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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
6
District social life recounts visits and gatherings across Adrian, Sycamore, Tiffin, Danbury, Bucyrus, Carey, and McCutchenville. Friends and relatives attend dinners, dances, picnics, and church events. Local improvements include a new school building and a growing strawberry season boosts trade at Mullholand’s store.
Plenty of train activity in the past days. Michael Spangler of the Ridge visited the vicinity last Wednesday. Families and neighbors enjoyed fishing, wood hauling, and social calls through the week including Esks, Becks, and Pratts. A variety of small gatherings and outings are noted among local residents.
H J Kien of Fostoria visited his grandmother Mrs Sarah Peer this week. Mrs Edos Unger and son Glen visited Tiffin with Mrs Ramon Sanders of Norwalk guests of Mrs Ellen Sanders. Miss Clara Yeager and Miss Mildred Sanders visited Mc Cutchenville. The community attended a social at McCutchenville Saturday.
Grace Chape notes Newton Shaw remains very ill over several weeks while Mrs Daisey Wickiser shows no improvement. Neighbors and relatives visit, including Mr and Mrs Charles Benjamin and daughters, Henry Kennerley, Glen Pittman, and others dropping by Newton Shaw and wife.
A tangle of short encounters and travel notes from Ewing s to Toledo and Upper Sandusky. Residents like Rev Stewart Baumgardner Mrs M A Straw and families visit friends relatives and attend services while others travel for business or leisure. Local ads promote picture framing and wall patterns as well as a note on the want column s usefulness.
Maple Avenue entries list L F Fenstermaker and wife and son Paul visiting S Corbin home Monday. Various locals including J Zechman, R Reese, H Hart, J Snook and E Deitrick appear guesting or visiting across the week. Barn work, repair, baptisms and employment movements also noted among area families.
A schoolteacher asks a pupil where the Hottentots live and Mary replies she cannot visit neighborhood people as her mother forbids it. The passage monologues on ignorance and limitation in a provincial setting.
A quip from Harper’s Bazaar notes Binks has a fine new apartment with almost everything stationary inside except his wife and the cook. The lighthearted remark highlights a household irony.
A summary of travel and meeting events including Sunday excursions to Columbus Toledo and intermediate points, homeseekers tours monthly, daily summer tours to U S and Canada, G A R encampment Newark June 14 18, daily New York trips in July, Knights of St John Cedar Point June 13 20, Lake Chautauqua July 2 23, National Educational Association Denver July 3 9, Christian Endeavor Union Kenton June 22 25, Ellis Reunion Los Angeles July 11 17, National Gymnastic Union Cincinnati June 19 27, and Pacific Coast excursions daily. Information from E C Walker Assistant H V Ry Carey.
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