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1 ELYRIATHE CITY THE HOME PAPER OF ELYRIA AND EST PAID CIRCULATION IN LORA7NCOUNTY iVOL. XIX. NO. 249. WANT ADS GET RESULTS I A OHIO, OCTOBER 39, 1917 PRICE TWO CENfSaiJ ELYRU AND LOR OVER THE TOP Elyria and Lorain Raised Huge Sum of Money in Few Days SPLENDID WORK HOW CITIES ARE HELPING U.

S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION UNCLE SAM CAN DEPEND OX JXRAIN COUNTY RESIDENTS TO STICK TO HIM UNTIL THK HUN IS ANNIHILATED. Lorain Elyria Oberlin Wellington Amherst Kiptou LaGrange People's Bank Final Score. Quota. 800.000 1,100.250 149.800 US.050 92,850 21,750 Secured $1.800.000: 1.242,500 I 170,000) 162.650i 104.850 25,000 5.700 7,950 .1 Total subscriptions The county's minimum quota in the second Liberty Bond campaign was $2,045,500 so that this has been exceeded by the handsome sum of $1.289,100, and falls short of the maximum only $74.000.

a remarkable showing and a splendid tribute to the patriotism of the people of Lorain county. Well Done. The people of the city of Elyria can wefll be. proud" of the showing exceeding the quota by $142.250. These figures'are official, while those from Lorain are estimated.

Chairman Chamberlain in giving the city of Lorain credit for subscriptions aggregating $1,800,000. bases the figures upon the estimated total for the city, telephoned him this morning by the editor of the Lorain Times-Herald. The figures in every other instance given above are complete and official. Good Showing. If the figures of the Times-Herald prove to be correct, the total for the county will bet $3,409.200, or approximately $74.000 short of the maximum quota, and $1,289.100 in excess of the county's minimum quota.

Lorain city's quota was $800,000 and the total of $1.800,000 estimated by the Times-Herald was swelled by total subscriptions from the National Tube Company, company and em- ployes aggregating $1,100,300. The" company subscribed $660,000 and the employes subscribed for $341,300. Chairman Chamberlain will issue a statement tomorrow going morel into detail, and giving credit where credit-is due. Sign on Municipal Building at Trenton, J. CJ.MERTHE STORE SHOWS ITS HEART IS WITH THE RED CROSS "Don't Waste Pood The cities are helping to win tfce war by working wtih the United States Administration.

Treuton. New Jersey, was first tp adorn its municipal-building- with a stirring sign advocating the conservation of food. Atlantic City, also in New Jersey, has a huge day and night legend against its sky line which brings home'the same need to the thousands, that throng its beaches. Washington, D. showed the first electric sign ajid has one with letters four feet high that blazes its raeaage to thousands nightly.

Washington shows its spirit, too, by having conservation rrvthods taught at Community Food Demonstrations, held at a city playground. Massachusetts, lias a spectacular display of" food products which impress the necessity of care hi everyday life and materials. I'alatka, Florida, maintains a community kitchen, equipped bv a group of its leading citizens, vegetables are brought from the and canned. Washington, D. WHAT IS ELYRIA GOING TO DO Will Donate Three Per Cent of Two Day Sale Receipts to Organization IS SPLENDID OFFER I EVERY INTERESTED IX RED CROSS WORK SHALT; ASSIST IX SWELLING THE RECEIPTS OF THE SALE--PURCHASE TRENCH BAG.

In order to assist the Red Cross, the C. H. Merthe store has not only offered to conduct a special'two day sale, but the management has also agreed to donate three per cent of the cash receipts secured AVednesday and Thursday of this week. Many persons interested.in'the Red Cross work, are planning to purchase not only their winter supplies, bu-t their Xmas gifts as well, to increase the size of the two receipts, from which the three per cent will be deducted. will be on sale on these dates and anyone who purchases one of them and fills it with j.the desired articles, will be permit- mm omit RUT TO Asaph Jones Dwelt on Many Topics in Public Address OWNS TWO COWS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOB MAYOR BRAVED STORM AND: PERSISTENT QUESTIONS ANft SPOKE FOR TWO AND ONE HALF HOURS.

ted to insert their name and address! candi- At Ctommiurity Kitcfcen at Palatka, Comnmnity Food Demonstration on a City Playground at TT. S. Food Asaph Jones, republican I in the gift to be sent across the sea. I a mayor opened Ms I There are 200 of these trench bags! canlDain tn Public square Sat night, with a series of speech-. iien be was interrupted with to-'be prepared by the residents of city, so do your before it''is lafe.

