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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1899
Page
6
Dozens of residents and visitors are noted in this town page with movements from Toledo Napole on Chicago and Nashville. Local officials and business figures including Dr Zellars and John A Sarvis are mentioned along with licensing weddings and a divorce. Community events include a school closing and a steamer electrician appointment. Concerns include cholera prevention and a medical tonic claim.
A noon Monday ceremony at the Holgate avenue home joined Dr. King A Trainor of Scandie Kansas to Miss Alice A Gleason, sister of Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Ferguson. Rev. W W Lance officiated, with only immediate friends present. The couple departed by 3:30 p m for the west aboard the B and O remarks praise the bride and groom.
St John parish members J M Preisendorfer Christ Diehl and Rev Gloden visited Rome City. Masonic picnic at Evansport spoiled by rain but fellowship and ME church exercises followed. Dr and Mrs Pope and son left for Lakeside with Miss Clara. Pope to new field after September. Highland township wedding John Hetz and Daisy Burton at St John church officiated by Rev Gloden. DeKalb wheat crop to exceed early pessimism with six to twelve bushels per acre on many fields, some twenty five. A refrigerator car for H P Miller Co arrives in Defiance with 50 000 pound capacity, shipping eggs. Miller reports 18,000 cases shipped since May.
Postmaster C J Thompson and Geo Kirk logged a long bicycle journey touching Brunersburg Ney and Independence with stops and odd notes including snake bite catalogues and weather words. The account mentions a night return via Sheffield and a near miss with a night watchman.
Deitrick Bohlke died at his home three miles west on the Ft. Wayne road at 1 pm Tuesday. Funeral from the house at 2 pm Thursday with Rev. Carl Spannuth of St. John's Lutheran officiating. Interment in the cemetery one mile west of the Bohlke home.
The Knights of Pythias established Ney Lodge No.17 Tuesday evening with large attendance. Hon. John W Winn acted as deputy grand chancellor, assisted by provisional grand lodge members. Charter members and officers were listed, refreshments served, marking Ney as a growing town with strong lodge prospects.
The German Aid Society elected officers including Pres. Carl Walters and Vice President Louis Miller. Other posts were filled with M Schultz as Treasurer and C H Cook as Recording Secretary, while the society, with 253 members, reported a prosperous condition.
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