Glance Back

100 years ago,

Feb­ru­ary 13, 1913:

“Mills Broth­ers, the local flour mill, had shipped in over 45,000 bushels of wheat besides the grain brought at near by towns and taken in at the mill door — and have shipped out 40 cars of flour besides what has been gone out locally by rail and by wagon. Just this week, they unloaded a car of hard wheat from Mon­tana, the freight amount­ing to over 37 cents per bushel and at that cost less by 11 cents per bushel then they are pay­ing for wheat here.”

“The Card­ing­ton Post Office is in the hands of the paper hang­ers and its appear­ance has been much improved.”

Rus­sell and Curl this week pur­chased the auto­mo­bile for­merly owned by Mrs. H. S. Green.

“Card­ing­ton is to be con­grat­u­lated on her clean stores and the attrac­tive man­ner in which food is pre­sented for pur­chase. The old open bar­rels where dust and germs for­merly held pic­nics are gone and not only that, but the win­dows are trimmed in such a man­ner as to not only sell the eat­a­bles but stamp them as artis­tic also.”

“Howard Neal has received $5 from the Cleve­land Plain Dealer for the best pic­ture sub­mit­ted by an ama­teur pho­tog­ra­pher. The pic­ture was printed in Sunday’s Plain Dealer and is an excel­lent view of the mill dam and the home of Minella Mills. The Plain Dealer gives these prizes every week and the awards are made by a com­mit­tee of artists.”

90 years ago,

Feb­ru­ary 8, 1923:

“An inspec­tion was made of the Marengo school build­ing on Jan­u­ary 17, 1923 by Inspec­tor Welling and in con­se­quence an order has been issued which pro­hibits the use of the build­ing for school pur­poses after the present term of school. Insuf­fi­cient light­ing in the present build­ing, cross light, lack of ven­ti­la­tion, nar­row aisles, lack of fire pro­tec­tion, faulty con­di­tion of the base­ment heater room, are among the more impor­tant rea­sons given for the prohibition.”

“Low­ell Pat­ter­son and Earl Far­ring­ton are the new agents for the Colum­bus Dis­patch tak­ing over the cir­cu­la­tion Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 1. They have been for some time, the car­ri­ers and know the busi­ness. Both are all right and give faith­ful atten­tion to their busi­ness. Try them.”

“Mar­i­lyn Vir­ginia is the name of a new daugh­ter which arrived Sat­ur­day night at the Alva Cox home east of town.”

“Everett Kirk­patrick, Fri­day morn­ing, shipped by rail­way express, three large type Poland China sows to Cha­grin Falls.”

A birth­day party for Richard Wal­lace Baker, six year old grand­son of Mr. And Mrs. Harry Wal­lace of East Wal­nut Street, was attended by Elmer, Mil­dred, Robert, Illine and Vir­ginia Smi­ley, Dorothy , Helen and Bobby Neal; Margery and Betty New­comer, Del­bert and Helen Riggs, John Wil­son, Harold, Mary, Everett, Leona May and Aldine Pater­son; Mr. And Mrs. A. A. Vail, Mrs. John Wil­son, Miss Nel­lie Scott, Miss Car­rie Math­ews, Mr. And Mrs. Clyde Patterson

60 years ago,

Feb­ru­ary 12, 1953:

June Haver, 26, screen actress and grand­daugh­ter of the late Fred­er­ick Stove­nour of Card­ing­ton, announced her retire­ment from movies to become a nun in the Roman Catholic Sis­ters of Char­ity Order.

Miss Haver was the daugh­ter of Fred C. Stove­nour, Jr. Her grand­fa­ther, Rev. Fred­er­ick C. Stove­nour was one of the best known Protes­tant min­is­ters Mor­row County ever pro­duced. He was licensed to preach in the Chris­t­ian Church in 1891.

Rev. Stove­nour died at the age of 86 in Indi­ana. He served sev­eral denom­i­na­tions and at one time stud­ied law under Judge Pow­ell of Delaware and Judge McCoy of Card­ing­ton. The Stove­nour home is east of CArd­ing­ton and now the res­i­dence of a niece, Mrs.Elizabeth Warner and her daugh­ter and son-in-law, Mr. And Mrs. C. H. Thomp­son and daugh­ter, Ann, a stu­dent at Card­ing­ton High School and a son, Dick, now in the U S Navy.

R. J. Den­nis of Card­ing­ton was elected cap­tain of the aux­il­iary to the Ohio State High­way Patrol. T. A. Camp­bell of Mount Gilead was named adju­tant and Her­bert Terry, Paul Jack­son, and Fleet Jack­son, of Mount Gilead and Don Healea of Card­ing­ton were named lieutenants.

Jeanne Rengert, a senior at Card­ing­ton High School and vice pres­i­dent of the FHA was named 1953 FFA queen.

George Frew, 76, Cardington’s old­est retailer, died in his jew­elry store on the cor­ner of South Mar­ion and West Sec­ond Streets. Mr. Frew was found at 2 pm in the after­noon by R. E. Sander­son, mail car­rier. Mr. Frew was stricken with polio at the age of 10 months and never walked. He con­ducted his jew­elry busi­ness from a wheel chair.

Win­ner of the Ohio D. A. R. Essay con­test was Char­lotte Pat­ter­son, Card­ing­ton High School senior. Patri­cia Long, also a senior, who had the sec­ond high­est score in the county, was declared the county winner.

30 years ago,

Feb­ru­ary 10, 1983:

Pic­tured was Rev. Charles Nay­lor, Card­ing­ton native and pas­tor of the New Haven United Methodist Church, and three month old Ger­man Police pup, Blepo. They had been fea­tured on the reli­gious page of the Willard Junc­tion. Nay­lor was tem­po­rary owner of the pup which was des­tined to be trained as a guide dog.

William Hack was appointed by Mayor Cecil Maxwell as the village’s clerk trea­surer effec­tive March 1. He was suc­ceed­ing Charles Jack­son who resigned.

Joe Fox was open­ing a bar­ber shop at 310 Cen­ter Street, Cardington.

Kevin Hick­man, a Cardington-Lincoln sev­enth grade stu­dent, was the spelling bee cham­pion. Run­ner up was Cam Stephen­son. Other top ten spellers were Matt Hall, Tim Maceyko, Chris DeVol, Kim Cal­bert, Chris­tine Lorella, Audrey Wil­son, Sharon Gay­heart, and Sherri Pace.

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