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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
5
Mrs Fil Switzer of Sherwood and John Vanderbroek spent weekends nearby. Treasurer elect Kerns visited the city while Capt Donaldson plans a visit. Wood shipments to Toledo surge as canal boats crowd Defiance. A new arc-light plan at the Defiance Machine Co site boosts lighting.
In Ayersville a 54 year old shoemaker Henry M Gaffick and 35 year old Rosilia Hoom fled controversy after living together without ceremony. A mob forced them to leave town then they obtained a license and married before Justice Hunter. Sheriff escorted them to town but warned of trouble if they returned.
Mr W H M'Clintock of the EXPRESS is indisposed today. Dora Kerr returns from Hicksville. Andy Pessefal continues floor beam work under Hopkins street bridge and will finish today, enabling street cars to run to the Nightingale Woolen Mills once beams are in place.
A Saturday banquet at Mrs. 8 F Shelly's home marked the seventeenth anniversary of the Mutual Improvement Circle, the state's second oldest literary group. Guests enjoyed a formal dinner, then a program with addresses, music by the Mandolin club, papers, and humorous readings, followed by social time.
A noon accident near the Wabash crossing killed Pete Newcomb a B and O freight conductor aged about forty three. He was walking along the track when a train backed over him, mangling him fatally. Remains go to Huffman's for burial and will go to his Garrette Indiana home on train number 3 this evening. He leaves a wife and three children.
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