OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED
HISTORY and DIRECTORY
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EUCLID, OHIO
1928
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OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF EUCLID, OHIO
This Book is the first of its kind ever published. Our pur- pose in writing this book is to give the people of Euclid, Ohio and the general public some idea of what Euclid is and what it is bound to become in the near future.
In it you will find many illustrations that will be interest- ing to you. A few of the beautiful private residences to be found in Euclid and the wonderful scenery in different parts of the Village that will surprise you.
The Directory part of this book is complete to date. It gives the names of all the Streets, and the names of all the people on them and the number of the house in which they live.
Time tables and Schedules of Trains and Busses. Loca- tion of depots. Air Mail arrivals and departures. Location of Air Mail boxes, etc.
In this Book is a new Zoning Map, showing plainly the location of every Street in Euclid. Business Maxims, Milage Charts, etc. Location of every branch Library in Cuyahoga County. A complete list of all Cities in the United States that have a population of 30,000 or over, and a great deal of other useful information.
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HE man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, the only good belonging to him is under the ground.
This Directory and Illustrated History, of Euclid, Ohio, will be found in the Public Library of Cleveland, and all its branches, also in all branches in Cuyahoga County, the num- ber and location of them you will find in another part of this book.
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LIST OF PRESENT OFFICERS OF EUCLID, OHIO FOR 1926-1927
Mayor ----- Charles R. Ely Clerk ----- Robert Topping Treasurer - - - - W. B. Verbsky Marshal _____ Elmer Hill
Councilmen : Chas. Dissette D. C. Pinney
A. L. Irwin John Saefkow
Arthur Kornblum I. H. Stranahan
Solicitor - - - Judge Stanley Orr 1481 E. 106th St.
Street Commissioner - - J. L. Sullivan
Board of Public Affirs:
A. L. McCandless Walter E. Neal
A. J. Budnick
Water Superintendent - - F. C. Smith Building- Inspector - - Wm. Baeckler Fire Chief - - - - Chas. Ballon
Euclid Town Hall :
North Street Telephone Kenmore 0771
Police Department — Kenmore 1 and 2
Fire Department — Kenmore 0722
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EUCLID, OHIO
Has four miles of Lake frontage, lying ten miles east of the Public Square of the City of Cleveland, Euclid is without ques- tion one of the ideal spots for the some-seeker in Northern Ohio. Along the lake shore side of the town is the justly famous Lake Shore Boulevard Drive, one of the finest drives out of Cleveland. and which is rapidly being built up into a beautiful residential district. We have an eighty-foot boulevard the entire length of the City with two eighteen-foot strips of pavement on either side. This is an exceptionally well-lighted thoroughfare, as lights have been installed on both sides of the street.
Euclid, lying east of and adjoining Cleveland, is logically in a position to reap the benefitfis of these improvements. On the south side of the City we find the celebrated Euclid Avenue, the street that is known the world over and known to the traveling public as the Cleveland and Buffalo Route. Here again we have an eighty-six-foot boulevard with paved strips on both sides of the highway. The paving of the west end of the Village section of this road was just recently completed by the White Construc- tion Company, as was the City's portion of same road by Floyd B. Stein, Inc., so that now we have a continuous good pavement right to the heart of the city of Cleveland one way and to the city of Buffalo, N. Y., the other way. No wonder it is known as the Cleve- land-Buffalo Route. Through Euclid this boulevard runs along at the foot of a beautiful sloping tree-covered hillside, and here is being built a fine residential district.
The advantages of this particular section are, overlooking Lake Erie and the town, fresh air, shade and with all city improvements, an ideal place for homes. Upon completion of the paving of Lake Shore Boulevard we will have another route through Euclid for automobilists that will probably be used as much if not more than Euclid Avenue, on account of its being a lake front drive.
