100 years ago, May 8, 1913 “The Jones & Benson Buggy display Saturday filled Marion Street from Main to Second and was quite an attraction. Mr. Wright, of the Sidell buggy factory, at Richmond, Ind was present to help with the sales and the sale of buggies was the largest made in Cardington in years.” “Mrs. Bessie King […]
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 […]
By Evelyn Long — 100 years ago, February 6, 1913: Ivan B. Schenck and Mary Carpenter had eloped on December 4, 1912 but didn’t announce it to their friends and family until two months later. Ivan was the manager of the Schenck Motor Company in Cardington. Mrs. Ben Sharpless of Whittier, California, the former Lida Heacock of Cardington, […]
By Evelyn Long, from the pages of the Morrow County Independent.. 100 years ago, January 30, 1913: “Miss Josephine Brundige last week found a stone along the creek bank in the rear of her building which gives every appearance of being a petrified mitten of fancy design.” “The Cardington-Quakerdom pike has been ordered closed by the commissioners but […]
By EVELYN LONG – 90 years ago, May 11, 1922: “Irene Menges, 20, was rescued Friday from an iron sheeted shed on the farm of her father, Jacob Menges, near Galion where she was said to have been imprisoned for two years. Sheriff Edward Knappenberger of Crawford County and the county marshal released the girl from captivity.” […]