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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1887
Page
5
Hicksville and Defiance columns report court terms in session and upcoming events at the Two Johns and M. E. Haller Co. stores. Mentions carpenters needed, hosiery ads, repairs shop, theater plans, and local residents travel, sales, and pensions with names like Bishop Bedell and Senator Meredith.
Springfield hosts the State encampment with delegates including Geo Holton from Hancock Post. Memorial day committees are named with members such as T. R. Carroll and J. J. Hickey. Masonic and R A M notices schedule work on May 3rd to May 6th with refreshments and regional attendance from Paulding, Hicksville, Napoleon.
The city received bids for 15000 bonds to fund floating indebtedness. Spitzer & Co. offered the largest bid and was accepted. The premium paid totaled 475 dollars.
CALSOMIN shades in latest designs will be sold at prices that defy competition. Call to be convinced.
The M B Carnival last week proved a splendid success, enriching the society by nearly $500. The Dairy Maids' Carnival featured an Ice Palace ice cream parlor by R Brown, an elegant Ice Queen and court, fortune telling at the Gipsy Camp, a well furnished Dairy Maids' Home, a Bell Bazaar by Mrs C W Butler, a lemonade stand, sugar camp with candy, a dining gallery with roast chicken and beef, and a well staffed service by lady waiters. The parade included the Dairy Maids' Drill and Fan Brigade, with two electric lights lighting the hall.
Property transfers include Rosa Chalat to J F Frost for lot 55 East Defiance at 300 dollars and James K Denman to Celestia Huff 40 acres in Delaware township for 2000 dollars. Coffers show sheriff deeds and quit claims for Defiance area totaling varied sums.
On Monday morning C. Ornduff, brakeman on Wabash freight no. 97 west, was assisting in setting off cars at the Defiance depot when his foot caught on a guard rail. He was thrown and badly mangled his calf, then cared for at a nearby house before being sent to the Peru railroad hospital on the noon train.
Captain Ellis completes the trim little freight packet Blue Lodge and launches it from Clinton street extension yard. The vessel will operate between Defiance and Toledo. Miami Association grants boat builders a $300 bounty and the State provides a $300 toll rebate for each new canal boat built.
Emig and Yingling arrange with W. C. Holgate to build a store on a Clinton street lot in the burnt district for their use. Completion is expected in August as they seek larger quarters for stock. Fred Palmer departs for Omaha to run a wind mill agency for a Kalamazoo manufacturer with a brother already there.
Local column argues B and O R R eases or skirts interstate law to keep shipments flowing and avoid losses. It cites coal and building material contracts at higher rates, while suggesting local gas ventures and real estate opportunities may spur a regional boom.
The article praises a genial clergyman fit to oversee a publication and notes his easy writing. It contrasts a year ago when Deganace had sixty two empty houses with today, when almost none remain, signaling busy manufactories and healthy city prosperity.
Early Tuesday hundreds gathered at the Antwerp aqueduct, overpowered guards, destroyed canal structures, blew two locks, burned a gatekeeper house, and damaged the reservoir bank. Governor Foraker ordered three Ohio militia companies to scene and authorized repairs by C A Flickinger. arrests expected for penitentiary offenses.
Oil appears on the Auglaize River near the city and likely comes from Lima. The Citizens' Oil & Gas Co. stock has been sold and two wells may be drilled at once. A new well work start next week if bored. In Van Wert, spiritualists held a seance guiding where to bore for a favorable oil well.
Fred Reeves of Toledo, one of the militiamen who went to Antwerp by order of the Governor, was instantly killed the same evening when his gun unexpectedly discharged. He did not know the weapon was loaded.
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