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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
4
The Carey Times lists subscription rates at 1.00 per year and 50 cents per six months. Advertising rates are available on application. Church meeting notices are free. For profit ads apply regular rate. reading notices 5 cents per line. Cards of Thanks 25 cents per line. Obituaries reprinted 50 cents. Wedding presents list 3 cents per line.
An editorial lauds Chicago residents lawmakers and religious leaders who united to halt the long running first ward ball. The mayor and police issued a prohibition order ending the event with dancing and liquor sales forbidden and a concert held instead to curb the public misbehavior.
J. J. Hill, a northwest railroad magnate, orders employers not to hire or retain drinkers. Spotters will enforce the policy after investigations linked drinking to accidents and losses. He warns young men against secret speakeasy patronage as it harms future prospects.
An exhortation emphasizes that encouragement is needed not only in Chicago but in every city and village across the land, urging unity and shared purpose among communities.
Captain Hobson of Merrimac fame, a Alabama congressman in Washington, urged a strong national defense praising a six battleships per year build. He warned of war risks with Japan and Europe and pressed fortifying Pearl Harbor in the Sandwich Islands as key to dominating the Pacific and the world. The Nevada News also notes compliments for Bro Thrall of Carey Times and a recent reader poll.
In Kovno Lithuania a jailer Lednicka and inmate Mucha ran a false money scheme from a prison cell for over six months. They minted false roubles half roubles and 16 kopecks sharing profits with Lednicka distributing coins through her market cook. The plot was exposed when the governor’s cook recovered false money and police uncovered the plant in cell No 25.
O G Williams told Custer County District Court in Arapaho he would join four brothers in the penitentiary after being sentenced to life for killing Delta Generals. He boasted of the murder and said his family had a history of killings. Williams had pursued Delta Generals after their broken marriage in El Reno and Clinton. The case notes his motive as spousal rejection and his intention to reunite with his family in prison.
A serialized ad listing multiple properties near Carey including a 46 acre home with new 7 room house and barn, a house with city water near town center, a 49 acre farm with new barn, a 157 acre farm on the pike, a 105 acre farm on the pike at 375 per acre, and a property on Patterson street in the business district. Some sold separately or together at very cheap prices.
By the will of Mr. Andrew Slater who died last week in Boston Amos Bixby Herbert Bixby and Mrs Mary Newhard receive 6000 each and Jay Newhard Herbert Newhard W J Newhard of this place and Grove Newhard of St Louis receive 1500 each as sons of a cousin Ray Ascham who is in Minnesota spends holiday at his mother Mrs M A Ascham Also JT W McClure J A Gibbs Lewis Criger J L Lasley and Rev Father J G Mizer were among Upper Sandusky visitors Tuesday
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