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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
5
J Lutz of Napoleon visits the city as Burt's Bazaar features fruit jars and jelly glasses. Moxie Corwin turns 46. Various notices cover loans, marriage licenses, pensions, a trolley line discussion, and a police matter. A Spanish American War veterans dime social raises funds with Heintlein's Orchestra and a warm community welcome.
Promotional ad for Rocky Mountain Tea claims cures for pimples, liver marks, skin eruptions, constipation, headaches, jaundice and more. The Madison Medicine Co advertises the remedy as good for all family members and notes a 35 cent price per package.
Ayersville announces a eight week summer term starting July 21 offering review of common branches county exam prep and study of higher subjects. The program uses normal recitation hours with methods based on psychological principles taught by W J Miller superintendent. Tuition five dollars for the term and board at private homes about ten cents per meal.
Ek H Dicus formerly of this city formed a partnership with D C Dunn of Criderville about a year ago to operate a stave mill at Chickasaw. Dicus now owns the plant and will continue business as the Chickasaw Stave Co successor. We wish the young man prosperity and success.
John Young suffered a head injury after a joist fell in a milkhouse last week. Orley Ensign and Will Hanna traveled to Sherwood on Monday. Clyde Norway bought a new cushion tire buggy from Frank Repp. Farmers suffer delays due to heavy rains. Spangler and Lew Lord were in Bryan Monday. Frank Buda nearly finished the District No. 8 schoolhouse. KO Stone and wife, John Merrihugh and daughter visited relatives near Pleasant Bend. A Badin called on Henry Mars house Sunday. Son called on Fred Frank Beller Lynn and Leslie Tracy painting Scott's barn. Mamie Moore visiting aunt Anna Eding. Mrs Wm Hill visited daughter Charley Mix. Wet days persist. John Seigman in Continental Sunday. Wiseman sisters and Dessie and Ola Moore visited Skunktown. Fred Geiger finished Scott's barn and is building a house for Geo Dirt. John Seigman and wife in Defiance Thursday. Ice cream social well attended with good time. Wahl sisters visited Skunktown friends. Lizzie Wahl returned from Scotts' where she did house work.
Bruce Reynolds leaves today for Boston to enter a year long course at the conservatory of music. He will join John D. Chenevert, who is visiting in Canada, at Albany on Saturday and travel together to Boston. Both men are noted for exceptional musical talent and seek to advance their professional careers through study.
An ad touts Clinic Headache Wafers as a heart tonic that cures headaches without causing mood depression. It claims the product is easily taken, absolutely harmless, and available for 10 cents at all druggists.
Burt's Bazaar unveils a new jewelry line as shop begins selling the latest designs. Customers can expect contemporary pieces and potential in-store displays this week.
A Daily Express correspondent from Denver recounts arrival in Chicago and travels with church leaders to Oklahoma and Colorado. He describes a field workers conference, sermons, lectures, and a cowboy audience aiding a collection, plus plans for future tours and statistics efforts.
An old classified brief advertises contact details for services offered, listing a new telephone line and an old phone reference with numbers 2 on 534 and 1181. The notice signals a request for service availability.
Wm King of Gott wald King reports three pocket books found in a stairway on Clinton Street. They belonged to Dr T C Kinmont of Hicksville and included receipts, a B & O annual pass, a $90 pension check, and two Crosby house meal tickets. Kinmont was present at the firemen’s convention in the city on June 18 and is in Atlantic City for the B and O surgeons’ meeting. He is expected home soon to reclaim his property.
An old health notice urges keeping Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry on hand to treat cholera infantum dysentery and diarrhoea, noting illness can strike quickly and a single hour's delay may cost a life.
Library board met at the public library and elected officers for the year. L. B. Peaslee is president, K. V. Haymaker vice president, R. H. Gleason secretary. Miss Jewell Fouke re elected librarian. New board members include K. V. Haymaker and R. T. Sutphen. A finance committee will be announced at the first August meeting. They also approved purchasing a list of new books for later review.
An early hour alarm from box 15 summoned the fire department to the home of Harry Earle. A festive gasoline stove caused the incident but the resulting damage was minimal.
A dramatic testimonial proclaims Diptheria relief in twenty minutes attributed to Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil available at any drug store.
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