Findlay Fair Notes and Local News From 25 Years Ago
Highlights include Co D Smith at the Findlay fair exhibiting a cult and returning to Delaware to resume studies. County officials list J Cornelius Gibson John N Paulin and Wm Hitchcock as commissioners. Local market prices for oats corn butter eggs and clover seed are noted along with coal mine strikes in Pennsylvania. Obituary for Samuel M Lehman aged 68. Schools open with dozens of pupils. Parochial organ recital at the Lutheran church. Local farm yields and residents returning to Ohio State University. Schoolhouse contract awarded to David Fought. Peppermint schoolhouse bid set. Bright’s disease death of Nicholas Theis. Peppermint schoolhouse project details. Local rail workers and GAR encampment plans. New officers for Nineteen Hundred club and tributes to deceased workers. Civil club and church leadership appointments noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Ewing
R W. Baumgardner
Melmore
Otto Pflenger
Russel Kurtz
Claire Ewing
Clifford Mathena
Hancock County
Findlay
Cr. Cram
Waverley
Florence Dow
Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Charles Coppler
Frank Coppler
Oscoda
Mich
Nicholas Theis
New Riegel
Bright
N. Theis
Sycamore Township
David
James G Miller
Brown
County Blind Commission
Joel W. Gibson
Betwyre and Skelley Laugh at a Ten Letter Hold Up
Joe Brown and Hall Skelley perform in Betty Lac with a playful line about a ten letter word for hold up. The gag centers on wordplay and comic banter between the two entertainers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Brown
Hall Skelley
Betty Lac
Lincoln Ancestry Traces Founding Forebears of President Lincoln
The article follows the Lincoln lineage from Mordecai Lincoln, founder of the first fur nace and forge in New England, through John Lingoln and Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather, noting land holdings in New Jersey Pennsylvania and Virginia. It recounts the Kentucky move, the 1784 murder of Thomas Lincoln, and the ensuing poverty before Abraham’s rise. The piece cites The Lincoln Legend by Isaac R. Pennypacker in The American Mercury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
New England
Mordecai Lincoln
Abraham
Washington
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
White House
John Lingoln
New Jersey
Virginia
Thomas
Kentucky
Mordecai
Thomas Lincoln
Lincoln
American Mercury
Isaac R. Pennypacker
Imperial Type Metal Magazine
Heidelberg University to Allow Off Campus Dormitory Housing
New policy lets 27 more girls stay in private homes this year as France hall near completion. Mrs Bertha George, Mrs C Hornung, and Miss Mallie Roger loan their Greenfield and Clinton houses to house students after dormitory limits were reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidelberg University
Tiffin
France Hall
Bertha George
C. Hornung
Greenfield Street
Mallie Roger
Clinton Avenue
County Doings and Local Notices From Upper Sandusky
A roundup of Upper Sandusky happenings includes Mrs. Nettie Naus's knee injury, new county road maintenance staff appointments, marriages and engagements, a potential agricultural agent vote, business changes at Ireland and Mick, and multiple obituaries and school plans. Notable names include Thomas Fletcher, Rosella Seifert, Albert Thiel, Nellie Woesner, and the Naus family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Naus
Upper Sandusky
Elmer’ Areland
Ireland’ & Mick
Sycamore
D. A. Mick
Thomas Brooks Fletcher
Sandusky
William Stiefel
Ollie Neff
Carlton
Ore
Neff
Clara Stiefel
Leland Armstrong
Orry Fox
Armstrong
Edwin Naus
Sherman Walton
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Rosella Seifert
N. J. Seifert
Albert Thiel
Ferdinand Thiel
James Billings
Mt Zion
Wyandot
Billings
Lovina Johanson
Montgomery County
First Seneca County woman takes recorder post
Miss Estella V. George became county recorder, the first woman to hold county office in Seneca. She will be helped by deputies Mrs Madelie O'Brien and Miss Mary Wagner as she assumed duties Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca County
