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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1879
Page
3
The Heller firm announces five thousand dollars worth of new goods arriving at its store. The update highlights a wide range of items available for customers.
Rain refreshes region as Dyarman & Co. move to new Keystone block. Henry County GOP plans Napoleon convention on the 22nd. West Point exams next Tuesday. Wabash freight volume rising and depot repairs underway. Morgan Rose dies after long Defiance citizenship. Local firms plan street corner changes and new stock itineraries. Wabash trains block fifth street crossing. Defiance wheat yield cited per acre. County fair preparation under way and local lectures urged. Union, Republican, and Democratic party events noted with dates and venues.
Tuesday last Mr. M. Schultz retired from the Crosby House and handed the position to Mr. J. E. Casebeer. Casebeer is known to travelers from his years at the DeKalb House in Garrett City Indiana and is expected to maintain the Crosby’s good name.
Survivors meeting in Bryan on July 19 resolves inviting all soldiers to the reunion at Bryan on September 3 1879 with emphasis on the 38th Ohio Volunteers. Officers elected to contact members and report names ranks and companies for attendance and notification.
In July Judge Greene issued marriage licenses to David Walters and Lucella Miller. John Hubbard and Mary Kohn. John C. Budd and Amelia Hollingshead. Nicholas Etchie and Johanna Leisering. Jacob Fossler and Emma F. Hinsey. Joseph Stegman and Cecelia Frank. Joseph E. Smith and Mary Graham. Samuel Hood and Amanda Luce. Myron Van Vlerah and Louisa Schoonover. Lewis R. Spurgeon and Alice L. Hoover. John Ryan and Mary L. A. Geckler. Daniel Deatrick and Lottie Doesh. John 8 Greenler and Caroline Spangler.
Rev Morrison’s baby ill at writing. Grandma Dickensheets suffered a stroke last week. Condit family visited Henry’s. Wm Davis threshed 128 bushels per hour at Brechbill’s. Two reports this week. Oscar and Nora Ward a girl Abe and Libby Vanvler a boy. T M Edwards has the boss job. The machine's been there six days. Grain and hay nearly all secured. oats and some wheat still in shock. Threshing machines scarce, five to six running. Big yields reported, 30 bushels per acre and up. Farmers urged to report yields with soil, time, method, and varieties.
From Our Own Correspondent reports heavy rain and rising illness among neighborhood children with two deaths yesterday. Sherwood benefits from grain trade while farmers rush wheat to market for good prices. Mr. B F Criswell plans a hardware stock near Mansfield. Irwin Hartshorn buys part of the Taylor estate to build on. A freight brakeman died Friday in a fall from a moving car. the body sent to Chicago Junction. wife and two children survive.
The item highlights local farming activity with春 crops, threshing, and fall plowing while noting school closures under Miss Rep logle and Mr. James O. Wissler. It mentions a political urging for Defiance County Republicans to attend the October convention to support the state ticket and standard bearer.
The town reports a convention scheduled for next week with forecasts of rain Sunday and Monday. Plowing for wheat has begun, and local trades mention a barber, a new handle factory in operation, busy threshing, and possible hotel conversion near the depot. Community events include church picnic sites on the St Joe river and concerns about street loungers as a public nuisance.
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