Amish Corner
It was a beautiful summer morning on June 23 - a perfect day to do laundry, work in the gardens and flowerbeds or go on…
It was a beautiful summer morning on June 23 – a perfect day to do laundry, work in the gardens and flowerbeds or go on a school trip.
I have plans to go and browse around the Middlefield Flea Market. I need some more strawberries to make more jam. Some of our granddaughters are helping pick strawberries at the Grovers Farm on Route 87 on Mespo Hill. They get paid 75 cents a quart for picking. Back in the 1960s, we got 50 cents a quart when we sold them at our roadside stand.
Our family and more of our relatives have plans to go to a Hershberger reunion in Troutville, Pa., on June 27. We have a chartered bus leaving here at 5:15 a.m. It is a three hour drive. We will stop for breakfast. Each family will pack a picnic lunch, and then drinks will be served. The boys look forward to playing baseball. We expect folks to be there from Michigan, Tennessee and different parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
On June 20, there was a Wengerd reunion in Hillsboro, Ohio. There were two busloads plus one or two vanloads going from here and one or two busloads from Munfordville, Ky.
Relatives were notified of the death of Mrs. Dave Clara Coblentz of Mercer, Pa. Her funeral was June 24. She was a sister to Ben Byler of Parkman. Our sympathy goes to the family.
William (Bill) Detweiler of Nash Road has not been feeling so well with having shingles. Mrs. Ada Kurtz is not feeling well with having shingles, also. A line of cheer would be nice. Her address is 12947 Brosius Road, Garrettsville, OH 44231. Bill’s address is 14695-A Nash Road, Burton, OH 44021. He is 91 years old.
Another great-granddaughter for us born to grandson Norman Ray and Mary Ann, making second time grandparents for daughter Betty and Melvin Byler of Mio, Mich. Norman Ray’s live in Ossineke, Mich.
I did go to the auction Monday morning. There were lots of other people there and lots of nice produce and many plants and hanging flower baskets, going cheap. Fresh peaches were in, also sweet corn, green beans and melons, making for healthy cooking.
Mrs. Liz Miller, 93, of Farmington Road, had a stroke on?June 22. She has had several other strokes in the past.
Our thoughts are with the Robert Ray and Miriam Miller family of Farmington Road as it will be one year on June 27 that their son Robbie was killed. It will also be one year on Sept. 4 that Allen Ray, son of Allen and Linda Miller, was killed in an accident.
Happy birthday to Mrs. Clara Hershberger on June 27, Levi L. Miller on June 28 and Wayne P. Miller on June 28.
Chuckle
On Halloween night, the preacher’s son went out with some friends. To have a little fun, they decided to push over his dad’s outhouse. The next day the father asked his boy if he and his buddies were responsible.
“No,” the son replied.
“Now remember, George Washington, he couldn’t tell a lie. Be like him and tell the truth,” the dad said.
“Ok, Dad. I won’t lie. I pushed over the outhouse.”
His dad promptly gave him a spanking.
The son objected, “I told the truth, like George Washington! Why did you spank me?”
The preacher soberly replied, “Well, son, George Washington’s father wasn’t in the outhouse. I was.”
You all enjoy the sunshine.
