Local notices and social updates from Defiance.
A broad collection of community items includes loan offers at five percent, travel to events, sales on linen suits at King & Son, and notes on church, civic, and school activities. Mentions of attendees at Daughters of Veterans, a county fireworks ordinance, fielding of candidates for licenses, and local charity visits to children’s homes accompany a large vote tally and lists of names for city and rural carriers.
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King & Son
Defiance, Ohio
Examination Notice for Teachers This Saturday and August
Notice to teachers announces an examination at the college building on Saturday July 2 and Saturday August 6. The board recommends Hinsdale's Art of Study Clarke's How to Teach Reading and Friske's Critical Period of American History as sources for questions.
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Hinsdale
Clarke
Friske
America
Defiance High Wins Northwestern Ohio High School Baseball Title
De fiance High School captured the Northwestern Ohio championship after a high scoring final against Van Wert. Coy Jones pitched masterfully for Defiance, while Van Wert battled back in the eighth inning but could not overcome the Defiance lead. Final score and hits show Defiance with 21 runs to Van Wert’s 12. neither team has played Toledo.
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Defiance High School
Northwestern
Ohio
van Wert
Defiance
Ferguson
Simons
Coy Jones
Toledo
Mullen
Hadding
Woods
Walker
Paulding
Bashore-Tuttle
Mullen-Hardy
Bashore
Paulding Defeats Defiance In Tight Island Park Game
Paulding won a hard fought exhibition at Island Park despite Defiance errors and late defensive plays. Mullen pitched well for Paulding while Bashore struggled with fielding miscues that fueled several Defiance chances.
Three Die in Bryantsville Feud Street Fight
Three men were killed and two wounded in a pistol duel in Bryantsville Indiana ending a feud between the Rout and Tow families. James Tow Milton Tow and Chas Krut were killed while Frank Tow was badly hurt. James Tow died of his wounds.
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Bryantsville
Ind
James
Chas. Krcut
Milton Tow
James Tow
Frank Tow
Tow
Bedford
Tow Bass Feud Gives Fatal Fire Duel
Relatives of the Tow family involved in a historic feud faced a deadly exchange as five men drew revolvers and fired. All six shots were fired from about fifteen feet apart. Milton Tow and two Rout brothers died on the ground. James Tow lay fatally injured and Frank Tow sustained wounds to his arm and side.
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Tow
Tow- Bass
Milton Tow
James Tow
Frank Tow
Commencement Exercises Highlight 21 Graduates at Opera House
Twenty one graduates gather for final act of public schooling at Citizens Opera House. The program features a Night Invocation, class history, essays, vocal and piano solos, duets, a three part chorus, and the presentation of diplomas by the Board president. Educational growth, future paths, and civic lessons are emphasized as the audience anticipates a bright, guided future.
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A. B.murphy
Myrtle D. Arning
Myrtle E. Andrew
Johannah Harry the
Grace Morse
Peter the Great
Grover A. Hull
Elsie Sauber
Duet Maying
H. Clyde Wright
Mildred Geiger
Loretto St.Amant
Ray T. Leever
Myrtle M. Palm
Sapellnikoff
Grace L. Whitaker
Johannah Harry
Harry Beatty
Glenn B. Miller
B. W. Slagle
Nannie C. Hubbard
Ernest Behne
Aaroh C. Morris
Beatrice R. Kesselmayer
Gayle C. Wickwire
Sixteen Indictments Reported by Federal Grand Jury
Special to Express Toledo June 24 the federal grand jury has returned sixteen indictments involving sixteen persons and one secret bill. Named defendants include Fred Wooster North Baltimore for false entry in a national bank books Milton F McKinley and C Reise Evans Columbus Grove for fraudulent use of mails Dr Wm Lockhart Toledo for improper mails Roy Harper Paulding for mailing obscene letter Alfred E Townsend assistant postmaster at don two counts stealing a letter containing ten dollars and detaining a letter Myron E Townsend former postmaster at Eden two counts embezzling money order funds of five thousand three hundred eighty two dollars and one cent and embezzling property and money Chas Grove and Joseph Hoagland Payne two counts breaking into a post office and stealing six hundred four dollars and twenty five cents Wallace Ames George Gaffney George J Kies John Gray and Eddie Lee Marion postoffice robbery Willie Lemott Vanlue embezzling funds from the money order department one hundred twenty five dollars.
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Toledo
Federal Grand Jury
Fred
Wooster
North Baltimore
Milton F.mckinley
C. Reise Evans
Columbus Grove
Wm. Lockhart
Roy Harper
Paulding
Alfred E. Townsend
End of Suit Over Farm Ejectment Verdict Reached
Florence Earlston won a $75 verdict against N. H. Newcomer in a damage suit. She claimed intentional assault during eviction from his farm near Bryan, seeking $5000 for injuries. The defense argued she suffered epilepsy and was injured during a fit. The defendant is a prominent farmer located one mile south of Bryan.
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Bryan
Florence Earlston
N. H. Newcomer
Husband shoots wife at Hawk Mill in Montpelier
John Wisman of Eden, drunk after brandy, shot his wife at Hawk Mill. She fled to the mill for protection and Wasman followed. In the office he fired, the ball lodging near the backbone. Her condition is desperate. Wisman is jailed in Montpelier.
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Montpelier
John Wisman
Eden
Hawk Mill
Wisman
Bryan
Foot Badly Scalded Worker At Turnbull Wagon Works
John Wilhelm of Harrison Street suffered a severe foot burn yesterday while helping dig out a broken steam pipe at Turnbull Wagon Works. The soil collapsed into boiling water, severely scalding his foot. A separate item notes a stock of millinery at Boyer's arriving for sale at about half price.
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John Wilhelm
Harrison Street
Turnbull Wagon Works
Boyer’s
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