East 222nd Street (formerly Bliss Road), the main crossroad through from Euclid Avenue to Lake Shore Boulevard. Euclid is paved. The members of the Euclid Chamber of Industry have been active in the proposed widening of St. Clair Avenue, lying midway between Euclid and Lake Shore Boulevard, and the extension of same as far east as the Chagrin Riv^v at Willoughby. Ohio. It is conceded that this will be accomplished, thus giving Euclid three main boulevards from east to west through the entire length, of the Village, and will allow of a distribution of the traffic, the St. Clair Road being used for heavy loads and trucks.
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Euclid Police Force — Euclid, Ohio
Bottom Row — Reading from left — Leo Doneette, John Kaiser, K. F. Schmidth (chief), Patsy Leoni, Kenneth Gibb.
Middle Row — Roland Baher, Charles Fox, Harold Hoffman, Erwin C. Garnett, Anthony Arant, C. Raymond Merritt.
Top Row — John P. Hardley, Alfred Harmon, Gearld Sullivan, David Rapp, Edwin Ryberg, Herbert Brady.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Euclid has a police force of fourteen men and is properly equip- ped, therefore it gees without saying that the Village is properly policed and has a reputation for such.
BANKING
The Guardian Bank, one of the leading banking institutions in the State of Ohio, is the legal depository for all Euclid funds and also handles all payments of cancelled bonds and coupons of Euclid a tremendous amount of work in itself. This bank also collects for Euclid all payments on bonds sold. All of this work has been car- ried on to the entire satisfaction of the Euclid officials and the busi- ness relations between the Guardian Trust Company and Euclid has been more than satisfactory.
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EUCLID, OHIO
Incorporated January 23, 1922
Authorized Capital, $1,000,000
Euclid Office
Chardon Rd. and Euclid Ave.
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Harvey A. Decker, Pres. John R. Barber, 1st Vice Pres.
A. W. Laufer, 2d Vict Pres. W. A. Steinbrenner, Secy.
Perry D. Caldwell, Attorney J. B. Clark W. B. Hill
W. A. Franks F. Bieber Joseph Irr A. A. Verbsky
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HEADQUARTERS, EUCLID, OHIO, FIRE DEPARTMENT
HOSE WAGON
Rear, standing:, E. Kreger; next, standing- on board, G. Stone; next, standing
on board, T. Haiiley; next, standing on ground, Eiuetetnant E. Prentice; next,
standing on wagon, A. Yahraus; next, driver, sitting-, H. Byerley ; next to
driver, sitting on wagon, E. Kastelic; dog-, Flash...
PUMPER
Center front. Chief E. Eaie ; right front, Lieutenant A. Costello; right, standing
on board, E. Earicik; left, standing on board, T. MeCrea; right, standing on
board. C. Moyer ; driver, E. Shaffer ; on ladder, cat. Tommy.
Built by The DeCarie Corporation Co., and put in operation in 1925.
Firemen of Euclid, Ohio
Left to right, top — Elmer Kroeger, Clarence Moyer, George Stone. Lester Shaffer, Elmer Earick, Thomas McGreal, Edward Kastilie, Louis Burkhardt. Sitting down — Alfred Yahraus, Lloyd Prentice. E. Earick (chief), Thomas Hanley, Howard Byerley.
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Louis Harms and N. J. Brewer were elected Mayor and Clerk for 1910 and 1911. Brewer resigned in the beginning of 1911 and Fred H. Shoaff was appointed and served during 1911.
Mayor Louis Harms and Fred H. Shoaff were elected and served during 1912 and 1913.
Ralph L. Fuller and H. S. Dunlop were elected Mayor and Clerk for 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917. Mayor Ralph Fuller resigned in November, 1916, and D. H. Pond, Vice-Mayor, was appointed Mayor and served the remainder of the term.
Mayor D. H. Pond and Clerk H. S. Dunlop were elected and served during 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921.
Chas. X. Zimerman and Chas. H. Cross were elected Mayor and Clerk and served during the years of 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925.
