The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1941-01-03

              The Amherst News-Times VOL. XXIII. NUMBER 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1941 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD WATCHING FOR SANTA H MISS BERGER'S ROOM i o '1 II Mil 11 V W T q -"""""'mi-, J f Ml .11 1-1 1 1 iii'i Mtn'SiTYtlilWirir" ' 1 ' , ii : i r "t!t fc.' !, V v., i i 1 4," CHRISTMAS IN MISS CCHRIVER'S ROOM i t " t.-o if i " i f - f HARPIST ON CHRISTMAS PROGRAM f - ;: ', - i'. U -r'Jai . , ' v. I iv 1 i ! 1 ' f 1-7 1 I.';'. WiF- t I ' I: - r v V n; te! v Is 4 V Miss Ora Mae Schaeffer was harp soloist in the Christmas pageant at the high school last Friday. OUR MISTAKE Attorney J. J. Sniythe was wishing this week that a printer's error could come true. At last week's council meeting a bill for services in connection with the municipal light plant was read. The bill amounted to $513.50, but in setting the story into type, the amount was made to read $5,123.-50. The error was not noticed in the proof reading and went into the paper with the larger figure. FORMER CLUB MEMBER HONORED Gas Station To Open Next Week Harry Hutton has taken a lease on the gasoline station and garage formerly owned by the Am- herst Oil Co. and will open a super-service station there next week. It will be a complete one-stop station, selling Atlantic gasoline and oil, tires, ibatteries, acces sories, with a complete repair shop in the rear. Included in the repair shop will be a body repair shop where wrecked bodies and fenders will be repaired. Harold Simon, who has been associated with garages and ibody shops in the county, will be the mechanic. New gasoline pumps will be In stalled within the next day or two, and the place is now being equipped for opening. Operetta To Be GivenFeb. 28 The Junior high and grade pchool pupils of the local public school will bo kept extra busy as s.ion as school resumes Monday morning at 8:30 a. m. The reason i that the musical department of the school are all set to begin practice on one of the operettas to be given during the school year. Snow White will be played and sung by Beverly Sprague, the prince will be Paul Shand and the wicked step-mother of Snow White, Ti Queen Tiger Lily will bo portrayed bf Barbara Tabbert. The curtain will go up on act one which is a winter's afternoon In a foiebt castle; ai t two is an evenin; seven years later in the rtwarfs' house and the third and concluding act is within the prince's castle. The remaining cast has been announced as follows: Queen Wisteria, Snow White's mother. Lois Jean Carbt; her father, the kin,?, Walter Kelly; frosty Fate, rtmlolph Manichle; court doctor, William Decker; .Nilililes, Caarles Wolf; Nutty, James Dean; Magic Mirror, Lois Rosenkranz; woodman, William Wilhelm; Aurora, Marilyn Webster; White Wings, Robert Schroeder; dwarfs, Howard Hogrefe, Teddy Short, Thomas Helnzorling, Fred Sutliffe, Peter Darakas, John Heinhardt and Allen Sick. Klves are Roliert Schaeffer, Manfred Manichle, Leroy Holiings-worth. Jack Ellis, Donald Jenkins, Billio Gerber, Alan Ferguson and William Penton; Flowers, Ruby Schaeffer, Patricia Penton, Lois White, Charlene Becker, Rhoda Schwitsker, Carol Menz, and Gladys Wooding; Sunbeams. Esther Sick, Shirley Hamel, Nancy Mead, Constance Barck, Jane Durllns;, Donna Timbach, Jean Kleps, Patricia Wilhelm, Louise Adler, Crystal Stiwald and Joyce Ellis; townspeople, Florence Yonk- Incs, Patricia Connell, Beatrice Borowicz, Constance Kominis Joanne Sharp, Peggy Ward, Arlene Barckert, Margaret MacKenzie, Vivian Bruce, Lois Hamel, Dorothy Beres, LaVonne Becker, Betty Cunningham and Phyllis Beesing. Twelve ladie3 in waiting will be selected from Miss Florenee Ehr- nian's room and six guards comprised of students from Miss Edna Belief's room. JOLLY HEART CLUB MEET AT BERRY HOME Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Berry were hosts to members of the Jol ly Hearts club recently. The meeting was In form of a Christ mas party "with a gift exchange. Hearts were played during the evening with a Christmas lunch eon following. Present were Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Kruse and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Berry. Thoughts On New Year's Bay Ily Mrs. F. It. Powers The new year has come the time for annual meetings is at hand, and I for one do not care for annual meetings. In fact, I approach them with the same reluctance with which I climb the stairs to have a tooth pulled. But an annual meeting, like a recallcl-trant tooth, is one of those things that advances upon us at intervals, and must be seen thru. Following the annual meetings there should bo a time for sitting before the fire catching up on our reading and day-dreaming. Sewing too, can ibe placed in the "behind schedule" category and allow me to whisper it in many instances, the mending. A bit later we'll start working on the edges of spring house cleaning and begin to plan our gardens. Members of the Cloverleaf clublNow 18 about tlme' t00 when T& enjoyed a theatre party at the Mary "Jane recently. The party was held in honor of a former member of the club, Mrs. Morris Fisch of Massillion. Following; the show the ladies went to action to our spree of Christmas spending . sets in, and we are seized with a determination to squeeze every penny that comes into our hands for a grand vacation next summer. Of course the Vicki's lunch. restaurant for a light vacation is far enough in the dls- tance to lend enchantment to the . 