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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1925
Page
4
A compact excerpt by Percy Bysshe Shelley describes rain as fresh showers renewing thirsty flowers and bending leaves. It mentions seas streams light shade wings dewdrops and buds waking. The stanza continues with sun rhythmic dancing and thunder signaling nature's cycles.
The council approved and ordered payment of numerous bills including Ed Riester for hauling stone gas and oil for fire truck sidewalk work and town hall gas. Other payments cover library rights public affairs electric energy and various labor and supply costs. Mayor Blue presented January finances noting $46 turned over to the treasury and fines totaling $50 with multiple small receipts listed. Council adjourned to February 16 at 7 00 oclock.
A petit jury in common pleas court found for defendant Martin Longnecker in the auto accident case brought by Elmer Hagley. Hagley claimed damages, but the jury ruled he was at fault.
Notes from Wyandot County report the death of George Schultz 73 a former resident of Wyandot at Harrisburg Pa and Eliza Jane Read Barne 75 a former Upper Sandusky resident who died in Marion. Also short items on accidents marriages religious notice and local bids including Lynn ditch contracts won by J C Geiser and the Cup grocery sale to W E Strasser & Son.
WK and C M Beard filed against the C C C and St L in common pleas court for 2200 67 damages claiming 156 lambs were killed and others injured after grazing on treated vegetation along the railroad in Chicago route. They seek 1480 44 for killed lambs and 570 23 for damages plus 50 for medical aid and 100 for labor burning the dead.
The council of the Lutheran Church will travel to Findlay this Thursday night for the Western Conference district meeting at the First Lutheran church. Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. A business meeting follows to discuss fundraising for Wittenberg College to secure a Rockefeller Foundation gift.
Findlay Courier reports a bold check forger who passed raised checks at the National Refining station and two local banks. Police say signatures matched, handwriting aligned, and erasures unseen, with over $100 total taken and a possible recently released accomplice.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Thome traveling toward Carey were stopped by a passing train at the Main street crossing of the Hocking Valley. An auto in front waited and its light revealed a red hen perched on its roof as if waking late from home.
Last Friday afternoon Arthur Phillips of near Alvada drove a Ford sedan toward Findlay on the New Haven road. On a turn the car skidded into a ditch tearing off a wheel. A passenger was with him but neither were injured.
Francis Sample, a former service member, is in a government tuberculosis hospital at Dawson Springs Kentucky. Though seriously ill, he is responding to treatment and doctors expect a rapid recovery.
OEBS hosts a day of General Instruction in Bucyrus on Saturday February 7. All members and officers are urged to attend. Mays. I R Moser will serve as Ruth during the gathering.
The directory notes Sunday services for Rev Father Aloys M Fish pastor. High Mass at 10 00 a m Low Mass 7 30 a m Vespers and benediction 730 p m Masses during the week 630 and 800 a m.
Revival meetings begin February 15 with Pastor Tozer conducting them. St John holds worship at 9 15 a m and St Paul led by Rev S C Poling with Sunday School at 1 00 p m and preaching with communion at 2 00 p m by Presiding Elder Caldwell.
The Rev. Lewis P. Speaker presides at services for Septuagesima Sunday with Sunday school at 9 15 and the chief service at 10 30 A sermon titled A Reversal of Human Judgments follows. Luther League gathers at 6 30 and evening worship at 7 30 with sermon Making Jesus Christ Real.
Bert Jaynes conducts scheduled church activities with Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching at 10 30 a m junior C E at 2 30 p m Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m and evening service at 7 30 p m Prayer meeting in a home each Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
Oak Grove Church of the Brethren led by Pastor John Wieand schedules Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 45 with a sermon on The Breadth of Jesus Evening service at 7 o clock features The Mustard Seed A prayer meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 pm at Rev and Mrs Wieands home
The Methodist Church announces Sunday school at 9:15 and divine worship at 10:30 led by Pastor W F Martin. Epworth League and Mission Study at 6:30 followed by evening services at 7:30 with a sermon by the pastor. All are welcome.
A 7144 pound son was born January 21 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walter. The birthplace is 414 miles west of town. The newborn has been named Merle Dean.
A. F. Hartle F. L. Miller Floyd C. Miller and Fred Morehead as trustees of Bigelow Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church apply to Wyandot County Common Pleas Court for an order to sell the church building its furniture fixtures and nearby outbuildings due to congregation abandonment and rapid decay Hearing is set for February 21 1925 with the date dated January 13 1926.
Miss Louise Walter county Red Cross secretary expresses sincere appreciation for donations to help needy families. The gifts relieve much suffering and are gratefully acknowledged.
The Deisel-Wemmer-Cigar Company plans to close its Bellefontaine branch in the near future leaving sixty workers, all women, without jobs.
The notice invites a public sale and instructs to call Clarence Ruffing of Carey at home phone Y-254 when an auctioneer is needed. It mentions Diller's sale context and provides the contact method for arranging services.
Col William L Curry, an Alabama historian, recounts a 1864 skirmish near Courtland where Private Benjamin Lucas was killed and Curry was taken prisoner. A later note from Courtland Postmaster says Lucas’s grave site is known and a marker will be placed by a local society.
A folk saying frames effort as endless but the road remains brief. It urges resilience with the idea that any final obstacle is near, even as one believes the journey ends. The tone is hopeful and community spirited.
The passage blends quotes and fragments on seed corn growth, corn borer resistance, lamb feeding trends, music philosophy, Thoreau, and a brief reference to an Ohio State University report. It cites external studies by chemists at the US Department of Agriculture and hints at diverse topics from farming to science.
A reader asks how many stripes and stars the American flag has including stripe colors, star arrangement, and row counts. The inquiry prompts details on top and bottom stripe colors and counts of red and white stripes and long versus short stripes.
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