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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1883
Page
5
Hicksville show today and preparations for a patriotic event next Wednesday. Defiance, Napoleon, and Ada figures visit. wheat prospects improve. railroad talks and new Yale lock-boxes planned for Defiance post office. Local housing fire, sales pitches, and social visits pepper a busy regional snapshot with several named people and towns.
Local notices describe Buckeye blotter tablets offered by the Express Job Office with new type for letter heads and business forms. The item lists events for the upcoming 4th of July in Defiance, including speeches, parades, a cannon show, and a schedule of marching units, bands, and orations led by Gen. Samuel F. Hunt and Major General David W. Marcellus, along with market and local business updates.
During the June county session levies for 1883 were approved across infirmary and county funds, with a special bridge fund for Brunersburg noted. Reports condemned Brice Hilton’s road petition, while sheep killed by dogs earned small claims for William Cole, William Lewis, Orbison Welsh and Job English. From Our Own Correspondent: farm staples thrive, crops and health variable, locals visit kin, and a July 4 picnic is planned by Ayersville and Mt Calvary Sunday schools. The band festival drew a large crowd and netted 32 dollars. local officials and Defiance attendees praised the event. Boarders wanted at John Lehman’s.
City Council adjourned after a June 26 session led by President Holston. Members Abell, Lewis, Southworth, Thein, Tenzer, Kahlo, Miller attended as committee actions covered bids for bridges and sidewalks, furnace and street projects, and updates on rents, repairs, and legal tender for gas bills.
A describable sum of money is available to the owner by contacting Peter Dickman and paying $1 for this notice. The offer specifies ownership and claim procedures, directing the owner to take action to receive the described amount.
A. E. Schubert reports on a raised new barn, daily activity from machine and organ agents, and fresh homegrown potatoes from his patch. Three Upper Powells Creek young businessmen bought new top buggies, while John Boyd's house shifted slightly during a recent wind storm. Defiance County Commissioners inspected the Ottawa pike to reduce mud holes.
Rust damages wheat and drowning corn prompt sadness among farmers. The farmer cemetery is being improved with credit to managers, but remote township residents question funding by taxation. County convention canvassing grows fierce as campaigns intensify. post convention,政治 tension eases. A large stock of Schubert publications is available at Wellman's Music Store.
From Our Own Correspondent reports light rain and improving roads. Farming scenes include a new barn, horse dealings, and hedge fences being planted. Wheat looks strong between Hicksville and Bryan while wool prices spark free trade debates. Fourth of July preparations loom in nearby towns. Harvest prospects hinge on weather. oats look good, corn remains uncertain. Nora BENE.
The Baptist church society invites all to an ice cream social at Mr L E Myers residence on Jefferson Street near Front Street this Friday evening June 29th The ladies will run the event to ensure a pleasant occasion for attendees All are welcome and invited
A local column notes a Sunday shower and good wheat in the area. Farmers prep mowing machines. strawberries and cream and ice cream parties are mentioned. Wm Wilcox buys a new sulky plow. Lyman Winn and family visited Leon Chapman. Corn prospects look decent despite drawbacks. Mr and Mrs Taylor from Indiana visited their daughter Mrs Jno Wilcox. Jennie Bunnell, teacher, has been on sick list. The United Brethren at Hard Corners and Milford Center were baptized in St Joe. Toppy.
J.M. and M.E. Ryder grocers at Wayne and Fifth advertise Volke Brothers Flour of Napoleon as the best flour in the market with a 50 cent per gallon offer on Best Honey Drip Syrup. They are sole agents for Volke Brothers Flour with warranty.
Farmers can buy 10 lb Kits Family White Fish for 60 cents and 25 lb kegs for 1.25 dollars at Krotz and Morse's store.
Grain prices from Wilhelm & Son for the past week list wheat at 1.04 per bushel, oats 35c, rye 50c, corn 45c, flour 650 per barrel, and various chop and meal rates. Provisions corrected by Morgan Miller show butter 10-12c per lb, eggs 13c per dozen, salted hides 7c, green hides 6c, potatoes 70c per bu, lard 10c, dressed hogs 7.50, bacon 15c, beans 2.50 per bu, onions 75c per bu, tallow 6c, and wool prices 16c unwashed or 22-30c washed per lb.
By Rev. S. L. Roberts on June 27th, 83, at the bride’s parents residence in Defiance. George F. Eiding of Cleveland and Miss Mary Frants unite in marriage.
An advertisement touts pure sugars for canning fruits and berries from Krotz and Morse. It also promotes Ayers Sarsaparilla as a radical blood medicine claiming to cure diseases linked to debility and constitutional taint through the bloodstream.
Isaac Murdoch of Morristown Ohio says Browns Iron Bitters cured him of weakness loss of appetite and dyspepsia in a brief testimonial promoting the remedy and listing prune prices at Krotz and Morse.
Krotz and Morse price lemons at 20 cents per dozen and offer Rollers Flour at 1.60 per sack. Sold by Krotz and Morse.
Farmers urged to inspect cheap secondhand wagons barely used and nearly new. New wagons in stock described as fine and complete, inviting buyers to come select. Company name given as Turnbull Wagon Co.
An advertisement promotes Rock Candy Cough Cure as a remedy for coughs colds hoarseness throat and lung troubles suitable for children. It claims healing properties from rock candy extracts of roots and herbs with prices 25 cents for a small dose and one dollar for large bottles sold by G. W. Bechel.
Letters praise Samaritan Nervine for nine year epilepsy relief and Columbia Oil for curing lung fever catarrh and other ailments. Testimonials from Granby Missouri and Hickory Corners Michigan describe rapid improvements and recommend druggists Colby & Scott for purchase. August 1881 notices reflect era patent medicine advertising.
On July 14, 1862 Judge Foraker enlisted as a private in company A Eighty-ninth Ohio Infantry and joined the Army of the Cumberland. He became sergeant August 26, 1862 and rose to second lieutenant May 12, 1862, first lieutenant March 4, 1864. Brevetted captain March 19, 1865, for Georgia and South Carolina campaigns. Mustered out June 13, 1865 at Camp Dennison as aide-de-camp to General Slocum. Fought Hoover's Gap Lookout Mountain Mission Ridge Buzzard Roost Ringgold Resaca Kenesaw Mountain Peach Tree Creek Eutaw Creek Atlanta Jonesboro Everysboro Bentonville and most Army of the Cumberland battles except Chickamauga.
The Graphic reports on Rerdell's plea changes from not guilty to guilty and back, the jury acquitting the accused, and questions of perjury and self-slander. It argues the law focuses on guilt beyond reasonable doubt and notes the difficulty and confusion in the unfolding case.
Claim that eminent physicians recommend hops for soothing nerves and sleep, buchu for kidney and urinary diseases, mandrake or dandelion for liver issues, all combined in Hop Bitters. Notes cures for Bright’s disease, indigestion, dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheumatism, scrofula, and other ailments, with widespread proof in neighborhoods.
A Tarnished 1881 testimonial letter from Tekonsha Michigan extols Columbian Oil for a typhoid recovery in a child and praises Sarsaparilla as a superior blood purifier. The note credits Hood & Co of Lowell Massachusetts as reliable pharmacists with extraordinary cure vouchers.
Purchasers warned to insist on Pond's Extract and avoid substitutes sold in bulk. Some druggists misrepresent rival preparations as the same product to gain profit, causing disappointment. Pond's Extract sold in bottles only, never in bulk.
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