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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
4
Social notes record Mrs. Shafer as host for Fortnightly club with a paper by Mrs. H E Wyatt on Utah and the Mormons. Members will respond to roll call with current events as discussion opens.
Sunday visitors included Mr and Mrs Floyd Mullholand and sons Miles and Ronald and Robert Welker of Toledo with Mrs William Pontius of Carey. Miss Louise Gase of Fostoria will wed Emmett Hoffbauer May 20 at St Nicholas Frenchtown. U and I contract bridge club met on Dow Street hosted by Elsie Howard. prizes went to Mrs William Pontius and Miss Carolyn Newhard. Roy Ryder to host in three weeks.
The Woman's Home and Foreign of the Methodist church held its annual mite box opening at Mrs. Harry Mapes’s home on West Findlay Street. Mrs. Forrest Baker led devotions and "Bless Be the Tie That Binds" opened the program. A Toledo district meeting was announced for Bowling Green on May 23.
The Missionary society of Memorial Evangelical Church met Tuesday evening in the church prayer room with Mrs. Claude Johnson presiding. The program included opening hymn Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life prayer, current events, and a review of The American City and Its Church focusing on Problems City People Meet.
Hazel Bullard one of few women bank robbers in Ohio history is released on parole from Marysville reform school after serving more than seven years of a 20 to life term for leading a December 5 1931 Bettsville state bank robbery. Originally from Toledo she had been living in Carey at the time of the crime.
A man from a colored community returned after five years to demand $8 from a colored bank. The cashier noted the man and remarked that the interest over five years had consumed the amount, leaving nothing. The exchange ended without further incident.
H B Keller and wife transfer lot 22 Carey Heights addition Carey to Joseph A and Evelyn C Myers for 1 dollar. Sally E Price transfers 40 acres in Jackson township to Carl C Price for 1 dollar.
The notice warns that smoking a pack daily adds about 22 dollars yearly in federal taxes. It explains how typical cigarette purchases incur higher taxes, encouraging reducing consumption or quitting.
Market notes show corn and 100 pounds of soybeans traded with butterfat and eggs graded. Prices and exact lot details are listed for buyers and sellers in the local commodity exchange.
Two Carey and Upper Sandusky couples tied the knot in a quiet double ceremony at the Christian church in Olive Hill Kentucky just before noon Tuesday May 9. Miss Gertrude Allen and Miss Mary Ann Hitchcock married James Fetters and Edgar Keller respectively.
Wyandot county authorities seek clues to a bandit or bandits who broke into the Lovell grocery store and nearby Andrew Fox and Arthur Stief homes early Saturday. Five dollars disappeared from the grocery till while Fox saw a thief rifling pockets and Stief’s wife found a emptied pocketbook upstairs. Neighbor reports of barking dogs hint at more intended entries. Different from the source, but preserved: no extra names or details beyond those readable.
Softball results from May 11 to May 23 show the Frigidaires defeating the National Limes 13 to 8 and the Moose beating Bursons 10 to 8. The National Limes blanked Porcelains 10 to 0, while Frigidaires and Bursons tied 6 to 5 in a resumed playoff. The Frigidaires then beat the Moose 12 to 1 to settle the tie.
A regular meeting of the Pythian Sisters will be held this Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Members are reminded to attend and discuss club matters and upcoming events.
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