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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1883
Page
5
June freshet boosts river heights and four Defiance entries report local activity. Oconto barrel factory to be rebuilt at once. Defiance fair dates set for September. decorations dampened by rain. local notables visit nearby towns. several meetings, entertainments, and business moves noted including jewelry and novelty shop openings and church services.
A Saturday morning blaze at the Oconto barrel factory gutted the building between 1 and 2 o'clock. The fire, already well underway when the watchman raised the alarm, left the factory in ruins by the arrival of the department. Loss near $30,000 with $7,500 insured. The firm plans a one story rebuild and hopes to resume by early July with Mr Farnsworth overseeing.
At the request of Captain P H Mooney and the Committee of Arrangements the annual reunion of the Society of the 68th Ohio Volunteers scheduled for July 4 1883 in Antwerp Ohio is postponed to Tuesday July 24 1883 to allow comrades to participate in national holiday observances. The notice urges attendance and planning to rally around the old flag with Grance F Welles Simeon Gris and others signing as president and secretary Toledo July 21. Krotz Morse report goods received in car lots last week.
From Our Own Correspondent at Bethel report no band present and sheep shearing underway. Farmers worry some corn will need replanting. Local social notes mention a Buntsville visit, Miss Ella Evans changing districts, and a birthday surprise for Father and Mother Kinner. Also news of one death and a Tennessee farm purchase.
From Our Own Corresp on Hicksville reports frequent local notes. Frank Coughanour returns from the west. George Chapman Sr. ill. Wesley Wilson buys Amidon property in Logan. Parker Bevington convalescent. Edna Hulbert visiting in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Bowers building a new house. school entertainment at Methodist church well attended. Various property transactions, sickness updates, and community events follow, with remarks on local officials, millinery caprices, and school praise.
From our own correspondent we note a new postmaster at Rice. Crowe and Daub are busy with sales, Carpenter Armstrong works at John Boyd's house, and Mansfield and Hall schools may open next Monday. Rice is described as a flourishing village with active citizens. Seth Mansfield clears routes near the school. The wheat crop looks weak in the county, and W Os Ernsberger plans a steam drilling setup to probe for fountain wells.
Our Own Correspondent reports on spring activities in Washington Township with building, farming, schooling, and social notes. Local notices include new houses, road repairs, school teaching assignments, a secret marriage, and the Lutheran church interior completion ahead of June dedication. Mrs Elizabeth Donner dies after a brief illness.
The obituary notes Mrs. Donier, wife of early resident John Donier and daughter of pioneer Jacob Schwartzel, cherished wife and mother with a large family and many friends. Her remains were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery last Saturday, as locals recall. A brief Local Lost Creek Notes recounts lively village items, a pistol incident involving Miss Kate Leighthauser stopping a theft, and assorted county news including weather, farming, and locals.
North Richland items report farmers awaiting warm weather and ongoing relocations. Notables include Charles Elliott improving slowly, Jasper Overly near completion of a large bath, and Mrs Blackmore recovering from illness. Visitors from Ayersville and Illinois visit Adams township as Alma seeks growth. Alma’s thriving town features a stave factory mill and other enterprises, with several new houses under construction.
Free trial bottles offered at Colby & Scott for consumption coughs and colds with asthma bronchitis hay fever hoarseness and throat chest lung ailments. Regular size 1.00. Also an ad for Baltimore Bakery ice cream and a testimonial praising Browns Iron Bitters for nervous prostration neuralgia and sleepless nights.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad offers round trip tickets to Chicago every Tuesday and Wednesday until June 19 and 20 for the National Exposition of railroad appliances. Tickets are valid for travel on sale days and return until the following Monday. Fare is 5 dollars and 50 cents. Agent W C Berke promotes the trip.
Defiance market notes weekly prices from Wilhelm & Son for wheat oats corn and other commodities. Wheat 1.12 per bushel oats 40c rye 50c corn 47c per bushel flour 6.50 per barrel corn and oats chop 1.25 per cwt mixed chop 0.50 per cwt corn meal 1.25 wheat bran 0.85 per cwt.
Historical notices advertise remedies including Columbian Oil and Samaritan Nervine with testimonials from Mr J D Kellogg and Mr J W Thornton. Promotes German Invigorator and Hall's Catarrh Cure via local agents Colby Scott and G W Bechel with prices and endorsements.
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