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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1880
Page
3
Reading scraps show Colby & Scott promoting wallpaper and a new line of toilet soaps while touting Perfection Baking Powder. A Nebraska widow plots theft but weds compromise. The Philadelphia Chronicle mocks figures in street life and cautions buyers to inspect Colby & Scott’s stock for wide variety and taste.
Defiance merchants Zeller & Bruner still lead, selling more and cheaper options in Defiance County. Bechel's stock remains the largest in Defiance for window curtains and fixtures, inviting customers to drop in and compare.
Hardware dealer Switzer and Kehnast advertise the Johnston Wrought Iron Harvester as the reading machine sold in the country and Europe. They invite customers to inspect the tool and a large stock of builders hardware and stoves at the mammoth store. Also offered is a house and lot on Clinton street extension opposite Gas Works with reasonable terms, inquiries directed to A Growee. Flour and feed orders available from Palamo Mills by telephone.
Defiance items recount rains and cold delaying spring farm work and street sprinkler startup. canal navigation to pause May 8 for ten days. Judge Owen attends Oberlin elocution. J J Woodman to lecture at Wauseon. Hughes, Mendell, and local businesses expand commerce. talk of oil, gas, rail, and new buildings.
Walt Hiltons mill team crushed Defiance Tuesday morning in a brisk chasen through town. The piece includes April marriage licenses issued by Probate Judge J. J. Greene for numerous couples and a drunken home invasion in East Defiance ending with a violent confrontation as a woman and her son subdue the intruder with a club.
The council met last Monday evening with the Mayor and board present. Accounts from Turnbull & Shelly lamber and others were presented and allowed. A Veteran Hose Co petition for a new cart was referred. The Mayor may purchase ten police badges and a copy of Swan's Treatise. Committees were appointed to codify ordinances and arrange sale and replacement of the corporation team.
Our Own Correspondent reports Dr J J Reynolds began building his house this week and fruit prospects stay strong despite a late frost. Randal Lord travels to York State to visit friends as Betts buys the local saloon.
From Our Own Correspondent reports plenty of rain and a heavy frost Friday night. Farmers plow for corn while wheat looks yellow. Several local activities and plans are noted including a leaps year party and sermons by Judge Showersox and Rev. Schultz.
Fine weather follows rain as May tax time nears and Decoration Day nears. Hicksville Schools closed. Fourth of July falls on Sunday. Electric light debate, Pleasant Ridge school opened recently, Temperance Society reports new officers, and Mr Farnsworth to move to Milford. Obituaries note Mr Ryan near Cicero and Mr Wentworth near Hicksville. Eva Martin returns to Michigan. Fishing trips end due to Antwerp rains and crops delayed by recent downpours.
John Lehman & Son announce readiness to furnish cisterns of any size at very low prices. No one need be without a cistern. Call for prices. North of Maumee river Defiance.
Defiance Ohio merchants Krotz and Morse announce they will move on about July 5 to a new location with a first class stock of groceries provisions and crockery. They promise personal attention and note a later notice will provide exact location. They thank customers for favors.
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