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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1879
Page
3
M Kittner's One Price Clothier offers latest hat styles at low prices. Turnbull wagon showcases new improvements. C Weaner sells sewing machines and accessories. Baltimore Bakery serves ice cream. Zeller Bruner claim leadership in Defiance county by selling more and cheaper. Diehl promotes stoves and coal wood burners. Cary Carroll offer Four Per Cent Bonds and Five Cent Cigars.
Switzer and Kehnast received a whole train load of stoves including parlor cook heating office and coal stoves. They plan to price to reflect the iron rise and clear the mammoth store room. C Weaner repairs all sewing machines and makes them operate like new. Have you seen the Turnbull wagon in Turnbull and Shelly advertisement.
Local items report news from Defiance including political campaigning and election aftermath. Community updates mention residents traveling to Cincinnati and Xenia, business moves at Lehman & Son, and calls for fruit tree deliveries. Local figures like J. Levy, F. Maroney, and Henry Kuhl appear with work and legal notes.
An adjourned Monday meeting of the Council with Judge J.J. Green presiding adopted multiple resolutions. Ridge Street in North Defiance to be opened to full width within fifteen days. Baltimore Street improvements referred to the street committee. gas lamp site at Wayne and Fourth referred to the gas committee.
By Our Own Correspondent report notes thriving Sabbath school activities. R. F. Hecht contemplates entering the poultry business this fall, signaling community engagement and local enterprise.
Mrs. Mary Hilton of Kansas visits relatives nearby while a carload from Allen County Ohio visits Mr. Osman. Ira Brown, a long time local, falls from an apple tree and is seriously hurt for the second time. Gen Manson and Blue Jeans Williams pass through on the 11th en route to Bryan, stopping for a brief call.
Geo. Merritt and family visit relatives while L. J. Griswold finishes a barn started last spring. Andrew Yeagley and family travel to Kalamazoo. K. V. Haymaker hosted a singing school. Apples are contracted and buyers seek more. Our patriotic boys celebrate Foster’s election with a bonfire and shooting. Mrs. A. Knight bears seven cancers on her arm after breast treatment. Mrs. Gibbons sells household items at public sale and plans to quit. The Farmer Cheese Factory, run by J. E. Wilcox, grows in reputation. A note to Immortal M N: his ten cents are waiting. ask Andy Yeagley for details.
Poor Ike Sherwood faces public embarrassment while Rans and Stone emerge as popular figures. The Band held an oyster supper at the town hall, a financial success. Milt Eager’s fall from a hickory tree may cripple him. Farmers anticipate cool weather to curb rank wheat. Cyrus Rattridge suffered a nosebleed from his heart, stopped with ice. Some locals returned from Bryan under the influence of Mother Winslow's Syrup, ending with a bed-room shift.
The large Ohio political contest concluded with a Republican victory as Charles Foster won the governorship. Tom Ewing and Democratic forces faced defeat amid cries of secession and missteps cited by supporters of Foster.
Splendid weather to husk corn and dig potatoes fronts a light social page. Miss Rosie Weber wins carpets at the fair and Mr John Wise bears the red card on his team. The piece mourns Mrs Barbary Benner who died October 13 1879 leaving eight children and an aged husband.
P Crago sold a Turnbull wagon to B F Hauk. Geo Hanna is erecting a new dwelling. Effie Sattehwait started for Lima Ohio where she is at home. Election passed quietly with a large Republican majority. Joseph Lichty lost a fine cow last week, a notable loss.
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