Amish Corner
It was a cool, rainy morning on March 28. Grass is greening up and robins are happy finding lots of…
Hello from Geauga County, Amish Country,
It was a cool, rainy morning on March 28. Grass is greening up and robins are happy finding lots of worms. Spring is here.
Visiting friends and relatives here are Mrs. Al Liz Miller and her son Donny and wife from Kentucky. They also came for the auction for Eli D. Miller of Mespo. While here, Donny had an attack of diverticulosis, ending up at University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center and needing surgery, which extended their stay about a week longer. They planned to leave for home on March 28.
The evening of March 27, supper guests at Dan and Sylvia Miller’s were Mrs. Al Liz Miller, Mrs. John Mat Miller, Aden and Rosanna Troyer and children, Danny Ray and Betty Miller, Joe and I. We had a delicious ham dinner.
Our Sunday evening company on March 28 was Perry, Katie Ann and son David.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Amanda J. Byler after finding out she has a mass on the brain. She is 77 years old and lives with her sister Mary Ann and Dan J.S. Miller. Her address is 5193 Girdle Road, West Farmington, OH 44491.
We are looking forward to having sister Emma and Andy Weaver from Jasper, N.Y., and sisters Sylvia and Albert Miller, Liz Yoder and Clara Kauffman from Mio, Mich., come for a visit. We plan to get together at sister Edna and Bill Byler’s on Nauvoo Road.
On March 30, sister Edna Byler, Fannie Yoder and I visited sister Elmina for her 80th birthday. We took cake, ice cream and snacks.
There will be a live and silent auction at Buster Miller’s for Sunny Hope Special Needs Children the evening of April 8. There will also be a lunch stand and carry-outs. Donations for the auction would be greatly appreciated. Watch for the ad in the Good News.
I have a friend from Alliance, Ohio, who came visit on March 29 and took me out to lunch. I had not seen her in quite a while.
From Out of the Past
Welshfield, Ohio: April 2, 1899
Health is fair, with the exception of measles are prevailing in this locality. The writer’s wife was sick, but is better again.
J.C. Schmucker visited with the writer this forenoon and Simon Mast and wife spent Good Friday with us.
The weather has been quite unpleasant since we are here. It snowed almost every day and the roads are in bad condition.
There is a good deal of moving going on this spring.
We took the train at Nappanee, Ind., at 10:08 p.m. and arrived in Middlefield the next day where J.C. Schmucker met us and took us to his home. We thank God He protected us on our journey.
We are thankful to our friends for the kind favors shown to us and the assistance we received in moving, and we ask them to come and visit us.
I will say that I like it here so far, and we feel well satisfied in our new home. I think it is just as nice here as it was where we used to live.
Our car of household goods was here when we arrived, and we unloaded on Thursday and moved in our new home.
We ask our friends to write us, send your letters to Welshfield, Geauga County, Ohio, instead of Bremen, Indiana.
— Yours Truly, John S. Hershberger
Chuckle
A man decided to ride a 10-speed bike from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. He got as far as Altoona before the mountains became too much. He could get no farther. He stuck out his thumb to hitchhike, but after three hours, not one person stopped. Finally, a guy in a Corvette pulled over and offered him a ride, but the bike wouldn’t fit in the car. The owner of the car found a piece of rope lying by the highway and tied it to his bumper. He tied the other end to the bike and told the man that if was going too fast, to honk the horn on his bike and he would slow down. Everything went fine for the first 30 miles. Suddenly, another Corvette blew past them. Not to be outdone, the Corvette pulling the bike took off after the other. A short distance down the road, the two Corvettes, both going over 120 mph, blew through a speed trap. The police officer noted the speeds from his radar gun and radioed to the other officer that he had two Corvettes headed his way at 120 mph. He then relayed, “and you’re not going to believe this, but there’s a guy on a 10-speed honking to pass.”
You all have a good week.