OVER TWO THOUSAND PERSONS SERVICE MEET IITI.F. WEIL mm Former Mayor Says He Admires the Loud Pedal, Sometimes RAPS THE'WETS Lutherans Flocked From Surrounding Cities and Towns ENJOYED ADDRESSES MARTIN LUTHER HAILED AS A WORLD HERO BY WORSHIPPERS WHO MET AT HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TO SING HIS PRAISES Well over 2,000 people attended the services commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Reformation conducted, at the high school auditorium, Sunday. The speakers. though the services were consider-! LOKAIN ably longer than usual, held the close attention of their audiences. The offerings for the day, which are to go toward the $1,000,000 Jubilee Drafted Men Expect to Remain at the Cantonment All Winter TRENCH BATTLE MAN WILL, NOT BE TRIED ON DESERTION CHARGE FOOTBALL IS POPULAR SPORT W5TH ROOKIES AT CHILLICOTHE.

BELLS RING If prayerVill put Ohio, in the dry column, the reign of King Barleycorn will be doomed a week from Commencing Tuesday and continuing until and including election day, the church bells of this city will peal forth the message at five minutes to twelve announcing that the hour of prayer has arrived. All over the state, temperance workers will bow the'ir heads and invoke the Lord to guide the voters hand to the ment ousting liquor from Ohio, by placing a cross on the "Yes" column. For the brief space of five minutes prayers for state-wide prohibition will be offered up. Another Killing Is Made Despite Numerous Demands YOU ELYRIAXS ARE PROUD OF RECORD ESTABLISHED SATURDAY A PROMOTERS OF "TAG WANTED--Two boys. 1C years old or over to learn printing trade.

Republican Ptg. Second St. 10-29-tf WANTED TO RENT -Furnished modern apartment, close to square. Can give best of reference. Will pay well for some.

Box 8 Telegram. 10-24-6t Church Extension amounted "On last Lord's day, someone at-i allT1OHt 4 0 0 tending divine services in the church rC)r who spoke in the morning. pointed out that all lost a purse, and if the owner wants niO dern popular education, both see- to find it he win have to go to Helen ular and religious, had its source in Hunt for it. That ambiguous, not to say the Reformation. Rev.

Paul Stoep- By Sgt. Otto Mischka especial Staff Gorrespondeat) Camp Sherman. Chillicothe, Oct. 27--The Lor.ain county selectives in the "national army of freedom" here (Continued on Page Six) dis- pelwerth proved by historic evidence! are encountering "the same line I (Continued on page 6) SPECIAL REGISTRATION FOR THE ONES WHO WERE AW AY OR SICK SPECIAL ELECTIONS ARE RATHER EXPENSIV, BUT THFTV WE MUST VOTE NOTICE. Several thousand rolls of wall paper, enough of each kind to fit the rf ordinary room.

Will be sold cheap ra i dj trirt? at O'Donnell's Wall Paper Store. Ial rtistncts 10-25-tf ty and they receive from 55 to per day each. Figuring it at $5 per day i. amounts to 2.1 60 and at S8 per day it amount? to $2.880, quite a wages alone. are expensive affairs, 1 tot only in the cities, but in the ru-j TM to be pai we For those who were out of the city There are six judges and clerks i i regulaT or for those ach of the 72 precincts in the can of drills and marches as are the members of the American expeclitionary forces now back of the firing line, under General Pershing in France.

The conscripts are being taught the very latest military tactics and will need only a few weeks' sojourn in France to acclimate them, should the local boys be sent abroad. The week's training which ended this noon carried with it the first lessons in trench a a and included trench fighting as well as trench digging. The trench 'instruction was made a detail from the 308t.h VOR Somo of the Tjor BY DEflTH Sydney A. Stickney. aged S7 years, died at the home or his daughter, Mrs.

Martha Catney, of Sugar Ridge at 5:30 o'clock this morning. Sticknev died on his birthday as he was eighty-seven yean! old today. He is survived by one son, Alburn Stickney. of Avon, and a daughter, Mrs. Martha Catney of Sugar Ridge.

The funeral will be held at 1:30 o'clock Eastern time, Wednesday afternoon from the Avon Methodist church. Rev. S. Smith, of this city, to officiate. A DONATION DAY" HAPPY BUNCH ARE A a question from some bystander would make another speech and there were several 'such interrupt tions.

Mr. Jones spoke two hours and a half, and there was no let up at auy time except for the insertion of pe- ilods and question marks here and' there, to enable him to get his breath The crowd which was a promiscuous- one; would come and "people iwould Soiiie would atop for a mihtite ti and say, "On, it's Jones," they would move oh. Many retnain-4 od throughout the series. There are people who will listen as long as anyone will talk to them. Others will talk as long as anyone will listen them.

