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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
9
In Defiance the reader hears Mrs. Carrie Speck of 1000 Sunday Street extol Doan's Kidney Pills. She cites relief from back pains dizziness and weak kidneys after use. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by all dealers at 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents.
Mr and Mrs C L Shriner and others spent Saturday evening December 29 at the home. Revs and visitors from Defiance Hicksville Evansport and Liberty Center called around late December to early January. The community extended thanks for Christmas donations including candy nuts handkerchiefs popcorn and more from local families and alumni guests.
West Unity residents Jacob Gates and wife visited last week while Jessie Peterson worked in Defiance spent Sunday at home. Wm and Ida Bock of Defiance joined J B Stock for a Sunday visit. Rev Wisely preached at the M E church, with U B church services ongoing. Local youths attended a chapel meeting on Sunday evening.
CF Goller remains confined to the house. Horatio Bowers wife returned to De fiance after a week with friends. Houzer of Van Wert set two monuments in Lintz and Ney cemeteries. A marriage occurred Dec 29 1900 at the bride’s parents’ home Frank Pollock officiating Wat son married Mies Bertha Pollock. Weller Weber shipped a fine lot to Ney. Eliza Nisley sews for Mrs B D Lintz. John Weber went to Defiance. Mrs Charley Draker had a stroke paralysis last week and is improving. Jacob Geller suffers lagrippe. Mrs Clara Wineland of Bryan visits Neg ard vicinity. Oll Davis visited for poultry purchases. John Draber bought land from deceased George Draher’s estate. William Stailey plans return to North Carolina in about eight days. The Kite
The Defiance Home Saving and Loan association elected officers Monday night with H B Ten zer as president Chas Seymour as vice president LL E Beardsley as treasurer C B Squire as secretary and F L Hay as attorney.
Reports from New Wednesday include W S Yeagley at the Farmers Institute and a new daughter for Mr and Mrs John Hanu on Dec 80. Marriages occur at Rogers home Arentha to Alfred J Richardson and Albert Hastings to Addie Fisher January 7. Revival meetings continue at Moats chapel and Dry Creek U B church led by Rev Wolcott.
John E Widmer has nearly finished the construction and filling of his ice house, marking near completion of the project.
The second annual Farmer's Institute at Ney presents Edward Goller's push for township high schools as a path to higher study. He argues graded courses, township supervision, and a small annual cost improve attendance, outcomes, and student motivation, calling it a home college for youth.
Hutchinson dispatch reports Ernest H Boothman son of ex congressman M M Boothman of Bryan died by his own hand after a morphine addiction. A Oberlin football captain and multi language prodigy previously famed for a single Oberlin field record. His death follows a life of study travel and sales work with H RP Miller. Burials planned in Bryan. sympathy poured from Defiance friends.
Mies Ola Sebert of Morenci Mich returns home after holidays with relatives here. A Sandusky county brother of C L Shriner and his wife visited here several weeks. J W Kelley and wife extended visit in Hancock county. A surprise party at Mr and Mrs Chas Lawtons marked their oldest daughters 18th birthday with a large young crowd. Nancy Wisler returned from Michigan after months with relatives. Rural Chapel hosts successful Rev Weisley led meetings. Henry Spangler of Evansport sold carpet sweepers locally. Miller Bros report last year’s tile brick and blocks sold. demand could rise. Geo Weber from near Jewell shredded corn fodder for parties here. Salem Evangelical Sunday school reorganized with officers elected: Supt Wesley Kincig, Asst Supt D A Overly, Sec Nellie Prueser, Treas Epham Webb, Chair Mary Neaderhauser, Organist Cecilia Kincig, Librarian Edgar Robertson. Old fashioned watch meetings held at Salem and Rural Chapel churches at New Year dawn.
St Johns Reformed Church at Fourth and Washington street invites all to English services at 10 am and a 2 15 pm sermon at Sherwood after a 9 am Sunday school. Pastor F Lahr leads the program with cordial invitation to parishioners and visitors.
A twenty acre tract in Allen county Indiana located three miles and a half from Fort Wayne city limits. Inquiries can be made at the Express office in Defiance Ohio.
William Brant hauls logs for Whitney, Breher Bros shred corn for Whitney, Chasrles Sibert hauls tile from Snider tile mill, John Kern returns from Tiffin holidays, SS Dann cuts stove wood in Caressel woods, Germany Tiffin leaves boxing ring, George Chase hauls tile from Fierey tile mill.
Paris reports Archbishop Favier head of the French mission in north China arrived in Paris after a Marseilles visit. He says the dowager empress will return to Peking in the spring when order is restored. Europeans have not lost ground, but the government needs time to resume direction of affairs.
Shanghai reports the empress dowager plans posthumous honors and family allowances for three favored officials, Lu Chuan Lin Wang Wen Chai and Chen Shuan Hsuan, amid unrest in Sian Fu following Boxers outbreak.
London reports Lord Pauncefote the British ambassador to the United States will remain in Washington indefinitely. Britain planned to appoint a successor next March, but current serious questions between the two nations make his removal untenable.
A bill in the French senate proposes a tax on celibates over 30 and on childless married couples after five years without a child, to be kept until a birth occurs. The measure seeks to counter depopulation by boosting birth rates.
A cellar fire at 357 East 113th Street New York fatally burned four members of the Mora family. Antoinette Mora 26 Louis Donato Mora 3 Francisco Mora 10 months Francisco Mora 32 were found by firemen after extinguishing the blaze. Property loss was about 4000 dollars.
San Francisco Ringmaster event yields Sam Fullen Galanthus Lou Rey Ordnung Espirando as turf winners. In New Orleans W B Gates Emigre Domadge Ben Chance Hinsdale Varro clinch turf honors.
Jan market notes show cattle prices across Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh Buffalo and Cincinnati with cattle hog and sheep values, plus early grain quotes for Wheat Corn and Oats. New York and Boston highlights include cattle wheat hogs and dairy prices, with regional deltas in midweek trading.
A collage of brief items reports a youth killed by a train in Galion Ohio, a derailed Panhandle freight near Columbus, brakeman Tuller dead, a population center near Columbus Indiana, Caldwell fires destroying a Masonic temple and Osborn's store, coal miners striking for a 10 hour day, seven U S soldiers captured in the Philippines, two men killed in a Brazil Indiana mine, illicit mint discovery in New York, Italian arrests, Virginia and Southwestern shop fires at Bristol Tennessee with losses, a suicide in South Woodbury Ohio, and a Big Four express wreck near Alexandria Indiana with two fatalities.
Snow is falling in Paris for the first time this winter as temperatures rise slightly. Across France extreme storms bring heavy snow and reports of tramp bodies frozen to death on roads. Spain reports heavy weather with snow and delayed mail trains.
In New York on January 8, chatter centered on a new British war loan to fund the protracted Africa campaign. Local bankers generally expect Americans to again absorb a large share of any issue.
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