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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1906
Page
5
Wayne K Hughes aged 22 and Jessie C Koch aged 20, both of Hicksville, were granted a marriage license. The notice appears among local classifieds along with various brief city items and upcoming civil engineering surveys.
The interurban project between Cincinnati and Toledo is advancing with work starting on the northern end. Local resident M W Mallon corroborates the plan and, with President J M Morgan, toured Toledo and Defiance to view machinery bought for the power house. The route crosses twenty two existing lines, promising substantial benefit to the company and travelers along the path.
Help wanted advertisement from Defiance seeking a trustworthy young man to prepare for a government postal position. Respond via Box One Cedar Rapids Iowa with contact details.
Albert Hedrick 11 Clyde May 13 Floyd Fillman 11 and Lawrence Cousin 18 faced a hearing with Mayor Crowe after confessing to breaking into Mr Ayers office and other locales. All waived examination and were bound over to Common Pleas Court on $300 bonds. Lawrence Cousin faces likely jail until the grand jury. Floyd Fillman released on bond by mother Mrs Saftwinman and A F Harley.
The four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhart had a rupture operation at a Cincinnati hospital on Tuesday and it was successful.
Rev and Mrs Smucker hosted the Young Men's Wesley class. Mrs Parsons entertained WVRU ladies at her Franklin Street home. Tourists met at Miss Nelle and Ralph Richardson’s on Water Street with current events and a Japan topic. Knights of Pythias social featured prizes for both sexes and a luncheon. Myrtle Smith gave a farewell party for Henry Reineke at Hast Second Street with dancing and a two course luncheon. Sorosis met at Mrs Shaw’s on Jefferson Street with papers on Carmen Sylvia and related discussions, plus musical numbers and a luncheon.
John McAdams suffered a crushed foot when a piece of steel struck him while operating a machine at Bruner Steel Wagon works. His son Howard McAdams was burned on the arms as he stoked the furnace. Both were taken home together.
At the Tuesday council meeting Defiance approved using a $3,000 firemen pension and relief fund under the new municipal code. The ordinance, passed on its third reading, ensures no levy is needed for years. The session also approved bonds, repairs, and expenses including riot guns funding and hydrant suit costs.
Defiance may gain a valuable freight and passenger route if the Toledo Fort Wayne and Indianapolis railway is built. William Strang proposes the line with a Strang gasoline electric car tested this week on the Lake Shore. Indiana has secured right of way for Ft Wayne to Indianapolis with construction to begin by April. Ohio right of way will follow. Freight service would use steam while the Strang electric car would handle passenger traffic.
Wabash stock yards on Harrison street become a board of health issue as residents urge move inland from dwellings. Health Officer Westrick to inspect conditions with Sanitary Policeman Hubaker. council may govern under nuisance or three hundred foot rule. February disease reports and college fumigation noted. notices issued for contagious cases and sewer work.
The 6th regiment ONG band grows to about thirty five after twenty eight men enlist. Col L W Howard and Major Iferd oversee recruitment at Crescent News building Perry street. Paul Heitzwahl appointed chief musician with Wayne G Lee as drum major amid staggered enlistments.
The first drill and practice meeting for a new state funded band will occur tonight. Captain Weil of Toledo measured recruits for uniforms, Col. tleward donated lockers worth 200 dollars, and First Lieutenant Costello will train the group weekly until drum major Lee assumes oversight. Heitzwahle and DeKay are credited for rapid enlistment.
We thank friends and neighbors for assistance and sympathy during the illness and death of our husband and father William Nell. Grateful appreciation to the Salem church choir for the beautiful singing from Mrs Wa Nell and children.
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