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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1918
Page
4
The Carey Times lists subscription rates of six months 75 cents and three months 40 cents, with one year 1.50. It details advertising charges for cards of thanks, poems, business locals, and resolutions of respect, plus free church and judge notices and paid display ads upon application.
Two tax amendments adopted at the late election are found to conflict and are not workable without adjustment. They must be sent to the Supreme Court or perhaps to the legislature for resolution before arrangements for next year’s taxes can proceed.
Secretary Baker urged friends of returning soldiers to discourage intoxicating drinks at homecomings. He said a drunken soldier is a disgrace to the uniform and asked loyal citizens to uphold the army’s record of cleanliness and sobriety.
Nearly three dozen neighbors, led by W. A. McKee and Carl Shuman, gathered Monday midmorning to haul 26 loads of fodder for bedridden Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lambertjack. The group, amid light rain, finished the task and enjoyed lunch and cigars together.
Sunday evening December 1 a Thank Offering meeting was held at the Lutheran church. Mr Bushman linked with Muhlenberg Mission Liberia Africa spoke on fund distributions by Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Sobriety. About $61 was reported as collected. Bushman’s associate Sister Jennie Larmonth is connected to the same mission.
The Logan Gas and Fuel Co request to pass an ordinance altering rates and repealing parts of the existing franchise ordinance was definitively refused by the Fostoria city council Tuesday night.
The brothers thank neighbors and friends for help during a bereavement and for flowers and funeral services including the minister and singers.
Items recall weather, trades, prices and small town news. Mentions gas complaints, clothing offers, subscrip tion wood, market prices for wheat corn oats butter eggs potatoes and yarn. Reports marriages, church fire, Knights of Maccabees organization and social events at Norwalk and Carey with vivid local names and dates.
Rural Route No 3 will be inaugurated January 1. A son born to Mr and Mrs George Krider on December 11 named Wheat S4dcoats weighing 35c with yellow details.
Market prices corn 100 lb 55c eggs 26c. Mr and Mrs J H Lytle welcome a daughter born Saturday. Opera House to present Peck's Bad Boy Monday Dec 21 1903. S B Chesebrough buys a Sabula stave factory. Van Buren Co Findlay to ship largest ditcher to Kansas City. Farmers Institute elect officers J M Ruffner Albert Logsdon H H Luce W J Baker. Joseph Stahl assists son Welby on Bloomville farm. KaiserWilliam prognosis in papers. Charles Kennerley damages claim denied. Mrs Martha Tanner dies aged 76 years eight months five days born Windsor Ashtabula Co April 10 1827 married Kinsey Tanner March 8 1846 moved Carey 1859 mother of fourteen children. funeral at daughter Mrs Jacob Wonder with Rev J Williams. Interment Spring Grove cemetery.
A Vanlue youth appeared before Probate Judge H O Dorsey in juvenile court to answer charges of disturbing a village U B church meeting a week earlier. The boy allegedly fired beans and other small ammunition during the service, drawing witnesses from Rev Patterson and most of the congregation. He was adjudged delinquent and paroled to his parents as the trial drew a large crowd.
The Bucyrus Telegraph reports three husband wife death pairs from influenza within weeks. On November 8 Mrs Eleaner Sharp died followed eighteen hours later by husband Russel Sharp. They shared birth and marriage days and died the same day. Edith Kirshner died November 14 after husband William Kirshner on November 12. Dennis C Hight died November 29. his wife Florence Jennie Hight died Friday, reuniting in death.
Ralph Eddy who vanished from Wooster eight years ago turned up in a Montana town. Eddy's relatives filed suit to recover $10 000 life insurance he carried, triggering an investigation that led to his discovery. He now states his movements after leaving a Milwaukee hotel en route to Wooster where a marriage was planned. he is married with three children.
Hoover calls on Americans to set aside Dec 1 and the following week to renew service for overseas relief. He stresses feeding 200 million people in Belgium France Serbia Romania Poland Russia Armenia and liberated territories, pledging restraint and simple living to prevent anarchy after war.
Andrew Miller deceased transfers to Catherine Steinbach et al for 79.57 acres in Salem via affidavit. Catherine Steinbach et al transfer to Charles Miller et al for the same acreage. US funds, patent dates 1826 and 1827. William Walton transfers to Joseph Walton 59.30 acres in Tymochtee for 1500 dollars dated May 29 1869. Jacob M. Wagner and wife to Katie and B A Rinsal two acres in Carey for 250 dollars. J M Ruffner and wife to George W Palace lot 95 and part of lot 94 in Carey and Dow addition Carey for 1 dollar.
In Tiffin the flu tightens its grip with Louise Wright named the sixth victim. The Loudenslager mills halt production as nearly all workers fall ill, leaving only two able to work.
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