The names of Village officials for the year of 1926 will be found on directory page.
Euclid owns its own Public Park, consisting of about eighteen acres of land situated on Lake Erie at Lake Shore Boulevard and East 222nd Street (formerly Bliss Road). Here the public can disport themselves in the waters of Lake Erie or take a quiet siesta 'neath the shade of large trees. Ample room for baseball or other games is found here and playground equipment for the young is supplied. An excellent dance hall is in evidence, as well as a place where one can obtain refreshments.
Euclid owns and operates its own sewer disposal plant and under plans approved by the State Board of Health takes care of the following cities and villages : Euclid, South Euclid, University Heights (formerly Idlewood), Beachwood Village, north half, part of County Sanitary District No. 3.
While the sewer disposal plant was finished in 1925, it is the consummation of a long, hard fought battle to obtain it, and the preparation of plans, profiles, contracts, together with innumer- able objections, made it an almost heart-breaking task covering a long period of years. It is now an accomplished fact, and the greatest amount of credit must go to the Pease Engineering Company, for the burden of proof as well as of work was borne by this company, but they, as well as the citizens of Euclid, may well feel proud of the accomplishment.
Euclid owns and operates its own garbage incinerator plant and has established a system of collection and disposal that is very satisfactory. The incinerator plant, of the De Carie type, is located at St. Clair Avenue and Upson Road. This improvement shows the real progressive spirit of Euclid, for how many towns can boast of an incinerator plant? Contrary to all expectation, there is no odor or disagreeable features connected with this improvement. This plant was also built under the supervision of the Pease Engi- neering Company, the city engineer.
MISUNDERSTOOD
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EUCLID, OHIO
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EUCLID IS SIXTEEN SQUARE MILES HISTORY OF EUCLID, OHIO
■ Euclid is more than fortunate in having the service of two of the best railroads in the Eastern States to serve its needs.
Running from east to west and almost through the center of the city we have the New York Central and the Nickel Plate Rail- roads. These roads parallel each other the entire distance of four miles through the town and with the combined double frontage of sixteen miles give to Euclid an extra large amount of factory space and insures us of a wonderful business future for this com- munity. When consideration is given to the fact that these roads are to be electrified in the near future and that Euclid has a zoning law that will keep the factory district from encroaching on the residential sections and yet retain the immense value contributed by same, it is no wonder that the very great possibilities of Euclid's future can be seen and appreciated by those, looking for home-sites or investments. This is why Euclid is growing so rapidly and fast becoming one of the most up-to-date towns in the Sate of Ohio. This fact is probably best shown by the increase in propulation from 3,363 in 1920 to 10,503 in 1925.
Euclid has an area of approximately twelve square miles, room enough for a population of 150,000. The Ohio Bell Telephone Com- pany has predicted (from actual survey) and will provide service for a population in Euclid Township of 22,400 by 1930, and 60,380 by the year 1940. This in itself is an assurance of the future rapid growth of Euclid. It also indicates that the residents of Euclid know the value of the service rendered by the telephone com- pany and are taking advantage of it.
Euclid is one of the best lighted cities in the State of Ohio, having at this time about 600 400-candle power lights distributed through the city. Upon request, the Cleveland Electric Illumi- nating Company (from which Euclid gets its electric service), in conjunction with Nela Park engineering department, made a com- plete survey of Euclid's lighting needs and rendered a report of the present needs and plans for future lighting requirements.
The educational features of Euclid are most commendably taken care of by our School Board, the members of which are Nel- son J. Brewer, Gertrude C. Witmer, L. L. Marshall, J. Leonard Evans and J. B. Clark, and under supervision of the Superintend- ent of Schools, Mr. W. A. Franks.
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Office Employes
Miss Bernice Beck, Telephone Operator; Mr. Robert Topping, Clerk: Miss Irene Schwed, Abatement Clerk; Miss Katherine Telljohn, Assistant Clerk; Mr. George R. Hamilton, Assistant Clerk; Miss Jeanette Henderson, Stenographer. Reading from left to right.
