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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1880
Page
1
Farmers offered full blood short horn cattle Poland China and Yorkshire pigs and Southdown sheep for sale at reasonable prices. Sale location listed as Baltimore Bakery. Only top brands kept and sold at fair prices.
Mr Paul Flager the Grocer plans a bakery connected to his grocery with fresh bread cakes and related items for sale. Also advertised are 5000 stave bolts for cash at Mark Center Mill and a large stock of boots shoes cloaks and dolmans at Heller Waterman.
Bechel plans a holiday stock purchase while the Express gains 75 new subscribers this week. Defiance housing demand rises as sleighs forecast for winter. Cary Carroll add a delivery wagon. Uncle Tom's Cabin seats go on sale November 15. Memorial campaigns end with cheers for Capt. Foot.
Patrick Cantlon, fireman for the B and O railroad, was crushed between a water car and the next car near Auburn while taking on water. He died shortly after and was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery. He was brother to Tim Cantlon of this city, with parents living on Harrison Street near the B and O depot. This marks the second Cantlon life lost to accident, the other sibling perishing in the Wabash engine house about three years ago.
Mat Hilbire sold a fine lot of hogs last week Geo F Powell drives a new Turnbull wagon Gust Ridenour is building a wood and wash house A heavy snow storm hit last Saturday The fly injures the wheat here Wess Blair is recovering from sickness The Barrow brothers run a steam cider mill Osmans returned from Allen county Daniel Hilbert renovates his house Carpenters plasterers and painters work on a new look Defiance timber crews cutting ship timber locally JAMBO Hanpy
Mud returns to the area as teachers shift districts for the winter. Emma Lehman teaches in Fred Koons' district while Fiora Reid heads Potters district and Orpha Miser teaches near the Fair ground. Langdon and red mud creek areas gain teachers, with a quarterly circuit meeting planned next weekend. Minnie Leonard visits Langdon area friends from Danville.
J Frank Mason and Riley Fetters are sick. W H Hill builds a new store house in Farmer. The first snow fell last Saturday. Abe Biglow to start school in district 10 on the 15th. Diphtheria in township. Barrows cider and sale works busy. Welcome Mason aged ninety five voted for Garfield and Arthur. Lafayette Conkle lost a child. Frank McDowell lost two. William Lord near completion of a new residence south of Farmer. James W Case and FE Clemmens are builders. W H Lane to conduct a winter select school at the place.
Our township notes Hicksville rising as a grain market leader while Edgerton farmers face bridge repairs delaying shipments. A flood of old stories, political jabs, and husking bees fill the season as residents cite echoes of Democracy and labor.
In Hicksville editor W F Coughanour reports wheat buyers paying 1 01, two carloads of hogs sold at 4 10, and small town growth. Harvey Ackley leaves clerking, Pleasant Ridge and winter schools opening, election results show 571 votes with Democrats 297 Republicans 271, and business changes as Coburn and Hamilton dissolve a grocery partnership.
Mr John Byers purchases a two seated buggy. Travel remains unpleasant due to recent rains. Mr F Irish to teach the West Milford school this winter.
Miss Mary Castella is very sick with typhoid fever. Miss Alice Hanser will teach the Elliott. Mr. Stafford of Erie Pennsylvania has been visiting friends nearby. Miss Sue Carpenter will teach the Goddard school next term. Mrs. William Conn returned from Pleasant Lake Indiana. Our school opens today under Charley Biglow of Farmer. Frank Metz has been selling Chicago scales on the war path in Michigan last week.
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