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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1880
Page
4
Martin and Krotz offer season greet ing customers with a full line of teas coffees spices sugars canned goods tobaccos syrups glassware and groceries at low prices. Colby and Scott promote holiday sheet music and humorous vignettes from local shops and a pharmacist offers a gloomy cure for sorrow with a tonic.
The ad argues against salves for skin ailments and urges using Dr. Guyson's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla to address root causes. It also notes the Postoffice Nation store offering sleds wagons dolls vaces and more, and E. N. Lewis selling holiday goods cheaply with a stellar stock.
For thirty years Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry has been kept for sale by druggists with no complaints. It is widely acknowledged as the best remedy for coughs colds consumption bronchitis asthma and all lung diseases.
A notice promoting dolls and toys at E N Lewis drug store and cheaper items at the Postoffice Nation store. It urges buyers to inspect Christmas and New Year toys available, highlighting a splendid toy stock at Lewis and cheap offerings at the other store.
Advertises candies nuts toys and French caramels at the Baltimore Bakery and the Postoffice Nation store. Promotes Rinehart's Liver Pills with a sample dose free and states no griping or sickness from use. G W Bechel handles sales and a large stock for Christmas and New Year presents.
The text lists several Express and Lightning trains with numbers and times, indicating westbound departures from a station. Through Express No Li 9:06 A M St Louis Fast Express No 3 7:30 P M Pacific Express No 5 2:40 A M and others appear in a timetable style.
A fragmented listing shows various prices for farm products including butter, eggs, pork, potatoes, oats, lard, peas, chickens, wheat, turkeys, buckwheat, ducks, geese, flour, timothy hay, cloverseed, apples, hides, wool and bale weights. The items appear with per bushel or per pound rates and some quality notes.
Local notes from Defiance cover weather, politics, crime and society. Mentions include the German Catholic church fair netting over 2500 dollars, Ex PRESS improvements, bad water and cold, church services at Grace Church, and arrests or jail time for Ex Gov Scott with a planned Defiance dramatic association.
Gov. Scott shot and killed Warren G. Drury at a Napoleon drug store after an incident involving Scott’s son. Scott claims the gun discharged unintentionally as he confronted Drury over upstairs access. Drury, 23, was killed instantly. Scott was jailed and remanded for trial as town mourned.
Acknowledgments note kind regards from W J Henry of Hicksville for a barrel of apples received on Christmas day. The editor's great uncle in Grand Junction Iowa sent prairie chickens, shared with Dr J L Scott Geo T Squire and Bud Dyarman and their families.
An aged Defiance clergyman recalls a dying factory worker who named two companions as counterfeiters. The man claimed they hid silver coins under his pillow and urged the minister to warn others, but the victim died before any charges could be pressed.
Charles Krotz was robbed of 430 dollars and papers by two highwaymen on a Tuesday evening near the B and O depot. A revolver was leveled at him as he walked the Clinton Street canal bridge, then the men fled, a posse pursued unsuccessfully, and Krotz could not identify the assailants.
Harley Bros. announces a fresh arrival of new goods to be shown in their store next week and invites customers to call and see the collection. The notice emphasizes the updated stock and a call to visit for previews.
Our correspondent reports Emma Osborn, long based in Michigan, visiting home. John Brubaker recovers from lung fever under Drs Weaver and Stout. A North Richland infant fights scarlet fever while a local animal lecture entertains at Goggle schoolhouse. The Central Union literary society thrives with Florida imports and a lively foreign guest J. W. K. enlivens the stage with humor and dramatic flair.
The piece covers sleighing, a Christmas dance at Farmer with Hicksville orchestra, a New Years Eve tree at Brush College, and a possible marriage of Freeman Hopkins and Ella Johnston. Also notes Brush College Literary Society thriving, a Williams Center visit, a runaway sleigh incident, two deaths from consumption, and local funeral services led by Rev. Isaiah Johnston.
Local notes recount relatives visiting in Lima and Defiance, a Christmas ball at Farmer Center, oyster suppers at Odd Fellows Hall, and community gatherings. Reports include marriages, sick relatives, a horse sale for 150 dollars, and farm news. Anxious Christmas travel and deer hunting law reminders close the column.
From Our Own Correspondent reports a busy holiday season for merchants and a church festival that netted about thirty dollars. The piece mentions irregular newspaper delivery, a Christmas marriage, business openings, recent real estate transfers, and a Masonry lecture with a banquet at the M E Church tonight.
(From Our Own Correspondent) Mrs. Isaac Miller is quite sick with inflammatory rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Collier spent Christmas in Deshler. Mrs. William Good and Mrs. Abe Edwards remain dangerously ill. Miss Keil of Findlay has visited in the area. John Smith and family from Allen County Indiana visit Sherm Blanchard. Fritz Kopp suffered a serious accident riding a load of wood when a falling limb struck his leg. He is progressing as well as expected.
From Our Own Correspondent notes a cold term with no school vacation in Brunersburg. Mr Charles Dowe ill. town to build a brick house by Wm Cook. Marriages include Deisler and Wyant from Pennsylvania and Miss Wyant, Wisler and Clara Partee. Christmas tree at M E Church drew 444 presents worth about 230 dollars. quarterly meeting at Rosendale brought old friends and warmth.
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