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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1884
Page
5
A Defiance column reports a young man with type setting experience can secure work at the local office. Notes include Harleys, Dyarman, store openings, town events, court dates, and community updates on schools, gas engines, rail traffic, and bid notices.
Messrs. Dyarman and Hilton purchase the Monumental Association Shetland Pony for 200 dollars and plan to offer it as a prize to Eureka Clothing Store customers.
A local note records B. B. Woodcox and his family leaving for White Lake Dakota. The piece laments their departure and wishes prosperity in their new western home as political campaigns loom next summer. Ben is quoted with a parting line about expectations.
The Auditor of State report shows Defiance county paid officials last year. Recorder 1075 dollars, Sheriff 3611, Clerk of Court 1875, Prosecuting Attorney 860, Probate Judge 1200, Treasurer 1635, Auditor 1773.
A meeting of Defiance business men is set for Saturday at the Defiance Machine Works to discuss forming an organization for mutual protection and citywide business interests. The note urges a large turnout to advance the general good.
The regular monthly council meeting saw the Gas Co accept the ordinance regulating gas price. The treasurer reported rent from city lot use and Frost’s plat was adopted. Provertiee Spangler was authorized to sell property for city hall at 1500, which the council accepted. Hutchinson’s ditch petition was referred. An ordinance on death registrations was passed. Belden Burner Co won the contract for lighting and fuel for gasoline lamps.
At Ayersville a committee of L D Blue Highland Henry Ort Richland and John Greenler was appointed to plan road improvements. They are to report at Hahn schoolhouse next Wednesday evening. The article urges businessmen to contribute 25 to 50 dollars or more to fund the project, promising substantial annual trade savings.
A local scheme in Defiance involves buy there and sell fake lots for 300 to 500 while taking mortgage notes of 150 to 200. The notes are traded for horses as investigators link several deals to a gulley area along the Maumee. Names are withheld until further public disclosure.
The letter argues against abandoning the English bridge two miles up the Auglaize in favor of a new bridge at Jefferson street. It cites costly road work to the English bridge, the need to focus on a future Maumee River bridge, and the current sufficiency of existing bridges for local farmers and trade.
The February list shows marriage licenses issued by Probate Judge Green including John G. Ricker and Elizabeth Henry, Philip Eisabeth with Caroline Breininger, Frank Coy and Jennie Skees, and several other couples such as Robert S. Ensign with Louie A. Bowker, William Beavers with Amelia McCaint, Charles Shicier with Eila Jenkins, and more including Isaac E. Fickle Sabrina Bush and A tbert Ramel Elizabeth Storck. The licensees feature numerous partnerships across the community.
Miss Eliza Phister returns from Mark township visits. The Brunersburg Mills run full blast after higher water. saw-mill closed due to cold. Miss Hattie McAuley visited Hicksville. Nick King touted as Ohio’s pool champion. Frank Partee builds a barn this summer. Conn and Kellermire keep engine at Capt. Partee’s yard. City and country youths host oyster supper at Dick Partee’s. J W Reid of Bri denbaugh and Reid visits. sells interest and plans to move home. F A Goddard seeks a spring farm purchase. Miss Flora Reid of Defiance visits Noble Township.
Samuel Ice is on the sick list and Miss Josie Hardesty is convalescent. James H. Morris will return to his farm soon. The Bethel choir provided Mrs. Grant with fine music. P. G. Hoeltzel sold his farm to Jacob Myres for 4000 dollars. G. W. and H. K. Morris visited Eaton, Indiana, to see sick friends on Monday. Preserved Smith and Miss Link of Defiance township married last Thursday. A hen egg record was found in John H. Morris' hen coop measuring 73 inches in circumference. Bethel school closed Friday with a successful entertainment. Jas Wickerham received walking papers for a misdemeanor. Joseph M. was drawn away to Dupont last Saturday, possibly by Laura Anndrew. Paulding county Missionary Society members head to Worstville Friday for the first quarterly meeting of 84.
