Valentine day and local happenings prompt town notes
Valentine day falls on the 14th this year as wagons replace carts. Hutchinson & Son grocers showcase a delivery wagon. A false fire alarm sent the department out. Court runs four weeks amid ongoing mill activity. Mr E L May plans a Hicks ville jewelry store opening. The Music school recital is offered Saturday at 4 o'clock. Central school building bids due February 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson & Son
Fire Department
Wood-Chuck
Tice
E. N. Lewis
John Wilhelm
Arkansas
Michigan
Helen Potter
Democrat
Defiance
OTICE
Board A of Education
Ohio
Board of Education
J. H. Bevington
Do It Now Census Hint for Farmers and Muddy Desfiance Tale
The piece urges farmers to prepare June census figures including acres, crop yields, and other farm statistics for the census taker. It then recounts a humorous Desfiance anecdote where mud and a funeral hearse mishap lead to a heavy corpse being dumped in mud, leaving the editor with a plastered left eye.
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Hicksville
Desfiance
Council Proceedings Regular Meeting February 2
Regular council meeting reports little business. Board of Public Works objects to more self closing bridges over the canal. Sewer committee to study Ottawa pike improvements. Public Grounds to set stone breaking job. Fire committee opposes sprinkling Clinton street. Mayor and Council to view Fremont city hall. Bills totaling 673.76 approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Public Works
Canal
Ottawa Pike
Clinton Street
Fremont
Real Estate Transfers in Defiance County Week Ended Feb 5 1880
Recorder notes transfers across Defiance and area townships with buyers and sellers including Hufford to Wilson parcel 244 Defiance South addition for 200 dollars and many other lot and acreage trades 40 to 508 acres with prices from 100 to 11000 dollars involving Hicksville Mark Noble Richland Highland and Washington townships and Defiance village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder
Defiance
W.S. Hufford
Eli C. Wilson
South Defiance
John F. Bener
Henry Bruner
Auditor's
Benjamin Davis
Susan Bruner
Hicksville
Eli Galetine
Daniel Bruner
Charles W. Krotz
Joseph I. Levy
Philip D. Matson
Adam Wilhelm
W. Holgate
Juliet H. Bouton
Hufford
Jacob Kisabet
Adam Kisabet
Mark Township
John Byers
A. P. Edgerton
Donald Coulter
Washington Cruehie
John Rowe
Jacob W. Myers
Miller’s Addition
John Ort
William Hire
Richland Township
Hicksville Growth From 1837 to a Prosperous Village
The article recounts Hicksville Defiance County growing from a 1837 settlement by Hicks Land Company to a thriving town of about 1,500 with fifty businesses. It highlights key firms on High and Maine streets, including Ainsworth Boon Bevington general dealers, Miller Clay Crowl hardware, Stull & Co, Neil tailor, and local doctors, clergy, and the Hicksville News. The piece notes Edgerton family influence, a strong merchant community, and multiple mills and lumber yards sustaining the local economy.
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Hicksville
Great Northwest
Defiance
Old Settler’s Association
A P. Edgerton
Hicks Land Company
Edgerton
City of New York
Maine
High Streets
D. Stull & Co
Dr. Rakestraw
Episcopal Church
Dr. Bracy
B. Davis
Milford
Farmer
High Street
David Rex
Main Street
W. C. Hamilton
Shamo & Wiant
John Swilley
L. A. Bliss’ Lumber Yard
West
Main
Smith Streets
T R. Millison
M M. Farnsworth
S. L. Otis
Jessie Shepard
High
Bryan Streets
E. O. Strong
Millison
Farnsworth
H. G. Bowker
Union Hotel
Court Doings on Will Case and Railway Trial
The court spent most of last week and Monday on the will case Sarah Dice et al. A juror, Jonas Miller, became deranged from brooding over the case, delaying proceedings until May. The Baltimore Pittsburg and Chicago Railway Co. won a new trial against Edwin Phelps and others, with the judge’s reasons praised. An earlier fall term judgment over $10,000 against Baltimore Co. hinged on juror conduct, prompting a new trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Dice
Jonas Miller
Baltimore, Pittsburg & Chicago Railway Co
Edwin Phelps
Bar Atj
Baltimore Co
Exs Press
Death by Poison on South Jefferson Street
Mrs Catharine Dusabery, wife of Charles Dusabery, died about an hour after mistakenly taking carbolic acid thought to be camphor. Report says the bottle was unlabelled and undiluted, blamed on a careless physician. She leaves a husband and four children.
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Jefferson Street
Catharine Dusabery
Charles Dusabery
A. Berchtold
M. B. Stevens
Hicksville Firms Drive Lumber and Wood Products Boom
Hicksville hosts saw mills planing factories and handle factories near the B&O tracks. RANDOLPHS STAVE FACTORY leads wood exports with large local employment and farm material purchases. Cory Brothers Saw Mill and HOOTMAN SCOTT BRUCE flour mill join a bustling local economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolphs
Hootman, Scott & Bruce
Northwest
Defiance Notes Telephone Lines Function Well Despite Neighbors Jest
A Defiance editorial defends the local telephone exchange, noting thirty five instruments in use and rare outages. It argues neighbors persecute the system, blames occasional repairs on instrument delicacy, and recalls a single past disruption blamed on misuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance
Eppress
Defiance School Report and Thanks From Lecture Association
Monthly Defiance Union schools report for January 30 1880 shows enrollment attendance and tardiness figures. The Defiance Lecture Association thanks the press and patrons for support and pledges improved entertainments next season led by secretary W V Tuomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance Union
Defiance Lecture Association
W. V. Tuomas
Sec’y
Hicksville Items From The Hicksville Journal
Local notes report a protracted meeting at the U B church proving successful and a February pause in harsh weather. Citizens discuss saloon actions, a house of ill fame attacked, and two local tile and brick ventures shifting plans toward spring startup near Six Corners.
