The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-02-13

Steps have been taken to put on
home talent show by the Am. Legion
likely to take on the character OF a
minstrel offering. Date yet to be
announced.
Kenneth Mayer and Lewis Mayer
of Brunswick, and Adrian Baisch, OF
Wadsworth, are three Medina county
Young men active in Westminster q.
E. society at Wooster this year.
DIR. Arthur H. Compton, '13,
College of Wooster, has accepted the
position of head of the department
of physics in Washington University,
st. Louis, Mo-, and will begin his
work in September.
Tuesday evening was regular
meeting night of Medina City Council,
but there was no quorum. Sickness
among members and their families
was given as the reason for the alb
sence of so many.
When a church picks poor pair
of spiritual workers" it's hard to get
them to stone their own aids; never
theless, their faces are certain to
show the rumblings that are going on
in the disturbed members stomachs.
The young people held social
dance in X. P. hall Saturday evening.
1t was protest to the severe criti-
cism of dancing by. the evangelists
who made special attack on that form
of amusement the Monday night pre-
vious.
Emma Irene Gordon, the 10 year
old niece of Mrs. w. ]. Mitchell, died
at her fathers home in Window,
Portage county, last week Wednesday
funera | was held Saturday. The
mother, Mrs. Mitchells sister, died at
the birth of her child.
NO Medina minister was in at
tendance at the county monthly meet
ing of ministers. There has been so
much sickness in and about the city
that the several pastors of the county
have been worked almost as hard as
the doctors.
The Am. Legion will celebrate
Washington's birthday with appropri-
ate ceremonies at the Congregational
church Sunday evening, Feb. %. Rev.
Ross, of Wadsworth, will be the
speaker. There will be pageant,
with High school pupils participat-
ing.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carsten died at her
home in Lafayette on Friday, Feb.
6, at the age of 81 years. She was
the widow of Geo. Carsten, who died
something over year ago. Funer-
al was held from the Waltz church,
in the same township. with burial in
the church cemetery.
Reports to the State Department
of Health indicate widespread pre-
valence of Flu the disease has SO far
been milder in type than last year.
and no large number of cases of pneu
monia have been reported. The cpl
demic is in practically all parts of the
state but the department thinks it
will spend itself in a short time.
The gospel meetings planned for
the Church of Christ will not likely
begin till the last of the month. The
success of the evangelist in his pre-
sent field of work has been such a
success that the meetings. will continue
for some days yet. Local church
people are living in hopes that Me-
dina physicians will by that time have
the upper hand of the Flu, that the
meetings may be well attended.
"A letter received from Mrs. Van
Epp, now in Florida, written last
week, says that they are in the midst
of some severe rainy weather. At
that the sun shines part of every day
and so far the weather has been very
comfortable. So certain are the
Florida editors of the beauty Of their
climate that any day the sun fails to
shine the papers are distributed free
to patrons.
Rains in Florida have made havoc
Of the roads and railways within the
past few weeks. Bridges have been
washed out by the score, on both rail-
ways and vehicle roads, and tourists
from the North have been cautioned
in consequence. Roy Kimmel, who
left the cars at Jacksonville, Fla, pur
chased an auto and planned to finish
the journey overland, was several
days overdue at last accounts and had
been having his troubles because of
the washouts. (As we go to press
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