05 Aug 1886
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1886
Page
1
F S Hogue president announces diploma awards for completing any of the Collegia, Teacher, or Business Courses. Separate classes in music, elocution, French and German available, taught with courses or independently. Students may enter at any time.
Community notes from Defiance report Henry Body's fence, Mt Cavary children’s day exercises, and Miss Gleason visiting friends. Wool and oats yield strong harvests with oats averaging 45 bushels per acre. Local teachers plan winter term at Ayersville and Sabbath School decisions shift about Sharon picnic. Funeral of Frank Myers held at Ayersville church with burial in Brechbil cemetery.
About forty friends of J. O. Wissler and wife gathered on their road gathering to elect Augustus as leader. They entered the Wisslers’ home, served ice cream, presented a willow rocking chair and cash to Mrs. Wissler, and enjoyed music before dispersing.
On July 19 Long Muinsel received a surprise birthday party with many fine presents. Among attendees was Mrs. Leyi Degler of your city. An ad promotes Grigg's Glycerine Salve claiming fast relief for cuts bruises burns wounds and skin eruptions with a 25 cent price and satisfaction guarantee.
A collection of brief items from Henry County Ohio including injuries from falls and animal attacks, drought impacts, bonds sold by the county commissioners, fair dates, new carriages and farms equipment, church notes, fires and weather, farm society actions, and local visits, with multiple names and places such as Napoleon Holgate Harrison County and Florida.
Rain continues with crops showing final growth. H M Woolman, a Lincoln traveler, visits for business while a New York to San Francisco bicycle rider passes through town. Local forecasts urge contact with real estate agent Woolman for bargains on town and railroad lots. Special eastbound trains to the G A R encampment in San Francisco carry Pullman sleepers and eight cars per train.
Frank Gingery has a well bore. Andrew Headleys sick horse died. The Clarksville bridge remains unfinished. Summer schools largely closed. Nancy Chilcote returned to Edgerton Sunday. Many haul water by barrel for house use. Mrs. Correll returned from Crawford county. Ava Gingery plans to buy a cider press and jelly mill. Summons and wife visited Paulding county last week. Shanklin Cheyney and Beerbower lately had a new drove well made. Frank Gingery on sick list. sister poisoned by potato bugs but not seriously. Funeral of Dr. James S. Taylor at Hicksville attended. buried with Masonic honors. D. E. Arrowsmith burning and clearing on his Logan area farm, sometimes seeming to belong with a colored minstrel troupe.
A nurse asks a fashionable mother to cradle a restless infant while the mother, busy preparing for a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals meeting, dismisses the idea. The nurse recommends Dr. Biggers Huckleberry Cordial to soothe the child.
John Rank and Mina Koons closed their schools Friday last. Dr C W Kyle attends the sick in the vicinity. The people purchased a bell for the Reformed church in Sherwood at a cost of 129 dollars. Rumors of a Sabbath School concert on August 5th in this place. Amos Ruckman threshing with a new separator and buller. The G A R post meets every Saturday evening. The International Order of Odd Fellows meets every Tuesday evening. Services in U B church every evening by the Progressive Brethren. E Miller pays two cents more per bushel for wheat than merchants in Hicksville or Defiance. Farmers bring your grain to Sherwood.
A call from F M Brubaker through the columns asks comrades of the 68th O V V I to urgently send name, address, and rank and company for all regiment survivors. The effort, ordered by Washington, aims to complete the record but is slowed by missing addresses. Paulding county leads in responses.
Mrs Wrinslow sootaixe Syrup prescribed by a leading nurse and physician in the United States for forty years used by millions of mothers for teething. It relieves pain cures dysentery diarrhoea griping wind and colic. Restores health to the child and peace to the mother. Price 25c a bottle. No 7 l y
Turont ail seldom gets well of itself but deepens until it undermines health and lungs. Dr Bigelow's Positive cure is the safe speedy remedy for coughs colds and throat and lung diseases. Sold by G Bechel at fifty cents and one dollar. Pleasant to take and safe for children.
The Cecil community reports progress on a U S church project in Cecil and talks of a flouring mill in Hedges from abroad. Arthur residents Morris and Eitaek report high wheat yields, while J J Dill from Ada is hired for Cecil's higher school department and Shaffer and Evans assume Arthur school roles.
A rural item notes oats are cut and farmers plowing for wheat after a fine Sabbath rain. Ada visitor Pete calls on Jacob in Skunktown. The funeral of Mrs. Samuel Bennett was preached at Mt. Calvary last Friday. Rattlesnakes are plentiful in southeast woods with six killed last week. A village program, weather, and local turnout are recorded with remarks on education and religion guided by Prof. Hogue to inspire youth.
Arrangements are under way to erect a large two story block in Hedges. The building will have two store rooms on the lower floor and a public hall on the upper floor.
John Orweiler threshes 300 bushels of wheat on 7 acres near Pioneer. Theo Long travels about 600 miles yearly. Joseph Newcomer loses a valuable colt by hanging itself. A Edwards Stickney child breaks an arm. The Brunswick Hotel in Bryan is repaired and ready for guests. Niederaar Bros. report 40 bushels per acre on their farm southeast of Bryan. Richard McClure builds a brick dwelling west of Bryan. John Slaybaugh in Northwest injured from a fall. Bryan gas works restart after a 10 day halt with a new boiler. Williams County oats reach record stands with large heads.
An elderly retired doctor via a East India missionary promotes a simple vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and lung ailments and nervous debility. He will mail the recipe free in German French or English with full preparation directions to interested readers at W A Noyes 249 Powers Block Rochester NY.
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