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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1878
Page
1
Advertisements trumpet Aschbacher cutting ladies cloaks and a large stock of cassimeres at 35 cents for duck overalls at Saeger. Neuhouser Bros. offer fall goods and dress fabrics. Cary & Carroll promote groceries, crockery, and high cash for fruit. Saeger, Growey's, and Siegrs push shoes, millinery, and leather goods with low prices.
Local notices promote moving stock upstairs at Kuhl & Blanchard Coffins and Caskets. Millinery styles touted by Mrs Groney. Defiance Machine Works markets Mammoth Soft Coal Stoves for large rooms at 25 dollars. Dr Harter's Liver Pills advertised. A W King's Grocery offers flour and feed. Boot Renollet flour praised. Oconto Co's Barrel Factory sells potato and fruit barrels near B and O depot.
The creator claims thousands of households have expelled dyspepsia by using Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder. The ad touts meals as wholesome and easy to digest when baked with the product.
Dr Pree claims Special Flavoring Extracts for cakes puddings creams and sauce taste and smell as natural as the fruit they are made from. He argues they are far superior to cheap extracts in flavor and strength.
The piece praises Dr Price for new scents titled Floral Riches and Alista Bouquet with Hyacinth praised as exceptionally captivating. It touts sweet and agreeable odors surpassing Cologne or Toilet Water previously seen.
Items note court opening, political rallies, and fair events in Defiance. Mentions Mr Price and John Norway campaigns, Dems urging votes, hotel busy week, and local businessmen expanding stalls and buildings at the fair ground. Also references road needs, local officials and auditors.
Crosby House opened to travelers Thursday two months and five days after a fire destroyed it. Guests enjoyed a grand supper in the dining hall as the hotel presents new carpets and furniture under D Widmer supervision. Also notes G Lease and family leave for Bellefontaine to take the M E Church pastorate and are warmly remembered in Defiance.
The Defiance Union Schools report covers Sept 2 to Sept 27 1878 with total enrolment and attendance figures, truancy cases, suspensions zero, days taught 20, and 50 pupils net increase from last year. It lists truants Frank Bechel Frank Aldrich Lemuel Wisner Dexter Aldrich Charles Carr Frank Reader Theodore Chalant Alva Bounds Ferris Bounds. Superintendent Herbert H. Wincut signs.
A sequence of paired names appears, likely spouses or individuals linked in notices. Names include Chas W Fessell and Sarah H Stork, Jas E Hollibaugh and Sarah Jane Bungard, Jas F Potters and Margaret A Watters, Willian Cheyney and Lama Smith, Wim Kammeyer and Julia Ann Overer, Chas F Billman and Mary M Stockford, G J Lower and M M Hibbert, Wm Gillespie and Flora E Strong, Kit Turriton and Harriet Maddox, Wm Musselman and Ann Simpson, Eugene M Wort and Dosia B Warner, John M Koch and Mary A Lang.
A noon Wednesday survey of the Defiance County Agricultural Society grounds shows strong displays in Fine Art Hall with fashion and crockery exhibits. Major participants include Misses French, Cary Carroll, Hoffman Geiger, Beardsley, Switzer Kehnast, Jarvis Bros, Isaac Corwin, and Defiance Machine Works. Entries total about 2,100 across classes A through H and miscellaneous. Attendance was light but expected to rise with better weather.
Weather is changeable and rains have wheat looking fine. Stewart Miller’s familiar face returns to the street. Milliners Doud and Neiswender are away buying fall and winter goods. Miller Bros buy and ship wheat, drawing much from Georgetown and other areas. They have paid over 25000 this season. W E Dowd sails for Ann Arbor to have foot surgery with Dr Comfort to accompany him.
From Our Own Correspondent notes sickness on the decline and civic urges urging votes for John Norway next Tuesday. Miss Heilen M. McCauley visits relatives. John Brown takes possession of the Chilcote farm and heads to Osceo. Rural Chapel scene touched few people. Rural Chapel Sunday school plans a concert. A Wolf pair twins and a poor house girl caravan move toward Hillsdale county. A. Lacy visits from North West Williams county. Frank Partee reports a 19 year old ground hog hide. Voters urged to support change in the Defiance auditorship citing irregularities.
Community news recounts weather prospects, grain hauling, and a spate of local incidents. A Memphis Yellow fever doctor from Ft Wayne died there, prompting mayoral aid for his family. Rev C W Tanneyhill remains at the M F Church. Hicksville hosts its first daily fair paper with low alcohol use. Wallaee Shaw ships Devon cattle to Defiance on October 2.
The article chronicles Miller Arrowsmith’s surveying career in the 1830s in Defiance Williams County and surrounding areas. It lists towns he surveyed or planned like Brunersburg, West Defiance, Hicksville, Point Pleasant, New Rochester, Charlee, and New Harrison, and notes bids for county seat in Williams County with settlers and proprietors.
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