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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
1
Special Daily Express Upper Sandusky May 31 George Ury found guilty of first degree murder in the death of William C Johnson with a mercy recommendation after a 14½ hour jury deliberation. The defense plans a Supreme Court appeal as family members react with sorrow.
The sixteenth month old son of Mr and Mrs John Stork of East Defiance died Thursday night of scarlet fever. The private funeral will be from the house at 9:30 a.m. Saturday with Rev Karl Spannuth of St John Lutheran church officiating. Interment will be at Riverside cemetery.
J. D. Abele returned from Cleveland where he attended the state council and was elected a delegate to the supreme council meeting in Boston on June 5. Geiger came home from San Antonio in good health with his daughter and her children. Dr. W. S. Powell and family left for Chicago for medical meetings and a trip to Yellowstone Park. John Dean of Sandusky County is here over his seventeen year old daughter Myrtle who eloped with John P. Dodson and sought a license in Sandusky and Seneca counties before running to Indiana. Dodson is brother of local Doc Dodson. the pair were said to have passed as man and wife while staying with friends.
The Cincinnati Enquirer quotes George B. Cox saying Governor Nash may be renominated by acclamation if he runs and no other name will be presented. He adds the same would apply to Lieutenant Governor Caldwell, both facing renomination if they desire.
A family question becomes an ad for Jell O dessert ready in two minutes with no baking. Add hot water and let it cool. Flavors include lemon orange raspberry and strawberry. Priced at 10 cents per package.
Rev J F Slagle writes from Naples May 6 1901 about a Pacific voyage on the Tartar Prince from New York April 18 with 35 first cabin passengers and steerage Italians. He describes life at sea the Azores stop at Porta Delgado San Miguel and Porto Delgada, shipboard meals and steamer crews, plus local scenes and Jesuit tensions at Port Delgado.
B D Nightingale died suddenly in Warsaw Indiana Saturday night after a prolonged heart trouble. He was about 40 and leaves a wife and three children Grace Gertie and George. He moved from Indianapolis to this city in 1896 and worked as designer and salesman for Nightingale Woolen Co. He was a member of Omega Lodge No 564 F A M.
In Buchanan Michigan on May 22 a letter from ten year old Fannie Williams to Genesee Pure Food Co. of Le Roy New York extols Grain-O as a safer coffee substitute. She notes her mother formerly drank coffee and now uses Grain-O weekly, reporting improved health for herself and her siblings.
The school enumeration completed in this city lists First ward enumerator J F Schultz. Male 841 and Female 338 in the ward with a motel noted as 5 st het fe. City total 2451, up 48 from 1900.
Memorial Day events included a 1:30 p.m. parade led by Col. John W. Myers and the Myersville band, with old soldiers, schoolchildren, and teachers participating. A service at Monumental Park followed by a program at the Citizens Opera House concluded a day of wide civic attendance, prayer, and tributes to fallen soldiers.
O Coffin of Sherwood slipped from a saloon railing Friday and fell into an archway landing on his back. He escaped with only a few bruises after the dangerous mishap.
The remains of Albert Leroy Wheeler, son of Mr and Mrs D E Wheeler, were retrieved from the canal by Herman Betson at 7 30 p m Saturday after drowning in the afternoon. The body was viewed by Justice C E Maxwell in the absence of the coroner and burial is planned in Avilla Indiana at 10 10 a m Monday.
A vintage grocery ad touts Jell O as the new dessert pleasing all with four flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry Mango at your grocers for 10 cents.
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