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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
6
Andrew L Harris outlines the Ohio state finances, local option and temperance themes, and calls for railroad regulatory powers over telephone rates. He urges primary election reforms, safeguards, and a plan to avoid excess state expenditures while detailing hospital and penal system costs and county option history.
On New Year’s night Mr and Mrs Truman Rickle and son Fordyce entertained with an oyster supper. Guests included the Rickles’ extended family and neighbors, who enjoyed candy and peanuts as Cryscindle arrived to wish a happy New Year. Mrs Rickle received useful presents and the guests departed at nine with fond good wishes for more New Years.
The Travellers Club held its regular Monday night gathering at Dr. Cram’s home. Mrs. Cram presented a paper on The Call for Troops and The Organization of Armies, Dr. Myers spoke on Missouri Fort Jackson and Wilson’s Creek, and Mrs. Thrall read When Melinda sings by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Current events followed an exercise of unusual interest.
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The legislature adjourned to a new session with Eagleson elected speaker replacing Thorp. The governor’s message favors county local option and telephony rate controls. The senate seeks to wipe slate clean and start over. a county local option law and a constitutional amendment on initiative and referendum are anticipated.
Writers claim our warships are defective death traps while others warn Japan seeks to strike. Some newspapers push rasping anti Japanese stories about spies on coast defenses, urging hostility and risking an unwanted war with no real cause.
The piece notes two major labor conflicts in the United States, Goldfield Nevada and Muncie Indiana, with troops deployed to quell unrest. It argues industrial war harms labor and capital, urging government action to avert clashes and cites Canada’s conciliatory law as a successful model for preventing strikes and lockouts.
Georgia has enacted prohibition of liquor traffic and enforcement has begun. In Atlanta strong prohibition sentiment follows recent rioting linked to drunkenness, prompting plans to replace saloons with large reading rooms funded by white and Negro churches, aiming to cost a million dollars or more.
Last Monday night the outgoing council finished the year’s business. The Carey Times bill for publishing two ordinances was approved for 450 dollars while a 200 dollar extra pay bill for board of public affairs was denied for lack of itemization. New mayor H G Chambers was sworn in along with elected council members and officers.
Knights of Columbus lodge No 380 will install its officers on Thursday January 9. All members are requested to attend.
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