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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1887
Page
8
Western bound trains listed with Fast Line No 2 and No 6 limited express and various mail and accommodation services. Timings include 7:31 AM and 10 PM and 3:32 PM variations with Pacific Express and other trains noted.
Partial OCR shows train names and destinations for the Baltimore and Ohio system. Mentions New York Fast Line Washington and Baltimore Ex Baltimore and New York Express local services. Indicates westbound GOING WEST and Chicago Fast Line with times 547A 10:15 and 931 PM with unclear symbols.
Hilton’s store papered by Colby and Scott. M E Heller away buying spring stock. Mrs L E Stottler of Winchester Tenn visiting friends. Frank Heller hosted a masquerade. Philip Young of Richland Jr paid a call. S G Mc Cord of Adams Ridge visited. Rev G S May on natural gas to appear next EXPREss. Mrs M J Shoemaker of Napoleon visiting with her two sons. City hose carriage swapped for heavier model carrying 1500 feet of hose. Bennett English Opera company coming to Defiance in April. Mrs Etta Myers leaving for Cincinnati conservatory. Unique advert design Valencia titled Shut the Door? from G G Green. En s a w a c sa chapel No 89 will confer marks on Fri Mar 18. critic about Russell House attack in Hicksville Independent. Wedding: D G Webster’s son-in-law R H Graham to Annie Ayres of Elm Creek, traveling to Dakota.
The senate rejected the Ge'ger canal bill by 26 to 38, defeating a plan to abandon or sell the canal system. Speakers cited public utility, health concerns along the reservoir, and state investments in the Wa bah and Erie Canal. Defiance funds and YMC A course successes are noted, with praise for performances by the Shubert Quartette Jubilee Singers and Dr Hedley.
The article notes a member of secret orders opposing dancing at their festivities while John Miller and Joseph Rawston plan to enforce state cattle nuisance laws. It also reports Noble township resident N D Groan observing drilled wheat thriving, broadcast wheat damaged, clover nearly destroyed, and fears of a short hay crop with higher prices.
Visitors averaged over 100 daily at the chapel last week while drawing and German classes expanded. A new German class forms, a literary society considers a name change, and banking on continued student support for boarding clubs.
In a heated session members debated a new name for the dignified body, with many law-breaking names proposed and one chosen. The president ruled a name change required two weeks notice, causing consternation and an adjournment as members stepped out to cool down before heading home.
Rumors place Fred LeSeuer retiring from council race while John Canutlon may leave the city. George Miller may seek renomination in the third ward, Ed Metz expected to be renominated in the fourth ward. Andrew Sauer and Peter Ziger discussed for first ward, Sarah J. Lawrence to sell at the late Martin P. Lawrence residence in Noble township at 10 o clock A M Wednesday March 30. Sale includes livestock, farm implements, wheat and rye, and various household goods.
Public health update lists choleralike notes with bronchitis diphtheria across numerous counties. Measles and scarlet fever tallies in Cincinnati Columbus Damascus North Straitsville Farmer Fincastle. Patent cure claims for Dr Haynes Golden Specific. ad promises 185 Race St Cincinnati. Local ads include tobacco feed cigars and real estate services. A man injured by a falling plank near Ridgeville while working for Bear Harmon.
Pure. A powerful tonic claimed to suit delicate stomachs and act as a specific for malaria rheumatism nervous prostration and all germ diseases. For colds Kaskine is said to be nearly specific superior to quinine with endorsements from Bellevue Hospital New York and St Francis Hospital North Carolina. Kaskine Co 54 Warren St New York.
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