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Sewage Disposal Plant
Euclid's sewage disposal plant adjoins Euclid Park. Completed in 1925, this modern plant serves a great many of the villages surrounding Eu sewage being conducted thru miles <of large trunk sewers to the lakefront Bite.
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Office of Street Department, Euclid, Ohio.
A. L. McCandless, Superintendent, Seated to Right. Frank T. Andrews, Clerk, Seated to Left. Miss Louise Rogers, Stenographer, Standing.
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EUCLID, OHIO, INCINERATION PLANT
liuilt by The De. Curie Corporation Co. and put in operation in L925
The incinerating plant, located along the New York Central Railroad
just west of Upson Road, serves several of the villages in
the vicinity of Euclid Village
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Euclid Central School on Char don Rd., One Block South of Euclid
Avenue, Euclid, Ohio
At the present date Euclid Village has five public school plants hous- ing its? school population, Euclid- Central on Chardon Rd., a block north of Euclid Ave., at Stop 10; Shore School, Bliss and Babbitt Rds. at Stop 133 Lake Shore Blvd.; Roosevelt School, E. 200th St. at Monterey Ave.; Noble School, cor- ner of St. Clair Ave| and Babbit Rd., and Upson School, E. 260th St., one-quarter mile south of Lake Shore Blvd., Stop 139. Of these five, Euclid-Central and Shore both house first grade high schools, Junior high department and all primary and in- termediate grades from the kinder- garten to twelfth inclusive. Roose- velt provides for grades one to eight inclusive, and Noble and Upson one to seven inclusive, though next year all eight grades are contemplated being provided at the two last named schools.
The Euclid schools have semi-an- nual promotions occurring at the end of each semester. Grade cards- are handed all pupils at the close of each six weeks' period. The Junior High schools at present con- sist of the seventh and eighth grades, while the senior highs in- clude the ninth to twelfth inclusive.
Both Euclid and Shore senior
highs are first grade high schools chartered by the State of Ohio and inspected annually by the State De- partment of Education. Both schools also are members of the North Cen- tral Association of High Schools and Colleges, which means that they must conform to the high scholastic standards of the association. Through membership in this association graduates of both high schools of Euclid Village are admitted to col- leges and universities of the North Central Association without examin- ation providing they are in the first, third or fourth of the class accord- ing to the college's ruling. Owing to the great increase in college en- rollment the last few years all schools of higher education are mak- ing very careful selection from the large number of boys and girls from high schools who are seeking ad- mission to the various colleges and universities. About one-third of the graduates of the Euclid Village High schools enter institution of higher learning. The last two years no student in college was reported to the principals as having failed in his work. The management of the local schools has striven thought- fully and earnestly to improve the standards of scholarship each year.
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Upson School, East 260th, One-Quarter of a Mile South of Lake Shore Blvd., Euclid, Ohio
Euclid schools have special
Both Euclid High schools are members of the National Honor So- ciety, which admits only schools of the best standards and achievements. The qualifications for membership in this society are character, schol- arship, leadership and service. Only members of the junior and senior classes of the senior high schools are eligible to membership in this National Society, which has an or- ganization in all the leading high schools of the United States and is comparable to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Fraternity. Both schools also have membership in an honorary athletic association which has as its requisites for membership scholar- ship, excellence in athletic competi- tion and co-operative effort.
The high schools are members of the Greater Cleveland Conference, which consists of eight high schools as follows: Shaker Heights, Rocky River, South Euclid-Brush. John Marshall, West Commerce and Longwood, together with the two local schools, Euclid-Central and Euclid-Shore. Two years ago Shore High school won the basketball championship of this conference, while last fall Euclid-Central, though the smallest school in point of numbers, won the football cham- pionship, having defeated each school of the association during the season and having its own record perfect.
