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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
4
The Carey Times wishes readers a merry Christmas and thanks subscribers and borrowers for reading the paper. It notes readers help fulfill the paper’s public duty and encourages Christmas shopping with Carey merchants for value and town happiness.
Local independent Farmers Institute officers announce a poster contest offering five prizes totaling 15 dollars for Carey area pupils. Posters must advertise the upcoming institute in early March, meet size and display rules, include author grade, and be judged at the institute before forwarding top entry to Columbus for statewide competition.
About five hundred attended the Sunday evening organ recital at Christ Lutheran Church performed by Professor Frederic Lewis Bach of Wittenberg College Springfield. The program featured Handel Schubert Boccherini Sibelius and Tschaikowsky with three tone poems from Malling Life of Christ and culminated in Marche Slave.
County Superintendent Groves released algebra test averages from several high schools. Wharton 74 percent, Salem 75 percent, McCutchenville 73 percent, Sycamore 76 percent, Carey 70 percent, Nevada 58 percent, Harpster 60 percent, Wyandot 92 percent, Marseilles 63 percent.
A Clearwater letter reports Geo. Martin, formerly of Carey, doing well and nearly as spry as he was 11 years after leaving Carey. The Martins and Ora Hart family are all well.
A small owl visited the ATSENDED Church during Sunday school and morning worship. It perched on a chandelier and showed interest in the services, especially the music.
A Christmas Eve reflection contrasts warm home light with children in poverty. The poem urges giving to ease hardship, noting that Mary’s Son is not known to Santa for some, and that sharing goods brings true joy and living.
Nutrition workers from Ohio State University report that the human body is three-fourths water and advise drinking six to eight glasses daily. They note water aids digestion, waste elimination, tissue composition, and temperature regulation, with meals now seen as a good time to drink.
A Cadiz Republic caller reports a heavy truck damaging roads beyond Moorefield leaving holes in bridges. The letter urges measures to keep heavy trucks off soft roads during frost melt to save taxpayer money and criticizes the truck owner as stealing public funds.
A late exchange column urges that a young dog learns from his master through punishment to become useful. It extends the metaphor to caution against a persistent wrongdoer in business who refuses correction. The piece warns that without the ability to endure rebuke, one should not strive to mature into a prize winner.
The rural mail carrier job is shown as hazardous with 55 fatalities in the past two and a half years. The Post Office Department urges patrons on rural routes to place mailboxes on the right side of the road to reduce traffic dangers faced by carriers.
Twenty two men of the Lutheran Church Brotherhood met at W. R. Kurtz home despite bad weather. New president George Newhard led talks with Pastor and Rev J J McCabe of Delaware delivering an Irish literature address. A radio concert and piano selections by Donald Kurtz followed. Committees for the year were named and 350 pounds of clothing were boxed for shipment to New York for Europe. Next meeting is January 10.
An old ad extols camphor with hydras tis and witchhazel as an eye wash. It claims a small bottle treats sore weak or strained eyes and mentions an aluminum eyecup free, credited to Chas. W. Brayton.
Curtis Platt Hunter and A Morehart went to Lima Monday to take a commercial chauffeur examination. They have not yet received their grades but were told licenses would be mailed from Columbus.
Hancock county health officer bars church services public schools and other gatherings in Mt Blanchard until after December 3 amid scarlet fever scare.
An advertisement urging buyers to gift a Happy Home steam washer to their wife for Christmas. The line promises happiness for both spouses and mentions Tryubey & Grine as the source.
Ola Lusk has been duly appointed and qualified as administratrix of the estate of Delos B. Lusk late of Wyandot County Ohio, deceased. Dated December 4 1923. Charles F. Close judge of the Court of Common Pleas Probate Division Wyandot County Ohio.
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