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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1923
Page
9
A long list of local families hosted Christmas dinners at homes on Findlay Street and in surrounding areas. Guests included the Wyborns, Thralls, and Eloise. the Cramers. the Rays. the Motters. the Warrens. and many others from Portsmouth to Adrian and Cleveland.
Mr and Mrs J A Newcomer and children Leslie and Pauline joined Mrs Mi C Schubert west of town for Christmas dinner with Violin and piano music. Mr and Mrs Wy H Rickle celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with a sumptuous noon feast for numerous relatives including A J Kifhe Doppler Laird Myers Laird Hunter and Bickie families and many others.
Saturday evening Miss Mildred Campbell hosted the Happy Hour Clwat luck supper with a miniature Christmas tree and exchanged gifts. Members noted include Helen Kessler Bret Ann Pepple Ruth Diller Virginia Straw La Verge Galbroner and the hostess.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Green hosted guests at Sunday dinner including Mrs. W. B. Hill, Mrs. Esther Stiefel and children Richard Ruth and James, Carl Norris of Sycamore, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Thurston and children Naomi and James of Marion, Mr. and Mrs. Steward of Logan, Mr. and Mrs. G. Wheeler and Mr. Nick Lipold of this city.
Saturday afternoon Miss Fern Briges entertained the Bright Eye Class Junior Workers and Primary class of the United Brethren Sunday school at her Frederick street home. Games a grab bag and refreshments were enjoyed.
Last Thursday at Pilgrim House the Dorcas Bible Glass gathered with the Franciscan Sisters gifting canned fruit and socializing. The Ninteen Hundred Club played bridge at Emma Stiet’s home, exchanging Christmas presents with guests Mrs. Ranger, Mrs. Keller, and Mrs. Spencer.
The Luther Leaguers of Christ Lutheran Church host a Friday night social at 8:00 in the Sunday school rooms. The event targets church students away at college for a homecoming gathering.
A New Years Eve dance will be held at the Moose hall hosted by Earl Green Post. Residents are invited to attend and welcome the new year with music and dancing.
Mr and Mrs W Sehetehien and children spent Sunday with Fostoria friends. Miss Dorcas Caswell of Toledo arrived this noon for a visit with her Carey friends.
John A Best 68 of New Nigeel formerly New Riegel died at Mercy Hospital after a bladder surgery ten days earlier and a prior minor operation. He was born near Salem son of John and Elizabeth Best and lived much of his life in New Riegel. Survived by widow Elizabeth Hepp and brothers Jacob George Joseph Frank and sisters Mrs Rose Ball Mrs Elizabeth Mull Estella Best. Funeral Thursday at St Boniface New Riegel with burial in parish cemetery.
Doris Jones works on list catalogs for mining and fake companies led by A A Ababanel. John Smith courts her but she refuses, exposing the extortion by stings on the Ababanel list. Simmons intervenes, removing Ababanel from her list. Doris accepts Smith’s marriage proposal, choosing stability over deception.
A brief literary note recalls an Ancient Mariner scene where a lone speaker meets island dwellers described as wild women without tongues. The exchange highlights curiosity about speech, ending with a playful rhetorical twist from Reynolds Newsaper in London.
A terse exchange unfolds as a merchant rejects a candidate who claims to know the business, while the applicant asserts confidence and hints at a personal connection with the typist in London.
Eva McPike of DAbJE and Silas W. Dake of Springfield united in marriage Monday at Christ Lutheran parsonage in a single ring ceremony by Rev. Lewis P. Speaker. Attendants were Miss Luella Reid and Cloyd McPike. The couple started a wedding trip to Springfield and Cincinnati.
Infant Charles Robert Gamel son of Mr and Mrs Carl Gamel born March 14 1922 died December 24 1923 aged 1 year 9 months 10 days after a week of illness cerebral meningitis Funeral services at 1 30 this afternoon from the residence of Mr and Mrs C Carron West street Rev Lewis P Speaker Lutheran pastor officiating
Telegram reports the death of Don Adelsperger on Christmas night in Atlanta Georgia. Detectives investigate but manner of death unknown. Survived by wife and a son killed in air service years ago. Remains to be returned to Springfield for burial. Albert and wife to attend funeral Friday. deceased aged 62.
A Detroit party visited Saturday to Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Adelsperger and Mrs. Clarence Ruffine hosting Evelyn Rich. The revelers included Mr. and Mrs. Adelsperger and other guests from the city.
John Greer Herbert Newhard Jr Karl Pleck and George Gardner from Ohio University Athens Truman Romig from Ohio State University Columbus Cecil Perkins from Toledo University and Walter Greer from Notre Dame arrived home last week for a Christmas vacation.
Mr. Carey Shermah son of Mrs. George Shermah and Miss Hattie Bennet of Fostoria were married Saturday at Finlay. The groom works at a local coal bank south of town and will take his wife to live in Carey.
Wm J Jefferson and family spent Christmas with his mother Mrs Julia Ruckman near Arcadia. Mr and Mrs Frank Adelsperger of Union City were guests Sunday evening of Mr and Mrs Alert Adelsperger. Mrs Perry Maxwell of Wapakoneta and William Combs and son John of New Bremen were Christmas guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Ed Combs.
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