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Opera House
U. B. Church
Cleland
Wm. Richards
Chicago
Dr. Babbit
Spencerville Road
S. Stevensons
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Accoloteh
2D Street
Wayne
Defiance, Ohio
Home News
Wabash, St. Louis and
Pacific
Local Express
Atlantic Express
N.Y
St.Louis
Pacific Express
Morgan & Miller
E. L. May
van Wert County
Bulletin
Turnbull & Shelly's
Henry Weisenberger
Paul Flager
Rowe
Fifth Street
Flager
Pleiades
Col. Sellers
White Comedy Company
Mark Twain
Colonel Sellers
Defiance Co. Express
The
Express
Defiance County
Judge Greene
John W. Peterson
Sarah Linebrinx
James Romine
Alice Clutter
John Worthington
Sarah Freedline
Michael Lero
Mary Graiser
Chas, Hoagling
Drusilla A. Shimplin
John F. Ramsey
Barbara C. Knull
Geage Rohrs
Dora Behrns
Charles F. Thomas
Ada Nolen
Christian Winkler
Barbara Wagner
M. Litner
Malinda Wires
J. G. Shatts
C. W. M. Wirth
W. A. Shrimplin
Lavina M Davison
Nicholas Steinbach
Anna Runtz
Lucina H. Long
Sue M. Coox
Alonzo B. Binkley
Mary E. French
Henry Huston
Anna Sprow
Ainsworth, Boon & Bevington
J. M. Ainsworth
I. M. Boon
J. L. Bevington
Ainsworth
I. S. Miller
John Clay
D. J. Crowl
T. H. B. Correl
J. W. Babbage
Hero
Elson
Lewis & Pettit
Maine Streets
Brock
E.N. Lewis
Mr. Pettit
M. B. Rakestraw
Hicksville News
Thos. A. Starr
Starr
Stull
William Dillworth
Albert Maxwell
C. T. Neil
Mr. Neil
I. A. Gingery
W. S. Richards & Co
Gooden & Batchelor
Frank Dalrymple
Dalrymple
C. C. Lehman
John Koch
Brewster & Webber
Frank Fribley
Evansport
Wilderson & Fribley
Fribley
Main Streets
Bank OF Exchange
E.D. Otis
A. P. Edgerton’s Land Office
J. A. Miller
Miller
George K. Otis
Otis
A.J. Babb
Babb
N. J. Love
Mr. Love
Carrie Huber
Clay & Crowl
Britton, Kerr & CO
Kerr Brothers & CO
G. Fish & Co’s
Ainsworth & CO
John Lehman & Son
Cory Brother
I. P. Blakeslee
Miller Bros
Hicksville Schools
Swilley
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
S. J. Moore
D.S. Babbit
B. M. Rakestraw
G. Wonsetler
W. H. Richards
T. C. Kinsmont
J.S. Brookens
W. H. Hicksey
J. M Combs
J.C. Ryan
F. M. Thompson
J. E. Coulter
A. Summers
W. F. Coughanour
Jackson Street
Post Office
Baltimore
Bechel
Thomas
G. W. Bechel
Wayne Street
John Demann
E. A. Young
T. H. Wess
Russell House
Cary & Carroll’s
Cary & Carroll's
Palamo
Zeller & Bruner
Cary & Carroll
Zeller & Bruner’s
Harley Bro’s
Harley Bro
Diebergen
France
Fuarther
Clinton and
Front Street
Defiance,ohio
Manufactory
Perry Street
Hoffman & Geiger
Holgate Avenue
Third Street
Price
Booth & McCullough
the Grocers
Queensware & Glassware
New York City
H. H. Warren, & Co
Warner
Bright
Robert B. Firzgeralp
Guysett
Yellow Dock
Sarsaparilla
J. P. Buffington & Co
Wistar
Wone
Sanford & Park
J.P. Buffington iGeneral ,Wholesale Co
Ellers ,and
Broner
TRAVE
G. A. Magtner
Lawrence & Martin
United States
Canadas
Madison Street
Good Farm
Ayersville
Eddrese
Winfield
Warsville
Cash Grocers
Krotz & Morse
5Th Streets
Nebraska
Iowa
Toledo
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FT. Wayne
St. Louis
Kansas City
Hannibal St . Joseph
Omaha
Ottumwa
Sansa Sussuspeer
Watard St Louis & Pacil
Destinat
An. We
St. Louis & Pacific R.y
J.C. Gault
H. C. Townsend
Pass
J. H. Whitaker
Uly
Brookfield
Tioga County
Rufus Robinson
Nunda
N. Y
J. Mallory
Wyoming
Foster, Milburn & CO
Buffalo
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