Our Special Correspondents Prompt for Letters Next Month
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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
6
Our correspondents are urged to be prompt with their letters during the coming month. It will be practically impossible to print any letters that reach us after Tuesday afternoon.
Local residents report Christmas visits and gatherings as Mrs. J. A. Die drick and others hosted relatives. Several families assisted with butchering during the week. A dog capture ends worries over straying canines harming local flocks near Biglick. Death news arrives from Indianapolis, pneumonia claims Mrs. Shearer. Meeting and school events announce Christmas treats for St. Paul Sunday School.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Greenjand and son Kale of Carey were guests of Perry Presler over Sunday. Mr and Mrs John Haines and family of near McCutchenville visited here Sunday. Earl Yadimer and family returned to Napoleon after visiting William Mullholand family. Guy Greer and William Mullholand are busy this week putting up ice.
Last Thursday Mrs Wesley Hendricks died. Funeral at U B church with Rev H L Snyder officiating. Friends celebrated Goldie Buckinghams fifteenth birthday Monday. Mrs EB G Corbin traveled to Findlay Monday. Mr and Mrs John Hulbert and daughter Ola dined with G W Breitigam family Tuesday. Selwin Ewing contracted diphtheria Thursday. Vanlue schools closed for two weeks. Day Woodward visited Findlay Sunday. Frank Tarbox of Findlay visited Cora Breitigam Sunday. Mrs William Snook attended Carey Friday. Laura Parker and Mrs Frank Burnap visited Carey Monday. Ella Miller returned to Lima. Albert Beck and wife welcomed a baby boy Thursday. Christ Coldren and Dale Eschbaugh returned from Toledo. Oz a Simon and daughter Josephine visited William Coldren Sunday. John Hendricks traveled to Findlay Saturday. Roy Copeland and Dale Lee returned from school for vacation. Anna Bennett left for Arlington to care for ill mother. Dora Bachar visited Bert Bachar Sunday.
Wesley Thomas made a business trip to Findlay last Wednesday. William Schuber and family have been quarantined for diphtheria. Clarence Diedrick is hauling corn and fodder from the B. M. Keller farm to the Levi Hile farm where he moved recently.
Miss Rosa Updegraff is very ill with Herschel Straub improving. Protracted meeting continues at Beech Grove. The Robisons and Wells hosted a bel ling for the bride and groom Rev Joseph Robison and Horace Wells. The community reports visits, hay hauling, and social calls across families with several trips to Dayton and Upper Sandusky. The office will stay open Saturday evening for subscriptions.
The Ohio Commission for the Blind urges citizens to prevent unnecessary blindness. It notes that over one third of childhood blindness is preventable with early recognition of danger and public support to relieve the state from this burden.
Randall Beagle helps a frightened visitor, Mrs Beagle, after a bear attack in a secluded resort lane. He clarifies to Webb that he is escorting the woman to the hotel where she stays, and a further rescue by Mrs Beagle follows. The scene ends with Randall sharing a walk back and a later treat of peanuts for Brain.
An old classified style note offers one hundred dollars for untarrn cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists Cheney & Co of Toledo and WaLpose Konan Marvin as honorable in business. Claims the remedy works internally on blood and mucous surfaces and notes testimonials and price per bottle.
President Diaz hosts a committee of workers at Chapultepec, invited to attend the velada by the laboring class in Teatro Arbeu honoring Jesus Garcia the Necozari engineer hero who saved the town by dragging a burning dynamite train from the village. Diaz recalls early craft lessons and a chair he made as a youth with a French teacher.
Bert Mitten advertises as the best agency in Northwestern Ohio for dying and cleaning of goods, inviting anyone needing these services to call.
Notice states Marr Kear has been appointed and qualified as Executrix of the estate of Dr. Kear, deceased, late of Wyandot County Ohio. Dated December 23, 1909.
The Carey Markets list butter at 20 to 22 cents, oats around 42, rye near 60, wheat near 0, lambs 6.00 to 6.50, poultry delivered with hens and chickens priced, and turkeys, geese and ducks noted with marked ranges. The fragment shows broad farm prices including lambs and poultry figures.
Births and hospitality notes headline this page with announcements of new babies to the Kitzler and Angus families, visits from relatives, and holiday gatherings. Local merchants advertise wallpaper, wall décor, Red Cross stamps, and a Christmas dance at Beck’s Hall with Fink’s Orchestra. a cautionary note about matches appears among grocery items.
A letter from Dorothy Shaw of Carey Ohio requests a muff doll chocolate creams a work box two pretty rings and a long stocking for next year addressed to Santa Claus with a friendly P S note. The piece preserves a childlike holiday request in a quaint historical paper voice.
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