Defiance and Area News Roundup 1886 Highlights
Year in review across Defiance city and townships recounts storms, fires, deaths, and civic growth. Notable events include theater shows Ranch 10 and Hoop of Gold at the Opera House, a flood of social happenings, political shifts, arrests, and the rise of new businesses, with monthly snapshots from January to November detailing trials, fires, vandalism, and community improvements.
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Defiance
the Express
Opera house ends specialty entertainments and seat sale for band concert
The opera house management ends specialty entertainments as stale offerings. Reserve seats for the band concert open at 7 Friday evening at Bechel's drug store. holders receive tickets to select seats in turn and may seat only themselves or family. Also notes a New Year visit by Miss Callie Keller myer and others, and reports the arrest of Will Dunn, 22, for allegedly raping an 8 year old girl, bound over to common pleas court.
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Opera House
Bechel's
Bechel’s
16Th Regiment
Marie Garlic
Huron, O
Flora Phillips
Roy Webb
Rd Ralston
Bedell
Grace Church
Western Electric Ite i
Will Geiger
Helen Brown
James Cavell
B. W. Slagle
Deshler
Indiana
Evansport
George D. Backus
Luella Ackerman
Wertheimer
Clinton Street
Thomas Birch
Bentley
Bryan
C. F. Clemmons
Brunersburg
Tiffin Township
Fourth
F. B. Aldrich
Jerome P. Slough
Kuho Bros
G. McCord
U. B
Adamstownship
Clinton and
Flint Streets
Adelbert Osburn
Oakwood
J. Wesner
Huckaville
W.D. Hill
Gen. Gibson
Potters
Praeser & Swinehart
Noble Township
Chesapeake & Ohio BR
Frank Morris
Mark Center
Mansfield
Defiance
John Motter
Washington Township
Lowes
Borce
Gov. Foster
J. A. Orcutt
Hengetier
G. T. Knight
Hicksville
Barnum
G. W. Bechel
Alonzo Lockwood
Frank Gingery
Milford Township
D. A. Brechbiil
Ayersville
Insane Asylum
Columbus
Charles Miller
Tippin & Foust
C. A. Fuckinger
Bill Haley
Paulding
Mathias Koch
C. P. Tittle
Dakota
A. R. Steelemith
Erocer
Coburn and
I. M. pPotter
Defiance & Paulding R. R
William F. Gould
Marshall's Mill
H.S. C. Lappell
Indianapolis
Mattie Squire
Bhierwood
Frank Myers
Ayereville
Julia A. Ferguson
Charles B. Squire
Republican County Committee
David Hines
Emma Lehman
Ella Ame
Auglaize
Augustus Dolke
W. F. Dolke
Z.H. Miller
Sherwood
W. D. Hill
W. C. Holgate
C. J. Chenevert
Ite
Will Dixon
Delaware Bend
Thomas Blair
Williams Center
Gerald Herchfold
Switzerland
Lima
Mra
W. H. Henne
M. M. Boothman
George Ferguson
Christian Mueller
Martin Wauseka
East Defiance
Paulding Court House
Rudy Ehrhart
Hancock Post
John Earnhart
Wesley Durham
Okolona
Old Gas Well Company
Bruce Myers
Fostria
A. D. F. Randolph
Hicksvile
Munson Whitney
F. H. Robn
Werthemler Bros
David
L. Harry
R. H. Gleason
J. Karst
Third Street
John Smith
Sm't Bridge Company
Salvation Army
Auglaize River
Rev
Lance
M. E
Schwinn
Wheeling
Fred Stephens
Fitchville
Slagle
Jim Wells
Bill Hill
Callie
Ancie Kellermyer
Cyrus
George Kellermyer
Moore
Will Dunn
Mabel Caster
Dunn
Court of Common Pleas
Bechel
County Officials Sworn In As New Terms Begin
Wonderley begins his second term as sheriff and Frank Clemmer is sworn in as county commissioner. Outgoing Commissioner Struble retires after two terms and one month with a noted record as a conscientious official.
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Herif
Wonderley
Frank Clemmer
Struble
Post meeting notice for January seventh at seven thirty
Comrades are hereby notified that the next regular meeting of the Post will be held at G A R hall on Friday evening next January seventh at 7 30 P M Ep Merz Col Commander.
