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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
5
Trowbridge Loose and Edwin Augustine visit the city while others plan trips to Albany and Florida. Posts report health updates, farm work, a barn fire, a bridge completion, and local social events including reunions and weddings.
The K of P at Sherwood held a memorial service Sunday with Rev Vandike delivering the sermon in the new church. Miss Sue Liece from Chicago visited Friday and Saturday with D L Warner. Mrs I E Welker left for Fitzgerald Georgia Monday after spending about three months in the vicinity.
Uncalled letters for the Defiance Ohio post office for the week ending July 22 1902 include gentlemen Cretelier Chas Clark Chas C Denney John Debolt Char ley Klein Wm Luthie C Noble W F Pixley J C Rimer C Wood M and Ohio Rake Co and ladies Bailey Mrs Frank Heisman Miss Mary Hart Miss Pearl Johnson Miss Grace Smith Miss Lena Spicer Miss Laura Welsh Mrs Ellen If not claimed within 14 days they will be sent to the dead letter office Postmaster C J Thompson requests advertisers to state list date when calling.
Farmer Mrs H E Partee and children of Bryan are visiting her parents. David Blosser moves into Mrs E E McGlasson's house to work for W A Spangler. John Norway Jr of Cleveland vacationing with his parents. P C Biglow had an accident last week when he fell from a hay mow and struck the handle of a fork. V G Lord injured while loading logs.
A man near Lost Creek cut his foot severely Monday afternoon. Dr J W Cannan dressed the wound. Miss F E Crossland is on the sick list. Mrs A T Fordham is quite poorly. Mrs F W Richardson, previously under doctor’s care for ivy poisoning, is much improved at this writing.
Sunday visits fill the page as Peck and Wesley Bowman bring a new blower home on Saturday. Miss Emma Wahl works for Mrs Fletcher while family from Continental visits John Seigman. Neighbors Bazil Moore and wife call on Eding’s and Kelleirmier’s.
Neil Tuttle Billie Schmaltz Jno Clemens and George Wohn recount a lake trip with crowded big fish and many small ones eaten bones and all. They brought home two nearly 20 pound turtles and Schmaltz borrowed a horse to rush back. No arrest will follow.
The Defiance County Teachers Institute meets at Defiance High School starting Monday Aug 11 at 11 am. J P Sharkey of Van Wert and former State Board member leads geography history and literature sessions. J H Secrist of Antwerp teaches arithmetic grammar and physiology. Prof L L Canfield directs music. All county teachers urged to attend all week.
Earl Parsons and James Wallace of Chicago, Naval Reserves, travel 1200 miles by a 13 foot canoe from Chicago to New York. They reached Defiance after 395 miles, plan 20 miles per day, and aim to finish within sixty days via Lake Michigan, Maumee and Erie Canal routes toward Toledo with daily checks on progress.
Catherine Dreden born August 17 1844 died July 11 1902 aged 57 10 24. She died on her birth farm where she had lived all her life and cared for her brother’s home for 24 years since his wife’s death. Converted during Rev Geo W Dinius revival meetings in February 1879 she joined the United Brothers in Christ on March 1 1879 and remained active. An industrious faithful compassionate woman she leaves one brother two sisters and many friends, hopeful of reunion.
Mrs. J K Andrews of 925 Jefferson Street Defiance Ohio says the pills rebuilt her energy and nerve steadiness after feeling run down She notes the product is a proven nerve tonic and suitable general medicine The pills cost 50 cents a box and bear the A W Chase portrait and signature on every package
We thank our neighbors and friends who assisted during the sickness and death of our beloved sister. Some left their duties to watch day and night. Gratitude to the Methodist church in Evansport for use of their church and for the fine preparation for the funeral services and to the choir for the music.
New owner Col Smith of New York said trains would run between Defiance and Lima within three weeks. The C L M R R line will be put in first class condition and extended north as rapidly as possible.
A stark line of metaphor describes extreme agony and asserts a cure cannot fail. The narrator contrasts endless torment with a promised remedy that relieves suffering, signaling a turn to relief amid despair.
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