Hicksville fair week draws crowds and trade buzz
The Hicksville fair fills the week with sales of hardware, wagons, and goods at Overholt and Blodgett shops. Locals note heavy attendance, varied displays, and ongoing preaching at Evangelical and M. E. churches while farmers finish sowing wheat and prepare for fair events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicksville
O. M. Overholt
Wes Batchelor
Defiance
Ashley Smith
Can Overholt
O. Allen
Lagrange
Wesner
Lost Creek
W. G. Grist
Ft. Wayne
Alten Otis
Three Waters
Mich
Vinnie Wykoff
Hoytsville, O
E. E. Hale
Jos. Weibert
Stryker
Florida News Roundup From Florida Picnic to Local Happenings
Florida notes record rain hints and a cool spell while listing health concerns and local plans. Capt. Thompson aims to launch a canal boat Tuesday as residents visit Napoleon Fair and attend picnics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Stout
Capt. Thompson
Rob Roy
Nina
George Lowry
Fostoria
End Party Animosity and Defeat Democracy Says Nora Bene
A fragment urges erasing faction language from politics and entering the contest with resolve to whip out democracy. The speaker Nora Bene is named in the brief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Bene
Defiance College Opens Under New Management
Re organized Defiance College advertises a first class coeducational school with departments in collegiate normal commercial music penmanship and stenography. Open August 30 1887 seeking catalogs from A M Van Tine Defiance Ohio. Community notes report local visits illness and circuit meetings with Rev H A Brown N S Warden Bates and Ros Roy sharing in the weekend program and picnic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
Defiance
John Roberts
West Hope
Napoleon
Florida
Kit Krotzer
Claude
North Richland
Lost Creek
Edward McGlove
Norwalk
Chancellorville
McGlove
Michigan
H. A. Brown
Hicksville
Warden
Ridgeville
Bates
Emery Carpenter
Ridgeville Sabbath School
Brown
Ros Roy
Local items from Stryker area note fairs and family events
Village news reports guests visiting from nearby towns, births and marriages, and local happenings. Highlights include F. A. Goddard buying swine, road survey notices, a new beer shop, a Hicksville funeral, grand reunions, and cor n crops with potato prices in Defiance county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Delaware
T. T. Hilton
Defiance
Beilhartz
Fayette
Fulton County
D. Fortney
D. Bruner
F. A. Goddard
Independence
Main
Mill Street
Kuhl
Henry County
Defiance County
Clarence Betts
Stryker
Local Notes from the Community Pages Report
Details of family visits, health concerns, and social events in the area. John Myers plans a new roofed home, Harry Gaylord suffers typhoid fever, local gatherings feature Miss Stella Randall and Pansy Blossom, and cranberries have been picked with a smaller turnout than hoped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Myers
Calvary
Harry Gaylord
Mr. Vance
Dayton
Eph
Towel
Minnie Blanchard
Lima
Ed, Povenmire
Oscar Scott
Pleasant Bend
Mt. Calvary Church
Stella Randall
Electric Bitters Prove Cure for Liver Kidney Blood Diseases
The verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters cure liver, kidney and blood diseases. W D Salt, druggist of Bippus Indiana, testifies relief in every case after six bottles used for rheumatism. Abraham Hare, Bellville Ohio, reports best selling medicine in 20 years. Colby and Scott's Drug Store sells at fifty cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Salt
Bippus
Ind
Abraham Hare
Bellville
Ohio
Colby & Scott’s
Adams Township News Roundup and Local Notes
Water scarcity issues and school activity mark Adams Township reports. The district hosts a German school in No. 1 while Artie Gleason visits Defiance and Peter Caressel visits Illinois. The Napoleon Fair draws crowds and Jack frost appears. Metz tile mill awaits water after changes in U.S. mail routing shift from Adams Ridge to Jewell. Local reflections urge Republicans to unite and work with energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Artie Gleason
Defiance
Peter Caressel
Illinois
Margaret Nolta
Fostoria
Clarence Robinson
McDowell
Clover Huller
Minnie Conn
Tiffin Township
Jack Frost
Metz
Their Business Booming at Colby and Scott’s Jug Store
