11 Jun 1887
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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1887
Page
1
Local correspondence lists graveled streets, house repainting, cemetery mowing, barn roofing, and broad community notices. It covers travelers, church meetings, memorial services, a Sons of Veterans camp, fair plans, and social visits from Mansfield to Hicksville with tributes to veterans and school activities.
Steward Gaylord lost a valuable horse recently. J. W. Myers bought a Walter A. Wood harvester. Strawberries are in order. George Clark is convalescing under a doctor's care. N. A. Boutell was hurt when his horse frightened him en route from Defiance. F. Allen returns from Cleveland to run J. B. Allen's engine briefly. George W. Case and wife and Mrs. John Kurtland and daughter visited Adams Ridge last weekend. Rumor says Frank Stone will teach first grade at Ayersville. he is praised as a first class teacher. The mail contract Ayersville Defiance was awarded to Mrs. Anna Adams, to start July 1. Israel Scott's sawmill gains a fireproof roof after a near blaze. Ayersville plans children’s day next Sunday evening with church program at 7:30. Brunersburg correspondent’s last week item felt truthful. A note suggests working nights to keep friends elsewhere. Baltimore Bakery touted for soda water.
Rain dominates recent days with frequent showers and a rainy Sunday. School closes next Friday. Local residents report new purchases, repairs, cemetery concerns, and social events. Community members attend conferences, visit relatives, and plan summer activity amid changing weather and ongoing farming notes.
Splendid growing weather keeps crops in fair shape with warm days and rain looming. Ent worms damage corn. Local social news includes visits, a renamed tile factory, a successful cake and supper fundraiser for the G A R, a June 2 wedding, a birthday surprise, and the death of Thomas Hogg aged 61 with a Scottish immigrant background.
The ad offers the best salve for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, and more with a 25 cent box price. It promises perfect satisfaction or refund, crediting Colby & Scott as sellers. Also notes a Tersey cow and calf for sale by C S Wellman at 24-2.
A Masonic celebration and basket picnic will be held at Wanseon on St. John’s day June 24. Col J H Brigham serves as Grand Marshal guiding a march by Toledo and Defiance Commanderies and 15 lodges with Tu-enda-wie Lodge leading the lodges. Judge L W Brown delivers welcome after a Defiance Commandery Quartette sings. The afternoon features music, songs, short addresses, and a grand dress parade at 4 PM on Main Street by the two commanderies.
Jacob Memmer was found guilty of grand larceny at the recent term of Common Pleas Court and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary with no solitary confinement. The jury urged mercy, and the judge gave the lightest permissible sentence. The conviction related to stealing brandy. another case was dropped by consent and may be refiled later.
An old physician, retired, claims a simple vegetable remedy can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous debility. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with directions, requesting a stamped response from readers. Also notes a Texas paper called the Bed Bug entering notice.
Safe cathartic tonic for approaching sickness and stomach complaints in children. Simmon’s Liver Regulator is purely vegetable and palatable, usable alone or with other medicine. Genuine on wrapper bears red Z trade mark. J H Zeilin Co Philadelphia. Send your lace curtains to steam laundry.
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