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visors of Art, Vocal Music, Instru- mental Music and Orchestras, Physi- cal Education, Domestic Arts and Manual Training. This coming year Domestic Arts and Manual Training will be included in the work at each school in the Village for the junior high divisions and the upper grades. An instructor to supervise Physical Education for the boys and Manual Training at all ward schools will start work this fall. At the high school adequate machinery and tools are maintained in the manual train- ing shops which are under super- vision of a special teacher. At the three larger schools classes in cook- ing are a part of the regular pro- gram, while this coming year classes in sewing will be offered at all the schools in the Village for the older girls.
The Musical Department has long been noted for its excellence as is evidenced by the production during the last two years of the rather dif- ficult operas, "The pring Maid," by Reinhardt, and "The Mikado," by Gilbert and Sullivan. The coming year emphasis will be placed upon instrumental work and ensemble classes will be offered to pupils de- siring instruction in band and or- chestral instruments. This individual instruction is offered free to all pupils.
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Roosevelt School, Corner East 200th Street and Monterey Avenue
Euclid* Ohio
Regular and systematic gym work for each pupil in the public schools beginning with the first grade and continuing throughout the high school is under the general super- vision of the Physical Education De- partment with a lady instructor in charge of the older girls and young men for the upper grade and high school boys.
During the school year the Euclid schools have the co-operation of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Natural His- tory and the Western Reserve His- torical Museum. Classes in charge of their teachers visit these various museums and receive instruction and listen to interesting talks from the instructors and those in charge of the museum work. Also at vari- ous times during the year interest- ing lectures are given by representa- tives from these museums and by various other speakers.
The growth of the Euclid schools in enrollment has been a steady in- crease. Ten years ago the total enrollment was 419. Last year 2 222 were enrolled with a corresponding increase of teachers from 19 to 85. The enrollment as of June 3. 1927, closing the last school year, was as follows for each building: Euclid. 491; Shore, 615; Roosevelt, 716; Noble, 24 7, and Upson, 153. Dis- tributed by departments these num-
bers indicated a total of 1494 in the first six grades, 3 80 in the junior high schools, and 34 8 in the senior high schools. Last year's .graduates from both schools numbered 56, the largest in the history of the schools.
The school census, which was com- pleted May 31, 1927, "gave 2704 of school age residing in Euclid Vil- lage as against a total of 2 39 9 for the preceding year, or a net gain of 3 0 5, or nearly 13 per cent increase over the preceding year. These fig- ures indicate as accurately as anv statistics the real growth of Euclid Village and would indicate as a con- servative estimate a population of about 11,000 or 12,000 for the in- corporated limits of the Village. The enrollment in the Euclid schools for the fall of 1927 was an even 2 5 00 or an increase of 400 over the en- rollment the same time the preced- ing year. To care for this increased enrollment additional teachers? have been added to the teaching force until the total reaches 100 instruc- tors.
The Euclid schools have the unique distinction of being tiie larg- est exempted village schools in the State of Ohio, according to the re- cent report of the State School Su- perintendent. They also are unique in having two first grade high schools Located so as to serve the patrons conveniently.
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Noble School, Carrier St. Clair and Babbitt Road, Euclid, Ohio
The Board of Education has wise- ly provided additions whenever needed so that each child in the Euclid schools is enabled to have his own desk and a full school day. All school grounds have been land- scaped during the last year. During the summer the buildings have been painted and renovated wherever necessary. The board is providing two splendid athletic fields for each of its two high school. These will include football fields, quarter-mile running tracks, baseball diamonds and tennis courts. The Osborn En- gineering Company, specialists in athletic fields and their layout are directing this feature of the work. Another improvement which the lo- cal board is providing for all its
schools is the installation of gas at all its buildings for laboratory, cafe- teria and cooking classes. Modern stoves of the latest type are being installed this summer in all Euclid school buildings.