Trade at Colby and Scott’s Jug Store surges as they offer free trial bottles of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The ad claims quick cures for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases with a large size bottle priced at one dollar and a trial bottle available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colby & Scott’s Jug Store
Dr. King
Center Notes and Social Updates from Williams Center
Williams Center notes list residents on sick and convalescent lists. Neighbors visit family members in Edgerton and Oxford Junction. Centerites attend Montpelier fair and Democrat convention. local correspondents recount a Hicksville News reunion and a long list of travel plans and weddings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Hilton
Burg
A. Aschbacher
Sarah Nisely
Bretz
Melmore
F. Yerks
Milton Kyle
Montpelier
Frank Hulbert
May Fisher
Squires
Wonderly
Lewis Chapman
Minnie Shanklin
Farmer Center
Hyde
David Wartenbee
Hicksville
F. M. Light
Washington Terry
Kate Light
Rosa Henrietta
Lewis Wonderly
Rosa
Andrew
Elizabeth Headly
I. W. Loman
Lewis Cole
Jones Miller
Cole
Mr. Cole
Washington City
M. N. Crary
C. R. Cole
I. K. Cole
Colby
Wisconsin
Nellie Squire
Connie Hemenway
Worth Bender
W. Scott
Rural Chapel
Emma Herald
Dan Herrold
Bamer
Farmer
Lester Stone
Perkins
Ezra Gabriel
Edgerton
Chas. Tomlinson
Roundtree
Reasoner Scott
Frank Tomlinson
Grimes
Town
Democrat
Steve Seigler
Emma Zigler
Oxford Junction
Iowa
Salve claims cure for cuts and skin eruptions
An old advertisement touts a salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and is priced at 25 cents per box, sold by Colby & Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colby & Scott
Teething Pains Relief Ad from Windy Colie
An old advertisement promotes Acker's Baby Soother for teething pains and stomach relief. It claims no opium or pine and safety for infants, priced at 25 cents, sold by N. G. Woodward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acker
N. G. Woodward
Dr Haines Golden Specific touted as cure for drunkenness
A dubious ad claims Dr Haines Golden Specific can cure drunkenness by adding to coffee or tea without the drinker's knowledge. It asserts permanent cure for moderate to severe alcohol use and cites Cincinnati as the source. The page also includes a frivolous line about a pretty girl winning a musket in a French lottery and asks a quip about a soldier with it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Specific CO
Race St. Cincinnati
Also Mentioned on This Page
IAM Carter
Ora Hoffman
Swilley House
Evangelical Church
C. A Blodgett’s
C. A. Blodgett
Peninsular
C. M. Overholt
Masury
C. M. Overholt’s
Philadelphia
Charley Cole
Cicero
Cole Brothers
Kansas
West Side
Levi Henry’s
OC. M. Overholt
Carrie Moore
Kittie Meek
Alice Proctor
Maggie Vasbinder
Chicago
Bro
Josiah Allen
E. Gingrich
U. B
Farmer Township
C. C. Manning
Gessinger
Weis
Alex. Bevington
Crows
Edgerton St
Sniff
Christian Church
E. M. Bilderback
Ae E. M
J. W. Miller
M. E. Church
Mr. Bushong
Tey
Dalrymple’s
W. D. Wilson
CO. M. Overholt
F. Roberts
Hicksville Fair
Foraker
Brown & Behne
Ponogees
Sherwood
Maumee River
Express
Paulding County
Wrnter
Mark Center
Clyde
Leipsic
Mitchell Raiders
Knight
Ben
Tontogany
Wood Co
Milford Township
West End
Republican Party
Eva
Flora Brubaker
Gertie Barr
E. A. Jones
Sylvania
Alval Rothanberger
Toledo Business College
Ida Jackson
Ros. Stout
Mattie Ice
South Napoleon
George Owen
Ros, Stout
Stout and Owen
Miss Babcock
Liberty Center
S. L. Miller
Henry Harmes
J. W Long
A. J. Scofield
J. E. Scofield
Grandma Barr
Wm. Gunn
I. Harshberger
Peter Sissler
F. M. Brubaker
J. Schooley
Will Klingelhofer
Harley’s Lion
Sam. Kinney
Cecil
Sam
J. H. Barr
H. F. May
Leah Brubaker
W. W. Bowen
Krotzer
Nancy Stout
David Brubaker, Jr
Napoleon Township
Bowen
G. D. Long
Toledo
Fred Trapp
Smith Cowdrick
John Brubaker
Jeakle
Missouri
St. Louis
Andy Tuttle
Defiance College
A. M. van Tine
Defiance, Ohio
Brunersburg
Logan
Getrost Bro’s
Ity
Sam Rohn
O. A. Woodward
George Seiple
Independence Cemetery
Adell Butler
John Butler, Jr
Mallett Bros
South Richland
Barbara Seiple
Independence M. E
Robinette
Jewell
God
Washington Township
S. T. Dean
R. R
Bryan
Jacob Snyder
Paulding
Jacob Hall
Evansport
George Stailey
George
Papa
William Weber
David Ram
Canada
Grandpa Hall
Georgetown
Mr. Calvary
Meee Wise
Sherman Blanchard
Adams Township
Williams Center
Bucklen
Hamton
N.G. Woodward
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