We had a much needed rain on Oct. 9, as it was getting very dry. It will be a big benefit for the farmers’ new seeding.
Quite a few funerals this past week. The funeral of Mrs. Joe Dora Hostetler, of Cox Road, was on Oct. 1. She died after being sick a very short time. She was 78 years old.
On Oct. 2, John and Mary, Enos and Rachael and Crist, all Slabaughs, and Mrs. Harvey Miller, Mrs. Gert Byler, Mrs. Barbara Yutzy and Richard Miller and I went to the viewing of Mrs. Danny Dora Hostetler in Freeport, Ohio. She was 40 years old and died of cancer. She leaves her husband and five sons, ages 13-20 years. She was my great niece.
The afternoon of Oct. 6, David and Anna Mary, Mel and Mary Ann, Bill and Joe, all Brickers, and Bill and Betty Byler, Ezra and Leah, Abner, Richard and I, all Millers, went to Troutville, Pa., for the viewing of Mahlon Miller. Mahlons had lived in West Virginia and had just recently moved to Pennsylvania. They were formerly from Geauga County.
Planning to leave for Virginia Beach the morning of Oct. 9 were Crist and Clara Hershberger, Elwin (Spike) and Rhoda Weaver, Crist and Ada Yoder, and Joe and Martha Yoder. I hope the weather is not rainy.
Philip O. Miller is nursing a back injury. They said a cracked vertebra. Mail will reach him at 7724 Rockwood Road, Windsor, OH 44099. He will probably be off work for a while.
The sparrows and starlings are having a picnic on the lawn where they seeded in a new lawn around my patio.
Notice
On Oct. 14, there will be a benefit auction at Buster Miller’s on Newcomb Road for the D.D.C. Clinic for Special Needs Children. They will start serving breakfast at 5:30 a.m. Carryouts are available. Auction starts at 9 a.m. Donations are needed and appreciated.
From Out of the Past – Huntsburg, Ohio
Sept. 3, 1896:
We are having a nice growing weather; a little rain today.
Getting ready for sowing wheat is the order of the day.
Some farmers have cut off corn, which is a good crop.
Threshing is mostly done; oats yield from 30 to 50 bushels an acre.
Plenty of fruits of all kinds, except peaches.
Oct. 7, 1896:
Rainy weather at present.
Daniel A. Byler, while on his ay to the cornfield to cut corn, fell off the fence and broke his arm. He returned to his home last week in Lawrence County, Pa.
Samuel Weaver returned home last week from North Dakota.
Mrs. Barbara A. Miller is able to be up and around again.
Chuckles
A blond goes into a store and sees a shiny object.
“What’s that?” she asks.
The clerk replies, “That’s a thermos.”
She then asks, “What does it do?”
He then responds, “It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.”
The blond says, “I’ll take it.”
The next day she walks into work with her new thermos. Her boss sees her and asks, “What is that shiny object you have?”
She says, “It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.”
The boss says, “Wow, what do you have in it?”
She replies, “Two cups of coffee and a popsicle.”
“Where’s my Sunday paper?” the irate customer calling the newspaper office loudly demanded, wanting to know where her Sunday edition was.
“Ma’am,” said the employee, “today is Saturday. The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on Sunday.”
There was quite a long pause on the other end of the phone, as she was heard to mutter, “Well, that’s why no one was at church.”
And they walk among us.
Thought for the Day
The shortest way to wear out your welcome is to wear a long face.
If you can’t be a lifter, don’t be a leaner.
Your all have a good week.