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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1899
Page
7
Licenses issued for Peter Zenz and Catharine Blezer wedding. D E Dozer named district superintendent for Royal Union Life Insurance in Northwestern Ohio. Local herd updates, rail robberies, and civic notes plus war veteran news and municipal plant plans fill Defiance items.
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a healthful invigorating nonmedicine drink made from pure grains. It is described as having a rich brown color and coffee like taste, marketed for children and adults as a genuine food drink available in 15 and 25 cent sizes.
Obituary notices recall Mary A Carlisle born 1826 in Shur burne Vermont and died 1899 in Defiance County Ohio after a life of teaching and child rearing. Also memorial for Hannah Gire born 1872 died 1899 in Defiance County Ohio praising her kindness and faith.
The Defiance college Alumni association held its annual reunion and banquet in the Chapel on Thursday with seventy members attending. The program featured piano and violin solos, an address by M. A. Costello, and a grand march, followed by an officers election and constitution committee appointments. A graduating class picnic was planned at Independence Dam for today.
The 40th annual Ohio Sunday School Association convention met in Marion with broad turnout across counties. Rev. W O Thompson announced debt paid after a $700 subscription, Prof. Excell led singing, and discussions covered superintendent tobacco use, teacher competence, parental study support, and teacher meetings. Edward D. Goller reports delegation activities and state officers named.
A dated letter list from Defiance Ohio on June 6 1899 includes individuals Margereta Brozovsky J W Bowen Lillie Hill Nettie Carter J P Radoff Carly Renz Rob Scott Walter Thompson and Jotis C J Thompson P M.
The Attorney General announces that fees charged by the county for horse feed livery hire and hotel bills are illegal. He states a mileage allowance in law suffices to cover reasonable expenses for those items. Earnest Behne is to return home from Toledo hospital Sunday.
Mr and Mrs John Keester of Ligoniier Ind have been guests of RA Keester for days and now visit J H Keester in Tiffin township. On Sunday they traveled to Hicksville to visit Willis Keester.
Dr Pope and family invite friends to a casual gathering on Wednesday evening June 14 from 7 to 11 to bid farewell as they move to a new M E church field. They are praised for his leadership as presiding elder, preaching, and charity during years in Defiance amid trials and community support.
Governor Alan Bushnell released a report on state canals with yearly receipts of 79 814.19 across divisions including Miami and Erie 57 443.64 Ohio northern 17 277.62 and southern 5 102.92. Annual expenses reached 191 460.64 leaving a balance of 3 816.52. Since 1827 total canal cost 11 104 871.80 with receipts 16 493 640.64 and net earnings 5 335 768.94.
Mrs James Ready of Harrisburg Pa sister of Mrs M Gorman and John Zook is expected here Sunday for a two week visit. Miss Marge Yeagley who attended a Defiance college commencement left for Farmer township. The oil derrick on the Kiser farm in Defiance township is completed and the Davis well casing in Highland township will be reused in the Kiser well. Joe the Central fire department dog was taken by farmer Minsell near Sherwood. Mrs Ernest Ryder and Chicago guests visit Deatrick family on Wayne street. Williard Ryder rides a bicycle drawing attention on the street. De Coy received a 83 foot long maple log cal 34 inches at center containing 1856 feet cut on Bob Kepler farm hauled by John Brown and Chas Bridge. Henry son of A J Carpenter Noble township celebrated his 21st birthday with about fifty friends at his home. he teaches at the Corner school north of the city and is well liked.
A series of common pleas court actions include a verdict for Daisy Wiltvard Schneider, pending damages. condemnation suits to open Davison Street from Perry to Harrison with Wabash Railway opposition. suits on notes and commissions. and a habeas corpus bid for George Hollinshead. Trustees of a Baptist church granted loan privilege.
The board of education opened bids for a new heating apparatus at Central School on Friday afternoon. Bidders included C C Kuhn steam heat, Wm H Page Boiler Co with multiple boiler options, Kruse & Dewester of Indianapolis, American Foundry & Furnace Co, The Colton Smead Furnace Co, Bryne Heating and Ventilating Co, Cincinnati Heating and Ventilating Co, and Isaac D Smead. The board did not reach agreement on a system that evening.
In Knoxville Chaplain T J Harbaugh met a minister who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter. The man, a Columbia SC theology student in 1861, enlisted under Beauregard and became a regiment chaplain, noting chaplains pulled the lanyard in the opening tragedy.
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