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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1925
Page
3
The page mixes ads for shoes repairs and household goods with holiday visits and local notices. It mentions Lewis Shumaker's clearance sale, ivory bedroom suite display, and cash and carry prices for G W butter and eggs. Several residents from Marion Carey Ada and Columbus visit relatives during Christmas.
A collage of brief town items includes discounts at Helen Hat Shoppe and a winter clearance on millinery, local visits by residents to Cleveland and Columbus areas, and multiple notes on guests, sales, and services. Also listed are chiropody appointments, watch repairs, and social events involving the Hurd, Beebe, and Saltz families.
Jay H Lytle becomes night operator at Hocking Valley station. Newborn son and daughter for Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Steen. Mr and Mrs J C Wehrle of Adrian host New Year dinner. Rev S J Taylor called to Altoona Pa by his father's death. George A Gibbs of Homer Mich visits over holidays. May Wonder of Pine Grove visits brother LeRoy Wonder. S P Nigh forms a singing class in C D Huff’s South Street building. Albert Blinn and Mrs Cora Steel of Canton attend funeral of C A Blinn of Adrian. Loren Stahl of Fort Wayne Ind spends holidays home. Bay View Reading circle hosts party at Emma Wonder’s home. Eli Dame selling Montana horses to Red Lodge Mont. to return home. Gus Lortz resigns township trustee post. becomes infirmary director. C A Blinn, 67, dies Dec 22 at Adrian home. survived by wife and four children. Odd Fellows member 37 years. Hattie BE Shuman and J A Hoy wed. Lottie Shuman and W Pontius attendants. Carey markets: wheat No 2 63c. corn 25c. oats 24c. butter 114c. eggs 18c. hogs 3 to 3.80. cattle 3.60 to 5. sheep 3.50 to 4. lambs 4 to 5. clover seed 4. timothy hay 1.25.
A fragment quotes Sondages Nisse in Stockholm exchanging a grim joke about a wife’s illness and sanatorium treatment, noting the speaker’s wary tone about travel plans and a return ticket. The crude humor hints at social attitudes of the period.
The county records multiple marriages from Upper Sandusky and vicinity including Raymond J. Trout and Nina V. Cole, Ernest J. Cornish and Agnes M. Dome, Joe Fins B. Wear and Esther Secrist, George Dewey Neal and Vianna May Barth, Shirley Lester Kuhn and Mary Athel Zimmerman, Anna Lois Hottenstein and Benjamin Simmermacher, Homer F Seiler and Catherine Marie Schoenberger, and Ora Dale Carpenter and Bernice Marguerite Brittingham. A late license was issued for Benjamin Simmermacher, and Rev. J. W. Huffman officiated. Mrs Susie Sheldon died at 68 in Wharton. The Elks hosted a Christmas party for local youths. Santa distributed gifts. A private funeral for Mr. Gibson was held with interment at Oak Hill.
Public sale of the estate of Nicholas Kinn deceased on his farm six miles south of Fostoria and one mile north of Alvada Tuesday January 6 1925 at noon featuring 19 head cattle 38 head hogs 300 bushels corn 300 bushels oats farming implements and miscellaneous items including a bull ducks and car parts Terms announced day of sale CHAS KINN Administrator Lee Schubert Auctioneer Charles Chilcote Clerk
The Epworth League announces a series of Win-My-Chum services this week. A Watch Night service begins Wednesday at 8:30 and Thursday features a regular service at 7:30 followed by a social. Friday presents a regular service only with all attendees welcomed.
A southbound Big Four passenger train crossing from Hocking Valley to Big Four tracks derailed when a rail broke under the engine near the JA C and Y junction. The wreck blocked traffic for six hours, with the train resuming after about two hours. A separate T and O C wreck near Hatton forced the Big Four to use Hocking tracks.
Word reached on Wednesday of last week that 5-year-old Richard Updegraff died Tuesday morning in Akron from scarlet fever and spinal meningitis. He was the son of Mr and Mrs N B Updegraff, formerly of Carey, where his father worked for A C Y.
Henry Ridenour of Shawtown writes a subscription remittance and states the beet crop there was almost a failure.
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