With the steady movement of city dwellers to the suburbs, the Euclid schools will continue to grow rap- idly as they have during the past few years, an increase of 160 per cent having occurred during the past five years. Dr. A. E. Winship, editor of the American Journal of Education at Boston, after a per- sonal visit to the schools at Euclid Village, pronounced them as being one of the best in personnel and plan equipment of any of the smaller cities in the United States.
JUST A MOMENT By Charles W. Meal's
The world is beginning to see that to be a successful business man is a decidedly reliable proof of a man's character. A man cannot cheat and survive. He cannot lie and stay in business. He cannot be a drunkard or his business will run away from him. His promises must be kept, else he will find nobody any longer accepting them. He cannot be lazy without finding that competitors hove outdistanced him. He must give value received or lose his cus- tomers.
There was a time when business men thought it smart to trick their customers into transactions unprofit- able to the customers. Nobody but a fool entertains any such thought today. Today every stable business man knows that the one thing that keeps him in business is his ability and his willingness to give the cus- tomer a profit on every purchase.
Among moral training schools there is none more exacting than the grinding mills of business.
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God helps those who help them- selves.
Drive your business; don't let it drive you.
Handle your tools without mit- tens; a cat in gloves catches no mice.
Three removals is as bad as a tire.
Pride is a loud beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.
Be strict in your engagements; do nothing carelessly or in a hurry.
Be prompt and decisive with your customers.
Be always at the head of your bus- iness; if you don't it will leave you.
If you can't get a job. create one.
Shore High, E. 200th Street(Bliss Rd.) Babbitt Road and Lake Shore]
Boulevard, Euclid, Ohio,
EUCLID PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Of these Euclid-Central and Shore both have first grade High Schools, Junior High Department and all primary and intermediate grades located in the respective buildings. Roosevelt Noble
house all grades, including Junior High Schools, which have been established during the last year at each school.
The Euclid schools have semi-annual promotions occuring at the end of each semester. These promotions include the first eight grades, and for the first time this year a group will be promoted from 8-A to the Senior High School. The Junior High Schools consist of the seventh and eighth grades. The Senior High Schools, the ninth to twelfth, inclusive. Both Senior High Schools are members of the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, which means that they must conform to the high scholastic standards of the association.
BUSINESS MAXIMS
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FACTORY ADVANTAGES
The advantages of Euclid, Ohio, as desirable for a location of industries is well established and recognized by experts in indus- trial plant locations. J. D. Kunkle of the Kunkle Factory Site Serv- ice, exclusive dealer in factory sites, states that more industries in the past few years have located in this community than in any other similar area in Greater Cleveland.
All of the area between Euclid Avenue and St. Clair Avenue is available for industrial development and equals in area one-fifth of all industrial sites in Cleveland. Factory sites in Euclid Village can be purchased at a very reasonable figure considering availabil- ity of labor and transportation, and it is reasonable to believe that the next few years will see an even greater development than has occurred recently.
Within the past few months, the National Iron & Wire Com- pany has acquired the former E. W. Bliss plant through the Kunkle Factory Site Service, and the Cleveland Trencher Company has erected a new plant on St. Clair Avenue near Cut Road, and negoti- ations are now progressing whereby a plant employing several hun- dred men is expected to locate in Euclid Village.
M. and G. L. Okro*ss Residence, 774 E. 232nd Street. Contractors and Builders of Homes
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Engineering Department
Read, left to right — Mr. A. T. Stewart, Chief Draftsman; Mr. Paul Topping, Rodman; Mr. S. M. Purvis, Draftsman; Mr. F. A. Thomas, Village Engineer; Mr. V. M. Clark, Deputy Village Engineer; Mr. Arnold Turkel, Assistant Engineer; Mr. E. W. Bailey, Field Engineer; Mr. T. S. Wall, Rodman.
The engineering department of Euclid was established in April, 1926, at which time Frank A. Thomas, formerly paving engineer for Cuyahoga County, was appointed engineer. Assistants were appointed as the increase in the work made necessary, until at the peak of the busy season in 19 27 about fourteen men were employed.
