Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1954-12-30
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James R. Moon was installed
as new JayCee president.
The Geauga Federation of
Women's clubs elected Mrs.
Clifford Babcock president for
the coming year.
DR.. H. B. Thomas was elect
ed head of the Burton-Middle-
field Rotary club.
Mrs. Bernice Hale of Mont
vile died as a result of injur-
les received in an airplane ac-
cident near Dayton.
Chardon villages budget for
1855, $66, ,829.25, was approved.
For the first time in many
months the 276,000 gallon stand
pipe on Chardon's square was
filled to overflowing when wa
ter at the rate of 200 gallons
per minute flowed into it from
the villages new we'll south of
Chardon.
Donald Shultz, 20, of Char
don, drowned in Lake Erie
when the boat in which he was
riding capsized.
The Geauga Hospital ASSoci-
alton obtained an option on
land for the purpose of build
ing a county hospital.
The MunSon school ard
took an option on property To-
Gated on Bass Lake rd. as a
possible site for a new school
building.
The formation of a new Re-
tail Merchants association was
decided upon by Chardon re-
tail merchants.
Three persons, all from the
Cleveland area, we're killed in
auto accidents on Geauga roads
during July.
The Chester Baptist church
observed its 135th birthday.
AUGUST
Preliminary plans to figura-
lively put Lake Erie at the
door of every home and indus
try in Geauga county" are be-
ing studied by the Lake Erie
Watershed Conservation Found
alton. The foundation proposed
to construct a pipeline from
Lake Erie to a point in tn
Chardon area.
The Chardon school board
signed a petition, as the larg-
est single property owner on
Chardon ave-, to have h t
street paved.
Approximately 1856 employees
of the Johnson Rubber co. in
Middlefield went out on strike
demanding a pay raise n d
other benefits.
Of the petitions presented for
transfer of land from the West
Geauga and Kenston school dis
tricts, DR.. Clyde Hissong, state
director of education, approved
only a relatively small parcel
in the West Geauga district for
transfer.
Geauga county became tn
first in northeastern Ohio to Of
ficially back the proposed pipe
line tapping of Lake Erie, when
Geauga commissioners | a ID
81 900 on the line toward an
immediate engineering survey
as planned by the Lake Erie
Watershed Conservation Foun-
dation.
Services were held in tn
Burton Congregational church
for Neal Monroe Osborn, 73,
former Burton mayor, who died
unexpectedly.
Ohio's second turnpike, the
proposed Conneaut to Gin
cinnatti rd., would run through
the western edge of Geauga
county if plans submitted to the
State Highway Director were
approved, it was revealed.
Chardon council approved is
suing of notes amounting to
$1,000 to buy the bonds to be
issued in that amount for i'm
proving, enlarging and remod-
cling the disposal system.
Chardon village council was
preparing to place an order for
parking meters to be placed on
the east side of the village park.
Mayor Donald c. Muchmore re-
ported to the Chamber of Com
merce.
Rev. Elmer Hostetler, pastor |
of the Claridon Congregational
church for the last five years,
announced his resignation eff =
fective September l.
Paul Hanke, with his essay