'rough edges that will annoy us Mr. and Mrs. Morris Fisch and. when the time to go rolls round son, Iilncoln, visited relatives in' Buch as promoting satisfactory town during the holidays. arrangements for the care of our live stock wbllo we're away; driving fast over strange roads to make time (especially nerve-wracking to one who's fearful of going over 45 miles and hour even In familiar territory); losing the route number in tin heart of a big city, and a hundred and one other things that we regard as in-fitisimal months before and after but not bo when we're looking them straight in the face. Here might be a good place to list a few dobits and credits for the year past. You can make additions to the list with your own personal observations, some of which you'd probably rather keep to yourselves. (Newspaper writers have that kind, too.) Credits; The restoration (largely iby the use of white paint and green blinds) to its original beauty of the big house on Cleveland Ave. where Dr. Merrltt resides and has his offices. The hakeup in the high school Varsity basketball team that brought to the surface boys who aren't winded at the end of the half. Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" as given at the Town Hall on the evenings of December 16th and 17th by Miss Rice's Speech class. (Continued on Page 2) HOME OVER CHRISTMAS r 1 "" 1111 I "a - .... 1 i i r i m'vi'i ii mi .mi.,. iii , i hi i .mi mil " Ir-nr.ll Don Frruklin, who spent Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Franklin, Crosse-st, is stationed at Maxwell Airfield, Montgomery, Ala. Don is a graduate of Amherst High, class of 1940. Good Samaritan Loses Week's Pay It didn't pay Willard Cooper to act the part of a good Samaritan last Friday. Cooper noticed a motorist having trouble getting his car started on Milna ave. in front of the spring, so he went over to help. But in doing so he lost his week's pay envelope containing his week's pay amounting to SH1.6S. Ccmper received his pay envelope and had put it into his pocket. He had just left the A. .Wmkowski Co. office across the street when he noticed the motorist in tro'ible. The pay envelope Contained Cooper's name, his social security numbor 329-09-0233, and the name and address of his employer, A. Naiiakowski Co. Cooper would still appreciate the return of the envelope. Total Of 400 Aliens Register Approximately 400 residents of Amherst and township have completed their task of (registering as aliens. The 400 mark was reached last Thursday afternoon, the deadline of a four-month period. During this period all foreign-born residents who have not ibeen naturalized were required to be registered and fingerprinted. Predominant in the registrations, Postmaster Stiwald reported, were the Hungarians and Polish people. The federal act provides for a penalty of $1,000 fine and six months Imprisonment for persons falling to comply with the law of registering. A total of 4,685 aliens registered in Lorain and in Elyria 1,600 persons registered at the Elyria po8tofflce. At present, statisticians in Cloveland are going over the millions of registration cards produced to determine how many aliens who entered illegally have criminal records, how many intend to become American citizens and how many now in America havo had foreign military experience in the last ten years. There is also a p'ai being evolved to determine how many non-citizens failed to register. Conrad Adler, Jr. Wed New Year Eve Conrad Adler, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Adler, Sr., of F'ranklin-av was united in mar"lage to Miss Margaret Hurst, daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hurst of Diagonal Head New Years eve. Dr. Clarence Ward, p-.istnr ami head of the Oberlin college arts department, read the marriage vows to the young couple in the East Oberlin church where the bride is a member. The ride looked lovely in a simple white taffeta gown and a: finger tip veil that fell from a Rhirred cap of rosebuds. Her only crnamont was a strand of pearls and she carried a bouquet of white Rowers. Miss Virginia Hurst, sister of the biide, was the maid of honor and Howard Born of Henrietta served Mr. ' Adler as best man. Mr. Hurst of Wakeman, a cousin nf the bride sang "I Love You Truly" and "Oh Promise Me" Miss N'orma Snyder of Lorain, aunt of the groom was at the organ. Following the ceremony a