Defiance items mix civic notes and local lore
Local column items report on court and prison readiness, upcoming events, and civic happenings in Defiance. Mentions decorations day, canal work, Philharmonic, jurists, saloons, churches, schools, and various neighborhood notices with names and places.
Floral Exercises at M. E. Church
On Sunday evening June 1 the M E Sabbath School presents a floral entertainment under Rev C W Tannehill of Hicks ville. The program builds a perfect model church from numbered blocks each topped with a salboquet of flowers. Scholars answer questions with Bible quotations and place the matching block, assembling a complete flower covered church. Everybody should attend.
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M. E. Sabbath School
M. E. Church
C. W. Tannehill
Hicksville
Memorial Day Observance in Defiance Pays Tribute to Fallen Soldiers
Friday May 30th will be observed in Defiance by soldiers and friends decorating graves and holding services at the cemetery to honor those who gave their lives for freedom and the old flag. Citizens are urged to attend and donate flowers and evergreens, with Defiance ladies on a committee to solicit donations. The Opera House, offered by L. E. Myers, will receive flowers by two o'clock Friday 30th. no demonstrations are planned, but a respectful afternoon is expected.
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Defiance
L. E. Myers
Opera House
Defiance council approves street work and suspect fraud case
An adjourned Defiance Ohio council meeting orders water flow to a filled Jefferson street drain, and opens center of High street to river road. A late report outlines a suspected mail service fraudster, W L Henderson, linked to post offices in the South and Midwest, held on $2000 bonds.
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Holgate
Green
Haller
Schlosser
Corwin
Ferguson
Mallett
Jefferson Street
Mink
Defiance
Ohio
High Street
Center Street
Samuel Kohn
Holgate Avenue
Perry Street
Charles E. Miller
Fifth Street
Jefferson
Washington Township Items From Our Own Correspondent
Pleasant weather and planting corn dominate this update. Local activity includes building projects, drilling wells, road grading, and school reorganizations. Notable names include B O Lichty Columbus Kimmell and Cora McFeeters with several residents mentioned by surname.
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the Kimmel
B. O. Lichty
Geo. Pask
Columbus Kimmell
Ann Snyder
Cora McFeeters
Society Notes from Defiance and Nearby towns
Local notes list visits of W. 5 S. Richards of Hicksville and other residents to Defiance. frequent travelers include J. P. Haley Napoleon and J. D. Norton Napoleon, Henry Mathews governor of West Virginia visiting, and various businessmen from Toledo Beloit and Granville.
Evansport Soldiers Memorial Drive Under Way
Citizens of Evansport vote to honor fallen heroes with a monument. Lewis Ferris chairs the meeting. J. S. Cameron named to lead the effort. Material purchased, work begun, and Rev. George Dennis secured as Orator of the Day. Meeting set for May 19 1879.
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Snyder & Huffman
Justice of the Peace
Lewis Ferris
F. Speiser
Cleveland
Cameron & Speiser
Countree
Argyle
John Gray
Ned
Hicksville
Donald
Nina Nippers
The
Express
Gordian
Evansport
T. H. Kintigh
Kintigh
J.S. Cameron
George Dennis
Nickolas Nickelby
Pioneer mail carrier delivers rural route progress in Farmer
Mr. Orange Davis, age two, of Farmer, makes biweekly trips from Farmer to Hicksville. Wm Davison's house in Hicks ville township, burned recently, will be rebuilt by the Farmer Township Insurance Association which pays Davis 280 for destroyed contents. Fine spring weather brings crops along with notes on wheat oats and corn planting.
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Orange Davis
Farmer
Hicksville
Wm. Davison
Hicksville Township
Farmer Township Insurance Association
Davison
Jmso Ilanpy
Town gossip and a few court house rumors in Sherwood
Quiet town notes report Dr Comfort and a two week old Dip have emigrated to Paris leaving unsettled bills. Two local guardians of the peace are warned they may be set to work as hod carriers. Welker of Red Wing Devils Nest is a boss painter slated for Grand Jury appearance over Sunday and election day po s on sales. John Limbaw of Delaware Bend is urged to face similar remedy. A young man’s late night call to his lady is mentioned.
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