The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-01-23
LOCAL BRIEFS

dinner for the Kiwanis club Frida.
noon Of this week.
-Pythian Sisters installed officer
Monday night, the work having beel
postponed from week before.
The Sunday school board of th'
Church of Christ will hold a meetins
i IN the church parlors next Monda!
evening.
The ladies of St. Paul's church
will give a cafeteria supper at thu
Parish House on Friday from 5 tt
TOO p. m. All are invited.
There was a good attendance Al
the cafeteria supper and fellowship
meeting at the Congregational chmcl
last week Thursday evening.
- Stanley Funk moved his restau
rant on Tuesday of this week into the
Fem building, directly across the
street from the old location.
Y Work at the Machine Shop is still
brisk enough to keep on the double
shift, in this way getting double work
out Of one investment in machines.
kid wagons from the south pike
as well as from the north, were un-
able to get through this week on ac-
! count of the drifted condition of the
roads.
Members of the local post of the
American Legion are planning a
benefit show the proceeds from which
will be turned over to the community
building fund.
The Medina Machine Shop made
record on machining Ford parts in
December. 1t fooled 5166 parts and
the inspector on the other end of the
line discarded but 8.
Under the provisions of a new
law soldiers in the late war can have
their insurance payment changed so
that the lump sum of insurance will
be paid at death, and in one payment.
A membership campaign for
Farm Bureau members will be put on
some time in March. The hope is ex-
pressed that the present list of con
tributors and workers may be doubled
for 1920. '~
Attorneys Woods & Stine moved
into their new quarters directly above
the Old Phoenix National Bank the
forepart Of the week, workmen hav-
ing labored on Sunday to make the
rooms ready for occupancy.
"A Cleveland undertaken battled
with some snow drifts for over six
hours Saturday before he was able to
reach Medina. Starting on the return
trip Immediately after dinner the
party had not reached Cleveland at |
11:30 that night.
"A banquet is to be rendered the
Medina football team of 1919, on
Thursday evening. There is to be a |
feast and some little speaking, only /
the team and intimate friends being
invited. Prospective members for
the coming season will be eligible.
George McNeal is again able to
resume his duties in the auditors
Office. Mr.. McNeal atttmpted to per-
form his duties on Monday of last
week after few days siege with the
grippe, but was forced to return home
and remained there until Monday of
this week.
A. U. S. food authority, examin-
ing into price in Akron, says that the
peak in prices in that city is the
highest in the Nation. Medina mer-
chants, then, need not fear the new
Northern Ohio improvement in local
service, as higher prices won't attract
much Medina trade.
1t seems we Dragged little
early on Robert Blomenstein, of Wey-
mouth, who has great record among
employees at the Medina Machine
Shop for punctuality. Robert failed
TO show up at all several days last
week; said his Ford kicked him and {
badly sprained his right wrist. Other
wise his record is still very good.
The Community House executive
committee has taken no action on site
prospects as yet. A couple of new {
prospects have loomed up and until
hey can be worked out there will be {
10 meeting with a purpose of taking s
inal action. An effort is being made |
o close up these deals this week so t
hat a definite report can be made. v
The Odd Fellows are busy these q
lays completing their plans for the I
'eception they are to give to the Re- d
'eccas on next Tuesday evening. It r
$ planned to make this Red Letter
went in the social life of the Re- t
'eccas this winter, and the men are \
training every nerve to make this a
most enjoyable time. The pleasures n
i the evening will be confined to Odd {
fellows, Rebeccas and their families. F
County Auditor Ward Washburn S
arrived home from Columbus Friday il
morning where he spent two days re- il
ewing instructions regarding the
Workings OF the new inheritance tax. f
'nd how to proceed with the organi-, O
alton Of the new health organization s
!nder the Griswold act. A member of D
ne State highway commissioners Of n
ice also explained the law pertaining p
0 ditch assessments which comes un- j,
er the auditors jurisdiction. All b
ut TWO counties of the state were Fl
epresented> at this meeting.
1t is not probably generally a
nown that A. l. Root, of our own Il
lty, was among the first six Ohio W
aen 2, who started the dry movement h
Ohio that became nation wide in a
y scope. But Fridays Plain Dealer D
ames the six men who started the Il
1ork, and names them in the follow a
l1g order: A. |. Root, of Medina; Irv- Fl
lg g. Metcalf, DR.. H. H. Russell fl
wayne b. Wheeler, Edwin C. Din g
'oodie and Purley C. Baker. h,
An Iowa financier tells a Senate 81
ommittee that statesmen of fake
locks m his State have taken two sc
undred millions of dollars out of L