George Leaders ill with lung fever. Mrs D Braner and Carrie visited friends in Defiance. Select school opened in Brunersburg under H J Gardner. J F Dowe plans a residence opposite his mother's home. Walter and Oscarve Neslie rent Bottenberg farm south of Brunersburg. A U S officer took affidavits on war pensioners. Abbie Clemmons recovering from injury from a schoolyard accident. Hilton mills doing custom work for Defiance county. Miss Christianna Templeman visiting Seneca county. Julius Leaders celebrated his 64th birthday with family presenting a reclining chair after supper.
Alva Motes visited Hamilton Saturday and sold his horse to Clark Zimmerman for $155. Mina Bear of Eota visits her aunt Mrs. Edward Eager. W. C. Richardson’s Williams Co. writing school closed last Saturday night. Lewis Bowman won a prize for most improvement. Friday club meets for dancing, 46 members present. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Barrows a daughter February 22 1884. Barrows known as Frankie Alden. Will Weldon leaves for Auburn Ind to work. Mr. E Fickle married Tuesday the 26th. corrected date. Mrs. Buck of Michigan visiting sister Mrs. John Stackhouse. Ed Gardner’s school closes next Saturday. praised as teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Truman Hopkins guests of Mrs. Johnson. Leap year party at Geo R Scott’s last Tuesday. 60 present with dancing and dining. also a mishap in a ditch. Surprise party for Mrs. M Gardner’s birthday. daughters gave a gold watch. sons gave gold-bowed spectacles. C E Bercaw on sick list. H D Ginter family moved to Bryan.
An 19th century advertisement touts Acker's Blood Elixir as a universal cure for inherited or contracted blood poisoning, selling exclusively through N. G. Woop.
The Farmers High School marked Longfellow’s birthday February 27 with a gala program of recitations and songs. Pupils performed poems including Paul Revere’s Ride and Evangeline. Rev Hyde spoke and a farewell song ended the exercises. Students Susie Reagle Oney Rice Arthur Ensign and Eddie R Stone attended every day.
Property records show multiple transfers in Defiance and nearby locales. Transactions include Maurice Menard to John Schneider for 40 acres and a city lot valued at 500 dollars and other deeds involving lots and parcels in Defiance and Highland, with various prices from 200 to 2500 dollars.
Defiance Ohio March 6 1884 Wilhelm Son reports weekly grain prices Wheat 95 cents Oats 33c Rye 65c Corn 55c Flour Defiance Mills 1 40 Queen 1 0 per sack Corn Oats Chop 1 30 per cwt Mixed Chop 100 per cwt Corn Meal 1 40 Wheat Bran 90c per cwt Buckwheat 65c per sack Chess 40c per ba Small Wheat 60c per ba
Weekly retail prices list from Morgan & Miller includes chickens at 7 cents a pound ducks 8c turkeys 9c butter 8c per pound eggs 18 per dozen salted hides 7c green hides No 2 5c potatoes new 40c per bushel flaxseed 1.15 per bushel clover seed mammoth 5.50 clover seed prime 5.00 clover seed No 2 4.75 timothy 1.25 to 1.50 bacon side 15c ham 12c beans 2.50 per bushel onions 60c per bushel salt per barrel 1.20 per barrel lard 10c per pound dressed hogs 7.25 apples dried 7c per pound.
The Defiance City Council enacts an ordinance requiring death records within the city to be kept with cause, nativity, age, sex, color, and occupation, filed by the attending physician or undertaker, and monthly abstracts published. It mandates permits for burial within Defiance and imposes fines for violations.
A Defiance Ohio letter to W W Cockley Lexington Ohio taunts rivals and promotes Carroll Co as sole agents for White Star Flour. It asserts rising sales despite a hostile missive and urges trial purchases while warning brokers about grocers’ plans.
Rev. L S Caultan of Circleville Kansas reports his family used Dr Warner White Wine Tar Syrup and found it cures throat and lung diseases. Sold by E N Lewis. 10-m2
Respectfully yours Mrs George Congr of Jackson Michigan dated February 5 1984 notes a sale by Colby and Scott and mentions advertisement in another column for the 10th week day.
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