The original quarters of the department, a small room on the main floor of the Town Hall, became much too small, and an addition to the building was made for the engineers, consisting of a main office and a drawing room.
At the time the accompanying photograph was made, in October, 192 7, the force had been decreased to eight men, as their busiest season was about over.
Euclid owns and operates its own Fire Department, located on East 222nd Street (Bliss Road), near the New York Central Rail- road. The fire station is a modern, up-to-date building in every re- spect, and was built under the supervision of Fulton & Taylor, architects. The equipment is of the very latest type obtainable, the engine being- an American La France type, and has proven to be a success over a period of three years. During this time the department has been under the management of Chief Chas. Ballon, formerly a fire chief in the City of Cleveland, and a most efficient officer. The American La France engine has performed remark- ably well and given all service required of it under all kinds of tests.
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ROSE-MARY — The Johanna Grasselli Home for Crippled Children, j Was Founded for the Care and Education of Mentally Normal Crippled Children 19500 Euclid Avenue, Euclid, Ohio
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DONATED BY MR. C. A. GRASSELLI
A Happy, Healthy, Weil-Fed Group. May God's Blessing Rest on All Who Have a Share in Making This Home What It Is Today
QEPTEMBER of the year 1922 ^ found the deed of this ideal prop- erty safe in the hands of our Right Reverend Bishop, who in his charac- teristic way quickly arranged prelim- inaries, and October the fifteenth ded- icated the home, in memory of Jo- hanna Grasselli, to our Blessed Lady under the beautifully significant title "Rosa Mystica." The fact of the home being dedicated to Mary under this lovely title induced Mr. Grasselli to style it "Rose-Mary," by which name it is familiarly known.
Many hours of pleasure and amusement have been enjoyed by our little children through the thoughtfulness of The Knights of
Columbus, The Rotary Club, The Christ Child Society, The Letter Car- riers' Band (under the direction of Mr. Newman), The Cleveland Candy Club, The Newsboys' Band, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Press, The News, The Cleveland Automobile Club, Mr. P. J. Daley, Mr. and Mrs. James Braden, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Randel, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Can- tillon, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoge, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brinsmade, Mr. Al- bert Friedman, Loew's State Theater, and many others who have given the use of their automobiles in transport- ing the children back and forth on these pleasure trips.
To all, the Sisters wish to express their cordial gratitude.
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EUCLID CHURCHES
The churches of Euclid are well located to meet the religious needs of the community, as a glance at the following table will show : !
BAPTIST — This church is located on Chardon Road just north j of Euclid Avenue, and is diagonally opposite Euclid-Central High
School. Established 105 years ago, it is the oldest church of its I
denomination in the country. It is equipped with a stone church j
and a parsonage and will erect a Sunday school building in the I
Spring. I
CATHOLIC— St. Paul's Church is located on Chardon Road I
and East 200th Street. This church is equipped with a church J edifice, a priest's house and a parochial school building. A beauti- ful Catholic cemetery adjoins the church property.
Holy Cross — A very large and beautiful site for this church has been secured on Lake Shore Boulevard. The church will be erected in the near future.
New Catholic Parish in Euclid Named in Honor of St. Christine
A third Catholic parish is being established in Euclid to be known as St. Christine, with its center in the vicinity of St. Clair Avenue and Bliss Road. Regular services are already be- ing held under direction of the new pastor, Rev. Joseph Czirbusz, who comes from Philadelphia, and who has been "appointed by Bishop Joseph Schrembs to have charge of the parish.
