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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1936
Page
3
The April meeting of the Business and Professional Women's club is set for Tuesday at 6 PM at the YWCA with a hard times dinner. Miss Mary T. Hardy will speak about her Panama Canal trip and officers will be elected.
A brief Van Wert events roundup lists Brumback Library Children’s Story Hour at 2 30 p m and Monday Rotary Club lunch at noon at the YWCA The ee club meets at 615 p m along with Phi Delta Kappa fraternity evening in City Hall and other city events in the local page notes.
Miss Eleanor Jones will present piano pupils Duprey Leila Farr Mary Shaffer Kathrine Young Madeline Gamble Helen Stuck and Joan Mason in a Sunday recital at 2 30 o clock. Harmony Club host Grace Ludwig will welcome members Tuesday evening at 611 North Washington street.
Alternate Wednesday Club meets Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. M. 8. Cramer’s home with Mrs. Otto Witten presenting In the Shadow of Liberty. Northside WCTU gathers Tuesday evening at 5 30 at Mrs. W. S. Murphy’s home. Monday Night Bridge club hosts Mrs. Arthur C. Frericks Monday evening at her South Harrison residence. Ladies Auxiliary of the Spanish American War Veterans meets Monday night with Mrs. Teresa Leichty. Miss Julia Hughes visits family in town after Kent State term. Miss Margaret Stuck visits with her parents. Mr and Mrs Howard Fisher and Mr and Mrs R L Parker visit sister in Monro, Mich. R E Mohr of Scott visited friends in the city.
The Convoy Grange will meet Tuesday evening April 26 at 8 30 for a program and supper celebrating the fifth anniversary of its organization. Each family is urged to bring two covered dishes.
Cloud Starbuck admitted as patient Friday night at the hospital. Mrs. Joe Vaska removed to home Friday. Charlies Clouse moved to his home in Ohio City Friday.
A girl was born to Mr and Mrs Lloyd Bender of New York City on Thursday April 23. The father is the son of Mr and Mrs C P Bender of South Shannon Street, and the mother is sister of Mrs H A Steward and Mrs Harold Hall of this city.
Mrs. Henry Saar mother of Mrs. C C Tomhafe of Springfield and formerly of this city died Friday in her St Marys home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at St Marys at her home Monday afternoon at 1 30.
Court House notices list multiple real estate transfers in Jackson Ridge Pleasant and Van Wert townships with parcels around 1 to 16 acres for Blythe LaRue Manship Gehres and others. A schedule of debts in the estate of Mrs R J Morgan Sr is filed and a hearing is set for May 16.
Dave Todr itinerant from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty before Mayor John H. Morrison after hammering on downtown doors while intoxicated. Todr fined ten dollars and costs and committed to county jail for nonpayment. Two other itinerants, Charles Kelly of Delaware and Patrick Hann of Akron, pleaded guilty to cruelty and were given 30 minutes to leave the city. Ohio supreme court took under advisement Alvin H. Rowe's mandamus suit to force Hamilton county board of elections to place his name on the May 13 Republican delegate ballot.
A column contrasts global empathy for the Moose River mine rescue with indifference to Ethiopian famine. It invokes Dr D E Robertson Charles Scadding and Herman Magill praising courage while urging unity among groups to prevent further war and killings. It laments Mussolini’s war crimes and calls for the slogan we will not kill.
Judge Sumner Walters is scheduled to speak to Rotary club members at noon Monday. He missed a prior engagement last Monday due to a scheduling conflict.
James Thompson, slated for the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary, won a pause until Saturday night as the Fourth District court of appeals debated whether a 30 day stay referred to a 30 day period or a calendar month. E. Frank Smith received a life sentence for helping Thompson after the wreck the same night.
In Whit Sulphur Springs West Virginia Bryan Bitsy Grant of Atlanta and Donald Budge of California will duel in the finals of the 16th annual Mason-Dixon tennis tournament after winning their semifinal matches.
The University of California system adds public relations courses at Berkeley and Los Angeles as demand for experts grows. Despite the expansion, over 1,000 PR professionals are already employed in Los Angeles, indicating a tight labor market.
Pupils taught by Mrs Marjory Barnes visited the Container Company and Cheese factory yesterday. The field trip included observation of factory operations and student questions as part of a local educational program.
Delaware April 25 The bitter track rivalry lasting three seasons between Toledo Scott and Sandusky is set to renew at the fifth annual Ohio Wesleyan relays in Delaware.
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