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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1878
Page
3
Local items detail street work on Clinton and Hol iday commerce, calls for lamp posts and crossings, theater plans at the Opera House, and remarks on envelopes and sa loons. Community letters request correspondents, while columns note tax mysteries, temperance meetings, and school rhetoric events.
A post office list shows letters remaining uncalled for on December 11 1878. Names include Emma Ayers Michael Hanley Harrison Bidler Mary Johnson Miss Jennie Barter Kibble Jennie Barnes Daniel Linnaberry J Crawford J J Martini Henry Daugherty S D Maxwell Daws Jno J Jr Morehead Miss Cora Davis A D Nicolas Suplient Lizzie Fraker Miss Lizzie Perkins Stewart Frederick William Sheeps John M Gage William Seibt Isaac Gokey Isaac Hill Thomas Joseph Hahn Peter Webber M E Williams Mrs
A crowded house applauded the Swe dish Quartet for their Monday evening performance. The audience gave an unprecedented ovation, underscoring the quartet’s strong talent and appeal, with no other group matching the warmth shown by Kel li gg and Nilsson in previous engagements.
Bechel of Defiance showcases an expansive holiday stock with a grand display. The store features family Bibles, teachers Bibles, poets and dictionaries, Shakespeare and Dickens, encyclopedias, histories, juvenile books, games, albums, autograph volumes, paper weights, boxes, vases, photograph cases, and a wide range of toilet goods. He invites the public to call, inspect, and decide on purchases.
A Defiance man named W Abbott ran a dubious job scheme claiming to teach a photo enlargement process. He mailed circulars offering employment and sent outfits for fees, swindling hundreds, mostly poor women. Arrested by Deputy Marshal Jones, Abbott was taken to Toledo for trial after federal officials pursued the case.
The Defiance community filled the M E church last Sabbath to honor Lemuel T. Clark with eulogies by Rev B W Slagle Rev A J Fish and Rev L A Belt. Born Sept 21 1845 in Mercer County Ohio he rose from student to Ohio Wesleyan graduate and school superintendent before joining the Central Ohio Annual Conference and dedicating his life to ministry and reform in Florida Pioneer and beyond.
Mr F M Schrader of the Toledo Commercial visited the city this week. Dr Slocum and O J Powell of the Garrett Herald called in. Gen Gilkison repaints Opera House scenery. Rev W H Hulbutt evangelist at Baptist church. Rev L A Belt delivered a sermon at the M E church. C K Garrison new Wabash president crossed from Napoleon to Defiance in 15 minutes. F W Colby shopped in Chicago for goods. Mr and Mrs T R Carroll returned from their bridal trip. Mr G H Palmer seen on the streets with a sling. Fred Wight returned from England and married Miss Craig of Ayersville. will work at Dr Lewis’s drug store. Mrs James Collier of Detroit and Miss Addie Carpenter of Mansfield attended Miss Alice Downs’s nuptials to Mr F B Morris of Mansfield.
From Our Own Correspondent reports odds and ends around Argyle and nearby towns. Mapes boards in Bryan while Henry Hauffman nears completion on Mill street and Horace Sprague reroofs. Jenny Snyder visits from West Unity and Lillian Snyder begins teaching in the eastern township. The Express may come on Monday. T. L. Snyder marries after finding companionship. Albright ministers Rauber and Dill hold meetings. Nickolas Nickelby is noted.
From Our Own Correspondent reports mud and sleighs scarce in the area as diphtheria strikes families and a revival proceeds at Mount Carmel church. Teachers attend an educational convention and local merchants report lively business while a burglary hits Dr. Stull's store. The community prepares holiday entertainments and a theater stage is built for future performances.
Ida Tomlinson returns from Oberlin where she studied, and David Palm comes back from Illinois after two years at work. George Cowhie alias St Clare gets a one year penitentiary sentence provoking criticism of the judge. A new valley crossing lets teachers and scholars reach the school without wading. Some youths and married men are said to haunt the school privies at night, poker by candlelight, tainting seats. a course of action, possibly rotten eggs, is suggested to stop such acts.
From Our Own Correspondent reports bad weather disrupts the Evansport protracted meeting led by Revs B F Dill and George Dennis while Rev William H Oliver struggles with a Lick Creek Bethel gathering. John Craine weds Lizzie Graver. John Bostater to teach Pollewag school. Douglas Bergman studies at Evansport. NASBY.
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