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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1888
Page
1
Hicksville reports curiosities of winter with farm institute plans and social notices. Mentions visitors from Angolia and Canton, revival and church services, new pastors, furniture sales, carp stock, harvests, and post updates. Includes school openings and local civic orders growing, with routine anecdotes.
Icy and changeable weather frame a page of local items from Lost Creek. notes on visiting relatives G D Everett Montpelier Maud Cowhick Hicksville and others, a house fire near Milford Center with insured value, and social happenings from a masquerade to literary society debates.
Bryan area news mentions a protracted meeting at Swantown still in progress. Other items note gas in Bryan, Col Columbus Kimmel's new organ, Mr Wall of the Bryan Democrat visiting, Curt and Will Stuckman farming for Lester Stone this winter, and hoop pole time with community interest. Health updates and personal notices include Dyarman Winn receiving a gold pen and a resumption of mobility for "Farmer" after illness.
Promotes healing and relieves pain after accidents. Cleansing properties purify obstinate ulcers boils carbuncles and running sores, preventing erysipelas gangrene or proud flesh. No other application needed. n3-1mo.
The item highlights upcoming groundhog day excitement and a series of small local happenings. It mentions Master Sammy Rowe on the sick list, a trip to Columbus by Robert Knape, a quarterly meeting at the U B church, sermons by Rev Talmage, Lindau brothers in Canada to buy horses, Charles Dannenberg buying a hand saw, Bartels wedding antics with a drunken episode, quarrels among Local News correspondents, a timber incident injuring a neighbour’s son, and hints of a future mash. It also notes a sham show by Professors Eninger and Walker titled Ten nights in a Bar Room and a caution about jokey remarks.
A compilation of community notes from Millard Banner area detailing visits by John Hanna and M K Pearce from Indiana, weather chatter, road gravel plans from Brunersburg, church closures, deaths, school closings, social events, local tradesmen, and upcoming meetings with several residents and visitors named.
Good sleighing with snow one inch deep. Mrs. Saeger of Farmer visited. D. M. Hiner and wife of Edgerton spent Sunday in town. Mrs. J. S. Ogle is ill. their daughter Mable is also sick. Connie Heminway guests in Farmer with Ella Knight. Mrs. W. P. Case of Bryan visits niece Mrs. 8. P. Dodge. Henry Nearing and wife of Delta visit brother E. Nearing. C. M. Corwin sick with lung trouble and not improving. Marve Crary returns from Lost Nation Iowa planning to stay till spring. Horace Ensign residence south of town burned Friday. little furniture saved. Annie Garfield.
Items report labor and travel by residents to Hamlet and Defiance, a Maumee ice gorge near the state dam, illness of Mr John Minsel Sr, a new saw mill planned by Bixby and McDonald, an orphan Tillie found a home with Dr Holbrook, and funeral notices for Mary Palmer and Frank Dunbar. It lists relatives from Morenci Michigan to Evansport with details of births, marriages, and deaths in the community.
U G F appointed as Express correspondent. Bausman Bros of Brooksville ship lumber to Defiance. John Warner returned from Paulding. served as grand juror. Darling sold 20 acres to A Saurs and bought 12 acres from J Kinner. Mrs Ella Miller and Laura Heller visit Defiance relatives. Geo Heller Frank Wells and Charley Randolph to Mississippi for Joe Boyd. Bethel Literary Society activity livens debates. Oakwood burglary revealed. arrests expected. done by home talent.
An elderly physician, retired, claims to have received a vegetable remedy from an East India missionary for lung and nervous disorders. He says the cure is rapid and permanent after extensive testing. He offers to send the recipe free by mail in German, French, or English with preparation directions from Rochester, New York.
Rev. Dewitt to preach at Platter Creek church next Sunday at 10 30 a m All invited. Born to Mr and Mrs Androse Core a 10 pound boy. Regular singing class at Platter Creek church every Wednesday and Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs E V Smith returned from Ashland and Richland counties. Mark township reports more logs stave bolts and hoop poles moved than any other township in the county. Wedding at Platter Creek postponed indefinately. Leap year party at J Doppler s in Mark Center on Thursday evening the 12th. Mr and Mrs Moses Horn celebrated their golden wedding. Clyde Enterprise reports a Democratic Seneca county commissioner made a 54 ft sausage. Local legislators could immortalize themselves by salary- setting for county commissioners.
Last week brought cold weather with 12 hour changes. Snyder on sick list. Schafer traded horses. Dean and Carruthers run a feed mill. Jap Brim visited Dean. Fretters guest of Snyder. Shannon headed to Upper Sandusky. Kimble bought a Hillsdale farm moving March 1. Sugar Grove Cheese directors seek a cheese maker. Woodruff unable to teach due to flooding. Rev Lovina Allman leading a protracted meeting at Lick Creek Bethel. Lora Lintz wife of H L Lintz died January 7 1888 near Rochester Michigan. family left with husband and five children.
A letter from Mrs L R Treat of Perrine street Aug 30 1887 praises Kilmer Swamp Root kidney liver and bladder remedy. She details rapid improvement from a blood disease illness ending a painful itchy eruption and skin swelling with no recurrence and notes she still has some medicine. Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY advertises one dollar per bottle six for five dollars.
Physiology notes the heart’s force per contraction and vast daily total. The piece urges readers to seek Dr Miles New Cure for breathlessness fluttering pain faint or swollen ankles and cites N G Woodward's drugstore as the seller.
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