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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1904
Page
5
Local retailer AW King & Son announce stock of leading color sweaters for boys. Several notes cover Christmas gifts, visiting relatives, and local ads for specials on candies, poultry raffle, and Christmas presents. Community notices include births, travels, and church services.
Knights of Pythias social session featured ladies and gentlemen prizes won by Mrs Thompson and J W Winn. New Year Eve gathering announced. MIA held a profitable meeting chaired by Mrs Powell with Russia study. Mrs E Lewis departs south and Mrs Knapp elected president. Citizens dance hosted by Sommers Farrell and Costello for Miss Gayne with 20 couples and Marie Farrell pianist. Sunday school boys enjoyed games and refreshments. Recital at Defiance college showcased promising pupils. Sorosis held at Mrs Seither with papers on Queen Isabella St Theresa and Catherine De Medici. Guests included Mesdames Daoust Growey Hardy Hammer Hoffman and Miss Hoffman from Cleveland.
The department records heartfelt grief at the death of John McCarty our late assistant chief and friend. The resolutions convey sympathy to his wife children and relatives and note his long service and cheerful help to others. A copy is sent to the family and filed and published in city newspapers.
The Whitney and Currier Co advertises guitars mandolins and more with a smaller margin of profit due to lower expenses flagging attractive prices on a wide range of instruments for music lovers and students.
An Ohio brief notes Claude Frick and wife missing during a western wagon tour prompting a sheriff search before telegram arrival. Probate actions include wills for Thos Flaver and Wm Nickle with executors named. Multiple marriage licenses granted in Hicksville Tiffin and Noble townships. Divorces and cognovit judgments appear, with a rental notice for a traveling aid and a newspaper employment ad.
The Farmers Institute meets at Sherwood Friday and Saturday December 30 and 31. Includes invocations, music, discussions on poultry, corn growing, stock feeding, swine management, gardens, cement floors, business side of farming, and reports. Addresses by M C Thomas F W Limbaugh Rev Altman and others with quartette and solo performances.
The post office will open Sunday Christmas night from 6 30 to 8 30 for those wishing to call for mail. C J Tompson P M
The Defiance circuit meeting at Rural Chapel will be held next Sunday with morning service at 10 30 and evening service led by the presiding elder with the sacrament Revival services by Rev Roberts and Rev Applegate continue with good results and several conversions reported
Four interurban companies compete to complete a link from Lake Erie to the Ohio river, with western Ohio aiming Lima to Findlay and lines from Lima to Bellefontaine progressing. Jos Mayer and Buffalo capitalists back Lima Electric Railway. Cincinnati Toledo Detroit Short Line Co promoter J Morgan visits Lima to scout routes, while C D T and Western Ohio interests gain traction despite rivals.
Thomas W Haver born December 21 1840 in Tuscarawas county Ohio died December 14 1904 at home in Mark township He helped settle the area as a youth and remained a farmer He served in Co K 185th OVI during the Civil War He married Anna Reed in 1862 then Katherine Smith in 1869 raising seven children with three infant deaths The family aided orphans He joined the Methodist church about 15 years ago and was active in church and community His funeral was December 17 at his residence and burial was at Colby cemetery He is remembered for his genial disposition honesty and integrity
The YMCA of the college staged a lecture at the Presbyterian church on Benedict Arnold. Rev Roberts praised the talk highlighting Arnold's boyhood and genius at Saratoga, then his treason and escape to the British. The speaker warned that discontent and repudiation of principle ruin even great leaders.
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