughter Norma Jean of Canton, Mr. and Mrs. E. H Brown of North Lawrence, and Mr. and Mrs. Merle Graber and family of Massillon.
The YW class of the Presbyterian church will hold its annual Christmas gift exchange at the church on Thursday December 8. Husbands are invited, as are the ladies of Mrs. Sanders class and their husbands. Each person should bring a gift not to exceed 25 cents. A covered dish dinner will be served.
On Monday morning seventh grade pupils presented a chapel program with Doris Swartz announcing. The program included devotionals by Alice Martin, school news and jokes by Doris Buchwalter and Betty Sommers, a stunt by six boys, an original story by Velma Hasseman, reading by Hannah Koehler, a clarinet solo by Junior Wertz, a vocal duet by Marcella Zuer cher and Norma Jean Snodgrass, and a poem by Dorothy Myers.
A traveler writes from Homestead Florida detailing a trip from Kidron to Jacksonville and Dade county. He notes a pleasant journey and reports on a grove of five acres with orange grapefruit avocado lime and other fruit trees thriving amid normal business activity.
In this Christian Science Monitor piece, the author links the familiar ideal of home to a spiritual truth: man, made in God's image, is never truly homeless because dwelling is found in God. It argues that divine Love sustains home everywhere and urges readers to lift thoughts to the eternal, inner home.
Hi Ho the sage of Chinatown counsels that those who dwell in the past must labor to keep their houses in repair. The quip frames a social reminder about present responsibilities.
Virginia planter William T. Ballou, near South Boston, pioneered flue drying for bright tobacco in 1869 after ask ing itinerant tinner Upton Bowden to build a flue for drying fruit. The successful trial convinced Ballou the method could cure tobacco, producing notably fine results.
A New York World Telegram article notes little is known of Sappho the renowned Greek poetess born about 600 B C on Lesbos. Many fragments survive, with authentic papyrus texts from 2nd to 7th centuries AD. Her simple everyday language and intense passions challenge translators.
The Philadelphia Record notes vast Louisiana sulphur beds once under 500 feet of sand and rock. Herman Frasch revolutionized mining with a three pipe process to melt, lift, and surface the sulfur, enabling production from deep deposits.
The Romans and Pompeians used iron razors while bronze razors were common among other ancients. Tempered steel enabled more comfortable shaving, with Greece producing high quality razors and 400 B C barber practice in Greece. Rome’s first daily shaver was Scipio, while debates on shaving versus scruff persisted as arguments over heat insulation and germ control.
Franz Gruber, an Austrian organist, wrote the music for Silent Night with words by Josef Mohr, an Austrian clergyman. They collaborated and first sang the carol on Christmas Eve 1818 at St. Nicholas Church in Oberdorf where Mohr had met Gruber four years earlier.
The article discusses the oldest European dye made from reseda flueola called weld. It suggests weld derives from the German walda and the French gaude, source of gaudy. The dyeing process involved dipping the material in indigo before applying the weld pigment.
The Sugar Creek Rural School District invites sealed bids for a six room high school superstructure in Dalton Ohio. Bids cover general labor and materials plumbing heating electrical wiring and fixtures and equipment installation. Bid deadline is December 10 1938 at Dalton High School with bonds deposits and bid security required. Board reserves right to reject any bid and two architects and the clerk are listed for documents.
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