That is the reason some.peo-v pie are happy a good part of the time. Combination Sandwich By the time Mr. Jones ha'd completed his series of speeches, those present, as nearly as the Telegram reporter could figure out, had been treated to.a combination the principal features of his remarks dealing with milk, manure and sew- era, a combination that makes it a campaign of 'sink or swim," sure enough, and the 'devil take the and Donation Day" for Ely-! ria Memorial hospital and the Gates The hole was.concluded with a Home for Crippled Children, in spite reference to the cemetery, which of the war, the high cost of living, i vas ven added gloom, bythejnoon- the'last day of the Liberty Loan less starless skies. drive and a heavy rain all afternoon, Saturday, stands out as one of the Jones' Two Cows It developed during Mr. big days in the history of of our hos-! talk that he is the pital tag days, $1,062.77 was received! cows, whereas the in the boxes and $258 in special do- natfbns from factories and inclividu- owner of two previous public understanding had been that he owned but one.

That is probably one als. of the reasons he favors raw milk, Very Generous Another, undoubtedly, is his desire The workers report almost unfail-. lor office. But these caws, which ing courtesy and generosity from arc- hay-fed, are well fed, according everyone solicited. to Mr.

Jones' own admission, a state- The ladies of the Women's made in explanation of and in iiliary who conduct the tag day. to the complaint which had year, extend thanks, first of all to a been made about the unsanitary con- generous public- for its interest and support, also to the Perry-Fay the I. T. S. Rubber Elyria Ma(Continued on Page Eight) THUNDER, LIGHTNING AND RAIN, ALL CAME AT THE SAME TIME ditions about his premises.

OBERLIN GIRL WINS THE FIRST PRIZE IN TEMPERANCE CONTEST BOYS TO MAKE GOOD SHOWING TN ESSAY LINE. The Dry Federation of Lorain County, through three selected judges, namely Professor F. F. Jewett, of Oberlin, and Hon. W.

R. Comings and H. H. Wright, of this city, have awarded the $25 prizes for the best essays submitted by school scholars, "Why the Saloons of Ohio Should be Closed." Helen Monosmith, of Oberlin, the $10 prize, which follows. The others will appear in the Telegram from day to day.

Marion Klady, of Lorian, won the kiMd-fcsiefei $5 prize and Mabel Gaston. of this city the $3 prize. The winners of the $1 prizes are El nor Thatcher, Oberlin; Daniel Jones, Elyria; Doris being registered booth. at their precinct The booths will be open Monday, November 5, from 2:30 until 5:30 central time. Gillette New London; Norma.

Fore- WANTED Boy for ship- man, Oberlin; George Partridge, of Oberlin; Winifred Kirby. Elyria, and Bernice Cheney, Elyria, D. i. "i shall begin with a child until alcohol drove him to the grave." A boy seventeen years old. was Continued on six.) BUSINESS MEN If you are interested in Robust Health, hear Mr.

Wells at Y. M. C. A. Monday evening at p.

m. Hen only; advt ng U1P ae Pa tment, DlcaChery, girls for threading, finishing, mending and inding Departments; steady work, good wages; exceptionally good oppor Utilities -for experienced threaders and slip winders. Apply American Lace Mfg. East Side. 1 WET produce, a doctor's certifi-; i jcate stating thev were ill in bed nicn a ay (lea(1 a those dates, a special registration i i a a of will be held Monday.

November 5. Such voters will go to the election board office in the Masonic Temple and secure an order to permit their while others were introduced to the pick and shovel. StiH The Lorain county company is still leading i regiment in the second Liberty loan bond campaign. Thr- home boys have' subscribed for over worth of the bonds with an average of almost $100 per capita and are now foremost in this respect in the entire cantonment. Frank Lorain man, confined in the regiment guard houses, will face the a court, rather than be court martin led under the 5Sth article of war, on a charge of desertion.

An. invesligiitirn left a September 2 4 lowing a from his wife a she one of the two children were sick. Me said he was about to return to the camp when arrested on SO LATE THK YEAR--HEAYY A I A IN that A and storm, evidently dim sometime last summer visited this city. Sunday night, much rain being precipitated durinj: the time it in progress. It is seldom a either i i or thunder are witnessed at siir.h a late date, but there was ptently of both phenomena last night.

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the On Defensive Mr. Jones, in his series of was not aggressive. His remarks for the most part were purely de- t'ensive. explanatory, apologetic. The things he talked about were repeated, and the things he should have talked about were omitted.

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dale, the first town in the foothills on the western side of the mountains, only nine miles from Udine, where the Italian army headquarters are located. They have also captured OK smooi, Thf Uonrri of a i of Raton Township will soil at public auction, Novomhor 2 p. standard time, Hfluioi house and land owned by snid lion ril in District No. 8, Eaton Township. By order of Board of Kdu- a P.

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