The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-01-10

The second numeber of the lee
ture course, Noah Beilharz, entertain
er, viii appear at the Congregation
al church next Wednesday evening,
January Is, at 8 o'clock.
Advertised letters at the Medina
postoffice are for Mrs. Chas. B. Ar
cher, Fred S. Bates, John F. Blackall,
T. C. Coddington, Mrs. Mary Dewitt,
A. Herbert, Percy Neubrand, Miss
Stella Miller.
Kenneth Sedgwick, son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. Sedgwick, is convalesc-
ing from an operation which he un-
derwent at Wooster hospital last
Friday.
BY order of Mayor S. F. DIM
mock, the flag on the town hall was
dropped to half mast Wednesday in
respect To the memory of Ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who died Monday
morning. The same action would
have been followed at the court house
but the flag pole was out of commits
sion. However, the county officials
closed their offices from IL to 2
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, a mark
of respect that was similarly car
ried out in the larger cities. At 12:45,
the hour of the ex-president's funer-
al, the bells of the local churches were
tolled.
Residents of the village who hap
pened to be up before daylight last
Friday morning will be glad to know
that failure to furnish current is not
always the fault Of the local electric
light company. This time the blame
attaches to thieves, who Thursday
night, helped themselves to about
1000 feet of high tension wire. The
robbery was committed near Bruns-
wick. The Standard Oil Co. suffered
| a similar loss some time ago when
thieves took about four miles Of cop
per wire from the poles in the same
vicinity.
Mrs. C. V. Spahr, who was re-
moved to Fairview hospital, Cleveland,
last week Wednesday, in critical
condition, is reported as convalescing.
Leroy schools opened on Monday,
December 20, after being closed on
account of flu, and were compelled to
close again on Friday because of a
renewed outbreak of the disease.
Many cases are reported from there.
-"December's as pleasant as May,
observes the editor Of the Root Co.'S
"Beedom," in commenting on the fact
that bees We're working on dandelions
in Medina on December 21.
Daily papers have chronicled the
fact that the 37th division, composed
almost entirely Of men from this sec
tion of the state, had been ordered
home and that debarkation will begin
within month. Joe Rumpf, Medina
boy, is with this division and will
probably return with his unit, altho
letters received from him week ago
stated that he was in hospital re-
covering from wounds received in ac-
tion.
Water pressure has been low in
certain sections of town this week due
to ice collecting in the water mains.
Mr.. Theo. Cummings and family
have moved here from Sturgis, Mich,
and have rented the Waltz home on
South Huntington street.
Word has been received of the
serious illness of Isabel Warner, who
with Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Calvert, re-
! turned to Council Bluffs, Ia., last
week.
Mr.. T. G. Andrews has been con-
fined to his home the past two weeks
with severe attack of jaundice.
Mrs. Rosce Ewing and daughter
Jane of Lakewood are visiting the
formers mother, Mrs. W. l.. Sar-
geant.
"A very pleasant affair was din
ner party at the Lutz restaurant on
Tuesday evening given by the county
officials to r. l.. Gehman and wife
upon the formers retirement from the
Office of sheriff. Those present were
the two guests and Probate Judge and
Mrs. O. 0. VanDeusen, Auditor and
Mrs. George McNeal, Recorder and
Mrs. c. S. Rice, Treasurer and Mrs.
C. Frank and Clerk and Mrs. L. J.
Flickinger The other officials were
unable to be present.
A Cleveland paper of Saturday
published the statement that Director
General of Railroads McAdoo had
been made a party to damage suit
filed in federal court by Mrs. Lue
Howard, mother of Seldom A. Howard,
one of twenty men killed when
Pennsylvania flyer crashed into
crowd of men alighting from a spec
ial train at Bedford, Oct. 8. Mrs.
Howard, the article stated, who lives
in Medina, alleges her son was her
only support and asks $25,000 dam
ages. Plaintiff is Howard's widow,
not his mother, and resides in Cleve-
land. The mother, Mrs. Edgar, re-
sides in Chagrin Falls. Howard re-
sided in Medina for a while few
years ago, where he was employed at
Pelton's barber shop.
The Ashland Bible Study club, a
large organization of that city, has
prepared a special program for it's
annual guest day on January %. Miss
Mary L. Tilley of Medina has been
assigned a place on the program and
will recite "The Drama of job" Miss
Jessie Pocock will accompany Miss
Tilley to Ashland.