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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1905
Page
5
Geo Fuller leaves for Texas and H B Tenzer heads to St Louis. Glove and suit purchases at Daorsett & Dovrys and Daoust & Dowry. Miss Jennings visits, Lucille Carroll returns home, and exhumations near local cemeteries are reported. Fire calls at Dr Cameron’s and Diehl store. Church services listed. Community notices include elections, society events, and club activities with names of residents and businesses.
James E Coulter a prominent Hicksville attorney died Sunday at his home. Funeral services were held Wednesday under Hicksville Masons. He resided in Hicksville since age eight, born 1846 in New Runzeley Ohio, educated at Mau mee Academy Baldwin University and admitted to the bar in 1876. He ran the Hicksville Independent and served twelve years as mayor plus years on the board of education. He married Viola Johnson in 1875 and left several children.
An advertisement notes an Art Laurel stage as a acceptable Christmas gift and explains each 25 cents spent buys one chance. It urges asking for tickets and mentions Hurcurss & CORNWELL, A W King & Son, and Vandenbroek shirt offers with 50 cent work shirts now 39 cents. Mrs. Dan White returns to Toledo after visiting the city.
District Inspector Dey Ayers conducted an inspection of the Ney K of Pledge on Tuesday evening. Attending with him were George Kirk, J W Wine, F L Hay, J E Hosler and Claude Gleason.
Week ending November 21 1905 uncalled letters at Defiance Ohio include Miss Roge Dressel and Jno Bartley Lewis Cramer Israel Dye Sanford Durham EP Karst Josef Puczkarczyk GP Roberts John Reader Farier Shr Lie August Smith Geo W Sherwood L Wilmer. If not called within 14 days letters will go to the dead letter office per law.
The council weighs franchises for the Cincinnati Toledo and Detroit Short Line and an extension of Defiance street railway to the city limits beyond the college. Action postponed due to insufficient members. adjourned session set to decide on franchise approvals with mayoral and property-owner notes on expenses and support.
Special to Express Ottawa reports the eighth annual crow banquet with over 300 attendees from across the state including twelve legislators. A dead eagle in a coffin stood in the anteroom with the plate reading I am dead. Banker N ki Mathews was toastmaster and Joseph Justice spoke for Putnam county.
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