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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
2
City residents travel to Toledo and Florida while New Haven Indiana and Archbold visitors drop in. Local officials discuss school leadership and contract work on bridges and lighting plants. A divorce, a licensing, a death from a train incident, and a city plan for a memorial monument are noted amid dental society meetings and a university entertainment.
JJ Malley reports Capt Crandall writing that Company M will muster out on the 24th then return home Friday May 26 by way of Louisville Cincinnati and Deshler reaching Defiance about 10 am. Christy Krabach hospitalized with malarial fever improves. R C Hall awarded interior courthouse painting contract for $235.79. changes planned in the courtroom and plastering needed near sheriff and surveyor offices. Lightning struck Central school chimney during Tuesday storm causing minor damage and a fire from sulphur. County CommissionerGeo W Fuller anniversary observed with a surprise party at his East Defiance home and later gathering at his home ending with a chair gift.
Mrs Myra Travis died at her Adams township home aged 45. Funeral set for Thursday at 1 pm from the residence. interment in Conkle cemetery. Also reports a badly hurt man, Sam Deckrush, after a log-hauling accident near Pleasant Bend. Oil well near Chas Allen farm yields up to 27 barrels. county oil belt seen as developing with capital. A glue formula is described. Tommy Elliott’s horse and buggy went missing from North Richland. later found same day returned to owner Mr Elliott by ex sheriff.
The Order of United Friends, a New York fraternal society founded in 1881 and once with about 40,000 members, has fallen on hard times and is now in the hands of a receiver. By year’s start its membership had dropped to about 7,000, joining 1800 assessment societies that failed.
Official program for Monday May 30 1899 details memorial day services at St Pauls ME church Memorial hall and Riverside cemetery processions with divisions and commanders decorations at cemeteries includes music prayers orations and parade order plus local civic notices and community updates
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