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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1884
Page
5
Colby Scott's wallpaper store expands while Defiance sees layoffs at Defiance Machine Works. Wabash wreck near Liberty Center halts traffic. rail and court house activity quiet after caucus. Local scenes include politics, collars, billiards, policemen, millinery openings, and social events across Defiance.
The E Gove and Co manufacturing firm once on Perry street and later in Saginaw is considering a return. John Marshal offers his South Clinton brick building and Branson is in the city seeking a favorable location. Locals urge prompt action to bring the industry back to town.
Local notes list G R Scott losing a valuable horse. G W Dustin and wife visiting farmers. Charlie LaCost returning from Oberlin. Rev P J Spangler and wife back from Eastern trip. Church work resumes. Theodore Richardson returns from Nebraska. Miss Clara Thoure visits Miss Lissa Hines. Various travel and school updates plus a sale at Mrs Isaiah Johnson’s on March 29.
A gold prize medal will be awarded at the Oyster Ocean billiard tournament on April 17 18 1884. The badge mirrors a $20 coin size with a sunk face bearing Presented by the Oyster Ocean April 18 1884. A fancy scroll pin holds a billiard cue rest with two crossed cues and three balls filling the space.
The following couples were granted licenses to marry by Probate Judge Greene Charles E. Smith and Hattie Atkison: William D. Hail with Alice Geitgey. J. M. Carpenter with Mary A. Haselbath. Charles W. McCague with Louisa Stork. David W. Switzer with Catharine Gilbert. Edward W. Bayliss with Amelia Baker. William E. Hecker with Stephana Holtze. Frank G. Warner with Jennie Sanderson. Orlando Bennett with Cora A. Skinner. William Poorman with Anna Dixon. John M. Thiebolt with Laura Ramb. John H. Scott with Jennie S. Hannaford. George Baker with Alice E. Osborn. George W. Edwards with Ella Pool. Carl Hafner with Anna George. Lawrence Kreg with Hattie Hayes. John Schnipf with Caroline Telschow. Harvey Hartel with Ola Curtis. Frederick Baldwin with Cornelia Bayliss. Samuel P. Edson with Della Warner. Louis P. Lim with Anna Decher. Wa. P. Wilson with Mary Ellen Thomas.
Real estate transfers include Mariah Hanna selling part of lot 59 in Evansport for 700 dollars to Samuel Meister and Morrison Kintigh selling lot 26 in Wood's addition to Hicksville for 533 dollars to Wm Ames. Others include Enos Kimble selling multiple parcels in Evansport and Tiffin township for 500 to 165 dollars to Daniel Fribley and Alice M Replogle, J M Sanford selling 23 acres in Tiffin township for 120 dollars to John G Black, and United Brethren Church selling lot 26 in Wood's addition to Hicksville for 175 dollars to H T Kintigh.
Kittner Bros advertise a promotion giving a ball and bat with every suit of clothes sold. The offer appears in their sales copy as a bonus incentive to shoppers.
Two fine oil paints were displayed in the shop window of A. W. Slaggart. The display highlighted the quality and variety of the paints offered to customers.
A list of property deals including Adam to John Cowners 133 South Denee for 950, Mary E Clark lot 4 Hicksville 159, John Green to Henry Fails two Milford parcels 2100, J W Myers to Angeline Harmer 40 Highland 1600, Worthington to James Worthington 80 Highland, M G Stowell to M Keramer 40 Milford 600, W Cole to Geo Otis part of lot 221 Hicksville 700, A Stickles to J D Hall 40 Highland quit claim, John Lee and others to J W Landis 60 Hicksville 1075, Sarah E Horton to John A Lee 80 Farmer 2400, Hattie M Mulligan to William F and Charles E Davis 200 Noble 800.
KITTNER BROS THE STAR ONE offers a fine line of clothing hats caps and furnishing goods for men boys and children adapted for the spring trade.
Della Gleason, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gleason of Arabella Street, died last evening after a long battle with consumption. She was widely known for her character and Christian virtues. The funeral will be held at the M. E. church tomorrow at 2 o'clock with Rev. W. J. Hodges delivering the sermon.
A proposal urges building election and caucus sites in outlying wards to ease access. Such structures could also serve as fire protection facilities and temporary lockups for arrests, reducing the need to transport offenders to the city prison. The plan, seen as beneficial and widely acceptable, would improve municipal convenience and governance.
Defiance markets report weekly grain prices from Wilhelm & Son with wheat at 95, oats 33 cents, rye 5 cents per bushel, corn 55 cents per bushel. Flour at Defiance Mills 1.40 and Queen 1.30 per sack, corn and oats chop 1.30 per cwt, mixed chop 1.00 per cwt, corn meal 0.40, wheat bran 0.90 per cwt, chess 0.40 per bushel, small wheat 0.60 per bushel.
Corrected weekly market sheet shows chicken at 7¢ per pound ducks 8¢ turkeys 9¢ butter 8¢ per pound eggs 20¢ per dozen salted hides 14¢ ground green hides No 2 5¢ potatoes new 40¢ per bushel flaxseed 1.15 Clover seed mammoth 5.50 prime 5.25 No 2 4.50 timothy 1.25 bacon side 15¢ ham 12¢ beans 2.50 per bushel onions 60¢ per bushel salt per barrel 1.20 tallow 6¢ per pound shoulders 10¢ dressed hogs 7.50 lard 10¢ per pound applied 6¢ per pound.
An advertisement promises that one bottle of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla costs one dollar and will banish extreme weariness, restoring energy and vigor with incalculable benefit.
A Defiance Ohio firm advertises White Star Flour as the sole local distributor and urges customers to read a mysterious letter to W W Cockley of Lexington Ohio. The missive claims grocers are moving ahead and hints at market intrigue while endorsing continued sales.
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