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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
12
A jumble of notices from Marion County lists visits and travels of local residents. Avis Peet and a Buckeye student from Berlin College visit friends, while Bertha Decker spends weekend with Warrenburg kin. Many others host or travel to relatives in Indiana Ohio Chicago and Columbus amid school trips hospital stays and social gatherings.
Village diary entries record visitors and travel in Marion and nearby towns. Names include Minerva Campbell Mrs D Clifton Wm Riley and Rev F Kingnar plus many residents visiting relatives in Marion Mt Victory Lakeview and Bucyrus. Illness news mentions a six year old with typhoid fever and various social calls and baptist picnic attendance.
Usual social activity fills Marion as Mr and Mrs David Lamb move households to prevent. Mr and Mrs Ridgeway visit their daughter Mrs G B Mouser. Miss Opal Crabb and Della Aderon call on friends. Detroit guests depart after three weeks. a Magnetic Springs barn is struck by lightning and burns. Local movements include Kinney,_path visitors, and Jones from the Gazette force. several Marion residents hosted relatives while others traveled to Columbus, Kenton, and Richwood.
Maple Grove conducted burial services over the remains of Mire James Pace. Attendees included Mrs Goodhue, Mr and Mrs Curtis Crininger Cedar Rapids, Jona D Ro Orlasinger and wife, John Crissinger and wife, Bimbe Stanley and wife Marion, John Plotner and wife, Charles Crissinger and wife Gallon, Prof G Goldsmith Bucyrus. On Aug 7 Mr and Jim Witch were guests at Daniel Wirch’s home in Monmere. David Jones of Bucyrus visited William Jones last week.
Ellen Rowencrans and Grace spent weekend with Howard Ward's family. Edward Clutter hosted guests from Owen Street Marion. Helen Tobian stayed with D A Baker family. Fillinger and family from Bucyrus visited Coffer. Various neighbors and relatives traveled to Morton Bucyrus Caledonia and Martel for Sunday calls. Numerous Neal, Weir, Daugherty, Rowe, and Jones households marked social visits across towns.
Caledonia notes a local family trip to Woodstock to visit relatives, with Rev. Thompson joining later. Property moves and street improvements are reported, including a G W Ault property sale and new drainage work. Guests visiting Col umbus and Put in Bay are listed along with several residents planning relocations to Des Moines and other nearby towns.
Richwood residents report visits from Anna Zuriader of Kenton and Mrs H Huffman of South Prandin Street arriving yesterday and today with friends for a two day stay with Palatines at Durkin Ohio Mrs Joseph Scharf returns home in Wood County after a week long visit with John Scharf Richwood notes indicate casual social exchanges among local families and nearby towns
The Chautauquad Daily highlights Mrs Stevens in a W C T U column on the Two Garés of the Temperance Reform. It recalls Frances Willard era leadership, Do Everything policy, and the drive for total abstinence and prohibition as a national movement.
Advice urges careful buying and self restraint at stores. Readers are urged to itemize desired articles and compare to planned budgets, avoiding impulse purchases driven by time spent or sales pressure. The note suggests checking neighboring shops for availability and learning to take time to buy wisely.
Real estate transfers and deeds listed including W H Comyell to Henry men and Mary Dean to Cymar, with parcels in Latlue and Magnet Kal. Other transfers include Mary Virginia Holuey to Heltrey, John Hinton to Jeorge Wiltisbigger, and Milfred Mack to Bowliog Green dawnwhip. Numerous parcels in Marion and adjacent townships valued from 170 to 2,660 dollars.
Sunday timetable notes a Pirot car at 4 p.m. and subsequent departures. Mybb Marton service runs thereafter with the last car to Coll at 9 p.m. for Delaware. Final car leaves Columbus at 9:07 a.m.
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