JULY 26, 1916

 

Ed and His Chair

July 26 was Ed's 96th birthday.  Many of you know that Ed and Mary recently moved into Evergreen, the assisted living residences at Greencroft Goshen.  He always said that the only thing that he would need at Greencroft was his bed and his chair, and that was pretty much how it went!!  He was also hoping that he could donate his exercycle so that he could continue to ride is four miles per day - "To Slugger's and back."  He also purchased a 'scooter' and gets out and about on a regular basis, e.g. over to Goshen College to check on the progress of the construction of the pedestrian underpass at the railroad that bisects the campus. 

Ed and I went to breakfast with his usual gang of cronies, and I gave him a card that I found while packing up their place in preparation for their sale on September 19 at Chupp's Auction in Shipshewana.  It was from Bill and Hillary Clinton, and must have been sent quite a while back on a previous milestone birthday - and naturally Mary had saved it, even though it was from a Democrat!  Needless to say the breakfast crew got some chuckles.  Later in the day we had coffee and rolls at the old place with some family and friends and then Kay and I had dinner with them at Evergreen.

 Also while packing up, I found a page of information about what was going on in 1916:

President - Woodrow Wilson

Vice President - Thomas Marshall

Mary Pickford signs a film contract for $1,040,000

Boston beats Brooklyn in the World Series

The Olympic Games were cancelled due to WWI

Piggly Wiggly opens

Average income - $648