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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1883
Page
21
Local items list visitors and travels from Defiance to Lima Toledo and Detroit. Ed Squire, C R Lawwill, Ida Varner, Miss Flora Reid, Carrie Brown, and many others are noted visiting relatives, attending concerts, or traveling to Michigan and Wisconsin towns. Church notices, fairs, and upcoming events are referenced along with market and business tidbits.
On July 31 1883 at morning Rev B W Slagle married C E Scorr to Neue F Osborn. On August 1 at the M E parsonage Rev 8 1 Roberts joined Ida Nawase and Arick M Lone of Paulding in matrimony.
The Defiance county Republican convention opened with E P Hooker as chair and C A Flickinger as chair, appointing credentials and resolutions committees. Nominations followed for county treasurer, commissioner, infirmary director, and coroner, with Lauster, Davison, Kellermire, and Powell chosen or named for acclamation. a permanent organizational plan and retained county central committee were approved.
Dan Markle has his house completed. Miss Nettie Jones closed her school in No 1 last Friday. Miss May Dodd closed her school in district No 2 Tuesday last. Mr John Smith and Miss Ida Clark were married last Thursday. Mr John Davison of this township is the Republican candidate for Commissioner. Fire away sonny. Dances are becoming numerous in this section. The farmers harvest oats and threshermen complain wheat yields are low. Mrs Fry is on the sick list. Dr Guton and wife of Hicksville visiting. Young people had a party at Dan Market's last Thursday. Ed Conkle and sister not visiting here. J J Carpenter and wife visiting at M Carpen ters. Geo Parker and Emanuel Shoup ditching for Will Conn. A certain party is going to paralyze us. Mr James Schwartziel and family from Union Ind visiting.
From Our Own Correspondent Sherwood thrives with new houses and a growing boom. Mrs Nettie King visits from Hampden Ohio as Miss Dolly Navoo visits from Antwerp. A heading and handle factory will locate here in about two months. The wheat market offers one dollar per bushel with Miller Rock Co paying top price. The railroad may pass through if citizens act. Miss Thursey Boor leaves for University of Lawrence Kansas to study. Mr Frank Doud departs for Dakota to join Dr F W Doud.
The column notes a big Jumbo at Barnum's show and a new church stone chosen locally. It mentions three young ladies who hosted a mash, a steam threshing whistle in the area last Saturday, Mrs. Hastings's serious illness, and a lack of meeting with brother correspondents. Community letters praise Aunt Tab for funding music after a reported fight. Flora and Laura Norway held a lawn and ice cream party, editor's tea was shared, and a Union church project progresses with subscrip tion committee members Mrs. John Norway, Mrs. Emily Bowker, and Mrs. Ola Wilder. The troupe plans a future benefit entertainment.
From Our Own Correspondent Conrad Donges cites a red card for raising corn this year and notes good hay, average wheat yields ten to twelve bushels per acre, a forthcoming wedding, and Miss Lucinda Hersh closing her Winchester district school. Organ grinder visit followed by fruit treads, autumn, cloth sales for sixty five dollars per lot, and a wary remark on swindlers.
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