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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
7
Ada Roach leads a comedy and song program aimed at easing worry with charm and humor. Ruth Freeman showcases dialect, mimicry, and violin while Billy Williams, a former Redpath tenor and Navy band member, entertains with vocal and instrumental skills.
A call to join local Boosters who fund and back the Chautauqua season tickets. The piece extols boosters as the town’s advance guard of progress and urges neighbors to buy tickets, inviting all to participate and fend off critics.
For the summer of 1874 Bishop John H Vincent convened a conference at Chautauqua Lake, New York, launching Chautauqua Institution. The enterprise grew into a major center with a million-dollar property, 200 subjects in 13 departments, eight weeks of lectures and entertainments, and widespread summer populations reaching about 20 000. It inspired numerous Chautauquas nationwide replicating its ideals and programs. The season promises notable lecturers and entertainers on the American platform.
Charles F. Caffin notes that the artist of his era aimed for genuine pictures rather than trendy fads. He followed real interest and nature, placing himself among great painters and earning a unique, dignified role in the story of American art.
Investigations show that one standard cord of well-seasoned thickory ork beech bineh hard maple ash elm Yocust leherry wood roughly equals one ton of anthracite coal. A cord and a half of soft maple or two cords of cedar poplar or bass wood provide the same heat. One cord of well seasoned mixed wood equals at least one top grade bituminous coal.
A nostalgic verse recalls days beneath a sycamore tree with birds, breeze, and rippling water. The speaker recalls talking with a companion about cherished memories and vows not to forget the last days spent along Tymochtee.
Miss Buckley explains the letter M and her role as Mister Antonio interpreter at Chautauqua. She defends the plain Mary behind M and seeks to show how Tarkington’s townsfolk reveal character through love forgiveness and everyday life.
Richard writes Santa with a bluff note promising three of everything or he will fight Fred and Joseph, who share his cousin’s age and plan to spend the holidays at his home. The mischievous postscript hints at holiday tensions among relatives.
Church directory in Carey solicits announcements of services and reports for special services. Rev Father Aloys M Fish urges early submissions and Tuesday attendance. Services listed include Masses at 6 39 and 8 00 with evening prayers and benediction.
United Evangelical Church sets 9.00 a m morning worship with 10 30 a m service and 7 00 p m evening worship on the lawn. Prayer meetings Wed 7 30 p m and Thu 8 00 p m. St Paul holds 9 00 a m worship and 10 00 a m Sunday school. St John invites 7 30 p m service and 9 00 a m Sunday school. Everyone welcome.
The Methodist Episcopal Church announces weekly services led by Pastor James Myron Shimer. Bible School at 9:00 a.m. Worship at 10:15 a.m. Epworth League at 6:30 p.m. Church Training at 7:30 p.m. Thursday prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m. The Church serves.
Sabbath School begins at 9 00 a m Y P S C E at 6 30 p m Evening Worship and sermon by the pastor at 7 30 Prayer service on Wednesday evening at 7 30 p m
Sunday school starts at 9.00 am with services at 10.15 am. Wednesday meeting at 7.30 pm. Located in the Hoff block on South Street.
Brazilian coconut palms reportedly live 600 to 1000 years while date palms reach 200 to 300 years. On the Mount of Olives at Jeralem olive trees are said to have flourished since 1099.
About 50 descendants of Abraham Brown gathered at the park for the annual reunion last Thursday. After dinner L G Ranger presided, electing C D Smith president S M Ranger vice president and Mrs Fred Powell secretary treasurer. Out-of-town attendees included Mrs Néttié Smith and Carolyn, J G Cannon of Detroit, J Cunningham of Ann Arbor, Mack Brown and Edna McCutchenville, Paul Parker of Findlay, Lois Riter and Lois Parker, S V Matthews and Erma Independence Kansas, Fred Shafer and daughters Jane and Anette Akron, C Smith and sons Charles Seely Norwalk, Seely Parker and Vance Findlay.
Farmers urged to hook up with Tornado Insurance SRO policy from the Great American Insurance Co New York offered by Grant Karr Agency. It promises coverage for fire lightning tornado windstorm or cyclone under one policy at a cheaper rate than competitors.
Albert Cole attended a Beech Grove gathering hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Heart Bra shares. Geneva and Ida Schade visited Miss Olive Brashares. W H Rickle visited George Laird. Sunday school set for 9 30 next Sunday. prayer meeting Thursday. Florence Corbin visited Wickiser, Lahr, Searfess and Wells during the period.
The Outlook notes Wakulla Spring as the world’s largest, about 15 miles from Tallahassee. It measures 400 feet across and 380 feet deep, flowing 120000 gallons per minute and feeding a river 270 feet wide at its source.
A family anecdote recalls a four year old boy visiting his aunt famed for baking. When offered bread and butter he declares he is not that kind of hungry but cake hungry, highlighting a child’s preference for sweets.
A Kansan Buckley documents teaching a New York cobbler to act as Mister Antonio in a Chautauqua chapter. The cobbler coaches by conducting daily rehearsals in his shop drawing customers as the performer mimics Italian characters and cultural quirks. The culminating moment has the cobbler declaring he could be a professor.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quotation critiques reformers and reform targets, labeling the zealot as an inspired missionary and the critic as a hypocritical humbug in a noted editorial quip. The remark reflects partisan attitudes in social reform debates.
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