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Ep. Merz
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Cliry
W.H. Ralston
J. A Ketcrlel
F. W. Knapp
John Hepler
F. W. LeSeuer
W. A. Kebnast
M. E. Heller
John Cantlon
Geo. Miller
G. F. Bohn
John Thien
A. J. Otto
Charles E. Bronson
Office
Jeferson
Third
Arth
Pere Sale
Ottawa Pike
Charles E, Bronson
Defiance, Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Philadelphia
Lynn
Mass
ILLER
Th Ward
Wilmington
Del
Elshore
Kittner
Kitt
Ner’s
Sutphen
Chinchilla
Kittner's
W. L. Adams
Cleveland
Nellie Orcutt
Baptist Church
Ezra Hilton
J. H. Brigham
Fulton Co
State Grange
Mt. Vernon
S. 8. Rogers
Rogers & Bic H
George
Paulding Gazette
France
Ohio
Withrow
London
Express
The
Home Journal
Buffalo
N. Y
Ehrhart
Paulding Democrat
Charles J. Eckels
O. V
Kk. A. Minkwitz
Minckwitz
Nicholas Steinbergh
Jacob Koutsch
South Ridge
James Rowles
Harrison Street
U. B. Church
Jewell
D. F. Krotz
A. S. Morse
Old Place
G. H. Claflin
Presbyterian S. 8
Defiance Cornet
T. Merrill
Turnbull Wagon Company
Karl Flickinger
B. L. Abell
Merchants’ National Bank
Leopold Holmes
Holston
Congress
Amos J. Walter
J. O. Plank
Russell House
Bachman
J. R. Rowles
County Agricultural Society
J. F. Deatrick
E. B. Mix
Pomona Grange
Adams Township
P. Kettenring
Defiance Machine Works
Sanford Hulbert
Tennessee
E. Squires
Library Association
Fred Kittner
Emma Loeb
Attica
Ind
City of Defiance
H.W. Myers
Claflin
J. F. Kinteigh
Joseph Rath
G. A. R. Post
August Boelmer
Wabash
George Stradley
R. H. Lambert
F. A. Porch
Logan
Charles Shuh
Greenville
Frank B. Aldrich
Carroll & Co
Watkins & Chamberlain
J. E. B. Good
E. B. Carter
Higgins
Henry Windisch
Flickinger
John van Immons
Big Rapids
Mich
John Crowe
Presbyterian Church
Jason D. Leach
Mary Ellen Elkins
South America
George W. Deatrick
John M. Hengstler
Frank Brown
Evanaport
Wabash Road
Capt
John Partee
Andrew Bostater
Istward
W. A. Kehnast
4Th Ward
Loeb & Son
Toledo
Maumee Bridge
Judge Latty
Paulding County
Levi Figley
Edwin Phelps
Granville
F. O. Graper
Fargo
Herald
White & Mains
John Deindorfer
E. B. Smith
Katie Travis
California
Mat Crosby
G. W. Scott
Peoria
Ill
Avernville
Lamott Harrington
Salamanca
Georgia Boutelle
W.H. Morander
Rural Chapel
J. E. Coulter
Edward Squire
Cornelius Flanagan
J. H. Bevington
Defiance Board of Education
Adam Smith
John Thein
J. A. Ketchel
George Shultz
Grace Episcopal Church
Charles J. Daoust
Mamie Hooker
Carthage
John W. Miller
A. W. Hagert & Co
Harmon, Swalley & Hagert
George Miller
Julia Donafin
J. H. Morris
Bethel Hamiet
R. J. Battershall
Cicero
Hilman
Defiance Normal College
Mne
A. M
M. D
P. D. Shoemaker
Heller & Co
Kansas
J. L. Philips
Penfield
Pantorste of the Baptist Church
Kate Hoover
Rev. J. Hoffman
J. H. Muehlenbeck
North Ridge
Archibald
W. V. Thomas
the Baptist Church
T. H. Sabin
Arizona
Elias Bruner
Jacob Paitee
John Spangler
Richland Jp
Will Jarvis
Charles Johnson
Breno Bros
James Fay
Delaware Beach
Chris Miller
Geiger & Son
Southworth
Rev. Evans
Leroy Wygant
Hartzburg
2D Street
Auglaize Bridge
Deatrick
Citizens’ Company
Thos
Little Danabies
Henry Bobman
Trict
Washington
Hiram Robinson
F. A. B. Lowe
Kansas City
Defiance County
St. John’s Church
Fourth and
Jackson Streets
Louise Bohn
High Street
Henry Newbegin
Europe
Universalist Church
U. B. Denomination
Defiance Manl'y. Co
Union
Rev. Phillips
Riverside Cemetery
Bishop Gilmore
Antwerp
Paul Hootman
Joseph Lowery
Florida
Stephen Corwin
J. M. Shutt
W. J. Henry
I. Donafin
Melvin Durham
Henry Whe
Wilhelm
Brice Hilton
Catherine Thien
A. Viers
Strable
Geo. J. Hickey
Bishop Post
James Osborn
Buzz Saw
Crosby House
Mathias Pfeifer
Wayne Street Crossing
Ream
New Maumee Bridge
Defiance County Agricultural Society
A. Sauer
John Kiser
Jacob Ackman
Little Abstracts
Wesley Frye
Engleman
C. E. Bronson
Santa Claus
E. N. Lewis
Potters & Tittle Building
First and
Clinton Streets