The birthday boy

Birthday Party.

    Master Charles Henry Huls, eldest son* of Mr. A. E. Huls, celebrated his third anniversary yesterday afternoon. The invitation cards were thus:

Charles Henry Huls.

December thirteenth I'll be three.

From two till five, come play with me.          

*I bet Walter, who was born in 1890, just loved that. 

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Playin' hooky

The Hocking Sentinel, Aug. 24, 1905

I find it oddly reassuring that uncle Charley was not always the perfect son.

He, too, worried his parents and ditched school -- even if it was only kindergarten or first grade.

Master Charles Huls and little Miss Bertha Delp, two typical young Americans, decided to cut loose from their family ties, last Friday afternoon, and see Logan. After some two hours of strenuons [sic] search and mental agony their parents found them at the lower end of town, near the trestle "watchin' for the train to go over."

Grandpa Fred did not join them. He was only a year old and too young for such shenanigans.

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