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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1878
Page
4
Local notes report moving day plans and road improvements, a new meat market opening, and a Firemen convention on April 30. Defiance area speaks of building activity, a patent medicine wagon, school music plans, local band profits, and retail scams being settled. A council delegation seeks auction protections.
J B Ainger was in town Friday and Saturday. F Brooks from the News was in the city Saturday. F M Thompson of Hicksville attended Saturday as an examiner. H G Dark of the National Billiard Hall Toledo visited Defiance Tuesday. J E Lewis of Henry county attended the teachers examination Saturday. H B Tenzer of Karst Wade Bros Co returned from Toledo.
The article argues Defiance County roads are poor due to sporadic grading and drainage. It urges electing capable, honest leaders to implement perfect drainage and grading, use the best machinery, and finish one mile of good road at a time until all township roads become durable, safe, year round.
The piece notes a quiet Washington birthday as old pioneers stayed mud-bound and unable to reach Defiance for a meeting. Local youths flirt with romance, the editor advises focusing on spelling schools, and a young man once wore 36 trade dollars in his pocket, amusingly stressing suspenders.
Spring nears as sugar making slows. Kidder Haymaker’s voice heard in town. A boy fractures a thigh. Dr Elder treats. Christ Stuckee injures shoulder from a wood load. Funeral sermon for Mrs. Catharine Partee to be held at Rural Chapel March 10 by Rev Tussing.
John Donley and wife have a fine boy. The M E Church hosts a revival. Some colds and fevers reported with little sickness. Corner saloon changes proprietors. Mr Foot has recovered from illness. U B quarterly meeting set for the 23rd and 24th at Williams Center. Town school closed. Elder Haymaker may visit. Luther Griswell hauls stone. found snakes and grasshoppers under stones. Neighbors drop in for evenings. old axes to grind. Mono.
Mr J E B Good has moved to Defiance to run a meat shop. E D Winfield returns from Oberlin and plans to go back soon. Henry Brecbill leaves for the Phelps farm two miles east of Defiance. George Case will occupy his Ayersville residence. E D Povenmire returns from near Lima to visit and plans gardening as a profession. Protracted meeting in Ayersville with Rev John F Bower preaching powerfully and revival hopes. Exhibition at Collier school house held despite rain, crowd large. Cousin Jonathan.
Tiffin Township news notes age counts and local changes. Simon Figley is 84 on March 1. John Wisler at about 85 is unlikely to live long. W H Bridenbaugh sold his farm to Phillip Rath of Delaware township and will move in six weeks. Catharine Partee died February 22 at age about 70. Funeral at Rural Chapel March 10. A reminiscence recalls a young man’s debacle with a girl and sister in a sleigh without harm. The piece mentions a cheap dance and a fiddler, a noisy sugar-bowl incident, and whispers about Georgetown boys.
Miss Ella Ashbrook returns from Galaway on the 7th after teaching school there. Evansport boys cheer Mrs. Kintigh by chopping a fine pile of wood last Saturday. Mrs. Sellinger, 84, returns home after winter with her son, one of the township's oldest ladies known for aiding the sick and needy. R. B. Cameron teaches school formerly led by G. Atha. caution about decor and manners. WI11-0-THE- Wisp.
From Our Own Correspondent reports wheat looks as good as last year with snow gone. A city dance on the 21st failed. Local notices include a marriage, a death by heart disease near Okolona, land sale, saloon disputes, canal views, and a tale of ship timber banked south of Florida with a massive skidway haul.
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