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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1906
Page
6
Defiance and surrounding towns report guests visiting Defiance residents. licenses issued for marriages. court cases on the B Q&O railroad. incidents of vandalism and a canal boatman jailed. funeral services held for Miss Hazel Lind. plans for an interurban line considered. local officials receive donations and notices of visits and illnesses. obliquely noted travels and business notices.
Sid Thurstin’s country residence near this city burned at 3 yesterday morning. The vacant house was destroyed and the fire is believed incendiary. Tramps seen in the vicinity are suspected to be involved. Loss estimates run about 1500 dollars.
The Defiance board of education meets tonight to consider raising teacher salaries and confirming F. E. Reynolds for a longer superintendent term. Current salaries under statute require adjustments across grades, with potential levy changes as the board plans for the next school year.
We express gratitude to friends and neighbors for their kindness during the illness and death of Bazi Linp. The Linp family thanks everyone for support and sympathy.
The Young Ladies Sodality held a large society event at St John’s church. Invitations are issued for a tea at Island Park on Saturday May 26. Knights of Pythias social night featured prizes won by Mrs F L Hay and James Hudson, with consolation prizes to Mrs H H Hudson and C J Thompson. A card party and dancing followed. Mrs Clinton Leither hosted a Tuesday card gathering in Holgate Ave. Guests included Misses Gertrude Case and Hila Powell with prizes and a luncheon afterwards. Travellers club met at the Doenitz home with Walter Doenitz as president and a slate of officers elected for the next year. Island Park outing set for June 12. Genoa read by C F Ferguson. musical solos by Mrs H B Harris and Mrs S T Sutphen. piano by Miss Lee Becher and Mr Charles Squire. Judge Sutphen and wife were in Paulding county Monday.
The list of uncalled letters in Defiance Ohio for the week ending May 22 1906 includes W A Cameron G France M H Lewis W J Mahler Mrs Adams Milliner Mrs Mary Boston Mrs Ellen S Henderson Miss Mary McDowell Mrs David Letherer. Unclaimed letters will be sent to the dead letter office after 14 days per law. Postmaster C J Thompson notes to request advertisers mention and date.
Work will begin by June 1 on doubling the B and O railroad from Mark Center to Hamlet with large crews advancing from both ends toward Defiance, the single stretch between Chicago and Chicago Junction. The project costs run into hundreds of thousands and requires four new double track viaducts over city streets.
Mrs. Robert Kouffman, wife of a Fila May boatman, was swept into the canal lock between Third and Fourth streets as the rudder struck the stern and tiller. Rescue attempts failed until her husband jumped in and kept her afloat until both were saved amid a crowd of onlookers.
The paper retracted a earlier claim that a B and O depot would be built near Wayne street, noting the plans were for a different city. The item lists local residents visiting Defiance, Stryker, and Ney, baseball results, social events, and upcoming Boxwell commencement in May.
D M Whetstone of Defiance will address the graduates at the class ceremony. No admission charged. The Home Missionary Society ladies plan a missionary tea at Mrs L A Snyder's home on Saturday evening June 2.
Community members report visits and gatherings across towns. Tiffin and Defiance township conventions are announced for June and May at local churches, with attendees from the area. Social events include visits, surprises, and a party with ice cream and cake.
Fred Haase and family visited Wm Stuckman on Sunday. Roy Yarlot was in Defiance on Saturday. M D Hoffman and wife Grace Yarlot and Ora Stripe attended a Sunday School convention in Farmer on Saturday. Mrs Neal Doud is very ill with Dr Karl Snyder of Bryan in charge. Harmon Stripe and family with sister and family visited Wm Sharpe on Sunday. John and Willie Mack ditching with the ditcher for Frank Brown. Boxwell graduate commencement from Washington township set for Saturday evening June 2 at the M E church in Ney. Ray Neiswender was in Sherwood on Tuesday. Chas Stailey Jr attending college in Defiance. A J and Grace Yarlot in Defiance Tuesday. Wesley Kerns and France Dean seen en route to Defiance Tuesday.
Mr Roy Rock and Mrs Mabel Rock and Miss Bertha Heller visited in Bryan last Thursday. Jake Fraker and family and Mrs Lucinda Dickey spent Sunday in Putnam and Paulding counties. Miss Greetman visited Napoleon friends. Mrs Chas Davia was in Bryan. Vida Metz returned to Napoleon after Sherwood visit. Roy Whitmap started in South Bend Indiana. Read and Bear elevator to be moved west of Rock Street on B and O property. Grandpa Shook is frail and his children were called home Tuesday.
Several Farmerites attended the Sunday School convention at Olive Branch on Sunday. The Township Sunday School convention in Farmer was well attended Saturday afternoon and evening. Misses Stripe and Yarlet of Ney visited Farmer guests of Leola Spangler. Mrs. Perry Truman and Miss Myrtle Ramsey traveled to Garrett to visit sister Mrs. John Herrington. William Price is repairing his house. Ethel Conkey drove to Edgerton Tuesday. Mrs. Arthur Stone is ill at her father John Rannele’s near Sherwood where she and her children are visiting. Sherr Yeagley and son drove to New Saturday.
A collage of quips and jokes from Town and Country and Washington Star style lines. It remarks on graft, shoddy goods, kerosene price dangers, charity at home, fashion and wit, with exchanges about jealousy, politics, poetry, and petty theft.
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various readers and periodicals. Topics range from medical costs and diamonds to marriage, manners, and humorous exchanges about phones, mirrors, and social pretensions. Prominent quips touch on debt, disguise, and trivial miscommunications across everyday life.
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