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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1887
Page
5
Local items report H F Berry to solicit Express subscribers and collect back payments, aiming for a circulation over 2000, plus details of a wild west show at the fair. Also noted are health, fire, and community happenings including bridge painting, school terms, obituaries, and local incidents with names and places across Defiance county.
A flurry of local activity highlights weekend and weekday travel. J I Levy returns home. H W Myers visits Bryan. Chas Sutton and L B Peaslee travel to St Louis and to Defiance. numerous residents visit Toledo Columbus and Detroit. families plan trips to Mackinaw Put-in-Bay and Quebec. Ty conducted by several including Frank Knapp, D F Holston, Prof. Arbuckle, and Miss Durrah with visits to Gow and Fort Wayne.
The Probate Judge has issued marriage licenses to Charles Whitney and Barbara Bates, William Conrad and Emma Spring, Frank Foot and Emily E. Algers, Alfred Peck and Ida Bates, and Chas Wire and Sarah Painter since the last report.
Per sale in section 34 Mark township 200 acres with 20 cleared and a small house and barn at 26 per acre for 100 acres and 20 per acre for other 100 acres unimproved 115 acres in section 24 Richland township 25 acres improved for 3300 ng3-2t Henny Newsraiy
Defiance College will begin fall classes on Tuesday August 30 with departments in Model English Training School Nor mal Collegiate Business College Penmanship Music Elocution and Short Hand. The faculty includes President James Clark Williams B A and noted instructors A M Van Tine Joseph A Coolidge L J Tucker Edward R Stone Miss Nellie Moore Wm Carter W S Powell and Lillian Burkhart with tuition ten dollars per ten weeks. Water works debate and a New York firm’s visit noted amid hot dry weather.
A reader asks why city authorities permit street advertising by foreign and show parties while local business men face limits. The citizen seeks equal treatment and questions policy fairness in print and public displays.
A mass convention of the friends of the Union Labor party of Defiance is set for Saturday August 13 1887 at one PM in the Knights of Labor hall. The meeting aims to organize the county and nominate a full county ticket for the fall election. Grangers labor organizations and all supporters are invited. J J Preven, Chairman.
Joseph Rath Post G A R No 402 Evansport assisted by Bishop Post Defiance Doud Post Georgetown Evans Post Bryan and Bradley Post Stryker will hold their First Annual Encampment at Cameron's Grove Evansport Ohio Thursday and Friday August 11 and 12 A program with band and vocal music and speeches by prominent soldiers is planned Ample provisions will be provided for feeding attendees and their teams at low rates COMMITTEE
A flood of items announces loans on improved farms at low rates with prepayment options, a Wabash Railway plan of Wagner Palace Sleeping Cars between Quincy and Toledo, a Niagara Falls excursion, bakery ads for Baltimore Bakery and Watts family ice cream, Arctic Bricks cream, real estate sales, and notices of stock closings at Watkins & Chamberlin. Also includes travel routes, prices, and agent contacts across Ohio and nearby states.
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