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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1941
Page
7
In this dated item set F M Payne hawks rock salt at 60 cents per hundred while a Kansas note laments ghost towns and outlines local events. It mentions a fire at the George Straw farm caused by a defective flue and various small town anecdotes and notices from Carey and surrounding areas.
In Tiffin 130 new houses were built during the past year. R C Cole of Findlay spoke at a flag raising in the park last Thursday. Perkins and Blue won the contract to build a third tenant house on Muncie Street on P E Wonders property. Sheldon P Shaw died last Thursday and was buried in Crawford on Saturday. W Neu learns telegraphy from his father and serves as Western Union messenger. The Standard Oil Co added a second delivery wagon to handle town business. Robert Fitzsimmons was hired as an extra driver. Mrs. Roy Wickiser of Grace Chapel died at 33, survived by husband and daughter. Automotive ads list Chevrolet models with prices and electric starter. Crawford area farmers plan an association meeting at the Crawford schoolhouse next Monday. The Findlay Patterson corner watering trough was moved to the southwest.
Fifteen years ago on August 26 1926 P E Diller and Miss Pauline Ida Schade wed. Diller ran Sycamore High School while Carey Mill wins artificial ice duties next season via Findlay firm. 1901 Big Four traffic record with 39 trains through Carey 21 passenger. Dorothy Redman weds George Johnson of Toledo, August 2. An 80 pound son Thomas James born August 15 to Mr and Mrs William Myers north of Carey. Film listings at Strand include The Demon Blue Streak West ern and The Splendid Road with stars Hoxie Nilsson Barrymore Frazer. Lieut Earl Criger son of L S Criger to be presented to King Alfonso XIII and Queen of Spain at Santander palace. Elmer Gram arrives to grade new Big Four yards south of Carey with 10 men and steam shovel 25 days. Twenty mules and a saddle pony brought for corral near the round house.
The Vanlue United Brethren and Vanlue Methodist churches announce services at 10 45 a m and 9 30 a m with Sunday school led by C E Longbrake and Mark McRill. Loyal Daughters picnic at Riverside Park Findlay and Hancock county fair entries include beef cattle hogs sheep wheat soybeans potatoes and shop articles by Vanlue F F A members led by Bonnie Crawford and Joan Crawford visits noted.
Salem residents Earl and Bruce Hunter attended the Ohio state fair with guests. A. A. McBeth and Henry Fleck hosted visitors from Upper Sandusky and Gilboa. Various local families hosted callers and dinners, including Hoepf, Fleck, Urban Hoepf, and Wolf households, with trips to Edison and Dearborn for Mrs Rail’s hospital stay.
The Big Four plans to store thousands of tons of coal at Bellefontaine to safeguard locomotives, with preparations to lay four 1500 foot tracks for coal shunting. Galion and Ansonia are also mentioned as part of the precautionary measure due to car shortages limiting on-train storage.
Wyandot county records show four sheep claims allowed. W. A. Sims of Salem township reports a lamb killed. Bert Fadley of Little York has two ewes killed. David Needs near Upper Sandusky has two ewes and one lamb killed. Four dogs from the Fadley and Needs flocks were killed. Carl Dardinger west of Kirby was fined 10 dollars and costs for harboring an unlicensed dog, charged by county dog warden Jack Stalter.
The Central saw a 52 percent June 1940 gain in tonnage thanks to more efficient loading. Fewer cars were needed by 21,707, freeing that many freight cars for vital defense materials. The result shows collective effort to boost national defense by increasing average tonnage per car.
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