30 Jul 1887
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1887
Page
1
Local correspondence covers letters from Mike Warner in Bryan Ella Pile returning to Fenton Michigan visits by John L Perpening from Findlay Ohio and various town residents. It notes upcoming religious meetings temperance events spice of gossip weather crops fairs and ongoing farm and business activities with several named locals and enterprises.
Emma Smith is sick. The thresher engine is heard in all directions. Otis Clark left home to seek wages elsewhere. Georgetown school closed July 23 taught by Ella Bostetter. Carpenters work on George Reynold's house. Cosgrove to lay brick foundation. David Wilhelm returns from Crawford county. Mrs. Jackson and Jas. Hanna visit from Angola. Will Dirt visits from Cleveland, returns Wednesday. Church of God to hold camp meeting on Prairie Creek circuit. Roy Draer loses little finger to mowing machine. Rev. Huffman to preach August 7 at Pleasant Point. A heavy rain last Thursday helps corn and pasture. Died July 21 1887 Samuel Campbell. buried Clinker cemetery July 22. Pay day at Sugar Grove cheese factory last Saturday. dividends satisfactory. D. E. Welker fills 25 000 tile and 17 000 brick. to burn this week. Wheat harvest over. cider scarce for another season. William Donley breaks leg loading a saw leg. Dr. Hartshorn treats. He is improving.
Green Corn and rains praised for farming start. Farmers plowing for wheat. Harmon Rohr family Sunday at Mr Walters. Lizzie Conn visited Daniel Hurd. Hurds at W H Conn. Robinson Bros ditched for Mr Beckman. Jennie Gilson visited Liberty Center. William Davis in Napoleon on business. Charley Headley and wife Sunday at Bob Davis. Mrs Mapes visiting Mr Harr. Defiance visitors at Squire Knape. Allie Mattocks and companion on the ridge Sunday. Mr and Mrs Chas Abbott visited 8 G McCord. Mrs Poehlman of Napoleon on the ridge. Emma Smith gone to Monclova to stay with sister. Robert Knape’s boy has whooping cough and lung fever. Mrs Charles Linden sick but better. Wallace Moats of Defiance visiting aunt Mrs Seeuwartzel. James Turney spent Sat and Sun in Fulton county. Prof Goll traveling for Fayette Normal. A L Parker of Barry County Michigan spent Sunday locally, returning Monday. Complimentary ticket to Defiance County Fair acknowledged. Ice cream festival at William Count’s for U K Church proceeds, funds raised reported.
An advertisement touts Acker’s English Rosawedy as a guaranteed cure for coughs colds croup and whooping cough offered by N G Woodward with prices 10 and 50.
Local notes report H C Leaders at home, harvest season finishing in the vicinity, and residents or visitors including Mrs L Hilton Miss Dele Rohn M D Mrs Templeman and daughter and many others. A crane of white startled residents and shots were fired but harmed none. The town notes sanitary conditions remain generally good despite heat. Libbie Hilton of Hubbell Nebraska visited old friends with her daughter Lottie.
Corn suffers from lack of rain while threshing remains the week’s focus. Wheat yields per acre fall short of last year. David Hill begins a road job one mile north. J K Myers builds a combined kitchen and woodshed. Many young Americans consider leaving for school this fall. The Free Baptist church dedication is postponed from August to September with details to follow.
Died July 19 1887 Seth M Young aged 61 with Mason burial. Mrs Elsworth Scott of Bryan visiting parents J C Fisher. Chas Di Young of Scottville back from burial visit. Mrs Manon and daughter Belle from Syracuse and Millersburg return home. Gas well outing to Bryan ends with wheel failure. Chatter about local visits and a horse liniment advertisement closes the item.
An 19th century ad touts 5 Blood Elixir as a positive cure for ulcers eruptions or syphilitic poisoning. It claims to purify the system and banish rheumatic and neuralgic pains, with a guarantee and sale by N. G. Woodward.
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