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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1887
Page
5
A packed Defiance column covers weather, visits, church activities, local trials and civic updates. It notes storms, gas well progress, multiple visitors from Hicksville and Ottawa, court cases, a larceny acquittal, a G A R badge bill, school events, canal debates, and public notices amid a flood of local life.
County residents heard rumors of a $100000 Defiance bridge funded by the county. Officials state the bill only allows Defiance city to raise up to $50000 for a second bridge over the Maumee with no county financial obligation.
Readers are urged to note the fine local correspondence in this issue of the Express. Last week seventeen new names joined the list, drawn by the paper’s intrinsic merits without agents or attractions.
The deeds recorded through the week ending February 5 include transfers in Richland and Tiffin townships, Hicksville and Milford townships, and Defiance. Notable entries show quit claims, sheriff’s deeds, and assorted lot and acreage transfers with values ranging from 100 to 1,600 dollars. Named parties include Edith Bixby, Sonas Bixby, David Miller, Frank Miller, John Clinker, Levi Clinker, Harriet Preston, John Summers, Simmers, Dorothy Casebeer, James Casebeer, Amos Garver, Wonderly, John Miller, James Heatley, James Crary, Benjamin Crary, Caroline Everitt, Josiah Kemmerer, Erasmus Moss, George Miller, and others.
More snow leaves roads improving. Groundhog sees no shadow. Fred Whetsel ill. T E Jones distributing railroad ties. S G Finley hauling logs in big woods. A Reid and Wm Cain seeking work in Worstville. Local sickness called dread disease bad cold. Gyer bill praised for abandoning Six Mile reservoir. Mr Blanchard ship timber has fine sticks. Jones and Up thegrove delivering on canal bank. William Falkner, longtime resident, died last Tuesday and was buried Thursday leaving a large family.
A citizen committee consisting of Wilhelm, Kettenring, Holgate, Woods, E. Squire and Lewis plans to visit Van Wert today to confer with A. S. & M. officials and push for bringing the road through the city on its northern route. The group expresses faith in success.
Obie Fay Moore died in infancy, aged 6 months and days, with a poem lamenting life’s brevity. Beckie Bowman, daughter of A. Kh and K. A. Bowman, aged 5 years 4 months and 25 days, celebrated in verse as a heavenly harp serenade, hopes fulfilled in heaven, with religious reflections on death and eternal peace.
A long letter printed by a newspaper promotes kidney health as the key to overall health and credits alleged insurers and physicians for recognizing Bright's disease risks. It extols Warner's Safe Cure as a proven remedy endorsed across Europe and America, urging readers to trust proprietors and spread the claim. The item ends with a political jab about Detecate Catyg and a plug for Bail's Cough Syrup.
The Defiance Alumni Association mourns W Curtis Holgate who died January 31 1887. The group honors him as a faithful member and esteemed citizen valuing his Christian character above all. Sympathy is offered to his bereaved family and a copy sent to them for publication and recording.
Readable price listings show grain and meal costs at Defiance Mills and Erle Mills including Wheat, Corn shelled, Middlings, and Rye with figures around 26 to 78. Meat items list smoked hams, smoked shoulders, beef cuts, live and dressed poultry, veal calves, sheep, and hogs with mixed prices. Also listed are flour and feed items such as pastry flour, corn meal rates, and bundled ton prices for hay straw coal wood and poles.
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