Estella V. George
Madelie O’brien
Mary Wagner
Soil Laboratory Train to Visit Carey on Sept 18
The soil laboratory train, a joint venture of Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, and New York Central Lines, will come to Carey on September 18 from 1 to 6 pm. Farmers may bring two soil samples for free analysis. experts including Professor Firman E. Bear and others will offer case by case advice and exhibit soil building materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil Laboratory
Carey
Ohio State University
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
New York Central
Firman E. Bear
Department of Soils
Robert M. Salter
Earl E Barnes
Ohio
G. W. Conroy
State Experiment Station
BE. P. Reed
J A S Hipher
Earl
G. Reed
New York Central Lines
Make Believe Land Poem by Beatrice McDonald
A nostalgic poem speaks of a happy land with blue skies and endless delight. The speaker, Beatrice McDonald, imagines a place where sorrow is absent and wishes come true. Birds sing, flowers bloom, and peace awaits beyond gatekeeping gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice McDonald
Woman badly burned while canning wax
Mrs J W Alspach spilled boiling sealing wax on both hands during fruit canning last Saturday forenoon. Right hand interior burned, and the left thumb and index finger painfully injured. A physician attended her and she is recovering but will have limited use of her hands for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Alspach
Indisputable Reason For Not Fishing Quotation
A brief dialogue from Opeh Road features a boy explaining his father refused a fishing trip due to lack of bait for two. The exchange emphasizes a practical parental rule regarding shared resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opeh Road
Not His Train at St Johnsbury Station
A highbrow traveler at St Johnsbury Station asked if the Portland express was ready. The trainman replied the train was made up but would not stop at Portland as it goes to Concord Whitefield and Portland. The exchange reflects railroad timetable talk from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Johnsbury
Portland Express
Concord
Whitefield
Portland
Caledonian Record
St. Johnsbury
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carey Times
Co. D Smith
J S
Samuel M. Lehman
South Street
Bertha Walborn
Anna Lehman
Wharton
Carey Electric Telephone Co
Thomas Smith
Atlantic City
GAR
Nineteen Hundred Club
A EL Kennerley
Mre Kb Wwartz
C OW McGill
Avione
Thee Water Works
Clerence Chase
Alvada
Chase
Springfield
Thomas Johnson
Willam Lowmaster
McCutchen- Ville
WC. T. U
M A Ascham
Joe Larmonth
Charles O’brien Core
L. Granger
Hamilton Royal Gaboon
Cambell & Gatchell of
Raymond Hushour
Nellie Woesner
Bellevernon
N. W. Sager
Seeman
Antioch College
Andrew Terry Britt
Oil City
Mary Louise Rife
Crane Township
Theo Mittermaier
Effie M. Rice
Adam Roth
Los Angeles
Salem Township
George and
Cynthiana Cordray
ESF
Genevieve L. Wall
R. H. Wall
Paul B. Stubbs
Charles D. Stubbs
B. F. Houser
Stubbs
Stowe Motor Sales Co
Babe Oberlander
Cartagena
Colombia
Wittenberg
Kathryn Foucht
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Margaret McCormick
Western College For Women
Curtis Meeker
Paul McNamara
Edgar Larcomb
Creighton Hunter
Edward Halbedel
Loren Glosser
Miami University
Mildred Hall
Richard Gregg
LeRoy Veith
Joseph Peters
Paul Ruppp
Virginia Whitney
Glendale College For Girls
Charlotte Castanien
Heidelberg
Mary Milligan
Maud Earp
Evelyn Tilton
Jeanette Norton
Geraldine Fritchie
Bowling Green
William Haynes
Denison
John Jzachardy
Chicago Technical School
William Maxwell
Purdue University
Charles Naus
Ohio University At Athens
Frederick Milligan
Edward Beicher
Werner Thiele
Milton Siebender
Union
Country Club
Oleo Per
Navy
Kirk
Catsup
Lg. Bottle Cc
Avondale
Devoe
R. D. Perkins, Carey
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