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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1880
Page
3
An old Rome Sentinel note highlights Colby & Scott's wide perfume range and low prices. It recalls Mark Twain on nets and a playful quip about Miss Lizzie Dollar, ending with a pun about a man’s dollar marriage.
E F Aldrich of Defiance Ohio is listed in a September notice with biographical remarks. The fragment notes his hometown and date.
A sequence of Defiance items notes a Monday polar wave and frost, openings of The Defiance County Fair, a new school, and political activity. Mentions speeches by Haymaker, a large torch line, court start, and local business moves along Jackson street and Perry street.
Friday morning the Ensign residence at Perry and Thruston streets burned, gutting most of the second story after Mrs. Ensign dropped a coal oil lamp. The loss to furniture and building is about 400 dollars, with 400 dollars insured on the house and 300 dollars on the contents.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offered to relocate its station to the Jefferson Wayne area and build a grain elevator of 20 000 to 25 000 bushels plus a brick passenger and freight depot, free to the public, if the citizens provide land and access. The editor urges action, warns the offer may be withdrawn, and cites broken promises tied to local improvements and Trowbridge’s stave factory.
Local notes report Crago slowly recovering while residents sow wheat in the area. Patrick Quinn plans to move to Chicago next month. Charley Cockle welcomes a son, as does Peter Mack. A ninth daughter arrived at Uria Balls, small but rare. Phillip Crago sells Turnbull wagons well. A Sept 25 meeting in Georgetown aims to organize a Gar field and Arthur club. Geo and Lyman Winn rent the Hines farm, with three farms to keep busy. Willy and Walter Staley briefly visit Chicago, then return home. Aunt Tas.
Farmers have begun sowing wheat while potato rot threatens to worsen. Rev. Morrison attended the M. E. Conference in Van Wert. Garfield flags fly over the village as Pioneer stirs. Emma Sheets misplaced ten dollars and it was recovered after loud threats. Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Dorsey return from Warsaw and Silver Lake visit. Elida Henry resumes teaching in Fulmer district with Ayersville and Hill schools in session under teachers Mrs. Adams and Miss Dora Miller. Ayersville pole raising succeeds and forty nine voters enroll in Garfield Guards with O. Collier captain. club now about seventy members.
A Chicago press describes the B and O Red Book as a compact portable political reference for 1872 to 1880 data. It lists party votes for President, state elections, legislature, and possible U S Senator, with district results, district footnotes, population figures, and census derived vote estimates. The booklet is praised for neutrality, thoroughness, and elegant production, with purchase through C K Baltimore Ma.
Corn ripening fast and farmers plowing for wheat as John Carpenter joins George Conkle in the livery business at Pleasant Lake. A Democratic rally ends in the theft of a flag and flagpole from a wagon, blamed on Republicans by the Hancock Club.
A marriage occurred on September 15 in Highland township. Reverend Morrison officiated, uniting Richmonp P. Situ of Silver Lake and Mattie F. E. Hosmay of Highland in this county.
Mr Paul Finger the Grocer plans a bakery connected to his grocery business. He will keep for sale fresh baked bread, cakes and related goods at all times.
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