reception was held in the church parlors for some 60 guests. Late in the evening the bride changed her gown for a blue crepe frock with matching blue and black accessories for travelng. After a short trip Mr and Mrs. Adler will live at 6S4 Franklin Avenue. The bride was a graduate of Oberlin Hgh school, class of 1939 and is a member of the East Oberlin Church. She is a secretary in the Oberlin High school office. Mr. Adler, graduated from Henrietta High school, class of 1937, and attended Bowling Green university. He is employed at the American Radiator Co. Turkey Dinner Opens Noon Day Club Xmas Party The Eagle's lodge room was beautifully decorated Monday night for the annual Noon Day club Christmas party which was attended 'by 44 members and guests. The tables, formed in the shape of a "U", were decorated with red, white and blue crepe paper and lighted candles of the same color. A turkey dinner was served. A feature of the entertainment was an extensive program which normally might have takon two hours to complete, but which was finished in less than five minutes by everyone on the program completing his part simultaneously. This I'rature consisted of speeches, recitations, vocal and Instrumental selections, and stunts, and included the entire membership of tho club. The ladles, who were guests, were not aware of the nature of this feature and at first were bewildered by the natural tumult, but quickly f-uped tho situation and applaudedgenerously. i'wo guessing contests, one con sisting of ten bottles containing popular odors, and the other consisting of twenty popular magazine advertisements, both of which were to be named, were other features. A pennny-passing contest, spelling contest In which all were given ths cut-out of a letter and divided into sides with the people having the correct letters lining up to properly form the words as they were pronounced, a contest in which partners were tied to gether and had to separate without breaking the string, and a spell-down were other features of tho program. The program was in charge of Dr. Dean Minnis, Don Granger, Walter Nord and Attorney J. J. Smythe. Smythe Is the retiring president of the club and Fred Hubbard the incoming president. TO ATTEND CONFERENCE Rev. R. C. Bosse of the Lutheran church will attend the Northeast Ohio Epiphany Conference Tuesday and Wednesday at the Pilgrim church in Lakewood. Rev. K, Ehlers Js pastor of the Pilgrim church where the conference is to be held. Hospital Staff Enjoy Xmas Party The local hospital staff was i entertained at a Christmas party recently at the home of Mrs. Emily Dean, matron of the Amherst hospital. Tho evening's entertainment proved to be card playing. Mrs. Vera Lauver received high award in bridge while Mrs. Ann Smith was the winner in rummy. Christmas gifts were exchanged and the group were presented lovely corsages from Dr. and Mrs. Ted Wiseman. A two course luncheon was served at an attractively decorated table. Santa and his reindeer on a sea of glass formed the centerpiece and favors were tiny Ibottles of perfume. Lighted holiday candles added a touch of glow to the dinning room table. Places were arranged for Mrs. Jessie Cromwell, Mrs. Irene Meyers, Mrs. Laura Kreeger, Mrs. Irene Brown, Mrs. Anna Smith, Mrs. Vera Lauver, Mrs. Aurel Sausaman, Mrs. Helen Schriner, Mrs. Helen Hoy, Mrs. Mary East-on, the Misses Dorothy Smith and Mary Sands, Mrs. Katherine Dietz and Mrs. Dean. Demonstration Given At Home Of Mrs. Roemer Mrs. Lucy Roemer was hostess to a group of ladies recently at a household products demonstration at which time Mrs. C. H. An-fang of Park-av conducted the demonstration. Mrs . Anfang, who has been in the work but for a short time received an award for having the highest numbor of sales during the week of the fifteenth of December. She was also leader in the area with eight programs staged. Guests at the demonstration were Mrs. Jacob Herbst, Mrs. Al bert Raesler, Mrs. John Ludtke, Mrs. Alfred Werner, Mrs. Paul Redman, Miss Elsie Shelton, Mrs. Roy Stevens, Mrs. Jerome Menz, Mrs. Frank Mlschka, Mrs. Cora Sawyer, Mrs. Wilmah Egeland, Mrs. Anfang and the hostess. Tea and cake were served and the tea leaves were read by Mrs. Ludtke. Firemen's Association Elect Officers For '41 Firemen from Lorain, Huron and Erie counties were guests ot the local firemen last week in the Eagles home. 75 members were present with twelve departments of the North Central Firemen's association represented. Election of officers took place at the meeting with C. E. Van Ausdale of Oberlin chosen as president; Albert Storck, Sheffield, vice-president; Eugene Woods, South Amherst, secretary and treasurer. Chief Louis Hadaway, Ridge-ville, was named trustee; "Skip" Ellis, Lorain, chairman ot the education committee and Freder ick Tabbert, Amherst, chairman of the entertainment committee. Other committees will he chosen at the January meeting which will take place in Sheffield Lake. i - A