A most interesting fact in connection with the new parish is that it has been planned by Bishop Schrembs in honor of St. Chris- tine, whose relics were given to the bishop by Pope Pius and which the bishop brought to Cleveland last August. This is the first | parish to be so named in this diocese and one of the St. Christine ! relics will be kept in the new7 church permanently when it is biult. I
Announcement has been made by the new pastor that a church, a school and a parish house will be erected as soon as pos- sible. As a long step towards permanent buildings, land for the J three new buildings has been donated to the parish by the Ed- wards Land Co. of Cleveland, which owns a large allotment at the northeast corner of St. Clair and Bliss Road, formerly the Dr. Arms farm. The tract given to the church has a frontage of 250 j feet on the east side of East 222nd Street (Bliss Road) and extends to East 223rd Street. It has the same frontage of 250 feet on the west side of East 223rd Street.
Bishop Schrembs, through Rev. J. A. McFadden. chancellor. has given out a letter containing this statement: "The Right = Reverend Bishop is very grateful for this splendid piece of land ! that the Edwards Land Co. donated, for it will care for a territory that is rapidly developing."
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Euclid Baptist Church in 1927
Euclid Ave. and Chardon Rd., Euclid, Ohio ^rr^_ Oldest Baptist Church in the County
Officers of the church at this time are:
Pastor, Rev. William S. Lake.
Clerk, Mrs. E. Q. Eminger.
Treasurer — Roscoe E. Scott.
Financial Secretary — L. C. Shank.
Sunday School Superintendent — William White.
Trustees — H. L. Ferrell, G. W. Slusser, H. M. Pempin, A. W. Rayder.
Deacons — William White, F. D. Graves, R. E. Scott, L. C. Shank, Geo. W. Slusser, J. M. Brewer.
HISTORICAL
1820 — April — Organization of The Euclid Baptist Church — the first church of its denomination in Cuya- hoga County.
1821 — Dedicatory services of the first church building of the denomi- nation in Cuyahoga County — a frame structure. The early minutes of the church — now in the Western Reserve
Historical Museum, Cleveland, show that when the money was raised for this building, 20 per cent of it was "paid in advance in wood-ashes and the balance by the first of January (1822) in grain; wheat at $1.00; rye 7 5 cents and corn at 50 cents per bushel."
1844 — March — Incorporated as a religious body on March 12 under the laws of the State of Ohio.
1861 — First parsonage was built. Building still standing. Succeeded as a parsonage about 1910 by the present stucco residence.
18 69 — June — Death of John Wil- cox, an "early settler", at the age of 82. Mr. Wilcox was the donor of the land (225x175) upon which the present church and parsonage stands.
1 8 79 — September — The present church bell— worth about $300, given to the church by Mrs. John Wilcox as a memorial.
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1833 — February — Moses White, a member, was dismissed in order that he might become one of the found- ers of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland. Deacon White had come to Cleveland in 1817, when it num- bered only about 150 inhabitants; he found only two professing Christians in the "city." Deacon White served the First Baptist Church for 48 years, living to be over 80 years of age. Judge Bishop, Mr. White's son- in-law, bought the property at the corner of Euclid and East 9th Street and held it for the First Baptist Church until the Church was able to pay for it.
18 48 — April — The members of the Euclid Baptist Church received a let- ter ifrom the brethren in Cleveland to send delegates to recognize the "Second Baptist Church" (now known as the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church).
STATISTICAL
Church Membership 150
Sunday School Membership . . . .220
Ladies' Aid Society 35
Women's Auxiliary 20
Young People's Society 30
Euclid covers 12 square miles of territory and has a population of 10,- 000 people; its boundaries extend from Lake Erie to the top of Char- don Hill and from the Quary railroad tracks (Cleveland) on the west to the village limits of Wickliffe on the east, and has the distinction of being one of the first settlements in the West- ern Reserve territory.
During 100 years the Euclid Baptist Church has passed through its por- tals many great men and women who have been identified with the early life of the city of Cleveland. Its pres- ent and future ministry demands a better equipped church plant to fulfill its province.
The city is now growing as never before and, to use the words of Theodore Burton, "Euclid is growing faster than any other part of Great- er Cleveland and due to the present tendency of people to locate in the environs of a great city,